v. 'X IP P. flOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE IAWM. VOL. J.I. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 28. 1897 NO. 33 Mm n I L li i lis j, CnAHER I. j If W91 half past nix o'l lnck nn n tdenV evening in January. A Mack starless iiky shove, frost Immi lid, snow-covered earth liidorncnlh. nnd n film of ulrrt fnllinc mmlo t hills nnd vnllcys of beautiful Westmoreland dreary fln4 desolate. He- lwii two riilccs of hare snd rocky hill a market rnrt wns joircinir slowly along th whitening roail, nnd the thud of the old horse's hoofs an.l th rattle of the wheels were the only Bounds that broke a utili ties which was vault like in the narrow j valley. 'Kmm under the rough canvas hood of the little cart peered out two men's faces, not rlenrly visible even to each other: as the cart entered the valley its occupants had dropped into silence, which was not broken until a litflit began to twinkle in the dimness on the road ahead of them. At sight of the little thread of brichtnesa across the path one of the men started, and the other laughed pood-hunioredly. ''This is solitnry, there's no denying that,' sHke the youncer of the two men In a deep, mellow voice that conveyed a volume of information, true or false, con ccrning the owner's pedigree, disposition and education; and all in his favor. "I'm na nervous as a cat to-night, and for my life I can't tell why, for I'm a Yorkshire man, nnd a doctor." Kh. not from Lon'on!" exclaimed the old villager, glancing buck involuntarily towards the place whore the atranger'a Gladstone bag lay in the bottom of the cart. " . "I come from London just now, certain ly, ns my luggage labels attest. But that doesn't make me a Ixindoner any more . than the fact of my lieing on my way to " Scotland makes me a Scotchman. It ia . an accident altogether, this going to . JJranksomo. I made a stupid mistake at Ilavcrholuie Junction, where I got into the wrong train, uud found myself pres ently nt Conismcre, and, as there was no train back to Ilaverholine before to-inor-j row. morning, I made up my mind to inflict myself for the night iion an old acquaint ance of mine. Ir. IVcle, of Itranksome." . "!. I'celct h, ay, I know 'on. There's been 't f (sdhcr about a young part ,,n.er Lr. 1'eele took, who got Into little djlliciifrjos with some o" t' doctor's pa . tients, and had to go away a bit sudden like inconsequence." "iniriculti. s! What sort of difficulties 7 "Well, two of t' patients under his care poor men both, a laborer one was, and t'other a man ns kept a small stationer's shop were took ill wi t' same sort of symptoms, and one died. It was so odd r " that u gilt Hntitrt; mPJfeople talked." "And what did they suyV" "Why. that t' young fcllow'd pot a bit cnrelcHS-like.-and was a little too fond of the same drug in his prescriptions." "Anil what ding was that?" "Idiuil mi. I think 'twas." "People said .something more than that, I suppose?" "The gossips say this young spark had had his head turned by n lcddy. and a fine teddy, loo. but who had a husband ul . rendv, and that his head was runiiiii' on -:hey.- "A local beauty, then?" "She lives Iwn alionts. sir, if that's what you mean. lttit she's n Lon'on beauty, too. -there isn't an eye, young or old. gentle folk or vitiate folk, that can look nt her Imniiy face once nnd not care to look twice, f-'lie worth walking a good mile to " see. is Lady Kil.loiian." "IjuIv Kiii'onaii; oh. she is the wife of the f t-i 1 1 i t . i T I. nnl owner about here?" "Ay." " They are popular In the district. Lord ' . nd Lady KiMoiiaiiY" '"She makes bim popular, bless her. lie's slwnys porin' over 'a books, is his lonl- ship, but hhe's all over t' place like n sun beam, on Iter horse, or In her carriage, or " " her little sleiuh, leavln' n pound o" ten here, n can o' jelly there, with a word for every woman, and a smile for every man, ml a ki-s for t' children. She's a sight for sore eyes, she is." "Is she young?" 'I.et me see; she wns horn t' year my girl Janet wns married; that's twenty four year ago." "And Lord Kildonan, what sort of an age is he?" "Well, there's a matter of thirty years or more between him and Ms wife." "Surely she might have found a better mnte than nn old Scotch bookworm!" "Well, she was a bit of a mndenn, ns a lass, and they say old Mr. Dighton, hex fnther, was glnd to get her off his hands, and married to an honest limn. And she don't fret for him nnd his books; she has too much life in her for that," the old man added with evident admiration. lie was still sK-aklng when the noise of leighbells grew louder and louder liehind them, nnd the dull sound of horses' quick steps upon the snow; while the bright notes of a woman's laughter rang out clearly. In a moment more a sleigh had dualled by, with its twinkling lights, its jingling bells; and all that the doctor could see through the darkness was that It contniued two people, sitting side by side. Hut as it passed with a whir r r and : rush of cold air .something, light and oft nnd scented, fluttered np like a curled white leaf, and. fell on the young man's knees like an unconscious challenge of fascinating, warm-blooded coquetry; a lady's handkerchief, filmy and lace-edged, sweet with a perfume that whispered through the senses to the imagination, and brought up fancies of delicate white fin - gers that had held the dainty toy. The old villoger. however, waa not troubled by superfluous poetry; on catching sight of the handkerchief, he began to call out lustily: "Iley! Whoa! Stopl You've dropped aummet Your ladyship, heyT The sleigh was rapidly approaching a dip in the road where a group of rough tone cottages, one of which was an inn of the humblest kind, broke the straight line of the roadside, and threw little streams of light across the snow through their latticed windows. At the sound of the old man's cries both occupants of the sleigh turned their heads, and, at last, as he still shouted, the jingling of the bells subsided to a faint tinkle, the sleigh drew up jnst out of the gleams of light from in cottage windows, nnd a man's voice i-nlhil out impatiently: "What is it?" The young doctor, holding the hnndker chief, had already leapt down from th cart, and was running over the snow na fast as limbs stiffened by cold and a cramped position could carry him. Even as he ran, and the rapid movement dis persed the fanciful reveries which novel circumstances acd his new and rfofange M-rvcrsity had induced, a snersritioiis snd dreamy idea took possession of him that this trifling accident bad some mean ing for him, some bearing upon hla future life; and at the same time 411 entirely mundane and explicable curiosity arose 11. his iiiin. I concerning the companion of the lady. His voice was young, therefore he was not her husband; it wns that of a gentleman, therefore he could not lie the coachman. The Yorkshireman was filled with interest by the time he rench.il the sleigh. It was the lady who held the reins, sitting high on cushions at the right. "WeD what .do yojo want 7 she asked. Hard times, i supi-osc. mid you ve been out of work for weeks, aud have a hun gry family, and wnnt a night's lodging. Well, here you are, but you ought not to stop people on the public road; it looks like an attempt at highway robbery with out the romance of it." She ended with a ripple of most pleas ant, low-voiced langhter, as if it was quite impossible for her happy nature to keep up even the faintest seinblnuce of annoy ance with which her words had In-guii. She was feeling iu her purse, with her head bent over it, by the time the young Yorkshireman had reached her side and had recovered breath enough to speak. Just as he was raising his bat, nnd holding out the handkerchief, the ponies slarled nff; and the few paces it traveled before being pulled np by a quick hand on the reins, brought the sleigh within the light from the cottage windows, which Hashed upon the face of the lady. The Yorkshireman held his breath. Ry some odd result of this sudden revelation of her beauty to his dazed nnd dreamy mood, it seemed to him that not a llesh-aud-blood handsome woman of the nine teenth century, but the incarnate ideal of the Italian painters of the Renaissance, looked straight into his cyea with the frank and fearless gaze of a pictured god dess, and flashed upon his dazzled sight the rose and ivory tints of her skin, the gleam of her blue eyes and of her pearl teeth, the shining coils of her pale golden knir. On her side the lady seemed to be as much struck with the apiiearance of the supposed trump ns he wns with hers; the pink color in her cheeks grew a little ileeier, nnd she held out her hand for the handkerchief with head bent ns if in hum ble apology, while her full blue yes looked up in his face with a deprecatory exprcs sion which would have washed away the memory of a hundred insults. "I Iwg your pardon. I'm so awfully soirv. I made a dreadful mistake." she said, in a low winning voice that had a Strangely moving quality. "Not at all, madam," answered the stranger, recovering his voi-e, but not nl his self-control. "You were quite right. The times are very hard, and I am in search of a night's lodging, though it is true 1 had no intention of waylaying yon for the meti.is co pay for it. You dropped ! your handkerchief, and I picked it up; I that is all." I "Oh, but it's not nil. I'm so much ashamed of myself," broke out the lady, who seemed to enjoy the adventure with nil the zest of n young girl. "You are a stranger here, I see for I know every face in the neighboring)!. I,et me offer von the hospitality of my home The frags for the night. My husband, Iord Kiiilonnn, will be delighted to welcome yon; pimr man, he's used to making the amende honorable for his wife s esca pades!" she ended with nnother peal of the bell toned laughter which seemed to be n more natural expression of her happy, sanguine tctuierameiit than the colder medium of words. The doctor noticed, even ns he exensed himself from accepting this headstrong offer of hospitality,- that her companion appeared strangely sensible of the want of dignity betrayed by this rash invitation to a stranger; for he gathered np the reins, which the lady hud let fall, as if to remind her that the time was slipping by. ""ion must at least call upon us to-inorrow- ah, but 1 insist 11(1011 that," she said, after hearing his answer. "I can't insult people and forget all about I; in moment like that; I must be allowed to make amends my own way. If you are a visitor to Conismcre you have no idea how much an old resident enn help you to make the very most of your stay. Itefore she could get any further with her speech the ponies started off at smart pace, and the young Yorkshireman was left standing in the middle of the road, feeling like the hero of a fairy tale when the spell was broken nod the en chanted palace melted away. The cart in which the old villager had brought hiin thus far on his journey now jogged up. and stoped for him to mount into it again. "Well, what dost think o' t leddy?" asked the old man with interest. "Why, she she is very handsome." the doctor answered stupidly; aud be turned to get up into the enrt again. As he did so he caught sight of some thing on the snow-covered ground nt a little distance from his feet. With a quickened pulse, and yet with a conscience atlng, be made two steps forward, and dis covered that It was indeed, as a sense even keener than his bodily vision had told him, the same little baudkerchicf that he had restored to Its owner a few moments before. An odd coincidence, surely, that she had dropped it again so soon! Or was it a little wile to secure that call at The Crags on which her fancy seemed so ob stinately bent? Whichever It might be. It waa not in flesh and blood of seven-and-twenty to resist any longer the chance of another glimpse of this lake-side goddess. CHAPTER II. The cart, with its oddly assorted occu pants. Jogged on withont further inct (lent until, emerging from the monotonous mad, with its inclosing walls of bare ami sleep lulls, the old man announced that I hey were now "nigh t' village." "I should think this admiration of yours. this Ladv Kil.loiian. must find it rather dull in winter time to he shut up in a country house with a bookworm for a hus band.' spoke the voung doctor. "Itill!" echoed the old man. and h stormed to give nn admiring laugh. "Pull! Yon don't know Lndy Kildonan. Did ye not see her face? She'd enjoy herself in the county juil, would her ladyship, bless herf "I suppose they keep the house full o visitors? "No, not so mnch that; his lordship's too quiet like a man for that But she gix-s ri.lin' an drivin about as you've Ri-cn her. and she's sunshine in herself, she is. She's settled down a bit since her marriage, is a lady should, but: Ird, the auks she nnd young Master Neu. the eiilist's son. used to play! They kept 1 he conutryside alive, did those two. They ay he went nigh distracted when her fttlier married her to lrd. Kildonan." "Wns she married against ber will, then?" "Well, some said one thing, some an other. But I don't think myself she wni t sort o laaa to be drove to marriage :uore'n t aught eise she'd no mind to. An": she was proud, nnd "ud never have Harried t" son of n dentist, though young Master Ned, as we called hiin then, had 1 college schooling like t best of 'era. 'And hnt became o. iiim" th, he went to lyondon, and when he rame back he brought a wife wi hiin. A nd her ladyship didn't forget her old playmate, for she got hiin t' post of agent to his lordship." "Oh! said the doctor quite simply. A few minutes later, having by this time reached the outskirts of the village, the horse stopped of his own accord be fore the third of a row of fair-sized cot tages, with gardens In front of them. 'lie won t go no further to-night, won t Smiler." said the old man. "but you're only a few steps from f hotel now, sir, where t coaches start for Branksome and Conismere, and if you'll take t' advice of a man as knows t' country hereabouts, you'll stay there and not be goiu on to Branksome till t day breaks." 'Thank you. But. by the by, I should like to renew our acquaintance if I ever chance to come thia way again. My name is Armnthwaite, Frank Armathwnite " "And mine's Itaynes, Luke Haynea, As for renewing of acquaintance, doctor. f it's as man and man, and not as doctor and patient, I wish we may. "How far is it to Dr. Feele'a7" "Four miles, sir, I should say. It'a Just through Branksome, and op to the left a little way. It'a a pity yon have to go on to-night, air. What with the wind and the snow it will be a nasty walk. I sup pose yon know the road well 7 Not very well, but it's fairly straight. as far as I remember," answered Arnia thwaite. He bad never in hie life before been in this part of the world, but he would not confess to this, being afraid lest some obstacle should be put in the way of his purpose. "le-es, it la straight enough, but there are one or two places where you'll have to lie careful on a night like this. Keep to the lower road the one to the right at the fork at the bottom of the hill. Yon might make straight through the trees for the lake, and be into it before you knew yon were off the road." Thanks. I'll certainly follow your ad vice. 5ood night, sir." (To be continued.) Coventry and It Itella. Coventry Is famous for Its churches nnd bells. It wns, It will be reincm Iwrcd, while watching "the three tall spires" that the Laureate "shaped the city's nnclciit legend" Into verse in which be tells us that: All at once. With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon Was clashed and hammer'd from a hun dred towers. One after one. The most Imposing; of the churches Is that of St Michael's, the spire rising-to n height of 300 feet This church, which hits the reputation of being the largest parish church in England, nnd one of the noblest of the I'ghfest Gothic structures, tins just hud replaced lu the lielfry Its famous ponl of bolls. All these bells, as Is customary, bent mottoes, some of which are quaint aud interesting. The treble licll has: "Al though I am both light nnd small, I wiil be beard nliove ye nil." The second declares: "If you have a judicious ear. You'll own my voice to lie sweet aud clear." The third: "Such wondrous power to music's given. It elevates the soul to heaven." The fourth: "Whilst thus we Join In cheerful sound. May love and loyalty nbouud." The fifth: "In honor both to God and king, Our voices shall lu concert sing." The sixth: "Music Is medicine to tho mind." The seventh: "Ye ringers nil, who prizn your health nnd happiness, De sober, merry, wise nnd you'll the same ios sess." The eighth: "Ye people nil that hear me ring. Be fnlthful to your God and king." The ninth: "In wedlock's bonds all yc who join. With hands nnd hearts unite; So shall our tuneful tongues combine To laud the nuptial riti" The tenth: "I am, nnd have been called tho common boll. To ring when Are breaks ut to tell." Westminster Gazette. An Kxart-lns; Beggar. Several beggars in Peru own a large amount of property. One well-known mau has houses worth 910,000 liras, and yet Is to be seen begging In filthy rags. A poor governess, who was very charit able, used to give him a piastre twice a week. One day she missed a lira (pound), and thought she must have given It to the beggar by mistake. He had gone home for the day, so she fol-lowi-d him to his bouse on the Taxltne. He received her graciously, looking like a pasha nt least In his magnificent robes. "I never like to lose a good client"' he said, and sent for his bag of takings; "If there's a lira here we shall find It" Sure enough, the lira was there. "Take it" he continued, and the poor girl, full of thanks, waa harrying away when the beggar stopped her. "Wait a moment; you haven't given me the piastre. The French minister of war lately offered a prize for the swiftest bird in a flight from l'eriguoux to Paris 310 mile- There were 274i entries and the winner did the distance in seven hours and thirty louj minutes. Our senses do not fall asleep simulta neously." The eyelids are first affected, and shut nut sight: next follows the sense of taste, then smelling, bearing and touch, the last-named being the lightest sleeper, and most easily aroused. A wine cask which holds 97,OoO gal lons, and is the largest ever built, may lie seen at Malterninra, Cnl. The steel hMis around it weigh Iii.ihhi munds. Russia has 41. Sim public schools, while Herman v, with only naif the Mpulation hns .MI.ihni schools, with nearly three times as many pupils as the Russian. The latest project in Switzerland is that of a mountain railway to the summit of the llreitborn, next to the .Matterhorn The first public library in England was founded ,y the corporation of Lon don some .HHJ years before the Ilritish Museum was established. Cromwell bor rowed hooks from this institution ami "forgot to return them." There are two business men in an En glish town named I. Came and IL E. Went A captive bee, striving to escape, has leen made to record as many as 15,540 wing strokes per minute in a recent test. Foot ball was a crime in England d.ring the reign of Henry VIII. A New Foe to A meric.ni Trre. f :ecln: us of a strange caterpillat discovered this Fprlng on pear trees It Cambridge. Mats., are pronounced bj Prof. Samuel llenshaw to be the "go'.il toil. or klipnictis clirysi-rrhea, hithertc uuknown ns nn inhabitant of tliif country, although It is found in En gland, and is "abundant lu Centra, and Southern Europe." When numer ous, these caterpillars are very de structive, feeding on such trees nnd plants as the apple, pear, plum, haw thorn, bramble, elm, willow, beech, oak. hazelnut and hornbeam. At pres ent the invaders in Massachusetts art said to 1 e con lined to a liuiited area It Soniervllle and Cambridge. The first specimens seem to have made thcli appearance a year ago, and thus fin they have confined themselves to peat and apple trees. How they got across the ocean nobody apparently knows. It la suggested that by vigorous measure they may be stamped out. Mysterious Olass Ralla. The small island of Billiton, between Sumatra and Borneo, has long beeE famous for its rich tin mines, whicfc are controlled by the Dutch Govern ment In describing the geology ol Billiton before the Royal Academy oi Sciences in Amsterdam recently, Mr. Verbeek gave an account of the mys terious "glass balls of Billiton," which are found among some of the tin on deposits. They are round, with groov. ed surfaces. Similar balls are occa sionally found in Borneo and Java, as well as in Australia. Mr. Verbcck thinks they cannot tie artificial, and there are no volcanoes nenr enough tc support the theory that they are vol. canic bombs. Besides, he says, the glassy rocks produced by the nearest volcanoes are quite different in theii nature from the material of the halis. He suspected that the mysterious ob Jects were ejected, ages ago, from the volcanoes of the moon, and aftorwan? fell upon the earth. Natural tlghtninir-Eods. The tall Lorn hardy poplar has a rep utation In some parts of Europe ns a kind of natural Ughtiiing-ro-J. Invest! gatlons recently made by Dr. Hess in Switzerland appear to confirm this reputation of the tree. Its wood is an unusual'- good conductor of electric ity ns compared with others, while Its greet height and lack of spreading branches enable It to conduct a light ning stroke straight downward. In order,' however, that a poplar-tree may serve to protect a building, according to Dr. Hess, Its foliage should be al lowed to grow as near the ground as possible; it should be removed not less than six or seven feet from the near est wall. No metallic objects on the building should be nenr the tree, aud its roots should penetrate a moist soil. Desert Hattleanakpa. In the sand wastes of Southern Cal if ornia two varieties of rattlesnakes are found. The larger ones, call. "tiger rattlers, sometimes attain a lcugth of four feet, but it is said that they are sluggish, and far less danger ous -han a smaller variety named the "side-winder." This name comes from the snake's habit of moving sidewise. ns well as advancing In the ordinary mn nner. It Is also called the "homed rattlesnake." on account of the horn like protuberances over Its eyes. Il seldom exceeds a foot and a half in length, but its motions are very quick. and it hns the reputation of being "vicious. linst Ftormi that Cnrr Foreats. Some Russian travelers in Tibet, de Kcribc the wonderful storms of dust that occur In Kashgaria near the foot of the Kuen-Lun Mountains. The dust in the air is sometimes so dense that complete darkness prevails. Occasion ally rain falls during such a storm but the rain drops evaporate during their descent, and the dust carried with them falls in lumps. Entire for- psts 'of poplar trees are burled in dust hillocks forty feet high. These de posits of dust are afterward moved on by the. wind, hut the trees that have been burled die, even after their dis interment Whales na Travelers. Mr. William II. Dall, of the Smith sonian institution says, in Science. that "during the early days of the whale fishery several well-attested In stances occurred of whales struck in one ocean, as the Atlantic, being after ward killed in the North Pacific, and vice versa." This would Indicate that tome whales are great travelers, for to get from the Atlantic to the North Pa cific they would have to go many thou wnds of miles, passing either around Cape Horn, or around the northern ?nd of North America and through Bering Strait Bailt-np Wood. There has come Into use a method of "building up" boards by gluing or ce menting together thin slabs of wood Df different kinds, so placed that the grain of the various pieces is crossed It ia claimed that not only extra itrength, but nlso extra flexibility and durability are thus obtained. Doors oiade of the prepared wood are said co be stronger than much thicker doors aiade of ordinary wood, and they do aot warp. Tacking-boxes and trunks ire also nrtdc of this material. Powderedl Coal aa Foe!. For some years past there have been experiments wirti coal dust anj pulve; zi-d coal of varliXas degrees of fine ness, with a view to ascertaining how much saving of fuel there Is In using oe.1 In this fine state. It has been dem onstrated that with suitable feeding machinery the saving may amount to 1 ver forty-five per cent above the coal I jj ordinary fire bars. This point j cached In a cupola furnace the most approved cont ruction. There are -cal methods) of burning coal dust One k the use of a feeding apparatus) c- nsisrliig of rotary brushes that throw the d;ist into the fire-box In a contin uous shower. Thia, of course, renders the fuel supply Independent of damp ness or the possibility of clogging up. Another plan Is to drive the dust Into tho furnace by powerful currents of air. It seems to matter but little how the dust is fed. There is a manifest economy In Its use, and as soon a the proper dust-feeding machinery la per fected the fuel problem will be much less difficult to struggle with. Couldn't Spank Her Boa. Feople never get an encouragement for doing the good Samaritan act In the Interests of the public, as the MB decided who offered to assist a dis tracted woman and ameliorate the suf ferings of a lot of respectable people on a suburban car. The boy who howls was In evidence. the curled darling of his only own mother and the terror of everybody else, and he had kept the car in a state of wild excitement and exhausted the patience of everybody. Including hla doting parent. "Oh, if your father were only bereP she had said for the fiftieth time, as she tried vainly to restrain the bowling terror. At that he stopped howling long enough to beat the air with bis small shins, and the woman on the other side of him remarked audibly that a cage wag the proper place for savagos like him. a "Johnny dear," asked his mother, won't you be a good boy?" Roara and kicks from Master John ny. 'Oh, I wish jour father were here to give you a good trouncing this very minuter ah wsiled aa she struggled with him. Then it was that the philanthropist of the company asserted himself. He had been trying In vain to read his morning paper ever since be started from home. Allow me, madam," be said, bland ly; "I am a father myself, and I will be happy to chastise your cherub In behalf of his absent parent." "Oh, no, you won't, not if I know itr said Johnny's mother, rising in her wrath like a tigress. "There ain't that man living dare lay a finger on that boy his own father or any other uly old catamount who thinks he knows It all," and she effectually shut off de bate by going into the next car aud taking the sweet infant with ber. A Tough Job. It took three liours to kill a vlrtnaa pjephar.t In the vicinity of Liverpool, recently, and in assisting to bring nhout this result a medical gentleman almost succeeded In compassing his own c extinction, "tjuarles II. wits tlie name of the elephant Two Liver pool physicians were appointed ex ecutioners. They fed the besist on aconite concealed In carrots and ar senic pprlukled on buns, which it swal lowed pleasantly and asked for more. Then one medical gentleman conceived the klea of loading a syringe with prusic ncid. Indue Uj the elephant to o(s-n its mouth, and squirting the pot son down Us throat. Charles II. con sidered this great sport, but the doc tor who was operating the syringe, by reason of his interest in the experi ment, n.omemtarily forgot the deadly properties of prussle acid, inhaled the filing, and fell unconscious. The other physician saved his colleague's life with great difficulty, the elephant look'ng on with deep sympathy. How ever, after Charles II. hod taken enough poison to kill two thousand men, arcitrdlng to the doctors, and threa hours had passed since the first dose, ho suddenly toppled over and expired quietly. Like the other Charles IL, he had been am uncon scionable time dying. The Wire in Russia. "This is a curious custom yon Americans have of referring to your wives by their husband's names," ob served Glnnvock Kaplon, an Intelli gent Russian traveler. "I suppose the American holds his wife in as high es teem as the Russian holds his, but if at home I should speak of my better half as Mrs. Kaplon my friends would at once conclude that my domestic re lations were not as pleasant as they should be, and that I was thinking of a legal separation. When I first heard an American sponk of his wife as Mrs. Jones, for example, I felt almost like presuming on my acquaintance by in truding into his private affairs and ask ing hi in what the trouble was at borne. Yet I soon Ion rued that the custom was universal over here, but still I cannot get used to it. My wife' is the plain, blunt way I speak In Russia of the lady who, I suppose, I would have to call Mrs. Kaplon In polite society In America. In some of the more fashion able circles of St. Petersburg this American social custom has been adopted, though I was told by a prom inent government official not long ago that the Czar disapproved of it" St Louis RepubUo. Thirst In Sickness. Thirst and great dryness of the month in sickness is often relieved by a tea spoonful of powdered gum arable, beat en thoroughly with a couple of ten spoonfuls of glycerine, to which Is add ed a glass of cold water and enough lemon juice to make the mixture pal atable. The mixture may be taken freely, with great relief to the dryness of the mouth and thirst IlercoloB Killed the Hawk. Some passengers over one of the Bcr liu canal bridges the other day noticed the sudden appearance of two black points In the sky at a considerable dis tance awny, which developed Into two ducks. Behind them, at a lower level, flew another bird, which suddenly rose Into the air above the ducks, and then shot down npon him like an arrow. One of the ducks flew sideways to ward the Thlergarten; the other, closely pursued by Its enemy, flew slanting In to the canal, and, reaching the water exactly behind the bridge, dived, while the hawk. In 'hlsr'bllnd haste, struck against the head of a statue of Her-' CUles and fell, once more flapping its Croat wings, dead on the Pavement of the bridge. The bird was a splendid specimen, the wings having an oanston of mora Utan three fasti " ... . - REV. DR. TALMAGE Taw Bali DrvtSMVa A Sermon Ttlrerted to th llmtt Army or Mr! and Women F.lnployel na Clerks in thf Varlais k--aMfctlon Words or Aitvifl- Mil KncournswiMtnt. Tkxt: "And a certain woman named F.Vilin. a seller of purple, of tlm city of Tliyatirn, which worshiped Ood, heard os. whose heart the Lord oened." Acts xvi., 14. "S4eet thou a umn diligent in his busi ness? IIo shall stand beforo Kings. I'mverlis xxii., 2. The flrst passage, introduces to yoa f.ydia. nt'hrlstinn merehnntess. Her busi ness is to ileal in purple cloths or silks. She is not a giggling nonentity, but a prac tical woman, not ashamed to work for her living. All the other women of Philippl and Thynttra have been forgotten, but Ood has mnde immortal in our text Lydia, the Christ lau snh-swoinan. The other text shows you a man with head and hand and heart and foot all h'jsy tolling on up until he gains a princely success. "Heest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand lieforn kings." (Ireat encouragement in these two pas sages for men and women who will be busy, but no solace for those who are waiting for good luck to show them, at the foot of the rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is folly for anybody in this world to wait for something to turn up. It will tuan down. Tho law of thrift is as Inexorable as tho law of the tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave her wand In that direction until easth's and palaces come, but she will after a while invert the same wand, and all the splendors will vanish into thin air. Thers in certain styles of behavior which lead to usefulness, honor and per manent success, and there aro certain styles of ls?havior which lead to dust, dis honor and moral default. I would like to tire the ambition of young people. I have no syrnpatliy with those who would prepare young folks for life by whittling down their ex lactations. That man or woman will lie worth nothing to church or state who begins life cowed down. The business of Christianity is not to uench but to di rect human ambition. Therefore it is that I utter words of encouragemeut to those who aro occupied as clerks in the stores and shops and hanking houses of the country. They are not an exceptional class. They belong to a gr. ut company of tens of thou sands who are in this country, amid cir cumstances which will either make or brenk them for time nnd for eternity. Many 01 these eoplo have alrendy achieved Q Christian manliness ami a Christian wo manliness which will be their passport to any position. I have seen their trials. I have watched their perplexities. There are evils abroad which need to be hunted down und dragged out into the noonday 'ight. In the first place, I counsel clerks to remember that for the most part their clerkship is only a school from which they are to be graduated. It takes about eight years to get into one of tho learned profes sions. It takes aliout eight years to get to be a merchant. Home of you will tie clerks all your lives, but tho vast majority of you are only in a transient position. After awhile, soinn December day, the head men of tho II rm will call you into the back ofllee, and they will say to you: "Now, you have done well by us, wo are going to da well by you. We invite you to have an in terest in our concern." You will bow to that edict very gracefully. Getting Into a street ear to go home, an old comrade will mi-et you and say. "What makes von look so happy to-night?" "Oh," you will say, notning. nothing. nut in a lew nays your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the store or tiank where you are now. or in some other store or bank, you will take a higher position than that which you now occupy, so 1 feet 1 am now address ing people who will yet have their hand on the world's commerce and you will turn It tnls way or that. Mow clerks, nut to be hankers. Importers, Insurance company directors, shippers, contractors, suerin tendents of railroads your voice mighty on Change standing Ion-most in the grout flunncial and religious enterprises of tho day. For, though wo who are in tho profession may. on tho platform, plead for tho philanthropies, after all, tho mer chants must come forward with their mil lions to sustain the movement. lie therefore patient and diligent In this transient position. You aro now where you can learn things you van never learn in any other place. What you consider your disaiivantiigi's are your grand oppor tunity. You see nn aflluont father some day come down a prominent street with his 3on who lias just grmluiiteii irom the uni versity nnd establishing 111 in in business, putting tOO.000 of capital in tho store. Well, yon are envious. You say: "Oh, If I only had n chance like that young man! If I only had a father to put irf0.0ii0 in a business for m, then 1 would have some chance in the world." lt not envious. You have advantages over tr.at young man which he has not over you. As well might I come down to tho docks when a vi-ssel is about to sail for Valparaiso aud say, "Let mo pilot tills ship out to sen." Why, I would sink crew mid cargo before I got out of the harbor simply lieenuse I know noth ing nhout pilotage. Wealthy sea captains put their sons beforo tho mast for tho reason that they know it Is the only place where they can learn to be suc cessful sailors. It is only under drill that people get to understand pilotage and navigation, ami I want you to iii.derand that it takis 110 more skill to conduct a ves sel out of harbor mid across the sea than to steer a commercial establishment clear of the rocks. You sio every duy the folly of people going into a business they know nothing alsiiit. A man makes a fortune in one business, thinks there is another occu pation more comfortable, goes into it and sinks all. .Many of the uniinercinl estab lishments of our cities are giving their clerks a mercantile education as thorough as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are giving scientlllc attainments to the students ma triculated. The reason there are so many men foundering iu business from year to year is tiecaus their early mercantile edu cation was neglected. Ask themeu in high commercial circles, and they wiil tell you they thank Ood for this severe discipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure the wilderness march if it Is going to end in the vineyards and orchards of thr promised land. l!ut you say, "Will the womanly clerks in our stores have promotion?'' Yes. Timo is coming when women will he as w 11 paid for their toil ia mercantile circles ns men are now paid for their toil. Time is coming when a woman will bo allowed to do any thing she can do well. It Is only a little while ago when women knew nothing of telegraphy, and they were kept out of a great many commercial circles where they are now welcome, aud the time will go on until the woman who at one counter in a store sells iMHJO worth of goods in a yeai will get as high a salary as the man who at the other counter of the same store sells t!mn worth of goods. All honor to Lydia, the Christian saleswoman. The second counsel I have to give to rlerks is that you seek out what are the lawful regulations of your establishment, and then submit to them. Every well ordered house has its usages. In military life, on ship's deck, in commercial life, there must he order and discipline. Those people who do not learn how to olsy will never know how to command. I will tell you what young man will make rule financial nnd moral. It is the young mat: who thrusts his thumb into his vest anc wiys: "Nolwidy shall dictate to me. I an my own master. I will not submit to th regulations of this house." ISetween ai establishment "in which all the employe) are under thorough discipline and th estublisr ment in which the employe! do alNiit as they choose is the different!! net ween success and failure between rapto' .Veil initiation and utter bankruptcy. D not come to the store ten minutes after the time. Bo there within two seconds and let it lie two seconds before Instead of two Sec onds after. Do not think anything too In sighincant to do well. Io not say, "It's only just once." From tho most Important 1 transaction in enmmereedowatothe partto. I nlar style in which you tie a string around 1 , 1 ! .. 1 . 1 , Do not get easily ' " "" disgusted, w luie ntucrs in me store may lounge or fret or complain you go with ready hands and cheerful face nnd con tented spirit to your work. When the bugle sounds, the good sohlierasks no questions, but shoulders his knapsack, hits his canteen and listens for the command of "March!" llo not get the idea that your interests and thosn of your employer are antagonis tic. His sueei'ss will be your honor. His embarrassment will be your dismay. Ex pose none of the frailties of the firm. Tell no store secrets. Do not blab. HebnfT those ersons who come to find out from clerks what ought never to be known outside tho store. Do not be among those young men who take on a mysterious air when some thing is said ngninst the llrm that employs them, as much as to say, "I could tell you something if I would, but I won't." Do not lie among those who imagine they can build themselves up by pulling somebody else down, lie not ashamed to tie a subaltern. Again, I counsel all clerks to compter the trials of their particular position. One grent trial for clerks is the Inconsideratlon of customers. There are people who are entirely olfto everywhere else, but gruff and dictatorial and contemptible when they come into a store to buy anything. There ire thousands of men and women who go from store to store to price things, without any idea of purchase. They are not satis fled until every roll of goods is brought lown and they have pointed out all the real r imaginary delects. They try on all kinds Df kid gloves and stretch them out of shajie, ind they put on all styles of sloak and walk to the mirror to see low they look, ami then they sail oat if the store, sayiug, "I will not take it to lay," which means, "I don't want it at all." eaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons ind Inces and cloths to smooth out a thousand dollars' worth of goods not a sent of which did that man or woman buy Jrexiect to buy. Now, I call that a dis honesty on the part of the customer. If a hoy runs intoa store and takes a roll nl Moth off the counter and sneaks out into the street, you all join in the cry pell-mell, "Stop thief!" When I see you go into a store, not expecting to buy anything, but to price things, stealing the time, of the ?lerk and stealing the time of his employer, say, too, "Ktou thief I" If I were asked which class of person? aost needed the grace of Ood amid their uinoynnees, I would say, "Dry goo. I? jlerks." All the Indignation of customers tboilt the high prices comes on the clerk. For instance: A great war comes on. The nanufactories are closed. The people go Jff to battle. The price of goods runs up. customer comes Intoa store. Ooods have (oneup. "How much isthat worth?" "Adol ar." "A dollar! Outrageous! Adollur!" Why vhols to blame for the fact that it has got :o lie n dollar? Does the indignation go ut to the manufacturers on the banks of ;ho Merrimac lecaiisc they have closed up? Vo. floes the Indignation go out toward .lie employer, who is at his country seat io. It comes on the clerk. He got up the rnr. He levied the taxes. lb-puts up tin vats. Of course, the eb-rk. Then there are all the trials which come o clerks from the treatment of ineoiisidec ite employers. There are professed Chris ian men who have no more regard for their lerks than they have for the scales on vhich the sugars are weighed. A clerk is 10 more than so much store furniture. No lonsideration for their rights or interests. 4ot one word of encouragement from sun ise to sunset, nor from January to Decem icr. Hut when anything gm-s wrong a treak of dust on the counter or a box with he cover olf - thunder showers of scolding, fen imperious, capricious, cranky toward heir clerks their whole manner a much to say, "All the interest I have in you is to ee what I can get out of you." Then then ire all the trials of incompetent wages, not n such times as these, when if a man gets inlf a salary for his services he ought o be thankful, but I mean in prosper ous times. Home of you nmemli-r, when he war broke out ami all merchandise vent up, and merchnnts were made niil ionnires in six months by the simple rise n the value of goods. Did the clerks get idvantnge of that rise? Sometimes, not dwuys. I saw estates gathered in those lines over which the curse of Hod has hung iver slnc. The cry of unpaid men ainl jvomen In those stores reached the Lord of tahaoth, and the Indigiii.tiou of Ood lias leeii arou ml t luwe estal illshments ever si nee, lashing In the chandeliers, glowing from he crimson upholstery, rumbling in the ong roll of tlie tenpln alley. Such men nay build up palaces of merchandise leuven high, but after awhile a disaster vill come along nnd will put one hand 011 his pillar and another hand on that pillar nd throw itself forwnrd until down will Mime the whole structure, crushing the vorshiH'rs as gres are mashed in the vtnepri-ss. Then there are boys mined by lack of lompensation. In how many prosperous itoros it has Is-en for the Inst twenty years .hat Isiys were given just enough money to teach tlieni how to steal! Some were seized upon by the police. The vast majority of instances were not known. Ihe heal 01 mo nrm askcii, "Where is fleorge now?" "Oh. ho isn't here any more." A hid might better starve to dentil an a blasted heath than take ono farthing from hlsemployer. Woe be to that employer who unnecessarily puts a temptation in a lioy's way. There have been great establish (.umts in these cities, building marble pa laces, their owners dying worth millions nnd ndllions nnd millions, who made a vast amount of tle ir estate out of the blood and muscle and nerve of half paid clerks. Such men as well, I will not mention any name. Hut I menu men who have gathered up vast estates at the expense of the people who were ground under their heel. "Oh," say iui h merchants, "if you don't like It here. tin n go and get a better place!" As much :ls to say: "I ve got you in my grip, ami 1 mean to hold you. You can't get any other place." Oh, what a contrast between those met, nnd Christian merchants who to-diiy are -ymiatlietie with their clerks wheu they pay the salary, acting in this way: "This salary II at I give yon is not all my lliten-st in you. You nre an immortal man; you are an immortal woman. I am interested In your pn-sent nnd your everlasting welfare. I want you to understand that If I am a little higher up in this store I am liede you in Christian sympathy." Go back for ty or filfty years to Arthur Tappen's store in New Y'ork, a man whose worst enemies never questioned his honesty. Kvery morning he brought all the rlerks and the accountants and the weighers into a room for devotion. They sung, they prayed, they exhorted. On Mondny morning the clerks were asked where they had atteuded church 011 the previous (lay and what the sermons were aliout. It must have sounded strangely, that voice of praise along the .streets where the devotees of Mammon were counting their golden lioads. You sny, Arthur Tap pen failed. Yes, he was unfortunate, like a great many good men, but I understand he met all his ol. ligations before he left this world, and know that he died iu the pence of the gospel nnd that he is before the throne of Ood to-day forever blessed. If that be failing, I wish you might all fail. There are a great many young men and young women who want a word of encour agementChristian encouragement. One smile of good cheer would be worth more to them to-morrow morning in their places of business than a present of 15,0oi ten years hence. Oh, I remember the appre hension and the tremor of entering a pro fesslon. I rememlier very well the man who greeted me in the. ecclesiastical court with the tip ends of the long lingers of tie left hand, and I remember the other man who took my hnnd in both of Ms and satflt "Ood bli-es you, my brother, 'fou have en tered a glorious profession. Be faithful t Ood, and Ho will see you through." Why. I feel this minute tho thriK nf that handshaking, though tho mat who . gave me tho Christian grit has been in heaven twonty years. Then are old men here to-day who can look back to forty years ago, when some one snld a kind word to them. Now, old men, pnj back what yon got then. It Is a greot art for old men to b able to encourage tha young. There aro many young people In our cities who have come from Inland counties, from the granite, hills of the. north, from the savannas nf the south, from the prairies of the west. They are here to get their fortune. They are in boarding houss where everybody seems to be think ing nf himself. Thoy wnnt companionship, and they want Christian encouragement. Give It to them. My word Is to nff -lerks. He 'mightier than your temptations. A Sandwich Islander used to think when he slew an tiiemvall the strength of that enemy came into Ids own right arm. And I have to tell you that every misfortune you conquer is jo much nddeil to your own moral power. With omnipotence for a lever and tho throne of Ood for a fulcrum you can move earth and heaven. While there are other voung men putting the cup of sin to their lips you stoop down and drink out of tho fountains of Ood. and you will rise up itrong to thrnsh the mouutains. The incionts used to think that pearls were Tallon raindrops, which, touching tho otrface of the sea, hardened into gems, then droped to the bottom. I have to tell you to-day that storms of trial havo ihowered Imperishable earls Into many a young man's lap. .h, young man, while fon have goods to sell, rememlier you have t soul to save. In a hospital a Christian iiptnin, wronged a few days before, get lelirious. and in the midnight hour he sprang out on the floor of the hospital, thinking he was in the battle, crying: "Come on. boys! Forward! Charge!" Ab, he was only battling the siecters of his wd brain! Hut it is no imaginary eoutlict Into which I call you, young man. to-day. There are 10.000 spiritual foes that would apt ore you. In the nnine of Ood, up aud tt them! Afterthelast store has len closed, after -he last hank has gone dowu. after tho ill 1 1 me of the quick feet on the custom louse steps has stopped, after the long ine of merchantmen on the sea has taken mil nf flame, after Washington uud New fork ami Loudon and Vienna have gone lown into the grave where Thelies and Habylon and Tyre lie burled, afterthe great ire 'liells of the jiidgmeut day have tolled it the burning of a world -on that day all ;he affairs of hanking houses and stores will lome up for inspection. Oh, whatanopen ng of account books! Side by side the derks and the men who employ them. Every invoice made out, all the .nliels of goods, all certificates f stock all lists of prices- all private marks of the Ann now explained so every body can understand them. All the maps )f cit ies that were never built, but In whlub ots were sold all bargains, all gouging, ill snap judgments, all false entries, all idulterntion of liquors with coppers and itryehnliio. All mixing of teas aud sugars nd coffees and sirups, with cheaper mate rial, all euilieKr.lements of trust funds, all swindlers in coal and iron and oil and silver and stocks. Ou that day when the Hies of this world are smoking In the I aft 'ontlagration the trial will go on. and dowu In an nvalanche of destruction will go those irho wronged manor woman. Insulted Ood mil dclle.l the judgment. Oh, that will be 1 great, dav for you, honest inrisiiau lerk. No getting up early, or retiring ate. no walking around with weary limbs, ut a mansion in which to live and a realm nf light and love and joy over which to Hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him up from glory to glory aud from song to song vid from throne to throne, for while others jo down into the sea with ineir go ko n millstone hanging to tlieir neck, this one iliall come up tlie heights of nmetliyst und ilabaster. holding iu his right hand the pearl of great price in a sparkling, giuier- 1;:, naming casket. 1 ne ISicycle. Tin pniml i i ryelt1 rat' :i( YiiirniiH!t took lu' nl I'iii is. Ittiiirilloii liNi-,itl first, I hi I was ilis4ii;tli(il mm a H.um ihut Ik i-oiiiiiiith ii 11 I. .nl, nn. I Hi.- first pr it, mhi italics, was awaitlt tl to .Mtn iii, who a'ifftl t divitlt- tli' rif wifli Nosain, who tini-li! ttiinl. Hi' l4M-iitu it a ted prcut lissatist'a-tin uiihhii: tu sjMitators und a I nni'H'loiis uproar . itsti'. A Ii'atlinu li iMaitufittTtti r, - bte w lit'fls :nv iio-.v will 111; at Uf $1H tiiiutt, syn tli.it his tvut-MSijf lln past year Imcii t-Mi iint'iit itii; with tht Im-wI trear iiiK devii-, an. I on of his wheels lilted wiih this; pi-jir has n ridden upward of rJ.tHiit-tnileat over all kinds of roads. The tesl , lii said, hiil Iteon itmre than gratify ing in ev-ry i-esju-et. In addition to tho ud vantages elaiined for the lewl geared mai hiiie, at ii-m mm has Itccii called to thi fai l that wilh the levd 'ur it will Ixj possilde to jive. a narrow tread in -d tl tni;, and at Hie same time preserve u wide tipn-ad of sMkes in the real w heel und wide hearings. Ill ehain driven bicycle st reni;i in const met ion is often ttucri-tie.-d in order to oldaiti a narrow tread, hut the lMvel g.ar may le placed at such an aiejle as to nive a sutlicient ly narrow tread and wide hearing-, to produce the best results. The Stockton wheelmen contemplate tut i I ling a cycle path from IVnsuuken tow r, ship I ine to the Coo'ter'g creek l.ridg... Willie WVnzi'l an.l tin Turville broth ers, 4 l 111 and i 'hat ley, ha ve formed a triplet team. They are having a muchine built and will train for pacing and mulch i ;o iuu. They should form a popular com -binatioii. lor each of the men has a host of "'nd- in I lie e il in fraternity. (' dinrj interests are in a dotnorul i.ing conlifiou iu I'uland at the present time. win to the heavy importation of Amer ican wh els ami Ihe coiiM-ipient keen com petition, tht l.nlih manufacturers have i'ti'ii driven close to the wall and numer ous failures are rcHtrtcd. liiirl. s H . K il pat rick , the A merit hu half in ilt champion und world's record holder, who is in Kit; I and, apeurs to te uetiini: acclimated. Che American won the scratch quarter ut the Saltord Har rier's sports, defeating a tit-Id ol eiut, including the Northern champion, S. fr-l-liott, ol the Saltord Harriers. Kilpat rirk'ft time was M - a seconds, und he fin ished three yards in front U KUjolt. Arthur A. Zimmerman is not roiindiii" into shao us rapidly as he had ce( t. d to do, und it now seems doiibtlul whether he will be wen in the races of the season after all. Zimmerman is Itelieved to be too old to compete aaint the youth of the present day ruciuu- These, hard fin ishes are something terrible to even an old-timer, who in former seusons opened up lengths on his field. The great $,"hmm meet ut ( 'hicueo l.abol Ihiy depends only upon Ihe securing of the track . Tht sanct ion has Iwn issued to 1,. M. Itichurdsou. Michael lowered the mile stunding start paced American record in the tirt mile of his len -mile ride wit's Titus as a com IH'lilor ut Itullalo. The lormer record wus 1.41 I 5, made by McCreu ut t'oronado Heat h last seuon. .Michael did l.i'l. J. Tlatt Hells hohU the wot Id s record recently made, 145 15. Oddities of Life. A chain bridge over the Merrimac Kiver at Aniesbury is said to Is the old-i-st susMnsio!i bridge in the United .State It was built in K'-U. What was known ss Maine's oldest school house, situated iu West Gardiner was desl loved by lire recently. It was built lot years ago. .... A San Kram isco man recently insisted Isffore the Lunacy t'ontiiitttcc that his heart was slowly but surely turning to stone and his blood to water. Massachusetts ranks sixth in the distri bution of the appropriation granted by Congress for the militia of '.he several states. Her share is $I2,imhi. Oliver'. Kddy, of lirewcr. Me., is said to li the only survivor if the ISIack Haw k War, ami can remember distinctly when his father started out for the war of I Mi The Worcester man who ollered a tlo prie to the school i-hihlien of that city lor the licst essay on the common toad is so pb usi 'I with the results that he lias re pealed his oiler for next year. Tarenls can now hold up to their run. ly lo villi; children as an awful winning tho sad fate of u 17 year-old boy iu Mi l i.b n. Conn., who from over iiibiilgi'iici iu can dy has Is-comc totally blind. An Atlanta man named John Sin i I la will con call upon all Ihe Smiths in the worl l In cent rilmle Inward a manilircut build ing 1o be creeled iu honor of the name. The house is to cover ten acres. There is an old philosopher propliftt ami p.H-t in California w ho claims that lie has solved the problem of living forever. He lives a hermit's life, eats only three times a week, and never eipccts to di. J, ii . t n o u 1 9 f I iE2 l r r sv X
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