sir B, P. lOHWEIER, THB CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8. VOL. LII MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAYMAY 11 189S. NO. 22 1 H i r CHAPTER VII. The cricket match had taken place. Tom's eleven, thankn to Dallas, had won a glorious victory. The guests were gone from the IIhII. It was a lovely afternoon, with a soft west wind. Never had June looked to such advan "ace as she did that evening at dinner, f here was a lovely color in her cheeks, a new light in her eyes; her Toice had a joyous ring; she seemed to be an Incarna tion of pleasure and happiness. "Would not you yonng people like to pre Into the 'garden?" said Mrs. Ellesmere the moment dinner was over, and they obeyed her suggestion with alacrity. "Let us get Into the boat," whispered Palias: and June gave a radiant assent. Twilight was creeping on, all natnre was hushed; they might have been the only two living creatures on- earth. And, for the time being, they would have been con tent to have the world to themselves. To night June knew the difference that the society of another human being can make to all life, to all nature knew how it can fill every moment with a strange, heaven ly rapture, marred only by rememberini how fleeting is the joy. Neither seemed disposed to talk much both were possessed by a sense of happi ness. The moon came out and lit np the Bowers on the bank, turning them tc many colored Jewels. "How I wish this could last foreverP murmured Dallas, at last, bending a lit tle toward June. She smiled and sighed. The smile was for content, the sigh for regret. Suddenly an nneasy-scruple came ovet Dallas. Was he not acting a traitor'i part to Tom Tom, who would never have been disloyal to any human being? Ought he not. Instead of making love to this fair girl on his own account, to be pleading hit cousin's cause? It was extremely repug nant to him, but the better side of his na ture was awake to-night. And any thought of marrying June himself was oul of the question. Some day he woe Id be a baronet, with a fair income; not, how-: ever, in all probability, before he was , getting gray and well on In years; he had ' several brothers and sisters, he had debts. I A penniless wife for him, therefore, was j a luxury not even to be contemplated in the remotest manner. Tom lucky chap! . had no factor to consult save his owr will and the lady's. "Ton were not serious the other day, Dallas asked June, "when you said that yon did not mean to marry Tom?" For a moment all June's sense of hap piness vanished; a cold pang swept ovet her. She had forgotten that Tom existed. "Do not let us talk of him!" she said, with a little gesture that conveyed dis gust more expressively than she was aware of. "Not much chance," thought Dallas, "for a man to whom a woman feels like that." He was almost ashamed of him self for the satisfaction which her action gave him. "now you snubbed me that first night at dinner!" he said, with a half smile, after a pause. "I never felt so small. You turned your back on me all dinner time, and, though I was watching my opportunity like a cat to speak to you, you never gave it me until, by a lucky ac cident, you dropped your fan under the table. " June smiled pensively, now well she remembers that evening! how she likes tr think that he noticed her behavior! "Why were you so unkind?" "I wanted not to like you," she an wers, simply. "I made up my mind thai I would not." "Hut you have changed it now, hav you not?" looking into the depths of hei eyes. "Yes," she says. Why should she lie to him? Ahl sh has indeed chanced, if there ever waa a time when she did not like him. But wat there ever such a time? "I," he says, tenderly, "have nevei changed from the first moment that I saw you. I can't tell you how much hurt 1 was that you would not be friends with me. The only time I ever thought you felt a little bit kind to me was that even ing of the dance. Do you remember?" Does June remember? Ay, most truly does she. She bends her head in answer. "I was dying to ask you again, but I dared not. I thought it was best not." " 'Best for you and best for me, " quotes June, smiling. "Only for me," he answers. "I was not such a conceited ass as to think it coulil make any difference to yon. And then I Imagined that you belonged to Tom." June makes an impatient movement through the water with her fingers. Slit cannot bear any allusion to Tom to-night. "How divinely you dance!" says Dal las. Then, with a sudden inspiration, "Why should we not jhave a waltz to night? My aunt plays dance music chnrmingly." "Oh, yes!" echoes Jnne, her eyes kind ling with pleasure; "let us ask her!" Dallas takes up the sculls, and in two minutes they are at the landing place. He jumps out, secures the boat, nnd gives her his hand. Slowly and silently, for very joy's sake they move together up to the honse. Mrs. Ellesmere is rousing herself from her slumbers. "Auntie," says Dallas, laying a caress ing arm round her shoulder, "we want you to do something for ns." "What is it, dear boy?" she asks, with a fond glance at his good-looking young face, consent already implied by her tone. "Won't yon come into the hall and piny ns one of your delicious waltzes? We are dving to have a turn." ""Of course I will," she answers, smil ing, and feeling extremely gratified at thf course events are taking. A glance at June's face assures her that her irresist ible nephew has made one more conquest, one to which he is most heartily welcome. So, with the kindest grace in im worm, , , unwear-l tlttK Tedly while these" two reckless young peo- J pie, heart be gating r to nearly drunk with the intoxication or ineir iub , and the rhythm of their movements, are." -ovln with gossamer threads of rap- .t tha mh of future oaln. . m - rnil the tTeeS, -ii 8" - tu tain Liauas. juutinc, - . . .v- ,.. ,.M of Some disappeared from the lynx eyes i 01 uion.- - - . - , tn, one who was watching them from tn drawing room window. . oved to take June as being retired from prying eyes; but, ah! how different was It to-day 1 The seclusion which had irked her so with Tom, from which she had longed to escape, seemed an enchantment whoa only flaw waa that it must have an end. Xbey war reaching far the tenth time the evergreen arch which divided them from the flower garden. Dallas atopped, and Jun stood still beside him. "How shall I see you to-morrow?" he Bays, his eyes full of tenderness and a touch of regret in his voice. "Tom will be here, and then my short day will be over." June meets his gaze for one moment, then her eyea droop, and a flickering color comes Into ber cheek. "My darling!" he murmurs, and his arm takes gentle possession of her slight form, his handsome face bends down to hers, his lips touch hers, not with the eager haste with which they have often times sought red lips before, but with a tenderness and reverence new to him, but most exceeding sweet. And June! Iler heart gives one mighty throb; involuntarily ber eyea close; for one moment a trance seems to steal her soul. She makes a movement to disengage herself from his arms; he yields to it at once; and then, before they have time to recover themselves, each hears a sound of hurrying feet and then Tom'a voice shouting: "Dal I where are you?" The awakening is horrible. Tom here already? Both feel like culprits Dallas perhaps even more than June. Dallas shouts in answer, and Tom's big form looms straightway in the opening. He does not wear that cheery, gratia! smile which is the ordinary garb of his face; he is evidently ill pleased; his light blue eyes express anything but satisfac tion. He shakes both by the hand, and they try to look delighted, and feel secret ly awkward and a little bit afraid of this uguaiiy good-humored giant. " He is like B blg Newfoundland the children's slave ,nj plaything who shows temper for the time. r managed to catch the earlier train," ne gay9f standing tapping bis boot with nl ,tictt -i thought there was a chance, toid the dog cart to meet me." Then they ply mm wttn questions about his journey and the Show, and he an swers them, but he is not the Tom they are used to. Something is wrong with him. When they all go into the house together and June finds Agnes drinking tea with Mrs. Ellesniero she has a terribly shrewd suspicion who it is that has been making mischief and putting ideas int. Tom's bead. CHAPTER VIII. "Dal!" "Well, old chap?" Dallas tried to make his tone light and unsuspecting, but waa conscious that the effort was somewhat of a failure. "I heard something when I came back to-day that that was not very pleasant hearing." "Ob," thonght Dallas, with sudden in spiration, "that confounded sanctimoni us cousin, I lay a thousand!" "I am told," and Tom's voice betrayed evident nervousness, "that Miss Rivers has been up here ever since I left." "She lunched here to-day." "Oh!" remarked Tom, shortly. "Look here, Dal" with immense emphasis "there must le a little plain speaking be tween us. I think you know that I am not a jealous chap. I have never felt the least grudge ngainst you on my mother's account. I have never envied you your success with women I uever wanted to succeed but with one; but." dashing his hand down on the table till every gins rang, "if you come lietween me and June Kivers, I will never take your hand again is long as I have breath in my body." Dallns, whose thoughts go with fifty nines the rapidity of his cousin's, has time during this oration to reflect and decide. "My dear old chap," he said, looking lcross into Tom's disturbed and angry face and feeling horribly ashamed of his mn duplicity, "what are you driving at?" Tom paused. "I don't like to think," he said, with a itraight, stern look at his cousin, "that you have not the same instincts of honor nnd gentlemanlike feeling that almost ev er" man has. I never doubted you be fore; but when I hear of yon sitting band in hand with the girl whom you know I 'ove " "Who said It?" "No matter," answered Tom, to whom the thought suddenly occurred that he must not allow Agnes to suffer for her Sdeiity to his interests. Dallas felt the time had come to tafie :he bull by the horns. "I thought," he remarked, "that the ast time we talked about Miss Itivers you expressed a wish that I should endeavor to conquer her evident dislike to me; nv now you want to go down my tnroat for having tried to make friends with her. I think I can guess who your informant Is, nnd, perhaps, in the innocence of your heart, you do not see through her last move in the game. It is plain enough that Miss Agnes is in love with you, and would do anything in the world to set you gainst her cousin." Tom was exceedingly troubled. Were not both Dal'a remarks perfectly true? Was he, then, only a blundering fool, ready to be the prey of any one who chose to play on his feelings? He felt rather ashamed of himself. "Perhaps I am wrong," he aald, awk wardly. "If ao, I beg your pardon. But," after a moment's pause, "I know of course I cannot help seeing how much more there la la you than in me to attract woman. "Pshawr cried Dallas, angrily, thrust mg nui cnur mu wu riiu, uvu - rot! Take my word for it. Tom, -n eZeUr women. Ilk baring a poor opinion Vm.- ia .iw.w. .nn .," ' i-TL . your own TSJuauon wu. . . l one. nnp -' Tom rose, too, and went toward hit j cousin. .T t . n i.. M h t i " ww uujuif u "t -- thereby causing a frank, manly war, tnsreoy causing 'of r to shoot thronADpOW IzTTJ, ht w .a-iW Put I abatd. Hit yon to gdvVine your hand on It that yon will not try to com between me and my little girL" So Dallas gave his band and swore to himself to be faithful to the bond of which this was th seat Then he went out into th garden alone, and, stepping Into th boat, pushed off from the shore, and lay on his back, looking np Into th moonlit heaven and thinking with a bitter pans of this time last night It was th first time in his life that h had loved with true, genuine affection, and It was also the first time that he had felt absolutely without hope. There was only on, thins- for It to get put of th way of temptation as soon as possible. He had given his word to Tom, and, m help him, God, he meant to keep it. The next morning Jun waa sadly pre occupied during her studies; she could think of nothing but Dallas and what pre text he could make to see her to-day. When she returned home at midday, Mrs Rivera said: "Tom has been here." Jun turned to th window to conceal her face. Her heart beat wildly. She waited almost In terror for the next words. Had he come to complain and protest to her mother? But Mrs. Rivers' tone waa perfectly calm and unsuspect ing. "He had just been to see his cousin off by the train." A sudden dizziness caused June's brain to reel, a deathly faintness to creep through her heart: ah had to hold th i ha lr tightly against which she was lean ing. Dallas gone, and without a word, a Una to herl There had been a quarrel doubt less between the two men, which had end ed in Dallas leaving the Hall. But sure ly he might have communicated with het by some means. And Tom had told hei mother nothing; that was evident. When June could command ber fae nnd voice, she turned away from tht vindow. "Was it not rather sudden, Mr. Brofc leaving?" she asked. "I think it waa. Tom said he had a let ter this morning calling him back to Lon don." "And how waa Tom?" Jnne asked, try ng to speak indifferently. "He seemed in capital spirits." (To be continued.) BACHELORS THROUGH SPITE Men Who Will Not Marry Because of Petty Personal Objection. It seems almost Improbable that any man should remain unmarried all his life simply to gratify some petty per sonal feeling of spite; yet curiously enough such cases are not at ail no common. Some years ago two young men who were sworn friends promised each oth er never to marry, and by way of mak ing the thing more binding vowed that the first to break this compact should give the other half his Income as long as he remained In the state of single blessedness. Unfortunately the friend ship refused to withstand the test of a keen business rivalry into which they were thrown by circumstances later on. And when one married, the other stub bornly remained a soured old bach elor for the pleasure of thus being able to keep his one-time friend to his reck less compact. The married man's in come now being pretty colossal, the grlmness of the situation may be imag ined. Another case is that of a well-known, though somewhat weak-minded, cot ton manufacturer belonging to Liver pool. Years ago his master taunted him that he would never succeed In life unless he married a woman with suf ficient brain to supply his own lack of mental backbone, to use an Irishism. The thrust rankled; and the young ap prentice both remained a bachelor and became successful merely out of a spiteful, melodramatic hope of one day being able to fling those words back 1 his master's teeth. Death from Corns. All that troubled Mary Murray, of Brooklyn, after 72 years of life, was that her corns hurt her so much that she couldn't get around as brisk and lively as a girl of her age ought to. She determined to take heroic measures, and, borrowing a razor, she sliced off the annoying protuberances. One of her toes bled sllghL'r, and she applied ammonia to it. Three days later she died. Blood poisoning the doctors said The Colonel Disapprove-!, "Won't yon Join us?" said the young man. "What are you going to do?" Inquir ed Col. Stillwell. "To make up a skating party." "No, suh," was the emphatic reply. -I will not join any skating party. If there Is anything upon which I pride nyself. It Is my ability, suh, to Indulgt without excess, suh." NEWS IN BRIEF. The most northern post olfice in the world whs recently established at Spit zenbergen. (,ondon has l."WI miles of streets: Pnri COO miles ar-d New Y..rk 575 miles. -AVhiit is probably the most venerable piece of furniture in existence is now in the. British Museum. It is the throne of CJueen Hutsu, who reigned in the Nilo valley some. ItilMI years In-fore Christ. Glass bricks are gri.dually coming j I. .n UN-, mm 11. I NiIH L i;iilss Will SOOII be. used for making statues for public squares, as it resists tin- corroding elfect of the weather luui-h Ix-tter than marble or granite. Twenty wrrls per minute i- the aver age at which longhand is vr-:feii. A Coriespondent of i'.:.: 'U'eslminster Gazette calls attention to the curious jux taposition of twotingcr posts attached to a public house near Bridgend. One reails, "To the Asylum," and the other "To the Cemetery." One i.(...;1rod ami f- r ' - -i "lit British soldier are iu possession -.if the Victoria Cross. The Chinese ilictiiv-sry, compiled l-y Pa-cut-she, 1100 years II. C, is the most ancient of any recor.!J in literary his tory In t'.io jungles of Sumat-a t':e largest spiders are found. Some of the largest specimens measure eight inches across the back and have seventeen inches of leg pread. Paradoxical as it may sound, there are several varieties of ti'sh that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep- usig their tails and fins as legs ' sea aweiiers, ami crawl atout the rocks. .-' Asiatic cholera was nrst supposed to ,lave OI.iBiatHl f,m the ' if ainsjkiiiwl rii'A- nl vu n 1 In. To hold crayons for black1oard or j .-. i. I "lU'S wi a. IB uiiru 1 1 ii I'lamp- : ing jaws at one end and a sliding rod at "g jaws at one eni aim a snuing rod at the other end, to force the chalk into Ption, Gay and Picturesque a Famous HAVANA, the capital of Cuba, Is a world-city, known wher ever the fame of cities has reached, and deserving of its fame, too, for like all great cities of industry and lit. It is unique. Cuba's capital is ;oeval with the Mediterranese conquest f the Western hemisphere. The name f the city Is characteristic of the re ligious Latin races, for when Diego de Vclnsqucz laid its found at Ions. In 1515, he christened It San Cristobal de la Ha baua St. Christopher of the haven or harbor In honor of Columbus, the dis rovcrer of the Island. This name, be stowed upon the city by the conqueror jf the i.sland. has remained unchanged, and it is still otlicially so called. But Its popular name has been shortened to II aba ii a in Spanish and Havana in oth er tongues. The city has a population of about 200,000. Havana is sited on the west side of the tuy of its own name one of the most beautiful bodies of water of its tlnd found anywhere. The city stands on a sort of peninsula that is formed on one side by the waters of the bay, uud on the other by those of the gulf. In olden times it was one of the strong rst of the places of the civilized world. When ships of war were of wood and tarried a few guns whose bullets .ere repelled by granite masonry, Havana was impregnable. But the "oak levia thans" nnd the "rock-built cities" of Lord Byron are now ' historical. On I he one hand the recent destruction of the Malue indicates the cause why granite walls are no longer needed, and du the other It Is seen how the subma rine mine and torpedo have developed gun powder, which enables a ship to t.md miles wlliiout a harbor and land shells In a city's heart. Yet If it were not for Spanish poverty and decline, Havana to-day might hare leen ns relatively strong as when. In 15S5. it drove the fierce Sir Francis Drake away from Its coasts. The fact Is that the Spaniards have not kept step with the march of progress. The In sanity of attempting to defend Havana with the same implements and methods of warfare that were successful three centuries ago Is in perfect keeping with Spain's anachronism in civilization. The town, as has already been said, is unique. It is not Spauisb. It is not Oriental, it is not European, nor does it at all resemble anything In the Uni ted States. It is Cuban. The bay. ordinarily. Is one of the most vividly beautiful sights to be seen anywhere. HumlMildt's description of the ap proaches to Havana fails to do It Jus tice, and that distinguished traveler AMERICAN CONSULATE BUILPLVO. admits that the picture Is Indescribable. Cuba aud Havana have ways aud wards that are all their own. Slaves to l'rcceden,t. Havana Is a mystery to the European and the American. The question, "Why do you this aud do you that?" Is always answered with, "We have always done so; what else would you have us do?" Why the farmers use a crooked stick to plow with, why ladles sit in their carriages while the dry goods clerks bring out rolls of cloth for them to In spect; why dark women and even Mack women powder their faces until they look as If they had been daubed with flour; why houses are built to a line within two feet of the curbing, so that pedestrians cannot walk two abreast; why the houses are all painted in whatever vivid color pleases the owner most; why an unearthly clangor of bells drives sleep from the city at daybreak; why no one ever keeps an appointment (and never apologizes for the offense), are questions that Havan ese and Cubans do not explain or at tempt to explain. The almost equatorial sun beats down upon the streets with terrific heat dur ing the day, and none but business peo ple and "low people" are seen during the early and middle day. When the sun sinks, however, the lazy Inhabit ants turn out, and the life of the night Nuts for Eating. Nuts are much employed in high-class jookery, but their value seems not to e recognized by the majority of coun :ry housewives, too many of whom let ;he squirrels get them all. Very de licious dishes are made of chestnuts. No nut makes a cake more delicious. Nuts chopped and sprinkled over pud dings, hot or cold, give a new flavor and generally Improve them, while Qlxed through custard they wak a pfgf( Cuban Capital Has History. 0 fr'S . 000 ' is the lively life of Havana. The city lias not been rcry businesslike under Spanish rule. Most of the men are worthless and dissipated. They lounge In cafes and look only to pleasure such as the Spaniard delights In gambling, cock fighting, bull baiting. No thougat of the morrow is taken, and the result Is that a more Improvident population can be found nowhere. Sunday Is Ha vana's holiday. As for the churches, thousands of BLANCO'S women religiously attend. In Cuba the church and her children are a woman's life. She soon loses her husband as her companion In the home. She does not read. She never beard of a new woman.- She has ber little circle of friends like herself, and some day dies. But she has been faithful to the church, and the most striking thing about a service In th great cathedral is the presence of the women of Havana and the ateenee of the men. It Is said here ttmt moat men go to church but three times In their life when baptized, when about to be married and when dead and the church Is as risid In Its requirement of the first two visits as the departed is to be received there at last. The cathedral is really one of the finest edifices in Havana. It is built to BlIiD'S-ETE VIEW OF HAVANA. last for ages, la It are the remains of Christopher Columbus that Is, the tomb Is there, beside the altar and the inscription. It is also duly authenti cated that the remains are there, too, but even Spaniards nod doubtfully when asked, "Is it true?" The lottery is the curse of Havana One of the first cries heard on the street In the morning Is the scbrlll voice of a Cuban yelling that he has lottery tickets for sale. It Is often the last sound heard at night. It would seem that all Cuba must gamble to support so formidable a company of fakers. All the storekeepers are courteous and unobtrusive. A visitor experiences great difficulty In purchasing anything characteristically Cuban in the stores, but that is because Cuba produces only two things, sugar and tobacco, and buys everything she uses even buys back her sugar refined. The easiest thing to buy Is cigars, and they cost astonishingly less than tn the States. There is an experience in buy ing them, because the great cigar fac tories of Havana, producing brands that are known to smokers all over the world, are Interesting institutions. They occupy buildings so nearly resembling the ordinary dwelling house that they would be mistaken for them by a stranger except for the odor. Quaint Cuban Houses. The Cuban house of the better class Is of the ordinary, typical construction. It is enormously heavy, built of adobe or soft stone, to withstand earthquakes and to resist heat. The rooms are enor mous, with celling from fifteen to twen ty or twenty-five feet hlh, all floors, even in the bedrooms, being of stone, and the windows covered with great Iron bars. The houses of the lower class look no different from without, but are awful within, and there the cause of Havana's scourges of yellow fever Is at once ap parent. The city Is badly drained. The bay, with no free course of water, and comparatively lfttle tide, is a reservoir, uncleansed, of the city's offal. It breeds disease, and In squalor where personal uncleanliuess Is added to the perils In curred by municipal neglect, the houses of the poor have become the Incubators of pestilence. Havana has many beau tiful parks, squares and public places. The squares are all ornamented with royal palms and here and there an or ange or banana tree, and here and there an Indian laurel. No city In the. world is furnished with such an abundance and variety of foods as is Havana, with the possible excep tion of San Francisco. The earth and the sea give to Its people all the best of their fruits. The great market of Ha vana Is without an equal, surpassing, as It does, the famed French market of New Orleans. This market covers an area equal to that of an American surprising change In this simpl dish. Stewed apples sprinkled with chopped nuts and the core space filled with jam make a good dessert, which need be of no cost except for the labor used, and this Is of only nominal value. Philadel phia Inquirer Cbcjwlng Apparatus. Old people who have lost their teeth and do not care about wearing false ones find a difficulty la eating their block, and It Is all under a single roof There are numberless booths in which are exposed for sale all the fruits of the tropics, sea fish, fresh water fish, meats, game, leather goods. Jewelry and such curios as only a seaport visited by the commerce of the world can pick up. There are seen men, women and chil dren of every nationality upon the earth. The wonder Is how so small a town can gather to Itself such a wldo range of humanity. The population of Havana is mixed and its morale Is very low. The condi tion of the women remind a widely traveled man of the women of the Orient. They are close-kept and live in tropical Idleness. Mlscegeneration Is common, and It is no rare matter to find a Cuban family of very good social po sition snd of considerable wealth com posed of persons that would be classed PALACE. as quadroons in America. Havana !s a city of grand surprises for the foreign visitor. A political mite as It Is lu com parison with London, there are slums In Havana that cannot be matched in the metropolis of the world. As Place of Residence. Havana has infinite charms as a place of residence. Its climate. Its veg etation, the cheap rate at which oue can buy all the delicacies of the h the romance in the very air, the easa with which a little labor will yield a large return, the proximity of the sea. Its middle distance between the Invig orating north aud the tropical coun tries of the southern continent, the pro fusion of Its fruits and flowers all these things make It a most desirable place to live, and there Is no doubt that thousands of Americans had been there long ago were It not for the blighting and repressing rule of Spain a rule that tends to ruin commerce and enter prise wherever it has sway. In 1550 the seat of Spanish official dom In Cuba was transferred from San tiago de Cuba to Havana, an early rec ognition of the city's Importance. One year later pirates under the leadership of the notorious Jacob Sores attacked the town, sacked its church and the dwellings of the wealthy and compelled the commander of the fortress t sur render. Sores soon grew tired of the place and withdrew. But his example was frequently followed, and numer ous attempts were made by buccaneers to capture the city and loot it. Notable among these efforts waa that of the En glish buccaneer. Sir Francis Drake, who assaulted Havana in 15S5, but was compelled to retire. The first scourge of yellow fever appeared tn the ship ping during the summer of 1761. Ia 17C2 Admiral Tooock. with an English squadron, attacked Havana and forced It to capitulate. For two months the city put up a brave defense. In 1763 Havana was restored to the Spanish by the treaty of Paris. .The first newspaper published In Ha vana was La Gaceta de - la Habana, HOTEL IXQLATKRRA, KESOUT OF FOR EIGNERS. which apieared in 17S2. In ITS'. the Jesuits were expelled from the city, and their church was converted into the cathedral of the diocese. This is the church in which it Is said the ashes of Columbus were-deposlted iu the year 1800. In 1818 Havana was opened to the commerce of the world. Col. Hawkins Uncle Mose, I hear you and your wife had a little dispute again last night. Which came out ahead this time? Uncle Mose (dubious ly feeling a lump on the back of his head) I's powerful glad to say dat I kim out ahead, boss; but she mighty nigh overtook me. Harper's Bazar. We want it understood right now that we never count ourselves among "the friends of the family who waut to see the remains.' food. The result la the invention by a Frenchman of a chewing apparatus. This is held in one hand, aud a fork in the other." A piece of meat, or what ever is to be eaten, is placed between blades, which are opened and closed three or four times, and by this menu." the food is reduced to a state of pulp. If you love a man, see that he wears ' his overcoat until the weather Is warm enough to discard It, SERMONS OF THE DAY. The Subject of the Address "The SwoWti Its Mlanioa 'and Ita Doom" l ightj When Wielded In m Klghtoous Canae Great Achievements Wrought by Arms. Text: "My swrord shall be bathed in heaven." Isaiah, xxxiv., 5. "It has ooine at last the war that we lave prayed Almighty God might be tverte l. The prows of the battle-ships are :atting the seas, and troops from all the States of the American Union are on the way to the front. All the arts of diplomacy have failed, and momentous questions are to be decided in battle on sea and land. Three results will be demonstrated the in dependence of Cuba, the rebuke of Spanish cruelty, and the triumph of the United States army and navy. "Three hundred and fifty-one times does the liible speak of that sharp, keen, curved, inexorable weapon, which flashes upon us from tbo text the sword. Sometimes the mention is applaudatory, and sometimes damnatory, sometimes as drawn, some times as sheathed. In the Bible, and In much sec-ular literature, the sword repre sents nil javelias, all muskets, all carbines, all guns, all police clubs, all battle-axes, all weaponry for physical defense or attack, it would be an interesting thing to give the history of the plow, and follow its furrow all down through the ages, from the tlrst crop in Ohaldea to the last crop in Minne sota. It would be interesting to follow the pen as it had tracked its way on down through the literature of nations, from it9 tirt word in the llrst book to the last word which some author last night wrote as be closed his manuscript. It would be an in teresting thing to count the echoes of th hammer from the llrst nail driven down through all the mocbunisra of centuries to the last stroke iu the carpenter's shop ol yesterday. I propose to-liny speaking of a we:i;oa that has done a work that neither plow nor pen nor hammer ever accom plished. Sly theme is the sword, its mis sion, ami its loom. The sword of the text was bathed in heaven; that is, it was a sword of right eousness, as another sword mav be bathed in hell, aud the sword of cruelty and wrong. There is a great difference be tween the word of Winklereid nnd the sword of Cataline, between the sword of Leonidas and the swcnl of Benedict Arnold. In our effort to hasten the end of war we have hur.g the sword with abuses aud exe crations, when it has had a divine mission, as when in many crises of the world's his tory it has swanur for liberty nnd justice, civilization and righteousness and God. At the very opening of th:! Bible and on the east side of the Garden of Eden God placed a limning sword to defend the tree of life. Of the oflieer of the law, St. Paul declares: 'He bear.-tU not the sword in vain.' Through Moses God eomirau-.leJ: lut every man his s.vonl by his si-le.' David, in his prayer, says: 'Gird Thy sword upon Thy thih, O most mighty." One of the battlo-shouts of the Old Testament was: The sword of the Lorl and Gidtion.' Christ, in a great exigency, said that such a weapon was more important than a eoat, for he declare 1: 'He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.' Again he declared: 'I come not to send peace, but a sword.' Of Christ's seeoud coming, it Is said: 'Out of His mouth went a sharp, two-edged sword.' . Thus, some times ilguratively, but often literally, the divine mission ot the sword is announced. "What moro consecrated thing in the world than Joshua's sword, or Caleb's Sword, or Gideon's sword, or David's sword, or Washington's sword, or Marion's sword, or Lafayette's sword, or Welling ton's sword, or Garibaldi's sword, or hun dreds of thousands of American swords that have again and again been battled in heaven. Swords of that kind have been the best friends of the human race. They have slain tyrannies, pried open dungeons, and cleared the way for nations in their onward march. It was better for them to take the sword aud be free, than lie uudei the oppressor's heel and suffer. "There is something worse than death, and that is life if it must cringe and crouch before the wrong. Turn over the leaves of the world's history, ind find that tiler-! has never been a tyranny stopped or a nation liberated except by the sword. I am not talking to you about the wav things ought to be, but about the way they have been. What force drove back the Saracens at Tours, nnd kept Europe from being over whelmed by Mohammedanism, and, sub sequently, all America given over to Mohammedanism? The sword of Charles Martell and his men. Who can deal enough in infinities to tell what was accomplished for the world's good by the sword of Joan of Arc? Years ago I lookel off and saw in the distance the battle-fluid of Marathon, and I asked myself what was it that ou that most tremendous day in historv stopped the Tersian hosts, representing uot only Tersin, but Kgypt, and Tripoli, ami Afghanistan, and Beioochistan, and Armenia; a host that had Asia under foot and proposed to put Europe under foot, and, if successful in that battle, would have submerged by Asiatic barbarism, European civilization, and, as a conse quence, in after time, American civiliza tion? The swords of Miltiades, and Themostocles, and Aristides. At the waving of these swords the eleven thousand lan cers of Athens, on the run, dashed ngainst the one hundred thousand insolent Persians and trampled them down Or pushed them back into the sea. The swords of that day saved the-best part of the hemispheres, a trinity of keen steel flashing in the two lights the light of the setting sun of bar barism, the light of the rising sun of civil- ization. Hail to these three great swords j bathed in heavenl "What put an end to infamous Louis WT 'a lil.n nf ,1 n ( cava n I . t... ..-I I . I. England would have been made to kneel on the steps of theTuileries, aud the Anglo Saxon race would have been halted nnd all Europe paralyzed? The sword of Mnrl-liir'-ngh, at Blenheim. Time came when t: ioman war eagles, whose beaks had jt- .i punched into the heart of nations, must be brought down from their eyries. All other attempts had disgracefully failed, but the Germans, the mightiest nation for brawn and brain, undertook the work, and. under God, succeeded. What drove back I the Roman cavalry till the horses, wounded, I flung their riders and the last rider per- i Istied, and the Hercyman forest became the scene of Home's humiliation? The brave sword, the triumphant sword of Arminius. "While passing through France my nerves tingled with excitement, and I rose In the car the better to see the bnttle-lleld of Chalons, the mounds and breastworks still visible, though nearly live hundred years ago they were shoveled un. Hero, Attila. the heathen monster, called by himself the scourge ot uod, lor tue punishment of Christians,' his life a massacre of nations, came to ignominious defeat.aud he put into one great pile the wooden saddles ot his cavalry, and thespoilsof the cities and kingdoms he had sacked aud placed on top of this holocaust the woman who had ac companied him in his devastating march, ordering that the torch be put to the pile. What power broke that sword and stayed that red scourge of crueltytbat was rolling over Europe? The sword of Theodorio and Actius. "To come tiown to later ages, all intel ligent Englishmen unite with tall Intelli gent Americans in saying that it was the best thing that the American colonics swung off from the government of Great Britain. It would have been the worst absurdity of four thousand years it this continent should have continued In loyalty to a throne on the other side of the sea. No one would propose a Governor General for the Unite.! States, as there is a Gov ernor General for Canada. We have had splendid Queens in our American Capital, but we could hardly be brought to support a Queen on the other side of the Atlantic vely and good as Victoria Js. The only ose we have for Earls and Lords andDukes In this country is to treat them well when they pass through to their hunting grounds In the far West, or when their fortunes have failed, re-enforce them by wealthy matrimonial alliance. Imagine this nation f et a part of English possessionf ! The rouble the mother country bag with Ire land would be a paradisaic condition com pared with the trouble she would have with as. England and the United States make excellent neighbors, but the two families re too large to live in the same honse. What a godsend that we should have parted, ' "imt t can runic ot n-1? "'- ! 1 w ay rn which we eould possibly have achieved American Independence. George the Third, the half-crazv King, would not have let us go. Lord North, his Trime Minister, would not have let us go. General Lord Cornwallis would not have let us go, al though after Yorktown he was clad enough to have ns let him go. The battlolields of !he American Revolution were proof posi tive that they were not willing to let us go. any committee of Americans going across the ocean to see what could have been lone would have found no better accom modations than London Tower. The only way it could have been done was by the word, your great-grandfather's sword. Jefferson's pen eould write the Declaration Df Independence, but only Washington's jword could have achieved it, and the Dt her swords bathed in heaven. "Arbitrament will take the place of war between nation and nation, and national armies will disband as a consequence, ami the time will come Bod hasten it! when there will bo no need of an American army or navy, or a Russian army or navy. But some time after that cities will have to keep their armories and arsenals and well-drilled militia, because until tho millennial day there will he populations with whom arbitrament will be as impossi ble as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or a jungle of snakes. These men who roh stores and give garrotor's hui?, and prowl about the wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in gambling hells and go urine I with pistol or dirk, will refrain from dis turbances of the public peace just in pro portion as they realize that the militia of a sity, instead of being an awkward squad, and in danger of shooting each other by mistake, or losing their own lif-! by looking down into the gun barrel tosee if it is lon.l 3d, or getting the ramrod fast in their boot leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen as tho north wind, potent as a thunderbolt, nnd nccurate and regular and discipline 1 in their movements as the planetary system. Well done, then, I sav to the Legislatures and Governors and Mayors, and all olll"ials who decide upon larger armories and bet ter places for drill ami more Microns snuipmont for the militia. The sooner tho sword can safely go back to tho scaMiard to stay thore, tho better; but until th hilt clangs against tho case iu that llnal lodg ment, let theswor.l bo kept fre t fr.vn rust; sharp all along the edge and its point like a needle and the handle polished, not only by the chamois of the regimental servant, but by the hand of bravo and patriotic! olll sers, always ready to do their full duty. Such swords are not bathed in Impetuosity, or bathed in cruelty or bathe 1 in oppres sion, or bathed in outrage; but bathed iu heaven. Before I speak of the doom of the sword, let me also say that it has developed the grandest natures that the world ever s.iw. it has developed courage that sublime, energy of the soul which dtles the uni versa when it feels itself to be in tho rilit. It has developed a self-sacrillen which re pudiates the idea that our life is worth more thnn anything else, when f'r a prin ciple it throws thai life away, as iiiii'!i ns to say: 'It is not necessary that I live, but it is necessary that righteousness triumph.' There are tens of thousands among the Northern and Southern veterans of our Civil War who are ninety-live per cent, larger and mightier in soul than they would have been had ttiey not, during the four years of national ngony, turned their back on home and fortune, and at the front sac rificed nil for a principle. "But the sword is doomed. There is on. word that will vet be written in every throne-room, in every war ofllee, iu every navy yard. In every nntioual council. That word is Disarmament. But no government can afford to thtw its sword away until all the great governments- have agreed to do the same until disarmament and con sequent arbitration shall bo ngreed to by all the great governments, any sinirle gov ernment that dismantles its fortresses, an I spikes its guns, and breaks its sword, would simply invite its own destruction. Suppose, before such general agreement England should throw aw.iv her sword; think you France has forgotten Waterloo? Suppose, before such general airr cinent Germany should throw her sword away: how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay as they are? Suppose the Czar of Knssia heforesuch general agreement shoul 1 throw away hissword, all the eagles and vultures and lions of European power would gather for a piece of the Russian bear. Suppose in some future time the United States, with out any such general agreement of disarm ament, should throw away her sword, it would not be long before the our great har bors would be ablaze with the bunting of foreign navies coining hero to show the folly of the "Monroe doctrine." "What a horror Is war aud its cruelties was well illustrated when the Tartars, after sweeping through Russia and Poland, dis played with pride nine great sacks tilled with the right ears of tho fallen, and when a correspondent of the London Times, writ ing of the wounded after the battle of Sedan, said: 'Every moan that t . e human voice can utter rose from that heap of agony, and cries of water! For the love of God, waterl A doctor! A doctor! never ceased. After war has wrought such cruel ties, how glad we will be to have tho old monster himself die. Let his dying couch be spread in some dismantled fortress, through' which the stormy winds howl. Give him for apillowa battered shield, and let his bed be hard with the rusted bayonets of the slain. Cover him with the eimrsest blanket that picket ever wore, and let his only cup be the blenched bone of ono of his war-chargers, and the last taper by his bed side expire as the midnight blast sighs in to his ears: The candle of the wicked shall be put out. "In this time of our national trial let us dedicate ourselves anew to Go. 1 nnd our country. In the English conllict, called tho-War of the Roses, a white rose was me badge of the House of York, anil the red rose the badge of the House of Lancas ter, and with these two colors they op posed each other in battle. To enlist you in the holy war for all that is good against all that is wrong I pin over your heart two badges, the one suggestive of the blood shed for our redemption, nnd the other symbolic of a soul made white and clean, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. "And as for our beloved country in this crisis, there are three reasons why we should do our best for that. Three reasons: Our fathers' graves, our own cradles, our children's birthright. When I say your fathers' graves your pulses run quicker. Whether they sleep in city cemetery or in village graveyard, their ashes are pre cious to you. They lived well and they died right. You will not submit to have their tombs dishonored by the foot of any foreign foe. Then this hrtid has bc.-u our cradle. It may have rocked us roughly, but it was a good era lie to be rocked In. Oh, how much wo owe It. Dear laud of our boyhood and girlhood days! And it is to be our children's birthright. We will nfter awhile be through with it; v;c will see only a few more blossoms of the spring; we will gather only a few more ol the harvests of the summer; we will pluck only a little more of the fruits of the au tumn; but our children, they must get it through us, ns we got it from our fathers - a free land, a happy laud, a Christian land. The Adams hoiu-sl 1 nt Quinry.Miss. has lioeii restore I under the direction of the Qiiiney HUlori.-al soeietv. An il-s-plii- bui-lu-i- shop has Ieen start."l in Baltimore, where all that touch the fn.-e have U-.li Zed. Tk r. ........ oltjeets st.-i il ..... .-..It. PM lull Mill 'I,! V t.. J 1 . .... , ... , erected wit-m iiiuiiin vum iiuiioi i nil lies l ai t'haring Cress, fairing Parliament street, finitiin I at Experiments with locomotives on tho 'Vheeling and Ijike Krie railroad show -hat a slight addition of graphite to tho oil used for lubricating purposes promot conomy. Dutch omnibuses are fitted with l.-tter boxes. One of the fierman cities boasts a street laid with ruller. Two thousand two hundred trains ( leave Iimlon ordinarily every twenty- lour hours. There are nearly in.fion hounds main tained in the Unite 1 Kingdom exclusively 1 for hunting purposes. I Kerosene from Sumatra is entering t the markets of the far East in competition with the Russian oil. v; Hut MBBttitft U tfee 1 7
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