F. BOHWEIER,
THE OONBTITUTION-TH E ONION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
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VOL. LI.
MIFFUNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 30. 1897.
NO. 29
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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
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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
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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.
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