M. F. SOHWEIER. THE OON9TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Better and VOL. LU MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 189S NO. 25. 1 liL lw M 11 rvv: f I MrlTrl I lV . 1 It? CIIATTEn XII (Continued.) The lid of ri'itPinlMT was approaching, nd they wore debating In their happy minds whether it would be more delight. t ul to go on to I tnly or to return home, a word possessing an equal charm for both now, when their movements were decided by a letter from Mrs. Kllesmere: "My Dear Tom I have this morning received news of the death of poor Tom Nevil, of typhoid fever. The shock has been so terrible to poor Sir Thomas that It is feared he will not recover from it. He has fallen into a state of apathy from which nothing can rouse him, and any day he may die. Under the circumstances, you being the Dext heir, do you not think you ought to return to England? Foor Tom leaves two little girls, and I have ascertained that there is no expectation of n heir. You will, I know, feel very much for poor Mrs. Xevil. I think you should write to her; of course it Is rather a deli cate position for you, but I am sure you wiU do the right thing. I shall not be able to receive you on your return unless rem particularly desire it, as I think young people are best left to themselves just at first. Give my kindest love to dear June, and believe me "Your affectionate mother, -VIOLET ELLESMEKE." This news cnused Tom the deepest con cern. No thought of the benefit likely to accrue to himself from the misfor tune of his kinsfolk entered bis brain as he read the letter; all he felt was sheer sorrow. And June, the tenderest hearted creature in the world, cried for pity ol the poor bereaved wife whose anguish he was now fully able to comprehend. What could they do for herT They laid their heads together and made all sorts of plans by which ultimately her griet was to be lightened, and then, between them, they wrote her the kindest letter that two sympathizing young hearts couI' devise. And so they retraced their steps slowly homeward. In Faris they received th news of Sir Thomas' death. The rejoicings and honors that had been planned for the young couple's re turn were, by Tom's especial request, foregone. He departed at once for the North, to attend Sir Thomas Nevil's fu neral, and June cried all the evening and half the night, so heart-broken was she at being bereaved of her lord; and, like all tender, foolish women who love, she tormented herself with fears for his safe ty, nnd wrote him four sheets of paier covered principally by expressions of en dearment which might have seemed mo notonous to another person, but won heavenly sweet to the recipient. On Tom's return June quite startled at being ad dressed as "my lady" and hearing hiiu called Sir Thomas. It was rnther bewildering to her to think of herself as Lady Nevil. It Is not often that a person benrs three names in less than six weeks. In that time she hud been Miss Kivers Mrs. Kllesmere Lady Nevil. Tom was tolerably Indifferent to social honors himself, but it pleased him hugely to hear his darling called "my lady." OIIAFTEH XIII. The months rolled on and Sir Thomas and Lady Nevil were as happy as united lovers in a story book. June is quite a great lady now, and by no means indif ferent to the fact that she is so, although she bears her honors in the most modest and unassuming way. Agnes had gone with a friend to Italy for the winter, ex tremely thankful to escnpe from the sight of the happiness which was gall and wormwood to her. Tom deserved to be happy, and he was happy. AVhen, in September, the bells rang nnd the announcement was made that there was an heir to the houses of Kllesmere and Nevil, his happiness seem ed almost too much for him. After Christmas they were to have a series of guests at the Hall. Dallas was to come for a couple of days, for Tom would have laughed to scorn the thought of being jealous of any living man now. Mrs. Trevauion and her son, an Eton boy of seventeen, were expected, and two or three other young people for Madge's es pecial bent-tit. Madge adored June more than ever, and June had promised that If they took a house for the season in town, Madge should go to them for a whole mouth. Tom made a terribly wry face over the house in town, but he had no idea of thwarting June, who was rather bent up on it. -and only stipulated that he should be there on and off, and that the baby bIk'UM not le taken to I'andcmoniuiu. Her ladyship wanted the whole family to migrate, and the first time there had ever been the shadow of a tiff between them was when Tom offered serious opposition to her w ishes on this score. Tom would not have that precious life endangered by the pestilential atmosphere of London. June was not used to hearing him say would ami would not. And, as the young Sir Thomas was as robust as any infant In the world, she was rather incensed at what she chose to consider her husband's foolishness. So she shed some tears of mixed anger, pain and humiliation, and snid, being "very like a woman," that he did not care whether she was injured by going to Lon don; to which he, after kissing ana- her tears, replied with sound good sense that It was not by his wish she was going, anil he would gladly put down five hundred pounds there and then if she would relin quish the idea. lint this nor ladyship was not dispos ed to do. Her mother-in-ln w had told her that this step was due to her position, and June, being young and keenly dis posed for pleasure and enjoyment, had rather set her heart on a London season. Tom gave iu to everything she wished, except nbout the balvr. If she had known that Tom's obstinacy was being fostered by Agnes, she would probably have set very vigorously to work to counterbal ance that amiable young lady's influence. Agnes atfiected an unbounded devotion to Tom's soa and heir; perhaps she felt It. She Ingratiated herself with the nurse, waylaid her when she walked Vrx-ad, paid constant visits to the nur sery at such times as June was likely to be out driving. This brought her Into fre quent contact with Sir Thomas, and he became quite grateful for her devotion to his child and entirely forgave and forgot gt ba.d tyrn she bad done Mm la trjinjr O il.VQA l.VI llVJUCyl II VI II to delay his marriage. She made little Innuendoes, accentuated by sighs or notes of exclamation. How could June leave that darling? How could anyone, sur rounded by such blessings, with such a child, such a husband, want to quit them for a life auch as people led In London heartless, selfish, unsatisfying? What could compensate for home Joys. For her part. U waa utterly lncompreheaaibla to her.' Tom defended hia wife said she was young and beautiful and fond of pleasure; what more natural than that sh. should like to go into society? Besides, it was chiefly his mother's doing, who had persuaded her. Bat Agnes' words cer tainly stabbed him in a tender spot. "But for both of you to go away and leave that darling!" cried Agnes, with a tf in Bar ejrs, VSudmm ha should be seized with convulsions, or something were to happen to him? Servants are never of any use in an emergency." "Oh," said Tom, not without a sense of alarm at her words, "I shall be here most of the time." "June will not let you. She will not stay in London without you. I wonder it does not occur to her how dreadful it is to leave that angel to hirelings!" "June wants to take him with us; she Is most anxious not to be parted from him." "But it would be madness to take him to London. Here, you know, he has the purest milk from your own cows, and I have heard that hundreds and thousands of babies die In London of typhoid fever from impure milk." Tom, only too ready to take alarm, vow ed to himself that, whatever happened, that precious life should not be endanger ed by a visit to the metropolis. "One thing," said Agnes, with fervor, "I shall go up to the Hall every day to see the darling, and I don't think any thing will escape my eye. I auppose," hesitating, "June will not consider me too otliclous, will she?" "Officious!" replied Tom, heartily; "she sill be tremendously grateful to you." "And and when you are In town, shall I write you about him? I could tell you a thousand particulars about your darling that servants would not think of writing. And writing is naturally a great effort to them." "Will you?" cried Tom. "That will be awfully good of you." "I shall write to you," proceeded Agnes, lu a low voice. "I suppose June will not aiiud. We are cousins, you know." CHAl'TKIt XIV. June had got her own way in coming to London, but it did not make her very happy. She felt a sense of secret irrita tion against Tom for not being happy too, and she was vexed because he had been so obstinate about the baby. Until now she had not believed him capable of offer ing persistent opposition to any wish of hers. And his scruples were absurd! The house was large and airy; It looked on green trees; they were near both the parks. London was healthy, the child was thoroughly robust; if he were here Tom would never be able to tear himself away from the pair of them, and she would not have the Irritation of seeing Agnes' daily bulletins, which frequently were not bulletins, but epistles. If the nurse, if her aunt had written, she would have been delighted; but she had thut in stinct of dislike and distrust toward her cousin which, after all, was a iorfoctly true nnd correct one. Just as, lu their younger days, Agnes had always tried to appear additionally amiable by the hate ful knack of showing sister and cousin to disadvantage, so now June felt that all this effusiveness over the baby was put on to make her seem wanting in a moth er's devotion. Sir Thomas and Lady Nevil had beei. in town five days; this evening they were dining at home alone. An unusually gushing letter had arrived that morning, which had given the most evident pleas ure to Tom and had roused June's ire. All day long it had been smoldering; she hail made up her mind to assert herself that night. She would conquer. Ilex mind was master of Tom's, even though she could uo louger quite turn him round her finger by a frown or a tear as in olden days. She was not quite sure what would be the best way to take him, but he would certainly begin by coaxing, even though it bad failed once or twice before when tried on that particular subject. After dinner, when they went upstairs, she pushed him gently into a chair, sat on his knee, laced her arms round his ueck and laid her cheek against his. He re ceived her attentions with the complacent calm of a two-year husband who loves his wife, the complacent culm that is so emi nently provoking nnd unsatisfactory tt wives of June's temieniment. "Tom," she says, ceasing to emhrnct liini. and laying her head against the back of his chair, while an involuntary mist comes across her brown eyes, "Tom, T don't feel happy." Tom heaves a deep, deep sigh. "No, uiy dear," lie replies. I dmi'i see how any une ran be happy in thii Ftifling hole." Hu this answer Is by no means w'ta June desires, or what she has wished to cad up to. "It isn't that," she says, feeling much Icpressed. "I like London, and should ?njoy myself amazingly if I didu't see hat you are not happy." Tom heaves a still deeper sigh. "I must bear it as best I can," he ut ters, in a doleful tone. "It makes me feel selfish," says June, "to think I have dragged you here and that you are so wretched." Secretly she thinks be is a little bit selfish not to try to seem happier. "It takes away all my enjoyment." Thereupon Tom kisses her kindly. "Never mind, dear," he remarks. "1 must manage as best I can. And,""brlght ?ning, "I shall run down and see the boy for a couple of days shortly." "My darlingf cries June; "do, do let ns have him up here! Do get over your ridiculous ideas about London hnrting him, and then we should all be quite bap ay. There was a time," jealously, "when j "could make you happy, but now it seems I am not enough." "Don't say that, child!" exclaims Tom, jiving her slim waist a squeeze. "Why, . on surely wouldn't hare me not love our "Not more than me," says Jane, re hei nously. 'No fear," he answers, heartily. "But it's a different sort of feeling. Why," with an neceut of reproach which June feels keenly, "do yon think that if you had him in your arms all day, and bad hardly even a kiss or a look for me, I ihoiild feel a hit jealous? Why, I should know it was the right and natural thing." Tom is not the least aware that he is planting a dagger in his wife's heart. She does love her child dearly, but he cannot be all in all to her. She can spare his presence a great deal better than she can Toiu's; he would be an utterly Inadequate ronsolation to her if anything happened to her husband. "As if," she pleads, "there were not hundreds mad thousands of healthy ent ire n In Vjondon, and here it Is so airy and nice." "Alryr echoes Tom; "why, I feel fit to be stilled myself; and think how much more his tender lungs would suffer." "That is mere prejudice," answers June, a trifle shortly. "But, my dear," says Tom, "only think how well the little chap is at home, and how rosy he looks. And there is Agnes always looking after him." June vacates her position on Tom's knee nd walks to the window, on which she drums with her fingers. An angry swell ing rises lu her throat; it is a full minute before she can speak. "I do not know what business it Is of Agnes'," she observes, presently. "And, as she has never had aar axj)rience with children, her looking after him can hard ly lie of much value." "I think that is rather ungrateful ot you," says Tom, with more warmth than is usual to him, especially when address ing his wife. This was too much for June. She flings herself into a chair and gives vent to a passion of sobs and tears. For a wonder, Tom does not fly at once to stanch her tears, but sits looking a shade sulky and perturbed. This, naturally makes June worse. "I wish we had never come to London tt all!" she sobs. Tom echoes that wish most sincerely. He, however, has the wisdom to remain silent. But silence is always exasperat ing to a vexed woman. "Let us give up the house and go back home!" sobs her ladyship, who is in a considerable temper. "If I am only to be made miserable here, I wish I had never Hime!" He does not speak, and June's wrath Increases. She pulls ber handkerchief from her face, and, looking at him with eyes flashing through her tears, she cries: "The child is as much mine as yours! much more mine! What right have you to separate him from me or to decide what he shall do or not do?" This is the first time that Tom has ever -en June in a passion; he is a good deal shocked and a little frightened. He rises from his chair and comes to ward her. . But she starts up to evade him and cries: " "Do not come near me! do not touch ne! You do not love me! Oh, my dar ing mother! if you were only alive now!" And June, having worked herself up Into a paroxysm of anguish, flings herself down and buries her head in the sofa cushions and sobs as if her heart would break. (To be continued. Coal '-n't Drerlve the Mother. He was a tired-looking yonng man as he leaned up against a shade tree, and the patrolman who came along and halted to look him over finally queried: "Well, what are you doing here?" "More or less Might," was the an swer. "What's that paper you have got In vour hand?" "You can have It." "Bank check, eh?" said the officer, as he scanned it under the light. "Have you been trying to work a confidence game?" "Oh, no," replied the young man as he yawned sleepily. "That was a little racket on my own account." "How do you mean?" "Why, I'm going with a girl who loves me for myself, but ber mother looks at the cash side of the question." "And you filled out this check to de eel ve her?" "That's what I did. I showed hei that I bad $3,000 In the bank, but what did she do but post right down there and find out that I didn't hare a cent on deposit." "And what?" "Why, that's how I came to get tight. She showed me the door and I knew by the way she closed It behind me that the syndicate was busted, and so I went o ruin at the nearest saloon!" Terrible. "My grandfather," said the shoe clerk boarder, "once knew an old man who insisted that the ghests came and milk ed his cows every night." "Sort of mllkln' siceters, eh?" com mented tlu? cheerful Idiot. Iceland's geyser never shoot their walcrjiigher than 1M feet, while some of our Yellowstone gevsers go more than ilnee times that high. An aseptic barker shop has lx-en started in Baltimore, where all objects that touch the faco have keen steril ixed. If dry ropes are soaked for four days, in a bath containing enty grains 'of sulphate of copper to a quai't of water, they will lie preserved tor a considerable time from the attack of animal parasite and rot. foal is not only a source of heat and light, but a storehouse of colors, medi cines, perfumes and explosives. From 140 pound:! of r : t:r in a ton of coal over l'(ih distill, : s'.adeg of aniline dyes are made. Draughting comuiwieg are leing made with a flexible rubber suction cap on one end to fasten to the paM-r and hold the instrument whilo the jirclo is being drawn. From 20 to 25 large and small estab lishments exist in New Jersey for the manufacture f nitroglycerine, dyna mite and other high explosives, and both black and smokeless powder. There is a curious siic rsiitioii in Venice that if a stranger dies in a hotel the number of his room will Is- lucky at the next lottery. It has recently ls-en claimed thai iron ships fitted with electric plants suf fer rapid deterioration of their pipes having direct connection with the sea, due to electrolytic action. A New York man recently ment to an undertaker's, chose a coffin, bargained for its lowest price, purchased it, then returned home and committed suicide. The elephant does not smell with his trunk. His olfactory nerves are contained in a single nostril, which is in tho roof of the mouth, near the front. It is said that every thread of a spider's web is made up of about five thousand separate lihi-es. If a pound of this thread were required it would occu py 28,000 spiders a full year to furnish it. DRIVING OUT OF SPANIARDS. ilielr K i pulsion front the Thirteen Hritlnh Colonies in 1743. How the Spaniards were last driven from the soli of the original thirteen Sritish colonies forms a pertinent story low. ' The causes which led to the first Spanish Invasion began with the dawn tf the eighteenth century. At that lme the farthest point south occurred y the Eugllsh settlers was Cbaries jon. while the Spanish held domain ver the Florida coasts as far north as it. Augustine. Between these two op osIng forces, separated by every ele iient which represents dissimilarity, teas the territory which now comprises Georgia and the northern portion , of Florida. In England there was a steadily rrowiag conviction that the British mould occupy the neutral ground, and :hus in 1732, when Oglethorpe, respect ed r.s an hereditary loyalist and noted !or his philanthropic schemes, appcal el to Parliament, King George grant id Oglethorpe a charter, by it ceding to aim for the period of twenty-one years :he country between Savannah and the Altaniaha River, nnd west from the headwaters of thwe to the Pacific, to be held in tnisi "for the poor." lu the meantime the Spanish officials it St. Augustine viewed with jealous ?ye w hat they considered an encroach ment ou their boundary rights, and bc an to threaten war. Oglethorpe dis patched messengers to them in the In terest of peace, but they were seized wid treated as prisoners of war. Ou learning this Oglethorpe formed a miction with the Indian tribe of the Felices, anil that of Tormochichi, and prepared for hoMtillriea. But the Span ish were not as ready to fight aa they seemed, nnd peace was patched up and an agreement entered Into by which the St. Mary's River became the boun dary H'tweeu the two disputing territories. Then Oglethorpe made new treaties with the Indians, securing mod from avn ninth to the Ogeohee and along the coasts to the St. John's as far In land as the tide flows. Ou July 4, 1742, a bloody encounter occurred between the Spanish fleet of thirty-eight vessel and the batteries on the southern point of St. Simon's Island, resulting in a victory for the in vaders. Realizing that his oidy chance was In a land struggle, Oglethorpe sig naled his ships to run up to Frederics, and, spiking the guns on th? lower for tifications, followed the fleet to the town. The Spanish, finding themselves unopposed, landed at Glasoonis. blu3 and took possctssion of the abandoned English camp. From this location a road led to Frederica. On Its one aide was a dense forest and on the other a morass. Oglethorpe posted hta men along the wooded side of the road, with instruc tions to attack at a given signal nnd drive the Spaniards into the morasn. The SiMtnish van was well up to the front of the ambuscade when the sig nal was sounded. Immediately the at tack was taken up by each detail, and before the astounded Spaniards could realize what bnd happened they were falling before the well-directed volleys of the Highlanders, and beting slowly pushed into the morass. Their com manders implored them to stand--firm, and reminded the drooping troops that reinforcements were on the way, but a paralysis of fright seemed to have seized the surprised men, and they fell a prey to the impetuosity of their as sailants. So discouraged were the few remain Ing Spanish officers and privates that a retreat was resolved on, and seven days after the terrible chastisement which they had sustained the remnant of the once Invincible force boarded their ships, and, following the example of the armada, and in almost as deplor able plight, sailed out to sea. Standing southward to Fort William the Spanish commander thought he would have an easy conquest in that point, which had a garrison of fifty men; but they were commanded by Stuart, one of the boldest and most skillful warriors of thaf day, who never blanched before superior num bers. Forming Into a close line the fleet sailed past the fort, each vessel discharging a broadside at the walls and being answered vigorously by the guns of the defenders. The ordnance In the fort, however, was heavier than that on the vessels, and when the Span lull commander discovered that several of his vessels were yeaklng ad about to sink he abandoned the attack and sheered off towards his own waters. This practically terminated the war, although a few minor engagements oc curred on the frontiers. On July 24 a general thanksgiving was ordered for deliverance from the enemy. Oglethorpe remained In the colony for another year, and then, sat isfled that the Spanish would not at tempt another invasion, took his final departure for England. The Heir to tho Austrian Throne, The heir-apparent to the throne is the nephew of the Emperr, Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Este, a weakling In body and mind, whom nobody knows, for whom nobody cares, who has not one single quality to enable him to grasp the reins of the unruly dual team and lead it safely and sue cessfully on Its dangerous road. Most likely Ferdinand will find, at his ac cession to the throne like his uncle In 1848 the whole country In uproar and revolt, some wiseacres advising him to drive the sta,te carriage as a Ger man-Magyar - Czech troyka; others clamoring for a Czech-Polish-Magyar German four-ln-ihand; and the majority of bis subjects shouting wildly for a "go-as-you-please" steeplechase. In well-informed court circles It is whispered already that Ferdinand, who Is of delicate health and not able to stand the climate of Vienna, will never sit upon the throne of the Haps- burgs, and, even If he should attempt It, would not occupy it long. Since he Is a bachelor, the reins would pass to his younger brother, Archduke Otto. Then good-by, Austria! This Imperial prince If all be true that hi currently reported despised alike by all the peo ple, regardless ot nationality, creed or party, for bis principles, morals and manners, could not 0nd a More of de wotptfa to sstfiM hit btaaasu Mpiflp couKt any other member of the Haps- burg family most of them afflicted with hereditary predispositions to epi lepsy. Insanity or debauchery concen trate upon himself such popular sym pathies as would make his accession to the throne a lasting success. Re view of Reviews. 1, im The first municipal lighting by acety. i.-ne gas is reported to be that of Tot Is, a small town of Hungary. Several houses. In addition to the streets and squares, are lighted in this manner, and with excellent results. A yellow light has been obtained with Incandescent gas burners by a German Inventor at Krefeld. lie alters the burners so that the gas Is supplied at a pressure of three and a half atmos pheres. A single jet of ordinary size then emits a light of more than 1,000 candle power, by which fine print may I e read at a distance of 150 feet from the light Truffles will soon be cultivated on scientific principles and are likely to become cheaper. M. Chatin, who dis covered that the truffle Is a mushroom, has announced to the Acaderale des Sciences at Taris that tho lme de Lesparre, brother of the lJuc de Gra mont, has found out how it germinate! and on what leaves Its spores will be come fruitful. It haa long been held that typhoid fever is disseminated L bad water, or germ-infested milk, and not by direct contagion. Recently typhoid fevci among soldiers in a small barracks has been directly traced to dust from the floor. On examination the disease producing bacteria were found lu the sweepings, and the locality of the cots carried out the conviction. Black Is known to be severe upon tUt eyes. It tends to dilate the pupil, which on leaving the black surface has to contract rapidly, thus throwing con siderable work upon the muscles of the iris. It Is suggested that blackboard. lie abandoned for schools, that a light colored board be substituted therefor, and that colored chalks be used ins tea J of the usual white crayons. Acetylene gas buoys, lighted day and night by the gas, have been experi mented with in New York harbor. Cylinders' of liquid acetylene are con tained in the lower part of the buoy. A lamp Is carried on the apex well above the water. Enough gas is contained to supply the lamp for over a inonth. Liquid acetylene is known to be ex plosive. Accidental contact of a ship with such a buoy might be equivalent to encountering a torpedo, as tho im pact might Induce explosion of the cylinders containing the acetylene. . An effort has been made to determine the pulling strength of elephants, horses nnd men. Attached to a dyna mometer, Barnum & Bailey's largest elephant registered a pull of two and one-half tons on the second trial, but a smaller and more active elephant gave a record of five and one-half tons whether as the result of a steady pull or a sudden Jerk appears to be uncer tain. A pnlr of powerful horses reg istered a ton and a fifth, while it re quired the strength of eighty-three men to equal the pull of the smaller ele phant. Near Dresden, Saxony, a railroad siding has been Installed to ensure the stoppage thereon of trains. It Is a siding which starts from the main track and rejoins It father on. It is necessary for the prevention of acci dents that the shunting of a train to this siding shall stop it, if the engineer neglects Ills duty. To effect this end, the rails are covered with some Inches of sand, which in dry weather is kept moist. This has brought a twenty-car train to a full stop. Its utility in catch ing a runaway engine is obvious. Parts Secret Police Method. I once spent an afternoon In a pleas ant little villa on the banks of the river Marne with the former chief of police in the time of Napoleon HI., up to the proclamation of the republic. No one could have thought, to look at the peaceful figure of the proprietor, a little man In sabots, with gray beard a la Millet, absorbed in cultivating tho mag nificent nortenslas that covered his terraces, reaching to the water's edge, that his head bad been a storehouse for all the machinations and turpitudes of that period of decadence which ended In a disastrous war and a revolution. It was on that afternoon that I learned bow the fatal Olllvler ministry was de cided upon by M. Thiers and his polit ical friends one evening In the con servatory of a beautiful French wo man, living not far from the Opera. Two brothers, well known in the best Paris society, meanwhile distracted the attention of the guests In the salon by sleight-of-hand tricks and gymnas tic feats on a Persian rug. And when I asked the old man how he knew all this with such precision, "From a femme de chamber," he answered, tranquilly; "all personages of impor tance at that time, at their own re quest, took their servants only from mi hand." Harper's Weekly. Iil'urnry of Condemned Books. The Italian Government has resolved to found at Florence at public expense a library of all the books which have in curred the censure of the Sacred Con gregation of the Index. The Vatican has protested against the measure, on the ground that the majority of the books in question are improper to the last degree, and that the establishment of a collection of such a nature Is an affront rather against public morality than against the discipline of th church. Klppax You seem very much affect ed at the tragic fate of Juliet, MtesSnlf fea: I thought I saw tears In your eyes. Miss Snlffen Yes, Mr. Klppax, It does sesa so sad to think that the lady who played Juliet to not really 4eadfr- HIS START IN LIFB, pis Desire to Accommodate a Custom' c r Broasht About HU Sacceu. The Philadelphia Times prints an In teresting and encouraging account of the manner In which Mr. McLaughlin, the late publisher of that p.iper, gained bis first upward start in the world. He was then employed In the printing office of the Ledger. Young reader may find in the narrative something better than a good story. Upon one occasion in 1S5L when Frank McLaughlin was twenty-three years of age, it happened that the fore man and bis assistant were absent, and' that John McLaughlin was at home IU. Young Frank McLaughlin was then the fastest setter of type in the office. At the dinner hour on the day in question, when every "stick" was lying tt rest, Abraham Barker, the father of the well-known Wharton Barker, and himself then one of the very few brokers In this city, walked Into the Ltdger Job printing-office with a stock list an enumeration of the figures of the financial market of the day and r-x pressed a desire to have It put iu typo and fifty copies struck off for Im mediate use. By reason of the conditions described, there was no one In authority to wait upon him, and Frank McLaughlin stepped forward and received the or der. The stock-list of that time, unlike the complex nffair of the present day, was an abbreviated statement, and two men could easily place It lu type within a quarter of an hour. When Mr. Baker asked the yonng printer if he would undertake the task, the latter answered with cheerful alac rity, "Certainly." Cutting the list in two and turning to one of the oldest compositors In the office, he said, "rre, Jim, take one of these takes' and I'll take the other, and we'll rush her through In a Jiffy." The man addressed walked forward with a frown on bis face, and after he had taken the slip of paper and was moving back to his case, he mutetred some half-understood words about "giving a fellow a chance to cat his dluner." "Never mlud, Jim," said youn Mc Laughlin, walking quickly after him and taking the copy from his hands, "I'll do the Job myself." During these proceedings Abraham Barker never left the office, nor did he do so until the work had been completed. He leaned quietly against a make-up table, read lug a copy of the New York Tribune, apparently oblivious to all that was going on about hiin. - Young McLaughlin's fingers flew a he picked up the little pieces of metal. In less than half an hour he had the stock-list In type, revised, and fifty copies struck off. He handed them to Mr. Barker with an apology for keep ing him waiting. "What! Done al ready?" said the broker, and with a simple "Thank your he left the ofllee. The following morning the young printer was surprised by receiving a note from the customer of the day be fore, requesting him to call at his of fice. He did so. "I heard everything that took place In the ledger office yesterday," said the financier, "and fully appreciate your conduct. I would like you to print the stock-list for me every day for one month, and I'll pay you five hundred dollurs for the work." "But It is not worth so much as that," answered the printer. "It is worth as much to me to have It done as you did it yesterday," was the reply. That was Frank McLaughlin's first work for himself. At the expiration of the month the contract was extend ed to three times that period, and then to twelve" months, with an annual re compense of six thousand dollars. At that time Journeymen printers wero receiving about ten dollars weekly, and only In extraordinary Instances earned one or two dollars beyond that sun). linrgnyne nest of British Generals. Burgoyne was the natural son ot Lord Blngley, and hud made a run away marriage with the daughter of Lord Derby. As matters went then, these were sufficient reasons for the ap pointment; but In Justice to Burgoyns it must be said that he had other at tributes than those of birth and mar rlage. He was a member of Parlia ment and a clever debater; a man of letters and nn agreeablo writer; a not unsuccessful verse-writer and play wright; a soldier who had shown brav ery In the war In Portugal; a gentle man and a man of fashion. He bad not given any indication of capacity for the command of an army, but this was not thought of importance. Lot it be added that, although as a soldier he was the worst beaten of the British generals, as a man he was much the best, for he was clever, agreeable, and well-bred. From "The Story of the Revolution," by Senator H. C. Lodge. In Scribner's. Tinplate Scrap Has a Vain. The tinplate clippings from the stamping factories of this country are gathered together, tied in bales and delivered at the dock In New York for about $0 a ton; thence they are shipjied to Holland, where the tin is recovered and made into Ingots, while the Iron scrap is sold and turned to different uses. Some factories have as high as 1,200 tons of this scrap tin to dispose c in a year. The process used in Hol land for separating the two metals Is secret, and the efforts of manufactur ers to obtain a knowledge of it has thus far been In vain. geemd the Appropriate Kind. "Joseph is real sick with slow fever." "Well," and Mrs. Martin smoothed her apron reflectively, "I knew if Jo seph had a fever It would be a t,lo oner Ancient Scales THsoovrredu A pair of scales much like those of the modern pharmacists is among the multitude of objects discovered this year In excavations about thirty mUes from Thebes and recently exhibited in London. The scales are finely finished, having a beam about four and one-half inches long, with a ring at each end of the three cords, and the pans, about the size of an Enchsti penny, art slightly ooTex, SERMONS OF THE DAY th Subject, "Alleviations of War." Molt Pertinent to the Kxrltinac Time Through Which 1V Are Now Palming Cheer For Those WhoM Hearts Are Sad Text: "Though war should rise against tun, in this will I be confident." l'salma 27. iii. The ring of battle-axes and thn clash ot shields, and the tramp of armies are henrd all up and down tho Old Testament; an.l vou lln.l go lly soldiers like Moses, and I Joshua, nnd Caleb, and GMeon, and scoundrelly soldiers like Kennacbarib, and KlialmannsKr, and Nebuchadnezzar. Tbo Hlsh Priest would stand at the head of the army and say: "Hoar, O Isrnl, yo a( proiich this dav unto battle against your eunmlos, let not your hearts faint; fear not, ami do not tremble, nuithnr be ye terrilled because of them!" and then the oillners wo'iM give command to the troops, say ing: "What man is there that hath built'a new house and hath not dedicated it? Let lilm p,o and return to his house, lest he die li tlie battle and another man dedicate It. And wliat man is he that hath planted a Tineyant anil hath not eaten of it? Let hiin also go aail return unto his house, lest he die in the battle aad another man eat of it. And wh.-.t man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? Let him KO and return uuto his house, lest he die in battle and another man take her." Great armies marched and fought. In the time of Moses and Joshua all the men were soU dicrs. When Israel came out oT E-vpt there were fiOO.000 fighting men. Abijah. commanded 400,000. Jeroboam commandeilj K00.003 men, of whom flOO.OOO were slain in, one battle. Some of these wars God ap- proved, for they were for tho rescue of nn. pressed n.-itious, and some of thorn Hoj denounced, but in all cases it was a jud-t meat upon both victors and vanquished. J) ivi l knew just what war was when hi wrote in the text, "Thonch war should rise UK u'nst me, in this will I be conlldent." flavid is hero encouraging himself In stormy times, and before approaching bat tics administers to himself the consolatory. So to-day my theme is the "Alleviations ot War." War is organized atrocity. It W the science of assassination. It is the con vocation of all horrors. It Is butchery wholesale. It is murder glorified. It is death ou a throne of human skeletons, it is the colli u in ascendancy. It is diaholisvt at a game of skulls. Ami the time is coining when war will ne an impossibility. How far in. the future I cannot say, but thoro will be a museum of curiosities ia which a father and son will one day be walking, and the son will say, "What is that sharp, curved instrument?" and the father will reply, 'That is a sword." And the soi will say, "What are those round pieces otj Iron?" and the father will reply, "Those ar bullets and cannon balls and bombshells' Those are the things with which in tlnj Dark Ages people killed each other." Yet) the father will have hard work to make the son believe that such things were ever u.-el for the destruction of human life. Jin t that time has not yet arrived, and havbig on other occasions spoken to you of the "Aggravations of War," now that war is actually here it is time to speak of its alleviations. First, I find an alleviation in the fact that it has consolidated the North and South after long-continued strained relations. It Is thlrty-tbree years siuce our Civil War closed, and the violences are all gone and the severities have been huhed. But ever and anon, in oration, in sermon, in news paper editorial, in magazine article, on political stump, and In Congressional hall, the obi sectional difference has lifted its head: and for the first time within my mem ory, or the memory of nay one who hears or reads these words, the North and the South are one. It was not a four years war. but a lifty years' war; war of tongue, war of pen, war of printing press. liut by a marvelous providence, the family that leil in opposition to our Government thirty years ago. is represented nt the front int this prseiit war. Nothing else could hnvi! done the work of unification so suddenly nrsoeotnpletely nsthisconllict. At T;itnpa,i nt Chattanooga, at Richmond, and in many other places theregifnentsareforming.and it will be side by side, Massachusetts and Alabama, New York and Georgia, Illinois nnd Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina. Northern and Southern men will together uulimber the guns and rush upon the forti llcntion and charge upon the enemy and shout the triumph. The voices of military officers who were under Sidney Johnson and Joseph Hooker will give the command on the same side. The old sectional grudges forever dead. Tho name of Grant on tho Northern side and ot Lee ou the Southern side will be exchanged for the names of Grant and Lee on the same side. The veterans iu Northern nnd Southern homes and asylums are stretching iheli rheumatic limbs to see whether they cat. again keep step in a march, and are testing their eyesight to find whether thev can agaia look along tho gun-barrel to success fully take aim and tire. The old war erji of "On to llichmonil!" and "On to Wash-j ington!" has become the war cry of "On to Havana!" "On to Porto Kico!" "On td the l'hilippine Islands!" The two old rusty swords that in other days clashed at Miir-i freesboro and South Mountain ami AtlautaJ are now lifted to strike down IHspanin abominations. Another allevintion of the war is the fact that it is the most unselfish war of the ages. While the commercial rights of our wronged citizens will be vindicated, that Is not the chief Idea of this war. It is the rescue of hundreds of thousands of people from starvation and multiform maltrcat-J ment. A friend who went out under the, flag of the Bed Cross two years ngo to as suage Buffering In Armenia, and who has been on the snine mission, anderthe samd Hag, In Cuba, says that the suffering in Armenia were a comedy and a farce eom-j pared with the greater sufferings of Cuba.j At least two hundred thousand graves are calling to us to come on and rememlier by what process their occupants died. It is tho twentieth century crying out to the nine teenth: "Do yon menu to pass down to us the curse with which you have been blasteilr Or will you let me begin under new aus pices and turn the island of desolation into an island Edenie?" It is a war inspired by mercy, which Is an attribute In man imitative of tho same atJ tribute of God. Ia no other age ot the world could such a war have been waged. The gosjHsl of kindness needed to be recog nized throughout Christendom lu order to make such a war possible. The chief rea son why most ot the European nations are not now banded together airninst us is tie cause they dare not take the part of that behemoth of cruelty, the Spanish Govern ment, against the crusade of mercy which our nation has started. Had it been on our part a war of conquest, a war of annexa tion, a war of aggrandizement, there would have been by this time enough flying squadrons coming to this country across the Atlantic to throw into panic every city on our American seaboard. The wars of the Crusaders were only to regain an empty sepulchre: the Napoleonic wars, with their six million slaughtered men, were projected and carried out to ap pease the ambition of one man; of thetwen-ty-llve million slain In Jewish wars, and of the sixty million slain in the wars under Julius t'jesar: of the one hundred and eighty million slain in wars with Turks and Sara cens; of the fifty million slain in wars with Xerxes; of the twenty million slain in wars of Justinian; and the thirty-two million slain in the wars of Genghis Kahn, not one mun was sacrificed for mercy; but In this Hispanic-American war every drummer boy, or ph ket, or gunner, or standard bearer, or skirmisher, or sharpshooter, or cavalryman, or artilleryman, or engineer who falls, fails In the cause of mercy, and becomes a martyr for God and his country. Another alleviation of this war is that It U for the advancement of the sublime principle of liberty, which will yet engirdle the earth. Not only will this war freo Cuba, bnt finally will free Spain. By what right does a dynasty like that stand, and a corrupt court dominate a people for cen tnrles, taxing them to death, riding in gilded chariot over the necks of a beggared population? Another alleviation is that the war opens with a great victory for the United States. In the most jubilant manner let the victory of our navy be celebrated. With the story of the destroyed battleship fresh In the minds of the world it would require no or dinary courage to sail into the harbor of Manila and attack the Spanish shipping. That harbor, crowded with sunken wea ponry of death, to enter It was running a risk enough to make all nations shiver. But Manila is ours, and tho blow ha shaken to the foundation tho palaces of Madrid, and for policy's sake the doubtful nations are on our side. For Commodore Dewey and all who followed him lot tho wliole nntlon utter its most resounding huzza; and more than that, let us thank tho Lord of hosts for his guiding and pro tected power. "Praise yo the Lord! Let everything that hath broata praise tho t40rd!" Another alleviation Is the fact that in this war the might is on tho side of the rigiit. Again and again havo liberty and Justice and suffering humanity had the odds against them. It was so when Bcn hmlad'g; Syrian hoits, vwho. were in tho wrong, at Aphek, camo upon the small regiments of Israel, who were in the right, the Bible putting it in one of those graphlo sentences for which the book is remark able "The children of Israel pitched be fore them like two littlo ilocks of kids, but tile Syrians filled the whole country." It was so in the awful defeat of the Lord's people nt Gllboa aud Megiddo. It was so recently when gallaut and glorious Greece was in conflict with gigantic Mohamme danism, and the navies of Europo hovering auoit the Bosphorus were in practical protection of tho Turkish government, fresh from tho slaughter of one hundred thousand Armenians. It was so when, in 1776, the thirteen colonies, with little war shipping nnd a few nndrilled and poorly clad soldiers, were brought Into n conti-st with the mightiest navy of all tho earth aud an army that commanded tho admira tion of nations. It was so when Hungary went under. It has beon so during all tho struggles heretofore for Cuban indepen dence. But now it is our powerful navy with enough guns to send tho opposing fleet as completely under as when the Red Sea submerged I'haraoh's armv. Another alleviation is the fact that wo have a God to go to in behalf of all those of our countrymen who may bo in especial exposure nt tho front, for wo must admit the perils. It is no trilling thing for 100, 0(H) young men to bo put outside of homo restraints and sometimes Into evil com panionship. Many of tho bravo of tho earth are not tho good of the earth. To be in tho same tent with thoso who have no regard for God or home; to hear their holy religion sometimes slurred nt; to be pla reil under influences calculated to make one reckless; to havo no Sabbath, except such Sabbath as in most encampments amounts to no Sabbath at nil; to go out from homes where nil sanitary laws are observed into surrouu lings where ques tions of health are never discussed; to in vade climes where pestilence holds posses sion; to make long marches under blister ing skies; to stand ou d 'C'c and In tho Holds under lire, at the hut -y of f lint and shell wo must admit that thoso thus ex posed need especial care, and to tho Omni present God wo havo a right to commend them, nnd will commend them, l'ostal communication may bo interrupted, aud Jotters started from eamps or homes may liot arrive at the right destination, but jiowever far away our loved ones may bo from us, and however wide and deep the seas that separate us, we may hold coin biunlcation with them via tho throne of bod. A shipwrecked sailor was found floating on a raft, near the coast of California. While In tho hospital he told his experi ence, and said that he had a companion on (the same raft for some time. While that companion was dying ot thirst he said to him: "George, where are you going? and the dying sailor said: "I hope I urn going to God." "If you do," said the res cued sailor, "will you ask Him to send some water?" After the death of his com panion, thesurvivor said, tho rain came in torrents, and slaked his thirst and kept hirn alivo until he was ta'cen to safety. Tiie survivor always thought it was in an swer to the message he had sent to heaven nsking for water. Thank God wo may have direct and in-tantaneous communi cation with the Lor 1 Almighty through Jesus Christ, Uis only begotten Son. and in that faith we may se -ure the rescue of our imperiled kindred. Is not that n mighty alleviation? Morning, noon and night let us commend this beloved laud to the earn of a gracious God. That He answers prayer is so cer tain that y.nir religion it nn hallucination if He does not answer it. J'ray that in re ply to such supplication the farmer.;' boys may get home again in time to reap the harvest of next July; that our lui-mess men may return in time to prepare for a fall trade sueh ns has never yet filled the stores and factories with customers, and that all the homes iu this country now sad dened by tho departure of father or brother or sou may niont lis before the Thanksgiv ing and Christmas holidays ho full of joy at the arrival of those who will for the rest of their lives havo stories to t'dl of double quick march, and narrow escape, and charges up the parapets, and night set on lire with bomlar Imeiit. and our Hag hauled up to places from which other flags were hauled down. At Plymouth, England, on tho l!)th of July, tho prominent ollicers of the navy were in a bowling alley, bowling with great glee Lord Howard, the High Admiral; Sir Martin Fro'ilsher. the daring explorer, and Sir Francis Drake, tho first oireum n ivigator of the w rl t when word came to then that the Spanish Armada was ad vancing. The officers continued at tho game of the bowling alley until tho game was finished, and then wnt out to investi gate tho tiding, and. sure enough, that mighty fleet, wiii di was considered invin cible, and whieli wastu bombard and over throw I'.ngland. was upi-roaching. but the invading navy was destroyed, for the Lord Almighty appeared in tho eht. A storm such as had never swept the eo.-ist of Kugiand or aroused the oeean swooped upon the Spauis'i Ar.nada. Most of tho ships soon went down under the sea, whilo others wero driven helplessly along to lie splintered ou the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Norway. Another Spanish Armada is crossing the Atlantic, and we are ready to meet them. The same Go I who destroyed the Armada ia 15SS -reigns in 1H M. Mav He in His might, either through human arm or r.umb elo (meiit. defeat t'leii sjjuadr on. and give vic tory to tho obi Hag. Vot what tho world mot wants is Christ, who is coming to take possession of all hearts, all homes, all Nations; but the world blocks the wheels of His chariot. I would like to seethiseeiitury.-wliieli is now almost wound up, find its peroration In some mighty overthrow of tyrannies and a mighty biiildiugup of liberty nnd justiee. Almost all tho centuries have ended with ,some stupendous event that transformed rs'ations and changed the :na;of the world. ,It was so at theelose of th" fourteenth ceu- ury; it was so nt the close of the fifteenth eiitury; it w;is so at the close of the six eenth century: it was so at theelose oTtho Seventeenth century; it was so at theelose of tho eighteenth century. May it be more gloriously so at the clo-io of the iiineieoth entury! "Blessed be tho Lor 1 God of Is rael from everlasting to everl a-ting, and li t the whole enrth be llllel with His glory." Amen nnd amen. base ambition makes the in::n that t Iierishes it base. Great wealt'i mil high stnlioii in-vor mule a man happy. lnbor is i. g'-eat sul ta ift:il inferest on which we an stand. The resjh'et p op!c show for you iu your misfortune diminishes long before you have liegllll to outlive it; illll you f'erl irritated as before. The soul and spirit that aniiu ties and keeps up society is mutual ti'u-t. Uememlier lllwiivs tout God L'ilVi- US hands, but did not build bridges lor us. Post thou I five lid? Then do not squander time, for that is the stall' life is inude of. When a firm, decisive spirit is recog nized, it is furious to sec how I lie span clears around a mm and leaves hiin room and freedom. CVitozt di aen explored mo fiil.i rive country in 15 ', and reported that the natives were dressed in Coiion parinc iits. Never tike u cro iked path while inu cm lind a straight one. As an onion of success, industry is bet ter than a lour-lealV.I cl ivur. 1 i ' f -.'': n "ss,-. -acv...- w .J. cjm-
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