"37 V Siifci pi B. F. SOHWEIEB, TUB OONHTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8. VOL. LII MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APEIL 6. 1898. NO. 17. CHAPTER XXIII. (Continued.) ' "Mad aline," she said, at last, "no one as a greater respect than I hare for th honor of husband and wife; I mean foi the good faith and confidence there should be between them. In days gone, by I neTer spoke of your poor father"! faults I never allowed anyone to men tion them to me. If any of the neighbor! ever tried to talk about him, I would not allow it So, my darling, do not consider that there ia any idle curiosity In what I I am about to say to you. I thought you j were so happily married, my dear; and j It is a bitter disappointment to me to find , that such is not the case." There came no reply from Lady Ar leigh; her hands were held before hei yes. "I am almost afraid, dearly as I lor you, to ask you the question," Margaret continued; "but, Madaiine, will you tell me why you do not lire with your hus band?" "I cannot, mother," was the brief reply. I "Is it oh, tell me, dear! is It any fault , f yours? Hare yon displeased him; "It is through no fault of mine, mother. He says so himself." "Is it from any fault of his? Has he done anything to displease yon 7' "No," she answered, with sudden warmth, "he has not indeed, he could not, I love him so." "Then, if you have not displeased each ther, and really love each other, why are you parted in this strange fashion? It seems to me, Madaiine, that you are his wife only in name." "You are right, mother and I shall never be any more; but do not ask me why I can never tell you. The secret must live and die with me." "Then I shall never know It, Madaiine T "Never, mother," she answered. "But do yon know, my darling, that it is wearing your life away?" "Yes, I know it, but I cannot alter mat ters. And, mother," she continued, "if we are to be good friends and live together, you must never mention this to me gain." "I win remember," said Margaret, kias - tag the thin, white hands,, bat to herself she said matters should not so continue. Were Lord Arleigh twenty times a lord, he should not break his wife's heart in that cold, cruel fashion. A sudden resolve came to Mrs. Dora bam she would go to Beechgrove and see him herself. If he were angry and sent her away from Winiston House, it would not matter she would have told him the truth. And the truth that she had to tell him was. that the separaion was slowly but surely killing his wife. CHAPTER XXIV. Margaret Dornham knew no peace until she had carried out her intention. One day she invented some excuse for her absent from Winiston House, and start ed on her expedition, strong with the love that makes the weakest heart brave. She drove the greater part of the distance, and then dismissed the carriage, resolving to walk the remainder of the way she did not wish the servants to know whither she was going. It was a delightful morn ing, warm, brilliant, sunny. The hedge rows were full of wild roses, there was a faint odor of newly mown bay, the west erly wind was soft and sweet. As Margaret Dornham walked through the woods, she fell deeply into thought. Almost for the first time a great doubt had seized her. a doubt that made her tremble and fear. Through many long years she had clung to Madaiine she had thought her love and tender care of more consequence to the child than any thing else. Knowing nothing of her fath er's rank or position, she had flattered herself into believing that she had been Madeline's best friend in childhood. Now there came to her a terrible doubt. W hat If she had stood m Madaline's hght, in stead of being her friend? Suddenly her face grew deathly pale, her lips flew apart with a terrified cry, her whole frame trembled. She raised . i i . arhn would fain ward off a blow, for, standing just before her, look-J lug down on her wttn stern, murium, eyes, was the stranger who had intrust ed his child to her. For some minutes how many she never knew they stood looking at each other he stern, indignant, haughty, she trem bling, frightened, cowed. ... "I recognize you again, he said, at length, in a harsh voice. Cowed, subdued, she fell on her knees at his feet. "Woman," he cried, "where is my child?" She made him no answer, but covered her face with her hands. "Where is my child T' he repeated. 'I Intrusted her to you where is Bhe?" The white lips opened, and some feeble answer came which he could not hear. "Where is my child V he demanded. "What have you done with her? For heaven's sake, answer me!" he implored. Again she murmured something ha could not catch, and he bent over her. If ever in his Kfe Lord Mountdean lost his temper, he lost it then. He could almost. In his impatience, have forgotten that it was a woman who was kneeling at his feet, and could have shaken her until she poke intelligibly. His anger was so great he could have struck her. But he controlled himself. "I am not the most patient of men. Margaret Dornham." he said; "and you are trying me terribly. In the name oi heaven, I ask you, what have yon done with my child 7" "I have not injured her," she sobbed. -Is she living or dead?" asked the earl, with terrible calmness. "She is living," replied the weepins WLordMonntden raised his face rever ently to the summer sky. "Thank heaven!" he said, devoutly; and then added, turning to the woman "Liv ing and well?" "No, not well; but she will be in time. Ob, sir, forgive me! I did wrong, per haps, but I thought I was acting for ths best." "It was a strange best,' " he said, 'Ut place a child beyond its parent's reach. "Oh. ait," cried Margacat Dornham. "I never thought of that! Bhe came to va m my dead child's placeit was to me as though my own child had come back gala. Too could not tell how I loved her. Her lrttle head lay on my breast her little fingers caressed me. her little voice murmured sweet words to me. She was my own child I loved her so, sir snd the poor woman's voice was broken with sobs. "All the world was hard and cruel and cold to me the chill never was; all the world disappointed me the child never did. My heart and soul clung to her. .And then, sir, when he was able to run about, a pretty, graceful, loving child, the very joy of my heart and sun shine of my life, the doctor died, and 1 was left alone with her." She paused for some few minutes, her whole frame shaken with sobs. The earl. bending down, spoke kindly to her. "I am quite sure," he said, "that If yon erred it has been through love for my child. Tell me all have no fear. "I was In the house, sir," she continued, "when the poor doctor was carried home dead in his sitting room with my with little Madaiine and when I saw the con fusion that followed upon his death thought of the papers in the oaken box, end, without saying a word to any one, I took it and hid it under my shawl." "But tell me," said the earl, kindly. "why did yon do that?" "I can hardly remember now," she re plied "it is so long since. I think my chief motive was dread lest my darling should be taken from me. I thought that if strangers opened the box and found out who she was, they would take her away from me and I should never see her again. I knew that the box held all the papers relating to her, so I took it delib erately." "Then, of course," said the earl, "you know her history?" "No," she replied, quickly; "I have nev er opened the box. "Never opened It!" he exclaimed, won- deringly. "No, sir I have never even touched it; it is wrapped in my old shawl just as I brought it away." "But why have yon never opened it 7" he asked, still wondering. "Because, sir. I did not wish to know who the little child reaHy was, lest, in discovering that, I should discover some thing also which would compel me to give her up. Lord Mountdean looked at her in as tonishment. How woman-like she was How full of contradictions! What strength and weakness, what honor and dishonor, what love and selfishness did not her conduct reveal! "And my daughter, yon say, is living, but not well? W here is she 7" "I will take you to her, sir," was the reply "at once, if you will go." "I will not lose a minute," said the earl, hastily. "It Is time, Mrs. Dorn ham, that you knew my name, and my daughter's also. I am the Earl of Mount dean, and she is Lady Madaiine Charle- wood." CHAPTER TXY. On hearing this Margaret Dornham was more frightened than ever. She rose from her knees and stood before him. "If I have done wrong, my lord," she said, "I beg of you to pardon me it was all. as I thought, for the best. So the child whom I loved and cherished was grand lady after all?" "Do not let ns lose a moment," he said. "Where is my daughter 7" "She lives not far from here, but we cannot walk the distance Is too .treat," replied Margaret. "Weil, we are near to the town of Lyn ton it is not twenty minutes' walk; we will go to a hotel and get a carnage. I I can hardly endure Otis suspense." They reached the principal hotel at Lvnton. and Lord Mountdean called has tily for a carriage. Not a moment was to be lost time pressed. "You know the way," he sold to Mar garet, "will you direct the driver?" He did not think to ask where his daughter lived, if she was married or single, what she was doing or anything else: his one thought wss that he had found her, never to lose her again. He sat with his face shaded by his hand during the whole of the drive, thanking heaven that he had found Madaline's child. He never noticed the woods, the hiirh-rond bordered with trees, the car riage drive with its avenue of chestnuts he did not even recognize the picturesque, quaint old Dower House that he had ad mired so greatly some little time before. He saw a large mansion, but it never oc curred to him to ask whether his daugh ter was mistress or servant; he only knew that the carriage had stopped, and that very shortly he should see his child. Presently he found himself in a large hall gay with flowers and covered with In dian matting, and Margaret Dornham was trembling before him. "My lord," she said, "your daughter is ill, and I am afraid the agitation may prove too much for her. Tell me, what shall I do?" IT collected his scattered thoughts. "Do you mean to tell me," he asked, "that she has been kept in complete ig norance of her history all these years?" "She has b?en brought up in the belief tbt she is my daughter," said Margaret "she knows nothing else." "It was wickedly unjust," he said "cruelly unjust. Let me go to ner at once." . . . '' Pale, trembling, and frightened, Mar garet led the way. It seemed to the earl ... ti Kirt utonoed beating, and a thick mist was spread before his eyes, that the surging of a deep sea filled his ears. Oh, heaven, could it be that after all these years he was really going to see Mada line's child, his own lost daughter? very soon he found himself looking on a fair face framed in golden hair, with daTlt blue eyes, full of passion, poetry and sor row, sweet crimson lips, j-,:' . .. . invelv that its pure, .int-like expression almost frightened vj ii. i laj it tn . nassion of won j a : and longing; and then he saw a shadow of fear gradually darken the beautiful eyes. 4w.i-i: ha uM rentlr: and ..-."rTTTrl ,r "r "Madaiine." h. lOOKeu ai Win " " ' repeated. "I I do not know you, surprised. be replied, She was lying, when he entered hs room, on a ntue coucn uiwu window, the sunlight, which fell full upon her, lighting up the golden hair and re fined face with unearthly beauty. V ben he uttered her name, she stood up, and so like her mother did she appear that It was with, difficulty he could retrain nom clasping her in his arms. But he sans not startle her, he reflected be saw how fragile she was. "You call me Madaiine,- see saio. again "but I do not know you." Before answering her, Lord Mounwean turned to Margaret. "Will you leave us alone?" ho request ed, but Lady Arleigh stretched out her hand. "That Is my mother," she said "aft must not be sent away from me. I will not be long away, Madaiine. Ton must listen to what this gentleman says and, my dear, do not let it upset you." 'Un. Dornham retired, dosing the door carefully behind her, and Lady Arleigh iwvl the ma stood looking at eacft outer. "You B me Madaiine." she sa3. "and ran send my mother from me. V hat can vou have to say r A sudden tnougni oc curred to her. "Has Lord Arleigh sent you to me 7" she asked. "Lord Arleiehl" he re Don ted in wonder. "No, he has nothing to do with what I have to say. Sit down you oo not ioo strong and I will tell you why I am here." It never occurred to him to ask why she had named Lord Arleigh. He saw her sink, half exhausted, half frightened. upon the couch, and he sat down Dy ner side. Madaiine," he began, "will you look at me. and see if my face brings back no dream, no memory to you? Yet how fool Uh I am to think of such a thing How can you remember me when your baby- eves rested on me for only a few min utes?" "I do not remember you," she said, gently "I have never seen you before." "My poor child," he returned, in a tone so full of tenderness and pain that she was startled by it, "this is hard!" "You cannot be the gentleman I used to see sometimes in the early home that I only just remember, who used to amuse me by showing me his watch and take me out for drives?" "No, I never saw you, Madaiine, as a child I left you when you were three or four days old. I have never seen' yon since, although I have spent a fortune al most in searching for you." "Yon have?" she said, wonderingly. "Who, then, are yon?" "That is what I want to tell yon with out startling you. Madaiine dear heav en, how strange it seems to utter that name again! You have always believed that good woman who has just quitted the room to be your mother?" . "Yes, always," she repeated, wondering ly. ' I "And that wretched man, the convict, yon have always believed to be your fath er?" "Always," ahe repeated. "Will It pain or startle you very much to hear that they are not even distantly related to you that the women was sim ply chosen aa your foster-mother because she had just lost her own child?" "I cannot believe it," she cried, trem bling violently. "Who are yon who tells me this?" "I am Hubert. Bad of Mountdean," he replied, "and, if you will allow me, I will tell yon what else I am." Tell me," she said, gently. "I am your father, Madaiine and the best part of my life has been spent in looking for you." (To be continued.) Ned Buntline's Escapade, I suppose that every man, woman and child In the United States has read at least one of Ned Buntline's stories of adventure, trapper life or sea brigand age. He was a prolific writer, and for many years his tales were immensely popular. A little while before the war, when Ned was a resident of Nashville, be had trouble with the editor of one of the Nashville papers on account of the latter wife. The two men met In the street, the editor shot first and nnsoed; then Ned fired. The editor dropped dead In his tracks and Ned was arrested by a great crowd for a lamp-post execution. The rope was slow in coming, and he escaped. The Nashville City Hotel was near by. He dashed through it, jumped off the roof of a shed In the rear, slid down the precipice Into the Cumberland River, and Nashville knew him no more. Revenge is the sweetest thing in the world. Ned Buntllne never was seen In Nashville after his escape. He swam 100 miles down stream to Clarksville, In Montgomery County; and when he shook the water and dust of Tennessee off his feet the State of the "butter nuts" had lost all attraction for him. But he squared accounts. He wrote a great many stories, and the villain In every one Is a Nashville man. Nash ville blushes to-day when she thinks of the vast number of her citizens who have been vlllalnlzed by Ned Buntllne one of her best people, whose name was known all over the State Cd. Ed ward Z. 0. Judson. New York Press. ELECTRICAL SPARKS. Edinburgh has concluded negotiations for the purchase of the Portolello section f the street railway system for $200,000. Dundee, Scotland, is also promoting a bill for the municipal ownership of the street railways and their equipment with elec tricity. A prominent firm of European elec trical manufacturers are about to equip the standard gauge railway between Burgdorf and Thun, in Switzerland, with the three-phase transmission so successful at Lugano. The same firm has completed the entire electrical equipment of the railway up the Corner Grat, near Zer matt. also employing a three-phase trans mission. According to the London Electrical Review a waterfall of only two feet hat been utilized near Tewkesbury, a turbine developing 40 brake horse p-wer bein; installed and driving an electrical light '.installation. Buenos Ayres, South America, has ar rived at the stage of operating its street car line by electric pnver a concession being asked the Government for a fran chise for an elevated electric railway in that town. An electric line connecting the above city and the port of La PlaU is also about to be built A French company has agreed to lay a new cable from Brest to New York city in consideration of an annual subsidy ol $150,000 A substitute for honey has been in troduced in Germany under the name of sugar-honey, and consists of sugar, water, minute amounts of mineral substances and free acid. BIRD-80NG& To Bear Theaa Truly Beaalres sua Sat Particularly Attuad. John Burroughs writes for the Cen tury an article on the "Songs of Amer ican Birds." Mr. Burroughs says: I inspect It requires a special gift of grace to enable one to t r the bird songs; some new power must be added to the ear, or seme obstruction remov ed. There are not only scales upon our eyes so that we do not ses there are scales upon our ears so that we do not hear. A city woman who had spent much of her time In the country ones asked a well-known ornithologist to take her where she could hear the blue bird. "What, never heard the blue bird!" said he. "I have net," ld ths woman. "Then you will never hear it," raid the bird lover. That Is, never heat It with that Inward ear that gives beau ty and meaning to the note. He could probably have taken her la a few min utes where she could have heard ths call or warble of the blueMrd; but it would have fallen upon unresponsive, ears apon ears that were not sensitiz ed by love for the birds or associations with tlicm. Blrd-eongs are not music, properly siteaklng, but only suggestions of mu sic. A great many people whose atten tion would be quickly arrested by the same volume of sound made by a musi cal instrument er by any artificial means never hear them at all. Ths sound of a boy's penny whistle there In the grove er the meadow would sep arate Itself more from the background of nature, and be a greater challenge to the ear. than Is the strain of the thrush or the song of the sparrow. There Is something elusive, Indefinite, neutral, about bird-songs that makes them strike obliquely, as It were, upon the ear; and we are very apt to mist them. They are 1 part of nature, and nature lies about us, entirely occupied with her own affairs, and quite regard less of our presence. Hence It Is with bird-songs as It Is with so many ether things In nature they are what w make them; the ear that hears them must be half creative. I am always disturbed when persona not especially observant of birds ask I me to take them where they can hear some particular bird the song of whlcn they have become Interested In through a description of It In some book. As I listen with them I feel like apologizing for the bird; It has a bad cold, or has Just heard some depressing news; it will not let itself out The song seem to casual and minor when yon make a doad set at It I have taken persons to hear the hermit-thrush, and I have fancied that they were all the time say I no to themselves. "Is that all?" But when one bears the bird In his walk, when the mind Is attuned to simple things and Is open and receptive, when expectation Is not aroused and the song comes as a surprise out of the dusky Hence of the woods, one feels that It merits all the fine things that can be tald of It GOLD PRODUCTION. The Inasnt Compare. California with Australia. A correspondent writes to the San Francisco Argonaut that a gentleman who has mined in Australia remarked In conversation with him that Austra lia has produced sixteen times as much gold as California has, and be asks whether this is true. The statement Is, of course, absolutely unfounded in fact California produced from the date of the discovery of gold to the end of 1805, $1,205,217,217: the produce of 185)0 Increased this amount to $1,282, 308,799. The world's production of gold from the discovery of America to the end of 1895 was X8.7oi.uzi.iuu, ana, adding the estimate for 1896 of Mr. Preston, director of the mint, the total Im SS.0S6.021.100. The production of the whole world, therefore, is less than one-half of what this gentleman claims for Australia alone. It is a fact however, that Australia tins produced more gold than Califor nia. To the end of 1894 Australia pro duced $1,773,127,000 as against $1,249, 872,900. The product In 1895 was $48, DWi.000 and for 1806 it is estimated at $46,250,000, making the total to the flrsi of this year $1,867,963,900 against $1.- 282,308,780. an excess of $585,565,120. The comparison Is hardly fair, however, between California alone, with an area of 158,360 square miles, and all the gold-producing colonies of Australasia, including victoria. New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand with an aggregate area of 3,004,708 square miles. A comparison would be more proper with all the gold-producing States of this country, which, dur ing the period under consideration, had an output of $2,038,410,000, or $170,440, 100 In excess of Australia. SnutT Bottles Are la Large Demand, Rnunlng parallel with the boom In in- fant patent medicines, comes the report of a great demand for snuff bottles This either represents economy on the part of those who use tobacco or that the American workmen are falling Into some disagreeable practices. There Is no one particular concern enjoying the snuff-bottle boom. They all make the same report A snuff bottle la a square, low bottle of amber glass with a screw top, holding from one-half pound up to three pounds of snuff. The half-pound and the pound bottles are mostly I use. Ten year ago snuff "dipping" wn a general Southern practice among ne groes and the whites In the mountains. particularly the Georgia crackers am the South Carolina malungeons. The.v Inhaled It and chewed it The female rubbed their teeth and gums with Nobody ever gave any reason for the practice, except that It was a eonta glous custom. The snuff trade of the South was so great that It made a doz en snuffmakers millionaires. The use of snuff Is not now limited to the South but Is becoming general, particularly the Inhaling of snuff for medicinal use. Those who "dip" snuff are spreading through Canada, and In the New Eng land States the practice ia becoming very common. The snuff has the effect of a narcotic, and It ruins every tooth In contact with it It looks now as if the next generation of New England operatives would be a toothless lot, and the habit Is getting a foothold. U the country districts of western Pennsyl vania as well as rn the West There li a big sale of chewing snuff in New York, particularly In the tenement dis tricts. It Is taking as many snuff bot tles new to supply the market as It does beer bottles. New York Times, The loftiest active volcano Is Coto paxi. It Is 18,880 feet high, and Its last great eruption was in 1S55. The sea round any desert Island rare ly visited by man, and distant from any mainland,' always teems with fish. In Arabia excavation by the wind forms pits over two hundred feet deep, down to the hard stratum on which the sand lies. The earth derives nfnety-ntne per cent, of its energy from the sun. Me teoric showers give rise to the greater proportion of the remaining one per ent The stars also feebly help. An English medical paper queerly re marks (of one of many like fungi) that the most' wonderful vegetable in the werid is the truffle, because it has nei ther roots, stem, flowers, leaves nor seeds. An oak tree was cut down at Baraboo, Wis., recently, the trunk of which had early 400 rings, whfch, according to the generally accepted rule that a new ring Is formed each year, would Indi cate that the tree started on Its earth ly career after Columbus. first sighted the New World. The tree was six feet La diameter at the base. At a recent meeting of the Entomo logical Society of Washington some specimens of ehrysopa, a species ol golden-eyed fly, which bad been collect ed In the White Mountains, were exhib ited as curiosities, because each car ried on 'its back one or more minute ceddomyiid flies. The opinion was ex pressed that this was a true case of a smaller species of Insect using a larger species for the purpose of locomotion from place to place. There was recently exhibited In En gland a diving apparatus, need for pearl-fishing In the Australian colonies, with which a practiced diver made a descent to a depth of 189 feet, remain ing nnder water fifty minutes without any discomfort This depth, it Is said. was never before attained in Great Britain, The diving apparatus weighs seven-and-a-half hundredweight, th arms and the lower half consisting of a series of 6piral springs. A New Haven man is the owner of in Interesting historical document, the deed for forty acres of land In Port land, which was conveyed in 1733 to the Rev. Moses Bartlees, for a consider ation of 100. The paper is intact, save where H has been folded. At the con- Juslon are affixed twenty seals of twen ly Indians. The seals are of red wax. ind a coin was evidently used In stamping the seals, as slight traces of a crown can be found in several of them. Lord Raylelgh in a recent lecture said that experiments had shown that a vibration of sound having an amplitude of less than one twelve-millionth of a centimeter could still affect the sense of hearing. Such a vibration would be so short that It would have to be en larged one hundred times before the most powerful microscope could ren der it visible, supposing that It were susceptible to being seen at all. Old people, he said, do not hear high notes which are audible to young persons, and there Is reason to believe that ba bies hear notes which are Inaudible to their elders. Some Tested Point, in Diet. The fact that milk has become ex tremely popular with all classes of phy- ilclans of late years Is emphasized by i recent writer In the North American Review. Formerly a fever patient was forbidden to take the article, while In modern practice It Is about the only food allowed, and a well-nigh exclus ve diet of that liquid is said to be very fflcacious In diabetes. At the German ;pas, Carlsbad, Wiesbaden, etc., a very lttle bread Is allowed, the diet being mostly made up of milk, eggs, grapes ind lean beef; a non-starch diet is the rule, bread, starchy vegetables and ce--eals being almost excluded. Rice Is nslly digested and an excellent food. xcept that It abounds In earth salts. l'"rults are not only digested In the first itomacb, but they have a large par of :he nourishment already In a condition to be absorbed and assimilated as soon is eaten. The food elements In bread ind cereals have to undergo a process f digestion In the stomach, and then be passed on to the intestines for a still farther chemical change before being ol .we to the human system, showing the idvantage of a diet of lean meats and fruits. 'Wonderful "tolldlty. "My husband," said Mrs. lis rt wick, "might have submitted to the torture of the Inquisition without ever mak ing a peep." "Why do you think that?" she wa asked. "He permitted me to move a porous plaster from his right lung this morn ing without giving vent to a single oath." Postage Htampa Cpside Down. Folk In general are not nowadays bo careful as they were years ago In the matter of affixing postage stamps to letters and receipt stamps upon bills, and many never note whether the stamps are the right way up or upside down. It was very different however, before the rush and roar of this half of the century began, for It was next door to a crime, In the eyes of many, to af fix a stamp with the English Queen's head the wrong way up. Many were not only under the Impression that her Majesty would "feel eft'ended," but thai If she took the matter up personally, oi told officials to act punishment could follow. There are still, however, many people who look with horror upon a postage itamn ppglde down, . POKER IN THE KLONDIKE Gt In Which tha WiauerScoos ed im (1240,660 Im Geld Dast A recently returned prospector, who was one ef the first to reach the Klon dike when the initial rush began, tells f a poker game which took place in lawsen City, the metropolis of the ewly discovered Eldorado, In which the players bet two-quart Jars and kero sene cans of gold dust There were a large number of miners In the place at the time; waiting to be taken dewn to St. Michaels by boat and all had dust Three of the crowd started a game on night in a saloon and a couple more soon joined In. "Money that Is, coined money U scarce in that region, so dust and nug gets were used," said the prospector In telling of the game. "At the start of the game white sheets of note paper were spread on the table, and when a man would ante he would put In -a pinch of dust The matter of a few d(lars' difference caused by this care less method did net cut any Ice with the players. The play was evn. No one could win more than ten or fifteen ounces at the outside, so no one was tatisfled. Finally the break eame. 'Sandy' McLeod, who had gone into th country as sergeant of mounted police, was one of the players, ne was dealt a hand that seemed to sun mm. iui man to his right seemed to be pretty j well fixed also, and bet a handful of j coarse gold. 'Sandy reached into his sack, drew out a handful, laid It along side the other, then turned to his pack. and, lifting out a two-quart Jar of gold, said: T raise you that' "The next man was Joe Holllngs head, a Texan, the discoverer of the Bonanza Creep camp. Joe saw the bet and raised It another Jar. The next man was a Swede, and he passed out The last man, the dealer, hesitated long, but finally tossed his cards hi ths center also. The opener saw the raiss and lifted it another Jar. Then he lay back complacently. "Sandy" hesitated not a second, but reached for his out fit again and produced a can of dust with the Jnr to see the other raise, re marking, 'Raise you a can.' "In the deal the first man took two cards, 'Sandy' took two also, and Joe took but one. The first man bad failed to fill, ne dropped out 'Sandy had no more oil cans of gold, but he had tw jars full, and Joe had an equal amount Which one of the boys bet I do not recollect but anyway, both had thelt lars on the table at about the sams time, and a show-down was demanded. Sandy had three aces, a queen and a Jack, and Joe had four kings and an ace. "How much gold was on the table at the time? Well, I can't give the exact amount but I should calculate that there was in the neighborhood of $240 000 worth." - 'A Teat for Horseflesh. "People are apt to jump at conclu sions," said a chemist, in speaking ol the latest notable murder case. "Chem istry Is a very nice science, but it is possible to make some sad blunders in applying it to law and evidence. There are certain things you can prove by It If you are sure of your premises and certain other things that yon cannot This thing of trying to prove a good deal by chemistry calls to mind the leef-extract case that gave a packer In this city considerable uneasiness. "Somebody got hold of his beef ex tract and claimed that It was made from horseflesh, and It was proved by analvsis that is, to the satisraction oi the man that analyzed it The ordi nary test for horseflesh, according to nnthnrltles. is elvcocen. Th!a Is a substance that speaking In a general way. Is found In horseflesh, but does not exist In beef, and it was shown that this particular extract contained clrcogen. "The packer came to us In some dis tress of mind for a way out or the aim culty. He said his extract was made of nothing but beef, and he wanted us to heln him prove It and we did so to his relief and to the satisfaction or xns health officers. We demonstrated that while an ordinary piece of beef did not contain glycogen, it existed in the heart, liver and blood of cattle, and some of each of these might hare en tered into the making of the beef ex tract The result was that the chemist who had arrived at such sweeping con clusions from the first test bad to back down from his position. Chicago Times-Herald. . FOR THE CAMERA FIEND. focusing Cloth Which Ha. Apparen. Advantage Here is a focusing cloth, the advant igea of which are apparent. The old style focusing cloth, which mussed the bair and would persist In blowing way, has undoubtedly proved a source or annoyance to many a photographer of outdoor subjects. This little help may be very easily made at home, and Is not so clumsy to carry as the ordi- LOOK FLKASAKT, PLXA.SK. nary square focusing cloth. It m made slightly larger at one end than the ground glass, and an elastic band la sewed In that end. This fits on the camera, and need not be removed dur ing the taking of the picture. An elas tic band at the other end holds the cloth r gainst the operator's face. Anothei advantage Is that it Is not necessary to use one hand to hold the cloth at th bottom to exclude ths light. Not lake a Novel. First heiress Here comes a man thai Is a true hero, If there ever was one. Second heiress What did h eve! do? First heiress He saved my life at the seashore last summer and didn't ask me to marry him. The purchasing power of a woman' tear often urpaaves that of a $30 goM SERMONS OFTHE DAY tear. Ctoorge II. Bepworth. Sermon la th. K.w . York Heruld la Kn titled ' "Nothing; U Small" An AddiMt by KvangaUst D. . Bloody on Bible Text. The New York Herald publishes the com plete result of its recent competition tor Sriso sermons printed In Its columns. The. rat prize was awarded by the Herald it self, and the second, third and fourth prizes were decided by the votes ot Its readers. The successful competitors were 13 follows: First prize, (1000. to the Rev. Kichard O. Woodbridge, pastor of the Central Congre gational Church, Middleboro, Mass. Sub ject, "The Power of Gentleness." Second prize, C500, to the Rev. W. S. Perkins, pastor of St. Paul's Universalis! Church, Meridan. Conn. Subject, "Burdon Bearinc" Third prize, 300, to the Rev. John D. Long, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Babylon, L. I. Subject, "The Good Side of Life." Fourth prize, 200, to the Rev. Edwin P. Parker, pastor ot the Second Chnroh, Hart ford, Conn. Subjeot, "Law of Kindness." Dr. Mepworth on "Nothing Is Small. Text: "Thou hast been faithful over a, few things, 1 will make thee ruler ovet many things; enter thou tnto the joy of thy Lord." Matthew xxv., 21. I know ofj no part of Scripture which gives me more good cheer than this. I contains the kindest and most encouraging statement of fact that ever fell from the lips of Christ. I oftentimes wonder what ciroumstanon suggested this subjeot what Impelled Him to put a gentle hand on our shoulder, as though to say, "Be not trou bled." To do things well is to do God'f work in God's way. Nothing is trivial thut is worth doing at all. It is true that not all can be great In the sight of men, but every'man may belong to heaven's nobility. There are men in the humblest walks of life who will wear cov eted crowns in the hereafter because thej did their simple duty in a simple fashion. When we get into the other world we shall be profoundly surprised to find that the Lord's standard of value is very differ ent from that to which we bare been ac customed. We regard social position, wealth, Intellectual culture as of prime im portance and rather imagine that the Lord will hesitate to condemn anyone with these three enviable possessions. But it is clear that we and He do not agree, for with Hire a pure heart and a sweet, placid and gentU life are worth more than all else besides. Not even God can make either youi heart pure or your life sweet without youi assistance. Nor can you make a pure heart era sweet life without His assistance. These desirable results must come from a close association of God with man and of man with God. Wh.n your weakness, moved by a divine ambition, is commingled with His omnipotence, then and then only can the ideal soul be produced. He can make wealth, He can give you the genius which will make you famous, but it is ab solutely necessary for you and Him to work in holy partnership before the thing which heaven prizes most can be attained. When we step across the border we shall find that many of our earthly ideas of value are either mistakes or prejudices, and that lives are acceptable and profit able only in proportion to their spiritual symmetry and beauty. The more a man does for others, therefore, the more he does for himself, and if he cares only for himself, to the neglect of others, he will have to go into the primary class In heaven and learn what true religion means. Someone said to me recently in despair ing tones, "My life amounts to so little. I live the humdrum days in a humdrum way, and if I should drop out ot existence It would make no difference to anyone." If that were true it would be very sad. But this man was to my mind one of the world's heroes. I knew his environment, and knew what he had done with it, how much be bad made out of it. Yes, be was a manual laborer, and his hands were grimy with toil. He was a saint in over ails. He was the guardian angel of an aged mother who thought herself In heaven long before she went there because the son was so like Providence. He strained every nerve to give bis boys an education that they might be fitted to do better work than he had done. You say "All this i a matter of course." Then I add, and God's blessing is a matter of course. That was a narrow life? No; it was aa wide as God's love could make it, and as noble as an archangel's. He who does the little duties of life with a large heart makes himself great in soulj You can better a ITord to stand before God In honest rags than in the purple and fine linen of dishonesty. The important question to be answered is not, Who are you? but What are you? Your pocketboolc does not weigh as mueh as your moral principle in the scales ol God. It is rank heresy to say that your life is worthless if you are doing your work well. Heaved is full of princes who found it hard to pay the rent of their earthly houses. Never allow yourself to say, and espe cially to feel, that the work you are doing ia insignificant or the place you will till is of no importance. To do that is to makq an uncalled for criticism on the Lord, too you hereby declare that the duty He has set you to do Is not worth doing. If there Is a mistake anywhere It is in your opinion of the value of things and not In His judg ment as to what He needs to have done. You have no right to hold any such opinion, and if you do it is because your Ideas are based on false principles. No matter how humble your sphere, fill it full by pouring your best and noblest; qualities of character into it. A pool of water is a thing of beauty when the moon shines on it, anil the smallest soul that ever breathed Is a miracle when the spirit of God Is reflected therein. It requires many hands to make a watch. If one of the hands which fashions one of the cogs of one of the wheels does Its work badly the watch will never keep good time. If the whole is to be perfect every part must be perfect. So It is in th. universe. You do not know, but God knows that unless you take paina to make your cog of the wheel with fidelity you may do a damage which cannot easily be repaired. Little things done well make a great soul, and small duties are always great duties in the eyes of the angels. Geoboe H. Hefwobth. ADDRESS BY MOODY. Th. Fam.us Evangelist Speaks In Mew York on th. Value of Bible Text. "I believe In my heart that the best thing on this earth is the Gospel of the Son ot God. I said last night that the keynote of this mission Is th. saying of Christ, 'The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that Which was lost.' To-night I will take an, other text to follow it. And I want you to remember that the object of the sermon ia to drive home the text. I would rather have one text of the Iiiole than all the ser- mons in th. world. There are enough ot them preached In New York every week to save the city ten times over. In John I., 29, are the first words recorded by the evangelist as having been spoke, to him by Jesus Christ. They are, 'What seek ye?' It may have been sixty years after John heard those words that he wrote them down, but they had made such an impres sion on him that he remembered the time and the place. With another who after ward became a disciple he had gone to look at Christ, and asked Him the question. 'Where dwellest Thou?' 'Come and see? answered the Saviour, and th. two disci ples went, and never left Him. "It is very evident tbat these two men found more in Christ than did a good many ithers of their time. And do you know :bat there are a good many in New York the same way. It Is recorded in the gos pels that many of those who followed the iaviour left Him, and there are many who follow Him to-day ' who say they are disappointed. Why? I think can tell you. When the erowds followed Christ In the Holy Land they did to from various motives. Some of them wanted to see Him perform miracles. They wanted to see the devils oast oat and, ths lepers cured, and so thev were always say ing to Him, "Master, show us a sign." Others thought He was going to found an earthly kingdom, and wanted to get into offloe when He founded it. Others thought that they might entangle Him into Baying something against the Mosaic or Komau laws which would lead to Mis eoniwmnn tlon and death. Others followed just from morbid curiosity to see the crowd and hear something new. Others He Himself accused of being after the fishes and ths loaves. They did not care about His mes sage. "All these people soon got tired of fol lowing Christ; but I can vouch for on. thing that no man for eighteen hundred years who has followed Jesus Christ for what H. is has ever been disappointed. He Is all that you make Him to Im. Some make a little Saviour, because they think little of Him. "What seek yo, vou that are here to-night7 Come, tell me. I could go through the crowd and find just the same motives actuating you as those who followed the Lord in Palestine. There are some men back there who came to seethe crowd. Another has come because his wife has been nagging at him for the last thres weeks, and he promised to come. An other man is here because he has nowhere else to go. He says that If he had a good 'comfortable home you would not find hlra here. Another one comes to hear the ulnging. I'm glad he wanted to hear something, anyway. Although some of you have come with low motives, thank God you have come at all, and you may change your mind before you're through. I'm glad to have a chance at you, what ever your motives for being here mnv be. "Here is another text I want to rem!: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and lilf righteousness, and all these things sluill lie la.lded unto you.' So many people think that they will attend to temporal things first, aud after they have made a comforta ble fortune and settled down they will at tend to eternal things. God say. 'No. You must first seek the Kingdom of God.' I think If this were really done you would never come to want. "I have been besought on all sides tc preach sermons on capital and labor and Bimllar subjects. My friends, I believe as long as you start right and follow that text you will turn out right in the end. I be lieve so many don't get on because the Kingdom ot God comes last, not first, with them. You can't tell what may happen be fore the morning. Christ wouid not even allow a man who followed Him to bury hit dead father before he had obtained tin Kingdom of God. I believe there are thou sands and tens of thousands of young peo ple who have written on the flyleaves o: their Bibles by some loving father oi mother the text I have quoted, from Miit thew vl., 33. "If Moses should suddenly appear here what do you suppose would be the first words he would say to you? If you asked him to come to the platform ami tnko mj place he would say: 'The choice is be tween life and death. Choose life.' If Hezeklah were to come here what would he say? I think he would ask you. 'How long halt ye between two opinions?' I: Solomon should appear he would say, 'Whatever thy hand findeth to dr. do il with thy might.' Suppose that little tent imaker, Paul of Tarsus, were here. He would shout, 'Now Is the accepted time, now ii the day of Salvation.' And if Jfsus Cliri were to appear among us He would sny 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and iiii righteousness and all these things shall bt added unto you.' " Bicycle. E C, Bald bis sipned for the cominC year with the Pimldinss and during IS98 will be seen on the blue racer. He will get into shape at the Fountain ierry 'The old time Forest Park rond race at St. Louis seems fikely to bo abandoned for good. There is some talk, however, of Sc-etary Rosen, of the Missouri L. A. W. Division, taking up the matter and ar ranging for the event. . Indianapolis provisos to give at the time of the national championship races a handicap race for which the purse will be $1000. A middle distance contest, with a purse large enough to draw in all the prominent middle-distance stars, will also be offered. , .. , A bicycle designed to dispense wi(n ball bearings in the head of the cycle has at the points usually occupied by the bull bearings soft rubber collars iitting into cups secured rigidly to the head of the frame, corresponding lug" and notches on the collars and cup cov.-i-s, giving a torsional movement bv every movement of the handle bear or turn of the front fork. . , , ... There will be two Ppringficlds this vear. the Springfield llicvcle Club having joined the National Track As-'ociai ion circuit for two meetings, one in the spi n g and the other in the fall. The Siinu lield meetings have always been considere the most interesting run, excepting only, the national championship meets. Henry Smith, who is matched to meet Robert French in a 21-hour race nt Klec tric Park on Decoration day, announces that he will try for the American 24 hour road record over the Century Club's surveyed course on April 17th. French says that he will also moke the attempt at the same time and over the same course. Everybody interested in seeinc the latest developments in high-grade wheels should send a postal to the John 1. I.ovell Company, Boston, Mass., for their new catalogue. It contains valuable informa tion. The Northwest Cycle Racing Associa tion is fast perfecting all arrangements f ir a big Fourth of July road rai c over the Wheel ins course. Permits have len s-curod, committees apxintod and w-i-i prizes raiseil by the Prize Commit ice. Th'! Commissioners' decided stand in tlio matter of abbreviated racing costumes has had its weight, and there will l.e a number of efforts to win the prize ottered for the man who wins the race in a long suit of clothes. Prizes will be given only to the contestants making the best time, and this is calculated to bring out the fastest men in the West. Josef Hoffman was riding a bargain store cycle when it collapsed. The acci dent cost him the loss of two engagements, when the houses were sold out, amount ing to $8000. The Associated Cycling Clubs are stort ing in early to get things in shape for their big fall race meet. The committee in charge will probably lie the some tlint ran the big national meet last year. Willie Windle, champion bicycle racer of the world between the year's 1SSR (t-id 1R91, is now a traveling salesman for a Hacerstown (Md.) firm. The most dovoloiod muscles in a cyclist are those of the thigh, which are devel oped to a marvelous extent in many riders. The muscles of the calf and legs are also benefited, and the tendons of the ankle are strengthened and improved." The pulling on the handles when hill climbing tends to increase the muscles St the back of the shoulders, while the chest and arm muscles are also kept in . i i NOTES FROM AFAR. Sweden exports 1 ,0n0,0on,000 boxes of matches yearly, and has the oldest match Tuctory in the world. Barcelona, the largest citv in Spain, has 520,000 inhabitants; Madrid, 507,000. There is an immense garden in China that embraces an area of 50,000 square miles. It is all meadow-land and is filled with lakes, ponds and canals. Near the Caspian Sea there are several "eternal fires, so called by the natives, Where natural gas issues from the ground snd has been on fire for ages. language. There are 305 miles of street railwa in St. Ixiuis now, and they carry 100,000, 000 passengers a year. The Government will soon bring before the Prussian landtag ' bill to prohibit women and miners f r l 4 attending public meetings, and mukel t a penal of fense to deliver a '.-ech in a foreign 7 ""J.- ; . ' ? 1 a, -r-i '-: ji-
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