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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
vol . u.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUN1T. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 21. 1897
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Tliere is no use iu wishing imiioMHuMli-tit-s!"
Erie says, sharply and hurriedly,
ud rising frum his chair, as if to end the
conversation.
"No. there la no use, Miles assents, o
be rises nlso, anil forces himself to smile,
while his henrt is aching with an anguish
ed seuse of his own folly and helpless
ness. "Only when I am pone and she is
left all alone. Krio, don't break Muriel's
henrt, or I shnll not rest in my graver
"My own heart shall break first before
Muriel's heart shnll be broken!" Llewel
lyn says, as his right hand grasps Miles',
and his cold, even tones have changed to
those of ardor, and his eyes are full of
light, and his pulses are throbbing fast
and hotly. "Miles. I suppose I need hard
ly say inai i nope you will allow me to
I be the 6rst to broach this subject to your
y sister that you will not, even in jest.
give tier any Inkling of uiy wishes or iu
teutious. She is, of course, perfectly inno
cent of any such ideas respecting me,
never having seen me or scarcely thought
of my existence. I dare sny, before this
evening, and that very innocence, that
very impossibility of her having woven
any womanish plots or plana or little
schemes concerning me, or troubled her
girlish fancy about me In the least, con
stitutes for me a strong attraction, a pecu
liar charm. Let me stand or fall on my
own merits from the first. Miles, or I shall
be displeased with you."
"Indeed!" Miles says, bitterly, pale with
auger, though Llewellyn's request is ut
tered more after the manner of an en
treaty than a menace. "That Is, Id other
words, a fair warning that if I vex you.
you will drop all serious intentions of
marrying my sister. As If we had
schemed and plotted to get yon for her
husband as if you were a 'catch' we
could never mnke too much of until we
were sure of you as if Muriel were not
worth your being anxious to win or be
piilieut to wait for! Hy the heaven above
me this night, Eric Llewellyn," he says,
hoarse and stinking in a fury of wounded
feeling, "if it were any one except you
any other ninn but you standing there, I
would knock you down on the spot!
"Miles, ol.l fellow." says Llewellyn, half
laughing, "one would think, to hear you,
thst you and I were strangers! One
would think, to hear you." he adds, more
sternly and gravely, "that a doubt of
your honor or perfect good faith could
enter my mind!"
I "You are right, Kric, yon are right,
- Allies assents, remorsefully. "I am a
liot-liented fool! I nlvays was."
"Well, good uight now, old fellow!'
Eric interposes. "And we quite under
stand eneh other.' he goes on. question-
.- ingly and earnestly, "about keeping this
matter strictly confidential between us
two eh. Miles?"
"Certainly. Eric. I am going past your
door." answers Miles, and without anoth
er word the friends quit the room to
gether. "Tulins Caesar! this Is grand, all out!"
chuckles Sylvester, who for ten minutes
has been crom-hnig by the half-open door
of the adjoining room. "My! Didn't my
Lord Cork warn Miles to let nobodV
know? 'strictly confidential. he says."
and Sylvester kicks his legs in an ecstasy
of malignant pleasure. "I heard him!
Oh. I heard nil the nice clever schemes,
and plots, and plans that Misther Major
Llewellyn doesn't know anything about!
He's so sure and certain of Miss Murrie's
beautiful 'innocence!' My eye!" the young
gentlciiinn says, with another caper to re
lieve the exuberance of his gratification
- "hnVri'l 1 enughf them nil in a nice trap
now if they don't behave themselves!
rJlCfi't 1 pay out Miles and Mnrrb now
whenever 1 like and let luv fine Mftior
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f him! My grandfather Sutton said he'd
five me a ten pound note the day that
ever I'd ninnnco so as to turn the tables
on Miles and Muriel, and be up to them,
clean and clever: and I think." Master
Sylvester says, with a fresh outburst of
his delighted feeling "I am sure now of
gettin that ton-pound note as if it was
In my pocket this minute! Oh. yes: I
hall 'turn the tables on tbem easily
enough at my own time!"
CHAI'TEU VI.
"One would almost fancy you were for
getting your role, Eric," Miles said, with
exceeding sarcasm.
He has overtaken Llewellyn this morn
ing on the long hill on the sunny sheltered
road that cuts right through the dense fir
plantation, with the higher heathery slopes
of the mountain rising up darkly purple
agninst the soft blue sky. far nbove.
Walking- up the hill beside Muriel O'llara.
both of them are encaged in suc h pleasant
or friendly discourse that they neither
hear nor notice Miles' approach until he
wheels around before them with a laugh
and a loud exclamation in his gay, pleas
ant voice.
i "I say, Eric, you're a nice fellow, Here
have I been worrying myself Into fiddle-
trings," Miles says in comical reproach.
"wondering how yon came to be so regn
Inrly knocked out this morning as 'not to
have a leg to go upon,' like Mr. Toots.
and here yon are, after all. Feel better.
old fellow?"
"Yes. thanks." Llewellyn answers calm
y. "I feel better, brightened and fresh
ened up. you know, since I came out.
"That's all right, then." Miles retorts.
while the rest of his features are prefer-
naturally grave. "I don't think you art
quite up to those trumps over the moun
tain so early iu the day, do you know,
Eric? Well, good by to you for the pres
ent. Take care of Murrie. And Murrie.
do you take care of Eric," with intense
solicitude again! "He isn't altogethei
s strong as he used to be, I'm sorry to
ay. when he utid 1 used to do cr ten
miles before breakfast, regularly, when
we were pedesfrianizing iu the Tyrol,"
and be goes off laughing heartily, whist
ling up his dogs, and turning round twicf
or three times to look back at the loiter
ing figures on the sunny, red-brown road
behind him.
Major Llewellyn, who has been walkinc
on silently, rather disturbed in his mind,
notices for the first time, that his compan
ion is silent also, and, as he looks keenly
at her, he sees tlint a warm flush of color
-oftly tinged nil her fair face, and bet
soft red lips are compressed, and hei
orows contracted, as If in pain, as she
paces along beside him, with her 'dainty,
light footfalls noiseless on the odorous
carpet of red-brown withered spines,
i. "Miles was rather hard on me just
now for refusing to go out with him. and
having come out with yon instead," he
says, smiling with a rather friendly, con
fidential smile.
"Xes," Muriel answers, with a slight,
ehy smile and a deeper tinge of color, "but
Miles was not vexed. It was only his fun.
Vile is very sweet-tempered."
"Miles thought, and thought correctly,
that I preferred walking with you." he
ays deliberately, and looks full at her.
Hut Muriel neither coquettish.? admits
nor denies his assertions. She flushes
deeply, and then grows very pale; and,
as he cannot but notice, she moves a little
farther away, so as to put a distance of at
least two feet between them.
"Sometimes, 1 dare say, you do prefei
a quiet stroll like this .to a long, brisk
tramp over the mountains and through
the glens?" she sas. quietly.
"I certain If prefer it just now," Eric
answer j, fec-tsiy, reeling rather non
plussed, however.
They walk on in the rather awkward
silence that has fallen upon them since
Miles disturbed their friendly converse,
and it U a species of relief to both when
Sylvester, with a brace of harriers at his
heels and a pour, dead hare dangling by
its hind legs from bis hand, leaps out of
the plantation by the stile in the hedge.
"Hello! Only got as far as this yet,
and you started an hour ago'" with agree
able brusqueuess, grinning at tbem both,
with a disagreeably knowing look. "Well,
you are such slow couches!
"Perhaps we like to be slow coaches?
Major Llewellyn says, coolly.
"1 dare say you do!" grins Sylvester;
"that's a very sensible remark o' yours.
sir. I s'pose there d be no use In me offer
ing my company? Eh, Murrie?"
The girl's eyes flash on him with a light
ning glance of anger and reproach; Eric
Llewellyn is rather startled by the pas
sion of emotion wrath, menace and en
treaty which is visible in the youthful,
girlish face; but Sylvester laughs noisily.
"Don't be frightened, my dear," be
says rudely, "Muriel looks as if she
could eat me with a grain o' salt! I'm
not coniin' to spoil the nice walk through
the plantation, and I wouldn't give a
crooked farthin' for yere company, eith
er" and away he tramps down the hill.
"That young gentleman ia somewhat
of the geuua 'cub, " Eric remarks, an
they walk on in silence, "Miles ought
to keep him at a strict school for a year
or two longer. 1 know a man who would
keep him in admirable order. What ia he
preparing for?"
"Nothing," Muriel answers bitterly.
"To grow up just what he is now. and
inherit his grandfather Sutton's money
and land, and be a semi-educated, semi
civilized squireen to the end of his duya."
"That is a bod outlook for him, poor
lad!" Eric replies, with genuine regret
and kindliness in bis tone; and Muriel,
recognizing it with a glow of secret glad
ness and trustfulness, feels for the mo
ment as if it were quite possible that
Eric Llewellyn and she should be friends
real, true friends, in spite of his
hauteur and coldness and cynicism iu
spite of her mingled dread of him and
shy fear of him, and innocent girlish ad
miration of his handsome face, his tall.
well-knit figure, bis well-bred inein, his
intellectual converse in spite of oh
worst of all! the terror that hangs over
her like the sword of Damocles that poor
Miles' secret wishes and desires and plans
respecting her should ever become visible
and revealed to Eric Llewellyn's keen
understanding.
"Now the plantation goes no further
along this road, Major Llewellyn, and this
is the lane up the hillside, the way I
spoke of," she says. "Are you sure you
care to come? It is a long walk."
"If you care to come I shall care to
come witn yon, or course, ne answers
with grave gallantry, and wonders why
Muriel shrinks again from him, and why
the deep rose red flush mounts to her
brow. "What a shy, distant little mortal
she is," be says mentally, and feels again
as he did a little while since, that curious
ly pleasant glow of the feeling be terms
"satisfaction." "As timid as a fawn, and
as innocent. A fair, sweet girl she is
indeed."
They have climbed the heights of the
Rock Hill, and on the summit they pause,
Muriel with familiar pleasure, and Eric
Llewellyn with surprised admiration, to
survey the fair view over plain and river,
and woodland, stretching far below tbem
away to the range of purple mountains to
the south.
"Is it not all very beautiful?" the i'irl
asks, with a sigh of intense enjoyment.
"It is all very beautiful," Eric says,
his eyes suddenly returning from the fuir
landscape and fixing themselves on th
fair face, with its rapt expression of
peace and pleasure, whose deep gray color
has deepened into purple from emotion.
"I did not imagine, when I used to hear
Miles talk about bis home, that I should
find so much that was charming in Cur
rag hdene. Let us sit down and rest, you
look rather tired, Muriel."
He begins very softly and patiently;
there is a wistfuluess and weariness about
the lines of the ivory -pale young face that
touches him deeply, so he accounts for
the feeling throbbing at his heart.
"I am not in the least tired, thank you.
Major Llewellyn," she answers, with a
ring in her voice and a flash of expression
In ber eyes, betokening anything but lan
guor of spirit.
"Well, I am, Miss O'Hara," he says
with a slight smile; "don't you remember
Miles said I wasn't as strong as I used
to be? No water to be had anywhere
near, I suppose?" he asks, drawing out his
spirit flusk.
"Yes, there is water just here," Muriel
answers, her face changing, "but you can
uot get at it. No, no! you cannot, really,
Major Lewellyn" for he has sprung to
his feet "it is a horribly dangerous place
in an old mine-shaft, hundreds of feet
deep! You could not reach it without
risking your life."
He strides off through the grass, and
the brambles, and huckleberry bushes in
the direction of the sudden declivity,
where he can plainly see the water snat
ch, and the blue sky mirrored cleiIy In
the center of the ominously-sunken
grassy hollow. But as be pauses for a
moment on the outer rim of the hollow,
Muriel overtakes him with a breathless
clutch of her little hands on his arm, and
her face, wild with terror, is upturned to
his.
'Stop!" she gasps; "I tbonght you only
meant to frighten me. You mustn't!, you
ran'tl it ia too dangerous the ground is
all undermined," and as be persists, and
moves on laughingly, she tries to bold
mm by force. "Eric! don t! Oh, bncl
don't!" she says, frantically, "you will
drowned there, already I Yon will lose
your life there, surely!"
And then Eric Llewellyn panses, taking
a somewhat nnfair advantage of ber dis
tress, and clasping the trembling little
form close to hia heart, which throbs as
wildly and passionately as if be had
never loved before this hour, he leads her
away from the -vicinity of the treacherous
pool.
"Would the loss of my Itte matter very
much to you, my darling?" he asks, ten
derly. CHAPTER VII.
At the softly-uttered words, and the
pressure of Eric Llewellyn's arms around
her, Muriel stops suddenly for a moment
or two in frightened amazement, and then
wrathfully triea to wrench herself away
from his clasp; her fair face, one burn
ing crimson blush up to the masses of ber
silken curling hair, which is almost black
in the shadow, but full of rich golden
lights in the sunshine.
"Major Llewellyn! how dare you?" ebe
pants, her purple-gray eyes flashing
through angry tears. "Iet me go! You
have no right you have no right! How
dare you hold me?"
"My darling! my darling! he says,
drawing her closer. "Will you give me
the right, sweetest? Will you marry me,
Muriel? I want yon so much In my lonely
!fe, my darling!" he whispers.
And Muriel the temple of whose inno
cent heart la full of hia image, the harp
of whose being thrills in every chord be
neath jb. touch, of the master hand
taker these words of Eric Llewellyn's in
fullest, sweetest faith to mean nothing
else than an avowal of yearning love for
ber.
"I did not think did not dream you
cared so much in that way for me."
she falters, not venturing to look up at
him who Is as a demigod in her eyes
this man so much her superior even in
age as well as all else, gifted, handsome,
well educated, well bred, well born, a
gentleman iu mind, manner and appear
ance, and in fortune and position as well,
wealthy, according to Muriel's simple
ideas.
"I cannot live without you!" be says,
hotly, with an ungovernable impulse, and
his own. words send a thrill of surprise
and a species of shame through every
nerve of feeling. Is he deceiving himself
or her? What then has become of the un
dying constancy of his outer feeling of
mingled love and hatred to his false fair
love? "Tell me, Muriel," he persists,
gently, but quite firmly now, "tell me,
dear, are you willing to marry me soon?
very soon, Muriel? I have only three
mouths' leave, and one month is nearly
gone already."
"Ob! I cannot I cannot promise any
thing until I see Miles until I tell Miles!"
Muriel exclaims, affrighted at the rapid
progress of her wooing. "I'lease let me
go! 1 cannot say anything now please
let me go!"
"Not without my answer, darling," be
returns, persistently.
"Do not ask me to promise anything
just now," she pleads, a little flurried and
distressed, "and I think we had better go
home. It is one o'clock."
"Do you care for me, then?" he asks,
looking into the troubled depths of her
sweet eyes. "I thought you did, or you
would not have consented to marry me."
"I never consented," Muriel says posi
tively, with the semblance of mirth
sparkling in the shadows of her deep eyes,
aud dimpling around her demure lips.
"Well, 1 took it for granted that you
bad," he says significantly. "Put your
consent into words now, Muriel.
"What am I to say?" she inquires with
suspicious meekness.
"Say," he says, laying his hands lightly
on her shoulders and looking down at her.
"1 love you, and I will marry you as soon
as you please."
"Major Eric Llewellyn," Muriel says,
with provoking carefulness; "you love me,
nd you will marry me as soon as I please.
It is very nice and kind of you to be so
so affectionate and unselfish. Major Llew
ellyn, and I will be sure and let you kuow
when 1 please," and with this she starts
away from his detaining hold and runs
lightly off down one of the long aisles of
the plantations, laughing as she runs,
and looking back gayly ever and anon to
see if he Is following ber.
Which Major Llewellyn has no resource
but to do, unless be means to sulk in lone
liness, or go without his luncheon. Mu
riel hurries on, aud he beside her, in si
lence, until the house is reached, and they
see Miles beside the open window looking
out for their approach; and Muriel, in one
swift, anxious glance, sees that Miles is
looking very ill flushed and haggard, and
his eyes bloodshot.
His temper is evidently in a state of irri
tation, too. She can hear him angrilv
shout his commands to some one in the
house, and, almost as they enter the
room he is saying something in a voice of
suppressed rage to Sylvester, and the poor
little sister's heart sinks with apprehen
sion as they all sit down at table.
(To b& continued.)
Pertinent and Impertinent.
It was while Henry Liddell was head
master of Westminster School that bis
fame began to extend as the author of
a Greek lexicon, published a few years
before. One day be told the boys in his
class that they must write an English
epigram.
Most of the scholars declared the task
to be Impossible. Doctor Liddell in
sisted that they were wrong. It was
not impossible. Each scholar might
choose his own subject, but epigrams
must be written. This was what one
boy produced:
Two met wrote a lexicon,
Liddell and Scott;
One-half was clever.
And one-half was not.
Give me the answer, boys.
Quick to this riddle.
Which was by Scott,
And which was by Liddell?
"I think you are rather severe," was
the master's only comment.
A Mount Vernon women was sen
tenced to three months' imprisonment
in the King's county, N. Y. peniten
tiary, bees u 9 she did not keep her
children clean. She was the first
woman to be convicted on euch a
charge.
Fruit-eating bats eat fruit ouly,
and are confined to Asia, the island of
the East Indian Aicbinelaco being one
of their principal habitats. They cover
me trees in daytime in vast mul
titude!', looking like a hure Hock of
crows.
A elanca at tho naval luirlcrju nt'
the several European powers shows un
mistakable evidence of a hull move
ment in the price of peace.
The men who design war maps
have experienced a slight dash of the
return of prosperity.
A few years ago 4,000.000 bronze
two-cent pieces were set atloat. Three
million of these are still out standing.
three million three-cent nickle pieces
are scattered over the United States,
but it is very rarely that one is seen.
The exact length of time it takes
the moon to complete one revolution
around the earth is 27 days 7 hours
43 minutes and U.bio seconds. The
second figure of the fraction is known
to be absolutely correct.
A disadvantage of the metric system,
says the Observer, Is found In the ust
of the Centigrade scale on the ther
mometer. Prof. II. A. Hazen points out
that the degrees In this are twice too
large, while weather records are com
plicated and filled with errors by hav
ing half the temperatures with minus
signs before them. Prof. Hazen sug
gests that both the centigrade ami
Fahrenheit scales have their zero point
dropped to 40 degrees below zero of the
present scale. This would obviate the
difficulty of the minus sign in meteor
ology, but the Fahrenheit degree would
remain the better.
It Is suggested that the wlndsails on
board steamers might be replaced with
advantage by electric fans. In war
ships the fan ought to be placed where
room can be found for it low down in
the ship, far below the water line. An
electrically driven horizontal fan, with
Its motor, can be got Into the thickness
of a deck with Its beams. If need lie.
This would clearly be better than de
pending on a flimsy construction, which
would certainly be greatly damaged. If
not entirely shot away. In action. If
clear decks are wanted, the wlndsall
Is as Inconvenient as it is ugly, and
that is saying a great deal.
The preparations for the exploration
of the South Polar regions by M. De
tlerlache, a Belgian naval officer, are
almost complete. The crew of the Bel
glca will be chiefly composed of Nor
wegian sailors and barpooners, but of
the three officers holding responsible
positions two are Belgians. Three Bel
gian scientific men have generously of
fered their co-operation, and will ac
company the expedition. Belgium does
not furnish, however, a zoologist capa
ble of taking deep-set soundings, and
nu appeal has been made In the scien
tific journals of England, France and
Germany for a competent man to sup
ply the deficiency.
From some experiments made to de
termine the best angles for the heads
of countersunk rivets for ship plates,
Trof. Welghton concludes that for
quarter-inch plates the- countersunk
should not be less than 50 degrees, and
even a greater angle would seem to be
not amiss; and second, that for half
Inch plates the countersink should not
lie less than 35 degrees. For other
thicknesses the angle of countersink
would be In proportion, and the follow
ing would be about the angles proper
for the different thicknesses: quarter
Inch plate, 56 degrees angle of counter
sink; three-elghths-tnch, 45 degrees;
half-Inch, 39 degrees; flve-elghtbs-tnch,
20 degrees.
For the past three months an Inter
esting Isolated plant has been In opera
tion at Messrs. J. Snook & Co.'s, of Not
tingham, says the Electrical Review.
This plant Includes a sixty horse power
water tube boiler, two twenty-five
horse power engines, one of 50( light
dynamo, four six horse pow.er electric
motors, five electric fans, six electric
irons, etc. The whole of tbe operations
of lighting. Ironing, beating and ven
tilating in this establishment are car
ried on electrically. The cost of gen
erating power for all these varied ope
rations during the last three months
bus Ix'en very carefully noted, and af
ter allowing 10 per cent, for deprecia
tion and all charges for wages, coal,
water, oil aud sundries, the cost of gen
erating amounts to one penny per unit.
The etching of wood may be success
fully accomplished by coating with
hydrochloric acid, which causes the
wood to soften to the depth of about
two millimeters. When both of the
acids are used together the wood be
comes white, while If only nitric acid U
used the part coated becomes of a
blackened appearance. In order to pre
vent the etch from running, the meth
od pursued is to previously treat the
other parts with an alcohol lacquer of
sufficient thickness or with liquid wax
or a mixture of two parts white wax,
two parts mastic and one part asphalt,
these being melted together and stirred
intimately together, then poured with
care upon the places which are to be
untouched. Some fine specimens ot
work In this line are produced by
French artisans.
One of the cheapest ground returns
that can be built for electric roads may
be constructed of old rails. Flat rail
are the most convenient for the pur
pose, and are usually the most availa
ble. They may be readily laid between
the rails. It Is necessary, however, in
order that the rail thus laid shall mate
rially reduce the resistance of the re
turn circuit, that It be exceptionally
well bonded, otherwise there will be
little gained. One point may be noted
as being extremely favorable to this
class of bonding. The rail is not sub
ject to continuous jar, as in tbe case
of rails doing, at the same time, me
chanical service, still tbe joints are
subjected to the gradual motion of ex
pansion and contraction. The bond
must, therefore, be flexible, or It will
gradually work loose. If such a feeder
were laid with its joints staggering,
those of an active rail and cross bonded
thereto, the failure of a bond on eithet
rail would lie provided for. By draw
lug a sketch of the two rails and the
bonds, it will be seen that by stagger
Ing the rails each joint Is bridged by a
ill th nnlb linvln rVin- bond oin -If
the joints are opposite, tbe number ot
bond joints In this reserve bridge is In
creased to six. Tbe use of old rails for
this purpose would seem to be very ad
visable, being both economical and dur
able. The electric continuity of the
bond may be preserved from corrosion
by embedding it In an asphaltlc com
pound. Electrical World.
Good taste it tbe flower of good
ease.
PAr-tSS QUICKLY FASTENED.
8t.pl. Fastener Feed. ISO St.pl.
Wit boat Bepleai.hlaas.
A new staple fastener for fastening
papers together, which hi always ready
for use and can be kept full of staples.
which feed auto
matically when-
ever one la used, la
a great time saver.
It has a spring coll
which holds about
150 staples when
filled to the end of
the coil In tbe cen
ter, and aa each
one la used the
center of the coll
can be filled out at leisure. Oue blow
on tbe top of the fastener cuts tbe pa
pers, drives tbe staple through them,
clinches tbe staple through the papers,
aud feeds tbe next staple, all ready for
the next bunch of papers. This Is a
great improvement over the old styles,
which took from one to three blows of
the machine, besides adjusting eacb
staple separately by band.
The Dark Side of Christian America
"We have now in America a popula
tion of 70,000,000 of people, and yet
three-quarters of a million, we are told,
belong the the criminal class," writes
P wight L. Moody, in bis initial paper
In "Mr. Moody's Bible Class," In tbe
Ladles' Home Journal. "And this In
Christian America. It Is said that In
six months thirty graduates of two
In rj;e Europeau universities were found
by oue rescue mission in New York
City. Nor are the American colleges
without representatives In the great
city slums. Our daily papers are but
a living chronicle of the fearful hold
which sin has upon us as a nation. A
man must have lost all his senses who
ays that sin la not inherent, that it Is
only a physical weakness which cul
ture may ultimately overcome. Veneer
ing the outer mam will make him us
better within."
On Signing One's Name.
"Do tell the women," begged a lady
of great wealth the other day, "tell the
women never to sign a paper the con
tents of which they do not fully under
stand. In tbe sorrow and excitement
of a certain hour, I put my name to a
document which placed my money and
my affairs at the mercy of a money
changer for a dozen years, nad I only
told bim that I would think It over be
fore signing, I should have had fewer
sleepless nights and fewer gray hairs.
Why did my father or my husband
never tell me this?"
To think over a paper, or at least to
read it carefully before signing! This
precept should be taught every girl
and woman as tbe alphabet of business
affairs. Many things may be safely
left ber to learn by experience, but not
this. Too often it means her gentle
acquiescence In a man's "Sign here,"
with a consequent adoption of other
persona' obligations or the abrogation
of ber own perquisites and property.
A person's signature, atanding before
'.he law for one's self. Is entitled to
proper -respect; and bow to sign la
scarcely less Important than what not
to sign. Everybody should adopt and
cling to the use of a certain style of
autograph. Women should use their
Christian names, never their hus
bands', and omit Mrs. or Miss aa a pre
fix. A signature should never be left
carelessly on pieces of blank paper
where unscrupulous use might be made
of It, and It should be distinctly legi
ble. A woman should learn also to re
spect the signature of those of even
her nearest kin. Messenger-boys say
that they are daily asked by ladies if
they shall sign their own or then: hus
band's names on receipt-books. Tbe
New York Tribune recently portrayed
a pretty bride with no practical knowl
edge of a check-book. The deliverer of
a choice piece of bric-a-brac had in
sisted on payment at the door. Tbe
young woman explained that evening
to ber husband that aa she had fortu
nately remembered how he had drawn
a check tbe previous day, and where
be bad left his check-book, she made
one out for the merchant, adding:
"You do not know bow well Alonzo
B. Tompkins looked in my handwrit
ing!" It la needless to add that no time
was lost by the distracted young hus
band In recovering that most Innocent
ly forged check! Youth's Companion
Don't Go to Braxll.
Brazil is not a profitable place to go
to without capital. Our Consul at Para
utters this warning to Americans, de
claring that "energy and push" are not
enough for emigrants to start with.
He says: "No Americans coming to
Para without the means to maintain
themselves while acquiring tho lan
guage and seeking employment can
have much chance of success.
"That language Is Portuguese, and
one must know It In order to find em
ployment. Para has more applicants
than positions. Salaries are small, and
living the most expensive In the world.
"Nearly everything consumed here is
irr ported, and paya a very high impoit
duty. Salaries for clerks are from $15
to $45 a mouth. The uncertain and
everchanging value of tbe money baa
an Injurious effect upon trade. None
suffer more from It than they who wcrk
for wages, for while the coat of living
is made dearer by tbe financial condi
tion of the country, salarlea undergo
little or no change as tbe money fluctu
ates in value. As to outdoor labor, no
white American who exposes himself,
as be would be compelled to do, to the
sun's burning rays, wet season, could
hope to escape the yellow fever.
"It Is true, money Is plentiful and the
exportation of natural products guar
antees a permanent prosperity to this
part of Brazil; but no one can success
fully deal In rubber unless he baa a
targe capital. The competition is gnt
In the rubber field, men without money
can play no part, unless they become
rubber gatherers, In which case they
would have ten chances for death
against life. On some of the rivers, 60
per cent, of the natives die who co
there.
"Tbe value of the milrels la the low
est in the history of Brazil aa It now
requires over 64 milrels to buy $1
(United States), which, In the middle
of the coffee and rubber season la an
unlooked-for condition, Buaineaa a
DISTINGUISHED GREEK.
rill. ta. FmIUm ot Ca.nl Qnaral
for Oreeca In New York City.
Demetrius N. Botasal, the geniul and
cultured Greek who fills the position of
consul general for Greece In New York,
has held that distinguished place for
thirty-five years. He has now reached
the venerable age of 60 years, yet he
la aa active and Industrious aa many
men half his age. Consul General Bo
tasal was born in the historic little Isl
and of Spezzla and is a lineal descend
ant of the warrior of his name who
fought so gallantly for Grecian Inde
pendence seventy years ago. He Is a
man of rare culture and learning, and
speaks many European languages. He
Is politeness Itself to all who come in
contact with him either personally or
with relation to business. It was be
who. In the capacity of acting minis
ter, promulgated the order from King
George recalling all Greeks In the Unl-
DEMETBll S N. BOTASSI.
ted States to their native land and to
tbe army to fight against tbe Turkish
oppressor. M. Botasal keeps track of
his countrymen who come to the Uni
ted States. Grecian Immigration has
Increased during tbe past four years.
Tbe largest colony Is at Chicago, and
numbers about 2,500. San Francisco
ranks second with about 1.5G0 and
New York third with nearly the same
number. Smaller colonies are scatter
ed throughout the East and South. The
total number of Greeks In the United
States Is about 15,000. They are em
ployed chiefly In tbe fruit business, but
have representatives In almost every
line of trade. The Greeks are a patri
otic race, and Consul General Botasal
Is not the least patriotic among hia
compatriots In America.
CLEAN SHIRT-FRONT BY A TWIST
Taraa aa a Bnttoa .nd Present. CIms
and Different Botom,
The greatest genius so far la the In
ventor of the rotary shirt front. This
Is a stiff circle about thirteen Inches In
diameter, with a buttonhole In the cen
ter for the shirt stud to fasten It to the
ordinary white shirt. This circle of
linen Is divided into four equal parts,
each quarter on both sides being of a
different pattern of percale.
This shirt bosom can be worn for
REVOLVING SniBT-FBOWT.
eight days, or. In other words, it Is an
eight-day shirt. If tbe green quarter
of the shirt front is worn on Monday a
quarter turn of the disk will briug It
around to a black and white check for
Tuesday. For Wednesday a red sea
weed on a white ground would make
a pleasant change, while a beautiful
delft pattern in blue and white rose
leaves might prove a rest for the eyes
on Thursday. On Friday, the day of
ill-luck, might be cheered by a pink
horseshoe on a white ground, with
jockey cap and whip, while the pro
gram could be varied on Saturday with
a Persian pattern iu gaslight blues aud
heliotropes, etc. To the young man who
Is forced to the extreniest economy this
arrangement fills a long-felt want. The
quarter of a circle fits nicely Into the
space between the "V of the vest and
the necktie, and no one would ever
know that one had on an eight-day
shirt unless they were told.
A Married Man.
Merchant Tailor Good morning, Mr.
Truepay. What can I do for you this
morning?
Mr. Truepay I want a suit of clothes.
"Yes, air. John, the tape and book,
please."
"Oh, I don't went a ault to measure
I want a ready-made suit"
"Eh? Ready-made?"
"Yes a cheap one."
"Certainly certainly. Right this
way, please. I hadn't heard of your
marriage." New York Weekly.
Their Hate Purpose
"They claim to have discovered the
missing link."
"Oh, they're Just trying to make
monkeys of people." Detroit Tribune.
Pots and Kettles.
A handy device for holding the cov
ers on pots and kettles when pouring
off water consists of a piece of spring
wire so arranged aa to press against
the lid, being held In position by pres
sure against the handle, thus holding
that In an upright position also.
Very few men are aa confident In
making assertions In their wives' pre
noa v when they are absent.
KEV. 1)11. TALMAIil
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: -Pray for Those in Authoi
ity."
Tkxt: "I exhort, therefor, that, first o
all. supplications, prayers, Intercessions an
giving of I banks be mada for all men. to:
kings and for all that are in authority." J
Timothy, U., 1.
That which London is to England. Paris tc
France, Berlin to Oer nany. Home to Italy.
Vienna to Austria, 8t. Peter-bnrg to Russia
Washington ia to tho United Slates republia
Tt. people who live hern see more of I h
ehl-f men ot the Nation than any who live
anywhere els. bei ween Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. If - Hnator or Member ot th
Ronse of Representatives or Supreme Court
Justice or Se rtary of the Cabinet or repre
sentative of Foreign Nation enters a public
assembly Id any other city, his coming and
wring are re-narked upon, aud unusual de-fereo'-M
is paid to him. la this aapitnl there
are so many political ebieftains ia om
?harehe. our streets, oar balls, that then
coming and going make no excitement.
Tbe Swiss seldom look up to tbe Matter
horn or J'lngfrau or Mont Blano, because
those people are used to the Alps. So we at
this capital are so accustomed to walk among
mountains of official and political eminence
that i bey are not to as a great novelty.
Morning, noon and night we meet the giants.
ut there is do place on earth where the
importance ot the Pauline injunction to
pray for those iu eminent place ought to
b. better apprectnted. At this time, when
our public men have before them the rescue
ot our Nntlobal Treasury from appalling de
ficits, and the Gutan question, and ttie arbi
tration question, and in many departments
men are taking important positions which
ire to them ne and untried, 1 would like to
quote my text with a wiiole tonnage of em
phasis wonts written by the scarred mis
fionary to the ynung theologian Timothy.
"I exhort, therefore, that, first of all. sup
plications, prayers, intercessions and giving
o- thanks tie made for all men, for kings and
for all that are in authority."
If I have the time and do not forget some
of them liefore I get through, I will give you
four or five reasons why the people of the
Doited States ought to make earnest and
continuous prayer forthosein eninent pine.
First, because that will put us ia proper
attitude toward the successful men of the
Nation. After yon have priyed for a man
you will do him jntice. There is a bad
streak in human n ituru that demands ns to
assail those that are more successful than
ourselves. Itshnws iislf in boyhood, when
the lads, all running to gt their ride on the
back of a carriage, and one gets on, those
failing to g-t on shout on the driver, "Out
behind!" UDsuci-esfnl men seldom like
those who in anv department are successful.
The cry is, "He is a political accMent." or,
'He bought his way up," or, "it just hap
pened so," and there is an impatient wAiting
for bim to come down more rapidly than be
went up.
The best cure for such cynicism Is prayer.
After we have risen from our knees we will
be wishing the official good instead ot evil.
We will be hoping for bim benediction rather
thau malediction. If he makes a mistake,
we will call ii a mistake instead of malfea
sance in office. And. oh. how much hap
pier we will he. for wishing one evil is dia
bolic, but wishing one good is saint
ly. Is angelic, Is godlike! When the
Lord drops a man into depths beyond which
there Is no lower depth, he allows hfm to be
put on an tnvest'giiiini; committee with the
one hopo of Uniting something wrong. In
general assemblies of the Presbyterian
church, iu conferences of the Methodist
church, in conventions of the Episcopal
shurch, in Huse of Representatives 'and
Senate of the United States, there are men
always glad to be appointed on the commit
tee of malodors. while there are those who
are glad to I e put on the committee of
euloglums. After you hava prayed. In the
words of my text, lor all that are iu Author
ity, you Wid i-ay, "lirethreo, gentlemen, Mr.
3halrroao, excu.-e me from serving on the
sommittee of malodors, for last night, just
jefore I prayed for those in emin'ut nosi
ions, I re id th it chapter in Corinthians
ibout charity which 'hopeth ail Ihiacs' and
thlnketb noevil.' " Tbe committee of mat
adors is an important committee, hut 1 bere
now declare that those are importaut for its
work who have, not in spirit of convention
alty, but in spirit of earnest importunity,
prayed for those iu hiirh position. I cmuot
help it, but 1 do like a St. Bernard tetter
than a bloodhound, aud I would rather be a
bumming bird a ni ng honeysuckles than a
crow swooping upon Ihdd carcasse.
Another reason why we should pray for
(hose in eminent place Is because taey have
Mich multiplied wi plexites. Tbts city at
this time holds hundreds of men who are
expectant of prelermeut, anil United States
o ail baug as uever heiure are full of ap
plications. Let me cay I have no sympathy
with either the uttere I or printed sneer at
what are called "office seekers." If 1 had
not already recoivcii appointment as miuis
ler plenipotentiary from the high court of
heaven aseveiy minister of the gospel has
HUd I bad at my back n family for whom 1
wished to achieve a livelihood, there is no
employer whose service 1 wonhl sooner se. k
thau city, State or Uuiled States Govern
ment. Those Governments are the promptest
in their payments, paying just as well in
bard times as in good timesaud during sum
mer vacation as during winter work. Be
jides that, many of ns have been payiug
taxes to city and slate and Nation for years,
and while we are Indented for the protection
af Government the Government la indebted
to us for the hottest support we have
rendered it. So I wi-di success to all earnest
and competent men who appeal to city or
State or Nation for a place to work.
But how many men iu high place iu
3lty and State and Nation are at their
wild end to kuow what to no, wnen lor
ome places there are ten applicants and fur
;iher a hundred. Terplexities arise from
the fact that eit-wns sign petitions without
reference to the (tialiliciLttous of the apoli
caui lor tbe places appl ed lor. You sicn
the application because i he applicant is your
friend, i'eople sometmes want that lor
which they have no Ualincatioii, as we hear
reoplesiug "1 want to be an anget" when
they offer the poorest material possible for
angelhood. Boors wa ting to be sent to
foieigu palaces as embassadors, aud men
without any bu-ini ss qualification wanting
to be consuls to forei:u jiorts, nnd illiterates,
capable in oi e 'ettur of wrecking all the laws
of orthography and syntax, desiring to be
put into posdloos wheie most of the work is
done by correspotider.ee. If divine help is
ueeded in auy place in the world, it is in
those places where patronage is distributed.
In years gone by awful mistakes h.ivu been
made. Ouly God, who made the world out
of cbaos. ?ould out of the crowded pigeon
holes of public men develop tym metrical re
sults. For this reason rray Almighty God
for all those in authority.
Again, prayer to God for those in authority
ts our only way ot ne'.ng oi any practical
service to l hem. Our personal advice would
be to them, tor the most part, a a impertin
ence. They have all the facts as we cannot
have them, and they see the subject in all its
bearings, and we ran be of no help to them
except through the supplication that our
text advises. In that way we may be Infinite
re-enforcement. The mightest thing you
can do for a man is to pray for him. It the
old Bible be true and if It is not true it ha
been the only imposition that ever blessed
the world, tuni'ng barbarism into civiliza
tion and tyrannies into republics I say, if
the old B ble le true, God answers- prayer.
You may tet a letter and through forgetful
liess or lack of time not answer it, but God
never gets a genuine letter that he does not
make reply. Every genuine prayer is a
child's letter to his lieavenlv Father, and h.;
will answer it, ami though you may get man)
letters from your child before you respond
some flay 5ou say: "There! 1 have leceivec
ten letters from mv daughter, and 1 will an
swer them ll now snd at opee. and thoiicl
not In Just the way that aba hopes for I wlv
do it in the best way, and though she asked
me for . sheet of music I will not give It tc
her, for I do like the music spoken of. but 1
will send her a deed to a house and lot, tc
be hers forever." So God does not In al
eases answer in the way those who sent th
prayer hoped for, but He In all oaDes give
what Is asked for or something better. 8c
prayers went up from tbe North an lthf
South at the time ot our Civil War, and they
were all anawered at Gettysburg You cau
viot make mo believe that God answrej
only the Northern prayers, for there wen;
jnst as devout prayers answered south ol .
Mason and Dixon's line as north of it. and
God gave what was asked for, or something
as much more valuable as a house and lot
are wortti more than a sheet of music. There
Is not a good an intelligent man between the
Gulf of Mexico and the St. Liwrenco River
who does not bolieve that God did the best
thing possible when He Stood this Nation
down in 1865 a glorious unitv. never to be
rent until the waters of tbe Ohio and the Sa
vannah, tbe Hudson and the Alabama, are
licked up by the long, red tongues of a world
aa fire. Yea, God sometimes answers pray
srs on a large scale.
In worse nredicament nation never was
.ban the Israelltish nation on the b.iuks of
the Red Sea, the rattling shields anil the
llaitering hoofs of an overwhelming host
slose after them. An armv conld ju-t as
wsily wade through the Atlantic Oce-in from
Sew York to Liverpool as the Israelites
jould have waded through the Red Sea. You
leedto sail on its water to realize how big
t is. How was the orossing effected? By
grayer. Exodus xiv.. 15: "And the Lord
laid nnto Moses: Wherefore eriest thou
into Me? Speak unto the children of Israel,
hat they go forward" that is. "Stop pray
ng and take the answer." And then tbe
rater began to be agitate! and swung this
vay and that way, and the ripple became a
lillow, aj.i tbe billow climbed other billows,
ind now they rise into walls of sapphire, and
nvisible trowels mason them into firmness,
tnd the walls become like mountains, topped
ind turreted and domed with orair of crys
al, and God throws an invisible chain
iround the feet of those mountains, so that
hey are oblige ! to stand still, and there,
igbt before the Israelitfsh army, is a turn- '
ike road, with all the emerald gates swung
wide open. The passing host did not even
?et ther feet wet. Tney passed dryshoi,
:he bottom of the soa as hard as the nive-
nen! of Pennsylvania avenue to New York's
Broadway or London's Strand. Oh, what a
3od they bad! Or I think I will change that
ind say, 'What a God we have"'
What power puis it hands upon astron
omy in Joshua's time an I made the sun and
noon standstill? Joshua x., 12, "Then spoke
loshua unto the Lord." Prayer? As a giant
will taketwo or four great globes, an 1 in as
tounding way swing them this way or that,
r hold two of them at ami's length, so the
Omnipotent does as He will with tho great
3rbs of worlds, with wheeling constellations
ind circling galaxies, swiuging easily star
around star, star tossed after star, or sun
aud moon held out at arm's lenzth and per
fectly still, as in answer to Joshua s prayer.
To God the largest world is a pebble.
Another reason why we should obey the
Pauline injunction of the text and pray for
nil tbut are in authority is that so very
much of our own prosperity and happiness
are involved In their doings. A seltish rea
son, you sny. Yes, hut a righteous selllsh-nes-",
like that which leads you to take care
of your own health and preserve your
awn life. Prosperous government means a
prosperous people. Damaged government
means a damaged people. Wa all go np
together, or we all go down top'thei.
When we pray for our rulers, we pray for
ourselves, for our homes, for the easier irain
ini: of a livelihood, for better pro-peets lor
3ir children, for the hurling of these hard
rimes so far down the embankment they can
lever climb up again. Do net look nt any
bing that Dertains to public interest as bav
ng no relation to yourself. We are touched
jy all the events iu our national history, by
:he sitrning of the compact in the cabin of
he Mayflower, by the small ship, the Halt
Moon, sailing up the Hudson: by the treaty
)f William l'enn, by the hand that made the
'Liberty bell" sound its first stroke, by Old
Ironsides plowing the high seas, and, if
:ouchod by all the events of past America, cer
tainly by all the events of the present nay.
Every prayer you make tor our rulers, if the
prayer be of the right stamp and worth any
thing, has a rebound of benediction for your
iwn body, mind and soul.
Another reason for obedience to my text
s that the prosperity of this country Is coni
ng, and we want a band in helping on its
;ouiing. At any rate I do. It is a matter of
lonest satisfaction to a soldior, after some
trfint battle has been fought and some great
victory won, to be nble to say: "Yes, I was
here. I was in the brigade that stormed
hose heights. I was in that bavouet charge
hat put the enemy to flight." Weil. the day
will come when nil the financial, political
ind moral foes of this republic will be driven
wek and driven down Aiy the prosperities
hat are now on their way, but which come
arilh slow trend nnd in "fatigue dress" whon
we waut them to take "the double quick."
By our prayers we may statid onlheraouu
aln top and beckon tbem on and show them
i shorter cut. Yea. in answer to our pray
irs the Lord God of Hosts may from the high
ieaveu9 command them forward, swifter
than mounted troops ever took tho field at
Eytau or Austerlil-
That was beautiful an I appropriate at the
aving of the cornerstone of the extension of
the Capitol flfiy-eigut yean after the corner
itoue of the old Cardiol had been laid. Yet
the cornerstone of our Republic was first
ni t iu 177li and at the re-establishment of
ur National Government was laid again in
t8i5. But are wo not ready for thu laying
f the cornerstone of a broader and higher
atioual life? We have as a Natiou recuived
10 much from God. Do w-t not owe new
ronsecnition? Are we not ri-a ly to become
1 better Sabbatb-keeplng, peace-loving vir-ue-bonoriug,
Gpd-worshlping Nation? Are
we not readv for such a cornerstone laying?
iVhy not now let it take place? With long
irocession of prayers, moviug troin the north
ind the south, the en-t and the west, lot tbe
icene be made august beyond comparison.
The God of nations, who hath dealt with
is as with no other people.will preside at the
lolemuization. By the square and th-t level
tnil the plumb of the everlasting rtgtit tet
he corner stone b adjusted. Let that cor
lerstone be tbe masoning together of fie
wo granite tables on which the law wis
jrrittea wueu Sinai shooic with thu earth
uake, and inside that cornerstone put tV
lermou on the mount and a scroll containing
be names of all the men au I women wuo
aave fought and prayed an I toiled for the
oo I of this nation, fro u the first martyr of
th'i American Revolution down to tne last
woman who bound up a soldier's wouuds in
the field hospital. An I let some one worthy
to do so strike tbe stone three tin-it's with the
gospol hammer in the name of God tbe
Father, God the Son and God the Holy
(isost. Then let the building rise, one wall
laved by the Pacific ocean an 1 the othar
washed of the Atlantic, until its cap-done
sha'l be laid amid the shouting of
all nations, by that time as tree as our own
divinely founded, divinely constructed, an I
divinely protecte I republic, the last throun
of oppression having fallen Hat into the dust
and the last shackle of tyranny been hung up
iu museum as a relic of barbaric ages.
The prayer that the great expoun lor wrote
,o be put in the cornerstone at tii1 extension
ot the Capitol I ejncu'ate as our own suppli
cation, "God save the Uulted States of
Aiberica," only adding the words with which
Robert South was apt to clos i his sermons,
whether delivered before the Court at
Christ-Church chapel or in W.-stmlnster
Abbey, at anniversary of restoration of Oli
ver Cromwell ami t the worst tempest that
ever swept over England: "To GoJ be ren
dered and ascribed, as is most due, all praise,
might, majesty and dominion, both cow aud
forever. Amen."
Every man is serving some kind of
a master.
Men do not always love thi.se thev
esteem; women, on the contrary, es
teem oniy iiKHe tney love.
The reformer is a liviii" declaration
o war.
'lruth has nothing to fear from the
future.
Keen the heart vounsr. and the hodv
, - t r, . J
will be slow in growing old
An old bachelor resembles a nair of
scissors with only one blade.
Wa hftvp rarelv knntvn a man t i
convinced of the errir of hia opinions
t y iiettig caned a tool.
The only way lo get nt which is ritht
Is to do what seems right.
Dutv, rt-sigdiation, the ajti.roval fo
elf, there is nothing else.
u