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THE OONBTITDTION-THE UN I O N-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWH.
MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUN1T. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13.1897.
NO. 44.
VOL. LI.
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cnAPTF.R XIX (Contnued.)
Armathwaite left him, returned alonp
the gallery, and raiaed the curtain which
divided it from the hall, when he came
suddenly face to face wttb Lady Kildo
oan. She wore a hat and a long circular
cloak, and waa leaning back against a
high carved cabinet with an expression of
sleepy languor in her face and attitude
which made her even more strikingly at
tractive than usual. Ae ArmathwaHe
stopped abort at sight of her, abe pressed
one hand to her eyes, let It fall limply,
" . and then held it out towards him with a
sleepy, good-humored smile.
"Been to aee my husband?" she asked.
Then, without waiting for an answer, she
Iwent on in the same lazy tone. "You
brought a tetter from Dr. Teele, didn't
yon? I'm sure I don't know what I've
done with it. However, he wanta to see
me. and says he's very 111. So, I suppose,
I'd better go. Will yon drive me? I'm
awfully tired to-day: I had a bad night,
and I've been asleep nearly all the after
noon to make op for It, so I feel too de
moralized for any active exertion.
There was nothing for it but to put
himself at her service. As they came in
sight of Crosmont'e house, and Arma
thwaite said he had been asked to call and
see Mrs. Crosmont, Lady Kildonan flush
ed and gave him a glance of half-irritable,
half-womanly entreaty.
"Not now," she said. "When you have
left me at Dr. Peele's, you can come
back.
They drove on, but be gave one wistful
lance towards the gloomy looking bouse;
he noticed his expression.
An evil foreboding seized upon Arma
thwaite as soon as they came in sight of
the doctor's bouse. The outer door, which
always stood open till late at night, had
J been shut; a curtain of the bay window
W In die lower room had been drawn aside,
and not polled back from its place. These
things, which would have seemed unim
portant at any other time, gained a por
tentous weight When there lay in the
Tnouse a mail who would never again leave
It alive, lie glanced with an anxious face
at Lady Kildonan. Her mind seemed to
be wandering off to something else. Ar
mathwaite got down, went slowly up the
iath, and into the house. He was afraid
of what he should learn there. When the
housemaid came scurrying along the pas
sage towards him with a scared, tear
awollen face, he stopped her, knowing at
ortrr.wtiat bad happened.
i"f,.ifi' ii a feggaaHn a heart-broken
' wlnsyeT; "the poor, dear doctor! He's
gone? He would get up, because be ex
pected Lady Kildonan. And he was all
In a quiver expecting her, when sudden-ly-me,
and Mrs. I'eele, and Miss Miilie
were all there, sir he said he felt faint
like, and asked to be taken to the win
dow. And we took him to a chair, and he
looked out along the road. There was a
look in hi eyes made us know what was
coming. And he bad the window opened,
all in the cold and dark as it was; and it
waa too dark to see. and so he listened.
But he couldn't hear anything, nor wc
couldn't, though we all stood quiet as
mice. And presently he fell back in his
chair and said. 'Alma give my love to
Anna. But Aphra, tell her I thought of
h I .of of ail. and with my dying breath
begged her' Those were the last words
be said, sir. Then he drew a deep, long
breath, and he struggled to breathe a
little while, and we laid him down. But
It was no use. And be just held Mis
Millie's hand, and like that he died."
The girl burst out crying, and Arma
thwaite led her gently Into the sitting
room, which was empty, and with a few
kind words left ber there, and hurried
bark to Lady Kildonan. t
-What's the matter?" she asked, rather
querulously. "Am I not to get out?" ,
"I had better drive you borne. Lady
Kildonan," said Armathwaite, very gent
ly. "The doctor cannot see you just
Bow." '
' "Not now! Can't see me now! she re
peated, excitedly. "Speak plainly. Do
you mean that he's dead?"
He only answered by a look; h. was
himself deeply moved.
"He is dead, then?" she persisted.
"Yes, Lady Kildonan. The last words
he said were "
But she interrupted him in an unmia
takably relieved tone.
"Well, then, it's of no use for me to go
in. I should only be in the way. Will
yon drive mehonie?"
Armathwaite drew back in infinite dis
gust. I think I must ask you to excuse me,
I.ady Kildonan. The groom can drive,
can he not?"
"Oh. yes, if you don't want to come!"
she answered, in an offended tone. She
was busily turning something over in her
owu mind. As the groom left the horses'
beads to take Arniathwaite's place beside
her. she beckoned the doctor towards her,
and said, in a low voice:
"You won't mind my asking you I
know you were in the doctor's confidence
,lo you know anything about the pro
visions of his will?"
"No. your ladyship; I am very sorry
that I cannot satisfy your anxiety."
"Oh. I only wanted to know if the poor
hid ic were pvovided for. and his protege,
r Alius, not forgotten! Good night. Tell
Mrs. I'eeie and Millie how dreadfully sor
ry I am."
These words were uttered in the softest
and sweetest tones of condolence, but to
Anuatbwaite they might as well have
been jeers and curses. If there had been
more daylight, or if the lady's usually
Keen wits had not been so entirely lulled
ly a reckless and indifferent languor, she
i voiild have seen an expression on the
young man's face, as he raised his hat,
im-.re dangerous thau any that had ever
vet menaced her selfish enjoyment.
"She l-ns saved me a pang of remorse,
r nd freed uie from my last scruple," said
l e to himself. "1 thought it was case
of woman against woman; it la angel
against fiend."
With slow steps and a heavy heart he
went back into the silent hucso vf mourn
lea-
CHAPTEK XX.
Dr. Peel.'s death had been expected,
towards tie end, by everyone but his
wife, who, although she had been gently
warned both by him and by Frank Ar
mathwaite, had been unable to recognize
the possibility that the husband who bad
alwaya been submissive to her every wish, j
Should flatly assert hia authority, after
all these years, by dying without her per
mission. Armatibwaits) uttered such con
solations to the bereaved family a were
call'd for iy the circumstances, then he
left with brotherly caress, and in few
minutes was well on his wsy to Mereside.
It was Crosmont himself who opened
the door of the big house on the hill in
answer to Armathwaite' ring. The
agent looted by this time absolutely ui;
his sallow face was flushed, while the
lines and furrowa in It had grown so deep
that they seemed to be dark gray color;
hia eyes were sunken and glassy, and his
movements restless and nervous; his
whole sppearance and manner seemed to
suggest that he had been drinking.
"Xou bar boaa lone time," said.
"I thought on were not coming." He
was leading the way along th halL, At
the foot of the staircase he turned, and
said, hurriedly, "And so th old doctor
Is dead. Lady Kildonan has just called
to say so."
They entered the sick room together. It
was fun of light; for th faithful Nanny,
who now hung over th bed where her
mistress lay. calling to her In loud but
kindly accents, had conceived the Idea
that th darkness could bnt favor the dan
geroua slnmber, and had placed lamps and
candles of all sorts and sizes in every cor
ner. Armathwaite diamisaed the good
hearted maid on some errand, and glanc
ed from hia patient to the guilty husband,
who stood at a littl. distance with his
hesd turned away, tapping the floor ini
oatiently with hia foot.
"You have called me In to attend your
wife, therefore we can be frank with one
another, for we meet no longer as man
and man, but as doctor and patient, and
secrets are sacred between us."
Crosmont started, and flashed a aavage
took across at him, while th flush on
bis face grew deeper.
"Secrets f he began.
"Your wife, Mr. Crosmont," continued
Armathwaite, looking at him steadily, "is
not in a natural sleep, but in a trance,
brought on by long and persistent subjec
tion to mesmeric influences. It is for you
to decide Whether this Indisputable fact
is or is not a secret."
"Yes, well I did it," admitted Crosmont.
"She was restless, and I used to soothe her
that way and iake her sleep. I did it in
kindness, mind in kindness. I found out
I had that power over her the power of
affection, pure affection, long ago, and I
used it for her good, you understand for
her good," ho repeated, with feverish em
phasis. "And I could wake her wflien I
pleased until to-day. She has never slept
.so long before. I don't know why. I
don't know what has happened. But I
have lost the power lost it; it has gone
from me, do you see? Quite gone. Can
you do anything?"
"I think so, Mr. Crosmont."
Ned drew s long breath of relief: then,
indicating his wife almost without glanc
ing in her direction, he said:
"Well, mnke her open her eyes make
her speak."
"I want to impose a condition upon you
first."
"What is it?"
"That if I restore Mrs. Crosmont to
.onscionsness immediately, you will put
her under my charge until her recovery is
complete, and in the meantime give me
; your word of honor as a gentleman that
I you will discontinue the the interesting
scientific experiments to which your wifr
has so nearly become a victim."
"Yes," muttered the agent shortly,
hardly forming the word.
Armathwaite took both the livid, list
less hands in his left, while be passed his
right palm several times swiftly and firm
ly down the arms from shoulder to wrist.
The patient waa sensitive to the very first
touch. When, after a few moments, he
asked in a iow voice: "Are you awake?"
she opeued her eyea and smiled feebly at
him.
"I thought I was dead," she murmured,
in a weak and broken voice. Then, with
a shudder, she closed her eyes and sank
back again.
"Well, you're a mighty ungrateful wom
an!" burst out Crosmont sullenly and.
with a half-angry, half-contemptuous nod
to the doctor, he swung himself out of the
room, banging the door with a violeuo
which made the corridor echo and the
windows rattle.
CHAPTER XXI.
Much to the astonishment of his wife,
and a little to the surprise of Arma
thwaite himself. Ned Crosmont kept his
word to the latter most faithfully. Day
after dav the young doctor called ou
Alma without hindrance, and under his
care her mind began rapidly and surely
to recover its tone.
Alma was gradually learning, uiulcr her
doctor's influence, to lose her fear of, and
cultivate her sympathy with, hir hus
band. Ten days after Dr. Peele'a funeral,
when she had been under treatment a lit
tle more than a fortnight, Armathwaite
was congratulating himself on the im
provement in his patient, when, on culling
one morning to see her at the usual time,
he found her in the old limp, cowed, and
yet excitable state, with dazed eyes and
heavy limbs. He set to work to find out
the reason, and after a few questions suc
ceeded. "Lady Kildonan came to see me yester
daylate in the afternoon," said Alma,
in a dull, constrained voice.
"Indeed! To ask if you were better?"
"No. She wanted me to do something.
It seemed a strange thiug for her to ask.
itut 1 don't know. I was frightened, nnx
ioUi; it made my bead swim when I tried
lo think."
"Well, and what did she waul you to
!o?"
"ilie said" Alma's fae began to look
eay. bewildered, and miserable. ai:d hei
w-s fastened in helotes r.!iji !
doctor's face "she said that Ned waa la
difficulties) great, serious, dreadful diffi
cultiesand that I ought to aak yon to 1st
me have mouej to help him."
"Ia that ail? Dear me, that'e aooa set
tled! I will speak to your husband a boot it."
"Will you? Won't yon be afraid?"
"No. If you daren't apeak to htm, I
must You want to help hum if you can,
don't you?"
"Oh, yes oh, yea!"
"Very well, then, that's settled, and yon
needn't trouble your head any mora about
if."
"But .
"Well?"
"Lady Kildonan she frightened me by
the way she spoke, looked at me. It waa
almost as if 1 bad the money about me,
and she wished to tear It away."
"Oh, you are not quite well yet! Yon
are still nervous, fanciful. You must not
let yourself be frightened so easily."
He calmed ber excitement with reassur
ing words, and did not leave until h had
restored ber to heaJtf.ier and brighter
mood.
That evening, when, aa be knew, Cros
moot would have retired to hia study,
Armathwaite called at the boon again.
The agent waa alone. -
I have com to apeak to yon on a
delicate matter, Mr. Crosmont," said th
doctor, when h had been invited to ait
down.
Th agent looked at him out of th cor
ners of his eyes.
"Well, go on," he said gruffly.
"I won't apologize for interfering in ths
matter, for I believe yon will agree with
me that I can't help myself."
"I hate apologies. Get to th point."
"Lady Kildonan" th. usual change
cam upon Crosmont at th name; he
became preternaturally quiet "called up
on Mrs. Crosmont yesterday and told her
you were in want of money, but did not
like to ask her for it."
"And what Hd my wife say? Said sh
wouldn't give It me, if she had any sense."
"She naked me to speak to you about it,
and tv aak if it waa true."
"With the object "
"Of getting you ont of your difficulties,
if you were in any."
Crosmont began to walk np and down
the small space at his command, with
his usual heavy tread, hanging hia bead,
and evidently much disturbed.
"What shah I tell ber?" Armathwaite
asked at last.
"Tell ber she's a fool," said Crosmont
roughly; but even in hia coarse words and
tone there were sign, of a kindlier emo
tion. "No, tell ber," he said, stopping
short and towering his voice, "that if I
were in difficulties her money would get
mo out of, I'd take it. No, no, better tell
her nothing, be added In a harder voice
"No good to get spooney on her now."
And again be began to march np and
down the littl room with a reckless air.
Armathwaite rose, much moved, and lean
ed against the mantelpiece In hia turn.
"Why ia it no good?" he asked, in low,
mellow voice. "I should say it waa good,
very good, to take the first opportunity to
get right when one baa somehow got
wrong. ' You'll be a wreck before you
know where you are at the rate you're
going."
"I am a wreck," said Crosmont shortly,
stopping to frown at him. "I'm not going
to abuse you. I don't believe you're a
bad fellow. But yon must mind your own
business. And I think that after to
day" he seemed to get the words out
with difficulty "you bad better discon
tinue your visits for the present Ouly
for the present, mind. I I am going to
take your advice, and be doctor myself to
my wife. I I am obliged to you for your
services, though, very much obliged. And
I shall send for you again before long."
Ou consideration of this scene with the
agent and its result, Armathwaite resolv
ed to go up to The Crags next day, and
try to learn there the reason of his abrupt
dismissal. On the following afternoon.
therefore, he made a pretext to rail at
the great house, and see the philologist,
After a few minutes conversation with
Iord Kildonan. who was always much de
lighted by a visit from hia favorite, he
fancied be had made a discovery, for
the old Scotchman, while commenting
with some anxiety upon the appearance of
a work on words which seemed to have
usurped some of his own ground, said that
he would get Ned Crosmont to obtain it
for him in Liverpool, as he was going up
there that evening. W hereupon Anna
thwaite grew suddenly silent, srupid, and
unsvmiMitbetic upon the subject of tul
ologv, looked at his watch, and presently
took hia leave with some abruptness.
It was balf-past four o'clock. Cros
mont never started on his journey to Liv
erpool until after dark. The only two late
trains from JJranksome were tne o:iu ana
the 7:40, therefore It would be by one of
these that he would go.
"I may be In time to give him a warn
ing word." thought Frank, as he hurried
along the road toward Mereside.
(To be continued.)
Inner Histories.
If the inner histories of people vere
known, what strange secrets might
come to light! A man who for half a
century bad lived an Intensely religious
life died suddenly. Then the fact trans
pired that lu bis youth be bad commit
ted a crime, and the austerity of bis
after years wag caused by remorse.
The writer knows a querulous spinster
of sixty who apparently has not a grace
of body or mind, and whose existence
Is one long complaint. Twenty-five
years ago. this woman was a popular
singer whose beauty matched ber
genius; people thronged to hear ber,
and she refused men by the score. Now
she bas scarcely a friend in the world,
and few dream tbat she and the once
fatuous singer are identical. A middle-aged,
taciturn man who occupies an
Inferior position In a grocery store, was
once a brilliant orator. His memory
failed him, and bis career was cut short.
In an Eastern city there lives an ugly,
decrepit old woman who was consid
ered in her youth the handsomest girl
In Kentucky. Poems , were written
about ber, men went crazy over ber and
duels were fought by jealous admirers.
Yet she married a worthless aian who
got drunk and abused her. A highly
respectable citizen sends one thousand
dollars a year away to the conscience
found at Washington. Young people
are interesting for what they are, but
the older folks are more Interesting for
what they have been. It they could be
Induced to tell the story.
The most utterly lost of all days is thut
iu which you have not once laughed.
A good word is an easy obligation; bu
not to speak ill requires ouly our sileuce,
which costs us nothing.
Real fidelity may be rare, but it is real
They only deny its worth and power who
never loved a friend or labored to n.ake
friend happy.
A man who will admit that he is senti
mental has no more about him than a frog.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves
which we cannot suffer in others, is
neither better nor worse than to be more
willing to be fools ourselves than to have
others so.
"The laborer is worthy of his hire,'
hut the hire is not always worthy of the
laliorer.
If we would grant to others the same
privieges we claim for ourselves, i'
would almost pay to live forever in thir
world.
With rudeness suffered to remain at
home, iiuiHtliteuess must necessarily be
the rule abroad.
When a clever man makes a fool of bin
elf lie always finds many excellent rta
sons for doing so.
Where is that trolley roud the Traction
Company were to build on Whartuu and
Lllsworth streets?
flreat griefs are dumb, and little rates
c-ry aloud,
if all deceivers, the self-deceiver is
most to b e pitied.
The retrosect of life swarms with lost
opMirl unities.
The first step of knowledge is to know
that we are U'liur.mt. .
Irregular honesty is harder to handle
.than regular dishouesty.
JwVfi
A strong mlscroscope shows the
single hairs of the head to be ilk
coarse, round rasps, but with teeth ex
tremely irregular and jagged.
The oyster is one of the strongest
creatures on earth. The force required
to open an oyster is more than ulna
hundred times Its weight.
The sole of the English coast when
placed over a gravelly bottom, will at
once assume that shade to a remark
able degree. Placed In a white bowl
It becomes almost as white as the dish.
The collection of palms In Kew Gar
dens is truly magnificent, and probably
much exceeds In size any other In th
world, the total number of species rep
resented In this collection being now
over four hundred.
Beamur says that each thread of
what we call a "spider web" Is com
posed of about five thousand separate
fibres, and that It would take 27.1118,
full-grown spiders a year to spin a
pound of such silk.
The summer coat of the polar fox
hi dark, in general harmony with the
ground of the rocky Arctic regions,
where the sun bas melted off th snow.
In winter It Is so white that It can
hardly be seen as it runs over the snow.
More than six thousand species of
plants are cultivated, and moat of these
have been broken up Into varied forms
by the band of man. Horticulturists
create new species, and show numbers
of cultivated plants of which uo op
knows the original form.
The drill of the woodpecker's has
another tool Inside, a sort of Insect
catcher. On the end Is a bony thorn
with sharp teeth like barbs on a fish
book. As he works and finds an In
sect be opens the drill and sends out
this barbed tongue and draws it into
bis mouth.
At the beginning of a recent thunder
shower, after a warm and windless
day, M. Maurice Despres, of Cordova,
Spain, noticed electrified drops that
cracked faintly on touching the ground
and emitted sparks. The phenomenon
lasted several seconds, ceasing as the
air became moistened.
The first use of the phonograph In
telegraphy seems to have been In Spain,
wbere receiving operators were uuable
to take down rapidly enough messages
received by telephone and repeated the
messages Into a phonograph. This re
petition, being heard at the sending
end, serves also as a control for the
correctness of the message.
The towering Washington monu
ment, solid as it Is, cannot resist the
beat of the sun, poured on Its southern
side on a midsummer's day, without a
slight bending of the gigantic shaft
which Is rendered perceptible by means
of a copper wire, 174 feet long, banging
In the center of the structure, and car
rying a plummet suspended In a ves
sel of water. At noon In summer the
apex of the monument, 550 feet above
the ground. Is shifted, by expansion of
the stone, a few hundredths of an Inch
toward the north. High winds cause
perceptible motions of the plummet,
and in still weather delicate vibrations
of the crust of the earth, otherwise un
percelTed, are registered by it.
Strange stories are sometimes told
of the wonderful things tbat have fall
en In rain-storms. Occasionally It Is
frogs, again It is splashes of blood, or
some mineral, such as sulphur. Fre
quently there is a foundation for these
stories, and Investigation furnishes an
explanation of the phenomena. At
Bordeaux for many years, in April and
May, so-called "rains of sulphur" have
been noticed, when the earth tiecoines
spotted with what seem to be patches
of sulphur brought down by the rain.
This phenomeon was recently the sub
ject of a scientific Investigation, and It
was shown tbat the supposed sulpbur
was really the yellow pollen of a
species of pine, large forests of which
exist south and southwest of Bordeaux,
The rains referred to occur at the time
of the flowering of the pines, the pollen
of which must be carried to a great
height in the air.
Mr. Ravensteln, of the Royal Geogra
phical Society, estimates that the fer
tile lands of the globe amount to a.
000,000 square miles, the steppes to 14,-
000,000 and tbe deserts to 1,000,000.
Fixing 207 persons to tbe square mile
for fertile lands, ten for steppes and
on for deserts as tbe greatest popula
tion that the earth could properly nour
ish, be arrives at the conclusion that
when the number of Inhabitants reach'
es about 0,000,000,000, our planet will
be peopled to Its full capacity. At pres
ent It contains about one-quarter of
that number. If the rate of Increase
hown by recent census statistics should
be uniformly maintained, Mr. Raven.
iteln shows that the globe would be
fully peopled about the year 2072. But
such calculations do not allow for on
known sources of error, and must not
be taken too literally.
WHIPPED GUILTY AND INNOCENT
A Blnarnlar Mod of Fnnl.ha.ea
A.0H th. Nea P.rca) Indiana.
Th Nes Perc Indiana during tbe
winter formerly lived In communal
lodges, which were from 100 to 150 feet
In length and 20 feet wide. Twenty or
mors families occupied one of these
long lodges; their fires wer about 10
feet apart, and between every two fires
nn alongatsd entrance orojected from
me side or the structure, with close?
aroven mats hung at the outer and
oner openings, writes Alice O. Fletcher
n the Century.
The discipline of the children of a
tillage was delegated to certain men
ailed Pe-wet-ta-te-pata (the whlpper).
rhey were appointed by the chief a,
ind Inspired a wholesome awe In quax-
relaome and disobedient boys and
twla, aod. ladeed. la the wbol JutwU
population; for when any children In
a lodge were reported as needing pun
ishment, aU tbe little folk were forced
to share In It The hour for this ex
ercise was Just at dark; and when tb
well-known step of the whlpper was
heaad approaching, and the mat waa
lifted and feU behind him. every young
ster began to bowl In anticipation ot
approaching woe. Tbe last one to lie
down on his face and receive bis
thrashing was the really guilty one,
that be might have the benefit of pro
longed anticipation. The hubbub In the
lodge at tbe hour of discipline Is easier
to fancy than to describe. Parents of
an Innocent child frequently contrived
his absence at this time; be would be
sent upon some errand, perhaps to
catch a pony, and tbe little fellow
would gladly plunge through snow and
travel far to be beyond the reach of the
rod. If. however, a really guilty child
absented himself, tbe whipping was I
administered on bis return. Tbat
many a boy, In his wrath, resolved to
thrash the grandchildren of the Pe-wet-ta-te-Data
when he grew up to be a
man and was himself the whlpper. Is I
not to be wondered ot There may I
have been little philosophizing In tbe
Nez Perce's mode of discipline, but he
copied the methods of Nature, and bis
rules were as lndlscrlmlnating as ber
laws.
The Metric Systems.
Metric standards of weights and
measures have been adopted by twenty-one
countries. Great Britain and tbe
United States being tbe only prominent
exceptions. Before another year Great
Britain will. In all probability, have
passed an act legalising the system la
the United Kingdom and provld'ug for
the preparation of a table of equiva
lents between tb metric and t bo im
perial standards. This will leave tbe
United States In a conspicuous minor
ity among nations.
Tbe British act. It should be uoted. Is
merely permissive, and tbe choice be
tween pounds and kilos remains free
to every merchant; but even so. It is
a concession to the metric enthusiast,
la that It will lead to a more careful
teaahtng of his system In the schools
and to a wider use of it I-', dealings
with other nations. The metric sys
tem has much to conquer before It b'j
comes universal, but It Is making n.pid
strides toward ultimate success. Its
standards unquestionably facilitate tbe
keeping of accounts, and give one a
great deal In common with tbe rest of
the world. With our decimal money
ysteni we have a good start mods
apon the metric gradations, and our
arithmetic classes have always paid
more attention to tbe French standards
than corresponding classes In English
schools.
It may be fifty. In may be one hun
dred years before tbe metric system
becomes the established method of ad
justing weights and measures In all
civilized nations. The change Is grad-
j ually being effected, however, and not
rapidly enough to entail confusion or
sudden great cost. American sclen-
ists have long asked for a compulsory
bill from Congress, and it la likely that
we shall at least go as far as parlia
ment in this change before many more
sessions are euded. Boston Journal.
CHAMPION WHISKY DRINKER.
Swallowed 305,000 Drinks In Fifty
Year, and Still Uvea.
To Dr. Charles E. Mooney, of Lexing
ton, Ky., must be yielded the title of
champion whisky drinker of the world.
Tbe doctor claims tbat he has for fifty
years averaged over twenty drinks of
whisky dally, a grand total of 3ii3.0W
drinks. He is somewhat broken in
DB. CHAKLKS B. MOONEY.
health at the present time, but does not
attribute this to the use of liquor, wblcn
he continues to Indulge in at the old
rait When quite a young man the
doctor admit, to having occasionally
yielded to the Influence of liquor, but
be proudly declares now that be baa
not been drunk in over thirty years
that Is, so as to forget that he Is I
gentleman. Khe facts are astounding
when analysed.
The average Kentucky drink of whis
ky, or average In any other place for
that matter. Is one g'lL Get out your
arithmetic and figure. If the doctor
has drunk S65.000 drinks of whisky at
one gin each drink he has consumed
91.250 pints, or 45.625 quarts, or 11.406
gallons. This amount of liquor will fill
181 hogsheads, or 362 barrels of the
usual size in which spirits are packed.
This liquor would fill one tank twenty
feet high and eight feet In diameter.
The barrels plied up In a pyramid would
shut off a view of the Washington
monument.
It would require fifty ton of rye or
corn to make this quantity of whisky,
and It actual weight avoirdupois
would Toe 114,060 pound. Tbat
more whisky than la drunk In all of
Greater New York In one week. Dr.
Mooney was fifty years accomplishing
the task, and aside from that he was
a busy man, for a lengthy sketch of the
gentleman now going tne rounds of th
Southern newspapers states that Dr.
Mooney has had the most varied career
of any man in tbe state of Kentucky,
for he has,. In turn, been a student of
old Transylvania University, a printer.
a soldier in the Mexican war, a news
dealer, confectioner, grocer, saloonlst
editor, actor and doctor. He was born
January 15, 1824, In Mobile, Ala. He,
however, went to Hentucky when be
was nine years of age and laid the
foundation for that thirst which has
rendered him forever famous la that
.In. Tark JuraX
1113?
AN UNTAMABLE SAVAae. ,
rts. A astral!, a Abcrlarla I its
traareat of Hsiass Creatares.
The Central Australian aboiigln Is
lie living representative of a ston
ige, who still fashion his spear heads
ind knives from flint or sandstone, and
performs the most daring surgical op
erations with them. His origin and
sis history are lost In (lie gloomy mlss
if the past. He has no written rec
ords and few oral traditions. In ap
pearance be Is a naked hirsute savage,
w'th a type of features occasionally
pronouncedly Jewish. He Is by nature
ilght-hearted, merry and prone to
laughter; a aplend mimic, supp.e
(olnted, with an earring hand that
works In perfect unison with bis eye.
He neyer beea owr to wash Ho
bas no private ownership of land, ex-
sept as regards that which is not over
earefullv concealed about hia own ner-
ton. He cultivates nothing, but lives
j entirely on the spoils of tbe chase, and
ikho-igh the thermometer frequently
ranges from 15 degrees to over 00 de
grees Fahrenheit In 24 hours, and bis
I country Is teeming with furred game,
, he makes no use of tbe skins for cloth-
Ing, but goes about during tie day and
sleeps In the open at night perfectly
nude.
He builds no permanent habitation,
and usually camps wbere night or fa
tigue overtakes him. He cau travel
from point to point for hundreds of
miles through tbe pathless bush wttb
unerring precision, and can track an
animal over rocks and stones, where a
European eye would be unable to dis
tinguish a mark. He Is a keen observ
er, and knows the habits and changes
tf form of every variety of animal r
vegetable life In hia country. Relig
ious Deiier be bas noue, but Is exces
sively superstitious, living In constant
areaa or an evil spirit, which Is sup
posed to lurk around bis camp at nlgbt
He has no gratitude except that of the
anticipatory order, and is as treacher
ous as Judas. He has no traditions
nd yet continues to practice with
scrupulous exactness a number of
hideous customs and ceremonies which
have been handed down from his fath
ers, and of tbe origin or reason of
which he knows nothing. Ofttlmea
kind and even affectionate to those of
bis children who have been permitted
to live, he still practices, without any
reason except that his father did so be
fore him, the most cruel and revolting
mutilations upon the young men and
maidens of his tribe.
He is not a cannibal. No cold Joint
of missionary graces his sldeboarj, and
should hunger, as a penalty for his, Im
provident gluttony, overtake him, he
simply ties a thin hair girdle tightly
round his stomach, and almost per
suades himself that be Is still suffering
from repletion. He Is absolutely un
tamable. You may clothe and care for
him for years. When suddenly tbe de
mon of unrest takes possession be
throws off bis clothing and plunges
Into tbe trackless depths of bis native
bush, at once reverting to his old and
hideous customs, and when sated, after
months of privation, be will return
gain to clothing and civilization, only
to repeat the perfonuacce later on.
erily, his moods are as eccentric as
the flight of his own boomerang.
Origin of Fencing.
From the first Invention of the sword
down to tbe period when the fifteenth
century was drawing to a close, the
weapon had always been used as an
arm of offense.
The person using It thr. st or hewed
It Into the body of his antagonist when
ever he had a chance, and the only de
fense against It was a stout armour or
an Interposed shield.
It la not to be supposed that an an
cient warrior, or one Lelonglng to th
earlier middle ages, never thrust aside
or parried with bis own a stroke f his
enemy's; but this method of deferse
was not depended upon 1- those days;
the breast plate, the helmet, or the
buckler was expected to shield the sol
dier while he was endeavoring to get
his own sword Into some unprotected
portion of the body of nis antagonist.
But about tbe time of Ferdinand and
Isabella of Spain the science of fencing
waa invented. Tnls new system of
lighting gave an entirely new use to
the sword.
It now became a weapon of defense
as well as offense. Long, slender ra
piers, sharpened only at tbe point, were
the swords used In fencing.
Armed with one of these a gallant
knight or high-toned courier, who chose
the new method of combat disdained
the use of armor; the strokes of bis
opponent were warded off by bis own
light weapon, and whichever of the two
contestants were enabled to disarm tbe
other, or deliver a thrust which could
not be parried, could drive the sharp
point of hia rapier Into tbe body of his
opponent If he felt so Inclined.
The rapier, which was adopted to
combat two persons, and not for gen
eral warfare, soon became the weapon
of the duellists; and as duels used to be
as common as law suits are now. It was
thought necessary that a man should
know how to fence, and thus protect
the life and honor of himself, his faro
Uy, and hia friends.
Jap Oxen Wear ftandala.
Heuvv hauling and farm work In
Japan are exclusively done by oxea
The Japanese teamster Is very atten
tive to the animals intrusted In his
care and always treats them with great
AaJIDAIA WOKJI BT OX KIT.
kindness. He would not think of let
ting an ox go out without having placed
a sort of sandal on Its forefeet, which
protect the animal's hoofs from injury.
These sandals consists of a sole braid
ed of riea straw, which is fastened ti
th hoof la th manner ahowa Ia o-muAtratloav.
REV. ML TALMAGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Disc urse.
trie ninolplra on th Luke of entitleA
1'raft of Discouragement The Ilamd
"! of mm TJnfartunmt. Name Soma
Mistake. That Cloud th. Early Ufo.
Text: "The wind was contrary," Mathew
iv., 24.
A I well know ty experience on Lake
Galilee, one hour all inav be calm and tha
next hour the winds and waves will be so
boisterous that yon are in donbt as to
whether you will land on the shorn or on
the bottom ot the deep. The dtseioles In
the text were caught In such a stress ot
went her and the sails bent and the ship
plunged, for "the wind was contrary."
There Is In one of the European straits I
place where, whichever wav you sail, th
winds are opposing. There are people who
all their life seem sailing In tha teeth of
the wind. All things peem against them.
It imy hei said of their condition as of that
of the. disciples In ray text, "the wind was
contrary."
A great multitude of people are under
seeming disn-lvantngft, and I will to-day,
in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that I can
ninr.n.', treat their cases not as a nnrsa
counts out eight or ten drops of a prescrip
tion and stirs them In a half glass of water,
but as when a man has by a mistake taken
a larije amount of strvuhnineor parts green
or belladonna, and the patient Is walked
rapidly round the room and shaken up un
til he gets wide awake. Many of you have
taken a large draught of the poison ot dis
couragement, and I come out by thn order
of the Divine Physician to rouse yon out of
that lethargy.
First, many people are under the disad
vantage of an unfortunate name given
them by parents who thought they wvo
doing a good thing. Sometimes at the
baptism orchlldren while I have held up
one hand In prayer I have held up the
other hand in amazement Hhat parents
should have weighted the babe with suoh
a dissonant and repulsive nomenclature.
I havn not so muuh wondered that some
children should cry out nt the christening
font as that others with enoh smiling fact
should take a title that will be the burden
of their lif-time. It fs outrageous to afflict
children with an undesirable name becaus
it happened to be poxsessed by a parent oi
a rich unclH from whom favors are ex
pected or some prominent man of the daj
who may end his life In disgrace, it Is nc
excuse, because thev are Scripture names,
to call a child Jeholaklm or Tiglath-ril-eser.
I baptized one by the name Rath
shebo. Why, under all the circumambient
heaven, any parent should want to give to
a child the name of that loose creature ol
Scripture times I cannot imagine. I have
often felt at the baptismal altar, when
names were announced to me. like saying,
as did thn Kev. Dr. Richards, of Morris
town, N. J., when a child was handed him
for baptism and the name given, "Hadn't
you better call it something else?"
Impose not upon that babe a namo sug
gestive of flippancy or meanness. T lereis
no excuse for such assault and battery on
the cradle when our language is opulent
with names mush-al and suggestive n
meaning, such as John, meaning "the gra
cious gift of God," or Henry, meaning "the
chief of a household," or Alfred, meaning
"good counselor," or Joshua, meaning
"God, our salvation," or Ambrose, meanlag
immortnl," or Apdrew, meaulng "manly,"
or Esther, meaning "star," or Abigail,
meaning "my fathers joy," or Anna, mean
ing "grace," or Victoria, meanim "vic
tory," or Kosalle, meaning "beautiful as a
rose," or Margaret, meaning "a pearl," or
Ila, meaning "godlike," or Clara, meaning
"illustrious," or Amelia, meaning "busy,"
or ISertlia, meaning "beautiful," and hun
dreds of other names lust as good that arc
a help rathertban a hindrance.
But sometimes the great hindrance In Uf
is not in the given name, but in the family
name. While legislatures are willing to
lift such incubus, there are families thai
keep a name which mortgages all the gen
erations with a great disadvantage, you
say, "I wonder if be Is any relation to So-and-so,"
mentioning some family celebra
ted for crime or deception. It is a wondei
to me that In all such families some spirited
young man does not rise, saying to his
brothers and sisters, "If you want to keep
this nuisance or scandalization of a name,
I will keep it no longer than nntil by
quickest course of law I can slough off tliii
gangrene." The city directory has hun
dreds of names tbe mere pronunciation ol
which has been a life-long'obstaule. If you
have started life under a name which eitbei
through ridiculous orthography or vicloui
suggestion has been an incumbrance, re
solve that the next generation shall not
be so weighted. It is not demeaning ta
change a name. Haul of Tarsus became
Paul the Apostle. Hadassah, "the myrtle,"
became Esther, "the star." We have lo
America, and I suppose It is so in aU coun
tries, names which onght to be abolished
and can be and will be abolished forth)
reason that they are a libel and a slander.
But If for any person you are submerged
either by a given name or by a family nama
that you must bear, God will help you to
overcome the outrage by a life consecrated
to the good and useful. You may eras
the curse from the name. If It once stood
for meanness, you can make It stand foi
generosity. If once it stood for pride, you
can make It stand tor humanity. If it onc
stood for fraud, yon can make it stand toi
honesty, it once it stood tor wicxeaness,
you can make It stand for purity. Then
nave been multitudes ot Instances wber
men and women have magnificently con
quered the disasters of the name inflicted
oponthem.
Again, many people labor under the mis
fortune of incompetent physical equipment
We are by our Creator so economically
built that we cannot afford the obliteration
of anv physical faculty. We want our two
eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our two
feet, our eight lingers and two thumbs.
Yet what multitudes ot people have but
one eye or but one footl The ordinary
casualties of life have been quadrupled,
quintupled, sextupled, aye, centupled, in
our tiflie by the Civil War, and at the North
and South'a great multitude are fighting
the battle of life with half, orlesstban half,
tbe needed physical armaments. I do not
wonder at the pathos of a soldier during
the war, who, when told that he must have
his hand amputated, said, "Doctor, can't
you save it?" and when told that It was Im
possible, said, "Well, then, goodby, old
hand. I hate to part with you. You have
done me a good service for many years, but
it seems you must go. Goodby."
Put to full use all the faculties that re
main and charge on all opposing circum
stances with the determination ot John ot
Bohemia, who was totally blind, and yet at
a battle cried out, "I pray and beseech
von to lead me so far into tbe tight tbat I
may strike oue good blow with this Bword
of mine!" Do not think so much of what
faculties vou have lost as of what faculties
remain. "You have enough left to make
vourself felt In three worlds, while you
help the earth ' and balk hell and win
beaven. Arise from your discouragements,
O men ami women ot depleted or crippled
physical faculties, and see what, by the
snecial lielo ot God. you can accomplisbl
Another form of disadvantage undei
which manv labor Is lack of early educa
tion. There will be no excuse for ignor
ance in the next generation. Free schoola
and Illimitable opportunity of education
will make ignorance a crime. I believe lu
compulsory education, and those parenti
who neglect to put their children undei
educational advantages have but one right
left, and that is the penitentiary. Jiui
there are multitudes of men and women ii
midlife who have had no opportunity. Frei
schools had not yet been established, an
vast multitudes had little or no school ai
all. They feel it when, m Christian men
they come to speak or pray in religioui
assemblies or, public occasions, patriotic
or political or educational. They an
llent because they do not feel competent
CTiey owe notTili.tf to rnrio prn-nisr. or
reogranhy. or belles Mtr s. T'l-y wnM
lot know a participle from a wonwn If
iev met It many times a day. Manv of th
nost successful merchants of Amerl-a and
n high political places cannot write an nn
mrate letter on any theme. They nr num.
letely dependent upon clerks, and denn
les. and stenographers, to make things
right. I knew a literary man who In other
rears In this otty made his fortune bywrlt-
ng fcpeecbe tor congressmen or fixing
hem nn forTheCongressional Record after
hey were delivered. The millionaire 11
Iteracy of this country is beyond measure
nent. Not a woril have I to sav ngainst aneur
icy of speech or fine elocution or high men
l culture. Get all these vou can. But I
lo say to those who were bronsht up In the
lav of poor school-houses and Ignorant
u-hool masters and no onnortunity: You
nay have so much of good in yoursoul and
10 much of heaven In your everyday life
;hat you will be mightier for good than any
vho went through the eurrli-ulnm of Har
vard or Yale or Oxford, yet never graduated
n the school of Christ. When vou get up
0 the gate of heaven, no one will ask yon
vhether you can parse the first chapter of
lenesls. but whether vou have learned thn
lear of the Lord, which Is th beginning of
vlsdom. nor whether you know how to
Huare the circle, but whether vou have
lved a square life In a round world. Mount
Sionls higher than Mount Parnassus.
But whnt other multitudes there are nn
ler other disadvantages! Here Is a Diris
:ian woman whose husband thinks religion
1 sham, and while the wife prays the ehll
lren one way the husband swenrs theman
ther. Or here is a Christian man who Is
Irving to do his best for Ood ami the
hurch. nnd his wife holds him hack and
lays on the way home f mm prayer meet
ing, where he gave testimony for Christ:
'What a fool yon madeof vourself! I hnpw
hereafter you will keep still." And when
fie would he benevolent and trive 50 she
jriticises him for not giving llftv cents. I
must do justice and publicly thank Ood
that I never proposed at home to give any
thing for any cause of humanityor religion
but the other partner in the domestic firm
approved it. and when It seemed beyond
my ability and faith In Ood was necessary
he had three-fourths the faith. But I
know men who. when thev contribute to
charitable objects, ar afraid that the wife
hall And It out. What a withering curse
such a woman must be to a good man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest? You sav those who
have little means. But they pay more. You
buy coal by the ton; thev buv it by the
bucket. You buy flour by the barrel; thev
buy It by the pound. You get apparel cheap
because you pay cash: they pav dear be
cause they have to get trusfe . And the
Bible was right when it said. "The destruc
tion of the poor is their poverty."
Then, there are those who ma le a mis
take In early life, and that overshadows all
their days. "Do you not know that that
man was onoe In prison?" is whispered. Or,
"Do vou knowthat that man once attempted
Milcide?" Or, "Do you knowthat that man
nnce ahseonded?" Or, "Do you know that
that man was once dischargl for dis
honesty?" Perhaps there was only one
wrong deed in the man's life, and that one
act haunts the subsequent half century of
bis existence.
Others have unfortunate predominance
of some mental faculty, and their rashness
throws them into wil-l eutert.r'scs, or their
trepidation makes them do -line irreat op
portunity, or there Is a vein of melancholy
In their disposition that defeats them, or
they have an endowment of overmirth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle In their
personal appearance, for which they are
not responsible. They forget that God
fashioned their features, and their com
plexion nnd their stature, the size of
their noso and mouth and bands and
feet, and gave them their gait and
their general appearance, an I they forget
that much of tho world's best work Bnd
the church's best work has been don:by
homelv people, and that Paul the Apostle
is said to have been hump-backed nnd his
eyeslftht weakened by ophthalmia, while
many of the finest iu aprearance have
passed their time before nTttt-clu.looking
glasses or in studdving killing attitudes
and In displaying the richness of war-
robes not one ribbon or vest or sack or
glove or shoestring of which they have
had brains to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivities from th'
start. They were born wrong, and that
sticks to ono even after he is born again.
They have a natural craukine-s that is 273
years old. It came over with their great
grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, or
France. It was born on the b uiks of tha
Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or tha
Rhine, nnd has survived all the plagues
and epidemics of many generations, and la
living to-day on the banks of the Potomac,
or the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, ot
the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when
a man tries to stop this evil ancestral
proclivity he Is like a man on a rock In tha
rapids of Niagara, holding on with a grip
from which the swift currents are trying
to sweep him into the abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is nn overburdened world,
and overworked world. It isnn awfully tired
world. It Is a dreadfully unfortunate
world. Scientists are trying to find out
the cause of these earthquakes in all lands,
cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some say
this and some say that. I have taken tha
diagnosis of what is the matter with tha
earth. It has so many burdens on it and
so many Ores within it. It has a fit. It can
not stand suoh a circumference and such a
diameter. Home new Cotoxpaxi or Strom
boll or Vesuvius will open, and then all will
be at peace for the natural world. But
what about the moral woes of the world
that have racked all Nations, and for 6000
years science proposes nothing but knowl
edge, and many people who know the most
are tbe most uncomforted?
In the way of practical relief for all
disadvantages and all woes the only voice
tbat is worth listening to on this subject ii
the voice of Christianity, which is the voica
of Almighty God. Whether I have men
tioned the particular disadvantage under
which you labor or not, I distinctly
!clare, In the name of my God, that here ii
a way out and a way up for all of you. Yon
cannot be any worseorT than that Christina
young woman who was In the l'emberton
mills when tney tell some years ago, ami
from under the fallen timbers she was heard
singing, "I am going home to die nv
more."
Take good courage from that Bible, all
of whose promises are for those in bad pre
dicament, mere are better (Jays lor you,
either on earth or in heaven. I put my
hand under your chin and lift your face
Into the coming dawn. Have (rod on your
side, and then you have for reserve troops
all toe armies oi neaven, me smallest com
pany of which Is 20.000 chariots and the
smallest brigade 141.000, the lightnings of
neaven their drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpowering
host oome down upon his small company
of armed men, and mounting his horse he
threw a handful of sand in the air, crying,
Let their faces be covered wiih contu
sion." And both armies heard His voice,
and history says It seemed as though the
dust tnrown in tne air nnd pecome so
many angels of supernatural deliverance,
and the weak overcame the mighty, and
the Immense host fell back, and the small
number matched on. Have faith In
God, and, though all the allied forces ol
discouragement seem to come against
you in battle array and their laugh ol
defiance and contempt resounds through
all the valleys and niouutains, you might
by faith In God and importunate pruyei
pick up a handful of the very dust of your
humiliation and throw it into the air, and
it shall become angels of victory over all
tbe armies of earth and hell. The voices
of your adversaries, human and sataniu,
shall be covered with contusion, while you
shall be not only conqueror, but more than
icouqueror, through thut grace which haa
so often made the fallen helmet of an over
thrown antagonist the footstool of a Chris
tlaii victor-.
A hundred men may iiiakec.n encamp
ment, but it takes a woiuuu to make a
home.
To jude anybody ly his personal ap
pearance stamps you a? not only inoi-ant
but vulgar.
A kind word put out sit inteii st brings
back an ononnous pvrcontue.e. of loeuiul
appreciation.
We do not learn lo know n en if they
conie to us; we must go to them to find out
what they are.
When we are nlone we h:ive cur thought
thoughts to watch, in the fumily o n- tcin
iers, and in society our tongues.
Censure is the tax a man ioys to th
public for being eminent.
riattery is a sort of lad money to whi i
our vanity gives currency.
He that has nevcV known ill fortune
bas never known himself or his virtue.
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