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
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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
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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.
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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
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, 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
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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.