f 1 B. F. 80HWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8. VOL. 1,1 MIFFLINTOWIS, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3.1897. NO. 12. i.i. CUAI-riCK XII. (Continuea. The spring cntin' mi apace, and with one of the earliest fiie days Lady Valencia Silderoy marie her appearance at Torrea moir. She hart not visited it of late, and, lu spite of Steila's want of friendly feel ing for her at first sight. Lady Val'a calls had been r; much missed by Mrs. Moucrieff. Lady Vul was so bright, o full of energy, s amusing, that Stella had been uttrm t. d half against hep wilL Ami she was tmlViguedly glad, therefore, to (tee her visitor. "Alan is away," said Stella, with a faint smile. "And Mollie and Bertie are out together somewhere. I had a head s' he. I believe, and wanted to be lasy. ' Lady Val nodded significantly. "A headache! I've no doubt of it. I should think Molly keeps your bands fait She's a troublesome monkey. I know her of o!J." The color came at once to Stella's cheek. "She's a very dear girl," the step mother responded, warmly. "She is a very pretty one, Mrs. Mon crieff. And she looks as old as you do yourself especially since she baa taken to long dresses and elaborate coils of hair. A girl of that sort attracts ad mirers very soon." Again th-re was that significance in Lady Valencia's voice. Mrs. Moncrieff drew herself up with a slight, uncon scious air of dignity. "I dare say," she answered, with some stiffness of manner. And then, with a relaxing smile, "i'oor Molly is hardly to blame for that. Lady Valencia." "My dear creature, did I say that she was to blame V" cried Lady Val. "Do ex cuse me, Mrs. Moncrieff. I don't wish to be rude, or to take liberties; but you see 1 have known Molly all her life, and I can't help feeling interested in her. I know yon will hate me if I say what I came intending to say; and yet I don't know what else to do. You wouldn't rnther thin I went straight to Mr. Mon crieff, would you'-" Stella looked at her in dismay. "Do you mean that there is anything to be told anything wrong?" she asked. "It may not be wrong; it may be all right," said Lady Val, brusquely. "All 1 can tell is, that people will soon begin to gossip, if they have not begun al ready. To ak a plain question is Molly engaged to be married?" "Molly! she is only a child. Certainly tot." "A chilJ! Well, she's a very big child, Mrs. Moncrieff. She is seventeen, isn't she? Not much younger than yourself, yon know, after all. And if she isn't en gaegd. it is time that somebody looked after her, for I don't think she's able to look after herself." "You mean," said Stella, changing col r sensitively, "that I am not looking aftei her?" "1 don't mean anything of the kind. Everybody knows that you are a model stepmother. But do you know Tom garrow ?" "The little half-deserted village up the bill? Ye. I go there sometimes to see old Mrs. Cameron. What about It?" "And you send Molly up sometimes to see Mrs. Cameron, don't you?" said Lady Val. with a shrewd look. "Well, I wouldn't send her there again alone if I were you. That's all. I felt it my duty to give you that hint, although, as I said, I know you'll hate me for doing so." She hurried away, divining that Stella would like to be alone; but she did not guess the action upon which Mrs. Mon crieff instantly resolved as soon as her visitor was gone. In five minutes after Lady Val's de parture Stella was walking quickly up the road which led to the tiny and half deserted hamlet of which her visitor had spoken. She reached Tomgarrow, and there a full sense of the difficulty of her, errand rushed upon her. But ahe might us well ask at one of the cottage if Miss Moncrieff had been there that afternoon., And even as she thought of this the sound of voices fell oddly upon her ears. She turned instinctively iu the direction of the sound. A high wall blocked up the view. She skirted it slowly, still listening for the voices which now were still. Coming out ou the other side, she saw two figures leaning against the wall as if sheltering from the cold east wind. A wide sun shinv tract of country lay before them; their backs were to the other habitations, i and not another living creature was iu sight. Molty Moncrictt was smiling up into the face cf a tall, dark man, who had put his arm round her, and was hold ing her to his breast. It seemed as if he had been going to kiss her; but when Stella speared nt the extremity of thf shcltcriu wall, he quitted his bold of the girl somewhat abruptly. So wonder that he was startled. Xo wonder, perhaps, that she was even more startled than himself, for in the person of Molly's lover she saw the man whom he herself had once dreamed of marry ing, the man who had cast her off be cause she was not rich enough for him to choose, the nnscrupulous fortune-hunt r John Haujiine"" OIIAPTIiit Xllf. Molly, wl o ilitf not -c Stella at ence sot, indeed, until Ilnuuingtou's sudden change of expression shoved her that there was something wrong turned sharply round and uttered a cry of poai tive rage. "There! I told you so!" she exclaimed. "She is always spying after me watch ing me prying into all my affalral And How ahe has followed me her, Oh, what itail I do? Jack, dear Jack, save nit from her! 1 know that she'll betray us!" And the girl hid her face on Mr. Han ningtou's shoulder, and clung to him, as If she feared that Stella would drag her aj hj.toxca. fu t ue afraid, my darling!" said Ilannington. Was it Stella's fancy, oi did his eyes light up with a gleam of positive triumph, his lips curl with a vin dictive smile? "Mrs. Moncrieff is the last Jierson to do us an injury; you may de Iend upon that." And be calmly raised his hat from his head with an assuinp itiou of elaborate courtesy which could scarcely, under the circumstances, have been genuine. Stella came forward, her face pale, but resolute. "Molly," she said, quietly: "you know very well that I wish only for your good. Come away with me. and vou can ex plain to me afterward what all this means. Mr. Hannington will also, no doubt, explain to Mr. Moncrieff if be can." She looked at Hannington with defiance and mistrust in her eyes, which he could not fail to understand. "I shall explain it when necessary," aid he, coolly; "but I shall probably take my own time for doing so, Mrs. Mon crieff." "My husband will be home to-night. I shall of course tell him what I have seen and heard." Molly suddenly burst into tears. Mr. Hannington caught her hand and drew her toward him. "Run away home, Molly," he said, kissing the girl's fore head lightly, and giving her hand a squeeze. "I want to have a little chat with Mrs. Moncrieff, and I think we shall manage to arrange the matter." "Yes, Molly, go home," said Stella, quietly. "I want a little conversation with Mr. Hannington, too." Molly murmured rebelliously ; but a look and a word from John Hannington sent her off without delay. She turned and took the path across the Gelds it was the nearest way home, but also the least frequented. "You need not be afraid for her," said Hannington. "She has an escort at hand. Some one is waiting for her at the stile Bertie." Stella gave him a reproachful look. "Mr. Hanningtou," she spoke, "I did not think that you would seek out Molly, of all people in the world, to turn her head by your attentions, and then perhaps to break her heart "As I did yours?" aaid Hannington, coolly. "Ia that what you mean to imply, Mrs. Moncrieff?" "Mr. Hannington, I am Alan Mon crieiTs wife, and I am surprised that you should forget It so tar as to Insult me." Mr. Hannington laughed again. "Come," he said, don't be so hot, Stella. I didn't mean to Insult you in the least I am very glad indeed that you are Mon crieff s wife, and hope that years of un interrupted prosperity lie before you. Moncrieff is rather a stiff old fellow, isn't he? A little apt to be overpnnctilious a trifle jealous and suspicious? That nsed to be his character, I know, when his first wife was alive. "I wished to speak to you about Miss Moncrieff, not about my husband, Mr. Hannington." "Very well. Then we will apeak about Miss Moncrieff. I will tell you my Inten tions respecting her. Molly Is very fond of me. All I want now ia admittance to your house, permission to see her now and then, and your assistance In gradual ly inducing Mr. Moncrieff to consent to the marriage. That Is all." "And do yon think that Mr. Moncrieff will ever consent to it when he knows that you have persuaded his daughter to meet yon here in a clandestine way, and have made love to her already without hia permission?" "No, I don't," was the frank reply. "But then, I don't want him to know anything about It, don't you see? Nobody will tell him, if yon don't" "But I must! I shall!" "Just so. And if you do, are you undei the impression that I shall not defend myself? There would be nothing at all remarkable in Moncrieff 's eyea in your opposition to the marriage if I hinted to him that you bad bad a previous attach ment, and that no woman likes to see her self supplanted and ao on he would be ready enough to believe that yon fonnd it impossible to be magnanimous no doubt and it wonld be a pleasant little piece of news to hear, perhaps, that his wife had once written very pretty and affectionate love letters before her mar riage to another man!" "You would not tell him that?" abt r.-rstirfd, almost uviu r breath. Sb was too much startled to be prudent. "But indeed I would. Let me have my own way abont Molly or I will send b;ui your letters. Yoa can choose." He watched her white, quivering face with a faint, furtive smile; he felt very certain that he would ultimately gain his point. "It ia growing late," he aaid at last, "and this is a matter which possibly re quire a little consideration. Perhaps you would rather give me your answet to-morrow, Mrs. Moncrieff? I take it for granted that you won't spring the matter on your husband the moment he comes home to-night? That would be rather too unkind. To-morrow afternoon, shall we say?" CUAPTER XIV. Stella consented to the delay. It seem ed to her that it would be better to talk to Molly before doing anything else, and that pernaps Moi'.y s own anxiety to leur herself from double-dealing might simplify the matter. So she said very gravely that she would postpone further conversation till the morrow. "And then," queried Ilanningtoii, "will you meet me here?" She hesitated and ber lip quivered. It seemed to her almost as if she partook of Molly's nnwortbiness. JuJf she would be deceiving Alan Mon crieff by eonsct?r.s is meet John Ilan nington in private. But there was no other way out of the ditliculty. And so, very reluctantly, she consented to meet him next day at five o'clock in the after noon. Molly proved inexorable. She would not acquaint her father with the fact that she had a lover, and thus Stella was obliged to keep her appointment with John Hannington. She had some difficulty in making her way to Tomgarrow at the appointed time; but, fortunately, the visitors who arrived inopportunely at four o'clock did not stay very long, and ahe reached her rendezvous 'at a quarter paat five. She found Mr. Hannington looking remarkably patient and at ease; he waa leaning against the wall smoking a cigar. Stella' eye glowed, but she said quietly: "I hope you have made up your mind to go to Mr. Moncrieff yourself, Mr. Han nington." "No, Indeed, I have not. It is the last thing I Intend to do at present," said Hannington. "My dear Mrs. Moncrieff, you are making much ado about nothing. I have not the least desire to destroy your domestic happiness, and you know it would be destroyed once and for all if showed your.husbantljthpse little docu ments, unless you baa previously 'con fessed their existence, which It seems yon have not done! But if you -cross my path I mast take measures to protect myself. I-ct us compromise the matter a little. It, at the end of a wek I have not spoken to Mr. Moncrieff and formally proposed for Molly's hand, then tell him what yon choose. Grant me a week' respite, and I'll reserve the letters perhaps 1 will even burn them; but give me a week." "A week why a week?" said Stella, hesitatingly. "For deliberation consideration of my affairs; all that sort of thing. Just one week and then the whole thing shall be cleared up." "Will you promise not to see Mollie dur ing that time?" Hannington reflected. "Well," he said, with some reluctance, "I will promise if you desire it Yes, Mrs. Moncrieff, I promise." Stella sighed. "I don't know." she said, "whether I ought to yield this point; bat if you will promise not to see her again. nor write, and at the end of the week to speak to Mr. Moncrieff, I will keep silence until then but only until then!" "I will not see her again. I will not write, unless my letters go through the authorities', hands. I will let Mr. Mon crieff know everything by the end of the week. Isn't that enough?" said Han nington, laughing rather oddly. "What a diplomatist you would make, Stella! Come, you need not be offended," he con tinued, as he saw her color and frown. "You gave me permission to call you Stella once, you know." Was it by design that he said those word so clearly? It was at that very moment that Stella saw two gentlemen approaching her; they had turned the corner of the wall just as John Hanning ton spoke; it would be a miracle if they had not heard what he said. Stella' face flushed crimson, and then became white with dismay; for the new-comers were no other than Kalpb Kingscott and her husband, Alan Moncrieff. She was speechless with amazement; she felt that she looked like a culprit, and that haughty astonishment was written on every line of her husband's handsome face. (To be continued.) "How Shall Ye Escape?" The Scrpiture may-be a dangerous ; weapon to put into the hands of those who pervert their meaning, either in tentionally or through want of under standing. Every one baa heard bow Lorenzo Dow, having resolved to preach a eermon against women's tall bonnets, took for his text the words, "Topknot, come down!" which he had Ingeniously perverted from the lines, "Let him which la on the housetop not come down." Less artful than this, but not quite as amusing, was the unconscious error made by a young student of theology at Wilbraham seminary, whose case was recently related by an old divine. The student went out one Saturday to preach his trial sermon. When he re turned Monday the venerable Doctor X. said to him: "Well, how did you get along?" "Oh, very well, I thought" "Glad to bear It What was' your text?" " 'How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" "Very good text very good text How did you handle K?" "Well, first I showed them how great this salvation was " "That's right And then?" ' "And then I told them how they might escape If they neglected It!" Cheated Him. "You said you'd give me a nice room If I paid my board here," complained the embezzler to the warden of the jail, "but you've cheated me. It's a regular cell." New York World. Cowardice is the cause of more men's failure than inability. They lack Ihe heart to face adverse circum stances. The man who has finally succeeded in cheating himself in all things, is' perhaps as happy as fools ever get to tie in tun worlti. Trust in har.i work. Inscribe on your banner, "Luck is a fool, pluck is a hero." Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almo-t always from mixture of all three. You cannot purchase success on credit; you must pay the price of hard, persistent and conscientious toil. There are plenty of people whose virtues are like certain trees: thev blossom regularly enough, but bear no fruit. Self righteousness never has any mercy on itself or anybody else. We have done too little, when we have not done our prayerful best. The pleasure for which we dare not thank God can not be innocent. Every man in his degree has some things to do for his generation, and perhaps for future generations, which none beside him can do. New Inventions. A newly-patented scrubbing machine da a reservoir in Ihe top to contain w-'.er for wetting the floor and revolv ing circular brush so fixed tbat its lower edge comes ia rintsct with the lloor, the front lower portion of the casing containing a waste water reser voir, into which the brush sweeps the water from the floor. A new automatic lead-pencil has the lead screw-threaded throughout its en -tire length and of such size a t tit snugly and make a holding frictional engsgement with the walla of the aieriure in the wooden portion, the lead being turned out as desired by means of a screw-threaded device rota lably mounted ou the sharpened end of the pencil. For the use of women who wish to distend their skirts in the rear an Indi ana man has patented an underskirt having a series of tapered sheaths of Flexible material attached to the rear of the skirt, the larger ends lianci"g down to the bottom of the akirtand the small ends extending up to the waist band, where they open into- an air chamber having a valve connected with it for inflttiug the tubes. The latest patent in tents consists of n upright pole placed ia the centre and braced by means of projecting legs and having a circular seat surrouuding it, the upper end of the pole having; a mechanism operated like an umbrella, with ribs covered with canvas, and a drapery attached to the ends of the ribs to hang down all around the tent, the bottom ends of the drapery being fast ened to a medal ring lying on the ground. To partially wind up the cord or string out of the way after US3 a new twine bolder consists of a frame to hold the spool or ball of twine, a pul ley, with a groove around its edge, over which the twine runs, and a smaller pulley attached to the large one, to which a cord and weight are fastened, so that when the end of the twine is released the weight falls and unwinds the tord on the small pulley, thus winding the twine on the large pulley. Food Sugges' i ms. No ingredient that is not first-class should ever enter into any article of food. All kinds ot flour and meal should tie eaten as soon as possible after being ground, as it is then constantly part ing with its life elements. All organic material used as food lends to decay afrer reaching its high est state of perfection, and should le eaten when most highly endowed with the life principle. A monotonous diet is not adap ed to the proper development of the race or the individual. All food tends to deteriorate rapidly after cooking, and, if allowed to re main long uncovered, absorbs atmos pheric germs which are disease-producing. Nuts, and some kinds of fruits, though they will keep a long time, should never be eaten after the flavor becomes impaired. Milk, water and all fluids, cooked or uncooked, rapidly absorb injurious gaees and microscopic germs from the atmosphere if allowed to remain unseated, especially in warm weather. The majority of people eit more for mere enjoyment, and to gratify the een-e of taste, than for tbe purpose of sustaining tbe body, and consequently take more food than ia needful. 1 Items of Interest. The yellow river is styled the "Sor row of China." It is estimated that its floods in the present century have cost China $1,000,000 lives. The oak tree which stands in the middle of the high road leading from Leamington to Warwick's is said to mark the centre of England. The female brain commences to de cline in weight after the age of SO, the male not till ten years later. No kissing ever occurs in Japan ex cept between husband and wife, not even between a mother and child. The most unhealthy city in Europe is Barcelona, Spain. Ths number of deaths there at present exceeds the number of births. The Island of Malta has a language of its own, derived from the Carthagi nian and Arabian tongues. The nihility of the island speak Italiau. The latest novelty is a folding colli n, which permits the corpse to be raised to a si ting position, so tbat it may be thus viewed by the mourners. The State of Connecticut has 179,38) school children enrolled, a gaiu 61 4,8-34 in one year. A Populist member of the Kansas Legislature his introduced a bill prohib iting an kinds or profane swearing. A steel "chest protector" against bullets and knif-j thrusts in the form .-f a vest, has been patented by a Tex in. To prevent corrosion of collar but tons by contact with the neck, a re cently patented button has tbe back made of cork. Oliver Cromwell had the largest brain on record. It weighed a little over sixty ounces, but was found to be diseased. An acre of good fishing ground in Ihe sea will yield more food in a week than an acre of the best land will do in year. There are nearty a quarter of a mil lion more men than women in Aus tralia, and in New Zjjland also women are in a minority. When some men have brain trouble, it is harder to locate the brain than the trouble. There is no business too good to ad vertise; even if you have a Bible to sell , yon must talk it up. It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferiors to someone else. Witching Woman's Ways Let a man be a man and a woman a womau. If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, and what people think of you Charles Kingsley. One of the oldest love letters iu the world is a proposal of marriage for the hand of an Egyptian Princess. It is in tbe British Museum, and is in the form of an inscribed brick about 350C yeats old. Woman's gentleness, delicacy and modesty are living for res; and the girl who dresses like a man, who swaggers, uses sUng, and makes an exhibition of herself generally, is like a soldier who has thrown away his weapons be fore he goes into battle she is de fenseless against attack. "I do not like shuttlecock corres pondences," Lowell says, iu one of his letters. "What is the use of our lov ing people, if they can't let us owe them a letter; if they can't be sure we keep on loving them if we don't keep sending an acknowledgment under our hands and seal once a month?" 1 Fashion Nctis. Red is the coming color. There is a pink shade of red, artistically soft and pretty. All the tones of purple are seen in spring goods, and navy blue, gray, pale green and pale blue in com bination with white predominate in dimities, organdies and the faebiouabte foulards. Black gowns will be touch in favor this season. The old-fashioned larege will be made in colored silks, and gives a touch of gayety to an otherwise sombre toilette. Cream net mounted over yellow satin makes a charming costume for a brunette. It has a short bolero of orange velvet, slashed and edjjel with lace, over the net blouse. The com bination of yellow and orange is clever, softened as it is by the cream net. White cotton soutache and wide braid will appear on jacket suits, of bl'ie and brown denim, light and drk blue linen, blue, tan, black and white, dark-red and golden-brown canvas. The armure-like cheviots in striped effects and checks make excellent shirt waists and show a distinct touch of white on light or navy blue, tan, gray, red and pink grounds. The all-wool or silk-and-wool canvas will be much in vogue for early sum mer street gowns. They are woven in checks and in various small patterns with two colors, such as blue aud white and green and ecru the latter a very stylish combination. Broken checks seem to predominate in the new spring goods, while chevi ots, Scotch tweeds -and smooth-faced cloths come in hair-line stripes and mixtures of all sorts. 1 Health Hints. For varicose veins on the legs wear elastic stockings. Bicycle riding Is good for one who Is troubled with Insomnia and nervous ness. The best kind of water for one who has rheumatism Is llthla water or 11 thiated vlchy water. Aromatic sulphuric acid Is a very good remedy for night sweats. Take ten drops In water at bedtime. Take a teaspoonful of aromatic spir its of ammonia In vlcby water as re quired for attacks of lightness in the head. Try syrnp of hydrlodlo acid for chronic rheumatism. Take one or two teaspoonfuls In water about half an hour before each meaL Creosote for the lung should be taken in doses of one or two grains two or three times a day. Fura creoeoto obtained from beech wood tar should be used. Sulphide of calcium Is a very good remedy for bolls. Give a one-fifth grain pill every three hour. Also give a good dose of Rochelle salts several times a week. For whitening and softonlng the kln get a lotion composed of ten grains of citric acid, one ounce of glycerine and one ounce of rose water. Apply It sev eral times a day. The fluid extract of cascara sagrada may be taken with good effect In cases of chronic constipation. The dose Is from twenty to thirty drop to be taken morning and evening. Syrup of hydrlotlc add Is frequent ly beneficial In cases of chronic bron chitis snd asthma. The dose Is one or two tecspoonfuls to be taken In water about one-half hour before meals. For Impoverished blood ask your apothecary for some tablets of arsen loii9 acid and reduced iron, each tab let containing one-thlrtleth of a grain of the former and one grain of the lat ter. Take one after each meaL Hot lead and opium wash may be used with good effect for a sprained ankle. Apply It for several hours, then bandage the Joint and leave It until the inflammation has subsided, when massage and passive motion are In order For nervous dyspepsia a mixture composed of two drams of tincture of nux vomica, one ounce of tincture of Colombo, and three ounces of compound tincture of gentian may be used with good effect A teaspoonful should bo taken In water before each meal. It is no charity to help a man who won't help himself. A great city is the place to study hu man nature. The country has but one kind of fools, the city has many. A man's word is worth more at all other times than when he tells his wife that he has no money. Small ge.iuses are hart by small events; great geniuses see through and despise them. Londoners drink 1400 tons of l:qntcf mud a year, according to recent expert testimony before tbe County Council. Labor Notes. NEWS AND HAPrEXI.NGrJ OF SPECIAL IS TEKKST3 IN THE VARIOUS TRADES. It costs $500,000,0 :.0 every week to run Ihe world's railway. 'ihe output of the Indiana gas-bell gas works is 75,000 boxes a day. It is said that it costs $23.82 an acre to raise wheat in Massachusetts. Arizona last year mined 6,000,000 ounces of gold and 2,000,000 ounces of silver. In 1895 California produced $15, 000.000 worth of gold and Colorado $13,300,000. Scand navian sailors are said to pre dominate on vessels " of nearly all nationalities. The timber wealth of the United States gives a yearly proluctof over $1,000,000,000, or more than twice th value of the output of the miners. A business firm in Stanford, Ky., always opens the day's business with prayer proprietors, clerks, messenger and porters all kneeling together. At Charlotte, N. C, the sash cord factory ia running day and night, and has orders for as many goods as tbe present capacity will produce. A bright little newspaper ,the Indian Guide, is published at the Shoshone Wyo. agency, the editors, printers and devil all being full-blood redskins. Tbe English island of Tbanet it almost wholly composed of chalk. Tbe bland is tei miles in length and about five in breadth and geologists cay that there are not lest than 42,000,000,000 tons of chalk "in sight" on it. In Austria the man who loses both his hands in an accident can claim the whole of his life insurance money, on tbe ground that he has lost the means of maintaining himself. Loss of tbe right hand reduces the c aim from 70 to 80 per cent, of the total. Some of the farmers in Wisconsin have been experimenting with ear corn as fuel, to ascertain hetber it i ad visable to burn it icatead of coaL Several have tried it here on a small scale, but the consensus of opinion is that coal at $7.50 per ton is cheaper a fuel than corn at $4. Stove in which corn was burned were badly damaged by its use. Christian Smith, aged 85 years, who resides at Keep Trust, nesr Cumber land, is the oldest railroad employe in the United States, both in point of ser vice and age, and is said to be the oldest locomotive engineer ia the country. He ran the first engine into the his toric town of Harper's Ferry. He began work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1S32 as a teamster.hanling freight with six horses, there being no locomotives in use at that time, and the quaint-looking cars were pulled by horses. " A Houghton, Mich., dispatch says: The business of copper mining is having a boom such as it has never known, and a good copper mine comes now next to a good, gold p.operty in worth to stockholders; iodee.i, in many cases it is far better. Tbe excitement all over the copper fields of America, from tbe Lske Superior region to Montana, and including the Black Hills and tbe far- off cold-copper fields of tbe est, is increasing steadily and ia causing a closer search than ever for tbil metal. In the past 60 years the forests of America have produced the enormous quantity of eight hundred and twenty tour billion feel, and tbe value esti mated at more than twenty-five billion dollars. It is a curious reflection that the forests.once regarded ss an imped iment to tbe country's settlement and growth to be felled and burned as rapidly as possible, should so soon become one of its chief sources ot wealth, to be considered and protected by every means known to modern science and law. 1 The bakers of Pennsylvania are very active in the movement for bakeabop legislation, says the Bakers' Journal. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Griesinger, of Philadelphia, and Uroh, of Pittsburg, has bad a conference with Chief Factory Inspector Campbell, in ILirriaburg, looking to j-iot action in promoting the bill about to be intro duced. Mr. Groh has collected and compiled statistical data of the condition of the statistical data of tne condition ot tne bakers of Allegheny and Pittsburg that aill do much to convince the public and the Legislature of the urgency rf relief. It will be published in pam phlet form for distribution throughout the state. Petitions are now circulated in tbe principal cities of the State among all claa.-es who are willing to add their voices to those of the journeymen bakers for sanitary bakeshops. Em ploying bakera in all parts of the state have expressed their approval of the proposed law, while those in opposition are I ut few, and none too anxious to go before the public in advocacy of s cause which is certain of general con. demnation. Edward McHogh, tbe organizer of the International Federation of Ship, Dock and River Workers of Great Britain, is making fair progress, it is aaid, with the longshoremen of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. Hav ing succeeded in forming unions among the Italians, he has now set to work among the colored longshore men. He has secured the services of one capable colored man, and ap pointed him to organize tbe men of bis race here aad elsewhere. The colored men will be received into the unions of English-speaking longshoremen al ready in existeuce. 1 Handel had one of the most phenom enal musical memories ever known. He knew, bv heart, over fifty operas from beginning to end. The man who gives the world gold will be forgotten, but he who gives it good will not. Be iadependent. Do not lean on others to do your thinking or to con quer difficulties. Help others when yoa can, bat never give what yoa cannot afford be cause it is fashionable. The sun's bulk is 1,300 times that of the earth. REV. DR. TALMACE. The) Eminent Drvme'e Sunday Subleet : "A Shattered faith." Tut: "Ani some on broken piece of the ship." Acta xxvll.. 44. Never off Goodwin sands or the Skerries or Cape Hatteras was a ship in worse predica ment than, fa the Mediterranean hurricane, was the Brain ship on which 27G passengers were driven on the coast or Malta, Ave miles from the metropolis ot that island, called Cltta Veoohia. After a two weeks' tempest, when tbe ship was oatlrely disabled and captain and crew had become completely demoralized, an old missionary took command o( thn vessel. He was small, crooked-hackt) t and sore-eved, accord ing to tradition. It was tanl, the only unseared man aboard. Ha was no more afraid of a Euro.-ly.loQ tossing the Mediterranean sea, now up to the gates ot heaven and now sinking it to the Kates oi hell, th in be was afraid of a kitten playing with a string. He ordered tbetn all down to take their rations, first asking for thona a blesiing. Then ha insnreJ all thvir lives, telling them they would be rescued, and, so far from losing their heads, they would not Iosbso much of their hair as you nould out off with one oliek of the scissors nsy, not a thread ot it, whether it were gray with aire or iroldeu with youtb. "There shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you." Knowing that they can never get to the de sired port, tbey make tbe sea on tbe four teenth night black with overthrown cargo, ao that when the ship strikes It will not strike ao heavily. At daybreak they saw a creak and la taeir exigency resolved to make tor it. And so they cut the cables, took in tbe two paddles tbey had on those old boats and hoisted tbe mainsail so tbat they might come with such force as to be drivea high up on tbe beach by some fortunate billow. There she goes, tumbling towards the rocks, now prow foremost.now stern foremost, now rolling over to tbe starboard, now over to tbe larboard; now a wave dashes cle ir over the deck, and it seems as if tbe old craft has gone forever. But up she comes again. Paul's arms around a mast, he cries: "All is well. Qoi has given me all those tbat sail with me." Crash went tbe prow, with such force tbat it broke off the mast. Crash went the timbers till the seas rushed through iron side to side of tbe vessel. She parts amidships, and into a thousand fragments tbe vessel goae.and into the waves 276 immortals are precipitated. Borne ot them had been brought up on ths seashore and had learned to swim, and with their chins just above the waves and by the strokes ot both arais aad propulsion of both feet they put out for tbe beach and reached tt. But alas for those others! Tbey have never learned to swim, or they were wounded by the falling ot the mast, or tbe nervous shock was too great for them. And others bad been weakened by long seaslck- Ob, what will become of them? "Take that piece ol a rudder," says Paul to one. "Take that fragment of a spar," aays Paul to another. "Take that Image ot Castor and Pollux." "Take that plank from the lite boot." "lake aoythinc -nd head for the beach." What a straggle for lite la the breakers! Ob, tbe merciless waters, now they sweep over the heals ol nun. womeu and children! Hold on there! Almost ashore. Keep up your courage. Remember wrmt Paul told you. There ihe receding wave on the beach leaves in tbe sandawbole family. There crawls up out of the surf the centurion. Tbereanothnr plank eomes in, with a life clinging fa to it. Then another piece of the shattered vessel, with its freightage of an Immortal soul. Tbey must by this time all be saved. Yes; there comes in last of ail, for he had been oversee ing the rest, the old missionary, vho wrings the Water from his gray beard and cries out, "Thank Qoi. all are here!" I do not underrate the value of a great theological system, but where in all tbe Bible is there anything that says Believe in John Calvin and thou shalt ba saved? or, believe in Arminius and thou shalt be saver!? or, believe In synod of Drat and tbou shalt be saved? or, believe in the Thirty-n ne Articles and thou shalt be saved? A man may be orthodox and go to hell, or heterodox and go to heaven. The man wbo In the deep affection of his heart accepts Christ is sav.'d, and the man who does not accept him is lost. I believe in both the Heidelberg and West minster catechisms, and I wish you all did, but you may believe in nothing they contnio except the one idea, tbat Christ came to save sinners, and that you are one ot them, and you are instantly rescued. If you can come in on the grand old -tblp, I would rather have you get aboard, but if you can only find a piece of wood as long as the hu man body, r a piece as wide as the out spread human arms, and either of tbem is a piece ot tbe cross, come in on tbat piece. Tens of thousands of people are to-day kept out of the Kingdom of God because tbey cannot believe everything. I am talk ug with a man thoughtful about his soul who has lately traveled through New England and passed the night nt And over. He sHys to me. "I cannot believe that in this life the destiny is irrevocably Axed: i tbiuk there will he another opportunity ol repentance after death." I say to him: "My brother, what has tbat to do with you? Don't you realize tbat the mau wbo waits for another chance after death when be ha? a good chance before death Is a stark fool? Had not yon bjtter taie tbe plauk that is thrown to yoa now and head for shore rather than watt for a plank that may by Invisible hands be thrown to you after you are dead? Do as you please, but as for myself, with pardon for all ray ains offered me now. and all tbe joys of time and eternity offered me now, I instantly take their,, rather than run tbe risk of such o:ber obance as wise men think they can peel off or twist out ot a Scripture paattge tbat h is for ail tbe Christian otntunes been Interpreted another way." You say, "I do not like Princeton theology, or " New Haven theology, or Andover theology. I do not ask you on board either of- these great men-of-war, their portholes tilled with tbe grew siege guns of ecclesiastical battli. but I do ask you to take tbe one plank of the gospel that you do believe in and strike out for the pearl strung beach of heaven." Says some other nut, "X would attend to religion it I was quite nure about the doc trine of election and free agency, but that mixes me all up." Those things used to bother me, but 1 have no more perplexity about tbem, for I say to myself, "If I love Christ and live a good, bonesr, useful life, I I am elects t to ba saved, and if I do not love Christ and live a bad lire I will be damned, ud al the tneologlcal sem inaries of tbe universe cannot make it any different." I flouudered a long while in tbe sea of sin and doubt, and it w.is as rough as the Mediterranean on tbe four teenth night, when they threw tbe grain overboard, but I saw there was mercy tnr a sinner, nod that plunk I took, and I have been warming myself by tbe bright tire on the shore ever since. While I am talking to another man about bis soul he tells me, "X do not become a Christian because I do not believe there is any hell at all." Ah, don't you? Do all the people of all beliefs and no belief at all, of good morals and bad morals go straight to a happy heaven? Do the holy and tbe de bauched have the same destination? At mid night, in a hallway, the owner of n house and a burglar meet. They Loth Htm. and Itotll urn wnnnilKit hut thi. ? burfrlar dies in tlvA mlnntmi snrl tha ntrnur ot the howe lives a week after. Will the burglar be at tbe gate of heaven, wniting,. when the house owner eomes in? Will thn debauchee and the libertine go right In among; the families of heaven? I wonder if Hetod Is playing on the banks of the rivet of life with tbe children be massacred. I wonder If C&arles Guiteau and John VYilked Booth are up there shooting at a mark. 1 do not now controvert It, although I roust toy that for such a miserable heaven i tav no admiration. But the Bible does no ay, "Believe in perdition and be saved.' Because all are saved, aeoordlog to your theory, that ought not to keep you from lov ing aiad serving Christ. Do not refuse to com ashore because all the others, accord ing to your theory, are going to get shore. Jou may have a different theory about chem- ltry,'about astronomy.about the atmospbera from that which others adopt, but you aro aot therefore hindered from action. Beoause your theory of light is different from others do not refuse to open your eyes. Because your theory of nir is different you do not refuse to breathe. Because your theory about the stellar system is different you do not refuse to acknowledge the north Mar. Why should the fact that your theolo gical theories are different hinder you from acting upon what you know? If you have not a whole ship fastened In the theological drydocks to bring you to wharfage, you have at least a plank, "dome on broken pieces of the ship." "But I don't believe in revivals'" Tben go to your room, and all ainue, with youi door locked, give your heart to Qo l, and foln some church where the thermometer never guts higher than fifty In tbe shade. "But I do not believe in baptUm!" Comt In without it and settle that matter after ward. "But there are so many in consistent Christians'" Then come In and show them by a good example how professors should aot. "But I don't believe in the Old Testament!" Then come in on thn New. "But I don't like the book of Romans." Then come in on Mut thew or Luke. Refusing to corns to Chriir, whom you admit to be tbe Saviour of the lost, because you cannot admit other things, you are like a man out therein that Mntltor raneun tempest and toisei in the Mnlita breakers, refusing to come ashore until be can mend the pieces ot the broken ship. I hear him say: "I won't go in on any ot these planks until I know in what part of the ship they belong. When I can get the wind lass In the right place, and the sails set, aad tnat keel piece where it belongs, and that floor timber right, and tbe ropes untangled, X will go aihore. I am an old sailor, and knaw all about ships for forty years, and ns soon as I can get tbe vessel afloat in good shape I will come In." A man drifting by on a piece of wood overbear him and says: "You will drown before you get that ship re constructed. Better do as I am doing. I know nothing about ships, and never saw one before I came on bosrd this, and I can not swim a stroke, but I am going ashore on this shivered timber." The man iu the offing, while trying to mend his ship, goe down. The man who trusted to the pl:ink is saved. Oh, my brother, let your smash? i up system of theology go to the bottom, while you come in on a spliiiterel spar I "Some on broken pieces of the ship." If you can believe nothing els.', you cor tainly believe in vloarious sufferiuir. for you see it almost every day In some shape. Thi steamship Knickerbocker, of th: Cromwell line, running between New Orleans and New York, was in great storms, and the captain and crew saw the si-booner Mary D. C'ran mer, of Philadelphia, in di;tres. The weathercold, the waves mouutnin high, the first officer of the steamship an i four men put out in a lifeboat to save tbo crew of the schooner, ani reaohei the vessel in" towed it out of danger, the wind shifting that the schooner was saved. But tbe men of the steamship coining back, bo:it capsized, yet righted again end on, the sailors coated with ice. Tti capsized again, and three times up was righted, and a line was thrown tr fellows, but tbelr bands were frozen could not grasp it, and a great wav - over tberi, and they went down, to rise again till thn sea gives deid. Appreciate that heroism and sacrifice of tbe brave fellows all who and con we not appreciate the Chrittt vriu put out into a more biting cold uad Into a more overwhelming surge to briug as out n Infinite peril into everlasting safety? . -' WMve of human bate rolled over him 1 one side and the wave of hellish fury nN over him on tbe other aid?. Oh, tbo I hi' ness of the night and Ihe thuudor oil tempest into which Christ plunged for o : rescue! , , Come in on the narrow beam of the T - Let all else go and cling to thitt: put under you, and with tbe earnest a swimmer struggling for his lite rAt out for shore. There is a great w.irnrTTe of wel come already built, and already many, who were as far out as you are, are standing in its genial and heavenly glow. The angels of God's rescue are wsdln out into tbe surf to clutch your hand, and they know how exhausted you arc, and all the redeemed prodigals of heaven are on the biwh with new white robes to clothe all those who come in or broken pieces of the ship. My sympathies are for such nil ths more because I was naturally sltuptical. disposed to question everything about this life and tbe next, tind was in dan ger of being farther out to sea thau any ot the 2T6 in tbe Me.lit Truncaii break ers, and I was sometimes the annoyauoa of my theolugi?nl professor because 1 asked so many question-. Liu I rams iu on a plank. I knew Christ was the S iviour of sinners and that I was n smutr, and i got nsbore, and I do not propose to go out oo thnt sea again. I have not for thirl v mtnutef discussed thecontrovTt;d poiutsol theology In thirty years, and during tha rts-t ot tnv life X do not propose to discuss them for thirty seconds. I would rather in a mud scow try to weather the worst cyclone that ever swept up from the Caribbean, than risk my Immor tal soul in useless and perilous discussions In which some of my brethren in the minis try are indulging. They remin l mo of s company of sailors stnnding on the Rams gate pier bead, from which the lifeboats art usually launched, and coolly discussing tb different styles of oarlocUs and how dee j a boat ought to set in the water while a hurricane is in full blast aud there nre tnres steamers crowded with passengers going to pieces in the offinz. An old tar, the mude of his fae working with nervouse.rcitemenf, cries out: "This is no lime to ditioiisssuch things. Man the lifeboat! Who wiil volun teer? Out with her into the surf! Pull, my lads; puil for thn wreck! Ha. lin! How we have them. Lift lhem in and lay them . down on the bottom of the boat. Jnri, you try to bring them to. Put the-e 11 -uueit around their heads and feer, and I wii. Drill for the shore. God help me! Then"! I, inrlndl Huzza!" When there are so many struggling in the waves of sin and sorrow and wretch edness, let ali else go but salvation for time and salvation forever You admit you are all broken up, one de cade of your life gone by, two decades, three decades, four decades, a balf century, perhaps three-quaners of a century, gone. Tbe hour hand and the mtau-e band of your clock of life are almost parallel, nod soon it will be 12 and your day ended. Clear dis couraged, are you? I admit It Is a sad thing to give all of our lives tbat are worrb any thing to sin and tbe dev. I and then at last make God a present of a first rate corpse. But the past you cannot recover. Get on board that old ship yon never wil1. Have you only one more year left, nue mors month, one more week, ons more day, onn more hour come in on thnt. Perhaps if you get to heaven God may let vou go out on some great mission to some other world, where you can atone for your lack of ser vice in this. From many a deathhe I I have seen tbe bauds thrown up in deploratlon something like this: " dy life has been wasted. I bat good uioutal faculties and flue soolsl ptsfiiou and great oppor tunity, but through woridiiness. mid ug lect all has gone to w.,-te save thtse ew remainnsr hours. I low accept of Christ and shall eut-r heaven through His mercy, but ala', alas, that when I might have entered liin huren of eternal rest with a full cargo, ami been greeted by the wav ing hands of a multitude In whose salvation I hud borne a hle-ssod part, I must confess I low t-nt' r tbe baib ir of Leaven on broken pi ces of tbe ship." Weigh wfll all criticism concerning yourself, hut. do no got discouraged at it. No person, except yourself, can de cide Ihe worth nf vour talents. A wise man, being asked Low old he waa. replied, "lam in health;" and being asked how rich he was, said, "I am not in debt. Out of 100 people of the fame faith you won't find 10 who will agree in matters of judgment. It is better to have little talent aod a noble purpose than much talent and no purpose. The hotter the fire the sooner ths enemy will be out of ammunition. 4- A- y
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