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THE OONOTITDTION-TH E UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWL
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PEN N A.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17.1897.
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CHAPTER IX.
l-ady Val bad been right. It waa Stella
Indeed who waa advertising ber quantita
tions as a teacher; and Mr. Moncrieff on
the following afternoon walked down to
the postofHce in order to make Inquiries,
la answer to bia questions he waa fur
bished with the address of the lady who
wanted pupils. As be expected It waa
Miss Uaeburn.
He made his way op the hillside by the
grassy road which led from the highway
past the gates of St. Anselm's and over
the hill. Before he reached the gate, be
congratulated himself on bia good for
tune. There was Miss Uaeburn herself
walking slowly along the road, with a
book in her hand. Aa she neared hiw,
be could not help remarking that she was
sweeter-looking than ever. He shook
bands with her, and told ber that he in
tended calling upon Mrs. Sinclair and
Miss Jaequetta Raebnrn, but evinced no
special disappointment when told that
these laides were out driving with Mr.
Sinclair.
"Will you come in. Mr. Monerieff?"
Stella asked. "Mrs. Sinclair ia sure to be
borne almost immediately, and she will
be so grieved if 1 have not offered you
cup of tea."
"Thank you, but I am afraid I must
act wait. Miss Raeburn excuse me ia
it true that you want pupils? My ques
tion souuils abrupt; but our time may be
limited, and 1 heard tbut you were
anxious to teach if you could bud schol
ars." "Yes, but I do not think that I shah
And them here." said Stella. "Tbey teli
uie that I must go to tilasgow or Edin
burgh, or even Ioudon!" and ahe sighed
at the prospect, aud looked at the purple
bills with eyes that seemed ready to till
wilb tear.
"We miKtit perhaps find you a pupil
or two nearer home." saiJ Mr. Moacrieff.
".Miss Uaeburn, will you consent to
giTe my little girl, Molly, some lessons
and tea. h her as you yourself have been
taught ':"
"Your daughter, Mr. Moncrieff? But
she is mil eh too old for me I wanted to
tearh Utile children only," aaid Stella,
coloriug up to the eyes in much confu
sion. "She could not have a better teacher,"
Mr. Moiii-rieff said, calmly. "She has
bad many disadvantages, and I should
be glad to fee her in wiser bauds than
tuice."
The two had a plain, sensible, business
like little chut, in which Mr. Moncrieff
respect for Stella's capacities waa in
creased tenfold. He left her at laBt
with the understanding that she would
talk over the matter with her Aunt Jacky
and that if her Aunt Jacky did not ob
ject the new arrangement should begin
s soon as the Sinelairs left Dnnkeld.
Mr. Moncrieff quitted her at last, and
rftroJe away down the lane toward the
high road once more. Here, as be trod
the shady path, his attention waa arrest
ed by the appearance of a man who loi
tered alone the road before him. This
man was rather undersized, lean, and of
a pallid complexion; as Moncrieff neared
him. a handsome, sallow face, with Jew
ish features and a great black mustache,
was suddenly turned upon him.
"Why, Ralph," said the Laird of T..r
tesmuir, stepping short, and looking in
unfeigned surprise at his late wife's step
brothera man who for many yeara bad
made Torresmuir his home "I did not
know that you often came thla way."
'I don't," said Ralph Kingacott, with
o easy laugh. "But I happened to turn
in this direction to-day. I don't know
why. It is a pleasant walk."
He did not mention that he had been
tracking Alan's steps all the afternoon,
or that he was in a state of concealed
rage at the bare thought that any mat
ter of importance had been transacted
without bia help.
"I've been at St. Anselm's," said Mon
crieff, after a little pause; "and I have
engaged Mlaa Raebnrn to teach Molly
very day from ten to four."
"The dence you have," exclaimed Mr
Kingacott, In hia heart. Bnt be di.l n r
ay the words aloud.
CHAPTER X.
. When Stella arrived at Torreso... . .
days later, Molly's greeting of ber ue.
governeas was rapturous. She rushed at
Stella and embraced ber frantically, then
danced round her with such evident de
light tfcat Stella waa amused and sur
prised. "Ton dear, delicious thing!" cried
Molly. "How awfully good It ia of yon
to teach me I I never thought that any
thing half bo good could ever happen."
"I ahall be strict, I forewarn joxk."
aid Stella, smiling.
"Yon couldn't!" aaid Molly, positively.
"With that lovely golden hair and those
sweet, blue eyea of youra yon couldn't
know how."
Stella waa led off by the chattering
Molly, and found it rather difficult to in
duce the young lady to settle down to her
books that forenoon. At twelve o'clock
the two were to have gone for walk,
bnt a dash of heavy rain against the win
dows pat walking ont of the question
Bo Molly proposed to show her new
friend over the house, some parts of
which were very well worth seeing, and
Stella, willingly agreed to anything that
ber pupil suggested.
Torresmuir was partly an old and part
ly a new building. The older portion waa
built of thick and solid atone: the tower
at one end was of masonry, which seemed
M If it would defy the flight of time for
centuries, so cunningly had the great
tones been welded together. This tower
waa little used except by Mr. Ralph
Kingacott, who, as Molly informed Miss
Raeburn, occupied tw rooms, one above
Mother, in skis part of the bujldipg.
"It is a great shame," said Molly, in
in aggrieved tone, "because the tower
would make such a nice little retreat for
Bertie and me. One tau t l...ir a single
sound from these rooms in the new part
of the house. But Uncle Ralph keep us
out."
"He has grown fond of his rooms, 1
dare say." said Stella.
"1 don't think he is very fond of any
thing," Molly answered, with a cuiious
touch of cynicism in her fresh young
voice, "but it is convenient for him, 1
dure say, to be able to go in and out just
as he likes. There is a little door from
his sitting-room into the garden, and
papa never knows whether he is out after
midnight or not."
Stella thought this sort of con versa
lion undesirable, and changed it by ask
ing the names of certain curiosities which
were ranged in glass cases on some side
tables in the octagon room.
"Pretty, aren't they?" said Molly, enre
lessly, as she ran over the names with
the air of one who bad often rehearsed
them previously; "but this is the most cu
rious thing. Do you see that empty
case?"
Stella looked, and observed that a large
morocco case lined with velvet stood
empty under a glass shade.
"There's a story about it," said Mollj
"I remember when it used to bold a stone
a beautiful crystal, I believe, sparkling
with all the colors of the rainbow. 1 1
was in the days before mamma died."
and a sudden shadow came over her mer
ry face.
"Was it stolen?" Stella asked, to break
the pause that followed.
"That's the odd part of it Of coursi
it was, but there was no way of buding
out how or why. Just before mamma
died it disappeared. Aud you have no
idea what a fuss the old servants in the
house, and even papa himself, made about
it. It was very ridiculous."
"Was it valuable?"
"Not a bit, I believe. Only do you
remember a piece of poetry called 'The
Luck of Edenhall'?"
"Yes; Longfellow translated it from
the German."
"Well, there was just such another oli
story about this stoue and our family. It
was said to have been brought from the
East by one of our ancestors; and aa long
as it was in our possession we were to be
lucky in every way, and when it went the
luck was to go too. And now it has
gone!"
"And the luck remains," said Stella,
smiling at the girl's half tragic tone.
"I suppose so. But I don't know. Noth
ing has gone right since nothing." Of
course, it has nothing to do with the
stone; I Jim not so stupidly supersitious
as poor old Jean, our nurse, used to be;
but still ever since we have been un
happy I don't know why."
The tears were filling Molly's beautiful
hazel eyes. Stella looked sympathizingly
at her, and took her band, meaning to
give the child gome gentle advice respect
ing ber own share in producing the happi
ness of her home, when an interruption
occurred. The inner door of the octagon
room, leading to the staircase, flew open,
and Mr. Kingscott made his appearance.
He paused, as if in surprise, at the sight
of the two girls. Molly pouted, frowned,
threw back her mop of ruddy golden hair,
and did not seem inclined to apeak.
"I must introduce myself, aa my niece
does not seem inclined to perform the
office for me," said Ralph Kingscott.
bowing his white teeth in a smile which
Uella found singularly unpleasant. "My
iame is Kingscott, Miss Raebnrn I
liiuk I have the pleaaure of apeaking to
Miss Raebnrn? and I have the honor to
be Miss Molly's uncle, as well as the
tutor of my nephew, Bertie. Our office
should bring us together. We must have
something in common, must we not?"
Stella only bowed; the man's manner
did not attract ber, and she felt it impos
sible to do anything but look serious and
dignilied.
"So yon have been looking at our poor
little curiosities?" said Mr. Kingscott.
easily. "And has Molly been explaining
to you the losa of the luck of the house?"
"It can't be explained," said Molly, al
most rudely. "Nobody knowa."
"And nobody ever will know," said her
uncle, in a mocking tone.. "Nobody will
ever know unless the luck of the house
comes back again, and that will not be
in your time or mine. 'Gone la the luck
of Edennnll," aa the poem says."
"I believe you've got it!" cried Molly,
in savawely that Stella stood aghast "that
on stole It and hid It away on purport
to vex papa!" She bit ber lip and tha
tears again dimmed her flashing eyes.
"You would not mind you know yon
don't care whether things are right or
wrong I've heard you say so if only
they are pleasant."
Ralph Kingscott gave a short laugh
and turned on his heel. Hut tbe mo
mentary whitening of bia lips, tbe keen,
steel-like glance that he shot at Molly
from out his narrow dark eyes, showed
that her shaft had, in some way or an
other, gone straight home.
Mr. Moncrieff stayed for some days in
Edinburgh, and Stella had thus no oppor
tunity of consulting him, as she bad wish
ed to do, about the plan of study which
Molly was to pursue. After the first day
or two, ahe found the girl tolerably easy
to manage.
Thus the fall and winter passed away
and was succeeded by a bleak and biting
spring. In March Mr. Moncrieff went to
London. His absence made little differ
ence to tbe household. Stella fancied,
however, that Bertie was degenerating in
mind and feeling, and she made up her
mind that she ought to speak to Mr. Mon
crieff about him as soon as be returned.
And yet she was terribly afraid that he
would think sack speech presumptuous.
Ska cjid not find an ppojttjai for aomr
time, however. Mr. Moncrieff paid
living viitit to bia home iu June, aud then
it was chiefly in order to arrauge that
Miss Jacky and Stella should take Mull;
to the seaside for a little change of air
during the uiouth of July. He persuaded
Mnw Jatky to agree to his plan, and com
missioned her to liud suitable lodgings
at St. Andrews at his expense; and then
he vanished as suddeuly as be had come,
taking Bertie away with him, and leav
ing .Mr. Kingscott free to follow hi own
devices.
So it chanced that on one lovely day In
July, Stella waa seated in a shady nook
of the castle at St. Andrews, with a book
in her hand, while Miss Jacky and Molly
had gone to the bathing place. Her eyes
had strayed from it to the great expanse
of blue water, flashing and glittering in
the sunlight, breaking with long mur
murous rolls over the rocks below, a
never-ending source of beauty aud mys
tery, of sorrow and Joy. As Stella watch
ed it, ahe was conscious of the awe, sol
emn and yet tender, which the sight of
nature in its grandest forms often pro
duces in us; a feeling of the limitations
aud narrowness and weakness of human
life in presence of the Eternal. Her own
sorrows seemed to die away in the con
sciousness of a greater life enveloping
her own.
And in this mood she was found by
Alan Moncrieff.
She did not notice his approach until
be was close to ber, and then she started
and half rose. He lifted his hat. "Is
Molly a good girl?" be asked, a smile
curving his lip' beneath his dark turn
tacbe.
"Very good, indeed."
How handsome he wast she thought as
he stood there, his face a little tanned
after hia Swiss tour, with a new light in
his brown eyes, and strength and energy
in every limb. No youth, certainly; but
a vigorous man, full of manliness and
purpose. She had never seen a man in
whom she had found more to admire.
John Hannington? Ah! the name had
almost lost its power to wound; John
Hannington was commonplace beside
Alan Moncrieff.
"How is Bertie?" she said, forcing her
self to speak.
"Better, thank you. And I hope 1
trust that he ia losing his fear of me."
She was surprised to hear him speak so
plainly. "It is unreasonable of him to
feel fear of you, ahe exclaimed.
Mr. Moncrieff smiled as if well pleased.
"You would not feel it, would you?" he
said, and then caught himself up and
went on in a different tone. "He tells me
that you have lectured bun on the sub
ject. Perhaps it is not fair to repeat all
that he haa aaid. But, at any rate, he has
made me sure of one thing: that I need
an interpreter to stand between me and
my children. They have no mother; and
the-eed the gentle guidance of a woman'-,
uand. Therefore, after long consid
erationfor I do not wish you to sup
pose that I am speaking rashly or on the
impulse of the moment I have come with
one purpose one only in my mind; and
that is, to ask you a question, or rather
make a request. Will you some day
honor me so far as to become my wife?"
(To be continued !
Learn to Laugh.
There ought to be societies formed for
tbe encouragement of laughter. A real
laugh is not common, for It must' be
remembered that a anicker la not a
laugh.
Tbe Puritans were Inclined to frown
upon laughter as frivolous, and there
fore wicked. Life was a very grave
affair to them, an almost constant
struggle for existence, and they had no
time to make merry. The first two
centuries of their national life were
busy years. Privations were many,
and the Indians were almost continu
ally on the warpath. It Is small won
der, perhaps, that they rarely enjoyed
hearty laugh.
Philosophers and cynics sneer at
laughter. Goldsmith (who waa always
laughing) telle ua of "the loud laugh
that spoke the vacant mind," and the
scornful Bryon says, "And if I laugh at
any mortal thing, tis that I may not
weep."
many people are afraid to laugh be
cause they think It common, so they re
press their merriment with a smile.
They do wrong. Nature evidently
intended us to laugh, or children would
not know bow. Laughter Is healthy
and provocative of good morals as well
aa of good health. Hamlet says that
"one may smile, and smile, and be a
villain,'' and so one might; but no one
could laugh, and laugh, and be a
villain.
To smirk, grin, guffaw, or smile Is not
to laugh. A good, whole-souled, hearty
laugh Is a panacea for many Ills, nnd
worth a doctor's prescription. Gnl-ler
Days.
To Wah lushes Properly.
To the woman with whom tbe love of
cleanliness and daintiness is Inherent
Vie manner in which the ordinary ser
vant washes dishes is maddening.
Glass, silver, china, are all crowded,
helter-skelter, Into a dlshpan full of
warm water, a cake of soap is next add
ed, and while thla swims in the tepid
suds, a greasy dishcloth Is used to
"swab" off each article before it is re
moved from the pan and placed on tbe
table to drain.
Dishes to be cleansed properly should
be washed, as it were, in courses. Into
a perfectly clean pan of scalding water,
to u-hich have been added a few drops
of ammonia, go first the glasses, each
one of which must be dried rapidly
with a soft linen cloth. Now the wash
lug powder or the soap, inclosed In a
shaker, or, lacking this, in a deap cup,
goes in tbe pan, and the silver is washed
each piece being rubbed to a polish
while still hot Last comes the ehlna,
from which the grease must already
have been rinsed. As many plates,
etc., cool the suds, boiling water must
be poured In as often as needed. The
secret of bright and polished table
ware is never to allow a dish to drain.
Each bit of crockery or metal must be
wiped tbe moment it is drawn from the
hot suds. Not one servant in a hun
dred will follow thla rule, unless con
stantly reminded by tbe mistress that
She must do -so. The price of well
washed dishes is, like all other dainty
housework, the mistress' eternal vigi
lance. Harper's Bazar.
He that things himself tbe happiest
man really is so; bnt be that thinks
himself tbe wisest is generally the
greatest fool.
It is easier to get into the kingdom
of 'Heaven tban it is to got into the
nigbtoned circles of this world.
Labor Notes.
tttW-t AND HAfPENINOrl OF SfKCIAL I
TEKtSM IS TUB VAKIOI S TKAI'Es.
Goo I household servants are paid
(ruin f 1 to tS a mouth.
American apples are retailed (or SI
Jox-su in Mexico.
Iu France when a railway train it
more tban ten minute late lhe com
pany is fined.
It is ssid that a great m iny Aniari
jan flags are male by sweatshop lab r
in New York.
In Mexico turkeys are driveo to
market through the main street of the
shies just like sheep.
The largest buaines houses in Mex
.co are closed for an hour and a half id
the middle of the day.
The Rockefeller steamer Robert Ful
joa, 440 feet over all, is the largest
steamer on the Groat Likes.
There are 550 man employed at the
Bath (Me.) Iron Work aud live con
tracts for vessels on band.
lhe Federal telegraph of Mexico
las recently inaugurated a night ser
vice, and 10 words can ba sent for 10
cents.
New industrial companies, capital
.sed at $50,500,000, were advertised in
one day's issue of the London dailies
recently.
There is a project on foot to build
a big smelter oj the linn of tbe Atchi
son, near Cerillos, N. M , in order to
get tbe benefit of cheap fuel.
Tbe prosecuting attorney of Alle
gan, Mich., is advocating a bill order
ing that tbe names of all purchasers of
iquor at tbe drug stores shall be pub
ished. Statistics just made public show tha.
n Massachusetts, in spite of tbe advent
of tbe trolley car and the popu'arity oi
the bicycle, the number of horses ia
greater by 308 j than in tbe year pre
ceding. Alaska and Fuget Sound merchants
tnd the steamship companies are pre
paring for an inllux of 10,000 to 15,
DJ0 miners into Alaska this spriug
Last year about 5000 men went North
in search of wealth.
Tbe soda evaporation enterprise, tht
lawmill building, the erection of ex
tensive sheep-snearing pens and the
development of the rich tributary gold
placers are all potent factors of Green
Uiver, Ore., 18'J7 prosperity.
The revival of trade in America, says
.ho Indian Daily Acm', is already
makiug its influence felt in Calcutta,
several of the leading firm tli -re h iv-in-r
received inquiries and larg-i orders
for jute, both raw and manufactured.
In Paris tbey first utility rats to clc-nr
'he flesh from the bones of carcass -s,
hen kill the rats, use up the fur tr
trimmings, their skins for gloves, their
thigh boues for toothpicks, and their
tendons and bone for gelatine wrap
ieri. There are more breweries in Cali
fornia than there are in Illinois; mire
distilleries in Massachusetts than tti -re
itre in Kentucky, and more cigarette
manufactured in New York state th in
iu all tbe other states of tha country
combined.
One of tbe provisions of the Greater f
New York charter, a provision existing
in the present law, is that the walk
and ceilings of every tenement house
house shall be whitewashed at least
once a year. The definition of tene
ment bouse is so framed that it includes
the most beautiful and expansive apart
ment bouses in the city.
In German cities -before a druggist if
ranted a license to opan a store care
lul investigation is made to determine
whether tbe needs of that particular
neighborhood require it. Recently a
voting druggist in Altona, whose pros
pective marriage depended on bis sue
cess ia securing a license, waa over
whelmed by the rejection of his peti
tion. As a last resort be took the cass
to the Minister of bMucation, the high
eat authority, and, on being refaset'
agaia, committed suicide.
Fashion Nt;s.
Plaids are also sean, but tbey are
likely to do better in the more subdue 1
nd smaller combinations than in tbe
larger and louder patterns.
'The tight skirt is in vogue for win
ter gowns; it is only wide enough to
permit walking; the heaviest fabrics,
furs, etc., are used only, and' a skirt
of tbis kind requires harJly more
fabric than a large pleated ma till)
does; it is in great favor, as !t fits well,
is not weighty on the shoulders, and,
then, it permits the wearing of tbe
jacket.
A combination of velvet will be worn
until midsummer, and even through
that time we shall see velvet belts and
boleros for cool days and many knots
of velvet ribbon will ornament tbm
gowus.
A judicious use of braiding will en
liven not only woolen, but heavy cot
ton gowns, as duck, canvas and piq le.
Sepirate waists of bright plaid papliu
are trimmed with em til gilt bjttons ia
clusters and interlaced with gold corJ.
A lace j ibot ornaments the front.
White evening waists trimmed with
deep pink have a bunch of yellow roses
on tbe left shoulder.
Many bridesmaids' gowns (.re now of
white organdie trimmed with fine tuexs.
Valenciennes lace anJ ribbon and
made over a glace silk lining.
Heliotrope cloth is edged with Alaska
sable, corselet of velvet and a white
cloth vest braided in heliotrope and
black.
Mauy white vests are worn with
jabota or appliques of lace, but th
most stylisii show hand braiding.
If there ia a grace that we are all
stingy with, it is ttiat of giving praise,
and yet it is one with whiet we ought
to be lavish.
When a man bas an engagement to
have a tooth palled he is always polite
enough to give his place t another
mac
Bow is it that the chump whe al
ways leaven tbe door open in winter
insists on closing tbe door during the
existence of the hot wave?
New Inventions.
AhnnJy device torus') in connee'ion
with da fountain couaiata of a reser
voir atiacbeJ to the faucet and hv g
a plunger running through an opxuiug
in the faucet for discharging a quan
tity of s ills into the water as ii Hjwh
through the fancet, Ihus mixing the
drink as it enters the glass.
A newly-devised umbrella case hat a
cloth strip attached to one side uf the
umbrella top in such a manner
that when the umbrella is c osed
tbe edges of the strip overlap ei'h
other around the umbrella, lacing
hooks beinj fastened along the e lgs
of the strip to be laced togoihsr by a
.cord.
To assist car oilers in their work at
night a new patent consists of a torch
designed to be attached to the suld of
the nil can, and baviig a long wick
tube running nearly to the end of the
oil can nozzle, tbe reseivoir containing
the ail being fastened to tbs aide of
the lubrica jog oil chamber.
Wheelmen with inner tube tires, will
appreciate a new inner tube just pat
ented. It consists in vulcanizing the
tube so that when it is not iu lined it
will fold over on itself lengthwise, th is
making it smaller aud mure easily en
tered into tbe outer tube, when it cm
be inflated and made to unfold into
the usual shape.
A novel hairpin just patented con-si-
is of a round button, to the ua lor si le
of which is secure! a piece of steel
wire, tbe ends of which are coiled
around the edge of the button, with
the points projecting far enough to
engage the hair, when the button is
twisted around so that the wires enter
the hair and bold it fast.
One of the simplest non-refillable
oo tiles recently pttented has the neck
curve! beyond the length of the or
dinary neck. The cork haa a metal
top, and can be pus jed down into po
sition in the straight portion of the
neck, but cannot be removed without
breaking the neck of tbe bottle, on
account of the areb in the neck.
A new carpet stretcher consists of
round casing to be placed in tbe
centre of the room and having four
arms projecting from it to the four
sides of the room, with teeth in cross
pieces attached to the arms to eugage
the edge of the carpet, and a spreader
placed iu the centre casing to force
tbe four arms outward. 1
Items of Interest.
There are about 250 religious sects
in E'igland.
There are 54 temperance newspapers
published in tbe United Kingdom.
The census of Atlanta, Ga., just
completed, gives it a population of
i3,000.
The prison population of England
nas fallen off of late years. Oat of
113 prisons 57 nave been altogether
Hosed.
It is said by scientific men that the
jiiir from the tail of the horse is the
strongest single animal thread knowa.
The costliest building of molern
times is the State Capitol of Albany,
N. Y. Over $20,000,000 bas been ex
pended on it.
The late President of the Ryal
Academy, Sir John Millais, received an
average of 95,000 tor each of the 300
pictures he painted.
Reports from the coffae distric s f
Mexicj show that the crops will be very
heavy, and planters are going to have
a most prosperous year.
Tha biggest price ever paid for a
norse in America was $125,000, given
by J. Malcolm Forbes of Boston, for
Leland Stanford's Arion, a trotter.
Jacob C Hollis, near Ferryman,
Md., recently killed a large hawk.
Around one of its legs was a bog rinp,
which had been there so long that it
had woru the flesh away to the bone.
Tbe bird was quite old.
Egyptian cotton importations have
increased from 10,470 bales in 1S90 to
CO. 220 bales in 1896, and tbe Sea
Island cotton growers want a duty on
the imported article. The price baa
declined from 28 cents to 13 cents.
A new floaiiog dock is about to be
constructed in tbe harbor of Havana,
with a capacity of 10,000 tons. The
contract for tbe building of tbe struc
ture baa been awarded to a British
firm.
Spades and shovels, together with
scoop?, are found depicted on the walls
of Egyptian catacombs, and all Hire
are frequently mentioned by Roman
aud Greek agricultural writers.
There are only two scarlet flowers
native of England tbe popy and tbe
scaret pimpernal and both these
Hour is i best on d y and sunny spots.
Nearly all other scarlet flowers are im
ported. The University Medical College, ot
New Orleans, bas determined to estab
lish a training school for negro w f
men as nurses. The object" is to sup
ply trained nurses who will s rve for
nodorate pay.
A benevolent man at Charles City,
Ia., his established a home for tramps
where they may rest and eat. uch a
home will please them. Tbey have no
wood t chop, no stock to feed ao i no
one to support
The peop'e of Paris are hippophagus
to a remarkable df gree, consuming on
an average over 20,000 horses and Jon-
keys annually. List year, accord n a;
to the returns, the Parisians ate 23,39d
horses, 439 donkeys and 8tf mules.
Tnis horse, donkey and mule fieah
dretsed ready for the butcher's block
weighed 5 S79 tons, and was sold al
prices varying from 3 sous to one franc
per pound, the latter being the price
p:iid for lhe best horse steaks 1
ntndy rather to fill yonr minds Iban
your coffort ; knowing that gold and
silver were originally mingled with
dirt nntil avarice or aibition parted
them.
T-ere is a vast diffjrenee in one's re
spect for tbe man who bas made him
self, and the man who bas only made
bis money.
Half the misery of human life might
be extingnished by mutual offices of
com passion, benevolence and bnmanity.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
TawEalMS DtvtsMTs
alwbjeeti "Harbor ot Home.1
Till: "do horns to thy fries la and tell
them how great things tna Lord, hath don
tor tbea." Mark v., 1.
There are a a;ret many people loosrtna tot
soma arand sphere la which to serve UoX
They a tmire Luther at th diet ot Wot ma,
and only wish that tbey had some suoh araat
opportunity in whloh to display their Chris
tian proweaa. They a lmlra Paul mtktair
Felix tremble, and thy only wish that thsv
bad some such grand occasion in whloh to
preaoh righteousness, temperaaoe and judg
ment to eome. All they want ia an oppor
tunity to exhibit their Christian heroism.
Now the apostle oomas to ua, and hs prac
tically says, "I will show you a plaoa wh-tr
you can exhibit all that is grand and beauti
ful and glorious la Christian character, and
that ia tha domestic circle."
If one ia not faithful la aa insignificant
sphere, be will not be faithful in a resound
ing sphere. If Peter will not help the erip-
le at the gate of the temple, he will never
sable to preaoh S000 souls Into the king
dom at the Pentecost. If Paul did not take
pains to Instruct in the way ot aalvation the
sheriff of the Philipplan dnngeon, be will
never make Felix tremble. Ha who la not
faithful In a skirmish would not be falthf al
In an Armageddon. The tact la, we are all
placed ia Just the position in whloh we can
most grandly verve Ood, and we ought not
to be chiefly thouzhtful about some sphere
of usefulness whioh we may after awhile
gain, bnt the all obsorblng question with yon
and with me ought to be, "Lord, what wilt
thou have me (now and here) to do?"
There Is ono woru In my text around
frhioh tbe most ot our thoughts will to-day
revolve. That word is home. Ask tea dif
ferent men the meaning of that word and
they will give you ten diftdrent definition.
To one it means love at the hearth, It meana
plenty at the table. Industry at the worki
stand, intelligence at the books, devotion at
the altar. To him it means a greeting at the
doorand a smile at the chair. Peace ho ver
Ing like winz-t. Joy clapping Its bands with
laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed
on the ripples sleep the shadows.
Ask another man what home Is and he will,
.ell you It is want looking out of a cheerless
fire grate and kneading hunger In aa empty
bread tray. Tne damp air shivering with
curoes. No Biblo on the shelf. Children,
robbers and murderers In embryo. Vile songs
their lullaby. Evry face a picture of ruin.
Want in tbe background and ain staring
from the front. No Sabbath wave rolling
over tbt doorsiil. Vestibule ot the pit.
Shu low of Infernal walls. Furnace for forg
ing overlasting chains. Fargots for an un
ending funeral pile. Awful word! It Is
spelled with curse?, it weeps with rain, it
choices with woe. It sweats with the death
atrony of despair.
Tbe word home Iu the one ease means
(nvrything bright. The word homo in the
other case means everything ternflc.
I shail speak to von ot home as a test ot
!hn racier, home aa a refuge, home as a poli
tical safeguard, home as a school and hsmo
as a ivpe of heaven.
And in tbe first place I remark that homo
s a powerful test of charaoter. The disposi
tion in publio may be In gay ooatume, while
lu private it is ia dishabille. As play actors
nny appear in one way on the stage and may
appear in another way behind the scents, so
private character may be very different from
public character. Private character ts often
publio character turned wrong side out. A
mun may receive you Into his parlor as
iuotii;h be were a distillation of smili-s, and .
yet bis heart may be a swamp of nettles,
there am business men who all day long are
mild and courteous and genial and good
na' u red in commercial life, keeping biok
their irritability, and their petulance, and
thuir discontent, but at nightfall tbe dam
breaks and scolding pours forth in floods
nn I freshets.
Reputation is only the shadow of charac
ter, and a very email boose sometimes wilt
-ast a very loDg shadow. Tbe Hps may seem
to drop myrrh and cassia, and the disposi
tion to be as bright and warm as a sheaf of
t-unbeams, and yet they may only ba a mag
nificent show window to a wretched stock
of good. There is many a man who is
affable in public life and amid commercial
spheres who, in a cowardly way, takes his
aa.-er and his petulance home and drops
tbem la the domestic circle.
Tbe reason men do not display their bad
temper in publio Is because they do not want
to e knocked down. There are men who
hide their petulance and their Irritability
)ust for tbe same reaion that they do not iet
their notes go to protest it does not piy.
Or for the same reason that tbey do not want
a man in their stock company to a -11 his
stock at less than the right price, lest it de
preciate thn value. As at sunst the wind
rises, so after a sunshiny day there may be
a tempestuous nli;hr. There are people who
In public act tha philanthropist who at home
act the Nero with respect to their slippers
and their gowns.
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with,
gun and pencil want through the forests ot
America to bring down aud to sic rtel the
b autiful bird-, and after years of toil and
exposure coor oWe i his manuscript and put
it in a trunk In Philade phia for a few days of
recreation and rest and came bajk and
found that the rats had utterly destroyed
the manuscript, but without any dlsoom-
Eosureand without anyfr-t or bad temper,
e again picked up his gun and pencil aa i
visitei again all the gr?at forests of America
an i reproduced bis immortal work. And
vet there are people with the ten -thousandth
part or 1 n 1 1 io-s vno are utterly irrvwii
cilable, who. at the loss of a pencil or an
article of raiment, will blow aa long and
sharp as a northeast storm.
Now, that man who is affable in public
aud who l. irritable In private is making a
fraudulent overissue of stock, and he Is as
bad as a bank that might hav 400.000 or
(500,000 of bills in circulation witbno specie
in the vau it. Let us learn "to show piety at
home." If we have it not there we have it
not anywhere. If we have not genuine
gra-e in the family circle, nil our outward
and public plausibility merely spring from
a fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid
pool of our own selfishness. I tell you tbe
home is a mighty test of character. What
you are at home you are everywhere, wheth
er you demonstrate ft or not.
Again, I remark that borne is a refuge.
Life is the Unite! States army on the na
tional road to Mexico, a long march, with
ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At
eventidx we pitoh our tent and taok our
arm. We bang uptbe war eap and lay our
hea l on the knapsack. We sleep until the
morning bug.e calls us to marching and ac
tion. How pleasant is it to rehearse the vic
tories and the surprises and the attacks of
the day. s'a'e I hy the still camp Bra of tbe
home circle!
Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shivered
miisl; and torn s ills and bulk aleak, wa put
into the h irbor of borne. Bl-9sed harbor:
There we go for repairs in tbe drydock ot
quiet life. Tbe can lie in thw window Is to
tue tolling man tbe lighthouse guiding him
into port. Children go forth to meet their
fathers as pilots at the Narrows takethe hand
of ships. Tha doorsill of tbe borne is the
wntirr where heavy life is unladen.
There is the place where we may talk o.
what we have done without being charged
with self adulation. There is tbe plaoe when
we may lounge without being thought nil
gracelul. There 1st be p'ace where we may ex
press affection without being thought silly.
There is tbe place where we may forget out
anuovanees and ex isperatlons and troubles.
Forlorn earth pl'.griml No homer Then die.
That is better. The grave Is brighter an I
grander and more glor.ous than this world,
with no tent from marchings, with no barboi
ftvm the storm, with no place to rest front
tbis scene of greed and gouge aud loss anc
gan. Ood pity the man or woman who ha
no home1
Further, I remark that home is a politic,
safeguard Tbe safeguard ot the state mas'
m ewm on tne est y of tha borne. Tht
Ghrfeiian hearthstone Is the only corner
none for arepnolic. The virtues cultured
in the family circle are an absoln e necasalt)
for tbe state. If there be not enough moral
principle to make the family adhere, then
will not be enough political principle te
make the state adhere. "No home" meant
tbe Goths and Vandals, moana the nomads oi
Asia, means tha Nnmidians ot Ariea,
naatiac r!u p t r-v- i vni;i- !
tSwrnatar lH-nxlrluuvt. Cufjj.al
all tsow Kk at iar)iuiy wh.,-N I
nnH'l -t t! aoo! ra -;
"oraa tost aot thahip ia 1m to tx-x- .
Ily sails wot sint th triata ot t4 ja:iiii.
ttoa, J.ld aad pdaitiMUianaa ulvrw
sad navies an ao4 oar banc da-'eaea. The
door of th horn is to banc forrrs. H u-e-hoM
ntaaails ant th be-tt artillery, an t the ;
chimneys ot our dwwlun home ar the !
grandest moaamvnta ot safety a ii triaapii. I
No horn. No republic 1
Farther, I mm irk that horn it a school.
Old ground must be turned up with suaoil
plow, and it ruut ba harrowed and rw-0 ar
rowed, and then th crop wilt not be as iarg)
as that of the new ground with leas culture.
Now, Youth and entldhood are new ground,
and all th Influence thrown over their heart
sad life will ootna apinafterlit luxuriantly,
very time yon have given a smile ot appro
bation all tbe good cheer ot your lite will
some up agatu iu the geaiallty ot your cuil
drun. Aud every ebulitioa ot anger nttl
very nuoontroilabln display of indignation
will be fuel to their disposition twenty or
thirty or forty years iroin now fuel for a ba 1
Are a quarter ot a century from this.' l'ou
praise thelntelligeaoeot your ohild too murh
sometimes wheu you think be is not aware ot
It, and you will see the result of it bafure ten
years of age in bis anuoyin affections. You
praise hia beauty, supposing he U not lare
enough to un i-jrstaud what you siv, an I
yon will fin I him standing on a high chair
before a mirror. WorJs and deeds and ex
ample are the teed of character, and children
are vary apt to be the second edition of tuelr
parents. Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue Is
apt to go down in the anoestral line, but
Herod begat Arcbelaus, so iniquity is trans
mitted. What vast responsibilty oomes up
on parents in views of this subject!
Oh, make your home the brightest place
on earth If you would oharm your children
to the high path of virtue and rectitude au I
religion! Do not always turn the bliuds ihn
wrong way. Let the light which puts ko
on the gentian and spots the pansy pour into
roar dwellings. Do not expect the latin
test to keep step to a dead march. Do not
Bover np your walls with such pictures as
West's "Death on a Pale Horse" or Tiuto
ratto'a ''afaasaore of the Innocents." Rntner
over them. If yon have pictures, with The
Hawking Party," and "The Mill by tha
Mountain Stream," and '-The Fox Hunt,"
and "The Children Amid Flower." nnd
'The Harvest Scene." and "The Saturday
Might Marketing."
Get you no hint ot cheerfulness from grass
hopper's leap and lamb's frisk, and quail's
whistle, and garrulous streamlet, which,
from tbe rock at the mountain top clear
down to the meadow ferns under the shadow
ot the steep comes looking for the steepest
filace to leap off at and talking just to hear
tself talk? If all the skies hurtled with
tempest and everlasting storm wandered
over the sea, and every mountain stream
went raving mad, frothing at the mouth
with mad foam, and there were nothing but
simooms blowing among the hills, and there
were neither lark's carol norhnmming bird's
thrill, nor waterfall's dash, but ouly bear's
bark and panther's scream and wolf's howl,
then you might well gather Into your home
only the shadows. But when God has
nrewnthe earth and the heavens with beauy
and with gladness, let us take Into our horn t
slroles all Innocent hilarity, all brightne-s
ind all good cheer. A dark home makes bad
oya and bad girls in preparation for bai
men and bad women.
Above all, ray friends, take into your
lomes Christian principle. Can It bi thac
in any of the comfortable homes of my cna-rr-gnrton
the voice of prayer is never nft
jd? What! No supplication at night for
roteotlou? What! No thanksgiving in tin
norninif for care? How, my brother, my
ister, will you answer God lu tne day of
udgment with reference to your cbllun a;
t ts a plain question, and therefore its:
t. In the teuth ohapter of Jeremiah God
ays he will pour out bis fury upon tha
amilies that call not upon bia name. Oil.
i.treaN, when you are ileal and gone an 1
he moss is covering the inscription of tu
ombs one, will your ohildren lok back
md ihiuk of father and motbnr at fa'nily
irayt-r? Will tbey take the old family Bi
de an 1 open it and see the mark of tear:
mi contrition and tears ot oousoliug p:o n
wept by eyes long before gone on: into
1'irinesv Oil, If you do' not inculcate
.'bristlan principle In the hearts of your
iiil Iren, and you do not warn them against
vii, and you do not invite them to holing-,
in I to God, nnd they wander off tuto di-at-ftt
Ion aud into infidelity, and at last male-
aipwreck of their Immortal souls, on their
ieathbed and in the day of judgment they
fill curee yon! Heated by tbe register or the
tove. what if on the wall should come out
tie history of your children? What a liistorv
the mortal nnd immortal life of your loved
n-!! Every parent la writing tne history
f his child. He Is writing It, composing it
nto a song or tuning It Into a groan.
My mind runs back to one ot the best
if early homes. Prayer, like a roofoverir.
cNsace, like an atmosphere In it. Parents.
uersoniBcations of faith in trial and comfort
n ilarkntMH. The two pillars ot that earthly
to ne long ago crumbled to dmr. But shall
t ever forget that earthly home? Ye, when
he flower forgets the sun that warms ;t.
Yes. wben the mariner forgets the star that
jnides him. les, when love bas gone out
jn the heart's altar and memory has emptied
.ts urn Into forgetfulneas. Then, borne of
ny caildhood, I will forget thee
:he family altar ot a father's lmpor
:nnity and a mother's tenderness, tlM
roicesof affection, the funerals of our dead.
Father and mother, with interlocked arm,
like Intertwining branches of trees, making
i perpetual arbor of love and peace an 1
kindness, thn I will forget tl.ee; then, and
only than. Sou know, my brother, that 100
limes yon have been kept out of sin by the
memory of such a scene as I have been de
scribing. You have often had raging tempi a
lions, but you know what has held vcu with
supernatural grasp. I tell you a man who
has had such a good home as that never gets
over it, and a man who bas had a ba I early
home never gets over that.
A?ain, I remark that home is a type oi
heaven. To bring us to that home Christ
eft his home. Far up and far back in the
history of heaven there came a period wben
its more illus rioits citizen was about to ab
sent himselt. He was net goinr to sail from
beach to beach. We have often done that.
Hi was not going to put out from one hemi
sphere to another hemisphere. Many of u;
have done that. But he was to sail frorr.
world to wor d, the spaces unexplored and
immensitiea nntravelei. No world ha I ever
hailed heaven, ani heaven had nuvei
hailed any other world. I think thai
the windows and the balconies war
thronged ani that the pearly beach wsi
crowded with those who had come to set
Him sail out of the harbor of light into tht
oceans beyond. Out and out and out, hoc
uu and on and on, and down and dowu anc
down He sped, until one night, with ouly oni
to greet Him, be arrival. His disembarka
tion so unpretending, so quiet, that it wa:
not known on earth uutil the excitement it
tha cloud gave Intimation that somuthini
grand and glorious bid happeue.l. Wtu
comes there? From what port did He sail'
Why was tbis the place of Hi:
destination? I question the shop
ber .a. I question the camel driver.'. J
question tne angel'. I have found nut
He was an exile. But tbe world his hm
plenty of exiles. Aorautin, an erde froix
Ur of tbe Cnaldees; John, an i xilefron
Kphesus; Kosciusko, an exile from Poland
Mazzilil, an fettle from Rome; Emm t, an ex
ile from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an extlo from
France; Kossuth, an exile from Hungary
But this One of whom 1 speak to-day hat
suoh resoun ling farewell and came intr
niieh chilling reception for not evea a hos
tler went out with his lantern to help Him
In that Ht is more 10 be celebrated tlmu
any other expatriated ons of earth or heaven
At our best estate we areouly tltftini land
strangers here. "Heaven is our hone."
Death will never knock at the door ot that
mansion, ami in all that country thorn Is
not a single grave. Hew glad parents are
la holiday time to gather tbeir children
home again. But I havenotlced that almost
always there is a son or a daughter absent
absent from borne, perhaps absent from the
country, perhaps absent from the world.
Ob, how glad our heavenly Father will be
when He gets all His ohildren home with Him
In heaven! And how delightful It will be for
brothers and sisters to meet after long
operation! Onoe they part el at tbe door of
Immortality. Once they saw only "through
a glass darkly;" now It Is "face to face,"
Borruptlon, Incorrnptloni mortality, im
mortality. Where ari now all their sins and
sorrows and troubles? Overwhelmed In tbe
Bed Sea of death while tbey passed through
Irv shod.
Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst,
coronas of dominion do not stir my soul so
l-lMt'.tVijvt ,, . i'i-r.
Hrtrh:jraiii li .:.-- t r..U
lit-, H-! L.iir-i- r: ti
pin" whr. Hb: r i w: i .: i
a ectna-juate ntc;! i I ' r-ur-- 1 .-i n,.t
r-ar-.wft v.f ida- td dr- .i.v r
tt Let errta.uc r l! ia irr .-i
leswee-p. H m! Narr., n- v-,aj.
Mlntrv iLJiit, bar ho-v. v-: h
lorn, beautiful htvne, v.fiatin; nu-.
loms with each other, horn vtth an-i-.
aora with A M.
On night, lying oa my loan; w-ia vrv
Hrwi. my ehil trMi ait arenni ab-iur in ia
'ad romp an 1 hilar tv and laug-iter o to
.onusr", halt awake aad half a- !-. I
Ireamed this dream: I w.ts in a f r .-o uvrrv.
tt was not Persia, although mr t laa
r;ental luxuriance crowned th eiti-s It
waa not h tropica, although more than
Topical fruitfulaese fill I th- uar.t'-o.
tt was not Italy, although ram thta
Italian softness Bilad th air. An I I w in
lured round looking for tiiiru- an I n -t-les,
but I found that aoni t thorn
rrew there, ani I saw the sui rL-e., and
I watcho-J to see it set, but ir mux not.
And I saw th people lu holiday attire,
and 1 said, "When will they put orr thl
and put on workmen's garb and again
delve in the mine or swelter at the forger"
But they never put off tbe holiday attire.
And I wandered in the suburb ot the nty
to find tha plaoe where the dead sleep, r. I I
looked all along the line ot the beautiful
Sills, the plaoe where tha dead might iiiwt
blissfully sleep, and I sawtownrs and .wattes,
but not a mausoleum or a mouum srit or a
white slab oould I see. Aud I went iuto the
shapel of the great town, and I ssid. Where
lo the poor worship, and where are the har I
Mnches on which they sit?" And tne au
iwer was male me, "We have no poor iu this
sountry." And tbn I wan Jeret out to find
Che hovels of the destitute, aud I foun t man
sions ot amber and ivory an 1 gol I, hut
not a tear could I see, not a tdgli could I
hear, and I was bewildered, and I sat down
an W the branches of a great tree aud said:
"WheM am 1? And wheuce come all this
icene?" And then out from among tha lavas
and up the flowery paths and across the.
bright steams there came a beautiful group,
thronging all about me, and as I saw them
some I thought I knew their step, and as
thev shouted I thought I knew their voices,
but then they were so glorlousloy arraye 1 In
apparel, suoh as I had never before wit
nessed, that I bowed as stranger to strangor.
But wben Hgain they clapped their hand and
shouted. "Welcome, welcome!" the mystery all
vanished.and I found that time had gone and
sternity had come, and w were all toirther
main In our new home in heaven. An 1 I
looknl around, and I said: "Arc w.) all
hero?" nnd the voices of many irenerations
responded, "All here!" And wh!l tears of
jiaduess were raining down our chocks, and
the branches of the Lebanon cedars were
flapping their hands, and the towers of the
irreat ciiy wero chiming their walcoine, w.i
til together began to leap and shout an I
ling, "Home, home, home!"
A Xew Word and Ita Derivation.
The next revised edition of Murray
will contain tbe word "larrikin." Its
significance Is peculiar and its deriva
tion amusing. A "larrikin" is an Aus
tralian tough hoy or gnmiu. lie Is of
the peculiar strain of depravity sure
to be found In a land like Australia, tha
logical offspring of the convict outcast
and the women tlint follow in their
train. lie Is said to have peculiarities
not to be found in any other tough boy.
and physical characteristics which
would Identify him wherever found hy
a student of the human race. For ex
ample, the sbape of bis head Is unmis
takable. He is plentiful in AuHtaitln.
He is depraved, lacking alike lu men
tal aud in moral health.
He was until lately without any indi
vidual cognomen, but not long ago one
of the class was in court lu Melbourne,
nnd the Irish otlicer who had liini In
charge, being asked by the Judge what
his offense was, replied: "He was u
larrklng, yer 'onor," with such a roll
ing of the r that the Judge misunder
stood for the moment aud thought the
word was a term applied to the boy.
Ever since in Melbourne the street
gamin has been spoken of as a "larri
kin," and the word lias passed Into the
vernacular of Australia. Melbourne
Correspondent.
Peninsular Medals.
Cowling to the great European wars
of the revolutionary period, we might
expect a great crop of medals for our
brave soldiers. But no; there are gold
medals for superior officers, but for
the die-hards of the peninsular war,
who often, by sheer hard fighting, re
deemed the blunders of their coin
manders, absolutely nothing. As for
the Generals, 'WeHingrou complained
that they were too thickly liuug with
medals. There Is a splendid gold med
al for Muiila, the very finest of all
our military medals, of which ouly
seventeen were Issued.
Talavera was acknowledged lu goiii
medals to commanding officers. And
Wellington suggests that only ono
medal should be Issued to an otlicer.
and that future actions should be en
graved upon it. When four actions
had been scored, the medal should li
replaced by a cross to be worn :u th
buttonhole; decorations woru aiound
the neck tre "awkward to ride lu,"
says the matter-of-fact commander.
Frederick of i'ork carried out the sug
gestion with a characteristic differ
ence. The gold cross Maltese.wilh
lion statu nt in the ceo tor, and suspend
ed by a gold laurel wreath waa Issued
to be worn by general officers around
the neck; others at the buttonhole.
All tbe Year Round.
Printing on Knvelopes.
Postmaster Sahm, of Indianapolis,
has received a construction from the
department at Washington that he re
gards as. novel. Tbe American Collect
ing and Reporting Association asked
to hava stamped envelopes mailed on
which the words "collecting und re
porting" appeared. Cm the smail en
velope the type was proportionately
smaller than ou a large one. The de
partment holds that the largest envel
ope is objectionable and unmallubie,
because the words are too conspicuous.
Tbe smaller oue Is mailable, the de.
yftrtuieut says.
! How many futliem and inotliflrs
make religion such a cruel ibiug that
their ohildren hate it.
There are said to be pelicans with a
wing spread as f.tr as fifteen foet.
History is a mighty drama, enacted
upon tlio theatre of Time, with sons
for lam, a and Kternity tor a back
ground. The. ninn wlm nt7i- u l i a .
" lHJIUtlCI n,
conduct a binti.ess of bis owu is the
one who can always tell why the other
UIBU lUIK'll.
Tho cjvetous erson lives as if the
world were made altogether for him,
and not he lor tha world. '
A man has no more right to eav an
nncivii thing tban lo act oue; no more
right to Kay a rnde thing lo another
than to knock him down.
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