M. F. SOHWEIER.
THE OON9TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
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MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 189S
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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.
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