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F. OHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
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MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 12,1897.
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CHAPTER XIV. Continued.)
"Fur Miles' sake, aud for Jour.; because
I pity you, and because I love yon, Eric
answers, fervently, glad that be can speak
the truth from his conscience, in this par
ticular at least; the conscience that has
startled uneasily at her first question.
'I cuu give you no other and no better
reason, Muriel. If yon thiuk it a good
enough reason, dear," Eric continues,
stooping down with his lips on ber cheek,
"make uie happy, Muriel, by saying you
care enough for me to marry me."
"Do you really love me?" she asks ab
ruptly, and her face pales with some sud
den terror of doubt and perplexity;
strange enough in so young a girl, wooed
tenderly by a man like Eric Llewellyn.
"Are you aure there is no one you would
like better than me?"
It Is a strange question, and Llewellyn's
face flushes and pales, and bis voice fal
ters, a. he answers formally:
"There Is no one on earth I would ask
to be my wife but yourself, MurieL Why
do yon doubt me, dearest?"
"Well, then, 1 won't doubt you!" she
ays. suddenly, with charming girlish im
pulse, "only it seemed strange, you know
ao little of me," and .he softly reaches
rap her Innocent arms around his neck.
"Klaa me, little wife." he says, all his
heart's depths stirred with the gladness,
the tenderness he feels for her; and Mu
riel Ussea him with timid rapture and the
reverent fear and honor which is inter
woven with her love for him.
And then he takes her Into ber broth
er's room once more, and poor Miles' wan
face glows with an eager look of pleas
ure as he sees the two come in together
With Muriel's band within Eric's arm.
"We are coming to give you a piece of
Information, Miles," Eric says.
"I think I know it beforehand," Miles
ays faintly, but smiling brightly and s
pot of hectic red struggling into his face.
"I don't think you do," Eric says, grave
ly smiling, "for I wasn't sure of it myself
until a few minutes ago. Muriel and I
axe going to be married "
"Well, I know that," Miles answers, his
breath coming fast and the sunken eyes
glittering like stars, "and I am so glad.
Murrie, darling!" feebly mressing his sis
ter's crisp, dark, silky curls as she
crouches down in ber little chair by the
bedside and lays her head on the pillow,,
"you will have some one when I am gone;
you will not be left alone In the world,
and don't put it off for a long time, dear,
eat of mere ceremonial idea."
"But we are not going to put It off at
all, my dear fellow," Eric says, gsyly;
"we are going to get married first and
nurse you afterward; are we not, Mu
eieir "Yes." Muriel says, timidly, not indeed
understanding his meaning in the least.
"Yes, that is much the better way." as
sents Eric pleasantly and In a matter-of-fact
voice. "Muriel has made op her
mind to Le a heroine and get married
without a heap of new dresses, which she
can get in Loudon In a week and could not
get here in a month. She and I have
made up our minds," he says, gently, lift
ing her up so that he can look Into her
yes. "to go over to Derrylossary on Fri
day morning, the day after to-morrow,
and be married."
CHAPTER XV.
She has been up with the first dawn of
the wild, rainy November morning, poor
little Muriel a white-faced, sad-eyed
bride, in the dark, simple dress which Is
to be ber wedding dress tremulously
busy and anxious in attending to Miles'
very requirement preparing a little cup
of chocolate, as usual, and even coming
back when her bonnet is on to give him
the tablespoonful of brandy and beef-es-aence
which be takes every half hour.
Standing in the hall, looking fair as a
white lily in her warm, rich-hued dress
of dark crimson plush and cashmere, with
a bonnet and muff to match, she notices,
aa Eric comes down the stairs, that his
face is grave and very pale, and there is
a shocked look in his eyes.
"Are you ready, my darling?" he asks,
and his voice is even- a little hoarse with
motion. "Then we bad better go at
once," be says with an involuntary baste
and excitement in his tone. "Mr.
O'Donogbue will be waitiug," he adds
explaining, as this gentleman, an old
friend of her father's, and a distinct rela
tive as well, is to represent Miles at the
church, and be the solitary guest at the
quiet wedding.
Not twenty minutes after the bride ann
bridegroom have left Curraghdene, Miles,
who has been lying In a doze apparently,
suddenly awakes, and starts up in a sit
ting posture, looking wildly about him.
"Muriel! Muriel! where is my sister?'
ha asks hurriedly. In a strange, choking
voice, and Hannah, the old nurse, fliugt
op ber hands in a sudden terror as she
hears it. "Fetch her bring her back
hurry 1 hurry!" he gasps in that awful rat
tling voice; and the next moment, the
linen about his face is deluged with blood.
And then there is the hurry, and terror,
and bewilderment that the sudden coming
of the awful angel brings in the household
when his dread presence enters; and while
one messenger rushes at headlong speed
for the doctor, another gallops away to
Derrylossary Church to meet the poor lit
. tie bride and her newly wedded husband,
and ere they have taken one step on the
Journey of life together, bring the shadow
of death over their path.
It is a dreary morning for a bridal, of a
surety; a gusty, wild, wet day. It doe
not take quite twenty minutes to reach
Derrylossary. and there are smiles on the
lips of the girlish bride, and the sunlight
of happiness in her eyes. The friend who
U to stand In poor Miles' place is waiting,
shivering and impatient it must be owned,
and the clergyman is waiting, as the early
hoar had been particularly named; and
so there is no delay, and the marriage
service begins at once.
The first face Muriel sees as she comes
Out of the church, leaning on her hus
band' arm, is the Curraghdene groom,
poor Mick Kirwan, white and breathless
with anxiety after the two-mile gallop
he has come, and the tidings he has come
to tell visible in every feature. Muriel
pauses suddenly and totters as if a blow
has been dealt her, and her face is as
white as the orange blossoms in the lit
tle bouquet on her breast, as she gasps on
the words: "My brother I" '
"Yia, miss, he's very bad. Hurry boms
as fast aa yeh can, sir!" he saya hoarse
ly to Major. LUweUyn. .And under hit
breath he adds, "He's goln sir," with a
choked sob, aud leaps into his saddle and
gallops away, aud Eric Llewellyn, shock
ed and almost stunned at the suddenness
of the news, looks aboo Dim dajgdjy to
find that Muriel nas rusnea away from
him and is already in the carriage; and ai
he hurries after ber and ahuta them both
in, he sees that she draws away shud
dering from him and crouches down In
the opposite corner, pressing her hands
over ber face.
"He is dying or dead!" she says, harsh
ly and menacingly. "And through yon 1
bava bean away from him. and Mile, baa
die- wlhonl ! My brother has died
without me. Miles has asked for me, and
and heavens! let me out let me outl
I could run faster than these horses are
taking me! You are making them go
slowly on purpose! Let me out, or I will
throw myself through the window!"
And the girl in her frenzy actually leaps
up, and tries to wrench the door open;
and Eric seizes her with a graap like a
vise, though she struggles, and rages, and
strikes at him with her feeble, hysteric
strength, and holds her down by main
force until the frenzy gives way to a flood
of tears. She weeps on, shrunk back in
the corner of the carriage once more, until
they reach Curraghdene.
Aud here her behavior troubles pool
Eric Llewellyn afresh. Scarcely touching
him In leaving the carriage, she pushes
him aside as he attempts to draw her hand
within his arm, rushes into the house and
up the stairs into her brother's room.
She has torn her bonnet off, and hei
bridal blossoms and laces with It, and
flung them all on the ground, and is
crouching in her old place by the bedside.
her head pressed against the pillow where
the dying man's head rests, ere ber hus
band enters the room, and the faint light
glimmers in the dying eyes that recognise
him, though Miles is past speech, past
sight almost, and is struggling for each
labored breath. He has struggled to keep
his hold on life minute by minute, only
to see his little sister once more; for it
is not ten minutes later when, as they
the new-made husband and wife stand
there by the bedside, stirless and silent,
the quiet sleep is disturbed by a few
long, shuddering breaths, and then the
freed spirit sheds its light on the counte
nance of the earthly tenement from which
it has escaped into life eternal!
CHAPTER XVI.
Major Llewellyn la sitting with his head
leaning on his hand; the untasted lunch
eon dishes before him, aud, in the gloomy
light of the lowering sky and pouring rain,
be look, very solitary indeed in the big,
iilent room, with Miles' empty chair at
the head of the table as usual.
Muriel cannot but perceive the start and
the quick look of glad surprise with which
he sees her enter, a slender, pathetic
looking young figure, in the black gown
which clings in somber, unadorned foldi
to her girlish outlines, although he com
poses his expression instantly into gravest
ralm. and rises silently and places a chair
for her.
"I came down I thought it was not
kind to to leave you alone," she saya,
faltering aud coloring timidly. "Besides,
there are things to be attended to, aud 1
nunt not Indulge in grief selfishly."
"After you have had some luncheon we
can discus matters, he says, gravely
and gently, but very formally still, ant"
Muriel's heart sinks.
He Is deeply hurt and offended with her.
she thinks, secretly; and so she obeys bl.
every request and eats and drinks aa he
wishes her to do, and fears him more and
more each minute as the luncheon comes
to an end and the servant clears away.
And then Major Llewellyn stirs the fire.
places an easy chair for her at a moat
respectful distance from himself, and
coughs, as persons do when they intern)
it aa a prelude to a disagreeable speech.
us he seats himself facing her.
"What was it you were anxious should
be attended to?" he inquires, very busi
uess-like.
"About about the funeral,," she says
shivering. "I must, yon know."
"The person from the undertaking firm
will be here early to-morrow morning;
you can give what orders you please, Mu
riel, be says, gently; "and the dress
maker frou, Dublin will send a person to
morrow also with everything requisite.
I have taken on myself to do so much
without troubling you."
"You are very good," Muriel mutter.
faintly, feeling humbled aud sorry, aud
more afraid of bim the kinder and more
patient he appears. "It is very kind of
you; I should not have been able to think
f everything in time "
She cannot get any further just now.
and Eric walks away to the window un
til she recovers herself In a few minutes.
"I won't cry again if I can help it," ahe
says, as he returns; and there is a little
more hardness and coldness In her voice
at what she thinks is his Impatience with
her grief. "Yon have been very kind to
me, and I will give no mote trouble than
I can help. Is there anything you wished
o arrange with me?" .
"No, not to-day, I think," he answers.
"Then there is but one thing more 1
wished to say Just now," she says, in the
same tone. You know, I dare say, that
dear Miles left me a little property very
littler falters poor Muriel, with downcast
eyes, aa she thinks of the amount of her
dowry; "but it was all my darling brother
hud to give me a few hundred pounds in
mine shares."
"Yea. I know all about it he told me,"
nterposes Eric
"Well. I want you, please, as they art
mine now," Muriel says, trembling, and
trying to be business-like, "to sell them as
soon as possible. You understand all
about it; they have riBen very much,
Miles told me, and I want the money, you
know, to pay every one"
"Muriel," he says sternly.
"Yes," Muriel says, growing red and
white by turns at bis tone.
"Do you forget that I married you this
morning t
"No o," Muriel replies, affrightedly.
"Then why do you talk in that manner
about money?" demands Eric, harshly,
relieved to have some just cause for re
proaching her. "When I gave you my
name, I presume I gave you my purse, tool
You need not fear I shall encroach a hair
breadth on any distance you choose to
s t between us, be goes on, with cool,
comnosed bitterness, "but at least I claim
to be allowed to hold the relation I have
entered into of your legal guardian and
nearest relative," and Jirie puts into her
uand a little velvet purse full of sover
eigns. "All this money!" Muriel exclaims, in
tones of uncontrollable amazement, peep
ing into the little bag of gold with awe
stricken eyes, making Llewellyn laugh in
spite of himself. "Are you are you so
rich" aha make, and Uewovn caauuun-
derstnnA the burning flush' that rises to
her temples, and the tears that start into
ber brilliant, dark eyes a flush and tears
of deep humiliation.
"So rich as to give my wife fifty
pounds?" he smiles, "many wives would
think very lightly of that sum, Muriel.
No. indeed, dear, 1 am not rich; but 1
have enough to keep you in the position
of a gentlewoman, 1 hope."
"Fifty pounds seems a great sum ol
money to we," she says, deliberately. "I
never had twenty pounds of my own in my
I possession at once never! We have al
ways been so poor Miles and I." She
throws her head back, and looks at him
almost defiantly aa she speaks. "We have
alwaya been very poor, and there are
debts, net Urge debts, but ones I wish
io pay off mfself- which Miles would wish
me to pay, and that is why 1 wanted my
own money, not yours."
"Well, that la your own money," Eric
says curtly, getting vexed.
Muriel moving softly behind his chair,
kisses his bronzed cheek, which flushes at
the careas almost as deeply aa her own.
"Is that by way of interest on the
money that troubles yon so much?" he
questions, sarcastically, trying to begin
writing a letter with tingling fingers.
"No, that la by way of payment," Mu
riel whispers, flushing still deeper, until
her face la the hue of a pink wild rose,
as she kisses bim again.
And then Eric falrir succumbs, and
throwing the pen down, lifts her up on bis
knee, and clasped tightly In his arms,
hides her face with his own; and neither
of them seeing nor hearing anything ou
earth but each other a eyes and the beat-
lug of each others hearts.
Don t go away from me," be murmurs.
holding her aa she essaya to leave him.
"Stay with me, love, I can't bear to let
you go!" he saya, half ashamed of the
weakness that makes him cling to her.
and lay his bead on her bosom. "Muriel
little wife-sweetheart, stay with me!"
"Why. Eric." Muriel saya. In a half
amused, soothing tone, "I am only going
to see that la, Hannah wants me for s
little while."
"Very good; you will b back presently."
Eric saya, releasing her.
His gaze follows her out of the room,
and sees the door hide her from his eyes
with a sense of separation. "I wonder
what haa come over me!" he nays, in
wardly, half aahamed and half glorying in
the discovery; "I have fallen In love again
I solemnly believe!
But even while he sits there, musing
his heart throbbing, his cool brain and
steady pulse all afire with love and hope
aud secret happiness, and the glamour of
her aweet presence and her caresses are
with him still, and be yields half unwill
iugly to the fascination that has fallen
over him he sees Sylvester peering from
the second doorway of the sitting room,
his face pallid with wrath and cowardly
vengeance.
"I've Just a word to say to you!" says
the boy malignantly. In a suppressed tone.
"You think you're everybody, I suppose,
and that she's everybody? Ah! I could
tell yeh somethln' yeh don't know!" he
sneers. "You're bought an' sold, me fine
fellow, clever a man as yeh think y'aret
Ah! ah! more nor me knows it, if yeh
don't believe me! You've been trapped
into marrying her!"
(To be continued.)
Magnificent Spectacle.
The autumnal display of the Hang
chow Bore la one of the most uiagnin
cent spectacles of the world. This bore
la a tidal wave of great force and
height, formed at the mouth of the
Yang-tae-Klang, where, owing to ob
structions by bars and the form of the
channel, the whole of the flow after
being detained, enters in one mad rush
of water and contends with the nature1
?urrent of tbia great Chinese river.
On the 27th of September laat a llttls
company of Americans Joined the ex
pectant multitude of natives about the
Hangcbow sea-walL This remarkable
structure la Itself twenty-five feet high
and thirty thick, with a shelf twenty
feet wide, of solid masonry, upon
which Junks coming In on high tide
may rest and anchor, and ao escape tb
first onslaught of the flood.
At a little past noon the murmur of
the bore wan beard ten miles away,
and soon was seen approaching, aa first
a dark, moving line, then a ateep slope
of seething water pouring over Itself aa
It advanced with a roar like Niagara.
Striking the outer wall It rebounded
In a wave twenty feet high, riding on
tbe back but diagonally across tbe
main wave; resulting In a single
straight wall of furious water plunging
on with Indescribable speed.
After a few seconds tbe wave passed,
to be succeeded by a rush of water
driving along with utmost Impetuosity,
against which nothing but the sea-wall
could stand. Large boats, anchored
half a mile from tbe bore, anchored
vritli bnge weights burled In tbe sand,
were dragged for miles at full speeJ.
abd four-lncb cables are Bcmetlines
snapped like twine. Before such forces
of nature man bows In silent awe.
Youth's Companion.
Astronomers say that 1,000,000
"shooting stars" fall into the sun for
every one that comes intD our atmos
phere. Marseilles had a riot id the Grand
theatre the other day because a num
ber of women refused to take off their
big bats.
An immense deposit of sulphur
has been discovered in tbe Cascade
mountains close to the Northern
Pacific railway.
Owing to the unusual snowfall in
Switzerland the chamois have become
so tame in some places that they visit
the stables in search of food.
It hss been discovered to bury a
man np to bis neck in wet sand is a
practically- certain core for apparent
death from an electric shock.
Tbe craze for things Scottish has
invtded Africa. The sultan of Morocco
has engaged a "braw Hielandman" to
play the bagpipes at his court.
According to the deductions of a
well known astronomer, we receive as
much light from the sun as could be
emitted by 680,000 full moons.
Two patents have recently' been
granted to "George Washington," of
Brussels, Belgium, for a system of
lighting with incandescent burners.
Sir I.a.c Newtea'a Scientific jamn.
In an article on the measurement of
the force of the wind, receutly pub
lished in the Monthly Weather Review,
an Interesting story la recalled of bow
Sir Isaac Newton undertook such a
measurement when a boy. It was dur
ing a great gale on the 3d of Septem
ber. 1G5& The fact that Newton had
no apparatus, did not baffle his In
genuity. He stood out in the wind
and Jumped as far as be could against
It, and then aa far as be could with It.
and a comparison of the dlstancesrave
him the data for calculating the fore
of the gale.
Hew a Train p weeps Air A loner.
Interesting results of an Investiga
tion of the effect produced by a rail
road train on the air through which
it movea were presented at a recent ,
meeting of the St. Louis Academy of I
Science, by Prof. F. E. Nlpher. It ap
pears that motion is communicated to j
that a Urge amount of air is drugged
along with the train. A peculiar dan
ger arises near a swift-running train
from the tendency of the moving air to
topple a person over, and at the same
time to communicate a motion of rota
tion to the body, which way cause 9
to roll under the train.
A Boa Hiiee,
Before daylight on Dec. 28 last rare
and disastrous phenomenon occurred
not far from Killurney, In Ireland. A
great peat be, lying on a hillside more
than 700 feet high, broke loose at Its
lower edge, and the semi-fluid mass
flowed like a stream of black lava,
some ten miles down the valley of the
Ownacree River. A house with eight
occupants was s .ept away, and road,
bridges and fields were burled, yet the
strange flood advanced so silently In
the night that there was no warning,
and people living near were unaware
of what had huppened until day re
vealed the slimy lake spread over tbr
neighboring fields.
The Great Moa.
New Zealand was once Inhabited rj
a race of gigantic wingless birds, call
ed the moa. Although now extinct,
these birds are well known to men of
science through their skeletons, thou
sands of which have been found. Un
fortunately, in the great majority of
cases, the skeletons are not complete,
and In reconstructing them for exhibi
tion In museums It la necessary to
match together the bones of different
Individuals. Recently, however, the
British Museum haa obtained a com
plete skeleton of a moa nearly ten feet
high. Not more than three or fout
similarly perfect skeletons of this mon
ster of an age long past are known t
be la existence.
A estrange Flan.
Africa still contains much that Is un
known and mysterious, notwithstand
ing the many explorations and discov
eries of recent years. In Lake Tan
ganyika, for Instance, there lives a
species of targe flsh which rushes at
the paddles of passing boats, but of
which no description has yet been pub
lished. For years travelers bad heard
about this fish from the natives, but
Mr. J. E. S. Moore appears to have been
tbe first European to see It. During
bis recent explorations of Tanganyika
he saw tbe mysterious nan rushing at
tbe paddles, but learned little mort
about it than the fact of Its existence,
although he caught enormous n ambers
of fish of various species, some weigh
ing as much as sixty pounds.
Tha Fear of Hlh Place.
President O. Stanley Hall, of Clara
Oniversity, has lately been studying
tbe origin of the various forms of feai
and terror, aud he suggests that the
common fear of high places, which
many animals exhibit, and which U
very acute with some human beings,
may be "a vestlgal trace, like the gill
slits under the skin of our necks, ante
dating limbs and Inherited from out
swimming ancestors." In reply to thit
Prof. Wesley Mills, of McGlll Univer
sity, says that while the youngest
mammals and birds exhibit peculiai
manifestations when placed near tb
edge of an elevated surface, yet a tur
tle will walk off any elevated support
again and again, and a f rojr "will Jump
almost anywhere." These exceptions,
he thinks, present a difficulty to the
acceotance f President Hall's theory
Rifle, that Shoot Two Mtlen.
Practice science ts still engaged upou
the problems suggested by recent
changes and Improvements In guns
projectiles and gunpowders. Tbe rifle
adopted for 'use In the United State
navy have bores less than one-quartet
of an Inch In diameter (accurately
0.230 in.), and, with smokeless pow
der, they send their slender projectile
ever a range of about two miles, start-In-
from the muzzle with a velocity of
some 2,300 feet in a second! Simllai
rifles have been selected for use In the
navlea of several foreign countries, but
the question is still under debate, In
some quarters, whether the Immense
range and great penetrating power, of
these arms are not fully counterbal
anced by tbe difficulties connected
with their manufacture and use, and
by the lack of "stopping power" of lh
projectiles.
"Three Lok. sad a Hoot"
Thce Is a peculiar pleasure In visit
ing a country where the people bav
speech and manners of their own,
where at any turn a man la liable to
hear or see something new. Tbe New
York Sun describes an experience of
a Northern traveler In the pine woods
of North Carolina. He had started out
to Join some friends who were on a
hunt for turkeys.
Finding no sign of them, be waa glad
to meet a native In an old road, and
asked him If he had seen anything nf
the narqr.
"Yes. sob," he reviled. "They're up
this road yonduh, three looks and
hoot, sun."
The New-Yorker thought the native
was guying bim, and started off In a
huff. He went on until be came to a
bridge, where he met another piny
woods denizen at work, and asked bim
the same question. Tbe man looked up
the road. The farthest thing in eight
was a big pine-tre nearly a mile
away.
"Yes, sub, I seen 'em 'a mawnin'.sub,"
he said. "They was Jes' 'bout one look
an' a hoot from hyuh then, sun."
The stranger glared at the man, and
went grumbling on bis way. Just be
fore be came to the big pine-tree an
other native "came out of tbe woods,
and the New-Yorker, with much mis
giving, asked him the question he had
put to the others.
"Oh. yes, sub," was the reply. "They
only Jes' In hyuh a hoot, suh."
The native turned toward tha weeds,
put a hand on each side of his mouth,
and shouted a lusty:
"Hoo-o-o-o-oo hoot!"
In a few seconds a similar cry cam
back from tbe woods.
"Thar they Is, sub!" exclaimed the
native. "That's them, suh."
And It was. They were three looks
and a hoot from the place where the
New-Yorker had first Inquired for
them.
The difficulty waa that he dd not
understand the language of the coun
try. A "look" U as far as yon can see
from the point where you now are. It
may be a turn In the road a hundred
yards away, or a point a mile or mora
distant You travel to tbe end of that
"loqk," and from there take another
look to tbe farthest object in night as
your course lies, and travel on to that
If you have been told that your desti
nation is two looks ahead, when yon
get to the and of the second look, there
you are.
Cbtrmi Away lh Whooplsg Coaugli.
W. B, Fanu, a writer on some of the
phases of Irish life, tells of two ways
In which the simple peasantry of that
country treat tbe whooping cough,
which la generally known among them
as chin cough. One Is this: If anyone
should be seen riding on a piebald
horse, the father or mother of the per
son affected runs after bim. crying:
"You that ride tbe piebald horse, what's
good for the chin cough?" Whatever
the rider suggests is procured, and giv
en to the sufferer. This remedy Is con
sidered a very sure one by tbe peasant
ry, but Is difficult to procure, aa a man
riding a piebald horse Is not met with
every day.
The other mode of curing the dMeann
is not considered so certain, but can
more easily be procured, that Is, pass
ing the child three times over and un
der a donkey. Some donkeys are bet
ter than others. I remember, says a
Belfast correspondent of the Lancet,
a famous one In the southern part of
County Down, In which the rustics bad
great faith, and Le Fanu tells of one
in County Cork so famous for enrattre
powers that the owner, Ned Sullivan,
supported himself and a urge family
on what this remarkable donkey earned
for bim. This man used to perambu-
late tbe city of Cork and the surround
ing neighborhood with his donkey, cry
ing out: "Will anyone come under my
donkey for chin cough?"
Two other charms which I have
known to be used in County Down for
this disease and It Is curious that
wboooping coughs and erysipelas (the
rose, as tbe Irish peasants often call It)
are the affections most treated by
charms are the administration to the
patient of two kinds of foods (solid and
liquid) obtained from two first cousins
who are married, and soup made from
the tails of mice. Staying, sevral years
ago, with an uncle and aunt, who were
full cousins, I was amused at the par
ents of children with the whooping
cough coming to them for two different
articles of food for their sick chtldrea
Tb. Sooioh Woman's Bank Notes.
A poor old widow, living In the Scot
tish Highland, waa called upon one
day by a gentleman who had heard
that she waa In need. The old lady
complained of ber condition and re
marked that her son was In Australia
and doing well. "But doea be do notb
Ing to help you?" Inquired the visitor,
"No, nothing," was the reply. "He
writes me regularly once a month, but
only sends me a little picture with
his letter." Tbe gentleman asked to
see one of the pictures that she bad re
ceived, and found each one of them to
be a draft for ten pounds. That Is the
condition of many of God'a children.
He has given us msny, "exceeding
grest and precious promises," which
we either are Ignorant of or fall to ap
propriate. Many of them seem to be
pretty pictures of an Ideal peace and
rest, but are not appropriated as prac
tical helps In daily life. And not one
of these promises is more neglected
than tbe assurance of salvation. An
open Bible places them within reach of
all. and we may appropriate tbe Mess
ing which such a knowledge brings.
Dwlo-ht L. Moody In Ladies' Horns
Journal.
Marking Linen.
The marking of linen Is quite a busi
ness in these days of sumptuous trous
seaus. In stores which make a special
ty of fine napery orders are taken for
the working of letters when tbe linen
Is selected, so that it can be sent home
in boxes ready for use. One fiancee
will choose two unpretentious Initials
placed side by side and worked In plain
raised satin stitch. Another chooses
larger letters, to be intricately Interlac
ed and elaborately worked with both
solid and open laced stitches. Huge or
namental monograms are also conspic
uous In napery and bed linen, as well
as on tea cloths. Three letters are a
good rule In case of house linen, one
for the respective Initials of the Chris
tian name of tbe bride and groom and
the third for the family name.
A Double Discovery.
"It's a hard world!" exclaimed the
novice, as his bicycle precipitated bim
upon the frozen ground. Illustrated
Imerlcan.
You may talk about bravery as much
as you please, but as a matter of fact
everybody lacks It,
PENNYROYAL OIL.
First Made on a Large Fe.le in Oners
mer County, Onio.
In the northeastern corner of Guern
sey county, uiuo, is located uxiora
Township, once famous, and still
famed, as the center of the production
of pennyroyal oil, the pungent and
fragrant berb, which usually flourish
es best on the leanest soil.
And yet, this insignificant herb was
tbe principal factor in making Oxford
Township the most flourishing and sub
stantial community in that pnrt of tbe
State during the first half of the pres
ent century.
The pennyroyal industry was open
ed by Benjamin Borton, who emigrated
from New Jersey, and set about raising
a family In tbe trackless woods. Mr.
Borton was evidently a man of prac
tical Ideas, and when, after clearing
away the forests from the Hillsides
and turning up the soil for wheat,
corn and garden truck, be discovered
that tbe pennyroyal outgrew nearly ev
erything else, and be was Infinitely
richer in its pungent oil than anything
he had ever heard or read about. He
sent back to his early home for the
stills and worms necessary to utilize
nature's crops, and one of bis estab
lishments for producing the oil In the
primitive stages of tbe Industry la
given In the Illustration.
The demand for tbe oil was probably
as great at the beginning of the cen
tury aa It Is now, and ry far the great
est advantage of It was that a single
team could draw $10 worth of It to the
seaboard more readily than $1 worth of
any of the other products of the soil
could be transported, and with greater
certainty of an Immediate sale at re-
MR. BOTOS S OJ.U Hlfc-TILMtRr.
muneratlve figures. For a series of
years nearly all the ready cash for the
purchase of land, the payment of taxes
and the like was raised from the out
put of tho pennyroyal distilleries.
Farmers gathered tho herb by the
wagon loads, anil took It to the neurest
distilleries, where the oil was extract
ed "on shares" and marketed.
Mr. Borton s descendants, who are
among tbe most prominent families in
Eastern Ohio, have not forgotten the
art of distilling the sacnxl herb. And
the same Is true of mauy other families
of the Buckeye State, whose ancestral
fortune was made In the pennyroyal
business.
COL. ALFRED E. BUCK.
Career of tbe New United Mate. Win-
later to the Mikado. Land.
Alfred E. Buck, nominated as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the United States to Japan,
owes bis success to the fact of the
ALFRED It. BCCK.
warm personal and political friendship
existing between President McKlnley
and himself. CoL Buck was born at
Foxcroft, Me., Feb.. 7. 1832. His thirst
for knowledge was so great that by his
own exertions be paid his way through
college and was graduated with high
boners, having been the Latin saluta
torian of bis class. With the pertinaci
ty that has always characterized his
actions be taught school at Hullowell,
Me., afterward becoming principal of
tbe Lewlston high school. At the close
of the war, through which he fought
with great credit, he was appointed
clerk of the United States Circuit and
District Courts of Georgia, resigning
this position In 1887 to become United
States Marshal. The next year was
signalized by bis bringing Maj. Mc
Klnley to Georgia for the purpose of
addressing tbe Chautauqua. Col. Buck
has been fortunate In his various busi
ness enterprises through his perspicaci
ty and many pleasant personal quali
ties. He Is marred and has one of tbs
moat attractive homes In Atlanta.
The Fortnne Teller's Tip.
She I went to a fortune teller to-day,
Just for a lark, and she told" me a lot
of things.
He Yes, some of them hit It pretty
closely, but I hope you don't think thert
Is anything supernatural about tbeli
powers. They use Just shrewd Judg
ment, that is all.
"That may be true, dear. She told
me I was married to a man who fell far
short of what I deserved." Indianap
olis Journal.
Certainly.
Prisoner If your honor will allow
me a little time I think I can prove my
Innocence.
. Magistrate All right; take thirty
lays. Philadelphia North American.
Not a Serloi Offm.e.
He (prettily) They ought to send you
to State's prison. You've stolen my
heart.
She Oh, they don't send people to
State's prison for petty larceny. Bay
City Chat
Black Hille Gold.
Black Hills. Dakota, gold mines ex-
t to trim out thla year r10,000,ooai
rev. dr. mm.
The EnVnent Divine's
D'scours-.
Eunday
Ifrlolntr to Fill tho Ship. That Are t
Carry Jr'nocl for the Starving- People a
In-lln-An Kloqoent Pie. tar Million
r Famine SunYrers in . IM.t.nt Land
Tkit: "This is Anasuerus whiih reicnei
from India even unto Ethiopia." Esthe.
Among the 775.6M words w'lioh make u
th KiMe onlv once oceurs the were
"India." Tn this nart of the Scriptures
which the rabbi call "Megillnh Esther." o.
the volume of Esther, a book xomotima
comolained npninst because the won
"God" 1.4 not even once mentioned in it
although one rightly disponed can see Got
in it frotr. the flrt chanter to tbe last, wi
have it Sot forth that Xerxes, or Ahasnerus
who invaded Greece with 2,000 000 men
but returned in a poor fisher's boat, ha
a vast dominion, among other regions
India. In my text India takes its place ii
Bible noffrarihy, and the interest In th
land has continued to incnam until, Witt
more and more enthusiasm, all around th
world Bishop Heber's hymn about "Indla'i
coral strand" is being sung. Never will 1
forn the thrill of anticipation that went
throuirh my body and mind and soul wher,
after two weeks' tossing on the seas around
Ceylon and India for the winds did not,
according to the old hvmn, "blow soft o'ei
Ceylon's isle" our ship sailed up one ot
the months of the Ganges, past James and
Mary island, so named because a royal
ship of that name was wrecked there, and
I stepped ashore at Calcutta, amid tht
shrines and the temples and sculptures ol
that City of Palaces, the strange physiog
nomies of the living and cremations of th
dead. I had never expected to be there
because the sea and I long ago had a seri
ous falling out, but, the facilities ot trave.
are ao increasing that you and your chil
dren will probably visit that land of bound
less fascination.
Christ during His earthly stay was nevei
outside of Asia. When He had" sixteen Ol
eighteen years to spare from His active
work, instead of spending that time in
Europe I think he goes farther toward th
heart of Asia namely, India. The Bible
says nothing of Christ from twelve years ol
age until thirty, but there are records in
India and traditions in India which repre
sent a strange, wonderful, most excellent
and supernatural being as staving in India
about that time. I think Christ was ther
much of the time between His twelfth anil
His thirtieth year; hut, however that maj
be. Christ was born in Asia, suffered ii
Asia, died in Asia, ascended from Asia, anc
all that makes me turn my ear more atten
tively toward that continent as I hear it;
cry of dist ress.
Besides that I remember that some of thf
most splenlid achievements for the cause
of that Asiatic Christ have been made ic
India. How the heart of every intelligent
Christian beats with admiration at the mere
mention of the name of Henry Martyn!
Having read the life of our American David
Brainerd. who gave his life to evangelizing
our American savages, Henry Martyn goes
forward to give his life for the salvation of
India, dying from exhaustion of service at
thirty-one years of age. Lord Macaulay,
writing of him P:iys:
Hero Martyn lies. In manhood' s early
bloom
The Christian hero found a pagan tomb.
Heiigton, sorrowing o'er her favorite son,
Points to the glorious tropics which he won.
Immortal trophies! Not with slaughter red.
Nor stained with tears by friendless or
phans shed.
But trophies of tho cross. In that dear
name.
Through every scene of danger, toil and
shame.
Onward he journeyed to that happy shore,
Where danger, toil and shame are known
no more.
Is there in all history, secular or religi
ous, a most wondrous character than Will
lam Carey ,the converted shoemaker of Eng
land, daring all things for God in India,
translating the !ilile into mauy dialects,
building chnpi-ts and opening mission
honses and laving foundations for the re
demption of the country, and although Sid
ney Smith, who sometimes laughed at
things he ought not to have satirized, had
n the learned 1- dinburgh Keview scoffed at
the idea of wlint he called "low born, low
bred mechauies" like Carey attempting to
convert the Iinhmins, Carey stopped not
until be bad started influences that eter
nity, no more than time, shall have power
to arrest. 31 3,0!0 Bibles going forth from
his printing presses at Serampore. His
sublime humility showed Itself in the
epitaph he ordered from the old gospel
nymn:
A wretched, poor and helpless worm,
On thy Mud arms I fall.
Need I tell vou of Alphonse Lacroix. the
Swiss missionary in India, or of William
Butler, the glorious American Methodist
missionary in India, or of the royal family
of the Scudders of the Reformed Church ol
America, my dear mother church, to whom
give a kiss of love in passing, or of Dr.
Alexander Duff, the Scotch missionary
whose visit to this country some of us will
remember forever? When he stood in the
old Broadwav tabernacle. New York, anil
S leaded for India until there was no othet
epth of religious emotion for him to stii
and no loftier height of Christain eloquence
for bim to scale, aud closed in a whirlwind
of halleluiahs, I could believe that which
was said of him that whiio pleading the
cause of India in one of the churches ol
Scotland he got so overwrought that hi
fell in the pulpit in a swoon and waf
carried Into tbe vestry to be resusci
tated, and when restored to bis sense
and preparation was oetng maut
to carry him out to some dwelling when
be could be put to bed ne compelled hi?
friends to take him back to the pulpit to
complete his plea for tbe salvation of In
dia. no sooner getting on his feet than he
began where he left off, but with more gi
gantic power than before he fainted, hut
just as noble as any I have mentioned arc
tbe men anu women wno are mere now ioi
Christ's sake and the redemption of thai
people, tar away from their native land,
famine on one side and black plague on tht
other side, swamps breathing on them ma
laria, and jungles howling on them with
wild beasts or hissing with cobras, the
names of those missionaries of all denom
inations to be written so high on the roll of
martyrs that no names of tbe last lnoo
years shall be written above them. Vou
need to see tbem at their work in schools
aud churches and lazarettos to appreciate
them. All honor upon them and their
household, while I smite the dying lips of
their slanderers.
Most interesting are the people of India.
At Calcutta I said to one cf their leaders,
wbo spoke Lnglish well:
Have these idols which 1 see any power
01 themselves to help or destroy r
He said: No; they only represent God
There is but one God."
-When people die, where do they go to?'
'That depends upon what they have
been doing. If they have been doing good
to heaven, and if they have been doing evil
to hell."
"But do you not believe In the transml
gration of souls, and that after death we go
Into birds or animals of some sort
"Yes. The last creature a man is think
ing of while dying is the one into w hich he
will go. If lie' is thinking of a beast, he will
go into a beast.
"I thought vou said that at death the
soul goes to heaven or hell?''
"He goes there by a gradual process. It
mav take bim years and years."
"Can any one become a Hindoo? Could
I become a Hindoo?"
"Yes; you could."
"How could I become a Hindoo?"
Bv doing as the Hindoos do."
From tha continent of interesting folk
from tppt --ourtuent that gave the Christ,
from thet continent whlcn has been en.
nenren oy so mnnv mtsslonarr heroic
there pomes a groan of HO.OOO.OOO people In
hunger. More people are in danger cj
starving to death in India to-day than the
entire population of the Cnited States. In
the famine in India n the year 1877. about
6.000.000 people starved to death. That if
more than all the people of Washington, ol
New York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago, put
together. But that famine was not a tenth
part as awful as the one there now raging.
Twenty thousand are dying there of famine
every day. Whole villages and towns have
died eve-v man woman and child; none
left to bury tne aead. The vultuico and
the jackals are the only pallbearers.
Though some help has been sent, before
full relief can reach them I suppose there
will be at least 10,000,000 dead. Starvation,
even for one person, is an awful process.
No food, the vitals gnaw upon themselves,
and faiutness and languor and pangs from
head to foot, and horror and despair and
insanity take full possession.
One handful of wheat or corn or nee per
day would keep life going, but they cannot
get a handful. The crops failed, and tha
millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to be
hungry In a world where there are enough
grain and fruit and meat to ml all the hun
gry mouths on the planet; but. slag, that
the sufferer and the supply cannot be
bronght together. There stands India to
day! Look at her! Her face dusky from
the hot suns of many centuries; under her
turban such achfngs of brow as only a dy
ing nation feels; her eyes hollow with un
utterable woe; the team rolling down her
sunken cheek; her back bent with mora
agonies than she knows how to carry; ber
Dvens containing nothing but ashes. Gaunt,
ghastly, wasted, the dew of death upon
her forehead and a pallor such as the last
hour brings, she stretches forth her trem
Dling hand toward us, and with hoarse
whisper she says: "I am dying! Give m.
aread! That is what I want! Bread! Give
it to me quick. Give It to me now breadl
bread! bread!" America has heard tha
:ry. Many thousands of dollars have al
ready been contributed. One ship laden
with breadstuff has sailed from San
Francisco for India. Our senate and
bouse of representatives, in a Mil signed by
Jur sympathetic president, have author
ized the secretary of the navy to charter
vessel to carry food to the famine sufferers,
md you may help fill that ship. We want
'o send at least 6011,000 bushels of corn.
Christian people of America, I call your
ttention to the fact that we may now, as
never before, by one magnificent stroke
jpen the widest door for the evangelization
if Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way
Christianizing Asia has been the difference
f language, but all those people under
Hand the gosK-l of bread. Another obsta
cle has been the law of caste, but In what
Setter way can we teach them the
ttrotherhooi'l of man? Another huge dif
ficulty in the way of Christianizing
sia has been that those people thought
:he religion we would have them take was
no better than their Hindooism or Moham
medanism, but they will now see by this
rusaile for the relief of people 14,000 miles
away that the Christian religion is of a
higher, better aud grander type than any
Dther religion, for when did the followers
jf Brahma or Vishnu or Buddha or Con
fucius or Mohammed ever demonstrate like
interest In people on opposite sides of the
world? Having taken the bread of this life
Irom our hands, they will be more apt to
Lake from us the bread of eternal life. The
missionaries of different denominations In
India at forty-six stations are already dis
:rihuting relief sent through the Christian
Herald. Is it not plain that those mission
aries, after, feeling the huuger of the body,
will be at better ndvautage to feed the
hunger of the soul? When Christ, before
preaching to the S000 in the wilderness,
broke for them the miraculous loaves, He
Indicated that the liest way to prepare the.
world for spiritul aud eternal considera
tions is tlrst to look after temporal Inter
ests, oh, church of God in America and
Europe!
This is 5-our opportunity. We have on
Veasinns of Christian patriotism cried,
-America for God!" Now let us add tho
battle shout, "Asia for God!" In this move
ment to give food to starving India I hear
the rustling of the wing of the Apocslyptlo
angel, ready to fly through the midst of
heaven proclaiming to all the kingdom,
and people and tongues tho unsearchable,
-iches of Jesus Christ.
And now I bethink myself of something I
never thought of before. I had noticed
that the circle is Ood's favorite figure, and
upon that subject I addressed you soma
time ago, but It did not occur to me until
now that the gospel seems to be moving in
a circle. It sturted in Asia, Bethlehem, aa
Asiatic village; Jordan, an Asiatic river;
Calvary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this
gospel moved on to Europe. Witness the
Impels and churches anil catneurais ana
hristian universities of that continent.
hen it crossed to America. It has prayed
and preached and sung its way across
our continent. It has crossed to Asia,
taking the Sandwich Islands in its
way, and now in an tne great
cities on the coast of China people are
inging "Kock of Ages" and "There Is
Fountain Filled With 'Blood," for you must
now that not only have the Scriptures
been translated into those Asiatic tongues.
but also the evangelical hymns. My mis-
onary brother, John, translated some ot
them into Chinese, and Mr. Gladstone gave
me a copy of the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of
Mv Soul," which he had himself translated
do Greek. The Christ who it seems spent
xteen or eighteen years of His life in In
dia is there now iu spirit, converting and
saving the people by hundreds ot thou
sands, and the Gospel will move right on
through Asia until tbe story of the Sav-
lur s birth will anew be made known in
Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour's
sacrifice be told anew ou aud around
Mount Calvary, and the storvof a Saviour s
ascension be told anew ou the shoulder of
Mount Olivet. Aud then do you not see tha
circle will lie complete? The glorious cir
cle, the circle of the earth!
May 10, was a memorable day, for
then was laid the last tiethat connected
he two rail tracks which united the At
lantic and Pacific oceans. The Central
Pacific railroad was built from California
eastward. The I'nion Pacific railroad was
built westward. They were within arm s
reach of meeting, only one more piece of
the rail track to put down. A great audi
ence assembled mldcontineut to see till
Inst tie laid. The locomotives of the cas
ern aud western trains stood pauting outhe
tracks close by. Oration explained the
occasion, and prayer solemnized it, and
music enchanted It. 1 lie tie was maari ot
polished laurel wood, bound with silver
bands, and three spikes were used a gold
spike, presented by California; a silver
Sdke, presented by Nevada, and an
ron sike prescuceu oy Arizona.
When, all heads uncovered and all hearts
hrilling with emotion, the hammer struck
the last spike into its place, the can
non boomud It amid the resounding
mountain echoes and the telegraphic instru
ments clicked to all nations that the deed
was done. My friend, if the laying of the
last tie that bound the east and the west of
one continent together was such a resound
ing occasion, what will It be when the last
tie of the track of gospel Influence, reaching
clear around the world, shall be laid amid
the anthems of all nations? The spikes will
be the golden and silver spikes fashlonen
out of the Christian generosity of the hem
ispheres. The last liainmer stroke tnac
completes the work will be heard by all tha
raptured and plied up galleries of the uni
verse, and the mountluus of earth will
shout to the throne of heaven: "Hallelu
iah, for the Lord God Omnipotent relgnetni
Halleluiah, for tile kingdoms ol mis worm
have become the kingdoms of our Lord
Jesus Christ:"
Xo life is worthv mill nil!e flint linn no
"must" in it that is not ready to bow
its most cherished schemes or its fondest
wishes to the ever nrest-nt aiillioi itv of
the st i! 1 small voice.
A look or a word can lieln or can harm
our follow. It is for us to give cheer or
gloom as we pass on our way in life.; and
we are responsible for the results of our
influence accordingly.
Who is a true man? He who does tha
truth, ninl never holds a principal or
which lie is not prepared in anv hour to
act. find in any hour to risk the conse
quence of holding it.
Some men are. in recanl to rid icula.
like tin roofed buildinus in recard to
hail: all that hits them hounds rattling
oil; not a stone goes though.
Insurrection of Oiouclit always pre
cedes insurrection of action. Whether
in chains or in laurels, lilierty knows
nothing but victories. Revolutions never
go backward.
Nothing more surely marks the moral
advancement of a nmu thun his increas
ing Miwer to identify himself ami bis own
interests with tho-e of larger circles of
humanity.
If you settle with a man for 50 cents
on a dollar, he is fully as apt to call yoa
a fool as a philanthropist.
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