n. r. BOHWEIEB. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. VOL. LI. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUN1T. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1897. NO. 43 CHAPTER XVII (Continued.) "Look here, be said, io a ringing voice, "who are the persona who will benefit bj th. phyaic I want you to use. I? If I had the designs you affect to credit me with, I shouldn't be giving you this ad rice; It's contrary to reason. Your wife? Tea; she will become. different -.nan. But yon you most oi all, for yon will ex change anxiety that wean you, conscience that burns you no, hear me, Mr. Cros mont, I am doing you Justice for peace and happiness, and honest ease." -. . "Curse you! What do you mean? Ton are drunk mad " "No. I have learned a secret, and I am putting it to the most honest use f can." "What secret? Speak out.' said Cros mont, in a low voice, with the auddeu calm of a desperate man. "You are In difficulties. You are using unworthy means to free yourself from them" "What means?" asked Crosmont, with sudden subtle change in his voice which :- gave Armathwaite his first suspicion that he was somehow on the wrong tack, and . mast find out more before he ventured so . far as he had Intended to do. tlv resorted in the village .'that your" economy is starving your wife. ' Ot course it is an absurd exaggeration. ", but it shows what people think. You uuderstand, Mr. Crosmont, that I ac knowledge that my speaking out to you in this way would be an Impertinence if It had not been for the direct charge you .made against me at the outset." . But Crosmont was in no mood to be offended at anything, he was so evidently overjoyed at the levity of the charge which had been so portentously heralded. "I see." be said, mockingly, "you want me to look after my own wife ao that you may have a better opportunity of paying court to some one else's." Armathwaite took no notice of the taunt; his intended blow having been turned aside, he was only desirous of speedy and safe retreat without any pres ent renewal of hostilities. Fortunately, a chattering group from the drawing room at 'a't moment made their appearance in .be conservatory above, and gave them au excuse for breaking up the tete-a-tete. The rest of the evening was blurred to Arma thwaite; he moved and spoke mechanical ly, wrapped in a maddening whirl of sus nicions and conjectures. The only thing that remained on his mind afterwards was rlie sight of. ClosBKiat. talking aToor 'to Bud5a'.angtjwu!?X?4,-fr-ir an ex-" pivSiion of hatred and mistrust, which '- 'jrte lady accompanied by one of reckless (- defiance. 1 -, CHAPTER XVIII. ' It seemed as If Dr. Peele had some ink ling in his mind of the fact that the even ing visit of bis young colleague was of deeper import than usual. After one glance at Armathwaite's face he turned his own sway from the lamplight and be gan his accustomed questions about the day's work in a hurried and nervous man ner. "I am afraid I am going to open a sub ject which distresses you, sir," said Frank. "But I have come, as I think you foresaw that I should do, to a point In my Kuowieuge oi c-enuiu -" .......... your practice, when my remaining ignor ance becomes insupportable, and my mind is continually tortured and even distracted v in my wjork by the thought of certain hide ous wrongs the object at Which I can only guess at. You remember the words mil used to me when I first came, con- cerning secrets whicn i was to iearu u decided to remain 'here. I do not wish to .... 1 I M I I force your confidence, sir; but 1 snau De grateful to you if you will at least lei me ell you what I have found out lor my- slf, and advise me as to my tuture con duct in the mutter." "J advise you!" said the old man sol emnly and bitterly. "I tell you, Arma thwaite. it was my inability to move in any direction iu this matter which broke tne doVn, and made me take refuge be tween these four walla from evils I could not witness and could not cure. Are you anxious, knowing so much as you do, to draw back from the post?" "Oo the contrary," answered Anna thwaite, fervently, "I i-ave conceived, rightly or wrongly, that I was brought here for the express purpose of releasing Alma Crosmont from the unhappy cir t'Uuisisnces in which she is placed, and I can hone.t'y say It is the object I have at present more at heart than anything in the world. Dr. Peele, you must surely agree with me that her mind Ir in dan ger. You have influence with Crosmout; he is auxious to retain your good opinion. Can you not Induce him to send his wife way for a time?" rr. I'eele looked at the youn man with solemn, plaintive earnestness, and shook his head. "No," said he; "to save her would be to put Aphra ia danger, and I am bound by oath to her father to stand by her at all costs." "To stand by Lady Kildonan?" "Yes." "And the danger for her what is that?" "Ah! It is a secret which nobody in the world knows except herself aud me." "Her husband. Doesn't he kuow doesn't he suspect it?" "No. You shall learn it In good time: but we will take the other story first Alma's." He paused, arranging the ma terial of his narrative in his mind. Then he began in a low, monotonous voice. He told how, twenty-two years ago, the house whese Ned Crosmont and his wife lived was a' private lunatic asylum, kept by a relation of his, a doctor of reputa tion and ability. Here Alma's father, a musician, had been sent by his wife's par ents. He had gone mad over writing an opera called "Psyche." He was also possessed of mesmeric powers, which he had exercise over his wife until she lost all control over her own will. The mad musician remained In the asy lum until Bis wife's parents fetched him out again, when they thought she was go ing to die. It was near the birth of her caua. -I lost sight of tlTm, o.iTlnne1 Dr. Peele, "for someyears, and when i did see him acaln.saoor fellow, be was in a rapid decline, and had by that time worked and worried himself into a state K good deal nearer lunacy than any he bad passed through when in the asylum. His wife was dead ; he waa in very bad cir cumstances. But he had a tiny girl. born, ao he told me, while her mother was in a mesmeric trance; in her name. Alma, I perceived a connection with that of the heroine of the famous opera, and in her ay I Uked to fajKC--ad so. I an tare. did her fatter that I saw something of the look we Nad imagined in the idenl Psyche. At any rate. I was deeply inter ested la the little create a; aud when he' father, a few weeks Inter, was on his ieath bed, I willingly undertook to become her guardian. She grew up. and the ten dency to dreaminess seemed to die out of her as she advanced towarda womannoou. I made her study at the South Kensington Art Schools to develop her marked taste for drawing. I wanted to take ber home, but my wife would not hear of it 'it world interfere wiMi Millie's prospects ;' of course jood old Millie was not con sulted. I was determined to have my dear new child near me, howevsr, and I hit upon the idea of marrying her ta young Ned Crosmont, an honest, good hearted fellow, as I thought, who only wanted a nice wife to make him steady down into as good a husband as a girl could wish for." The old man paused, and seemed for a few momenta to be buried in tha gloom of his disappointed hopes. When ha resum ed bis voice sounded weaker, and it was evidently with a great effort that he ot tered the few dosing words of his story. "I knew that Ned and Aphra Digfcton had been boy-and-glrl sweethearts, but I could not conceive that he would have the audacity to think seriously of her when they had grown out of childhood, still less that when rfbe was once married" -the doctor paused and weut on with bowed head, in a slower voice "he wouid forget his honor and duty for her. Under stand, Dr. Armathwaite" and suddenly he raised his head, .and spoke with decis ion and authority "that I am casting no slur on Aphra Kildonau'a character. Aphra is like a goddeas on canvas, rous ing men's admiration by looks which ex press emotions she does not feel; at least, that has alwaya been my opinion of her, and I have watched her grow up from a child. But the consequences to Alma have been more disastrous than if Lady Kildonan had done her a greater wrong. I know all this, you see. and can, unluck ily for me, watch this drama as well from the- four Wbiis of tii room as 1 could j when I saw Its sceneu with my own eyes. But I can do nothing." He stopped. The story was over. But there was another which Armathwaite was still more anxious to hear. "May I know what the danger for Lady Kildonan is?" he asked. "Not to-night," answered the old doctor, hur'edly, drawing himself together with Vl fl?iv-flgngnsra:tlon f reluctance to part with his secret, which filled Arma thwaite with the fear that he might per haps never disclose it to him after all. "I am really tired: I cannot talk more to night. I will see you again to-morrow-yes, to-morrow." With a long, earnest gaze into each other's face, the men parted; and it was with a new and solemn sense of duty and responsibility, shadowed by a grave fear, that the younger closed the door of the sick room behind him. His mind, his heart, his whole being were absorbed by the last solemn words he had just beard from the doctor's lips. The next morning, tired out by his night's patrol, Frank slept late, and woke oppressed. As soon as breakfast was over he went to see Dr. Peele, who had not risen, but who caused himself to be prop ped up in bed. He said, with a grave and troubled face, that he would send Arma thwaite to The Crags with a note for Lady Kildonan. "If you will kindly hand me that writing case and a pencil, I will write the note," he added. This he did and Armathwaite took the letter and started off for bis visits to hit patients and to The Crags. CHAPTER XIX. It was hard that day for the young man to keep his thoughts fixed on the mala dies of his respective patients even while iu their presence: and when be was stand ing by the bedside of Mr. Sanderson, who lived in a small house not two hundred vards from Ned Crosmout's residence, h could scarcely keep his attention to the lumbago which was the subject iu hand. for thought of the more interesting case a few steps away. On coining out of the villa, however, h was surprised to find the buxom Nanny waiting for him. with a face full of mys tery and importance. It was now wisi four o'clock, and the mists were thicken inc towards evening. "Oh, if you please, sir," she began, a soon as he came up to where she stood giving a piece of sugar to the doctor cob. "we saw your horse waiting here, anc master sent me to ask if you'd be gooii enough to step over?" "Mr. Crosmont sent for me?" said Ar niathwaite. "Yes, sir, master himself; he's just coui back from Liverpool. It's about my mis tress, sir; he's getting downright fright ened, and well he may, for she's just likt the dead to-day, and she just lies then and sighs sometimes, bnt not as if sht was awake at all." They were walking along the road to wards the large house, Armuthwaite will his horse's bridle over his arm. At th gate Crosmout himself met them, loukiuf haggard, worn and anxious. "Ob, I say," he began, iu his usual ah rupt. sullen manner, "I wanted to apes: to you a moment. Where were you go ing?" "To The Crags: I have a letter to giv Lady Kildonan from Dr. Peele." r "From Dr. Peele!" Crosmont appeared half anxious, half relieved. "Oh!" H looked down on the ground and twisiei his mustache. WelL yon go on ther now. You won't atay, I suppose?" "No. I have only to wait for an an swer to this," "Well, and then, if you will, just csD here on your way back. Oan you dc that?" "Certainly." Armathwaite had no thought of bear lng malica for the agent's injodieiout speech at their last meeting; but Crosmonl seemed to feel that some word of concilia tion might be desirable. "It's rll right about the other night. Isn't itT You're not nursing up any ill feeling Wcause of anything I said? You see you knew that my wife waa 111, wfhen 1. not being a doctor myself, didn't see there was anything the matter with her. And there isn't anything the matter with her now only temper. But but, oi course, that's a thing that only gets worst with a husband, and a few words from anybody e3e, and a powder or a mixture every three hoars Just to humor inem, does wonders. So if you will come I shall be obliged to you. Armathwaite promised that he would and rode off in much anxiety. Such civ ility from the churlish Crosmont to a man he bated and even feared was an unmis takable sign that be was seriously alarm ed by the condition to which his infamous treatment bad reduced his wife. n arriving at The Crags, he refused to dismount until Lord Kildonan, learnlna. that he had come, sent an urgent mes sage that he wished to see him. The old Scotchman was lying on the sofa in the small room which divided his iibrsry from his sleeping apartment. He raised himself to a sitting posture as the doctor came in. and held out a cold, dam mv hand to him. "How are you?" he said In a weak voice. "I'm very glad to see you. I have been so very seedy that I almost thought of sending for you, only it seemed scarce .y worth while. But as you're here, per haps you can find out what is tie matter with me." The doctor went to the window, drew 9 tiie Sara green blind, and let in the day light upon the patient's face. "Yea," he said: "you certainly dont look yonr beat. Lord Kildonan. What have yon been doinc? I think 1 can guess already." "Well, it's more than I can. I have done nothing that I haven't been doing every day of my life for the laat two rears." L "Are you in the habit of taking sleep ing draughts, thenr "Never did such a thing in my life. "Ah, well, then, I'm on the wrong tack. Will you tell me when and how yon first began to feel Indisposed?" "It was last night. I was not feeling much inclined for work so I found When I set about It. It hae sometimes hap pened to me lately to feel heavy and stu pid at night I'm growing old, I suppose and I'm afraid of spoiling my book by writing when I'm not ta the vein. You see,. Dr. Armathwaite, you can't expect to put anything but your best, your most matured work, before the notice of the men of science whom I want to catch for mv public." "No. I quite see that," said Arma .hwaite gravely. "So when I had had my whisky and water and my biscuit I generally take a glass of whisky toddy at about half-past nine I find it rather helps my work than not " Quite so," said Armathwaite, as the l-ist remark was made with a suggestion of apology. "I did very little writing before I took my usual rest, feeling rather drowsy. I became diazy and shivery, and before long I was violently sick." "You have had these attacks before?" "Yes. the last bad one was about a month ago. I have had two slight touches of it since, but nothing to speak of." thwaite. in a curiously constrained voice, ater a short pause, "Ibelieve I can pre vent your having these attacks again. When I gee the next one coming on I shall ask your permission to spend the night with you." When yon see it coming on! echoed the l.atieut in surprise. "les; I believe, by a calculation I can make, if you give me the approximate f'.stes of the previous attacks. I can find out when the next will be due." "Dear me. dear me, that is very clever cried Lord Kildonan, In astonishment and admiration. "Oh, not when one has studied these things, said the young doctor modestly. ;is he rose to go. Of course, I may be wrong, in any case i strongly aavise you not to mention your indisposition to Lady Kildonan until we have found a complete cure for it." (To be continued.) Characteristic Songs. Under Christian influences the songs of the FIJlans are fast beoomlug ob solete; In them the national character found expression. These songs, or mekkes, as they are called, recount the story of some ancient hero, of some military campaign or naval expedition, or, perhaps, of a peaceful fishing ex cursion. They are generally sung of evenings by the men only, who assem ble for the purxse In one of their long, low huts. Here they sit In solemn trtate on mats laid upon the ground, the only light being that of a smoky fire lu one cud of the room. One man begins the chant alone, a second soon Joins bim, then a few more, till finally all present have taken It up, acouipanylng the wild music by much pantomime aud earnest gesticulation. The time Is beaten upon a wooden drum by one of their number, and is occasionally accentuated by a general clapping of the hands. After I certain climax has been reached, the music stops quite abruptly with one loud clap. Yangona, the national bev erage. Is then served. This liquor Is brewed with much formality, accom panied with low chanting. When fully pre imred It Is handed round In cups of cocoanut shell, the chief being the first to drink. The others then drink In a certain order of precedence. The liquor Is of a dirty yellow color and has a hit ter, aromatic taste, not altogether dis agreeable. Used In moderation. It acts as a stimulant, but if Indulged In too freely a temporary paralysis of the lower extremities follows, and the vic tim, while perfectly rational, reels and staggers as If drunk. A .stick of tlnitxr 119 feet long and 22 inches square, without a knot or blem fiii. was cut iu a mill at Hoquiam, A'ash.. recently. If good manners are not practiced at home, but are allowed to lie by until oc fusions cull ii no n their wearer to assume the in, they are sure to be a bad tit when donned. A character which combines the love of en ioyment with the love of duty, and the ability to erfonn it, is the one whose un folding give the greatest promiseof per fection. All great men are brave in initiative; but the courage which enables them to succeed where others dure not even at tempt is never so M.tent us when it leads to entire self-folgetf ulness. He who dines ou vanity will soon sup on contempt. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterward in our regards. Cheerfulness is the oil shoot of goodness. "Re sure yju are right, and then go ahead;" but in case of doubt, go ahead, anyhow. Advice has always been a drug iu the market; the great supply lias killed the demand. The smallest cliil.lreu are nearest llea eu, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. He wii. has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closiug it with an exception. It takes less time to amass a fortune than to become heavenly-minded. It is the work, of a long life to become a Chris tan. irliS It rains on an average 208 fays In (he year in Ireland, about 1R0 In Eng land, at Kozan about 90 days, and in (Siberia only 60 days. At sea level an object one hundred feet high Is visible a little over thir teen miles. If five hundred feet high It Is visible nearly thirty miles. Many of the streets of Paris are lined with trees. If a tree dies another of the same kind, age and size Is brought from the State forests and put in Its place. The cost Is tremendous, but Paris Is the most beautiful of modern cities. The records of eighty-eight years ihow that tornadoes have a width of ten to 10,500 feet, a length of track of three hundred yards to two hundred miles, and a Telocity of progression of seven to one hundred miles an hour. With the assistance of the latest ma chines, a piece of leather can be 4rans formed Into a pair of boots In thirty four minutes. In which time It passes through the hands of sixty-three peo ple and through fifteen machines. A new German lamp chimney has the bulb In the tipper Instead of the bottom part, and the upper rim Is cut obliquely. It Is claimed that this shape makes It safer to blow out the light, while the flame Is Improved by being made taller and steadier. A new and wonderful substitute for common brittle glass is announced by a Vienna journal devotea to the glass and porcelain trade. The substitute Is said to have all the properties of com mon glass, except that It Is flexible. It Is made of collodian wool. A new electric lamp for bicycles and carriages has a small electro-mngnet V'Ici JS LTueu'Vo generate electricity by a friction wheel pressing against the side of the front tire, wires run ning to a small storage battery or else directly to the lamp, which Is sur rounded by a case to keep out the dust. VOWED NOT TO SPEAK, lad at the End of Fifty Year. Wh.n Kbe Tried eh. Conta Not. There is possiblv no other woman In the world like Miss Experience iuu- ford, of BluehilL Me. It Is proverbial that a woman's tongue never stojw, but Miss Guilford's case Is an exception to this rule, and for half a century Khe has held her peace. Not one single word or audible sound has this woman illowed to pass her Hps for a period of fifty years. The original reason for Miss unu- ford'a speechlessness waa anger De- cause she could not marry the man of b.er choice. When she was 19 years old khe ffrll In love with William Simpson, the village schoolmaster. They were to be married on June 18, 1847. One of Miss Guilford's rejected suitors told tales about the schoolmaster, and Miss Guilford's parents stopped the wed ding. Miss Guilford thereupon said: "I swear I will not speak a word, though I live for fifty years, unless I marry this man." She kept her pledge. Her parents iled. and she went to live with her married brother. When he died she made her home with a sister, and after the sister's death she went to a camp In the woods, and kept bouse for a brother, with whom she Is now living. All this time she performed her share of the household work, and did not show nay regret for having made the vow. When the fifty years of silence expired she was visited by a large num ber of relatives and friends, who went to the camp for the purpose of being present when she was at liberty to speak. Soon after the midday meal Miss Guilford dressed herself In the garments she had not worn for half a century. At 2 o'clock aha stood before the people, smiled and opened her mouth to speak; but though she tried hard, and got red In the face in trying, she could not utter a sound. Her vocal muscles had become atrophied from long disuse and refused to work. When Miss Guilford found she could not speak she sent to Bangor for a phy sician and took to her bed. The doctor gave no hope of recovery, but suggest ed that she be sent to a Boston hos pital for treatment. As soon as Miss Guilford gets strong enough to take the journey she will make another effort to regain her speech. Her father left her a good sum of money at his death, which has been growing every year la a savings bank, so that she la well able to obtain the treatment she requires. The Horseless Carrtame. Next to the bicycle, the horseless car riage will, for short rides, be the me chanical conveyance of the greatest blessing to humanity, and the Interest of the public In this vehicle will be so great that Inventors and manufacturers will tedouble their energies to make a conveyance that will fill this demand. The horseless carriage which Is to be the conveyance of the future must be sold at a more reduced price than I he horseless carriage of to-day costs. When This time comes the advantages of such a mode of conveyance will be so many that the problem of traversing short distances will be satisfactorily solved. Inasmuch as on of the great est manufacturing firms of the highest grade of bicycles the world over has recently reduced the orlce of its wheels very materially, we look with encour agement ta this firm to be tha one to produce the best horseless carriage and the lowest one In price, considering tha material used and the skilled workman ship employed. When the horseless carriage conies down In price It will become a necessl i ty. At mreeant a bona mast be kept Cor ba waather by paeple who ar un able, through weakness or poor health, to go about. There are upward of 2.000 borselew carriages In use In Paris for public ser vice, and private citizens can muster more than this number. Indeed. Euro pean are much more familiar with them than Americans are.' The horse less carriage is In very common nse in Europe, although It Is cumbersome and unwieldy. The general opinion Is that since American genius has taken up the matter the horseless carriage will be come a great success. The horseless carriage has more ad vantages than appears at first sight. Of course there must be a place to keep It. The horse, the feed, the clearing up, the coustant breakage of harness and the perpetual annoyance of feeling that one's animals are' not half cared for, will give place to the ease and comfort with which the horseless carriage ?an be kept. It will not be difficult to learn to manage these carriages, and when repair shops become frequent, the prob lem of getting about will be so simpli fied that everybody will wonder why we never had such a convenient vehicle before. An expert In mechanics Is the author ity for the assertion that the horseless carriage will run a much more success ful and rapid career, everything consid ered than the bicycle. New York Ledger. The Alaskan Dog. The Alaskan dog is almost human in Intelligence. He weighs about 10(1 pounds. Heavily laden, he will travel as many as sixty miles a day. With twenty dogs In a team no two of them av In a straight line from the driver. When unhitched for the night they pile upon the first blanket that Is thrown upon the snow, and there they stay. Whan you crawl Into your sleep ing bag and pull a robe over It the dog will get under the robe. Unless you are careful ha will be Inside of the bug In the morning. Their endurance is phe nomenal and they are capable o? stroug affection. They art great fighters. A traveler who recently returned from Alaska says of the treatment ac corded these faithful animals: "The whip that Is used on them Is the cruelest thing of Its kind that is known to man. Thirty feet In length and two Inches thick near the rhort handle. It has a lash ten feet long that cuts like a knife. The Russian knout Isn't In It. When a dog Is struck you hear a sharp yelp, and then your slelgb whirls past a bit of fur or possibly a piece cf bloody skin lying on the snow." Spots on the Bun. "The sun has great activity In spots," says Bayne's "Pith of Astrouomy," "these being sometimes 50,000 miles It diameter. These spots are enormous vents for the tempests of flame that sweep out of and down Into the sun. An up-and-down rush has a velocity of about twenty, miles a second, and a side rush a Telocity of one hundred and twenty miles a second. These tempests rage for days and months at a time, and as they cease the sides of the spots fly together at the rate of 20.000 miles an hour. They strike together and the rising spray of fire leaps thousands of miles Into space. It falls again find rolls over the Himalayas of fire as the sea over the pebbles on Its beach. If strips as large as this earth were placed In such a tempest they would be mere corks as tossed by an ocean storm." Key West Haa No Chimneys. It Is curious, though true, that of all the houses, dwellings, stores, hotels and other buildings that dot the Island of Key West from one shore to the oth er, not one of them has a chimney or anything that will answer the purpose of a chimney. Handsome residences and lowly hovels are alike In this re spect, and from an eminence gazing out over acre of roofs on all sides one Is struck with the want of something to complete the symmetry of the pic ture. Wood and coal or fuel of any kind are unknown quantities, as the tropical atmosphere furnishes all the heat required, and for cooking pur poses sticks of carbon are used, which are sold by peddlers, who hawk their wares about the streets. Atlanta Con stitution. Clothes ot Paper. Paper underclothing has a strange sound, but It is asserted that the Jap anese have for a long time been mak ing such garments from their finely crisped or grained paper, after the sheets have been pasted together at the edges so as to form large pieces. When the paper has been cut to pat tern, the different parts are sewn to gether and hemmed, and the places where the buttonholes are to be form ed ar strengthened with calico and linen. The stuff Is said to be very strong, and at the same time very flex ible. An Automatic Ticket Belter. An automatic appliance for the de livery of railway tickets, which bids fair to hold a respectable place among similar devices, haa been tried abroad. The machine works with absolute cor rectness, and date as -well as issues the rickets. It to partieuUtiy useful where a number of tickets have to be issued at fixed fares, such as for local paaaeager traffic. Tha Sight of Birds. Tha organ of sight la more highly de veloped tn birds than In any other anl mal. Naturalists declare that the kes trel is possessed of snch wonderful powers of sight that It la able to see a mouse wJien It Is Itself at such a height In the air that It to Invisible to the naked human eye. Oom Past's New Coach. President Kruger, ot the Transvaal, haa so far departed from his usual simplicity In matters of this kind as to order from London a state carriage which. It la said, will cost him no less than $3,000. The arms of the South African republic will be painted upon the panels of the doors; silver eagles. the nstl'w' emblem, will pose with spread wings upon the silver lamps and upon the four corners of the upper part of the carriage, and the Interior will be lined with light Una satin. A Light Lunch. Benny Bloobumper "Oh, papa, the goat haa swallowed a Roman candle!" Mr. Bloobumper "That's all right. Ho mere! wasted a light Iubqa,"- LUsv GOCD MONEY IN POLECATS. Han Ftarta a Fksak Farm and Kx lcta mm to Become Wealths'. Edgar Brown, who lives all alone ot in Island In the lake of the woods about twelve miles from Rat Portage, Ont, Is the owner of what Is probably the most novel farm In existence. He calls It a skunk farm. The entire Isl and Is given up to the raising of pole cats. Brown cam to Dnluth from St. Louis, Mo., In boom days, made a for tune and lost It again, like a great many others. Ywo years ago be got the gold fever and went Into the Cana dian gold fields. He had about $6,000 when he left Duluth, half of which ha Invested In a gold mine, which he had been told was the greatest mine in ex istence. He found rlefe ore and plenty of free gold on the surface, but after the purchase price was paid for it the mine failed. Brown saw that be had been swindled and this disgusted him with gold mining. He had determined to come back Into the United Stntes and go Into real es tate again, when one day he discovered that there were other ways lu which be could make money. While be was In one ot the stores of the Hudson Bay Company an Indian came In and sold a polecat skin. He noticed that the fur was very fine, and that the company paid $1.25 for It. He made some In quiries and found the company was willing to buy all the fur It could of that kind for the same price. This sat isfied him that there would be money In raising the animals for their fur. He determined to start a skunk farm. With this end In view he leased an isl and In the Lake of the Woods, about twelre miles from Bat Portage, with an area of 100 acres. He employed a number of half -breeds to catch some of the little animals for him and they soon had 200 or 300 In captivity. Ha stocked his farm with these. He built little houses for them to live In In win ter aud made everything as comfort able as possible for them. He person ally superintended their care, feeding them himself. They are fed on fish en tirely, which Is very plentiful there. When feeding time comes Brown takes a little cart load of fish, pushes It around to different stations he has marked out on the island and whistles for bis pets. They always eat just at dusk, feeding only once each day. At the sound of the whistle the bushy-tailed "children of the devil," as they are sometimes called, come scampering from all directions. Last year Brown raised 400 of the lit tle creatures and this year ISO mothers have families of from two to six each. He has now about 1,000 of the black footed beauties f.nd they multiply fast. The Hudsou Bi;y Company has con tracted to take all the furs and oil he can furnish, and Broivn says his farm will soon be worth from $10,000 to $15,000 a year to him, wltfi no danger of poor crops. " Taking 1 ta Own Portrait. It seems like something of an achieve ment to make a wild deer take its own portrait, but such a feat was lately ac complished by Mr. Charles Hughes, of Red Bluff, Cal. He conceived the Idea of causing a wild animal to take a flashlight photo graph as It passed along a trail In the Coast Range of mountains, secure un der cover of night. To accomplish this purpose Mt. Hughes set up the camera a short dis tance from a trail over which deer were known to run, and then connected the shutter and the flashlight materials with a trap. When the deer stepped upon the trap the camera was opened and the flashlight set off at the same Instant. Mr. Hughes thus secured the negative In the dead of night, and when there was not a soul within sight or hearing of the animal. On developing the negative Mr, Hughes found the photograph of a deer. The frightened appearance of the ani mal as be was startlud by the' sudden flash of light Is clearly shown in the picture. Noosing a Hea-Llon. A correspondent of Ram's Horn nar rates a pulllng-match between a sea- lion and a farmer: Near Tillamook, Ore., an old German farmer chanced to be driving along the beach, when his watchful gaze was greeted by the sight of a large Ben-lion some distance out on the sand, fast asleep. It was the work of a moment for Ja cob to make a lasso of a stout rope he bad In his wagon, fasten the end of It to the hind axle, and adjust the noose over the sea-lion's head. Then Jacob Jumped Into the wagon and started homeward with his prize. The sea-lion did the same, and as his team was the stronger of the two, Ja cob started seaward at a good pace, and only saved himself and his "outfit" by springing quickly to the ground, grasp - lng his Jack-knife and cutting the rope. Yours, Mine and Oars. A Western paper tells a story of a mixed brood of children which reveals the confusion liable to exl it in certain families. A widower and a widow, each having children, married, and children were subsequently born to them. The par ents agreed much better than the chll- drea did. One day a neighbor, going past their place, heard a commotion within, out of which rose the voice of the wife, screaming to the husband: "Jim! Jim I Hurry out In the yard! Your children and my children are beat ing tha lives out of our children!" rnniUmrntt and IHircst ion. Th- Introduction of mustard or Den- " w per Into the stomach of a rabbit caused the secretion of pancreatic Juice to be a nil ..do nnnrirnnlori This. sc. counts for the stimulating effects of j these condiments upon digestion. Georgia Poetry.' A Georgia farmer has a son who writes verse, but Is too modest to sub mit It for publication. One day, when the farmer was going to town, he took a bundle of poems along with him and handed them to an editor. "They're pretty fair," sal-I the edi tor. "His rhyme is all right, but there's something wrong with bis feet." "Well," said the farmer, "I woa't Ass ifc ha has got coma," , REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Divine's Sunday Disc urse. ftaered Music, Its Importance, Power ami Influence la the Causa at Christian ity A Slncta Church Is a Saccesa " fill Church Obstacles to Overcome. Text: "It cam" even to pass, as the trumpeters and singer were as one, to make one sound to be heard lu praising and thaukiug the Lord." Chronicles v., 13. Thn tmple was done. It was the very chorus ot all tnagnlncence and pomp. Hplendor crowded against .splendor. It was the dinmond necklace ot the erth. From the hui;e pillars crowned with leaves and fluwHrs and rows of pomegranate wrought out in burnUhed metal down even to thn tougs and snuffers made out of pure gold, everything was as complete as th Ood di rected architect could make it. It seemed as if a vision from heaven bad alighted on the monntniBH. The day for denization came. Tradition says that there were in and sroiind about thn temple on that day i0.000 silver trumpets, 40,000 harps, 40,000 timbrels and 200,000 singers, so that ' all modern demonstrations at Dusseldorf or Boston soetn nothing compared with tbat. As this great sound surged up amid thn precious stones of the templn it must have seemed like the river of life dashing agniust the amethyst of the wall of heaven. The sound arose, and God, as if to show that He was well pleased with the music which His children make in all ages, dropped into the midst of the templH a cloud of glory so overpowering that the officiating priests were obliged to stop In the miil.t of the services. There has been much discussion as to where music was born. I think that at the beginning, "when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy." the earth heard the echo. The cloud on which the angels stood to cele brate the creation was the birthplace of song. Tun htars that glitter at night are only so many keys of celestial pearl on which God's fingers play the music of the spheres. Inanimate nature is full of God's stringed and wind Instruments. .Silence, itself perfect silence is ouly a musical rest in God's great anthem of worship. Wind among the leaves, InsecWhumming in the summer air, the rush of billow upon beach, the ocean far out sounding its ever lasting psalm, the bobolink on the edge of the forest, the quail whistling up from the grass, are music. While visiting Black well's Island I heard, coming from a window of the lunatic asylum, a very sweet song, it was sung by one who had lost her reason, and I have come to believe that even the deranged and disordered elements of na ture would make music to our ears if we only had acuteness enough to listen. I suppose that even the sounds in nature that are discordant and repulsive make harmony in God's ear. You know that you may come so near to an orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of pleasurable, and I think that we stand so near devastat ing storm and frightful whirlwind we can not hear that which makes to God s ear and the ear of tho spirits above us a music as complete as it is tremendous. I propose to speak about sacred music, first showing you its importance and then stilting some of the obstacles to its advance ment. I draw the first argument for the Impor tance of sacred music from the fact that God commanded it. Through Paul lie tells us to admonish one another In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Through David heri.."! apt, "-Sing ye to God, all ye king doms of the earth." And there are hun dreds of other na usages I mignt name, prov ing that it is as much a man's duty to slcx as it is his duty to pray, ndeed l think there are more commands in the Bille to sing than there are to pray. God not only asks tor the human voice, but for the in struments of music. He asks for the cym bal and the harp and the trumpet. And I suppose t(nt in the last days of the church the harp, the flute, the trumpet and all the instruments of music that have given their chief aid to the theater and bacchanal, will be brought by their masters and laid down at the feet of Christ and then sounded In the church's triumph on her way from suf fering into glory. "Praise ye the Lord!" Praise Him with your voices. Praise Him with stringed instruments and with or gans. I draw another argument for the import ance of this exercise from the impressive ness of the exercise. You know something of what secular music has achieved. You know it has made its Impression upon gov ernments, upon laws, upon literature, upon whole generations. One inspiring national air Is worth 30.000 men as a standing army. There comes a time in the battle when one bugle is worth 1000 muskets. In the earlier part of our Civil War the Government pro posed to economize in bands of music, and many of them were sent home, but the gen erals in the army sent word to Washington: "You are making a very great mistake. We are falling back and falling back. We have not enough music." I have to tell you that no nation or church can alTord to severely economize in iiiubIc. Why should we rob the programmes oi worldly guyety when we have so many ap propriate songs and tuues composed iu our own day, as well as that magnificent inher itance of church psalmody which has come down fragrant wltn tne uevotions of other generations tunes no more worn out than when our greatgrandfathers climbed up on them from the church pew to glory? Dear old souls, how they used to sing! And in ttiose days there were certain tunes mar ried to certain hymns, and they have lived In peace a great while, these two old peo ple, and we have no right to divorce them. Born as we have been amid this great wealth of church music, augmented by the compositions of artists In ourday, weought not to be tempted out of the. sphere of Christian harmony and try lo seek uncon secruted sounds. It Is absurd for a million aire to steal. Many of you are illustrations ot what a sacred sung can do. Through it you were brought i-ito the kingdom of Jesus Christ. You stood out against the warning and ar gument of the pulpit, but when, in the sweet words of Charles Wesley or John Newton or Toplady, the love of Jesus ! was s,un(! to your soul, then you sur- rendered as an armed castle that could not be taken by a host lifts its window to listen to a harp's thrill. There was a Scotch soldier dying in New Orleans, and a Scotch minister came In to give him the consolations of the gospel. The man turned over on his pillow and said, "Don't talk to me about religion." Then the minister began to sing a familiar hymn that was composed by David DickeD son, beginuing with the words: Oh, mother dear, Jerusalem, When shall I come to thee? He snug it tothe tune of "Dundee," and everybody in Scotland knows that, and as be began to slug the dying soldier turued over on his pillow and said to the minister, "Where unl you learn mat? ' "vty,"re plied the minister, "my mother tnught me that." "So did mine," said the dying sol dier, and the very foundation of his heart was upturned, and then and there be yielded himself to Christ. Oh, it has an irresistl- ble power! Luther s sermons have been lorgonen. uuc ms juog.ueni i.ymu ugs . 1 . 1 t I I . I . ,T tt -1 I s.n thrniiir'i r in nona n ti 1 1 will irisun rr oi n c. ln muiuhe blast of the archnngel s trum ' pet shall bring about that very day which the hymn ceieurates. I wouni to GOil tnat you would take these songs ot salvation as messages from heaven, for just as certainly as the birds brought food to Elijah by the brook Chcrith so these winged harmonies. God sent are flying to your soul with the bread of life. Open your mouth and take it, O hungry Elijah! I have also noticed the power of sacred Song to soothe perturbation. You may have come In here with a grent many wor rimentf and anxieties, yet perhaps in the sfnglat ot the first hymn you lost them all Yon have rea l In the Bible of Paul, an I bow he was sad and angry and how the boy David came in and played the evil spirit out of him. A Spanish king was molan- i cno y. ine winaows were au e.oseu ne sat in tne darkness, zooming couiu onng him forth until Franeli came and dis. aneli came and dis. coursed musio ' c three or four days to him. On the fourth day he looked up and wept and rejoiced, and the windows were thrown open and that which ail the splen dors of the court couid not do the power of song accomplished. If you have anxie ties and worriments, try this heavenly charm upon them. Do not sit down on the bank of the hymn, but plunge in, that the devil of care may be brought out of you. It also arouses to action. Do you not know that a singing church is always a triumphant church? If a congregation Is silent during the exercise, or partially silent. It is the silence of death. It when tha hymn Is given out yon bear the faint hum of here and there a father and moth er in Israel, while the vast majority are silent, that minister of Christ who is pia sidlng needs to have a very strong consti tution If he does not get the chills. H- needs not only the gra-e of God, but nerves like whaleboue. It is amazing how some people with- voice enougli to dis charge ail their duties in the world, when they coTie Into the house of G'i 1 have no voice to discharge this duty. I really be lieve that If the church of Christ could rise up and sing as it ought to sing, where we have 100 souls brought Into the king dom of Christ there would be 1000. How was it in olden time? Cajetan said. "Luther conquered us bv his songs." But 1 must now speak of some of the obstacles In the way of tlm advancement of this sacred music, and the first is that It has been impressed into the service of satan. I am far from believing that music ought always to be positively religious. Refined art has opened places where music has been secularized, and lawfully so. The drawing room, the concert, by the gratifica tion of pure taste and the production of harmless amusement and the improvement of talent, have become very forces in the advancement of our civilization. Music has as much right to laugh in Surrey gardens as It has to pray in St. Paul's. In the kingdom of nature we have the glad filing of the wind as well as the long meter psalm of the thunder. But, while all this is so, every observer has noticed that this art, which God Intended for the improve ment of the ear. and the voice, and tho head, and the heart, has often been im pressed Into the service of error. Tartlnl, the musical composer, dreame 1 one night tbat satan snatched from his hand au instrument and played upon it something very sweet a dream that has often been fulfilled in our day the voice and tho Instruments that ought to have been de voted to Christ captured from the church and applied to tile purposes of sin. Another obstacle lias been an inordinate fear of criticism. The vast majority of people singing in church never waut any body else to hear them sing. KverylKuiy is waiting for someliody else to do his duty. If we all sang, then the inaccuracies that ara evident when only a few sing would be drowned out. Go. I asks you to do as well as you can, nnd then if you get the wrong pitch or keep wrong time He will forgive any dellciency of the ear and imperfection of tin voice. Angels will not laugh if you should lose your place in the musical scale or come in at tli --lose a bar liehind. There are three schools of sing ing. I am told the German school, the Italian school and the French school of singing. Now I would like to n-M a fourth school, and that is the school of Christ. The voice of a contrite, broken heart, al though it may not be alle to stand human criticism, makes better music to God's ear tliau the most urtistic performance when the heart is wauling. God calls on the beasts, ou the cattle, ou the dnions. to praise Him. and we oii-dt not to he behind the cattle and tip drag ms. Another obstacle In tin a lvan'-cment of this art has been the erroneous notion that this part of the s-'rvic coul l be conducted by delegation. Churches have said: "Oh, what uu easy time wo shall have! The minister will do the preaching, and the choir will do the singing, and we will have nothing to do." And you know as well us I that there are a great multitude of . churches all through this land w.'iere the propie are not expected to sing. The whole work idone by a delegation of four or six or ten persons, and th audience are silent. In such a church in Syracuse nn old elder persisted in singing, and so the jhoir appointed a committee to go and ask the elder if he would not stop. You know thnt in many churches the choir are ex pected to do all the singing, and tho great mass of the people areexpected to he silent, a ink; it you utter your voice you are Inter fering. In that church they stand, the four, with opera glasses dangling at their iide, singing "Itock of uges, cleft for me," with the same spirit that, the night before on the stage, they took their part in the "Grande Duchesse" or Dou Giovanni." Music ought to rush from the audience like the water from a rock clear, bright, sparkling. If all the other part of the church service is dull, do not have the music dull. With so many thrilling things to sing about, away with r.ll drawling and stupidity. There is no'hing makes me so nsrvous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an audience with their eyes three-fourths closed aud their lips aways shut, mumbling the praises of God. During my recent ab sence I preached to a large audience, and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark. People do not sleep at a coronation. Do not let us sleep when we come to a Saviour's crowning. I n order to a proper discharge of this duty let us stand up, save as age or weakness or fatigue ex cuses us. Seated tn un easy pew we cau uot do this duty half so well as when, up light, we throw our whole body into it. Let our song be like an acclamation of vic tory. You have a right to sing. Do not surrender your prerogative. We want to rouse all our families upon this subject. We want each family of our congregation to be a singing school. Child ish petulance, obduracy and intractability would be soothed if we had more singing iu the household, and then our little on ould be prepared for the great congrega tion on Sabbath day, their voices uniting with our voices iu the praisei the Lord. r After a shower there are scores of streams that come down the mountain side with voices rippling and silvery, pouring into one river and then rolling in united strength to the sea. So I would have all the families In our church semi forth the voice of prayer and praise, pouring it into the great tide of public worship that rolls on and on to empty into the great, wide heart of God. Never can we have our church sing as it ought until our families sing as they ought. There will be a great revolution on this subject In all churches. God will come down by nls spirit una rouse up tne oia hymns and tunes that have not been more than half awake since the time of our grand fathers. The silent pows In thechurch will ' break forth into music, and when the con ductor takes his place on the Sabbath day there will be a great host of voices rushing into the harmony. My Christian friends, if we have no taste for this service ou eartli. what will we do In heaven, where thevj6 all sing and sing forever? I would tha our singing to-day might be like the Sutu day night rehearsal for the Sahhath inor Ing In the skies, and we might begiu no by the strength and ly the help of iiol.JiMi discharge a duty which none of us has f i performed. And now what more appro priate thing can I do than to give out the doxology of the heavens, "Unto Hiin who hath loved us anil washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory forever'.' lie who receives a pood turn never forget it; ho who does one, should should never remember it. Any one may do a casual act of rood nature, but a continuation of them shows it is u art of tin teiueruiu(-nt. It is .1 ill:, lilt lo say who docs tin most mischief, enemies wilh the worst inten tions or friends with the U-si. Such is tliv words are, such will tliv affections Ik-; such thv deeds as tliv affec tions; such thy life as thy deeds. There is a great struii-lo between van ity and patieiu-e,wii-n we l:ac to meet a person who admires us but who bores us. lie calm iu arguing, for fierceness mak) error a fault, and truth discourtesy, calmness is a gi-cat advantage. Kvery base occupation make .ne sharp in its piactice, and dull iu every other. Those who are formed to win (joueral admiration are seldom calculated to be I slow individual happiness. . , . . . , ; " . . a. . .( ,i, ...L: .,,i ' 1"u '"" "' coiniiassionate. I ( asaeLaa
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