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ill gegtlfc.. inii ipiiii Dw F. SOHWEIER, 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 - 1 ! . -k..v.. 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.