f: : F. BOHWEIER, THE OONtriTl' U TION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWB. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 14. 1897. NO. IIP .feJS Hi jst: VO L. J J. 5? CHAPTER XXXVI. Two minutes later, as Hester and Mrs. Llewellyn stand whispering together at the head of the staircase, Eric suddenly appears and calls to them. "Mother! Hettie! Come here!" "" ' They find him on his knees beside Mo del, lying white, and silent, and helpless u a broken lily, with her bonnet the widow's bonnet, which Eric has snatched 1T flung trailing over a chair, and the ancovered head, with its beautiful cluster ing carls and its ivory-white roundel throat, fallen limply across his arm. "She has fainted, Eric, my dear! La ,- er,fjat on her back," Mrs. Llewellyn .'ays, fussily, unfastening Muriel's dress, ."and refraining, with the prudery of some elderly matrons, from unclasping the cor et that imprisons the girl's feebly beat ing heart. "Painted? This isn't a faint!" Eric an iwers, through his close-shut teeth. "She Is dying! Send for the doctor, will you, at snce? This is no faint. Look at the cold sweat on her forehead look at her, thin and wasted look at her little bands with the bones showing! Oh, Muriel, Muriel, my poor little love! Oh, Muriel, my poor little wife! lias she been like this be fore?" ht asks his mother, hurriedly, as they try In Tain to restore her to con- i iciousness. "She looks dreadfully il and fragile! And this awful crape dress on Ber with these crape bands! Pull them fT her, mother, it drives me mad to see her! Pull this dress off! Tear it off in pieces! Oh, my poor little Muriel, is this what I have brought you to? The bright est and loveliest girl I ever saw, one little Tear ago!" "It is more than a year and a quarter since you were married, ray dear," Mrs. Llewellyn says primly, "and she she has fretted very much after you I think." "You 'think,' mother? Don't you know,, then, whether she has been happy or mis erable?" he asks, gravely. "Muriel has never been confidential with me, Eric," the dowager says in a com plaining tone. "She never has been lov- ing, or confidential with me, though I have always tried to do my duty toward er, and be most careful of her welfare." "I asked you to do so, mother," he an swers, more briefly. "She is recovering a ' little now. Where is her room? I wit . carry her to it." Vt, "She she always has had the am zoom, she always preferred it," Mrs. Llew ellyn says, coughing, and rather stum bling mr her words; "Eric, my dear, let her stay here; this is a larger room, and tC and more comfortable, or,"tL sparf I will lakv-W-ta hat..2, taass. ahe will like that best," he answeiA - with a passing curiosity as to why his mother objects to bis doing so. - -. As soon as he enters it, and laya his poo. young wife, half Insensible still, down on the mattress of her poor, narrow little bed, he sees why his mother objected to his entering the room, and perceiving, as he cannot fail to do, the glaring Inferi- ority of the dingy, faded, damp-stained old room perfectly clean and neat as it is to the elegnnt comfort of the bedrooms on the first floor his mother's apartments, and Hester's, of which he has caught sight through the open door as he passed, carrying his hapless girl-wife in his arms. Past those warmly carpeted and curtained chambers glittering with firelight, and polished woods, and marble slabs, and handsome china fittings, and dainty lace and embroideries, and all manner of small womanly luxuries up the stairs to the cold, dreary room where Muriel has slept since her childhood, the room which has, so far from sharing in the general adorn ing and renovating of the other parts of the house, been denuded of every scrap of ornament or luxury; partly demanded by imperious Hester's whim, partly yield ed by Muriel in utter disregard of herself, in utter heart-sickness of her life and everything connected with It. . He lays her tenderly down, and puts the one small hard pillow under the droop ing, helpless head, and then he looks around the room slowly, and at his moth er once more. "Mother, please send some one up to make a fire in this miserable room," he says, and Mrs. Llewellyn winces at every wori "it is as cold and comfortless as a Ixindon garret. And I will stay here with her until the doctor comes," he adds, de cisively. CHAPTER XXXVII. Hy Muriel's side, where she lies all u. roust-ions of his presence, Eric stays to. an hour, until the doctor arrives, and ad ministers a eoiniosiiig draught after she has had a few spoonfuls of soup and brandy. She has sunk immediately into a deep sleep, not, indeed, recognizing Eric at nil, and then, leaving her for awhile In Hannah's care, Eric goes downstairs f.r the first time for food and refresh ment, and finds Mrs. McGratb there, the good creature beiug "a perfect boon," as Edith hud said, for her aphiuih and genial conversational qualities at awkward fam ily crises like the present. It was Edwin Llewellyn, the poor, fri clous" young aesthetic, Eric's cousin, who hail been lost in the Cyprus. He had been gazetted to his majority just at the same date that his cousin had been to his lieu tenant colonelcy, and while one had sailed In the Cyprus for Uomhay. the other had sailed in tho Alexandria to Ceylon, whence, ns soon as the news of the death of bis cousin and the natural mistake in their baptismal names and military rank reached him, Eric Llewellyn had applied for leave, and came to England via Suez, But It was in Alexandria that a letter reached him which had followed him half way round the world, a letter from his cousin I-Mith, a brief, curt, kind, rcbuke ful. sisterly letter, inclosing one from Muriel a blotted, badly written, long let ter, which Edith had briefly said she thonght he "ought to have, but that Mu riel hesitated to send it, and so I send It without asking her leave," Edith writes licwilderingly. But not more bewilder inly to him than is Muriel's letter the 'passionate, unconcealed, incoherent out r"'irinc of her heart, beseeching his for iwm ana "a little love" beseecning iim to send for her "some day soon," and will try to be such a good wife, and try so hard to please you, that I must feacceed in some degree," the poor child wrote. The pitiful tale of her loneliness fend her friendlessness appearing through the phrases with which she tries to con ceal it the pitiful, childlike yearnings tot him and his protection and companion ship, and the passionate, womanly avowal of her love for him "since the day we walked through the plantation together, and yon kissed me and said you could not Jive without me," she says In her letter. "But, oh I dear Eric, you have learned to live without me now, but I have not learn ed to live without you. I could give all the rest of my life for one happy year with you, in the old home, as happy as I wrs with you for a few days two and a half, Eric, for you turned against me on our wedding day, you know, and forsook ma forever," though oh, my life, my love! I swear to you, as I am your most loving and faithful wife, that my only fault waa that I had promised my brother I would try to lore you when you came, and found the task all too easy." Muriel never dreams that this letter has been received by Eric, aa Edith had given her some plausible excuse for Its disap pearance the night she wrote It, half blinded by tears and benumbed with cold, up In this very room where she hears In the midnight hours from her husband'a lips, as he keeps faithful watch and ward beside her, the words of her sorrowful let ter bringing joy Into her sad little soul aa the night wears away and the morning a coming for her. "Oh, Eric! I shall thank her to my dy ing iny for sending you that letter!" Mu riel says, clinging to him In a passion of thankfulness. lie looks down at the fair young crea ture, with her clinging arms locked around his neck, her soft, dark-crimson dressing gown setting off the pearly fairness of her complexion and her white satin smooth neck and bosom, her beautiful eyes full of liquid light, her sweet virginal lipa up turned to his, as she asks, in all tender hu mility, for some sbreds of his wasted af fection to be bestowed on her, who gives him herself in the flower of her fresh, lovely womanhood, and all the treasure of her heart's devoted love and wifely dutjj he looks down at her, as they two ait there together on the little old red sofaj by the fire In Muriel's room; and Eric Llewellyn feels ashamed of himself and his pride, and his early love and his boasts of constancy; he feels ashamed and un worthy before her. "I want to thank heaven, Eric, for mak ing me so happy V she says, praying si lently with tears trembling on her dark lashes, and her words of thanksgiving quivering on ber lips. And the proud man humbled and contrite, and grateful kneels beside her, and weeps as he hears her thanking heaven for the gift of hi love so tardily bestowed on her. "Muriel, my darling," Eric saya, earn estly. "I am neither deserving of heav en's mercy nor your love; but pray for me that I may obtain the one and grow wor thier of the other." ii"'-- aJwasa waved Jtosiir - J - ntght of my life sine I first met -ron," ahe answers, simply, "and now that heav en has answered my prayers, and brought you back to me, and given me your love, I must pray more fervently than ever that we may spend eternity among the blessed, you and I, Eric, together." And Muriel takes her husband'a hand n hers and prays. (The end.) Literally. Eating one'a word Is a very common saying, but It la not often that one heirs of a practical illustration of th proverb. A quarto volume was published some time ago In St. Petersburg In favor of the liberties of the people, and the author was taken Into custody. After being tried In a summary way, the production was pronounced to be a libel, and the writer was condemned to "eat his own words." A scaffold was erected, the book waa separated from its binding, and every leaf rolled up. The author was then served with them leaf by leaf, and be was obliged to swallow theni on pain of the knout. When the medical gen tlemen were of the opinion that be bad had enough, be was conducted back to the prison, and the business resumed the two following days. After three hearty but unpleasant meals, every leaf of the book was swal lowed. Who Believes In Them? The bride who dreams of fairies the night before ber marriage will be thrice blessed. If the groom carries a minia ture horseshoe In bis pocket be will always have good luck. Marriages at sea are considered anything but lucky. Get married on land, or not at alL No bride or groom should be given a tele gram while on the way to church. It Is a sign of evil. No bride, to bare good luck, should bake her own wed ding cake. To do so Invites 111 fortune. If the wedding ring Is dropped during the ceremony the bride may 89 well wish herself unborn, for she will al ways have evil luck. Should the bride perchance sec a coffin while being driv en to the railway station prior to de parting on ber wedding tour she should order the driver to turn back and start over a train, or else she will surely meet with bad luck. Kngllsh Cycle Factories. It Is estimated that the cycle factories of the United Kingdom are now equal to a production of 750.0UO machines pei annum Fmilc Arton has admitted that he re ceived ftiHi.iMMi to ue in lobbying for the Panama Canal project, and has handed the books containing the amount of his expenditures to M. le Poittcvin, the judge d'instruction in his apse. Tho Jubilee procession in London was practically in three sections, colonial, military and royal. The Queen was in a landau drawn by eight cream-colored horses, aud she had an escort of thirty British aud foreign princes. She received a popular ovation all along the route. 3 A French statistician has calculated that the human eye travels over 2000 vards in reading an ordinary sized novel. The average human being is supposed to pet through 2500 miles of reading in a lifetime Japan imported about 30,000.000 gal lons of kerosene oil from America last year. Four-fifths of the world's supply of cloves comes from Zanzibar and i'eiuba, Africa. In Connecticut there is hardly a far mer who does not raise tobacco. The larrest state of Mexico is Chi huahua, with an area of nearly 90, (KM) square miles. rORQIVil CtC" I t)mr Wi '$Vvhi bkve you beco aJout t f -A Mo. don't oou ku uoar cars daum Yoa'vc su(ea J bepnn mischief. Tberes creraj)poo goar chin. ; You naujbiiualvtn Kitten . Obiujbcre cohere h$c you been as M&ftkaVa. aJUil SJMfo And t fctl Bo uou (jia.ma idttobed wm fa uont mffWOer k Yoa'r San Francisco Examiner. Mt Biamma'a Tlaals. .' wish you'd see my mamma's handa, And the things that they can do. Ihe says they're "very ugly ones," But I don't believe that's true. rhey're pretty, all the same, to me. And mighty clever, too. Jhe says she can't do anything. nut t see ner worn all day. She writes long things on paper Which sh? urn aw "nAt miiti fMtv! She sews, knits, and cooks sometimes (And sue spanked me yesterday l). She makes nice cake and candy. And blockings she can darn Yhy, the other day I found her Whitewashing our barn! Ind often I do have to sit And hold great hanks of yarn! wonder if my mamma's hands i Ever stop to go to sleep ? Vhy, they're busy when they hear me say "I'ray God, my soul to keep" tome night, when she's not looking. I'll just run in and peepl A Bhlplaad of Lizard a. One day, not many months ago, a ihip sailed from Pakbol with one of the strangest cargoes in the world. It was loaded full of nothing but dried lizards, thousands and thousands of them, all packed In together like so many sardines in a box. It bad taken hundreds of natives several months to :atch these lizards and to bring them ia theort In doing this they chased rrer the sandy plains around the town f Wnehow, in Kwangsl, looking for Jrard burrows and digging out lizard families by the hundreds. These dried lizards are used for a very strange pur pose. They are all ground up Into a rery fine powder and made into a med icine, called "lizard wine," which some people think very good for curing sick? less of various kinds. Oldest Tool In the World. If you were asked what was tbe old tot tool In the world what answer s-ould you make? Hammers, of course. When the first ative savage wished to crack a cocoa, aut or a dam he used a stone, and that was the first hammer. Eves wild monkeys are said to know bow to usu tones and sticks as hammers. Pictures jf hammers appear also on the monu ments of Egypt, built more than 2,000 years ago. They look a good deal like ur hammers, only they have no claws for the reason that do one ever had heard of nails in those days. Claw hammers were invented about tbe time that Columbus discovered America, I nxl since that time all sorts aud sixes Df hammers bare been made, so that every trade has a hammer of Its own.' I he smallest one of all is doubtless that used by the jeweler, weighing less than half an ounce, and used for tbe dainty work of watch repairing. The great est hammers are in the mighty steel works of the East Some of them weif b fifty tons, and make a noise like l whole battery of cannon when they falL How Jaasbo fa Ted a Life. Animals are funny things, especial ly elephants; you never know when rou are sure of them. Some are kind all their lives, as old Jumbo was, and tome are kind part of tbe time, but break out at last, and some are just boru cussed. That little fellow that Jumbo died to save from the train was Just a natural-born comedian, and when be was about four feet high be attracted more crowds to see him raise Cain than all the others with their learned tricks. Poor old Jumbo! How the children did love him, and how he loved them. There is no doubt about it; he did just love them. "I remember one day I forget If It was in Chicago or St, Louis the cbil lreu were riding bim," says an old Oiowman, talking for the Philadelphia rimes, "and he was carrying them up ind down along a sort of road with the crowd on eitRer side to see him do t. With his load on his back be was coming swinging at a good, round pace up to where he discharged his cargo, when a tiny tot of alout 4 years, a pret ty little girl, wriggled away from ber mother's hand and started to run across in front of the advancing Jum t to join a little friend opposite, tier foot tripped and down she went, right under the elephant's feet. Well, tbe crowd turned faint In a moment, ex pecting to see the child mashed; but quick as a wink that noble old beast. going full tilt, whipped bis trunk around that child and landed ber. safe and sound, up to tbe mahout on'hla head. Say, I can bear tbe cheering yet. There Is many an old showman who takes half a day In New York to go and have a look at Jumbo's skeletoi up in the park." Chicago Record. A Bit of British' DoaaereL TTenrletta Maria seems to be a popu lar personage with the schoolboys, who hriuc back fragments of ber dramatio nt ruun Ms, her? nnti nuinhrfi kitten rm JJ UUUL A? III CI AN I. Mnv xmi thr. crrxi Think tha.t tiou ojourai era Kittu. . A. just the stwej ?5 cast r no metier cutot (jcw And I'll rt frff 00; . For praps itio&VDtiJou, -" autobiography every holiday for tb edification of their families. I have In quired ber origin from learned folklor authorities, but no one can tell me any thing historically Interesting about her. But our old family servant remenibert well being taught tbe rhymes in a Som ersetshire Tillage In ber infancy. IIer they are, culled from the memory of three little imps: Henrietta Maria Sat on the fire; Tbe fire waa too warm. So she sat on the form. . Tbe form wasn't sound. v I (; So she sat on tbe ground. Tbe ground waa too flat. So she sat on the cat. The cat was unkind, "' So she sat on the blind (window) The blind solit in two. So she tumnfed right through. . i She lay on the stones, And uttered great groans. She rolled on the grass Till the doctor did pass, i Who waggled his head , And said she was dead. And that was the end of ' Henrietta Maria, etc., etc (Repeat ad libitum.) Loudon Queen. Bow a Boy Sacceeded. Boys sometimes think they cannot afford to be manly and faithful to tha little things. A story is told of a boy of the rigbt stamp, and what came of his faithfulness. A few years ago a laige drug flrm hi New York City advertised for a boy. Next day the store waa thronged with applicants, among them a queer-looking little fellow, accompanied by a woman, who proved to be his aunt, la lieu of faithless parents by whom be bad been abandoned. Looking at this waif, the advertiser said: "Can't taka him; places all full. Besides, be Is too small." "I know he is small," said the worn an; "but be Is willing and faithful." There waa a twinkle In tbe boy's eyes which made tbe merchant think again, A partner In the firm volunteered to remark that be "did not see what thry wanted with such a boy; be wasn't bigger th&ii a pint of elder." But, after consultation, the boy was set to work. A few days later a call was made on the boys in tbe store for soxne one to stay all night. Tbe prompt response of the little fellow contrasted well wHIl tbe reluctance of the others. In the middle of the night the merchant look ed In to see if all was right in the store, and presently discovered this youthful protege scissoring labels. "What are you doing?" said he. "I did not tell you to work nights?" "I know you did not tell me so, but 1 thought I might as well be doing some thing." In tbe morning the cashier got orders to "double that boy's wages, for be is willing." Only a few weeks elapsed before a show of wild beasts passed through tbe streets; and, very naturally, all hands in tbe store rushed to witness the spec, tacle. A thief saw his opportunity, and entered at the rear door to seize some thing, but In a twinkling found himself firmly clutched by tbe diminutive clerk aforesaid, and, after a struggle, was captured. Not only was a robbery pre rented, but valuable articles taken from other stores were recovered. When asked why be stayed behind to watcb when all others quit their work, be replied: "You told me never lu leave the store when others were ab sent, and I thought I'd stay." Orders were immediately given once more, "Double that boy's wages; be is willing and faithful." To-day that boy is a member of tits fl.rm. Presbyterian Banner. Famous Oak Trees. Tbe laat of the two old oak trees In flushing, L. I., under which George Fox preached in 1C72 has been felled. Tbe tree, which was known aa tbe Fox oak, baa been doad for several years, but owing to the historic interest at tached to it It was allowed to remain until tbe branches began to break. Royal Correspondence. A letter sent to a native prince is India is a very elaborate affair. Tli paper la specially made - for the pun pose, and la sprinkled with gold lent Only tbe last few lines of tbe some what lengthy document contain tin purport of tbe tetter, while the remalud. er la made up of tbe usual round about and complimentary phrases. II la folded in a peculiar way, with th flaps outward, and placed in a muslir bag. and this Utter into one of rtmson and gold tint, with a slip-knot of goto thread, attached to which la a ponder ous seaL Tbe address, written on a slip of parctuiMMUt, la attached to tin outside bag. These details are rery Important for polite letter writing is India, and If any or them were omittH kt would be an Insuift to the person ad- - HOW HE GOT A STORY. MswsaiBw Hu't Para alt of On a Printed lrn Detail. The other evening the bead of tha news staff of a local dally waa standing in front of tbe Palmer House. An ele gantly dressed youns; woman suddenly stopped before bun. and with evident embarrassment inquired tba way to tha Casino. Tbe direction waa given and tbe newspaper man added that tbs place was rinsed. "Closed T" echoed tba woman ha am arise. "Yes; It hasn't been open for sereral montha." "Ob, well," she continued, 1 guess ft la all right, anyway. I am a strange! In tbe city; a gentlemen and his wif from New York asked me to meet them at 8 o'clock In front of the Casino to go to tbe theater. I supposed we wen going to tbe Casino. My friends evi dently are going to some other tbeotei and asked me to meet them where tbey thought would be most convenient foi wo." She thanked him, gave him a smtl which he remembered afterward, and passed on. A minute later the news, paper man throw away the remnant ol his cigar. A bit of ashes, caught by tbe wand, fell upon bis coat lapel. Ia brushing it off bis band accidentally touched his cravat. The scarfptn whica bad nestled there a moment before wti gone. "It wasn't worth a dollar, anyway, he said to himself consolingly, "and she's welcome to It; but I'd like t know bow she did It There's a great Btory In that woman If I could only find her again and make her talk." His intended visit to the theater waa given up forthwith, and he began pa trolling the down-town streets in search for that story. An hour later be came face to face with the woman he waa looking for. She evidently bad seen bim first, but she made no attempt to avoid him. "I want you," he said bluntly. She laughed. "Well." she said, "1 suppose all of us sometimes want what we cant get." "And some of us," be added, "it seems, help ourselves to whatever wf want." "Oh, did you mlas it, really r aba asked, smiling like a hour! "I couldn't help taking it, you know; really I couldn't. But It wasn't worth keeping after ail. You'll find it In your left hand overcoat pocket." And he did. "Cotne," be said, "there's restaurant across the street. I owe you a dinner." When the last particle of the broiled lobster had been washed down and she bad told a fairy story which he mental ly concluded would make at least a col umn they arose to go. "Do you know," she said, "you were pretty lucky to-night? Well, you were. When I was talking to you on the street I tried for your watch. Your coat waa buttoned, and It covered the pocket so tightly that I couldn't get tbe waitofa without your noticing K. See," ahe continued, pointing to his tightly but toned cutaway. "I couldn't get my hand under there without your know ing It Notice bow tight tbe coat is over that pocket There's a pointer for you always keep your coat buttoned in a crowd. Then you're safe." The newspaper men offered to escort his companion to ber hotel. She de clined. He insisted. She hailed a pass ing hansom, jumped In and waa whirl ed away. He lighted another cigar and strolled towaird the theater. He won dered If be would be In time to see tbe second act What he said when he reached far hla watch couldn't be printed. Chicago Times-Herald. Prowling Wolves Increasing. The gray wolf, tbe bane of cattlemen and flock masters, appears to multiply and flourish in defiance of the efforts of the hunter and the price set upon bis bead. Advices from all sections of the range country report that gray wolves are aa numerous and destructive aa ever. Range riders are witnesses to tbe fact that tbe fattest and strongest steers are frequently overcome by these ferocious beasts, while the weak and Infirm surrender to their attacks al most without a struggle. The lire stock loss of Montana from tbls source can not be calculated, but from the navture of the case it must be tremendous. Professional hunters state that tha gray wolf to an exceptionally difficult animal to circumvent His cunning Is remarkable and his suspicious nature causes him to avoid any locality which hla keen senses notify him has been Invaded by bis human enemy. He is not a gregarious animal, preferring to roam in small bunches, which prevents such a wholesale killing as could be ac complished if a large band should fall wltliln the power of the hunter. He avoids poisoned baits and dead car casses; he is essentially a beast of prey, preferring fresh meat at all times, and when tbe pangs of hunger are felt he starts out to find something with warm blood in it For tbese reasons wolf hunting Is aa exceptionally alow and precarious occu pation; trapping, chasing and ahooting are practically tbe only methods that produce results, and attractive Induce ments are necessary to encourage hunt ers to engage in that work aa a means of livelihood. Benton River (Mont) Press. Cat m and Collected. Reporter It Is said that yourself ana your comrade, O'Hoggarty, were calm and collected after the dynamite ex. plosion at the quarry. McLubberty Wull, it waa lolke this. Ol was calm and O'Hoggarty was cok licted. New York World. Technical Term. He My father began life as a ped dler. She Gracious! I didn't know they bad bicycles as long ago as that 1 Yon kers Statesman. - Wli; Bay Their Machines) of Us. Three representatives of the Russian, government who have been pent to this country to study farming, forestry and cattle raising problems In America are now in Chicago. "It la our inten tion to abandon tbe machinery now used by us," said one, "and buy our im plements exclusively from AmertcaV REV. DR. TALMAGE He rralaea Lawyer, and Declares Tbat U Me Were oaj Trial For Hla Life He Would Frrfor a Jury or Barriatera Kather Than One of Clergymen? Teit: "Bring Zenas the lawyer." Tltuf lii., 13. Tha profession of the law is here intro duced, and within two days in the Capital City 303 young men joined it, and at this reason In various "parts of the land other hundreds are taking their diplomas forthat illustrious profession, and is It not appro priate that I address such young men from a moral and religious standpoint, as upon them are now rolliug the responsibilities of that calling represented in the text bj Zenas the law"-? We all admire the heroic and rigurout jlde of Paul's nature, as when he stands ;oolly deliberate on the deck of the com hlp while the jack tars of the Mediter ranean are cowering in the cyclone; as when he stands undaunted amid the narbles of the palace before thick necked Sero, surrounded with his twelve cruel ictors; as when we find him earning his ivelihood with his own needle, sewing laircloth and preaching the gospel In the interstices; as when we find him able to ;ake the thirty-nine lashes, every stroke of Arhieh fetchod the blood, yet continuing in His mission.y work; as when we And him, regardless of the consequence to himself, leiiveriug a temperance lecture to Fella, he Government inebriate. But sometimes are catch a glimpse of the mild and genial ido of Paul's nature. It seems that he had l friend who was a barrister by profession, ilis name was Kenas, and he wanted to see him. Perhaps he bad formed the acquaint ince of tbU lawyer in the courtroom. Per haps souiHtimee, when he wanted to ask Kimu question in regard to Koman law, he went to this Zenas the lawyer. At any rate, be had u warm attachment for the man, u.l he provides for his comfortable escort ind entertainment as he writes to Titus, "Bring Zenas the lawyer." This man of my text belonged to a pro fession in which are many ardent suppor ters of Christ and the gospel, among them lllai'kxtone.lbe great commentator on Eng lish law, aud Wilberforce, the emancipator, and the late Benjamin F. Butler, attorney general of New York, and the late Charles L'hauncey, the leader of the Philadelphia bar, and Chief Justices Marshall and Ten terden aud Campbell and air Thomas Mora, who died for the truth on the scaffold, say ing to his aghast executioner: "Pluck up courage, man, and do your duty. My neck is very short. Be careful, therefore, and lo not strike awry." Among the mightiest pleas that evei have been made by tongue of barrister have been pleas in behalf of the Bible and Christianity, as when Daniel Webster stood In the Supreme Court at Washington piead ng in the famous Girard will case, de lounciug any attempt to educate the peo ple without giving them at the same time moral sentiment as "low, ribald and vulgar ieistn and iuftdelity;" as when Samuel L.. Southard, of New Jersey, the leader of the !orum In his day, stood on the platform at Princeton college commencement advocat ing the literary excellency of the Scrip ;ures; as when Edmund Burke, In the fam ous trial of Warren Hastings, not only in behalf of the English government, but in oehalf of elevated morals, closed his speech in the midst of the most august assemblage sver gathered in Westminster hail by say ing: "I impeach Warren Hastings in the oame of the House of Commons, whose national character he has dishonored; I impeach him in the name of tbe people of India, whose rights and liberties he has mbverted; I impeach him In the name of human nature, which he has disgraced, la the name of both sexes, and of every rank, and of every station, and of every situation in the world, I impeach Warren Hastings." Yet, notwithstanding all the pleas which :bat profession has made in behalf of God ud the church and the gospel and the rights of man, there baa come down ;hrough the generations among many peo ple an absurd and wicked prejudice against t. go long ago as in the time of Olivet Cromwell it was decided that lawyers might 3ot enter the parliament house as members, ind they were called "sons of Zerulah." The teamed Dr. Johnson wrote an epitaph for one of them in these words: God works wonders now and then. Here lies a lawyer, an honest man! Two hundred years ago a treatise was la iued with tbe title, "Doomsday Approach ing With Thunder and Lightning for Law yers." A prominent clergyman of the last jeutury wrote In regard to that profession :hese words: "There is among us a society of men bred up from their youth In the art of proving, accurdtug as they are paid, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black aud black Is white. For ex unple: If my neighbor has a mind to my sow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must hire another lawyer to defend my right, it oeiug against all rules of law that a man should speak for himself. In pleading they lo not dwell upon the merits of the cause, but uon circumstances, foreign thereto. For instance, they do not take the shortest methods to know what title my adversary has to my cow, but whether the cow be red or black, her horns long or short or the like. After that they adjourn the cause from time to time, and In twenty years thej come to an issue. This society likewise has peculiar cant or jargon of their own, in which all their laws are written, and these they take especial care to multiply, where by they have so confounded truth and false hood that it will take twelve years to decide whether the Held left to me by my ances tors for six generations belongs to me or to one 3O0 miles off." I say these things to show you that there has been a prejudice going on down against tliHt profession from generation to genera tion. I account for it on the ground that they compel men to pay debts that they do uot want to pay, and that they arrtign cria.iiin!s wtio want to escape the conse queuct of their crime, and as long as that U so, uiid it always will be so. just so long there will be classes of men who will alTeet it any rate to despise the legal profession. I know not how it is In othtr countries, but I have had long and wide acquaintance with men of that profession. I have found them in all my parishes. I tarried in one of their offices for three years, where there came real estate lawyers, insurance lawyers. criminal lawyers, marine lawyers, aud I have yet to find a class of men more genial r morestraghtforward. There are in tbat O'-'Upatton, as iu ail our occupations, men utterly obnoxious to God and man, but if I were on trial for my integrity or my life and I wanted even handed justice administered to me I would rather have my case submit ted to a jury of twelve lawyers than to a jury of twelve clergymen. The legal pro fession, I believe, has less violence of preju dice than is to be found in the sacred call ing. There is, however, no man who has more temptations or graver responsibilities than the barrister, and be who attempts to dis charge the duties of his position with only earthly resources is making a very great mistake. Witness tbe scores of men who have in that profession made eternal shipwreck-. Witness the men who, with the law of the land under their arm, have vio lated every statute of the eternal God. Witness the men who have argued placidly before earthly tribunals, who shall shiver is dismav before the Judge of quick and dead. Witness Lord Tburlow announcing his loyalty to earthly government in the sentence, "If I forget my earthly sovereign, may God forget me!" and yet stooping to unaccountable meannesses. Witness Lord Coke, the learned and the reckless. Wit ness Sir George Mackenzie, the execrated of all Scotch Covenanters, so that until tha day. In uray Friars' churchyard,' Edia burgh, the children whistle through th bars ol tbe tomb, crying: Ploody Mackenzie, come out If you data. Lift tbe sneck ana draw tne ear. No other profession more needs th t;raoe ol God to aeitver tnem in men temDtatlons. to comfort them in their trials, to sustain them in the disoharga of their duty. While I would have you bring the merchant to Christ, and whU I mould nave. 70U bring the farmer to Christ, and while I would have you bring the mechanic to Christ. I addreat you now in the words of Paul to Titus -unng s.enas ine lawyer." By so muoh at Ibis duties are delicate and great, by sc much does he need Christian stimulus and safeguard. We all become clients. I do not suppose there is a man fifty years of age wuo uns ueen in active lire wbo nas not been afflicted with a lawsuit. Tour name is assaulted, and you must have legal protection. Your boundary line is Invaded, and the courts must re-es tablish it. Your patent Is In fringed upon, and you must make the offending manufacturer pay the penalty, Your treasures are taken, and the thief must be apprehended. You want to make your will, and you do not want to follow the example of those who, for the sake of saving 1 100 from an attorney, imperil 250, 000 and keep the generation following for twenty years quarreling about the estate uuiil it Is all exhausted. You are struck at by an assassin, and you must invoke for him tha penitentiary. Ail classes of per sons In course of time become clients, and therefore they are all Interested in the mor ality and Christian integrity of the legal profession. "Bring Zenas the lawyer." But how is an attorney to deoideas to what are the principles by which he should conduct himself in regard to his clients? On one extreme Lord Brougham will ap pear, saying: "The innocence or guilt of your client Is nothing to you. You are to save your client regardless of the torment, the suffering, the destruction of all others. You are to know but one man in the world your client. You are to save him though you should bring your country into confu sion. At all hazards you must save your client." So says Lord Brougham, but no right minded lawyer could adopt that sen timent. On tbe other extreme Cicero will come to you and say, "You must never plead the cause of a bad man." forgetful of the fact that the greatest villain on earth ought to have a fair trial and that an attorney can not be judge and advocate at the same time. It was grand when Lord Erskino sacrlfled his attorney generalship for tho sake of defending Thomas Paine in his publication of his book called "The Rights of Man," while at the same time he, the advocate, abhorred Thomas Pulne's Irre ligious sentiments. I Bet ween thesel two opposite theories of what is right what hall the attorney do? God alone can direct him. To that chancery he must be tppellant. and he will get sn answer in an hour. Blessed is that attorney between whose office and the throne of God there is perpetual, reverential and prayerful com munication! That attorney will never make an irreparable mistake. True to the tiabits of your profession, you say, "Cite is some authority on the subject." Well, I )uotetoyou the decision of tbe supreme jourt of heaven, "If any lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men lib erally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." What a scene is the omoe of a busv at torney! In addition to the men who come to you from rii;ht motives, bad men will come to you. They will offer you a large fee tor oounsnl In the wrong direction. Tbey want to know from you how they can escape from solemn marital obligation. ihey come to you wanting to know bow they can fail advantageously for them selves. They come to you wanting to know how tbey can make the insurance com pany pay for a destroyed house which they burned down with their own hands, or they come to you on the simple errand of wanting to escape payment of their honest debts. Now. it is ao easy thintr to advise settlement when by urging liti gation vou could strike a mine of remuner ation. . It Is uct a very easy thing to dampen the ardor of ks inflamed contestant when you know through a prolonged law suit you could get from him whatever you asked. It is no easy thing to attempt to discourage the suit for the breaking of a will In tbe surrogate's court because you know the testator was of sound mind and body when he slgued the document. It re quires no small heroism to do as I once beard an attorney do in an office in a western citv. I overheard the conversation when he said, "John, you can go on with this law suit, and I will see vou through as well ae I can, but I want to tell you before you start tbat a lawsuit 1b equal to a fire." Under the tremendous temptations that oome upon the legal profession there are scores of men who have gone down, and some of them from being the pride of the highest tribunal of the State have become a disgrace to tbe Tombs courtroom. Every attorney. In ad dition to the innate sense of right, wants the sustaining power of the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ. "Bring Zenas the lawyer." There are two or three forms of tempts tlon to which the legal profession Is espe cially subject.' The first of all is skepticism. Controversy is the lifetime business of that occupation. Controversy may be Incidental or accidental with us, but with you it is perpetual. You get so used to pushing the sharp question "Why?" and making un aided reason superior to the emotions that the religion of Jesus Christ, which is a sim ple matter of faith, and above human rea son, although not contrary to It, has but little chance with some of you. A brilliant orator wrote a book, on the first page of which he announced the sentiment, "An honest Ood is the noblest work of man." Skepticism Is the might iest temptation of the legal profes sion, and that man who can stand In that profession, resisting all solicita tions to Infidelity, and can be as brave as George Briggs of Massachusetts, who stepped from the gubernatorial chair to the missionary convention, to plead the cause of a dying race, then on his way home from the convention, on a cold day, took off his warm oloak and, threw it ovei the shoulders of a thluly clad missionary, saying, "Take that and wear it; it will uc Jou more good than it will me," or, like udge McLean, who can step from tbe su preme court room of the United States on to the anniversary platform of the Ameri can Sunday-school union, its most power ful orfttor, deserves congratulation and en comium. . O men of the legal profession, let me be& of you to quit asking questions In regard to religion and begin believing! The mighty men of your profesr-ion. Story and Kent and Mansfield, became Christians, not through their heads, but through their hearts. "Except ye Decome as a little child ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God." If you do not become a Christian, O man of the legal profession, until you can reason this whole thing out in regard to God and Christ and the immortality of the soul, you will never become a Christian at all. Only believe. "Bring Zenas the lawyer." Auotner mignty temptation tor ine legal profession Is Sabbath breaking. The trial has been going on for ten or fifteen days. The evidence Is all in. ft is Saturday nieht. Tbe iudge's gavel falls on the desk and ho says, "Crier,adjourn the court untt 10 o clock Monaay morning, un aionaai morning tbe counselor is to sum up the case Thousands of dollars, yea, the reputatiol and life of his client, may depend upon tlit success of his pica. How will he spend th Intervening Sunday? There Is not one law yer out of a hundred that can withstand the temptation to break the Lord's day undei such circumstances. And yet if he does he hurts his own soul. What, my brother, you cannot dobef.irc 12 o'clock Saturday night 01 after 12 o clock Sunday night God does not want you to do at all. Besides thut you want the 24 hours of Sabbath rest to give you tbat electrical and magnetic forot which will be worth more to you befon the jury than ail tha elaboration of your caso oa the sacral day. My intimate ana lamented friend the late Judge Neilscn, in his interesting reminiscences of Rufus Choate, says that during the last case that gentleman tried in New York the court adjourned from Friday nntil Monday on account of the illness of Mr. Choate, bnt the chronicler savs that on the intervening Sabbath he saw Mr. Choate in the old -'Brick church," listening to the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring. - I do not know whether, on the following day, Rufus Choate won his cause or lost it, but I do know that his Sabbatic rest did not do him any harm. Every lawyer is en titled to one day's rest oat of seven. If he surrenders that, he robs thxee God, his own soul and his client. Lord Castlereagh and Sir Thomas Romilly were the leaders of the bar in their day. They both died suicides. Wilberforce accounts for their aberration of intellect on the ground tbat ' v were nnlntermittent in their wojk, and they never rested on Sunday. "Poor fel low!" said Wilberforce in regard to Cas tlereagh; "poor fellow, it was mon ?bservance of the Sabbath!" Chief Justice Hale says: "When I do not properly keep the Lord's day, all tha rest of the week is unhappy and unsuccess ful in my worldly employment." I quota to-day from the highest statute book in tha universe, "Remember the rlabhath day to keep it holy." The legal gentleman who breaks that statute may seem for a while to be advantaged, but In the long run tba nen who observe this law of God will havs larger retainers, vaster Influence, greater professional success than those men who reak the statute. Observance of the law f God pays not only spiritually and iternally, but it pays in hard dollars or tank bills. Another powerful temptation of the legal irofession is lo artificial stimulus. No one except those who have addressed audiences knows about the nervous exhaustion that sometimes comes afterward. The tempta tion to strong drink anoroaches the leiral profession at that very point. Then a trial is coming on. Through the ill ventilated courtroom the barrister's health has been depressed for days and for weeks. Ha wants to rally his energy. Ha Is tempted to resort to artificial stimulus. It is either to ret himself up or let himself down that this temptation comes upon bim. Tbe flower i tne American bar, ruined in reputation ind ruined in estate, said in his last mo nents: "This is the end. I am dying on a sorrowed bed, covered with a borrowed iheet, in a house built by public charltv. Bury me under that tree in tbe middle of the field, that I may not be crowded; I al ways have been erowded." Another powerful temptation of the leiral profession 1 to allow the absorbing duties of the profession to shut out thoughts of the great future. You know very well that you who have so often tried ot hers will after awhile he put on trial yourselves. Death will serve on you a writ of ejectment, and you will be put off these earthly premises. Un that day all the affairs of your life will be presented in a "bill of particulars." No jertiorari from a lihrher court, for thla is the highest court. The day when Lord Ex nter was tried for high treason; the day when tbe house of commons moved for the 'mpeachment of Lord Lovat; the days when L!harles Land Queen Caroline were put upon .riai; tne uay wuen nooert Emmet was ar--aigned ns an insurgent; the day when ilenuerhasset was brought into tbe court 00m because he had tried to overthrow the Jnited States Government, and all the other rreut trials of tbe world are nothing com- i red with the great trial in which vou and . shall appear, summoned before the Judge it quick and dead. There will be no plead- ng there "the statute of limitations," no 'turning state's evidence." trvlng to a-et ff ourselves while others suffer; no "mov- ng ror a nonsuit." 1 he case will come on nexorably. and we shall be tried. You. ny brother, who have so often been advo- tate for others, will then need an advocate or yourself. Have vou selected Him. the 'ord Chancellor of tbe Universe? If any nan sin, we have an advocate. Jesus Christ he righteous. It is uncertain when vour jase will be called on. "Be ye also ready." Lord A sli burton and Mr. Wallace were eading barristers in their day. Tbev died tbout the same time. A few months before heir decease they happened to be in tha tame hotel in a village, the one counsel iroing to Devonshire, the other going to London. They had both been seized unon by a disease which they knew would be fa tal, and they requested tbat they be carried into the same room and laid down on sofas, side by side, that they might talk over old times and talk over tbe future. So they were carried in, and, lving there on op posite sofas, they talked over their old lontests at the bar. and then they talked of the future world, upon which :hey must soon enter. It was said to have been a very affecting and solemn interview between Mr. Wallace and Lord Ashburton. My subject to-day puts you side by side with those men in your profession who have departed this life, some of them skep tical and rebellious, some of them penitent. cbildlike and Christian. Those were wan dering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever, while these others went up from the courtroom ot earth to the throne of eternal dominion. Through Christ the advocate these got glorious acquittal. In the other case it was a hope less lawsuit an unpardoned sinner versus the Lord God Almighty. Oh, what disas trous litigation! Behold, be comes! Ihe Judge, the Judge, the clouds of heaven, the judicial ermine, the great white throne, the judicial bench, tbe archangel's voice that shall wake the dead, tbe crier, "Come, ye blessed; depart, ye cursed!' Hcqulttal 3r the condemnation. "And a .w tha lead, small and great, stand before God, ind the books were opened." A sloy in lime saves pain. Overwork is a' thief of time. Many let heaven go Ly default. There is no safe side in any kind of sin. The wish to shine, makes men fools. Work is more than mere activity. He is littlest, who belittles others. Faith is a higher faculty than reason. Imaginary eminence is actual humilia tion. Intelligence is not gained by a mere act of will. Nothiug will upbraid you like unused facilities. Better a servant from love, than a ruler from lust. Happiness is lost by leing intemperate in its pursuit. Intelligence is largely in knowing what we do not know. Don't try to impart ideas by your feel ings. The war is uot over because we have lost a battle. Make a call too short, rather than be yawned out. A little sin has as much death in it as a big one. Some would rather face a cannon than their own evils. Reflection is a key that unlocks the treasures of the memory. The man whose opinion is hardest to get is the man whose opinion is most worth getting. The saddest ignorance in' this world is hot to know the pleasure that comes from self-sacrifice. Nothing can make people go blind any quicker than filling their eyes with gobl dusl. When the right kind of a man is taken -out of the miry clay he knows enough to stay out. There is always ho for the man who cau be taught what a tool he has been by one mistake. The band that hold-: the rod hould al ways be controlled by love. There is no admission into the straight gate for those who are not willing to give up all that is crooked. A wise man can learn something worth knowing from a fool, but a fool is made all the more a foul by going to college. When a man is over anxious to prove anything, it is a sure sign he isn't very certain about it himself. When a politician gets rich.he is quite apt to wear his political principles as a kind of election holidav suit. The fact that there is so much Muff." that shines like gold, makes the story of dis aster one of the saddest chapters ever written. Opinions are a good thing to have in life, but an extra pair of suspenders is often of more practical value. It is a mercifufr""-'" "sion of providence that in hours or ...rKest sorrow we are not conscious of what we suffer. The Creator speeds so much force in sunsets and apple blossoms, that there must be some great use in mere beauty. Calling a man hard names, is often only another way of saying that he dares to differ from you in opinion. Men will admit that they are growing old, but never that they are growing foolish. Courtesy and etiquette are flowers; th one, has its roots in the heart; the other, iu the intellect. fi i (I! 1 . . ! I i. u 5 f hanWanaasaa. lca'fffcHi';
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