THE OONtfl'lT U TIOW-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWB.
F. BOHWEIER,
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FK13KUAEY 10.1897.
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Ueanwfcile BteTTa, witflushed cheek
tad rapidly beating heart, waa making
aer way at a very quick pac op the hilly
road toward the point which ah wished
to reach. But she had forgotten aU about
her destination. 8h waa conscious of
nothing but the insult which, as she con
ceived it, John Hannlngton had put opon
her, and of the desperate upheaval of
pTide and bitter anger that had taken
place within her heart. How dared he to
bow to her? Did he thick that abe bad
taken his rennlse so lightly that it was
easy and possible for them now to meet
aa old acquaintances? Ue must uuna
tittle of her. Indeed I
But anger and vindictivenes were aol
natural to her. Before long her stepi
slackened, her color fell, her eye began
to fill with tears. She turned aside from
the road and scrambled a little way down
the hUlslde along which it ran. "Oh,
John. John! and I loved yon so!" she
whispered to herself. "If only I could
forget yon for you are not worthy even
f my lore but I never, never halL"
Absorbed in her reflections, she had not
card the sound of footsteps on the road
above the bank on which aha eat. There
bad first been merry voice and steps not
far from her; then these died away. Nexl
came a tall man of handsome face and
stately bearing. He looked round him
with a frown upon hi brow; he paused
in hi walk several time, and when h
aw Stella half way down the hillside, hi
made a step sideways, as if to turn In hei
direction and address her. But a second
glance caused him to change hi mind.
Her slender figure, In Its doeely-flttini
bLlk ..2 "V :CThsjta
about It; ae the ?V-"V
which the sunbeams leeouw to be Im-
prisoned beneath her black hat, cif not
attract hi attention Tery much, bat as bs
looked it became clear to him frota the
movement of her shoulders that te girl,
whoever she was. waa sobbing ancon
trollably; that the crouching attituje waa
that of grief, and that the coCr who
atood beside her was wagging hi ail and
trying te lick ber face, in that sjmpathy
with sorrow which Intelligent animals
sften show toward their masters and their
friends. The gentleman turned hastily
away, thankful that be had not intruded
n ber solitude. When he had gone some
little distance, some feeling of remorse
took possession of bhn. Ought he to hav
asked her If she wanted assisTwce of any
kind? if she were ill or in pain?
"Pooh!" be thought to himself, aa he
strode on again, "my wits must be wan
dering to make me think of such a thing.
A woman's tears! xney come easily
enough, and mean little enough, heaven
knows! She haa bad a quarrel with ber
lover, perhaps. She wears a black dress;
Bother or father dead, perhaps. A sad
lot for the young!" and be heaved a sigh,
aa if there were some personal reference
la the words. "She has hair like that girl
on board the Britannia last summer
curiously brilliant, without a touch of red
In it. A commonplace young person,
probably, seeing how she waa letting thai
camp Hannlngton make love te her.
But. of course, this girl is not the same,
I wonder where those children have got
to by this time? It is natural, I suppose,
that as I am an old fogy, they should
give me the slip. Hark! what waa that?"
It was a shriek clear, piercing, and
Intense. On the still autumn air, soundi
were carried to considerable distances.
This cry came from the vicinity of the
water of that the gentleman waa sure.
It waa followed by an answering shout.
meant to be reassuring, but dying away
In a quaver of alarm. And there came
another scream, unmistakably In a girl'
voice.
"Molljl" cried the gentleman in the
road. "Not In the water, I trust! God
help us, if she is!"
He rushed down the hillside, tearing
nil way with considerable rapidity
through clumps of gone and bracken,
and between the young stems of tb un
dergrowths, toward the place from which
he had beard the cry. The roaring of
the water sounded louder and louder in
his ear aa he drew closer to the bank.
It waa a difficult thing to get quickly to
the water'a edge, for the hillside was
teep and slippery. He waa below the
falls, which poured over the rock with
the vehemence of a stream in spate, its
yellow foam scattering drop far and
wide, ita volume increased threefold by
the recent storms. Ha shuddered aa he
brushed aside the branchea and atood by
the water' edge. What did he see ?
CHAPTER VIII.
A girl of fifteen years old his own
daughter Molly, aa he was very well
ware bad rashly made ber way from
bowlder to bowlder until ahe stood close
to the deep pool which waa well known to
bo the most dangerous spot in the swiftly
rushing little river. Evidently her nerve
had given way at this Tery point She
could not go forward; she was afraid to
go back. Her body was half poised over
the stream ; it swayed a little, as if she
were diszy, and another frightened
cream came from her white lips. Mean
while a youth, somewhat older than her
U. was hurrying across th bridge tron
the other side, and calling to her to be
careful not to move until he came to
her help not to lot her head. It was
very plain that aha had lost it already.
Bat help which Molly father had not
looked far was at hand. A slender figure
in black, which ha had seen already,
waa standing on th atone and holding
eat a parasol to th frightened girL. Stella
had advanced aa far aa ah could. Molly
ctutchod the parasol handl e violently
that Stella almost loot her own balance.
3m
over; it is not ' far. TEirel You are on
firmer ground now. Pass me and get to
the bank."
She held Molly's band until the girl bad
passed her, but the unlooked-for appari
tion of her father gave Molly another
fright. She started violently, and drag
ged Stella forward in rather a dangerous
way.
"Take care! Take care! What are yon
doing?" said the father. lie handed her
hastily to the stones near the bank, hold
ing out the other hand at the same time
to steii
It was fortunate that be did
so. For Molly's nasty tnnrement naa caus
ed Stella to slip, and although she did not
quite fall, one of ber feet and part of
her dress went into the water. She clung
desperately to the strong hand that clasp
ed her own, and waa carried rather than
led to the safe path-way.
"Are you better? Ion have not hurt
yourself?" said the gentleman, still sup
porting Stella with his arm.
' "Thank you, I am all right; I was not
(.hurt," she answered. Then she looked
at him and he looked at ber, and both
gave the very slightest possible start. He
recognized her a the girl with golden
hair on board the Britannia, and ahe re
membered that John Hannlngton had
named him to ber as Alan Moncrief of
Torreamuir. The remembrance did more
than anything toward bringing the color
back to her lips. She was very white
when he landed her, for her fright had
been severe.
Mr. Moncrleff raised his hat. "I can
not express my gratitude to you, mad-
ame," be said, in stiff, courteous accents.
through which hi. real emotion had some
.Jifflcultr In manifesting itself. "But for
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your presence of mind and timely help,
my daughter would scarcely, I fear, have
been rescued from her perilous position."
"I waa very glad that I happened to be
so near," said Stella. "I had really little
to do." She Inclined her bead slightly and
was abont to move away, when Moncrleff
hastily interposed.
"Excuse me," he said, "but I see that
you are exceedingly wet. May I ask if
you have far to go?"
"To St. Anselm's."
"St. Anselm's? You must not go that
distance in your present state; I cannot
possibly allow It"
"You'U come home with us, won't you?"
Interposed Molly, breathlessly, drying her
tear, and favoring Stella with a gaae of
wide-eyed adoration. "We live vsry near,
and "
"I was about to propose that yon should
avaQ yourself of the fact that my bouse-
, Torreamuir la tolerably near," Interrupt
ed Mr. Moncrleff. "My housekeeper will
see that your your things are dry before
you go home. I must beg leave to in
troduce myself," with a smile thai-made
his face singularly pleasant "My name
Is Alan Moncrleff Moncrief of Torrea
muir and tbia ia my madcap daughter
Molly, who deserves a good scolding for
the freight she baa given us. My son
Bertie," he added, indicating the boy, who
was standing at Molly's side.
"And my name Is Itaeburn," said Stella,
frankly. "I am staying with my aunt at
Mrs. Sinclair's, at St Anselm's, the
bouse on the hill."
"You come from Dundee?" said Mon
crleff, Inadvertently, and then waa angry
with himself for saying it
"Yea," she said, rather sadly, "I come
1 from Dundee."
"What an idiot I am!" said Alan Mon
crleff to himself. "I ought not to have
mentioned Dundee to her. Ah, that was
why ahe waa crying when I aaw her on
the hillside; poor girl, she baa had enough
to cry for. Her eyelid are reddened
yet"
The boy and girl had slunk together,
aa If glad to be oat of their father' hear
ing, and h took the oportunlty of say
ing quletlyt
"Let m tell you. Mis Baebum, that
I know your nam, and that my father
waa well acquainted with your father In
day gone by. Every one who knew Bar.
Raebnrn esteemed him most highly. I
hav never heard a man spoken of more
warmly, and I have always had the great
est respect for him."
The manner la which the words were
ottered simple, unaffected, sincere waa
more nattering to Stella's love for her
father than even the worda themselves.
She tried to thank him, but could only
raise her eyes, swimming in tears, for a
moment to hi face by way of answer.
Torreamiur was large, fantastically
grand, and of picturesquely different
heights. The gardens were laid out in
terraces, for the ground was too uneven
for any large level space to be available
for lawn or flower bed. A graveled ter
race before the door, bordered with aa
ornamental wall, afforded one of the
loveliest distant 'Views that Stella had
ever seen. She could not resist stopping
to look at It In spite of ber wet clothes.
Stella had no reason to complain of
her treatment She was taken to a lux
urious bedroom, where a fire, hot water,
warm towel, and varioua articles of
clothing awaited her, and Mrs. Gregg
was eager in offers of assistance. Stella
put on a skirt of Molly's it was quite
long enough for her and Mrs. Greg
promised to send her own back to St.
Anselm's aa soon aa it was dried. And
when she waa ready to depart as she
thought Molly conducted her, almost by
fore, to the drawing-room, where tea
had been prepared, and where Mr. Mon
crleff and his son awaited her.
They all made much of Stella. They
waited upon her as if ahe had been a
princess; it seemed as if they could not
do enough for her. In fact ber sweet
face) and golden hair bad quite fascinated
the young people; an3 the fascination ex
tended itself to Alan Moncrleff as well.
He thought that be had never seen a love
lier face than that of poor Matthew Kae
burn'a daughter.
"I think I must really go now." said
Stella, at last "It will be nearly dark
when I reach home; so I must make
baste."
"The carriage la waiting, if you insist
on leaving ns so soon." said Mr. Mon
crleff,' courteously. "Bertie, ran dow'a
and tell Macgregor to drive round."
' Th carriage, drawn by two magnifi
cent bay horses, waa at the door, and
Moncrleff put her in with is statelieet air.
and a few words of heartfelt thanks,
which she felt redeemed the atateliueaa.
The driv did not seem long to Stella.
She had much to think of, but ber
thought were by no means so melancholy
aa they bad been that afternoon. The
timely help that ahe had given to Molly,
the . deferential courtesy shown by Mr.
Moncricff, the sight of the quaint beauti
ful old house, which she had acarcely had
time to look at and admire these things
occupied ber thoughts. It waa quite a
shock to meet once more the riding party
that ahe had encountered in the after
noon, because it brought her thoughts
back to a domain which, for the time be
ing, they had left; but the shock was not
very terrible. She turned away and
caressed Laddie, who sat on the rug
beside her, and hoped that in the gather
ing twilight they had not recognised ber
face. Bat they had.
"Wonder will never cease," aald Lady
Val, looking back. "That's the Moncrieff
carriage. Moncrieff of Torreamuir, ths
proudest man yon ever knew, sending the
little Dundee girl horn in his barouche!
What does that mean, I wonder?"
"You can aak him to-night He is go
ing to th Maxwells' to dinner," said
Hannlngton, rather iU-temperedly. He
knew that Lady Val was going, too.
"I will," aald the lady, briskly. And
she waa aa good as her word.
"Oh. Mr. Moncrieff," she said, later In
the evening, looking with secret admira
tion at the face of the grave, stately man
who was standing near her, "do tell me
don't you know a Ml Raeburn who ia
staying in the neighborhood?" She had
not the faintest idea where Stella waa
staying; ahe drew her bow at a venture.
"She saved my little girl's life this
afternoon," aald Moncrieff; and then he
told ber th story of Molly's escapade.
"What a monkey your Molly is! Full
of life and spirit!"
"To much so, Tm afraid. I. must eith
er send her to school or find a governess
for her."
"I hav aa inspiration," cried Lady
Val. "Why don't yon get Mis Raeburn
herself to tarn poor Molly's wild spirit?"
"Mia Raeburn herself? But wssJd
sh. "
"9ho hasn't a penny, and I heard that
she was looking oat for a situation some
time ago," said Lady VaL with her usual
carelessness abont facta. "I believe that
yon would b doing her a servlc, Mr.
Moncrieff. I really do. I was In th
postoffice to-day and I saw a written no
tice, setting forth that a young lady Is
Liuouw Halted to gie Masons in
French, German, music and all the etcet
eras.. Perhaps that to Miss Baebum.
Yon might follow it np and lad eut The
hxltia) grrssi wers u.Mj-Vm'
that"
(T be continued-)
FARH NOTES.
Silage is distinctively a cattle feed,
but the Kansas Statiou finds it not
goo J for breeding bulls.
The farmer who makes the dairy his
main business rather than an adjunct
is the one who will turn oat the best
product and procure the most profit an 1
eatisf action.
.Samuel Reynolds, of Lawrence,
Kan., has (he largest Yandeveer pippin
apple tree known. It is 40 years old
and measures 12 feel in circumference
at tbe trunk. Its boughs spread over
circle 100 feet ia diameter.
Rosea should be covered quite late
and no earth should be placed on the
canes or come in contact with them.
Hard coal ashes make a very saliefac
tory covering.
There ia no black grape to-day su
perior to the Concord for general pur
poses. It is the universal market grape.
It may b? a lng while before a super
ior variety comes to the front.
It is just as necessary to cultivate the
intelligence of the domestic animals
b it is to train the mind of the boy
O ie thing is certain, they can never be
made to unlearn habits which are once
acquired. First impressions are most
lasting in man and in beast.
A Pennsylvanian has a simple plan
of feeding bees. As ce has never lost a
colony that bad a queen and enough
bees to keep it warm, tbe plan is worth
testing. He makes candy cf granu
lated sugar nd pours this into shttlow
pans. When cool he lays it on top of
the frames right over a cluster of bee;
Acting on the notion that as pruning
waa good for fruit trees it would beDe
lit potato vines, Jerry Luckish, of
Portland. Ore., clipped off the vines in
a patch close to the ground as soon al
they were well up, and some of the
potatoes -g-own there were, it is said,
among the largest and finest iound.
If it baa not been done before, this
is a good time to destroy the black
knot on plum trees. Each specimen
should be cut out, removing the limb
to which it is attached, if a small one.
Kep the knife wet with carbolic acid
diluted while making the cuts, and
apply tbe same to the cut surface. In
this way the danger of propagating
the spores by use of the knife in prun
ing will be prevented.
Tenant farmers have the tax of rent
to meet whether crops are ex I or
poor. They are consequently more
interested (or should be) as a class in
improved methods than land-owners.
Every tenant should endeavor to own
bis farm, but be cannot do so until b
is successful ou the one which he
reDts.
Be careful not t I'Se seed potatoes
the coming spring that are scabby. Do
not plaot potatoes on tbe same land
that was used for tbe crop last year,
as there may have been no traces of
disease discovered, yet it may have
existed if even but slightly, and if to,
it will spread over the who'e field this
year. Every bushel of seed potatoes
should be carefully examined and every
precaution taken to avoid di ease, as
once the soil is contaminated it may
require years of bard work to get rid
of tbe difficulty.
Labor .Notes.
NE?S INu HAPPEN fNG3 OP SPECIAL
in.
TERU8TS IS THE VARIOUS TRADE.
There's a coffin trust.
Colorado coal is S3 a ton.
)ak field, N. Y., hasn't a dentist
Japan haa one leather shoe mill. -
Panama Canal employs 8000 men.
London's street lamps number 75,
003; Hew York, 28,000.
In Africa and India 85,000 elephants
were killed last year, yieldiog over tfOO
ton of ivory.
A mile a minute baa been made by
an ice boat on Lake Minnehaha, near
Cheyenne. Wyo.
Washington, D. C, street cars may
now be propelled at the rate of twelve
miles per hour, the Commissonera hav
ing issued an order to that effect.
The t wn of Guingamp, France,
which has about 10,000 inhabitants,
has not a trace of tbe cotton cloth
tnanufictory which gave ita nana to
the fabric once tbe staple product.
After being in steady service for a
quarter ot a century, 200 looms at the
Esgle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus,
Ga., have just been destroyed. They
were old English looms, which will be
replaced by the modern Crompton
machine. Toe old looms, ponderous
affairs, were (nought across the blue
water from England at a time when
machinery was high, and when a big
duty bad to be paid upon such impor
tations. Coal mining is one of the great in
dustiies of Washington. During 18
that State produced over 1,150,000 tons
of coal, of which about 7o0,000 tona
were mined in the first district aud
413,000 tons in the a coad district
Washington coal is used on the
Washington & Columbia Kiver Rail
road, in the southeastern pirt of the
State, by the Oregan Railway and
Navigation Company, and Uuion Pa
cific in Washington and Oregon, as
well as by tbe Great Northern, Seattle
and International, and other roads in
the State.
It mav interest our readers to learn
of the wonderful success which ia at
tending our efforts to introduce Japan
ese hemp into California, especially as
I firmly believe hemp, prepared as we
are preparing it is destined to supplant
cotton in the manufacture of various
fabrics at present produced from tbe
latter fibre and also from flax. For
instance, by decorticating this Japanese
uemD. ana steam renins: n ior
longer period than usual, then bleach
ing it, we obtain a fibre short stapled like
cotton, which can be worked up into use
ful material by cotton machinery, and
a suitable for sugar sacks, etc. 6
New Inventions.
".-A aeitttasbis la& lot 7arof
traveling bags ia arranged to that it can
be fastened to either side of tbe bag by
riveting a pair of brackets into which
the end of the handle lock to each
side of the bag, thus allowing the bag
to be carried either flat or edgewise, aa
desired.
Pneumatic car fenders have recently
been patented, consisting of a number
of elastic tubes set in metal frames
shaped like ordinary fenders.
A new folding table has a drawer set
in the under portion of the table top in
such a manner that it cannot be re
moved when the legs are folded up,
tbe lees covering the front of the
drawer.
A recent improvement in monkey
wrenches consuls of a lever lying par
allel with tbe handle to tighten the
grip of tbe jaws. To operate it the
lever ia raised and tbe iws screwed
as tight as possible by mean of the
usual thumbscrews, when tbe lever is
forced downward, thus closing the jawr
more tightly together.
To remove coats and hats out tbe
wv and yet place them where they
can be reached easily when wanted, a
new device consists of a bracket or
rack to hold a number of coats and
hats, attached to a rod running up to
the ceiling of the room in such a man
ner that it can be raised or lowered
to the desired height and fastened
either by a thumbscrew or spring
catch.
A recently-patented coin separator
and distributor has a long, flat metal
feed chute into which tbe coins are
dropped at one end, the ether end
being lower, so that the coins will roil
down to the coin holders, each holder
having an opening into tbe chute
through which tbe coin drops, tbe size
of the coin determining which tube i
v belongs in. .
A bandy little coin package is made
of metal and is ti i ted with a slidiug
section around the barrel p irtion,
jrhich can beclo ed and fastened with
a loop ahen the package is full.
A new mechanical top haa a shaft
set in a handle, two or more win
being attached to the shaft in such a
manner that when they are rapidly re
volved by unwinding a string from tbe
shaft tbe toy will rise in tbe air until
the blades or wing stop revolving.
The uee of a flat coiled spring in
spring locking chairs has recently been
pateutrd, the outer end of the epritig
being fastened to the upper portion ot
the chair and the inner end pi iced in
socket in the base of the rocker. 1
It has been estimated by a crmi r
tent authority that at the commence
ment of this season there were in the
Maine wood-i 145.000 deer, 12,500
morse, 9,500 caribou and 10,l00 bear.
According t tha Rev. Dr. 1 larder n,
traces of the lurtli of pantomime are
found 3.000 (-ars liefore the birth of
rhriat, not only u the Fgyptian race,
but also anions Eastern nations.
The fossil remains of a hog are
aid to have been discovered in the
Bad Lands of North Dakota.
There is a project on foot for
supplying .Lyons, France, with elec
tricity by damming tbe Rhone at
Jonage.
Oecasional instances have been
found of perfectly pare native iron in
meteorites.
Fally one tbird of tbe lend in Great
Britain i owned by members ol tbe
House of Lord.
HOUSEHOLD 3I1TTES9.
SCHOOL c
Ceat together until foamy the ?o:
of one egg, one enpful of vh'.ta sugar.
a piece of butter the size of ma t-i.
Aua one cupiui oi sweet icu, oji
pint of flour into which has been sifted
two teaspoonfnls of baking pojrner,
and the beaten white of the earrr. Fla
vor with lemon or vanilla. Butter a
piece of white paper and pnt it :n the
bottom of tbe cake pan. Bak in
hot oven. St. Louis Republic
THAT GBLATTNC
To dissolve gelatine is not so easy a
natter as some cooks nuppose. If th
gelatine is covered with water and
placed on tn hearth or on the back
of the stove it will melt in fifteen or
twenty minutes; but in nine case out
of ten it will be strong flavored and
will spoil whatever it ia added to.
This ia the reason that gelatine ia not
fully appreciated by many housekeep
ers. If the gelatine be soaked in cold
water for two or more hoars, and then
have boiling water or milk poured on
it, it will dissolve immediately, and
rarely will have taste or odor. Hers
ia a good rule to follow :
Put a box of gelatine in a bowl, and
pour over it half a pint of cold water.
Cover it and let it stand for two hours
or more. When ready to use it, add
half a pint of boiling water or th
same quantity of boiling milk. Stit
for a few minutes, and the gelatine
will be dissolved. New York World,
JELLIED APFLXa.
Jellied apples maVe a very good
weet dish, when other sweets fail.
Select a dozen sound, well-flavored
yellow pippins. Pare them ; take out
the corea and lay in cold water ths
minute you get through with them to
prevent their turning dark. Take tbe
cores and parings and half a dozen
mora applea sliced rather thin ; put
them in a saucepan and cover with
one quart of cold water. Simmer
thirty minutes, stir, and then drain
through a jelly bag. To every pint of
liquid that you get add a pound of
loaf augar, set over the fire, and as
soon as the sugar is dissolved add ths
quartered apples. Cover, and cook
slowly nntil the applea are tender. Do
not let them get so soft that they lose
their shape, or th diab, in look at
least, will be a failure. Take out tha
pieces on a skimmer, one at a time,
and lay them on a plate. Boil tbe
syrup twenty minutes, and when a lit
tle of it cooled jellies, take it from the
fire. Pnt the apples in bowls or wide
mouthed jars, and turn th jelly over
them. When cold tie up aa yon do any
preserve or jelly. New York Post.
HorjsxHoLD sums.
. Batter pnt into clean pot and well
isrMaM-'TilaiwW.rr1 lisp
fUUU IUf Wm B1WU1BIL
In baking bread or roll pnt a
saucepan of boiling - water into the
oven. The steam will keep the crust
smooth and tender.
Much of the heavy cake and bread
is th result of the oven door being
banged when closed. Close the door
as gently aa possible. Nearly every on
opens it gently enough.
For frying always pat a pound or two
of fat in the pan. There is no waste, as
the same fat can be used over and over
by pouring it thoragh a strainer into
crock kept for the purpose.
To remove claret stains from a table
cloth put salt on immediately and
thickly over the spot. Rinse in old
water before washing. If not entirely
removed apply lemon juice and dry in
the son.
A little kerosene oil in the watei
with which you clean your windows
makes them take a much higher polish
and makes much easier work of that
bane of a housekeeper' life, window
oleaning.
Never bay stale fish. It will look
flabby and dark and will have an un
pleasant odor. Fresh fish is firm, the
eyas are full and rather bright, and
the odor, while it is always fishy, will
not be disagreeable.
Those in search of novel luncheon
dainties should try the peannt sand'
wich, which had its origin in Boston.
Be sure the peanuts are freshly roast
ed Chop fine and spread between
ilices of buttered bread cut very thin.
To make garlic vinegar pure and slice
a dozen cloves of garlic, put them in
a preserving jar with one pint of
Tinegar, cover and set away for two
weeks, then strain into a bottle. One
tablespoonful of this vinegar added
to a potato salad give it a delicate fla
vor of garlic
Laos pillows and spreads can be
dried to advantage after washing by
putting down a sheet on the floor and
pinning each scallop firmly and se
curely to the sheet so that all aides are
seoured. Leave it over night, and
when dry take up car a fully and fold
ready for use.
To cure a sty take the white of an
egg in a saucer and rub into it a email
pinch of powdered alum. It will be
come a curd. Put it between two fine
piecea of muslin and bind it over the
eye before retiring for the night. In
the morning the sty will be gone, or
much better. One more application
will be sufficient, and no moie stiei
will come.
One of the things commonly done
Ktuug is tha mixing of flour and a
liquid when a thin batter of paste is
desired. Here is a rule that, if fol
lowed, will alwaye make tha mixture
smooth and free of lumps. Measure
tbe flour and add to it an equal measure
of liquid. Stir together until.amooth,
hen gradually add a part of the liquid
until the mixture is thin enough. In
making a thickening for soups or sauce:
there nuouid be four or five tunes as
much liauid as there ia flour.
The California Board of Health
finds that in San June the average
duration of life ia abont forty three
years, which ia longer than teat of any
other eity in the United States.
The asparagss served at the Elvsee
banquet in honor ot the czar cost
three francs a ataJit, or 90 cent a
bundle, and there were 200 guests.
The Krnpp Worxs nare 1500
arnace.
REV. DR. miUAht
Tbe Eminent Divine's
Discourse.
Sunday
Subject: "A Farmer's Counsel.
Tbxt- "Seek Him that mateta tha sevan
stars and Orion." Amos v., 8.
A oountry farmer wrote this text, Ansos of
Tekos. He plowmt the earth and threshed
the erain by a new threshina; machine just
Invented, ai tot-marly the cattle trod out the
grain. Me Katherefl the frbit of the syoa
roore tree aud acarirlni it with an iron ftifflb
Just before it waa getting ripe, as tt w.is nao
Bary and cuttomary In tuat way to talca
from it the bitterness. He was the son of a
poor shepherd and stuttered, nut before tha
ttammeriDRrustic tbe Philistines and Svriaos
and PhBnicians and Moabires and Ammon
ites and Edomiiea and Israelite tremble .
Moses wat a law Kiver, Daniel was a
prince, Isaiah a counter and David a kino;,
but Amos, the author of my lext, wasa penn
ant, sad, as might be suppose!, ne.trly all
bis parallelisms are pastoral, bis propnet-y
f nil of th odor of new mown bay, and the
rattle of locusts, and tha ru nble of carts
With sheaves, and the roar of wil I beasts de
vouring the flock while the shepherd cam
out in I heir deft-nee. He watched tha herds
by day, and ty night Inhabited a booth made
out of oushes, so that through these branches
he oould see tha stats all night long, and
was mora familiar wt h than than we who
have tight roofs to our houses and hardly
ever see the stars except among tbe tali
brick chimneys of the great towns. But at
seasons of tna year when tbe herds were in
apeeial danger he would stay oat in tbe
open field all through the darkness, his only
shelter the curtain of tha night heaven, with
the stellar embroideries and silvered tassalf
of lunar light.
What a life of solitude, all alone with his
herds! Poor Amos! And at 13 o'clock at
night bark to the wolfs bark, and tb lion's
roar, and the bear's growl, and the owl's te
wbtt, te-who, aud the serpent's hiss as hs
unwittingly steps too near while moving
through tbe thickets! So Amos, like other
herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map
of tha heavens because it was so much ot the
time spread nut before htm. He noticed
some stars a Ivaaoing and others receding.
He associated their dawn an t setting with
certain seasonsof the year. He had a poetlo
nature, and he r ad night by night, and
month by mouth, and year by year, the poem
of the constellations, divinity rhythmic
But two rosettes of stars espeoially attracted
his attemlnn while seated on the ground or
lying on his back under tha open scroll ot
the mid-night heavens the Pleiades, or
seven stars, and Orion. Tde former group
this rustic prophet associated with spring,
as tt rises about the 1st of May. The latter
be associated with the winter, as it comes to
the meridian in January. Tha Pleiades, or
seven stars, connected with all sweetneu
and joy; Orion, the herald of tbe tempest.
The ancients wre ths more apt to study ths
Khysiognomy and juxtaposition ot the
eavenly bodies because they thought they
bad a special influence upon the eattb, and
perhaps they were right If the moon every
tew hours lifts and lets down tha tides of
the Atlantic ocean and tha electric storms in
the snu. by all sc entitle admission, affect
tne earth, why not the stars bave propor
tionate effects
And there are some things whioh make me
think that it may not bave been all super
stltution wbich connected tb movements
and appearance of the heavenly bodies witb
great moral events on earth. Did aot a
meteor run on evangelistie errand on the
Brat Christmas night and designate th
rough cradle of our Lord? Did aot the stars
in their course nght against Sisera? Waa It
saeawly coincidental that be Tors tha lsstmo
"ofVt j4aa-te as s f-HetWo-
Iwelve consecutive l"wl U . ssarstyj
Happen so mat a new star appnarea ia oon
steliation Cassiopeia, and then disappeared
just before Charles IX of France, who was
responsible for the St. Bu-tholonsew mas
sacre died? Was it without signifloano
that in the days of the Roman Emperor
Justinian war and famine wera preceded by
the dimness of the sun, which for nearly a
year gave no more light than ths moon, al
though there were no clouds to obscure it?
Astrology, after all, may have been some
thing more than a brilliant heathenism. No
wonder that Amos of the text, having teard
these two anthems of the stars, DUt down
the st out, rough si afif of the herdsman and
took iclo his brown hand and cut and
knotted lingers tbe pen of a prophet anl ad
vised the recreaut people r( his time to re
turn to God. saying. "Seek bimtbat ma Wet b
tbe seven stars aa t Orion." This command,
which Amos gave 7S5 years B. C, ia just as
appropriate for us, 1H.7 A. D.
In the Brit place Amos saw, as we must
see, t hot the Qod who mado tbe P;eiades aud
Orion must be the Ood of order. It was not
so much a star here aud a star there that Im
pressed the in-pi red herdsmau, but seven ia
one group and seven in snolber group. He
saw that night after night and season after
season, and decade after decade, they bad
kept step of light, e:tch one in its own place, a
sisterhood never clashing and never contest
ing prectHiencc. From the time Hasiod called
tbe Pleiades the ''seven daughters of Atlas,"
and Tirgil wrote In bis ".Eueid" of "stormy
Orion." until now, they hav- observed th
order established for their coming and go
ing; order written, not in manuscript that
they may bs pigeon-holed, but with tne band
of the Almighty on the dome of the sky, so
that ail Nations may read it order, persist
ant order, sublime order, omnipotent order.
What a sedative to you and me, to whom
communities and Nations sometimes seem
going pellmell, and the world ruled by some
Henri at haphazard, and in ail directions mal
administration! The Ood who keeps seven
worlds In right circuit for 6000 years oan
certainly keep all the affairs of individuals
ani Nations and continents in adjustment.
We had not better fret much, for the peas
ant's arnumei.t of t he text waa right, if God
oan take care of the seven worlds of the
Pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orloa.
He can probably take care of tha one world
we inhabit.
So I feel very much as my father felt on
day when we were going to the oountry mill
to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of seven
years, sat in the back part ot tbe wagon, and
our yoke ot oxen ran away with ns, and
along a labyrinthine road through th
Woods, so that I thought every moment we
would be dashed to pieces, and I made
terrible outcry of fright, and my father
turned to me with a faun perfectly calm and
said: "De Witt, what are ou crying abont?
I guess we can ride as fast as tb oxen can
run." And, my bearers, why should wa be
affrighted and lose otir equilibrium ia th
swift movement of worldly events, specially
when we are assure 1 thst it la not a yoke of
unbroken steers thst ara drawing us on, bnt
tbat order and wise government are ia the
yoke?
In your occupation, your mission, your
sphere, do the best you can and then trust
to Qod, and it things are all mixed and dis
quieting and your brain is hot and your
heart sick get some one to go out with you
into the starlight and point out to you the
Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some
observatory, and through tbe telescope see
farther than Amos wltb-the uake I eye could
namely, 200 stars In tbe Pleiades, and tbat
In what is called the sword of Orion there is
a nebula computed to be two trillion two
hundred tbousiind billion of times larger
than the sun. Oh, be at pea?e witb the Ood
who made that and controls all tbat, the
Wheel ot the ronstellatlons turning in tbe
wheel of galaxies for thousands of years
wltbout the breakingof a cog.or the slipping
of a band, or the snap of nn axle. For your
Jlactdity and comlort through the Lord
esus Christ I charge you, "Seek Him that
maketh tbe seven stars and Orion."
Again, Amos saw. as we must aer, that the
Ood who made these two groups of the text
Was the Ood of Light. Autos saw that OoJ
was not satisfied with ranking one star or
two or three stars, bnt He makes seven, and,
having finished ti.at group of worlds, makes
another group sroup after group. To tbe
Pleiades He ad Ja Orion. It seems that Ood
jlke light so wwlltbat He keeps making tt.
Only one being in the universe knows the
statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric
creations, and tbat is thi Creator Himself.
And tbey have all been lovingly christened,
each one a name as distinct as tha names ol
your children. "He telleth tha number ot
the stars. He calleth them all by their
names." The seven Pleiades bad names
gven to them, and they are Alcyone, Merops,
dssno, Electra, aterope, Tayget and Mala.
gr....iv -.. will, sjid fi'ilons ot
daughters of starry Tight that Ood calls by
name as they sweep by Him with beaming
brow and lustrous robe! So fou i is Ood of
light natural iighr, moral light, spiritual
light! Again and again la light harnessed
for symbolizition Christ, the bright and
morning s'nr; ev.ingelieation, tbe daybreak;
the relenp ion of Nations, sun of righteous
ness rising with healing In His wings. Ob.
men and women, with so many sorrows and
sins an l perplexities, if you want light of
comfort, light of pardon, light of goodness,
In earnest prayer through Christ. ".Seek Him
tbat maketh the seven stars and Orion."
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the
Qod who made these two archipelagoes of
stars must bo an unchanging Qod. There
ha I been no change in the stellar appearance
in this her Isman's lifetime, and bis father, a
shepherd, reported to him tbat thore had
been no ehange in his lifetime. And these two
elusters hang over tha celestial arbor now
jnat as they wi-re the Ant night that they
shone on the E lenio bo were; the same as
when the Egyptians bnilt the pyramids from
the top of which to watch taem; the same
as when the Chaldeans calculated tbe
eclipses; the ame as when Elihu, according
to the book of Job. went out to study the
aarora borea'if; the same under Ptolemaic
system and Cupernican system; tbe same
from Cilisthenns to Pythagoras and from
Pythagoras to H-rscbel. Surely a ehauire
asa God must bave fashioned the Pleiades
and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the
npsand downs of life and the flux anil reflux
of the tides of prosperity to know that we
have a changeless Ood, "the same yesterday,
to-day and forever!"
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the steers
man of bis bj.it in the morning and hanged
him in tbe evening of the same day. Fifty
thousand people stool around tha columns
of the National Capitol shouting themselves
hoarse at the Presidential inaugural, and in
four months so great were the antipathies
that ruffian's pistol in a Washington depot
expressed the sentiment ot many a disap
pointed offloe seeker. The world sits in its
chariot and drives tandnm, and the horse
ahead is Huzza, and tbe horse behind is Ana
thema. Lor 1 Oobliam, in King James's time,
was applauded and had 435,000 a year, but
was afterward execrated and lived on scraps
stolen from tbe royai kitchen. Alexander
the Great after death remained unburied fot
thirty days b cause no one would do the I
honor of shoveling him under. The Duke
ot Wellington refused to bave his iron fence !
mended because it ha 1 been broken by an in- I
furiated populace in some hour of political
excitement, and he left it in ruins that men
might learn what a fickle thing Is human
favor. "But tbe meioyof tha Lord Is from
everlasting to everlasting to them that feat I
Him, and His righteousness nnto tha chll- I
dreu s children of snoh a? keep His coven
ant, and to those who remember His com
mandments to do them." This moment
"seek Him that maketh tbe seven stars and
Orion."
Again, Amos stw, as wo ranst see, that the
Qod who made these two beacons of the ori
ental night sky must be a Ood of lovo and
kindly warning. Tbe Pleiades rising in mid
sky said to all tha herdsmen and shepherds !
and husbandmen. "Come ozt and enjoy the i
mild weal her and cultivate your gardens and
fields." Orion, coming in winter, warned I
them to prepare for tempest. All navigation I
was regulated by these two constellations.
Th one said to shipmaster and crew,
"Hoist sail for the sea and gather meschnn
diss from other lands." But Orion was the I
storm stgnnl and said, "Reef sail, make ,
things snug or put Into harbor, for the hm ri-1
enes are gettlna their wings out." Aa the
P.eiadee werettiesweetevangelsof the spring, j
Orion was the warning prophet of the winter, i
Ob, now 1 j t tba best view of God 1 ever
bad! There are two sermons I never want j
to preicn the one that presents uod so
kind, so indulgent, so lenient, so imbecile
that men may do what they will against
Him, and fracture His every law, and put
the pry ot their Impertinence and rebellion
under His throne, and while they are spitting
in His face ao. I stabbing at His noart He takes
thssT rD is) ilis Tina red ktauJr-tnitin-T
ataj mow aud cnees.ssyiawt'ui sncn istbo I
kingdom of heaven." The other kind of
sermon i nev.-r want to preaon is tne one
tbat represents Qod as all Are and torture
and thundercloud, and with redhot pitchfork
tossing the human race into paroxysms of
Inn nits agony. The sermon that I am now
preaoHng believes in a Qod ot loving, kindly
warning, the God of spring and winter, the
3od of the rieindes and Orion,
Tou must rememb.-r that the winter is
just as Important as tbe spring. Let one
inter pass without frost to kill veotntiou
tn 1 ice to bin I the rivers and snow to enrich
ur fields, and then yon will have to enlarge
rour hoipitals and your cemeieries. "A 1
trven Christmas mates a fat graveyard,"
was the old proverb. Storms to pnrify the
air. Thermometer at three degrees below
cero to tone up the system. December and
January jus: as important as May and June.
I tell you we n 1 tbe storms ot life as much
ss we do the sunshine. There are more men
ruined by prosperity than by adversity. II
we bad our own way in life, before this we
woul i have been impersonations of selfish
ness and worMliiies and disgusting sin and
Doffed up cntilwe vrou'd bave been lie Julius
OsBsor, who was mo te by sycophants to be
lieve that be was olivine, and the freckles on
his face were said to be as the stars of the
firmament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages
made one summer by tb Etruria was be
cause she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing
her from New York to Liverpool. But to
those going in the opposite direction the
storm was a buffering and a hindrance. It
Is a cat thing to bave a storm a heir I. push
ing us back, but if we be God's children ami
aiming toward heaven ths storms of life will
only chase us the sooner Into tbe harbor. I
am so glad to believe that tbe monjoons,
typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of the
land and sea are not unchained man'acs let
loose upon the earth, bnt are under Divine
supervision! I am so glad tbat tbe God oi
the seven stars is also the Qod of Orion! It
was out of Dante's suffering came tha sub-;
lime "Divma Commedia," an 1 out of John i
Milion's blinine?s came "Para dise Lost." !
aoi out of miserable infidel attack came the
Urtdgewaier Treatise" in favor of Christi
anity, and out of Davla's exile came the songs
cf consolation, and out of the sufferings of '
Christ came the possibility ot the world's re- '.
demption, and out of your bereavement,
your persecution, yonr pofarties. your mis
fortunes, may vet come an eternal beaven.
Ob. what a mercy tt is tbat In tbe text and
all up and down th Bible Qod Induces ua
to look out toward other worlds! Bible as
tronomy In Geousis, in Joshua, in Job, in
tbe Psalms, In the prophrts. major and
ovnor; In ix. John's Apocalypse, practically
saying: "Worlds! Worlds! Worlds! Get
ready for them'" We bave a nice little
world her that we stick to, as though losing !
Ibat w lose all. Wa are afraid of talltog :
off this little taft of a world. Wa are afraid
tbat soma meteoric iconoclast will some
night smash it, and we want everything to
revolve around It aud are disappointed when '
wa nna mat n revolves aroumi the sun In- I
Head of tba sun revolving around it. What'
s fuss we make about this little bit of a
world, Its existence only a short time be- i
iween two spasms, the psroxysm !y which
it was buried from chods Into order and the
paroxysm of its demolition.
And I am gind tn a so many texts call us
o look off to other worlds, mauv of them :
larger an 1 gr&ader aud more resplendent.
"Look there," savs Job. "at Muzamth and i
A ret ur us and his Mns!" "Look there,"
suvs nt. Jobu, "at tbe moon under
Christ's feet1' "Loi there," says
Joshua, "at Ibe suu standing still aliove ;
Q.bfon!" "Look there," says Mw, "at '
tbe sparkling nrmamentl" "Look there," '
says Amos, the herdsman, "at the seven !
stars and Orion!" Do not let ns be so sad
ibont those who shove off froai this world '
ander Chrlstly pilotage. Do not let ns be s.
agitated abont our owu going off this llttlt ;
barge or sloop or ennui bout of a world tc '
get on some Qreat Eastern of tbe heavens
Do not let ns persist In wanting to stay Id
this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world,
when all tbe King's palaces already occupied
by many of our heit friends are swinging
wide open their gate to let us in.
When I read, "In My Father's house are
many mansions," I do not know but tbat ,
each world is a room, and as many rooms as j
there are worMs, stellar stairs, stellar gal-1
lertas, stellar hallways, stellar windows,
stellar domsa. How our departed friends I
must pity us shut up In these cramped apart- j
meats tired if we walk fifteen miles, when
tbey some morning, by one stroke of wing,
ean mats circuit of the whole stellar system
and be back In time for matins! Perhaps
yonder twinkling constellation is the resi
dence of tbe martyrs; that group of twelve
luminaries may be tbe celestial home ot the
apostles. Perhaps that steep ot light is the
dwelling place of angles ehernbte, seraphio,
arahaaaslle, A mansion with as many rooms
as worlds, and all their windows illuminated
tor festivity!
Oh, how this widens anl lifts anl stimu
lates our expectation! How little it makes
the present, and how stupendous it makes
the future! How it console us about our s
pious dead, tbat, instead of being boxed up
and under the ground, bave the range ot as
many rooms as there are worlds and wel
come everywhere, for it is the Father's
house, in wbich there are many mansions!
0 Lord Ood of the seven stars and Orion,
how can I endure the transport, the ecstasy,
of suoh a vision? I must obey my text and
seek Him. I will seek Him. I seek Him
now, for I call to mind that it is not the ma
terial universe that is most valuable, but the
spiritual, and that each of us has a soul
worth more than all the worlds which the
inspired herdsman saw from his booth on
the hills of Tekoa.
I had studied it before, but the cathedral
of Cologne, Germany, never Impressed me
as it did one summer. It is admittedly the
grandest Gothic structure in the world. Its
foundation laid In 124s, only a few ye.irs ago
completed. Mors than C'JO ve.'trs iu build
ing! Ali Europe taxed for its construction.
Its chapel of tbe Magi, with Dreolous stones
enough to purchase a kiugdum. Its chapel
of tit. Agnes, with tnatBrpiecen ot painting.
Its spire springing Sit feet Into the heavens.
Its stains 1 glasi the chorus of all rich colors.
Statut-s encircling the pil ars and encircling
all. Statues above statues, until sculpture
can do no more, but faints and lulls back
ngaltist carved stalls and down on pavemnuts
over which the kings nn 1 querns of the earth
have walked to confessional. Nave and aisles
aud transept and portals combining ths
splendors of sunrise nnd sunset. Interlaced,
interfoliated, inlet-columned grandeur. As
1 stood outside, looking at the double range
of fiylug buttresses und I he forest of pinnacles,
higher aud higher aud higher, until 1 almost
reeled from dir.z nrs, I exclaimed: "Great
doxoloiry in stone! Frozen prayer of many
Nations!"
But while standingthere I atr a poor man
enter and put down hi. pack and knee, be
sido bis burden on the bard fl.ior of that
cathedral. Aod tears of deep emotion came
into my eyes aa I said to myself, "There is a
soul worth mora thau all the material aur
rouudings. Tbat man will live after the last
pinnacle has falleu. and not one stone of all
that cathedral glorv shall remain un
urumbled. He is now n Lazarus In rags and
poverty aud weatltieoM, but Immortal, aud a
sou of the Lord God Almighty. Au I the
prayer ho now otters, though, amid many
superstitious, I telieve God will bear, and
among the apostlea ivhose sculptured forma
stun. I in the stirroiiudlng niches he will at
last ba lilted and lull) the preseuce of thut
Christ whose surleriiigs ere represented by
the crucifix hefor which li. bows aud bs
railed in due time nut of all Ills poverties
Into the glorious home built for hlrn and
built for us by 'Him who muketh ihe seven
Blurs aud Ori.iu.' "
Items of Interest.
iMore than (50,000 Kurotieans com
mit suicide annually.
Nativei of the Island of Bourbon
consider bats the finest eating.
A pure while squirrel was rereuily
rangbt near Higham, Mass.
About 40,000 sparrows are said to
bave been destroyed in Gratriol
county, Mich.
Policemen in Vienna must be able
to rwim, row a boat, And understand
telegraphy.
All the "civilized" nations 'are at
present unusually active in building Uf
their navies. -i
An Entrlisb. m&di ) vmrnal savV.
thWCab. and other - phosphoric fof
do not improve the brain.
While drunkenness is regarded with
greater seventy in England and France
it is still uncondemned in Germany.
Great beds of fossilized fish have
been found in Northwestern Colorado
at an elevation of 8,000 feel above sen
level.
For the new railway from Cape Col
ony to tiuluwayo at $500,000 order for
locomotives has been pineal in Eng
land. The grave of Robiu Hood is in a for
est not far from 11 udder field, York
shire. It is eurrounded by a modern
iron railing.
By popular subscripti n Italians will
build a meteorological station on the
top of Mount K ise, at an elevation of
14,000 feet.
Two Richmond, Vt., farmers tapped
their maple trees January 10 aud gath
ered considerable Sap, be a tine; all pre
vious records.
Freshets in the Seine have driven
hordes of rata into the houses and
streets. In outlying districts thjy scour
the streets in bodies.
It is said that posts planted in the
earth upper etid down will last longer
thau those which are set in the natural
position in which the tree grew.
The first whaleback built on the Pa
li tic coast, ia now in its tenth year, be
ing remodeled into a steamer of tbe
regular pattern al Oakland, Cal.
A glasi headstone has beeu put iir
the grave of George E. Evans, aniasou,
al Kugeue, Ore. It waa Pent on inert?
by his father from Gibson, Neb.
The Chinese skin cats before cooking
them, but Jogs are simply soused in
boiling watfr to remove the hair, a
little hair be'a left on the end of the
tail to show the a, lor.
James Murphy and Philip JuJkins,
who three week I ago were ordinary
miners in Cripple Creek, have just
shipped two carloads of ore which turni d
out 100,000 in gold.
The native police in the foreign set
tlement at Yokohama having mastered
the English language, ate now studying
the Russian, Chinese aod Korean,
tongues as part of their polka duty.
The Kansas City Slur says tbat Kau
saa City will soon be Ihegreatertt mute
market in the world, it already ships
thousands annually to all portions of
the I 'Lilted ; tales, Central America
and Mexico.
Tbe famous London waxwork exhibi
tion pojinarly known as Madame
Tuaaaod's has beeu ostal. liahed over
100 years, and ia now the largest el
ail. ition in the world, numbering as it
Joes more than 000 figures. 1
The firm railway in Corea is to l
bnilt by an American, .1. it. Morae. It
jrill fori nee t the port of Cbemnlpo with
the capital, .teool, woioh is only 2S
miles distant. The cost is eat'mated at
$l,H50r,00.
The ioUifnt distance to which a
pro ctile lias been thrown, wti at
Slioeliiirvnesi, I England, cm April 15,
lHtiH, w'heu a LcDeridge wire-bonn
gun thrpw a shot 21.S5H yard., or 12
miles '263 yards.
There ara alnminnm dock boats.
A Germrn has beon granted a
patu'it on a Re win ueej'e made with
tbe center and eye end rial the rest of
the needle ling round.
Sunlight does not peuetrate'deatidr
than I, C00 feet. Very sensitive pno
tographio plates exposed for teu
minutes at 400 fathoms deep shows j no
development of light.
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