, ( Jpilid ill a. a. ii nil in III B. P. HGHWEIER. THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UW8. Suiter &d Ptmutnuw . avjjt ..A.a.JLtMJUiLxeaar , . - jim VOL. LII MIFFLTNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 16.1898. NO. 11 I JI L il I.K III I. WW T CHAITEIt XVII. T unii r i i.i-t-h md Madaiine were married at an early hour. ".ot" said Lord Arleirh. nroudlr. "thai there U any typed for concealment why should there he? but. you see. Lady Pet era. If If Wtfkrw Itiwiwn tlmt It wn mv VM. ding day, I haTe so many friends, so many relatives, that privacy would be impossi ble for us: therefore the world has nol been enlightened as to when I intended to claim my darling for ray own." "It is a strange marriage for an Ar leigh," observed Iady Peters "the first of its kind, I am sure. But I think yoi are right your plan is wise." AH the outward show made at the wed ding consisted in the rapid driving of a carriage from the hotel to the church Ferriage containing two ladies one young, fair, charming, as a spring morning, thi other older, graver and more sedate. The young girl was fair and sweet, het golden hair shining through the marriage Tell, her blue eyes wet with unshed tears, her face flushed with daintiest roseleal bloom. It was a pleasant spectacle to see th dark, handsome face of her lover as h greeted her, the love that shone in his eyes, the pride of his manner, as though he would place her before the whol world, and defy it to produce one so grace ful or so fair. Lady Peters' face softened ed and her heart beat as she walked up to the altar with them. This was true love. They walked out of the church together, and when they stood m the sunlight he turned to her. "My darling, my wife," he said in an impassioned voice, "may heaveu send to us a life bright as sunshine, love as pure life and death together! I pray heaven that no deeper cloud may come over our Uvea than there is now in the sky above us. These words were spoken at only eleven In the morning. If he had known all that he would have to suffer before eleven at night. Lord Arleigh, with ail his bravery, all his chivalry, would have been ready to fling himself from the green hilltop in to the shimmering sea. It was the custom of the Arleigh to spend their honeymoon at home; they had never fallen Into the habit of making themselves uncomfortable abroad. The proper place, they considered, for a man to taice his young wiie to was nome; tne ; the famous beeches. Soft Turkish cush first Lord Arleigh had done so, and each . jong aljd velvet lounges filled it, and near lord had followed this sensible example. it hung one of Titian's most gorgeous pic 'orman. Lord Arleigh, had not dreamed . tures a dark-eyed woman with a ruby of making any change. J necklace. The sun's declining rays falling Bride and bridegroom had one of the ' on the rubies, made them appear like blithest, happiest Journeys ever made, drops of blood. It was a grand picture. What cloudbnrst could rise in such a sky , ne ,uat had been bought by the lords of as theirs? They were blessed with youth, I TVechgrove, and the present Lord Arleigh beauty, health; there had been no one to! took great delight in it. Taise the least opposition to their mar-j lle watched the Ion folds of Matalln. ' before them stretched a long goldet, lurure. The carriage met them at the station; it was then three in the afternoon, and the day continued fair. j "We will have a long drive through the j park, Madaiine," said Lord Arleigh. "You . will like to see your new home." ck, instead of going direct to the man- i ston, they turned off from the main ave-' nue to make a tour of the park. ' "Now I understand why this place is called Beechgrove, said Madeline, sud i denly. I have never seen such trees in my life." She spoke truly. Giant beech trees spread out their huge boughs on all sides. They were trees of which any man would have been proud, because of their beauty and magnificence. Presently from be tween the trees she saw the mansion It self. Lord Arleigh touched his young wife's arm gently. "My darling," he said, "that is home." The carriage stopped at the grand en trance. Wishing to spare his young wife all fatigue and embarrassment. Lord Ar leigh had not dispatched the news of his marriage home, so that no one at Beech wood expected to see Lady Arleigh. He sent at once for the housekeeper, a tall, stately dame, who came into the dining room, looking in unutterable amazement at the beautiful, blushing young face. "Mrs. Chatterton," he said, "I wish to introduce yon to my wife, Lady Arleigh.'' The stately dame curtsied almost to the ground. "Welcome home, my lady," she said, deferentially. "If I had known that your ladyship was expected I would have made more befitting preparations." "Nothing could be better you have ev erything In admirable order," responded Lord Arleigh, kindly. "His lordship wrote to tell me to have ail the rooms In the western wing ready," said Mrs. Chatterton; "but he did not tell why. They are splendid rooms, my lady lartre, bright and cheerful. They look over the beautiful beeches In the park, from which the place takes Its name. Of course you will have what is called Lady Arleigh's suite." As she spoke Mrs. Chatterton threw open the door, and Lady Arleigh saw the most magnificent rooms she had ever be held in ber life a boudoir ail blue silk and white lace, a spacious sleeping cham ber daintily hung with pink satin, a dress ing room that was a marvel of elegance. and a small library, all fitted with the greatest luxury. When Lady Arleigh bad changed ber . traveling dress, she went downstairs. Her i young husband looked up in a rapture of delight. "Oh, Madaime, ne saia, -now jong have vou been away from me? It seems like a hundred hours, yet I do not sup- nose it has been one. And how fair you j t rr. . 1 A I. .' . V- look, my love I mat ciouoy wwie rooe suits your golden hair and your sweet j name for one of her class but the moth face, which has the same soft, sweet, ex- er had lived among well-to-do people, and r-ression as when I saw you first; and i had caught some of their Ideas. I looked those pretty houWers of yours gleam like at the girl her face was fair, sweet, pure, polished marble through the lace. No I felt the power of Its beauty, and only Iress could be more coquettish or pret- wondered that she should belong to such tier." people at all; her hands were white and The wide hanging sleeves were fastened shapely as my own, her figure was slen back from the shoulders wirth buttons of der and graceful. I began to talk to her pearl, leaving the white, rounded arms and found her well educated, refined, in bare; a bracelet of pearls Lady Peters' teUigent all, in fact that one could wlah. gift was clasped roand the graceful neck; "Little by little their story came out the waves of gulden hair, half loose, half it waa one of a mother's pride and glory carelessly fanned, were like a crown on to her only child. She worshiped her 1,. beautiful head. literally worshiped her. She bad net filled -I am. proud X my wtfa h said. "I I mt do fairer Lady Arleigh T t Beechgrove. When we hare tunao. aiadaline. I will te-keyoe to the picture gallery, and Introduce yen to my : ancestors and anoetree " Gorman, she said, a sudden steam of memory Drlghtening her face; "I had al- " . . lOTKen tn aucnese rare me lnis T ou: 1 w to be sure to fire it to ' Jou befor the sun set on our wedding " She held out white packet sealed i cureiy, and he took It wonderingly. He . tore off the outer cover, and saw, written . on the envelope: "A wedding present tram Fhilinoa. iucoesa ui Etezeiwuuu, to lxru a.....u. To be read alone on his wedding day." CHAPTER XVIII. Lord Arleigh stared at the packet which his wife had given him, and again and again read the words that were inscribed on It: "A wedding present from Philippa, Duchess of Hazelwood, to Lord Arleigh. To be read alone on his wedding day." What could It mean? Philippa at times took strange caprices Into her head. This seemed to be one of the strangest. He held the letter in his hand, a strange pre sentiment of evil creeping over him which he could not account for. From the en velope came a sweet scent, which the duchess always used. It was so familiar to him that for a few minutes it brought her vividly before him he could have fancied her standing near him. Then he remembered the strange words: "To be read alone." What could that mean? That the letter contained something that his young wife must not see or hear. "Madaiine, my darling," he said, sinking on to an ottoman, "you have taken no tea. You would like some. Leave me here alone for half an hour. I want to think." She did what she had never done volun tarily before. She went up to him and clasped her arms round his neck. She bent ber blushing face over his, and the caress surprised as much aa it delighted him she was so shyly demonstrative. "What are you going to think about, Norman ? Will it be of me?" "Of whom else should I think on my wedding day, if not of my wife?" he ask ed. "I shall not be tong," said Madaiine. "You will find me here," he returned. "This is a favorite nook of mine. I shall not leave it until you return." The nook was a deep bay window from which there was a ma imi Scent view nt hite dres, as she pass, along the gal j lerv. and then the li.mirfnir fell hohln her. Once more he held up the packet, "A wedding present from Philippa, Duchess of Hazelwood, to Lord Arleigh." Whatever mystery it contained should be solved at once. He broke the seal; the envelope contained a closely written epis-' tie. tie looked at it In wonder. hat could Philippa have to write to him about? The letter began as follows: "A wedding present from Philippa, Duenese of Uaxelwood, to Norman, Lord ArMgn. xou will ask what It te? My answer is, my revenge well planned, pa tiently awaited. "Fire, fury and hatred rage now in my heart aa I write this to you. You have scorned me this Is my revenge. I am a j proud woman I have lowered my pride J to you. My lips have never willfully ut- j tered a false word; still they have lied to you. I loved you once, Norman, and on ', the day my love dieu I knew that nothing could arise from its ashes. j "Y'ears ago we had a maid whom my mother liked very much. She was gentle, ' well-mannered and well-bred for her sta- j tion in life. She left us and went to ' some other part of England. She married i badly a handsome, reckless, ne'er-do- j well, who led her a most wretched life. ! "I know not, and care nothing for the story of ber married life, her rights and wrongs. How she becomes of interest to you lies in the fact that shortly after my marriage she called to see me and ask my aid. She had been compelled to give up her home hi the country and come to London, where, with her husband and child, she was living in poverty and mis ery. While she was talking to me the duke came in. I think her patient face interested him. He listened to her story and promised to do something for her hus band. You will wonder how this story it Margaret Dornham concerns you. Read on. You will know in time. "My husband, having promised to assist this man, sent for him to the house; and , the result of that visit was that the man, seeing a quantity of plate about, resolved upon helping himself to a portion of it. I To make my story short, he was caught, j after having broken into the house, packed up a large parcel of plate and filled his pockets with some of my most I I valuable jewels. There was no help for . it but to prosecute him, and his sentence I was, under the circumstances, none too j heavy, being ten years' penal servitude. "Afterward I went to see hie wife Mir , garet, and found her in desperate circum- i stances; yet she had one ornament In her house a beaiatiful rouna airl- br dauxh er. so fair of face that she dazzled me. The moment I saw her I thought of your; description of your ideal eyes like blaej byacinths, and nair or goia. orinwun . a plan entered my mind which I have , most successfully carried out. "I asked for the girl's name, and waa . .... ... r , i - . told Unit it was Aladanne an uncommon the sid'a mind with aaj I did noTipa(TarayVaS!biMtfc. er had been aa old friend of mine. Then I told him that my whim wm te bring Madaiine home and make a eompeoloo of ber; he allowed me to do Jnat aa I pleas ed, asking no questions about her parent, or anything else. I do not believe It ever occuned to him aa strange that the name of my protege and of the man who had robbed kirn was the same Indeed, he seemed to haTe forgotten all about the robbery. So I brought Madaiine home to Vera Ooort, and then to London, wtoere I knew you would ace her. "I bought my husband the yacht on pur pose that be might go away and leave me to work out my plana, I knew taat ne could not reaiat the temptation I offered. I knew alao that If be remained in Eng land be would want to know all about Madaiine before be allowed you to marry ber. "So I hare takes my revenge. I, Phfl fppa. Duchess of Hazelwood, on this your wedding day, reveal to you the first stain on the name of Arleigh unvail the first blot on one of the noblest escutcheons in the land. Ton have married not only a low-born girl, but the daughter of a felon a felon's daughter is mistress of proud Beech wood I" He read the letter with a burning flush on his face, which afterward grew white aa with the pallor of death; a red mist was before his eyes, the sound of surging waters in his ears, his heart beat loud and fast. Gould it be true oh, merciful heav en, could it be true? They must part. The girl be loved wkb all the passionate lore of bis heart, the fair young wife whom he worshiped, must go from him, and he must see her no more. She must be his wife hi name only. Looking up. he saw her she was at th other end of the gallery; he saw the tall, slender figure and the sweeping dress he saw the white arms with their grace ful contour, the golden hair, the radianl face and be groaned aloud; he saw het looking up at the pictures as she passed slowly along the ancestral Arleighi oi whom he was so proud. If they could have spoken, those noble women, what would they have said to this daughter of a felon? She paused for a few minutes to look up at her favorite, Lady Alicia, and then she came up to him and stood before him in ail the grace of her delicate loveliness, in all the pride of her dainty beauty. She was looking at the gorgeous Titian neai him. "Norman," she said, "the sun has turn ed those rubies into drops of blood they looked almost terrible on the white throat What a strange picture! What a trag ical face!" Suddenly with outstretched arms she fell on her knees at his aide. "Oh, my darling, what has happened 1 What is the matter 7" She had been away from him only baM an hour, yet it seemed to him ages since he had watched her leave the gallery with a smile on her lips. "What is It, my darling?" she cried again. "Dear Norman, yon look as though the shadow of death had passed over you. What is it-T in another moment she had flung her self on his breast, clasped her arms round his pale, changed face as she bad never done before. He looked at the sweet, pleading face. How could he dash the light and bright ness from it? How could he slay het with the cruel story he had to tell. Then, in a low, hoarse voice, he said: "You must know all, and 1 cannot say It. Read this letter, Madaiine, and the you will understand." (To be continued.) Took a Long Header. Last week Miss Pearl Baxter and Miss Agnes Rogers, the latter from Coos Bay on a visit to friends In Co- wheels "thTbm on tEe westdde of the long new bridge down to and on I the bridge in Coqullle city. W. E. Mc ! Duffe was on the bridge close to a aide railing, and Miss Rogers was also keep ing close to the railing till they were so near together that neither could with safety turn out. Miss Rogers did take the chances, however, and turned, but was going at such speed that in turning the corner on the bridge, where the roadway runs south, the wheel dashed under the railing, which la three feet high, while the rider went circling through the air over the railing, land ing on the soft, marshy ground 22 feet below. Besides this great fall, Mlsa Roger struck between two stakes, standing abont three feet apart, and missed them entirely, or she would certainly have been killed or very badly hurt. Tha accident was witnessed by McDuiTee, Miss Pearl Baxter, Mrs. D. F. Dean and Sam Nosier. The last named has teted to the young lady's rescue, who seemed to be stunned by the fall, and raised ber from the ooze of the marsh. She proved to be all right, except some badly rent clothing, and was quickly heard from in the ejaculation, "Well, j but what's become of my wheel?" She thought It must be broken to pieces, and It seemed to occupy first considera ' tlon In ber mind. If the fall had been , Just a few feet further along, the lady l would certainly have been killed on ' striking the hard earth. Morning Ore- gontan. An Old Phonograph. The antiquity of modern Inventions has often been the subject of remark, by way of commentary upon the old saying that "there la nothing new un der the sun." An extreme case la re ported by the London News. A peripatetic exhibitor of the phono graph In Holland, seems determined to distance all competitors. He was ex hibiting the machine In. the streets of Utrecht, and a number of customers were listening to a selection of tunes. Suddenly the music ceased and there was a panse. Then In a loud, clear tone was heard the one word, "Halt!" "What la that?" asked one of the listeners. That," waa tha reply. 'Is the voice of Napoleon Bonaparte giving the order at the battle of Waterloo I" Any Oae Can Sign Them. Blgga They say that old man who sella newspapers over there on the cor ner can sign bla cheek for $50,000 any day In tbe week. XMgga Indeed! Then why does he continue to sell papers? Blgga Oh, signing a check and get ting It cashed are two different things, you know'. In order to raise church funds, a Georgia minister charged admission to an ( llgbt In BngUab OOUXta, Soma mafia entertainment where tbe contestants en- , tietea l rfn. in mnt th 1 . 1 rtm gaged in a ginger cake eating competi- 1 . . L. 'T" tion. amsenjen. mmmtom i wrmr mom n A full-grown man exhales seventeen ounces of carbonic acid gas every twenty-four hours. A new discovered spot on the sun, which Is visible Just now, la said to be 30,000 miles In diameter. Acetylene is now used for lighting Paris omnibuses, generator and carbide weighing about thirty pounds. A substance believed to be a new element has been obtained from cast iron and boiler dust by G. O. Boucher, an English chemist, and baa been sub mitted to Prof. William Crookes for spectroscopic Investigation. Another assayer. F. U. Ruddock, has noticed like material in steel drillings from the Continent. The modern office building was sub jected recently to a severe test in a tire in Pittsburg. It was found that the sleel frame resisted the fire admirably. Metallic lathing and plaster was found Ineffectual as a protection for wooden partitions. Wooden shutters covered with thlu sheet-Iron gave good tem porary protection; large glass window were an eleiueut of danger. Thin sheets of wood are guled togeth er. In a factory of WarsowL Russia. so that the grain crosses, an elastic plate which cannot be twisted out of shape being thus obtained. These plateB are used for rootling tiles. Tbey stand the weather well after being patched, and can be made fireproof by saturation with potassium silicate (sol uble glass). The roofing weigha twelve pounds a square yard. Aluminum Is now cheaper for equal volume than brass. Steel and alumi num tubing of equal external diameter and equal weight have been tested against each other. The aluminum tubing had 16 per cent, less rigidity, but resisted buckling and crushing bet ter. In France tt has been found that a great saving In the weight of railroad cars, one and one-half tons per car, can be effected by substituting alumi num for brass wherever possible. According to experiments made in a cold storage establishment In Washing ton, by Dr. A. M. Read, an alteration of a low temperature, say 18 degrees Fahrenheit, with a comparatively high one, say 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, Invariably kills the larvae of certain in jurious Insects, although they are not Injured by a continuous exposure to the lower temperature. This confirms an old belief, long held by farmers, that a steadily cold winter la followed by an abundance of Insect pests, but that, during an Irregular winter. When the temperature Is alternately high and low, insects are killed off. A curious Instance of the effect of the shape of the ground upon the wind blowing over it was recently noted by Monsieur Batut as he was experiment ing with kites in France. When a north wind floated the kite the latter kept Its balance easily, but when the wtod came from the south or southeast the kite pitched and bobbed In a very Irregular manner. The explanation was fur nished by the character of the surface over which the wind had passed. Com ing from the north It had a plain conn try to blow over; but. coming from the south and southeast. It passed across broken hills, which set It into Irregular puffs and undulations. DISEASES IN COURT BIBLES. Microbe. Poison tbe Books Kissed by tat Tbouaand. or Vt ltnea.es. Queen Victoria's magistrates are re volving the question whether or not tbe Bibles used in administering oatha can carry infection and spread disease. Tbe matter was first brought op by a physician summoned to testify In a London court. When the clerk band ed him the Bible he kept for the admin istration of oaths, he refused to take It. He explained that In bis Judgment the cover of that book, long In nse m the court and having been kissed by thousands of lips, was pregnant with thousands of microbes and thus mlgtit be the means of conveying Infection. He asked permission to disinfect the cover and then expressed his entire willingness to take tbe oath in the usu al manner. The magistrate waa at first startled at this novel proposition, but finally, seeing that tbe witness was a sensible man of science, he consented. There upon the physician took from bis satch el a small vial of phenlc add, opened It and poured some drops therefrom on the dingy leather cover of the Bible. He then spread the liquid over the en tire cover by means of his handker chief and, having rubbed it well in, he took the required oath. The Incident created widespread com ment and the physician was bombard ed with letters and. queries on the sub ject. He made a public statement in which he maintained that the time honored custom of administering an oath In courts of law was contrary to the elementary principles of hygiene, ind that It was, In fact, one of the most dangerous practices of modern times. "No one," he Insisted, "would consent to drink In a pnblic house where only one glass la used, and wijy, then, should anyone consent to kiss a book Whlcb thousands have kissed before hlmr Naturally, many persons have fol lowed his example. Almost daily soma witness asks tbe Judge If be may dis infect tbe Bible before be puts bis Dps to tt, and vials contarnina; diatnfect- ants are Oecotulng qutte a common the court la eteaa and aa tt afceaM bet therm, on the contrary, grant permis sion, though they grumble a little at what they consider a wilful waste of time. Scientists approve ef the phy sician's conduct, and the general pub lic la so worked tip ever the matter that a league ia being formed with the object of purifying all the court Bibles fes Bfl-lasd. Ghleage Chronicle. BUYS AN ANCIENT HOUSE. Aa Aatienariaa Bceares the Ma Stra.tar. In America. The oldest house In America has re cently Chan gad owners the fourth oc cupant sines it was built. 333 years ago. It was built In 1504 en the settle ment of 8t Augustine, Fla., by the Spaniards. This solid structure was built of coqulna, a formation ef sea shells, mixed with mortar, and was in tended for a monastery? and was occu pied by the monks of the order of St Francis for about twenty years, when a large edifice was built nearer the church building, which occupied tho site of the present cathedral, from that time until Florida was acquired by the United States It was occupied by the Spanish "governor general" of Florida as bis military headquarters. Durlnif the brief English occupation the oli building was the headquarters of th commanaanc lne coortag Is also o coqulna and la a solid as when laid, I more than three centuries age, On tho first floor are the dining and reception rooms and the family rooms, with small kge cut out of the aorta side fer afternoon siestas, In front of which Is a railing upon which fragrant plants were twined aa a screen. The second story was partitioned n to cells for the monks, the council hall being in die center. These cells remaltt as they were originally constructed. Bach baa a small Jail-tike window, el ther looking out upon the broad Matan as River or upon the Indian village of Setory, Just beyond the City gates. The partMona are of Spanish cedar, brought over from Cuba. Tne wood ia In a good state of preser vataon ana is almost aa durable as rock. The tiling for the roof was also brought from Spam. This picturesqne red roof waa supplanted In late years by one of wooden shingles. The cedar "mantelpiece" In the reception-room on the first floor was recently removed to admit of certain repairing, and tht carpenter was surprised to see several Spanish doubloons roil out upon the flooring. A general bnrrewtog m and around the boose followed without gratifying results. The house la situated about blocks from the Uatajaaas River and near the present United States bar racks and parade ground. It was the center of military and social life dur ing the entire Spanish occupancy. It was the only bouse left staadtng when the buccaneer, Francis Drake, s.icked and burned the town. Being bulit of coquina. ne could not corn K. its re cent purchaser, J. W. nendWsoe, Is a traveler and antiquarian of note, and states that he has purchased It for a winter residence and will preserve the ancient structure in all of Its plctur esqueness. WON A WIFE WITH AN EGO. Oklahoma Farmer Made Haspy br s Ktadoa Love UcMagc, Ross Williams of EsJd. O. T wrote a lovelorn message oa an egg ready for shipment Beveral weeks ago, and as a result be won kimseif a brfde. What the young maa said on the egg was tWs: "On a farm In the Cherokee strip I sit a sad and lotiely bachelor, think ing sadly over my fate and weuld love to come off the nest and Join my life with that of some comely young lady of not too many summers' growth. Should tbe message on this egg meet with the eye of a fair one who ts ma trimonially Inclined an short acquaint ance, and who thinks she could en joy a prairie life with a student of nature's beauty, address Ross Will lams, Enid, O." In due course of time this reply came: "Dear Mr. William From the quiet prectnets of my boudoir I write thee. I am lonely, too, and bave often long ed to ovjMa ctty Mfe and go west, where tbe tall, wild grass sways In the wind aa If Mstealng to the sweet songs of the cinch bugs. After chopping wood to kindle the kitchen fire and after the Are was ready for bnslnees and the pan was slanting In the sparkling fat, I waa about to break aa egy Into the pan, when, behold! yonr message meets my gase. It seemed like a dream of a lost, unknown lore. I am comely, but not fair. Age, twenty-three, no money, but plenty of grit Let as ex change photographs. It may all end In another American union, long to be preserved. Me thinks I know you now. "BESSIE CARROLL. "Chicago, ID." Further correspondence resulted, and a few days later the young people were married. New York Herald. Tbe Ball Before Waterloo. Wellington's conduct Is a riddle. About the middle of the afternoon he was Informed, through the Prince of Orange, aa to his enemy's movements. With perfect calm, be commanded that bla troops should be ready In their cantonments; at five he Issued orders for tbe divisions to march with a view to concentration at Nlvellea, the east ernmost point that be Intended to oc cupy; at ten, Just as he was setting out for the Duchess of Richmond's ball, he gave definite Instructions for the con centration to begin. About twenty minutes after the Prince of Orange had reached tbe ballroom Wellington sent him quietly away, and then, summon ing tbe Duke of Richmond, who was to bave command of the reserve when formed, be asked for a map. The two withdrew to an adjoining room. Wel lington closed tbe door, and said, with an oath, "Napoleon baa humbugged me." He then explained that be bad ordered bla army to concentrate at Quatre Bras, adding, "But we shall not stop bint there; and If so, I must flght bin hers," marking Waterloo with his thumb-nail en tbe map as be spoke, Century. We wtah glrla were politicians; poll fldm tiwiji aqueese a ntn'i . .W rr "BSn i - is? 'si a ' " i I isa, i mmm mf . , -" - - , y,;. "'k r.tfr jfahfin i Mr j--'"-- fA-w-.lhSjsn , mm'i a Illinliiiina' ' iatsahaawaiieai Hi.ja.ri i I mi was m ' o.g- yT -'"- "V" -' " - -v-rr :'"- DOCTOR AND NEPHEW. rka Kiaer Ku Tniit laUu Train, la Verm sf arables. Tbe old doctor's nephew Tern ru town the ether day to tha village with ais gun and dog for a month's shooting la the marshes. His nncls always has i warm welcome for the lad, whose mind la eager and bold, tall of the same queries and doubt, which tormented, and were solved by, tbe older man In bis youth. Torn read to the doctor one morning an account of tbe late tcntble fire In Paris. He laid dowa tbe paper and aid hoarsely: "What was tbe good In a berrer Eke that? Can you tell me? These were not criminals who deserved death, but fair, kindly, gentle women, the very flower of France, doing a charitable act for tbe poor la OoaTs name: and while they are busied with It, smiling and happy, they are all awept Into death, and In a few mlnutta are hid eous, blackened corpses. What does Providence mean by permitting such cruelty or perhaps you call tbe power that did It destiny V "I call It God," said the doctor quiet ly, but made no other answer. He. too. was moved by the terrible story. Later in the day the two men strolled out Into the fields, while Nep. the set ter, dashed to and fro through the bushes. "He Is wild with deflght at getttna Into the country," said Tenx "A hunt ing dog Is often miserable tn town. I take him out once or twice a year, and It gives him new life; but he suffers agonies of terror on the train from tha noise and the motion. Although tt U but a short Journey from the city here, and he baa made it a dozen times, bis far of it Is as great as at first. One would think the poor brute would un derstand by this time." "Yes," said the doctor; "but If he la ao afraid, isn't tt cruel to make him take the Journey?" Tom looked at him surprised. "What! when he Is to have the country for a month? But I suppose," be said, laughing, "Nep thinks me a demon of cruelty." "Doesn't It occur to you," said his uncle, "that the passage of death, which lasts but a moment, may seem to God of no more importance than the railway Journey does to you? We shudder when we read of a hundred women hurried to what appears to be premature death, or thousands of Chi nese drowned in a flood, but It seems to me that God has only ordered them to make a brief Journey to Uve in another place." "Ton mean,"" said Tom. "that I un derstand God and His ways as little as Nep understands me and my ways? Yon are a seerular old Aesop, with your fables ef beasts and men." He walked en thoughtfully,. no longer tn tbe mood to censure God or question the mysteries of His goverometrt. but rather to accept the spirit of the In spired words that bave given hope and rest to many generations of men, "HI mercy emiureth forever." Acemracy Carried Too Fart. A ship once went ou a cruise, and the captain determined to keep an ac curate account of the voyage In bis logbook. One morning the first mate, who had been oti a lark the day be fore, looking over the logbook, found this entry: "The 8rt mare was drunk all day yesterday." He at once appealed to the captain. saying to him: "Why in the world did you want to write that in tbe log book r ."Is It not truer"" questioned the enp- tain. 'Yes, but there was ao nse to state IT." 'Oh, yes. there was. I IJitend n keep full and accurate record of what goes ou on board this ship during the entire voyage." The first mate was compelled to sub mit, but his turn came. Next day he was In charge of tbe ship, the captain taking off a day. When he turned up the next morn ing, he found written on the logbook: i'be captain was sober all day yester- uav. or course, ne eurerea a protest. Well, weren't you sober all day?" asked the mate. "Of course, but there was no use of statin it." Oh, yes. I was merely oarrying out your instructions ana Keeping an ac curate record of what occurred on board." Glasgow Wevkly Mail. ("erraebi. The likeness ef Fran-kCn upon oiir postage stamps Is taken from a bust made of htm by Cerrachl, and not by the artist whose name irsaally Botrws In postofflce reports. Osrracbl was a Ccrslcan. and eie of the party who attempted to assassinate Napoleon while on his way to tbe theater one evening at the tttae when Napoleon was plotting to be made Emperor. Cer rachi was guillotined. lie had Btade the acquaintance of Frau-klin when the latter was tbe Americas envoy to France, and on Franklin's Invitation had visited America, and here made busts of many eminent men. New York Post. Collection Boxes Ran by Eletrtrlctcy. The minister of a progressive church has recently Introduced aa electric con tribution box. By pressing a button several small sliver cars lined with vel vet run along a miniature railway plac ed at tbe back ef each pew. As tbey pass along the members of the congre gation drop their offerings. All the cars concentrate at one point and the collection is taken out. A Dilemma. There waa a young lady of Del. Whose garments were uannlah I'm wd. The young men now query She makes them so weary "If she wears those, what shall a feLI" Exchange. Something ia eure to be aeeompllSnea by the man who sticks to one thing. If we see nothing good In others, they will not be likely to see much good In us. Not until we know a man's hear) bave we any right to say that we know him. We would ail bave leas cause to blame others tt we had fewer faults c of SERMONS OF THE Mr Kv. George II. Hepworth I'rrachc in th. "ew York Herald's Column, en "An Knnobltnc Faith" Kev. Ir. Talmas Tell. About "The Kara Arm of God." With the return of Bev. Oeors. H. Hen- worth to New York from bis Armenian mis sion theHeralil closed its series otcompeti tivesermons, fifteen altogether having ap peared in its columns on consecutive Sun days. Dr. Hepworth resumes hl regular Hnnday sermon as the leading editorial in the Herald's columns. The first one is en titled "An Ennobling Faith," and appears bulow iu fui. Text: "Now faith Is the snhstitnce ot things hoped for, the'evidenceof things not seen." Hebrews, xi., 1. On a bitterly cold day I was recently rid ing with a comrade through one of the most exquisite hits of scenery on the fae of the earth. We were toiling np the Inst spur of a mountain so high that theelnnds would have rested on its summit had there been ay in tho sky. But the heavens were cloudless, the sun shone ia dazzling splen dor on the snow covered ridges which sur rounded us en all sides, and we seemed to have loft onr little globe behind us and to be on our way to another world. Naturally we talked of that Great Be yond, which was apparently not far distant. Conversation under such circumstances must needs be serious. One cannot be tri vial when he is looking on the grandest of God"s great works. It was h time when souls were fa close relations to each other; wiien inmost thoughts came to the lips and uttered themselves utmost unconsciously, as in soliloquy. My comrade spoke freelv of a loss he had suffered. A little child had been called from the family circle, had sped away in thu night and gone where no human eves could follow her. With a broken heart, but still in somewhat stoical language, he re ferred to that vacant chair. "Gone! gone!" was his despairing exclamation. I listened to tne story, and at its ciose quietly re marked: "Yes, gone, bnt not gone far! In the brighter land you will see her again." Then we lapsed into silence, a feilenee only broken by tho sound of the horses' iron shoes on the crisp and frozea snow. "If I could believe that," he said after a little, "nine-tenths of the burden would be removed. But to feel that such farewells are forever, that is very hard." and the strong man trembled with suppressed emo tion, while tears made it impossible to con tinue the compenation. I thought to myself tht after all this world is of very little importance unless we have another world to "look forward to. What makes the present life endurable is a flm and uneiuken belief in another life. If love can die, tnen love is only prolonged agony: but the conviction that love can never die strengthens, broadens and eu- nonies the soul. It would be an act of unspeakable cruelty on the part of God to teach us how to love, to place ns amid circumstances in which love develops all that is chivalrous aud grand, and then tell us in the supreme mo ment of parting to say goodby for time ami eternity. The Lord's Prayer would become an impossibility, nay, more than that, a grim sort of farce, and in his innermost depths a man would not only renel, bnt lose his self-respect and his respect for the lawsot the unlverss. It is clear that it would have been so much better to make him Incapable of affection than to annihi late the object of his affection, and bid him go home from the churchyard a despairing, hopeless creature. Faith can do so much for a man. Is so necessary to his spiritual and even to his physical well being, that if yon take it awnv he is in a worse pligiit than the animals of the fields and forests, for he appreciates his loss and they do not. To be born a dog and to die a dog is one thing, but to be born a man and then die like a dog is something which a just and omnipotent Creator will not ask of us. It is so unlike what we have learned of His methods that we are quite right in pronouncing such a state ment libellous. Your faith in Trovidenee is the best of ail your possessions. It is worth more to you muo your iame, your social position or your wealth worth more than ail else combined. Give me iu my relations with Goil that mysterious something which the child has for its mother a feeling that Ho j knows who and what I am. that at mv cai He will come to me that every day He leads me and every night protects me and there is very little more than I can ask or desire. I have the one best thing in the world, and therefore am content. The plant that has sunshine and dew will blossom before the frost comes, and with God, the sun of my soul, to shine on me, I shall not only blossom into nolde thoughts, but bear the fruit of good deeds. A man becomes a miracle worker from the moment who-i ho is conscious of God's presence and love. Life, may be hard, but at tile same time it is glorious. Even sick ness and death are the only miry spots which lead to the eternal upland. There is a repose in the soul, a vigor, an enthu siasm and a power of endurance whiei nothing else iu this wide world can give. Tell me how to doubt that is, how to cut loose from my trust in Providence and yon tell me how to be miserable. On the ether hand, confirm ray belief in God, in the ministration of His angels, in the pos sibility of a continuous, and unbroken C mmunioatlon with heaven, and you make my life more beautiful than words can ex press. As long as I dread the future, mv f resent is leaden; if I am sure ot tbe fi. nre, and know that my dear ones will greet me there with undlmlulshed love, my t ars are like the rain cloud on which the san shines and makes a rainbow. Tsk. from me what you will, but leave me my faith, for it is my only real posses- j sion. All else will pass like adr.-am a pleasant dream, but still a dream. To-day x mm ricu, 10-morrow i may ne poor, well to-day, to-morrow I may be ill. I nm ' But faith remains with me. is clos to mv i hPHrt than the closest friendship, and gives me good cheer wlien I walk in darkness. It is all I have, all I can keep throughout eternity, tbe one thing of which death can not rob me, the prophecy of a better borne on high when this earthly home is broken up. It is God who has given that gilt, and it must be jealously guarded. In their last analysis faith is heaven and doubt is hcil. George H. Hepwobth, "THE BARE ARM OF COD." Kev. lr. Talmage Tells What It Will Ac complish. Text: "The Lord hath made bare Bis holy arm." Isaiuh iii., 10. "It almost takes our breath away to read or tne Bible Imagery. There Is such bold ness of metaphor in my text that one must rally bis courage to preach from it. Isaiah, the eva igelistic prophet, is sounding the jubilate of our planet redeemed, and cries out: 'The Lord bath made bare His holy arm.' What overwhelming suggestiveness in that figure of speech, 'the bare arm of God!' The people of Palestine to this day wear much hindering apparel, and when they want to run a special race, or lift a special burden, or fight a special battle, they pnt off the outside apparel, as in our laud when a man proposes a special exer tion he puts off his coat and rolls up his sleeves. Walk through our foundries, our machine shops, our mines, our factories, and you will find that most of tbe toilers have their coats oft and their sleeves rolled up. "Isaiah saw that there must be a tre-nen-dous amount of work done before this world becomes what it ought to be, and he foresees it all accomplished, and accom plished by the Almighty; not as we ordi narily think of Him, but by the Almighty with the sleeve of His robe rolled back to His shoulder. "Nothing more Impresses mi In the Bible than the ease with which God does most things. There is such a reserve of Cower. He has more thunderbolts than Ha as ever flung; more light than He has ever distributed; more blue than that with which he has overarched the sky; mora green than that with which He has enter aided the grass; mora crimson than that with which He has burnished the sunsets, t say it with reverence from all that I can tee, God has never half tried. "J tftXt makes It nJa - jauuu ot tnts world is a stupen loi. under, taking. It talcs more power to make tlili world over again than it took to make It at first. A word was only necessnry f-ir tli first creation, but for the new creation tin unsleeved and unhindered forearm of the Almighty. The reason of that I can under stand. In the shipyards of Liverpool, t Glasgow, or New York, a great vessel It coiuttruoted. The architect draws out tin plan, the length of the beam, the capacity of tonnage, tbe rotation of wheel or screw, the cabin, the masts and all the appoint ments of this great palace of the deep. Th architect finishes his worlf without any perplexity, and the carpenters and anisans toii on the craft so many hours a day. each one, doing his part, until, witii flags flying and thousands of people cheering on the docks, the vessel is launched, lint out on the sea that vessel breaks her siiuft nnd Is limping slowly along toward bnrier, when Caribbean whirlwinds, those, mighty hunt ers of th. deep, looking nut fur prey of ships, surround that wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky coast, and she lifts ami falls in the breakers until every joint is loose and every spar is down, ami every wav. sweeps over the hurricane derk as she parts amldship. Would it nut require more skill and power tn gH that splintered vessels off the rocks and reconstruct it than it required originally to build her? Aye! "Our world, which started out with all the 'flags of Kdenle foliag and with the chant of Paradisaical bowers lins been six ty centuries pounding In the skerries of sin and sorrow, and to get her out and off, ami to get her on the right way again, will re quire more of omnipotence than it required to build her and launch ber. .So I am not surprised that, though in the drydock of on. word our world was made, it will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift ber fm:n the rocks and put her ou the right cour-e again. It is evident from my tct, ami its comparison with other texts." that it would not be so great an undertaking to mn!e a whole constellation of worlds, an 1 a whole galaxy of worlds, and a whole -tr .noiny of worlds, and swing them in their right orbits, as to take this wounded world, litis stranded world, this bankrupt world, this destroyed world, aud make it as good as when it started. "But I have no time to sneeifv th mani fold evils that challenge Christianity. And I think I have seen In some Christians, and read In soma newspapers, ami heard from some pulpits, n dishearteument, as though Christianity were so worsted tnat it is hardly worth while to ntteuit to win this world of God, and that all Christian work would collapse, and that it is no use foryo'j to teach aSabbath class, to distribute tra"-ts, or exhort in prayer meeting, or preach in a pulpit, as Matan is gaining ground. To rebuke that pessimism, the Gospel of Hmash-up, I preach this sermon, showing that you are on the wiuning side. Go aheadl Fight on! What I want to make out to-day is that our ammunition is not exhausted; that all which has bei-n ac complished has been only the skirmishing before the great Armageddon; that not more than one of the thousand fountains of beauty in tho King's Park has begun tn ' play; that not morn than one brigade of the innumerable hosts to be marshaled by the Kider on the White Horse has yet takeii the Hold; that what God has done yet has been with arm folded iu flowing robe but that the time is coming when he will rise from his throne, and throw of! that robe, and come out of the palaces of eternity, and come down the stairs of heaven with ail-conquering step, and halt iu the pres ence of expectant nations, anil flashing his omniscient eyes across the work to be done will put back the sleeve of bis right arm to the shoulder, ami roll it up there, and for the world's final and complete, rescue make bare his his arm. Who can doubt the result when according to my text Jehovah do-'S his best; when the last reserve force of Omnipotence, takes the field; when the iastswotd of Eternal .Iight leaps from its scabbard! , "Do you know what decided the battle of Sedan? The hills a thousand Teet high. Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Ar tillery on the heights of Givonne, and twelve German batteries ou the heights of La Moncello. Tiie Crown Prince of Sax ony watched tho scene from the heights of Jfairy. Between a quarter to C o'clock in the morning aud 1 o'clock in the after noon of September 2. 1S70. the hills dropped the shells that shattered tho French host in the valley. The French Emperor and the rSli.O-IO of his armvean- tured by the hills. At the close of that battle of Kedau the Emperor sai broken hearted in a poor woman's cottage, nnd when she said iu sympathy, "What can I do for you?' he replied, 'Nothing, except pull down those blinds so that they can not stare at mel' Sedan decided i.y th. hills. 8o in this conflict now raging I. tween holiness and sin 'our eyes are unto the hills.' Down here Iu the vallevs of earth we must be valiant soldiers of tho cross, but the Comiuand t of our host walks the heights, nnd views the scene far better than we can In the valleys, and at the right day and tbe right hour all heaven will open its batteries o.-i our side, and the commander or tho hosis of sin, with all his followers, will surren der, and it will tako eternity to fully celebrate the univer-al victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our eyes nr unto the hills. It is so certain to be ne-om-plished that Isaiah, in my text, looks down through the lleld-glass 'of pr oniiecv and speaks of It as already accomplished, nnd I takv my stand where the propaet took bis stand, and look at it as all done. See! Those cities without a tear? Look! Those continents without a pang! IlehnM! Those hemispheres without a sin! Why, those deserts Arnbian desert, Amor'ean desert and Great Sahara desert are nil irrigated into gardens where God walks in the cool of the day. Tho atmosphere that eneir -les our globe floating not one groan. All the rivers and lakes and oceans di nnlod with not one falling tear. Tho eilma! v ot the earth have dropped nut of theni the rigors of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and it is universal spring. Let i;s change the old world's name. Let it no mor bec.-ille.l the earth, as when it was r-'eking'with everything pestiferous and malevolent senrleted with batMe-flelds nnd gashed with graves, but no v so changed, so aro matic with gardens, and so resonant with song, and so rubescent with beauty, let us call it Immanuel's Land, or let us call it Beulah, or Millennial Gardens, or Paradise Regained, or Heaven! Hallelujah, for tho Lord God Omnipotent reigueth! Hallelu iah, for the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of Christ!" l! N not what , !,::. ( il m's which expresses the b it what he is. even v ! :ii lie "I'f h ! a man There, is a deportnio; !i."jTV and talents of i vhii !i -o:i ' il P-T-oli: - the it is 'so tne n'ways lost when we t hat of another. The one who will be quit II to mill n ?r:.i! enpa- 1I of creat acts- of I who is always doing ver i he con ;'!! -.iiile miiuI I ones. - Some of the !f lo.-o learn wc learn ftoni our i failures. Tho error of the wisdom and success of I lie fu ever ikes and I' -me. s the You must try to Ih poo I io .1 everybody, and do not think t anitv consists in a meian'.ho'v life. He that lives on hoiie 1ms diet. ihiMe lo ( 'in i-t i- 'y and morose !i;!: a slender ralili sells his He that mnrrictli for lilw-rtv. lie that promises too much means noth ing. The secret of making one's self l ires one is, not to know when to stop. The noblest moiive is the public good, learning makes a man (it company for himself. The true art of memory is the art of attention. One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. An extreme rigor is sure lo arm every thing cgain-st it. He that looks too niceiy in'o things never lives easy. He that is well sheltered is a foo! if he sliiis out into the ruin. He hufh riches sufficient who hath enough to be charituble. If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kiad of nobility.
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