h. -- i ' - 11 THE OONBTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWtl NO. 13. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10.189?. i . B. F. SGHWEIER, : "J ' -tr I ' i 1' iiATiKi; XIV.--i h intriute or two n int. ..iip snid a won! iCon'tlUUed.) no inCiur-rr ot the int. tinii s,i:d a word. Tum rh-' jren Hem,,, g.tlntfd each other v-ry formally. "'I ir. Mum-rief? turned g.avely to his v.'ifi-: ."Are you coming houie now':" ho ii.gjirertl And as Stella iiervously an- nertd uhat 8 nat sue was coming, ue her his Lrtu vediug oV his ill tSlli-h u..l.i. i very exlrs ordinal y pro- 3 part, at audi aa Hour ami lu such a V.liice: but desit'ned. no doubt ins HariuiVgton thought ,to hiniaelf) to how that Viel!a wag hi uroperty, and VhalTl uSsHJnllHon 'to take care of f.er. The husband audffrte Kilt (..' together, leaving Kingscott' toi;V Ltaii fciiigton face to face. ' "w Stella did not venture to speak for some time; he walked fast aud did not seem to notice that she could hardly keep up with him. "Oh, Alan, doii"t be angry with Die!" The words seemed w ruug from her, half ?ainst her will. "1 do not know that I have anything to be angry about. Stella," said her hus band. "I dou't think you have, Alan." Kxi:ept." continued Moucrieff, in his most freezing tones, "except that you ap pear to have relations with Mr. John Hannington a man whom 1 particularly dislike concerning which you keep me lit entire isiiorame." "No. inJri.l. Alan; at least oh, it i very dilncuJt to answer you wueu j .... .3 i. .. ..j.. - when yiu put the h t tears itiriAtf"ay. said Stella, 7 An nut u-ih von to jjswertnITcis IT qmite agreeable to yourself," said Alan, ?P v toi iWat mor than --"er .hon-eil him to be displeased. -I prefer to ask no auestions." n "I will tell yon everything some time, aid his young wife, tremulously, "but not just now. Alan, please do not ask it some other time " She was hardly prepared for the excla mation that followed. "There is some thing to tell then! Some secret? Heaver, belp us! I thought I had done with se cret, now, but it seems that all women are alike." "Have patience with me, Alan, she aid. softly. "I think I hope I am not concealing anything from you for my own good simply. 1 want to do right, nd to tell you everything; hut give me little time I have a reason for not tell ing you to-day " - "I believe that you mean well, Stella." The words fell coldly upon her ear. "I think that you want, as you say, to do right But it is possible that your judg ment may be at fault." Alan waited for her to Bpeak waited more anxiously than she knew; but when no word, iisoexl from her lips he folded himself all the more closely in his cloak of reserve and pride, and the two walked on silence broken only by Alan when be swung open for his wife the heavy gate that led into the grounds ot Torre mulr. CUAPTER XV. The evening was dull. Mr. Moncrleff cercely spoke, and the rest of the fam ily followed his example. Stella at last went to the piano and, began playing the oft, melancholy airs which she knew chat her husband loved, as her father had done before. But in the very midst of his favorite melody Alan got up and walked oot of the room. Stella weDt on playing, bnt her eyes filled, with tears, and the heart seemed to have gone out of her music. Alan and his brother-in-law went into the smoking-room together. AJan threw himself into a low easy chair, crossed his arms, and fell at once into a deep reverie. Kingscott selected a fine cigar with great care, and lighted it in a peculiarly delib erate manner before speaking. Then h aid. quietly: "Don't you want to hear what Han nington said to me?" "No." said Moncrleff, with an impa tient movement of bli bead. "Your wife " 'I would rather not bear anything against my wife." Kingscott raised hia eyebrowa and shrugged his shoulders. "My dear AJan, I wofild not say anything against your wife for the world. I have the very greatest admiration and respect for her. What on earth makes yon think that I meant to say anything to her discredit?" I don't know; I beg your pardon, Ralph." , , "It seems," eaya Kingscott, carelessly, "that he and Hannington were engaged before ahe left Dundee." A sort of start ran through Alan's whola frame, bnt be did not look up. "She has that curious sort of shame and dislike to the subject which many women show on the subject of their first loves," Ralph went on, in the tone of a dispassionate Judge, "and she seemed to fancy that Jack Hannington bad kept her letters, and that she might get them back In a personal interview." "It was a planned thing, then this nee ting?" "Oh, yes." "She wrote to him, perhaps, to meet kar there?" "i couin not say, reaily. There are always plenty of opportunities for a woman, if she wants secret interviews especially when a woman has as much freedom as you accord your wife." "Tea," groaned AJan, uncovering his face, which had grown white as death. "I have never been hard on her, have S, Ralph? You used to think me hard on poor Marie; but Stella Stella never. I was never harsh or unkind to Stella, I am sure." There was a strange tone of 1 anguish in bis voice, . - ' . - - - . "UnkindT Certainly not," said King scott. "It was a harmless Interview enough, no doubt. Women are a little nervous and cowardly sometimes, yon know; I fancy that yosr wif. Inaained that poor Hannington might send you the documents to look at." "I have no doubt the letters contained only what was perfectly justifiable," said Moncrieff, with a somewhat distsnt air. He would not hear Stella slighted, he told himself, although his heart was wrong with jealous pain and rage. "Of course, if she was engaged to him " "We must make allowance for women's whims," said Kingscott, laughing. "The nvt.Trs are pf obicly -rstfier -tssder effo i one, and she Is ashamed of thenVEawJl "Good night, Ralph," said Alan, sud denly rising from his chair. "I think 1 won't hear any more, thanks. Stella Is going to tell me the whole story herself, an! I woujd rath haar it from her." "1 won'i anticipate the recital," an swered Kingscott, with a careless smile. "Are yon going? Good-night." Stella was painfully conscious of the change in her husband's manners during the next few days. It was as though he were holding himself back, trying to be patient and courteous while suffering from a constant sense of Injury and anger.- A sort of half-suppressed Irritation and resentment showed Itself in his man ner. She could not understand It She knew that she had vexed him by her re fusal to divulge the secret of her inter view with John Hannington. but she 4-fafit that be-onglit-tg-trw her -e-littie - especially when she had said that she would tell him everything by and by. . one spoae genuy ana sympathetically to Molly, telling her that she had prom ised Mr. Hannington a week's grace, and that she hoped he would then speak to Mr. Moncrieff. Milly tossed her graceful head, and looked at her stepmother with scornful eyes. An air of gloom and mystery seemed to have settled over the household. No two persons were happy in each other's com pany. Misunderstandings abounded on every side. The whole family appeared to be at cross-purposes. Bertie was un der the impression that Molly's inter course with Hannington had been broken off; and although he had not known much of it, be had known enough to make him vaguely uneasy. At the same time he was a little pus sled by the new friendliness which seem ed to obtain between Molly and Uncle Ralph. He came upon them once oi twice in deep converse; once he was cer tain that he saw his nncle hand her a letter, and it struck him aa odd, when he went into the octagon room one day, that Ralph was standing in the middle of the room, with a ring in his hand which be was idly fitting on bis little finger. As soon as he saw Bertie he thrust his hand into his pocket, so as to couceal the ring. "Why have you got Molly's ring?" ex claimed Bertie. "You are quite mistaken," said Kings cott. "The ring 1 um wearing never be longed to Molly at all; it was an heir loom in our family, and I was trying it on in sheer absence of mind. 1 wish, my dear boy, that you would mind your own business." And then he left the room, but as Ber tie noticed without offering to convince him of his mistake by showing him the ring, which must have hung very loosely on his finger, for he drew his hand out of his pocket without it. These vague suspicions, these sensa tions of something unexplained, sufficed to make Bertie wakeful for the next two night. As he lay sleepless, he could not rid himself of the idea that there were strange sounds in the house, stealthy footsteps going to and fro. a light gleam ing for a moment where no light should be. On the second night this impression was so strong that he got up and partly dressed himself and went out into the corridor. He had armed himself with a revolver a pretty, dangerous toy, which be had bought in London, and was boy ishly proud of keeping loaded beside his bed. He felt something like a thrill of posi tive satisfaction when at last be was certain that he did hear a footstep, that he did see a glimmer of light beneath the door of his father's study where no light was usually to be seen between the hours of one and Uvo in the morniup. H drew back into a dark recess and waited for the footsteps that were drawing near. The study door opened, a flash of light came forth. It came from a lantern in a man's hand, and the light gleamed upon the man's face, as he walked. llertit .titrted: bin revolver nt-nrly fell fr-"" h hand as he looked. This waa no robbe then? merely Ralph Kingscott. H ha4 1 roll of papers In his hand, and bis face was pale; his eyes gleamed in a restless ,- h. rl.nced furtlTetr from aid to ide. He stopped and extinguished his intern before h reached tne aara re ess. He went to the octagon room, ome impulse urged Bertie to follow. Je made his way softly and stealthily to the octagon room, holding his loaded revolver firmlr in on hand. The octagon room waa dark. The door into the tower stood open, and a breath of vl nicht air blew on Berne race as he approached itl He knew what that meant The door rrom uaipn s room Into the garden must be open, too. Voice fell suddenly upon his ear. He stopped to listen, for surely one of them at least was well known to him. Molly; what could Molly ba doing in Uncle Ralph' room at that hour of the night? And there was Kingscott's voice, and another whose? Not John Hannington's? What aid this mean? A bjrnjnx tds of indignation, rnahei tnrougn jovruea veins, ne uasnea tor ward, hardly knowing; what be did. Ht had a glimpse of a dimly-lighted room; of Molly in her hat and cloak, holding by man's arms, of Ralph Kingscott'. furious look. The light was suddenly Mown out; there came a cry, a scuffle; the sound of a loud report as the re volver was wrenched ont of his hand and fired by whom he could not tell. A heavy blow was planted well between his eyes! there was a moment of bewildering pain, of flickering lights, confusing noises, quivering nerves, and then came the blackness and silence of complete ucon CHAPTER XVI.- Glasgow on a dull, dreary, drizzling day; Glasgow with east wind in full pre domlnence, with pavement deep in mud, with lamp lighted in the streets at four o'clock la the afternoon, although the month was April, and in the country, at least, the daylight hours began to length en pleasantly. But the great city was wrapped in gloom, and the cheerlessness of the day was reflected in the counte nances of those unlucky persons whom business (It could not have been pleasure) obliged to be abroad. A gentleman passing along Bath street however, did not seem to share in the prevalent gloom. He was holding his handsom dark head high; there was a glow In his eye and in his face which rendered him evidently independent of surrounding circumstances; he looked like a man who had just carried out a lucky coup, and had secured for himself some thing that was worth winning. With that look of high excitement on his face It was not likely that he would see even an old acquaintance like Lady Valencia Oilderov- But Lady Val was not to be discour aged. She uttered an exclamation, then ran lightly down the steps of the hotel where she waa stopping with her maid, pursued the unobservant gentleman, and touched him on the arm. "What have I done that yon should cnt me. Jack?" she said. John Hannington stopped and stared violently. All the glow went suddenly oot of his face. "I have not very much time to spare, I am sorry to say. Lady Val." Hanning ton was visibly embarrassed. She stared at him and then laughed again she would not be repelled. "It's tht first time you were ever rude to me. Jack: itis-joisj to-be the last, I hope. Come, you can't be so very busy S not to be able to give me ten minutes or so." She ascended the steps before him, and Inducted her guest into a private sitting room, away from the street and the occa sional spurts of bustle In the entrance hall; and in this room they found a bright fire, some cosy-looking chairs and a sofa. Hannington's face had grown gloomy; his impenetrable dark eyea were lighted by neither mirth nor pleasure, aud he was pulling at his long black mustache with what she perceived to be a rather nervous hand. Moreover, be stood up onhe hearth-rug in a constrained and formal attitude which astonished her well aa she knew John Hannington, there was something -in his demeanor which perplexed her now. "Jack," she began, "I have afeighty communication to make to you. Will you listen?" "Forever!" He intended It only aa Idle compliment and as such Lady Val had always ac cepted the half-jesting devotion that he had offered her for so many years; but on this occasion her eyes fell, and her faec flushed aa If she had taken it more seriously than usual." (To be continued.) Carlyle Reproved. An amusing and characteristic anec dote of Thomas Carlyle is given in Mrs. Ross's "Early Days Recalled." Mrs. Rosa, the daughter of Sir Alexander and Iiady Duff Gordon, enjoyed from her earliest years the privilege of meet ing many distinguished persons ni5vr delightful conditions. Her mother's beauty and wit, as well as her father's social and official rank, attracted men and women eminent in art, letters and politics to their home. The only visitor whom little Janet cordially disliked was Mr. Thomas Carlyle. She says: One afternoon my mother had a dis cussion with bim on German literature; her extraordinary eloquence and fire prevailing, Carlyle lost bis temper, and burst forth In his Scotch tongue, "You're just a. windbag, Lucie, you're just a windbag!" I had been listening with all my ears, and conceiving him to be very rude, in terrupted bim by saying, "My papa al ways says men should be civil to wom en;" for which pert remark I got a scolding from my mother; but Mr. Car lyle was not offended, and turning to her. observed, "Lucie, that child of yours has an eye for an Inference." Qneens Make Poor Monarcbs. . Queens have not as a rule been a success as monarcbs. The darkest page in English history Is, perhaps, that which covers the reixn of Mary I. Semiramla, Cleopatra and Catherine II. were anything but a blessing to their countries. Isabella of Castile, with ber blind and pitiless bigotry, wrought a good half share of the ruin of Spain. Victoria is a noble exception to the rui Charity is never lost. It may be of no service to thosa it is bestowed upon, yet it ever dops a work of beauty and grace nnon inn ufhti oi iuo giver. The happy are loose who row9 lht ir own sonl, whose attituiU toward lite and their fullow-raeu is firmly chosen and taith lolly preserved' One reasns why the world gains knowledge so slowly is that every child mnat fiuil out for itael that tire is hot. Mon are generally BatisfieJ if they can have their own way; bnt woman wants ter own way and the other fellow's, too. The man of faith will not bo cast down because there aro lomo people who seem to be making the devil's service pay. The chariot of God's pnrposo is still Ihondeting straight on, in spite ot the indifference and worMlineas iu the churches. If the ana is goiag down, look np at the stars. If the earth is dark, keep your eyes on Heaven. With God'a presence and God's promise, a loan or a child may be cheerful. Tour manners will depend very nincb npon the qnality of wht yon frequent' ly think on. for the soul is tinged and colored . with the complexion of thought. li'mlt. of tbe Universe. Prof. Simon Newcomb, In a recent paper, discussed the question of stellar distances. He said the star of small magnitude were evidently not as re mote from the earth as their faintueni would Indicate, and this fact seemed to warrant the inference that the visibl universe has a definite limit in space- Animal. Imitatias: P'atita. Not long ago Prof. Verrlll exhibited to the members of the National Acad emy of Sciences in New York somi beautiful examples of mollusks, dwell Ing In the Sargasso Sea, that Inittat not only the seaweed among whlct they live, but even the parasitic growth found upon the weeds, Mn.lc for the Deaf. At a meeting ot the Royal Society In December Prof. McKendrick describ ed a method by which it was possible to stimulate electrically the scusorj nerves of the skin "so that some of tut elements of music rhythm and lntensl ty might be perceived and even enjoy ed by those who had become deaf." A Gigantic Pear-Tree. A famous pear tree, which bad lives' nearly six centuries, near Toulon, wai destroyed recently by a violent wind storm. The trunk was nearly twelve feet In circumference. Monsieur Cha baud, the proprietor of the ground oi which the tree stood, after correspond ing with nearly all the botanical so cieties in Europe, could learn ot ii pear tree equal In size and age to thU one. How Fast Can Dock. FIjT While measuring the height and ve foclty of clouds recently, Messrs. Clay ton and Fergusson, of the Blue Hlli Observatory, observed a flight of ducki passing across their base-line in tb Neponset River valley. With theli theodolites they succeeded In measur ing the height of the ducks above ground, 958 feet, and subsequent obser vations enabled them to calculate the velocity of flight of the birds, which was about 47.8 miles per hour. Tzan.mla.lon of Electric Power. The world-wide renown of Niagara Falls has lent peculiar distinction to the great electric power plant recently Installed there, but the American Ma chinist says that "In so far as the Ni agara plant Is a long-distance one th work done up to date has been sur passed in several Instances, both In th distance covered and the amount ol power transmitted." Many of th greatest electric power plants ar among the Rocky Mountain and on the Pacific coast At Fresno, Cal., a reservoir on the brow of a near-bj mountain supplies the heaviest head ol water yet used for such a purpose 1,400 feet, and the power la distributed over a distance of thirty-five miles. In some of the Western installations the water, after serving rts purpose in generating electric power, Is utilized for Irrigating land. Seeing- Riant-Side Up. The lenses of the eye produce on th! retina an inverted Image of objectt looked at, and the question is often asked, "Why do things appear right side up when their images are wrong side up?" It occurred to Mr. Stratum, of the University of California, to try the effect of preventing the inversion of Images on the retlna. This was ac complished by means of an optical in strument which excluded from thi eyes all light except that which passed through the Instrument itself. The in strument was adjusted to the eyes at 3 o'clock one afternoon, and was not removed (except at night, when tht eyes were bandaged) until noon tht next day. At first, to the person whoss eyes were thus treated, everything seemed topsyturvy and Illusory, and the mind instinctively tried to Imagine objects to be in the posllon In whlcb they ordinarily appear. After a time, however, the feeling of the unreality ol what was seen passed away, and th person experimented on even began tc Imagine everything that lay outside his field of vision to be arranged In th same way as what he saw. This goes to show that habit and experience counteract the effect of the Inversion of Images in the eyes. Animal War.. Twenty-five year ago the mongoose, the great enemy of snakes in India, was Imported into Jamaica to destroy the rats which were devastating th sugar-cane and other crops of the Isl and. Having exterminated the rats (he mongoos next attacked poultry and all kinds of game, as well as snakes, lizards and turtles, and finally even began to feed upon sugar-cane, banan as, pineapples', etc. But at length, ac cording to the account recently puh llshed by Prof. Duerden, of Jamaica, the tables were turned against the In vader. What Its larger foes could not accomplish seems to have been done by tick and other small insects. The natural enemies of these pests having been driven off by the mongoos tht ticks multiplied enormously, untt even human beings suffered from tbeli attacks. The little pest then fastened soa the momrooa. which within the past few years has notably diminishes in numbers. And now, as the mongoos gradually disappears, the snakes, bird and lizards are beginning to return. Baboon Soldier. Man Is not the only animal who car ries on his warfare by mean ef or ganized bands, and calls in the forces of nature to assist him. The German naturalist and traveler, Brehm, wit e eased in Central Africa tghts that were conducted In a orderly r. man ner as if the warriors had been really men. Instead of only somewhat lik them in form. The actor in the play were baboons, and their enemies were In one case th traveler's dogs, though the baboons were ready to fight with any creaturt that attacked them, man only except ed; and he owed his exemption solely to the fact that the baboons could not often gain a point of vantage. The naturalist himself waa one stoned out of a pass In a very few min utes by these creatures, who sprang npon ledges and stones, looked down for a few seconds on the valley, growl ing, snarling and screaming, and thes began to roll down stone with s much vigor and adroitDess that the in truders took to flight. The baboons evi dently knew the value of co-operation, for the naturalist saw two of them combine their efforts in order to set a particularly heavy stone' rolling. Ona monkey, bent on making the most of his missile, was seen to carry a stons up a tree, that he might hurl it wit greater effect. On the occasion when the dog at tacked the baboons, the baboons were crossing a valley, and as usual during a march, the females and young wer in the center, the males heading tb column and bringing up the rear. As the dogs rushed upon them, only th females took to flight. The males turned and faced the en emy, growling, beating the ground with their hands, and opening theli mouths, so as to show their glittering teeth. They looked so fierce and ma licious that the dogs Arab grey hounds, accustomed to fight success fully with hyenas and other beasts ol prey shrank back. By the time they were encouraged to renewhe attack, the whole herd had made their way covered by the rear guard, to the rocks one six months' old monkey alone ex cepted. This little monkey sat on a rock, sur rounded by the dogs, but he was not long left In his perilous position. Ac old baboon stepped from a cliff neat by, advanced toward the dogs, keep lng them in check by threatening ges tures and sounds, picked up the babj monkey and carried it to a place oi safety on the cliff, while the whol crowd of baboons watched the act ot heroism and shouted their battle-cry. Youth' Companion. In the Cannriea. A tourist in the Canary Islands says: "I know nothing more cheerful to the vagabond than the readiness ol friendship among the common people of the Canary Islands. Go where you will abroad you may shake the nan J of the beggar, loafer, peasant and cot tager. All have the name free and hearty welcome for you. They soein to delight in outlandish acquaintance, aud li yuu uappuil To by U'Wouui ju instantly appeal to their better selves Here, as elsewhere, I have kindly mem ories of people whose names I nevei knew and who did not know mine. 1 remember driving by diligence with i brave and heroic-looking young gen tleman, beautifully clad. He wore long boots, radiant linen, velvet breech es, a short, smart jacket and a wld brimmed hat. "Men of breeding might go as far at bis native village to acquire his per fect manners. Wondering who thi picturesque and operatic young man might be, I afterward questioned th diligence driver (a rascal I had reason to suspect of stealing my bag, with all my things, and the wonderful bargains In Orotava lace and embroidery I had driven), and learned that he was a vil lage butcher. So with all the trades people here. I wanted to match somu stuff sold me by a woman of Orotava down at Santa Cruz, and was Informed I could apply to Don Pablo, or Don Pedro, and then to Don Nicholas of the Puerto. Surnames are suppressed every one is still as well born as they were on the peninsula In the days ol Lope de Vega and the German ambas sador, asking for a servant' creden tials, was presented with proof of hie descent from a Gothic king." Good Words. The " Boo Cao.L" The "Soo Canal," a familiar coUo gulal designation for the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, connecting the waters of Lakes Superior and Huron, Is famous In the history of canals and canal build ing. Begun in 1855, by the State of Michigan, It was subsequently trans ferred, to the United States Govern ment, since which time very great im provements have been made. One lock, said to be the largest in the world. Is over SOO feet long and 80 feet wide, with s lift of 20 feet. A much larger lock was projected and is now nearing completion on the site of one made in 1855, the later structure being 1,000 feet long, 100 feet wide and 21 feet deep. The Importance of this canal to lake navigation may be judged from the fact that It transports every year a larger tonnage than the Suez Canal, between the Mediterranean and Red Boas. In the census year it bore 25, 900,000 bushels of wheat, 2,500,000 tons ot iron ore, 165,000,000 feet ot lumber in great quantities of coaL Pay or Bullfighters. Bullfighters make more money than anybody else in Spain, their salaries being much greater than the Incomes of any except the highest of the nobles, and comparing fairly well even with the stealings of colonial officials. In the past year a toreador named Guer rlta appeared sixty-eight times and pocketed 306,000 francs. Another, Re verte, has made thirty-eight appear ances and netted 143,500 francs, while Mazzantlni, with twenty-nine battle to his credit, toot 131,000 francs. Bom blta 120,000 francs and Algabigno 115, K0 francs. Taking", into account the value of the bulls and the cost of trans port, it is estimated thin Spain each year spends more than five millions on this so-called sport Over 1,000 bulls were killed by the chosen few of the public, who only number twenty-thi . throughout the whole country. There are days In every man's life iv hen be feels he owes himself a drink. tnd no unpaid debt ca. ore un- rasiness. The old-fashioned cop; piece. was little more than an tTwTn it inch.1 TREES ON A TOWER. free. Growing on a Coarthonse Tow in th. Hooaier Et.tr. On the courthouse tower in Greens burg, Ind., there Is grove of trees growing from the apex of the tower, high above all other vegetation, and without apparent cause for existence. This 1 the only thing of the kind In the world, except in England, where there Is a single yew tree growing from a parish church tower, which has to be constantly watched and nourished to prevent its expiring. The existence of the trees on the Greens burg tower Is very puzzling, owing to the fact that there 1 none of their specie within several miles and tbelr place of habitation Is entirely devoid of soiL The building was erected about thirty-five years ago. It stand FREES OS GREESBURO'S couBTHOnaa, In the center of the public sqaare, OB a gradual elevation reaching about fif teen ruileii around. A grove of maple trees surrounds the famous tempi of justice, making cue of the most beauti ful parks to be found In the section. Dame Nature has, ever frince the first tree in this lofty grove, 107 feet abov terra firma, lirst made :ta appearance, afforded ample ii'onrishment to tb roots of the trees. Creeping through the narrow Interstices, between the heavy layers of hard rock, the sprouts flourish ii the famous green bay tree of tradition. Even during the drouth of recent years, when sll vegetation in the neighborhood was suffering and dying, the trees continued to thrive, notwithstanding the fact that their abode, devoid of moisture and so high In the air, was always hotter In the heated season than that of other vege tation, the large stones being occsslon- u j o uit tnat thvJifia uonUi-not Blight upon them. The seeds of these trees are like those of the willow and poplar, being small, with a long, silky down. It la supposed that the seed were carried by birds from some dis tant place and dropped between the rocks, where they grew in the limited amount of soli and dust gathered there by the winds. The first tree ap peared on the uppermost part of the tower about the year 1865, and soon manifested a speedy growth. About a year after, on a different part of the tower, a second one was observed to be growing, being followed by another one. The roots wedged between the stone, the growth continued until the largest attained a height of twenty three feet, and as they moved tue stones considerably the trees were condemned as a serious menace to the structure and the two largest were re moved. Now, amid tne moss ana wnai little vegetable matter can cling to the elevated place, others have continued to sprout and grow until danger to the structure is again feared, and It is thought that the time will soon come when they will all have to be removed. OLDEST HOOSIER. .t.t Btr.natan, of Kngli.li Ind., Ia 103 Year. Old. One of the oldest men in the country m Nathaniel Straughn, who lives In English, Ind. Mr. Straughn is bow nearly 105 years old, having reached the century mark on May 8, 1882. "Uncle Nattie." as he is affectionate--8 called by the residents of EnghVsh, was born in Franklin County, Ken- OLDEST MAX IN ISDIAJtA.. tacky. He moved to Crawford County, Indiana, in 1S16 and is still occupying, with his granddaughter's family, the bouse he entered at that time. The old gentleman boasts that he has never worn a piece of cloth that was not spun and worn by the hands of mother or wife; that he was never in a lawsuit, pro or con, and was never a witness In a nit at law, and that he did not find the need of eyeglasses until he was oyer ISX In his younger days Nathaniel Straughn was a hunter, and bis old flintlock mus ket occupies to-day a place of bonoi ovtr the wide fireplace of his room, whe below it hangs his modern ahot nun. In his prime Mr. Straughn weigh- T ed 150 pounds, and now, at the advanc ed age of 105, weighs 100 pounds. The descendants of this venerable man art teckcaed at about 600, A -if m:v. dr. The Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. Subject : "Wings of Seraphim. Txt: "Wnh twain he covere.l his face, an 1 with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. "Isaiah vL. 2. In a hospital of leprosy good King Dtziah had died, and th. whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and theological and pro phetio Isaiah was thinking about rellirious t bines, as one is apt to do In time of great national bereavement, nt forgetting th. presence of bis wife aud iwo sons, who male up bis family, be has a dream not like the dreams of ordinary onaraoter, which gen erallv come from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under the touoh of the hand of the Almighty. The place, the ancient temple building grand, awful, majestic Within that tempi, a throne higher and grander than that oc cupied by any czar or sultan or emperor. On that tbron, the eternal Christ. In lines surrounding that throne, the brightest celes tials, not the cherubim, bat hlgherthan they, the most exquisite and radiant of th. heav enly inhabitants -th. seraphim. Thev are called burners because they look like Are Ups of Are, eves of Are, feet of Are. In ad dition to the features and the limbs, whion suggest a human being, there are pinions which suggest the lithert, th. swiftest, the most buoyant and tb. most aspiring of all unintelligent creation a bird. Each seraph had six wines, each two of the wings for a diflerent purpose. Iaalah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinions, now folded, now spread, now beaten In locomotion. "With twain he covered his feet, with twain he oovored his fac, and with twain he did fly." Th. probability is that these wings war not all used at once. Th. seraph standing there near the throne, overwhelmed at ih. inslgnlncanoe of the paths his feet had trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his locomotion amounting almost to decrepi tude aa compared with the divine velocity, with leathery veil of angelic modesty bides the feet Witn twain he did cover th. feet." Standing there, overpowered ty the over matching splendors of God's glory and un able longer with the eyes to look upon them and wishing those eyes shaded from the in sufferable glory, tne pinions gather over the countenance. "With twain be did cover the face." Then, as God tells this seraph-to a-o to the farthest outpost of Immensity on message of light and love and joy and get back before the flrst anthsm, It does not take the seraph a great while to spread himself upon the air with unimaglned celerity, one stroke of the wing equal to 10,000 leagues of air. "With twain be did fly." The most practical and useful lesson tor you and me, when we see the seraph spread ing bis wimra over the feet, is the leswin of humility at imperfection. The brlghest angels of God are so far beneath God that He charires them with folly, the seraph so far beneath God and we so far beneath the seraph in service we ought to be plunged In humility, utter and complete. Our feet, how laggard they have been in the divine ser vice! Our feet, how many missteps they havetakeu! Our feet, in how many paths of worldllness and folly have they walked! I sound the praises ot the human foot. With that we halt or climb or march. It it 4ssSMJ;itin of the physical fabric It Is the If H Gcd poised column. With It th. wjfor braces Kim2n!' 'or battle. With It th. onttor plants h meif- for euioglum. Wttb-U the torls? reaches bin work.' - tt the outraged stamps hi. indignations, rt. Iom aa lrreparaMSTtijnsier, Its health an inval uable equipment. If you want to know its value, ask the maa whose foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hnth crushed, or surgeon's knife hath amputated. The Bible honors It. Especial care. "Vest thou dash thy foot against a stone," "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved,'' "Thy feet shall not stumble." Espeoial charge, "Keep thy foot when thou goi-st to the house ot God." Especial peril, "Thutr feet shall slide in due time." Connected with the world's dissolu tion, "He sliaiiset one foot on the sea and th. other on the earth." Give me the history of your foot, and I will give vou the history ot your lifetime. Tell me up what 9teps it hath gone, down what declivities und in what roads and In what directions, and I will know more about you than I want to know. None of us could en dure the scrutiny. Our feet not always in paths of God. sometimes In paths of worldll ness. Onr feet, a divine and glorious ma chinery for usefulness and work, so olten making mipstepe, so often going in the wrong direction. God knowing every st.i Ue patriarch saying, "Thou set test a print on the heels of my feet." Crimes of the hand, crimes or the tonuue, crimes of the eye, crimes of the ear not worse than crimes ot the foot. Ob. we want the wings of humility to cover the feet! Ought we not to go Into j self abnegation before the all searching, all j sorutinizintf, all trying eye of God? The I seraphs do. How much more wer "With ' twain he covered his feet ." i All this talk iil-out the dignity of human1 nature is braggadocio and sin. Our nature started at the hand of God regal, but It has been pauperized. There Is a well in Bel- , glum which once had very pure water, and , it was stoutly masoned with stoue and brick, but that well afterward became the centre j of the battlo of Waterloo. At the opening of ' the battle the soldiers with theirsabers com- i pelled the gardener, William von Kylsom, to : draw wator out of the well for them, nod it ! was very pure water. But the battle raged, and 900 dead and half dead were Aung into 1 the well for quick and easy burial, so that the well of refreshment became the well of death, and long after people looked down into the well and they saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So the human soul was a well of good, but the armies of sin have fought around it and fought across it and been slain, dud it has become a well of skele tons. Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead ODDort uuitit-s. dead ambitions. An aban doned well unless Christ shall reopen and purify and flit it as the wall of Belgium never was. Unclean, unclean. Another seraphic posture in the text. "With twain he covered the face." That mean; reverence Godward. Never so mush irreverence abroad in the world as to-day. Vou sea it in the defaced statuary. In the cutting out of figures from Ane paintings, in the hioplcg of monuments for a memento, in the tact that military guard must stand at the grave of Lincoln and Garfleld, and that old 8bude trees mu-t ba cut down lor fire wood, though Afty George P. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and that calls a corpse a cadaver, and that speaks of death as going over to l'itt majority, and substi tutes for the rev rent terms father and mother "the old man" and "the old woman," and llnds nothing impressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the columns of Karnac, and sees no difference in the Sabbath from other days except it allows more dissipation, and reads the BiMe in what is called higher critit-ism, ranking it not the word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. How many take the name nf God in vain, how many trivial things sail about the Almighty! Not wi ling to have God in the world, they roll- up an idea of sentimentality and hu manitarianietn and impudence and Imbecil ity and call It God. No wings of reverence overtfae face, no taking off of shoes on holy ground. You can tell from the way they talk they could have made a better world than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks every sense of proprietry. They talk of the love of God in a way that show you they be lie" it does not make any difference how ba I a man is here he will come In nt the shining gate. They talk of the love ot Go I in a way which shows you tbey think it is a general jail delivery for all the abandoned and the scoundrelly of the universe. No punishment hereafter for any wrong done here. Reverence for sham, reverence for the old merely because it ia old. reverence for stu pi uty n wever leirned, reverence for ln capacity however tinely inauguratsd, I have none. But we want more reverence for God, more reveri-ncn for the sacraments, more reyerencn for the Bible, more rever ence for the pnre, more reverence for the good. , Reverence a characteristic of all great nature?. Von hear it in the roll of the master criitorios. You see it in the Raphaels and Titi-.ns an 1 Ghirlandaols. You study It in the lrchitet-tare of the Aholiaa and Cbristnrher Wren. Do not be flippant about God. Do not joke about death. Do ivt make fun about the Bible. Do act d- . . i . . ri'ie tne ..rni. --e r e., w,n lest seranh cannot look "hdn Hlm.T Involuntarily the wing some up. "Withltwain he covered his face. Who fs this God before whom the arrogant and IntAvctable refuse reverence Jher. was an engineer by the name of Sti-aaleraw. who wasTn the employ of Alexander th Great, and he offered to hew a mountain to thelh'ape of bis master, the emperor, th. enormous figure to hold in the left hand a city of 10.OOU Inhabitants, while In the right band It was to bold a basin large enough to collect all the mountain torrents. A'e der applauded him for bis ingenuity, but for bade fhe enterprise because of its costliness Jet I have to tell you that oar King holds in one hand all the cities of the earth, and ai the oceans, while he has the stars of heaven for his tiara. . . ., . Earthly powflr goes from hand to baud from Heoryl to Henry II and Henry III. from Charles I to Charles Ii. from LoaU 1 to Louis II and Louis 111, ut from eve rlast iug to everlasting Is God. God tn. flrst, Gl the last, God the only. He has onetelesoope, with which he sees everythiug-his omnis cience. He has one bridge, with which ne crosses everything his omnipresenee. has one hammer, with which he builds everything his omnipotence. Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the palm of your band, and It will overflow, but Isaiah Indicates that God puts the Atlantic, and the Pact Ac, and the Arctic, and the Antarc tic, and the Mediterranean, and the Black Bea, and all the waters ot the earth in th. hollow of His hand. The Angers tho beaon on ou. slde.th. wrist the beach on the other. "He holdeth tn. water in the hollow of His . .. n;:A pnoniHii huu As you take a pinch of salt or powder be- fj tween your thumb and two Angers, so Isatab i Indicates God takes up the earth. He meas- I t urea the dust of the earth, the original there Ittt Indicating that God takes all the dust of all f vl the continents between the thumb and two X Angers. You wrap around your hand a blue ribbon Ave times, ten times. You say it is Ave hand breadths or it is ten hand breadths. Bo Indicates the prophet God winds the blue ribbon of the sky around His hani. "He meteth out tne heavens with a span." You know that balances are made of a beam suspended in the middle, with 'two basins at the extremity of equal heft. In that way what vast heft has been weighed! Bat what are all the balances of earthly manipulation compared with th. balances that Isaiah saw suspended when b. saw God putting into the scale, the Alps and s the Apennines and Mount Washington and the Sierra NevadaaV You see the earth had to be ballasted. It would not do to have too much weight ia Europe, or too muct- weight In Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in America, so when God made the mountains he weighed them. The Bible distinctly sy so. God knows the weight of the great nnires that cross the continents, the tons, the pounds avoirdupois, the ounces, the grains, the millegrams just how much they ucee, iuo ouch they y hey welgn in scale bat a Godjl 3 disobey weighed then and just nowmu -n tney now. "He weighed tne mountains in and the bills in a balance." Ob, what to rnn against! Oh. what a God to Oh. what a God to dishonor! Oh. what God to defy! The brightest, the mightiest angel takes no familiarity with God. Th. wings ot reverence are lifted. "With twain be covered the face. " Another seraphic posture In the text. The seraph must not always stand still. He must move, and It must be without c'nmsiness. There must be celerity and b3auty In th. movement. "With twain he did fly." Cor rection, exhilaration. Correction at our slow gait, for we only crawl in the servioe when we ought to fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration in the fact that the soul has wings as th. seraphs have wings. What Is a wing'r An Instrument of locomotion. They may not be like seraphs' wing, they may not be like birds' wing, bnt the sot! wmKirw"4asayso. "He snail racuw on wlfM a lBlea." We are made ' w lmapeij God has wins savs so. "He y.ttiij,- the shadow of wings hast tb soul with foi wing, broken wing. Aye, I h bars ot bone and one day to be 1fx pinions in Seagfare times sing: i Rise, my soul, an; I hear the rustle o Pope's stanza, where I mount, I fly.)) O death, where Oh, people of God, 1 f ' fool and prepare for rt'.. your soul stands on I' u n .1 tliiirA ant r 11 1. f nrjf sapphired domes abS?cC-T. ny? wtu you swooj" , you Ay downward jk-V.'-Everything on the J aspire. Holy 8 pi ;? the New Coveoar" u ": wing, Aying at the wing, flying tc.V f wings! " - Live so near to Chi dead people standing ;, will not soliloquize, appointment life was t was to departure! Wj. to dio! What a-i standing there anyj, vivid on your still b- -pain, something tru' . It was a hnppy ex -oppressive quarantin lis, the molting ot tb-v " and the ascent '-. bright, shining mC ' say, as tbey siasd .-. humility and your happiness in death. J, the feet, with twa with twain he did j , ' A in in mav li.o . is long, and still', dTinar the night. - The time is til rapid wings, when' can rosper in thi ness. Seme shines w wren set iu bumil.j The misfortnffe. is, nsed to attract at br cuutinued, but hei I ho It is the fear of IhA $ na love of it, that keii 1 out of mischief. It 1st bit by a dog ouoe. bnt s v it is. ti The first thing that 1 1 onr conacience is tbe tii reflect ion. The great strnggla . uianainj is l got a(j.j comin? from. Tbe reason of i-uoli oi failure in this are entirely to mil physical deadhcata. Assert your on free! but assert it 'modestly respecting theirs as respected vonr&elf. Look at it this way : everything in it v.im make a trne man of von rati Much of the trouble t. it caused hy the man witl i bia eye trying to point in b's brottiei's eye. The Saicidn U lh trraatat . he tears hfa more than he dd My friend, let us thank fioJl oliS Hi IP ?1 thing; it is tats: The balauced in Heaven, not I nun ail our cunning, wl to ebeat ourselves otteuer I aI 1. 1. V .. Enter into the bu mess or that you like best aud lor which u at ems to hava titled you provided honorable. I if it were as easy f.ir us toier world to think well ot us as it Ji to admire ourselves, what sg' o niu au oei V lit :i u .11 i QUI I .1 1 i if i 1 A 1 . - . - t- Iff' sf A fafc- - LZi rt-PCSjf V-
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