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THE OONBTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWtl
NO. 13.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10.189?.
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B. F. SGHWEIER, :
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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,
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"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
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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
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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'
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