Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, October 27, 1897, Image 1
, rsTO.mii i w L,. .1,,-m i .111 m....n mini immii a mi ii,mu "MtJJwyw uysnyj-i 3e: B. V. 8GHWEIBB, THE OOI fcfl'lT U 'A'lON-T H E UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. VOL. LI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1897; NO. 4G I f I. CHATTER XXIII (Continued..) Ird KiMonnn left the bouse with tin 'ate doctor', papers clasped tightly in his liand. He put off examining them until Ve should have reached the solitude of hi. wn room. He ported from Armathwaite ifter receiving the young man's assurance that he would be present at the dinner party to be given at The Crag, that even ts. At seven o'clock Frank Armathwaite found himself at the great house. He watched hi. host narrowly, and it seemed to him scarcely credible that Lady Kil donan. excited and preoccupied as she was. could fail to notice the great change In her husband, which, instead of wearing off, seemed to have intensified since the doming. The rest of hi. guests noticed it, and their surprise at meeting a cold, tern man, instead of the kindly, genial friend to whom they were accustomed, caused a hush to fail upon the party, now Crown larger by fresh arrivals. The last o enter was Ned Crosmont, his face ku tng more drawn and harassed than ever; bis eyes were sunken and his sallow skin kmked sickly and pallid. ,, At that moment dinner was announced. To Armathwaite who had talked me chnnienlly to the ltuly by hi. side, th meal was like a banquet of Hoyalists dur ing the Keign of Terror. For, before th second course was over, lord Kildonaa bad uttered words which, bearing a deep igniticuui-e to Armathwaite only, told him that Lady Kildonan's doom was fixed as surely as if, following out his fancy, the had been summoned to the guillotine. This was all the old Scotchman had said, rn a quiet, almost indifferent tone, that bore no trace of suspicion: "I want you to go up to Liverpool again o-morrow, Croeout, to see about some business that I forgot when you went up the other day. You won't mind going, will youV" he added, with his usual cour tey. "1 am quite at your service, your krd hip," answered the agent, while Lady Kildonan, from th-j other end of the table, watched and listened with kindling eyes. When the gentlemen followed the la r!es into the drawing room. Lord Kildo luiii, breakiu? through his usual custom, went too. Aru;athwaite believed that this was in order to shorten the solitary hours whn he would have nothing to do but to brood over his purpose, and over the se cret Dr. I'eele's papers had divulged. Ar luathwaite waited for an opportunity of peaking to him apart, and wss glad - :r Jew minuies sfter ,the- return to hrcwmg"' roolfiC his hest came straight to the corner where he was stand ing by himself, watching. Crosmont and Lady Kildonan as they conversed under cover of a "brilliant" which a young iady was performing on the piano. Under ti cleer affectation of trilling conversation, which Lady Kildonan knew well how to assume, Frank thought he could detect that she was urging Crosmont to some course against which the agent was pro testing. lrd Kildonan followed the di rection of the doctor's eyes as he came up. "Have you anything important to do to-morrow evening?" he asked, laying his band with more of command than affec tion on the young man's shoulder. "Nothing whatever. Lord Kildonan." "Then will you come up here some time between six and half-past? You tie-d not say anything about it- I fhik, to any body. Uriug your ulster." "If vfyv 'aut me, your lordship, of Course I am at your service," he said, iinply. And his host. Instead of letting him off. repeated: "Between six o'clock and half iaet, then," and left him. Soon after Armathwaite took his leave. CIIAPTEIt XXIV. On the following afternoon, at a quar ter past six, Frank Armathwaite came back to The Crags, and was shown straight into the study where Lord Kil donan, with a long, dark traveling cloak on the table beside him, was waiting. He greeted the young man with a warm grip f the hand and a rather grim smile. "Ah, so you have not decided to desert me, af?r all," he said in a subdued voice, wlrh a sort of cheerless satisfaction. "Are you prepared to take a journey with me?" "I am prepared to do whatever you please. Lord Kildonan." At that moment a servant appeared and Informed his master that the phaeton was at the door. He rose, and signed to Ar mathwaite to pass out before him. They went along the gallery, crossed the hall, and got Into the phaeton In perfect silence. It came Into Armath waite's mind mm they drore along rapidly in the dark ness that this mournful and mysterious journey was like a pilgrimage to fetch borne the dead. They skirted the head of the lake and went fast along the other side. It was a cold night, but very clear. Frank's " eyesight was good enough for him to make out that a vehicle some dis tance ahead of them, and going in the same direction, was Crosmont'. Norfolk cart. It stopped, with a very sudden pall up, to allow a figure that seemed to spring suddenly from the wayside to get In. Frank told Lord Kildonan in a low voice what he saw, and obeyed his direc tion to drive more slowly. The pause made by the vehicle in front was the short est poMible; still, acting under Lord Kil donan's instructions, Frank allowed the distance between them to Increase until the Norfolk cart waa nndistinguishable in the gloom. On the outskirts of Brank some, jnat where the first few straggling bouses began, there was a bend in the -,ai," round which the cart disappeared al togetber. When the phaeton had passed the bend in Its turn, it was much closer to the cart, which had apparently stopped to allow the temporary passenger to descend, for the driver was again alone. Slacken ing pace, Frank drove on, following the oart, which stopped at a little Inn. Here the driver got out and went indoors, while another man took his place, and turned the cart round to drive back to Mereside; s the phaeton drove past, Frank saw that it was Crosmont's groom. Always acting in accordance with Lord jKllficman's sug-f-stions, the young ctor (whipped up tlie horses, drove post the sta tion and stopiKHl. The two gentlemen then alighted; and after having given di rections to the groom, a fellow-Norrhern-w, in whose discretion his master had con fidence, to drive straight back to The Oag without any stoppage. Lord Kil donan led the way Intq the station by a private entrance, and ,t straight to the station master's roe .ere they could wait without fear of . ,jg seen. . Frank west to the door, and looked inroiign the giasa of the upper panel, at the groups of passengr. gathering on the platform a. the Liverpool train was brought alongside. Crosmont was there among the earliest arrivals, pacing np and; flown, not with the sauntering tread of tua ordinary traveler, but with the restless strides of a man whose journey is a flight. The station master Tjinieelf had brought ford Kildonan's two tickets, and had re served a compartment for him and his companion exactly opposite to the room where they were waiting. Frank, .till watching at the door, saw CrovxnoDt stop I suddenly short in his walk, and, looking along me piatrorm in rne mrecuon 01 uie agent's gaze, he saw a tall woman, shab bily dressed, with a limp in her gait, cross the platform hurriedly from the booking self. Frank's hecrt seemed to leap up as tie recognized the figure. Lady Kildonan piust have got wind of her husband's in- ?enuea irorvuil, auu inventeu vi lugeuiou. prick as a reward for him. Crosmont stood still until the woman closed the door of the compartment upon herself, then made straight for the nearest first-class carriage and got in. The guard was cry ing, "Take your seats!" The doctor felt I Arl Kildonan'. hand upon hi. .boulder, and in a few moments they, too, had taken their places. The journey to Liverpool occupied four hours and a half. Knowing in what part of the train the two persons on whose track they were had traveled, they found t easy to watch them into a close cab. Bud then, without being seen, to take a hansom themselves and direct the driver to follow t a little distance. A. the woman crossed the platform, Frank watched her narrowly, and his spirits rose higher and higher as he noticed again the slight limp in her gait, and grew every moment more certain that Lord Kildonan, for his own happiness, for every one's happiness, had been tricked, and waa fol lowing the wrong woman. They were driving down towards the docks, through a low part of Liverpool, along dark streets Kned with small nar row houses, of eril aspect and evil name. The cab, which was some distance in front of then, stopped in a street as dark and narrow as the rest, but in which a few houses, larger than the others, with doorways that had once been imposing and handsome, told that they had former ly occupied a b-tter position in the world. Fr-'Tik noted that the man and the wom an they were following, after tfasining fhe cab which sad brought them, walked ilowly on and began to glance behind them from time to time. "They suspect they are being followed!" whispored Frank, with excitement. Lord Kildonan shook bis head. "Sus picion Is a habit with the people who fre quent this quarter," he answered, in the same tone. With his .-tick he directed the driver to' turn the next corner, and then he and Armathwaite got out. "Wait here for us," said Lord Kildonan. "We may be some time." The man looked down at him scrutiniz rngly by the light of his lamp, and shook his head. "I'd rtber be paid my fare now, sir. if it's the same to you," he said. "I've driven parties hereabouts before, that have stayed some time, and when they came out they didn't always happen to have the money for a fare about them. No offense to you, gentlemen; but, you see, I know Liverpool, and I know the house you want, though yon do get me to stop in the next street. I knows 'em by the quality, and when I bring reglar swell tip-toppers this way, it's always 82 Blank street they wants, though it's only the young 'una as gives the address." "I'll take your number, and give you a sovereign as a retaining fee," said Lord Kildonan, quietly. "That will restore your confidence, will It not? When I re turn. I will give you another sovereign to drive me back to Lime street. Are tou ready to wait?" "Well, sir, under those circumstances, certainly." This colloquy took two or three minutes, and when Lord Kildonan and Arma thwaite returned to Blank street, the per son, whom they were pursuing had disap peared. They walked the whole length of the street looking for No. 82, aa the cab man had luckily given them an address which Lord Kildonan assumed to be the one of which they were in search. For a long time they looked in vain. Such houses aa still retained traces of figures on their shabby doors, seemed to have been numbered and then renumbered at random. There were lights to a few win dows, but there waa nothing to gnide them in their search. At last they heard foot steps coming quickly along the street on the opposite side of the way a man who seemed, by the glimpse they caught of him, to be well-dressed, and of the so called "respectable" class, crossed the road, almost brushing past them, and went np a narrow court or passage which divided one of the small houses of the street from one of the largest. In the windows of the large house there waa not a single Light. Lord KUdonan gripped his companion's arm, not with nervous excita bility, but with the satisfaction of disoov- j ery, and led him up the court in the rear i of the stranger. The latter was so far ! ahead of them already that they had only j time to see him pull a bell, which gave a fa. nt. single sound, like that of a small pen jc, and. turning the handle of a door in ! the wall of the big bouse, disappear through it rapidly and without noise. lrd Kildonan and Armathwaite came np to the door. By a ray of moonlight vrrricn pierced into the narrow court, anfl showed the woodwork to be shabby an Unpretentious, they saw to the 1ft of tht 'door a small barred window with no ligut lu it, which suggested a watchful eye be lli nd, and under the bell the number 82 in very small figures. Lord Kildonan pulled the bell, opened the door, and walk ed in confidently, Armathwaite following, with a sense that all his youthful nerve did not enable him to put on so bold a fiont aa the old Scotchman seemed to wear with ease. They were In a small, bare, stone-paved passage, with nothing to distinguish it from the kitchen en trance of an ordinary private house. Straight in front of the door waa a pas sage, down which Lord Kildonan prompt ly proceeded to make hi. way. Arma thwaite, who was following, heard a step behind him, and a man's voice saying! "I beg your pardon, sir." Turning, both gentlemen sew a lktle man, with a baiss ' apron on, innocently occupied m brush big boots. Nothing could, have seemed more genuine than this diligent man-servant's surprise at the intrusion of two itrangers, but for a certain look of shrewd Inquiry in his little black eyes, which the visitors did not fail to notice,. Armv thwaite would have been completely concerted but for Lord KUdonan. who, tossing the man a sovereign, said briefly, "Member.!" and turned again to walk on. Armath waits remembered, with a Uash of Intelligence suddenly grown keener, a suspicion which had occurred to him be fore; by the time they had reached the end of the long, dark paaMge. he knew into what kind of house Cry bad route, and was prepared for the sight which met their eyes when, directed by the sound of voices which broke upon their ear. when they pulled open a baize-covered swing door on the left at fhe end of the passage, they entered a room, the atmos phere of which was almost unbearably close, containing four or five small card tables. With hardiy a glance at the play ers in this room and without releasing the young man's arm. Lord Kildonan -rossed the room to a doorway, before which bung a thick curtain. Raising this, tbey nassed through together. The apartment they now entered was much larger than the first. In addition to small tables in two of the corners, it con tained one long table, noon which the deepest interest of the assembly was evi dently concentrated. Armathwaite felt the elder man's grip tighten on his arm. He looked up quick lr, and felt aa if be had been turued to Ice. Following the direction of .the old man's eyes, be saw Crosmont, bis face set - nd livid with sullen anxiety and de spair, standing among the onlookers on the opposite side of fhe room, watching, not the cards, but an insignificantly dress ed woman. She was sitting next but one to the dealer, staking her money, watch ing the game, with the stolid steadiness of an old band. Through the thickness of her veil, as Armathwaite watched. h saw two steel-bright eyes flash Kke spsrk. of light; underneath the thick black edge he saw two cocal-red lips tightly set. In spite of his suspicions, in spite of his fears, h was be who staggered, and not the older pan -by bis side, when he recognized in the one person in the crowded room whom on careful inspection be would have chos en as rhe ideal representative of the pas sion for play, the well-disguised but un mistakable face and form of Lady Kildo nan. 'xae secret was out: .he was a garnVn-rj not from pleasure, not from choice, but be cause it was in her blood, bred by genera tion, of spendthrift, fast-living ancestors, whom nothing but laws of entail, and the occasional happy accident of a posseasoi of the estates who waa free from the fam ily vice, bad stopped in the race of ruin. Her father's strange injunctions; her fev erish anxiety to go abroad; her exhausted calm after the visits to Liverpool; all was explained. As she sat with her brilliant eyes Incapable of seeing anything but ths cards, all the passion of her ardent, en ergetic animal nature concentrated in the one absorbing pursuit, so that in the very presence of her husband, her judge, she remained as unmoved, as unconscious, as if be had been a statue, the pity and hor ror of it ail for 4the deceived husband for the guilty but ill-starred wife struck Armatiwtire Titi a fore that taraei him giddy, and sick, and trembling. Lord Kildonan looked at him, meeting bis grief-stricken eyes with cold gray ones. "The room Is ower warm for ye," he said, in a low voice, with a strong accent. And they made their way quite quietly, disturbing nobody, exciting no reinara, in to the first room. (To be continued.) Interest on Charity. Baron James de Rothschild, being a great lover of art, consented at one time to pose aa a beggar In a painting which hla friend, Eugene Delacroix, was engaged on. This obliging act was attended by twofold results, as we learn from a story which the Fam ily Herald prints. On the appointed day Baron de Rothschild appeared at the studio. The famous painter placed a tunic round the banker's shoulders, put a stout staff In bis band, and mode him pose as if he were resting on tbe step of an an cient Roman temple. In this attitude be was discovered by one of 'the artist's pupllnuwho, struck by the excellence of the model, congratulated his master on having found Just what he needed. Naturally concluding tbe model had only Just been brought In from some church porch, tbe pupil seized an op portunity to slip a piece of money Into the beggar's band. Baron de Roths child thanked him with a look, and kept the money. Tbe pupil soon qui ted the studio. In answer to Inquiries made, Dela croix told the baron that the young man possessed talent, but no means. Shortly afterward the young fellow re ceived a letter, stating that charity bore Interest, and that tbe accumulated In terest on tbe amount be had so gener ously given to one whom he supposed to be a beggar was now tbe sum of ten thousand francs to the young artist's credit at Rothschilds'. General Sporting Notes. Joe Rans wants another match with Bobby Ilobbs, and offers to put up a good sized side bet. Johnny I .a vac k will re-enter the ring in a few weeks. As a result of his dissatisfaction over Referee tireen's decision in giving the recent fipht in Sun Francisco to Solly Smith, George Dixon, tlirouch his man ager, has agreed to meet Smith in a finish fi'lit for the championship some time next February. Steve O'Donnell and F.d Dunkhorst have been matched to meet in a twenty-round Ixiut at Rochester, N. Y., the end of this month. "Honest John" Kelly states that in spite of all talk to the contrary, the Me-foy-t'reedon bout will be brought od on American soil. "Tuf'Kyan has been informed that Bill Doherty, who was whipied by Kid Mc Coy at South Africa, is now on his way to America from Australia. It is understood that John Kelly the matchmaker of the Canadian Athletic Club, seeks to match George Dixon and Sully Smith in a finish battle, and also Jimmy Rarry and the winner of the Palmer-Sullivan bout. Steve Flanagan shows that he has re tained all his skill. Joe Dougherty wants another meeting with Jack O'ftrien. A match lietween Steve Flanagan and Danny DouRherty would lie worth seeing. Athens would secure a good attraction if they were signed for ten rounds. The habits of ants are more like those of a man than are the habits of any other of the lower animals. A Frenchman has patented a device whereby passengers way !e landed in safety from railway trains running at full speed. extended experiments by Dr. Blal. ile. President of tbe Edinburgh Royal Society, show that the X-ray has no ef fect upon tnbercule and diphtheria ba cilli. A newly patented fly-catcher Is mad af a sheet of ordinary fly-paper on a flat board, and Inclosed In a wire frame, to prevent Its sticking to people or furniture. Imitation slates are made from soft ened rubber mixed with chalk, sine white, cblna clay, etc., and sulphur, ths mixture being spread on wood paper, sheet metal or other surface, and vul canized. A new "lovers' alarm clock" strikes oudly at 10 o'clock, and two little doors opening reveal the figure of a man la a dressing gown, holding In bis band a card bearing the words "good-night." Fires can be easily kindled by means t a new Invention, which consists of a couple of hollow bricks, which can be attached to each other after being filled with asbestos, when they are placed la a l)ii 11 containing oil to absorb a suf ficient quantity to Ignite the Are when a match is applied to the bricks. The Iondou correspondent of ths New York Evening Post cables that George Murray, keeper of botany In tbe British Museum, baa proceeded to Panama at the Instance of tbe Govern Cent Grant Committee of the Royal Society for researches on little-known pelagic algae. During the voyage these organisms will be obtained by pump ing sea-water through fine silk tow nets. According to some researches of Biernackl, In a German physical Jour nal, alcohol containing water may be deprived of Its water by dipping Into It amalgamated aluminum. Aluminum may be amalgamated by connecting it to one pole of a battery, and repeatedly dipping It Into mercury, which la con nected to the other pole. The spark produced upon withdrawing It yields ufflcient beat to bring about tbe amal gamation. There Is a curious light In tbe sky, c-hlch only a keen eye can detect, and which few astronomers even have ever leen, but which Prof. E. E. Barnard, who five years ago discovered the fifth latelllte of Jupiter, has been studying for many years. His latest account of it comes froai the new Yerkes observa tory. It Is a fnint patch, roughly circu lar, several degrees In diameter, and keeping always in that part of tbe heavens which Is directly opposite the tun. Tbe stars shine through It aa tbey do through a comet's tall. Ger man astronomers bare given to this itrange light tbe name of tbe gegen icheln. Precisely what causes it re ualns to be determined. In a recent lecture. Prof. Wllmer Stone, of Philadelphia, cited many facts to show that birds are nature's great check on tbe excess of Insects, ind that they keep the balance be tween plants and Insect life. Ten thou sand caterpillars. It has been estimat ed, could destroy every blade of grass n an acre of cultivated ground. In thirty days from the time It Is hatched in ordinary caterpillar increases 10,009 times In bulk, and the food It lives and grows on la vegetable. The Insect pop ulation of a single cherry tree Infested with aphides - was calculated by a prominent entomologist at no less than 12.000,000! The bird population of cul tivated country districts has been esti mated at from 700 to 1,000 per square mile. This Is small compared with the number of insects, yet as each bird con sumes hundreds of insects every day the latter are prevented from becom ing the scourge tbey would be but for lielr feathered enemies. THE LADY OB THE TIGER Coses Interest Besides ths Inquiry, Did He Sell ths IosT They bad not been on particularly food terms since the man In the cot ner bouse bought the dog. The man who lived next door didn't think much f dogs anyway especially city dogs and be had not hesitated to say aa much on two or three occasions. Con sequently when be called and suggest ed to the man In the corner bouse that he would like to buy the dog It occa sioned considerable surprise. "But I thought you didn't like t'os." tald the man In the corner houne. "I don't," admitted the man who lived next door. "And that yon considered city djgs t little bit worse than any otber kind," persisted the man In the corner house. "Quite right," returned the man who lived next door. "And that In the line of city docs you regarded this one of mine as Just a tittle the worst that ever came under your notice." "Right again. I don't mind saying, now that yon call my1 attention to it, that your dog Is the meanest, ugliest yelping car that ever kept a neigh borhood awake at wight. That's why I want to buy him from you." "Well, I won't sell," announced tbe man In tbe corner boose decidedly. "I know yon now for Just tbe kind of a man yon are, and I have too much re gard tor tbe dog. Even If I didn't care nythlng for him I wouldn't numHUta dim by compelling him to acknowledge such a man as you for a master. I wouldn't be as cruel as that to any log." "Aa you please," said the man who lived next door. "I thought It no more 'than fair to make the offer to you ,lrst." "To mo flrstr tfseftsfej. r4 JtWt M MOB KUT JTM as pay anyone else, and I sort of felt that yon were entitled to tbe first chance. However, my conscience la clear now, and to-morrow I shall let the .vport be circulated among tbe boys of the neighborhood that I am willing to pay a reasonable price for that dog anl that It doesn't make any difference whether he Is delivered alive or dead. Of course. It will be easier to deliver him dead, and It's likely " "Do yon mean to say that yon wlV make an offer for my dogr" "I have already done so, bat you said yon didn't want to sell. However. I a as quite willing to give yon a little time to think It over. We'll let the matter rest until to-morrow. Of courser yon understand It's perfectly Immaterial to me whether I buy tbe dog from you or from one of the boys or from some passing tramp who temporarily ac quires possession." Talk about the problem of the lady or the tiger! It's nothing compared to the problems that confront many of as In the everyday affairs of life. Did he sell the dog? NEW WAV TO MAKE A TOWN. Snssis Is Bnildlng- It First and Will Supply ths Inhabitants Later. An engineer and some workmen have been busy for months near the Arctic Ocean making a little town. They have not bothered their heads about the In habitants, for tbe Russian Govern ment will see to that. Instead of a lot of persona settling la the same place I and making a town, the town Is being built and tbe residents will come later. The town bos also been provided with a name before anybody lives In it. Its name to Jekaterlnograd, and the most imposing thine about the town as yet is this name, nor was nothing there year ago to show that a white man had ever seen the site, but now It Is begtnnlnc to look something like town, needing only Inhabitants to mak H qnlte a go-ahead place. The town Is m the Bay of Kola, near the Arctic coast of Russian Lapland, a flat and uninteresting region. In a large part of which scarcely a shrub, much less a tree, will grow. In August last year the Russian Gov ernment sent to the site of tbe proposed town, which had alresdy been selected, a civil engineer named Olsen. whose specialty Is harbor Improvements, and soon twenty men under his direction were hard at work building a couple of piers out Into the bay for the use of the fishing craft, which will give the town all Hs Importance. Last winter fifty wooden buildings were constructed at Archant-elAk, on the other side of the White Sea. It to probable that the work to now going on of transporting them to the coast of the Arctic Ocej where they will be hammered together and set up for tbe people who are going to live In tbe new town, and as soon as everything Is ready the town of Kola, farther south, will be abandoned, ev erybody there will be transferred at the expense of Russia, and Jekaterlno grad will be all ready to begin business. The thing that will make the town Is the Arctic fisheries In the neighbor hood, which employ about 1,500 men every summer. For the purposes of these hardy tollers the new town Is much more conveniently situated than Kola, and that Is the reason why Kola to to be deserted and a new town has sprung np nearer the sea. New York Sun. English Servants' Wage. The rates of wages paid household servants In England are very much less than those paid In the United States, and the service to much better. The official statistics show that the general average of wages for all classes of do mestic servants In London is only S76.25 a year, or $6.35 a month. Good butlers are paid as much aa $150 a year. La dies' maids come next, and those who have accompltohmenits get very nearly the same wages. The official statistics show that the average for all of Lon don la $121.75 a year. The average for cooks Is $107.75 a year; for housemaids, $31.25; nursemaids, $88.50, and laun dresses, $94.25. These averages are drawn from many thousands Individual cases reported to the bureau t of labor and statistics by the employment agen cies la London, and may be regarded as accurate, although they de not refer to the sights cSnss of servants, such as are found In the houses of the nobbuty and aristocracy. On ths Klondike. There's a lot of shootln' goln' on over there at Ala. La Dick's saloon. Are the boys bavin' fun with the ten derfoot that b lowed In tost night V "Pun nothln'l The boys Is shootln' to kill. They're flghttn' like hungry tigers sver a raw onion they happened to see la that tenderfoot's baggage." Chicago Tribune. Theory, Weary Watkins Ain't It funny some men can't work till tbey are full of boose? Dismal Dawson I don't see net bin' funny about H. Ain't a man got to drown his misery? Indianapolis Jour nal. V rostrated. Brady--Did ye hear ar Che folght betuxt Hlnnissey and O'Gowllgan? Grady Ol did not. Was It to a fin ish? Brady That was HInnissey's Infla tion, but Hlnnissey was knocked out befoore it got that far. Boston Courier. A Matter of Cslors. "Sister Millie wants to know If yon won't let us take your big awning? She's going to give a porch party to morrow night and wants to have It oo the planer." "Wants my awning 7' "Yep. She would have-borrowed the Joneses', but theirs to blue, you know, and Millie's hair la red." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Thonsjht Bo. MWhat to that cigar-box arrangement on top of the house?" asked the guest from the city. "That," said the proud owner of bis own suburban home, "is a water tower." "Oh 1 1 thought it was too small for a clock tower." Cincinnati Enquirer. LeaAworklng to one of the most dls aatrona a aM trades to health. REV. DR. TALMAGF, rhe Eminent Divine's Sunday Disc urse. jaigTity ntlnsncs or l'rayer For th World's C.ootl It Comes From Hecrel l'lares The Christian Home the Foun tain of 1'lou. and Gracious Influence. Text: "I answerel thne in the secret place of thunder." Psalms 81: vii. It is past midniirht, and 3 o'clock in th morning; far enough from sunset and sun rise to make the darkness very thick, and the Egvptinn armv in pursuit of the escap ing Israelites are on tun bottom of the K1 Sea, Its waters having been set up on eithei side in masonry of sapphire, for God can make a wall as solid out of water as out ol granite, nnd the trowels with which these two walls were built were none the less Iiowerful because invisible. Such wallf lad never before been lifted. When I saw the waters of the Ued Sea roiling through the uez Caual they were blue and beauti ful and flowing like other waters, but a; the Egyptians look up to them built into walls, now on one side and now on the other, they must hnve been frowning wa ters, for it was probable that the same power that lifted them np might suddenly fling them prostrate. A great lantern of cloud hung over this chasm between the two walls. The door of that lantern was openeil toward the Israelites ahead, giving them light, and the back of the lantern was toward the Egyptians, and it growled and rumbled and jarred with thunder; not thunder like that which cheers the earth after a drought, promising the refreshing shower, but charged and surcharged with threats of doom. The Egyptian cantains lost their presence of mind, and the horses reared and snorted and would not answer to their bits, and the chariot wheels got in terlocked and torn off, and the charioteers were hurled headlong, and the Red Hea fell on all the host. The confusing an I con founding thunder was in answer to the prayer of the Israelites. With their backs cut hy the lash and their feet bleeding and their bodies decrepit with the suffering off whole generations, they had asked Almighty God to ensepulclier their Egyptian pur suers in one great sarcophagus, and ths splash and t'l roar of the Red Sea as It dropped to its natural bed were only the shutting of thesarcophagus on a dead hosti That is the meaning of the text, when God, says: "I answered thee in the secret place of thunder." Now, thunder, all up and down the Bible, Is tbe symbol of power. Small wits deprs elate the thunder, anu say, "It is the lightning that strikes." But God evident ly thinks the thunder of some importance, or He would not make so much of it. Thafj man must be without imagination and with out sensitiveness a id without religion whej can, without emoUon, see the convention of summer clouds called to order by tbi falling gavel of the thunderbolt. There is; nothing in the natural world that awes am solemnizes mo as the thunder. The Egyp tian platrue of hail was accompanied wit H this fell diapason of the heaven. While Samuel and his men were making a burnt offering of a lamb, and tbe Philistines wera about to attack them, it was hy terrorizing thunder they were discomfited. Job, who was a combination of the Dantesque and the Miltonic, was solemnised by this rever beration of the heavens, and eripd: "The thunder of His power, who can under stand?" and He chalienCuel the universe by saying: "Oan'st thou thunder witn a voice like Him?" and he throws Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" into the shade by the Bible photograph of a war horse, when he de scribes hUOsek as "clothed with thunder." Because of the power of James and John, they were called "the sons of thunder." The law given on the basaltic crags of Mouut Sinai wasempbasied with this cloudy ebullition. The skies all round about St. John at Patmos were full of the thunder of war, and the thunder of Christly triumph, and the thunder of resurrection, and the thunder of eternity. But when ray text says, I answered thee in the secret place of thunder, it suggests there is some mystery about the thunder. To the ancients the cause of this bombard ing the earth with loud sound must have been more of a mystery than it is to us. The lightnings, which were to them wild monsters ranging through the skies, in our time have been domesticated. We harness electricity to vehicles and we cage it in lamps, and every schoolboy knows some thing about the fact that it Is the passage of electricity from oloud to cloud that makes the heavenly racket which we oall thun der. But, after all that chemistry has taught the world, there are mysteries about this skyey resonance, and my text, true In the time of the psalmist, is true now, and always will be true, that there is some se cret alHMit the place of thunder. Now, right alongiy natural law. there is always a spiritdra law. As there is a secret place of natural thunder, there is a secret place of moral thunder. In other words, the religious power thnt you see abroad in the church and in the world has a hiding place, and in many cases it is never discovered at all. I will use a simil itude. 1 can give only the dim outline of a particular case, for many of the remark able circumstances I have forgotten. Many years ago mere was a large cnurcn wnicn was characterized by strange and unac countable conversions. There were no great revivals, but Individual cases of spiritual arrest and transformation. A young man sat in one of the front pews. He was a graduate of Yale, brilliant as the north star and notoriously dissolute. Kverybody knew bim and liked him for his genial ty, but deplored his moral er rantry. To please his parents he was every Sabbath moruiug in church. One day there was a ringing of the door bell of the pastor of that church, and that young man, whelmed with repentance, implored prayer and advice, and passed Into complete re formation of heart and life. All the neigh borhood was astonished and asked. Why was this? His father and mother had said nothing to him about his soul's welfare. On another side of the same church sat an old miser. He paid his pew rent, but was hard on the poor and had no interest in any philanthropy. 1'iles of money! And people said: "What astrugglehe will have, when he quits this life, to part with his bonds and mortgages." One day he wrote to his minister: "i'lease to call immediately. I have a matter of great Importance about which I want to see you." When the pastor came iu the man could not speak for emo tion, but after awhile he gathered self-control enough to say: "i nave lived lor tnis world too long. I want to know if you think I can be saved, and, if so, I wish you would tell me how.'' Upon his soul the light soon dawned, and the old miser, not only revolutionized In heart but In life, began to scatter bene factions, and toward all the great chari ties of the day be became a cheerful and bountiful almoner. What was the cause of this change everybody asked; and no one was capable of giving an intelligent auswer. In another part of that same church sat Sabbath by Sabbath a beautiful and talented woman, who was a great society leader. She went to church be cause that was a respectable thing to do, and in the neighborhood where she lived it was hardly respectable not to go. Worldly was she to the last degree, and all her family worldly. She had at her house the Hnestlermans that were ever danced and the costliest favors that were ever given, and though she attended church she never liked to hear any story of pathos and as to religious emotion of any kind she thought it positively vulgar. Wines, cards, theaters, rounds of costly gayety were to her the highest satisfaction. One day a neighbor sent in a visiting card and this lady came down the stairs in tears and told the whole story how she had not slept for several nights, and she feared sh was going to lose tier soul, and sne won-der-d if some one would not come around and pray with her. From that time bei entire demeanor was changed, and tbouo t-.e was not called npon to sacrifice any of ler amenities of life, sho consecrated her (canty, her social position, her family, her, ill to God and the church and usefulness.1 Kverybody said in regard to her: "Have fou noticed the change, and what In the Id make urseof world caused It?" And no one coul tuttafActory exnlanation. In the course lwoyn..oS? V.r w , t nir nnmn fnanv mrn iifw fated cases of unexpected and unac countable conversions took place. The very people whom no one thought would be affected hy such considerations were converted. The pastor ami the officers of the church were on the lookout for the solution of this religious phenomenon. "Wliere is it?" they said, "and who is it, and what Is it?" At last the discovery was made and all wat explained. A poor old Christian wo man standing in the vestibule of the church oae Siimlav morning trying to get her breath airain before she went upstairs to the gallery, heard the Inquiry and told the secret. For years she had been in the hahit of concentrating all her prayers for particular persons in that church. Hhe would swe some man or womau present, and, though she might not know the per son's name, she would pray for that person until he or she was convene) to (tod. All her prayers were for that one person iust thnt one. She waited and waited for com- mnnton days to see when the candidates for memhcrfhlp stood up whether her pray ers hnd been effectual. It turned out that these marvelous instances of conversion were the result of that old woman's pray srs as sat in the gallery Sabbath by Sabbath,! bent and wizened and poor and unnoticed. .V llttl cloud of consecrated humanity hov- sring in the eallerins. That was the secret nlace of the thunder. There is some hid-, ien, unknown, mysterious source for al-i most all the moral and religious power de-l nonstrated. Not one out of ten million) orayera ever strikes a human ear. On pub-; ic occasions a minister of religion voices' :he supplications of an assemblage, but the; prayers of all the congregation are im silence. There is not a aiwon.l in a century! when prayers are not ascending, but my-! naas o uiem are not even as loud as ai rhisper, for God hears a thought as plainly is a vocali.atiou. rnat silence of suppli ;ation hemispheric and perpetual is thaj lecret place or tnunder. The. dav will come God hasten it whenl people will Hnd out the velocity, the ma-1 iesty, the multlpotenceof prayer. We brag ibout our limited express trains which nut is down a thousand miles away in twenty tour hours, but here is something by which! In a moment we mav confront neonle 300(1 miles away. We brag about our telephones, but here is something that beats the tele-j phone in utterance and reply, for God says,. "Before they call. I will hear." We brag ibout the phonograph, in which a man can jpeak, and his words and the tones of his. voice can be kept for aifes, and by the turn ing of a crnnk the words may come forth apon the ears of another century, but, prayer allows us to speak words into tbe aars of everlasting remembrance and en, rhe other side of eternities they will be! heard. Oh. ye who are wasting your breath mil wasting your nerves and wasting your ungs wishing for this good and that goodJ for the church and the world, why do voul not go into the secret place of thunder? "But, snys some one, "that Is a beauti ful theory, yet it does not work in my ease For I am in a cloud of trouble or a cloudi 3f persecution or a clou 1 of poverty or a. 5loud of perplexity." How glad I am1 that you told me that. That is exactly the) place to which my text refers. It wasfroml t cloud that God answered Israel thel sloud over the chasm cut through the RedJ Jea the cloud that was light to the Israel ites and darkness to 4be Egyptians. It ras from a cloud, a tremendous cloud. .hat God ma.le reply. It was a cloud that was a ei-ret place of thunder. So you' ;annot get away from the consolation of. ny text by talking that way. Let all the eople under a cloud hear it. "I answered jhee in the seeret place of thunder." . This subject helps me to explain some) filings you have not understood about cer-1 tain useful men and women. Many of theml have not a superabundance of education.) If you had their brain in a post mortem ex-' minati. r. snn i could weigh It It would not weigh auy heavier ihan the average. They have not anything especially impres sive In personal appearance. They are not very fluent of tongue. They pretend to nothing unusual In mental faculty or so- lal Intluence, but you reel their power. you are elevated in their presence, you are i better man or a better woman having confronted them. You know that in in tellectual endowment vou are their su- oerior, while in the matter of moral and religious influence they are vastly your su perior. Why is this lo nnd the reve ation of this secret you must go back :hirty or forty or perhaps sixty years to he homestead where this n:au was brought up. It Is a winter morning, and :he tallow candle is lighted and the Ires kindled, sometimes the shavings lardly enough to start the wo id. The nother is preparing the breakfast, the blue dged dishes are on the table, and the lid of :ho kettle on the hearth rattles with the (team. The father Is at the barn feeding :he stock the oats thrown into the horses' )ln and the cattle crunching the corn. The hildren, earlier than they would like and ifter being called twlee, are gathered at :he table. The blessing of God is asked on :hc food, and, the meal over, the family Bl ue Is put upon tue white tablecloth and a diapter is read and a prayer made, which includes all the interests for this world and the next. The children pay not much at tention to the prayer, for it is about the ame thing day after day, but It puts upon them an impression that ten thousand years will only make more vivid and tre mendous. As long as the old folks live their prayer Is for their, children and their sblldren s children. Day in nnd day out. month in and month out, year in and year out, decade In and decade out, tue sons and daughters of that family are remembered In earnest prayer, and they know it and feel it and they can not get away from It. Two funerals after awhile not more than two years apart, for It is seldom that there is more than that lapse of time between father's going and mother's going two funerals put out of sight the old folks. The daughters are In homes where they are incarnations of good sense, industry and piety. The sons, per haps one a farmer, another a merchant, another n mechanic, another a physician another a minister of the Gospel, useful, consistent, admired, honored. What a power for good those seven sons and! daughters! Where did they get the power? From the s.-hools and the seminaries and the colleges? Oh, no, those these may have helped. From their superior mental en dowment? No; I do not think they bad un usual mental caliber. From accidental cir cumstances? No, they had nothing of what is called good luck. I think we will take a train and ride to the depot nearest to the homestead from which those men and women started. The train bnlts. Let us stop a few minutes at the viilnge graveyard and see the tomb stones of the parents. Yes, the one was seventy-four years of age and the other seventy-two, and the epitaph says "that after a useful life they died a Christian death." On over the country road we ride the road a little rough, and once down in a rut it is hard to get the wheels out again without breaking the shafts. But at last we come to the lane In front of the form house. Let me get out of the wagon and open the gate while you drive through. Here is the arbor under which those boys and girls many years ago used to play, but It is quite out of order now, for the property it lu other hands. Yonder is the orchard, where they used to thrash tbe trees fot apples, sometimes before they were quite ripe. There is the mob, where they hunted for eggs before Easter. There is the door sill upon which they used to sit. There ii the room In which they had family pray ers, and where they all knelt the fatbei there, the mother there, and the boys an girls there. We have got to the foiintait of pious ami gracious influences at lost There Is tbe nlace that dStlded those seven earthly and Immortal destinies. Behold! Behold! That Is the secret place of thunder. The reason we ministers do not accom plish more is because others do not pray torns enough, and we do not pray for onr selves enough. Every minister could tell you a thrilling story of sermons, sermons nasty and impromptu, pecause oi ium-mia and sick beds, annoyances in the parish, yet those sermons directing many pouls to God. And then of ser mons prepared with great care, and research and toil uninterrupted: yet those sermons fulling flat or powerless. The difference was probably in tne amount o. private prayer offered for the success of those-rvlccs. On prav for nsl Poor sermons In the i jpi'bi' are' the curse of God on a prayerless U,Bri9h- People sav, "What is ths matte with the ministers In onr time? Bo many , - Hltl.fled with the Bible. w . - - -- aii. ...... mi) trying to help Moses aul and Christ out of inconsistencies and con tradictions bv fixing up the Bible." As well let the musicians go to work to fix up Havdn's "Creation" or Handel's "Israel in Egvot," or let the painters go to fixing up Rapha-I's "Transfiguration." or architects to to fixing up Christopher Wren's St. Paul's. But I will tell you what is the mat ter. There are too many unconverted ministers. Their hearts have never been changed by the grace of God. A mere In tellectual ministry is the deadest fail hre this side of perdition. Alas for the gospel of Iclnles! From apol ogetics, and hermenentfes and dogmatics, good Lord deliver usl They are -trying to get their power from transcendental the ology, or from profound exegesis, or from the art of splitting hairs between north and northwest side. Instead of getting their power from the secret place of thunder. We want the power a man gets when he is alone, the door locked, on his knees, at midnight, with such a burden of son Is up on him that makes him crv out. first In lamentation and then in raptures.. We want something of the consecration of John Knox, who, when his wife heard him pray ing in the cold night in another room, and said to him, "How can you endanger your life praying there in the cold when you ought to be asleep?" responded, "Womsnl How can I sleen when my country is not ?aved? Lord God give me Scotlund or I die!'; Dear brethren and sitfs in Christ, our opportunity for y'ulness -will sou., he gone, and we s'.all have our faces uplifted to the throne of judgment, before which we must give account. That day there will be no secret place of thunder, for allthethun ders will be out. There will be the thunder of the tumbling rocks. There will be the thunder of the bursting graves. There will be the thunder of the de scending chariots. - There will he the thunder of the parting heavens. Booml BoomI But all that din and uproar and crash will And us anafTrighted. and will leave ns undismayed, if wo hnve made Christ our confidence, and, ns after an August shower when the whole heaven, have been an unlimbered battery cannon ading the earth, the fields are more green, and the sunrise is tbe more radiant, and the waters are the more opaline, so the thun ders of the last day will make the trees of life appear more emerald, and the jasper of the wall more crimson, and the sapphire seas the more shimmering and the sunrise of eternal gladness the more empurpled. The thunders of dissolving nature will be followed by a celestial psalmody, the sound of which St. John on I'atmos described, when he said, "I henrd a voice like voice of mighty thunderlngsl" Labor Notes. World's telegraph lines stretch 5,000 000 miles. A linplate plant will be established at Seattle. In a New York floral exhibit there were OA Onl) dahlias. One million acres of sugar beets give a crop worth $rfl.0n,linn. The larcest ehewing-gum factory in the world is in Cleveland, O. In Japan the locks are placed upon the jamb instead -f on the door. It is thought that hay will reach $2(1 per ton in California ibis year. The diamond inin'ii'4 ind.iirv is stead ily prnci-essin? in New South Wales. At I'ineville, N. C. the ;ovcr yarn Mills will soon rummcnip niu'ht work. A big fawiuill at 4i-:in iiii. Mo., is al most entirely equipied with women help. Buffalo pliysieians are said lo have a black list of (ielimiuents numbering 12,000. In Mexico all kin. Is of vehicle as well as bicycles are obliged to carry lights after dark. At Wilton. Ale. on .i. Id if inn ivill be built at the woolen t-.ills for more new looms. The annual coal product "f M-nfana has shown an uninterrupted increase each year since 1s". In spite of ilie a.lvjinred se;'on lite shipyards at .leii'erson illc, ind., icniain unusually busy. .1. S. ;ill's"silk mill nt In. How, Vt., will be 'ready for operation before the cold weather sets in. In Madagascar silk is fo cheap that it is the only fabric used in the manufac ture of clothing. The Oldtown, Mo., Woolen Company will enlarco its plant by a purchase of a shoe factory in that town. Concerning fevtilo industries in the British Isles the best reports as to pros perity come from Irebind. Tho Ashby Cotton Mill, of Marion, S. C, will double its plant at once. Tho mill now contains ?7M spiflfMes. There were fl VM men employed in and about the JTeV South Wales collieriei, during lb'M, anil !?.'7 in the shale mines. Nearly 40 er cent, of the total value of the exports of British paper each year represents the trado with Australia. The London (Canada J Council has passed a by-law imposing a license of $" a vear for the privilege uf -telling cigar ettes. It is reported that the Odell Manufac turing Company, Concord, N. C, will put in a roller-covering plant in connection with its cotton mills. Of the whole imKrt trade of Argen tine, one-half, or about (ct.ono.ooo worth annually, is from Great Britain, tlcimany holds second place. The buildings of the Rochester Woolen Mills, of Rochester, Minn., have Ix-cn repaired since the Are, and the machinery is now running full time. At Strafford ville, Conn., the Summit Woolen Company, a new organization, will oiierate the mill recently owned by the IIopo Woolen Company. The Kicycle. A 300-pound rider at Fort Worth, Tex, lately rode a quarter of a mile straight away on a twenty-Hund wheel iu In m-c-onds. This is a record. Arthur Gardiner has punctured tho tire of his wheel but once in the races of the season. Gardiner is fortunate in many resiiects, and he considers this as one of them. Those riders who are good at indoor work on small tracks and sonic riders are lietter fitted for that kind of work than for the outside tracks with short sprints will have quite an innings this winter. New York, Philadelphia nd ninny other points intend holding contests all winter. Cooer has found cycle racing a Klon dike, if reports lie true. Cooper has stock in a telephone company in Detroit, hav ing invested f 17,000 in all, in thn one com pany. Inasmuch as Cooper was but a drug clerk when he started racing, his savings -e verv considerable. Kddie Bald has changed his mind al-ont going to l".uroie, and will follow the Na tional Circuit to tho close. Bald will ride match races at Atlanta and at Mem phis, at tho first point with I'-iton, and at Memphis with l.ouyhead .fjafter which he will join the circuit party. fyi-ln tracks are being constructed all through the South. Meets are ln-ini: askcil for at points when-lit would not le sup-l-.se.l cycling interest would warrant. Tcxarkana, Texas, is the latest, andthn' meet promoters there have written to prominent people in the cycling game asking instructions regarding the running of their meet. Being doubtful about going for records (ardiner will ride nt the Padm-ah, St I.ouis and Joplin National t lrcuit meet-, ami will then likely go Smith. Secretary Hassett's report of tho appli cations for nicmlicrship in the L. A.W. received recently shows that Pennsylva nia sent 91; New Yolk, 161; Massachusetts 3.1; New Jersey, ;t; Maryland, .'10; Ohio, '25. Illinois, 17. Missouri, II, and Connecti cut. 10. The total momliership of the or ganization is now 99,516, of which Ti.bl 1 ai in Pennsylvania. 3 Of 1 1 n id per.-'r.3 only one reaches the age of 1" yi-ars, and not more titan six that of sixty-five years. Fattening ewes in a Wyoming te-,t f1(1 )ay aIll SU(;, llun l)MJ fe(i h sugar liects guinea faster bay aioue or Hay ond graiu. V i -. ...V 1