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F. BOHWEIER,
THE OONtriTl' U TION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWB.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 14. 1897.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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