fc. F. SOHWEiER, TWSSLi Jl - THR CONSTITUTION THE ONION AND THE BNFOKOEMKNT OK THK l.A WS. VOL. LI MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 6 lS9i NO. 4. V f i" i.-. 1,1 7 V - -.-i. I oiiaptkk xxii c "Mr. 'l'i in m i ii: -i." he tniti, fust ri-lit to be angry with 'lianamtitr our j.nat r.fui iisve not t..!.l j u quite the ir..'ii. I del not i Ik Milwaukee by tin I .vo-thii : resterdny. 1 was at tin? pul.lU.' house last ni;.-)it just before twelve, and I S:J g int.: I-Y-rle-s' bakery as you say. l?ut 1 sweat to you I left the city last nUlit by tlit t-.v.ive fifteen, and I sivrar to yo:i I ii! not wind uj) my clock last nijrht. It win "Ins it.. . mini; between four nnil five o'clock I fouinl out in Milwaukee that the man was not to be trusted." "Hut who wound the clock? I saw yuc do it, Mr. I.eih I saw you do it, sir, and ill this Milwaukee tale is gammon." "Aaiii you are wroiiir. Ami now, to show you how far you are wrong, 1 will fell you a secret. 1 have a deputy. One I told William., about, lie is ill-formed as I am, and so like ine when we sit that you would not know the difference neross four .n store. Hut our voices are dif ferent, very different, nnd he is m r than a foot taller than I. You did inn see the winder last night standing ui. He always takes his stat before raising the t-as." A lij;:it broke in on Timmons. Tli's would explain ail. This would make S'a iner s story consistent with his own exi-ri-- ne; of the flight before. This w...u'.l . 'count for this man, whom Stamer sai.I he had nhot, bring here now, uninjured. This would moke tlie later version of the tale about Milwaukee possible, credible. I'.i.t- a'.vi.il b.i:! it would mean that the unfoi tunate, nflli.-teil deputy had b.'OL' sacrifice.): Yes, most of what th.s ma I! had s.iid was true. "What's the unfortunate deputy's r:mnp'r': he asked, with a shudder. "That I will not tell." "I'.'.it it must come out on the inquest, fo-dny '..r to-morrow, or whenever thej find tiie remain?." "Tlie remains of what?" asked Lei-h, frou iiinj; !ica vily. "Of juur deputy. Thry say In the pa per that it v. us you that lost your life iu the fire." "I' irei Fire! Fire where?" thundered . the dwarf, in a voi.-e which shook the t.ac-iip.! j iis.-. z'.. jry'.iwi'DHt--? made the thinner of i?W!dl vrale. ntinued.) ' "yuil h::ve a me f . -r Mils n:! ! i.-.vn , l . - "clock, sir, was nil I lfad in this whole pipe.-? . hy. I- orbes bakery was bu-ued u WU3-tbe saving bank of mv out last n,sht. and the papers say ybvi , he.u C1. gouli aIJ(1 nw th(J b;nik -a .okt youv life m ihefire. ' Sroken and 1 am beggared." "i'vi ho -v did you cac;i;-i, .'r. Liv'li?" CIIAPTKIl XXIII. "Safan take care of his own. Mr. llan- The moruiii,- follov. ing llanbury's visit bury." he said, speakin f..r tiie first t.me fo Grimsby sU-jet saw the order of ar- to the young man. "Whatever way you rival of tiie ladies in the fitting-room re- J irP g,.i:v, I should like to go, if you versed. Mrs. Grace was there first. Edith , womJ have no objection! I have no way had been too excited when she went to j af my own now except the way comuioii bed afier the younj man's disclosures ; to us all." to sleep, and It was not until the small hours were growing bis that the girl could close her ey es. As a consequence she was late. Neither grandmother nor granddaughter (rii in humor to talk. Edith was occu pied with her own thoughts. They had jiothing to do that day, for Edith had made up her mind to do nothing about a .new oituation until Monday. It being now Saturday, there was uo time to take any steps thai -week. Thev hfcu'not sat down to breakfast until half-past nine, and by ten they had j net finished.. As the little clo;k on thej mantel piece stnics ine nour tne lanu lady's daughter entcrid to say n lady was t.eluw who desired to see Mrs. and Mis? Gr.ire. "I have tnk -n the liberty of coming up without porm.ssion," said a voice at the door, and a tall, stately lady, with white huir and dressed in black, appeared at the threshold of the door left open by the attendant. .Mrs. Grace invited her to enter and hi sealed. 'I need not introduce myself further." Vie visitor aid with a smile, as she sat down, after shaking hands with the two. "than to say I am the mother of Mr. Ilanbury. who had the pleasure of callin," upon you yesterday eening. I am afraid my visit this moruius is as inconvenient ly early as his last nigiit was late. Hut the discovery tf my dead husband's knowledge of your family affairs, is so ..Ttr.mroiimrr that I could not der.v niv- i.!f the hattfiiness of calling at the very i earliest momert i could get away. You ; lm vi not even finished breakfast. I fi ar 1 von will find it hard ta forgive rue. Her wors and smile and manner were so friendly and unassuming that grandmoth er and granddaughter felt at ease imme diately. That morning John Hanleiry awoke to the most unpleasant thoughts about l.)ora. What ought he to do in the matter? Had he not neted badly to her in not writing the next morning after the scene in thf drawing-room? the very ni?ht? He was wrestlir? and groaning in spir it when the servant brought a letter to iiis door. lie rei-ognized her writing :i ouce, and tore the envelope open hastily. He read the letter slowly and with de caying spirit. When he had finished he folded it up deliberately and put it back into the envelope. Kis face was pale, his lips were apart, his eyes dull, expres sionless. "Be it so." he said at length. "She Is 'rigVt," he added bitterly. "She is always right. She would always be right, and I when I differed from her always wrong. That is not the position a husband should occupy in a wife's esteem." He went out with no definite object ex cept to be free of interruption. His mind ran on Iora. Now he thought of her with anger, now with affection, now with sorrow, lie had no fhousrht of trying to undo h"r reodve. He acquiesced in it. fie was glad It eame from her and oui from him. lie passed In review the pleasant hours they bad spent together. He took a melancholy delignt in conjuring up the things they had said, the places they had gone to, the balls, and theaters, anr. gal leries and meetings they had been t i with sue another. He thought of the list walk they took, the walk which led to the pres ent breach between them. It was in this neighborhood somewhere. Ah, he remem bered. He would go and see the place wee "nor. :..a a.- the slreel. V. i.a; -.v.l the meaning of the crowd? When she and he wr. irnre last there had been a crowd too. Was there always a cro.wl hic. I'iicre had been a tire. I'oitcimen weie seeping ptople back !!:. i tile front of Forbes' bakery, wl'.i vi wns coi.ii'h tciy gutteil, standing a m re siiell, with it a Dare, roolb-ss walls open io the lihtof heaven. All the floors had fallen, and a tireman with a hose was pi;iy i:i on the imokius rubbisa within. "An unlucky place," thought Hannury. and at that momeut tlu re was a cry of iismay from the crowd. ii::iibury lirc.v back, lie thought the walls were fai! iiiif. Presently the cry of dismay channel to a cheer, and the T-f,d swayed unl DpeiK'd, an-1 through it. ir.-ni a cab which iiad just drawn up. wa'kcj hastily to wanls the smoking p.!. Ms :ir Lei.'i. "All guiicl All jr. :k-: '1 lie work of seven years! The result of a lifctiiae! Lione! j;onc! L',,j;e;" He reel, d are! would have fallen bu. jut. Ilaubury caujlit hi.u and suiipoitcl him. Williams appeared, and between Will iams and Ilan'oury the dwarf was led into the private bar iu which h.s learning and ccult knowledge had brought hiui dis tinction and respect. A chair was fetched and I.elh was et 'ipon it wilh his baek to the window, so fnat his eyes might not look upon the grave of his labor. "All gone! All pine! Nothing left! Nothing left! The work of seven yei.rs. day and nhjht! 1 : y and night! l;iy and niKht! (ione, all gone!" "Hut, Mr. Leigh," said the pr.'.e f i.-ed Williams, iu a low and very kindly voice, "it might have been ever so much worse." "Worse! How eouid it be worse? T.ier: In nothing saved." "Why, thank heaven, Mr. Leigh, you are saved. It was said in some of the pa pers and we believed it that you were burned in the tire." "Ami what if I was?" "Well, your friends are very glad, any way. Didn't you hear how the peopi-1 cried out with fear first, for they thought you were a ghost, and didn't you hear how they cheered when they saw it was "yours-;2. i !'. ,c ou'lf ".'.! '' I! YVho am V What am I? Mv "I .shall be very glad to have your com pany." said Haubnry. who wa.t sincerely moved at the loss and grief of the little clocktnaker. And leaning on the arm of John Han bury, Oncnr Leigh limped out of the pri ."Ale bar of the public house. CHAPTER XXTV. When the two men gained the open air no cab was in sight. "If you will rest awhile here," said Ilan bnrv. "I'll fetch a cab. I cannot see one p or down the street" "No." said Leigh, a s hudder passing through his frame. "Let us walk, if you do not mind. I could not bear to stay near this place any longer. Is it not strange that you should have wanted a : cab in this spot torty-eight hours ago, ! and I should want it here now?" j "It is strange," said Ilanbury, "but the j world is very small, nnd our absolute j wants in it are very closely circumscrib ed." The manner of Leigh had changed ; in a marked manner. His steps had be j come slow and more dragged, his breath i ing more labored, and he had lost all 1 swagger and bounce, and self-assertive-! ncss. "Sir," said Leigh, "this slow pace beCts a funeral. This is my funeral." "Oh, you. mustn't say so. I am sure your clock must have been a terrible loss, but not irreparable." j "I shall begin no other clock. Thf sands in my own hour-glass are running low ulrendv. When a man of tnr ni:ik endures a great shock and a great disap poiutment he does not eudure much more. "? 1 luu ' w yo" tiemy, and l am nt only to tie your triend. You will not spurn nie?" He paused in their walk and looked up anxiously into li anbury's face. "Assuredly cot. I will do anything I can for you." "You wi'.I be astonished to hear that 1 was tf.tlrrcttd towardu you from the mo nient 1 saw yon the attraction of re pulsion, no doubt. 1 have had so long a l'fe of loneliness and repression, I warn a few hours of companionship and frie sieaking before I die." "Anything you may tell me to reliev rour mind, I shall treat as a secret of mv own." "1 know. 1 wish I were as sure of any thing else as I am of you. 1 lied to you very considerably. I lied because I hnt imagination; because I Sad vanity; be cause people are such id.ots." "What I said about Miracle Gold tas mostly a lie also." "I knew that." "All right. Most of What I told yon about Miracle Gold was a lie. All I told you about making it was a life . I was about to enter into a league with thieves to take stolen gold, and pretend to make it. I was going to do this for the sake of the fame, not the profit. "A very dangerous kind of alchemy, "Anywjy I have told you what my scheme was. I told Mrs. Ashton that my clock was independent of my hands for winding up. You heard Williams, the publican, say they saw me wind up my clock lasl night Well, I was not near tny clock last night." "I'.ut he said he saw you." "He did. N.ov you can understand how necessary it was for me to lie." "I candidly confess I cannot." "Well, when I conceived the notion of making Miracle Gold I knew I ran a great risk. I thought it might become nec esfcan tc erove alrinaUvea at all ejeuts. The proposition or an alibi is an affirma tive, tbe deduction a negative. I told you my clock was my friend. Well, I made ! help me in this. I gave out in the pub lic house that my clock had now become so complicated that I bad arranged to connect all the movements. The clock was to be wound up by a lever fixed near the window, at which I sat when at work, the only window in the room. NiglK after night 1 worked at this lever for half an hour, turning round exactly nt a quarter past twelve to nod nt the people. Mean while, I was busy constructing a life-sized figure the body of a man every way as like me as possible. I have skill, a good deal of skill, in modeling. It was made to be moved by tbe lever, not to move it. I easily timed the head so as to turn at a quarter-past. I inserted iu the neek of the figure like myself a movement which would make the head nod before turning away to go on with the winding. You now see my idea?" "Not quite clearly. But I suspect it." "Suppose I had to meet one of my cli ents about the gold, 1 should make an appointment with him at a quarter past twelve elsewhere. My clock, at twelve o'clock, slowly raised the figure from the rloor to the place in which I sat in my chair, turned up the gas, which had been dimmed to the last glimmer that would live, and then released the weight in the chimney and set the figure moving as if working the lever, instead o.? the lever working it. Thus you see 1 should have a dozen to swear they saw me in my room, if nnything went wrong iu my interviews with my clients, or if from any other cause it became necessary for me to prove 1 was in my workshop between twelve and half-past twelve at night." "Very ingenious indeed." "There is not much more to tell. Ow ing to a reason I need not mention, I made up my mind ou Thursday morning to go on with the production of Miracle 1ioi-l. 1 resolved against my better judg ment, mil) gave tlie word for the first lot of the cold to be delivered at my place at midnight exactly. You know how my afternoon was spent. AYhile at Mrs. Ashtou's my better judgment and my worse one had a scutlie, and I made up my mind to decide upon nothing that night, and certainly to commit myself to nothing tiiat night. What you would call the higher influence was at work." . "1 'alias-Athena V" "Yes, if you think that a good name. Any way, I made up my mind to do noth ing definite in the interest of Miracle Gold that night. 1 set my dummy figure that figure was burned up; not 1. 1 am goiug fast. I there no cab? I can hardly breathe. Have you seen Miss Ashton since?" "1 have." "Since yesterday af.ernoon?" "No." They were standing at a doorstep. Leigh had leaned his side against the urea railings for support. His breathing was terrible, and every now and then he gasped, and clutched his hands to gether. "if yon come to see me to-morrow, per haps you may not come alone?" 1 l&tibury Unshed. He did not want to make his confession just now. "Perhaps I may not," he said. "Good by now." "lood-by: and thank yon for your good ness, i'ou know whom I hope to see witb you ':" YoV . ."TH.J?" "lViiias-Athena, of course." "Of course." (To be continued.) . 3!.-c!el of an English Speech. In rising In reply to the noble lord, he hoped'tbat the noble lord would do Justice to the sentiments of respect which bo cherished for the noble lord. He also begged that the noble lord would. In that spirit of liberality which distinguished the uotile' lord, under stand that he was prompted by no de sire to think diil'crently from the noble lord. He believed that the nelde lord and himself had always hitherto agreed on all matters which concerned the com monweal; and if the noble lord would bo pleased to remember, he had stood 6ide by side in many a, well-fought bat tle for ancient privilege with the noble lord. As to the present subject, he woald'j inform the noble lord that if there a diversity of opinion betwixt himself, he meaut to say betwixt the noble lord and himself, and there undoubt edly was a diversity (hear, hear), tht difference was no more than the differ ence betwixt tweedledum and tweedle dea. (Cheers.) Bnt he would assure the noble lord that If the noble lord would search the records to . satisfy any doubt which might remain in the mind of the noble lord, the noble lord would find that the facts which he should present . ought to have some weight on the miud of the noble lord. A few of these had already been presented by the committee for the consideration of the noble lord, and be would ask the noble lord to go with him wliilj he should make other state ments to the noble lord. If he might presume to claim, for a few moments the attention of the noMe lord. An electric railroad from Xew York to Philadelphia is projected. When water freezes it expands with a force of 80,000 pounds a Square inch. i substance has been found which will withstand such a pressure M. Highi, of Bolognt, has suc cf pdel in reproducing artificially the g fibular form of lightning. 1'aris policemen have been sup pli d with eletric dark lanterns, by m- bus of which they can see une hun dred and fifty fpet away. l'i rsia's elmh,. recollecting tlie ehirioiie tune his bite father had in Europe, has notified the Russian, llntis'r, German and French govero mei fs t. at lie purposes to visit their capital Lefore long. The classical Leander was the n( no i . ic hero of the ancients and the modtrn Leanders ou the Thames seem to be the acquatic heroes of the present day. - - -;' 1' is fai l tluit lecs caii fly 20 per c nt fuoter than pi-r -ons The on'y fur-covered, fur-footei member (f the animal kingdom which lays engs like a fowl is the native beaver i.f Au-uraliii. Compressed air has l-een . success fully applied to ths eigmls of the lightship in Vineyard sound, off Cape Cod. Hitherto the signals have been blown by - team. . ' . Tlie bicycle is the evangelist'of the most progressive era ever known. A new name for friend." it is "the farmer'! i Labor Notes. Cincinnati newspaper carries will oig.uize. They claim that newsboye hurt them by selling on their routes. Brooklyn Ontral Labor Union will try to prevent the establishment oi I tinting and other plants in tbe peni temiary. j The New York Central Labor Union has referred the plan of the Machinists' A-8i ciation for an inter-oceanic canal to the Secretary of the Treasury in . Washington. ( The ex-foreman of the composing room of the Sujienor (Wis.) Tt lerjram has sued the union for not accepting; him as a member Binca the ollice has b'-en unionized. He places damages t $2,000. i Amalgamated Steel Metal Workers of Chicago not only won a strike for t e discharge of m n union men, hut ti-v. manager of the building advanced ?25 to the workmen to pay their dues, to tbe organization. Milwaukee is to have a labor ex change. A person producing an arti cle of value to others can deposit and get a warehouse receipt, with which he can secure some other article of equal value that has been deposited by some other producer. The regular tariff lor Maine barber hops, excepting hotel shops, is as fol lows; Shaving, 10 cents; hair trimming, :15 or 20 cents; hair cutting 25 cents; I shampooing, 25 cents. The baibers are now organizing to do away with o-cent shop, etc. I The factory laws of Massachusetts Uniting the employment of woman and minors to 53 hours per week and preventing the employment of such isons more than 10 hours in any one day are being violate 1 in many work shops in Boston. Central Labor Un on wants the Chief of Police to enforce the law. I The Federation of Labor of the .State of Minnesota calls upon the 'working people of that to fetate organize both on eco oniical and independent political lines for t e purpose of es tiblishtng the co-operative common wraith based on the collective owner ship of the means of production and their operatiou for the beuetit of the , oplo. j The State Labor Bureau of Minne sota will seek amendments in the in ; terest of child labor. Eight-hour laws, amendments to the arbitration law and the repeal of the strtck jury law will be asked for. Miners want mine in spectors eiectei by popular vote and the corporation to take out b . dies of eutombed miners. Broommakers and shoemakers want convict work la sted. 1 Patent Notes A recently designed ink-stand has a portion of its cover hinged to the Bide of tlie bo.tt.e"in snfrr iimuu.;r s to Le easily depressed oj th pen, returning to position by itsautn we:ght and clos ing tbe aperture a ti is the pen ie removed. . To deposit Band on tV rails lh iront of a street car v.cea'-'i'vention has sand reservoir, at the bottom of which is a horizontal pipe in which a screw is operated by crank on the platform ot the car, thus forcing tbe Baud into a Wanting tube, from which it runs to the track. , . A combined wire stretcher and do mestic scale has just been patented. It consists of a central bar having teeth to eazf&w thtjthrtTi, end of a lever for use aa stretcher, ind a coiled spring, for .use as a cUv,surrounding the bar, an which, i 'placed a series of figures indicating different weights. ' An automatic grain-measuring de vice consists of an e'evator with a chain 3f buckets and. a counterpoised recep tacle, into which the grain falls. When the right quantity is obtained the recep tacle drops downward, stopping the elevator and emptying the train through an opening in the bottom, when it returns to its position ond automatically starts the elevator again. 1 Health Hints. Itfch puddings are suitable only in winter; in summer their place on the table should be supplied with some of the varieties of cream or fruit Water, with sufficient sugar to make it sweet, .is a common beverage in France, and there considered very wholesome and refreshing. Ladies generally take it before bed time for their complexion. For the healthy m-ijority the old custom of early rest and early w tking is certain to prove in future, as returns of longevity nd common experience alike show that it has proved in the past, moat conducive to healthy and active life. Rooms devoted to sleeping purposes should above all things be light, cheer ful and thoroughly ventilated. No room should be slept in in winter that has not had a fire in it at least three times a week, and it is all tbe more wholesome if it havjne every day. All vegetarians, it is said, disapprove of artificial Beasoninetigh many of them still continue Vt" of common salt. Those who dieoi with it alto gether, we are informed soon experi ence an improvement in the" sense of taste which adds greatly to the enjoy ment of food A windrow of salt around a field has bfien found to be a protection against the army worm. A field thus protected will not be invaded by this pest. A new hypnotic lias probably been found in the Jamaica dogwood. The fluid extract has been fouud ellicacious in dentistry. Tbe members of the Boston Aeron autical Society have decided that the kite is an instrument of value. Baron Eosmead, of Kosmead, in tlie county of Westmeath, 'and of afelberg in South Africa,, is the title th.-vt Sir Hercules Robinson selected on his elevation to the peerage. How fewtthere are who had rathe? be hurt by the truth than tickled by fla'tery. j Journalistic Wit. Unless Queen Lil, who has arrived in fan Kranc.sco, can play polker bet ter than her illustrious sire, ehe had better go back home, or the 'Frisco sports will have more of the Royal as ets. 1'itieburg Xews. When Scott Jackson, the murderei of l'earl Bryan, received notice that the Courts had declined to interfere in his case and that he must go to the gl!ows, he refused to be interviewed, saying that he "had n't vet made any plans for the future." He'd l Iter d do so without a moment's delay. Chi cago Times-llerald. Marquis C'abriatiai, of Madrid, says that in case of war between Spain and the United .States, the former wouid so n land 500,000 troops in our lary,e cities. What does the M irquis sup pose we should be doing ll that time, and if such a bo ly of men were lauded, how long would they last? Indianap olis News. There are some people who really believe that Spain could give the United States a right smart tussle. The truth is, that a declaration of war by Spain -ut an end to the p:esent monarchy, aud throw the Spaniards iuto a state of hopeless bankruptcy. Atlanta Coueti tutiou. A young man in Kentucky, who has paid !or a marriage lie 'ns-, but whose best girl is kept out of his reach by his mother, has sued out a writ of habeas corpus. If this works satisfactorily, parents whose children elope may be expected to try the ellicay of a writ of repleviu. Chicago News. The colleges have dropped foot-ball, but they are uow holding class b.tn-quet-i, and the attempts of rival c'.asies to prevent each other from iudulging their appetites iu concert are leading to scrimm iges that are as lively as those on the gridiron and as produc tive of a market for arnica. l'ltlibiirg Times. Whiskey distillers report increased onsumption as a result of the business revival. And yet it iiad been supposed that it was wheu business was dull that men took to drink. Boston Tran script. General Weyler would find his vain hunting for the Cuban insurgents less harassing if he could only know how long a tune will puss before tin y I egin to hunt for him. Newurk Ne.vs. Now we he.ir that the hatch-t with which (ieorge Washington cut dowo tiie cherry tree has been found, and it is probable that before many years some one will unearth the -thrashin.' tiint George's father didn't give him Chicago News. Bismarck never iiad any use for a Cabinet. When he had decided how to act, he once explained, he didn't want to waste his time and strength trying to persuade other "men to agree with him. And that is one reason why t5" Emperor .oyGera'jjjrtaaiv-tf no Imperial Cabinet. --Spriutieid Re publican. . y- V 1 tarns of Interest. The valuation of Utah for taxation purposes is $106,743,082. St. Louis is the largest tobacco manu facturing center in the world. The gifts to the New York University last year amounted to $457,173. This year's mustard crop in Cali fornia amottnts to 16,000,000 pounds. Philadelphia was tbe first city to issue a directory, its first edition coming out in 1783. Every citizen is bound to assist a sheriff in making an arrest when called upon. Tbe first religious journal in this country was the Recorder, at Chilli cothe, O., in 1814. There are now no survivors of the battle of Watterloo, which was fought 81 years ago. The first patent was isued to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for making "pot or pearl ashes." The cost of a well bred pack of fox hounds is about $5,000, and the annual bill for keep about as much. It is stated in a fashionable journal that 1,000.000 bonnets were sold in London during one week recently. The speed of he fastest Atlantic steamer is now greater than that of the express trains on Italian railways. Prof. Huxley oays that an oyster is a for more complicated piece of machin ery than the finest Swiss watch. The greatest taxpayer is tobacco. In the last 27 years this product has paid a tribute of $1,000,000,000 to Uncle Sam a' one. A Boston physician carries a storage battery in his gig to light the gig lamps, and also an electric light on the horse's head. If a strip of webbing two inches wide is sewed tightly ou the underside of a rug close to the edge it will prevent the curling. The United States Military Academy at West Point was established by act of Congress in 1802, Cadets receive $340 a ye-tr. There are 5,609 distilleries in tbe United States. North Caroliua leads, with 1,824, and Virginia is nex', . with 1,332. Pennsylvania has 1 9. Beef is the most nutritious of all animal foods can re eaten l(ng(i continuously than any other kirf of meat, resembling rice and brepd in that respect. Fresh beef is almost completely digested, more completely than milk is by an nilnlt. The traction engine is growing in popularity among English farmers, not alone for threshing, but for haui mg loads and plowing. The modern machines are handsome and almost noiseless, and draw thirty to fifty t-ns on fairly good roads. A'l the street railways of Mcnterey have been bought up by a local capi talist, who will equip them with elec tricity and give the city what, it is said, will be the first electric roads in Mexico. -He is the prince of onwards who knows he is m the wrong aud is afraid to say so. BEY. Da TALK "He Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. Sunject: "A Practical Religion. Tbxt: ''Faith without works is dead." James if., 2D. The Ro nan Catholic! Church baa beei charged with putting too much stress upon vood works and not enouirb upon faith. 1 charge Protestantism witn putting not enough stress upon good works is connected with salvation. Good works will never sav a man, but if a man have not xood works h has no real faith and no genuine religion There are I hose who depend upon the faoi that they are all right inside while toeir con duct is wrong outside. Their religion foi the most part is made up of talk vigorouf talk, tlueci t ta'k, boastful talk, perpetual talk. Ti ey will entertain you by the houi in telling you how good they are. Thej come up to such a higher life that they hav no patience, with or.tlnarv Christians inth plain discharge of their duty. As near as can tell, this ocean craft is mostly sail and vary little tunniv-ra. Foretopmast staysail, tor-top nitst stuibling sail, main topsail, mil zn topsail everything from fllng jib tc m zz-Mi spanker, but making no useful voy age. N jw, the world has got tired of this an I it wants a re.igion that will work intc all the cirou instances of lite. We do not wan! a uht religion, but the old religion applied in ail possible directions. luD ler is a river with steep and rocky hanks, and it roars like a young Niagara as it roll on nvnr its rough oh1. It does noth i s but talk about itself all the way from Us source in the mountain to tbe place wnere it euipties into the sea. The banks are so steep that thu cattle cannot come down to drink. It does not run ont fertilizing rill iuto the adjoining Del '. It has not one gristmill or fa. t TV on either side. It sulks in wet weaiber with chilling fogs. No on cares wueu that river is born anion? the rocks.nnd no one cares when it dies Iuto the sea. But yonder is nnother river, and It mouses its oanlfs with the warm tides, aud it rocks witb llor.il lullaby the water lilies asleep on Hi bosom. It invito herds of cattle and flock? of shep and coveys of birds to come thers nil I drink. It has three gristmills on one side and six cotton factor! js on the other. It is th wealth of 200 miles of luxuriant farms. The. hir.is of heaven chanted when it was born in the mountains, and the ocean ship piug will press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down from th Atlantic Coo.it. The ne river is a man who lives for himself. Ths other river is a man who lives foi Oihers. Do you know how the site of the ancien. city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. Tbe one biot her had a large family, the otbei ha I no family. Tim brother with a large family said: 'There Is my brother with no family. He must be lonely, and I will try to cheer him up. and I will take some of the sheaves from my field in the night time and set them over on his farm and say nothing about it." The other brother said: "My brother has a large family ana it is very difficult for him to support thnm, and I will help him aong, and I will take some ol the s'leaves from my farm in the night time nn 1 set tbom over on his farm and say noth ing about it.1' So the work of transference went on night after ni.-ht and night after night, but every morning things seemed to be just as they were, for, though sheaves ha 1 b ren subtracted from each farm, sheaves had also bfmn added, and the broth ers wer perplexed and could not under stand. But one night the brothers hap pened to meet while making this generous transference, and the spot where they met wan so sacra 1 that it was chosen as the site nfthoetiv f,f Jerusa era. It that tradition ;c.cali. prry j-iir.fui'uded, 3 will nve-he- es st.iu.i r. s a-OTjmiui allegory, anting forth tnn ij -a that wbetaver kindly and generous ..nil loving acr Is performed that la tbe spot lit for some temple of oommeav oratiou. 1 have offin spoken to yon about faith, but this moi 1 speak to you about works, or "faith without works is dead." I think you will agree with me in the statement that the great want In this world is morn praotl eal religion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will supervise the labeling of goods. It will not allow a man to Kay that a thing was made in one fact or v when it was made in another. It will not ailowthe merchant to say that watch was manufactured in Geneva when it was ito du fact u red in Massachusetts. It will not ndow the merchant to say that wine eame from Madeira when it came from Ca'lfornia. Practical religion will walk along by the store shelves and tear off all the tags that make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant lo say that is pure eoffee when dandelion root and chieory and other ingred ients go into it It will not allow hiru to say that is pure sugar when there are in it sand anil ground glass. When practical religion gets its full swing In the w rid, it wid go down the street and it will come to that shoe store and rip off the fictitious soles of uiay a One looking pair of slioss and show that it is pasteboard sand wiche 1 between tbe sound leather. Aod this practical religion will go right Into a gro cery store and it will pull out tbe plugs of all the adulterated sirups, and it will dump into the ash barrel in front of the store tho cassia bark lhat is sold forcinnamon atidthe brick dust that is sold for cayenne pepper, and it will shako out tb Prussian blue from the tea leaves, an I It will sift irora tbe flour plasier of parts and bone dust and soapstone. and it will by ehemical aualysis separate the one quart of water from the few honat drops of cow's milk, and It will throw out tne live animalcules from the brown sugar. There tas been'so mucu a tulteration of articles of food that it is an amazement to me that th'-r" is a healthy man or woman lc America. H"aven only knows wuat they put into the spices nnd iuto the sugars and uto the butter and into tbe apothoearv drug. But chemical analysis and the microscope have made won lerful revelations. Theboard of health in Massachusetts analyzed a great amount of what was called pure coffee and loun l it notoue particle of ooffee. Iu Eng- and there is a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. Tbe publio authorities examined lifty-oce packages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physi oian, writing a prescription, does not know bm that it may bring death instead of health to hi- patient, because there may be one of i lie drugs weakened by a che .per art cle, and another drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the oppo site effect intended. Oil of wormwood war ranted pure from Boston was found to have iony-oue per cent, of rosin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable medical drugs. It is very rare, ery precious. It is tbe sap of the gum of a ree or a bush in Syria. Ihe root of tbe tree is exposed, an incision is made into the root, aod then shells are placed at this incision to catch the sap or tn gum as it exudes. It is very precious, this scammony. But the peasant mixes it with a cheaper material; . hen it is t:iken to Aleppo, and the merchant i here mixes it with a cheaper material; thon it comes on to the wholesale druggist iu Lon don or New York, and be mixes it with a cheaper material: then it comes to the retail druggist, and he mixes it with a cbeapet material, and by tne time the poor sick man gels it Into kis bottle it la ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been called pure scaim.iony after analysis has been lound to be l o scammony at all. Now, practi -al religion will yet rectify all this. It will co to those hypocritical pro fessors or religion who got a "corner in corn and wheat in Chicago and New York, sending pi ices up and up until they were beyond the reach ot the poor, keeping these breanstuns in tneir own nanus, or control ling them until tne prices going np and up ami up, tnev were, alter awnile, reaav to sell, and they fold out, making themselves millionaires in one or two years, trying to fix the matter up wilh the Lord by building a church or a university or a bospttal. lelud- iD't themselves with theldei that the Lord would be so pleased with tbs gift He would forget thi niriudie. Now, as such a man may not have auy liturgy in which to say bis prayers, I will compose for him one wh'ch he practically is making "Oh, Lord, we, ny getting a 'corner in Drea stuns, swindled the people of tbe United States oul of 4 10,0:. 0.000 and made suffering all up and down tbe laud, and we won d like to com promise this matter With Theel Thou know est it was a scaly job, but then It was smart. aiiv, here we compromise it. Take one pel cent, or the profits, an t with that one pel cent, you can build an asylum for these pool m serab'.e rag muffins of the street, and 1 will take a yacht and go to Europe, forevei and ever. Amen." A'i, my fr en .s, if a mm hath gotten bli ' state wrong u'ly and he build a Hue ol hospita's aud universities Jrom here to Alaska, lie cannot atone for it. After awhile ih-s r.an who has been getting a "corner"1 in wheat dies, and then satan gets a 'corner" in him. He goes into a great, long Back Frl 'ay. There is a "break" in the market. According to Wall street parlance, he wiped others our. and now he is himself wiped out. So po' I a era Is ou which to make a spiritual 'o'in. Eteru il defa cation. But this practical--religion will not only revtilyali merchandise, it will alo rectify ail mecimnism ami all toil. A time w It come when a mau will work as faithtully by the job as he does by the day. You say w ten a thing is slighting. y tlone, "Oh, that was one by the job!'' You can tell by the swift ness or s!ovvniaS witu wnich a haokinan Irives whether he is hired by the hour or by c e excursiou. If he is hired by the hour, he irives very slowly, o as to make as many .lours as po-siol I: he is hired by the ex cursion, he wuips up the horses so as to get aroun I and get another custom -r. All -iixlesuf work have to be inspected ship n-pecied, hor-es inspected, machinery in ... cte l, boss to watch the jourueym'iu; capl . t list coaiiug dowu uuexpeuedly to waich t e bos, con ;ucior of a city car souu ling i lie punch bell to prove his honesty as a pas--ner nan s tc him a clipped nickel. Ail Mine's must bu watelied acd inspected. I:n n.'r.ections in the wood covere 1 with putty, Mr:neots warranto 1 to last until you put loein ou the third time, sho-ldy in all kiuds of cloth'uir, ehr-rnos, pinchbeck, diamonds .or t'.DO. bookbinilery that holds on until vou read ths third chapter; sp.tvined horses, y skillful do3M of joeys, tor several days iad to look spry; wairon tires poor. y put on, horses poorly shod, plastering tnat crack without any provocation and falls off, plumbing that ne-ds to ba plumbed, imper fect ear wheel that baits the whole train with a hot box so tittle practical religion in the mechanism of the world. I telt you, my rieu-Js, Ihe law of man will never rectify ihcse thing-'. It wid be the all pervading in fluence of the practical religion of Jesus Ciu-ist that will make the change for the but ler. l e. this practical religion will also go in to agriculture, which is proverbially honest, but n e ls to be r -ctitled, and it will keep the fnrmer trom sending to the city market veal hat is too young to kill, and when ths fnrjier fu'ins on snnres it will keep the mnn who does tnu work from making his hall Ihree-'ourths, iui-1 it will keep tbe farmer from building his post and rail fence on his neighbor's preniscs. and it wili make him shel'er his cailie n the winter storm, and it w d kep the old el ler from working on Min l-iy a'ternoon in the n-w ground wnere uobody tees h'm. And this practical re'ig io'i will hov.;r over thi house, and ovr the barn, nn I over the field, and over the or char '. Yos, this praclica" raligion of which 1 sp -a'i will c i ne into the learned professions, file bivvvr will feel his responsibility iu de fending iiiBoceuce aad arraigning evil and exp-iun ling the law, and it will kep him from c.iargiug for briefs he never wrote. and tor pleas he n ;vr made, and for percent age no ti-ver earned, and from robbing w.diiw and orphan because they are de fensel tiiis practical relig on will come iuto tht physician's hie, and he will feel his renonsioility as t he conservator of t ie puMic nea th, a profession honored by the la-:t tcit C'iri-t himself was a physiciau. An t it will u:a';e hi-n nonest, an I wheu he does not understand a ease he will say so, no: try in : to cmvi up lack of di ignosis with pond -ro:i technicalities, or send the patient to a recko ss drug store because the apothe cary liaopi-us to pay a percentage on the ores'-ripn 014 sent. And this practical re ligion will eoine to the schoolteacher, mak ing her f'-el her responsibility in preparing our youth lor us fu ness and for happiness 11 keen her frrVm giv- I aud for hnncvr, aad- win for wa it he cannot ne'o ana sending dls nourngofkenl all Ihrouga ine atter years 01 a lifetime. Tnis practical religion will also come to the newspaper men, and it w II help then Id he gr.'henng of the nes, and it will help them in setting forth the oest interests of so cio y, and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world In larger tvpa than its virtues, and its mistakes than its achieve-nv-nts, and it will kep them from misrepre senting inicrviews with public- men, and irom starting u-.pioiuus iuiii uovur can tin j hi aycJ, an win roaice mem stanca menus of the oppressed instead of the oppressor. Yes, this religion, this practical religion, will come aud put its. hand on what is oilled good society, elevated society, successful so ciety, so that people will have their expendi tures wdh'.u their income, and they w II ex change the nypooritical "not at home" far for the honest explanation ".00 tired" or too busy to see you" and will keep innocent rt-ceptiou from becoming intoxicated con viviality. Yea. there is great opportunity for mis sionary work iu what are called tne puc esiul classes of society. In some of the cities is Is no rare thing now to see afasblon- !! woman intoxicated in the street, or the rail ear, or the restaurant. The number of Huh .adies who dhn " too much is increas- nr. Perhaps you may find her at the recep- tu n in moscexaliel company, but she has made too many visits to the winroom, and now her eye is glassy, an 1 aftor awhile her heek is unnaturally flushed, and then she fads into fits of excruciating lacghter about nothing, aud then she offers sickening llatteries, tellingfome homely man how weli he looks, an I then she is helped Into the -(image, nnd by the time t -.e carriage gets 10 ner nome k taxes tne nusDana ana tue toachmnn to get her un the stairs. The re- oort is she was ta'ten suddenly ill at a ger msn. Ah, n! Shu took toomueh champagne and mixed liquors and got drunk. That vi as an. Yes. this practical religion will have to come in and fix up the marriago relation in A ncrica. there are members or enure nes who have too many wives and too manv hus bands. Society o-e Is to ba expurgated and ash"d an I fumigated ant Christianized. We want this practical religion not only to I ike hold of wuat are called the lawerc nsse9, l-nl to take h- - i- - M-op classes. Tbe trouble is that people have an i lea they can do al! their re icion on Sun day with hymn-"ook and prayer book nnd liturgy, and some of them sit in church roll lug uu their eyes as though they were rea ly for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded ou all sides by an inconsistent life, :ind while you are expecting to come out from unler their arms the wings of an ange1 there come out from their forehead the born! of a beast. There has got to be a new departure in re ligion. I do not say a new religion. Oh, do, but tbe oi l religion brought to new ap pliances. In our time we have bad the daguerreotype aud the ambrotvpe and tlie photograph, but It is tho same old sun, and these aits are only new appliances of the old sunlight. So this glorious gospel is just what we want to photograph the image ot God on one soul and daguerreotype it on an other scut. Not a new gospel, but tne old gospel put o new work. In our time we 1 ave bad thi telegraphic Invention, and the telephonic in-en i n, and the electric light inveui ion, but they are all children of old iwtric'ty, an element that the philosopher :oive a Ion wiil:e known much ab-iut. So . his e eclriu gospel neeos to fl ish its light on 1 he ey.s an I enrs and sou's of men and to 'eco-ne a telephonic medium to make the af hen-, a telegraphic medium to dart in vi'a inn and warning to all Nations, nn el c r e .-H( to ilhinVne tbe e'ri nn i western Hemispheres. Not a new go3p )t, bnt the old gosoel doing a new work. Now yon say, "That is a very beautiful theory, but Is tt posMble to take one's relig ion into all the avocations and businesses of life?" Yes. and I will give you some soeci mens. Medical doctors who took their relig ion into everyday life: Dr. John Abercrom bie. of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish phy slo an of his dny, his book on "Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord" no more won derful than his book on "The Phtlosonhy of the Moral Feelings. " and often kneeling at the bedside of his narients to commend them to Gd In prayer; Dr. John Brown, of Edin burgh, immortal as na anthor, dving under the benediction of the sick of Edinburgh, myself remembering htm as he sat in his study in Edinburgh, talking to me about Christ and his hope of heaven, and a score of Christian family physicians in Washington lust aa oood as they were. Lawyers who carried their religion Into their profession: Lord Cairns, the Queen's adv er for many years, the highest legal an- tuority in Or at Unrain Lord Calras, every unmer in his vacation preaching as an evangelist a-noivg tbe poor of his country; John WcT.ean, Ju.lg of th Sun -e-ne Court of the United State and Pre-ident of the A-nerican Sunday School Union, feeling more satisfaction in the latter ofticn than in the firmer, and senres "i Christian lawers as eminent in the ctiur -h of (i t I as they are eminent at the ! ar. Merchants who took their religion tn'o sverv.lav life: Arthur Tann-in, derid -d In hisdnvhecausB he eatablishe 1 that system by which we pm to fin I out the conmerclal standing of bu-incss m n. starting lhat en tire system, dcri ted for tt then. hbnseK, a t knew him we'l. in moral eharartter A 1. Monday mornings inviting to a room in the top of his "ton noiwe'he cWs of b's estab lishment, asking tuem about their worldly inter-'sts an I their soir lual interests, then g.vingout a hymn, leading in praver, giv ing them a few worts of good advice, asking I 'ie:n w:iar i-hnr -h they a'tende 1 on the Sab- atb, what t'10 text was, whether they had any socci'il tr mbV-i of their own. Arthur Ta ipin. 1 never hcarl his eulogy pro nounce I. I pronounce it now. And o' her rncreli ints ju-t as goo I. William E. Dodge in tie' iron bint ii, M--c If. (irinnell In the sMiming bu -incs, IVior Cooper in the giuo busings. Scores of men just as good as they v r . Farriers w'-io take their religion into their occupation Woy, 'Ins minute th" r horses aud wagon? stand around all the meeting hous'-s in A-nericn. They began this day by a nr-iyer to God, and when thev eel home at noon, a'leri'iey h-ivc nut their horses up, will offer a prayer to f!od at the fable, vcek ing a bie-iiig. and n xt summer there will lie in their ticl Is not ono dishonest ear of corn, not one di-hone.-t apple. Worshiping Go I to-lay away 11 p among the B -rkshtre hills, or away down amid the lagoons of Florida, or away out amid the nin s of Col ora io, or a'ong the banks of tho l'otomao aad the Itariian. where I knew them better because 1 went to school with them. Mechanics who to'.k their religion into their occupation: James Ilrindley. the fa mous millwright; Nathaniel Bowditeh, the famous ship chnndler; Elihu Burritt, tho fa mous blaci-mith, and hun lreis an-1 thou sands of strong arms which have ma le the hammer, and the saw, and the adz, and the drill, and the nx sound in tbe gruud march of our na- ional industries. Give your heart to Go I and thn fill your life with good works. Coniecrate to Him your store, your shop, your banking house, your factory and your home. They sny no one will hear it. God will hear it. that is euouch. You hardly kuow of anv one else than Wellington ns connected with th vic tory at Waterloo, but ho did not do the hard fighting. Tiie bard lighting was done by the Somerset cavalry, and tho Ityland regi ments, anj Kemp's infantry, and the Scotch grays, and the Life guards. Who cares, it only the day w;is won? In the latter p:irt of the last century a girl In England became a kitchen maid In a furm house. She had niany-styles of work and much hir.l work. Time roiled on, and she marrie 1 the son of a weaver of Halifax. They were industrious; they saved money enousu after awhile to build them a home. Oa the morning of the day when they were to enter that home the vouug wife arose at 4 o'clock, entere I the front dooryard, knelt down, consoerated the place to God. and there ma le this solemn vow: "O Lord, if Thon wilt bless me in tnls place, the poor shall have a s!ure In it." Time rollel on and a f.irtuno rolled In. Children crew up around them, and they all became uflluent. On", a Member of Parlia ment, in a public pla.-e declared that his suc cess came Iron that praver of his mother In thedoorvar i. All of them were affluent. Fonrthousau l h inds in the factor es. They built dwelling houses for laborers at cheap rents, and where they were invalid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing. One of thesesons ca ne to this country, ad mired our purks, went back, bought land, opened a g." at public park, and made it a present to the city of Halifax. England. V' -3 owei aa orphanage; they endr o-od the generosity and the ;ood works 01 the Crossleys. Moral: Consecrate to Gd your small means and yonr humble surroundings, and you will nave larger means and grander surroundings. "Godliness is profitable nnto all t ings. having promise of the life that now is and of lhat which is to come " "Have faith in God by ail means, but remember that aiih Without works is dead." Untrained. She was dressed so showily that every liody's attention was arrested by her the moment she entered the car. She was very thin, very pale, aud hervuice was weak and high-pit bed. She sank into a seat with a siph and a murmur of discontent, and at once took fro rv her a sai-hel a lemon and began eatin it. By this time it was discovered that she was a young girl. She ate the lemon, and announced to her companion that It was the third she had eateu that day. Uer com plexion siiKtfested paste, she was so nervous as to arouse sympathy, so irrital le as to p oduce a fee lint; of pity for anyone who h id to live with her. A few years will Hnd her a physical wreck. Mie quoted from "mamma" so loudly as to make one familiar with that unwise person's views on every subject, and at the end of two hours one knew the con dition of her wa drybe. The Journey began early in the niornin, and for the lover of letuuns ended about four In the afternoon, and she never stopped talking for longer than five minutes, and she ate lemons in that ' Interval. Temper, volee, manners appetite, all were left untrained by unwisely indulgent parents. One shuddered wheu one tlicuuht of the kind of woman that must nsult from such a method, or lack of method, of rearing. Shame on the mothers who allow their children to develop so unnaturally. The end of each child's training should not only be the developing of that child, but should look forward to the educating of the fathers and mothers of the next generation. The benefit con ferred on po-terity is not confined to tree-planting. Gracious Acta Pay. And these things "pay." Let no girl juterlng life deceive herself Into be lieving that they do not. If she even does not want to be gracious and at tentive to her fellow-kind, because of any moral beauty she may see In It, let her be so because of the policy of It. She may contend successfully that It does not "pay" In the short run. Other girls, just as popular, are self-absorbed, cold, egotistical. Indifferent to others to tbe point of brutlshness, she may claim. But she cannot prove her case for the long run. There the thoughtful disposition tells Invariably. It Is not guah that makes the genuinely papular woman. It Is not beauty, nor money, nor brains alone, nor even a good heart ind a sunny, good-tempered disposition; not as measured by tbe long span. At Richmond, Mo., a thorn from a hedge he was trimming Hew into the eye of a gardener, and the point break ing off in the eyeball, sight was deB troyed. The hutning bird, in protecting its nest, always Hies at aud pecks the eyes of its adversary. Crows have been found totally bhnd from the humming bird's bill. Tuic er than arguments, tenipta- ' loas mrouB- y. ! -r0. -. e.-A- x7