J AO H, R, BOHWEIER. THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWH. VOL U. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUN1T. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1897 NO. 47 www w$P; nmm WVB mwmw w - u. Marylai' in this p ford tow- J CHAKTEU XXV. It wan nt the Liverpool railway station tat Ird Kildonan confronted his wife' rtiat and Cromnont. the sickly light of a flick- .-i, imr. h;h nive faiiiiKr n him figure, on what could be seen of his face. ' The words froze on their guilty lips; the blood icnjed up, and then seemed to stag nate in their veins as the cold eyes pierced them. Crosmont stopped, and stared np. s still as a dead man. shattered, "Con founded, without a word, without a cry. Lady Kildonan, with a hoarse and broken shriek that rang in hideous echoes through the huge bare station, staggered back. back, with starting eyes and strug gling breath, until, before they could stop her. before they had even time to realize, the danger she was in. she reached the edge of the platform, and with a last fatal backward step, fell with a moan on the tnetats. I-ord Kildna sprang down ue young man. lifted her in his arms, and .tared into her face. When Armathwaite Joined him, the old Scotchman's face was all broken up with passionate anxiety, hia voice broken and weak as a child. "I have not killed her, Frank, have I? Ppeak, boy, speakr he said in a husky whisper, as he lifted the head that buuff limp and powerless on hia shoulder. Armathwaite, whose professional In stinct had given him back all his calm atj -fhc-Tnomeni'of "the acciiTeut, kk,leJ at her, touched her. 'o.r he said, briefly; "she is not dead. We must get her on to the platform! Crpsmntt" This call to the yonng man. who was still standing like a statue with dull eyes nd leaden limbs, woke him to lite anu raise lotion He would have helped to the prostrate woman, but Ixrd Kildonan, lu his coldest, harshest tone, forbade him t touch her. The latter, with the assist ance of Armathwaite. lifted her on to the platform just as. the lirauksome train steanu-tl slowly up towards them. Frank suggested that -!e ought to remain in Liverpool that night-that it would be dangerous for her to travel. Her bead hud fallen on the metals: no one could tell yet what injury she had sustained. Lord Kildonan was immovable. "She must go home!" he said, briefly. "And if it should Will her. my lord?" "We rail still perhaps save her reputa tion," said Lord Kildonan injiia co!dvsl tone. But he was deeply moved. He never took his eyes off his wife's white face as they carr.ed her into a comiwirtmeut and laid her ou the seat. Crosmont still stood on the platform, and Armathwaite went ha. k to him, ami, lu-J his band on hia arm. The agent was shivering like a man with ague. "Come." said Armathasite, "you must .come baek with us." "No, 1141," said Crosmont. hoarsely. After some few moments' appeal, warn ing him that Lady Kildoiiau was per liaps dying, the doctor induct d him to take tiis pla. e in the next compartment to that in which the huslii'.nd and wife, weirdly reunited, were traveling. Then, after ex acting a promise from the agent that he would not try to escape, lie rejoiued ljrd Kildonan and the unconscious woman. It was a terrible return journey. Mur ing all tlie four cold, monotonous hours Lady Kildonan lay almost without move ment, from time to time muttering a lew words to herself incohereut'.y. or opening ber ey-'s with the blank stare of a doll, only "to close thcm again automatically without having taken in nny impression. At seven o'clock ou the raw February morning, the train steamed into Hrank sotne station. The stoppage roused Lady Kildonan: she struggled up and looked vacantly about her. muttering incoherent ly that it was getting light that she should tie late but without noticing her companions. Frank put her veil over her face and fastened it for her. to which she made no opos:tiin. And she accept ed his suggestion to "take his arm. and al lowed him to had her through the station, apparently unconscious that it was her husband who was supporting her 'jtter- . ing footsteps on the other side, hue turn ed instinctively in the direction of the house where Anne Matthews lived, and at the opening of the little street they " foui. l a small covered cart waiting with the woman who bad been her treacherous accomplice inside it. Armathwaite recog nized her at once, and saw first that she looked a little ashamed of herself, and sec ondly that she was seriously alarmed and re norseful when she saw how ill the lady locked. They lifted her into the cart; ' Ia)1 Kildonan took his place beside her, and insisted on Annathwiiite's coming will, them, that lie might prt scribe for her in bis medical capacity ou reaching the Crags. Anne Matthews, who drove herself, tc tied at the bottom of the private path to The Crags, as was her custom; and the two gentlemen led Lady Kildonan, who was now growing excited and fever ish, up the hill, through the private gate, which wns open, and into the house by that entrance of which Lord Kildonau ' bad faiicicd that he alone had a key. It opened upon a narrow private staircase, T.-itb another locked door at t'ie top, by vhit'u thy were able to reach Lnily Kii Ainan's apartments unobserved by any body ticrpt her ladyship's maid. With he assistance of this woman, Ia.Iy Kildonan was put to In-d, much agpiiiKt her will. Armathwaite told Iird Kildouun that she was suffering from con cessit. n of t'ie I ain. and after remaining .th her jlxmt an hour, at the end of - -jrhicU time she had sunk into a wordless stupor, he left her to the care of her hus acd and the maid, and promising to re tiiu in a couple of hours, walked back ujekf -toTv.TJs Mereside. He was nnx ioux about Crosmont. anxious also to find cut how this terrible event would affect tne agents wife. By tue time he reached the agent' ' hoiue it was half-past nine; the rain oi tLe night liaJ ceased, and it was a sunny morning. 'Jn ringing the bejl Nanny ap peared, und in answer to his question ld him tii.at -Mr. Crosmont had gone t Liverpool and would not be back until (be afternoon. Alma, bearing the doctor's voice, cann . Hit into the hall. He told her that some thing vefy serious for Ned had happened. He knew her husband had returned from Liverpool, but the servant had not seen him. ' ' "lie lets himself in with his own key, , aid she. "He may be in his study. Oome They went ou together, going by sornh ktinct mo silently, so Softly. tnt tX u8Ijered Jq I .--tsteps. rneir uun enionts scarcely made j s"nd weDt from end to end of !he old ,MUS'- At tb "J""' door. lhe' PPed. and. with a loua-Deaun nean, lAlnia knocked. There wm no answer. . r,, ... . I I B sue na not kdock a seconu woe, uui looked at the handle with a pale, fright Mied face, as if she did not dare to touch It. Armathwaite came forward and open td the door. Sitting before the grate, which was Ht red with scraps of a torn letter, and in Khjrjh Uie gray ashe. of tb BCevious a Split's 6re yet remained, .at Ned Cros Jiotit. his legs stretched out. his head on his breast, his arms hanging loose at his sides. Alma had often seen him almottt In that attitude, and It reassured her. She rnme further into the room, calling aoftly, "Xedr He did not answer, he did not move. Armathwaite thought she knew the truth. Not having been prepared for wine eight unusually shocking, it did not Kv-ur to Alma that death could come ao mddenly and yet S9 quietly. She came lose to him with rapid steps, thinking that he was lost in miserable brooding, put her arm round his shoulders, and tried to draw him to her. kindly, comfortingly. His head had rolled heavily against her breast. "Ned. Ned. never mind," she whispered, feeling, with a thrill through her gentle he.-i.-t. !i.at fit ibe moment she had expected had come, when ha did not re pulse her. when he was glad of her sym pathy; "I'll comfort yon. Ned Mi console you. Never mind what it is. I'm sorry: He is dead," she siiid, solemnly, raising her ey s to the doctor's face. Then the tears began to gather In tier J eyes, and, bending over the dead man. she put her lips to his forehead, not m sorrowing love, but in pity and forgive ness. - "Come, come away." whispered Frank, who saw that the struggling emotions of horror and womanly regret and irrepressi ble relief were trying the sensitive lady beyond her strength. She let hira lead her out at the door, which Frank closed softly behind them; but before she had made three steps along the passage she suddenly drew away her hand from his arm. put it up to ber head, and, with a low cry as of a prisouer who sees the dungeon doors flung suddcuiy open, she reeled and fvil to the ground. Frank gathered her up in his arms and carried ber to the drawing room. There he did not put ber down, but seating him self in an armchair by the window in the full blaze of tl,e morning sunlight, be rocked ber for a few moments tenderly in hia arms, as if she ha" been a child, while his blue eye. shone with hope and pity and yearning love. "Poor little one," he whispered into her deaf ears. "You are no widow; you have never been a wife. I am wronging no man's memory in telling you I love you. 'Ine gods will make you happy. Psyche, for you have found your love at Inst." As she was absolutely motionless and silent, he snatched a passionate kiss; but the instant his lips touched hers, the color flowed into her face, and her brown eyes met his with a long look that told of the wakening of a sleeping soul. From that moment each had a secret, known only to themselves and to each other. Withdrawing bis eyes from her face, Frank raised her to her feet, and gently withdrawing the support of his arm, said gravely and formally: "I think you are better now, madam. If you will allow me to advise you, I would suggest your remaining here, whil. I will tell the servants what is necessary for them to know, and prevent their dis turbing you." "Thank you. Yon are very kind." said she. frigidly, with her eyes on the ground. With a cold bow. and without another look at her, Frank left the room. But as he paused for a moment outside, with glowing eyes and a yearning heart, he heard the swift rustle of a woman's dress across the room, and her panting breath close to the door. So they stood for a moment, each conscious that the other was there, each almst able to hear the beating of the heart of the other. But there waa only a thin plank of wood be tween them now, where there bad been a barrier as wide as the whole world. And so he went softly away to his work and his duty, and she to the woman's part of patiently waiting and perhaps weeping, tor peace had come to her, not with a glad song of praise, but with a solemn requiem. CHAPTER XXVI. In the meantime Lady Kildonan was lying utterly unconscious both of the death of ber accomplice and victim and of her condemnation, pronounced by her own Hps a hundred time in the delirium of brain fever. Her husband, who during these long day. and nights waa scarcely ever absent from her bedside, used to sit listening to her and watching her with a grave, intent face, which expressed no sentiment harsher than the deepest pity. When the crisis of the fever was past, and the rick woman's .bodily health be gan slowly to mend, it dawned upon both her husband and the young doctor, who had never exchanged a word since the night of the accident except upon the med ical aspect of the case, that ber mental recovery was not proportionately rapid. She would lie for hours together awake and quite still, with her eyes fixed upon her husband in a sort of vague surprise at his presence, with which mingled no shame, no annoyance, no deep interest. Yot she knew who be waa, and replied to his questions in a voice which grew stronger every day, but which acquired no deener meaning as the time went tv At lust she was well enougL to get uv. and to sit in her boudoir by the window, watching the birds flying from bough to ho- n of the still leafless tr?es in the park outside, the little clouds sailing slowly across the sky. and a hundred other sights of the narrow stti'tca of wintry land tcape which she had never" before no ticed. Lord Kildonan. at first rather pleased by the new Interest she showed in the nature about her, began after a few days to feel anxious concerning the mean ing of the change. "She doesn't seem at all the same worn nn yet," he observed to the doctor ont morning, when his wife had been bab bling in a childish way, as if she had no recollection of the terrible scenes through which slie bad lately passed. "Or la It a clever device of hers to bridge orer the awkward ul oor intercourse, until she jftri'll have brh for me to accuse ber runing hook jfrangementr millenial dawn " "'Ltf, xtrf tdviae you to fir tip P thougnts ot coming to a dear understand ing with her yet." As the days passed on. however, and still, while ber limbs regained some of their rigorT and her face much of hs beauty. Lady Kildonan remained mental ly In exactly the same state of childish oblivion of everything but the occupa tion of the moment, both her husband and the doctor agreed, reluctantly enough, 1I11M sonne attempt must be made to bring her back to reason and remembrance. Ar mathwaite. therefore, on the occasion of one of his visits about three weeks after the accident, led the oyiversation in such a manner as to introduce the name of Ned Crosmont. "Oh, yes," she said, smiling, "I haven't seen Ned to-day. But he is going to drive me iuto Branksome this afternoon to get some new tennis balls." Armathwaite laid hia band upon her arm. "Listen to me. Lady Kildonan." he said, rery gravely, foreseeing already that VJ" words would have little effect; "I have something very sad to tell you about Mr. Crosmont. He is UU seriously ill." She looked with a child-like stare into his face and shook ber head. "Oh, no, yon have been misinformed." he said confidently, as if after a mo ment's though. "I saw him yesterday no, this morning at any rate, quite re cently, though I can't remember for the moment exactly when It was," she added, holding ber hand to ber forehead and look ing rather puzzled. "But he's quite well, I know." He made a few more efforts to bring her memory back, but quite In vain; toe ter rible 'events which had bad such fatal consequences both to ber and Crosmont bad faded out of her mind so utterly that not even a vague sense as of an evil dream remained behind. So her punishment, tragic as it seemed to the onlookers, fell lightly upon ber. Her buoyant animal nature, shaken free, by "he shock she bad sustained, of the vice which had been her ruin, Jelped her to bear her affliction with the resignation of a lame dog, who, forgetting quick.y the ensation. of the old day. when he scoured the fields after rabbits, and leap ed up joyously as high as hia master's sho'ild-r, takes quietly to the peaceful joy. of the warm hearth and the sunny doorstep, and dozes the. XSiaiit6prv! Jiis life away ifl e&"lifTitbie content. The person on whom the Bhock of Ned Crosin nt'a death fell the heaviest was I'ncle Hugh. When the tidings reached him. togtther with an account of Lady Kildonan' rather mysterious illness, he came baik to Branksome in the greatest anxiety and remorse, believing that a let ter he had written to Ixrd Kildonan had been the cause of both misfortunes. The old Scjtchman, who received him very kindly, assured hrm that his suspicions had been roused long before the letter reached him, and advised him to turn his attention to comforting the young widow. But there were difficulties in the way of this. He would have taken her back with him to her friends lu Iondon, away from the scene, of her short, but unhappy mar ried life: but Alma, once so anxious to go away, now raised unexpected obstacles to this course. It would make public the fact that ber marriage was a failure, she said. Besides, she must wait until his affairs were settled, and she preferred se clusion for a tittle while before facing the curious inquiries of her old friends. So Uncle Hugh, disappointed lu his wish to carry off his "little one," and resolved not to have his journey for nothing, ob tained a promise from Millie that she would marry him within two months, 'on condition that the wedding should be a very quiet one. This promise, at the end of the appoint ed time, she faithfully carried out; and Mrs. Peeie. who had never held up ber kead with her old majesty since Lord Kildonan pat her to the humiliation of having to five up the stolen papers, soon after made np her mind to leave Brank some for London, In order to be near her daughter. Armathwaite was thus left alone In the little nouse; but though be missed Millie, of whose sisterly companionship be bad grown very fond, he was not dull, for he had taken it into bi. head to refurnish and decorate the place according to cer tain ideas of bia own, and this occupa tion, to a man of H mated income and fas tidious tsste, afforded amusement and in terest for some time. The purchase of a horse, too, besides the late doctor's cob. was an extravagance which required de liberation: but there was an animal in the neighborhood which Frank waa bent on possessing, and after a few weeks the covoted beasts held a place in bis stable. CHAPTER XXVII. It was the beginning of August when Alma, who, with the recovery of her health and spirits, began to feel ber nat ural feminine coquetry awakening, decid ed that the first Ice of their decorous es trangement might now be broken. One ecorobrag afternoon, when Armathwaite returned home, tired and dtiety from his day's work, he was Informed by the ser vant that a little girl wss waiting to see him In the surgery, and that Mrs. Cros mont was with her. Frank's heart leaped up. He seised a Hot bee brush and began to brush himself violently, as much to gain time to conquer this horrible chok ing nervousness aa because be was reluc tant to enter ber presence with the work aday dust of the roads upon him. When he entered the surgery he was particu larly calm and sedate, with "rising young medical practitioner with a character to keep up" writ large all over him. Alma waa sweet and grave and tran quil, but had a brighter color in her cheeks than Fran& had ever before seen there, and In the front of her dress she wore a white rose, which the young man chose fatuooely to think was a very good sign. She had brought one of the village dhil tren to nave a scaJaea arm oresatti, ana 1. the child screamed and struggled, snd xwk np all their attention until the opera don was successfully accomplished, the irst part of the interview passed off without any feeling of awkwardness on lther side. As soon, however, as the rirl found her arm bandaged and releas ed, she darted to the door and made her scape like a wild thing, without a word f thanks to either of her benefactors. They looked at each other and laughed. Toor little thing! She isn't much tamer than a squirrel. She was rushing bout the road crying, and it waa a bard task to persuade her to come with me at ill," said Alma, moving in ber turn to ward the door. But Frank stepped hurriedly across the room before her. "I wish, Mrs. Crosmont, now that yon ire here, you would do me the pleasure sf looking into the drawing room. I have made some changes there. I should so much like to hear what you think about them." Ahuahetated and then turned back with a smile. "I will see it. certainly, If you wish," she said, gently. So Frank led the way into the drawing room, which had been Indeed transform ed. The violent colors, the tatting anti macassars, the wax flowers under glass shades of Mrs. Peele's regime, bad disap peared, whjle in their place were harmo nious tints and soft fabrics, aod bowls lull of freshly cut flowers. . "Why Dr. A rasa th waits, ) am ort tor ffis credit or my sex. It looks aa if sots' woman roust have helped you." said Al ma, aa she looked with admiration round the pretty room. "Some woman has helped me." said be, la a meek, small voice. She was not curious, or perhaps she didn't hear. "And do yon always have the place filled with these beautiful flowers?" "Always." "Ah. yon pass your evenings here, of course?" ."Xever. I scarcely sit here aa hour In the ween." "Then why all this extravagance with' beautiful flowers, which only get wasted T Are they for visitors?" "For cne visitor. I wanted the room to be always ready for that one whenever she should come." Oh, they were so quiet about It as quiet aa mice she with her tremulous whisper, and he with his husky ejacula tion, and Frank knew that Alma was only carrying out her destiny, snd that, like the heroine of the opera that ber father had nursed in his heart of hearts for years before she was born, she bad come out victorious from her contest with the beau ty of the senses, and that, having found the love she bad longed for, ber fancy had no need to reach out to shadows for comforts, for her soul had found rest. (The end.) Labor Notes. Massachusetts has more distilleries than Kentucky. On one farm near Flint, Mich., there are 1,120,000 cabbages At Guilford, Me., the Piscataquis Wool en Co.'s mill is beng run overtime. , At Cohoes, N. Y., SIcDowell A Co.'s Cascade knitting mills are running nights People who sell newspapers in the streets of Moscow are comielled to ap pear in uniform. All Denver saloons that fall to abolish their wine rooms will lie closed up by the Police Commissioners. The .lat-kson lomimnv at Nashua, N II., laid the corner-stone of a new mill last recently to repluce one of its ohl ones. The Itiversiile Woolen Company, Leb anon, N. II., is running its mills day ami night on beavers, chinchillas and chev iot t. The Old town. Me., woolen mill is nin- puing par "f "'e card and spinning room until 11 1. M., resuming worn again at S A. M. Preparations' are nearly completed foi' lieeinning the mi!facture of linen goods from American tlax by-a comnv recently formed at WotHlville, it- L The gold bricks made in Seattle frnn Klondike gold are nine tnches long, three, inches wide and there-eights of an incU thick, anil are worth $17iw each. A mill employing tifty men is now en gaged iu making paper froto the Impasse or sugar tune refue, which was once th' greatest nuisance to the sugar-growers Some people in the South are prediclir.r lliat the current trend in cotloir-munufat lure will iiood the North with aegr- oieratives and the South wilh Yonkt i white girls. According to a leading mercantile arency, the number of men now at wrrl . not counting the recent coul strikers. i some 3t0,0iH in excess of the, number em ployed at this time in lt!Hi. A" numlier of skilled men are arriving at lSesscnier, Col., from Illinois and Penn sylvania to assist in taking down the ol.L machinery at the steel works prepara tory to replacing it with new. There are four cities in Massachusetts which, under a recent lw, .re entitleiL to an appropriation of J25,0W) each for the esteblishment of textile schools on con dition of a like sum to be raised by thost interested. J. S. Sencer, W. K. Holt and C. W. Johnson, of Charlotte, N. C, have pur chased the Virgin Cotton Mill, atllunters ville, N. B. Tho new owners intend to. remodel the mill and change it into a spin ning plant. The Klmwood Manufacturing Company, Columbia, S. C. promises to erect . IU.om spindle cotton mill to employ only col ored oeratives, and to run day ami night. It is understood that cnntr.e' lor ma chinery have been placed. It is estimated that the United States furnishes 52 per cent, of Mexico's iniiort airuinst 4.1 ikt cent, in 19.'. Kngland furnishes 17 per cent, ami tiermany 1 percent., while Spam and other cunirie contribute M tier cent. The tea from lr. She pant's farm, at. Suuimerville, S. C, sells for $1 per IMiiind, is of a high quality, ami it is be lieved that his success establishes th fact that tea can be grown in this country so as to lie commercially successful. Hang ChoW, aout SH) miles south of Shanghai, is . great silk emjiorium, not less than 7iHM hand looms being engaged in the manufacture of silk of the linrst quality, all that is required for the Im perial household lieing made there. More than 30 ier cent, of France's for eign commecre is transacted with tJreat Kritain, a country which constitutes th market for more than a third of the entire production of France's industry. No less; than 32 ier cent, of Russia's foreign trado is wilh (irent Kritain. The British factory acts specify that a. woman shall not return to her employ ment in any works to which the acts lip id v within four weeks after she may ma y f i rrn. an t I lut've been confined. A Yorkshire was tinetl j lor s-rmitting a woman work eight days after having givcu bii ti 10 a cniiu. Track and Turf. ronna Rita, a 3 year-old filly beloari to Tony I.iea.zi, ntiw racing at Chicago, "S won lor in the mud. The Woicester, Mass., half-mile track will tie sold to a syndicate wlitch will est it up into building lots. There will be a fall meeting at tte Tennessee HreedeiV Association at C- berlaml Park, Nashville., "Tip Ieigh, father of II. Eugene I.ei-R the well known horse owner and breeder, died in St. Louis recently. t .'hurley Hughes, will train and Fred & ofllromlev l"ro ,V "vear" '' Cresceus, 3, .ll 1-4, was shipKd home after his defeat by American llelle ut Kigby. He will lie raced in JS'JK. The 3-year-old ullv liiiectina, l.v Ii- I ",c , " ' 7 , reet, 2.05 1-2, out of the dam of Kiiectiini, ) 1 manner before the gloves are pnt on. i.or 1-4, has reduced her retold ut I The gloves have to be changed several 2 l'?,"; 1. , . t 1 thne9 during long operations; fhey are I he dam of the crack !-vear-old .Tame I . .... t,, T.. 2.15 14. has a foal bv lt.tr..n Hilli.M orn- y th assistants as well. Prof. 2.1?, and is again in foal to that hoi -e. ' Mikulicz- declares that none of the man liirectina, the 3-year-old, by l'iiec, l jpUiatlons are rendered awkward ot cuf rrt "S.'lr'iK 1 ex!: JlcuH the gloves, and that on the ton. S "contrary. It Is easier to take and keep Dick Curtis' trotter Hern- f!a rrett. z.101, went wrong at ei re n.wte-j h d He further recommends n the race in which bo made bis. " . . M . . record. 5 the use of a respirator of sterilized muo- The Oregon pacing stallion ( lielwlis. Vlln, la order to avoM danger from 2 07 1-4, is now credited as the si,e e f th bcterla. the 4-year-old pacing rlly l mahalus, i 2.21. ( i Thomas Cat. an ordinary nerfornr w AthoP Enjoying: Meohanloal Helps the New York Circuit, showed almost: ! , v stake horse form at Fort Krie and: To. The up-to-date stories about authors ronto. f indicate that the brotherhood of tbe Charley Patterson will ship his horses, I n are u keenly alive to the advan including Hamburg, and Ornament, frinm. , . . , . .,,... Nashville to Memphis earlv in January. S hlKn 8tate of civilisation as Preston's 2.13 1-4 is the "record for -1 amy other class of people In the com-year-obl trotting geldings. It rerdhce mninlty. Tbe author with a fountain Fred S. Moody's 2.14, made in last yeaii'f- , , . . . . , .. Futurity. which holds Ink enough for about Star Pointer, 1.59 1-4, will start to bent ( IOjOOO words has made his appearance. Johnston's 2.06 1-4 to high wheel ami' al'. !EIj8 dally stint Is the amount of Ink In The 5-vear-oId pacing mare Bessie IVme ! aeatopsi; the author who has lost thice hiltr 2.05 3-4, has been sold to fTeotget memths' work by the breaking of a MeKaig, of Troy, O.. the owner ofl Sim- j pttemogvtvbt into which he had dictated mons. for fixo. newel, has also come Into publicity. ) md people feel as sorry for him as did -hie German Emperor declared! in. m , a-rrranchmezi af a hundred and went speech that his grandfather was a.; WJ " chosen instrument of heaven. l raw r . Em re For C.ranlns and Polishing Stove inix finely-powdered black-lead to a i.aste with water In which a small mount of glue has been dissolved. Tha bulb of an electric lamp should lever be Inclosed In any fabric. If p-rapped In tissue paper so that no nlr !an pass between it and the glass, Uie paper will soon be on fire. Taper tiles are said to have numerous advantages over the ordinary ones, be ing lighter, harder, and also Impervious o damp. Furthermore, they are non conductors of beat and sound, and look tetter than the old kind. Glass library shelves have recently l?on Introduced In France. The edges ire rounded. The glass Is nearly In dexible, which gives it great advant age over wood. Its strength has been proved. It Is more easily kept clean than other shelving. The appearance of the library is greatly enhanced. The book people who have used it arc en thusiastic. Sudden and great fluctuations In the level or water In wells in stormy weath er, clnse!y corresponding to the fluctua tlons in wind velocity recorded by Prof. Langley, have been observed by Dr. r.otm l Martini. This explains the pop ular tradition that bad weather may be predicted from the sudden rise and fall or wei'.s. Curiously, however, small and rapid changes of barometers are more certain to affect wells than largo -hanges. Recent observations on the differ ences of color in different races of men are described In a French Journar of anthropology by Monsieur BreuL It appears that the color of the skin de pends upon a pigment contained In the deeper layers of the epidermis. This pigment. In the form of minute grains, is distributed In the same manner In all racea, J only difference being In the color ofrthe grains, which varies from black, through many lighter shades, up o light yellow. In Spain, wiTere the telephone Is large ly used in place of the telegraph, says Monsieur Plerard, as reported In the I Electrical World, cn Ingenious app.I- catlon of the phonograph to record the telephonic message hao, been made. The receiving operator repeats tm; nies- sage Into a phonograph, from which It can afterward be transcribed at leis ure. This saves the delay caused by writing the message uurlnc Its recep tion, and Insures greater accuracy be cause tha repetition of tha message for the phonograph is heard, simultaneous ly, by the original sender at the other end of the line. Many of the violent changes which accur under tbe surface of tbe sea, as Prof. John Milne has recently shown, produce effects that are distinctly and sometimes disastrously felt on the land. Wherever a profound cavity exists In the bed of tbe ocean near tue land, and wherever the border of a continent slopes off Into a deep sea. great slides 9 - - -, amt these often cause . .', u, earthquakes. In Japan, Mr. Milne says, a large number of earthquakes came from the deep sea off tbe mouth of the Tonegawa, tbe largest of the Japanese rivers. The river brings down alluvial detritus which Is deposited on the brink of a deep hollow In the ocean, and from time to time the accumulated deposit slides into tbe depths, shaking not only 'he aea-bottom, but the adjacent land. According to Nlkola Tesla, aa report ed In Industries and Iron, "of all con ceivable method of generating electri cal energy, now in tbe present nor In tbe future Is likely to compare la facility and economy with the water fall." Of all methods of generating power, the utilization of waterfall, ha says, Is the simplest and least waste- a iui. .rvv. tomans w "'" " r possible, by combining carbon In a bat- 1 tery, to convert the work of the chero- ) leal combination Into electrical energy I with very high economy, such mode of ' obtaining power, be thinks, would be I no more than a mere makesmlft, bound , -to hs renlaced sooner or later by a more perfect method which requires no con sumption of any material whatever. "With a view to rendering bia opera tions really aseptic," aaya the Berlin correspondent of the Lancet. "Prof. S iwnit f RiW.hu has taken to one- Z ' , , . . ... , . Ttlng la giorea, and has published n account of the favorable results obtain- after three months' exper.ence. He thread gloves, which are made .aseptic In steam In the same way as j surgical bandages. Of course the hands . ,.,! -a j!.i i ,. ! jjojd of tissues In gloves than with the '. nfty years ago for the poet wno lost a collection of blank rhymes. The au thor who keeps a phonograph by his bedtddn. In order not to lose the bnl llant la.ais that come to lilin In the si lent wn'ches of the ulght. and the mag azine editor who. from Ills reKidevec. dictates a lengtny aud learned nriiil - through tne telephone to a nhnrtluvid writer at Ills office are all with us. for the authors are evidently not the kind f people to lag behind the age In wli.eb they live. A PECULIAR EXPLOIT. Tewed Large Turtle Twelve Threaten, the Water. Jim Westover, a youngster of 21. and a rider of the "bike," is the bera In the region about Mayport. Fla.. Just at present over the capture of a huge tur tle tbe other night on the bench. West aver bad been down on tbe beach tak ing a spin and also td see about some cows In a pasture at Six-Mile Point. He had a rope about fifty feet long that be took with him to do some measuring on some camp meeting lots. Knowing that this was tbe time for turtlvs to be paying their esgs, they affecting moon light nights for such exrrclee. be kept a sharp lookout for them. Just after jiasslng Pab'.o he saw tbe big outlluc pf something black up tbe beach. "Iiv Jimmlnv " ulil Jim r.ndpr hi. I breath, "that'a a dog-goned big un, too." Hiding r- slowly, he soon came near the big turtle, which was too busy lay ing eggs to notice J ten's noiseless ap- f roach. Jim cogitated over tbe matter or a few minutes and then, taking his rope, carefully fastened It to tbe tur tle's fr it flipper and drew the rope tight .0 sooner did the turtle feel this) than It started tin and wlg'.ed to ward tha water. Jim mourned his wheal and triad to ride off tbe other way. Jrm pedaled and pedaled, but could not move tbe old fellow. Tbe turtle seemed to bare the best of the bargain and pulled the unwilling Wheelmen to the water's edge. Jim was getting anxious. As the turtle entered (be water be started up tbe beach alongside the water's edge, trying to pet new pull on his capture. To his great surprise and delight be found that be had tbe turtle foul. Tbe ld fellow was at borne In the water, but having his right flipper caught by the tow rope he was powerless to run away, and fight as bard as be could be could not escape. Jim started up the beach as near the waiter's edge as he could ride, and began to tow tbe turtle to Mayport. Tbe turtle-naturally cJ jected and sheered out to sea. - But tbe tope being attached to his landsidc flipper H kept him at Just the right dis tance from the shore and he towed as easy as a log, as Jim said afterward. Once In a while be got obstreperous and twice Jim fell Into tbe water, but bv mld"'' "-" - ' ' nrlze arrived f-V aroused tbe neighbors, who came o nee what was up. They wonld not be lieve that Jim bad towed the turtle for twelve miles in this way, until be show ed them the rope and then to show off towed the big fellow up and In front of the town for a few turns. And the turtle had gotten used to It now and kept Just far out enough to make tow ing easy. When be saw Jim turn to m back, after going np the bank a little ways, the turtle turned around and shifted tbe rope to his landside flipper again, as he knew that he could not be towed If tbe rope was on the out side. Jim has the turtle In a crawl near hia honse and every evening he takes him for a tow along tbe banks. Chicago Chronicle. Seals IjOto Mmato. The well-known love of seals for mu sical aounds often leads to their de struction. When the Eskimo hunter sees none of bis prey about be begins whlatUnc, and sooner or later is sure to attract an appreciative seal within reach of bia harpoon. Lying at full length at the edge of the Ice he contin ues whiatHng low, plaintive, calling notes, and presently a few of tbe ani mals will draw near to tbe spot, lifting themselves aa high as they can out of the water, and slowly moving their beads) to and fro, as If keeping time to tha music. By and by one seal, more daring than Its fellows, will come very close to the hunter, wbo then Jumps to his feat and slays the creature, while Its mates make off as quickly as possi tla. Pearson's Weekly. Japanese Indn.try. The Japanese think the best mission ary they can send to Formosa Is tha locomotive, and they propose to civilize Its 500.000 fierce inhabitants by build ing railroads, which will furnish trans portatlon far tbe sugar, tobacco, rice, corn, tea. camphor, cinnamon, pepper and tropical fruits which flourish lux uriously In nearly the same latitude ar tbe Sandwich Islands. The Japanese Government Iron foun dry now In course of construction at Yed&mltsu In the Oga district will tuxs out 60,000 tons of steel yearly. Prance's Consumption of Alcohol. A learned professor at Geneva, Swit zerland, states that France drinks more alcohol annually than any other nation In Europe. Ills calculation Is basef on the percentage of alcoholic liquors consumed. According to this standard each person In France drinks thirteen quarts of alcohol In many more Quarts of wines, beers, etc, li the course of a year. Passports In Russia. Ia Russia a child 10 years of a?t cannot go away from home to school without a passport, nor can common servants and peasants go away from where they live without one. A gen tleman residing In Moscow or St. Pe tersburg cannot receive tbe visit of friend who remains many hours with' out notifying the police. The porters of all houses are compelled to make re turns of the arrival and departure of strangers, and for every one of the above passports a charge Is made o' some kind. Why They Don't Moans. "Why don't the Blfftona appear !a mourning? Wasnt Charley Blffton, who was drowned last week a membei of their fmUyr "Tea; hot ha rocked tha boaL OtoralMh. BEY. DR. TALMAGE. The ' Eminent Divine's Sunday Disc urse. (Hot of the Three TavernTh Rain YVroiicht by Liquor Crimson Wave of Dissipation Has Destroyed More Sail ors Tli.n the OceanMankind's Curse Tkxt: "They came to meet us as fur a A 1 i t Forum nnd the Three Taverns." A ts xxviii., 15. Seventeen miles south of Borne, Italy, thero was a village of unfortuuate name and bibulous suggestion. A tavern Is a plane ot entertainment, and, in our time, part of the entertainment is a provision ot intoxicants. One snuh place you would think would have been enough for that Italian village. No! There were three of them, with doors open for entertainment nnd obfuscatiou. The world has never lacked stimulating drinks. You remember the condition of Noah on one occasion, nnd of Abigail's husband, Kabul, and the story of lSnlgbmizar's feast, and Bonhadad, nnd the new wine In old bottles, and whole taragrnpbs on prohibition enactment thousands of years before Neal Dow was bom: anil no doubt there were whole shelves of Inflammatory liquid In these ho tels wlii.'h gave the name to the village whero Paul's friends came to meet him; namely, the Three Taverns. In vain I search ancient geography for some satis fyinj; account of that village. Two roads came from the sea coast to that place; the one from Actlum and the other from I'ute oli, the lost road being the one which Paul traveled. There were, no doubt, in that villngn houses of merchandise and me chanics' shops and professionalofnces, but nothing is known ot them. All we know of that village is that it had a profusion of inns the Three Taverns. Paul did not choose any one of these taverns as the place to meet hia friends. He certainly was very abstemious, but they made the selection. He had enlarged about keeping the body under, though once he prescribed for a young theological student a stimu lating cordial for a stomachic di sorder; but he told him to take only s small dose "a little wine tor thy stomach's sake." One of the worst things about these Tiirei! Taverns was that they had especial temptation for those who had just eonie ashore. People who had just Inn. led at A'rtiurn or Putcoli were soon tempted by these three hotels, which were only a little, way up from tho beach. Those who are disordered of thesea (for it is a physl-'ul disorgnnizer), instead of waiting for tho gradual return ot physical erpdpoise. are apt to take nrtittcial means to bra.'e up. Of the one million sudors now on the sea, how few of them coining ashore will escape the Tlir?e Taverns! After surviving hurri canes, cyolon.s, ieeliergs, collisions, many of titeni are wrecked in harbor. I warrant that if a calcuiution were inadu of the com- arative number of sailors lost at sea and ost ashore, those drowned by the crimson wave of dissipation would far outnumber those drowned by the salt water. Alas! that the large majority of those who go down to the sea in ships should have twice to pass the Three Taverns, namely: llefore they gc out and after they come in. That fa.'t was what aroused Father Taylor, the grat sailors' preacher, at the Sailors itetliel. lSoston, aud at a public meeting al Charlestown he said, "All the machinery ol the drunkard-making, soul-dcstroyins business is in perfect running order, from the low grog holes on the docks, kept oper to ruin my poor sailor boys, to the great establishments in Still House Square, ami n we ask men what is to be done about svaey say 'you can't help it,' and yet - w.. is I?;. " - - W"l . tI - u. n,i v r.J ftl! , stop it: ill i up there are Lexington and Concord." We might answer Father Tay lor's remark by saying, "The trouble is not that we can't stop It, but that we won't stop it." We must have more generation! slain before the world will fully wake up tc the evil. Tbat which tempted tbe travel ers of old who came np from the seaports of Actium and Puteoll is now the ruin o: seafaring men as they come up from tht coasts of all the continents, namely, tht Three Taverns. There are streets In some of our citiej where there are three or four taverns ot every block; aye, where every other hous is a tavern. You can take the Arabic num eral of my text, the three, and put on tht right hand side of it one cipher, and tw otphers, and four ciphers, and that re-tn forcement of numerals will not express thf statistics of American rummerics. Even 11 it wero a good, healthy business, supplying; a necessity, an article saperbly nutritious it is a business mightily overdone, anc there are three taverns where there oughf to be only one. The fact is, there are, in another sense Three Taverns now; the gorgeous taverr tor the affluent, tbe medium tavern for thi working classes, and the tavern of tht slums, and they stand in line, and man) people, beginning with tbe first, com down, through the second, nnd come out at tbe third. At the first of the three tav erns, the wines are of celebrated vintage, nnd the whiskies are said to be pure, ami they are qualfod from cut glass, at nmrl.lt aide-tables, under pictures approaching master-pieces. The patrons pull off theli kid gloves, and l and t'teirsllk hats to tht waiter, and pusu baei their hair with a ba 1 on one linger of which is a cameo. ...it those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not the money that a man pays for drinks, tor what area few hundred or a f.'W thousand dollnrs to a man of large income; but their brain gets touched, and that unbalances their judgment, and the.; ean see fortunes in enterprises surcharged with disaster. In longer or shorter time they change taverns, and they come down .to tavern the second, where the pictures are not quite so scrupulous .of suggestion and the small table Is rougher and the castor standing on it is of Herman silver and tht air has iwen kept over from the night be fore and that which they sip from the pewter mug has a larger percentage of ben- nine, nmt.ergr's. cr o-ote, henbane, strych nine, priissie acid, coculns Indicus. plnstei of paris, copperas. ap! nightshade. Tin patron may be seen almost every day and perhaps many times the same da at this tavern the second, but he is pre paring to graduate. Brain, liver, heart nerves, are rapidly giving wav. Thnt tavern the second tins its dismal echo in lib business destroyed and family scattered and woes that choke ones vocabulary. Time passes on, and he enters tav rn the thirt;a red light ouisi le, a hiccoughing and hes.itted group inside. He will he dragj.l out of doors about 2 o'clock in the nioriiiiig and left on the sidewalk, because the bartender wants to shut up. The pool victim has taken the regular course in the college of degradation. He tins his diploma written on hlsswollen. bruised, and blot died physiognomy. He is a regular graduate ol the Tlire Taverns. As the police take liim up and put him in the ambulance the wueeh seem to rumble with two rolls of thunder one of which snys, "Look not upon tht wine when it is red. when it moveth itsell aright in the cup, for at the Inst It Idleth like n peri-ent an I stingeth like an adder.' The otiiertliunder roll says, "All drunkard; shall have their place in the lake that burnetii with lire and with brimstone." I nin gin 1 to find in this scene of t'K text that there is such a tiling as declining successfully great Taverninn temptations. I can sen from what Paul sai l nnd did lifter he had traveled the following seven teen miles ot his journey, that he had re ceived no damage at the Three Taverns. How much he was temptiM I know not. Do not suppose that he was superior to temptation. That particular temptation has destroyed nrany of the grandest, mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosopher?, heroes, cl- rgyinen," apostles of law and niedbj.-je ami government and religion. Paul was not physically well under any eirj cumsianees; it was not In moeic deprecia tion that he said he was "in LTdfly presence weak." It seems that bis evesightvas so poor that he did his writing through an amanuensis. 10 be mentions it is some' thing remarkable that his shortest Epistle. the one to Philemon, was in bis own pen manship, saying: "I, Paul, have written it with my own hand.-He had lieen thrown from his horse, he had been stoned, he had peen endungeoned, h had had his nerves- pulled on bv-preaohlhg at Athens to tha uV. scholarly .an. dience or an the earth, and at Cor int'u to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage, and been howled upon by the Ephesfhn worshipers of Diana, tried for his life before Felix, charged by FostuS with being insane, and crawled up on the beach, drenched In tbe shipwreck, and much of the time had an Iron handcuff on ills wrist, andjif any man needed stimulus, Paul needed it, but with all his physical exhaustion, he got post the Three Taverns undamaged, and stepped Into Borne all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which he was subjected. Oil! How many mighty men, feeling that they must brace up after extraordinary service, and prepare them selves for other service, havo called ou the spirit of wine for inspiration, and in a few years have been sacritled on the altar of a Moloch, who sits on a throne of human carcasses. Shall I call the names of fifty ot the victims, tall of them Illustrious in American history? Nol It would not lie wise, or kind, or Christian to call their names in public, but vou call them out of your own memory. Oh, how many splendid men could not get post the Three Taverns. Long ago an arch II end arrived in our world, and be built an Invisible cauldron of temptation. He built that cauldron strong and stout for all ages and ail nations. First squeezed into the cauldron the Juices ,t the forbidden fruit of paradise; then he gathered for It a distillation from the harvest fields and the orchards of tbe hemispheres; then he poured into this caul dron capsicum and logwood and assault and battery and vitriol and opium nnd rum and murder and sulphuric acid and theft and potash and cochineal and red carrots aud poverty and death and hops. But it was a dry compound, and it must be moistened and It must be liquelled, and so the nreh fiend poured Into the cauldron tbe blood of twenty thousand assassinations. And then the arch fiend took a shovel that he bad brought up frDm the furnaces beneah, and he put the shovel into this great cauldron and began to stir, and the cauldron began to heave and rock and boll and sputter and hiss and smoke, and the nations gathered around it with cups and tankards and demijohns and kegs, nnd there was enough for all, and the arch fiend cried: "Aha! Champion tlend am I! Who has done more than I have for colllus and graveyards and prisons and the populating of the lost world? And when this cauldron is emptied I'll fill it again, and I'll stir it again, and It will smoke again, nnd that sin. ike will join another smoke the smoke .if a torment that oseen.leth for ever and ever. I drovo fifty ships on the rocks of Newfoundland and the, Skerries and the tin. id wins. I have ruined more Senators than will gather next winter lu the national .-. nitidis. I have ruined m..r Lords than uill bo gathered in the House of Peers. The cup out of which I ordinarily drink Is a bleached human skull, and th" upholstery of my palace Is so rich a crimson l.eeuiise. it Is dyed in li 11 in 1111 g..r and the mosaic of my floors is ma b up of the hom-a of chil dren dashed to death by drunken parents, and my favorite music, sweeter than To Ileum or triumphal niar.di -aiv favorite) music is the cry of duiigiitcrs lur.i I out at midnight on tr.c street because lather has come home from n ear oiisiil. and fheseven-hundred-volced shri.k of the Mpkig steamer because the captain ;i-.:iot hit. self when he put the ship 011 the wrou, course. Champion (lend nm I' I have kindled more llres. I have wrung out nmri agonies, I have stretched put more mid night shadows. I hnve opened more liul gothas. I have rolled more Juggernaut-, I have dainne.l more souls, than ar y oilier emissary of diabolism. Champion ti. -11 I am I. Ha! ha! ha! ha! " But what 11 glad time wb "n the world comes to its lu-t Three 'J :i v rii.:'. .1 the snle of intoxieanfs. N'oiv tie-re ;ir - so many of them that statisties ar ilv a more or less accurate guess as to I heir number. iWe sit with half-close 1 eyes and utidis tnrbed nerves 1111 I hear that in in th'i United States there were p.hil breweries 4a4frqt"rle ..nd 171. W'J 1 a. el that possibly by this time -.-.llgun may he truthfully doubled. The fact 1 that these establishments nre innumerable, and the discussion Is always disli 'iirt -ii-ing, and the impression is abroad that the, plague is so mighty and universal it ca. (never be cured, and the most of sermons on this subject close with the Hook of Lamentntions, and not with the Book of Revelations. Excuse me from adopting nny such infidel theory. The Bible reiter ntes it until there Is no more powei in inspiration to make it pluinei thnt tho earth Is to be. not or three-quarters. but wholly deemed. On that rock I Ink. triumphant stand and join in til" half eli. rus of Hosaunntis. One of the most advantageous m .ve ments In the right direction is taking th whole subject into the education of t! young. On the same s.riool-desk with f grammar, the geography, the aritlnre are books telling the lads and lasses or t nnd twelve nnd fifteen years of ago wii ore the physiological effects of sit-, drink, what it does with the tissue ol '. liver and the ventricles of tho brain: whereas other generations did no re: " the evil until their own bodies were blast . weare to hnve n generation taught wi.u the viper Is before It stings them, what 1 '. hyena is before It rends them, how de. ; the abyss before it .swallows them, .m boards of education, teachers in s. le ! professors in colleges. Legislatures. Congresses, widen and augment that w r, nnd you hasten the complete overthrow .1 this evil. It will go down. I have the word of Al mighty God for thnt in the assured extirpa tion of all sin. But shall we have a share i ithe universal victory? The liquor sal . 0 Will drop from the hundreds of tuou-:i'e (into the scoro of thousands, nn. I then ir (the thousands lutothe hundreds. ni:d 1 'from tbe hundrods Into the tens. '.in I fi t he tens to Three. The first of tl;,e three taverns will be w'uc.re th educ and philosophic and tho higii-up will tthetr dram, b'Jt that class, nwjri of ipowur of the example they have been King, will turn their back upon the evil . tom and be satisfied with two natural I k-rages that God Intended for the stlnn lof the race the Java coffee plantati ifurnishing the best of the one and the C ese ten Holds the best of the other, some day the barroom will becrowded people at the vendue and the auction jmallet will pound nt the snle of the a,., tenanccs. The second of these last three taverns will tfllro flown itu llnmifie si.,.. fi.hI .. v 'tinguish itsred light nnd close Its-doors, for the working cluss will have coiieiu,,..i ;o l.uy tlitur own uorsesan.l lurrilsli theirown beautiful homes and replenish finely tho fwardrobe of their own wives and d.iu-jh- ters, instead of providing the .listiljers. t.ie brewers. and liquor sellers with w-ardr .o--s and mirrors and carriages. A-.d thene: timethat second tavern is opened p wll l. a drug store, or a bakery, or a dry g- i establislimeiit, or a sejiool. Then there wi:l be only one inor-i of the 'l'iir"e .lissip t: Taverns left. I don't know in wmtt w: try, or city, or neig'iberh 10, 1 it will l- ! look at it.for it is the very lust. Tri" 1 1-: inebriate, will have staggered up t counter and put down his pcunie- f dram. Its l-it liorri;.!e a lult'-a' :o bemixed and ipi'i'Te I locator.. Co ami iut.amc the brain, 'liielas: !ri vrill have slumM.'d down it- f' Til' last s e:is:..s of tb li 1 i u 111 I reni'-i. - . I.y it will 'be st 1. 1 gb-.l thr .ugli. I r iikerv will be torn down, an I '.1 1 Uis v.; 1 1 demolition will elo; ' lions. 'Die Inst of I'.'lVetlls of all the onglilv blo'rel on', i'a.-ei iis of in y text. i' i t t :f s !i-siet! I'.ollll. .g Thr. X.ir The noblest contribution which man can make for the iMMiclit of postc is that of a good character. 1 ho ric Ix-qui-st. which any man can leave t. youth ol Ins native land is thai 01 ing, ssilless example. The liest praver is for qualification our duties an.l responsibilities. Tact is a piflfit is likewise a ;r.i. ' cift.it mav. or may not lu ,..;! our share; asf prace, we an- found to iwssess or to acquire It. It is much more Important ! I . for Christ' coining at any ne.n to know ju-t when lie will con -.. A costly monument indicat- - 1 person whose utcinory it is to p was rich, I"'1 b's nut indie. riches wo.i e secured. Tho chrity that kis in view a i!t office ougfiit to be spelled "li-n-u 1 3 S f
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