; fj--.p--e--w " r B. F. BOHWEIER, THE ocr 8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE IAWH VOL. LI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 23. 1897. NO. 28 (I g JFK r ' i 1 sun 1 -uu mgui ' J -nBirs-uge, 1 f CHAPTER XXXI. The Bedding inoruiug daw us; bright, crisp, cold, snowy Christmas Kve, and the weddiug gueta assemble; notably Mr. button of Uutli uiure and his grandson, Sylvester transformed by a year of Dub lin existence into a vulgar young dandy, who makes inane attempts at being -fast." At last the bountiful wedding breakfast come to an end. and the bride and groom take their departure amidst rice and o!d shoes, and the guests go away oue by one. lift tie hag been heroic in her own sordid way; she has endured a martyrdom of misery, and apprehension of some one dis covering the suppressed news, and thus making "a horrible upset," as she phrasea it; and all the while she has smiled, anrt made witty replies, and beeu courteous and pleaxnut and attentive, until all bus bi-eu "safely over," the bride and groom sent away smiling, the wedding guest, font . the wedding breakfast cleared away, ant, he house quiet; and then, according . U .he program she bus laid out for her self, the afternoon post comes, bringing letters for Miss Stapleton, as she has cleverly managed that it ahull; and, as is her usual habit, she takes them upstairs to read in her aunt's room while they are drinking their afternoon tea, Muriel is not with them; indeed, she never makes oue in any of their cosy tire side chats or tea drinkings. Only for Edith, her life would have been a solitary one for the last twelve mouths; now that Edith has gone it will be utter loneliness indeed. Minute after minute Hetlie de lays, trembling while she drinks her tea. knowing there is yet one letter to be open ed. The envelope has beeu gummed up again to preserve appearances, and she tears It aud the tell-tale postmarks across, lis she unfolds the letter with au exclama tion of surprise that "it is in Mr. Farreu's handwriting." She reuds a few sentences and then, a the news is half told, flings the letter town with a wild cry of bitter grief, which is all real, and poor Mrs. Llewellyn learn the dreadful truth from Hester's heart broken sobs and tears. "Hettie, get up, my child," the old lady ays presently, in a strange, constrained Voice, her hands shaking, her face ashen' gray, but her eyes quite bright and teur- "Jk- get up, Hettie, it isn't true! Stop crying, child, it isn't true! My boy, the only son of his mother, aud she a widow It isn't true, Hettie! Y you hear me? him couieover tJ ate at once at once, if it costs hundrtjds! Bid him come at once to me, and tell me what this means! Aud you uiunt telegraph to Edith, Mrs. I.lewellyt, says, feverishly; "she must come back amain at once." Hettie plays deus ex machina again in this instance, it is true, by the simple mis spelling of the name of the hotel to which the telegram is addressed. "Hotel Denis" instead of "Hotel Dreux," and as the house In question is a very quiet, select, rather oM fashioned- place, there is every prospect of tie telegram being consid erably delayed. AnA if one can get a day's breathing time, fi is something when oue is sur rounded by -Irish, thoughtless people," Hettie thinks, with a spasm of self-pity. Oh. ji iettie. what shall we do? There Is Mulel to be told!" cries Mrs. Llew ellyu. I "The poor girl will break her heart Oh! my Eric's wife, what shall w e o:" lo you ccunt her grief as equal to yours?" demands Hettie, stamping and pressing her foot down as if she grinds out the life of some obnoxious thing. "My dear, she is his wife," Mrs. Llew ellyn says, feebly, beginning to weep. "Wife! She is no wife! She is only au artful girl that deluded Erie into going through the marriage ceremony with her!" Hester says. She hurries out of the room as she speaks, unable to control herself unable to control either the fiendish desire for vengeance on hapless Muriel that takes possession of her Muriel, who. la now friendless, helpless, a uobody, aa Inter loper, a hateful memento of Eric's sudden passiouate folly. For well, too Well, in her tierce jealous heart, does Hester Sta pletou know that Eric had madly loved the young wife whom he put away from him, because he thought he possessed her without her heart's willing affection. Half an hour later Hester returns to the room, and finds Mrs. Llewellyn just as she had left her, rocking herself to and fro, star ing at the fire and moaning to herself iu a low monotonous tone with every breatn she draws. "I have only been upstairs, aunt," Hes ter says, in a low tone, and keeping her face averted "I had to . tell her, you know to tell Muriel, you know of of the news." "Aye, the 'news!' " moans the bereaved mother, in th same feeble, broken voice "th. news! Oh, my son! my son! Whit did Muriel sa when you told her that my Eric was dead?" "She seejied quite stunned," Hester liftne same hurried, frightened way, and indeed she is in reality tremhhug like a leaf. 'I sent for the doctor to see hr, aunt. She she fainted, 1 think." For not ten minutes before, she has had to bring Hannah O'Neil upstairs to the cold, dreary little room where, on the Moor, lies th. inanimate body of poor Muriel Llewellyn, and the oldjiurse, screaming and wringing her liirilils in agony, has looked up from where she kneels, aud in her furious, unreasoning Celtic wrath, has cursed Hester Stapleton In terrible words. "You've killed her! You've killed her!" she says, with uplifted, menacing bauds. "Yeh always hated me child, me puny aarlin't There was hathred an' murdher la rare black heart an' yere black, crafty y whan yeh come up here to her to night, an' broka her heart, an' killed her; aa' bar death's at yexa dare, for iver an' Yrar as' assent" CHAPTER XXXII. of that night s woe has pass- rislng and siting sans of davs to toiiow, and to saw yaar sad new year baa coma ana gone, and the days ara lengthening lata springtime, and in the old bona at Cur raghdeue the stricken hearts beat on, and the weary wheels of Ufa revolva, and days and nights and nights and days go over Muriel's widowed head and the mother bereaved heart. Miss Hettie manage and control, all things, settles that they shall continue to live on in Curraghdene for a time at least, ss Dane Uc Id Priory is entailed, and in the i'vorit ot Eric's death being proved goes to his. uncle Llewellyn, of Plasavon. Editti and Harry go to their pleasant, stately home in Horley place, where they have taken tip their abode for the pres ent with Captain I-everson'a uncle; and the days go on. aud it is just three months from the date that poor Muriel baa learn ed was the date of Eric's death. She is pending the evening with Mrs. Mctiratb, as she often does the society of her eccentric old friend is her one chance of being soothed, and the burden of her heart's desperate grief being eased fur the time, as she sits iu the window, and looks across at the churchyard, and listens to Mrs. McOrath playing soft, wailing melodies, aud singing mournful old ballads, and wveping quietly until she has no more tears to weep. But on this evening she does nothing but gaze fearlessly at the white head- ' stones in the churchyard, and think of Eric handsome, stately, gallaut Eric her lover and husband, lying dead, un brouded, uncotlined, beneath the waves! Eric lying, drowned in the depths of the sea, where'she can never find his grave whore the billows and the weeds of the ocean toss and roll over the face she has kissed aud the hands that have clasped her so fondly. Thinking thinking until the madness aud despair of poor Human ity at the mystery and horror of death, which indeed the Kedeetner of Humanity alone could overcome, comes over her young, womanly soul and fevers it with anguish. "Let me go home! Let me ,o home!" she says, starting up suddenly. "I feel to-night as if my heart would break or my brain burn up! Let me out in the cold air, dear Mrs. McGratli let the wind blow on me and help me to breathe! I feel as if I were going mad!" "Out in the fresh air iu a minute, my dartlag," Mrs. McOrath answers, prompt ly, not cruelly delaying Muriel to make a toilet, but just throwing a red woolen anti macassar over her ambrosial locks, aud handily adapting a blue aud green check tablecloth around her shoulders by way of a mantle, she sallies forth with her ac customed dignified bearing by Muriel's side. But the girl has walked on so feverishly fast, her despairing eyes gazing straight before her, her pule lips whispering and muttering some words of delirious sor row, that she has unknowingly and unwit tingly alked as far as the shorfef the lake, a.id Cuusghdes is !sigbt, and Derrylowtary left far behind, ere she slackens her pace through very bodily fatigue, and murmurs an apology to her patient friend, discerning as she does the unfitness of the lady's apparel for a long walk of a cold March evening. "My dear! It's but a trine! A baga telle, as the French say!" the good lady says, airily, in every sense of the word. "My dear, I rise superior to the trammels of custom! 1 don't regard my dear I." aud her halting speech comes to a dead stop, as she sees, and Muriel sees, too a man running at headlong speed across the fields that lie between them and Curraghdene, a man who flings his arms up, and winds his bat round his head, as he comes rushing on, beckoning wildly to them, and shouting as he runs. CHAPTEK XXXIII. Not exactly under her own vine or her own fig tree does Miss Hester Stapleton sit at rest, as Heroes ana heroines are supposed to do after a well-fought bat tle, or a hard-wou victory. But in that metamorphosed, sage-greea, aesthetic, Orosvenor-gallery "interior"-like draw ing room of gray, old Curraghdene. does the astute young woman, who has labored so hard for all that her soul craves of wealth and authority, rest luxuriously. and tolerably well-satisfied on the whole with what the tide of r ate has brought to her waiting feet, aud those pretty little hands of hers outstretched with such eager avarice for all that may chance withiu their reach. leu; tolerably well satisfied on the whole. She has doue well for herself, take it all iu all She thinks so this evening with some exultation even in her own heart's communings as she sits alone in the lire- light, and knows that she has just ac cepted John Sutton of Kathiuore, aged sixty-three, for her lover aud husband. "There could have been nothing better done for ull parties," she says, taking a high moral tone even with herself. Het tie almost begins to look upon herself as a benefactress to her family, since she advauced her own Interests so cleverly. "It will keep the property on both sides together," she says to herself "keep poor auut's money safe, as of course she will live with me; and, as she has five hun dred a year of her own, and three hun dred of that money poor, foolish Eric set tled ou Muriel, she can afford to make me a handsome allowance for her board, and I will take care she does it, too!" She is busily enlarging the dining room of Curraghdene, aud building a delh io is little conservatory adjoining it, having thi oak paneling of the hall all reiiolished. and the staircase carpeted in Venetian red and brown, with a frieze above to corresp.mil when the Aluaschar-like vision falls aud crumples at the sound of the arrival ol some visitor, late as is the hour. Some one who has driven to Cnrragh dene in a close carriage and pair of horses. reeking and smoking in the frosty air some oue who is ringing and knocking loudly at the door some one who speaks in a low tone, and delays unaccountably aa the servant opens the door some out who is shown into the drawing room in the firelight, but who nnscconntabiv hold back even now, and returns hurriedly to the carriage. There is another delay, at which Hester grows somewhat impatient, and draws herself up imperiously as the thought crosses her mind that this is sure ly some of Muriel's friends her visitors come at proper hours, and enter in a pro per manner. The door opens, and Hester simultane ously touches the four wax candles at each side of the over-mantel with a lighted taper, and they blaze up brightly. Sha doe so purposely to startle the intruding visitor entering unannounced, and is a little disappointed on confronting the per son to be dismayed to discover that it la Mr. Farren, the solicitor, who enters hur riedly, but, aa Hester is pleased to ob serve, draws back startled at meeting th chilling glance of surprise from her bright, steadfast eyes, and the blase of the wax lights in the room. It is no harm that he should learn het true position at once aa well as others. Mis Stapleton say mentally, drawisf uerself un and .panning her plump round waist with ber white fingers daintily, a. she sees Mr. Farren draw back hastily with a suppressed exclamation, as if ad dressed to some one whom he tries to keep out of the room some one whose dark, pale face and brilliant eyes look over Mr. Farreu's head, and who pushes past hint with a quick, imperious gesture, strides across the room and up to Hester with outstretched bands before she can believe her terrified senses. "Hettie Hettie, dear! cousin! Dou't you know me?" be says, hoarsely, as Hes ter fairly shrieks aud shrinks back against the wall, from the touch of the strong, shapely, sun-browned hands, which she knows as well as she does the quaiut cameo ring on one of the fingers. "I might just as well have stayed In London," mutter Mr. Farren, shrugging his shoulders. "I thought I came to 'break the news!" He shrugged his shoulders again and grins a little as he discreetly leaves the room; for Hester, recovering from ber momentary terror, has rushed into the op posite extreme and has flung herself into the strsuge visitor's arms with hysterical weeping and gladuess and passiouate kisses and embraces. "Eric, darling! Eric, darling!" she cries, wildly, "it can never be you come back to me from the dead! Oh, Eric, darling, we have broken our hearts grieving! Oh, Eric, dearest, it can't be youl It is too good to be true!" "I don't know whether I shall pronounce Colouel Llewellyn a lucky man or the re verse," mutters Mr. Farren to himself iu the ball, "but he certainly seems to hav. several pairs of loving arms to enfold him, and several pairs of tender lips to kiss him! Wonder if the resiective owners of the loving arms aud lips ail agree together uicely?" (To continued.) Some Italian Dishes. In that blessed future, the Italian cook, I trust, will be content with the natural color of rice. At present he likes to make bis risotto a bright or ange chrome, and to drowu It In olive oil. My raptures over the olive groves of the Kiviera faded when I understood the uuctiou of the Italian chef. The food In some places la Incredible. Mac aroni and the endless tape which is called "spaghetti" you can tolerate, but beware of cauipouel An Ill-starred curiosity prompted me to order this dish, which proved to be huge slices of sausage terribly potent sausage drenched in a liquid which made cas tor oil a delicacy by comparison! The homeless Loudon cat would have lied from auch fare! Perhaps it la this sausage which endears Northern Italy to the average German tourist. I see him eating It with relish, while a spec tacled nose hovers close to the plate, revelling In the odor, which reminds him, no doubt, of his home in the futb erland. Now and then he lifts his head; hi right baud wanders to hi brow, carrying a knife; his eyes roll upward. Probably he la registering a tow to do mii that lies in his individual genius to sustain this great bond of highly flavored sausage between Ger many and Italy. London Sketch. Tbe River Thames. If tbe plans now under way are car ried out as anticipated, the great work of widening and deepening the River Thames will before long be an accom plished fact, and the commercial Im portance of that river thereby greatly Increased. It being dear to the authori ties, on extended examination and con sultation with eugiueerlng experts, that a twenty -six foot channel was required for at least nine-tenths of the shipping, It was decided that the work should be prosecuted, to be done solely by dredg ing. According to this plan, there will be from Graven cud up the river as far as Orayford Ness, opposite Harfleet, a channel width of 1,000 feet and a mini mum depth of twenty-four feet at low water, spring tide, while from Orayford Ness to the Albert docks the width la to be 600 feet and the depth twenty-two, and from the latter to tbe Mlllwatl Docks there will be a channel at least 8U0 feet wide and eighteen feet deep. The Six Days' Bloyole Raoea, The six days' bicycle races which have become features of recent exhi bition are reprehensible in every sense of the word. The severe strain has In nearly every case resulted In fatal In juries to the contestants. Joseph Jef ferson, commenting recently on undue athletic training, said that some years ago he met Laurence Barrett on a street corner In Boston, and Barrett said be was waiting for a street-car to take him to a gymnasium. "Why not walk?" asked Jefferson; "that Is better xerdae than you will get at the gym nasium, and It will save you the trou ble of going there." Youth's Compau Ion. Runner on the Wtgoo. To change a wagon Into a sleigh con veniently a runner for each wheel is formed with a grooved upper surface. In which tbe wagon wheel Is held by means of clamps, tbe wheel being fas tened to the wagon body to prevent Its turning, thus making the runners slide over the ground and carry the wheels. Diplomas In Austria. In Austria no foreign diplomas are accepted aa evidence of fitness to prac tice medicine or denUtry. la tropical forests so larr;e a proportion of the plants are of the sensitive variety that Sometimes the path of a traveler may be traced by the wiled foliage. Since pneumatic tires have come into use ou cabs in l'alis, it has been found that owing to the reduced" shock to ve hicles, the cost of repair has been lessen ed fifty per cent. The dry volcanic ore along the Col orado Kiver, above and below Yuma, has beeu found to be rich in gold. It is necessary to roast the rock in order to make it yield up its treasure. The most valuable fur is that of the sea otter. One thousand dollars has been paid for a single skin of this animal not mom than two yards long by three-quarters of a vard wide. The railway metals between London and Edinburgh, a distance of 4Ut miles, are ?lu yards longer in summer than they are in winter, owing to the expansion caused by the extra heat. Scientists sav that the atntosbhere sur rounding the globe is gradually diminish ing and that in the course of a few thou sand, or perhaps a few hundreds of thou sands of years the supply will be ex hausted' It rains on an. averaee 208 davs in the year in Ireland, about 150 in England, at hozaa about Mi days and in Siberia onlv to days. A medical journal savs that "naoer can, be used effectively for keeping a net-son' warm. True: a three-line item has been 1 known to make a politician "hot" for a A BRILLIANT SOLUIfcK. ieaw Forsyth leaves the Army Aftet Belaaj Frome-ted. Brigadier General James W. Forsyth -.vas recently promoted to a major gen eralship by President McKluley, and t few days later resigned from the irmy. Ilia promotion was for the pur :oe of giving him the highest title ob tainable, and to reach It he waa passed over tbe head of an officer who out ranked him as a commanding officer. Forvyth has been a brflHant soldier and has seen much service Id the West. He is 63 years old. Be came cut of West Point, when he was 22, a second lieutenant, and waa bundled off to tbe West at once. He served la Washing ton Territory and waa on the Pacific coast when tbe war came. Life now began to assume a bright hue for him, and he was made first lieutenant. He took ship, sailed for New York, and was ordered to Ohio, his native State. There he organized a company, became a cap tain of volunteers and marched off to the war. In less than a year he was in command of a brigade. Loiter be was placed on the staff of Gen. MeCk-llan, and served In the peninsular and Mary land campaigns. He fought gallantly at Chlckamauga and was brevet ted major In the army as a reward. In 1868 he Joined Gen. Sheridan on the Potomac, was made lieutenant colonel and Inspector general of corps. He was again made brigadier general of volunteers for brave work at Richmond and Shenandoah, and in, 1805 be was a captain In the regular army. He re mained with Sheridan for some years after the war, and In If 10 he was pro moted colonel at Fort KUey, and later given a brigadier generalship. He Is a soldier of fine presence and la a strict disciplinarian. AND IT DIDN'T FALL. ncirir t; l nere are two ways oi iuo- chimney -One Tray, and thai, as followed. Is to tear It down carefully and rebolld It In the desired place. This utilises only the brick and meand a great deal of labor. Tbe other meth od of moving a chimney Is to handle It much as a bouse would be handled and to move it bodily and without tear ing It down by putting It on skids. This latter method was followed by a firm of contractors at Bridgeluuupton, N. Y In moving a chimney for the Ma hanset nprovemenl Oompany at Ma haneet, N. Y. The chimney la 85 feet high and 7 feet square at the base. It weighs nearly 100 tons, and yet It was moved a distance of 950 feet over rough roads and up and down steep grades without Injury or accident. But six men were required to do the work. One horse attached to a windlass fur nished the needed power. The acromp&nylng picture. MOVIKO A BIO CntMNKT. from a photograph reproduced in the Scientific American, shows the style of braces used and the sort of aled on which the chimney was moved. The skids were well greased on the bottom, and the rate of progress was so fast that but nine days elapsed from the time -work waa begun until the chim ney was securely located on Its new foundation. Uowsrigkt Kobbery. Wife why did you send the doctor away before allowing him to do any thing for you? Husband The fool said he could cure me In three days. Why, say, I'm Insured for $40 a week and my salary's only $20. I wonder what he takes me for! Cleveland Leader. Paternal Wisdom. f 'Daughter, what time did your corn-' pany leave last night?" 'Why. papa, he started home at half " 'Never mind when be started; I want! to know when he left.'' Ohio State' Journal. Japan's Navy. Japan Is going to spend $40,000 In putting twelve young Japenese stu dents through a three years course of study of naval architecture and iita-rine-engineerlng In England. They will work as gentlemen apprentices will ;hc reat shipbuilding firms. Seme wortlde&s people are eighty Laid to suit, - , QKW. JAMES W. rOBSYTH. ,,.u ... ai ! I ! iHONDRIA, Heroic Mmsru Adripte la the fas of an SWstara tlilll.Mln. "For a time," said si maa who la now aa tiployer lastead it an employ, "I wws) manager ef aa Bafltera company milting copper in the! Upper Paoioaula of this Stsvte. It s a (delightful part of the world la sunim and soma of the stockholders used all of tbe time du i with as nearly ha hot months. Anusi0 Ihnu wtui this vsvoattoa the meat -waa a llttie bavchelor aallUoo- alre from Boston. In my opinion be waa tough as a mot. but a con- tinned hypochoiadr lie always had htm that would a chest of drug stock a young dr store, and kt waa an off day when he did not take from three to ten diffeirent kinds of medV cine, ne seemed! to live kn constant dread of being cajrrled off suddenly by some of his recwTlng maladlea, and H eame to be a sKanding joke among some of us who Wv of bis peculiar ity. "But one day he was doubled up fc earaeat. He waa fishing, lost his lunch, ate heartily of the rough far at a min er's shanty, took cold and had a sever attack of acute lndlgstioB. I never saw a man more frightened. He waa perfectly sure that th last call had come. He had men hustling la all directions to telegraph for the beat doctors to be had. But It was plain that he never expected any of theta ts reach him. "There waa a smooth fellow that w called Parson loafing about tbe place. He was aa cultivated a rascal aa ever lived on his wits. I hurried him Into a black suit of mine over f reah linen, had llm shaved. ( ptat the Bostoulan's own llug hat on hun and told him to follow tie. At the bedside I Introduced hlon under tbe name of a dlstioft-ulshed phy sician and remarked how lucky it was that he should be In the section. Tar son proved 'a star. Hia perfect cool ness restored confidence. He pro nounced it a slight attack of something no one ever heard of, but peculiar to the rvglonjaud never fatal. Then he mixed up k dose of red pepper, cheap whisky arid peppermint, told the pa U9t to swallow lit right down and then had nothing more to do than to. keep the oor fellow from strangling. This and the old bachelor's imagina tion saved him. Otherwise he would have died from fright. Parson solemn ly charged a J 200 fee. A month later I received this watch. I will never bs rich enough to want a finer one." De trott Free Press. Voltaire and the Regent. Voltaire was put In durance vile In hia young days, and k waa not his fault that he did not go back to the P'ftr he came out Marquis d--ri ' C jai . wiui oruerv TO uiajwsang sap-. 1st and bring him straight to the PalAhfTI Royal. The order was duly obeyed, aud late la the evening Voltaire and the Mar quis arrived at the Regent's court. While they were waiting in the ante chamber a heavy thunderstorm oc curred. There came a vivid flash of lightning, followed by a peal of thun der so deafening that an awed silence reigned among the courtiers for a few momenta. It was broken by Voltaire crying out In a loud voice: "Things could not be worse up thers If heaven were governed by a regent.'' The Marquis de Xoce repeated this remark to the Iuc d'Orleans and sug gested that Voltaire should be sent back to the Baatlle, but the Begent only laughed and promised the young wit a pension. "I am much obliged to your high ness,' said Voktaire, "for giving me the means to procure food, but I beg of you not to trouble yourself In future about my lodgings." She Objected. Charlie wanted to have a telephone put Into hia house, go that he might exchange sweet converse with his wife, but hia mother protested earnestly against It. "Robert," she said. "If you bring one of those dreadful things in here I'll never close my eyes for fear it may break out and sweep us all into eternity, and us not a bit wiser." He tried to persuade ber that Is was an Innocuous instrument; but she said. "No, no; look at the thousands and millions of poor Hindoos it killed last autumn." "Why," exclaimed be, "that wasn't a telephone that was a ty phoon." But the oh! lady lowered her glasses, and looking at him over the rims thereof, said that he could not fool her; that she might not know much, perhaps, but she did know that tbe typhoon was the president of Jai an. Charlie gave it up aa a hopeless case. Iteady-Made Medloine. A quack who has made his fortune by selling influenza honey, Is one of the characters in a recent French work of fiction. How he produced it was as' follows: The bees were kept In a large conservatory, or, at any rate, under glass, so that they could only pasture on the flowers provided for them, and of course these were chosen for their medicinal properties. Hence ready made physic of the most delicious kind was garnered. This was laughed at a an extravagant invention; but It was not quite so absurd as some of the crit ics Imagined. Beekeepers Intent on producing a luxury are annually more and more Inclined to experiment on similar line. The difficulty really lies In educating the palate of the average corurumer. to whom honey is merely honey, a breakfast table relish, varying; In quality hardly mora than salt. How Wax Matches Are Made. The body of a wax match is made by drawing cotton srranda, twenty or thir ty At a time, throUb melted ateaiine. To Fe Bzpected. Askins IMd you know Miss Flitters the dashing young bachelor girl? G rims haw No, but I know he.- brother, the coy ohl-maid man. New York Truth. Bat Hat jome dentists speak of the rooms in rhlch they receive their patients a "parlors." But they ought to call then "orawiag-rooaiA.'' Sket 'h. - -- . CUiiED OF HYf EXECUTION BY ASPHYXIATION, Illamia.tlaa Ou s M of tM poelaa of Crlssisiala, There Is some talk In France of abol ishing tbe guillotine and of substitut ing for It some other mode of capital punishment. At first It was thought that the verdict would be given In fa vor of death by electrocution, but French scientists do not seem to favor this method, claiming that as a de structive agent Illuminating gas is far more swift, sure and painless than elec tricity, and for other reasons also is more desirable. Indeed, the opinion of French scientists seems to be that the easiest way to get rid of condemned criminals Is to asphyxiate the in by means of illuminating gas. M. Bert he lot, than whom uo one in France is bet ter qualified to speak on tbe subject, is strongly in favor of this mode of capi tal punishment. There Is no scientific objection to the use of illuminating gas for this pur pose," he says. "Here In Paris dogs are regularly asphyxiated by means -f gas. The animals are placed In a box, which Is connected with a gas pipe, and they are stifled very soon after the gas is turned on. As for criminals who might be asphyxiated iu this fashion. It Is probable that they would suffer at least for some seconds; death would not be instantaneous. There would be contractions, spasms, and. In conse quence, a momentary struggle against asphyxia, tbe result of which would, of course, be a certain amount of suffer ing. Aa for Illuminating gas. It con tains a slight proportion of oxide of carbon, and this latter element pro! duces asphyxia almost . immediately. Therefore by means of such gas we could obtain results that would be hj solutely mathematical, and our con demned criminals could be put out of the world after a very brief struggle against death." That there would be strong opposi tion to any change In the French law regarding executions Is certain. Among the bitterest opponents would be tbe small storekeepers aud others who reside near the Place de li Ilo quette, and who earn a goodly sum an nually by renting their windows -to per sona anxious to see executions. More over, the guillotine is, In a seD.se, one of the national institutions In Fraiee. and there are thousands of patriotic Frenchmen who cannot be persuaded that It is not the best deatb-deuiing instrument In the world. TO SUPERSEDE STEIM. New England H.llroad Katabliahea the Superiority of Electricity. The supplanting of the steam locomo tive by electricity has begun. Tbe test w-as made recently on the (New York, nrora uaiiroaa oe- ijtrtfjn. ie TUAia 1JK1WK BT KIW fcOTOB. lug than attends ordinary steam rail road journeying. Furthermore, this menus a big saving In fuel, a it re quires ouly half as much coal to make forty-five miles by electricity as would be necessary if steam were employed. The new appliance which will revolu tionize railroading has been experi mented with for three years. It was begun on tbe Nantasket Beach Road, which was selected because It was not believed that electricity was practica ble on any road of any great length, owiug to tbe waete of the current In transmission, which would necessitate power houses every few iuile.s. But af ter many experiments the New York, New Haven and Hartford electrictaus discovered that by a heavy rail, that looks like a capital "A" flattened down, aud laid on blocks or wood, the electri cal current could be transmitted with out any appreciable loss of power, and at one-fifth the cost of a trolley line. It was this discovery that caused the New Haven Road to spend so much money on the third rail system from Berlin to Hartford. The third rails are laid between the running rails, and are banded together and connected by copper wires. They are not fastened to tbe ties, but are laid on blocks of wood. Tbe ruuuing rails are used to carry back tbe return current. The trolley block consists of a flat cast Iron shoe, 12x4 Inches, and weighing twenty pounds. This shoe is run along in the flat top of the third rail, just as a trolley pole follows an overhead wire. Inside of this Iron shoe a copper wire carries the power to the motor, which is In the truck of the car. The current used is of 600 volts. 100 more than in the overhead trolley sys tem, and, although tbe third rail, which carries tbe current. Is exposed, a shock canuot be gotten from it without touch ing tbe third rail and on of tbe running rails at the same time. Even then it would not be fatal. The company has fenced In all the stations and posted danger notices along tbe tracks to warn pedestrians and workmen. A Powerful Kcason. Sunday School Teacher So you for gave the bad boy that hit you? That was very good. Now tell me why you showed such a Christian spirit. Timmy Scrapper 'Cause he wa near twlcet my alze. Philadelphia Press. The Italiaa pharmacopoeia is revised every live years. Important innovations are expected to be made in the text this vear. Representative Savers, of Texas, wants the Government to offer a prize of (60,000 for an enginering scheme capable ot con trolling the Mississippi. Thirty-two and threequarter knots an hour is the recent record made by the British tornedo boat Turbinia on her trial trip ou the River Tyne. Vaccination has iust been introduced ini.- Afghanistan by the advice of Miss Hamilton, an English physician, who is in attendance upon the Ameer. rrr -i, REV, DR. TALMAGE Th Eaalaaat Dfvtaa's if Ii-rt r IVnmnn'ti Klrt Sin Will ( iirlo.il ,:. Kntil Inqiiisif iviie n lh.- (ianle-t r Kili-ii .ml It .Mfii le-u, to Surrrv:li- l-u-ration. Trvr: "An 1 w-ten t:i wnnvin snw that te ti-. e wan iro d for food, and that it was P i i:iiii M til ey, and n trea to b ile-Hir-1 to inakn oi wi--. slid took of the fiu't tliur-of. at 1 .li I e,it, and rhvh also lint her tiM!a'il with her. and he did eat " I4-Iie'.s iil., t. It i-..!ie r.r-.t S.-iturdnv afternoon in the World' existence. Kver dtnn sunrise Adam li.i-t..-yii w.itchiiu; IIih brilliant pageantry of H inf,-s nul ppales and clouds, and in his first .--ons in zoolojry and ornithology and if litliynio-v he has noticed that tli" rohiuj- fly tiieair tn twos, and that th tlsh swim the wnters iu twos, ami that the lions walttliH fields in twos, aud in the warm re.t.ilemra of that Saturday afternoon ho am on into siumwr, and, as ff Lvalli trory to tea.:h all aires that the Kreatent 0f earth ly hleasinKS is sound sleep, this paradisai cal somnolenee ends with the discovery on th part of Adam of a corresponding in telligence just landed on a new plauet. Of the mother of all the livinir I seak Eve trn first, the fairest and the be.-t. ' -I make me a garden. I Inlav the paths with mountain moss, and I l.or.i.-r them lth pearls from Ceylon and diamonds from tioloonda. Here and there ar fountains tossing in tlii sunlight that ripple under the paddling of the swans. I gather me lilirts from the Amazon, and orange proves from the tropiesand tamarinds from tioyaz. There are woodbine and honeysuirklecliinh- ing over tne wall ami starred spaniels sprawling themselves on the grass. I in vite amid these trees the larks, and the brown thrushes, and the robins, and all the brightest birds of heaven, and they stir the air with infinite chirp and carol. And yet the place Is a desert filled with darkness and death as compared with the residence of the woman of the text, the subject of my story. Never since have such skies looked down through such leaves into such waters. Never has river wave had such curve and sheen and bank as adorned the Pion the Havilah, the Uihon and the Hiddekel, even the pebbles being bdellium andonvx stone. What fruits, with no curcullo to sting the rlndl What flowers, with no slug to vinw the root! What atmosphere, with no frost to chill and with no heat, to consume! Bright colors tangled in the grass. Per fume in tbe air. Music in the sky. tireat scene of gladness and love and joy. Right there under a bower of" leaf and vine and shrub occurred the first marriage. Adam took the hand of this Immaculate daughter of flod and pronounced the cere mony when he said, "Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." A forbidden tree stood In the midst of that exquisite park. Eve, sauntering out one day alone, looks up at the tree aud sees the beautiful fruit and wonders if it is sweet and wonders if it is sour, and standing there says: "1 think I will just put my hand upon the fruit. It will do no harm to the tree. I will not take the fruit to eat, but I will just take it down to examine it." She examined the fruit. 8he said, "I do not think there can beany harm in my just breaking the rind of it." She put the fruit to her teeth, she tasted, she allowed Adam also to taste the fruit, ti.e door of the world opened, and the mo ister sin-entered. Let the heavens gather .ckness, and tbe winds sigh on the bo !a hills, and niAtn un.i desert J "tv ioin in one Inno -V."Th world U itreTijirur"' 'pat fofth'elaw and stinir7 'sfc.' Birds whet their beak for nrev. louds troop in tbe skv. Bharo thorns shoot up through the soft grass. Blastings on the leaves. All the chords of that great harmony ard suapped. Upon the brightest none tnts world ever saw our Hrst parents turned their Lack and led forth on a path of sorrow the broken hearted myriads of a ruiued race. Do you uot see, in the first plaoe. the dan ger of a poorly regulated imjuisitiveness? Hhe wanted to know how tbe fruit tasted. She found out. but 6000 years have deplored that unhealthful curiosity. Healthful curi osity has done n great deal for letters, for art, for science and for reliid n. It has gone down into tho depths of the earth with the geologist and seen the first chap ter of Genesis written in the book of uature illustrated with eiieraviug ou rock, and it stood with th-) antiquarian while he blew the trumpet of resurrection over buried tlerculaneuiu aud Compel!, until from their sepulcher ther came up shaft and terrace and amphitheater. Healthful curiosity has enlarged the telescopio vision of the as tronomer, until worlds hidden in the dis tant heavens have trooped forth and have joined the choir praisiuu; the Lord; pla let weighed aitaiust plauet ami wildest comet lassooed with resniendent law. Healthful curiosity has gone down and found the tracks of the eternal God In the polvpi and the tarils!i under the sea and the majesty of the great Jehovah encamped under the gorgeous curtains of the dahlia. It has studied the spots on the sun. and the larva iu a beech leaf, and the liclit un der a firefly's wing, and the terrilde eye glauce ol a condor pitching rrom C'him borazo. It has studied the myriads of ani nialcuuethat make up the phosphorescence In a ship's wake, and the mighty maze of suns and spheres and constellations and galaxies that blaze on in the march of God. Healthful curiosity has stood by the iuvnn- tor, until forces that were hidden- for ages come to wheels and levers and shafts and shuttles forces that fly the air or wiiu the sea or cleave tbe mountain until the earth jars and roars and rings and era 'kles and booms wfth st ranee mechanism, and ships with nostrils of hot steam and yokes of fire draw the continents together. I say nothing against healthful curi osity. May it have other Leyden jars, and other electric batteries, and other voltaic piles, and other magnifying glasses, with which to storm the barred castles of the natural world until it shall surrender its last secret. We thank Gotl for the geological curiosity of l'rofessor Hitchcock, and the mechanical curiosily of Liehig. an 1 the zoological curiosity of C'uvier, aud lh;; in ventive curiosity of Edison, but wh must admit that unheaithful and irregular in uuisitivaness has rushed thousands aud tens of thousands into ruin. Eve just tasted the fruit. Sh was curious to find out how it tasted, and ti n' curiosity blasted her and blastel a'l Dations. fto there are clergymen in titis day, inspired bp unhealthful inrpiisitive ncss, who have tried to look through the keyhole of God's mysteries mysteries that were barred and bolted from all human in spection aDd they have wrenched their whole moral nature out of joint by trying to pluck fruit from branches beyond their reach, or have come out on limbs of the tree from which they have tumbled into ruin without remedy. A thousand trees of religious knowledge from which we may eat and get advantage, but from certain trees of mystery how many have plucked their ruin! Election, free agency, trinity, resurrection in the discussion of the?e subjects hundreds and thousands of people ruin the soul. There are mcu who actually have been kept out of the kingdom of heaven because they could not understand who Melehisedec was not. Oh, how many have been destroyed by an unhealthful inquisitivenss! It is seen in all directions. There are those who stand with the eye stare and mouth gape of curiosity. They are the first to hear a laMcj, nd, buiid it another story high an-l ad ltsro wings to it. Aboutother people'. apntrel. about other peoples buiiness, about other people's financial condition, about other people's aftairs, tbey are over anxious. Every nice piece of gossin slops at their door, and they fatten and luxuriate in the eudless jound ct the greal world ol tittle tattle. They invite and lmptuously pnt-r;ain at thir house Colonel Twiddle mi Eiuiri CUiichat an 1 Governor STniillt iik. Whoever hath an in nuendo, whoever hat'h a ',and:il, whoever lath a valuable !".?ret, let him come and sacrifice it to fiis ealdess of spli- ar. Thousands of A lvns and Eves do notuia but eat fruit that does not belong to th-m Vqji fftti' iju"-" known as mathema- ' Vis computation of moral - ... .'J . alirehi.i: Good r.'nse plus good breeding, minus curiosity, eipiaht minding your own afTaiiv. Then, how many youm; mn through curiosity grt through "the whole realm of French novels, to see whether they are really as bad as moralists have rronounned Ihem. They come near the verge of the precipice just to look off. They want to f ee how far it really is down, but they lose their bnlaieo while thev look and fall Into rrnnedilosa ruin. or. catching themselves, clamber up. bleeding and ghastly, on the rock, gibbering with curses or groaning In-eiTe.-tnal prayer. By all means encourage healthful inrpilsitiveness, bv all means dis courage ill regulated curiosity. That one Edenl; transgression did not seem to be much, but it struck a blow which to this day makes the earth stagger. To find out the cous.equences if that on sin you would bave to compel the world to throw open all Its prison doors and display the crime, and throw open all its hospitals and display the disease, and th.-iw open ail the insane asylums and show the wratnh- edness. and open all the sepulchers anl show the dead, and open all the door of the lost world and show tbe damned. That one Edenle. transgression stretched chords of misery across the heart of the world and struck tiiem with dolorous wailing, and It has seated the plagues upon the air and th s!ipw,recks upon the tempest aud fastened, like a leech, famine to the heart of tbe slok and dving nations. Beautiful at the start, horrible at the last. Oh, how many hav exnerienced it! Are there here those who are votaries of pleasure? Let me warn you. mv brother your pleasure boat is far from shore, and your summer dav is ending roughly for the winds and the waves are loud voiced, and the overcoming clouds are all nwrithe and aicleam with terror. You are past the Narrows aud almost outside the Hook, and if the Atlantic take thee, frail mortal, thou ehalt never get to shore n'jaiu. Put back; row swiftly, swifter, swifter! Jesus from the shore casteth a rope. Clasp It ijuickly, now or never. Oh, are there not some of you who are freight ing all your loves and joys and hopes upon a vessel which shall never reach the port of heaven? Thou nearest the breakers, one henve upon the rocks. Oh, what an awful crash was that! Another lunge may crush thee beneath the spars or grind thy bone to powder amid the torn timbers. Over board for your life, overboard! Trust not that loose plunk nor attempt the wave, but iUic-kly clasp the feet of Jesus walking on the watery pavement, shouting until h hear thee, "Lord, save me or I perish!" sin beautiful at the start oh, how sad how distressful, at the last! The ground over which it leads you Is hollow. Th fruit it offers to your taste is poison. The promise it makes to you Is a He. Over that ungodly banquet the keen sword of God's ludgment hangs, and there are ominous aaudwritings on the walls. Observe also iu this subject how repelling ln Is when appended to great attraocive ness. Since Eve's death there has been no uch perfection of womanhood. You could uot suggest au attractiveness to the body or suggest any refinement to the manner. You could add no gracefulness to the gait, do luster to the eye, no sweetness to th voice. A perfect God made her a perfect woman, to bo the companion of a perfect man in a perfect home, and her entire na ture vibrated in accord with the beauty and iong of paradise. But she rebelled against liod's government, and with tbe same hand with which she plucked tbe fruit sha launched upon the world the crimes, th wars, the tumults that have set tbe universe i-wailing. A terrible offset to all ber attractiveness. IVe are njt surprised when we And maa mJ vomit naturally vulgar going into rransgivTn. We expect that people who ive in U) h shall have the manners ot .hed' low shocking when we And in m-' superior education: and to ' atronage of Darnley, the proOteat. '.he more appalling. The genius of Gather ne II. of Kussia only -sat forth in mors -powerful contrast her unappeasable ambi tion. The translations from the Greek and .he Latin by Elizabeth, and her wonderful iiialitlcatlons for queen, make the mora lisgusting her capriciousness of affection iiid her hotness of temper. Tbe greatnas f Byron's mind makes the more alarming Byron's sensuality. Let no one think that refinement of maa acr or exquisitenesa of taste or superiority t education can in any wise apologise for ;ll temper, for an oppressive spirit, for aa iiridness, for any kind of sin. Disobedi ence Godward and transgression manward an give no excuse. Accomplishment Heaven high is no apology for vice hell deep. Mv subject also impresses me with th regal IuAuence of woman. When I see Ev wit fi this powerrui lunuence over Adam tnd over the generations that hav fol lowed, it suggests to me the great power all (omnu have for good or for evil I hav no sympathy, nor have you, with th hoi ow riatteries showered upon women Croat :he platform and the stage. They mesa nothing; they are aecepted as nothing. Woman's nobility consists in th exerola t a Christian influence, aud whan I this powerful influence of Eve upon her husband and upon the whole human rao I make up my mind that the frail arm of ivoman can strike a blow which will resound through all eternity, down among the dun geons or up among the thrones. Of course I am not speaking of represen tative women of Eve, who ruined the rao by one fruit picking; of Jael, who drove a ipike through tbe head of Slsera, the war rior; of Esther, who overcame royalty; of Abigail, who stopped a host by her own beautiful prowess; of Mary, who nursed the world a Saviour; of Grandmother Lois, immortalized in ber grandson Timothy; of Charlotte Corday, who drove the dagger through the heart of theassasiin of her lover, or of Marie Antoinette, who by one look from tbe balcony of her castle quieted a mob, her own scaffold tie throne of for giveness and womanly courage. I speak uot of these extraordinary persons, but ot those who, unambitious for political power, as wives and mothers and sisters and daughters, attend to the thousand sweet offices of home. When ut last we come to calculate th IOICC3 lliai UUlI'lGU 111" U13IIUJ V 1 it will be found that the mightiest and grandest influence came from home, where tiie wife cheered up despondency and fa tigue and sorrow by her own sympathy, and the mother trained her child for hea ven, starting the little feet on the path to the celestial city, aud the sisters by their gentleness refined the manners ot th brother, and the daughters were diligent In their kindness to the aged, throwing wreaths of blessing on the road that led father and mother down the steep of year. God bless our homes. And nuvy the hom on earth be the vestibule of our horn in heaven, in which place we may ail meet father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather and grand mother and grandchild, and the entire group of precious ones, of whom we must say. in the words of transporting Charles Wesley: One family, we dwell in Him; One churoh above, beneath. Though now divided by the stream The narrow stream of death ' One army of the living God, To His command wa bow. Tart of the host have crossed the flood. And part are crossing now. According to the deductions of a well known astronomer, we receive as much licht from the sun as could be emitted by 6SO,G00 full moons. A recent census of Buonns Ayres, Ar gentcnia, shows a population of 663,650, which makes it larger by 100,000 than Rio de Janeiro, and the metropolis of South America. According to the most delicate experi ments or the most famous scientists, th heat of the lunar rays which reach th earth is scarcely tbe twelve-millionth of a degree. A Paris doctor has discovered the mi-, crobe of baldness and has exhibited it at the St. Louis hospital, top?: her with a sheep inoculated with it which had lost it wool. He is now hunting for the mean of destroying the microbe. It is said that the Greenland whal sometimes attains the age of 400 years. . Only one person in fifteen has perfect eyes, the larger percentage of defective ness prevailing among fair-haired people. , 1 "!. f -v
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