V ...i F. IOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. LII MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20 189S. NO. 19. 1 1 -r CHAPTEIt t. -.Innc? June! where are you 7 ' ! am here," answers a charming voice, it M the owner of it trips out from behind a rosebush, holding a duster of half lu-jwn crimson blossoms of which she has d"4HiiltcI it. June, the month, links spring to sum i.i.t: in June the birds sing their sweetest, ti i- eii sen are keenest; June bears the : f and promise of the year. June hai hot Cm and cold fits, summer skies and - i:rry tears, bnlmy airs and chilling winds. Ji:ne is young and fresh, bright and hope fi:l. guy and careless in the faith of good d:iys to come; June, when fair. Is fairest of the fair; and June the month is a fit prototype of June the smiling maiden who answers so promptly. Madge, a hoyden of sixteen, pounced nion her cousin, thrust a rigorous hand through her arm, and cried, in jubilant accents: "Tom has come. Of course he asked for you at once, and Aggie said she thought you had gone home; but I said I knew you hadn't, and that I would find you; whereupon Tom beamed." By this time they were half across the lawn, and a big, fair young man came striding out of the French windows to inee them. lie looked, as Madge said, beaming. A joyous light shone in his blue eyes as he took June's hand in an eager clasp. No one, seeing the expression of his face, would hare entertained a mo ment's doubt as to his feelings for the youns lady whom he was greeting. "I am so glad you hare come back, Tom. It was so dull without you." June did not blush, nor look coy or em barrassed, which was, perhaps, rather an unfavorable symptom for Tom. "Was it?" he cried, eagerly. "I'm aw-? fully glad to hear you say that." "Well," cried Madge, "has aunt found a duke's daughter for you, and are we go ing to have a real swell cousin?" "They won't hare me," laughed Tom. "I don't suit them. I am not their sort. Fashionable young ladies don't care for me. 1 can't dance, and I can't talk their jargon." "Never mind, Tom," uttered June, giv ing him a friendly glance. "You hare i come bark to people who appreciate you. And I am sure you are happier here." "I should think I am!" returned Tom, with emphasis. "Poor aunt!" remarked Madge again, mischievously, pretending to sigh. "My mother had Dal," answered Tom, laughing, "and he is exactly after her own heart." "But he is not her son," said June. "What is he like?" asked Madge. "lie's a very good-looking young chap, jnd very manly and plucky. And he dances 'like a seraph,' as some lady re marked, and looks at every pretty woman as if he lored her." "How delightful !" cried Madge. "Oh, Tom, I wish yon would hare him dows here.1" "He has promised to come. He la real ly tremendously fond of my mother. I feel quite an outsider when he is there." At this moment Agnes cam out of the window, smiling, yet scarcely looking pleased. "Mamma says, Tom, will you stay and hare high tea with us? She la afraid it will not be a rery good substitute for your dinner, but we shall be delighted if you will." Tom felt himself rather in a cleft stick. If June were going to stay, he would ac cept Joyfully; if not, he wanted to walk borne with her, and he was not altogether Indifferent to his dinner when there waa no object to be gained by going without It. Yet he would not for the world be Im polite to Agnes and Madge, though they were his cousins. He hesitated for an Instant. "June Is not going to stay to-night," In terposed Madge, reading his thoughts with her sharp instinct. Tom flushed crimson through his fair akin; June tried to appear unconscious, and Agnes closed her thin lip together, and looked as if she would like to pinch her sister. "Thanks, awfully," said Tom, after a moment's pause, "but there are one or two people I ought to see to-night. I dare say my aunt will let me come another night Instead. Is she In the drawing room? I will go In and see her." And he marched a. Agnes wanted to get June away before Tom came out again. She was eternally trying te separate this pair, although she knew that Tom waa deeply in lore with her cousin. But she had heard that, when a woman la firmly purposed to marry a nan, ahe not unfrequently succeeds, and be bad long ago determined to marry Tom, if there waa any truth In the aaying. June saw through this and was proroked at it. She waa not in lore wren xom; but, when any one attempted to put obstacles between him and ber, her regard lor mm went up with amazing rapidity. She particularly wanted him to walk home with her to-night, but, as she was far too proud to run after him, ahe said: "I must be going. I did not know It waa so late." "Gire my lore to auntie," Agnes called after her, sweetly. June did not reply or so much aa turn her head, which she held rery straight up In the air. She would not condescend to linger eren when she got Into the road, be ing possessed of that strong Instinct of elf-respect which prerents a proud wom an from seeming to make the smallest ad rance to a man. She had not, however, rone three hundred yards before she beard rapid steps behind her, and in an other moment, Tom, flushed and breath less, waa beside her. "Why did you go without saying good by to met" he asked, reproachfully. "It Is late, and mamma will be waiting," answered June; not that she desired to screen Agnes from Tom's displeasure, but because her dignity forbade her to tell him bow ahe had been hurried away. "I can't tell you," he said, with immense emphasis, "how utterly delighted I am te get back.' -I am delighted," answered June, smil hi up In his face. . "And hare you thought," trying to ebeck hlB erie.s-"have n tJ"uht whether whether you could give uie hope?" "You promised," returned June, flush ing a little and affecting an air of dis pleasure, "not to say another word about that for at least six months. Tell me about London. I am sure you must hare seen plenty of lorely and charming womes there to make yon forget all about me." "There was not one who could hold a canule to youl" swore Tom, with f error. By this time they had nearly reached the rose-covered cottage where June and Ser nagier " "May I come in and see Mrs. Kivers? be asked, and June gare permission. Then they went into the house together A lady rose from a low chair aa they en tered the little drawing room a lady whom one had no difficulty in recognizing a June'a mother, although her eyes and bair were sereral shades darker. She waa rather tall, with an almost girlish fig ure, but her face had a worn and suffer ing look. For the moment, as she greeted Tom, this died away in a smile, and, for bis part, he looked almost as pleased to see her as he had looked at sight of June. "Is it you, Tom?" she asked, in a voice that waa own mother to June's. "What! tired of London already? "Yes," he answered, heartily. "I have come back, and I never was so glad in all tny life to get away from a place." "But, my dear boy, what does youi mother say?" "She Isn't extra pleased, but she saw I shouldn't do any good, howerer long I stayed. I'm not fit for London life. I bate itl It makes me feel like a bird in a cage. It is getting late," remarked Tom, though he waa dreadfully loath to take bis leare. "I'm afraid I must be going." "I wish we could ask you to stay," said Mrs. Rivers, "but our modest little tea would be a rery poor substitute for your dinner." Tom did not say bow fain he would even go without dinner to stay another hour in the company that be lored; he had delicate instincts; he was afraid of putting these dear women, of whom ha was so heartily fond, out of the way. "I am coming in the afternoon," he told Mrs. Hirers, and added: "I hare brought you and June a little reminder from Lon don." Tom bade a lingering good-by and walk ed off with a buoyant step and a light heart. CHAPTER II. Tom was a trial to his mother, the Hon orable Mrs. Ellesmere. If Tom had been a brilliant, dashing scapegrace, she would hare Idolized him, and could hare forgiv en him anything; but Tom was honetit and mediocre, and she had nothing to forgive. He waa not in any way what she wanted him to be, not eren In appearance. He was a fine young fellow, with frank blue eyes, a trifle blunt of feature; he looked like a gentleman, but a country gentle man. He made a capital squire, but among the gilded youth of the cities he did not shine. On the day after bis return from town Tom came to call at the Rose Cottage punctually at the time appointed. But June was not there. She had been sent for to the rectory, as the singing master bad unexpectedly changed his day, and came orer on the chance of its being con venient to his pupils. June waa educated with her cousins. Mrs. Bryan Ellesmere, wife of Tom's un cle, the Reverend Bryan Ellesmere, was sister to Mrs. Hirers, and when Captain Hirers died, tearing his widow indiffer ently provided for, Mrs. Bryan at once suggested that her sister should come to the Rose Cottage, then vacant, and that June should hare the benefit of her cous ins' governess and masters. And for five years the programme had been success fully carried out with fewer differences. Jealousies and heart-burnings than miht have been expected, considering that June so far outshone her companions in beauty and talent. But Mrs. Bryan was a placid, easy tempered woman, and Mrs. Rivers bad an immense amount of tact. and was, besides, thoroughly conscious of and grateful for the advantages winch her sister's kindness gare June. Tom might hare been a stumbling block but that Mrs. Bryan had a rooted aversion to marriages between first cousins a feeling which, aa we know, was not shared by her eldest daughter. Tom arrived at the Rose Cottage, and, finding Mrs. Rivers alone, was for a mo ment conscious of a pang of disappoint ment, when he suddenly bethought him self how a tete-a-tete might be turned to advantage. "I want to say something to you may I?" he asked; and Mrs. Hirers looked up at him with the sweet smile which mnde ber sad face ten years younger all at once. "You may say anything you like." Then Tom broke into his discourse: "Yon know I'm sure you know how I lore June. Going away, and seeing all these other women of whom my mother thinks so much, has only made me love and admire her ten times more; she is as far beyond them as as anything can be." "That is Indeed praise," said Mrs.-Kiv-i who, in her heart of hearts, thought It no more than her darling'a due. "lt'a true! it's gospel true!" cried Tom. with energy. Then he faltered a bit. but fighting with hia dllBdeqce, half conquered it, and went on. "I am getting so unset tled. I did not feel it so much before I went away, but now I feel as if I must bare something to go upon. Do you da you," Imploringly, "think she cares at all for mc? do you think she will marry m some day?" Tom had the most sympathetic listener. Mrs. Rivers felt for him, and knew whal he felt, but ahe would not aay a word more than she conscientiously could. "My dear boy," ahe anawered him, not without a certain amount of hesitation In her tone, "I know exactly how you feel. What yon say la perfectly Just and fair. I don't think I need tell you how glad I should be to hare you for a son; there Is no man In the world to whom I would so gladly give my darling. You bare not i a .nk!n9 n Inn since you came mu - , back, hare you?" I "I tried to last night, but ahe wouldn II ,,, i. i I m mum I nare li; maw wiy Mrs. Hirers paused moment, then, teeklac DP at bit. fM "Will you leare It to me? Shall I try and find out what her feelings for you are? You know girls, especially girls who hare been brought up quietly in the coun try like June, require rather delicate treatment in the nature of their affec tions." "Yes," replied Tom, ruefully. "Then take my advice, and do not breathe a word to her on the subject this afternoon. I will talk to ber to-night, and you will come and see me to-morrow at twelve, when she will be away." And here the form of Miss June wu seen tripping by the window, and the next moment she came in like a flood of sun shine. "Hare you brought my present, Tom?" the asked, as soon as she had greeted him and kissed her mother. "I bare been quite absent all the time of my singing lesson, wondering and trying to guess what it could be." Then Tom, a little bit nervous how hii offering would be received, produced a mall parcel from his pocket. Miss June, chattering all the time, deftly unfolded the various wrappers, and then Drought ber Up to a rery round O, and looked up with glistening- eyes. "Oh, Tom I eh, mammal" carrying it to ber mother. "It la too handsome. 1 must not hare It, must It" "I do not know what to say," answered Mrs. Hirers, smiling. She felt that it de pended entirely on circumstances wheth er June might keep and wear so valuablt a trinket. The present waa a large gold locket, with a hieroglyph intended for June ia diamonds In the center. "Why not?" cried Tom, who had been expecting a remonstrance. "It Is quit simple. Besides, you must bare it. It wouldn't do for anyone else. It has got 'June' on It, and nobody else ia called June but ou." "It is beautiful," smiled Mrs. Rivers, "and does the greatest credit to Tom'i taste." Tom was looking at his beloved's eye and lips; nothing could embellish her U his mind. "I suppose I must take It off again," said the girl, wistfully; but Tom cried, "No, no, no!" and ber mother said: "You might, at all events, wear It a little longer." "And all this time," uttered Tom, "you," to Mrs. Rivera, "hare not seen your present." And he dashed out Into the little ball, and produced a good-sized parcel this time. It waa a pretty relvel and gilt screen for photographs, and Mrs. Rivers waa aa much pleased with bet offering aa June bad been. "Now, Tom," cried the girl, with danc ing eyes, "I want to bear all about Lon don all -ererything." - "I tell you what it la, June, I hate Lon don society there ia so much sham and make-believe about It; no one seems to b sincere, or to care to be real and honeati they only want to take each other in by pretending. "And your cousin, Mr. Broke, ia a most accomplished pretender r "My mother sr.ys he's perfect." "I know I shall bate him," said June, emphatically. "Oh, no, you won't. He's a thorough good chap. Besides, lt'a different with him. He's a Guardsman, and goes In foi society, so he must make himself popular, And, by George! he does, too. I only hope to goodness," looking suddenly at June, "that that " Then he flushed crimson, and turned away his face. "That what?" inquired June, with aa Innocent air. "Nothing," replied Tom. (To be continued. How to Be Great. We are all born but once. Most of us marry but once. We certainly can die b.:t (nee. And If we look at life "aa a small bundle of great things," we shall certainly not think It worth while to practice small courtesies. Bt If we regard It, far more truly, as "a big bundle of small things," we shall certainly feel that few things In life are better worth doing. It may nerer be In our power to sare anybody's life, make for anybody a fortune, shed lus ter upon the family name, die for our country, or set the smallest river on fire In any way whatever. But If we con scientiously and sweetly give our selves to the practicing of small courte sies, only the recording angel can ever set down the good we shall do In our day and generation to hundreds and thousands of our fellow creatures in the course of a lifetime. Most people despise them as not worth doing. Few people perform them with any degree of consistency or lov ing kindness. Fewer still are content Mio them In the best way, unnoticed. unremembered, really feeling It to be emphatically a virtue that la Its own reward. Yet it Is a wonder that preach ers do not urge It upon their congrega tions from a thousand pulpits. If the inhao.tants of the fixed start I ml Miweiful enough telescopes to sec us, they would not see us us we are to- lay, but as we r. era fifty, too years, ot even lunger ago, for it would t:ike light (hat long to travel to them. I'riinon has set up snout three huii- iikmi monument to morn or Jess dis tinguished Hvnchnicn during the last twenty-live years, anil there are. now 127 Committees collet tint money for more. ,-In ls!7 Ohio furnished alaiost 37,000 tons of grindstones. Tho British army rifle has eighty-two component parts, in the production of which machines are employed, as well as various processes which do not require machinery. It Is estimated that over 80 tons of diamonds have been unearthed in the South African fields during the last 1 years. These represent a total value of tO.OOO.OlH). The only surviving daughter of John I!i own, of Harper's Ferry fame, is livinp in a small town in California, in nearly destitute circumstances. She is a tern perance advocate. One of tho attractions of the Paris Exposition in 11X0 will be a huge pic ture of ti e coronation of the Zsar. The canvas will contain 200 nearly life-size portraits, and odd devices will be re sorted to in an effort to produce an at mosphere, of realism. Marriages in India during the yeS ended June .10 lost numbered 23,1)90 and the divorces 30S0. The spiders that spin webs are in an infinite minority compared with those which do not. J round spiders, us the nmi spimicrs are called, altound everywhere, and deend on agility and swiftaess of foot to catch their prey. Ilarlier, the great authority on fish, says that every square mile of the sea is inhabited by 120,000,000 fish. The spindles at work in the cotton mills in the United States have increased from 10,679,000 in 1883 to 17,300,000 at present. M-Jn more easily renounce their inter ests than their tastes. All men lore freedom; but the just man emands it for all mankind, the uuinst man for himself alone. It Is estimated that the nerves, with branches and minute ramifications con itectlng with the brain, exceed ten mill ion. It Is said that In thn sandy deserts of Arabia whirling winds sometimes ex cavate pita two hundred feet In depth, and extending down to the harder stratum on which the great bed of Baud rests. In a communication to tbe Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Grelinnt says that the surface of cast Iron kept at a red heat Is capable of transforming car bonic acid Into carbonic oxide that is, Into a poisonous gas. It bas been demonstrated that while here Is no especial difficulty In using petroleum as a fuel for locomotives, there would be trouble In obtaining a supply of the fuel. It has been estl t.iated that the entire petroleum sup ply of the country would not furnlsb fuel enough for the use of tbe locomo tives employed on tbe Pennsylvania it ml New York Central systems alone. Some persons associate particular col ors with particular sounds. Dr. W. 8 Colman, discussing this phenomenon In the Lancet, says there are two form of it. In one case the pen-on has a sen ration as If a transparent colored film, like a rainbow, appeared before his eyes when certain vowel, or musical, sounds strike his ears. In the other rase letters or written words, represent ing the Hounds heard, appear la colored tints. Tbe tints are very definite and characteristic, and do not vary -wttb lapse of time; but two persona seldom associate tbe same colors with the stmi OUtlds. The fanciful notion which men used sometimes to entertain, that the earth is. In some sense, a living thing, would probably have derived support from the .ecent observations of Prof. John Milne, and others, on the shivers and quivers that frequently run through Its rocky frame, but escape notice, except when watched for with specially constructed and exceedingly delicate apparatus. Prof. Milne reports that apparatus of this kind has now been mounted In Canada, British Columbia, the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, lava, India and Argentina, as well as In England and at various places on the continent of Europe. On one occasion steel rail, after twenty-two years' continuous service h the Great Northern Railway, actu ally disintegrated under the wheels of s passing train. So complete was the breaking up that scientists thought it worthy of Investigation, during which It waa determined that the metvl had become exhausted and had broken down, Just as an overstrained animal might be expected to do. This h is led to further Inquiry, and scientists are latlsfled that metals do become tired out. Tbe Idea that metals beoome weary, while not altogether a new one. Is to an extent a plausible one, and un der the careful scrutiny of scientific so Me ties will probably be satisfactorily explained and settled. At a recent meeting of the Royal Dub lin Society Prof. J. Joly presented a new theory of sun-spots. He suggested that there may be certain levels In the brilliant shell of hot vapors constituting tbe visible surface of the sun, where the temperature, although very high, falls below the critical temperature of the elements there present. In that ;ase those elements would be preclpl !nted Into liquids. If the pressure were sufficiently great. Such liquefied mass 's, floating In gaseous matter of great er density, would, he thinks, present :he characteristic appearance of sun Ipots, for If the liquid were opaque. It (could look darker than the surround ng photosphere. When the HquM re vaporates, the spot disappears. Thin :heory that the sun-spots are the first visible beginnings of a change of state In the sun. One of the Kaiser's Jokes. There-are many good anecdotes about :he German emperor, and It must wned that they all prove the kaiser o have no small amount of humor. The following, whicb comes from Mr. Bhlers, the traveler, Is smarter than most. The emperor and Enters were college chums from Bonn, and the em peror never forgot his old college stu-) dent. At Bonn on special occasions the different corps used to drink to one another, and the following set form was always used: The president of the Palatlo corps raises his glass, say ing: "I bave tbe great honor and pleasure to empty my glass In drinking o the corps of Borussia." The presi dent of the latter corps then replies. "The corps thanks and drinks." On the birth of one of the sons of the emperor Bhlers telegraphed him: "I bave tbe great honor and pleasure to empty my glass In drinking to the youngest Hobensollern." The emperor promptly wired back: "The youngest Uohenzollern thanks and drinks." To ronto Chronicle. Free Traveling; Libraries. For many years Melvil Dewey, di rector of the New York State Library, bas advocated a scheme of State distri bution of books by the way of loan to Institutions and to groups of taxpayers on payment of a nominal fee. His plan Includes a system of central control and supervision nnder which small col lections of popular books are to be sent from point to point, kept In charge of responsible persons, and circulated freely among the residents of each lo cality. The State of New York made an appropriation for sucb a system of library loaning In 1802. and has ai preprinted annually sine. In tbe first 40 libraries were sent out; a tbe sec ond, 139; in the third, 212; In the fourth, 371; and In tie fifth year. 447. - Books have been purchased to supply tbe con stantly Increasing demand, until now there are nearly 86,000 volumes owned by the State and available for this pur-, pose. I These libraries are carefully chosen, by expat: llbrarlinsj, and axe made up of tbe choicest and freshest publica tions. A large proportion of the books must necessarily be works of fiction if the Interest of the average borrower Is to be sustained. Care Is taken to pro Tide only the very best and most wholesome stories, and to adapt thyn to the age and requirements of those to whom they are sent. In this respect the influence of the traveling libraries. If not distinctly educational. Is at least uplifting and Invigorating. A growing I Interest In biography, history, eco ' nomlcs, science, and art bas been noted I and fostered by the management, and j many books In these departments are I continually being purchased and sent out. Some entire libraries are made up of these subjects, to the exclusion of Action altogether, and the special col lections sent to study clubs throngh- i out the State are doing a real educa tional work. American Monthly Re view of Reviews. Bla Maiden Speech. . The malady known aa "stage fright" is by no means confined to the stage or to people deficient In self-confidence. It la one of the peculiarities ef tbe House of Commons, aa related by Mr. Michael MacDonagh In tbe "Book of Parliament," that It not only expects, but demands, a certain amount of stajre fright In a member's maiden speech a an Indication of a "becoming awe of the augnst assembly listening to hi words." When Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was j first elected, an old friend, who was also an old member of the House of j Commons, came to him and gave him this bit of advice: "You know you hare come Into the House rather isvte, and you have some sort of reputation outside. The House of Commons does not like outside repu- j tatton. It to aecuatomed to make and j unmsuce Its own. As you are going shortly to make your maiden speech, if yon could contrive to break down a little, I tntak the House of Commons would take It as a compliment, and yon will be all tie better for It." There are occasional failures to get off one's maiden speech, though M may have been conned hundreds of times. The most extraordinary breakdown that ever occurred in the House hap pened some years ago. The ad.-l.Tess In answer to tbe Queen's speech was to be seconded by a young eourvtry mem ber In a maiden speech. He came at tired, as is customary on the occasion, In uniform in the gorgeous attire of a captain of mounted yeomanry. He stood up in his place, and grasping the hilt of bis sword with his left hand in dulged in seme graceful gestures with bis right; but though his Hps were seen to move, not a sound could be beard by the House. For nearly five minutes the honorable and gallant gentleman continued this dumb show, and sat down. The most remarkable feature of the 1 art dent was that the honorable gentleman did not himself miss the sound of his vocal or gans; all through the Incident be seem d to be under the Impression that the House waa listening, with rap atten tion, to his eloquent periods, set to the xqulslte music of his voice. Thirteen aa Twelve. Everybody knows that thirteen V Jailed a "baker's dozen," but how can the phrase Into existence? Well, I seems that once upon a time the bake used to give for nothing to the retail dealer who sold the bread a thirteenth loaf with every twelve loaves that were ordered. How this custom grew up It la bard to tell, except It waa to help the shopkeeper to earn his living a trifle easier and to encourage him to take more bread. One explanation has It that the custom dates from the time when heavy penalties were Inflicted for short weight, and that the thirl teenth loaf waa thrown In to make jure the weight waa right; but this id perhaps doubtful, for there is a like custom In the publishing trade. In which the booksellerTisually gets an extra copy without charge for every twelve book he buys from the publish er. In short, we might Just as well talk of thirteen being a "publisher' dozen" aa a baker's. Matters of Money. Titles axe now merely a matter ol money that la, on the continent. Sonut of the minor orders can be obtained for $500. The Austrian order of the Iron Crown Is Just a little expensive. Il costs $15,000. But you can be a baron or a count In some of the minor Ger man states for (5,000. One hundred dollars will secure tbe title of court dentist, which Is almost as cheap aa tb title rf colonel In America. Microbe Destroyer. It is said that lemonade la a microbe destroyer, since the bacilli of cholera cannot resist tbe acids, especially the powerful citric acid of tbe lemon. One grain, declares an authority, will de stroy all the microbes In a quart of water. Bow to Knle a Man. "Yon can never tell in advance what men are going to do," says Aunt Phl lenda Broadbend m Puck. "There is a proverb which says that tbe way to a man's heart Is through his stomacn; but some men are dyspeptic, and their inner nature cannot be reached by that road. You can win one man's everlast ing subservience by the successful ap plication of a mustard plaster, should he require one, and the same action will make a tyrant or a misanthrope, or both, of the next man. One man can be subjugated by making him afraid of you, and another by making blm think you are afraid of him. You must talk to one man and listen to another. All In all, about the only Infallible rule re garding men folk that I have gathered from my experience with them Is that the man who before marriage loves a woman the most extravagantly, after marriage loves ber tbe most economi cally. The average man's Ideal of a wife Is one who knows bow to dress on nothing a year and always looks well." Dr. Johnson's Walking; Stick. Dr. Samuel Johnson's -walking stick Is exhibited In a book store In Cincin nati, and la the property of John Thorn dick, of that city. Tbe man with a grievance alwayi proves r grieraace to bis friends. MAXIMILIAN'S REIGN. fa Closing- Tays of the Ill-fated Htv lean Km pi re. Mrs. Sara Y. Stevenson Is contribu ting to the Century a series of papers an the French Intervention In Mexico. In a late number of tbe magazlue Mrs. Stevenson writes of "Mexican Society lu Maximilian's Time. I860." She says of the last days of the empire: The pomp und dignity of the court had vanished, and social life In the capi tal no longer centered about the im perial palace. Even previous to the departure of the Empress, the Monday receptions bad been discontinued, with out their loss being seriously felt. "At best they bad never been other than dull, formal affairs. The ball-room was i large hall, always Insufficiently light ed, and narrowed in the middle by the platform where stood the Imperial throne under a canopy of velvet. Here, after their new guests had been offi cially presented in an adjoining ball. tbe Emperor and Empress seated them pelves, lierore supper they made a solemn tour of the ball-room. The ' (lancing then ceased, and tbe crowd stood In chilled expectancy, and made iway for them, each In turn receiving, ns they passed, a smile, a nod, or some commonplace word of greeting. Maximilian was happy In bis re marks on sucb occasions. Naturally affable and kindly, like most princes trained to this sort of thing, his mem ory for names and faces was remark able. We were presented at court on the first of the imperial fortnightly Mondays, and with us, of course, tbe Inrger number of guests present; and I yet, some weeks later, when making ills tour of the ball-room, the Emperor I stopned before us. and Innnlreil about an absent member of tbe family, ap parently placing us exactly. Many other Instances of his memory and power of observation In such small matters were related by others. He was tall, slight and handsome, although the whole expression of his face revealed weakness and Indecision. He looked, and was, a gentleman. His dignity was without hauteur. His man ner was attractive; be had the faculty of making you feel at ease; and he pos sessed far more personal magnetism Man did the Empress. Hers was a strong. Intelligent face, the lines of which were somewhat hard at times; and her determined expres sion Impressed one with the feeling that she was the better equipped of the two Intelligently to cope with the diffi culties of practical life. It Is probable that, bad she been alone, she might bave made a better attempt at solving the problems than djd Maximilian; at least such was Marshal Bazalne's opin ion, as expressed before me on one oc casion, during her brief regency, when she had shown special firmness and clear Judgment In dealing with certain complicated state affairs.- She, - however, was reserved, some what lacking In tact and adaptability; nd a certain baugbtlness of manner, a dignity too conscious of Itself, at first repelled many who were disposed to feel kindly towards her. It Is more than likely that under this proud mien the concealed a suffering spirit, or, at least, the consciousness of a superior ity that must efface Itself. Who will ever know the travail of her proud heart and the prolonged strain under which heruilnd finally succumbed? For notwithstanding the prudence and de cided ability with which she bad con iucted the difficult affairs of tbe realm during the Emperor's absence In 1SJ4, It was hinted that on his return site has allowed little say In public affairs, and that her advice when given was Eeldom followed. After her departure ivea the semblance of a court disap peared. Snnb Not at All. Don't snub a boy because be wears shabby clothes. When Edison, tbe In ventor of the -telephone, first entered Boston he wore a pair of yellow linen breeches In the depth of winter. Don't snub a boy because his borne la plain and unpretending. Lincoln's early home was a log cabin. Don't snub a boy because of the Ig norance of his parents. Shakspeare, the world's poet, was the son of a man who was unable to write his own name. Don't snub a boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author f "Pilgrim's Progress" was a tinker. Don't snub a boy because of his phys ical disability. Milton was blind. Don't snub a boy because of his dull ness In lessons. Hogarth, the cele brated painter and - engraver, was a stupid boy at his books. Don't snub anyone; not alone be cause some day they may outstrip you In the race of life, but because It Is neither kind, nor right, nor Christian. Great Thoughts. The Naog-hty Little Olrl. She is homely. She is tricky; And I'm greatly grieved to tell. Her hands are always sticky With a chocolate caramel. Her dolly's battered features Speak of many a frantic hurl. 6he's the terror of her teachers That naughty little girL Sh can whoop like a Comanche, You can hear her round the squat Further like an Indian she Often creeps and pulls my hair; And she steals into my study. And she turns my books a-whirl. And her boots are always mm' ' - That naughty little girL She dotes upon bananas. And she smears them on my k;icc; She peppers my Havanas, And delights to hear me sneeze; Yet why, I can't discover Spite of every tangled enri. She's a darling, and I lore her That naughty little girll -Saturday Evening Post. If tliere U anything which to particu larly Inexcusable In a woman, it to te look untidy when boarding and free From household cares. Our Idea of a bright man is one who has a trouble, and can talk about any thing toe. When our rainy day does come. It wlU begin raining at daylight, and thi downpour will continue until midnight No on treats the worries at other a an lnxeUigent mannetv The man who Is subject t bay feve koould txr t avoid graM wldsnre, SERMONS OF THE DAY. The Rev. George H . Hep worth's Sonfltj ltaeourse In the Mew York Herald U Entitled "Heresy" Dr. T. DeWitt Tel-Bnag-e Preaches on the Evil of Qamblioa Text: "My heart shall not reproach m so long as I lire." Job, xxril., 6. It Is rery important that your heart Ol conscience shall not accuse you. Youl happiness does not depend on anybodj else s eoiiscienoe or heart, but on your own. God gare you & conscience, with the com mand that you shouiii t'oilo It i&ts. and when you get into the other world that conscience will be your judge. In otbei words, God will not judge you, but you will Judge yourself. It is your conscience that makes you an individual, which spiritually Isolates you; and Its approval Is worth more than th approral of all tbe world beside. You can not go far wrong if you always do what you think ia right. You may ask adrice, but you should decide for yourself what it It best to do, and then do it, whether people blame or praise. If every one were to fol low this rule we should hare a large differ ence of opinion among men, but store It a dirine harmony of purpose. When thj millennium comes we shall not ail thin! alike, neither shall we allow any one to da our thinking for us, but we shall think fot ourselves until thinking changes to con viction. Then we shall follow our eonrlc tlons as we follow the flag of our country and hold to them and be true to them, and so win the smile of God. What you need most of all is to be youi best, truest and noblest self. For that end you came into the world, and unless you accomplish that end your life will b essentially a failure and tne requirements ot the Almighty will stand neglected. Men may call you heretical, but what men say of you is of no Importance in com parison with what God will say. Your business is to be on His side, and to be sun In your heart that He is on your side. If, after that, people agree with you, you mar well rejoice, but if they do not, that is theli affair and not yours. Your duty Is what you think your duty is after the enlighten ment or illumination which always comes to him who is In accord with the Holy Spirit of the universe, and thus breathes tbe atmosphere of tbe spiritual life. To that duty you should never be false, for it Is what makes you a living soul, what forges nobility of character, what opens the door of communication with the other world, what gives you a claim to the as sistance of the angels and assures you of tne neipmg nana ot tno most Higu. Noi be Is religious, in any wide sense, who I merely the shadow of some one else': mind, but be who casts his own shadow. because he is a solid substance on which the sun shines. This is a rery queer world In one respect We like to be sheep and follow a bell' wether. Even in matters of dress we must needs be told what to wear, and whether il is comely or uncomely we wear It. In th matter of religion there Is as much fashion as there is in dress. What the majority be lieve we try to believe, because it Is so easy to go wltb the majority. It It does nol commend itself to our judgment we secret ly dissent, but openly approre. This In troduces an element of hypocrisy into tta Holy of Holies, demoralizes mind and heart, forces from us oar self-respect, and de prives us of heavenly recognition and ap proval. Our vital energy Is sapped, out manliness and womanliness are Injured, un less we can Bay of an opinion, I made It my self, and it is therefore mine. In this matter of belief , of religious be lief, you are to search tor the troth God'l truth miriwt'a truth rfdMtl truth Vn ttt-A t rt HfvA Intn thA Hentha if -, a I I and what you bring therefrom Is to lie th i fonndation on which to build your Hfe and character. Tbe world may say nay or it. maysayyea.it makes no difference; yool are to be governed solely by God's yea and j nay as the words aro whispered In youreai by Him who reveals Himself to every man, 1 during every day and hour of his life. Yon may not get at the whole truth eteroitj mut unfold itself before you can know that) I but you will get at that much of truth at ' will serve your purpose, be it great oi! small. Men may tell you te believe this or that j It is nothing. You may believe as others ; do, or you may not; but if you believt what God shall teach you when you and , He are together In the sad and glad ex-j periences which will fall to your lot, then your days will be radiant and you will b at peace. The oulr real heresy is the heresy of an evil life. Honest belief Is never heresy, but dishonest living Is al ways heresy. To be false to a high Ideal, to grovel when you ought to soar, to be entangled In th delusive ambitions of this world when you , ...... k. I-,,.... l.-i V, . I ..I . and pure, to unmake yourself by immor alities when you should be building foi eternity, to be mean when you should be great these constitute a heresy which is abhorred in heaven. Ho who lives nobly II no heretic, whether his creed be long oi short. He who lives on a low moral level is the true heretic, though his creed be a furlong In length. I say, therefore, be yourself, and make youi 'If all you are capable of becoming. High living alone Is orthodox, and high living is the result of pure feeling and lofty thinking. If your conscience tells von you are right you hare nothing to fear, either here or hereafter. GEOBOa H. HaPWOBTH. OR TALMACE'S SERMON. The Dfvivud Path of the Gamestei Serves as a Subject. Tzxt "Aoeldama, that is to say, tbe field I blood." Acts I., is. Ths money that Judas gare for surren aerlng Christ was used to purchase a graveyard. As the money was blood moner. the ground bought by It was called In the Syriac tongue, "Aceldama," meaning "the field of blood." Well, ttere Is one word I waat to write to-day orer erery racecourse where wagers are staked, and every pool nora and every gambling saloon and every table, public or private, wbere men and women bet for sums of money, large oi small, and that is a word Incardined wltb tbe life of Innumerable victims Aceldama. Tbe gamblingsplrlt, which is at all timet a stupendous erer and anon sweeps over the country like an epidemic, prostra ting uncounted thousands. There has never been a worse attack than tnat from which all the villages and towns and cities are now suffering. Some years ago, when an association for the suppression of gambling was organ ized, an agent ot the association came to a prominent citizen and asked lilm to patron ize tbe society. He said: "No; I can have no interest In such an organization. 1 am In no wise affected by the evil." At that very time his son, who was bis partner in business, was one of the heaviest players In a famous gambling establishment. Another refused his patronage on the same ground, not knowing that his first bookkeeper was losing from 5 to tlOO a night. Directly or indirectly this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of win ning more than you hazard. Tbe Instru ments of gambling may differ, but the principle is the same. The shuffling and dealing of cards, howerer full of tempta tion. Is noi gambling unless stakes are put op; while, on tne other lianj. gambling may be carried on wittiout cards, or dice,, or billiards, or a tenpin alley. The ran who bets on horses, or elections, on bat--tles, the man who deals in "fancy" stocks, nr conducts a buMness which liazarJs extra sapitnl. or goes Into tnnuacMons without foundation but dependent upon what uiei :ali "luck." is a gambler. Wtiatever you expecf to get from yout neighbor without offering an equiralent in money, or time, or skill, is either the pro duct of theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come Into tha same category. Bazars for the founding of hos- nitals. schools and churches, eonauctea on the raffling system, come under tbe same denomination. Do not, therefore, associate gambling necessarily with any Instrument, or game, or time or place, or think the prinolple depend upon whether von pav for a glass of wine or one hundred shares of railroad stock. Whether yon patronize "auction pools," "Frenon mu tuals," or "book-making," whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and keno, cards or bagatelle, tbe very Idea of the thing is dishonest; for it professes to be stow upon you a good for which you give no equivalent. Men wishing to gamble will find places Just suited to their capacity, not only In the underground oyster-oellar or at the table back of the curtain, covered with greasy cards, or In the steamboat smoking eabin, where tbe bloated wretch with rings In his ears deals out his pack, and winks In the unsuspecting trareler prorlding free drinks all around hut In gilded par lors and amid gorgeous surroundings. This sin works ruin, II ret, by providing an unhealthy stimulant. Excitement is pleas urable. Under every sky and in every age men bare BCght J- we must nt times hare exoltement. Aousand roioes in our nature demand it. it right; It Is heathful; it is inspiring; it Is adeM Qd given. V A young man having suddenly inhorltau a large property, sits at the hazard tallies, and takes up In a dice-box tbe estate won by a father's lifetime sweat, and shakes it and tosses It away. Intemperance soon stigmatizes Its victim, kicking him out, a slavering fool. Into the ditch, or sending him, with the drunkard's hicoougb, stagger ing up the street, where his family lives. But gambling does not In that way expose Its victims. Tbe gambler may be eaten up by the gambler's passion, yet you only dis cover It by the greed in his eyes, the hard ness of his features, the nervous restless ness, the threadbare coat, and bis embar rassed business. The Infernal spell is on him; a giant Is aroused within; and though you bind him with cables, they would part like thread, and though you fasten him seven times around with chains, they would snap like rusted wire; and though you piled up in his path hearen-high Oihles, tracts and ser mons, ana on tne top should set the cross of the Son of God, over them all the gamb ler would leap like a roe orer the rocks, on bis way to perdition. "Aceldama, tbe Held of blood I" Notice, also, the effect of this crime upon domestic happiness. It has sent its ruth less ploughshares through hundreds of families, until tbe wife sut in rags and the sons grew up to tbe same Infamous prac tices, or took a short cut to destruction across the murderer's scaffold. Home has lost all charms fer the gambler. How tame are the children's caresses and a wife's de votion to tbe gambler! How drearily the Are burns on tbe domestio heartbl There must be louder laughter, and something to win and something to lose; an excitement to drive the heart faster, fillip the blood and Are the Imagination. No home, how erer bright, can keep back the gamester. Tke sweet call of love bounds back from his iron soul, and all endearments are con sumed In the fire of his passion. The family Bible will go after all other treas ures are lost, and If his crown In heaven were put into his hands he would cry: "Here goes; one more game, my boys. On this one throw I stake my crown of heaven." The Church of God has not seemed will ing to allow the world to hajt'e all tho ad vantage of these games of chance. A church bazaar opens, and toward the close " It is found that some of the more valuabis articles are unsalable. Forthwith the con ductors of the enterprise conclude that they will raffle for some ot the valuabis articles, ana, under pretense of anxiety to -make their minister a present or please eome popular member of the church, fasci nating persons are dispatched through the Iroom, pencil in hand, to "solicit shares," tor perhaps each draws for his own advant age, and soores of people go home with (their trophies, thinking that it is all right, for Christian women did the embroidery and Christian men did tbe raffling, and the proceeds went toward a new communion set 15ut you may depend on it that as far Is concerned, you might as well hare won by tbe crack of the billiard ball or the turn or tbe dice box. Do you wonder that churches are built, lighted, or upholstered by such processes as that come to great financial and spiritual decrepitude? All this I style ecclesi.istical gambling. More than one man who is destroyed can say that his first step on the wrong road was when he won something at a church fair. ' Shall I sketch the history of the gambler? Lured by bad company, he finds his war into a place where honest men ought nerer to go. He sits down to his llrst game, but only for pastime and the desire of being thought sociable. The players deal out tbe cards. Tbey unconsciously play into satan's hands, who takes all tbe tricks and both tbe players' souls for trumps he being a sharper at any game. A alight stake Is put up, just to add inter est to ths play. Game after game Is played. Larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Tbelr brows lower, and eyes flash, until now tbey who win and they who lose, flred alike with nation, sit wltb set jaws. ana com pressed ups, ana clenched lints, and eyes like fireballs that seem starting from.'-eir sockets, to see the final turn Mlo.o t comes; If losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unutterod oaths cast back red-hot upon the heart or winning with hysterio laugh "Hal ha! I have It! ' A faw years have passed, and be is only the wreck of a man. Seating himself at the game, ere he throws the first card, ha stakes tbe last relic of his wife tbe mar riage ring which sealed the solemn rows between them. The game Is lost, and. stag- fering back in exhaustion, be dreams, he bright hours of the past mock his agony, and in bis dreams fiends with eyes of fire and tongues ot flames circle about him with Joined bands, to dance and slog their orgies with hellish chorus, chanting: "Hall, brother!" kissing his clammy fore bead until their loathsome locks, flowing with serpents, crawled Into his bosom, and sink their sharp fangs and suck up his life's blood, and, coiling around his bead, pinch it with ohllls and shudders unutter able. Take warning! You are no stronger than tens of thousands who bare by this prac tice been orerthrown. No young man in our cities can escape being tempted. Be ware of the first beginnings! This road is a down grade and erery instant increases tbe momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous set. Split hulksstrow tbe beach; Everlasting storms howl up and down, tossing unwary craft Into the Hell-Rate. I speak of what I have seen with my own eyes. To a gambler's death-bed there comes no hope. He will probably die alone. His former associates come not nigh bis dwelling. Wben the hour comes, his miserable soul will go out of a miserable life into a miserable eternity. At his poor remains pass the bouse where he was ruined, old companions may look out for a ' moment and say: "There goes the old carcass dead at last;" but they will not get np from tbe table. Let him down now into his grave. Plant no tree to east Its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no "forget-me-nots" or eglantines around tbe spot, for flowers were not ui;t le to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it ' not in the sunshine, for that would be mockery, but In the dismal night, wa n no stars were out, and the spirit of darlcuess comes down, horsed on the wind, then visit the grave of the gambler. If stolen dollars would burn there would be gome hot xx-kets. Sympathy is the channel in which the current of a man's thoughts runs. If you wish to make home happv take time for all things; never fume or fret. No one can d"lase you but yourself. Slander can never rob you of manhood. If there were no cowardice there would be little insolence. The wheat crop of India is harvested usually in February. Thinkers are fie pioneers; thev go be fore to prepare the way for those "that are to come after. Some men blow their own tnnuXts by praising in others what is most conspicu ous in themselves. Life is like a nutmeg grater. Von have to rub up against the rough side of it to accomplish anything. Brooding over trouble is like surround ing one's self with a fop; it magnifies all the objects seen through it. 'Occupotion of the mind prevents this. 'f i i '1 -
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