1 Miiif fr aunt V -y iCill (HI I I - asUsa- - tt. F. BOHWEIEB, THE OONUTI.T l'l'ION-THE UNIOW-AND THE ENFOHOEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. 1. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN A . WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25. 189B. NO.. 50. 1 1 ft I - .- CHAPTER IX Continued.) He was dimly conscious of sitting down And bearing a long explanation about, trains and disinclination to Wave home. nnd regrets, and cabs, bat nothing of it; conveyed a clear idea to his mind. He, gathered vagnely that this girl, who wnsi one of the Graces of Uraeedieu m Wis- consin, bad arrived that morning without: ticket or money, and the dwarf hapienedj providentially to be in the same train and: paid the fare for her. ' What be beard left little or notasm-,' pression upon him except when she spoke. All his attention was fixed in wondering, regard upon her face and form. It was. not until Leigh and he were in the street, once more that he recovered from the hock and surprise. - ""That Is the most marvelous thing I ever saw in all my life," said he, as the two walked away.- "Yes," said Leigh, "the most marvel ons." "I can scarcely believe It even yet,'! aid Hanbury in a tone of reverie. "When yeu fainted in Chetwynd street and I went to offer help, 1 took off my bat to yonr young lady and said, 'Miss Uraee.l An I be of any use": or words to that' effect." "I do not wonder." "Hah! Yeu could not tell one from the titer. I could not when 1 first saw your young lady. Now I could." "Indeed?" said Hanbury, with frigid politeness. At first this wretched crea ture had been all silky fur and purring sounds; now he seemed all claws and hisses, "Yes. Miss Ashton has more ao. more1 vitality, mure vigor, more nerve, more s Hanbury fixed bla eyes on the mechau enterprisc, more enthusiasm, more divin- 1st with threatening deliberateness. Dora, iiv." - j grew coid and paler and faint. She felt Hanbury turned round and gazed nt , there was certain to be a scene, a most, the hunchback with astonishment. There ' unpleasant scene. Mrs. Ashton aaw noth was the hurry of eloquence in his words,-. ing, understood nothing. and the flash of enthusiasm in his eyes. "Where did you meet this Pallas-Ath- This man was not au ordinary man, phy sically or intellectuality. Hanbury iu stantly altered his mental attitude to wards tbe dwarf. He no longer assumed the pose of a superior, tbe method of i master. He recognized an equal. "I may rely on your keeping this wbols affair qJiet'" be said. "But you have not heard my request. I told you 1 could show you something more wonderful thun mystery gold. 1 told you I could show you a more won derful thing than even miracle gold. 1 have shown that to you. Now 1 waut my hush motiey.' "Wh.it is it?" I "An introduction to Miss Ashton." "An introduction to Miss Ashton?" "Yes." ( "When do you wish to meet Miss .Ash ton?" "Now. Tnere never was any time past or future as good as the present." "Come with me." Hanbury turned west and led the way. For a time the two men walked along in silence. "This is Mrs. Ashton's house." Leigh aroused out of the abstraction and looked op. Miss Ashton was at tbe open wiudow of tbe drawing room. Tbe dwarf drew back a pace from the house and swept the ground with his hat. "Did I not tell you I would show yon something more wonderful than mystery gold?" be asked of Hanbury. "Yes." "Did I keep my word?" "The likeuess is most astonishing. Com In." "If the likeness is not complete it may go hard with the miracle gold." CHAPTER X. Mrs. Ashton's drawing room would, un der ordinary circumstances, be open to any friend or acquaintance brought there by Hanbury. He was well-received frequenter of the house,-and though tbe relations between him and Miss Ashton bad not been announced, they were un derstood in the household. Before knocking at the door Hanbo ry turned to Leigh and said: "By the way, 'there are likely to be a good number of people here at this honr on Thursday." "I know. An At Home." "Precisely. You will not, of course, say ' a word abont what occurred earlier. I mean In that blind street." When they got Into the drawing room, Dora smiled and bent graciously to Leigh. He bowed, but not nearly so low as when Hanbury introduced him to her mother. There was no exaggeration In bla bow this time. He raised bis head mor auickly, more firmly, and then threw It up and held It back, looking around him -- I I. .. U mtmmm Tn V7 . n h n . V wtonisbment Leigh .geared quite at hi.; ease. He wa. neither confused nor In- - ease. solent. As Ho-nbury saw Dora approach and meet Leigh, be was more struck than be fore with the extraordinary likeness be tween her and Edith Grace. Was she still angry with him? She snowed him no sign of resentment or for giveness. Sbe gave her eyes and atten tion to this man whom he had been forced to bring with him. "Yes,"- Leigh was saying to Mrs. Ash ton, "I am a servant of time. 1 am now engaged in making a clock which will, I think, - be tbe most remarkable In the world." "Have you been to Strasburg?" asked Hanburf. "Rah! 'Str'qsburg, not Why should I go to Strasburg? To see other clocks is only to see how effects have been pro duced. With a conjuror the great -difficulty is not to discover how Jo. perform any trick, but to discover a .trick that will be worth performing. 1 nra not going in for niy nousenso about perpetual motion ITiere will v thousands of figures !n my clock, thousands of automaton figures f Time to move in one endless proces sion. These figures will differ from all stlTs to be found in horologes. They will designed wholly to please and ed aeate tbe eye by their artistic virtues and graces. The mechanical movements will be wholly subject to naturalness and beauty. I have been iu great difficulty to and a worthy model for my Pallas-Athena. Until to-day I was in despair." There appeared nothing - unpleasantly marked or emphatic, ia Lehrh'tmanjiri - hanbury knew he meant the model for the donor of the olive had been fount! in Dora. Good heavens! this creature hini dared to select as his model for sv figure in this raree-show of charlatan, mechanism this girl to whom he, John Hanbury, was engaged! Mrs. Ashton understood the implication In the speech by an almost Imperceptible reverence of the poor blighted, deformed body to her beautiful, shapely, well-bora daughter. A look of amusement and ten derness came into her thin, mobile, sym pathetic face. "And yon have been so fortunate as to find a model for your goddess?" "Yes, and no. I did not find so much a. model for my goddess as a goddess wb had strayed down from the heights of Greek myth." "This must be a lucky day with you. Mr. Leigh," Mrs. Ashton said pleasantly. "And when did you meet your divinity?" "In the afternoon. 1 aaw her in the afternoon." He looked angrily at Han bury. The latter thought, "He is under obligation not to say anything of the Chetwynd street event; he, the traitorous wretch, will content himself with refer ring to It, so that Dora and I may know what he means. The faUe sneak'." He felt his face burn and blase. Dora, turned pale. She knew nothing of what had passed between the two mem since she saw them last, and felt faint when she tbonght of John Hanbury' rage if the little man referred to their earlier meeting. "Mr. Hanbury was with me at the time," said Leigh. ena?" she asked. "In Grimsby street," answered Leigh with a bow to Miss Ashton, and a look of malignant triumph at Hanbury. - Tbe latter started and looked round him with as much surprise as If be suddenly found himself unexpectedly in a strange place. This man was too subtle and lithe for him. Who could bae expected thi wriggle? Dora glanced up with an ex pression of relief. The color came back: quickly to her face, and the aspect of alarmed expectancy vanished. Mrs. Ashton turned from one to an other, with quick, inquiring, puzzled eyes. She saw now there was something un usual beneath the surface of all this. "What is the mystery? You will tell me, Mr. Leigh?" "No mystery at all," answered Leigh, In a quick, light, off-band way. "I hap pened to come across Mr. Hanbury acci dentally, and we met the lady of whom 1 speak." "Oh, then she is a lady. She is not a professional model." "Hah! No. She is not a professional model. "I wonder do I know her. May 1 bear ber name?" "Mr. Hanbury will, I have no doubt, tell you," said Leigh, moving off with smile. "He was Introduced to ber at the meeting. I was not. He was as much truck by the likenes as L" "The likeness! The likeness to Pallas- Athena?" said Mrs. Ashton in perplex ity. "Yes," said the dwarf with another mile, as be made room for two men who were coming up the room to Mrs. Ashton, CHAPTER XI. The air of pleasant badinage which pervaded tbe room bad no more effect on Oscar Leigh than on tbe gaselier. No one spoke to him, for no one knew him. Except what passed between Leigh and Hanbury all words were intended for any ears who might bear. After strolling through the rooms with Hanbury for some time, Leigh approached the table where Dora was dispensing tea. When Leigh finished eating the bread and butter and drinking tbe tiny cup of tea, be said: "Yon wish. Miss Asbton, to know In what way I have been Incky to day?" She looked in perplexity at Hanbury, and then at the dwarf. She had no doubt he had alluded to ber when be spoke of having found a model for tbe Pallas Athena. She said pleasantly: "One' always like to hear of good fortune coming to those in whom one is Interested." "I was speaking a moment ago about the figure of time in my clock. I had the honor of telling Mrs. Ashton that there would be thouaand. of them and that thw would be modeled, not ch efly or a i mil ivi uurwj v lurcuanMUU, but, in the first place, as works of art; to these works of art mechanism would be adapted later.' "Which will make your clock the only one of the kind In the world," said she, much relieved to find no pointed refer ence to herself. "Precisely. But I did not do myself tbe honor of telling Mrs. Ashton of what ma terial the figures were to be composed." "No- 1 do not think yen said what they would be mitde of. vVax, is it not?" "The models will, of course, be made of wax, but tbe figures themselves, the figures which I intend to bequeath to pos terity, will be made of gold." "Gold! All those figure made of gold! Why, your clock will cost a fortune." "It will not cost me a much a it would cost any otber man living. 1 am going to make the gold-, too." He drew himself up and looked proudly round. "I have invented a metal, a compound which Is absolutely indistinguishable from gold, which is, in fact, gold, and of which I hall make my figures. Mystery gold was a clumsy juggle that one found out in the fire. My gold is bona fide a miracle, and I have called it Miracle Gold. My gold will resist the acid, and tbe blow pipe, and the crucible." "And doe the good fortune yon speak of concern the manufacture of this mira cle gold?" she asked with a faint flush, and eye shining with anxiety.' "It does." "A disco very which perhaps wiQ make ahf. aUBBfsctar law daagereosT". "Which woal(f make the manufacture an necessary." She clasped her bands before her with delight, and cried while ber eyes shone Joyously Into his, "Ob, that wonld be lucky indeed. . And bow will yon know If your augury of good fortune will com true?" . "Yon are Interested? He bent hi head still lower, and his voice was neither so firm nor so harsh! "Would you care to bear as soon a I know?" "Oh. yes." "I shall. I think, be certain by this day week." "Then come to as again next Thurs day. We shall all be here as we are now." He hacked a pace and bowed to ber. and then turned round, and, with head erect and scornful eyes flashing right nnd left, but seeing nothing, strode out of the room. - - "Dora," whispered ber mother, "you bare made another conquest. That little genius ia in love with you." The girl laughed, but did not look up for a moment. When she did so ber eyes were full of tears. To contlriued.) Tbe Contract Had Expired. Ruf na Lock wood was a genius In bis way and was probably -one of the best lawyer In the State. Lockwood went at one time to Horace Hawes, a very distinguished lawyer, and tbe author of the consolidation act which Is now In force. Hawes had a reputation for close figuring- and Lock wood knew It. He aaid: "Mr. Hawes, l'U hire myself to you for one year from date at a sal ary of $25 a day, payable every night.' "All right," said Hawes, delighted to engage the services of tbe brightest mind In the State at so low a figure tor the salary was not a great one lu those days and the bargain was seal ed, i It was 11 o'clock in the morning. But from that time on, it Is said, Hawes never missed an opportunity of remind ing Lockwood of bis bondage. He would say In the presence of others: "Lockwood, go and fetch that book;' "Lockwood. go and fetch this or that,' etc. Lockwood never said a word, but did as he was bidden, and Hawes en joyed his triumph. Finally It came to the day when th year's engagement terminated. There was a most Important lawsuit on band. which Lockwood bad made a careful study of; no one In the State could pos sibly have bandied it as he did. Well, on tbe day In question Lockwood stood in court, an array of court books In front of feira, and expounded his views In masterly fashion. Sudden); he look ed up at the clock and saw that it was the hour of 11. Closing the book from which he was quoting, be turned to Hawes, who was sitting beside him, and said: "Mr. Hawes, a year ago to day at this hour I contracted to work for you one., year. My time's up, tbe contract Is canceled and I am going . Thus did he! repay his master for tbe humiliation heaped upon him. Hawes was in the greatest consternation; he could not possibly take up the thread of the case where Lockwood bad left It and he begged and Implored him to proceed. But Lockwood remembered. and he turned a deaf ear to' ell per suasions. He kept his word; the con tract bad expired. San Francisco Bul letin. Orartlng of Plants. All gardeners know that curious rlants can be. produced by grafting, and to tbe country It Is no extraordinary sight to see a tree bearing two kind of plum or pear as tbe result of it. Mr. A. W. Sutton of the great seed estab lishment at Reading has lately describ ed in the Journal of the Royal Horti cultural Society a number of Interest ing experiments made with tomato and potato plants, these two being botanl cally related to one another. A potato tuber was planted, and when It had at talned the height of a few Inches above the soil, the stem was cut off and a to mato graft was combined to It. ' As a result, the composite phut produced a crop of potatoes at the roots, while tb foliage above ground bore a crop of tomatoes, nourished by the potato roots. The process was then reversed, a potato graft being Introduced upon tomato stalks. Tbe tomato roots did not produce potatoes, but the potato plant above ground first threw out po tato flowers and berries, and afterward produced tuber from the axils of the leaves and stems. In this case tbe des ignation of the potato as a pomme da terra hi evidently a misnomer. Leisure Hours. Components of av Complication. A woman carrying a Jug of gasoline was run down by a man riding a bi cycle last night at Forest and Orleans streets. When the woman fell the gas oline was upset. The man's cigarette tell into the woman's gasoline. Igniting the fluid and making a lively blaze for a while. Neither the man nor the wom an was much hurt, and they hastily got away before their names could be obtained by the patrolman who shortly arrived on tbe scene. Baltimore Sun. Educating your , children Is Investing at a high rate of dividend. Lay up in them, and they will lay up for them selves. ' Coats Descended from the Toga. As the tunic came to be worn tight and clo-c llitiiig, an Important Change txcirred lu iu general cur It is hard tb get into a tiuht tunic, unless It be very clastic, harder yet to stran gle out of iu To facilitate these processes it has always been uecessary, when tbe tunic was high In the neck, to cut it oi en for a little way down the front and to fasten together the opening thus made with buttons. But when tunica came to be worn vsry tight., about tbe time of the Renal -sance, the opening was ex tended to the very bottom ot the tunic. After a while it became the fashion to leave the tight outer tunic altogether unbuttoned, except ia cold weather. Thus the garment which bad been worn from the very earliest times, and called by a hundred dif ferent names, such' as chiton, tunica, cotte, without any change of general character, suffered Its first essential modification and became the modern coat. The same garment when short is lbs jacket, when short and sieve lean tbe waistcoat Scribner'a Just laws are not rea'ra nt a do a th? freedom of tbe go-xl, for a goo 1 m i desire nothing with wbic'l a jut lav will interfere. THfeT PRESIDENT'S "SCHOOL' Email Iklnaa lie Most LeSra w'tl Hi Oatb Of 4iffice. The die baa been cast and the choir made for tbe next President. Tbe I i-orter. though a man ong promlno In politics, begins Immediately nfi his election to "go to school." He 1. much to learn before lie can really i-ouie President of the United States Hi school books will bo the exami'1' of bis predecessors, a lesson from sIk Judge of the Supreme Court who nil, ministers the oath of orHcei and th-, Constitution of tbe United Stati Certain things are prescribed for tu-. Prldent to do. Others he doos froi: long-established precedent. "' . The -first thing a President has t ler.rn Is self-denial. His oath of exile Is administered la the open exposur upon the enst Capitol front, and fioc there be delivers his inaugural addrvs A time-honored custom with - tt Weatber Bureau is to provide a-drl?.-' DELIVERING THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS nt A STORM. leety rain at this time, 'and the 'new President, with bared bead, promise! to forget himself, his own welfare, his opinions and his ambitions In the Inter ests of the people. The rain baptize bis head with this decision. Tbe people look on from their comfortable plat forms, sheletered by umbrellas, and ap plaud. The President Is practicing self-sacrifice, 'but he will have a cold In. his head without doubt Cleveland .had a mild attack of grip after his last Inaugural. Whew, how It snowed at she hour for the Inaugural address! The proceedings before the inaugura tion require study on the part of tbe Incoming President His duty is to be In Washington on March 4, ready to go to work. His term of servitude Is four years, dating from that hour. Cus tom makes him do more. The day be fore the inauguration the President elect arrives In Washington. There la always a crowd to meet him at the sta tion, and from the minute he registers at the hotel with his "suite" In otbei words, his wife and relatives he must hold an Informal reception. He must take his primary lesson In affability. No matter if they do press In while be Is taking his noonday bite to urge a postoffice appointment No matter If Mrs.. Brown, from Cobunkus, does ar rive with the coffee and after-luncheon smoke to beg a button off the Presiden tial coat Luncheon, coffee, cigars, all must be given up, and the President must smile and smile again. In the afternoon the President-elect goes to call at the White House upon the President' His object Is to notify him that he Is in Washington, and 1 ready to assume the duties of office. He makes a call of ten minutes and goes back to his hotel. Within an hour the President calls at the hotel and no tifies the Incoming President that h Is ready to deliver up the keys of state. In the evening ail dine together at the White House. The next morning, the 4th of March, the new President goes to the White House at 11 o'clock. In a little while the Senate Reception Com mittee calls there and all get Into car riages to go to tbe Capitol for the in auguration. There are tbe two Presi dents, the two Cabinets, the bead of the army, tbe commander of the navy and a large citizens' escort A few prelim inaries in the Senate and the President finds himself upon the porch of the Capitol addressing the crowd in the storm. i A duty which the President has to learn early In bis career is the writing of harmonious messages. Not only must he write correctly, but he must be able to word his messages and proc lamations so that they go to the hearts of the people.- This often require study on his part The most trying proclamation ever Issued was the Thanksgiving message sent out by President Arthur a few weeks aftei Garfield's death. There waa some curiosity to' see how he would word such a message at such a time. But his supreme tact rose to tbe occasion. Tbi incoming President should always learn tact To be without It baa madi enemies for many a good Executive. The President must learn to beat physical disturbance. ' Grant was wakened from his sleep at 2:80 thf morning the Butler "salary-grab" bill was passed. The President's approval waa necessary. By 10 o'clock the Presi dent had read the bUL approved it, and TFord was carried to the Capitol to that effect That meant work in the we sma' hours. When the bill waa repeal ed the Prerid t worked asm the lass The President must lern to intro duce. Not merely to pronounce names, but tn conduct tbe art or presentation In a ni'.nner that shall be acceptable to !' peoples and all nations. And at dining be must be the gracious host, preseutlng. greeting, leading the way to dinner, denominating places and be ing ready for the -return trip to tbe drawing-room at a mystic look trom his wife. AU told, the President has severe task before him. Tbe Electric-Storago Battery. . The electric storage battery, in whose development lies tbe hope of emanci pation from electric light wires, trolley wires and other unsightly obstructions, has reached a point of perfection, a shown by an exhibit In Philadelphia, which makes it a commercial possibil ity, and promise a large extension of the usefulness of electricity In every day life, ' With a further development in the direction of cheapness, It may be possible to reproduce, in towns unpro. vided wita cheap means of motive pjiw er, the conditions existing In Great Falls, Mont In that town electric pow er produced economically at a water privilege does all the mechanical work. It propels, lights and heats the street cars, runs the elevators, the printing presses, the cranes, and all kinds of I machinery, and Is used for pumping; . for excavating, and for rock-crushing. I It is even applied In the building trades, ( It not being unusual to see on the - streets a mortar mixer attached to an I electric wire leading down from a pole. The restaurants cook by electricity; the : butcher employs It to chop his sau : sages, and the grocer to grind his coffee, j The housewives run their sewing ma- chines and heat their flat-irons by elec tricity; they bake their cakes In wooden electric cake ovens, that can be set away on the shelf like pasteboard boxes. ' They have electric broilers, I boilers and teakettles. One almost holds his breath as he wonders to what use next this wonderful powei will be put "Accident" Swindler. ' The extension of electric traction baa brought upon the scene a particularly dangerous and offensive swarm of ras cals who prey upon the street railroad companies by bogus claims for person al Injuries received in real or Imaginary accidents. They are fostered by a tribe of disreputable attorneys, who make a practice of communicating with all per sons whom they can Identify 'as con cerned hi any street railway mishap, and often without Instructions issue process against the companies. Some of these legal sharks have a regular 6taff of detectives, who prowl about the depots and termini of tbe lines on the lookout for case. False witnesses are easily procured, and Juries are usually liberal In the matter of damages, tbe greater portion of which Is swallowed up in the attorneys' "costs." The evil has become so great that the street rail way press Is suggesting the formation of a mutual protection society of some kind. It Is proposed to keep a regis ter of tbe names of claimants, and In terchange Information as to persons who. It Is more than suspected, make a trade of the business and travel from city to city for tbe purpose. St Louis Globe-Democrat Hard to Please. A man was taking his usual dose ot pork and beans in a restaurant at Olyni pla and found two silver dimes in the beans.. Calling tbe waiter, he howled out In an Impatient manner: "Here, what kind of a lay-out is this? I have found twenty cents tn my beans!" "Well, you are hard to please," re plied the waiter. "Yesterday you growl ed about not having any change In yom diet!" Seattle Times, Tin WroB Kind. Tes," aaid the man In the stravy hat "Sharpleigh tells me that be takes his religion into Us business." The man in the new tan ahoes shud dered. "That a why I'm always scared to do business with Sharpleigh," be returned, shaking his head. New Xork Ex change. History sd "clone. Prof. Starr sar. Blinks, tell us what you know abont tb Ptolemaic epicy cles." Mr. Bnnka Tby were invented in tSOO, but bar been succeeded by th' Journal. A KIND-HEARTED BEAR, Is lAttm a Ltttl Child la It Paw ad Fat Ber ia a Flae mt eafety. Miss Isabel F. Hapgood translates for the St Nicholas a true story from th Russian of Vera P. Zhelikhovsky. It ia an Incident that occurred In 1847, in the Trans-Caucasian German colony of Elisabethal. about thirty miles from Tifll. X picnic party discovered a Urge bear (called "Mikhail Ivan'ltch" and "General Toptygin" In Russian) on a narrow ledge of rock high up in t gorge. This is what followed: Ail at once a simultaneous cry of pity, terror, horror, broke from all. From behind the crag a little girl made her appearance. Tbe t!ny colonist was seven or eight years old; not more. She was. strolling along with her arms crossed carelessly on her pink apron. A large hat of coarse straw, such as all the colonists, whether young or old, wear In hot weather, had fallen quit over on the nape of her neck; and sur rounded by this aureole, all flooded with sunlight the poor little thing stepped out on the path which skirted the cliff on the brink of tbe abyss. The poor child . waa going to her death in plain sight of many men and women and to what a dreadful'death! And not one of them could help her! No one could either save her or even warn her of ber danger. All wer condemened to gaze, Inac tive, at the dreadful event which was on the point of happening before their eyes. The women raised a cry, and fell to weeping. The majority of them sobbed themselves Into hysterics beforehand. The men, even thoa who had been in battle more than once, who had beheld death and blood, said afterward that they became cold and dizzy, and many turned away their eyes in anguish. But those who endured the ordeaL on thf other hand, beheld a marvel. Because of the turn In the path, the child could not see the terrible fellow traveler who was coming to meet ber. She only caught sight of that dark brown shaggy mass at tbe moment when It almost came in contact with ber. Tbe huge beast completely block ed her road. His left paws stood on the very edge of the path, while with his right side he almost rubbed tbe cliff. They caught sight of each other almost at the same moment Probably a cry or an exclamation on the part of the child revealed her pres ence to the beast, as he was walking along with his muzzl and eyea droop ed earthward. They stared fixedly at each other. The little girl was petri fied with fear; the bear halted. In in decision, no doubt much astonished If not frightened. For one moment, prob ably, b reflected: "What am I to do now?" It waa Impossible to pass with out crushing the unexpected obstacle, without striking It or burling it Into the abyss. The path waa so narrow at this point that he could not even turn round on all fours. What was to be done? . Down below the people waited, with bated breath, expecting at any moment to see the unhappy child pushed Into the abyss. But evidently that was not the way In which full-fed and good-natured "Mikhail Ivan'ltch, General Top tygin," had settled the problem. He wished neither death nor harm to this tiny creature, helpless before him, with open mouth and staring eyes, having lost through fear all power of crying, and awaiting his will in trem bling alienee. And "MIshenka" car ried out his will. With a faint growl, caused not by anger but by tbe necessity of putting himself to trouble, be reared up on his hind legs, strode close up to tbe little girl, and, bracing his back against th cliff, clasped his forepaws around her, lust beneath the shoulders. Shrieks and groans of despair re sounded from below. The ladies, who still continued to gaze with dim eyes, grew faint; but the men, especially the huntsmen, who were acquainted with the murderous habits of the bear fam ily, leaped In spirit and with a hope a mad hope for the child's safety. They perceived that Mishka waa be having In a very remarkable manner, with all the caution and dexterity which he could command. They were not mistaken as to his un precedented goodness. The klnd-beart ed bear lifted the little girl up, careful ly bore her over the precipice, and, turning on tbe pivot of his hind paws, set her down on the otber side of the path. Having performed this gymnastic exercise, the bear, without waiting to be thanked (evidently he was well ac quainted -with tbe human race), whirl ed about, dropped on all fours, and pro ceeded quietly on bis way, swaying from side to side, and grunting content edly In anticipation of sweet repose in im lair not far away. No Need for It. ' The pronenesa of the press to retail personal scandal has suggested a rem-' Inlscence of the times of Louis the Fif teenth, when a member of tbe noble family of D'Argenson had charge of the police of the kingdom. One day he summoned before him tbe pamphleteer, Desfontalnes, who had divulged to th public an escapade of some one of the name of D'Argenson. Tbe royal official reprimanded Desfontalnes - severely and menaced him with something a good deal worse If he did not mend his way or those of his scandal-mongerlng pen, "But,- my lord," stammered the poor devil of a writer, "I must lire." "Really coldly retorted the lieutenant of police, "I don't see the necessity of that." - ' It must be nice to be bunt like the fraud daddy long legs, and bare auch long anna that one can reach any where to scratch.' Industrious mea are poor not because fhey fail to make money, but because they fail to take care of It. Ceateaaptible Trfek. 1 notice your wife didn't go to thf lakes this summer.' "Mo; I couldn't afford It." "That la what I told my wife, but 701 may remember that aha want Just tb "1 dldnl tell my wife. I got a hotel typewriter girl to address an envelops to me la a me feminine hand and thaa tt et esT my packet at borne. REV, OR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Divine'a Sunday ... . D.scourse. Subjefel: Wrest Una With the Sit--pernaturui." Text: "An when he saw that h piwvai led not BRnin.Ht him he touched lha hollow of bis thigh, and the hollow of J.ioob's hth wat out of joint as he wrestled with him. And he said, JLflt me ro, for the day breaketh. And ha -said. I will not let thee go except thou tless me." Genesis xxxiL, 25, 26. There is a cloud of dust from a traveling berd ot cattle and sheep and (font an" camels. They are th present that Jacok Muds to gain the good wid of his offended brother. That night Jacob halts Jy the brook Jabbok. Bat there Is no rest for tb weary man, no shining; ladder to lot th angel down Into his dream, but a severe straggle that lasts until morning with an on known visitor. Thy each try to throw the other. Tan unknown visitor, to reveal hit superior power, by a touch wrenches Jacob's tbigh boue from its socket, perbsps maiming him for life. As on the morning sky the clusters of purple cloud begin to ripen, Jacob sees it is an angel with whom he has been contending and net one of bis brother's coadjutors. "Let mo go," cries the angel, lifting himoelf up Into increasing light; "the day breaketh." You see, in tbe first place, that Go J allows good people sometimes to get Into a terrible itruggla. Jacob was a good man, but here he is left alone In tbe midnight to wrestle with a tremendous influence by tbe brook Jabbok. For Joseph, a pit; for Daniel, a wild beast's 'leu; for DiiYi J. dethronement and exile; for John the Baptist, a wilderness diet and tbe executioner's ax; for Peter, a prisont for Paul, shipwreck; for Jobn. desolate Pat en os: tor Christ, the erosa. P.ir hnm h. racas, tne giooets, the prison?, the thumb- . ! rt.-.i . . ... screws? Tor tbe sons and daughters of tbe Lord Almighty. Some one said to a Christian reformer, "The world is against you." "Then." he replied, "I am. against the wono. I will go further and say that every Chris- an baa hl wrniwin w.h nn.n.i.i tlsll has Tlia ttrsmfvrvln U.wU 1 I I I fortune sotne of yoa have bid Ee m?dnht i wrestle. B-dhot disasters have droooed 1 Into your store from loft to cellar. What Wtaat vou Dougnt you could not sell. W'bom van trusted fled. The help you expected would not come. Home giant panic, with long arms and grip like death, took hold of you in an awful wrestle, from whicn yon have not yet escaped, and it is uncertain whether It will throw you or you will throw it. Here Is another soul m struggle witn some bad appetite. anew not now stealthily It was growing upon him. One hour he woke up. He said, "For the sake of my soul, of my family, of my children and ot my God I must otop this!" And behold he found himself alone by the brook of Jabbok, and it Was mid night. That evil appetite seized upon him, and h; seized upon it, and, on, the horror of tbe conflict! When once a bad habit hath roused itself up to destroy a man, and the man has sworn that by the help of the eter nal God he will destroy it, all heaven draws itself out in long line ot light to look from above, and all hell stretches it-elf In myrmidons ol spite to look up from beneath. I have seen men rally themselves for a struggle, and they have bitten their Hp, and clinched their fist, and cried with a blood red eurnebtness and a rain a scalding tears. "God help me!" From a wrestle with habit I bave seen men fall back ilefeatl. Calling for no help, but relying on their own resolutions, thev have come into tbe struggle, and for a Ume it seemed as if they were getting the upper hand of their habit. But that habit rallied again its infernal power and lifted the soul from ita landing, and with a force borrowed from the pit hurled it Into darkness. Bnt, thank God, I have often seen a better termination than this. I have seen men frepare themselves for such a wrestling, hey laid hold of God's help as they went into combat. Tbe giant habit, regaled Dy the cup- of many dissipations, came out Strong and defiunt. They clincned. Thete were tbe writblugs and distortions of a fear ful struggle. But the old giant began to waver, an I at last, in tbe midnight alone, With none but God to witness, bv the brook Jabbok, the gtaut fell, and the triumphant T , I" . a?r"1"ss w,tl tn brook will cease. The hours of deaib's "Thanks be unto God, who gtveth us the i ttjght will pass along 1 o'clock in the morn victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." ;, 2 o'clock in tbe morning. 4 o'clock ln ?ie? t JIl n.eart tDat "1 was be mornlDg, 5 o'clock in tbe morning "the aesolated by bereavement anil since by the jay breaketh " anxieties and trials that came ia the support j 8o I wou'd'have it when I die. I am In no of a family. It is a sad thing to see a man ... tn ha mn. t mnni.i I l- n ,, contending for a livelihood under disadvan lagea, but to see a delicate woman, wit a helpless little ones at her back, fighting the giants of poverty and sorrow Is more affecting. It was humble home, and passeraby knew not that within tbose four walls were displays ot courage mare admir able than that of H.nlbml crossing the Alps, or In the pass of Tbermopyie, or at Balaklava, where 1nt? the jaws of death rode tbe six bundre.1." These heroes had tbe whole world to cheer them on, but there was do one to applaud the struggle in that out t0 draw me forward. Then, O Jesus, humble home. She fought for bread, for help me on and help me up! Cnfe'iring. un clothing, for fire, tor shelter, with aching Joubting, may I step right out into the light head and weak side and I exnausted strength, ind be able to look back to n.y kindred and throngb the long night by the brook Jabbok. friends. who would detain me here, erelalm- Could it be that none would give her heln Had God forgotten to be graoious? No, con tending soul. The midnight air Is full of wings coming to tbe rescue. She hears it now, in the sough of tbe night wind, in the ripple ot the brook Jabbok, the promise made so long ago, ringing down the sky, 'Thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust ln me!" Some one said to a very poor woman, "How is it that in such distress you keep cheerful?" She said: "I do It by wbat I call cross pray, ers. Wben I had my rent to pay and noth ing to pay It with and bread to buy and noth ing to buy It with, I aed to sit down and cry. Bnt now I do not get discouraged. II I go along the street, wben I come to a cor ner of the street, I say 'The Lord help met' I then go on until I come to another cross ing of the street, and again I say, 'The Lord help me!' And so I utter a prayer at every crossing, and since I have got into the habit of saying these oross prayers I have been able to keep up tn, courage." Learn again from this subject that people sometimes are surprised to And out tbat what they have-been struggling with in tbe darkners is really an "angel of blessing." Jacob found in tbe morning that this strange personage-was not an enemy, but a God dispatched messenger to promise pros perity for him and for his children. And so many a utsn at the close of his trial has found out that he has been trying to throw down his own blessing. It you are Christian man,-1 will go back in your his tory and find tbat the grandest tnlngsthat have ever happened to tou have been youi trials. Nothing short of scourging, im prisonment and shipwreck could bave made Paul wbat he was. When David wa fleeing through the wilderness, pursued by bis own son, be was being prepared to become the ewe-1 singer of Israel. The pit and tbe dungeon were tbe be t schools at which Joseph ever graduated. The hurricane tbat upset the tent and killed Job's children pre pared tbe man of Czto bethesubjectol the magnificent poem that has astounded the age.. There is no way to get'the wheat out of tbe straw but to tbrash it. There is no way to purify the sold but to burn it. Look at I be people who have always had it their own way. They are proud, discontented, i use ess and unhappy. If you want to find t-heerlul folk, go among those who have been purified by the fire. After Bossinl had ren dered "William Tell" the Ave hundredth time a company of musicians same under hit Window in Paris and serenaded him. The; put upon his brow agolden crown of laurel leaves. But am "d ail the applaoseand en Ibusiiism EossinHnroed to a friend and said, "I would give all this brilliant scene for a few tn 3 ot youth nnd ove. Contrast th me ancholy feeling ot Bcssini, who had everything this world cntild piv hm. wtrk rhe joyful ezaorlenee of IsM Watts, vaos sorrows were great, when be tarsi The hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweet Before we reach the heavenly fields Or walk the golden street. Then let our sonss abound- And every tear be dry, We're marching .through Zmmanuel't ground t tirer world on high. It is prosperity that kill and (r,-.uMj that saves. While the Israelites were oil the march amid great privatioi s ami hnrdMiip they behavotl well. After awhile they prs-ed for meat, and the sky darkened with u Kreat fioi-k ot quails, and those quails fell iu reat multitudes all abont them, and Ihe.I.oraulites ate and ate and stuffed themselves itnll' thvy died. Oh, my friends, it is not hardship or trial orstarvaiion that injuries the sou!, but abundant supply. It is not the vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian lire. It is the quails. It Is the qu1l.. Yon will vet find out that your mMnigbt wrestle by the brook Jabbok is with au auge. ot God coma down to bless and to save. Learn again that, while our wrestling with trouble might be triumphant.' we mu-n ex pect that it will leave its fnarlt upon u. Jacob prevailed, but the angel toucm d him, and is thigh bone sprang from its sockets, and tbe good man weut limping on liU wa We must carry through this world the mark of the combat. Whst plowed these prem.n ore wrinkles in your facer What whitened your hair before it was time for frost.' What silenced forever so much of the hdnrily of your household? Ah, it is bocanst tiie aiisel of trouble bath touched you that you go lump ing on Tour way. You need not b s jrunsed that those who have passui tbr .uirh the lire do not feel as gay as once theydi.l. Do not be out of patience with those who co-re not out of their despondency. Xliev may triumph over their loss, and yet tlie'ir cait shall tell you that they have been trouble touched. Are we Stoics that we can un moved see our cradle rifled of tbe brilit eyes and tbe sweet lips? Can we stand uumnved and see our gardens of earthly d -lixht un rooted? Will Jesus, who wept Himself, he angry with us if we pour our tears iio the graves that open to swallow down what we loved best? Was Lazarus more dear to Ilim than our beloved dead to us? No. We have a right to weep. Our tears must come. V ) shall not drive them back to scald the heart. They fall into God's bottle. Afflicted ones have died because tboy could not weep. Thank God for thesweet, the mysterious re. lief t bat eomes to ns in tears. Under ihN gentle rain th flowers of hop put forth mmr o'oom ., ... v. ...4 -I uoa pity that irv, wnber-d. E arched, all conunimg grief that wrings it Scd, and grinds its tm-th, and biu-s Its nails into the quick, but cannot weep. Vn may have found the comfort of .he cross, and yet ever after show that inthedurk fiKhl, "i"1 K ln8 brook ,ltbbyk wo 'rouble touched. ffa'n' Vtske the Idea of the text ?.Dd the approach of the day dawn. no one was ever more giaa to s -e tne morn. lug than was Jacob after that nU-ht of strug gle. It Is appropriate for philanthropist snd Christians tn ory out wiih liisanei ot the text, "The day breaketh." Superstition bas bad its strongest props knocked our. Tbu shurch of Christ is rising up in its i-trength to go forth " air as the morn, clear its lh ion and terrible as an army with banners. " Olap your hands, all yu people, "tho day As 1 look around about me I see many who have parsed through seas of trouole that earns up higher than their g rdle. ln God's name I proclaim cessation of bo-tliities. You nail not always go saddened an t heart broken. God will bring your itead to 1 lie, God will siaooh the heart's b ee.liug. I know He will. Like as a father pitieth his chil dren, so the Lord pities you. The pains of earth will end. The dead will rise. The morning star trembles on a brightening tky. Ibe gites of the east begin to swing open. "The day breaketh." Luther and Melanchthon were talking to gether gloomily about the prospects of tbe church. They eould sex no hope of deliver, anee. After awhile Lutber got up an I taid to Ueiancbtbon, "Cume, Philip, let ui sing tbe Forty-sixth Psalm. 'God is our reiuge snd strength ln every time of tr mule.' " . Death to many nay, to all is a struggle and a wrestle. We bave many frh-n is whom It would be hard to leave. I o ire not how orlght oar future hope Is. it is a bitter thing to look Upon tbi fair world an 1 -know that we shall never again see its blnssom ng ipring, its autumnal fruits, its pparkllng treams and to say farewell to those w.th whom we played is childhood or counseled in manhood. In that nihr, like Ja mb, we may have to wrestle, but God will not leave us unblessed. It shall not be told in heaven tbat a dy ing soul cried unto God for help, but was not iellvered. Tbe lattice r.ay be turned to keep out the sun, or a book set to dim the light of the midnight taper, or the Dom may be filled with tbe cries of orphanage or widowhood, or the church of Christ may mourn over our going; but, it Je?us oalls, 111 is well. The strong wrest 1 ng by the twenty years years and preach this gospl. I save no grudge against this world. Tbe Jnlyfau tI bave to fin I with this worl 1 is that it treats me too well. But when the rime comes to go I trust to le ready, my worldly affairs aM settled. If I have wronged otters, I want then to be sure ot their for rlvenesa. In that lart wrestling, my arm Snfeebled with sickness ani my head faint, I want Jesus beside me. If th-re be hands on this side ot tbe flood stretched out to hold log: "Let me got Let me gol Yhe day oreaketh. ft'hy Women Are Afraid of Mice. In all ages women were supposed to be more prone to superstition than men, and who knows but tbe dread uf a woman on tbe appearance of a rat or mouse may not be due, id pari it least, to an anoieut superstition which bas traveled down the ages from the time when our remote fore fathers believed that rats and mice were tbe souls of the departed? Numerous are the stories which made the ancients believe tbat souls were rats and mice, and some of these itories are very curious. "In ThurlDgia, at Saafeld," says Baring -Gould, "a servant-girl fell isleep while her companions were (helling nuts. They observed a little red mouse creep from ber mouth and run out of the window. "One of tbe fellows present sbooa the sleeper, but could not wake her, 10 he moved ber. to another tilaoe. Presently tbe mouse ran back to the Former place and dashed about seek ing the girl. Not fluding her. it vanished. At the same moment the ilrl died." Starboard and Larboard. Tbe Italians derived starboard" from que ta borda. "this side," and "larboard" from quel la borda, which Beans "that side.'" Abbreviated, these two phrases appear as t-ta borda ind la borda. Their clo-e re-ernb-ance cau ed so many mistakes that ;he admiralty ordered tbe "larboard" x be discontinued and "port" mbsti ;uted. . "Port" for "larboard" is aid to be first used in Arthur Pitt's "Voyage?," In 158a People glory ia all sorts cf bravery eiorpl the bravery they rtiglit tuow on bdiiaif of their ucarest ccigbbor. it we wouUI l happy; we tboull open our ears wbeu anong.the goo a aud shut tbem. when among the bud. A joiirl spirit and a oucetful counte nance shed bapptue-is all sreuuj; wuilo sadness and gloom cte.tte dismal melancholy wherever they a-e. The- multitude u like the feu; it either bears you np or s.vui'ows you, according- to the wind. J
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