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F. SOHWEIER.
MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBKUAKY 24. 1897.
VOL. LI
NO. II.
CHAPTER XI.
To gentlemen were sitting in oiall
private parlor at the Birnaw Arms. Tbey
were bath pale and both dark; otherwise
lucre was nut much resemblance betweej
Uieui. One was somewhat effeminate to
appearance; the other was tall, sinewy
aud vigorous-looking little aitered from
the man to whom Stella Raeburu bad
ouce given her maiden heart.
His companion, Ralph Kioscott, was
tuning back in a large arm-chair, with a
tii-sr between his lips. His small features
lAere lighted up with an expression of the
keenest Amusement.
"So she tad a little love affair before
be canie to Punkeld!" he was exclaiming-
This is most interesting. 1
thought she looked too innocent for this
wicked world.
Sue's iunocent enough," Hannington ,
eras Leginnioz sulkily, but Kingscott in
terrupted him with a mocking laugh.
"Oh, she's a lady, a enowBake. pearl
we all know that; Moncrieff's besotted
ou her Inly lac already. She's Just
the style he's likely to go mad about
fir, gentle, blue-eyed, golden-haired,
aud all the rest of it as great a contrast
io his first wife as could possibly be j
jUnogined.
'What was iU first Mrs. Moucrieff
tike, thru?" I
"She my half-sister, you know, j
Well, she uaa like Molly, only there waa
a little more red in her hair and the tint
of her eye. Marie and I had different
mothers: there was Bosque blood in hers.
I don't know how she would have lived
tvitb. Moucrieff as long as she did if I
fcad not beea there to calm the two down
when they had their little disputes. That
1 managed well, you may conclude from
the fact that 1 hare had free quarto
' at T orresmuir ever since."
The new Mrs. Moncrieff will have
ometuing to say to that, I imagine," said
Uanniugtn, dryly.
"Yes eontjuud her." He looked as if
tie would like to use a stronger word.
poe she like you much'"' Hanniug
tcs'a tone was malicious.
"Hates me like poison, 1 believe. No.
I suppose I shall have to go, bag and
baggage, and make myself comfortable
owewbere else. Not at once; but in six
tiiosths or so, if nothing destroy her in
fluence in the meantime."
"What would destroy hei Influence?"
-Well I have an idea or two."
'Let's bear them."
"Are you on my side, Hannington?
The girl behaved shabbily to you, you
say "
"Cut me in the presence of half a dozen
.f mf friends. Yes, she made it rather
awkward for me. You know Lady Va
lencia Gilderoy? an old friend of mine.
She made up her mind that I had given
the girl siKtd cause for offense, and has
turned the cold shoulder to me ever since
done me a good deal of mischief, I can
tell you."
"Miss Stella must be a spiteful Utile
minx. You would not object to as her
pride have a fall, then?"
"No. I shouldn't."
"And it is, of course, my Interest to
lessen her influence as much as possible.
Well, there are two ways in which to do
U."
Two?"
"One I'll keep to myself," said Kings
cott, with an ugly smile. "The other de
pends somewhat on you. You say you
bave letters from her?"
Hannington's face flushed.
"What if you let Moncrieff have a
glance at them?"
"I don't see the use of that."
"Why, don't you know that Alan Mon
crieff is the most jealous, the most sus
picious man alive? If I know anything
of women, my dear Jack, she won't have
told him a word about yon, or only what
she pleases; and she will be mortally
afraid of his getting to know the true
state of the case."
"Well," growled Hannington, "the way
to punish her. then, will be a good fright
I shouldn't mind doing that."
MolW will have a fair fortune," aald
klollv's nncle. "She ha her mother's
money come Into it at her marriage, or
when she U twenty-one."
Kingscott thought that he caught elht
of an odd glitter in John Hannington's
black eyes. But be want on discreetly.
"Moncrieff ha the idea that he ought
to tie her up very tight I think he' mar
ried pretty Stella with the Idea of get
ting a jailer for his poor child. Alan will
find a model husband, ome worthy,
prosy, neighboring laird, who will keep
her in the Highland alna month la the
year; and that will be poor Molly's future
fate."
' Not a bit I" said Hannington, abruptly.
"She'd not stand it, my dear fallow. She
would bolt"
"She had better bolt before marriage
than after," waa Kingscott cynical re
sponse. To which hi friend made no
answer, bnt at with Ma toot moving
meditatively to and fro.
Kingscott nodded and smiled. "If yon
stay where yon are for tha next half
hour yon will see your old flam most
Uketr. I r-4u-ed tha open carriage to be
sent down. Now I must go and And my
cub I hope he's all right. I left aim U
the bar."
Kingscott went downstairs to seek xter-
tie, with whom he meant to go to the rail- (
n ay station to welcome me i i know, dear; I nnderatand."
bridegroom home. He could not find I MjUt when you came home Just when
Bertie for some time, and began to feel 'yoa expcted a welcome for me to dis
tal f vexed and half alarmed by the lad grac yon M n4j mr father be'U never
disappearance, especially as ha received fotglw mfc
a hint from the attendant that the young oh, yM wmf Bertie. f you are
geatlexoajt eeamed waa bit fm4f a n jj everything
diap. He heard a bell ringing, and ran
with all his might up the hill to the rail
wif station, where Mr. Moncrieff's car
riage and half a dozen other vehicle
MlawiUM taJA MrjTal eth
train from Tertb. Kingscott was little
lute, as he was vexed to see. Mr. and
Mrs. Moncrieff came out of the atution
lusfas he reached it; and his congratula
tions were somewhat spoiled in effect by
the fact that he uttered them in a voice
which showed that he was very much out
f breath.
"Bertie came with me, but we stopped
to say a word or two to a friend in the
street, and I lost sight of bim," slid
Kingscott, with admirable candor. "3e
Is following me, I suppose; we shall see
bim presently"
And then he baited in bis speech. A
terrible sight met his eyes. A group of
little boys had set up a shrill hurrah at
h. sight of a "drunken man yet not a
man, but slight, tall, nandsome lad,
whose eyes were wild, whose face waa in
flamed, who swayed from aide to side in
his endeavor to keep himself straight as
he staggered across the roadway. Ralph
made a rush forward, but Alan Mon
crieff, with a face as white as death, laid
hand on his arm.
"Wait one moment," he said. "I must
Put my m' Into the carriage first. Then
you and I will get that wretched lad
home between us. The only thing we can
do is to hide his shame and our own
the best we can."
And that was Stella's home coniiug.
CHAPTER XII.
'Alan Moncrieff was extremely shocked
and distressed to find that Bertie had
taken many steps in a downward coarse,
which he bad never dreamed that the
iad was likely to tread at all. A few care
ful and confidential inquiries in the town
elicited the fact that Bertie was by no
means as quiet and home-loving as his
father bad always credited him with be
ing: that be was well known in varloui
very questionable resorts, and that he ha
a great iove for cards. Stella firmly bi
lieved that Ralph Kingscott was at tb
bottom of Bertie's disgrace, and that h.
was responsible for the boy's gradual de
i-lension. But when she hinted this view
of the case to her husband she was met
with an expression of cold displeasure
which silenced ber at once.
She overheard a scrap of conversation
which confirmed her secret suspicion in
a rather curious way. She wanted to
talk to Bertie who had not yet made
his appearance in public after hi escapade
and Mr. Moncrieff bad told her that she
would probably find him in the octagon
room, where he generally pursued hit
studies under Kingscott' superintend
ei.ee. Thither Stella betook herself aboul
six o'clock one evening. She came quiet
ly through the long gallery so quietly
that her footsteps made no sound upor
the polished floor and paused for a mo
ment before she drew the portiere before
the entrance to the octagon room. Shf
paused simply to collect her thoughts, to
renew her courage; but in that pause
toices fell upon her ear.
"You'll do nothing of the kind," Ralph
Kingscott was saying, coolly. "It you
say one word abont it I'll tell your fathet
the whole of that little transaction of
your with Vinner, and then "
"No I oh, nor Bertie' voice, full of agl
tation and appeal, was heard to say
"Oh, don't tell him that. He would nevei
forgive me. I will do anything yon like
I won't aay a word "
And then Stella drew the curtain aside
and found, as she had already divined,
that the door was open. Bertie was ly
log en a sofa, bis head half buried in the
cushions; Mr. Kingscott was lounging is
an arm-chair, with his arm behind hit
head. He cast look of positive hatred
at Stella as she came in; a look in which
malignity and cunning were so blended
that she did not like to remember it after
ward, although at the time Itself it pro
duced little Impression upon her.
"Mrs. Moncrieff 1" he exclaimed, start
ing to his feet, with a sort of disagree
ably exaggerated politeness. "We never
expected this honor, did we, Bertie T My
young pupil and I seem to have bad a
prescriptive right to this part of the
hoose for so long that w are quite un
used to visitor. But of course we must
look for change now."
There was a subtle sting in this remark
which waa not lost upon Stella' percep
tJona, but ah did not choose to attend to
Mr. Kingscott' insinuations at that mo
ment. 8b turned at one toward Bertie,
who did not raise his face from the pillow
against which it was pressed. She could
read abame in the boy' attitude, and aht
bMCeaad to lay her hand gently ea bis
head. Mr. Kingscott went into his own
room and closed the door of communica
tion. Not till then did Stella feel free to
sink down on her knee beside Bertie'
sofa, and apeak to bim is toft, caressing
tones.
"Dear Bertie, w are all o orry. And
you are sorry, too."
Then the boy' grief broke forth. He
burst into a storm of choking, overpow
ering aoba, in which all hie attempt at
speech were lost. It waa some time be
fore the word became articulate.
"I didn't mean It I new thought
what I waa doing I shall never be able
lAAlr a In th fftM .Mill-" TheS
were y,, nr4t words that became audible.
that he ought to know and If for the
future yon do right."
' Bertie did not speak. From thi- tremor
that ran through his whole fr.iin rStel"
felt that her words had goo. lionio.
"lather, not anything that yon ha v.
kept from your father, Bertie? Is there
ot aonitfcjng tfeaj hs.eugUt to kuo ?'Z
st boy cowered duwu,-wltb his face it
a cushion again.
"Why are you afraid of him?" said
Stella. "Why do you not throw off Mr.
Kingscott's bondage and be perfectly
frauk and opeu? You think he will tell
your father of things that yoo want hid
len? But why do you hide them? W by
not make a full confessiou of everything
wrong, and start afresh? Be brave, dear
Bertie, and tell your father all."
But at this Bertie fell into a paroxysm
f terror, and was yet so emphatic in bis
isservations that there was nothing to
tell nothing to conceal that Stella was
fairly bewildered. And when the boy
added the most earnest assurances that
he was resolved to give up his bad com
panions and to lead a steady and honora
ble course for the future, she felt that she
was unable to do more for him, and could
only hope that he would keep his word.
Alan Moncrieff waa only too glad to be
able to accord a free pardon to his boy,
and Stella felt that her intercession had
not been unavailing in bringing a recon
ciliation about at n earlier date than
Bertie had expected. The boy was very
much humbled by his disgrace; for it
could not be denied that every one in the
neighborhood waa aware of the fact that
he had been seen under the influence of
drink outside the railway station, on th
evening of his stepmother' arrival; anC
t was the publicity of the incident whi
xided poignancy to his father s grief,
well a his own humiliation. It waa de
cided that be should be sent to a tutor's
at the New Year; and in the meantime
he was to remain under Mr. Kingscott's
tuition and guardianship.
One of Stella's first visitors was Lady
Valencia Ollderoy. Lady Val lived with
a widowed slater at a pretty little house
about five mile from Torresmuir, and she
had known the Moncrieff for many
years. She was reputed to be one of the
most skillful and shameless flirts in the
coanty, and Stella liked the report that
she heard of her so little, that she half
involuntarily received Lady Val with
much stiffness, and showed by her man
ner that she bad no great desire to be a
friend of ben. Put Lady Val was undismayed-
"I like the little thing, and I'm
going to be friends with her," she re
marked to her alster, as they drove home
together after their first call; "so she
needn't put on her company manners for
fee; I'll soon get rid of that."
"She's very pretty," said Mrs. Len
nox." "I think there's more than that in Mrs.
Moncrieff. She must have some char
acter, I fancy."
She did not' aay why ah thought so;
but she was thinking of that autumn day
when ah and John Hannington had been
riding aide by aide toward Dunkeld, and
when "the little Dundee girl" had given
John Hannington the cut direct. She.
laughed io herself, but ah set her teeth
as though something hart her even while
she laughed, at the thought of Ja k flan
'n's face.
(To be continued.)
Iron; f ouadtloBe.
A new war of conatxneting a solid
foundation for tall building baa been
tried wtta auccw In Berlin. It waa
oecesaarj to And a aolid baaa aufflcleot
ly atnong to carry a building weighing
mora than 10,000 tone. The plot of
ground upon which the building waa to
stand waa adjoined on both aidee by
high buildings, which rendered unsafe
tbe digging to any depth for a founda
tion. Tha only way out of tbe difficulty
waa the alnklng of a caiaaon In the cen
ter of the plot, upon the cemented top
of which a hollow form of cement was
built. Into this form molten Iron waa
poured, filling up the space, and upon
this cast Iron foundation plate the un
derstruotpre of the building now rests,
while the aide walla are supported by
a cantilever structure. Tbe full weight
of the load upon the cast Iron founda
tion is estimated at more than 20.oofl
tone. New Ideas.
Poisonous Golden RoJ.
The State veterinarian of WIscoumi
saya the golden rod Is the cause of tbe
disease resembling consumption that
has destroyed thousands of bones In
his State and Michigan. The horses eat
the plant, go Into a decline and waste
away, both blood and flesh tissue being
destroyed. The only remedy Is to de
stroy the plant.
Every year there comes new evidence
that the golden rod so m&oy are trying
to push Into place aa the national
flower, Is not fitted for It, and Instead
that every man's band ahould be
against It and every man's heel should
be turned to bruise its head and crush
it out. Philadelphia Ledger.
The strangeness of tbe scenery of the
moon, and the enormous size of it crater-shaped
mountains, have led some
astronomers to think that Its past his
tory must bave been quite different
from that of the earth. This, however.
Is not tbe opinion of Messieurs Loewy
and Pulseux, who, In a recent commu
nication, to th Academy of Sciences In
Paris, aay that a study of tbe latest
iusar photographs tends to show that
the condition of the moon's surface has
been produced by the action of the
same natural forces now at work on the
earth.
Reproof should not exhaust its
pswera on petty failings.
All the world will beat the man
whom fortune buffets.
He that waits for dead men's shoes
may long go barefoot.
Lightning trareiy strikes twice in
the same place. It isn't necessary.
When a man's coat is threndbare it
is an easy thing to pick a hole in it.
Ihe truly valiant dare everything
except doing any other tnxjy an in
Jury. If some people would laugh more,
their doctor bills would be less.
As soon as thought finds a body, it
begins trying to move tbe world.
If our belief is wrong oar eternity
will be wrong.
Tbe truly great are those who con
quer themselves.
Growth in grace is often helped by
having the grace to t ay no.
Moat men suffer a good deal les
from conscience than from indigent
Hon.- '
Labor Notes.
SEWS AND HAfPENINOd Of SPECIAL I9
TERfcsra i:j rift various tbaues.
United States have 200,000 machin
ist?. America laet ytar made 4, 125,988,
00 cigar.
The telegraph is to be introduced in
Abyssinia.
Jacksonville is to have two big cigar
factories. '
We sent 103,000 pounds of bam to
England last year.
Warming pans containing perfume
are now used to beat the beds of
gu sta at English c unity houses.
A man can hire a Bouse in Japan,
keep two servants and live on the fat
it the Ian J, all for about $20 a month.
During tbe season 15,000 head of
cattle are boiled down into extract of
beef every week at Fray Bentos, H.utb
America.
Over 1000 ships of all kinds and
lizes pass up and down tbe Eoglish
Channel every 24 hours, and there are
Scarcely ever leas than 200 near LanJ's
End, leaving or bearing up for tbe
channel.
When you buy a few yards of cloth
in Japan tbe merchant always unrolls
the whole piece and cuts off tbe inside
sod in order that you may not bave to
take the part that is faded and shop
worn. Kich oil wells have juat been discov
ered in tbe forest of Donssard, at ihe
xireinity of the Lac Annecy, in Upper
Savoy. This promises vastly to in
crease the prosperity of that picturesque
corner of France.
London has now got a penny-in-the-ilot
refn abnieat bar. It is a temper
ance house. Tbe customer holds his
glass under a tap labeled witn the
name of his particular vanity, and then
drops his peuny in tbe slot with liquid
result.
By a law coming into force this year
in &wedeo a dwelling; house muit not
have more than five stories. An attic
containing a stove is reckoned a story.
The height of the buildiog must not
exceed the width of the street by more
than five feet.
Tbe shoe and leather trade of Bilii
more ha an invested capital of nearly
t7.000.000, and the amount of the
wholesale and manufacturing trade of
the city in this line is estimated at
$16,000,000 annually, the retail and
customs trade adding $4,000,000 more.
More houseboats are sail to be on
the 1 eonessee River above Chattanoo
go than were ever known there before,
l'hey are of all degrees.
Germany has one doctor to 1500 of
p putatioo; France, oue to 3167; the
United Kingdom, one to 1234, but the
United States, one to 600.
The Kiel canal is lighted over 62
miles by electricity, aud is tbe longest
distance in the world lighted continu
ously in that way. lhare are 5000
poles.
In Qreece teachers contribute 5 "per
sent, on the salaries, and tha state
finds tbe remainder, in order to super
annuate teachers after 21 year of ser
vice, regardless of age.
The largest flag in tbe Word ia now
b -ing made in 'Frisco tor Hawaii, and
will be 80 feet long. It will sonsume
700 yards of bunting, aud fly from a
pole 150 feet long.
Ihe farmers of the United States
will, it is said, bave $100,000,000 more
money to spend this year than last.
Nearly one-half of last year's crop is
still in tbe bands of the farmeis. 1
New Inventions.
The latest design in bicycle shoes
baa a leather extension to cover the
pants leg, which is held in place by
ii raps and buckles.
For the prevention of dust on car
windows, a V-shaped trough is placed
upright in front of each window to
catch the dust and cinders, the open
ing toward the engine.
A new bicycle lock is mad i of a
hooked ' lever, fastened to the rear
hub, to permit ila being dropped down
on the chain, tbe hook projecting into
one of the links, where it is locked fast
to prevent tbe chain from moviog.
Pneumatic bubs for bicycle wheel
are composed of a heavy rubber casing
surrounding the hub, to which the
spoke heds are fastened, thus makiug
a spring tire without the danger of
punctures.
A neat thread cutter for sewing ma
chines, that is always in it plane, con
sists of a very small pair of scissors
fastened to the puih plate in the proper
oosition to cut both threads at once.
Tbe newest design in paddle wheels
for steamers can be fully submerged
in the water as the blade are turned
with the flat side to the boat as they
rise, and with the edge to the boat as
they descend.
A new car seat which can be uied as
a bertb has tbe back of each seat in
two tactions, pivoted at the top and
swinging upward to form the upper
berth, the seat opening out below to
torm tbe lower bertb.
A combination bed and crad'e is ar
ranged to stand rigid on the floor or
rock iike a cradle.b drawing the psts
together at the head and foot, and
pivoting the cradle in tha ends, raising
it high enough from the base on which
it rests so it will swing freely.
To protect motornr.en from the storm
an auxiliary cab is attached to the front
of tbe car, tbe floor being below the
level of tbe car floor,and the controller
and brake lever placed as usual, the
c ib having an extra pair of wheels so
that no weight is added to the .
There is a sense in which tbe blood
of every sacrifice lifts some bo Jy into
a higher life.
It is a great mistake for the young
to despise what the old have learned
by experience.
One of tbe worst thing about a bad
man is that he leads a long procession
of others into evil.
Vanity makes us do more things
against inclination than reason.
Tbe sin of a moment may olight the
whole life.
FARfl NOTES.
Uioun I fish ranks high as a fertilizer
and is as cheap as any. It may be
broadcasted over the beld after the
land is plowed and then harrowed io.
It gives better results, however, when
used in connection with potash in
some form.
If tbe hogs are crowded and tbe
weather is cold they will pack close
tngetl.er at night for warmth, when
possibly the one underneath may be
crushed. Two or three in a pen will
thrive better than a larger nu Tiber.
Tbe hatching of ducklings for the
early marktt is now iu progress on tbe
large duck farm, and as ducklings
require plenty of water to drink (but
not in which to swim), it may not be
known to some that if tbey are given
water thst is very cold they are liable
to die suddenly with cramps.
There is one important point in con
nection witii a milch cow that should
never be overlooked, and that is her
disposition. She may be an excellent
animal as a producer, and capable of
giving a large profit, but if she has a
disposition which renders her difficult
to handle she will always be a source
of annoyance and anxiety. When
raising a h ifcr She should be bandied
from the day she first appears on the
fatm until she becomes a producer.
When putting down drain tile it is
belter to take time and do it properly
than to slight the work, as any defect
after the tile is covered cannot be rem
edied without incurring an extra ex
pense, and an obstruction is not easily
located. The tile should be so laid
that the joints wi:l not be displaced
and the bed on which the tile reefs
should be firm. If the work is done
intelligently, and in a m-tnner to pro
vide perfect drainage, tbe tile should
do service for mny years without get
ting out of order.
When snow ia on the ground rablrta
have a hard time eecuriog .food and
will eat anything that will prevent
starvation. It is then that they girdle
trees and do damage which is not
Within tbe power of the farmer to
repair. Smearing the trunk with
blood or wrapping the trees with tarred
paper or mosquito netting two feet
from the grouud serves as a protection.
It is better to grow a grass crop in
the orchard than to leave it bare, as
the preparations for grass requires
stirring of tbe soil. Cloverseed can be
sown on the orchard land snd allowed
to remain, instead i f cutting it, as it
acts ai a covering sod protection both
in summer and winter. A youug
orchard may be plowed tbe first two
years, but after that the cultivation
should be simply to the depth sufficient
to loosen tbe surface as tbe roots
should not be disturbed. If no culti
vation is given weeds will take posses
sion of the orchard and deprive tbe
trees of plant food.
Never buy a breed of cattle with tbe
object of having good daily cows that
will naaka choice bent, anima'.s when
their usefulness as milk producers
ceases. A cow that rank high as a'
producer of milk and butter ia not
adapted to beef production. At tbe
present day the breeds bave qualibca-
tione, each of its kind which enableB
farmers to select them for special pur
poses, but there ia no general purpose
breed.
Sheep will not drink ice cold water
unless compelled, consequently they at
times do without water as long as pos
sible. The water for them should be
warmed, as it is essential for the ewts
to drink a large proportion in order to
produce milk for tbe lambs.
Somebody who is very exact in his
statement says tb sunflower bears
4000 seeds, the poppy 34,000 and the
tobacco plant 7P.320.
More Western lambs are on feeds
than ever before in the history of tbe
country.
A Wisconsin farmer, who had some
Canada thistles on his farm, says be
exterminated them by cutting them off
an inch under ground and giving
them a dose of common salt. - j
Do not hesitate to feed grain at any
time when stock need it. At present
prices it will pay big interest.
A writer in an exchange lay shred
ded corn fodder makes good feed, good
bedding and good manure. Shred
when perfectly dry atvl atore under a
rain-proof roof, In not too great bulk,
and it will keep all right.
A sheep should be caught by the
hind leg or by placiog the arm under
its neck, and never by the wool. To
carry tbe sheep, stand at its left, pass
right arm over, with band resting
under brisket just back of fore legs,
lift and grasp left hind leg with left
band a you lift.
- A Virginia correspondent of an ex
change says that the best rotation for
tobacco in that state is wheat, clover,
then tobacco, lie suvs the man who
plants tobacco on a clover sod, and
applies not less than 1000 pounds of
high grade fertilizer is sure to make a
large crop of good tobacco.
With a roll of building paper and a
bunch of plastering lath a man can
save dollars in feed. Have plenty of
windows to let in light and warm sun
shine, and provide for ventilation.
Some stables have an opening over th
mangers through which to put hay
down. This should be closed in severe
weather. - 1
Extension leaves for sewing machines
are composed of a flat piece of metal or
wood, with the edges turned under the
drop leaf, on which it slides.
During the last fiscal year 2,316 new
pnstoifices were established and 1,750
discontinued in tbe Uuited Statei, a
net increase of 296.
If a proud man makes me keep my
distance, the comfort is that he keeps
his atthe same time.
The man who thinks for himself
will also think for the long procession
that follows him.
A sentence well couched, takeaboth
the sense and the understand ing.
The more you talk about busines
eing poor the worse you make it.
A thing is never to often repeat d
which is never sufficiently learned.
Items of Interest.
Japan has one leather ahoe factory.
Each salmon produces about twenty
ail ion eggs.
There are more than 50,000 people
of Welsh birtti in London.
Seventy thousand vehicles enter Lon
don in the course of a day.
About 2,000 British soldier are dis
charged yearly for bad conduct.
Nearly 1,000,000 telegrams pas
through the poatoffica of London every
week.
Tne sunflower bears 4,000 seeds,
the poppy 32,000 and the tobacco plant
70,320.
The weight of the average-sized
man is 140 pounds; of the woman 125
pounds.
The total cultivated area in the
United Kingdom is nearly 50,000,000
teres.
The land covered by new home in
Breater London every year is 1,163
teres.
Five and a half ounces of grapes are
required to make one glass of good
wine.
Scotchmen bave almost entire con
toI cf the stone cutting industries of
Hew York.
Tbe thieves of Great Britain steal
ibout $40,000,000 worth of property
jvery year.
Scandinavian sailors are said to pre
lominale on vessels oL nearly all
lationalities.
Since 1870 Victoria, Australia, has
voted more than $500,000 for tbe de
itruction of rabbits.
Ships built of steel are said to be able
io carry 20 per cent more freight than
those of iron.
It has been stated that a murder ia
committed in Italy every two hours on
the average.
The present season's crop of cotton
in Egypt .promises io surpass all
previous years in quality.
In some of tbe farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small
wagons and made to draw them.
Vaccination has just been intro
duced into Afghanistan by the advice
of Miss Hamilton, au English physi
:iaD, who ia in attendance upon the
Ameer. J
HINTS FOR WASHDAY.
Monday need no longer be such a
Migbear to the busy woman if the wash
ing is properly done. First sort the
slothes, placing bedclothes, towels,
Nothing, flannels aud colored clothes
in separate piles. Tbe table linens are
f course never put with tbe other wash
tod should be done fit.
Provide two large and one small tub.
Fill the large tub with clean lukewarm
uds; into it put your table linens, and
rub each piece well with one of tbe best
makes of soap.
After soaking far twenty minute,
during which time you may eat your
breakfast, wash each piece thoroughly
and place in the second tab, which is
full of warm water containing a tea
Ipoonful of borax for each gallon of
water.
After looking carefully over each
piece rinse thoroughly through plenty
of water (this is really tbe secret of
inow-wbite clothes--plenty of water):
then put into tbe small tub containing
tbe blueing. Next put the sheets and
bedding in the first tub to soak, while
you wring out and bang up the tiret
pieces washed. When you return the
beddiag will be ready for the same pro
cess. The body clothe" should come nezt:
then ihe stockings should be washed io
tbe tub used for blueiug, as the lint
will show ou the black stockings if tbey
are washed in the tuba utied for the
white clothes.
The tlaunels should ba washed last
of all, and ironed whe.i half dry. The
water, or rather suds, used for the
flannels should be a little more than
lukewarm, and the tioae water of ex
actly the same temperature. During
cold weather the flannels should not t e
hung out of doors, aa the cold air will
surely shrink the garments: and if
carefully ironed with an iron not very
hot the clothes will retain (heir softness
and elasticity to the end. It is the hot
irons and hot water that cause flannels
to shrink. Any pieces embroidered
with silk Bhould be washed and bung
in the house and ironed when less than
half dry with a very hot iron. These
pieces should never be starched or
dried and damp ned, and the embroi
dered parts should always be ironed on
the wrong side, it is best to keep
these piece, such as centre-piece,
doyleys, etc., for another day when
you can take your time about doing
them. Dish towels and cloths should
be ironeJ and kept in the dresser
drawer, and dusters and all house
cloths should be aa carefully washed
and ironed at any other pieces.
Health Hints.
For toothache, oil of cloves, applied
in the tooth with cotton.
For whooping cough, two ounces of
olive oil, one ounce of oil of amber,
and one drachm of oil of cloves, tub
bed on the chest at bedtime.
For sore throat, sage tea, with vine
gar to make it acid and sugar to make
t sweet.
For a cough, a small piece of resin
iq a vessel on tbe back of the stove.
For a bum, prepared chalk, made
into a thick pavte with lard.
For bad breatb, aix to ten drops ol
chloride of lime i-i a wineglaasful ol
water each morning .
For warts, acetic acid.
For bleeding at the novj. ..owdered
alum, as a snuff. J
To bave what we want ia nches, but
to be able to do without is power.
Content is the wealth of nature.
Courage is adversity's lamp.
No eyes can see like those of the
soul.
Every one has a fair turn to be
great.
Tbe wages of sin is death, no mat
ter how promptly we pay our pew
rent
HEV. DR. TALMtt
Tbe Eminent Divine's un!ay
Discourse.
.Subject: "A Kins: Eating Grass.'
Text: '-The same hour was tbe thing ful
filled upon NebuchaJnctt ir. - and he wot
driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen,
and bis body was wet with tha dew ol
heaven, till his hairs were grown likn eagles'
feathers, and bis nails like birds' claws."
Daniel iv., 33.
Better shad your eyes lest they be pat oul
With the splendor of Babylon, as some morn
ing you walk out with Nebuchadnezzar oil
the suspension bridges which hang from the
housetops snd he shows you the vastntw ol
his realm. As the sun kindles ihe dome
with aiist ninvs almost insufferable aud the
Kreat streets thunder up thiirpomp into the
ear of tbe mouaivh, and armed towers stand
around, adorned with the spoils of con
quered empires, Nebuchadnezzar waves his
hand above the stupendous scene and ex
claims. "Is not this great Babylon, that 1
bave built for the house of the kingdom bv
tbe might ol my power and tor the honor of
my majeftv?" But in an instant all that
splendor Is gone from bis vision, for a vo ce
falls from tbe heaven, saying: "O King
Nebuchadnezzar, to thee It is spoken. The
kingdom is departed from thee, and they
shall drive the from men, and thy Swelling
shall be with the beasts of the Held. They
shall make I hee to eat grass as oxen and seven
years shall pass over tbee, nntil thou know
that the Moat High ruleth in the kingdom of
men and giveth it to whomsoever he will."
One hour from tbe time that he made tbs
boast he Is on the way to the fields, a maniac,
and rushing into the forests, ha becomes one
of tbe beasts, oovered with eagles' feathers
for protection from tha cold, and his nails
growing to birds' claws in order that he
might dig the earth for roots and climb the
trees for nut.
You see thrre is a groat variety in theS;rip
tural landscape. In several discourses wa
have looked at mountains of excellence, but
now we look down into a great, dark chasm
of wickedness as we come to speak of Nebu
chadnezzar. God in His Word sets before m
the beaaty of self denial, of sobriety, of de
votion, ot courage, and then, lest we should
not thoroughly uuderatand Him, ne intro
duced Daniel and Paul and Deborah as illus
trations of those virtues. God also speaks
to ut in His Word as to tbe hatelulness of
pride, of folly, of impiety and lest we should
not thoroughly understand Him, iutroduoes
Nebuchadnezzar as the impersonation of
these forms of depravity. The former style
of character is a lighthouse, showing us a
way Into a safe harbor, and the latter style
of ohnracier is a black buoy, swinging on
the roeks, to show where vessels wreck them
selves Thanks unto God for both the buoy
and the lighthouse! The host of Nebucbad
nezznr is thundering at the gates of Jerusa
lem. Tbe crowu of that sacred cily Is struck
into the dust by the hand of Babylonish In
solence. Tbe vessels of tbe temple, which
had never been desecrated by profane touch,
were ruthlessly seized for sacrilege and
transportation. Ob, wbat a sad hour when
those Jews, at the command of the Invading
army, are obliged to leave the home ot theli
nativity? How their hearts must have been
wrung with auguish when, on the day they
departed, they heard the trumpets from tha
top ot the temple announcing the hour for
morning saerillee and saw the smoke of tha
altars ascending around the holy hill of Zion:
for we, I tbey knew that iu a fur distant land
thev would nev-r hear that trumpet call noi
behold the majestic asceut of the saorilluel
Behold those captives on the road from
Jerusalem to Bitbylon! Worn and weary,
they dare not halt, for roundabout are armed
men urging them on with hoot and shout
and blasphemy.
Aged men lettered along on their staves,
weening that tbey could not lay their bones
In the Bleeping place ot their fathers and
children, wondered at the length of the way-ati-sobbed
".hetnsatve '.o al-ip when thV
night had failen. It seemed: as if at every
step a heart broke. But at a turn ot the road
Babylon suddenly springs upon the view of
the captives, with its gardens and palaces.
A sBhut goes up from the army as tbey be
hold their native city, but not ono huzza Is
beard from the captives. These exiles saw
no splendor there, for it was not home. The
Euphrates did not have the wnter gleam of
tho brook Kedron or the pool of tiiloam The
willows of Babylon, on which they hung
their untuned harps, were not as graceful as
the trees which at the foot of Mount Mortah
seemed to weep at the departed glory of
Judah, and all the fragrance that descended
from the banging gardens upon that great
city was not so sweet as one breath of the
acacia aud frankincense that the high priest
kin iled in the sanatuary at Jerusalem.
On a certain night, a little while after
these captives had been brought to his city,
Nabuuhadnezzur is scared with a night vision.
A bad man's pillow is apt to be stuffed with
deeds and forebodings which keep talking In
the night. He will find that tbe eag'es' down
in his pillow will stick him like porcupine
quills. The gho-ts of old transgressions are
sure to wander about In tbe darkness and
beckon and his?. Yet when the morning
eame he found that the vision had entirely
fled from liiin. Dreams drop no anchors,
and therefore are apt to sail away before we
can fasten them. Nebuchadnezzar calls all
the wise mm ot the land into his presence,
demanding ihat by their necromancy they
explain his dream. They of course fail.
Then their faithful king issues an edict with
as little seuse as mercy, ordering the slaying
of all the learned meu of tbe country. But
Daniel tbn prophet comes In with tbs Inter
pretation just in time to save tbe wise men
and th Jewish captives.
Hy friends, do you not see that pride and
ruiu ride In tbe same saddle? See Nebuchad
nezzar on tbe proudest throne of all tha
earth, and then see him graze with the sheep
and the cattle! Pride Is commander, well
plumed and comparisoned, bnt it leads forth
a dark and frowning born. The arrows from
tbe Almlghiy's quiver are apt to strike a
man when ou the wing. ' Goliath shakes his
great spear in defiance, but the smooth
stones from ihe brook make htm stagger and
fall like an ox under a butcher's bludgeon.
He who Is down eannot fall. Teasels soud
ding under bare poles do not feel the force
of tbe storm, while those with alt satis set
eapsize at the sudden descent of the tempest.
Kemember that we can be as proud of our
humility as anything else. Antistbenee
walked tbe streets of Athens with a ragged
cloak to demonstrate bis humility, but So
crates declared he could see his hypocrisy
through the boles In bis cloak. We would
all see ourselves smaller than we are it ws
were as philosophic as Severus, the Emperor
of Borne, who said at the close of his life,
"I bave seen everything, and everything is
nothing." And when the urn that was to
contain his ahes was at his command
brought io him, he said, "Little urn, thou
shalt contain one for whom the world war
too tittle.'
Do you not also learn from tbe misfortune
of this king of Babylon what a terrible thing
Is tbe loss of reason? There is no calamity
that can possibly befall us in this world so
great as derangement of intellect; Io have
Ihe body of man and yet to fail even below
the instinct of a brute. In this world of hor
rible sights, tbe most horriMe is tbe Idiot's
stare, in this world or horrible sound', tbe
most horrible is the maniac's laugh. A ves
sel driven on tbe rocks, when hundreds go
down never to riee aud other hundreds drag
tbeir mangled and shivering bodies upon the
winter's beach, is nothing compared to the
louudering of intellects full of vast bopes
and attainn.euls and rapacities.
Christ's heart went out toward these who
were epileptic, falling into the Are, or mani
acs cutting themselves among the tombs.
' We are accii-touied to be more grateful for
pnyslciai heallh than tor the proper working
of our mind. We are ant to take it for granted
that the iulellect which has served us so well
will alwas I k faithful. We lorget that au
engine of ?uch tremendous power, where the
wheels bave such vastneea of circle and such
swiftness of ii.oiiou, and the least Impediment
might put it cut of gear, can only be kept in
Ejper balance by a divine hand. No human
nd eoula engineer the train of Immortal
faculties. How strange it Is that out
memory, on whose shoulders all tn
misfortunes and successes and occurrences
of a lifetime are placed, should not o tener
tweak down, aud that the scales of judgment,
whioh have been weighing so much and so
long, should not lose their adjustment and
their fancy, which hot Js a, dangerous wand.
should not sometimes maiielousty wave it,
I bringing into the heart forebodings and
hallucinations the most nnpnllinir! Is it
not strange that this mind, which hopes so
much In its mighty leaps for the attainment
pf its objects, should not be dashed to pieces
on Its disappointments? Though so delicately
tuned, this instrument of untold harmony
plays on, though fear shakes it aud vexa
tions rack it and sorrow and jov and loss
and gain in quick succession beat out of it
their dirge or toss from it theiramhem. At
morning and at night, when in your prayer
you rehearse the onuses of your thanksgiving,
next to tbe salvation by Jesus Chri-t, prai-e
tbe Lord for the preservation of vour reason.
See also in this story of XehucbndooKzar
Ihe use that God makes ot bad meu. The
actions of the wicked are used a instru
ments for the punishment of wickedness In
others or as the Illustration of some prin
ciple In the divine government. N"lm
shadnezzar subserved both purpoaef. Even
so I will go back with you to the history of
every reprobate that tbe world has ever
seen, and I will show you how to a great ex
tent his wiekedness was limited In its de
structive power and bow God gloritled Him
self In the overthrow and disgrace of His
enemy. Babylon is full of abo nination, and
wloked Cyrus destroys It. Persia nils the
eup of its Iniquity, and vile Alexander puts
an end to it. Mace Ion must be chastised,
and bloody Emllius does it. Tbe Bastile Is
to be destroyed, and oorrupt Napoleon
accomplishes it. Even so selfish aud wicked
men are often made to accomplish great and
glorious purposes. Joseph's brethren were
guilty of superlative perfidy anl mean
ness when they told bim into slavery
for about 7, yet bow they must have been
overwhelmed with the truth that God never
forsakes the righteous when they saw He had
become the Prime Minister of Egypt!
Pharaoh oppresses tha Israelites with tha
most diabolic tyranny ; yet stand still and
see tbe salvation of God. Tne plagues de
scend, the locusts, and the hall; and the de
stroying angel, showing that there Is a God
who will defend tbe cause of His people, and
finally, after the Israelites bave passed
through the parted sea, behold, In the wreck
Of the drowned army, that God's enemies are
as ohaff In a whirlwind! Ia some financial
panto the righteous suffered with the wicked.
Houses and stores and shops In a night
foundered on the rook of bankruptcy, and
healthy credit without warning dropped
dead In the street, and money ran up tha
long ladder ot twenty-five per cent, to laugh
lown upon those who could not climb
after It.
Dealers with pockels full of securities
itood shouting In tbe deaf ears of banlfa.
Hen rushed down the streets with protested
Dotes after them. Those who before found
it bard to spend their mouey were left with
out money to spend. Laborers went home
ror want of work, to see hunger iu Ihulr
ehair at the table and upou tbe hearth.
Winter blew his hrenth of frost through
fingers of Icicles, and sheriffs with attach
ments dug among the cinders of fallen store
houses, and whole cities joined iu the long
funeral procession, marching to the grave of
Jead fortunes and a tullon commerce. Ver
ily the righteous suffered witn the wloked,
but generally the wioked bad the worst of
it. Splendid estates that had come togeth
er through schemes of wickedness were
dashed to pieces like a potter's vessel, and
God wrote with letters of Hre, amid th
ruin and destruction of reputa
tions, and estates rust were thought
impregnable, tbe old fashioned truth,
whieb centuries ago He wrote in
bis Bible, "Tbe way of the wicked he turn
sth upside down." As tbe star la heaven
are reflected from tha waters of the earth,
even so great and magnifleent purposes are
reflected back from the boiling sea of human
passion and turmoil. As the voice of a sweet
long uttered among the mountains may be
uttered back from tbe cavernous home of
wild beast and rocks split and thunder
carred, so tbe great harmonics of Coil's
providence are ruug back from llio darkest
caverns of this sin struck earth. Sennacherib
and Ablmelech and Herod aud Judas aud
Nero and Nebuchadnezzar, though thoy
ttruggled like beasts unbroken to the joad,
were out into a yoke, where tbey were com
pelled to help draw ahead God's great 'jn-
Again, let us learn the lesson tbit men can
be guilty of polluting the sacred vessels of
tbe temple and carrying them away to Baby
lon. Tne sacred vessels In the temple at
Jerusalem were tbe cups and plates of gold
and silver with which the rites aud cere
monies were ceiebrateJ. The la) ing of
heathen hands upon them an 1 the carrying
them off as spoils were an uuboun lod offense
to the Lord of the temple. Yet Nebuchad
nezzar committed this very sacrilege.
Though that wicked king is gone, the Hins
he inaugurated walk up und Join tbe earth,
nursing it from century to century. Tbe
tin of desecrating sacred things is com
mitted by those who ou sacramental
day take the comuunion cup, while
their conversation and deeds all show that
they live down In Bibylon. How eolemn is
the Sacrament! It is a tune for vows, u time
for repentance, a time for faith. Sinai
Hands near with its fire split clouds and Cal
vary with Its victim. The Holy Spirit broods
over tbe scene, and the glory of heaven
leemsto gather in tbe sauctuarv. Vile in
deed must that man be who will come in
from his idols and unrepealed follies to take
bold of tbe sacred vessels of the temple. Ob,
thou Nebuchadnezzar! B.tck with you ta
Babylon!
Those also desecrate sacred things who
use the Sabbath for any other than religious
purposes. This holy day was let down from
heaven amid the intense eeculnrities of tho
week to remind us that we are immortal und
to allow us preparation for an endless statu
of happiness. It is a green spot in tbe hot
desert of tbe world that gushes with foun
tains and waves with palm trees. This is the
time to shake the dust from the robe ot our
piety and in the tents of Israel sharpen our
swords for future eonllict. HeaveD,
that seems so far off on other diys.
alights upon the earth. anJ the .ong
of heavenly choirs and the hosann i of
the white robed seem to mtngie wit.i our
earthly worship. We hear tb wailing in
fant ot Bethlehem, and the banm -r stroke
of tbe carpenter's weary son in Nazareth,
and the prayer of Gethsemane, and the hit
ter ory of Golgotba. Glory be unto the Lord
ot the Sabbath ! With that one day in seven
God divides this great sea of business and
gtyety, that so, dry shod, we may pass be
tween tbe worldly business of tbe past and
tbe worldly business of tbe future.
Just In proportion as men are wrong wil
they be boisterous in tbeir religious conten
tions. The lamb of religion is always gen
tle, while there ia no lion so fleros as tha
roaring lion t bat goes about seeking whom
be may devour. Let Gibraltars belch their
war flame on the sea, and tbe Dardanelles
darken the Hellespont with tbe smoke of
their batteries, but forever and ever let there
be good will among those who profess to be
subjects of tbe gospel of gentleness. "Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peac,
good will to men."
What an embarrassing thing to meet iu
heaven if we bave not settled our contro
versies on eartb. So I give out for all peo
ple ot all religions to sing John Fawcot's
hymn, in short meter, composed in 1772, b'lt
just as appropriate for 1497 :
Blest be (he tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.
Tbe fellowship of kiudred minds
Is like to that above. ',
From sorrow, toil and pain
And sin we shall be free.
And perfect iove and friendship reign
Through all eternity.
Xever my die until you are dead,
anil then it is no use, no let it alone.
fiive your mony lo IooIh sooner
than Ift rogues wlieedlo you out of it.
Kven the invention of the looking
glass lias not eradicated human vanity.
Falsehood may have its hour, hut it
has no future.
Good advice is a poor thing for a
hungry family.
Men who strike in their anger iinus,!
ly miss the mark.
If yon want to he misttrahle think
nlioiit yourself, admit what you want,
what you like, what resiiert op!e
ought to pay to you and what people
think of you.
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