1. epfefe ft. F. BOHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. LI I. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 15,1898 NO. 27 MIL s "vk. x iibiib i r 1 Ill BMI 3331 If CHAITEU XVII. Tli is is what hnppoued to Dallas. In the afternoon, as be was tutting in his own rooms inditing a letttr to the licloved1 of his heart, the door opened suddenly and a veiled lady entered with some lit tle noise. There was no need for her to remove her veil to make Ilallas aware that his visitor was Lady Dangerfield. "What is the matter?" he cried, spring Ins to his feet. "His lordship knows all. I have left borne forever, and I have come to yon." I (alius grew white under the bronze with which the sun had dyed him. lie went through a moment long and compre hensive as that of the drowning man. His love lost forever, himself saddled with a virago whom he had certainly never loved and whom be abhorred to-day, bis position ruined, bis life done for this was! the tax on the pleasant and fashionable amusemeut of making love to one's neigh bor's wife. He stood staring at her; his face, al ways expressive of the emotion of the moment, wore a horror-struck expression, which could scarcely be flattering to her ladyship under the circumstances. She flew at bim with bitter reproaches. That was the way with a man! a woman sacri-fii-ed everything for him, and then, the moment things went wrong, he wanted to cry off. Pallas Ion nod against the chimney piece, gnawing his under lip, and incapable, in this desperate situation, of saying any thing, lie only felt an unutterable hor ror, a sickening sense of a lost life, of ruin, misery, wretchedness. "What does he know? How does he know?" he gnsped at length. "I pave that wretch Amelie. warning last night, and she went to him after luncheon to-day, and he came straight to me and made the most violent scene. It seems she found one of your letters and kept it the fiend!" . 1 "alias racked his brain to remember whnt he could ever have written to her ladyship. He did not believe himself fool enough to have sent her a really com promising letter. "What was in the letter?" he asked. "I don't know. lie would not let me see it: but he threatened me,- and I told 1 blm I should leave bim, and I have." , "But yon can't stay here!" cried Dal- -with more energy than be had yet displayed. "Any moment some off may 1 come in and see you. I "What do I care?" cried her ladyship. violently, bursting into a passion of sobs.. I'' u Ior a" niina "You have got me into this, and you must ' Jnne tad already arranged a marriage pet me out of it." I the pair, as Mr. Carslake was ... Dallas felt himself a brute. ne ought eYer ie exception to soothe the grief of this distracted lady; 1 of perhaps rather too old. It the circumstances required expressions wol'ld h"Te 7T" ,th very of tenderness on his part, and he felt f ve and qiiirt a man should attract and nothing but anger, impatience and general '? , ra-ted by a madcap like Madge," despair. He must move heaven and earth dMl n"t the Ter-V. "" experience teach to get her away from his rooms-to pre- i l'."e thnt PPos',e f"l similar quuii vail on her, if possible, to go back home; Vfb frel,leutIr draw th xes but it was hopeless, knowing her moods fc'e,n,'r- as well as he did, to say a word until she A. w ,,,er Carslake and Dallas had calmed down a little. And, perhaps, "rived. Mrs. Irevanion was to have after all. the worst would happen, and c,""e, on tIie "f ay. but her son had he would have to take and keep her for- ci'u"I a s"ere cul" uuu naa 10 " ever. What in the world had he even " 1,ome- , it seen in her? And then he thought agon- lhrce das WPI't , J three pleasant Izingly of the girl he loved, whom be nmn" 'r dars; ? nl 'u.e sk,es. " hot looked upon as an angel, and who would !' tempered by delicious breezes. Mr now perhaps be lost to him forever. The ( a rsluke- ValUa. June and Madge made door opened again-very quietly this very happy quartet. 1 hey rode and time: Dallas had not heard the slight pre- dro"- Plarfd hi wn tenms, strolled .n the Ilminary tap-and Mrs. Trevanion came f"d"'. "nd" blf, tree, went on the In. She was well in the room before she lt-always together and yet sum saw Lady Dangerfield crouched in a low c""n1 af.art t0 e able l? """y.00. th-'" chair, sobbing violently. Then she cvn.versations out of each other s imm paused, looked at Dallas' pale, distracted d,ate h.:BrlnK-. Tm WaS tremendously fare, and grasped, in part at least, the sit- busj' wl h various bucolic operations, and nation. She prepared to retreat, and smul KnVZr?r ,h,s P''d f made a beckoning sign to him, which he thPh'?lnn7vnd,anTnr tW . , such handsome young people together as T.ii-u . ...t, a. ,: v. u his wife and Dallas. June was his; to his hat on earth does t h s mean?- she thinking, the marriage ceremony s.ked liking at h.m with fngh ened ,ocd the doors of a woman.8 heart an,i eyes. Mj dear boy, bow can you be so the kpy ovpr t her bushaad-s kepp. in.Iir.Klent r . There were only two sorts of women Imprudentr he gasped. "I expect I tbe rigUt sort and the wrong sort. June am about rumed! the rj ht then.fore for hor He .eaned against the framework of the existe(, one mau . the wor, d....r looking the picture of des,,a.r. jtnJ thpre wa9 no earthIy ooca8iou fur hill, 'She has left Dangerfield and come to (,h that no oue ese had desi on me nays he knows everything; and whnt? , . t . . , , - . , his property. In the name of heaven am I going to do Sq faf hjs conndence was perfectly jus- I'.'.. , ., . tified. June loved her husband, and was 1 hat is nonsense! said Mrs. Trevan- ,ike t have , tholIgllt about Ion, sharply. 'She must be mad. She (ith(.r , t perhaps, that he was cannot slay with you. Does she want to t ,ook at ad Raod company aml mm you.' Dallas was full of his unfortunate pas- I suppose so, uttered Dallas, despair si(J) an(, aUhoIlph never unapprecintive '"K y- of a pretty woman, had no thought or "We must get her away from here wish that mgit endanger his host's and somehow." said Mrs. Trevanion, who was lWIHin-B peare of mind, as anxious about Dallas as she woul.I i,lliner wns over. June was about to have been hnd her own son been placed riso fr,m) tbe ta),iP- in a similar predicament ( ..j ,,t Ilg RO witn you: may wer said "I don't know how," he answered. 1alln, j a iw voice. "We don't want hen she is in one of her tempers, she (() )rink any more and tnis nit;ht g t(M, won t listen to reason heavenly to be sl.t indoors." I shall go nud talk to her, said Mrs. ( Tom n Agnes remained sitting; the Trevanion with determination. ! hl.r f((r ,,ad ris(.n. Impossible!' cried Dallas, in a smoth- j ..j wi s,ay with yon Tom," said Ag ered voice. "She would never forgive , ..Mny i jnP I have several things uie. Besides, awful as this business is, I ; ( ' , i,;,, nI11 tiIPU we tan go and can't shirk it." . ! look at darling boy." "ou must go away and leave her to Jiin(f WU8 Bellsil)ie nf Umt irrltatior nlP-" I which her cousin Invariably produced In Dallas was so much in the habit of do- ' u r sie nad remarked bow Agnes bad ing what his friend told him, that, in spite i straining every nerve to amuse and of dreadful misgivings, he obeyed he, j utpri,Ht xom during dinner. The embryo and when the street door closed upon him 1 -nt 1 n 1 pvpn herself little coquettish M rs. j revanion w eni 10 inierview ihi Dangerfield. feeling about as uncomforta ble as she had ever done in her 'fe. Mrs. Trevaniou's manner is so quiet, and her tone so cool that they have a mesmeric effect on Lady Dangerfield; and every worJ is so true that it goes home. She stands with ber face averted from the speaker, and a new light begins to dawu upon her. After all. she has 'fomiiiitted this escapade in a fit of pas i..r.wli:M lisis been verv angry. .ut he said nothing nboiii leaving her or j turning ner out or tne nouse; she left it in an access of passion; he is not to know where she has been, unless Mrs. Trevan ion betrays her, and that (with a pang of rage) she is not likely to do, for Dallas' sake. But her head is not cool enough tc reason, so she simply does what the im pulse of temper prompts. "I have not the least intention of sncri Going anything for Mr. Broke," she said, contemptuously, behaving, figuratively ! speaking, like the ostrich, who puts its . kead in the sand. "I came to say some- I thing to him, and he ran away like a cur, 1 so I can't say it. But I suppose," with j sarcasm, "if you can come and see hint there ia no reason why I should not da M rs. Trevanion smiled. "You flatter me very much," she said. "But what a woman of my age can do ia not what is permitted to a young woman like you." Lady Dangerfield curia ber Hp apercU lousbj, as though to say: "You neea not think yon take me In by that." "Well," she remarked, "we ma as well go out together, and I will get into a hansom." Mrs. Trevanion turned to her with sudden movement. ; "Just thia once," she said, "make a friend of me and trust me. Let me drive yon home: it will be better for yon. And," looking Lady T'angerfield straight in the eyes, "think what you will of uie, but when I give my word it ia sacred; no one shall ever know a syllable of this." "I don't care whether they do or not," said her ladyship, recklessly. "And I would not trust any woman in the world on her most sacred oath. Hut I think It quite possible, for the snke of your dear Dallas," scornfuly, "that you will hold your tongue. All right; you can drive me home if you like, and then come back to be thanked and blessed by him." The following morning Dallas received letter from Lady Dangerfield, which was a choice specimen of Invectives, mal ice, and sarcasm, but It was dated from ( ner nusnana s nouse, and contained no i hint of spending the future or any part of : it in the society of Mr. Broke. Indeed, ; she went so far ns to caution him against '. presuming to call at her door or approach ing her in public. With a deep sigh of relief, Dallas tore the letter into fifty pieces; she was his enemy for life. j CHAITEU XVIII. j June wns delighted to return home. An for Tom, his joy at recovering her was exuberant; be could hardly take his eyes j off his darling, and returned for the nonce to the lover-like demonstrations of the first part of their married life, which June i in later days had so sorely missed. Madge came up to the Hall every day, j and the cousins talkej with much inter j est of the incidents of their stay in town. looKeu iorwara exceedingly 10 ine au- venr. or some or meir ixnaon iricnus at the end of the month. Mrs. Trevanion was coming; Dallas was to spend a week w!th hem..,and also Mrarslake in . . . . . . " '- leTt?.,xi wno naa decided airs, and Tom nau mugneu auu iuiu more than usual, and seemed in the besi K tempers and spirits. "By all means stay and talk to Tom," returned June, with a perceptible chang nf tone from that in which she had jurf liccn speaking. "But please," with cision, "do not go up to the nursery. 1 particularly dislike having Tom disturbed in his sleep." "Why, Jnny," cried her husband, you . . 1 1 1 1 1 . f "P every night of your lire youreen, mid the hov sleens like a top; noiuiu ever wakes him." June would have reiterated her prohibi tion, but, not wanting to be made to look unamiable before her other guests, she turned and went out of the door, which Dallas was holding open. "Let us go in the boat; shall weT je .....too ri Kh- nenniesced readily. The moon was coming out, and both thought , as Dallas pulled lazily at the scuiis, 01 the last time they were there together. "What a night!" she said. "I wonder, smiling, "what has become of those young lovers." "It is going to be a match, ia It not?" iked Dallaa. "Well belli thorough good chap; bnt I should have fancied blm a little bit too old and serious for Misa Madge. But one can see that she does not think so." "ilow I wish," said June, drawing her slim fingers through the water, "that Lady Jane was here! Then you would le happy, too." "I am very happy," he answered, with a long sigh which a little belied his words. "I wonder," pausing to rest on his oars, and looking very earnestly at June. if it will ever come right?" "I hoie so," June uttered, kindly. Dallas bent still nearer June, and garej at her even more intently. "Do you rtally think," he said, "thai marriage is a good thing?" "A very good thing," she answered, smiling. "But," said Dallas, "whnt is one to do? Most likely a man can't marry the first woman he falls in love with yery lucky too for him, generally and is he to go on being faithful to her memory? And then," a little smile curling bis lip under his fair mustache, "there are so many cnarming ladies going about the world, one would have to be made of marl not to fall in love with them. Do you remem ber," resting on his oars and looking at June, "this time three years ago? I was most awfully in love with you. I was miserable for a long time afterward." June smiled; the time is past and gonr when the memory of Dallas' short love making and sudden night could wound her amour-propre; she has even got over the dreadful humiliation of having bees kissed by him. "Were yon awfully in love?" she asked, archly. "Yet you went away and made no sign. - By tbe way," as if stimulated by sudden curiosity, "why did you not wish uie good-by or send me a message before you left? It was not at all civil of you." "Don't you know?" said Dallas, with some eagerness. "Did Tom not tell youi It was he who sent me off and made me promise not to see or speak to you again. And" here Dallas was aliout to reveal how Mrs. Trevanion had dissuaded him from writing to her. when it occurred to him thnt Lady Nevil, however much she liked the other lady, would not care to have been discussed by her and himself, and paused abruptly. "It was rather a shame of you.? he went on, changing his sentence, "to let me think you did not care for Tom." June leaned back against the cushions and looked up at the dark-blue sky. "It was quite true," she said, thought fully. "I did not love him then; I felt quite sure I never should; and yet," bringing her eyes slowly down again to the water, "a year later I adored him, and have gone, on adoring him ever since. I suppose," smiling a little, and letting her eyes meet Dallas', "a woman's heart is a very curious and complicated thing." (To be continued.) A Song of Ecstasy. In the Century there is a paper ol the "Songs of American Birds," by John Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs says: A very Interesting feature of our blrd fcugsi is the wing-song, or song of ec stasy. It Is not the gift of many of our birds. Indeed, less than a dozen siiecies are known to me aa slnirlnz on Hhe-wtagrU- fore intense excitement and -eetffllum-' donnient than the ordinary song deliv ered from the perch. When the bird's ioj reaches the point of rapture it is literally carried off its feet, and up it goes Into tbe air, pouring out its eong as a rocket pours Its sparks. The sky lark and the bobolink habitually do this, but a few others of our birds do It only on occasions. Last summer, up In the Catskllls, I added another name to my list of ecstatic singers that of the vesper-sparrow. Several times I heard a new song in the air, and caught a glimpse of tbe bird as II dropped back to earth. My attention would be attracted by a succession of hurried, chirping notes, followed by a brief burst of song, then by the vanish ing form of the bird. One day I was iucky enough to see the bird as It was rising to Its climax In the air, and identified Is as the vesper-frpa rrow. The burst of song that crowned the upward flight of seventy-five or on hundred feet was brief; but It was bril liant and striking, and entirely nnlik the leisurely chant of the bird while up on the ground. It suggested a lark, but was less buzzing or humming. The preliminary chlrpiug notes, uttered faster and faster as the bird mounted In the air, were like the trail of sparks which a rocket emits before Its grand burst of color at the top of Its flight. Keeping large quantities of dynamite nnd gun-powder In a wooden store in a thickly settled portion of an Incor porated town, in close proximity to many buildings and persons. Is held. In Kudder vs. Koopman (Ala.) 37 L. R. A. 489, to constitute a nuisance which will render the proprietor liable for dam ages caused to other persons In case of an explosion, even If this Is due to a lire which originated without his fault on the premises of a third per son. Do not read while lyinir down. Training is the art of gaining. Quietness is 1l:e magnet of ea-e. (!ood works ai-e the voit e of faith. Patience, is the magnet of character. Education is a mental mariner. Vanity is tho yeast cuke of pride. Heading is planting seoil thoughts. Character is tho mirror of thought. Effort converts the ideul into the real. Moderation is a check to presump tion. The past is the schoolmaster of the fu ture. Keuson is the dissecting knife of thought. True politeness is kindness politely ex pressed. The one colored meinlier of Congress is named White. Postage stamps came Into existence about sixty years ago. In lsiW there were atiout 1U0 varieties in existence The Massachusetts militia will dis pense with the bayonet. Ant hills in West Africa sometimes reach the height of fifteen feet. Five feet is the minimum height of the ltussian ami French conscript. The marine lamprey's adhesive power is such that 121 ounds may be raised without forcing it to lose its hold. It is so tenacious of. life that its head remains for hours attached to a stone when its body is severed. Roentgen rays have been found to act on vegetation like very weak light in experiments by Signor G. Tolemei. Kvery language contains such names as cuckoo, pewit, whippoorwill and others, in which the sound emitted by the animal is imitated as the name. pRPOURrilnilRE. Regardless of the differing views as to our ultimate disposition of Island territory taken from Spain, It Is thought by uiaay that the United States will hold Porto IMc. By doing so we will acquire one of the garden spots of the tropics, for In many re- mai snowixa PORTO bico pects rorto Rico Is tbe real gem of the Antilles. Men who have lately trav eled in this beautiful Island agree In expressing surprise that so little Is known concerning its many wonders and charms. About 1,000 miles due southeast from Havana, 500 from Cape Malst the east- FORTIFICATION AT SAX JUAI. ern tip of Culm, opens northward the magnificent harbor of San Juan de Puerto Rico Saint John of the Rico, or Noble Port, distant from New York about l.Gt.O miles, and from tbe Danish Island of St. Thomas but sixty miles, the last-named lying that much farther to the eastward. Porto Rico was discovered by Colum bus, In 14113, on his second voyage, when on his way from the southern West Indies to his original landing place on the coast of Ilaytl. Fifteen years after the passing of Columbus came another navigator, one Juan Ponce de Leon, the governor of a prov ince of Santo Domingo, sixty miles dis tant Tbe Indiana of this section told him wonderful stories of the rich Island j tIr ear 1508 ne landed at Agnadllia with a force 01 men and a pack of bloodhounds, bent upon Its conquest Ponce de Leon lives In history as the noblest and the gen tlest of those gall lard adventurers. And he was that Is, speaking relatively he was noble and gentle for a Spaniard of that day. But he saw nothing wrong In putting to death the Indian chieftain Agueynaba. who first showed him the rivers with sands running gold, nor In Betting on tbe trail of Inocent women and children his famous bloodhound, Berezillo, who drew the pay of a bow man for his service, and who tore to pieces every Indian he ran down and overtook. He was the terror of all tbe Iudiuns, whom he drove to the hills In troops, but was finally slain with a poi soned arrow sent after him by a Carib. Ponce de Leon and his mail-clad sol diers finally settled on the present site of San Juan In 1511, and the most In teresting relic to be found there to-day Is the ancient building called the "Casa Blauca," which was built by the con- . - J ' HARBOR AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SAN JUAN. qulstador and occupied by him while governor of the island. Equally ancient with the Casa Blanca are the fortifica tions surroundlug the city of San Juan, for their foundations were laid during the reign of Ponce de Leon. The capi tal city, with a population of some 25, 000, occupies an island, connected with the main by a bridge and a cause way, and Is completely Inclosed within massive walls of stone and hardened mortar, with a height In places of from 50 to 100 feet Like Havana, It has its morro, or citadel (literally a round or Moorish tower), and the fortifications are on a comprehensive scale, with bastions and drawbridges, ornate sen try boxes hanging over the sea, and grim, gray walls towering threatening ly. One may find their counterpart, on a smaller scale. In the old fort at St Augustine; and they are similar to those of Havana before her walls were torn down. The peninsular upon which the morro and the lighthouse stand Is thrust out Into the sea, on one aide breasting the thundering surges of the Caribbean, and on the other guarding the placid waters of a beautiful and al most land-locked harbor. This harbor ts one of the finest In the West Indies, large, sheltered, and capable of accom modating any number of the largest ships, giving anchorage In from three to six fathoms. Though the main portion of San Juan Bealnalna Rarly. "I havehearda good deal about people who borrow trouble, but I think my wife hi a champion In that Hne." "Why, I thought she was alway cheerful and contented wtth ber lot?" "She was until our baby wns born, six weeks ago. Now she la worrying because he may marry some girl ttta4 wa win not like." Is Inclosed within the walls, through which entrance la only obtained by well-guarded gateways, yet there is a small town by Itself In the Marina, be tween the fortifications and the wharves. Ilere Is a fine public garden and pleasure palace, with booths and J . and NEIGHBORING WATKKS. restaurants, as well as the public cock pit, where battles royal are frequently waged. The bu'MIngs of the Inner city are of atone, massive and substantial, like those of Havana and tbe City of Mexico. As to local couditlons, San Juan Is not an attractive city, uuder its present management, owing to its filthy streets and lack of attention to sanitation. It Is likely to have a visit every year from Yellow Jack, when, owing to Its situa tion, he might aa well as not be kept at distance. But San Juan Is only one port of the Island, and there are some harbors that are aa fine, if not as large and land-locked. One other on the north coast Is Arre clbo; on the east are numacao and Fa Jafdo, on the west Aguadilla and Maya gues, as beautiful as the heart of man could desire, with their gushing springs and background of pointed mountains, and on the south coast are Arroyo Ouayanllla and Ponce. This last Is the largest the city having a population of about 35.000, with a vast export trade, chiefly In sugar and molasses. A fine post road connects It with San Juan, running diagonally across the island, with a daily diligence between the two. A system of railroads Is In course of SCENE IN SAN construction that will soon connect all the chief coast towns and open up por tions of the interior. The Island is about 95 miles In length by 85 or 40 in breadth, and as nearly rectangular as nature will allow In its coast line. The interior Is one vast group of mountains. The socl every where Is very fertile and cultivable, even to the mountain crests, the hill pastures of Porto Rico being celebrated for their succulent grasses, upon which feed cattle and horses, which are favor ites throughout the islands south. These are shipped In large numbers. and constitute the chief wealth of a great many people engaged In the busi ness. Among the hills also are thousands of cafetales, or coffee estates, for here the coffee finds congenial soil and climate for Its perfect development, and Is a source of profit to many planters who prefer a life of comparative leisure to the bustle of the town and city. In tbe valleys grow the sugar cane, cacao,' bananas, plantains, and. In fact all sorts of tropical fruits. With Its beautiful scenery. Its almost: perfect climate. Its boundless exuber- Appreciative. Mr. Van Metre I hope you received the volume of my poems that I sent you 7" Miss Flckley Yes, I was lawfully glad to get It I have placed It on a table In the drawing room, y Mr. Van Metre Indeed I ;i feel high ly honored. V Miss Flckley I think the binding to a real work of art -v . - .. . A I if T S IPC tSi.jr MUM TT i Ti?sn-Jf?f3jS r4tfM , aaaaSMSBP-B 1 1 raf x-fc- I 11 1 r r I IT I ''rEEM srs ik sajt toa' ance and range of vegetable products, and consequent facilities for subsist ence with the minimum of labor, Porto Rico may well be termed an earthly paradise. If that were all; If Its people were Intelligent and compalonable; If its government were as mild and equa ble as ita climate; and If there wer united effort here tending toward the improvement of society and the amelio ration of political burdens, then It might be so regarded. But while na ture has done everything for this Isl and, while a great portion of Its 3,000 square miles can be put under cultiva tion, and there ought to be enough to subsist many more than Its 700,000 In- 1uil.it. ni. in 'A ... habitants In comfort, the men and the race whom accident of discovery placed in power has done worse than nothing for its development. Poverty exists everywhere, since the taxes are so oppressive, administered, as the gov ernment la, by alien office-holders, as sisted by foreign soldiery. As In Cuba, the people have been for centuries trodden under foot They have groaned beneath the weight of their burdens, have In vain protested against their numberless outrages. If Cuba has been long regarded as Spain's milch cow. so also has Porto Rico, and that the later has not already risen In successful revolt Is owing, not to the temper of the people, but to the impos- -si m. . J. sibllity for a revolution to succeed. ABOUT HAY FEVER. Season Ia Approaching- When Iotn of People Will Suffer. "The season Is approaching," said a prominent physician to the writer re cently, "when a great many people will suffer from what is known as hay fever, and as but few who are suscepti ble to the complaint know how to avoid, much less to cure, tt, a few re marks about the nature and treatment of tbe ailment may not be uninterest ing. "Hay fever Is a nervous affection usu ally, most prevalent during the spring nnd early summer, from which the poorer classes and more especially those living lu populous towns rarely. If ever, suffer. It Is known only to the educated, whose nervous systems are highly developed, and, though not In any sense dangerous. It Is at all times very Irritating and troublesome. The smell of hay, grass, the pollen of flow ers, the odor of fruit dust or draught will generate the complaint or excite an attack In persons subject to It, but rain or damp weather Invariably JUAN HARBOR. brings relief. At one time It was gener ally supposed that the odor of hay when being mown or carried could alone Induce the affection, which is closely analogous to asthma, but recent olservatIon shows that its prevalence Is entirely independent of the existence of hay fields and Is really a nervous de rangement "A visit to the seaside, a trip to sea or residence in a populous town will, however, remove the asthmatic ten dency, but one of the best remedies is tobacco smoke, retained In the mouth as long as possible and then ejected through the nostrils. The inhalation of the iteam of ten droi of creosote In a pint of hot water is also good, or twenty drops of spirits of camphor to the same quantity of water makes a very effective inhalation. But the affec tion being a nervous one, tonics and nourishing diet are more essential than any of these palliatives, which merely afford temporary relief." Washlngtor Star. A Curious Hog Pen. W. T. Harmon, living on the Days Mill turnpike near Tllton, ban In use a very curious but convenient hog pen. The pen is nothing more than a huge sycamore tree, which Is hollow, and furnishes sleeping quarters for at least twenty large-sized porkers. The treo hits been used for its present purpose for over ten years, and during that time over 1,000 hogs have been raised In it Flemlngsburg (Ky.) Gazette. Misinformation in Anstralia. The following account of the propet way of reaching the Klondike Is taken from an Australian newspaper: "The real starting point, for the Klondike Is Spokane. There the traveler takes n canoe, by which he voyages to Van- couver, B. C. At the latter point he takes a sailing vessel direct to Dawson City." The TLieft Side of the Face. Photographers, In their constant study of the face, find that the left side makes the more pleasant picture, and that the profile as seen from tbe left gives a more correct likeness than when viewed from the right Qnenr Books. In the British Museum there are books written on bricks, oyster shells, bones and fiat stones, and manuscripts on bark, ivory, leather, Iron, copper and wood. A man who has a diamond wonders every time he looks at It why he paid so much for It Too Lonesome for Theas. Tenant You'll have to reduce the rent or get the authorities to assign a j new policeman to our district Landlord What's the matter? I at ways supposed It was a very quiet ! neighborhood. Tenant It's quiet enough, but the po liceman on that beat is a married mau and we have to pay our girls extra high wages on tStat account to get then SERMONS OF THE DAY atdoets "Sprinkled and Clffansod," In Which the Story of the Shedding ol Blood For the Removing of Sin. Is Dwelt Upon Christ and the Soul. Txt: "And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel, over running water. As tor the liv ing bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water; and he shall sprinkle upon him that Is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times. and shall nrononnoe himelenn. I and shall let the living bird loose into the , open neld." Levitiens iiv.. 5-7. open field." Leviticus xiv.. 6-7, The Old Testament, to very many peopln. Is a great slaughter-house strewn with blood, and bones, and horns, and boots of butchered animals. It offends their sight; it disgusts their taste; it actually nauseates the stomach. But to the intelligent Chris tian the Old Testament is a magnificent corridor through which Jesus advances. As He appears at the other end of tbe cor ridor we can only see the outlines of His character; coming nearer, we can descry the features. But when, at last He steps upon the platform of the New Testament, amid the torches of evangelists and apos tles, the orchestras of heaven announce Him with a blast of minstresly that wakes up Bethlehem at midnight. There were a great many cages of birds brought down to Jerusalem tor sacrifice sparrows, and pigeons, and turtle-doves. 1 ;?",eT T now' w V r"11? ; and singing all around about the Temple, when a lunar was to b cured of hu len- 1 can near tuem now rosy, ia order to his cleansing two of those birds were taken; one of them was slain over an earthen vessel of running water that Is, clear, fresh water, and then the bird was killed. Another bird was then taken, tied to a hyssop-branch, and plunged by the priest Into tho blood of the first bird; and then, with this hyssop-branch, bird dipped, the priest would sprinkle the loper seven times, then untie the bird from the I hyssop-braneh, and it would go soaring into the heavens. j- Now open your eves wide, my deaf , brethren "and sisters, and see that that first 1 bird meant Jesus, and that the second bird 1 meant your own sonl. j I notice also in my text thnt the bird that I was slain was a clean bird. Tlie text d 1 manded that it should be. The raven was j never sacrificed, nor the cormorant, nor : the vulture. It must lie a clean bird says . tbe text; and it sui;ests the pure Jesus i the holy Jesus. Although Ha spent Hli ! boyhood in the worst village on earth, ' although blasphemies were poured into ; His eareuough to have poisoned anyone . else. He stands before the world a perfect Christ. I I ro-n irlc, also. In rosr ir.l to this first 1 bird inentlone 1 in the text tliHt it was a ueienseiess oir.i. nen tlie eagle is as saulted, with its iron beak it strikes like a bolt hgninst Its adversary. This was a dove or a sparrow, we do not know just which. Take the dove or pigeon in your hand, and the pecking or its beak on your hand makes you laugh nt the feebleness ol its a-tsault. None to help! The murderers have it all their own way. Whore was the soldier In the Itoman regiment who swung his sword in the defense of the Divine Martyr? Did they put one drop of oil 011 His gashed feet? Wns there one in nil that crowd manlv and generous enough to stand out for Him? Were the miscreants at the cross any more interfered with in their work of spiking Him fast than tbe carpen ter in his shop ilriving a nnil through a pine board? Tbe women cried, but there was no balm in their tears. None to help! None to help! O mv Lord Jesus, none to i help! un, this dove of the text, in its last mo ment, c' inched not with augry talons. It rduQiE not a savage beak. It wns n. itnvn m TI-!c " tMI:nseless. None to help! SonfSlp! as, atra s-jvnre storm In the morning, you go out and And birds dead on the ground, so this dead bird of the text makes me think of thnt awful storm that swept tbe earth on Crucifixion day, when tho wrath of Uod ami the malice of man and the fury of deviLi wrestled beneath the three crosses. But I come now to speak to this second bird of the text. We must not let that fly away until we have examined It. The priest took the second bird, tied it to the hy.son branch, and then plunged it In the blood of the first bird. Ah! that is my soul, plunged for cleansing in the Saviour's blood. There is not enough water in the Atlantic anil Pacific Oceans to wash away our smallest sin. Sin is such nn outrege of Qod's uni verse thnt nothing but blood can atone for it. You know the life is in the blood, nnd as the life bad been forfeited, nothing could buy it back but blood. As this second bird of the text was plunged in the blood of the first bird, so we must be washed in the blood of Christ orgo polluted forever. I notice now that ns soon as this second bird was dipped in the blood of the first bird, tbe priest unloosened It and it was free free of wing and free of foot. It could whet its beak on any tree branch it chose. It could peck the grapes of any vineyard It chose. It was free; a type of our souls after we have washed in tbe blood of the Lamb. We can go where we will. We can do what we will. If a man has become a Christian, he is no more afraid of SInnl. The thunders of Sinai do not frighten him. You have, on some August day, seen two thunder-showers meet. One cloud from this mountain, and another cloud from that mountain, coming nearer and nearer together, and responding to each otber, crash to crash, thunder to thunder, boom I boom I And then tbeclouils break and the torrents pour, anil they are emptied perhaps into the very same stream that comes down so red at your feet, that It seems as if all the carnage of the storm battle has been emptied into it. So in this Ilible I see two storms gather, one above Sinai, the other above Calvary, and thev re spond one to the other flash to flash, thunder to thunder, booml boom! Sinai thunders, "The soul that sinnetb. tt shall die;' Calvnry responds: "Save them from going down to the pit, for I have fonnd a ransom." Sinai says: "Woe! wot?!" Cnl vary answers: 4,Merc! mercy!" and then the clouds burst, and empty thelrtreasures Into one torrent, and it comes flowing to our feet, red with the carnage of our Lord in which, if thy soul be plunged, like the bird in the text it shall go forth free free! Why, Is not a man free when he gets rid of his sins? The sins of the tongue gone; the sins nf action gone; the sins of the mind gone. All the transgressions of thirtv. forty, fifty, seventy years gone no more in I he s?al tuan tl,e malaria tnat noatea in the atmosphere a thousand years ago; for when my Lord Jesus paraons a man lie pardons him, and there is no halfway work about it. Here I see a beggar going along the turnpike road. He is worn out with dis ease. He is stiff tn the joints. He is ul cered all over. He has rheum in his eyes. He is sick and wasted. lie is In rugs. Every time he puts down bis swollen feet, he cries, "Oh! the pain!" He sees a foun tain by the roadside under a tree, and he crawls up to that fountain and says: "I must wash. Here I may cool my ulcers. Here I may get rested." He stoops down and scoops up in the palms of his hnntls enough water to slack his thirst; nnd that is all gone. Then be stoops down and be gins to wash his eyes; and the rheum is all gone. Then he puts in his swollen feet, and the swelling is gone. Then, willing no longer 10 be only half cured, he plunges in, nnd his whole body is lnved in the stream, and he gets upon the bank well. Mean time the owner of the mansion up voudet comes down, walking through the ravine with His only Son, and Ho sees the bundle of rags, aud asks: "Whose rags are these?" A voice from the fountain says: "Those are my rags." Then says the Master to His Son: "Uo up to the house and get the best new suit you can find and bring It down. And He brings down thee lothes, and the beggar is clothed in them, and be looks around and says: "I was filthy, but now X am clean. 1 was ragged, bnt now I am robed. I was blind, but now I see. Glory be to the owner of that mansion; and glory be to that Son who brought me that new suit of clothes; and glory be to this fountain where I have washed, and where all who wUI may wash and be clean!" Where sin nboundod, grace doth much more abound. The bird has been dipped, now let It fly away. The next thing I notice about this bird, when it was loosened (nnd this is tbe main Idea), is, thnt it flew nway. Which way did it go? When you let a bird loose from your grasn. which way does it fly? Up. What Brewings for? To fly with. Is there nnything in the suggestion of the direc tion taken by that bird to indicate which way we ought to go? "Rise, my soul and stretch thy wings. Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things To heaven, thy native place." We should be going heavenward. That Is the suggestion. Hut I know that we Lave a great many drawbacks. You had them this morning, perhaps. You bad them yesterday, or the day before, and although you want to be going heaven ward, you are constantly discouraged. But I suppose when that bird went out of the priest's hands it went by Inflections some times stooping. A bird does not shoot di rectly up, but this is the motion of a bird. 80 tbe soul soars toward Ood, rising up ia love, and sometimes depressed by trial. It does not always go in the direction it would like to go. Iiut the main course is right. There is one passage in the Bible which I quote oftener to myself than any otber: "He It no wet h our frame, and He remembereth that we are dust." There is a legend ia IcelanJ which says .hat when Jesus was a boy, plavlng with His comrades one Sabbath day, He made birds of clay; and as theso birds of clay were standing upon the ground, an old Hadducee came along, nnd he was disgusted at the sport, and dashed the birds to pieces, but the legend says that Jesus waved His hand above tho broken birds.and they took wings and went singing heavenward. Of course, that is a fable among the Icelanders; but it is not a fable that we are dust, and that, the band of divine grace waved over us once, we go siuging toward the skies. I wish, my friends, that we could live In a higher atmosphere. If a man's whole life object is to make dollars, he will be running against those who are mnking dol lars. If his whole object Is to get applause, he will run against those who are seeking applause. But if he rises higher than that, he will not be Interrupted in his flight heavenward. Why does that flock of birds, floating up against the blue sky so high that you can hardly see them, not change its course for spire or tower? They are above all obstruction. So we would not have so often to change our Christina course if we lived in a higher atmosphere, nearer Christ, nearer the throne of Ood. Oh ye who have been washed in thehood of Christ ye who have been loosed from the hyssop-brancb start heavenward. It may be to some of yon a long flight. Temptations may dispute your way; storms of bereavement and trouble may strike your soul; but God will see you through. Build not on the earth. Set your affections on things in heaven, not on things on earth. This Is a perishing worid. Its flowers fade. Its fountains dry up. Its promises cheat. Set your affections upon Christ and heaven. I rejoice, my dear brethren and sisters in Christ, that the flight will, after a while, be ended. Not always beaten of the storm. Not always oiug on weary wings. There is a warm lovecot of eternal dust whore we shall find place of comfort, to the everlasting Joy f our souls. Oh, they are going up all the :luie going up from this church going up from all the families and from all the hurches of the land tho weary doves looking rest in a dovecot. Oh, that In that good land we may all meet when our trials ore overl We can not get Into the glorious presence of our ieparted ones unless we have been cleansed n the same blood tnat washed their sins lway. I know this is true of all who have rone in, that they were plunged in the 3lood, that they were unloosed from the lyssop-branch. Tnen they went singing Into glory. See that ye refuse not Him :hat spenketh, for If tbey escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, how such more shall not we escape If we turn iway from Him that speaketh from heaven? Farm Notes. A hybrid "strawberry-raspberry" it said to have originated in Jipun, is ol easy culture, can Iks prupufuf t il readily by seeds, ami grows to the height of two feet, lteiiig also ornamented as well as useful. The hybrid is 110 doubt a curious one, ami should it reach this count rv will probably be well received should it IMissess the advantages cluiim-d; but as all new acquisition" to the list of fruits are higl.lv praised some of the faults may not have been given. There are two met hods of growing I.imas. One is to grow then, on poles, and the other on wires. Where the lurpesl crop is desired and oles are ejisilv ob tained it is the liest plan. When poles are not at hand, ami one c ares for I lie or namental apiiearance of I he garden, a very good crop- can lie grown by using wires to support the vines. When grown in this way one row 40 or Ml feel long w ill supply a family, l.in.as, like all the good things from the garden, require a rich soil. My extei-ienee is thai I can grow the lest crop with stable manure. It may surprise the general rentier to know that four different sM-cies of tajie worm attack chickens, four other kinds attack geese, seven attack ducks and live attack pigeons. The remedy for tape worms is one ieasHionlul 01 alisinthe to 5u fowls, mixed in warm bran iiiah mh a day for three or four davs. t'lean up and sprinkle premises with four fluid ounces sulphuric acid mixed in tine gal- ton 01 water, ror other intestinal worms give one tenspoonful of turpentine to 25 ""ir iiiixcu in oran n.asn. Some weeds are valuable, snrli H.o wild lettuce, which is readilv eaten by sheep, anil the butl'ulo pea. well known in the West as Is-inc evi-elletit fi.i ..um. and hnrst-s. The pig weed, w hich is found 011 nearly all farms, is one of Hie im.vi valuable of plants for swine. Even that nuisanc e, purshiin. is highly nppicciafi d by ducks and goose, and the m-rsislent rab grass makes l-ooiI nasi 111 ace when young. Kyeiy plant is a weed that prows I. here it is not tlt-sireil. and some of toir most valuable plants (among thein the to mato) were once considered weeds. Mus tard unit dandelion, which are weeds in this country, are cultivated in Kuroie for "greens." One of tbe Itest of the Russian apples is the Tetofsky; but it require to 1 manured only with mineral fertilizers t'. 1m- liroilm-t i VP. If is in rii-h si.il u ritlno:ilil itniu'i-f Mtt.l .u..... I........... It . ..t a its fruit on spurs coming out from wood of Hit- previous year's grow th, as does I lie l" r- 11 ine iree lias even a sliiMit appli cation of stable manure, it is likely to itarl these fruit buds into leaf, and' the result u-i 1 1 lui a 1........ 1. ..r 1 ..... .- u ,,.. i in i in in v uuu aud no blossoming or fruiting. A recent landslide in China revealed . a pile of money equaling in value 7,oo0, Uod cop!er8. The coins were made about the middle of the eleventh century. The skin of the reindeer is so inip -r-vious to the cold that any tine clothed in such a dress, with the addition of a blanket of the same material, may Im-m-the intensest rigors of an Arctic winters, night. A new kind of rubber plant has been discovered in the Congo region. The sup that liecon.es converted into rubber is contained in its roots. Professor Holbear says that what is called stupidity is simply the indication that a certain brain area is not prtqierly nourished or is without communication with the nerve fibre. The ltoimms used a circular fan on occasions of stale and the Greeks made fans of the flat leaves of the lotus. An average star of the first magni tude is one hundred times as bright as oue of the sixth magnitude. During the year 1895 as many as 22,407 French soldiers were admitted to military hospitals for influenza. About WJ.OoO were treated without admission, and 484 deaths were attributed to this cause. tut "" 'm i, .i..,i ..v-Ta.-i.Sji.J....;.-.!...- 'C,r': .J .. '' "" - V'w f"o j .- ., , Jti.-- rm, J. - - - ' .....
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