"1 .... if F. 8QHWEIER. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL UI. MIFF LINTOWN . JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17. 1898. NO. 36. CHAPTER II. (Continued.) "I thjpk Herbert looks rather glare," said Miss Oakeley when she returned to her aunt, who was sitting very straight up, with a frown on her cold face. "You observe it, too? and I am not sur prised.. Mabel is so greatly attached to her guardian that his word is law. Heav en knows I am the last to think evil, but I cannot forget that hermother married the late Ca'ptain Wynn during the lifetime of her first husband." "Why, auntie!" cried Miss Oakeley in a tone of delighted excitement, yoti do not mean to say that she committed big amy?" "No, Henrietta, but, what was as bad ihe left her husband for another man." "Well, perhaps number one was a brute; to be sure, I am not a strictly religious, high-toned woman. I should scent out more wickedness if I were." Meanwhile Colonel and Mrs. Callander drove home in silence, and found that Porothy- had gone to bed, but the lamp was still alight in the pretty drawing room." Two or three letters, which had come by the last post, lay upon the table. Callander stood reading them beside tha light. Maliel threw aside the white In dian shawl in which she had been wrap ped, and watched him while he read. lie had agrd certainly there was a heaviness aliotit bis brow that used not to be there. WohIiI he ever be quite the same as ha was liefore that unfortunate sunstroke? Presently be laid down his letters with a sigh. "There is nothing unpleasant in them, dear?" asked his wife, coming timidly to him, and, slipping her arm through his, pressed her fair young head against hii shoulder.. "Nothing whatever; they are of no im portance." He stood quite still, and Ma bel, stilT pressing against him, said: Toes anything disturb or worry you, Herbert? I cannot help fancying " she stopped abruptly. lie looked down Into the sweet face uplifted to his so gravely, that she could not continue and yet he made no movement to return her caress. "What la there to make me unhappy?" lie asked in a cold, composed voice. "I am with those I love and I believe, love me. I have dear children, and a sweet wife. Oh, how aweet and fair," he ex claimed, with a sudden change of tone, and, clasping her In his arms, he gazed into her eyes as if he wotrld draw out tbe secrets of her soul. "Whom I love too welt-too well!" ..She felt the strong best ig "of his heart as he strained her to him, and' his lipa clung to hers in a long, pas sionate kiss.' ' Suddenly he released her. "Are yon co!l, that yon ahlvered so?" be asked quickly.- "Xo, not at all but but you make me a little uneasy. Do not thrust me away as if I were a naughty child, Herbert. You know I love youl" She took hia arm and put it around her. ."If I did not believe it, chaoa would indeed be. come again," cried Callander, gathering her to him in a close embrac. "lo not mind my variability of mood, Mabel I ., Whatever I may seem, never doubt that you are all the world to me!" - CHAPTER III. Paul Standish was a capital "aide-decamp" In organizing a picnic, and Eger ton benefited by his assistance. Standi was a man of good family, very well known, and popular in certain London cir cles. Though generally considered a shrewd worldling, there was a kindly core to bis heart, and he deeply enjoyed hi' quiet visits to the Knoll. His work (he whs in the Foreign Office) had taken him much abroad, and he liked the repose and refinement of Mabel's home. Though no longer young, he had still all the vigor and elasticity of youth, and was not yet chill ed by tbe effects of a tolerably wide expe rlence. The day before that fixed for Egerton'a yachting party, not finding Dorothy In the house or garden, Standish started la search of her, and, knowing her haunts, was not long in discovering his ward. Sb was kneeling on the short, partially bleached herbage which covered a low rising ground at some little distance east ward from the Knoll; behind It the sun had already sunk, leaving the waters of the bay somewhat dull and mournful. "I looked for you in vain," began Stan dish, when, Dorothy, her hands full of the long grasses she had been gathering, start ed to her feet with a low cry, a startled, pathetic expression on her mobile face. "I have frightened you," said Standish, smil ing. "Why, where are your thoughts, Dorothy?" "Not very far, Paul." beginning to tie her grasses together. "They are never very far from me at present." "Hum! That might be accounted for in two ways." "How?" "They may be occupied by Mabel. Tliej may possibly dwell on our fascinating friend Egerton." 'Fascinating! Do you think him fasci nating'" . , "Well, I am scarcely a Judge; but he Is a handsome, accomplished fellow." "Yes, he is, and you are right. I wns thinking of him." She uttered these words with tbe utmost composure. Standish looked at her with steady scru tiny, but she did not perceive it. "I am waiting for further confessions," he said at length. "I have nothing to confess, I aul, at least, not at present." She paused, and then went on: "Mr. Kgerton's mother was a Spaniard, was she not?" "Yes, I believe so. ne looks like a Spaniard himself." "He does, and I think he could be very revengeful. I feel afraid of him some times." : "What, do you think he will plunge a stiletto in your heart because oh, say tan-anse you walked with me?" A faint color roue in Dorothy's cheek, but h lauched low and exclaimed n,o he too illleocalV Too art my guardian, and I have a sort of right to "A right I shall never question, Doro thy." His voice grew soft as he spoke. ."Thank you," she said gentiy she made a sudden movement. "Let us go back," she exclaimed,-"that dreary looking sea makes me sad." "My dear Dorothy, you cannot be your self, or you would not have these "-ck' fancies. Yon hate everything in the world to. make youjiaejiy. so prv fall BP 70 Cuinmon sense, of which von have nlentv. "I will, Taul," said Dorothy, laughing. "Come, let us walk back, and we shall be in time for tea." An hour later Col. Callander and hli mother were taking a final turn upon the pier. Their conversation had not been pleas ant or exhilarating. Mrs. Callander look ed more than usually severe, and her mouth waa rigidly closed save when sbi opened it to speak. Callander's face was wtnte Rri Inert was a dull burning glow in his eyes. "You may turn a deaf ear to me if you will said the dowager as they approach ed the gate which led to the Esplanade, Intending to return to the hotel "'ut I am right, I know I am!" - He made no answer and they advanced slowly till, catching sight of a group on the common below, Mrs. Callander paused and pointed to it. The group consisted of Mabel, Standish and little Dolly as they looked, Mabel took her ex-guardian s arm, and, slackening her pace, seemed to be conversing with profound Interest. "You see," said Mrs. Callander, "they are never long apart. Be warned In time, Herbert! You know what blood she has in her veins you know her mother's history !" "Be silent," he interrupted in a strange, half-choked voice. "You do not know what you are saying! My wife is spot- less will be spotless so long as she lives! Never dare to touch upon this topic again. 1 rust my honor to myself, I know how to keep it clean." To the Imperious woman's surprise, he turned, and leaving her to make her way as she best could alone to her temporary abode, walked rapidly forward to over take his wife. The morning of the day which Egerton had fixed for his party was bright and clear, with a little more breeze than some of his guests approved. The object of the voyage was to visit the remains of an old Norman caetle, which crowned some picturesque cliffs, about eight or nine miles east of Fordsea also to inspect a curious rocky islet not far from it, on which a modern lighthouse replaced the Beacon of a Hermit, who in former days devoted himself to keep it alive, and ae- cording to the legend, built himself a I chapel without any human aid. The ruins ' of this remarkable edifice were still visi ble from the sea. At breakfast a slight change of plans took place as Mabel suggested that she feared she was too indifferent a sailor to enjoy the excursion by sea and with a pretty coaxing air, asked Callander to dnve her to Itavenetone, which was near er by land than by water. He consented very readily, and Standish undertook to escort Dorothy. The party was not very arge, but bright and sociable, though Mrs. Callander senior, who honored it by her presence, was somewhat snappish "it was so thoughtless of Mabel to ex pose her husband to the glare and sun on that unsheltered road!" she said, "and for a mere whim!" Egerton, too, was rather silent and cynical, when he did speak. There was enough breeze to give life nnd motion, the rippling waters glittered in the suo, and the mnsjc of a band sta tioned amidships made a delightful under current of harmony. Yet Dorothy looked thoughtful and preoccupied. "Mrs. Callander has found It more con venient to go below," said Standish, plac ing his camp stool beside Dorothy as she sat In the stern, watching the shadows f the swift-sailing clouds as they flitted over the water. "Miss Oakeley seems to consider it her duty to rouse St. John's dormant mental energies, and the rest of the ladies are neglecting their cavaliers, to amuse and interest our fascinating host. So I beg you will devote yourself to me, Dorothy." "With pleasure!" she returned, smiling. "Are you still In the dolefuls?" asked Standish, looking keenly at her. "No yet I am uneasy! I was so glad Mabel decided to drive with Herbert to Kavenstone, but I went into her room just before I came away and found Nurse giv ing her sal-volatile she had almost faint ed! She seems to me to lose strength in stead of gaining it." "That must be your fancy, Dorothy!" "I do not believe It is! I told her she ought to make Herbert take her quite away from every one for a few weeks to Scotland or Switzerland, or Sweden or Norway. It would do them both so much good!" "You are a wise little woman. I be lieve, too, it would be a complete cure." Mabel seemed to like the idea, and said she would mention "Standish !" said their host. Interrupting her "Miss Oakeley Is asking for you; she says you know the Legend of the Island Hermit! I think she is getting a little tired of her benevolent efforts." Standish rose somewhat reluctantly, anil Egerton took his place, which he kept for a considerable time. When the voyage was accomplished, ml the yacht glided into a small rock-in closed creek, at the foot of which nestled a few fishermen's cabins, and the inevit able tavern, they found Col. Callander and Mabel waiting on the rude little jetty alongside which the yacht found ample depth of water. It being luncheon time. Egerton proposed having tliat meal serveu on deck, before they attempted the steep ascent. His suggestion was adopted unanimously, and a gay repast ensued. Mrs. Callander sat on her host's right, apparently not much the worse for her voyage, and supported on the other side by the Bev. S. Cole, with whom she ex changed from time to time a few words disapproving the fun and laughter going on around her. Ultimately she preferred a comfortable seat on deck, an early enp of tea, and the society of her favorite di vine to a long fatiguing walk to inspect relics of the past which did not interest her. The rest set forth to make their way upwards to the old Towers which frowned .w at mn formidable a height. Egerton took charge of Dorothy so de cidedly that they were prejr ru " themselves. . "It is a terribly ruined ruin," remarked uwrtnn. when they had finished their ex plorations, "come, let us make our way down. There is a pretty nook I want to how you you have, I know, an artist eye for beauty." , it . Dorothy found then that they had lin gered to the last, and that Mabel had taken her husband's arm and was walking Dorotny was a little vexed that her guardian had scarcely spoken to her since Egerton had interrupted their conversa tion In the morning; she was consequently more disposed to be friendly with hef host. About half way between the ruins and (he pier a faintly marked footpath turned to the left, leading apparently across the face of the cliff. "Let me show you the way," said Egerton, passing her. "Is there a footing?" asked Dorothy. "Trust me!" he returned, and following him she soon found herself on a small projective; platform, in front of which some gorse bushes and several moss grown stones formed a natural parapet, while a fragment of rock served for a eat the outlook over the sea, to the light boose and chapel on the Isle before men tioned, made a delightfully tranquil, pic turesque scene. "This Is charming." cried Dorothy. "How sweet and peacefulf . "Y " sweet. Jlajlt. ' few minutes ana forgive me. It 1 am ab rupt, but I seldom have a chance of speak ing to you alone. I cannot lose this pre cious moment. Will you listen to me? I want to tell you what I think of you." "Don't be too complimentary," said Dorothy, with a little uneasy laugh. "No, I shall speak the truth. Well, then, I think you are the brightest, sau ciest, most womanly girl that ever charm ed a man's heart and the desire of mine is to caH you my wife, sweet Dorothy I" ne tried to take her hand; she drew II hastily away with a startled look. "Will you not speak to me?" be con tinued. "I do not know how to speak to you, Mr. Egerton," In a distressed voice. "I da not I do not seem able to believe you to believe that you love me, I mean, when I do not love you, for. Indeed, I do not." "I ksow that only too well. But let me try to teach you. If you love no one else, I may succeed. Do you love anyone, Dor othy?" "No, Indeed I do not, but somehow, Mr. Egerton, I do not think I should ever love you, nor do I feel I am the sort of girl you ought to marry " She broke off ab ruptly. "I am quite old enough to know my own mind," said Egerton abruptly. "If your heart is free, I will not accept your pres ent 'no' as final. I am desperately perse vering, when my heart Is set on anything, as it is now, Dorothy I" "Still, Mr. Egerton, do not think me un kind, but but I do not believe I shall ever change.' "We shall see. Now you are looking uneasy. I do not want to keep you here against your will. Remember, though, I do not accept your refusal; give me a little grace." He caught and kissed her hand, holding it for a minute In his own. "Do not keep me, Mr. Egerton," said Dorothy, who was greatly distressed. ". am more sorry than I can say to vex yoi i and and I want to overtake Miss Oakeley 1" (To be continued.) Household. RF.CTIES. Crab Oumbf.. Boil and pick oat the in- at I'rom half a dozen good-sized crabs. llf.it two tables pooufuls of butter or butter ami lard mixed and add one finely-chopped onion, oiie-quurter of a pound of raw ham cut into small dice one-half of a pound of finely-chopped raw beef or veal ami one-half, of a good-sized red pepper linely chopfied. Stir until nicely brow net add four tablesooufuls of Hour aud brown again. Add two quarts of water, one cupful of sliced okra and the crab meat ami simmer for two hours; add one cupful of rice and one pint of hot water, simmer until the rice is very tender and servo with thin slices of lemon. Chocolate Mousse. Melt two squares of unsweetened chocolate over hot water, water, add a few talilespoonfuls of cream, ami wh-n mixed add it to the bowl of croiiin three cupfuls altogether. Add one cupful of Mwlcred sugar and stir until dissolved. Whip and take off the froth as it rises, laying it on a sieve to drain. When no moi-c froth can be taken oil turn the drained froth into a wetted mold, cover and bind the edee with a strip of muslin dipped into melted butter I. u t y in lee anil salt and set aside for thro hours to freeze. Kasplierry Foam. Whip the whites of four i-usa until frothv: add four table- sponnfuis of powdeix'd sugar and whip un til very stiff, dropping in a little at a time three tuhlcsxonfuls of raspberry juice. Heap in glasses and serve at once Dandelion Wine. Four anarts of the vellow flowers, four ouarls of water, the grated rind of two oranges, the grated rind of one lemon, ltoil nil together 20 minutes: then strain mid add four iiounds of suggar. When cooled until lukewarm stir through three-quarters of a teacup of yeast. Slice the oranges into it, first hav ing removed the thick rind and seeds. let it stand in an oncn vessel three or four days; then strain, bottle aud cork ugntiy. Currant Water Ice. One quart of cur rant mice, two pounds of sugar, one quart of water. Freeze in any freezer, as t loes not require to be lieuten anil turned like ice cream. When partly frozen stir in the whites of three epes, beaten very stiff. The ruby mass thus obtained is "the most decorative of all ices. Clams a la Xewbure. One pint raw clams; take out the soft part, remove the black end und chop the tou;h parts very tine. Put one tablespoonful of butter in a itewpan with one-half teaspoon salt ami i saltsooon of nanrika: add the clams and simmer ten minutes. Then add two t tMespimns of sherry and the soft art. Ileal volks of two ei.'!;s, mix with half a rup of cream, and stir in quickly and re move as soon as the egg thic kens. General Sports. It is said that the Hawthorne Club, to ho built at Cheektowaira. near Buffalo, will seat 12.000 iersons. ... ma r . . ..wt limmv J MCK llisf, oi v . ' J Ju.ltre, of Scranton, are matched to box at the latter place 2u rounds during the lat ter part of this month. Tho Hrooklyn Kcvolver Club contem plates holding an open tournament in the fall. The object of the club in arrang ing this tournament is to arouse interest in the sport and promote friendship be tween revolver shooters. Shooters of all classes will be brought together. Maryland's State game and fish war den, R. II. Gilbert, has appointed tho fol lowing depnty wardens for the eastern and nothern counties: Jacob Stevenson and Addison Williams, Harford County; .I:-mes Daley, W. T. Dietrich, C. Moyd Kodirers. Jr., Hnltimore County; II. E. Kirbv, Dorehesler County; W. McKnew, i Kreaii City; Josiah Atkins, Berlin and Worcester County. ..... The next shooting festival of the Na tional Schuetzenbund of America wxll be held in California in 1901. . . John Kelly having declined to act, it is prolHible that Tim Hurst will be asked to referee the Corbett-McCoy bout. I The cells composing the epidermis are 1-1G0 of an inch in diameter. Tho Philadelphia Zoological gardens containedfon January 11,019 living ani mals 339 mammals, 421 birds, 23s rep tiles and 21 batra loans. , Dartmoor is tho largest tract of un cultivated land in England; it occupies one-fifth of the county of Devon. . PRAISE TO BE CALLED AN ASS. Borne of tha Hr Virtnea f That Creature Briefly Reviewed, To be called an ass Is a great compll meut. HnuiUlty, patience, charity and industry have been recognised as great virtues ever since mankind has been introspective; but the world has failed to notice that the ass, which la the bruut of the Jests of all nations, pos sesses these qualities more fully than suy other animal or any human being exc-opt the proverbial one In a million. Often we call the man whom we like a "rare old dog," and he rather like It. If we call hlia a rare old ass, which la finer praise, he would got mad, how ever. We write poems In praise of ths horse, though the horse la la so many respecta the ass' inferior. Tbe horse makes the brlllant oavalry charge, but It Is the aas who brings up the army's ammunition and the food supplies. While one rides on a galloping horse over a plain in safety he despises the ass, and he still despises the ass when, forsaking hU horse, he trusts his lift to the ass In a mountain puss. The ass Is to be found In every part of the world, always melancholy and s'or,-, nobly doing his work, whether In the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rockies, or l4the "lace of hhi nativity, tha Ori ent. Wherever he la, his dominant char acteristics are the same. Wherever he Is, he Is generally ahussd; perhnpt because he puts up with abuse st meekly. Always he Is the friend of the poor In countries where horses cannot be af forded he Is the sole means of trans port. All day long he will go over s hot plain or up a rocky mountain sldo loaded down with more than any horse could bear, though bis weight Is only half that of the average horse, while u a horse were limited to the food It sub sists on the horse wojild fall down In Its tracks and die, though It had no loud. With the load it would fall down, anyway, That the nss can lie cured of his only two vices of braying and kicking It proved by the superior conduct of the I guidon moke, who Is aliout a third cousin of the oriental ass of myth, of fable and biblical story. Tho moke, who Is about the size of a big New foundland dog, draws the barrels of the costerinongers who vend fruits and vegetables from door to door in all parts of the city. All day you may occasionally hear him out of your window chlvy-chlvylng with his rapid and mincing ltttlo stops over tbe asphalt pavements. At the same gait be will carry his barrel, well loaded with produce, and two big cos termongers, up the side of a hill. This sometimes calls for sharp remarks about brutes who ought to be In Jail from old gentlemen with white side whiskers and a kindly expression of mouth, to which the costermonger usu ally replies: "G'irn, old plnm pudding. It 'urta you more'n 'lm." Until Baroness Burdett-Coutta and the Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Animals organized In Imitation of the original American society took the matter in hand and made the pass age of the law a matter of great senti mental moment In the House of Com mons, Instead of feeding his little don key the costermonger usually beat him, and the moke, too patient and too hum ble to attempt to petition the Commons Itself, tried to thrive on the whipping nud succeeded wonderfully. There is no finer playfellow for chil dren than a moke. When hi fuzzy fur Is washed it Is soft, fluffy and pretty. A youngster may crawl all over him and under him and pound and pull him in every part of his anatomy, and he will only smile the contented stuMe of the moke who Is living In the moke heaven of currycombs and good ra tions. That the ass Is not stupid is proved by his equal cleverness with the horse la learning tricks, by his picking his way where a horse cannot go by his calmness under conditions that moke a horse uncomfortably fretful. But he seems homely and out of proportion, unless you look at him closely, and tbe world too often goes by appearances. Scrutinise sharply the patient face of the ass, and you will find those quali ties which make a face educational and perhaps ever beautiful. Few Crimea In Sweden, la Sweden a crime is an event. Theft particularly la very rare. Honesty Is tbe fundamental quality of the race, naturally recognized and officially counted upon. In this respect the Stockholmers show a confident care lessness which is always a surprise to strangers aud causes them some un easiness. In the theaters and concert halls there are large cloak-rooms, where hats and furs are left without the Smallest safeguard. The perform ance over, each one again takes posses sion of his effects, nor does an "acci dent" ever occur. Tbe Inhabitants are accustomed to expect a reciprocal pro bity in the transactions of e very-day life. Upon most of the tramways in Stoekhobm conductors have been dis pensed with. The passenger himself deposits 10 ore In a till placed at th end of tbe vehicle, behind the driver. Tnnnel Cnder the Danube. The Danube Is to have a tunnel be neath Its bed. Tbe Hungarian govern ment has just completed the necessary arrangements for the construction without delay of a subway beneath the river at Budapest, on tbe same prin ciple as that of the sew Blaokwall tun nel under tha Thames In London. There la to be a footpath for passen gers and an electric railway. The up per way will be reserved exclusively for vehicular traffic, and ventilation Is to be provided by electricity. Odd Corner In a Famous House. In the late Baron da Hlrsch's famous white drawing-room In his house in Paris, there Is a corner which the dec orators and artists have never touchc I with their brushes. The wan and ceir !ng are as bare as wbsn the plasterers left them. This peculiar feature of a beautiful apartment is In commemora tion of the forty years wandering In tbe wilderness and of the fact that "toer to no abldlnf city." It la said tha tvw nart of tha houses ef all good Jews is left Incomplete, as a constant1 Asunder ef thlff Biblical saying. In the same custom has been observe and a part of the gilded celling in the ball-room Is unfinished. An American, with the lnqulsltiveness of the typical Yankee, once asked Baron de HIrsch his reason for leaving a corner of his drawing-room unfinished. The Baron U said to have replied, with tbe utmost gravity, that the money gave out be fore the decorations could be completed. The great hydreearbon belt stretchet from northeast to southeast for 10C miles across the Uncempahre and Utn tah Indian reservation. Here occur tht largest known .bodies ef gllsonite, elat erlte mineral caoutchouc asphaltlt limestone and sandstone. At a meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club, recently, the president described some remarkably small pine treef which he bad found growing on the t of a precipice In the Shawangunb Mountains, at an altitude of 2.200 feet These trees, although they had per fectly deevloped cones, wer only six Inches In height. The working of a plan of ventilation of rooms devised by Ir. Castalng, prin cipal physician of the French armies. Is highly eo in mended. It consists in tht Use of double windows, with'opentng: at the bottom of one and at the top of the opposite one, through which the all comes In freely without any one feeling It. The system Is said to possess slsa pllclty, efficiency and cheapness. A writer in Harper's Kound Tablt describes a piece of amber ta which is imbedded a lizard eight Inches Is length and belonging to a species which is no longer extant. The little animal li perfectly preserved In Its golden-bued prison, all of Its colors showing through. This is not the only instance in which the fossilized gum named am ber has preserved specimens of living forms that have now become extinct on tho earth. A process of plating aluminum with copper by a welding method has been Invented In Germany by nerr Wnch nltz. This is regarded as Important be cause one of the obstacles to a wldci use of aluminum has been Its compara tive lack of resistance to tbe action ot many fluids and Its failure to hold paint These objections are removed when It is covered with a thin plating of copper, while Its weight is not ma. terially Increased. A Taris Ice company now obtains Its supplies from the glacier da Casset, near Briancon. The foot of the glacier Is 0,000 feet above sea level, and the 300-pound blocks of Ice are carried to a station 1.400 feet lower by a telphet line 7,000 feet long. The loaded can or boxes on this line pull up the empty ones, no engines being required. The cars bring down hourly ten tons of ice. which is carried in carts from tie lowei station to a railway about eleven miles away. Electrical machinery operated by on man Is applied to the ringing of the three great bells of the church of Pt. George, Berlin. A motor of ten hors; power gives 100 revolutions per mlnutt to a shaft, on which are three loos drums, each having at Its side a fric tion wheel fixed to the shaft. Pressure of the wheel against the drum causes both to revolve. A rope on the drum acts on the bell-lever, and as tbe bell reaches the middle of Its swing, an eccentric releases the drum and allows the bell to ring back. According to tbe recent calculation of Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, of Amsterdam. 000,000 miles a day Is the velocity with which the sun and Its planets are speed ing through space in a northerly direc tion. Tbe brightest star In that part ol the heavens toward which we are going Is the brilliant Vega In the constellatloc Lyra, a sun unquestionably much great er than ours. Every year, by Trof Kapetyn's estimate, we draw iomi three hundred million miles nearer t that star. Cornell professor makes an Inter sting announcement about brains. Thi main portion of the human brain k composed of the cerebrum, and th J portion anterior to it, devoted to smell and known as the olfactory bulbs, I sometimes treated as a mere appendli to the cerebrum. But this professor after comparing brains from all grado of the lower animals, declares that tht human brain Is an anatomical mn stroslty, and that. In a historical view of the brain, the portion devoted tr thinking Is more properly to be stylet! a mere appendix to the part devoted t smelling. In some creatures, the olfac tory portion Is much the largest par. of the brain. War Makes Pineapples Scarce. The war with Spain has caused s scarcity of pineapples, which deliclow fruit comes largely from the Bahama Islands, and which has hitherto been brought to our markets principally by mall vessels flying the American flag Hoc si Temperance Country. A story was told relating to Scotch hospitality, as explaining Scotland' reputation as a drinking nation. Some years ago a Scotchman residing In the Interior, who had accumulated a for tune In America, paid a visit to his old borne. Before leaving a fellow coun tryman asked him to take In his pocket a notebook, and to make a note of every visit be made with an observation as to whether or not he was offered liq uor. During a two months' absence he paid ninety-two visits In Scotland and waa asked to take liquor. at eighty-serin of the houses he visited. Rumors of war are less Interesting to landladies than roomers who pay In ad ranee. After a man has been a model fathe for years, be Is expected to become i model grandfather. How easy It Is to collect a crowd Bcv SMVst loro In rnfcbgnMafc, SERMONS OFTHE DAY "Silenee la Heaven." the Subject The Mighty Import of the Cessation Do M-ribe! In Revelations Half Honrs Which Have Determined Destinies. Text: "There was silence In heaven about the space of half an hour." Reve lations, viii., 1. "Take this watch and keep it," said a dying Christian as he picked it up from tha stand at bis pillow, "I have no more need of it. I am going where time shall be no longer." But it seems from my text that heaven was at least onoe measured by an earthly time-piece. The busiest place in the universe Is heaven. It is the center from which all good influences start; it is tho goal at which all good results arrive. The Bible represents it as active, with wheels and wings and orchestras and processions, mounted or charioted. But my text de scribes a space when the wheels ceased to roll and the trumpets to sound and the voices to ehnnt. The riders on the whltej horses reined in their chargers. The dox-( ologles were hushed and the processions) halted. The hand of arrest was put uponi all the splendors. "Stop, Hnavenl" cried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. Fob thirty minutes everything celestial stood; still. "There was silence In heaven fori the space of half an hour." From all we can learn it Is the only time heaven ever stopped. It does not stop, asl other cities, for the night, for there is no night there. It does not stop fora plague for the Inhabitant never da vs. "I ami sick." It does not stop for bankruptcies J for its inhabitants never fail. It does not stop for impassable streets, for there are) no lauon snovrs or sweeping freshets. What, then, stopped it for thirty minutes?! Grotius and Professor Ktuart think it was at the time of the destruction of Jerusa lem, ilr. Lord thinks It was in the yeari 311. near the close ot the Diocletian ner.se-! cution and the beginning of the wars by' which Constantine gained the throne. But! that was all a guess, though a learned andi brilliant guess. I do not kuow when it' was, and I do not care when it was, but ofi tbe fuct that such an interregnum of sou mil took place I am certain. "There was. silence In heaven for the space of half au hour." i And. first of all, we may learn that Oodj and all heaven then honored silence. Tbe full power of silence many of us have yotj to learn. We are told that when Christ) was arraigned "He answered not a word."j That silence was louder than any hunderj that ever shook the world. Ofttinies, whenj we are assailed and misrepresented, the; migntlest tbiug to say is to say nothing and the mightiest thing to do is to do noth ing. Those people who aru always rush-. ng into print to get themselves set right,: accomplish nothing but their own chagrin.! Hileneel I)o right and leave the results' with God. Among the grandest lessons,' the world has ever lnnrned aro the lessons! of patience t.ugbt by those who endured uncomplainingly personal or domestic or, political injustice. Oil, the power ofj patient sllencel Eschylus. tbe immortal' poet, was condemned to death for writing! something that oiTended the people. All; the pleiis In his behalf were of no avail, un-i til his brother uncovered the arm of theJ prisoner and shoarwl that his wrist had; been sacrillced for his country nt tbe battle, of Knlnmis. That eilent plea liberated him. The loudest thing on earth is silence if it be of the right kind and at the right; time. There was a qnaint old hymn,' pelled In the old style, oncn sung In the ihurches: The raco is not forever get By him who fastest runs, Nor the Battel by those peopell That shoot with the longest gun. Mv friends, the tossing sea ot Galilee, leemcil more to offend Christ by the amount; of noise it made, for He said to it: "Be still!" Heaven has been crowning Kings! and Queens unto God for many centuriesj yet heaven never stopped a moment fori any such occurrence, but it stopped thirty minutes for the coronation of Silence.' " There was silence in heaven for the space, of half an hour." ', Learn also from my text that heaven must be an eventful and active place, from: the fact that It could afford only thirty' minutes of recess. There have been events on enrth and in heaven that seemed to de-j mand a whole day or wholn week or whole year for celestial consideration. If Grotius' was right and this silence occurred at tlied time of tlio di struetion of Jerusalem, that" scene was so awful and so prolonged that the inhabitants of heaven could not have done justice to It In many weeks. After fenrful besicgoment of the two fortresses ot Jerusalem Antonio nnd Hippicus had been going on for a long while, a Roman soldier mounted on the shonlderof another soldier hurled into the window of the tem ple a 'flrobrnnd, and the temple was all atlnme, and after covering many sacrifices to the holiness of God, the building Itself became a sacrifice to the ragf of man. The hunger ot tbe peeple In that city during the besiegemeut was so great that as some outlaws were passing a doorway and inhaled tho odors ot food they burst open tbe door, threatening the mother of the household with death unless she gave them some food, and she took them aside and showed them that It was her ownohilil she was cooking for the ghastly repast. Six hundred priests were destroyed on Mount Zion because, the temple being gone, there was nothing for them to do. Six thousand people in one cloister were eonsumed. There were 1,100.000 dead, according to Josepbus. Grotius thinks that this was the cause or silence in neaven lor hair an nour. If Mr. Lord was right, and this silence was during the Diocletian persecutions, by which 844.000 Christians suffered death trom sword and fire, and banishment and exposure, why did not heaven listen throughout at least one of those awful years? No! Thirty minutes! Tbe fact is that the celestial programme Is so crowded with spectacle that it can afford only ono recess in all eternity, and that for a short space. While there are great chorouses in which all heaven can Join, eacn soul there has a story of divine mercy peculiar to it self, and it must be a solo. How can heaven get through with all its solos, as well as all its recitatives, with ail its cantatas, with all its grand marches, with all its vic tories? Eternity is too short to utter all the praise. Not only are all the triumphs of the past to be commemorated, but all the triumphs to como. Not only what we now know of God, but what we will know ot Him after everlasting study of tho Dei fie. If my text had said there was silence in heaven for thirty days, I would not have been startled at the announcement, but it Indicates thir ty minutes. Why, there will be so many friends to hunt up; so many of the greatly good and useful that we will want to see; so many of the uusorutable things of earth we will need explained; so many exciting earthly experiences we will want to talk over, and nil the other spirits and the aget will want the same, that there wtll be nc opportunity for cessation. How busy w will be kept In having pointed out to us the heroes and heroines that the world never fully appreciated tho yellow fever and cholera doctors, who died not flying from thoir posts; the female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettoes; the railroad engineers who stayed at their places in or der to save tbe train, though they them selves perished and went down through the open drawbridge. Hubert Goffln, the master miner, who, landing from the bucket at tbe bottom ot the mine, just as he beard the waters rush in, and when one jerk of the rope would have lifted him to safety, put a blind miner who wanted to go to bis sick child In tho bucket, and jerked the rope for him to be pulled up, crying: "Tell thorn th water has burst In and we are probnblj lost; but we will seek refuge at the other end of the gallery," and then giving the command to the 'other miners till they llgged themselves so near out that the people from the outside could como to their rescue. The multitudes of men and wom en who got no crown on earth, we will want to see when they get their crown in neaven. I tell you heaven will have no more half hours to spare. Besides that, heaven Is full of children. They are In the vast majority. No child on earth who amounts to anything eaa be kept quiet half an hour, and how are you going to keen O0.000.0Q0 of than quiet half aa hoar, "lira know heaven Is much more of a place than it was when that recess of thir ty minutes occurred. Its population has quadrupled, sextnplod, centupled. Heaven has more on hand, more of rapture, more of knowledge, more of intercommunica tion, more of worship. There is not so much difference between Washington, a mudhole seventy years ago. and Washing ton now, tbe most beuatlful city on earth; not so much difference between New York when Canal street was far nptown, and when Canal street Is far downtown, as there Is difference between what heaven was when my text was written and what heaven is now. The most thrilling place we have ever been In is stupid compared with that, and if we now have no time to spare, we will then have no eternity to spare. Silence In heaven only half an bourl My subject also impresses me with the Immortality of a half hour. That half hour mentioned In my text is more widely known than any other period In the cal endar of heaven. None of the whole hours of heaven are measured off, none of the years, none of the centuries. Of the millions ot ges past, and the millions of ages to come, not one is especially measured off in tho Bible. The half hour ot my text Is made immortal. Tbe only part of eternity that was ever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, the half hours! They decide everything. I am not asktng what you will do with the years or months or days of your life, but what of the half hours. Tell me the history of your half hours, and I will tell you the story of your whole life on earth and tbe story of your whole life in eternity. The right or wrong things you can think In thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can say In thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can do In thirty minutes are glorious or baleful, inspiring or draper ate. Look out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half hours between shoeing horses that made Etihu Burrltt the learned black smith; the half hours between professional calls as a physicial that made Abercromble the Christian philosopher; the half hours between his duties as school master that made Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice; the half hours between shoe lasts that made Henry Wilson Vioe-I resident of the United States; the half houis between canal bouts that made James A. Garlluld President. The half hour a day for good books or bad books; the half hour a day for prayer or Indolence; the half hour a day for helping others or blasting others; the half hour before you go to business, nnd the halt hour after your return from business; that makes the difference between the scholar and the ignoramus, bet wee u the Christian and the inlldtl, between the saint and the demon, between triumph and catastrophe, between heaven and hell. The most tre mendous things of your life and mine were sertain half hours. Remember, we are mortal yet, and can not endure the full roll of heavenly har monies, and cannot endure even tbe silent heaven for more than half an hour. Hark I the clock in the tower of heaven begins to strike, and the half hour Is ended. De scend! Come backl Come down! till your work Is done. Shoulder a little longer your battles. Weep a little longer your griefs. And then take heaven not In its fullest half hour, but in its mightiest pomp and instead of taking It for thirty minutes, take it world without end. But how will you spend the first half hour of your heavenly citizenship after yoa have gone In to stay? After your prostration before the throne in worship of Him who made it possible for you to get there nt all, I think tbe rest of your first half hour in heaven will be passed in receiving your re ward if you have been faithful. I have a strangely beautiful book, containing the pictures ot the medals struck by the Eng lish Government In honor of great battles; these medals pinned over the heart of the returned heroes of tho army, on great oc casions, the royal family present, nnd the royal bands playing the Crimean medal, the Legion of Honor, the Victoria Cross, the Waterloo medal. In your first halt hour in heaven in some way you will be honored for the earthly struggles in which you won the day. Stand up before ail the royal house of heaven and receive the Insignia while you are announced as victor over political misfortune, as victor over the droughts and freshets ot the farm field, victor over the temptations of the stock exchange, victor over domestic in felicities, victor over mechanic's shop, vic tor over professional allurements, victor over the storehouse, victor over home worrlments, victor over physical distress, victor over hereditary depressions, victor over sin and death and hell. Take tbe badge that celebrates those victories , through our Lord Jesus unrist. raice it in the presence of all the galleries, saintly, angelic, and divine, while all heaven chants: "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Thy saints in all this glorious war Khali conquer though they die; They see the triumph from afar, And seize it with their eye. If heaven is all this while baited, what will it be when on the march? If heaven is all this while silent, what will it be when In full triumph? Many years ago, at the Crystal Palace, in New York, Julian gave a great concert, 3000 voices and 8000 players, upon instruments. He aontrolled that igreat harmony, beating time with band and ioot, and to myself, who had never before beard music on a grand scale, it was over powering. But oh, when they shall oome "from the north and the south, and the east and the west, and sit down in the temple of God and the Lamb, and Christ shall rise, and all heaven shall rise with Him, He shall control that harmony with once wounded band and once wounded foot, and it will be like the voice of many waters and the voice of mighty thundorings. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive bless ing and riches nnd honor and glory and power. Amen and amenl A NORWEGIAN'S PRAISE OF US. Captain Gade. of the Itoyal Navy, Com pliment the American Gunners. Captain Gustav Gade, of tbe Royal Nor wegian Navy, has returned to Washington from Santiago, where he witnessed the de struction of Cervera's fleet. He was sent by bis Government to study the war. He said: "I think the battle at Santiago was the grandest sight that has ever been wit nessed. Your gunners are wonderful marksmen, and the work of your navy has set at rest forever any doubt In tbe mluds of such nations who may have been so de luded that Americans do not know how to fight. "Your army Is a fine body of men. Your regulars are without a doubt as well drilled as any European army, and they ap p jar to me physically and intellectually far above the average ot European soldiers." Pensions For Our Hem Vr. Owing to tbe number of applications for pensions being received as a result of the war with Spain, Commissioner ll. Clay Evans, of the Pension Bureau, Washington, has established tho "Divislou of "!W." To this all applications originating through service In the prment war will be leferrod. Medical officers of tho Pension Bureau esti mate that at least two-thirds of the men who have been sent to Cuba and Porto iilco will eventually beeomo pensioner. In TYaiK-e. it is :i punishable offence for anyone In t;tvc infants mnlei- one year any form of stti, food unless such ho i.r-dei-ed by wriilen prescription xigninl by a qualified me licul man. The number of I'hinese in San Fran cisco is about 20,000. Barcelona is now tho most populous city of Spain, the result of a census just taken showing 520,000 inhabitants, to Ma drid's 507,000. It is said -.hat excessive tea drinking among tho humbler classes of Ireland has cuused an alarming increase of in sanity, esjiecially among women. A German bird-fancier bos marie ob nervations as to the elfect of balloons on birds. Some of them look no notice of the aerial monsters, others seemed to regard them with placid curiosity, while tome were thrown into a panic. Nearly 1,200,000 pounds of colors are used by the United Stales government annually for printing paper money, rev enue and postage stamps.' Farm Notes. Separate the younger from the older stock when feeding. The natural conse quence of promis-'uous herding is thut the largest ami strongest take their choice, and leave the refs to lie eaten by the weaker, whereas tho best should lie given to the poorest in order to help them to a condition of thrift and growth Ropy milk is caused by a bacteria, but it is not as yet known how this bacteria gets into the milk unless it is from tha body of the cow. Wash the udder, teats and body of the cow before milking; also 3ee that the vessel and hands of the milker are clean. Tho animal heat in the milk ihould be removed as soon as possible by passing the milk over a cold surface or through a pipe surrounded by ice. The growth of a young animal is the main fac tor in the increase of its weight, and when tho food is both nitrogenous and car bouaccous there is a greater gain than when the fod is mostly carbonaceous, as when corn ulone is used. At the Alabama Experiment Station pitfs pastured on near ly matured cowpeus,anil supplied with corn uiiule ulinost three time the gain in live weight marie by similar pigs fed exclu sively on corn. Pigs also gained more rapidly on ground cowpeas and corn 'ban on corn alone. In ollect o.M pounds of the mixed food was equal to 8.06 pounds of ground corn. One pound of cornmeal, however, proved superior to three pounds of sweet potatoes. Tho pumpkin contains a largo propor ion of water, but it is an excellent ad dition to tho ration of hogs, according to i-xh i inients made, Ihe. pumpkins being f.M.k. il in winter and fed with shorts. The result was that the hogs made greater gain than on any other fund, the quality of the meat was superior, and the cost was less than when the hogs were fed without the us.? of pumpkins. Pumpkins have been grown mostly for cattlo, but it may be of value to farmers to grow them and give them a trial as food for hogs. It will take 1000 quarts of milk at 2 1-2 . .'ents a quart to pay for the keep of a cow one year. Every quart over that amount is profit. Such is an estimate niadu by a dairyman who has kept accu rate accounts. It is plain, therefore, that if one cow yields 3hhi quarts of milk in a year and auother 20OU quarts, the one yielding the larger quantity will pro duce twice as much profit as the other, although she gives only one-third more, l'his is due to tho fact that the first cost of support of the cow must be met without r.. .. i i v a. 1 11 lrnrn Ihut regard to the yieiu. im ie " " loiim cows will yield more milk on the 'anie quantity of toou man oiuei,. -light increase of milk may change a small profit into one that is large. . . -. t : . : 1 ... n a. in eli t for wuaiiy 1 11 iruifc i -'"-j - ft , liv purchasers. When the grower semis inferior fruit to market ho often gives two quarts or bushels for the price of one uid has also taxed his trees or vine to that extent, having lmpoverisiiou m more than he should, as well as paid twice s much for commissions and freight. W hen there is a surplus in market only tho lH-st will l in demand, and all infer ior fruit must be sold at a loss or given iway. There is no way of exterminating the Minmn daisy except by plowing r de Hroving the individual plants. Probably plowing in the spring, and constant and !.. . ....I. .. Ilk a..,.io tiuil like li equeiib i utkivutiuK ------ - thu cutaway or disk harrow during tho J i ... ..... runinicr, wouiu ueswoy v. . t, i : 1.1 tavm bmll A lanauian exei . - out a for uiu In for sterilizing grape juice in that it may be kept without fermenting, reiaining us natural nv - n--- -- ually to 170 degrees Fahrenheit, and keep it at that toincraturo for 10 minutes. Have the bottles in a kettle of boiling water, take them out, fill and cork tight ly immediately. Being iifectlv sweet and thoroughly sterilized, it will keep for an indefinite period. Probably cider could also be kept in the same way and other fruit juices. Different valuations are given horse maiiure,as it is mode from many dilferent substances. It is estimated that a ton of manure contains about ten pounds of nitro gen, ten pounds of potash and four pounds f phosphoric acid, tho value of which is alsiul two dollars. It will lie interest ing for farmers who buy manure to con sider whether it will pay to haul manure a long distance unless it is of tho most valuable kind. Manure from livery stables, which is wmiposed mostly of straw, is not worth as much as that which is free from litter, heme when the fiiimT give hi lalsir and that of his team to haul a ton of manure a mile or more, as well as load and unload it, he may pay more for it than it is worth. Fertilized are i-heaior unless the manure is worth over two dollars a ton. Variety of food cheapens its cost, as fiere is "more product when the food is varied. Corn and wheat are standard food for poultry, and farmers have contented fie nisclves that grain is sufficient; but the Indiana experiment station has demon strated that when fresh milk is given chicks intended to be sold as "broilers" t!.e gain, when milk is added to the grain ration, is nearly twice as much as when grain alone is used. For laying hens it is b. tter to give milk liberally also, as milk supplies the albumen of the egg and a largo share of mineral matter, which is deficient in grain. Skim milk is cheaper and can be very profitably used for both bogs and poultry. Labor Notes. The diamond mines of the Kiniberlcy listrict produced lost year diamonds of ;lie aggregate weight of 3,717,785 carats. Hamilton, Canada, is the latest place to e taken with the idea that a municipal Council can profitably add a fire insur ini e department to the machinery it looks ifter. British railroads, it is said, have com bined to stop Saturday half-holiday ex .Ursion trains during the summer months n tho ground that they have their hands ull with the more profitable regular a-afQc. Seattle will Rend 30,000 bales of cotton to Japan during the criming winter. This is a rather large order for a single port, tbout 50 per cent, more in value than the value of all American exports to Japan luring 1894-95. The forest wealth of Mexico in timber, lyewoods, medicinal and other useful plants is very great. The exports of cabinet and dyewoods alone amouut to be tween two and three million dollars per innum, while the abundance of the prn luct is such that the industry is capable if indefinite development. Indian cotton goods continue to make headway in China, says the Bombay Ga otto, and it is encouraging to find from the latest reports to hand that the oppor tunities for the sale of cotton goods in West China are practically limitless, as its many millions of inhabitants are al most entirely clothed in garments made from cotton. The output of gold in Austrialia for the first half of this year will be largely in excess of that for the same period last year. The same is true of the South African gold mines and of the United States mines. The Klonkike and Alaska regions will yield $25,000,000 this year. The estimate that the world's output of gold would reach 300,000,000 in 1900 was Vjo low. Tho amount of silk produced by each spider is so small that a scientist com putes Gti.1,522 would be renuirerl to pro duce a pound of thread. M. Phisalix announced to tho Acad t-mie des Sciences, Paris, some time ago, that chotcstcrine injected into tho blood of animals moIt; them resist the enoin of vipers. , The number of people who have lived upon this earth since the time of Adam is calculated to be somewhere about 36,-627,841,600,000.000 15 i ---'
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