. -v'.: 'J. J, ,
TUB CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
F. BOHWEIEB,
MIFFLINTOW1N, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1896.
NO. 52.
VOL. L.
ii
CHAPTER XV.
It was after 11 o'clock, and John Tim
fnons bad not ret emerged from his cellar.
All tbe while he had been below a strong
pungent smell of burning, the dry, su
phnrous smell of burning coke, had as
tended from below, with now and thei
Boise of a hand-bellows blowing a fire,
tut no steam or sound or savor of cook
ing. Now and again there was the noiM
of stirring a fire, and now and again th
noise of tongs gripping and loosing and
lipping on what a listener might take tc
be pieces of coke.
If no one was listening to the stokes
some one was watching the exterior of th
marine store. A short time before li
o'clock a man dressed In seedy black
cloth, with short iron-gray whiskers and
beard, and long iron-gray hair and wear
og bine spectacles, turned Into the street,
and sat down in a crouching position on
tbe axle-tree of a cart.
When it was about a quarter pas 11
TlmmoDs emerged from the cellar, carry
ing in one hand a dark lantern, with tb
slide closed. He went caHtiously to tht
wicket, and with a trowed began digginii
op the earth of the floor, which was her
dark and dry. It was old sand from
foundry, and could be moved and replaced
without showing the least trace of dis
turbance. After digging down about a foot h
came upon a small, old bag, which hi
lifted out, and which contained some
thing heavy. The bag had been all rubbed
over with grease and to the grease the
dark sand stuck thickly. Out of this baa
he took a small, heavy, cylindrical bun
die of chamois leather. Then he restored
the bag to the hole, shoveled back thf
annd nnri smoothed the floor.
Timmons walked softly over his noise- I
less floor until he got behind the old
boiler of a donkey engine. Here he slid
back the slide of the lantern and unrolled
the leather. The latter proved to be a
belt about a palm deep, and consistinj
of little bags or pockets of chamois leath
cr, clumsily sewn to a band.
There were a dozen of those little pock
ets in all; six of them contained some
heavy substance. Each one closed with
a piece of string tied at the mouth. Tim
in ons nndid one and rolled out on his hau l
a thick lump of yellow metal about the
ize of the Inrge buttons worn as orna
ments on the coats of coachmen.
He smiled a well-satisfied smile at the
gold ingot, and weighed it affectionately
in his grimy palm, gave the ingot a lovins
polish with his sleeve, dropped it back
into its bag, and retied the string. Then
out of each of his trousers' pockets be
took a similar ingot or button, weighed
each, and looked at each with affectionate
approval, and secured each In one of the
half-dozen vacant leather bags.
"Two pounds two ounces all together,"
he whispered. "I have never been able to
get more than four dollars an ounce foi
it, taking it all round at fifteen carats.
His offer is ns good as ten dollars an
ounce, which leaves a margin for a man
to get a living out of it, if the dwarf ii
safe. If I had had only one deal with
him, I'd feel he's safe, but he has done
Jttle but talk grandly and vaguely up to
this. Well, after this deal to-night he
can't draw back or betray me. That's
certain, anyhow."
He unbuttoned his waistcoat, strapped
the belt ronnd his lank, hollow waist,
blew out the lantern and stepped into the
deserted street. Before he disappeared,
the elderly man with grizzled hair and
whiskers, dressed in seedy black cloth,
emerged from the shadow of the cart and
kept stealthily in the rear of the marine
" store dealer. Timmona was on his way
to keep his appointment with Leigh in
Chetwynd .street, and the low-sized man
with bine spectacles wa following, shad
owing Timmons.
Oscar Leigh sat In the dark on the last
step but one of the stairs of his house,
awaiting the arrival of Timmons. It was
close to the appointed hour. He had one
of his knees drawn up close to his body,
his elbow rested on his knee, his long
bearded chin in the palm of his hand. It
was pitch dark. Nothing could be seen,
absolutely nothing.
"My mother cannot live forever," whis
pered the dwarf, "and then all will be
blank, all will be dark as this ptaee round
me. Where shall I turn then? Whom
shall I speak my heart to? I designed
my clock to be a companion, a friend, a
confidant, a' solace, a triumph; it is be
coming a tyrant and a scourge. A man
must have something to think of besides
himself;-a deformed dwarf must never
think of himself at all, unless be thinks
crest thincs of himself. Here's Tim
mons." j
Leigh rose, and sliding his left foot and
supporting his body on the stick, went to
the door and opened it.
Twelve to the minute," said Tim
mons. "Let us go for a walk," said Leigh.
"But I have the stuff with me," said
Timmons, in a tone of annoyance and
protest.
"Let us go for a walk, I say," cried
Leigh, Imperiously, striking his thick
twisted stick fiercely on the flags as he
spoke.
The two men turned to the left, and
went on a few paces In silence.
"I have been in telegraphic communica
tion with Milwaukee since I saw yon,"
taid Leigh. "I had not only a message,
but several messages."
"Ay," aid Timmons,' scornfully, with
in impatient serpentine movement ma
ting up his body and almost shaking his
head off its long, stork-like neck. "Well,
Is the fool off the job?" asked he coarse
ly, savagely. In slang, with a view to
showing how cheap he held sch unprin
cipled circumlocution.
The dwarf stopped and looked up with
blank amazement on his face and an qffly
flush In his fVMl. "Is what foci off SSS
job Mr. Timmons? Am I to understand
that you are tired of these delays?"
-JmV hero, Mr. Leich. I've come on
business. What have you to say to me?
I have twenty-six ounces that will aver
age fifteen carats. Are yon going to act
- square and stump up?"
"Hah! I see," said Leigh, smiling
bUndiy. "I own I m relieved. The
fact, my dear sir, is, that on leading "you
I telegraphed to my correspondent in
Milwaukee for- "
"What are yon, going, to do? That's
what I want to know." said the other
fiercely.
"Precisely. Well, sir, I shall tell yon
my position in two words. I snspect my
correspondent of not having much
money.
"And yon think this villain might cheat,
might swindle ns after all our trouble?"
"I think this villain capable of trying
to get the best of us. In the way of not
paying promptly or the full price agreed
upon, or perhaps not being able to pay at
all."
"Mr. Leigh, I hope, sir, you'll forgive
my hot words of a while ago. I know I
have a bad temper. I humbly ask your
pardon." Timmons was qu'tj humble
now.
"Certainly, freely. We are to work, as
yon suggested, on the co-operative prin
ciple. If through my haste or inefficiency
the money had been lost, we shunld all
be the poorer. Now yon understand why
I did not ask you into my place and take
the alloy. We must wait a little yet We
must wait until I can light upon an hon
est man to work np tbe result of our great
chemical discovery. I hope by this day
week to be able to give yon good and
final news. In the meantime the ore l
safe with you."
"I'm sure I'm truly grateful to yon,
sir."
"Give me a week. This day week at
the same honr and at the same place."
"Very good. I shall be there."
CHAPTER XVL
When Edith Grace came into the little
sitting room in Grimsby street the morn
ing after her flight from Eltham House
she found her grandmother bad not yet
appeared. She went to Mrs. Grace's door
and asked if she might bring the old wom
an her breakfast. To her question she re
ceived a blithe answer that Mrs. Grace
would be ready In a minute. The girl
came back to the room where the break
fast was laid and sat down to wait. She
was standing at the window absorbed in
thought, when Mrs. Grace came into the
room and took the girl in her arms before
Edith was aware of her presence.
"Thank heaven, you are here once
more, my darling. To see you makes even
this place look like home. Oh, what a
miserable time it was to me while my
child was away. It seemed an age. Short
as it was, it seemed an age, darling. Of
one thing, Edy, I am quite certain, that
no matter what is to become of us, we
shall never be separated again, never,
darling, never. That is, K yon are not
too proud or too nice to be satisfied with
what will satisfy your old grandmother."
The girl sobbed her long-pent torrent of
chaotic feeling away, the old woman
stroking softly the dark glossy hair with
one hand and pressing the head to her
bosom with the other.
In a little while Edith recovered her
composure, and stealing out of her grand
mother's arms, turned towards the win
dow to conceal her red and tear-stained
face. The old woman went and busied
herself at the table.
"Edy," she said, "here is a letter. I
have not my glasses with me. Will yon
read It to me, dear?"
The girl turned round, took the letter
and went back to the window for a bet
ter light.
"It is signed Bernard Coutch," said the
girl in a low voice.
"Well, go on, child. Let us hear what
this Mr. Ooutch has to say. Breakfast
must wait. Nothing grows cold in such
lovely weather. I hope this Mr. Coutch
has good news."
"Dear Madam Mr. James. Burrows,
solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn, wrote me a few
days ago, with a view to ascertaining
tome facts regarding the Graces of Grace
dieu "
"Walt a minute, Edith." The old wom
an rose excitedly and came to tbe win
dow. "I must tell you, dear, that when
first Mr. Burrows wrote me to say the
bank hod failed, and that your money
and mine were gone, I went to him, as
you know, and got no hope of ever saving
anything out of the bank. But I did not
tell you then, for I was ashamed of being
so weak as to mention the matter to Mr.
Burrows, that I told bim all I knew of
the history of the Graces of Gracedieu,
and of tbe old story of mysterious money
going to the runaway Kate Grace fifty
years ago. I asked him to make what
inquiry he could, and let me know any
news he might pick up. I was foolish
enough to imagine, dear, that something
might come to you out 01 ue property or
the rich Graces if we only knew where
they are, if there are any. Now go on.
dear."
Edith recommenced the letter:
"Dear Madam Mr. James Burrows,
solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn, wrote me a few
weeks ago, with a view to ascertaining
some facts regarding tbe Graces of
Gracfdleu, near this place.
"I regret to say that I have not been
able to find oat much. Gracedieu is a
small residence about a couple of miles
from this. Early in the century the
Graces lived in this town. The family
were in com fortaDie cu-cumstances, and
jne of the daughters, a lady of great
beauty, disappeared and was, so the story
goes, never afterwards heard of here. It
was rumored she married a very hand
some and rich young foreign nobleman
who had been on a visit in the neighbor
hood. - '
"Some years after the disappearance
of the young lady, Mr. Grace seemed to
come suddenly into a large amount of
money; bought a few acres of land, built
a house and called his place Gracedieu.
From the name of the house it was as
sumed the gentleman the young Miss
Grace had married was a French noble
man. Later the Graces left Absolutely
. : ..I I. lrnjiwa, Af thom In this
I Doming, rw
neighborhood, and even this much would
not be remembered only for the romantic
disappearance of Miss Kate Grace, the
rumor she wss married, and the sudden
influx of wealth upon the family.
"Tours faithfully,
"BERNARD COUTCH."
The girLturnM nWAW the window.
Jnppc-3 - letter to tbe floor, and said
n a listless voice, looking, wltn eyes mat
lid not see external things, at the old
woman. "Mother, yon ought to be glad
rou are not one of the family ( Grace.'"
"Why, ehild, why?"
"We are an accursed race."'
"My child! iy child, what 'oily yon
talk. There Is no disgrace in marriage,
no disgrace in this. There was no shame
in this, and who knows but the mysteri
ous man who ran away with the beauti
ful Kate long ago, and married her, may
now be a great man in France? He was
a nobleman then and honors are tilings
thst grow, dear. If we could only find out
the title he had. I suppose we could if
we tried."
(To be continued.)
ADVERTISES HIS INJURY.
A Kansas Faraser Botmd to "Get
Haak" with the Bailroad.
Farmer Jake Stoddard, of Doniphan
County, believes) In telling the world of
hla grievance. He has been wronged
and he la determined that all who whirl
by hla boose on the Burlington road
shall know all about It Uncle Jake's
troubles) are told by a sign board which
stands near bis bouse by the side of the'
railroad tracks. Tbe passenger on the
Burlington, if be is a lover of tbe ro
mantic scenery which abounds In north
western Kansas, may observe from the
car window as the train from Atchison
approaches Fanning station a large
sign covering a board one by five feet
nailed to a pole twelve feet high, wblcb
reads:
THIS MAN HAS BEEN WRONGED:
: ' BY THE RAILROADS. :
.... ... .. ........ ...... .........
When the road was built It suited the
convenience of the company, accord
ing to a local correspondent, to lay the
track within ten feet of the corner of
Farmer Stoddard's house. The con
struction gang plowed through his
barnyard, removed bis ben bouse and
cut a wide swatb through a fine young
orchard which was the pride of Farm
er Stoddard's heart. The agriculturist
fixed bis damages at a high figure; so
high. In fact that tbe company com
pelled him to go Into court and take
what be regarded a ridiculous sum.
It was not long until the trains were
running. When the first excursion
steamed out of Atchison the passen
gers, when the train reached Farmer
Stoddard's place, observed the sign In
bold, black letters, with a background
as white as snow. Stoddard had paint
ed the sign himself, and, while It was
not executed In the highest style of the
art It could be distinctly read.
Farmer Stoddard has raised a large
family of boys and be has taught them
to hate corporations. Not less than a
half dozen dogs of doubtful breed can
always be found on the Stoddard place.
The dogaa-too, are taught to hate the
railroad, and when a train passes tbe
entire pack runs out and barks at It
The old farmer feels that he Is In a
measure getting even. Brakemen on
freight trains have great sport throw
ing pieces of coal at the dogs as tbe
train passes. Stoddard figures that be
gathers up almost enough coal around
his premises to keep one stove running
through the winter months.
Hard Luck.
"I was going along a mountain road
In West Virginia," said a timber buyer
to a Star reporter. "I had been In the
same section a year previous and bad
stopped at tbe cabin of a man named
Turner, where I had been well treated.
I concluded to trespass upon his hos
pitality again and reached the place
about sundown. He was sitting on the
step playing a violin.
" 'Hello, Turner,' I called.
" 'Howdy.'
" 'Can I stay all nightr
" Reckon not this time. I'm lone.'
" 'Where are tbe folks T
" 'Waal, sence yo' war hyar I played
In ha'dest luck yo' ever seed. Went
ter dig a well an' went through Inter a
cave. I wanted a cellar anyhow, so I
jess got down an' eplored that air cave.
It opened down by the crick, an' I seed
b'ar tracks. I wanted th' cellar wuss
than I did th' b'ar, so I went ter town
an' got pizen. Then I baited tbe ceve
an' went buntln. While I war gone
my boy seed th b'ar lyln' down an
shot 'lm, not knowln' he war plzened.
Folks ate 'lm an when I got back with
ten turkeys an' a heap o' squirrels thar
wa'n't no one; folks war jess star-tin'
with th' funerals, not knowln' when ter
look fer me.'
" 'I am very sorry to bear of your
trouble,' I said.
"Yaas, It set me back right smart,
but ef yo come by this way next week
I'll be all right agin an' yo' kin stop.
I'm gwlne ter marry th' Widder Logan
an' her three children termorrer. I'm
gwlne ter see th' squar" ternight, else
I'd let yo' stop now.' "
Fashion Notes.
Renaissance lace of a fine quality is
often used to border dinner cloths of
fine, heavy, plain .table linen. The
borders are of varying widths, from
six to twelve inches, and an insertion
of tbe same lace borders that part of
he c'oth that rests on tbe table top.
Russian lace in edges and insertions
is also used to enrich handsome dinner
cloths. It is somewhat expensive, but
launders beautifully, and 'as such
cloths are only for occasional use and
carefully looked afte-, it may be. said
to wear forever.
Lace jabots will be a feature of dressy
autumn gowns, so if you are the happy
possessor of a length of point d'Alen
con or Brussels lace, send it to tbe
cleaner's and have it ready to utilize
on your smartest bodice.
Collets of black ostrich feathers, with
a deep Stuart collar of tiny curled tips,
making a very smart finish ' to a dressy
toilette.
Black neck ruchings are extremely
modish for autumn wear, giving just
the degree of warmth necessary.
Quite a new idea in dress trimmings
comes in ingenious designs which look
charming.
Tbe girl up to date will wear her
jacket with military accessories this
winter. It is rather long on tbe hips,
fits snogiy and has the front adorned
with graded frogs of black silk cord. 3
The Bicycle.
An Enelisb writer has been making
astonishing remarks about the wheel
"There are," b ssys, "tea million
bicycles in use in various parti of tba
world." Helbengoei on to suppose
that on a fine day ball of these will be
in use and each rider will cover twenty
miles. He then calculates that the
total distance traversed by bicycles iu
one day will be 100,000,000 miles, or
more than 4,000 times round tbe
world. S
I', is clsimed by the English lone-
distance rider, J. W. Stokes, that dur
ing 1897 forty miles within tbe bour
will be ridden with the aid of wind
shields.
All the New England railroads have
agreed to abolish the release hereto
fore required froni passengers shipping
bicycles as baggage under the reduced
schedule of pr CcS adopted October 10.
Huret, the French professional,
when asked to join a racing team to
visit this country, is said to have de
manded $1,000 a week and bis ex
penses. Tom Cooper, the Western rider, ex
pects to start for tbe Pacific cu next
February to prepare for tbe spring
races. 1
Music and Drama.
issssBssssB-- 1
Mrs. Lawrence Barrett has decided to
make her home in England.
Katherine Grey, who has been ser
iouly ill, is now rapidly recovering her
health.
Julia Arthur will play Queen Anne
in Sir Henry Irving's revival of "Ri
cbaid III" at tbe London Lyceum.
The part of Dot Bradbury, in "A
M dnight Bell," was the first notable
role in which Maud Adams appeared.
O.'ga Nethersile's ambition to be a
manager of London theatre will pre
vent her coming to America next
season.
Joseph Haworth has recieved an offet
from Eugene Robinson to star rex I
teasou in an elaborate revival of "Paul
Kauvar," Mr. Haworth has not yet
come to a conclusion in tbe matter. -
Dunoan B. Harrison, Digby Bell's
manager, has" secured "The Pacific
Mail" from W. H. Crane, and will use
it in furtherance of his plan to intro
duce Mr. Bell as regular comedian.
Lillian Russell's great ambition is to
appear in "Csrmjn." Miss Kussell
has recovered from her recent illness
and appeared at tbe Great Northern
Theatre in Chicago in "An American
Beauty."
R. N. Stephens, who was reported to
be seriously ill in Cleveland, O.. has
recovered and returned to New York,
where he is at work upon the first of
three plays he is required by contract
to provide before next summer.
Tommy Russell, who was famous
all aver the country a few ya ago
the title part of Little Lonl Fauntleroy,
is now winning honors quite different as
quater-back of tbe foot-ball team ol
tbe Uuiversi'y of New York. 1
Housewives Helps.
Eggs will cook much more evenly if
the fiying pan is covered.
If you find your icing is apt to run
sprinkle tbe cake lightly with flour.
Salt fish are most quickly and best
freshened by toaking in sour milk.
If you heat your knife slightly you
can cut hot bread as smoothly as cold.
Soda is an excellent article for clean
ing tinware. Apply damp with a cloth;
then rub dry.
A lump of gum camphor placed id
your clothes press will keep steel orna
ments from tarnishing.
A little borax in baby's bath will
prevent tbe skin from chaffing, and he
is less liable to have rash.
Use clear, black coffee, diluted with
water and containing a little ammonia.
This will cleanse and restore black
clothes.
If your hall is narrow place a mirrot
opposite the parlor door. This helps
out by reflection the very narrow space
usually given to this part of the
bouse.
A scorch mark, if not too heavy.may
be removed by moistening with water
and laying in the sun. Repeat the
moistening two or three times and the
mark will disappear.
In escaping from a fire creep ot
crawl along the floor of the room, with
your face as near the floor as possible
As smoke ascends there is always a
freeh current of air in which you can
breathe with greater ea9a near the
floor.- 3
Health Hints.
That it is the height of imprudence
lo make a change in the undercloth
ing with every change in tbe weather.
Lighten tbe outside garments if neces
sary when the weather is warm; but
don't take off the flannels.
That change of air frequently affects
most astonishing cures, especially in
cases of ague, intermittent fevers and
low fevers of all kinds, where th? pa
tient's condition is such as to admit of
removal.
That a thin vestment of chamois
leather is about the best substitute for
flannel if the latter cannot be endured;
but flannel can be endured if one has
the patience and perseverance and good
common tense that leads to its appre
ciation. Worth Tryine.
Try keeping lamp burners bright by
rubbing them with Bristol brick or dry
ashes every time the lamps are cleaned.
Try making a crumb cloth of a long
piece of canvas; it is more easily
bandied than the usual rug, and it will
save much sweeping. -
Try hanging up the rolling-pin in a
bag, and it will not only be convenient
for use, but will be kept smooth and
clean.
Try drawing the edge of a sharp
knife - half-way ronnd the potatoes
lengthwise when they are to be
steamed or boiled, bat they should
never be cat for baring. 2
Personal Notes.
t Miss Crabtree,
better known as
T.rttii " rovarda itiA
stare of to-day
s distinctly inferior to tbe stage of
Jrenty years ago. - - -
It is regarded as entirely appropriate
Vt
at the most successful horse dealer
Nodaway County.
Mo..
is a man
reamed Goodpasture.
Dr. Temple, the new Archbishop ot
tnterbury, as headmaster of Bukby,
as regarded as one of the greatest
lhoolmasteri of the century.
fVEniilie Olivier, Napoleon -Ill's lsst
yinibter, is about to publish a novel
sjanea "Aiarie juaaeiine, wuicn w re
lieved to be autobiographical,
t Tbe French Minister of the Interior,
It. Barthou, is receiving much praise
Tor having refused to light a duel with
a man who had atrociously slandered
him. 3
K-'Wben Verdi went to Milan as a boy
ut IS years to continue his musical
studies in the conservatory he was re
jected. Miss Victonne Thomas Ariz, of Chi
cago, has made a gift of $10,000 to the
Boston public library as a Longfellow
memorial.
Tbe portrait of Alexander Dumas
the elder, painted by Meiasooier in
1877, is to find a place in the gallery
of the Louvre.
Mrs. May Sparling, the daughter of
the late William Morris, is engaged in
the manfacture of tapestry, which she
carries on profitably and successfully
near London. -4
An unusual amount of ecclesiastical
patronage has fallen to Lord Salisbury.
Stanley received almost $250,000 for
"Through Larkeet Africa."
President Cleveland will be 60 years
old two weeks after the expiration of.
bis present te m of office.
The early British custom of erecting
cairns, or heaps of stones, to commem
orate events is one greatly in favor
with the Queen,
"Gat Better Acquainted with the
Cow" is the subject of a new lecture
which Secretary Cobiirn, of the State
Board of Agriculture, is delivering, q
Miss Juliet Corson, who has been
cnlied "The Mother of Cookery," is ill
in New York from an incurable ail
ment, and is without means. 'She may
live, in pain, for some years.
Tbe Connecticut Humane Society
has awarded a medal to Eugene Wal
ker, of Hartford, a lad 17 years old,
who. at the risk of his own life, saved
a man from drowning last September.
A bronze monument has been erect
ed in Paris to the memory of Jean Le
claire, the man who fifty-four years
ago introduced among the workmen
of his factory the system of profit
sharing. Sir Henry Irving, in laying tht
foundation stone of the new Passmore
Kdwanjs Dulwioh Publie Library re-
vrnxiy, ejr.vfce tjrterij of tue lncatcnTa-
ble value of free libraries as a medium
of good.
Chang Chin Tuntr, the Viceroy ot
liupeh, China, who has hitherto ob
structed the work on tbe Hankow
Railroad, is one of the pioneers of the
new manufacturing industry, in China.
He owns and operates an immense
cotton mill in Wuchang. 1
General Eli II. Murray, who died in
San Diego, Cal., recently, though a
Southerner by birth, was the youngest
general officer in the Lnion array.
Count 'von Wa'dersee, who rumoi
persists in declaring is to succeed
Prince Hohenlohe as the Imperial
Chancellor of Germany, has an Ameri
can wifo.
Rear Admiral Peurose-Fitzgerald,
of the British navy, is now engaged on
a biography of the late Vice-Admiral
Sir George. Iryon, whose life was a
very eventful one.
Miss C. H. Lippincott, of Minne
apoHs,has the largest exclusively flower
seed business in the United States.
She is the pioneer woman in tbe busi
ness, which she entered ten years
ago. 2
Labor Notes.
The Carnegie Steel Company decided
to go ahead with improvements they
had under consideration that will cost
1750,000. Work on the completion of
No. 2 blast furnanco, at Durjuesne, will
be resumed. Additions to the Home
stead works will involve the expendi
ture of $500,000. New open hearth
and basic furnaces will be erected,
which will largely increase the output
of the mills.
In anticipation of a world's maritime
Btrike next year a huge combination
is rw in ; perfected by the ship owners
of France, Germany, Holland, Bel
gium and Norway to resist the demands
of their employe. A federation will
also be entered into- with the British
owners.
The 3000 employes of the Westing
house Electric Company, at Brinton,
have been notified that they will be
compelled to put all- departments of
the plant in operation. Tbe mills will
run full time, which they have not done
for a year or more.
A new central labor body was formed
in Chicago, III., recently, under the
auspices of the American Federation of
Labor. It will contain representatives
of 50.000 trTrleunionists, and will
probably be called the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor.
It is reported that the Iron Mould
ers' Union of North America has in
creased its membership by 7000 since
July, 1893. That is, since it has adopted
the system of higlicr dues and the
ptyment of general benefits to its
memberi.
It is reported that both James
O'Connell and V. C. Pomeroy will
competo with Samuel Gompers for tbe
Presidency of the American Federa
tion of Labor, which will soon convene
in Cincinnati.
'Massachusetts Supreme (Xurt de
cided that strikers have no right to
patrol the neighborhood where a strike
occurred and intimidate non-union
men or distribute boycott circulars.
Hereafter SL Louis school authori
ties will employ only "union labor in
construction work and will also recog
nize the printers' union label. 1
REV. DR. TALMAGE
Tba Eminent Divine's Sunday
Diacoursa.
Scwect : "The Dying Century"
Text: "Thus salts, the Lor.l, Sat thine
hoasti in order, for thonshslt die sad not
live." II Kings xx., L
No alarm bell do I ring in tha ottaraaoe ot
this text, for In the healthy glow of your
countenances I flad cause only for cheerful
prophecy, but I sball apply the text as
spoken In the ear of Hezekiab, down with a
bai carbuncle, to the nineteenth century,
now closing. It will take only four more
long breaths, each year a breath, and the
century will expire. My theme is "The Dy
Ing Ceoiorv." 1 disease it at an'bour when our
National Legislature is about to assemble,
some of the members now here present and
othets soon to arrive from the North, South,
East and West. All the publio conveyance
eomlng this way will bring Important addt.
ttoos of public men, so that when on Decem
ber 7. at high noon, the gavels of Senate and
House of Bepreaentatives shall lift and fall
the destinies ot this Nation, and through ti
the destinies of all Nations straggling to be
free, will be put on solemn and tremendoui
trial. Amid such intensifying circumstance
I stand by the venerable century and address
It in tba woriis of my text. Taus salth tha
Lord, Set thine house in order, tor thoa
sfaalt die and not live."
Eternity is too big a subject for ns to
understand. Some one has said it Is a
great clock that sars "Tick" in one cen
tury and Tack" In another. But we can
batter understand old time, who has many
children and they are the centuries and
many grandchildren and they are tha
years. With tha dying nineteenth century
we shall this morning have a plain talk,
telling him some of the good things lie has
done, and then telling him some ot the
things ha ought to adjust before ha quits
this sphere and passes out to join tha
eternities. We generally watt until people
are dead before we ay much in praise of
them. Funeral eulogium is generally very
pathetio and eloquent with things that
ouht to have been said years before. Ws
put on cold tombstones what we ought to
nave put in the warm ears of tbe living.
We curse Charles Sumner while he la liv
ing and cudsrel him into spinal meningitis
and wait nntil, in the rooms where I have
been living the last year, ha puts his hand
on his heart and cries "On. and is gone,
and then we make long procession in his
honor. Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of tha
American Senate, accompanying! stopping
long enough to allow tbe dead Senator to Ue
in slate in Independence Hall, Philadelphia,
and halting at Boston Statebouse, where not
long before damnatory resolutions had been
passed in regard to him, and then move on,
amid the tolling bells and the boom of min
ute guns, until we bury him at Mount Au
burn and cover him with Dowers five feet
deep. What a pity he could not have been
awake at his own funeral to hear tha grati
tude of the Nation! What a pity that one
green loaf could not have been taken from
each one of tbe mortuary garlands and put
upon his table while be was vet alive at the
Arlington! What a pity that out of tbe great
choirs who chanted at his obsequies one lit
tle girl dressed In white might not nave sung
to his living ear a complimentary solol The
postmorten expression contradicted the ante
mortem. The Nation couid not have spoken
the truth both limes about Charles Sumner.
Was it before or after his decease it lied?
No such injustice shall be inflicted upon
tbis venerable nineteenth century. Before
he goos we recite in bis hearing some of the
good things he has accomplished. Want
an aldiiion to tbe world's intelligence be
has midel Look at the old schoolhouse,
with the snow sifting thrpuel the roof and
the filthy tin cup nanging over the watur
pall in the corner, and tbe little victims on
the long benches without backs, and tha
illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory gad,
and then look at our modern palaces of
free schools under men and women cul
tured and refined to the highest excellence,
so that whereas in our childhood wa had to
be whipped t" go to school, children now
cry when they cannot go. Thank you,
venerable century; while at the same time
we thnnk Ood! What an addition to tha
worlds inventions within our century the
cotton gin, the agricultural machines for
planting, reaping and thrashing; the tele
graph; the phonograph, capable of pre
serving a human voice from generation to
generation; the typewriter, that rescues tha
world from worse and worse penmanship,
and stenography, capturing from the lips of
the swiftest speaker more than 210 words a
minute! Never was I so amazed at the
facilities of our time as when a few days ago
I telegraphed from Washington to New York
a long and elaborate manuscript, and a few
minutes after, to show its accuracy, it was
read to me through tne long-distance tele
phone, and it was exact down to the last
semicolon and comma.
Whnt hath Ood wrought! Ob. I am so
glad I was not born sooner. For the tallow
candle the electric lighr. For tbe writhings
of the surgeon's table God given anesthetics,
and the whole physical organism explored
by sharpest instrument, and giving not so
much pain as the taking ot a splinter from
under a child's noger nail. For the lumber
ing stagecoach the limited express train.
And there is the spectroscope of Fraunhofer,
by which our modern scientist feels the pulse
of other worlds throbbing with light, Jen
ner's arrest by inoculation ot one ot tha
world's wont plagues. Di. Keeley's emanci
pation for inebriety. Intimation that the
virus of maddened canine and cancer and
consumption are yet to be balked by magni
ficent medical treatment. The eyesight ot
the doctor sharpened till he can look through
thick flesh and And the biding place ot tha
bullet. What advancement in geology, or
the catechism ot the mountains; chemistry,
or tbe catechism of tbe elements; astronomy,
or the catechism of the stars; electrology, or
the catechism of the lightnings. What ad
vancement in music. At the beginning of this
eentury, confining itself, so far as tha
great masses of the people were con
cerned, to a few airs drawn out on
accordion or massacred on church baas
viol, now encbanticgly dropping from
thousands of Angers in Handel's "Concerto
In B Fiat," or Ouilmant's "Sonata In- D
Minor." Thanks to you, O century, before
you die, for the asylums of merey that yon
have founded the blind seeing with their
lingers, tbe deaf hearing by tbe motion of
Jrour lips, tbe born imbecile by skillful object
esson lifted to tolerable intelligence.
Tbanks to this eentury for the improved con
dition of most Nations. The reason that Na-
foleon mails such a successful sweep across
urope at the beginning ot the century was
that most of the thrones of Europe were oc
cupied either by imbeciles or profligates.
But most of the thrones of Europe are to-day
occupied by kings and queens competent.
France a republic, Switzerland a republic,
and about flftv free constitutions. I am told.
In Europe. Twenty million serfs ot Bussia
manumitted. On this Western continent I
ean call tha roll of manv republics Mexico.
Gautemala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Para
guay, urnguav, flonaur&s, new ureaaaa,
Venezuela, Fern. Ecuador, Bolivia, 'Chile,
Arm-ntfne Benublic. Brazil. The one strag
gling village of Washington to which tba
United States Government moved, its entire
baggage and equipment packed up In seven
boxes, which got lost in the woods near this
place, now the architectural glory of the
oomineniana aaniiroiiuu ui mo nuim.
Tha- money power, so much denounced
and often justly criticised, hai covered this
continent with universities and free librar
ies and asylum of mercy. The newspaper
nre.fl. wbich at the beginning of tbe cen
tury was an ink roller, by hand moved over
one sheet of paper at a time, has b come tha
miraculous manufacturer of four or nve or
six hundred thousand sheets for ona daily
newspajier's issue. Within your memory,
O dving century, has been tbe genesis of
nearly all Ihe great institutions evangel
istic. At London taveru, March 7, 1H02,
British and Foreign Bible eociety was born.
In M? American Bible society was born.
In 1324 American 8unday-school onion
wai born. In 1810 American board of
commissioners for foreign missions, which
has nnr its saving hand on every Nation ot
the round earth, was born at a haystack ia
Massachusetts. Tha National Temperance
society, the Woman's Temperanoa society,
and all tha other temperanoa movements
were born In this eentury. Africa, hidden to
other centuries, by exploration in this ees
tury has beaat-intt at tna fast of etvUlaatloB
iu ue ocoupied by oommreoe and Christian
ity. Tha Chinass wall, onoa an impassable
barrier, now is a useless pile of stone and
brick. Our American Nation at tha opening
of this eentury only a slice of land along
the Atlantic coast, now tha whole continent
in possession dT our schools and churches
and missionary stations. Sermons and re
ligious intelligence which In other times. If
noticed at all by tha newspaper press, were
allowed only a paragraph of three or four
lines, now And tna columns ot the secular
press In all tha cities thrown wide
open, and every week for twenty-six
years, without tha omission of a single
week, I have been permitted to preach
one entire gospel sermon through the news
paper press. I thank Ood for this great
opportunity. Glorious old eentury! You
shall not be entombed until wa have, face to
face, extolled you. Too were rocked ia a
rough cradle, and tha inheritance yon re
eel red was, for tha most part, poverty and
struggle and hardship, ant poorly covered
graves of heroes and heroines of whom tha
world bad not been worthy, ant atheism and
military despotism, and tha wreck of Ihe
French revolution. Ton inherited tha influ
ences tnst resulted in Aaron Burr's treason,
and another war with England, and battle
of Lake Erie, and Indian savagery, and
IiUndvs Lana, and Dartmoor massacre, and
dlssentlon, hitler and wild beyond measure
ment, and Afrloan slavery, whlnh was yet to
cost a National hemorrhage of four awful
yean and a million precious lives.
Tea, dear old esntury, yon had an awful
start, and you hare dons more than well,
considering your parentage an1 your early
environment. - It is a wonder you did not
turn out to be tbe vagabond eentury of all
time. Ton baa a bad mother and a bad
grandmother. Some of the preceding cen
turies ware not fl. to live in their morals
were so bad, their fashions were so outrage
ous, their Ignorance was so dense, their in
humanityso terrific Ob, dying nineteenth
century, before yon go we take this oppor
tunity of telling you thst you are the best
and the mightiest of all the centuries of the
Christian era except the first, which gave us
the Christ, and you rival that eentury in the
fact that you more than all the other centur
ies put together are giving the Christ to all
the world. One hundred and twelve thousand
dollars, at one meeting a few days ago con
tributed for the world's evangelization.
Look at what you have done, O thou
abused and depreciated century. All
tha Pacific isles, barred and bolted
against the gospel when yon began
to reign, now all open, and some of them
more Christianized than America. No more,
as once written over tha ehurob doors in
Cape Colony, "Dogs and Hottentots not ad
mitted." The late Mr. Darwin contributing
1 25 to the Southern Missionary Society. Cnn
nibaltsm driven off thefaoeof the earth. The
gates of all Nations wide open for the gospel
entrance when the church shall give up its
intellectual dandyism, and quit fooling with
higher oritioism, and plunge into tha work,
as at a life saving station tbe orew pull out
with the lifeboat to take tha sailors off a
ship going to places In the Skerries. I thank
you, old and dying century. All heaven
thanks you, and surely all the Nations of tbe
earth ought to thank you. I put before your
eyes, soon to be dim for tha last sleep, tbe
facts tremendous. I take your wrinkled old
hand and shake it In congratulation. I bathe
your fevered brow and freshen your parched
lips from the fountains of eternal victory.
But my text suggests that there are some
things that this century ought to do before
he leaves us. "Thus salth the Lord, "Set
thine house in order, for thou sbalt die and
not live." We ought not to let this century
go before two orthreethlngsaresot in order
For one thing tbis quarrel between la'ior and
capital. Tbe nineteenth century inherited
it from the eighteenth century, but do not
let th's nineteenth century bequeath it to
the twentieth. "What we want, says labor,
"to set us right Is more strikes and more vig
orous work with torch and dynamite."
"What we want." says capital, "Is a tighter
grip on the working classes and compulsion
to take what wagee wo choose to pay, w.th- J
vut raierence to their needs. Barn wrong
sin. - Both defiant. Until the day of judg
ment no settlement of the qnarrelif you leave
It to British. Russian or American politics.
The religion of Jesus Christ ought to come
In within the next tour years ana take the
hand of capital and employe and say: "You
hare tried every t nlng else and failed. Now I
try the gospel of kindness." No more op
pression and no more strikes. Tbe gospel ot
Jesus Christ will sweeten this acer
bity, or It will go on to
the end of time, and the Ares that
burn the world up will crackle in the ears ot
wrathful prosperity and Indignant toil while
their hands are still olutehing at each other's
throats. Before this eentury sighs its last
breath I would that swarthy labor and easy
opulence would ocme up and let the Carpen
ter of Nazareth join their hands inpledge of
everlasting kindness and peaae. When men
and women are dying they are apt to divide
among their cniiaren mementos, ana one is
given a watch, and another a vase, and
another a picture, and anothor a rope. Let
this veteran century before it dies hand over
to tha human raoe, with an Impressiveness
that shall last forever, that old family keep,
sake, the golden keepsake which nearly 19 JO
years ago was handed down from tbe black
rook of the mount ot beatitudes, "Therefore
all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you. do ye even so to them, for
lor this is the law and tne propnets.
Another thing toat neeas to De set in
order before the veteran century quits us
Is a more thorough and all embracing plan
for the world's gardenization. We bave
bean trying to save the world from the
top, and it cannot be done that way. It
has got to be saved from the bottom. The
church ought to be only a West Point to
drill soldiers for outside battle. What It a
militiary academy should keep Its students
from age to age ia tba messroom and the
barracks? No, no! They are wanted at
Montezuma and Chapuliepee and South
Mountain and Missionary Kldt-e, and the
church is no place for a Christian to stny
very long. He is wanted at the front. He
Is needed in tbe desperate charge of taking
the psrapets. Tha last great battle lor
Ood is not to be fought on the campus of
a college or the lawn ot a church. It is to
be fongbt at Missionary Bidge. Before
this century quits us let us establish the
babit of giving the forenoon of the Sab
bath to the churches and the afternoon an 1
the evening of the Sabbath to gospel work
In the halls and theaters and streets an I
flelds and slums, and wildernesses of sin
and sorrow. Why do Christians who have
stuffed themselves with "tbe strong meat of
Ihe word" and all gospel viands on Sabbath
foreuoons want to come up to a second ser
vice and stuff themselves again? These old
gormandizers at the gospel feast need to get
into outdoor work with the outdoor gospel
that was preached on the banks of the Jor
dan, and on the Ashing smaoksot Lake Gali
lee, and in the bleak air ot Assyrian moun
tains. I am told that throughout all our
Am srican cities the second Sabbath service
in tbe majority ot churob.es is sparsely, yea,
disgracelully attended, and Is the distress of
the consecrated and eloquent pastors who
bring their learning and piety before pews
ghastly for their Inoocupancy. What Is the
providential meaning? The greatest ot all
evangelists since Bible times recently sug
gested that tha evening services in all tho
churches bs turned into tha most popular
style of evangelistlo meetings for outsiders.
Surely that Is an experiment worth making,
if that does not succeed, then it does seem
to me all the churches whloh cannot secure
sufficient evening audiences ought to shut
up their buildings at night and go where tho
people are and invite them to come to the
gospel banquet.
Let the Christian souls bountifully fl In
the morning, go forth in tbe afternoon nuj
evening to feed the multitudes of outsiders
starving for the bread of which if a man eat
he shall never again hunger. Amongthose
clear down the gospel would make more
ranid eonnuest than among those who know
so much and have so much that Ood can
not teach or help them. In those lower
depths are splendid fellows in the rough,
like the shoeblack a reporter saw near New
York City HalL He asked a boy to black
his boots. The boy came up to his work
provokinsly slow and bad just begun when
a large boy shoved him aside an 1 began the
work, and the reporter reprove! him as be
ing a bully, and the boy replied: "Ob, that's
all right. I am going to do it for 'im. You
see he's been sick in tha hospital more'n a
month, so us boys turn In and give 'im a
lift." "Do all tha boys help him?" asked tbe
reporter. "Yes. sir. When they ain't got
no job themselves and Jim gets one they
turn In and help 'im, lor ho ain't strong yet,
you see." "How much percentage does he
give you?" said the reporter. Tba boy re
plied "I don't keep aoae of It 1 ain't no
such sneak as that. All the boys give u
what they git on his job. I'd like to catch
any teller sneaking on a sick boy, I would "
Tba reporter gave him a twenty-five cent
piece and said, "You keep ten eents for
yourself and give the rest to Jim." "Can't
do It, sir. It's his customer. Here, Jim."
Such big souls as that strew all tbe lower
depths of tba cities, and, get them converted
to Ood, this would be the last full oentury ot
the world's sin ami but little work of
evangelisation would be left for the next
century. Before this century expires let
there be a combined effort to save the great
cities of America ani Great Britain and of
all Christendom. What an awful thing it
would be for you!
O dying eentury, to bequeath to the com
Ing oentury, as yet Innocent and unscarred
wltn a single sin or Duniene i wltn a single
sorrow, tha blasphemy, tbe lawlessness, tbe
atheism, tha proflignoy and the woe of irreat
cities still unevangellmd. What we ought to
see, O dying eentury. Is a revival of religion
that would wrap the continent! in conflagra
tions of religious awakening, and that would
make legislation and meruhau-.li9e and all
styles of worldly business wait awhile at the
telegraph offices and the telephone offl
because they are occupied with telli-.g the
story ot cities and Nations born In a day.
Nearly an the centuries closed witu some
thing tremendous. Why mHynot-thiscrnlury
close in tbe salvation of Amerie.i? I do not
know whether our th--ological frien I.', who
have studied the subject more than I have,
are right or wrong when thev say Christ
will come In person to setup His kingdom
in this world; but though we would t- over
whelmed with ourunwortbiness I would like
to see Christ descend from heaven in one ol
tha clouds of this morning, and planting His
feet on this earth, which He c ime cen?urie
ago to cave, declare His reign of love and
mercy and salvation on e:irt ti begun. And
what more appropriate place I sttv it rev
erentially tor such a divine lnn iing than
the capital ot a continent never cursed by
the tyrannies and sup jrs.itions of the Old
World?
What has this dying nineteenth eentury to
tell us before he gaea'f We nil love to bear
septuagenarians. octogennxiau, nonagenar
ians ana centenarians iniK. we gainer
around the armchair and listen till It is far
on into the night and never weary ot bear
ing their experiences. But Lord Lyn lliurst.
at eighty-eight years ot age, pouring into Ihe
ears of the House of Lords in a four hours'
address tha experiences of a lifetime, aud
Apollonius, at 100 years of age, recounting
his travels to thrilled listeners, and Charles
Macklln, at 107 years of age, absorbing the
attention of his hearers, aud Ua ph F .iiih un
of our country, at 107 years, telling tbe
Prince ot Wales tbe story of Bunker Hill, can
create no such interest as this dyiog ceuteu
arlan If he will only speak.
leu us, u nineteenth century, bIor
you go in a score of sentences, some of tne
things you bave heard an i soeo. Tbe
veteran turns upon us and says: "I saw
Thomas Jefferson riding in unattended
from Monticello, only a few steps from
where you stand, dismount from his horse
and hitoh tbe bridle to a Dost, and on vnn-
"dor hill take the oath of the presidential
omae. x saw yonaer capital ablaze witn
war's Incendiarism. I saw tho puff ot the
first steam engine in America. I heard tbe
thunders of Waterloo, of Sepastopol and
Sedan and Gettysburg. I was pres-nt at
all the coronations of the kings and queens
and emperors and empresses now iu tbe
world's palaces. I have seen two billows
roll across this continent and lrom ocean
to ocean a billow of revival joy in 1857
and a billow of blood In 161. I have seen
f sur generations of the human r.ice march
across this world and disanoear. I saw
their cradles rocked and their gruvesdug,
i nave nenra tne wearing bells an 1 tbe
death knells of near a hunlre l years. I
have olapptd my bands for millions of Joys
and wrung them in millions of agonies. I
raw Maoready and Edwin Forrest act and
Edward Payson pray. I heard the first
chime of Longfellow's rhythms, and before
anyone else saw then I read the first line of
asrasvir-v History ana tne ursi vrse oi
Bryant's "Thanatopsis" ani the flrst word of
Victor Hugo's almost supernatural rcmanoe.
I beard tbe musio of all the grand marohes
and the lament of all the requiems That for
nigh tea decades made the cathedral win
dows shake. I have seen more mcrnl and
spiritual victories than all of my pietleces
sora put together. For all you who hear or
read this valedictory I bave kindled all the
domestio firesides by wbich you ever sat and
roused all the ha'loos and roundelays and
merriments you have ever beard and un
rolled all the pictured sunsets and starry
banners of tbe midnight heavens that you
have ever gazed nt. But ere I go take Ibis
admonition and benediction of a dying cen
tury. The longest life, like mine, must
olose. Opportunities gone never come back.
ns a vuuiu prove irum niKu a nuunrea years
of observation. Tbe eternity that will soon
take me will soon take you. The wicked
live not out halt thoir days, as I bave seen
In 10,000 instances.
Tue only influence for milking the world
happy Is an influence that I, the nineteenth
century. Inherited from the flrst century of
tbe Christian era the Christ of all the cen
turies. Be not deceived by the fuet that I
have lived so lonir, for a century is a large
wheel bat turns 100 smaller wheels, which
are the years, and each one of those years
turns 365 smaller wheels, which are the days.
ana eacn one ol the Sbsuuys turns 21 smaller
wheels, whloh are tbe hours, each one of
hose 24 hours turns 60 smaller wheels, which
are the minutes, and those 69 minutes turn
still smaller wheels, which are the seconds.
And all of this vast machinery lain perpetual
motion and pushes us on and on toward the
great eternity whose doorswiit, at 12 o olock
of the winter night between the year 1900
and the year 1901 open before me, the dying
century. 1 quote from the three Inscriptions
over thiee doors of theoathedral of Milan.
Over one door, amid a wreath of sculpture I
roses, I read, "All mat WLlcn pleases us is
but for a moment. Ovsr another door,
around a sculptured cross, I read. "AH that
which troubles us Is but for a mo ueui." Hut
over the central door, I read, "That only la
Important whioh U eternal." O eternity,
eternity, eternity!
My hearers, as the nineteenth century was
born while the face of this Nation was yet
wet with tears because of the fntal horseback
ride that Washington took out here at Mount
Vernon through a December snowstorm, 1
wish the next eentury might be born nt a
time when the faco of tbis Nation shall bo
wet with the tears ot the literal or spiritunl
arrival of tho Ore&t Deliverer of Nations, of
whom St. John wrote with apocalyptic pen,
"And I saw, and behold a white horse! And
He tbnt sat on Him bad n bow, and a crown
was given unto Him, aud Ho went forth
conquering and to conquer."
Some electricians carry a small
compass in their pockets, and before
they touch tbe wire holJ the compass
near it. If tbe needl ia not deflected,
ihey know there is no current in it,
and that is safe to ban lie it
It is said that a large nnmberof tb
smaller towns in Switzerland, wbeie
water power is so abundant, are being
supplied with the electric carroct for
lighting and power pui poses which is
generated by water power.
A flowering plant i- si id to abstract
from the soil two hundred times its
own weight in water,
The production of rubber bicycle
tires in tbis country is about 1,000,000
sets per year.
We are all likely to bave sympathy
with the under dog, but keep our
hands in our pockets so they won't be
bitten.
The longest distance to which a
projectile has been thrown, ws at
Shoebnrynes, England, on April 15,
1888, when a Longridge wiro bound
goo thrown Bliot 21,358 yards, or VI
miles ?38 yards.
An institution has been started in
Brsseli, Belgium, for the teaching of
African languages and dialects to stu
dents who intend to settle in the dark
continent.
A telephone exchange has been es
tablished in Kioto Japao, and is said to
bave proved a great saecesp.lt is
under Government control.
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