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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.
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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.
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