F. BOHWEIER, THE OONBTITUTION-TH E ONION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. mm! Pnn VOL. LI. MIFFUNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 30. 1897. NO. 29 V - A. 1 Martin, ton colUf 1. CHAPTER XXXIV. " Eric Llewellyn, the dead-alive, the man for whom hi. girl-wife mourns iu widow's desolate anguish, sod for whom Bis mother's gray hairs are going down to the grave in the quiet, benumbed, pas sionate grief of the heart that has beat through more than sixty year, of this world's troublous time Eric Llewellyn, alive and strong, and full of vigor and manhood's power, after he has warmly re ciprocated hi. cousin's welcoming ca resses, look, about restlessly and feverish ly still, his heart hungering for another Welcome. This i. Curraghdene. isn't it. Heftier tie ask., hurriedly, and looking around with a bewildered glance. "It Is so al tered, I can hardly recognize it to be th. same place. And where is Muriel, Het tle?" he whispers, his voice failing him Hettie, dear, where ia my poor little wife?" "She is, she is I don't know where she Is!" Hester says, impatiently, and burst ing into bitter tears as ahe lays her head again on Eric's breast. "Oh, Eric! Eric! give me a minute before you give Muriel the rest of your life." "Hettie! don't keep me In suspense," ha says, and his voice ia stern through emo tion, "tell me where Muriel is!" I don't know, I assure you, Eric," Hes ter answers, quietly, subduing herself by powerful effort. "She is out spending the evening with some of her friends, 1 believe; she did not tell me where she was going." "Good heavens! I have come across the world, and now I may wait here hours in -rain before I see her," he says angrily, In the injustice of his feverish longing. "You don't ask for your poor mother, Eric," Hester says sorrowfully, as she turn to leave the room. "Yes, I do ask, and I want to see herP lie says, his eyes flashing, "but I want to ee my wife, too!" "1 will go and break the news to poor aunt," Hettie says. In a low, trembling voice of well-simulated timidity, "and then 1 will go myself and try and find Muriel fur you, since you cannot endure us with out her!" and the worda die away In chokiug sob. ) Upstairs Hettie breaks the Joyful news mm gently as she may, but ahe cannot quite J avoid the distressing scene that ensues " when she brings Eric in and the gray haired mother clasps her ion to the breaat thut nursed him. But she leaves mother and "on together and hurries away to her "TvTn rodmf locks herself in amfwreSnes with'the demons of Jealous despair and hatred that are warring for her souL "I could kill her! I could kill her!" sh. says, wildly, as she paces up and down like a caged tigress. "Kill her? I would d it in a moment without hesitation or pity, if I ouly could! I would shoot her, stub her, poison her, if I could only keep her from him forever and ever! But I can't I can't." No, she cannot. She cannot keep Eric from the woman he lovea and the woman -who lovea him so dearly; she cannot keep i them asunder any more! A few minutes, .an hour at must, and Muriel and her lover will be reunited, never to part again ai Llong aa they both shall live! "At all events he shall wait a while for her. She shalJ not intrude on us in the - -first hour of his return!" she thinks, in iter bitter, useless rancor and Jealousy, .as she bathes her flushed face, and applies .velvety, cooling poudre de rose and ad Justs her curling locks, and goes down "atuirs, outwardly as calm as a snow-cov-' red volcano, and gives her orders to Hannah O'Xeil, as the first servant she meets. And Hannah, receiving Miss Stapleton's clear, forcible directions with an insulting air of contemptuous amusement, tosses her head, while her eyes twinkle with sly maliciousness and triumph, as few eyes in the world, but Irish ayes, can twinkle. "Do you understand?" Hester says, los lag her temper in a guat of rage which she cannot subdue. "If yon dare to disobey my Instructions, and any harm comes of it, you shall answer for it! Do you hear me? Let me not Me you attempt to leave the house, or send anyone out of the house to find Mrs. Llewellyn, or speak one word to her when she does return, nntil I see her .and break the news to her myself! Mind, I wurn you, and I will tell CoL Llewellyn I have warned you, and yon will be to iblauie if your gossiping tongue frightens Air.. Llewellyn to death!" "I don't know about my 'gossiptn' -tongue' fritenin' her to death. Miss Sta pletou," Hannah retorts, loudly. "I know ithat somebody's tongue has nearly drove the craythur to her death, an' nigh bruk iher heart as well! We'd best not talk about 'tongues,' Miss Stapleton, for I've at long one, an' an ugly one whin I begins Specially whin there's someone come home to hear the rights an' the wrong, an' staii' up for tbiin that can't detind thimsllves. Miss Stapleton. The poor young misthress will be tould the good news o' her husband comin' back agen to her afore you've time to aalt it an' sayson it for her. I'm afeared yere too late in the field. Miss! Kirwau's gone a quarter of i an hour ago to find her an bring her home flyin' to himself." And Hester knows, and feels through every nerve, the bitter truth that she is foiled utterly. She walks away slowly and goes into the empty drawing room for Mr. Farren has discreetly retired to the spare room, where Hannah has lit the fire and brought him a cup of tea. She sinks down again in her chair by the firelight, and in the bitterness of her pirit wishes she were dead wishes she -were dead, since the man she has loved either well nor wisely, but deeply and fiercely whom she has mourned for sin cerely for the time being since he has returned from the grave, as it were re turned to life and to love, to the love of .Muriel Llewellyn Muriel Llewellyn, who Js not only the mistress of bis heart, but -the wife of his bosom! And almost as the wicked wish crosses iher mind, the door opens and Muriel Lleweliyu enters the room enters quickly but quietly and silently, and but that Hea ler notices the bloodless pallor or her fact, -and the unnatural lustre of her great, .dark, soulful eyes, she can perceive noth ing unusual in the girl'a appearance as be stands at the door surveying the apart snent with a quick, wild, bright glance. "Well! what is the matter, Muriel?" flester asks, rather sharply, but in her usual tone and manner, while a throb of -vindictive joy beats through her pulses. -"She has not heard yet," ahe decides, rapidly, as she determines to rob her of 0 good deal of Joy that awaits her, and to, J perhaps, plant successfully, a few thorns id her breast that will takeiroot and grow there. "One would think yon aaw ghost!" she continues, with her scornful, sharp laugh. "Take off your hat, and ait down, for mercy's sake; we have a visitor this evening." "Who is it?" Muriel asks, never stirrin. from the door, never ceasinjg the restless movement of her glittering, fevered eyes, never moving her handa where she has tightly pressed them against her madly beating heart. "Why, who should It be?" Hester ask, with her heartless, sharp laugh. "What on earth aila you, child? Are you fright ened, or what ia the matter?" , "I am frightened," poor Muriel saya, feebly, still under the spell of the wild, desperate, mad hope that had leaped op like a living thing in her breaat and beat in her convulsed throat, and quivered in her fevered lips, since the moment she saw Kirwan leap over the hedgea and come rushing toward her, gasping the blessed words: "Good news! Good news for yeh. Mis. jM Uriel! There's the best o' good news up at the house for yeh. Miss Muriel I CHAPTER XXXV. "Oh, who is it that has come, Hester? he asks, hoarsely, clinging to the door, for the room seems suddenly to whirl around and fade away, and her hand, clutching the door, grows icy cold. "Mr. Farren," Hester answers, coolly. "Why, what on earth are you making such a tragical piece of business of his ar rival fur? I never knew he waa a particu lar friend of yours before." "Did he bring any news?" Muriel per sists, passing by her enemy's taunts un noticved. "Did he? did he? Oh, Hester do have pity on me!" "Do have pity on you?" Hester repeats, with scornful mirthfulness. "Do 'have pity on you.' and tell you the news? Well, I believe his news is that there la a hope of a small dividend being paid next half year on poor auntie's South Araucauian Hallway shares V ell! bat ia the mat ter with you now?" For at the other side of the fireplace, Muriel sees the curtain thrust aside, and Hannah, twisting her face into the most extraordinary contortions of voiceless en treaty, and with both handa held up, and all her fingers silently beckoning in a fran tic manner, as she stands hidden from Miss Stapleton's view; and in a moment hr young mistress rushes across the room, knocking over some of the spindle legged, modern-antique chairs recklessly, and is in Hannah's arms before Hester perceives the ambush that haa again de feated her cruel longing to torture her de fenselesa rival. "Yis, me darlln'! yis, asthore!" Hannah says, convulsively, but rousing to the bat tle with Celtic readiness and delight. "Whist, now, honey! The best o' good news for yeh, me child, on'y she wouldn't let yeh hear it as long as she could keep it from yen, asthore! 'Wicked, Insellent woman' yerseT, Miss Stapleton, me jewel! An' take that now! An' sorra bit o' yeh'll ever get her to torment her an' brak her heart, an' make little of her, and fret the innoce&t sowl out of her as ye've been doin' sence yeh come here! An' take that now! Whist, me darlin'! He's come home to yeh, agilla; himself come back to yeh, me darlin', an' he's waitin' up stairs for yeh, an dyin to see yen, an why wouldn't he?" "My husband! My husband!" the poor rirl gasps, wildly, trembling and laughing, while great tears roll down her face. "Oh, Hannah! Hannah! where ia he? Oh, Eric trie! trie oh, my husband! oh Eric, my darling!" She tears herself from Hester's ana-rv grip and Hannah'a circling arms, and darts, swift as a hunted bare, out through the passage, into the ball, up the stairs, and ia beating at the door of Mrs. Llew ellyn's chamber, ere Hester can follow and overtake her. But there is a moment or two of delay ere Eric .tarts up to open the door, anil the poor child, standing outside, feels that her case is too desperate for fears to stay ber beseeching handa or voice, and she beata and bruises he- soft palms on the panels of the locked door, and cries mad ly for admittance. "Eric! Eric! Eric! It la I, Muriel! It Is Muriel, Eric! Let me in, Eric! Oh, won't you let me In, Erie?" Poor Eric's quivering fingers wildly lock and unlock the door uselessly in his fran tic haste, and when he opens it she still reiterates ber piteous entreaty, though his arms are around her, aud though he carries her into his mother's room, shut ting the door in Hester's face as she ac tually tries to follow them. And Mrs. Llewellyn tearfully hurries out of the room, recognizing poor Muriel's claims at last, and leaves the girl and her wedded lover alone together, with all the woe? if earth passed away, and all the joys ol taradise hers for a time at least. (To be continued.) The Human Voice. In the unman voice, though generally but of nine perfect tones, there are act ually no less than 17,502.186 different sounds. These effects are produced by fourteen direct muscle, which glvt about 10,38.1 different sounds, and thir ty Indirect muscles, which produce 17, 57ii,b3 sounds. Sticks to Her Job. A Richmond. Me., woman has work ed twenty-flve years In a Lewiston mill 2 most of the time at the oue loom. The combined age of five couples who recently celebrated their golden wed ding at' Wazeinines, in Belgium, was just 800 years. There is a barber's chair in Houlton, Me., in which Hannibal Hamlin, Fred Douglass, Blaine, Garfield, Theodore Til ton and MeKinley have sat. A remarkable tree grows in Brazil. It is about six feet high, and is so lumin ous that it ran be teen on the darkest night for a distance of a mile or more. in the British Museum library the books that are presented are vellow in color, those that are purchasebd are red, and those hound in blue denote that they came by copyright. The rodent family, owing to the great number of skins, holds numerically the highest position in the far trade. The squii rel belonging to this family is an im portant contributor. Two witnesses from British Columbia in an Ellenibure Washington law ru traveled 1604 miles and had a joint bill of 1368.80. - OLD RAILS MADE AS NEW. :Uca. Method of Benewias Worn Oat Kitlruad track. A new i:iftlicd of treating worn out ileel ralkt, aud oue that has received Oie Indorsement of a practical steel rail uaker, dipt. It. W. Hunt, la described y hi iu tn Culler's Magazine. This It be Invention of Mr. E. W. Mi-Henna. !or years kiiuititled with large railway rsiems. Ills idea ' tvaa to heat the' worn rail In its entirety and cause aa ile reduction of weight of section a possible, and restore It to perfect sco iou and make It suitable for Its or!j- AREA S-.S6" iECTIOHS OF OLD AMD RKROT.LED RAILS. inal main truck use. Experiments wttli the renewed rails In actual service proved eminently satisfactory. In the accouiianying Illustration are? shown three sections of worn rails. The sections given show the different ways in which steel rails wear, togeth er with flowage of metal L e., excess ive curve wear, ordinary curve wear, and tread wear. The fact that these different forms of worn rails, varying In weight ftvui 54.6 pounds to 55.0 pounds per yard, were all renewed to the standard C, weighing 53 pounds per yard, demonstrates that the maxi mum reduction due to the process need not exceed 2.5 pounds per yard and the resultant product of any lot of worn rails will be within five pounds of the original weight. In sections of rails shown in the sec ond Uiustratlou the original mil waa of English make, aud was in the track; twenty-nine years. In the rerolllng process the rails were altered to admit the use of modern joint material. In operating rtie process the rails were charged into a furnace that was sufficiently long to accommodate the whole rail. After being brought up to a bright red heat the rails were drawn from the tvd of Uie furnace opposite to tpt used for charging, and carried by Hift-driTc2 carriage to the back side of a three-high set of rolls, and entered between the top and middle rolls. After passing through they fell upon driven rollers, and by them en tered into the final or finishing pans be tween the middle and bottom rolls. They were then carried to the hot saws ansa. jJ AtCA .V7" A ENROLLED ESOLISH RAIL. la the usual way, and after being cut to the desired lengths, were put on the hot bed to cool, subsequently being cold straightened and drilled for splice bolts. The loss In heating and rolling ran from .05 per cent, to .08 per cent With one beating furnace the product was over 100 tons per turn. A pl.at ia being built at Joiiet, I1L, to renew rails by this process. AGED ILLINOIS PREACHER. Father Kapp, of Clarke Ceaaty, Waa Bera Ninety-two Years Ago. Rev. Father Henry Rupp, of Clarke County, Illinois, is theoldeet active cler gyman In the State, if not In America. At 02 years of age he is still preaching the giad tidings. He walks into town three or four times a week. He has a kind or a pleasant word to say to every body, and be is beloved by all who know him. Father Rupp was born ninety two years ago in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. In 1832 be immigrated to Wayne County, Ohio, and In 1847 be came to Illinois. At this time this part BRV BXHBT BT7PP. of the country was very thinly settled, and as the people here spoke English, of which Father Rnpp was ignorant, he was compelled to set to work to master it in order that he might con tinue his ministerial duties. His cir cuit covered many miles, and the roads wers new and rough. Man times h trudged over miles of country on foot In order not to disappoint his congrega tions. For more than sixty years he has been a preacher and has brought a great multitude of people into the Christian religion. On a recent Sun day be preached In Martinsville, and (be church was filled with bis old-time friends and admirers. Father Rupp is till hale and hearty. HI favorite Aastime ia fish log. and when lis has OR.6IMAI. HUH. s- r- f(l)l.l.tO HUL- t "V W ".30 earned a vacation he spends it in that recreation. WRECK OF A WORK OF ART. Btavtae of Agne. Oilkcr.oa la Demul iahed. The costly marble statue o" Agues Gilkersou, for years an object of In terest on the lawn of the Heasekiah B. Smith's mansion at Smithvllle, N. J., was broken Into thousapds of pieces the other day. The wreckage .of this remarkable work of art was then cast In Rancocas Creek, and the testimo nial to Congressman Iezekiah B. Smith's folly went out of plgbt forever. The story of Smith and Agnus Gllker eon Is oue of extraordinary romance and wrong, and, when first mude pubr lie, stirred the whole country. The man had deserted his rightful family at Woodstock, Vt., and made a new home at Swltnville with the woman of bis infatuation. He became a million aire manufacturer, creating a great I" uactiial plant In the out of the way re treat be had selected. He also went to Congress and grew to be a political fig ure tn the State, Agnes Gllkerson, known to those who knew Smith tben as his wife, pushing nlm onward and upward. He would doubtless have won higher political honors, but bis past beoaim? known. When the womau died the Inconeolable and aged manu facturer had a statue of her made la Italy and placed it on bis front lawn, where be could see it always. Captain Elton Smith, one of the mam ufacturer's surviving children, recently come Into the great property of hi i THE AG3IKS OII.KCItSOK STATUE. father, and one of his first acts was to order the statue pf Agnes Cilkerson destroyed, so It should never more plague him or his. A dozen stalwart men armed with sledges and axes sent the white statue crashing to the ground and hammered the marble fiercely un til nothing but a pile of debris remain ed. Some of the villagers tried to se cure pieces of the statue as souvenirs, bi- -cart ttok the whole mass to the creek, where it was dumped Into ten feet of water and covered with stones, lie Made a Bale He was a very small boy and very ragged, but there was a look in his eyes of shrewd Intelligence beyond his years. His left hand be held behind his back, but his right was extended, and between two grimy fingers he held a half-smoked stump of a cigarette. He bad his eye on a well-dressed man who was walking Jauntily along the street swinging his cane. "Say, mister," said the boy, "gimme a match, will yer, please." The man stopped good-naturedly and smiled when be saw the dirty cigarette stump. He made a pretence of search ing his pockets for a match, and finally said: "I haven't one, bub." The boy hastily slipped the stump into his pocket, and withdrawing his left hand from behind his back dis played a large box containing an as sortment of small boxes. "If yer ain't got no matches," said he, "now's a 'good time for yer ter buy. I got 'em all. wax and wood, and some what won't blow out in the wind and udders what will. Yer takes ye? pick." He sold two boxes for a nickel. Exit Tompkins. Tompkins Is one of those gentlemen of kind disposition who are ever on the outlook for a chance to Improve their neighbors' mind. Seeing a man, apparently a country fellow, sitting on the fence, regarding the telegraph wires carefully, Tompkins approached and said: "Watching the wires, ehT" Yes." ''Waiting to see a message go by, ehy "Yes, sir," the man replied, smiling. Then Tompkins spoke kindly to him and explained the mystery of the elec tric current, and that the messages were Invisible, and finished up with: "Now you know something about it." Then, as he was going away, he said, by the way, "What do you work at?" "Me and my mate over yonder art telegraph workers, and we've just fin ished putting up a new wire." No Difference. A Chicago Jury discovered, when it retired to make up its verdict, that one of its number did not understand a word of English. However, he had made up his mind that the accused men were guilty, and as the eleven men thought likewise, they brought Id a verdict to that effect. Acetylene. "The Explosion and Detection of Acetylene in Air" is the title of a pa per recently read before the Chemical Society; and as many persons are inter ested in this new illuminating gas. n short account of the results arrived at by this experimenter will not be out of place. A mixture of acetylene and air becomes explosive when as little as three per cent, of the gas is present, and the tendency to explode persists tip to eignty-one per cent. This range is extraordinarily wide, and exceeds that of any combustible gas known. . Novelty In Headgear. Aluminum helmets have not proved successful in the German army, the saving in weight being more than ou.' set by the metal's storing heat, even to blistering the foreheads of the weat- JCHN R. DOS PASSOa Father of a Financial Plaa to Beta- the raraaera. John R. Dos Passos, the father of the great credit fonder which, in bis opin ion, is to save the country by freeing 11 the farmers of debt, is a New York lawyer who is by no means aa vision ary or as Impractical as some finan ciers try to make him out. Secretary Gage does not indorse his plan of "sav ing the country." But the brilliant Portuguese, whatever may be the fail ings of bis present scheme, has en gineered some very fairly successful financial matters on a large scale. For Instance, there is the great sugar trust. The Havenieyers when they needed ad? rice called iq Dos Passos, and it was. his brain tbnt welded together the mag nificent organisation which has made so many millions for its owners, Hia fee is said to have been $500,000. He has been the consulting attorney in the reorganization of several of the largest railroad properties In tfce country. He has written at least one noted brochure entitled "The I -aw of Stock Brokers and Stock Exchanges," which shows forth much careful study of financial causation and the obscure laws that govern the wild movements of stocks. Before be became a corporation lawyer Dos Paasos practiced criminal law and did well at It. His last criminal case was his defense of Edward S. Stokes. After that financiers over all the coun try sought his advice. His fees were enormous. Capitalists hung on his words. Then he took up corporation and constitutional law and mastered it and became one of the most desired and famous lawyers In New York. Mrs. Dos Passos is a native of Philadelphia. He is 52 years old and fought bard in the big war for the Union side of the dispute. There Was One More. The delivery clerk with the pink rheeks was fondling his blonde young moustache when a young woman step re1 In f mnt nf him - . Tlgje," she wa'& :Loft iJ ''Is there anny letthers here for pa pie by the name of Murphy?" The young man with the pink cheeks stopped playing with his moustache and looked through a pile of papers. "No," he said, brusquely, as he shov ed them back into their pigeon holes gain. 'There's nothing here for the Murphys." "Is there anything here for James Murphy?" persisted the maiden. "No." "Is there anything for William Mur. phy?" she pleaded. "Nothing." "Is there anything for Michael Mur. phy?" almost tearfully. "Nix." "Is there any " The young man with the pink cheeks deemed it high time to exhibit his pow ers of persiflage. And he did so. "Madam," he said, raMng his voic-, "there Is nothing here for Peter Mur phy, or Paul urphy, or Larry Mur phy; Oscar Murphy's correspondents have forgotten him; Lewis, Samuel, Terence, Patrick, Thomas, Clarence Robert and Joseph Murphy are neg lected by their distant relatives. Sad der still, there Is not a single letter for Mary Murphy, nor so much as a postal card for Agnes, Bridget, Clarinda, Au gusta, Ida, Ellen, Susan, Ma mi or Gladys Murphy." The young man with the pink cheeks paused at 1 looked behind him for the applause w his fellows. But the maid en stood her ground, and softly said: "I'laze, sor, I didn't hear ye mint Ion the name of Mortimer Murphy. Might there be anything for him, sor?" Fireproof Paper. Fireproof paper for writing and printing purposes is now manufactured in Berlin by a new patented process. Ninety-five parts of asbestos fiber of the best quality are washed in a solu tion of permanganate of calcium, then treated with sulphuric acid as a blench ing agent. Five parts of wood pulp, as used In paper factories, are added, and the whole Is placed in the agitat ing box with an addition of lime water and borate of soda. After being thor oughly mixed, the material is pumped into the regulating box and allowed to plow out of the gate on an endless wire l-loth, where it enters the usual paper tuakiug machinery. It is easy to apply water marks to this paper, which ordl parily has a smooth surface, which can be satin finished for writing purposes. Paper thus produced is said to resist even the direct influence of flame and remains uninjured, though subjected to a white heat. Food and Odor. Food that has little odor and food that readily absorbs odors should be placed at the Ixrttom of the refrigera tor. All foods with a strong odor should be kept on the top shelves. Her Great Ra-ret. "Why are you sad, Mabel, darling?" "I was thinking, dearest, that this was the last evening that we could be togothcr until to-morrow," Trifles. Welcoaae, "It was so friendly and reassuring," commented the enthusiast, "to read thi signs and see that word welcome' ev ery now and then." "Oh, I don't know," replied the man who wants the earth. "It's nice at first glance, but you Invariably find It elm-, ply means you are welcome for what JOUX B. DOS PASSOS. you can pay for." Washington 8 tax. i IV. 1)1!. MUM The Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. Q" Victoria'. Jubile. Waa til a Subject of the Mlnlater. Dlaconrae. ud It VI' aa DeUvered Before th. Chaatanqaa at Beatrice, Neb A. Eloqueat Tribate. Tsxt: "What wilt thou. Queen Esther" Esther v;, 3. This question which was asked of a queen thousands of years ago, all civilized na tions are this day asking of Queen Victoria. "What wilt thou have of honor, of reward or reverence or service, of national and in ternational acclamation? What wilt thou, the queen of the nineteenth century?" The seven miles of processioq through the streets of London will be a small part of the congratulatory procession whoxe mul titudinous tramp will encircle the earth. The nelutiratlve anthems that will sound up from Westminster Abbev and St. Paul's cathedral in London will be less than the vibration of one harp string as compared With the doxologies which this hour roll up from all nations in praise to God fur the beautiful life and the glorious reiun of this oldest queen amid many centuries. Front S o'clock of the morning of 1887, when the Archbishop of Canterbury addressed the embarrassed and weeninu and almost at. frighted girl of eighteen years with the startling words, "your majesty," until this sixtieth anniversary of her enthronement, the prayer of nil good people on all sides of the sas. whether that prayer be offered by the 300 00i) 0U0 ot her subjects or the larger number of millions who are not her sub jects, whether that prayer be solemnized la enurcn or rolled from great orchestras or poured forth by military bands from forts aud battlements and in front of triumphant armies all ariund the world, has been and Is now, "Cod save the nueen." A -niii the innumerable columns that hava been printed In eulogy of this queen at the approaahing anniversarycolumna whloh, put together, would b literally miles long --it seems to me that the oblef cause of con gratulation to her aud ot prrtse ot Uod has not yet been properly emphasized, and in many oases tue eiiiet key note has not been struck at all. We have been told over and over again what has occurred in the Victo rian era. Tue mightiest tiling she has done has been almost ignored, while she has been honored by having her name attached to individuals and events tor whom and for which she hart no responsibility. We have put befor-j us the. names of potent and L'ran.lly useful men and woman who have lived during hi-r reign, but 1 do not suppose fiat she at nil helpe 1 Thomas Carlyle la twisting nis involved and mighty satires, or helped Disraeli in issuance of his epi grammatic wit, or belped cardinal New man in his crossing over from religion to religion, or helped to inspire the en chanted sentiments of George Eliot and Harriet Hartineau and Mrs. Browning, or helped to invent any of George Cruik shank's healthful cartoons, or helped George Grey in founding a British South African empire, or kindled the patriotic fervor with which John Bright stirred the masses, or had anything to do with the invention of the telephone or photograph, or the building up of the science of bac teriology, or the directing of the Roentgen rays which have revolutionized surgery, or helped In the inventions for facilitating printing and railroading and ocean voyag ing. One is not to be credited or discredited for the virtue or the vice, the brilliance or the stupidity of his or her contemporaries. While Queen Victoria has been the friend of all art, all literature, all soience, all in vention, all reform, her reign will be most remembered for all time and all eternity as the reign of Christianity. tonijii-alh that scene at 8 o'olook In "I". "fenslngton palace, where Usttcp-ot Canterbury to pray lor ner, ana tney aaeit aown, implor ing divine guidanoe until this hour, not only in the sublime liturgy of her estab lished ohurch, but on all occasions, she has directly or indirectly declared, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and la Jesus Christ, his only be gotten Sou." I declare it, fearless of con-tradiotion,-that the mightiest champion of Christianity to-day is the throne of Eng land. The queen's book, so much criticised at the time of its appearance, some saying it was not skillfully done and some saying that the private affairs of a household ought not so to have been exposed, was nevertheless a book of vast usefulness from .the fact that It showed that God was acknowledged in all her life and that "Bock of Ages" was not an unusual song in Windsor Castle. Was her son, the Prince of Wales, down with an illness that baffled the greatest doctors of England? Then she proclaimed a day of prayer to Almighty God, and in answer to the prayers of the whole civilized world the l'nnc3 got well. Was Sevastopol to be taken and the thousands of bereaved homes of soldiers to be comforted, she ualled her nalion to its . knees, and the prayer was answered. See her walking through the hospitals like an angel of mercy. Was there ever an explosion of lire damp iu the mines of Sheffield or Wales aud her telegram was not the flrst to arrive with help and Christian sympathy? Is President GurAeid dying at Long Branch au.l is uot the cable under the sea reaching to Balmoral Castle kept busy in announcing the symptoms of the sufferer? I believe tiiat no throne since the throne of David and the throne of Hezekiah and the throne of Esther has been in such con stant touch with the throne of heaven aa the throne of Victoria. From what I know ol her habits she reads the Bible mora than she does Shakespeare. She admires the hymns of Horatio Bonar more than she does Byron's "Corsair." She has not know ingly admitted into her presence a corrupt man or dissolute woman. To 'very distin guished novelists and very celebrated prima donnas she has declined reception because they were immoral. All the com ing centuries of time cannot revoke the advantages of having had sixty years of Christian womanhood enthroned in the palaces of England. Compare her court surroundings with what were the court surrouodings in the time of Henry VIII., or what were the court surroundings ia the time of Napoleon, in the time ot Louis XVI., in the times of men and women whose names may not be mentioned in decent so ciety. Alas! for the revelries, aud the worse thnn Belshazzar (easts, and the more than Herodian dauces, aud the scenes from which the veil must not be lifted. You need, however, in order to appreciate the purity and virtuous splendor of Victoria's reign to contrast it somewhat with the gehenuns and the pandemoniums of many of the throne rooms ot the past and some of the thronerooms of the present. I call the roll ot the queens of the earth, not that I would have them come up or coma back, but that I may make them the background of a picture in which I can better present the present septuagenarian, so soon to be an octogenarian, now on the throne of Eng land her example so thoroughly on the right side that ail the scandal mongers in all the nations in six decades have not been able to manufacture an evil suspicion in regard to her that could be made to stick; Maria of Portugal, Isabella and Eleanor and Joanna of Spain, Catherine of Kussia, Mary of Scotland, Maria Theresa of Garmany, Marie Antoinette of France and all the queens of Eugland, as Miss Strick land has put them before us in her charm ing twelve volumes, and while some queen may surpass our modern queen in learning, and another in attractiveness of feature, and another in gracefulness of form, and another in romance of history, Victoria surpasses them all iu nobility and grandeui and thoroughness of Christian character. I hail her, the Christian daughter, the Chris tian wife, the Christian mother, the Chris tian Queen, and let the church ot God and all benign and gracious institutions the world over cry out, as they come with music and bannered host, and million voiced huzza, and the benedictions ol arth and heaven, "What wilt tbou, Queen Esther?" Another thing I call to your attention in (his illustrious woman's career is that she i- a specimen of high life uncorrupted. Would she have lived to celebrate the six tieth anniversary of her coronation and the seventy-eighth anniversary ol her birthday had she not been an example of good prin ciples and good habits? While there have been bad men and women in exalted station and humble station who have carried their vices clear into the seventies and eighties, and even the nineties of their lifetime, such persons are very rare. The majority of the vicious die in their thirties, and fewer reach the forties, and they are exceedingly scarce in the titties. Longevity has not been the characteristic of the most of those who have reached high places in that or this country. In many oases their wealth leads them Into Indulgence, or their honors mako them reckless, or their op portunities of doing wrong are multi plied into the overwhelming, and it is as true now as when the Bible first pre sented It, "The wicked live not out half their days." Longevity is not a positive proof of goodness, but it is prima facie evi dence in that direction. A loose life has killed hundreds of eminent Americans. A loose life is now killing hundreds of emi uent Americans and Europeans. The doo tors ara very kind and th. uertitioate given after the distinguished man of dissipation is dead, says, "Died of congestion of the brain," although it was delirium tremens, r "Died of cirrhosis of the liver." al though it waa a round of libertinism, or "Died of heart failure," although It was the vengeance of outraged law that ilew him. Thanks, doctor, for you are right in saving the feelings of the bereft iiuuseuoiu uv not being more speciflc. Look, all ye who are In hiirh nlaneaof rth and see one who has been plied by ail the LoiuuiHiiuilH wniCQ Wealth anrl honor nnri me secret place of palaces could produce and yet next Tuesdav she will ride alone In the presence of 7.000,000 people, if they can get within sight of her chariot, In the vigor ous old age. no more hurt by the splendors tuai uatre surrounaea ner tor seventy-eight years than is the plain country woman come down from her mountain home in an oxcart to attend the Saturday marketing. I believe more people die of imnroner eating than die of strong drink. The former causes no aeitrium or violence and works more gradually, but none the less fatally. Queen Victoria's habits, self-denying and almost ascetic, under a good Providence, account for her magnificent longevity. It may be a homely lesson for a sexagesimal anniversary in British palaces, but it is worth all the millions of dollars the cele bration will cost, and the laborious con vocation ot the representatives from all the Bone, of the planet. If the nations will learn the sanitary lesson of good hours, plain food, outdoor exercise, reasonable absti nence and common sense habits. That which Paul said to the jailer is just as appropriate for you and for me "Do thyself no harm." And here let me say no people outside or Great Britain ought to be more interested In this queen's jubilee than our nation. The cradles of most of our ancestors were rocked in Great Britain. They played In Bhtldtiood on the banks of the Thames or the Clyde or the Shannon. Take from my veins the Welsh blood and theScotch blood, and the streams of my life would be a shal low. Great Britain is our grandmother. Again, this international occasion im presses me with the fact that woman is oompetent for political government when God calls hT to it. Great rears have been sxperienced in this country that woman would got the right of suffrage, and as a consequence after awhile reach the chief magistracy. Awfull Well, better quiet vour perturbations, as you look across the Jea, in this anniversary time, and behold a woman who for sixty years haa ruled over the mightiest empire of all time and ruled well. In approval of her government th bands of all nations are dapping, the flags of all nations waving, the batteries of all nations booming. Look here! Men have oot made such wonderful success of gov rnment that they need be afraid that wo- men should ever take a turn at power. The faft is that men have made a bad nesa of it. The most damnablv corrupt :hing on earth is American politics after men have had it all their own way in this ouutry for 121 years. Other things being iqual for there ara fools among women as eli as among iniin I say other things be- ng equal, mn has generally, a keener ense oi tho is.Jlgnt an"-- . wro than-1ia.rTfilh!u'as llallHally' liiljiS' jftfifS'Sbo foi-!bUfetimeJrav-ir..'u toUlE in God and knows better how to make self lacrlflces aud would more boldly act igainst Intemperance and the social evil, nd worst things might come to this coun try thau a supreme courtroom and a Senate chamber and a House of Representatives In which ' womanly voices were sometimes beard. We men had better drop some of :he strut out of our pompous gait and with i little less of superciliousness thrust the numbs Into the sleeves of our vsste and be less apprehensive of the other sex, who em to be the Lord's favorites from the fact that he has made more of them. If woman had possessed an Influential and loniroiung vote on Capitol hill at Waahing- oii aim in ine cugusn raruament, do you hlnk that the two ruffian and murderous nations of the earth could have gone on mill this time with the butcheries in Ar menia and Cuba? No. The Christian aations would have gone forth with Dread and medicine and bandages and ullitary relief until Abdul Hamid would lave had no throne to sit on. and Wevler. the commanding assassin In Cuba, would have been thrust into a prison as dark as that in which they murdered Dr. Bulz. I im no advocate for female suffrage, and I io not know whether it would be best to have it, but I point you to the queen of Qreat Britain and the nation over which ihe rules as proof that woman mav be politically dominant and prosperity reign. God save the queen, whether now on the throne in Buckingham palace or in some time to come in American White House. But as ail of us will be denied attendance on that sixtieth anniversary coronation I invite you not to the anniversary ot a coro- ! nation, uot to a coronation Itself aye, to two coronations. Brought up as we are, to love as no other form ot government that which is republican and democratic, we, living on this side of the sea. cannot so easily as those liviug on tha other side of the sea appreciate the two ooronatlous to ! which all up aud down the Bible you and I are urgently invited. Some of vou have such morbid ideas ot religion that you think of it as going down intc a dark cellar, or out on a barren common, or as rellation. when, so far from a dark eel- i lar, it is a palace, aud instead ot a barren common It Is a garden, atoss with the brightest fountains that were ever rain bowed, and instead ot flagellation It is coronation, but a coronation utterly eclips ing one whose sixtieth anniversary is now peing ceieoratea. It was a great dav when, about an euhth of a mile from the gate ot Jerusalem, un der a ssy pallid with thickest darkness. and on a mountain trammeled of earth quake, aud the air on fire with the blas phemies of a mob, a crown of spikes was put upon the pallid and agonized brow of our Jesus. But that particular coronation, amid tears and blood and groans and slav ing cataclysms, made your own corona tion possible. Paul was not a man to lose tils equilibrium, but when that old mis sionary, with crooked back and in- named eyes, got a glimpse ol the crown coming to him, and coming to you, if you will by repentance aud faith accept it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor eyes flashed and bis crooked back straightened be cried to Timotnv, "There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness," and to the Corinthians, "These athletes run to 'obtain a corruptible, we an incorruptible,' crown." And to the Thessalonians he speaks of "the crown of glory," and to the Pmllppians he says. "My joy and crown." The apostle Peter catches the inspira tion and cries out, "Ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away," ana St. John joins in the rapture and says, "Faithful to death, and I will give thee a orown ot life." and elsewhere exclaims. "Hold fart that no man take thy crown.- Crowns crowns, crowns! You did not ex pect in coining h-r to-day to be invited to a coronation. You can scarcely believe vnnr own enrc lnt in the name of a par doning God and a sacrificing Christ and an omnit)otint Holv Spirit and a triumphant heaven I o.7er e:icli one a crown for the ask- ine. Crown3. crowns! How to get the crown? The way Victoria got her crown, on her knees. Although eight duch esses and marquises, all In cloth ol silver, carried her train, and the win dows and arches and roof of the abbey shook with the "Te Beam" ot the organ in full diapason, she had to kneel, she had to come down. To get the crown ot pardon and eternal life, you will have to kneel, you will have to come down. Yea. History says that at her coronation not only the en tire asssemoiy wept witn proiouna emo tion. but Victoria was in tears. So you will have to have your dry eyes moistened with tears, in your case tears of repentance, tears of iov. tear of nnronation. and von. will feel like eryln? out with Jeremiao, "Ob, that my head were waters aud mine eyes fount ains of tears." In ull the ages of time no one ever had such a hard lime as Christ while he was on earth. Brambles for His brow, expec torations for Hischeek, whips for Hia back, spears for His side, spikes for His feet, contumely for His name, and even in our time how many say He is uo Christ at all, aud there are tens of thousands of hands trying to push Him back and keep Him down. But, oh, the human and satanio im potency! Can a spider stop an albatross? Can the hole which the toy shovel of a child digs In the sand at Cape May swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath of a summer fan drive back the Mediterranean euroclydon? Yes, when all the combined forces of earth and hell can keep Christ from ascending the throne of universal dominion. David the lisalmlst foresaw that coronation and cried out In regard to the Messiah, "Upon Himself shall His crown flourish." From the cave of black basalt St. John foresaw it and cried, "On His head were many crowns." Now do not miss the beauty of that figure. There Is no room ou anv head tor more than oue crown of silver, gold or diamond. Then what does the book mean when- it says, "On His head were many crowns?" Weil, it means twisted and enwreathed flowers. To prepare a crown for your oblld and make her the "quen of the May" you might take the white flowers out of one parterre and the crimson flowers out of another parterre and the blue flowers out of another parterre and the pink flowers out of another parterre and gracefully and skillfully work these four or five crowns into oue crown of beauty. So all the splendors ot earth aud heaven are to be euwreatheA Into oue ooronal for our Lord's forehead oue blazing glory, one dazzling brightness, one overpowering perfume, one down flashing, up rolling, outspreading magnificence, and so on his head shall be nanv crowns. The world's best music will yet be sound ed in His praise, the world's best architec ture built for His worship, the world's best paintings descriptive of His triumphs, the world's best sculpture perpetuate the mem ory of His heroes and heroines. Already the crown woven out of many crowns is be ing put upon His brow. His scarred feet are alruady ascending the throne. A care ful statistician estimates that in 1950 there will be 174,000,000 people in the United States, and by the present ratio of unit ing with the church 100,000,000 ot them will be ohurch members. What think ye of that, yo pessimists inspired by the devil? The deadest failure In the uni verse is the kingdom ot satan. The grand est throne of all time and all eternity is the one that Christ is now mounting. The most of us will not see the consummation In this world, but we will gaze on it from the high heavens. The morning of that consummation will arrive, and what a stir In the holy city! All the towers of gold will ring Its arrival. All the chariots will roll into line. The armies ot heaven which John saw seated on white horses passing in infinite cavalcade. The in habitants of Europe, Asia. Africa, North tnd South America aud ot all islands of the lea, and perhaps of other worlds, will Join In a procession compared with which that of next Tuesday will not make one bat talion. The conqueror ahead, having on his vesture and on his thigh written, "King 5f kings and Lord of lords." and when he passes through the chief of the twelve up lifted gates, all nations following, may foil and I be there to hear the combined ihout of church militant and church triumphant. Until the -choirs standing on Clio sea of glass mingled with tiro snali lound the triumph in morejubilant strains, iccompauied by harpers with these trum pets, the hundred and forty and four thou land coming into the chorus. I think we Kill stick to Isaac Watts' old hymn, which the 5000 natives of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa lang when they gave up their idolatries for Christianity, and I would not be surprised to see some of you old heroes of the cross. lervlce, beating time with your right hanm t little tremulous with mauy years: Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more. Let every creature rise and bring Peculiar honors to our King; Angela descend with songs again. And earth repeat the loud amen. AMERICANS MAKE ABSINTHE. It Ia Bold the Genuine. French Ar tide la All Saloon. The manufacture of genuine French absinthe ia the latest American Indus try. This Is guaranteed to be the real Stuff, straight from the boulevards. Franco-maniacs who frequent tLe cheap table d'hote restaurants of the upper east and west sides imbibe this stuff, which in an arrangement of com plicated glasses la allowed to drip into a glass of water, where It acquires an opaque hue. The absinthe Is pre viously a clear light green liquid. It Is made from the couuiuu worm-wood which Is found In many old New Eng- laud gardens aud from which a thick oil la distilled. It haa been found by an examination of custom-house exports that sixty years ago large quantities of this American wormwood were ex ported from New York and Vermont to Prance, where it was used in making absinthe. But so large has the home consump tion now grown that we now use all the wormwood for our own production, aa well aa five times as much which Is lui. ported from Germany and France. The American wormwood Is regarded as the best in the world. . Another expensive, herb that is grown here is saffron, which Is worch from $6 to $8 per pound. Until quite recently the supply of saf fron came from Vermont, but a severe drought there killed most of the plants and the price has Increased lu conse quence. In many Western States, as well an In Mexico, It has since been ar tificially propagated. In Michigan there are vast fields of peppermint, which Is cultivated care fully and sells for a high price. An other medicinal herb grown in Michi gan is sage, which is sold at $140 per ton, in addition to which 1U0 tons of sage are Imported into the Lulted States every year at a value of $80 per ton, most of it coming from Italy. In the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee boneset, pennyroyal and thorn apple leaves are cultivated, as- well as mandrake, bloodroot and black cohosh, all of which are used in patent medicine. California and Cape Cod are the homes of horebouud, which makes a cough medicine. This country raises a greater variety of medicinal herbs than any other, pro ducing those that grow in cold and hot climates, as well as those that thrive on dry mountain tops and in the humid valleys. Burdock, angelica and bay- jerry are some of these roots and others are spikenard, unicorn root, cascarllla, cramp bark, thyme and pigeon berry. New York Journal. It is said that Australian shepherds can fortell the weather from the condi tion of the wool on the hacks of their . sheep. An increase in curliness indicates better weather. In the seventeenth century the aver ago duration of life was only thirteen years, in the eighteenth, twenty; in this century it is thirty-six. Look out for the twentieth. The Los 'Angeles Herald says that a trust has been formed for the purpose of making powder and dynamite go up. That is absurd; powder and dynamite cannot be trusted. i .ii- 1 irt-flii'iraririaW-l
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