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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UWH.
VOL. LII
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30. 1898
NO. 16
I
CHAPTER XXI. (Continned.1
Lord Arlelgh roused himself and looked
around. lie found himself the center of.
observation. The room in which he WM
lying wu large and well furnished, and
from the odor of tobacco It was plainlj
used as a smoking room. Over him lean
cd a tall, handsome man, -whose hair wa
slightly tin ped with gray. j
"I think," he said, "you are my neigh
bor. Lord Arleigh? I have often seen yon
on the moors."
"I do not remember you," Lord Arleigh
returned; "nor do I know where I am."
"Then let me introduce myself as tns
iTnri rjt Unnntiiiun " oiH thm rentleman.
"You are at Kosortotl, a Shooting Iotlg
belonging to me, and I beg that you will
make yourself at home."
Kvery attention was paid to him. H
was placed in a warm bed. some warm,
nourishing soup was brought to him, and
he was left to rest.
"The Earl of Momrtdean." Then this
was the tall figure he had seen striding ;
over the hills-this was the neighbor ha
had shunned and avoided, preferring soli- j
tude. How kind he was. and how his
voice affected him! It was like long-fo I
i TT I- - .1 1. 1 T . n-hatfcJ '
gotten raciouv. hbkcu uiui'i
er he had seen the earl anywhere. He
could not remember. He could not re
call to his mind that they had ever met,
yet he had most certainly heard his voice.
He fell asleep thinking of this, and
dreamed of Madaline all night long. In
the morning the earl came hinmelf to his I
room to make inquiries; and then Lord '
Arleiirh liked him better than ever. He
would not allow his guest to rise.
When a few days had passed it was
Lord Arleigh who felt unwilling to leave
his companion. He had never felt more
at home than he did with Lord Mount
dean. He bad met no one so simple, so
manly, so intelligent, and at the sains
time such a good fellow. There were lit
tle necnliarHies in the earl, too, that
struck him forcibly: they seemed to re-
caH some faint, vague memory, a some-
thing that he could never grasp, that was
always eluding him, yet that was per-
fectly clear; and he was completely puz-
gled. .
VHave I ever met you before?" he ask
. ed the earl one day.
,. "I do not think so. I have no remem
brance of ever hivii A seen you."
"Your voice and face are familiar to
me," the younger man continued. "One
or two of your gestures are as well known
to me as though I had lived with you for
years."
"Remembrances of that kind sometimes
strike me," said the earl "a mannerism,
a something that one cannot explain. I
should say that you have seen some one
like me, perhaps."
It was probable enough, but Lord Ar
leigh was not quite satisfied. The earl
and his guest parted in the most friendly
manner.
"I shall never be quite so much in love
with solitude again," said Lord Arleigh,
as they were parting; "you have taught
me that there is something better."
"I have learned the same lesson from
yon." responded the earl, with a sich.
"You talk about solitude. I had. not been
at Kosorton ten days before a party of
four, all friends of mine, proposed to visit
me. I could not refuse. They left the
day after you came."
"No, I did not ask them to prolong their
stay, fearing that after all those hours
on the moors you might have a serious
Illness; but now, Lord Arleigh, you will
promise me that we shall be friends."
"Yes," he replied, "we will be friends."
So it was agreed that they should be
strangers no longer that they should
visit and exchange neighborly courtesies
and civilities.
CHAPTER XXIL
The E-arl of Mountdean and Lord Ar
leigh were walking np a steep hill one
day together, when the former feeling
tired, they both sat down among the
heather to rest. There was a warm sun
shining, a pleasant wind blowing, and
the purple heather seemed literally to
dance around them. They remained for
some time In silence: it was the earl who
broke it by saying:
"How beautiful the heather Is! And
here indeed on this hilltop is solitude! We
might fancy ourselves quite alone in the
world. By the way, you have never told
me, Arleigh, what it is that makes you so
fond of solitude."
"I have had great trouble," he re
plied, briefly.
The earl looked at him thoughtfully.
"I should like to know what your trou
ble is," he said, gently.
"I can tell only one-half of it, was the
reply. "1 fell in love with one of the
sweetest, fairest, purest girls. How I
loved her Is only known to myself. I sup.
pose every man thinks his own love the
greatest and the best. My whole heart
went out to this girl with my whole soul
I loved her! She was below me in the one
matter of worldly wealth and position
above me in all other. When I first asked
her to marry me she refused. She told
me that the difference in our rank was
too great. She was most noble, most self
Mirrifieinir: she loved me, I know, most
dearly, but she refused me. I was for
t- ' XKHAnmA ha nnno.'
icnnie time uuaoj? w uTnwu . , , .
si tion; at last I succeeded. I tell you no T0u went to see him!" echoed the earl,
details either of her name or where she ,n surprjse.
lived, nor any other circumstances con- j yes; and I pave np all hope from th
uected with her I tell you only this, that, . m,)ment e1tw him. He is rimply a hand
once having won her consent to onr mar-. reprobate. I asked him if it was
riage. I seemed to have exchanged earth frne that j,e j,a(j committed the crime, and
for"Elysium. Then we were married, not ne an8wercd nie quite frankly, 'Yes. I
i.iihlielv and with great pomp, but as my. . astc( him if there were auy extc-nunting
. . i i .:nl. fir.
toy happiness no one could realize it. Be
lieve me. lxra Mounmean. uu
,'seir Is as pur as a saint d that I know
no other woman at onoe so meek and so
lofty, so noble and so humble. Looking
at her, one feels how true and sweet a
woman's soul can be. Yet oh, that I
should live to say it! on my wedding day
I discovered something it was no fault
of hers, I swear that parted as. Loving
her blindly, madly, with my whole heart;
and soul, I was still compelled to leavej
ter. She la my wife m mam only, and
ton never be more to me, yet, you under
. tend, without any fault vt heza."
darling wished privately ana circumstances; he repaea, nam
tti name dav my wedding day I took
' When I had seen and spoken
hm. T .unnot tell now great wan
"What a strange story H said ft earl
Aoughtfully. "But this barrier, this ob
staclecan it ever be removed 7"
"No," answered Lord Arleigh, "never V
"I assure you of my deepest sympathy
said the earl. "It is a strange history."
"Yes, and a sad fate," sighed Lord Ar
leigh. "You cannot understand my story
entirely. Wanting a full explanation, you
might fairly ask me why I married with
this drawback. I did not know of it, but
my wife believed I did. We were both
most cruelly deceived. It does not mat
ter new She is condemned to a loveless.
joyie-.s life; so am I. "Ylth a wife beau
tiful, loving, young, I must lead a most
solitary existence I must see my name
die out for want of heirs I must see my
race almost extinct, my life passed in re-
l""'"8 " misery, my near uroaen, my
without sunshine. I repeat that it
T",d ftf;, , .. A
It is Indeed,", agreed the earl "and
ch a strange one. Are you quite sure
that nothing can be done to remedy itr
Qmte sure " was the hopeless reply.
I can hardly understand the need for
separation, seeing that the wife herself
blameless.
In this case it is unavoidable."
My story is a sad one," observed Lord
Mountdean, "but it 1 not so sad as
TOUTS.
He then told of his sad marriage, the
death of his young wife and the strange
disappearance of his child, as the reader
knows it.
"Can you imagine my horror," he con
tinued, "when I found that all trace of
my child was lost? The poor doctor had
met with some terrible death, and the
woman who had charge of my little one
had left the neighborhood. Can you im
agine what this blow was to me? Since
then my life has been spent to one unceas
ing effort to find my daughter."
"How strange!" said Lord Arleigh.
"Did you not know the nam of the
nurse?"
"Yes, she lived at a little place called,
Ashwood. I advertised for her, I offered,
large rewards, but I have never gleaned
the least news of her; no on could ever
find her. Her husband, it appeared, had
been guilty of crime. My opinion is that
tne poor woman uea in sname rrom tne
neighborhood where she was known, and
that both sb and my dear child are
dead."
"It seems most probable," observed
Lord Arleigh.
"If I could arrive at any certainty as
to her fate," said the earl, "I should bel
a happier man. I have been engaged to,
my cousin. Lady Lily Gordon, for four
years, but I cannot make np my mind to
marry until I hear something certain
about my daughter. In regard to your1
case, I am a great believer in the good
old proverb that two heads are better
than one," replied the earl. "I think it is
just possible that I might have some idea
that has not occurred to you; I might see
some way out of the difficulty that has:
not yet presented itself to you. Please
yourself about it; either trust me or not,
as you will; but, if you do trust me, rely
upon it I shall find some way of helping
you."
"It is a hopeless case," observed Lord
Arleigh, sadly. "I am quit sure that
even if you knew ail about it, you would
not see any comfort for me. For my
wife's sak I hesitate to tell yon, not for
my own."
"Your wife's secret will be as safe with
me as with yourself," said the earl.
"I never thought that H would pass my
Hps, but I do trust you," declared Lord
Arleigh; "and If you can see any way to
help me, I shall thank heaven for the
first day I met you. You must hold my
wife blameless. Lord Mountdean," he
went on. "She never spoke untruthfully,
she never deceived me; but on our wed
ding day I discovered that her father was
a convict a man of the lowest criminal
type."
Lord Mountde&n looked as he felt,
shocked.
"But how," he asked, eagerly, "could
you be so deceived?"
"That I can never tell you; it was an
act of fiendish revenge cruel, ruthless,
treacherous. I cannot reveal the perpe
trator. My wife did not deceive me, did
not even know that I had been deceived;
she thought, poor child, that I was ac
quainted with the whole of her father's
story, but I was not. And now. Lord
Mountdean, tell me, do yon think I did
wrong?"
He raised his careworn, haggard face
as he asked the question, and th earl
was disturbed at sight of th terrible
pain in it.
CHAPTER XXIIL
The reason of his separation from his
wife revealed. Lord Arleigh again put
the question:
"Do yon think. Lord Mountdean, that
I have don wrong?"
The earl looked at him.
"No," he replied, "I cannot say that
you have."
"I thought you would agree with me.
And now, Mountdean, tell me, do you see
any escape from my difficulty?"
"I do not, indeed," replied the earl.
"I had one hope," resumed Lord Ar
leigh; "and that was that th father had
perhaps been unjustly sentenced, or that
he niisrht after all Drove to be innocent. I
went to him h Is on of th convicts
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v Bfc vwiuwui.
. . ... i - A .
to
him T fait rnnrvineed that the step 1 naa
taken with regard to my wife was a wis
one, however cruel it may have been. No
man in his senses would voluntarily admit
a criminal's daughter into his family."
"No; It 1s even a harder case than I
thought it," said the earl. "Thej cmly
thing I can recommend is resignation.
Lord Mountdean thought that he would
like to see the hepless young wife, and
learn if she suffered as her husband did.
t wHwd. too. what she could be Hke,
this convict's daughter who had besa
gifted with a regal dower of grace
beauty tbl Jpwiy bornafcfl&jt tfa
, v . ..
pie who had been fair enough to chana
the fastidious Lord Arleigh.
Meanwhile Madattn was all uncock
scions ol th strides that destiny was
making in her favor. She impressed upon '
her mother th need of the utmost reti
cence. Margaret Dornham understood
from the first.
"Never have a moment's uneasiness
Madaline," she said. "From the hour 1
cross your threshold until I leave, your
father's name shall never pass my lips."
It was a little less dreary for Madaline
when her mother was with her. Thongh
they did not talk much, and had but few
tastes alike, Margaret was all devotion,
all attention to her child.
She was sadly at a loss to understand
matters. She had quite expected to find
Madaline living at Beechbrove she could
not imagine why she was alone in Winis
ton House. The arrangement had seemed
reasonable enough while Lord Arleigh
was abroad, but now that he had returned
to England, why did he not come to his
wife, or why did not she go to him? She
could not understand iu and as Madaline
vohmteersG no explanation, her mother
asked for none.
But, when day after day, 'she saw hei
daughter fading away when she saw th
fair face lose its color, the eyes their
light when she saw the girl shrink from
the sunshine and the flowers, from ail
that was bright and beautiful, from all
that was cheerful and exhilarating sha
knew that her soul waa sick unto death.
She would look with longing eyes at the
calm, resigned face, wishing with all her
heart that she might speak, yet not dar
mg to do so.
What seemed to her even more surpris
ing was that no one appeared to think
such a state of things strange; and when
she had been at Winiston some few week
she discovered that, as far as the occu
pants of the house were concerned, th
condition of matters was not viewed as
extraordinary. She offered no remark to
the servants, and they offered uone to
her, but from casual observations sh
gathered that her daughter had never
been to Beechgrove, but had lived at Win
iston all her married life, and that Lord
Arleigh had never been to visit her.
How was this? What did the terrible
pain in her daughter's face mea Why
was her bright young life so slomy but
surely fading away? She noted it for
some time in silence, and then she de
cided to speak.
One morning when Madaline had turn
ed with a sigh from the old-fnshioncd gar
den with Its wilderness of flowers, Mar
garet said, gently:
"Madaline, I never hear you speak oJ
the Duchess of Hazelwood, who was so
very kind to you. Does she never come
to see you?"
She saw the vivid crimson mount to the
white brow, to be speedily replaced by
pallor terrible to behold.
"My darling," she cried, in distress. "1
did not expect to grieve you."
"Why should I be grieved?", said the
girl, quietly. "The duchess does not come
to see me because she acted to me very
cruelly; and I never write to her now."
Then Margaret for awhile was silent,
now was she to bring forward the sub
ject nearest to her heart? She cast about
lor words In which to express her
thoughts.
(To be continued.)
Oregon's Christian Martyrs.
"Eleven years of the united life of
Dr. and Mrs. Whitman had passed,"
writes George Ludington Weed of Dr.
Whitman's patriotic achievement in
saving Oregon to the United States. In
the Ladies' Home Journal. "In all bis
labors she had been an Inspiration and
a support, sometimes the only one. But
the life of romantic beginning waa to
have a tragic ending. Whatever the
causes of that ending, direct or remote,
or whatever their relative force, the
result was one of the saddest In Amer
ican history. In It Dr. and Mrs. Whit
man must ever be recognized as the
Christian patriot marytrs of Oregon.
The fatal day was November 20, 1817.
The full tale of Its horror need not here
be told, though the Incidents are at
hand. The partly lifted curtain re
veals enough Dr. Whitman's fall by
the tomahawk at the age of forty-five,
and Mrs. Whitman's by the rifle at the
age of thirty-nine. There was a shal
low grave Invaded by wolves, and then
a deeper one, which until now has been
without a monument. Twelve others
of their household, butchered with
them, share their grave. But the mem
ory of the long-forgotten hero is being
revived. A bronze statue Is being
erected near the spot In the region cf
his triumph and martyrdom. As In a
palace car I was hurried through it,
where his lone wagon had tediously
sought the way, be seemed every
where present, and each mountain s
monument recording his deeds.
"The Oregon saved from falling Intt
the possession of the English by Dr.
Whitman's heroic efforts means the
Washington, Oregon and Idaho of to
day, a territory of two hundred and
seventy-one thousand square miles,
equal to New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and
three Connecticuts."
A Financial Strait.
"How do you stand on the financial
fiuestJon?"
"I think I shall stand pat. At least
when I went to the bank I was told
I could not draw." Indianapolis Jour
Th Fullness of Country Lift-.
In the country every morning of the
year brings with it a new aspect of
springing or fading nature, a new auty
to be fulfilled upon earth, and a new
promise or warning in heaven. No
day Is without Its Innocent hope. Its
special prudence. Its kindly gift, and its
sublime danger, and In every process of
wise husbandry, and every effort of
contending or remedial courage. The
wholesome passions, pride and bodily i
power of the laborer are excited and
exerted in happiest unison. The com -
panionshlp of domestic, the care of ser
rlceable animals, soften and enlarge his
life with lowly charities, and discipline
him In familiar wisdoms and unboast
f ul fortitudes; while the divine laws of
seedtime, -which cannot be recalled,
harvest, which cannot be hastened, and
winter. In which no man can work,
compel the Impatience and coveting of
his heart Into labor too submissive to
be anxious and rest too sweet to bo
wanton. John Ruskin.
I . . - . -
Most of us in our apprentice days feel
mighty nonch to lear the burden of
success, but how manv have the strength
to fail?
I CHEAT NAVAL TRAGEDY,
;
1 Bs.piosloii on th Sultana that Killed
1,BOO American Troops.
Dreadful as is the loss of more tha, pOIue of the results were the conquest
150 lives on the Maine, this-fatality is Bnfl settlement of New Granada, tb
aot the worst In the naval annals of making known to the world of th
be United States. By far the greatest mountain region of Venezuela, the dis
oss of life from one American vessel, COvery of the noble rivers, the Orinoco
ind probably unsurpassed In the his- pna tj, Amazon, and the exploration o!
:ory of the world, was when, at the j ine vast forests west of the Andes.
:lose of the civil war, the Mississippi About the end of the sixteenth century
itcamer Sultana blew up her boilers ia English expedition either sent out
lenr Memphis and hurled 1,600 Union by r under the personal leadership ot
soldiers to death. nalclgh penetrated into Guiana, therc-
The Sultana was a fltie, large vessel, I by obtaining a claim on that country
285 feet long, which plied between St. ' which has resulted In the acquirement
Ixials and New Orleans. She left New of the Modern British colony of thai
Orleans one fine April morning in185
n her return to St. Louis with a heavy
rargo. She touched at Vlcksburg, on
aer trip up the river, and took on board
I THE TitAGIC STEAMER SULTANA.
r.ioo TJnton soldiers, who had been pr!
ners at Columbia, Libby, Anderson
rllle and other Southern prisons, nnl
vho had either been exchanged or freed
5y the flight of their jailers. The sol
Here were from the West, and there
were several cases of 100 or bo belong' i
ng to one regiment.
it earner and she made slow progress
jp the river. The boat coaled at Mem-
Mils. After taking on an unusually
arge supply, she left Memphis at 8
)'clock at night, April 20, 1805. Sha
julled out of the harbor for the last
ime and started up the river. But she
iid not go far. About ten miles above
Memphis, while all were asleep, the
ressei exploded.. It was 4 o'clock in
lie morning, April 27, 1865, that the
' SuHfina was wrecked, with a loss of
1,500 men, nearly all Union soldiers.
One of the boilers burst, tearing out
ne whole side of the hull. The vessel
:hen listed to one side, while the other,
vhlch had caught Are, burned furiously
is the swift gale fanned the flames into
i roaring 'blaze. It was a horrible
tcene. Twenty-two hundred men were
EXPLOSION OF
blown Into the air, and fell into the
water with the shattered ruins of the
nce proud Sultana. Many of the men
n-cre torn to pieces, while hundreds
sank beneath the waves.
The night waa hideous with the cries
ind moans of the wounded and drown
ing men who clung to the remains of
the wrecked craft The Marble City
md Jenny Llnd were both In the her
itor at Memphis, but having up no
steam, they could not go to the rescue,
, rhe 1Ittle learner Gray Eagle happened
ito be coming aown the river, and pick
ed up about 400 of the struggling men
and carried them to the United States
Hospital at Memphis. Occasionally
here and there in the North to-day can
e found a survivor of that awful night.
The El Dorado Myth.
El Dorado is the term now heard on
svery side In connection with the placer
1 nines or Aiasxa ana tne isorcnwesi
Territory of Canada. Its derivation U
3f interest. In the fifteenth century it
was rumored that there existed In the
northern part of South America a city
f great wealth called Manoa, whose
king, El Dorado by name, was period
ically smeared with gold dust, until his
iv hole body had a gilded appearance,
it was said that on these occasions ha
rnrew golrt, emeralds and other prci
clous metals and gems Into a sncrcJ
lake. In which he afterward bathed.
Beginning In 1532 the Spaniards sent
many large expeditions to search for
this phantom city, and most of theia
ended disastrously, hundreds of Uvea
being lost One exslorer. Orellano,
I averred that he found El Dorado In fill
voyage down the Amazon in 1640. Thli
was disproved, but the search was con
tinued down to the eighteenth centurr.
name.
It has 1-een supposed that the origin
of this fable arone from the yearly cele
bration of a tribe of Indians near Go-
got a, whose chief was on these occa
sions gilded with gold dust, but this
ceremony was never witnessed by the
Spaniards, and the story may simply
be another version of the El Dorado
myth.
The name El Dorado was commonly
nsed to describe the city or country
a later usage of the term has been its
j figurative application with regard to
' ttny region of more than common rich-
ness. El Dorauo tjounty, in uaiiiornin.
was the scene of the famous gold finds
of '49, and since then the expression
has been used to describe many gold
tamps. Pittsburg Commercial Ga
zette. Growth of the City of Boston.
The city of Boston, which now has a
population of over 500,000, had in 1820,
two years prior to the adoption of the
city charter, 43,2tt8 Inhabitants. Seventy-five
years ago East Boston, Charles
town, Roxbury, Dorchester, West Rox
bury and Brighton were separate com
munities. East Boston not being an
nexed until 1830, Roxbury until 1807,
TUB SULTANA.
Dorchester until 1869 and Gharlestown,
Brighton and West Roxbury until 1873.
Furthermore, in 1882, the great Back
Bay territory had not been reclaimed
from the waters of the inner harbor,
and the new commonwealth lands in
South Boston were not In existence.
A Potato Digger.
A new potato digging machine has a
steel-pointed scoop to raise the pota
toes and earth on to a slotter elevator,
over which a cylinder brush Is revolv
ing to separate th potatoes from the
dirt, after which the tubers are carried
to a screen, which allows the small po
tatoes to fall Into one box and carriei
the urge ones Into another box.
In Island of Ceylon.
Railway building has been carried on
with vigor of late in the Island of Cey
lon. The Whlrlls;i of 'time.
Mary had a little lamb.
Its fleece waa white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
Its fleece is still as white as snow,
But Mary's lamb has grown.
And now she'd rather walk three miles
Than face that lamb alone.
-Truth.
Whisky or Water.
It is said that when whisky Is usee
Instead of water In making glue the
j mixture will remain unaltered for
I yours, will remain perfectly liquid and
' 19 ready iot use wiuioat neaung.
Labor Notes.
New South Wales has 900,000 acres ol
wheat.
Prussia is to have a State commercial
high school.
New South Wales produced 4019 pounds
of cheese in 1S97.
A London general omnibus is supposed
to earn $95 pr week.
The kniuing mills throughout New
York State are generally busy.'
Java leads in the manufacture of sugar
can sugar; United State second. '
An English woolen manufacturer has
begun making clothes from old ropes.
The Nicaraguan Government exercises
a monopolv in the sale of ammunition.
Fewer French shipj pa&i through the
Suez canal than German, Italian or even
Dutch.
The value of the wool exported from
3vdney during 1897 has been estimated at
$3,300,000.
The annual production of coke in Can
ada, in the Nova Scotia region, is about
60,000 tons.
White and Chilkoot posses are now fit
for travel and many have already begun
the journey inland.
Tie Dundulk (Ontario) Woolen Mills
Company, Limited, has been formed, with
ccpital stock of ? 23,000.
Tennessee is the third largest tobacco
rrowing State in the Union, Kentucky be
ing first and Virginia second.
The cotton mill at Richmond, He., is
running extra time, and will run at night
is soon as sufficient help can be obtained.
The Peninsula and Munlock gold mines,
in Marquette County, Mich., will be
worked this summer. Other fields will be
sxplored.
The mineral exports of New South
Wales during 197 included 50,513 tin in
jots,' 30,658 copper ingots and 19,784 tons
uf shale.
- The Kincaid Manufacturing Company,
of (ariffin, (ia., will probably double their
rapacity, and a new factory to cost $150,
000 may be built.
In 1816 the value of a bushel of wheat
in England, was equal to that of a pound
of nails. To-day a bushel of wheat will
biiv 10 pounds of nails.
The cotton mills at Forest City. N. C,
are ready to begin operations under the
.uperintendency of Mr. George F. Ivey,
formerly of Bessemer City, N. C.
A ton of American flax straw raised in
the State of Washington was recently sent
In Ireland, and was found to be worth
f 150 more per ton than the Irish article.
There are now 88 woolen mills in eight
Southern States, as follows: Alabama, 2;
(ieorgia, 5: Kentucky, 18; Mississippi, 1;
North Carolina, 13; Tennessee, 25; and
Virginia, 24.
At Cohoes, N. Y., the Globe Knitting
Mill is being operated to its fullest capac
ity to fill orders on summer goods; prep
arations are being made to run the mill
nights on winter goods.
Karopean countries interested in the
silk goods industry are disturbed and
somewhat worried over the present de
velopment aud future pro; p -els of the
Japanese silk trade in the murkets of the
world.
ueneral Sporting Notes,
W. Cw. Bushnell. Yale, 88, has placed at
the disposal of the Yale navy a naphtha
launch, and it will be used by Coach
"Hob" Cook for several weeks. The
launch will not be put in commission till
late in May.
The fair grounds at Reading may be
transformed iuto an athletic park.
Henry Leveson, of Chicago, recently
lifted two 10-pound dumhells from his side
to arm's length above his head 4'I0 times
in two hours and 49 minutes, breaking the
record, which was previously three hours
George Siler was referee.
The Executive Gmimittee of the new
Memphis Jockey Club has awarded the
betting privileges for the spring meeting
to Captain Filles, of St.- Louis. The con
tract stipulates that all reputable hook
makers are invited to draw in at $100 per
ilav.
"Kid" McCoy anil "Poc" Payne, his
sparring partner, went to the theatre at
Indianapolis, Ind.. where Gus Ruhlin and
tim Paly do their boxing. They found
U ililin to be a grett big, husky young
fellow, very quick on his feet and ap
IKircntlv as strong as a giant. He towered
alove Paly and handled himself cleverly.
The action of the New England Trot
ting Horse Breeders' Association in put
ting dates for the Readville (Mass.)
meet back a week avoids the conflict with
Louisville dates, and will give hoivemen
a circuit of Readi'le. September 19 to
23: Louisville, tieptenier 26 to Octolier 1,
nd Lexington, October 4 to 14, to race
ver this season.
Bill llefferman, the Australian middle
weight .has brought suit against the Olym
pic Club, of Buffalo, in the Supreme
Court to recover $VX. He says that this
amount is due him for his fight with Tom
my livan. of Syracuse. llefferman al
leges that his manager made a contract
with the defendant club by which bolh
he winner and loser of the fight were to
receive $500. He declares that he has
never received his money.
The McKeever-Matthews 20-round fight
at Cleveland on April 12 is fixed. The
men are to weigh in at 14 pounds at 3
o'clock P.M. The purse is $1600, of which
$1io0 goes to the winner.
Out at Cleveland, O., the betting on the
twenty-round boxing contest between
"Kid" Lavinge and Jack Daly is now at
even monev. The preliminary bout will
lie between "Hoc." l'ayne, "Kid" Mc
Cov's sparring partner, and Faddy Fur
trell. Bob Pelaney, who is now managing
Young Mahoney, has great faith in the
ability of the Manayunker, anil is pre
pared to mutch him against any 130-pound
boxer in tho country, llelaney is espec
ially anxious to put Mahoney against
George Dixon, believing that Mahoney 's
cleverness would be more than a match
for the colored champion's superior
strength.
An effort is being made to arrange a
match between Steve Flanagan and Jim
my Barry, who claims the feather-weight
championship. Barry has always claimed
o be able to get to 105 pounds, but re
cently he has stated that 108 is the
lightest that he can do and be strong.
This i said to suit Flanagan's backers,
and they say that they will moke the
siatch at that weight.
Every watcti a Oompass.
"Several weeks ago In London," said
an English tourist, "I was standing be
side an American acquaintance, when I
expressed a wish to know which point
was north. He pulled out bis watch,
looked at It and at once pointed in the
right direction. I asked him whether
he had a compass attached to his
watch. 'All watches are compasses,'
he replied. Then he explained to uie
bow this was. Point the hour hand to
the sun, and the south Is exactly half
way between the hour and the figure
XII on the dial. For Instance, suppose
It Is 4 o'clock. Point the hand Indicat
ing 4 to the sun, and II onjhe watch Is
exactly south. Suppose, again, that it
Is 8 o'clock. Point the hand indicating
8 to the sun and the figure X on the dial
Is due south. My American friend
seemed surprised that I did not know
this, and Dot wanting to be left alone
In my Ignorance, I asked Henry M.
Stanley, whom I met the following day,
whether be knew of this simple means
of taking the points of the compass.
My self-esteem rose when that famous
traveler told me be bad never heard of
It. So, perhaps there may be plenty of
folks In your country who still remain
In my original state of Ignorance. I
don't know what place my American
friend nails from, but somewhere in
foor great Wert." New York Herald.
SERMONS OF THE DAY
"Frara'in the Soot" Ia the Title of the
Rev. Oeor-e H. Hepworth's Sermon,
Freached In the Mew T -rk Herald's
Columnn An Address by X. 1m Bloody.
"For tho kingdom ot Qod is joy and
peace." ltomans xiv., 17.
The Bible is the most practical book In
the world. There is very little theology ia
it not as much as some people think but
a great many inspired bits of advice as to
the conduct ot every day life, as though
the writer loved the men and women who
would read bis word and was actuated by
no other motive than to help them over
rough plnces. For this reason the Book
has maintained its hold on mankind. It is
friendly, kindly and encouraging, a book
not to be read through at a sitting, but
to be taken up at odd times and glanced
at just as you would look at a handful of
jewels for a moment and then put them
way.
I have noticed that it makes many, verj
Jiany references to peace and joy not the
peace of a nation, that busy peace in which
we compete for personal gain, but the
peace of the heart, which creates content
ment and keeps the soul in poise and
equilibrium; the peace which makes a maa
feel that everything will come out right in
th end because nothing can come out
wrong when Qod is guiding our affairs. It
is once spoken of In very extreme lan
guage as "the peace that passetb under
standing," like the peaue which a sensitive
soul enjoys when it gazes on a magnificent
landscape, or like that which the lover of
musio has when he Is listening to some su
perb orchestra, or like that which a moth
er has when she is sitting by the cradle of
her first born, a peace that refuses to ba
analyzed, but ia so deep and strange that
no one can describe it to a person who has
not felt it.
I am talking to myself as well as to you
When I say that we conld get a great deal
more out of life If we were more reposeful.
We expend to much energy on trivia
things, things so unimportant that it doet
not matter greatly how they go. We allow
ourselves to be disturbed by small matters,
whereas the soul is big enough to look on
them with indifference. We keepourselvet
in a oondltion of nervous tension, which b
not simply hurtful to the body but equally
so to the spiritual nature. Body and soul
are so closely related that over excitement
of the one seems to throw the other off itt
balance. You and I cannot be at out best
until we are tranquil in heart with that
kind ot tranquillity which rests on the Arm
babis ot faith that the angels of Ood art
looking after our interests and trying to
persuade us to take the right road to heaven.
There is just an atom of Insanity in us, and
when we grow restless that atom is fanned
Into a flame. The truly sane man is the
quiet souled man. I say, therefore, since
Christianity teaches a man to be quiescent,
that the Christian religion will both mak
us sane and keep us so.
When crossing the ocean recently on
ship ran into a storm. The sea was ver
rough, the fog closed in on all sides, and
we had an uncomfortable time. The wave
were in an ugiy mood, and on two or threa
occasions swept the deck. I enjoyed it as
little as did the other passengers and should
have been grateful for a ray of sunshine.
But that was not to be thought of. Sup
pose I had taken on myself the responsi
bility of the situation. The captain was on
the bridge night and day, but suppose I
had allowed myself to wonder whether he
knew his business, and had offered him ad
vice as to the conduct of the vessel. Would
that have allayed the tempest, would it
have stilled tho troubled waters, would it
have kept the ship from rolling uneasily?
I should not only have done no good, but
should have interfered to my own detri
ment. My duty was to keep on my feet as
best I could, not to go beyond my province
as a passenger, to bear In mind that the
captain had passed safely through a thou
sand worse storms and was showing no
anxiety about this one. If I had faith In
the master of the craft there was no need
to be afraid. Any doubt as to his ability
would at once create havoc of mind and
body. My duty was to keep still and to
cherish the conviction that all would be
well in a few hours.
Now the spiritual difficulty we encounter
in our lives Is this subtle suspicion that
after all there may not b a Ood, or, if
there is, that He is not equal to the emer
gency. That rankest of all heresies lies at
the foundation of our religious restless
ness. We may as well face this fact and
govern ourselves accordingly. The man
who does not cheerfully meet his fate has
a lurking doubt of God's existence. He
may deny it to others, but he must need.-?
admit it to himself. He may accept the
longest creed that was ever written and b;
orthodox in all the details of his professed
belief, but if you conld And your way into
bis heart of hearts you would discover that
bis fultli iu Ood is a social or ecclesiastical
luxury, and as such Is worth very little.
Did Christ have any doubt that n legion
of angels would minister unto Him iu His
necessity? Can you conceive of Him ns
sitting at the window of His friend's house
in Bethany on the night before the cruci
fixion and wondering if He could go
through the next day's experience? On
the contrary. He was self-possessed, even
cheerful, and if the opportunity to avoid
the cross had been offered He would not
have used It. He knew that the Father was
them, that the Father would be with Him,
and that the cruel nails could not pain Him
so much as a doubt of that Father's love.
We cannot follow that example except in
a far-off way. He said Thy will be done
without a tremor, but we can say it with a
tremor. The highest excellence is repose,
truthful repose of soul, but you cannot be
self-possessed until you know that you are
possessed of Ood. The essence of religion
is the soul's consciousness that ns its day
so shall be its strength; that Ood and you
can do anything and bear anything. Aftei
that you will be at peace, quiescent and
acquiescent. He who has hold of Ood's
hand and knows it is the most cheerful
soul this side of Heaven.
Geoboe H. Hepwobth.
DWICHT L. MOODY- SPEAKS.
Address by the Evangelist at a Crowded
Meeting in New York.
Dwight L. Moody has been holding a
oeries of crowded meetings in New York.
The following account Is from one of the
famous evangelist's addresses there:
"In Luke xix., 10, is the keynote of this
whole meeting: 'The Son of Man is come
to seek and save that which is lost.' Even
now I am cast down. A life-long friend
has come to me saying that his health is
lost and that it is only a question of time
when be passes away. I am sad, I say, yet
he has the promise of a beautiful life here
after. Home friend of yours has lost his
wealth, is reduced in life. You sympathize
with him, I sympathize with him. And yet
with all this misfortune there Is a hope for
a lietter life.
"To-day I passed the eye infirmary, across
from where I am staying, where I am told
are many little ones hopelessly blind. I
cannot look at that building without a pang
In my heart. A doctor told me that a
mother brought her beautiful little child to
him and said that it hadn't opened its eves
for several days. He looked at the little
child and told her that it was blind. 'Yes.'
said she, 'it'has been blind forseveral days.'
'It will be blind forever,' he told her. Then
there came a wail from her heart that near
ly broke my heart to hear of. Her child
could never see its mother. Yet there Is
the hope that the child will be glorified ia
another world.
"On my way here I passed the Hospital
for Cripples. I could not help but sym
pathize with them. And yet there is hope
for these poor beings. There is the hope
of another body a glorified likeness of our
Saviour Jesus Christ. And yet and yet re
!s so hard for people to realize what It
means to be lost yes, L-O-S-TI"
The evangelist's voice thundered as be
hurled this down upon the audienee, A
low murmur came in recognition of Its
force.
"What is it to be lostl When I eame to
New York twenty years ago little Charlie
Boss had just been lost. The whole nation
was moved as it had not been moved since
the war. They gave me the picture ot the
tion for some trace of him. Devoted friends ,
ol nis mother eame oay arcer aay, searou
lag for the little child. Manx and many a
mother wept at the thought of the anguish
of that boy's mother. And yet there are
millions of mothers that have lost their
ions, for these sons have missed the word
f Oodl
"Again, I will tell you another story. In
one of the towns in the West where was
preaching two little children had wan
dered Into the woods a brother and a sis
ter. All day men searched for them and
they were not found. The day following
these men could do nothing at their labor.
Bo they formed a line a thousand of them
all a few feet apart, and scoured the
woods. Then when the word eame down
the line that the little ones had been found
safe and well, how that town was stirred.
"And yet, I tell you, here are hundreds
and hundreds of drunkards, young men
lost In vice, lost forever, and yet this town
is never stirred. Think of the young men
going down, down, down, deeper into vice,
while no one seems to be moved.
"Exoept that man be born again he can
not see the Kingdom of Ood.
"There 'is not a poor drunkard nor a
fallen woman that Ood does not want.
They do not believe, perhaps, that Ood
wants them. Oo hunt them up. Tell them
the Word of Ood.
"A certain woman has ten pieces of sli
ver, and loses one. Does she let It go? Nol
She gets a broom and raises a dust and a
commotion. She doesn't wait for the silver
to come back. Then when she Is success
ful she says: 'Rejoice with me, I have found
the piece ot silver.'
"There will be a great joy in New York
when the lost are found. Luke said: 'Then
drew unto Him the pu bllcans and sinners.'
jt got out that Christ wanted the lost ones
to come unto Him, the publicans and sin
ners. Then they came. What you must
do is to publish that Ood seeks the sinner.
It there is any one that is tired of sin, I
bring you good news. The Shepherd is the
Same. He is still seeking you. .
"A mother wrote to her infidel son, 'Oo
to Moody and Hankey's meeting.' That
was in 1H71. He said 'Yes,' and that was
all she could get out of him. He would
go if it wasn't too much trouble. The first
mooting in Brooklyn chanced to be within
a block of his home. He came. He said
that he had no thought when he gave the
promise that it would be so near, but it was
a bore, acyhow. Next night be was con
verted. 'Have you written your mother?'
I asked him. 'No,' said he, 'I've cabled.'
That's the wiy the Shepherd seeks.
"While the Hon of God seeks, you seek,
too. I never knew one that was really
seeking that didn't And. I told a man I
knew that I could name the day and noui
when he would be saved. 'Ho,' said be, 'I
didn't know there was a prophet In yout
family.' 'Neither Is there said I. 'I'm
no prophet, but I can tell.' 'When?' he
asked. 'The day and hour when you earn
estly seek Ood.'
"Ood Isn't going to save the man that It
asleep. I saw a man at one of ourjmeetingi
who stood with bis hands In his pockets,
leaning against a pillar. 'Do you wish to
be saved?' I asked him. 'I've no objec
tion,' he answered. Seek the Lord where
he may be found. Can the Lord be found
here to-day? Come, I ask you. Can ths
Lord be found here to-day?"
"Yes, ye," cried a dozen voices In re
ply. The .evangelist nodded his head in
pleasure.
"Seek the Lord where he may be found.
Seek as men seek gold. It won't take long
to find Him. Look at the crowd rushing
Into the Klondike. It men were as anxious
to get into the Oolden City as they are to
get into the Klondike they would be saved
readily enough. If they were as anxious
for Ood as some of them seem to be fot
war just now, they would find Him easily
enough.
"You don't have to wait to be saved.
Pray now 'Lord, save me.' If it Is a heart
felt cry, you'll be saved. If out of work oi
il wouraged, cry out. Ood will hear you.
How do I know, you ask? Because I have
seen thousands saved. It Is one of the
easiest yet one of the hardest things In the
world to be saved. But It's easy when you
once make up your mind.
"Now let us pray that all In this house
be saved. Let us continue in silent prayer."
Kneeling, the evangelist lifted his face,
still clutching at his breast the song book.
After a moment of restlessness, the great
audience settled in a deep, intense silence.
It was broken by the evangelist arising
and asking that a hymn be sung. Then he
poke again.
"Come with me!" he cried; "oome and
e saved. Let all that wish to knoV the
word ot Ood come with me into that room
bver there. I will oe-insel with them.
"If there is any One beside you that
needs converting, speak with them. If
they be timid, bring them with you.
Come."
Arising, the evangelist moved down from
the platform, taking his way to the room
el the rear. The crowd turned, and dozent
of individuals followed in the evangelist's
wake. There in that room they obtained
his counsel and cheer, and with smiling
'aces went upon their ways.
MAD MONARCH'S GARDEN. -
How Lndwlsr, of Bavaria, KcJojref
Wagner's) Operas Alone.
The historic winter garden on the
roof of the Royal Residenz Palais in
Munich Is being demolished, to the re
gret of the public, who are loth to part
with this relic of the late unhappy King
Ludwig II.
The weight of the conservatory, with
Its large lake, giant palms and flower
beds was so enormous that fears were
entertained that the roof might fall in,
while an ever-present annoyance was
the impossibility of keeping the ceil
ings of the state departments below in
an uninjured condition, owing to per
petual leakage. It is twenty-five years
since King Ludwig commanded the
garden to be made and during the com
pulsory visit of three months in the
capital, which he had to pay every
year, it was almoot his own resort. It
opens on to the three rooms which the
mad monarch occupied, and In one of
which he slept during the day, only
rising at 5 or 6 p. m. to take a solitary
drive In the English garden, as the
Munich Park Is called, from which he
returned long after dark.
After a lonely dinner or, as it more
often chanced, a banquet at which he
had almost to be forced to apjie.tr, and
during which he seldom spoke a word,
the king would retire to the solitude of
his beautiful palm-filled house and
spend the entire night there, if no
Wagner performance had been com
manded at the opera for his benefit
alone. Thirty gardeners were kept
busy the greater pert of the day while
the King slept, rearranging the plants
and bringing new flowers so that each
time be entered he should find some
tew charm.
Few can boast of having beheld the
winter palace by Invitation of King
Ludwig. The last grand fete given
there was on May 4, 1883, in honor of
the marriage of Prince Ludwig Ferdi
nand, of Bavaria, and Princess Leila
Pas, of Spain. On that occasion the
ecene was fairy like, but it Is said that
the Illuminations were often on an
even grander scale when the King sat
qutte alone surrounded by the spirits
conjured up by his diseased imagina
tion. The late Grown Prince Rudolph,
of Austria, and Richard Wagner were
perhaps the only two guests who were
InvKed more than once to view the re
treat where King Ludwig dreamed
dreams and so mitigated the misery of
bis madness.
Yonng men believe platonic friendship
possible; old men know lietter.
He who goes no further than bare jus
tice stops at the beginning of virtue.