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THE OON8TITUTION-TH E ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
F. StiHWEIER,
VOL. LI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 11. 1897.
NO. 35;
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Thsuk you Tiry much," salt Arma
thwaite, sneaking still rather stiffly. "I
dined at Mereside Mine time ago, and I
tuust get to Brnnksome to-night. If Mra.
Crosmont will allow me
He turned to the lady, and stopped
hurt. Her eyes, which begun to fasci
nate him by an eloquence which seenied
to him preternatural, looked straight iuta
his ami commanded him to stay.
"Come, Ir. Armatliwaite," .aid bet
ancle, "u won't waut ua all to go down
on our knees to induce you to stay, I'm
sure. We have a reputation for hospital
ity to keep up, and we should have each
to do private penunce if we let you go be
fore morning. Come now, say you're per
uaded."
He passed bis arm through that of th
young man, and as his nephew had now
recovered from his ill-temer enough to
echo the hospitable words with a moder
ately good grace, Armathwaite allowed
himself to yield without much dilticulty
ud without betraying bis secret eagerneSt
for a better acquaintance with the inter
esting household.
Afterwards Mr. Crosmont, humming an
Ir as he crossed the room to his cigat
cabinet, asked bis visitor in a genial voice
If he would smoke. Armathwaite ex
cused himself, feeliug that to puff tobacco
moke into the air which surrounded Mrs.
Crosmont would be like profaning a
temple of a goddess. That lady Heeuied
to guess the reason of bis refusul, and,
looking at hiiu with a gracious smile, said
lie did not mind smoke in the least.
Drawing a chair to the fire between his
uncle and Armathwaite. Mr. Crosmont
observed that they would not go into the
drawing room; it was such a moldy old
place. I f he were suerstitiou8 he should
think it was haunted.
"They do say in the village that this
house is haunted." observed bis uucle.
"Not one of those silly se-vnnts would
come down stairs between the hours of
ten at night 1 six in the morning, if
you were to offer her a new bonnet."
Apparently this fact was already known
to young Mr. Crosmont, for he betrayed
no surprise.
"Old Nanny Is ready to awear by her
coral necklace and everything else in th
world she holds sacred, that she has heard
unearthly moans and groans iu the IHillj
Varden room."
"Don't, uucle; you , will make me so
...... il,.i 1 ihani n able to !?."
roughlyt"" "I never yVP?heard of a -'
ble woman believing n ghosts."
"I don't believe in ghosts, Edwin," aba
aid very humbly. "But yoo know that
when I get very much excited and it is
ao easy to'excite me I fancy I aee all
sorts of things; it is ijuite as dreadful aa
reality."
She spoke dreamily and absently. In a
low, awe-struck voice, with her eyea fixed
before her, as if the remembrance of
some of her faucie of the night were fill
ing her with vivid horror.
"Of course, if you will read traahy nov
els and till your head with Imaginary
crimes aud mysteries just before you go
to bed, it's no wonder you can't sleep; 1
couldn't myself under the same circum
stuli. es. As for the Dolly Varden room,
the draught comes in at the window, aud
that's the worst you con say for it."
"Siuce you have done ma the kindness
to offer me a shelter for the night, may
ask a favor if 1 may sleep iu that room 7"
asked Armathwaite. "I have no super
atitions on the Biibject of supernatural
appearances, 1 am a light sleeper aud
have extraordinarily quick ears; so that
If anybody cuu find out the cause of the
prejudice aguinst the room and set Mra
Crosmonfs fears at rest, I ought to ba
that persoii."
"Done!" cried Mr. Croamout And
we'll compare notes at breakfast time aa
to our experience in the room."
Shortly afterward Mra. Croamont re
tired for the evening, and after the men
had spent some time In desultory conver
sation Uncle Hugh showed the visitor to
the room he was to occupy for the night.
He weut away, shutting the door after
him, and Armathwaite gave a glance
n.nn.l the ai.nrt incut. It was a rather
mall room, plainly furnished with a high
Iron bedstead and a mahogany suite. No
well-regulated phantom can be conceived
s haunting a room iu which there is not
a four-poster with dark green or dark blue
hangings, and as beside, the young doc
tor' thoughts were still too fully occu
pied with the living for him to trouble
himself about the spirits of the dead, he
undressed, blew out the candlea and got
Into bed without even the passing tribute
of a smile at the reputed mysterious at
tributes of the room.
Infatuated husband, fascinating and
seglected wife, dangerous beauty, were
all, however, powerless against the ef
fects of his long journey. Worn out by
fatigue and excitement, in two minutes he
was fast asleep.
CHAPTER V.
Instead of enjoying the dreamless slum
ber to which his day's work fully entitled
him, Armathwaite had not been asleep
more than a quarter of an hour when he
was half-awakened by certain dull aoouda
In bis ears which he heard at first drows
ily, as if they had been part of a disturb
ing dream. Hut the sounds continued
nutil his dulled faculties apprehended that
be was listening to a woman's sighs. This
became gradually clearer to him until,
convinced that he was awake, he sat up
and held his breath, on the alert for the
least sound.
"Ghosts wind in treesr he murmured
to himself; and as the sound coutinued at
intervals It would speedily have lulled
him to sleep if the sighs had not given
place to words vrhich seemed to be whis
pered straight into his ears.
"Who is it V he heard distinctly. Then,
after pause: "Come in." He was half
aeleep now, he vat aure; and the weak
but clear little whisper that buxzed on
Into hia stupid ears was one of those odd
dreams of purtiul consciousness which a
touch of fever, consequent upon over
fatigue aud excitement, sometimes brings.
The tiny whisier went on; be heard it
quite clearly, though it bore him at first
no great meaning.
"What is it? Why have you come?
Xou frightened me!"
Then a different voice, thin, attenuated,
but louder, aaid, "Frightened you, did IT
Weil, ou asy be aura 1 shan't stop opg.
'9 --f JWT,
i au to -now wliat you were telling
that doctor fellow while I waa out of thai
room thia evening, aud what you meant
by bringing bun here, and where you got
UtJI frank"
All 0.1.1 .Iream. this; Armathwaite turn
ed his head on the pillow, but still the soft
buzzing voices weut on, the weaker one
peaking now.
"I told him only what everybody can
ee that 1 am growing stupid, nervous,
IIL"
"111 I Well, it la your wn fault If you
are. You won't go out. Only the other
lay yon were iavited to The Crags, and
Tha Or! Ma. It weuM WJ
gM..I to no I here, luet me g away.
v...i v,..i i, i i'o flttnv! 1 am no
comfort to you, only a burden to you.
Try us 1 may, 1 am nothing to you. Xou
will not treat ine us a wife, or even aa a
sister. Oh, I huve been trying for daya
and weeks to. get courage to Bpeak to you,
to call back my old spirit, to insist on be
ing treated fairly; but my mind and my
will seem to in ebbing away. I cannot
tell what has huppvued to me, but 1 think
I am dying!"'
The I.I.mmI rushed suddenly t Anna
thwaite's brain as these worJs, weak and
faint, but clear aa a bell, came to his ears,
lie was not dreaming; h- was listening
to the plaintive outcry of t wife wbo felt,
rightly or uot. that she hud' been cruelly
wronged. The words told him that it
was the man's voice he beard next.
"Dying! Stuff and iBense! Don't
for goodness sake try to make yourself out
a martyr to my i.lty. What on earth
have you to complaiu oT'
The answer came very slowly, as if the
words were dropped out one by one under
the oppression of despair.
"What have I to complain of?"
"Well, well, I don't pretend that you
did not expect a different sort of life
from the one we lead. But circum
stances "
"Circumstances! What circumstances
ran justify a man for treating a girl aa
you have done me? I must speak I must
speak; 1 will be quiet enough to-morrow,
but to-night I am excited, my head feela
strange and light you must hear me now.
I have something to ask you."
"Well, what is it?" i
"Let me go and see Dr. Feele."
"Dr. Peele! What do you want to go
and see him for? There la nothing -the
matter with you; if you think there ' Is,
you can consul. tbi ,"Oj! feDjw- ,o)aj-
M-
waJWveSrfuuiae, rgr; uiriuw
sort of doctor you vrs?t, like all women;
a good-looking fellow to feel your pulse,
and look into your eyea, and tow your Is
the most Interesting case he has ever comai
across. 1 11 siieak to ntm to-morrow.
"And I will go to-morrow and see Dr.
Peele."
"But why? Why? Look here! be hon
est, and tell me what you want to see
hun for?"
"Can yon pretend to be surprised that
I want to see the man who has been my
guardian and friend ever since I can re
member? It la nearly three months now
since I have seen him. I have not bad a
talk with him since the winter began."
"What do you want to have a talk with
him alone for? It can be only for one
thing that you want it to grumble at the
life you lead, or. at me, or at something."
"Ned, you might trust me that it isn't
for that. Why, if I wanted to complain,
shouldn't I have begun before? Do you
ever think what a strain upon me my life
has been ever since the day I married
you? The moment I saw Lord and Lady
Klldonun In the church that morning, and
noticed the change in your face and the
coldness of your hand aa it touched mine,
I knew that I had made a dreadful mis
take, aa clearly as I know it now."
"Nonsense all nonsense! I waa nerv
ous, naturally enough. I hadn't known
they were in London, and I knew their
coming meant that 1 must give my mind
to some dry business or other. Instead of
to the pleasure a man naturally looks for
ward to ou bis wedding day. It was not
my fault that I was sent off to Moscow
that very day ou Lord Kildunao'e busi
ness, ifo you tnina i suuuiu nave mar
ried you at all if I had expected to huve
to go off like that at a moment's notice?"
"I remember quite well bow they car
ried you away with them, and I had the
sense and spirit to bate Lady Kildouan
for it."
"But you were hard and cold to me.
You said bitter things. You would not
even give me a wife's good-bye. If you
had been kinder then, I should have hur
ried back to you, and everything would
have been different."
"No, no, no! How could I be tender
and sweet to you when I saw that every
light word this lady said moved you more
than my tears? It was not In human na
ture to bear that and on one'a wedding
day! All the time you were away I was
full of remorse that I had been hard, but
I knew even then that you never thought
about it. If you had, would you have
stayed in Paris three weeka after your
business in Kussia was done, with a bride
waitiug for you in England? Of couras
not."
"But I was in Paris on business, you
kuow that, with Lord Kildonan."
"And Lady Kildonan. I frankly own
that all the love I had felt for you when
you were kind to nie in London and seem
ed so passionately, feverishly anxious to
marry me, died away out of my heart and
left me only bitterly hurt and disgusted.
But I was too proud to show It. You re
member how I received your shame-faced,
apologetic attempt at an explanation that
first evening, when poor Unci. Hugh.
Iliinking he iiuiNt he an-fully in the way
left u in the drawing room together."
"By Jove, I do! If you hadn't trcate
me as if I had been a dog, if you had mailt
one appeal to me us a wife to her hus
band. 1 should have taken ."ou to my arms
lie once and told you, what 1 swear to
you solemnly uow, that there has never
beeu between lidy Kildouan and me
the "
Armathwaite could imagine the dignity
with which she interrupted him:
"There are some explanation to which
a wife of years' standiug may listen.
; which ought never to be needed to a
bride.
"Well, you were old enough to know
that you must take a man as you find
him."
"How can you complain? I listened to
you; I made you the only promise which
i it n at that moment you cared to usk
that 1 would not let Dr. Peek know the
circiiir.stu-ces of our honeymoon, I have
kept my promise, and your pluce iu hi
will is quite safe."
"What rubbish are you talking? The
doctor's will is nothing to me; he'a got
bis owu wife aud daughter to provide for,
and I'm quite independent of him or any
body. 1 . uly don't want to hurt the old
man by letting him kuow we have made
a failure' of it."
"I think the fault must lie in your own
conscience ami uot iu my eyes, Ned. For
if you would look at them, you would see
as iiijcb sorrow for you as for myself.
You are uot happy. For weeks past you
have looked harassed and worried. It
is only my eyes you avoid, but Uncle
Hugh's, Dr. IVele's, everybody's. ltut
we can't s'o ou like this; I think my very
presence exasiM-rated you now. Let me
go away for my health: since 1 have
grown so nervous aud depressed it will be
easy to say that. When you waut me, not
us a shadow to hauut the house, but as a
(tvoman to comfort or nurse you, if not as
a wife to love you, I will come back iu
tstitutly. ltut I cannot bear the strain of
this .life any louger. 1 must
"Wo, no, you sball not, you must not."
These words came so rapidly that Arma
thwaite could scarcely distinguish them.
"Wait, wait a little while, uud it will all
coiue right. I will be kinder to you, you
hall see Dr. I'eele, you shull do any
thing you like; but you must not, shull
not go away."
There was a pause. Then came the
answer to this outburst in a very weak
voice.
"Ned! Ned! What do you mean? You
dou't care for me you almost hute me.
Why do you want me to atay ?"
"Why do you want to make a acandal?
For you kuow it would be a scandal,
whatever reason we might e'ne- What
would people what would Lord Kildouun
say V"
"Oh. Ned! For heaven's sake dou't let
me think you only want to keep me here
for -that!'
"Dou't make a cene, for goodness sake,
nd till the bouse with wails and grouu
iu the middle of the night! 1 only want
to keep you here because it's right aud
projier and better fur a wife to remain in
the same Douse witn ner nusnnnu, wuui
ever their mutual relations may be. I
want you to stay here; it is because 1 am
harassed and overworked and driven, aud
if I am left to myself here, I do not know
what will become of me. For mercy's
sake. Alma, stay till the spring, aud I
will be a better husband to you. I swear
it. Promise, Alma, promise."
There was a long pause, and another
of those quivering sighs which had first
roused Armathwaite from his sleep. Then
a sound like a falut, heart-broken luugh
came to the young doctor'a ears.
"If I stay till the spring I shall get my
change for nothing, Ned. I promise."
"There's a good girl. Now I kuow you
must be dyiug to get to bed. You look
awfully tired. Good night."
"Good night."
There waa the sound of a brief, per-
fnnctory kiss, and hi a few minutes
man's steps came stealthily -.long .-thai
corridor past Armathwait-om. Again 1
the young doctor herth fenVPrtrJ
I .i.ha of th JODB.T TO T Jaw LMl t 4M
SyTaa that communication bad been es
tattfiahed between the Kvo rooms to en
able the late proprietor of the house to
keep constant unseen watch over any one
of his patients wnose case rendered sucu
B precaution desirable, he cut the com
munication off dj Tsssrcrriug me puiuws
to the- foot of the bed, where te passed
the remainder of the night without fur
ther disturbance. But be bad little more
rest. The astonishing nature of the reve
lations he had just heard, aa well as of
the accident by which they had reached
him; the emotions roused in him by the
pitiful story, and the startling problems to
which It gave rise, kept him wakeful un
til long after the lute-rising sun of a win
ter morning had filled his room with a dim
and murky light.
(To be continued.)
Naming the Baby.
A Burmese buby, when a fortnight
old, la named. On the auspicious day,
which the astrologer baa selected, there
Is a feast to which relatives and friends
have been Invited. The baby's head Is
washed for the first time, and his name
Is chosen. An English lady, resldlug
In Burma, describes the process of se
lecting the name:
The limits of the choice are deter
mined by the day of the week upon
which be waa born. Burmese custom
divides the letters of the alphabet
among the days of the week, and a
child born on Monday must receive a
name Initialed by one of the letters be
longing to that day.
Ka, kha, ga, gha, nga, TaninK
Sa, baa, xa, zha, nya, Ainga.
Ta, tha, da, dha, na, Ssnay,
Is the beginning of a Jingle which every
Burmese child learns, as you aud I
learned "Thirty days hath September.
April, June nnd November."
A child boru ou Taultila (Monday)
must bave a name begtuuiug with k,
g or u. And wbeu he is old enough to
go to the pagodas, the uature of the
offering be carries, or rather Its sIik,
Is determined by the day of his blind.
Each day of the week Is under the
protection, or subject to the fury, of
some animal. The tiger rules Monday,
and a Burman born on Monday will
offer to Gautama a caudle shaped like
a tiger, and fashioned of scarlet or of
yellow wax. Tuesday lielongs to the
king of beasts, Weduesday is the funk
ed elephant's, Thursday is sacred to
tha rat, aud Friday to the guinea-pig.
The dragon dominates Saturday, am'
Sunday Is dedicated to another fahu
loua creature, half bird, half beast.
The creal siiiiiifl-iiie(;iiii; centre is
Wricnles, to-iinauy, where some es-tabli.'-hiiiciits
i i lari' hall a million skins
rinmi:' II""
Aspai'apus is the oldest known plant
used for food.
Tea is fathered from the plant four
tiiiie: a year.
Most young collectors, and, in fact,
older iersotis of etericnce, are olten
surprised to hear that garnets come in
other colors than red.
Residents of Jefferson street, Topeka,
Kan., have liecn Aiclinis of a trained or
lercrted doc which stole their iiews
.u is and took them to its master.
Mischievous boys distributed lighted
cigarettes among the monkeys at the I'm is
h the other il.iy, and the animals pulled
away until the keeer inlerxencd.
An Auburn (N. V. man has had his
jmiii made with a square luuxle which he
claims will shoot with greater accuracy
and penetratiou than the regulation louud
pattern.
Tlie postmaster General ol Great I'.i-it-ain
lias issued a notice to the effect that
henceforth mourning ostul cards bor
dered with black, front and back, will be
admissible.
'I lie Itauk of Lngland employs aUuit
IIimi men, and has a salary list, inclmliug
pensions, of about $hi,hhi k t annum.
About 2,iMi Ficcies of insects, on an
averace, have beeu disrovered during
each year of the present century.
The Lara-eat link In the World.
Two young trcea, raised from Ith
icorna, have recently been planted
ueiir the famous old oak at Cowthorpe,
England. The ancient tree, which is
more than fifty feet In Blrjn, and is be
lieved to be the largest oak In exlut
euce, lg so decayed that it is feared it
cannot stand much longer.
Flna-nlnr KfTert. of CoM.
A bar of lend cooled to a point about
BOO degrees Fahrenheit below eero. ac
cording to the experin161"8 of Monaleur
PictW, gives opt, when struck, a pure
musical tone. Solidified mercury, at
the same temperature, is also resonant,
while a coll of magnesium wire vi
brates like, a steel spring.
Camlenaad FoeU
One difficulty in the way of ntillrfng
the great peat-beds of Germany for
beating punxises has been the great
biilkltvess of the material. But now a
process has Iveen suggested by which
thirty tons of pent can lie reduced to
one ton of carbide without losing any
of the stored-up energy of heat.
fnbi'a Great Fore.ta.
According to a recent consular re
port, Cuba, although Its entire area ia
only about equal to that of the State)
of Pennsylvania, coutalns 18,000,000
acres of primeval forests, "where th
woodman's ax has never been heard."
Iu these forests, which cover nearly
half the entire surface of the Island,
are found among other timber, nialioit
any, cedar, redwood, logwood, ebony,
Ilgnnm-vltne. nnd a tree with extreme,
ly durable wood called cnigunran.
Scientific Cuttlnr.
Men of science sometimes make ex
traordinary demands upon the skill of
instrument-makers. An Interesting Il
lustration Is rurnlshed by the Instru
ment called the "microtome," the pur
pose of which Is to cut excessively thin
slices, or sections, of various sub
stances, such as animal or vegetable
tissues, for microscopic examination.
Microtomes have recently been invent
ed, which. It is claimed, can cut suc
cessive sections each only one twelve-
.thousandth" n
an incbjLhlckl The edge
t vjTIi j uftl.
. ,r we i-efcts. Tit suca cuw
ink f-w
such" cuts
rcy ...re. of aa OloTBfm-Bottom.
During a recent trip to' Peru, Mr. 8.
F, Emmons observed near Lomas a
plain from ten to fifteen miles broad
.; caching between the mountains and
iKSf'flshore. nnd elevated 500 or tMIO
feet above tide-water," which, pot verv
long ago, na time is reckoned by geol
ogists, was a part of tho sea-bottom.
It still retains Interesting relics of the
days when it was the liome, or
haunt, of ocean monsters. Scattered
among its sands and pebbles the Inhab
itants frequently find the teeth of
sharks, and occasionally they turn up
the Jaw-bones of a whale. With the
latter they construct crucifixes, whose
white forms are conspicuously placed
on headlands.
Liquid Air In Commerce.
New methods of liquifying air at a
reduced cost have been Invented in
Germany, and Mr. de Kay, United
States consul at Berlin, mentions In his
official report some of the uses to
which liquid air may be put. One of
these Is for illuminating purposes. An
llluminant can be formed from liquid
air by 'mixing It with ordinary air. In
certain proportions, while It la passing
back to its normal condition. Liquid
air may also serve as an explosive
agent for various purposes. As a porta
ble liquid, lien In oxygen, it Is suggest
ed that It should serve many purposes
iu manufactures. The price In Ger
many has heretofore been $2.25 for five
cubic meters (about 176V& cubic feet)
of air reduced to the liquid condition,
but Prof. Llnde, of Munich, has invent
ed a process whereby the cost has been
brought down to about 2)4 cents per
4.ve cubic meters.
M.n'a F perch to Brutes.
The story of the farmer In the "Ani
bian Nights" who could" understand
the language of the animals aud fowls
In his barn-yard probably had its ori
gin In the ancient myth which asserted
that In primitive times men and beasts
were able to converse together. Iu
truth, as everybody knows, there are
pertain sounds, or words, which horses,
dogs and other animals can be taught
to understand; and. on the other hand,
some of the sounds uttered by domes
tic animals have a meaning which man
can understand. Of course all this is
quite a different thing from language,
and yet It has a certain scientific In
terest. Recently Dr. H. C. Bolton has
discussed "the language used In talk
ing to domestic animals." He shows
how we unconsciously attempt to low
er our language by abbreviations, etc,
to the comprehension of brutes, very
much as when we talk to young chil
dren. A curious fact Is thnt the pecu
liar "click" and "chirp" used to start
i and to hasten the movements of horses
are employed in very widely separated
parts of the world, but sometimes in
a reversed sense. In India, for In
stance, those sounds are used to stop
Instead of to start horses.
Joke in Fqnash Grove.
The home of the practical joker la
the country town, where any addition
to the common fund of conversational
material Is as welcome as a rain after
a dry spell. In some towns It Is deem
ed a merry jest to steal another man's
bicycle, "put It up" for $2 or $3 with
some one who is in the joke, and Invite
the victim to i.elp spend the money.
The amusement derived from this pro
ceeding lnsrs undiminished for several
weeks.
Squash Grove's general store laid in
a supply of straw bats. An attractive
"Una" on them was Placed in the wln-
dow. and the better to catch Hub eta
colic eye they were adorned wit'a a
large sign:
These Hats are going for a song.
....
Lon Jones, arch wag of Squash
Grove, happened to pass that way
shortly afterward. He saw the slgu,
and his pace quickened.
Five minutes later ha returned wit!,
half a dozen followers. Without an
explanatory word they rushed up iu
front of the desk where the proprietor
was musing over bis accounts. With
out waitiug for greetings, they began,
allegro and fortissimo, that venerable
relic of 'he primitive vaudeville stage
He never came back.
He never came back.
His dear form they saw nevermore!
But how happy they'll be
When his dear form they see.
When they meet on that beautiful ahore.
No dialogue followed the completion
of the chorus. The marauders rushed
to the window, seized a bat apiece, and
rushed into the street.
The cause of the atrocity was remov
ed from the window at once, but when
Squash Grove ceases to talk about that
simple Joke the present generation wiV
have passed away from the earth.
THE CANADIAN THISTLES.
Mean. Recomra nded for the Dro'rac
tloa of TheBB I of Farsarra-
The Canadian thkttle is one of th.
most troublesome of farmers foes. Its
-worst feature is that ordinary cultiva
tion tntitcad of destroying It, only
uiakca It multiiUy the faster and it Is
propagated both from tlie root ami by
seeds. The plant Vs usually In bloom
from Juno to September. Mowing at
tills ttana ks a check, but not ua
eradlcator; care should be taken, how
ever, to burn the plants mown, clse
they will ripen on the ground. Tho
Oregon station recommends frequent
deep plowing, which will nearly al
ways destroy tlie thistle In sliallow,
dry aolla, but In light, rich, moist soil
tliis usually falls.
Wherever a deaite sod can be forme
seeding will be found the easiest means
of destruction, though not so rapid aa
plowing, hoeing, salting or burning,
where these means are avallaltle. On
rich bottom lands or in land filled with
stunqis, a grass sod will bo found the
beat deatroyer. If the land is not rich
enough to form a good sod manure It.
Tho application of kerosoiie or strong
hrlne to tlie roots, after cutting off the
tois three or four inches below tin)
crown with a spade, ks effective and
practicable In small patches.
In stony ground the scythe, salt, and
slieep will be found good destroying
agents. If the thistles are In the fence
ntwa. move the fence and ttkrw. One.
iJ'oy germinate and be
destroyed at once and not lie dormant
In the ground, coming up a few at a
time to resocd the field. Plowing and
stirring the soil when Infested with
Canada tliisth-a, unless thoroughly
done, only multiplies them, so do not
permit any leaves or underground
atoms to remain, but burn the plants
lmnioimiejy after cutting tn-:n The
cultivation need not be deep. If all the
tbholce are kept cut oft three Inches
below the surface, the underground
portions wUl soon die of exhaustion.-
Farm New a
Victim of Sctono.
"We have so many in the family that
there's really no privacy for a girl who
la just engaged."
"What do you do?"
"Well, we've been going tip on the
roof and Bitting together on a little set
tee with our back to the big chimney.
But we can't ait there any more."
"Why not?"
"Well, a man came to George yester
day aud offered him a photograph.
George looked at It and almost fell off
hut chair. It waa a picture of ua on tha
roof. George had hie arm around me,
and I bad my arm around George.
'How much?' said George. .Ten dol
lars,' said the man. The only one,
man? said George. "Only one,' said
the man. George paid the ten. 'Now,'
he said, 'Just tell me bow In the world
you managed to get that photograph?
What do you think the wretch said?"
"Well, what?"
"He aaid he waa the man who sent
up balloona with cameras attached!"-
Cleveland Plarndealer.
"The Unspeakable Tar a."
The word "Moslem," which has come
Into common use to designate a fol
lower of Mohammed, la a contraction
of Mussulman, which. In turn. Is said
by competent authorities to have origi
nally signified "men resigned to God.'
Ottoman, or Othman, was a favorite
name with the early Mohammedan
caliphs, and subsequently applied to
their followers. The phrase "unspeak
nlfte Turk" was used by Mr. Cariyle
In a letter read at a meeting held in
St. James Hall, London, 1870, in which
he said: "The unspeakable Turk should
be Immediately struck out of the ques
tion and the country be left to honest
European guidance."
Profit in Strawberries.
AKontueky strawberrygrowerreports
a clear profit this season of $720.00 on
seven acres of ground. Numbers of
women and children who would have
earned money in no other way made $1
or $2 a day picking berries. Another
grower of strawberries reports his
profit to have beeu f 357.50 on two acres
of ground.
Charles Kean Capped It.
When Charles Kean was playing the
part of Richard III., his fearful
grimaces in character paralyzed all the
other actors with fright, much to bis
amusement.
On one occasion a new man had to
take the part of the sentinel who
awoke Richard. When asked, "Who la
there?" he had to say, "'Tis I, my
lord; the village cock hath twice pro
claimed the hour of morn.'
But as Kean was making auch fear
ful grimaces and scowling at hiin, the
poor fellow forgot his part, and could
only stammer. " 'Tls I, my lord, the
the village cock!"
By this time there was a decided tit
ter all over the house, and Kean said,
Then why the mischief don't you
crow?" which, needless to say, brought
dowa th house, Tid-Blta.
A NEW REPUBLIC
foatb American t-titea Have Fi
a Federation.
Quietly and unostentatioas! tb
greater republic of Central America
has become an accomplished fact. Tha
rat step was taken a year or more
go, when Salvador, Hcndurns, and
Nicaragua cnitcd in a confederation
for mutual defense. Now Costa Itica
and Guatemala bave Joined and the
new republic ia complete. It would
bave been still better hnd the confed
eration been established half a century
go and thereby developed the re
sources of the five countries aa they
thould have been and also prevented
a score of miserable civil wars and
revolutions brought about by ambi
tious and corrupt military adventur
ers. They naturally should be under
one authority so far as their national
policy is concerned, and now that thia
baa been accomplished there la little
doubt it will tend toward conditions of
peace and order In domestic affairs.
The new republic will possess con
t'derable strength.- Its population will
be a little over three millions, of which
Guatemala has nearly one-half. The
area will be 1W..SL5 square miles, di
vided as follows: Guatemala, 03,400;
Costa Itlca, 2S.ADQ; Salvador, 7,226;
Honduras, 43,000; and Nicaragua, 40,
poo. As compared with South Ameri
can State Chile has 203,470 square
miles of area, Peru 413,747, and the
Argentine Ilepubllc 1,778,11)5, though
the population of the latter Is only
about 917,000 larger than that of the
new republic. Comped with Illi
nois, Its area is about three times aa
large, while Its population Is about a
million and a half lees. The Central
American population Is largely made
up of native Indians and mixed races,
but the KuropeauB and those of Euro
pean descent are steadily Increasing.
The arrangement of the new federa
tion is both wise and sensible. The In
dividual States retain complete auton
omy and nlwolute control of their do
mestic affairs. Outside relations, trea
ties, commercial nnd industrial rela
tions with other nations are managed
by a sort of congress which meets in
the various capitals at stated times
and which Is regularly elected. Repre
sentation to foreign governments also
proceeds from the authority of thia
body. In a word, the relations of the
greater republic to the outside world
are practically managed as ours are,
and the rights of the Slates to control
their own affairs remain untouched.
Undoubtedly one of the Impelling mo
tives to this union was the fact or the
fear that Mexico had its covetous eyea
on those States adjoining her own
southern boundary, which has had tho
effect to expedite this fusion of .the
Ajj vg .fllaJbvUJa mlrar wtif gfve the
tefuariiu uu ai hij ui bwui liu,uuv
men, regulars and militia, which will
be sufficient for all ordinary purposes
of defense. As to the commercial and
Industrial resources of the new re
public, they should be greatly devel
oped under the new management. If
It bave no other result than to put an
end to the Interminable revolutions and
civil wars in that section it will be a
blessing.
A Forgotten Author.
Tho oldest American man of letters
b Theodore S. Fay, now living abroad
It Berlin, at the ae of 00. He Is most
ly forgotten, and bis books are all out
of print. Yet he waa a man of some
Dote In the literature of bis day. His
novels, "Norman Leslie" aud 'ilobo
ken," were In every circulating library,
and were widely rend, fifty years and
more ago. He was a contemporary of
Irving, Willis. Brynut. Hallk. I'erc!
ral and others of thai period. He had
a position In the diplomatic service,
being given the pla-e of Minister to
Switzerland by President V'.tn Buren,
who waa very kind toward literary
men. Irving waa appointed Minister
to Japan by him, Hawthorue had hia
position In the Boston custom house
during hia administration. Bancroft
waa made collector of the port of Bos
ton, and James K. Spauldlug, who had
written at least one novel, was a mem
ber of hia Cabinet. It was noted aa a
curious fact at thnt time that the liter
ary men of the country were generally
Democrats. Mr. Fay has never resided
at home since he lost his foreign mis
sion. The charms of (European life
were too much for hitr. Boatoa Hea
W.
Life Should lie Longer.
It was the naturalist BufTou who as
serted thnt human beings uhould Uve
to 140 years Instead of merely 70. Buf
fon argued that all creatures of the
animal kind live at least six tr seven
times aa long as It requires them to ob
tain full development. Thus the horse
la full grown at 3 years and lives to IS
aud 20. The ox ta fully developed t
4 years and the dog nt Z The former
lives to 24 and 2,r and tile latter to 12
and 14. There Is no doubt that In these
respcts Buffon was rieht. and if his
theory were borne out In the case of
humankind the period of life should be
t least 120 to 140 Instead of 70.
New I'ses Tor Glass.
Attention was recently culled to the
proiosed use of glass brick In building.
It Is now snid that the Government of
Switzerland has approved the use of
gliuts for making weights to be em
ployed with balance-scab's. A peculiar
ly tough kind of tflass Is to lie sclevted
for this purise. From Enghuwl comes
the suggestion that glass would be a
better nnd more lasting material than
stone for making monuments which
are excised to the wearing actktn of
the weather.
Swallows M dais to KITevt Cure.
The Churchman reports that tho
daughter of the iiriiu-iiwU notary of
Placinza. Italy, was found to have in
her stomach on accumulation of medals
of a Mailoiuin locally celebrated for
powers of cure In cani-er. She had
swallowed a medal each day for a
veck, on advice of her eonfiosor.
FatiHfactory Fxplanntlnn,
"They say that Batch hasn't a dollni
to his name."
never been able to get any woman to
acccj it i t." Cincinnati Kuq til rer.
This Is the season of the year whoa
we" 'ould rather bave the moth eat up
all tlie woolen goods In tlie house, than
iro down towtt 111 tbe sun for cajnpby
BEY, DR, T,
ALMAGE
"ic Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Sa Eloquent Dissertation on the Mi oi
Gambling- An Insidious Vice M'hlcr
Numbers Its Victims by tha Thou
sand May be S.red by Grace of God
Text: "Woe unto them that sin, as it wen
with a cart rope." Isaiah v., 18.
There are some iniquities that only nibble
at the heart. After a lifetime of their work
the man still stands upriicht, respected anl
honored. These vermin have not strengtt
enough to gnaw through a man's character
But there are other transgressions that lift
themselves up to gigantic proportions anil
seize hold of a man and bind him wltt
thongs forever. There are some fninuitlef
that have such great emphasis of evil that
he who commits them may be said to sin
as with a cart rope. I suppose you know
bow they make a great rope. The stuff out
of which it is fashioned Is nothing but tow
which you pull apart without any exertion
of your fingers. This ts spun into threads
any of which you could easily snap, but f
great many of these threads are Inter
wound then you have a roiie strons
enough to hind an ox. or hold a ship iu t
tempest.
I speak to you of tlie sin of gambliiu;. A
cart rope in strength ts thnt sin, and yet 1
wish more esM.etally to draw your atten
tion to the small threads of tnftiiHune. ou
of which that mighty Iniquity is twlstod.
This crime is on the advance, so that it it
well not ouly that fathers and brot hers nut?
sons tie interested In such a discussion, but
that wives and mothers and sisters and
daughters look out lest their present home
be sacrificed or their iutendod home he
blasted. No man, no woman, can stand
aloof from such a subject as this and, say,
"It has no practical hearing upon my life,'
for there may lm in a short time in your
history an experience in which you will
And that the discussion involved three
worlds earth, heaven, hell. . There are
gamhliuK establishments by the thousands.
There are about 5.rilX) professional gamb
lers. Out of nil tlie gambling establish
ments how many of them do you suppose
profess to lie honest? Ten these ten pro
fessing to be houest tteeRuse they are merely
the antechiimtier to those that are acknowl
edged fraudulent. There are first-class es
tablishment. You step a little way out of
Ifroadway, New York. Y'ou go up the mar
ble stairs. You rini; the bell. The liveried
servant introduces you. Tlie walls are lav
ender tinted. Tlie mantels are of Vermont
marble. The pictures are 'Metthtlrnh's
Daughter" and 1 lore's 4Iaute" aud Virgil's
Frozen Keion of Hell," a most appro
priate selection, this last, for tho place.
There is the roulette table, the finest, cost
liest, most exquisite piece of furniture In
the United Stales. There ts the banquet
ing room, where, freo of charge to the
guests, you may find the plate and viands
and wines and cigars sumptuous beyond
parallel. Then you come to the second
class gambling establishment. To It you
are Introduced by a card through some
'Toiler in." Having entered, you must
either , mble or flight. Handed curds, dice
loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed
with more poor drinks will soon help you
to get rid of ail your money to a tune in
short meter with staccato passages. Y'ou
wanted to see. You saw. The low villains
of that place watch you as you come in.
Does not the panther, squ.at In the-graas,
knowa caTT when she sees it? Wrangle not
for your rights in that place, or your body
will be thrown bloody into the street or dead
into the river.
You go along a little further and find the
policy establishment. In that place you
bet on numlters. liettlng on two numlers
Is called a "saddle;" Netting on three num
bers is called a "git;;" betting on four
numbers ts called n "horse," and there nro
thousands of our young men leaping into
that "saddle" nnd moiiuting that "gig"
aud behind that "horse" riding to perdi
tion. Thercis nlways one kind of sign on
the door, "Exchange." a most appropriate
title for the door, for there in that room a
nan exchange's health, pence nnd heaven
for loss of health, loss of home, loss of fam
ily, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure
roouirh and inlliiite enough.
Now you acknowledge that is a can
rope oi evil, but you want to know whut
are the small threads out of which it is
made. There is in many a disposition to
hazard. They feel a delight iu walking
near a prec. because of the sense of
danger. There nre people who go upon
Juugfrau-not forthe largeness of the pros
pect, but Kir the feeling that they have of
thinking, "What would happen if I should
fall off?" There are persons who have
their blood filliped and accelerated by
skating very near an airhole. There are
men who And a positive delight In driving
within two inches of the edge of a bridge.
It is this disposition to hazard that finds
development in gaming practices Here
are v5o0. I may stake them. If I stake
them, I may lose them, but I may win
5000. Whichever wnv it turns I have the
excitement. Shuffle the cads. Lost! Heart
thumps. Head dizzy. At It again just
to gratify this desire for hazard.
Then there are others who go into this
ln through sheer desire for gain. It Is es
pecially so with professional gamblers,
riiey always keep cool. They never drink
enough to unbalance their judgment. They
do not see the dice so much as they see the
dollar beyond the dice, and for that they
watch as the spider in the weti, looking es
If dead until the fly passes. Thousands of
young meu in the hope of gain go into
these practices. They say: "Well, my sal
ary is not enough to allow this luxury. I
don't get enough from my store, office or
shop. I ought to have finer apartments.
I ought to have better wines. I ought to
have more richly flavored cigars. I ought
to be able to entertain my friends more ex-
rensively. I won't stand this any longer,
can with one brilliant stroke make a for
tune. Now, here goes, principle or no
principle, heaven or hell. Who cares?"
When a young man makes up his mind to
live lieyomt his income, satan has bought
him out and out, and it is ouly a question
of time when the goods are to lie delivered.
The thing is done. You may plant in the
way all the batteries of truth and right
eousness; but man is hnuud togoou. When
a man makes iloOO a year aud spends
1200. when a young man makes $1500 aud
spends 1700, all tlie harpies of darkness
cry out, "Ha! ha! we have hlnit" Aud
they have. How to get the extra 500 or
tlie extra 'J(NKI is the question. He says:
"Here is my friend who started out the
other day with but little money, and in one
night, so grent was his luck, he rolled up
huudreds ami thousands of dollars. If he
got it, why not 1? it Is such dull work,
this adding up of long lines of tlgures in
the counting house, this pulling down of u
hundred yards of goods ami selling a rem
nant, this always waiting upon somebody
else when I con id put iVHI on the ace and
pick up timm."
This slu works very Insidiously. Othei
ins sound the drum, and Hauut the Hag,
and gather their recruits with wild huzza,
but this marches its procession of vale vic
tims In dead of night, in sileuee, aud when
they drop Into the grave there is not so
much sound as the click of dice. Oh, how
many have gone down under it! Look at
those meu who were once highly pros
pered. Now their forehead Is licked by a
tongue of flame that will never go out. In
their souls are plunged the beaks which
will never he lifted, swing open the door of
thnt man's heart and you see a coll of ad
ders wriggling their Indescribable horror
until vou turn awav and hide your face and
ask God to help vou to forget it. The
most of this evil is unadve.rtised. Tin
community does not hear of it. Men de
frauded in gambling establishments
are not fools enough to tell of it
Once In awhile, however, there ,s an
"xeosure. as when in lloston tlie ioli
swooped upon a gaming establishment and
'ound iu It the repre-entativesof all classes
r.' citizens, from the nrst merchants on
State street to the low Ann street gambler;
as when Uuliock. the cashier of the Central
Hatlroad of Georgia, was found to have
stolen 103.000 for the purpose of carrying
on gambling practices, as when a young
man in one of the savings banks of Brook
wnu round to tmvA
Ivn inunv veers ago
stolen e40,0no t
iiarry on gaming practices;
.nneoted .liln Wall street
as when a man con
ir.".?
stolen 108,000 t5 carry on hia gaming prao
i... K la avoutilional
Generally the mouey leaks silently irom
the mere'--' -it's till Into tho gamester's wal
let. I be ve that one of the main pipes
leading to this sewer of iniquity Is the ex
citement of business life. Is It not a sig
nificant fact that the majority of the day
tumbling houses in New York are In prox
imity to Wall street? Men go into the ex
citement of stock gambling, and from that
they plunge Into the gambling houses, as,
when men are intoxicated, they go Into a
liquor saloon to get more drink. The agi
tation that is witnessed in the stock market
when the chair aunounced the word
"Northwestern." or "Fort Wayne." or
"ltock Island," or "New York Central."
and the rat, tat. tat. of the auctioneer's
hammer, and tho excitement of making
"comers," and getting up "pools." and
"carrying stock," and a"lirea'j" from eighty
to seventy, and the excitement of rushing
around in curbstone brokerage, and the
sudden cri of "Buvcr three!" buyer
ten!" Take "em!" "How many?" and the
making or losing of 10,000 by one opera
tion, unfits a man to go home, and so he
goes up the flight of stairs, amid business
offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden
shuttered room, gayly furnished Inside,
and takes his place at the roulette or the
faro table. Hut I cannot tell all the pro
cess by which men get into this evil. A
man went to New York. He was a Western
merchant. He weut into a gaming
house on I'nrk place. Before morning he
had lost all his money save rl , aud he
moved around about with that dollar In his
hand, and after awhile, caught still more
powerfully under the Infernal Infatuation,
he came up and put down the dollarand
cried out until they heard him through the
saloon, line thousand miles from home,
ami my last dollar on the gaming table."
Many years ago for sormouic purposes
ami in company with tlie chief of police of
New York I visited one of the most brilliant
gambling houses In that city. It woe
night, and as we came up In front all
seemed dark. The blinds were down, the
door was guarded, but after a whbqierlug
of tho officer with the guard at the door we
were admitted Into the hall, and thence into
the parlors, around one table tin. ling eight
or ten men In midlife, well dressed all the
work going on In silence, save the noise of
the rattling "chips" on the gaming table
in one parlor and the revolving twill of the
roulette table In the other parlor. Nome of
thse men, we were told, hail served terms
In prison, some were shipwrecked baukers
and brokers and money dealers, and some
were going their first rounds of vice but
all intent ui on the table, as large or small
fortunes moved up and dowu before them.
Oh, there was something awfully solemn Iu
the silence-the intense gaze, the sup
pressed emotions of the players. No one
looked up. They all hnd money In the
rapids, and I have no doubt some saw,
as they sat there, horses ud car
riages, and houses and lands,
mid home ami family rushiug
down into the vortex. A man's life would
not have been worth a farthing in that pres
ence had he not been accompanied by the
police if he had lieen supposed te fie on a
Christian errand of observation. Home ol
these men went by private key. -loine went
in by careful Introduction. ine were
taken in by the patrons of the establish
ment. The oftleer of the law told me,
"None gets in here except by police man
date or by some letter of a patn n." Whtle
Wb wero there a voung man ca lie In, put
his money down on tiie roulette table and
lost; put more money down on the roulette
table nnd lost; put more money down on
the roulette table and lost; thei feeling in
his pockets for more money, lUdiug none,
In severe silence he turned his back upon
the sene and passed out. While we stood
there men lost their proierty and lost their
souls. Oh, merciless plane! (NotouceJn
ill the history of that guininjr- house "uji5-"
;here been one word of sympathy uttered
forthe losers at the game.
Sometimes these gift enter rises are car--ied
ou ill the name of charity, and some of
foil remember at the close of our civil war
low many gift enterprises were on foot,
;he proceeds to go to the orphans and
jridows of the soldiers and sailors. What
lid the men who had charge of those gift
mterprises care for tho orphans and
.vidows? Why, they would have allowed
.hem to freeze to death upon their steps.
: have no faith in a charity which for the
inke of relieving present suffering opens a
taping jaw that has swallowed down so
nucli of the virtue and good principle of
.he community. Young man, have nothing
:o do with these things. They only sharpen
four nppetitefor games of chance. Ho one
f two things he homst or die.
I have accomplished my object If I put
ftuju tho lookout. It Is a greit deal
-asier to fnii tiutu it is to get up again.
The trouble is that when men begin to go
ist ray from tho path of duty they are apt
:o say: "There's no use of mv trying to get
nnck. I've sacrificed my respectability, I
nu't return." And they go on until they
ire utterly destroyed. I tell you, my
friends, that God this moment, by His
Holy Spirit, can change your entire nature
io that you will be a different man In a
minute. Y'our great want what Is it?
More salary? Higher social position? No,
no. I will tell you the great want of every
man if he has not already obtained It.
it is the grace of God. Are there any who
have fallen victims to the sin that I have
been reprehending? You nre In a prison.
You rush ngainst the wall of this prison
and try to get out nnd you fall, aud you
turn around and dash against the other
wall until then" is blood on the grates and
lood on your soul. You will never get
out in this wnv. There Is only one way of
tting out. Then' Is lm that can un
lock that prison house. It Is the key of
the house of David. It is tho key that
Christ wears at His girdle. If you will
sllow hi in to put that key to the lock, tho
holt will shoot back, and the door will
4wing open, and you will lie a frte man ii
Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a buri
aess this is for you, feeding swine, when
your fnther stands In the front door, strain-
ng tils eyesight to catch the urst glimpse
if your return, and the calf is as fat as ft
will be, and the harps of heaven are all
itrung, aud the feet free.
Then are converted gamblers in heaven
rhe light of eternity flashed upon tlie green
tinize of their billiard saloou. In the laver
f God's forgiveness they wushed oil all
their sins. They quit trying for earthly
stakes. They tried for heaven and won It.
There stretches a hand from heaven toward
the head of the worst offender. It Is a
hand, not clinched as if to smite, but
outspread as If to drop a benediction.
Other seas have a shore and may be
fathomed, but the sea of God's love
teruity has no plummet to strike the
bottom, and immensity no iroiitHiiiud
more to confine it. Its tides are lirtou
by the heart of infinite compulsion. Its
waves are the hosamias of the redeemed.
The argosi-s that sail ou it drop anchor
it last amid the thundering salvo of i.ter-
iiul victory. But alas for thnt muu who
-itsdowh to the Dual game of life and puts
his immortal soul on the see, while the
nugelsofGod keep tie tally hoard, and af-
kings and queens, and knaves, and
spades are "shuttled" and "cut," aud the
game is ended, hovering and Impending
riils discovcrthut he has lost It, the faro
bank of eternal darkness clutching down
iutoits wutlet all ttie blood stained wagers.
Among all the virtues, humility, the
lowest, is preeminent, it is the safest.
iecaue it is always an anchor; und thai
man may Is- truly said to live the most
out. n iu his calling who strives to live
lthin the compass of it.
People exaggerate so much that an ex-
au'L'ciatiou is finally accepted us truth.
The thouund-lccc d bug, which frightens
so many iieople, hau'i to exceed lifty
Icrs.
1 find the great thing in this world is,
not so much where, we stand, as in what
direction we are moving.
I l.uli any wronged thee, lie bravely re
velled. Slight it, and the work's licgun;
forgive it, and 'tis finished, lie is lielow
himself that is not above an injury.
Men of tie- noblest il isMisit ions think
IIm-iilscI ves happiest v In'n others share
Iheir h tppinesi wiih lhni.
When a girl liecomes engaged and
wishes to keep it a secret, she always re
fuses to slay all nielli with her "U-st
friend," knowing the seeiet will be out
sleep.
Great souls attract sorrows as moun-
I tains do storms. But the thunder clouds
L break uoi them, and they thus form a
I shelter for the plains around
-Altogether thee arc I.OuO.fsjO
mum-
1 iities in iyi't-
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