ii if fpttid lil gegtMfciE P. 80HWEIER, TUB OONBTITOTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UW8. VOL. LI. MIFFLINTOWN. J UN I ATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER K 1897. NO. 3S. CHAPTER VTfT.fCotitlnued.) Before ber mother could m; one word ft opposition, the little person had alld behind Armathwaite with the moat comi cal nplook of mischief Into bis face, and left him to bear the brunt of the eldei lady's cool reception all by himself. Sha dropped her work in her lap, examlneq him from bead to foot slowly and with a Mack scowl aa If be bad been a notorious i rascal, and then said abruptly. In a deef tone: "Sit down. Too come from London 1 "Yes, I I come from London. "A bad place, London." . This waa a little too much. There are some Tery nice people In It, qnlte aa nice aa any in the country. "I dare aay. This waa said very de flantly, and then there waa a pause bo fore she went on. 'Indonera are fond of sneering at us country people, aa If we. were not good enough to black their shoos." Armathwaite did not contradict hen She might be a very estimable woman .he had heard she was; but be did not see -any adequate reason for her presuming to ride rough-ehod over him. 80 he looked .placidly at her. "I hare no patience, she began, "wltfc people who think, simply because they Lave lived In a particular spot of the earth, that they ought to be bowed down to by the Inhabitants of every other spot." "Neither have I, said Armathwaite simply. And each glared straightforwardly at the. otht-r Hi ii they thought ttc-J bad fought this round very satisfactorily. Be fore they could begin again Millie cams downstairs and brought a message of peace. Taps will be Tery pleased to see yon at once. If yon won't mind coming up stairs to his room," she said. And, with a bow to Mrs. Feels, Arma thwaite followed the girl ont of the room. Millie stopped when she had mounted atalrs enough for her face to be on a level with her visitor's, and turning round, ahe said In a low voice: "You mustn't think anything of mam ma's odd manner of receiving yon. She's always like that to strangers, bnt she's perfectly easy to manage when yon know her. I think she must have read too much about Napoleon the Great when ahe waa a child." This aly apology was rendered so fnnny " ay the twinkle in her eyea that Arma 7. . '.sV,teJT?JMi difficulty stifled his laughter aa he followed his conductreaa into the doctor's room. CHATTER IX. ' The weak daylight still showed faintly ' through the drawn blinds, and helped to give a mournful look to a room which dark mahogany furniture and a funereal four-post bedstead rendered already suffi ciently gloomy. By the 6re sat the doc tor In a large armchair, sorting papers by the light of a couple of candles on a small table at his side. Armathwaite was star tled by the look on his face as he raised his head and held out a thin hand In wel come. Having heard on all sides that the ailment which kept the doctor at home was nothing but a cold, the young man had not been prepared for the sunken eyes and ashy paleness which, to his observant vision, seemed the unmistakable heralds of death: he was so much changed that but for the keen and kindly eyes, the weak and vacillating mourh, Frank would scarcely have known him. 1 have come here by the strangest ac . rldent," answered Armathwaite. "Or rather by an incident which has alrean .led to so many extraordinary adventures, tihat I hesitate to call It an accident at .an. Dr. Peele pushed back his gray hair with a gesture peculiar to him when he was Interested; and with a touch of af 1 fectionate dismissal to his daughter, who . was standing lovingly beside his chair, he , gravely bowed his head to intimate that 1 he was ready to listen. As soon as they were alone,- Armathwaite, aa much tnv pressed by the manner of the doctor's re , eeptloa as by any of the previous events to which his strangely interrupted journey ' had given rise, related very simply the cir- eumstanees; that he had met Alma Cros imont, passed the night, by her husband's ilnvltation. In their house, and that Lady Jtildonan had taken him to luncheon at The Crags. "It Is very strange," said Dr. Peele at last. "And perhaps the strangest part of It all Is that not many weeks ago I men tioned you to Alma Crosmont as a man who. In certain circumstances we were then Imagining, would be likely to have the skill and the courage to do her a diffi cult and perhaps dangerous service." "What was that service? May 1 not know?" asked Armathwaite in a very low voice. "Hardly yet," answered the old doctor slowly. "But If you will stay here a few days, I will talk to you again on this sub ject. Can you spare the time?" "I will do so, if you have any strona reason for wishing me to stay. But if I may go up to Glasgow to-night and return to you. I should prefer it, as I have a chance of an appointment at the Infirmary there, and the caudidates will be seen to morrow." Let em be seen; I can give yon some thing better. My wife ami daughter think I shall !e about ngntn in a Tew days; but you and I know otherwise. I believe with Alma and with yon, thnt it was no chance brought von to this place. Within a few- hours of your arrivnl you have come face to face with the two cns.s wlii.-h have been gnawiug at my very life; for I warn you, you will have no easy .st here; there are secrets which I will confide to you, if you cure to take my place here, connected with certain of my patients, the knowledge of which will make your life an everlasting dance upon the edge of a volcano which must break out some day. You are young, energetic, honest, not over-euiotional, .with a head very well screwed on, though its only on young zuoulders. You may perhaps find a nay to grapple successfully with diflicnltiel which to an old man. weiirbed down br Id recollections and sentiments bound op with the dead, have been like sleeping flojj allowed to lie. Stay here a few days; learn to know us; I wlH Introduce yon to, my patients; If at the end of a week or a fortnight yon decide to remain, yon shall take np my practice, weighted with thia one condition, that yon look after my wife and daughter when I am gone. Think over what I hare said and study your new surroundings for the next few days, and when yon have made np yonr . mind, give m yea or no.". - . n "I can give it you now. Dr. rcele. It la with my heartiest thanks yea." "Well, 70a bar still, until I tell yon the secrets I spoke of, the power to retract. In the meantime will you go downstairs and have tea with yonr new sister?" He touched a bell by his side twice, and In a few moments Mrs. Peele appeared, her approach heralded by a tread like that ef a man. "Margaret, said her husband, "this Is the young fellow of whom I once told yon that If I had bad a son I would have had bat son like him. He will stay with va for the next few cays, and yon will make him welcome." Armathwaite felt rather uneasy, after their encounter downstairs, as to bow this exhortation would be taken. To his sur prise and consternation she marched np to him, and Just as he made an involuntary step back, half expecting that her inten tions were pugilistic, she drew him down by the shoulder with a powerful hand, and printed on bia coy cheek a martial kiss. Recovering quickly from his astonish ment, he respectfully returned the salute, and having thus signed articles of peace, he hastened to obey her deep-voiced com- 'mand to go down to tea. In the sitting room he found Millie, now busy with the tea things. Armathwaite soon found himself telling her of his newly made ac quaintances with the two lakeside beau ties. "Then yon like Alma Crosmont best?" said Miss Peele. "I'm so glad. It's a good sign In a man to do that, I fed sure. I know," she continued, hastily, "that Lady Kildonau U Trj hriui and charm ing, and Tery good-tempered, too, I think, for snch a beauty. But there's more in Alma than that, a great deal more; and I often feel my hands tingling to box the ears of that husband of hers, when I set him " She stopped In confusion and hasteneo to put some coals on the fire; but in the midst of this occupation she turned to Armathwaite with a genial laugh. "It's of no nse; I've done it, and n artifice will cover it!" she cried. "I'm always getting myself Into trouble by blurting ont things that are better left nnsaid. I haven't the least atom of tact or discretion. So I may as well finish what I was saying, and relieve my feel ings." "Especially as I know what yon were tofng to say." "Do you V Then ber kind, plain face grew grave. "Yea, it needs no conjurer to see that the poor little woman Is thrown away on that great, empty-headed fellow, who doesn't know the difference between gold and gilding. Papa made that match, yoa know; I think he's sorry for It now." Ind she looked Into the fire again." "Yon know Mrs. Crosmont intimately?" "I used to; but she never comes here now. I believe It's her husband prevents her; ho's afraid papa will see and be angry nhont the alteration in her. I met her In Mereslde about ten days ago, and I scarce ly knew her; she seems to be growing quite old and and ghost-like. Oh, it's s shame, it's a shnme!" Armathwaite wnrmed to this girl with her open heart snd straightforward seeeh. "Yes, she Is losing her benlth and grow ing old before her time. We must see what can be done," he said earnestly, Millie looked np at him sharply. He was sitting in a chair before the fire, with his arms resting on his knees; and she was crouching, with a round back and protruding face, npon the hearthrug. "Ah. I thought so. You're going to stn, here," she said, with a nod of intelligence. "For a few days, yes," said Arma fhwaltav taken aback. "Oh, for more than that! I know You're going to be papa's partner. It's of no use to try and hide it from me, le ane I'm personally Interested, you know; and In anything which concerns oneself one gets to be abnormally clever. Oh, I knew what you'd come about the moment ' saw yon!" "But nothing Is settled yet," said Ar mathwaite. "It Is quite true that Dr. I'eele has made some suggestion of th sort to me." CHAPTER X. "In that case we should have to form a. alliance, defensive and. If necessary, of fensive, against my mother and ber evil machinations." Armathwaite looked puzzled and rathe, ilarmed, and Millie burst out laughing. "I will le plain with you," she said, itill sfrugging with her merriment. "I .'a n't be anything but plain with any body, you know,' she added, putting her hands up to her face to emphasize bet Ittle Joke, with a comical grimace. "No noner will my mother know that there if I chance of your settling here, than shr nil I begin the attack by informing you Chat the first thing necessary to a country 3o-tor before talent, before experience, iefore anything. In fact is a wife. Next the will enlarge upon the fact that what feu want in a wife is goodness, and a e:i paeity for making the most excellent pas try; great accomplishments are a dis.-id vantage, and good looks a positive dis qualification. Then she will go 011 1 ha! you guess what is coming! she will go on to say that the very sum ami suit atanee of all the needful perfections is at hand In the person of me." anil Millie cm braced herself jubilantly. "1'gly fa.-e, complete ignorance of any art liit darn Ing and cooking, and all." "But really, .Miss IVele, you are d iins yonrself the greatest injustice," bec-m Armathwaite, rather embarrassed ly hoi frankness, though her honesty and strong tense of fun amused and interested him "7m I thought that I'd better put yor n your guard," she continued, brightly, "and if you don't want to hare me tiling it your head from morning till night, you will. If yon haven't got one already. In rent a fiancee to whom you are madly at tached, with whom yon correspond regu larly, and whom yon are only waiting for 1 favorable opportunity to install her as your bride." At this fiction they both laughed heart ily: and with extravagant suggestions as to the devices to which they would be driv en if Mrs. Peele should Insist on Inviting the fiancee to stay at Branksome, they cemented their friendship and closed a firm alliance. Next morning, breakfast waa scarcely over, and Mrs. Peele, having bullied ber visitor unmercifully for not eating mar in aj a d a. hail Afilv In at m.rctiMt fnun that room, armed with . rtanklna- hnnch of ! keya, to attend to her household duties, when a small groom drove np to the house ! in a dog cart and delivered a note for r. I Peele. This note was sent down by the doctor for Armathwaite to read. It waa from Lady Kildonan. and contained only a few lines to say that one of the house maids had cut her hand badly, and If the doctor could not come himself; be was to send Dr. Armathwaite. The young man read this, and his face flushed with a dos en different emotions. Millie, who was filling the seed trough of her canary, look ed at him furtively as be glanced through he note, which she herself had brought iown to him. "Have yon read It?" he asked. "Yes. I'spa read tt to me." "And what did he say?" "He said be supposed you must go." "And what did you say?" "I didn't say anything, but I thought "What?" "That ahe was beginning pretty soon. Armathwaite burst ont laughing. "Oh, you Ul-natured little thing. shouldn't hare thought It of yon." "Dr. Armathwaite, It la not In nature for a plain woman not to see the faults In a handsome one. It relieves my feel ings, and makes no difference to yours. Lady Kildonan la a born coquette, fond of excitement, dying of ennui because her husband makes ber Hve In the country. She looks upon every stranger that cornea to the neighborhood aa her legitimate prey; aha even condescended to torn the head of papa's unfortunate assistant who couldn't hear ber nam mentioned without railing a-trembHng. From gentleman to peasant, she won't be content till every man worships her, and yon may be sure she won't let you off." Millie gave him a sagacious nod. while Armathwaite buttoned np bla coat grave ly. "I don't think I am one of the worship ing sort," be said. "Lady Kildonan has my heartiest admiration, but I flatter my self it's not so easy to turn the bead of 4 rue-bora Yorkshireman." "Well, I hope not," said Millie doubt fully. Armathwaite got Into the dog cart and drove off with a slight feeling of Irrita tion towards Millie for her obstinate per sistence in an Injurious doubt. It was another beautiful and bright morning, but the 7oung man scarcely no- ueea now tne snow sparkled In the sun and Is.; a patches of fantastic shape np on the hills. He was quite bristling with duty by the time he arrived at The Crags, dashed np the drive. Jumped down from the dog cart, rang the bell, and asked to be taken straight to the Injured maid, as if each moment of his time had been a golden guinea. The hurt turned out to be a trilling one, as Indeed be had expect ed. Uaving bound up the wounded hand and given the simple directions necessary. ne was nurrying out ol tne house when a footman ran after him and requested him to stop, aa her ladyship desired to speak to him. Armathwaite hesitated. when Lady Klldonaa's maid fluttered down the hall and said she had been sent to show him up to her mistress room. "Is Lady Kildonan 1117" asked Arma thwaite. "Not rery m, but aba thought aba would like to see you, sir.' There waa no choice for him. He followed the woman np wide staircase, along an oak-paneled gallery large enough and handsome enough for a ball room, to a door at which she knocked softly. "Come in," cried Lady Klldonan'a voice, which waa aa bright as ever. The next moment be found himself In a room the coloring and decoration of which suggested to him the Inside of a sea shell, adorned with hangings of pale sat in, and carpeted with thick, soft velvet which looked like sea moss. The lace curtains, drawn close, were lined with palo rose-colored silk, through which the bright sunlight came pleasantly subdued; In a tiny fireplace, tiled with paintings of flowers, burnt a small fire. Close to It, tying back in a large easy chair, her head resting on a satin cushion, was Lady Kil donan. The illness concerning which she had to consult the doctor was luckily not J serious enough to dim the brightness of her eyes, or to render less dazzling the luster of her brilliant complexion. On the other hand. It was grave enough to permit her to appear In a white cashmere wrap per, with her hair loosely knotted to gether and a black lace mantilla round her head, a costume beautifully suited to an invalid in perfect health, such as Ar mathwaite at once decided her to be. Standing at the threshold of the doo as the lady languidly beckoned him In, the young doctor, with a haze of mem ories and resolutions before his eyes, wished that he had not come. , (To be continned.) 1 jOf late years the production of cot fee In British Central Africa h.i con siderably increased. In 1891, the first few sucks were sent to the London market, and favorably reported on. In 1S1KS, nearly 170 tons were exported, last year the total rooe to 300 tons, nnd this year it Is expected that there will be at least GOO tons. It la estimated that at the end of the century the ex port will amount to 2,000 tons and the planters are agitating for the const ruc tion of a railway from Chlromo to Blun tyre, In order to obviate the prem-nt difficulties of transport. The Khedive recently laid the foun dation stone of the Museum of Archae ology at Cairo. Unfortunately, It will soon be scon that the English protec torate renders Impossible the establish ment of a lusting museum. The de plorable lintiit which British tourists are n.lilictcd to, of rnrrying ofT little fragments of valuable objifts. Is n li:ul augury for the safety of the collec tions exliiliih-d. In museums. Just tin In politics, tin- i'li'llsh nlwnys carry off Hie tlMits.-Le tJaiilols JT Connecticut paM'rs say Uint the oldest 111:111 in the stale is Manuel i "liver Irvy. of Sloiiin:l"ii, who was born in IVi-tual lit years aro. The loftiest inhabited place in the world is 111 ltuddhist monastery of Maine, in l liils l. Jt is about l7,lHt feet alnive the sea. Natural pas i fast poini?. J. 1. Weeks lias just made a report 011 the supply and ils leelii.e for the .National l.nlr ltiircs.ii in which it np'iciirs that the supply has fallen a half in seven years. Liverpool has the large! fire engine in the worlil eiii.il In thrnvin? 1SIMI gallons a minute ami a stream l td f.i't liij-b. France has set up nlsmt monuments to more or less distinguished frenchmen luring tlie last twenty-five years, nad there a re now 127 coiniiiilt.'cs collecting money for more. True nobility is shown lv gentle con siileration and courtesy to all, and brines its own reward in the extra linene.-s. el Dorceiition its nrncti.-o. bestows. A Muneie (Ind.) arrot cried "Fire! fire!" ami woko up her owner, who found his house in flames. The fJreco-Turkish disturbance has had the cITect of making Friday afternoon in the country school fairly redolent of "Marco ISozzaris." Vaccination has just been introduced into Afghanistan lv the advice of Miss Hamilton, an F.nglfsh physician. who is '" adci.dam uin.u the Ameer. Russians make a pleasant dm k from sap of tho walnut. SMALL THLNG9. It may )e glorious to write Thoughts thnt shall glad the two or three High souls like those far starts that come insight On.-e in a century. I til t l-etter fur it is to speak nc simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men. .lames Hussell Inwell. Circumstantial Evidence. It wr.s an old affair all around- Every body -wondered, and the puzzle was not merely why the sweetest and loveliest girl in town had married this dark stran ger, whom nol.xly liked, and whom sho nud not known moie than six weeks in all It was also how she c-atno to jilt lien Kl roy, to whom she had been engaged al most since she hud worn long di.-ss.-s, and -ho had played with when they were both -hildien. Lorcna was not merely a lieautiful girl, she w is as good as she was lovely. Not a ifil-l, you would think, to marry one man for his money, or to jilt another for he lack of it. Only the day but one before she mar ried Sieiner, iten had held her in his arms, and kissed from her lips the loud est smiles that ever curved a sinilet mouth. lie would bare sworn by her truth, ami strangled the lie in any man's throat .who dared insinuate otherwise. lie was going away for a few days' al-scn.-e not luoro than a week of the far thestand the two arted liiigeringly, as though it hud l-rcn for a year. lien .iertainly never dreamed that when ihoy met again, his lif-ft would almost be really to cui-se the loveliness he caressed now so rapturously. When he cam'- home she hnd licen mar ried to Iluliert Steiner four days, and of all her friends, not oi.e hail a v.oid to say in her favor not one hud an excuse to make for her falseness. Indeed, most said nothing; Ihey v.-ere dunibwilhainuz.-- IH'llt. A few insinuated that Steiner was a rii her man than lien. II11I thev who hud known 1.01-omi from childhood her nnsclt-ishtH-.is and hih pi-inei le could not ei-cdit that Steinei-'s money had Ui-n any temptat ion. It'll was like a man stricken with par--.!,:- - Ui . iliev told him. He I"; t ilropjH-d into a ( hair, ami noiiiier stiried njr sNke for hoiii-s. The ne vly married pair went to hou.-e-keeping in l-awrem-e, in some style, and there, se.-ni.-d 110 lack of money, whulcwr else was wanting. That sonv-thiiig was wanting that money could not buy, p.-oplc Ix-gun to guess, when I.01VHU Sleim-r's roses went; and she grew the shadow of herself within three months after her wedding day. li.-r old lover wns terribly changi-d, too; hut he made little outward ado. lie an-1 Steiner should have a settlement sou e day, he suid, und he watched the pi'.ii with strange eyes, ami seemed to Mtnilcr yet over his lost love's unfaithfulness as some problem dillicult of solution. . ne day, when Steiner was away but he did nut know or care for that tho pain and puzzle got the better of him, and lien went to see I.orena. The poor fellow was holf-cruzy gi-own morbid with nursing his grief and did not know himself what he went for. lie might hare had some vague notion of asking his false love why she jilted him, or he might have hungered so for the sound of her wcet voice that he could tear it no longer. He was shown by a very grand servant into a very grand parlor, and stood theie, staring gloomily at the fine things, till (.orcna came. "I wonder if this is what she married Steiner for?" he was saying to himself, a (he elided into the room, shrinkingly, her fuc e as white as her dress. At sight of him she burst into tears. "Oh, Iten, what made you come?" she cried, and was retreating. Hut he said coldly: - '"I nm going again instantly, Mrs. Stein er," and the cold anger of his voice brought her back again, but trembling like a leaf, and looking so deathly white that he thought she wns going to faint. She rillied, however, instantly, and stood looking at him with piteous eyes. "I hoti you are well, Mr. Klroy?" she aid, I'atntly. A spasm of pain contracted Pen's handsome palo face, and ho turned to leave her; but she followed him, speaking huskily, and extending her hands. "oh. Hen, don't go so! I can't bear it!" He stopped and stared at her, hi breath coming quick. "V011I" ho said, passionately, yet with corn. "What have you to Ix-ar? Haven't you got what you sold yourself for?" "ifc-n, don't sieak so to me!" she almost hrieked. "It was for your sake. Oh! why didn t I die?" lien trllroy turned suddenly and led ber to a seat, remaining standing him tolf. "Now, then, Mrs. Steiner, will you l e good enough," ho said, "to tell nie what you mean by saving that yon jilted in tor my own sake" She stole a wild look at his stern face. "Will vou promise me to have no wonts with him with Mr. Steiner sboqt it?" Hon hesitated an instant, and lien said 1 "I promise,." To bj nisei f he added: "I will have no words with him; but if he has taken her from me with a lie, I will punish him so quick he shall not know where his retribution comes from," and ho rtanchnd his teeth over the word in a way that made Lorena regard him doubtfully. "I will toll you nothing," she said. "1 was mad with pain, or 1 should not have thought of it." "Then I will strangle the truth ont of him!" Ben said, his face darkening, and he turned again to go. Lorena cried out sharply: "How ernel you arel" "Am I?" he said, softening at the woe -f that still loved voice. "I forgot he was dear to you." "Io yon think I feared for him alone?" flashed lorena, and hung her head N-fore the words wore well soken." Iten caught his breath again. "Well, well, tell m. Vou may trust nie, Lorena indeed you may. entreat yon to tell me. Surely something is dun mo for the pnst!" Lorena did not lift her eyes, as she said: "Mr. Steiner told me how you were in volved, and he showed mo some miers which you had signed his name to. Ho said lie could send yon to state prison." "i'npers? signed his name? I am not involved. I never signed anybody's name to anything in my life!" cried Pen, in a passion. Never? Oh! Hen Hen IVin! I might have known it What a blind fool I was!" "My poor girl! And you married him to save me? My Cod! how can I keep my hands oil him? You must, lien! Oo, now, for both our sakes. I can tear no more." And lien went. Ho was seen by morn than one of the townsiieopln as ho came, late that afternoon, down the broad walk that led from Hubert Steiner's handsnitm house, and was blamed for going there in his master's absence. It was noted, too, that ho looked grim and forbidding, and that he frowned, instead of nodding, at such acquaintances as he met. That night Iluliert Steiner was mur dered within sight of his own doorstono, ami the following morning Ben Elroy was arrested for the murder. It was a hard case. Everybody liked Ben; very few the murdered man; but there were not six people in 1 awrence who did not believe Ben had done tho deed even 1 .orcna. "Ben has killed him," she whispered, and dropped into a swoon, from which sb d id not i-eeo ver for hours. But she, never opened her lips again' about the matter. She Just lay and faded, like a broken flower, while the trial iraat en. ' r -the truth does not often float to the sut face in such times of excitement. Ils ver) weight seems to sink it iiclow view, whik tho straws and driftwood almost chok the channel. When it became known that the mm dereil nun's wife lay dying, public feel ing sighed, "How she must have lover him!" and took a-tnrn against Ben. The evidence in the case was purely circumstantial, but dark of its kino. Ben was a dealer in tho finer kinds ol cutlery, and upon his shelves was a case of knives precisely like the bloody one found beside the murdered man. There, ton, was his known enmity, Snd its oc casion; and it was remembered that he bad been seen coming from Stoiner's h.rtise the afternoon lefore the murdet and had seemed under some excitement at the time. His own language, concern ing a settlement with Steiner some time, was quoted against him. The trial drew near its close, and it wat likely to go hard with Ben, unless the jury proved more conscientious and scrup ulous aliout trusting to circumstantial evi dence than the crowd which thronged the court-room and had already condemned the prisoner. The truth came out by the merest scci eident. Ben's clerk seeing a strange and very handsome woman in the court room, suddenly remembered that he had sold that woman that very knife, or one like it, three weeks before the murder, lie whispered thefaet in the ear of Pen't counsel. The woman gave herself up, and owned to her guilt at the first demonstration. Steiner had wronged her, she said, to an extent that only his death could atone for. If it was necessary that any ,ne should dio because a bad man had got hit dues, she was ready. Ben was at once liberated, and the wo man took his place. In the end she plead ed insanity, and the jury was glad enougk to escae hanging her. Ken Klroy quitted the country for s while, but ho returned in time to marry his old love, who had not died, and whose roses bloomed lato as brightly as they had curly. . the legend a myth. The Krrhanteil Meaa of New Mexico I'ivrste I of Ita Romance. The losoail of the enchanted mesa, situated some distance south of Albu querque, New Mexico, has been ex ploded by a party of explorers, hended by Prof. Libbey of rrinceton Univer sity. The mesa Is a perpendicular rock rising 710 feet aliove the surface of the p'jtin and covering forty acres. Here, accorilinu to tradition, Acoma Indians, to tin? number of 1,0(10, dwelt In a vil lage in the sixteenth century, their means of access to the top of the mesa licin;; by steps they bad cut In the rock. Once while the able-bodied member were at work In the fields below lislit nins destroyed the steps and cut' off from their kinsmen the n?cd Indians and children left in the village on top of the mesa. To reach the unfortu nates, thus Isolated, was Impossible, and all of them to the number of 300 perished. The surviving Acomas then moved to a new borne and ever since regarded the mesa as sacred. Thus runs the legend. Last week lrof. Libbey and party visited the mesa prepared to explore It. A line was shot across the rock. suitable tackle waa made ready and separately the members ascended In a chair to the legendary borne of the Acomas. The legend proved to have been unfounded. Writing of the sub ject Prof. Ubbey says: "No traces of former Inhabitants were found. Fur ther, no altars or traces of prayer sticks were foifnd. This fact best 6f all shows the Inaccessible character of the place, because. If It had been ac cessible, the meillelne men of the Aeoinn tribe would have certainly used It for such purposes. "Not the slightest trace was found which would enable me to believe that a human foot had ever before passed over the top of this famous rock. A few agile lizard and ' several gray rats were the only occupants of this castle In the air. Sorao fine specimens of stunted pines, n few species of flow ering plants and the ubiquitous sage brush lent a yarlety to the surface on the line of color of tbe bright sand stone." r Thus dies a legend that bas been the Inspiration of poet and romanlst. DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN. Felix Gabriel Mstrcband, the New rreaater ef Qaebec Province. Felix Gabriel Marchand, the new pre mier of the provincial government of Quebec, Is one of the most distinguish ed sons of the province. Mr. Marchand hns been honored by the republic of France with the title of "officer of pub lic Instruction." He was given this title In 1881. He did valuable service for the dominion during the Feninn raid. At that time he was a lieutenant colonel and won special mention for his brav ery. He was In command of the brig ade that moved to the front at tbe time rai.ix OARRIEI. MARCH ART). of the-engagement at Eccles Hill In November, 1870, and his men made a splendid recard for themselves. Mr. Marc hand's father waa an old resident and native of Quebec, bnt In 1832 ha settled in St, John, N. R, and became one of ihe most prominent citizens of tbe town. Tbe premier-elect waa bora in St. John in 1832 la a quaint old house, which at' 11 stands. He after ward came to Quebec, where bla public cej-eerf or tne past twenty-lire or thirty years has been of brUUanco aad ma te-tbe mat - - KtW MEXICO'S KNCU ANTED UKSA. REV, DR, TUCE Tk EalMnt Divine's Stnday fol tfart ftoila, Fankrnptry and a Frnil Wife, Rnt He Finally Ksraped. Body anil fetiil. From His Troubles 1 how sands of Others May Re Similarly Saved Tbxt: "I am escaped with the skin ol my teeth." Job xix., 20. Job had it hard. What with boils ana bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool of a witn he wished ho was dead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was conn, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing tint tho enamel seemed left. Ho cries out, "I am escaped with the ckln of my teeth." There lias been some difference 01 opinion about this passage. Ht. Jerome and Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and Barnes have all tried tlietr fomeps on Job's teeth. You deny nry Interpretation and say, "What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?" He knew every thing about it. Dental surgery is almt aa old as tho earth. Tho mummies ol Egypt thousands of years old are found to day with gold filling In their teeth. Ovid and liorane and Holoraon and Moses wrot about these imortant factors of the body. To other ' provoking complaints Job, I think, bas added an exasperating tooth ache, and. putting his hand against th inflamed fa;o, ho says, 'I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul, but tliero an) thousands ol men who makn just as narrow escape for their soul. Tliiiro wns a time when tha partition between tlu.-m and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel, hut as Jot) finally escaped so havo they. Thank Oodl Tlinnk Ood! Paul expresses tlie. same Idea by a differ ent figure when ho says that some people are "saved ns l.y lire." A vessel nt sea Is in flames. You go to the stern or the ves sel. Tho bouts have shoved off. Thd flames advance. You can endure till heat no longer on your faeo. You slide down on the aldo of the vessel nn-l hold on with your lingers until the forked tongue of the flm begins to liek the l.aek of yonr hand, and you feel t tint yon must full, when one oj the lifelionts comes Imi-k, and the passen gers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you. You drop into it you nrosaveil, n0 some men are. pursued by temptation until ihej ar partly consumed, but after all get off "saved as by lln." But I like the llgiiro of Job a littlo bettet than that of Paul, leeaus tho pulpit bat not worn It out, met I want to show you. It Ood will help, thnt some men make narrow escape for their souls and aro saved as "with tho skin of their teeth." It is as easy for some iteoplo to look to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gontle, tra-tahle, loving, you expect them to beeoino Christians. You go ovei to the storo and say, "Ornndon joined th churoh yesterday." Your business com rades say: "Thnt ts just what might hav been expected. He always was of that turn of mind." In youth this person whom I deserltie was always good. Ho never broke things. Ho never Inughed when it was Improper to laugh. At seven he oould sit au hour In eliurcli, perfectly quiet, look ing neither to the right hand nor the left. but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole dis cussion about the eternal decrees. H never npset things nor lost them. H floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that It is uncertain just when the mnttei was aeciueil. Here is another one, who started in II fc with an uncontrollable spirit. Ha kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on theedguof the house root to see if bo could balance himself. There was no horse that ho dared not ride, no tree he could not climb. His boyhood waa a long series of predicaments, his manhood was reckless, his midlife very wayward, But uow ho is converted, and you go over to the storo and say. "Ark wright joined thf enurcn yester.lay. Your friends say: "It is not possible. You must be joking." You say: "No; I tell you the truth. Ho joined the church." Then they reply, "There Is hope for nny of us if old Ark wright has be come a l lirtstlan. in other words, we will mlmit that it is mora dillleult for some men to accept the gospel than for others. 1 may be preaching to some who havo cut loose from churches and liiMes and Hun days, and who no intention of becoming Christians themselves, nud yet you may find yourself escaping before you leave this house as "with tho skin of your teeth." I do not expect to wasto this hour. I have soon boats go off from Capo May or Long Branch and drop theirnets amlafterawhile come ashore, pulling In tho nets without having caught a single tlsli. It was not a good day, or they hud not tho right kind ol a net. Hut w expect no such excursion to-day. The water is hill of fish, tho wind is In the right direction, tho gospel net U strong. U thou who didst help Hiuion and Andrew to fish, show us how to cast the net on the right side of the ship! Homo of you incoming to Ood will have to run against skeptical notions. It Is use less for people to say sharp nnd cutting things to thoso who reject the Christian re ligion. I ennnot say such things. By what process of temptation or trial or betrayal you havo come to yonr present state I know not. There are two gates to your nature the gate of the head and the gate of th heart. Tbe gate of your head is looked with bolts and bars that an archana! oould not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily on Its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet mi with weapons, and it would be sword stroks for sword stroke and wound for wonnd and blood for blood, but If I come and knock at the door of your house you open it and give me the beet seat In your parlor. If 1 should oome at you now with an argument, you would answer me with an argument; If with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm blow for blow, stroke for stroke but when I come and knock at the door, of your heart you open It and say, "Come In, my brother, ana tell me all you know about Christ and heaven." Listen to two or three questions. Are you as happy as you used to be. when you be lieved In the truth of the Christian religion T Would you like to have your children travnl on in tho road In which you are no w travel ing? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consist ent, living and dying in the faith of the gos pel. Would yon not like to live the same ?uiet life and die the same peaceful dentil? hold In my hand a letter, sent me by one who hns rejected the Christian religion. It says: "I am old enough to know that tho joys and pleasures of lite are evanescent and to realize the fact that it must be com fortable In old age to believe in something relative to the future and to hnve a faith In some system that proposes to save. I am free to confess thnt I would be happier If I could exercise tho simple and beautiful faith that Is possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality ami look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is noth ing. What shall I do that I have not done?" Ah, skepticism Is a dark and dole ful Inndl Let nie say thnt this lllblnlselther true or false. If It lie fnlse, we are as well off as you; If It lie true, then which of us If safer? Let me also ask whether yonr trouble hat not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent character of soma who profees it? Y'oa are a lawyer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is thnt anything against the law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contemptible men in your profession. Is that anything against medicine? Vou are a merchant. There are thieves and de frauders in your business. Is that anything against merchandise? Behold, then, tha unfairness of charging npon Christianity the wickedness of ita disciples. We admit some of the charges against those who pro fess religion. Some of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have been car ried on by members of the church. There are men standing In the front rank In the churches who would not be trusted for 5 without good collateral security. Thev leavi their business dishonesties In the vestibule, of the ehureh as they go In and ajt At the aonusunlpa, gavijiff eon- eluded tne a;ramiu, iuny go up, wlie tho wine from their lips. go out andtakeup their sins where they left off. To serve tho devil Is their regular work, to serve Ood a sort of piny spell. With a Hnnday sponge they ex,- t to wipe off from their business slato nil tho pnst week's inconsistencies. Yon have no more right to take such a man's llfo ns a speelmea of religion than yon havo to take the twisted Irons and split timliers that He on the beach at Coney fsbind as a specimen of an American ship. It is time t.iat wo draw a line between re ligion and the frailties of thoso who pro fess it. Do yon not feel that the Bible, take it all In all. Is about the best book that the world has ever si ? !o you know nny book that lias as much in It? Do you not think, upon tho whole, that its influence has been bene ficent? I come to you with both hands ex tended toward you. In one hand I have the BII1I0 and In the other hand I have noth ing. This ItlMe In one hand I will surren der forever just as soon as In my other hand you can put a book that Is better. I Invite you back into the good old fash ioned religion of your fathers, to the Ood whom they worshlied, to the Bible they rend, to tho promises on which they leaned, tothe cross on which they hung theireter nal expectations. You have not been hannv a uay since you swung on. lou will not Ivfi . , .. ... rwj nappy a minute until you swing back. Again, there may be some who in the at tempt after a Christian life will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it Is n disposition to anger that you have to contend against, and perhaps, while in a very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that vou must swear or dio. I know a Christian mnn who was once so exnsoernted thnt he said to a menu customer, "I ennnot swear at you myself, for I am a member of the church, but if you will go downstairs my partner In business will swear at vou." All your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosion of tnmper. now, mere is no narm In getting mad If you only get mad at sin. You neod to brldlo and saddle those hot breathed pas sions nnd with them rldo down injustice nnd wrong. Thero are a thousand things In tho world we ought to l mad nt. Then; Is no harm in getting redhot If you only bring to the forgo that which needs hnm mering. A man who has no power ol righteous indignation is an imbecile. Bui bo sure it is a righteous indignation nnd not a petulaney that blurs and unravels and depletes the soul. 1 nere Is a largo clnss of persons in mlil- dlo life who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early mnnhood, nt a time when they prided themselves on Vic ing a "littlo fast," "high livers," "free and easy," "hail fellows well met." They urn now paving In compound Interest for troubles they collected twenty years ago. Home of you are trying to escape, and you will, yet very nnrrowly. "ns wliil the skill of your teeth." Ood and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipo tent grace lias pulled out many a soul that was deeper ill the mira than you are. They line tlie beach of heaven the multitude whom Ood hns rescued from the thrall ol suicidal habits. If you this day turn back on the wrong nnd start auew, Ood will Help you. till! tho weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for a while and then turn you off. If you ask for their par don, they will give tt and say they will try yon again; but, falling away again under tho power of temptation, they cast you off forever. But Ood forgives seventy times seven; yen, seven hundred times; yea, though this be the ten thousandth time. He is more earnest, more sympa thetic, more helpful this Inst time thnn when yon took your first mistep. If with all the Influences favorable for a right life men make so many mistakes, how much harder Is it when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into tho roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hnndsof destruction? If, under such circumstances, ho breaks away, there will be no spurt In the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side and bend nnd twist and watch for an oppor tunity to get in a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, in which tho muscles are distended and the veins stand out nnd the blood starts, tho swarthy habit falls under the knee of the victor escaped at last as "with the skin of his teeth." Tho ship Kmnia, bound from Ootteuburg to Harwich, was sailing on when tho man on the lookout saw something thnt he pro nounced a vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sea gull, but was afterward found to be a waving handkerchief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck nnd found that it wns a capsized vessel, nnd that three men had been digging their way out through the bottom ef the ship. When tho vessel capsized, they had no means of escape. The cnpt:tin took bis penknife nnd dug away through the planks until bis knife hrnke. Then an old mill was found, with which they attempted to scrape their wny up out of tho darkness, each one working until bis hand was well nigh paralyzed, and ho sank back faint and sick. After long and tedious work the light broke through tho bottom of the ship. A hand kerchief was hoisted. Help came. They were taken on board tho vessel nnd saved. Did overmen come so near a watery grave without dropping Into it? How nar rowly they escaped escaped only "with the skin of their teeth." There are men who have been capsized of evil passions and capsized mldoeean, and they are a thousand miles away from aay shore of help. They havo loryoars been trying to dig their wny out. They have lieen digging away and digging away, but they can never lie delivered unless now they will hoist some signal of distress. However weak and feel.le It may lw, Christ will see it nnd tienr .town upon ttie helpless craft and take them on hoard, and it will be known on earth and In heaven how nnrrowly they have escaped "eseaiied as with the skin of their teeth." There are others who in attempting to oome to Ood must run between a great many business perplexities. If a rnftD go over to business at 10 o'clock In the morn ing and come away at So'clook Intheafter noon, he has some time for religion, but how shall you find time for rellirious eon. temptation when you are driven from sun rise to sunset ami nnve lieen for Ova years going behind in business and are frequent ly ii-jiinnii ny rri-iiiuira wnom you cannot pay, nnd when from Monday morning until Saturday night you are dodging bills that you ennnot meet? You wnlk day by day in uiiceriniimeM mill nnve aepE your lirnlll on tire for the past three years. Home with less business troubles thnn ytu hnve gone crazy. The clerk has heard a noise In the back counting room and gone In and fun ml the chief mnn of the llrm n raving maniac, or the wife hns heard the bang of a pistol In the bnok parlor and gone In, stumbling over the dead body of her husband a suicide. There are men pursued, haraased, trodden down and scalped of business per plexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now Ood will not be hard on you. He k nows what olistaclcs are in the woy of your being a Christian and your llrst effort in tho right direction He will rown with success. Do not letsntan, with otton bales, and kegs, and hoirsheads. and counters, and stocks of unsalable goods, block up your way to heaven. Gather up nil yonr energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins. Jake an agonizing look into the face of Ood, nnd then say. "Hero iroci one grand effort for life eternal," and then bound awny for heaven, escanlne'-as with the skin of your teeth." "JIn the last day It will be found thnv Hugh Lntimor.and John Knox, and Hnss and Ridley were not the greatest martyr.1, but Christian men who went up Incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Pennsylvania avenue. Broad street, Ktnte street and Third street. On earth they were called brokers or stoek Jobbers, or re tailers, or importors,-but In heaven Chris tian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet; no inquisition demanded from them recantation; no soldier aimed a pike at their heart, bnt they had mental tor ture compared with which all physical ftonsnmlng Is as the breath of a spring nornlng. I find In the eommunlty a large class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously wronged, that thoy have lost their faith In everything. In a world where everything seems so topsy turvy they do not see how there nan be any Ood. They aro confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments to prove to them the truth of Christianity or tha truth ot anything else touqj) them nowhere. Hear all such men. I preacn to you no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse, but put mv hand on y-tiir shoul der nnd invite you Into the iwa--n of the gospel. Hero is a rock on whi"h yon may stand Arm, though the waves dash against It harder than the Atlantic, pitching Its surf clear above F.ildystmio lighthouse. Do not charge upon Ood all thise trouhli-s of the world. As long as the world stuck to Ood Ood stuck to tho world, but the earth seceded from His government, and hence all these outrages and all these woes. Ood Is good. For mauv hundreds of years He has been coaxing the world to come back to llhn. but the more He has coaxed the more violent have men been In their resistance, and they hnve stepped back and stepped back until they hnve iropped into ruin. Try this Ood, ye who have hail the hlooil honnds after you, and who have thought that Ood had forgotten vou. Trv Him and see f He will not help. Try lllm'and see if He will not pardon. Try Him and see If He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hnth no warmth compared with the glow of His heart. The waters have no refn-shinent like the fountain thnt will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his Hp and nostril thrust In the cool mountain torrent, the hunter may be oomlng through the thicket. Without crack lings stink under his foot. He com-s close by the stag, alms his gun, draws the trig ger, and the poor thing rears In Its death agony and falls baekward.lts nntlers crash ing on the rocks. But the panting hart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never !-e fatally wounded and shall never die. This world Is a poor portion of your soul, O business manl An eastern king had graven on bis tombtwo fingers, represented as sounding on each other with a snap, and undor them tho motto. "All Is not worth that." Apb-liis Ci-llus linn ire. 1 hinun-lf bo cause his steward informed hlru that he had only Hll,0o0 sterling left. All of this world's riches mnke but n small Inheritance for a soul, ltohosplerrn attempted to win the applause of the world, but when ho was dying a woman came rushing through tho crowd, crying to him, "Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with tho curses of every mother in France!" Mativ who have expected the phiuilitsof the world have died under Its nn.ithemn maraiwit.ha. Oh. And your pence in Ood! Make one strong pull for heaven. No half-way work will do it. There sometimes eonii-s a time on shipboard when everything must bo sacritlced to save the pa-senircrs. The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The enptnin puts the trumpet to his lips and Shouts, "Cut away the mast!" Some of you have lieon tossed and driven, nnd vou have, in your effort to keep the world, well nigh lost your soul. Until you have decided this motter let everything else go. Over board with all those other anxleth-s and burdens. You will hnve to drop the satis of your prido and cut away the must. With one earnest cry for help put your cause Into the hand of HI11! who helpoil Paul out of the breakers of Mcl'ta. nnd who, above tho Shrill blast of tho wr.'ithlest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest Irnplorut ion for mercy. I shnll close this sermon feeling that some of you who have considered yoiir case as hopeless will take heart ngaln, and that with a blood red earnestness, such as you havo never experienced Is-fore, you Will start for the good land of the gospel at last to look back, saying: "What a great risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! Just got through, and no more! Escaped by the skin of my teeth." Nerve. There wns stern discipline nmonx fhe Japanese In their late war' with Clilnn, and nt every point a display of iron nerve. The in. '(Ileal Inspector of the conibiu.-d fleet was lr. Knwnintira Ifosbu, who wns on board tbe flag ship during one tremendous net Ion When the vessel wns struck with ilis astrous effect by n shell. tine gun was sliatti-n-il, tbe floor of the surgery wits crushed In, nnd the IhK-tor was thrown with terrible force igalnst the celling. Wlu-n be regain ed bis senses be found himself unable to rise upon bis feet, ami could only crawl out of tbe wrecked surgery to seek a place of comparative safely. A marine met Mm. picked liiui up with out a word, nm U-gaii to carry blir nvny. "Aren't yon a gunner?" asked the wounded man. "Yes, sir." "Then why nre you not nt your post? Iet aie down nt once, nnd go there, tit hers are detailed to attend tin wounded." "Hut, sir," urged the man, "tho gun which I serve was shattered by -In-tdi.ll." "I thank you for your Intentions," paid the Thx-tor, firmly, "but, you need uot attend to tbe wounded without spe cial orders to that effect. I do uot lieeil yolil help," . The gunner placed the wounded man upon the deck nud went bis way, and the Ioclor tried to take off bis kIuk-i. to find out how much his feet and les were Injured. While he was doing this be fainted again, and an attend. int bore bint away to the room which bail been hastily fitted up for a nurgciy. There the doctor called for a bin ki t of sea-water, placed his fee-' In it to stop their bleeding, and despite bis great pain and loss of blood, continued to direct the other surgeons In lb- :r care for the wounded. At an ... uk . -riy. To abridge the dreadful quarter 01 an hour when the company In bored, but, smiling patience, waits to be "en tort nJiieil," nnd to start tbe bum which preludes "an enjoyable evening," try this plan: In n conspicuous place have a dec orated Jar from which csich x-rson, on entering. Is to draw a written slip. The Jar may be placarded ns "Some Advice from the ISrentest Common Adviser," "Oracles; Try One for That Hored Feel ing," "(Jems from tbe Orviit Wise Man," nnd so on. Tlie slips may contain questions, the authors' names to le supplied; but ns ninny object to nny device for Improv ing their minds by stealth, perhaps sentences like the following will do: AVIth a warm shade of hair wear a cool neutral tint in temper. If you bet, do ln-tter. Preserve a high moral tone; never tense the ont. Your mustache Is a kooiI Idea; but to succeed you must supplement it with energy and business ability. The lamented fclis domestica will. without doubt, return. Wind yonr watch; but watch your windings. "Oh, treasure early lost nml ever mourned," refers to a "pure silk um brella owned by a lady with a steel frame nnd gold handle." Other sayings will (suggest them selves, and ntld to the merriment of the gathering. There is no theouv that will work on the jumping toothache like tin- dentist's forceps. Some people never find out Dial I here U joy in giving, lccause they do not give enough. n . - . .- "jL 7 .: ll . r lie; aSiSr . - ----- r .Miil,imi 1 -f-T"
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