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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.
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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.
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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.
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