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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.
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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-
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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
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