1IL F. 8QHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWK. BUUtwr VOL. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 13. 1898 NO. 31. Bar V. 1 CHAPTKIl XXII. "I do not suspect j-oh .jf anytniag, s.iirt June, vilh a quiver in Iter voire, "but 1 know that hateful woman has got souk? dreat'ful influence over yon, ami is al ways plotting to cause iinhappiness; lie tween us. Here I have leen away and vat coming hack happy and delimi ted to Fee you. and I am made wretched the Instant I set foot in the house, nnd all through her!" 'No. no," snid Tom. "Re jnst. Put the sad. lie on the right horse. All through Ma.lfo. If nhe hadn't come sneaking and spying up here this morning she wouldn't have pot my Lack tip and made me say what I did, and which she most ricbl. deserved. As for the other poor girl, no one was ever more mistaken In this world than you are about her. Why, she speak of you in the kindest way." "And," proceeded June, working her self up more and more, and tears again rushing to her eyes, "now you have de prive! nie of my only friend here, and the only person I have to amuse me, I hope you will he happy." At this last stab, (riven merely in naughtiness of temper, Tom rose, might ily prieved and wrathful. He never said anything lie did not mean merely for the momentary pleasure of wounding, hut, en the other hand, he rarely could he brought to retract anything he had once said. "Then," he said, "if that is the case, heaven help your husband and child!" A nil, with that, he strode from the room, leaving June with a sickening sense of general misery. June had some sound good seuoe when It was not obscured by temper, as the sky is blue though the clouds hide its t-oior. And presently she told herself that this state of things must be stopped, and stopiK'd at once. So. suddenly she rose, and fled down stairs to Tom's room. He was sitting staring gloomily in the fire, absorbed, no doubt, in reflection as miserable as those in which she had been indulging upstairs, but he had a refuge and resource which she had not his pipe. June had not come to argue, to fight, the quarrel over ugnin, and possibly to make a worse ending than before; she had brought a fliig of truce, and left all explanations for a future time. She sat herself down on his knee, took the pipe from his mouth, put her pretty arms round his neck and her red lips to his, and said, with a faltering voice: "My darling, don't let us have any more misunderstandings!" And. with that, Tom clasped her pas sionately to his heart, and a sob rose in Jiis throat, and for the moment they forgot everything but that they loved each other. When June paid her promised visit to Madge next day, she felt rather perturbed and uncomfortable in her mind. Madge would of course expect to hear that she had vanquished Tom in single combat, and had come to take her back in triumph to the Hall, from which yesterday she hnd been so ignomiiilously turned away. But June wits painfully conscious that it was she who had been vanquished, for, fear ful of anv rupture of their new-born hnr- mony, she had not mentioned the name of either cousin to Tom. She knew instinc tively that he would not give in; if he made any amende to Madge, It would only lie on condition of his wife doing the same to Agnes. Her ladyship, therefore, was forced to answer Madge's eager cross-questioning somewhat lamely and haltingly, and grad ually there came into that shrewd young lady's face an expression of profound dis appointment. "Then," she said, in a mortified tone, "you did not take my part, and you have not been even with Tom!" "My dear child," replied June, desper ately, "if you are married to a man, it la impossible to live in a state of strife and quarreling with him, unless you want tc break your own heart. What is to be gained "by my being on bad terms with Tom?" "Well," replied Madge, "I don't tindes stand it. I should have thought yon, wbo are fifty times cleverer and have fifty times more spirit than Tom, would have turned him round your finger. Why, any child could do it." Two days passed, and, though Sir Thomas and I-ndy Xevil were apparently on the best of terms, neither was really at ease. June missed Madge and wanted to have her back at the Hall, but was afraid to broach the subject, and Tore knew that she missed her cousin, and felt vexed about the misunderstanding, but uus convinced that he would be doing wrong to Agnes and conniving at an In justice if Madge returned to her old rela tions at the house while Agues was left out in the cold. On the third day June, feeling the hope lessness of the situation, said, in a mnt-ter-of-fact voice at luncheon, in the pres ence of the servants: "Shall we ask them all at the rectory to come up and dine to-morrow?" And Tom responded most heartily, and with an enormous sense of relief: "Ay, my dear, do." Ilcr ladyship was the more disposed to make the concession in that her husband had met her wishes about taking a house in I a union in the kindest manner. That I.c did not like the idea waa evident, but si i far from combating the proposal, he had given in to it at once, and agreed that his mother should take a house and make all necessary preparations. He would not give any promise about going up much himself, but if June came- down every week he and the tioy would manage to get along for the rest of the time. I.ady Xevil wrote nn affectionate note 'n Mrr. Bryan asking them all to dine the following evening. She thought it no improbable that her cousins would refuse to come. But both hud reasons for not wishing the estrangement from the Hall to be prolonged, and were, liesides, anx ious that their parents should be kept in Ignorance of the .'unpleasantness which had occurred. This, however, contribut ed to make the evening a thoroughly un pleasant one for their host and hostess. Madge met Tom in the most supercilious manner, scarcely deigning to give him her finger tips, and behaved afterward as though he did not exist; neither speaking nor looking his way all the evening, but Devoting herself to June. Agnes, on the tontxary, redoubled her attentions to Tom, Mi frmUf Pn y;rrprdlglthl.nrTtlll't- cions affection which nearly maaaeiiea lone. Frequently, too. Agues would smile tit her with an expression of mingled iwcetness and triumph which her ladyship understood only too well. The weeks passed. Easter was at hand, tnd June looked Joyfully forward to hav- tax visitors t the house, Dallas among i them. She felt his cheery face and voice would bring light and life to the Hall, which certainly was not very lively just at present, Madge came up sometimes, but avoided Tom as much as possible, or, when she met him, treated him with ill roncealed hostility. Agnes came, too, nd invariably set every nerve in June's oody tingling with irritation. CIIAPTKK XXIII. Mrs. Ellesmere and Dallas arrived to gether just at the propitious moment that is to say, three-quarters of an hour before dinner, in time to exchange greet ings, to have five minutes' chat, and then to go off and dress for dinner. The dinner was of the merriest. June was in the highest spirits Dallas the same Mrs. Kllesmere In her very best mood. The dinner was jierfection, and conversation never (lagged for a moment. Tom's perceptions were not particularly quick, but they must have been slow in deed had he not observed the transforma tion in his wife. She had been so quiet lately, and dinner bad been rather a sol emn performance, not enlivened by any very brilliant conversation. But to-night her ladyship's charming face was dimpled by smiles, her eyes were full of light. He supposed she wore a different sort of gown, ;?r she looked, somehow, even pret tier and more elegant than usual. Dallas had the old manner which Tom had been wont half to admire, half to be amused at. 1 1 is mother was a good talker, and the three seemed to have topics of interest and amusement which were Greek to Tom. The talk was chiefly of people, mu tual friends, and it was evident that they found it immensely engrossing and absorb ing, and all took equal pleasure in it. The two following days there were more guests at the Hall, for June took the op portunity of Mrs. Ellesmere's visit to give dinners to their country neighbors, and some who tame from a distance stayed in the house. Dallas was invaluable in helping to entertain them, and Madge brought her services from the rectory. But Dallas confided to his hostess that le was perfectly delighted when they were all gone, and expressed a hope, couched In deferential though emphatic terms, that she would never consider it necessary to ask any one there for his benefit, as it only prevented his enjoying the society of the lady from whose presence he derived the most pleasure. It was now the fourth day after his ar rival. The omnibus had departed with the last batch of guests; the morning; was wet, and they were wondering how they should amuse themselves, when her lady ship had a happy inspiration. Battled oor and shuttle-cock. These were found after a search; the battledoora were dried by the hall fire, and the shuttle-cocks bad their feathers rearranged, and Dallas and June began their game. Xow, to thor oughly experienced players, there is not very much excitement in the game of bat tledoor; the players stand still In the Fame place and the shuttle-cock takes its flight regularly and unhrokenly between them; but to beginners It involves a great ileal of rushing and tearing about, violent dashes forward and backward, and is pro vocative of a great amount of laughter. At the moment when the game was at Its height, and peals of mirth were Issuing from the lips of Dallas and June, Agnes, arrayed in her waterproof, arrived at the hall door, and the same instant Tom hap pened to issue from his den, and proceed ed to let her in. "Is that June's voice?" she asked, put ting on the most surprised and shocked expression ber puritanical face was ca pable of. "What Is she doing T' "She and Dal are playing battledoor," answered Tom, and then, for the first time, the idea occurred to him, or rather was forced upon him by Agnes' face, that their mirth was rather exuberant. "Oh!" she uttered, putting a volume of expression into the word. June hnd Just sunk, breathless from laughing and running. Into a chair, and Dallas leaned against the wall in much the same condition. Both their faces were becomingly flushed from excitement and exercise, and, to nnjaundiced eyes, they would have seemed the picture of two handsome, happy and . Innocently amused young people. But not to tlu? en vious eyes of Agnes, and she allowed tlu-ui to express to June how very much scan dnlized she was by such levity. In a mo ment June read her cousin's face, and n thrill of anger and defiance shot through her breast, which the previous moment had been a harbor of peace and happi ness. "How do yon do?" she said, nodding, and making her battledoor an excuse for ot shaking hands. "I am quit. .ust- ed. Would you like to have a turn wlti Tom?" "Xo, I thank yon," replied Agnes, frig idly. "I did not know it was a game grown-up people played." "Did you not?" said June, lightly. "Ah, that comes of living in the country. On. sees and knows so little." "Perhaps one is the better for that," returned Agnes, in her most scboolmis-tross-like manner. "I doubt it," retorted June. "Xow, Dal, 1 have recovered my breath. Shall we go on?" It was the first time she had ever called him by his Christian name, and she would not have done it now but that Agnes had inspired her with a furious desire to do something that would give her cousin cause to be shocked. "May I go and see. darling boy? said Agnes to Tom, with a glance of deepest commiseration, and he replied cheerily that he would go with her. The game no longer had any charm for June; she felt as though the serpent had entered paradise, and, after fire minutes, she declared she was tired. B "I must go and write some letters, she said, and Dallaa pleaded that he ha allowpd to occudt himself in the same way In her company. So they be- took themselves to her laaysnip where, she rafeKljtd him ti th. jeulslti materials, and then sat down to her writ ing ta,ble. Dallas had come for the inside of a week, and sorely sorry was his hostess to see him depart on the Saturday morning. It waa like sunshine going out of the bonne. June went to the door to see her guest off, and returned to her room with a de cided sinking at her heart, knowing that his bright face and voice would maki themselves terribly missed, and suddenly burst into a fit of crying. Agnes pass ed the window, and stopped for a moment to look in. As she reached the hall door, Tom was coming round from the stables. "Oh. Tom," she m1-" wl well-feigned anxiety, "there Is nothing the matter with darling boy, is there?" "No," he answered, startled "certain ly not. But why?" "Why, I Jnst came round past the morn ing room," returned Agnes, Innocently, "and I saw poor June crying so dread fully that I thought I was afraid " "June crying!" exclaimed Tom; and then he paused abruptly, as most un pleasant thought smote him. Dinner that night was a very different sort of function from what it had been of late. A gloom seemed to have fallen on the party. "How silent we all are!" observed Mrs. Kllesmere, as It was drawing to a close, "and how dreadfully I miss that dear boy! Don't you, my dear?" to June. "Yes," answered June, and at that mo ment she caught Tom's eye fixed on her in a manner she neither quite liked nor un derstood, and was deeply mortified to find herself growing crimson. (To be continued.) THE GREAT AUK. Rone, of Flue Specimen Recently Found In Ireland. Slowly but surely a number of crea tures are disappearing from the fauna of the world, and the process has be come more rapid during the last hun dred years. Among these lost or mori bund species is the great auk, which la now only known from specimens lu collections, or from the occasional dis covery of its bones In circumstances which in themselves often help to ex plain the cause of its disappearance. It has Just been announced that some bones of the great auk have been found In a kitchen midden in the north of Ire land. The phrase is indirectly an epi taph: "Killed and eaten by man" was i the end of this bird. A kitchen mid den la nothing more nor less than a primeval refuse-heap. The term Is the translation of the Scandinavian name, for, as It happens, thesm refuse-heaps are particularly barge and abundant on some parts of the Danish const. Prac tically, they ore shell-mounds. Prime val man, when he lived upon the sea coast, made full use of the food which he found ready to hand. To be a fish erman requires some skill; but to gath er mussels from the rocks may be done by the lowest savage. So "the first oyster" was an exierlinen.t of such a remote antiquity that know not by what manner of men It was made. Per haps they had not even gotten so far as to chip flints Into shape; at any rate, In all probability their handicraft was very primitive, their notions of dre38 rudimentary. In Denmark, on th eastern coast, heaps of shells, of which the contents have been eaten, are by no means rare. Sir John Lubbock do scribes. In his "Pre-hlstoric Times," one of the largest, at Mellgard, Id northeast Jutland, as a great flattlsh mouud, about ten feet thick in the mid dle, composed almost entirely of shell These usually belong to four specie the oyster, the cockle, the mussel aud the periwinkle, the first being the com monest at that particular place. All, it will be noticed, are still eaten, though the oyster, from an ordinary article of food, has become a luxury. Besides these, as might be expected in a refuse heap which, no doubt, was formed close to a settlement, other odds and ends are found, though much more rarely, such as boscs of various beasts and birds, chipped flints or other stone implements, and fragments of a very coarse pottery. These relics belong to the Xeollthic age that Is, to a time when men were sufficiently advanced to hare acquired the art of making weapons of polished stone, though they were Ignorant of the use of metal. Such refuse heaps are met with in oth er countries, more especially on the coasts of Wales, Scotland nnd Ireland, though they are nsually smaller in size than those of Denmark. In them, more than ouce, the bones of the great auk have been found. Time has brought aloilt its revenges. In those days the bird wus, no doubt, valued, but sim ply because It was good to eat, and there was plenty of It. A hundred years ngo sailors took exactly the same view as man in the Stone Age. Xor It Is diliictilt to imagine what price a specimen In the flesh would eoininan I: Tor In April. 1S'.5, a bid of ST0 guineas was refused for a skin, and at the same time an egg sold for I" guineas ('" iiiri rai -cs iloi:!. for lie r inr.-.. no one coloi'd me.i.Iier of t'cnivss is named Whin-. if a ilisintei'iar.t smells good, it Isn't a good disinfectant. Marigotitx in .Mii'.n Atrioa reach a height of four or live feet. Ill Xow Zealand two ioi-sons working together constitute a factory. The Japanese have a g i tTTi ill i- coloiii .ulioji scheme on foot in Mi xieo. Twenty woiils r minute is the aver age at which longhand is written. About 2"iii Iliinkiirds from Virginia Indiana, li i .a im 1 Illinois have ivinoicd to North Dakota. Halibut and holiluit are names asold as the English language. "But" signifies a flat fish.mnil the prelix 'refers to the deep and wide boles in wiiich the fish is f uiind. The speed of our fjs'est ocean steam ers is now greater Hun t''i ;f express trains on Italian rai lw:ty. The water clock, ot'iciv. ise the ciie svdii, seem-! to have lieen tie first scien tific etfnit at noting the hours. More steel is used iii the manufacture of pens than in all the sword and gun fac tories in the world. When dead bodies are entered as a enrgo on a ship, they are often recorded on the invoices as 'statuary" or "natural history iqieciiiiens," to allay the supersti tious fears of the crew. The royal crown of Persia, which dates liack to remote ages, is in the form of a Mit of flowers surmounted by an un cut ruby the size of a lien's egg. Gillingham, Knglaiid, had a grave dig ger who died lately, aged 75. In thirty seven years he hud buried over 12,000 persons. A twenty-eight-pound ball, fired by an English warship in 1812, was recently unearthed near Alexandria, Va. CPTAIN DEWEY'S COOLNESS. Interesting: Incident in the Career of ilie Hero of Manila. A good story Is told of Commodore Dewey, which illustrates Dot only bit coolness and Judgment in a momeut of peril, but also the high regard In which he is held by the men under his command. It was during the spring of 1.SS7, when Commodore Dewey, then a captain, had command of the flag ship Pensaeola, a sailing vessel, in the Mediterranean. While en route from Athens to the coast of Spain the vessel encountered a series of short but vio lent squalls, which not only greatly retarded her progress, but proved in tensely weari ig on the crew. One night, when the inconsistency of the weather was particularly annoy ing, the officer of the watch happened to be a young lieutenant who was very unpopular with the men, being what Is termed In nautical vernacular a llueko." Several times during the watch till hands had been called to shorten sail, aud they were naturally very much exhausted from racing back and forth from the decks to the upper rigging. Finnlly the order was again given to make sail, and the tired tailors set about to put It Into execu tion. But, after the work hnd been accomplished and all hands had come down from aloft. It occurred to the officer that the men had not exhibited sufficient alacrity to suit him, aud, ad vancing to the break of the poop, speaking trumpet In hand, he thun dered a torrent of epithets at the crew, following it up with an order to lay aloft and go through the tactics of shortening sail by way of drill. Un fortunately, however, he had failed to reckon upon the Inborn spirit of the American sailors, aud right here their forlienranco forsook them, and not a man of their number made a move ment to execute the overbearing order. Wildly flourishing his trumpet, the now frenzied martinet threatened and cursed and stormed, but to no avail; the blood of the crew was up, and they cursed back, ridiculed, laughed him to scorn. Suddenly the sea and sky were seen to grow darker to windward, aud It was clear that another squall was Imminent, Alive to the danger to which the ship, with nil her canvas spread, was exposed, the lieutenant retreated from his threatening attitude and urged, en treated. Implored the men to save the vessel, but in vain they had been driv en to sheer desperation and only scoffed at him the more. Onward came the tempest, its fierceness foretold by the livid shafts of lightning which peatodly flashed from Its Inky depth?. The lieutenant. In despair, had sunk to his knees, with his face In his hands, awaiting the luevltabla 4oom, - Sud denly from out the cabin companion way a form emerged. It was the cap tain. In an Instant his glance had tak en nil In the approaching storm, tbe defiant crew, the suppliant officer, the flapping sails, and then, clear and loud, rang out the order: "All hands short en sail!" That was all. But It was Bufficlent. Before the last word of that command had been uttered the rigging was full of flying sailors, clitriug their captain, as they sped to their task, and in a twinkling every foot of canvas had been stowed and the ship placed under bare poles. Even In-fore they could regain the decks the gale burst upon the vessel, demonstrating only too forcibly the fate another mo ment's delay would have hurled upon her. When the shock had passed and th crew had assembled In readiness to obey the next order, Capt Dewey ad dressed his first words to the officer of the deck. "Go to yonr room," he said. Then turning to his crew, he command ed them without the least suspicion of rebuke In his tones, "Boatswain, pipe 1own!" St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Salaries of Ambassador. Assuredly money must be plentiful m the Transvaal. A short time ago Its legbtMtors made themselves a present of a handsome lncren..- In Uielr remu neration for managing the affairs of the country, while more recently U is an nounced that Dr. Leyda is to receive JE17.000 a year as representative of th Transvaal In Europe, nils salary is greatly in excess of the amount whhdi Great Britain deems sufficient for any one of her representatives) In foreign couutrUM. Great Britain's nmst highly paid amliossailor U the representative In Paris, though he rewives Httle more than half the sum Ir. I.eyds Is to draw beggarly S,U0. Britain's ambas sadors to Germany, Austria-Hungary aud Turkey receive S,txx) a year each. The representative In St. Petersburg has the next largest salary f".S00; while S00 less Is considered enough for the British ambassador who takes up his residence In the Eternal City. For some reason, known only to the diplo matic mind, the British representative In Washington Is much worse off, re ceiving but 0,500 a year, though he has probably to work far harder for his country. The ambassador to Spain re ceive 3,500, while the representatives In China and Persia draw 500 each less. The heads of the legations In Japan, Brazil and Egypt each receive 4.000, but Lord Cromer has besides 1,000 as a "personal allowance." The British agent at Pretoria, wbo Is paid by the Colonial Office, receive 011I7 2,000 a year. A Concise Definition. Not long ago a London paper offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. The prize waa awarded to the person who sent in this: "The first per son who comes In when the wholo world has gou out." Islands. Lake Huron contains 3,000 Islands', Loch Erne, In Ireland, has SG5; the Lake of the Thousand Isles, In the St. Lawrence River, has 1.700. Difference of Opinion. "'Tls love that makes the world go round." "Oh, no; it's too much liquor." Chi cago Record. The terra cotta locks of the girl with a wealthy father becomes auburn or golden as she grows older, but the red headed boy remains red-headed until Um tad ot tha chapter. "THE DOGS OF WAR" Real Ones Are Used In Many Field Operations. With the exception of Great Britain In the armies of almost every Euro pean country dogs are trained to ren der assistance in time of war. They are to be relied uion to act as spies or messengers and render assistance to the wounded. Germany, France, Kussla. Austria and Italy all have their bands of trained dogs, although It It In the first-named country that they are made the most use of. Since 1SS8 Prussia has employed va rious kiuds of dogs for this purpose. Including short-haired German point ers, spaniels and sheep dogs. Two dogs are appointed to each company. DISCOVERIXO A WOUXDED SOLDI KR, each being under the special care of one man, the men being under the. command of a sergeant, while a lieu tenant has the command of the whole of the "haudiers." Almost the whole of the time of tin sj men Is given up to the training of the doge under their care. They teach them to carry dispatches and deliver cartridges to the fighting line, to search for wounded or fallen soldiers, and, when they have found them, to bnrk until assistance arrives. If they cannot attract any attention by barking they carry back the wound ed man's cap or tear off a piece of his clothing and carry It to the hospital, when the attendants return with thein to the wounded soldier and convey him to the hospital. Another clever trick of theirs Is to give an alarm at the approach of nn enemy, a German being dressed up In the clothes of a foreigner for the pur pose. In the early part of their edu cation they are taken out with an old dog who thoroughly understands the work. The young dog is first of all taught to find articles, this constitut ing the beginning of the delivery of dis patches. In the French army the dogs used are barbets and Tyrenuean sheep dogs. One of these last can carry 500 rllle cartridges. The barbets are good short distance iuessnge carriers. Last year five of these were given messages and started off simultaneously with pig eons, cyclists and horsemen. The pig eons beat and the dogs came ln lust. The Russian dogs are chiefly trained to assist the medical corps in their work and to help In the humane task of bringing aid as rapidly as possible to the wounded soldier. Big, strong dogs are selected for this purpose, St. Bernards by preference, as being the most Intelligent when left to their own devices, and also the most faithful. Attached to the collar around their necks ls a small flask containing brandy or sometimes a strong, noun tailing broth. A little roll of band ages, of which the wounded may avail themselves, Is also tied around their necks. The dogs are especially trained to seek out wounded men lying ln out of the way places, where It Is possible they may be overlooked by the regttlat staff attached to the medical branch of the Russian army. If they discover wounded men lying ln ditches or behind bushes they allow them to help themselves to the brandy, and bark Incessantly to attract atten tion and bring help. They are some times used to pull a small cart on which a couple of wounded men car lie carried off the field of battle. Huoni. rgett Mountain. A submerge Island- has been found 1,0(10 miles due west from Gibraltar which offers a curious problem for geographers. It was discovered by the Prince of Monaco, and will soon be placed on the charts issued by the Ily drographlc Office at WashlngtoA. The sunken Island was discovered quite by accident by the Prince while making soundings from his yacht Prin cess Alice, and the formation was ac cordingly named after the yacht. The Island is sutpposcd to have been at one time a huge volcano. Its shape, which has been determined by careful sound ings, ls much the same as that of a huge cocked hat. The island ls ln no danger of Interfering ln the least with navigation, since Its highest point Is some fourteen fathoms below the sur face of the sea. New York World. Eugene Field's Cblldr n. Little Roswell and Ruth Field seem to to have Inherited some of their father's originality, for they are quaint little beings, always Inventing new games and stories. Not long ago little Roswell thought he would take a walk along the shore of Lake Michigan (their home ls In Chicago) and of course his 3-year-old sister Ruth had to follow. They evidently were playing "What are the wild waves saying," and "whither thou gocst." They were without wraps ol any kind and the chill wind blew their golden hair about their faces and al most blew them Into the lake, and they were almost frozen when found two or three miles from home. One of the pranks of the Field chil dren took place some time ago when the older members of the family hap pened to be all away from home. Ros well wauted to play soldier, so all tTie silver knives and forks were tied to broomsticks to make bayonets. All the tittle boys of the neighborhood hunted tip the broom-handles and "Rosy" fur nished the silver. When the regiment disbanded they carried their bayonets away , with them, and It was several jays before the silverware was ml) hunted up and brought home. Some women carry ta amotioaal business entirely toe fs nttAWIXS A LIGHT AMBULANCE WAOOIf. . SERMONS OFTHE DA? Subject: "riMHurei or Life" Ru Rym. imthy With the Wbolesato Drnnncla. tlon of Amusements Glorious 'Work of the Y. M. C. A. Text: "And it came to pass, when ieii hearts were merry, that they said. Call foi Simison, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of tho prison, house and he made them sport." Judgo 16:25. There were throe thousand people assem bled In the Temple of Dagon. They had come to make sport of eyeless Harasoa They were all ready for the entertainment. xneyoegan to clap anil pound, Impatient for the amusement to begin, and thej . 1 . , .... ' . . cried. "Fetch him oat! Fetch him out!" Yonder I see the blind old giant coming, led by the hand of a child into the verj miiisi 01 ine temple. At tils tlrst appear ance there goes up a shout of laughter and derision. The blind old slant pretends h is tired and wants to rest himself against the pillars of the house, so he says to the lad who leads him, "Bring me where the main pillars are." The lad does so. Then the strong man puts bis hands on one ol the pillars, and, with the mightiest pusb that mortal ever mado, throws himself for ward until the whole bouse oomes down in thunderous crash, grinding the audience like grapes In a wine-press. "And so It cnineto pas when their hearts were merry, that tliy said, ('all for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called foi Bamson out of the prison-house; and h made them sport." In otner words there -J: . ll otn,r or'l18t ure w?n a,n""me1ly, hnt ftr" destructive and bring down disaster and death upon the heads of those who practice them. While ihfJ?f -k d ? "7' V,f.y ?'! T.h U,ree thousand who perished that day in az J2?J thJ? 1omnt,od t0 ten ot thou- sands who have been destroyed body. mind and son! by had amusements anc good amusements carried to excess. In my sermons vou must have noticed that I have no sympathy with ecclesiasti cal sirait-jaeKets. or with that wholesale denunciation of amusements to which man; are pledged. I believe the Church of God has made a tremendous mistake la trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth ana drive out troin men their love of amuse- 1 ment. If Uoil ever Implanted anything la us He Implanted this desire Hut instead of providing for this demand of our nature. ii iiuriTii 111 iiiu inr me main pan Ignored it. As in a rtot the Mayor plants a battery at the end of tho street and has it fired off, so that everything is cut down that happens to stand in the range, the good as well as the had, so there are men in the church who plant the butteries ol condemnation and fire away indiscrimin ately. Everything Is condemned. They talk as if they would like to have our youth dress in blue uniform like the children ol an orphan asylum, and mareh down the path of life to the tune of the Dead March in Saul. They hate a blue sash, or a rose bud in the hnir, or a tasseled gaiter, anc' think a man almost ready for a luuntit asvium who utters a conundrum. v , 11 1 . ... ,1 Young Mens Christian Associations ol , the country are doing n glorious work, j Alley iiuvo 11111 riuiiK rooms, null Hll ue influences are of the best kind, and lire now adding gymnasiums and bowling al leys, where, without any evil surroundings, our young men may get physical as well as spiritual improvement. We are dwindling away to a narrow-chested, weak-armed, feeble-voiced race, when God calls us to a work in which he wants phvslcal as well as fplrlruai athletes. I would to God that the time might soon come when in all our colleges and theological seminaries, as at Princeton, a gymnasium shall be estab lished. We spend seven years of hard study in preparation for the ministry, and come out with bronchitis and dyspepsia and liver complaint, and then crawl up into the pulpit, and the people say, "Doesn't he look heavenly!" because he looks sickly. Let the Church of God direct, rather than attempt to suppress, the desire for amuse ment. The best men that the world ever knew have had their sports. William Wll berror -e trundled hoop with his children, Martin Luther helped dress the Christmas tree. Ministers have pitched quoits, phil anthropists have gone a-skatlng, prime ministers have played hull. Our communities are tilled with men and women who have in their souls unmeas ured resources for sportfulness and frolic. Show me a man wbo never lights up with snortfulness nnd has no svmnathv with the j recreations of others, ami I will show you a man wno is a stumming moon to the Kingdom otGod. Such men are caricatures of religion. They lead young people to think that a man is good In proportion as be groans and frowns and looks sallow. and that the height of a mini's Christian stature is in proportion to the length of his face. I would trade off live hundred such men tor one bright-faoed, radiant Christian on whose fane are the words, "Itejolce ever more!" Every morning by his cheerful face he preaches fifty sermon. I will go further and say that I have no confidence In a man who makes a religion of his gloomy looks. That kind of a man always turns out bndly. I would not want him for the treasurer of an orphan asylum. The orphans would su ffer. Among forty people whom I received Into the tiliurcli at one communion, there was oniy one applicant of whose piety I was suspicious. lie had the longest story to tell; had seen the most visions, and gave an experience so wonderful that all the other applicants were discouraged. I was not surprised the year after to learn that be had run off with the funds of the bank with which he was connected. Who Is this black nnge! that you call religion wings 1 uiacK, leet macK, teatners mack Uur re : ligion Is a bright angel feet bright, eyes ' bright, wings bright, taking her place in ; the soul. She pulls a rojve that reaches to I the skies and sets nil the bells ot heaven ! a-chimiug. There are some persons who, j When talking to a minister, always feel It politic to look lugubrious. Go forth, O people, to your lawful amusement. God means you to be hnppy. llut, when there ! are many sources of Innocent pleasure, why tamper with anything that is danger ous and polluting? Why stop our ears to a heaven full of songsters to listen to the hiss of a dragon? Why turn back from the mountniii-slde all abloom with wild flowers and adash with the nimble tor rents, and wllh blistered feet attempt to climb the hot sides of CotopaxI? Now, all opera houses, theatres, bowling alleys, skating rinks and all styles of 1 amusements, good and bad, I put on trial to-day and judge of them by certain car dinal principles. First, you judge of any amusement by Its heathful result or by Its beneficial reaction. There ore people who seem made up of hard facts, fhey are a I dressed, in the name of God quit it. They combination of multiplication tables and ; will despoil your nature. They will under statlsttcs. If vou show them an exquisite I mine your moral character. They will drop picture they will begin to discuss the pig- you when you are destroyed. They will ments Involved In the coloring; if you show not give one cent to support your children them a beautiful rose, they will submit It j when you are dead. They will weep not to a botanical analysis, which ts only the one tear at your burial. They will chuckle postmortem examination of a flower, j over your damnation. But the day comes They never do anything more than feebly j when the men who have exerted evil Inllu smile. There are no great tides of feeling ence upon their fellows will be brought to surging op from the depth of their soul in : judgment. Scene: the last day. Stage: billow after billow of reverberating laugh-j the rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords, ter. They seem as if nature had built ; kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No them by contract and made a bungling job i tinsel. No crown. For footlights, the out of It. But, blessed be God, there are people ln the world who have bright faces the trumpets that wake the dead. For and whose life ls a song, an anthem, a! gallery, the clouds filled with angel spe; pnan of victory. Even their troubles are tutors. For applause, the clapping floods like the vines that crawl up the side of a 1 onhosea. For eurtalns. the leaves relief great tower on the top of which the sun- 1 jnoetheras a scroll. Fortragc.lv, thoiloom ght sits and the soft airs of summer hold ' 0f the destroved. For farce, the elTort to perpetual carnival. They are the people ! ,Prve tie world nnd God nt the same time, you like to have come to your house; they For tUe 1 BCP0K of the fifth act, the are the people I like to have come to my j tramp of nations across the- stage some house. Now, It ls these exhllarant and j to tlie right, others to the left, sympathetic and warm-hearted people that I Again, any amusement that gives you a are most temptea to pernicious amuse- 1 dents. In proportion as a ship ls swift It wt a strong helmsman; In proportion as t horse is gay it wants a strong driver; and these people of exuberant nature will d well to look at the reaction c! ail their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous so you cannot sleep, and you rise ln the morning, not because you are slept out, but because your duty drags vou from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a man next day to hli work bloodshot, yawning, ituDb -"-a- nd thev are wrong Klnas of amusements. I'foire are entertain ments that give a man dtsgust with the drudgery of life, with tools because they are not swords, with working aprons be cause they are not robes, with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends you home longing tor a life of romance and thrilling adven ture, love that takes poison and shoots It self, moonlight adventures and hair breadths escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed victim of un Banctitled pleasure. Our recreations are Intended to build us up, and if tbey pull us down as to our moral or as to our physical strength, you may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. Still further: Those amusements are wrong which lead into expenditure beyond your means. Money spent in recreation Is not thrown away. It Is all folly for us to eomo from a place of amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment nuoii UIIHD b 11(111 L 11 o iiaunnuuuii 1 II 11V Tielje,i you a hundre1 or thousand dob ! f. n't how m.n rrH h... w . , - 1 - , riddled by costly amusement? The tabla ; has been robbed to pay the club. The champagne has cheated the children's I wardrolie. The carousing party has burned . np the boy's primer. The table cloth of the corner saloon is in debt to the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in a day make a tour around a whole month's wages; ladles i whose lifetime business it is tc "go shop I Ping," have their counterpart In uneduca ted children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church, and I that send drunkenness staggering across the richly figured carpet of the mansion and dashing Into the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping of : bloated sons come home to break their old mother's heart, when men go into amuse- ments that they cannot afford, they first borrow what they cannot earn, and then I they steal what they cannot borrow. Fir-t 4-. . 1 ... .- n". ""en b man gets as far on as lhat rtoes not stop 8noYt of the penlten. tlHry. Thero ls f, rrUon ln te ,anJ wUere there are not victims of unsanetllled amusements. How often I have had rr. ents come to me and ask me to go and beg their boy off from the consequence of crimes that he had committed against hfs employer the taking ot funds out of the employer's till, or the disarrangement of accounts! Why, he had salary enough to pay all lawful expenditure, but not enough salary to meet his sinful amusements. And ngnln and again I have gone ami im plored for the young man sometimes, ,ls! the petition unavailing, , How brightly the path of un brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens! The young man says: "Xow I am off tor a good time. Never mliiil economy; I'll get money somehow. What a flue roadl What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip and over the turnpike! Come, boys, fill high yourglnsses! Drink! Long life, "health, plenty of rides just like this!" Hard-working men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look up nnd say, 'Vhy, I wonder where those fellows get their money from. We have to toil and drudge. They do nothing." To thise guy men life is a thrill and nn excitement. They stare at other people and In turn are stared at. The watch-chala jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flusn, the eyes ill's", iuo uiKini-ui nettrs muir Ttiey swagger. They jostle decent the sidewalk. They take the nnme nasn. rue midnight hears their guuaw. men on y take the nnme of God ln vain. They p:irody the hymn they learned at their mother's knee;"nnd to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out: "Who enres!" and to the counsel of some Christian friend, "Whonro you?" Tassing along the street some night you hear n shriek in a grog-shop, the rattle of the wntohinnn's club, tho rush of tho police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless young man has been killed in a grog-sdiop fight. Carry him home to his father's house. Parents will come down and wash his wounds and close his eyes ln death. They forgive him all he dirt, though he cannot In his silence ask it. The prodigal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden nnd get the sweetest Sowers and twist thein Into 11 cbaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy and push back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with the father's cry: "Oh, my son, my son, my poor son; would Ood I had died for thee, oh, my son, my son!" You may judge of amusements by their effect upon physical health. The need of many good people Is physical recupera tion. There are Christian men who write bards things against their immortal souls when there ls nothing the matter w'.th them except an incompetent liver. There are Christian people who seem to think it Is a good sign to be poorly, and because Richard Baxter and Robert Hull were in valids they think by the same sickness they I may come to the same grananur or charac ter. I want to tell Christiau people that God will hold you responsible for your in validism if it is your own fault, and when through right exercise and prudence you might be athletic and well. The effect of the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a man of mild disposition upon the an imal diet of which the Indian partakes, and ln a little while his blood will change its chemical proportions. It will become like nnto the blood of the lion or the tiger or the bear, while his disposition will change and become fleroe, cruel and unrelenting. The body bas a powerful effect upon tho soul. There are people whose ideas ot Heaven are all shut out with clouds of to bacco smoke. There are people who dare to shatter the physical vase in whljh God put the jewel of eternity. There are men with great hearts and intellects In bodies worn out by their own neglects. Mitgnlllceut machinery capable of propelling the groat Etruria across the Atlantic, yet fastened lu a rickety North River propeller. Physical development which merely shows itself lu a fabulous lifting, or in perilous rope walk ing, or ln pugilistic encounter, excites only our contempt, but we confess to great admiration for a man who has a great soul in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle and bone of which is consecrated to right uses. Oh, It seems to me outrageous that men through neglect should allow their physical health to go down beyond repair, spending the rest of their lives not In some great enterprise for God and the world, but in studying what is the best thing to take for dyspepsia. A ship which ought with all sails set and every man at his post to be carrying a rich cargo for eternity employing all its men in stopping up leak ages! When you may through some of the popular and healthful recreations of our time work off your spleen and your quer ulousness and one-half of your physical and mental ailments, do not turn back from such a grand medicament. Again, judge of the places of amusement by the companionship into which thny put yon. If you belong to an organization where you have to associate with tho in temperate, with the unclean, with the abandoned, however well they mny be kindling names of a world. For orchestra. distaste for domestic life is bad. How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements? The father went off, the mother went off, the child went off. There are all around us the frngments of blasted households. Oh! if you have wan dered away, I would like to eharm you back by the sound of that -one word, "Home." Do you not know that you have but little more time to give to domestic welfare? Do you not see, father, that your children are soon to go out Into the world. and all the Influence for good you are to j have over them you must have now? Death I will break in on vour conjugal relations. and, alas! If you nave to stana over tut, grave of one who perished from your neg lect. Let me say to all young men, your style jf amusement will decide your eternal destiny. One night I saw a young man at a street corner evidently doubting as to which direction be had better take. He bad his hat lifted high enough so you could see he had an Intelligent forehead, lie had a stout chest; he had a robust de velopment. Splendid young man. Cultured young man. Honored young man. Why did he stop there while so many were go ing up and down? The fact is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mastery of his spirit. And there was a good angei and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of the street. "Come with me," said the good angel, "I will take you home. I will spread my wing over your pathway. I will lovingly escort you all through life. I will bless every cap you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter. I will conse crate your tears when yoa weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last I will hand over vour crave into the hand ot the bright angel of a Christian resurrec tion. In answer to your father's petition and your mother's prayer I have been sent of the Lord out of Heaven to be your guar dian spirit. Come with me!" said the good angel, tn a voice of unearthly symphony, it was music like that which drops from a lute of Heaven when a seraph breathes on it. "No, no," said the had angel, "come with me; I have something better to offer; the wines I pour are from chalices of be witching carousal: the dance I lead Is over floor tessellated with unrestrained Indul gences; there is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows daisied and primrosed; come with with me." The young man hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad tin gel smote the good angel until it de parted, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away, until a door flashed open in the sky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point la that young man's history; for the good angel tlown, he hesitated no lo ger, hut started on a pathway which is beauti ful lit tho opening, but blasted at the last. The bad angel, leading the way, opened g.ite after gate, aud at each gate the road became rougher and Ihe sky more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the gate slummed shut It came to with a jar that indicated that It would neveropen. Passed each portal, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of bolts: aud the scenery on either side the road changed from gardens lo deserts, ami the June air became a cut ting December blast, and the bright wings of the bad nngel turned to sackcloth and the eyes of the light became hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the start had tossed wine, poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was a serpent, and the man said to the bad angel, "What Is that serpent?" and thu answer was, "That is the serpent of sting ing remorse." On the left side of the road there was a Hon, and the man asked the bad angel, "What Is that lion?" and the answer was, "That is the lion of all-devouring dospnlr." A vulture flew through ths skv, and the man asked the bad angel, "What Is that vulture?" and the answer was, "That Is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of tho siula." And then the man began to try to pull off of him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and be said to the bad angel, "What Is it that twists me in this awful convolution?" and the answer was, "That Is the worm that never dies!" and then the man said to the bad angel, "What does all this mean? I trusted In what you said at the corner of the street that night; I trusted It nil, and why have you thus deceived me?'' Then the last deception fell off the char mer, and It said: "I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your soul; I watched my chance for many a long year; when you hesitated that night on the street I gained my triumph; sod now you are here. Ha! ha! You are here. Come, now, let us All these two chalices of fire and drink to gether to darkness and woe and death. Hail! hail!" Oh, young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ, or the bad angel sent forth by sin, get the victory over your soul? Their wings are interlocked this moment above you, contending for your destiny, as above the Appenniues eagle and condor fight mid-sky. This hour may de cide your destiny. God help youl To hesitate Is to die! Household. RECIPE Tomatoes a la Carolina. Felcrt a aWei round tomatoes of Fame ize. Ht move r piece about an inch in diameter frcm the hlossoui end of each tomato, and take out all the seeds; rook a cup and one half ol Carolina rice in a quart of well-eeasi ncd broth, with half a green pepjier cut fine. When the rice is nearly tender, but not broken, add half a cup of butter; mix it in well, but carefully, so us not to break the rice. Kill li e t ii.hii f s with the rite; put baik Ihe pieces of tomato cut out; set them in a baking pan, brush over the outside with a liffie olive oil or melted butler and bake for half an hour in mod erate oven. Remove them carefully to a platter and pour around them a cup of to mato sauce highly seasoned. Almond Jumbles. Cream thoroughly together one and one-half cupfuls of but ter and two cupfuls of sugar; add six eggs, one at a time, and lM-ut until light and smooth. Stir in one-quarter of a cupful of canned apricot juice, one-half of a cuii ful of cornstarch and sufficient liour 10 iniike a soft douuli. Roll out thin, cut with a jumble culler and lay on grease p:ms. W'ct ihe top of each jumble with a little while of rcg, sprinkle thickly wilh liuly c h..ppeil Munched almonds, sprinkle wilh :i-aiiulaled sugar and press each lightly wilh a rolling pin. Rake in a mod erate oven. Orange Rhubarb Snuee. Slice oranges Ihin. nut in a fruit dish a layer of orange. a luyer of sug.'ui' and a layer of cold rhu barb sauce well sweetened. Kejieat till the dish is full, l t it stand half an hour licfore serving. II l.t.l.n ..1. l.';..A ru.nn.lii fit rim. tiltered water is the liest; cut it in slices Ann let it remain in an imii iuii time lays, stirring it three times a day; then i.p'ieeze it thiouch a coarse cloth, and to ..n... ..e 1 u.l.l .... .u.oiwlu ,if -u-i y niitiii ill ii',iv ,',u. p..ui..... brown siiynr, tin; juice of two lemons aud he rind of one, also toasted bread and bin 111; cask it, biki wneu lerineniai 1011 ensei l.iitur It will be read v in June if made early in the season. Ijist Resource l'luhliiic Jlnke a batter f a pint of milk, half a isuiu of dour, a jp asHMinful of salt, two , two ounces )f butter and a teaspoouful of liakingpow ler. The butter may lie melted in the baking pan just ls-fore the batter is loured into it. ltake slowly, and when done cut into squares and iour over it 1 slice of hot syrup or one made of drawn sutler. Kiory man is valued in this world as he diows by his conduct he wishes to be valued. If you ci!i sicuk well of a man. don't fail to do it; if you can't, please let him alone. lie who is in evil is also in the punish ment of evil. The rarer action is in virtue than in veiieam-e. A page dipested is lietter than a volume hurriedly read. You can judge very closely of a man's character if yon can hear his opinion of others. No principle is more nol-'e than that of true nlieilicncc. No nliities are indc-ndent of integ ri y. lie is far from home that has none to go to. The sweetest flower of the gospel i charity. A little sin has as much death in it as a big one If you can't swim, never wade in un known waters.
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