P. BGHWBIBB, THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL MI. MIFFMNTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24. 1898. NO. 37 i CIIAITKU IV. Kgertnu's words tmk iMrothy so com pletely by surprise that fur some time she unable to thiuk clearly. Even the next ninwiing. when she open ed hrr rye, her first feeling was painful confusion. She longed to bear what Mabel thought of the wonderful event she mimt tell Mt bel; Mr. Egerton would not mind that: but to every one els she would be mute so one would know oX bla rejection. Hut Kicertnn was by no means anxious to conceal the fact that he had offered hiniKflf his old name, his fine estate, his large investments to this young, iusiguifi cant girl "a mere nobody" as the Dow ner, Mrs. Callander, was wont to re mark. He did not present himself as early as usual at "The Knoll" the next day, but meeting; Standlsh, who had been strolling on the pier at an hour when It was chiefly In the possession of ancient mariners, he passed his arm through that of Standlsh with unusual familiarity, saying, "I waa on my way to have a little talk with Cal lander. Will you come with me?" "Yea, If you like; you'll be rather clever If you vet him to talk." . They approached the Knoll, at the gate of which they met Colonel Callander. lie greeted them with more animation than asuaJ. Egerton tolj them of his proposal to Dorothy and her rejection of him. He begged the two to assist him In Inducing her to chance her mind. This Colonel Callander readily consented to do, but Paul Stundish did. not show any great eagerness to exert any influence on the mind of his ward. "The-only person to whom I feel inclined to confide so important a piece of intelli gence," said the Colonel finally, "is to my mother. It Is right she should know, es pecially as It la probable we shall leave Dorothy under her care when we go away." "Uo away! Who Is going away?" cried Egerton sharply, with a keen glance like a stab. "Don't suppose I am going to do any thing desperate," said Callander, with a grave smile. "Mrs. Callander and I talk of going abroad for a month or two. I want to have a look at the battlefields on the French frontier, and to 'go on into Switzerland. Of course Dorothy will stay here." The trio dispersed, Standlsh proceeding along the beach to a long spit which stretched far into the waters. Meanwhile Callander and Egerton walk ed slowly toward the hotel where the .Dowager had established herself. Here 'Egerton left him. When Colonel Callander was ushered to his mother's sitting room he found her as usual richly and elaborately dress ed, and knitting a huge coverlet, while .Miss Iioothby, ber companion, read aloud. She gave a cold straight unresponsive tiand to her son. "I hope you are all right after your long day in the open air?" he said, as he drew a chair near her work table. "Thank you. I am as usual. I get little sleep. My mind is too anxious to permit of repose I" "That's bad," said Colonel Callander, vaguely. ' "You need not stay. Miss Boothby," aid the Dowager. "I wish to converse with my son." The meek companion rose with a smile and disappeared. "I came to ask you if yon have any commands, as I think of going np to town to-morrow. I want to arrange one or two matters before going north." "North! Why, where are yon going now?" querulously. "Mabel and I think of taking a trip through the Highlands, or to Switzerland. I think she wants a change as much aa 1 do." "There I agree with yon," observed Mrs. Callander, significantly. "She has had a worn, distressed look ever since I mean, for a considerable time." "You think so?" said her son, with a quick, fiery flash from his dark eyes a warning which even his mother dared not disregard. "I trust she baa no cause for distress or anxiety at ail events she aeeuis to consider the panacea for her ills Is a quiet Journey with me." "I am sincerely glad to hear It," with pointed emphasis "pray, when do you tart?" "Early next week. May I ask what ' your plans are?" "If you are going away there la no par ticular object in my remaining. ' I don't suppose even when yon return I shall see much of you." "There is no reason why we should not be as much together as you like," returned th Colonel dryly. "However, If yuu are comfortable here, and don't mind staying, I should be glad If yon would, because," tie stopped and seemed to have lost the thread of his discourse his eyes wander ing to the window, and evidently preoccu pied with some distant object visible to the loner sense. "Well!" said hla mother at last, looking np from ber knitting with some surprise, "why da yon wish me to stay?" Her son looked at her with a bewildered aspect, and then passing his hand over his brow, exclaimed; "I beg your pardon! 1 forgot what I waa saying! I wished yon to stay, because Mabel and I Intend to be away about six weeks or ao, and Dorothy will I here alonethat would be of no consequence, but Egerton has just pro posed to me for her. It seems that Dor othy refused him, but he very wisely will not take a girl's first no. So he begs to be allowed opportunities of pressing his suit and " "Refused him!" said Mrs. Callander, in a high key. "She must be out of ber mind! He to a match for an earl's daugh ter. Why, it will be quite a distinguish ed connection. Of course she will accept him! she must. Dorothy has her tempers, and is altogether wanting In a knowledge of what she owes to ns, but I alway thought there was some moral worth ifi tor " "L'ltliiiHtcIv she will do on she likes, bnt Egerton ought to have a fair chance. Now if you are here he can see her with yon, under your chaperonage, and Henrietta will probably also stay otherwise he paused. "I never hesitate to sacrifice myself on the altar of duty," said Mrs. Callander, In a lofty tone, "or for the good of others, for I cannot say I owe any duty to your Ister-in-law, but if it is an accommoda te yon, my dear son, I will remain until yon return." "You see there are no relatlonsoi frtonds trt whom we can send Dorothy. "I am quite aware of that," put In his mother, sharply. Callander did not heed ber. "And." he continued, "even if Standish could stay on here, he could not be the sort of protection you can be." "Nor do I suppose It likely he will re main while you are away," remarked Mrs. Callander, sweetly. Mother! he cried, "do yon know how cruel yon are? Do you know that mv life Is bound up in Mabel's! In Mabel's love and truth. Nothing yon say touches my faith In her yet yet you torment me. She Is she alwaya will be spotless in the eyes of all men." ' He sprang np and paced to and fro rap- iuiy. wnn occasional fierce gestures. spotless! my desr Herbert! I should hope so!" returned Mrs Callander nrlt-h the obtuseness of a hard, unsympathetic woman. uo yon think I meant anything beyond the necessity of attending to ap pearances? When a man like Mr. Stan dish a man of the world In the worst sense is seen morning, noon and night, with a young woman whom some people consider handsome, why " "Be sllentr he exclaimed, harshly, turn ing to face her, with such wrath in his ryes that even the unimaginative old wom an cowered for a moment "Understand me! unless yon cease to insult me by harp ing on these hideous possibilities I will never see your face again! I should have broken w ith you before, but that I d mill ed that Mabel should be outrnged by knowledge of the reason why I dropped all intercourse with my mother. Could yon think that sweet, simple soul could ever be drawn from her children from me7 Is such a possibility comprehensi ble to you?" There was keen pain as well as burning Indignation in his tone. "The wickedness of the unregenerat hesrt is unfathomable," said his mother, severely, "and I greatly fear Mabel does not know where to look for strength. It's Impossible to say where nnguarded begin ninga may lend poor weak creatures, and your wife, though an amiable woman, is no doubt easily influenced, in short, not what you would call a person of strong character." "No, she Is not! How should I have got on with a woman of strong character? I say, mother enough of this. I feel my head dizzy! If we are to bo friends ' I will never speak to you on the snb- Ject again," said his mother, with an in jured and dignified air. "I have done my duty, my conscience is clear. I have not left you in iguorancel Now, as regardf Dorothy- Callander was again pacing to and fro gallons of water .applying, with a sprayer, his head bent down, lip moving slightly Add the acid at the tiuio of mixing the as if forming nnnttered words. Then, ' soap and kerosene. It Is also an excellent with an effort, he repeated as he paused' wash for lice on cattl Apply the mix opposite her "Dorothy! Ay! We must ture ou uil,llnfc AU? lrUDd wUn not forget Dorothy. Will yon stay here Pryer- and let Egerton come to and fro, and see her under your auspices?" "I shall be happy to further an alliance calculated to reflect credit on you and yours, Herbert !" CHATTER V. Colonel Callander had not looked so wer. since he returned from India as the morn ing he started for London. He under took various commissions for his sister- in-law, bnt his wife said she wanted noth ing. "I have everything I want, and mor than I deserve," she added, aa she kissed her husband tenderly at parting. Standish had gone to dine and sleep at a country bouse at some distance. So th. sisters had a Tery tranquil day, its only disturbance being a visit from the Dow ager, who came In unwonted good humor. In the evening, a little to Dorothy's dis may. Miss Oakeley walked In, just before dinner, to have a little talk, she said, ac companied by Egerton and Major St John, who was. Miss Oakeley thought, lm. mensely struck with her, whereas St. John was equally sure he had made a profound Impression on Miss Oakeley, and was, in consideration of her endowments, disposed to encourage her attentions. The sisters were sitting together In sym pathetic silence at that most witching hour, "the gloaming." Dorothy had of course told Mabel ol the declaration with which Egerton had startled her, and was somewhat surprised at the manner In which Mabel had receiv ed her confidence. She was not amazed, she murmured something about hia being nice and interesting, and a good match, then ehe added, "Are yon quite sure that you could not like him, dear?" "Yes, quite sure," was Dorothy's prompt reply. "I used to like him ever so much better before. I cannot think what put it into his head to Imagine be wants to marry me." "I don't think It is so extraordinary." said Mabel, and dropped the subject. While Miss Onkeley held forth with an imation about a concert she was getting up and Major St. John put In a word nt Intervals, Egerton moved across the room to where Dorothy was sitting, and snld in a low tone: "I ought not perhaps tc tresspass upon you, but I want to ask pardon for my precipitancy. Will yon for get my Ill-judged haste and let me conir and go on the old terms? I will not of fend again; not, at least, till I fancy I maj do so with less chance of rebuke. I ma never reach that happy conviction, buf let me try." "I have no right to Interfere with yotr coming or going," . said Dorothy softly, "but I do not like to give yon any annoy ance, and I do not think I shall change. Here both were called to share the consultation, which was rather noisy, and ended in an appointment for Dorothy to practice with Miss Oakeley at noon the following day. Then she declared she would be late for dinner, a crime her aunt would never forgive. "TJiere Is a very amusing article on the Aesthetics of Dress In one of the tnaga- xliirs," said Egerton. I forgot it, out a von will let me bring It over this evening I'll rend it to you" he stood with hla bock to Dorothy, speaking to her sister. uni.1 wrtslnlv thank youP' she re turned, with a little nervous catch In her TOtce raising her eyes to his and then .lmnnlnir them OUlcklV. "Oh! Mabel dear! Why did you let him .v riu.t nnrothv. as soon as the door was closed. "I should have '"Joyed a nice, quiet evening, and above all I don t . f "How could I refuse?" "kM"1' hands together. "He had asked Herbert and Taul to let him com and try his chance, and Herbert toW me. "What? did 1'aul agree w Dorothy a kind of sharp cry "I thought he knew me better!" "Well, dearest, yon know you are not. obliged to marry him." TW "I am quite aware of that," said Doro thy with decision, "but I object to ot teased." . . Egerton did not fail to keep his prom ise. He waa more than usually agreeable, keeping under the strain of cynicism that often tinged hia talk. lie rend aloud nell, and hia comments on the pnpet when he had finished It were amusing, the reminiscences It evoked of the vari ous fine ladies, mistresses of the art of Iress. interesting; he addressed most oi his conversation to Mabel, who said lit tle, lying back among her sofa cushion! as If while Dorothy worked dili gently a? a highly ornnnieutal plnafort for her little niece, which was a blessed occupation for her eyes. At length, af ter a short pause, Egerton exclaimed Is an altered voice: "I am afraid I am boring you, Mrs. Cal lander. Yon are looking awfully ill." "It Is that horrid neuralgia!" cried Dor othy, laying down her work and going tc her sister. "She lias been suffering at day would you like to go to bed, Ma bel?" "Let me try mesmerism!" urged Eger ton. "She'll have an awfully bad night Miss Wynn. I'll make a few passes You'll see how soon the look of pain wil leave her." "I don't half like It!" said Dorothy doubtfully. Egerton came and stood beside the sofa, his eyes fixed on Mabel, who did not make the slightest resistance. Slowly passing his hand over ber face in the fashion usual with mesmerizers, the tired eyei gradually closed, the pained, contracted expression passed from ber face, and sh slept the penceful sleep of an Infant. "It is wonderful," whispered Dorothy, who felt an indescribable impulse of pity and tenderness toward the gentle, loving sister who seemed so mysteriously op pressed the tears were in her eyes, and her voice faltered as she added: "I wish yon could give me this power, that I might enable her to rest! she seem sc helpless." "She Is," returned Egerton In a deer tone full of feeling. "Hut unless you hav the power I could not give it you. I did not knew I possessed it till that strange mystic Bohemian Orafin I told you about, whom I knew some years ago at Pragiie, assured me I had it and made me experi ment on some of her people. I am half nshnmed of it. I would never use my power save to give physical relief. There is a prejudice against it, too. Perhaps it would le as well not to Inform Mrs. Cal lander, for instance, thnt I was able to give your sister some repose." "Oh, certaiuly not!" cried Dorothy. "The less said the better, people are so 111 nnturcd. I hope my dear sister will not want your aid any more. I shall sit and watch her till she wakes, and so I inusf say good-night now." (To be continued.) Farm Notes. ' Fleas become pests on some locutions, ' An excellent mode of exterminati g them is to use the well known kerosene emui- I sion, adding to every gaiion m iue ""': sion'a gill of crude carbolic acid and 10 T n.i that kns lon seeded to crin.on clover and the crop turned under has been found to contain twice as ucl humus, moisture and nitrogen as that i.i..k no clover. This demonstrates that it pays to grow crimson clover as a , manurial crop, leaving oui iu nitrogen entirely, the large amount of extra moisture retained by the clover land is an important gain when consider ing the noxt crop to be grown on tho land. J Good vinegar is usually a scarce arti cle. There is at all times a iuu supply the market, but not the best cider vinegar. Farmers who use windfall apples, or those that are decayed, make a mistake. Tho best vinegar can only 1 made ol sound apples, and where such crops can not be sold at fair prices they should Ie converted into choice vinegar. If fruit growers would make a socially of good vinegar and seek buver therefore they will not find it difficult to secure an extra price for a sufirior article. To keep butter cool in summer-somebody says: In the middle of your cellar floor dig a hole or vault 312 f.-ct deep and 3 1-2 feet square. Wall it up with brick laid in lime mortar and cement and floor it with soft brick. l ay a frame of good hard wood in mortar upon the top of this vault. Hinge to the frame a trapdoor of plank two inches thick, makirg it fit smoothly. over tho top. Then after the is .tmriitf.l ami cooled put it down I in tho vault to ripen, Butter may lie . . . . A 1 . V 1. . MUlnmi, ftlRO. Kepi ineie m me (; - Butter makers, as well as cheese manu facturers are interested in the measure, for every pound of milk turned into cheese leaves the mai Kei in iinn m better sliae for butter, and aside from personal interests, we are all desirous of seeing dairy products more largely con st! d locause of their wholesomeness, palatal.ility and low cost for nutriment f urnished- An authority savs that to n.ake an in delible marking ink for sheep use shel lac, two ounces; borax, two ounces; water, 25 ounces; gum arabic, two ounces: and lamp black. Boil the borax and shellac in water until they are dissolved and with draw from 'the tire. When the solution has become cold add water to make 2S ounces and lamp black enough to bring the preparation to a. suital.ln consistency. When it is to tie used with a stencil it must bo made thicker than when it is ap plied with a brush. This formula gives a black ink; for red ink substitute Vene tian red for lamp Mack. When the green corn is cut for cattle open a row lictwecn the furrows and plant more corn. The late corn may never ma ture, but it will assist in providing green food later in the season. It requires but little lalmr to plant coi n in drills ai d the cost of late forage is small compared with its advantages.- The day has passed who.' farmers enn afford to dig potatoes with the hoc. Tr tato diggers, which buns the tubers to the surface and screen them from the dirt, are used, which lessens the labor, ns well as cheapening the cot of the crop. Horses that are moderately worked fvery Ttav should have go.d iippetlt.s and their digestion should lie good. Kerne horses seldom have grass or preen fol. In such cases the food should c varied as much as possible, ard linseed merl should be usod t.i prevent constipation. The flesh of young giraffes is extreme ly good, somewhat like veal, with a game Hike flavor. Intl Kelvin bats the age of the sun at 1(Mi,ihmi,ismi vi-ars. As its present rale of combustion the sun will last from 7,0(H.imhi to 15,inhj,uuu of years before burning itself out. The Kiver Jordan makes tho greatest descent in the shortest distance of almost any stream. Twelve . thousand mail cars of the German railroads arc uow lighted by t electricity, storage batteries Ix-ing em ployed. The lrgut has given tun sansiac tion and is also said to lie cheaper than the gas light used hitherto. A drop hammer just erected in some iron works, at Hartford. Conn, is said to lie the largest iu the world. The drop weighs three thousand Munds, and the anvil ninety thousand pounds. THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN. fheir Heroism Bhown ! ftaviae Ha n Life. That women are capable of rising tc in emergency and allowing aa great bravery aa the other aex Una been proved so often that it la with no at tempt at argument that we relate one ir two records of woman' heroism In trying circumstance. Women are leas often, perhaps, placed In positions call ing for physical strength and courage than are man, hence these few anec dotes are ef Interest. . The dowager Queen pla of Portugal, who la aa fine a swimmer aa the queer, regent of Spain, or Prlncese Helen ol Orleans, iuys Household Words, pos sesses a highly prized badge, won by her having at La tiranja, some yean ago, swam out Into the sea, fully dressed, and rescued two children whose boat had been capsized. la an Irish adventure chronicled not l.ng ago, a young lady distinguished herself by a very heroic act, quite put ting to shame the men of the party. Some young men and women were tak ing an evening ramble near Clandy, Couaty Dcrry, whon a young man from Belfast, whs had come to marry one -of the girls, missed hla feotlug la cross ing a wooden bridge over the Itlver Fangan, and fell Into twenty foot of water. The girl, distracted by the ter rible occurrence, besought the men around her to rescuo him, but In vsJn none of them was willing to risk almost certain death. Ilcr lover had come to the surface for the third and last time, when she leaped Into the river herself and clutching tho now exhausted mai : with one hand, managed with gre.it , difficulty to wlm to the riverside, ) where hands, now willing enough, re ceived them both. Something of the same kind took place at Canterbury. While a young miller waa assisting Miss Mason, daughter of the ex-mayor of Canter bury, to launch a canoe, he accidental ly fell Into the river at a spot just above the floodgates of the Black Mall, where the water is very deep. He could not swim, and MIrs Mason, who In noted locally as a splendid swimmer, unhesitatingly plunged In and man aged to keep him above water until as sistance came, and both were brought safely to shore. A very touching Instance of the devo tion of a mother occurred at Colchester. The wife of a sergeant-major of the King's Dragoon guards was wheeling her baby in a perambulator In the cav alry barracks when the carriage and Its occupant were knocked down by a restive hors ridden by a soldier. The I mother crawled on her hands and knees and had scarcely covered the In fant with her body when the horse backed and trampled on her. The brave woman had several ribs broken and her right lung Injured, while her face was much cut and braised. She was taken to the hospital In a critical state, while the child, whfeb would certainly have been killed but for the mother's prompt and devoted heroism, escaped with only a shaking. LONGEVITY -AND THE BRAIN. r he Necessity of Working On Until tta Close of Life. Speaking at Selkirk, Sir James Crlchton-Browne dwelt on the dangers to health Involved In Indolence and dis use of the brain. The medical profes sion, he said, adapting Itself to the needs of the times, had felt It lncum be.it upon It during the last decade to Insist mainly on the evils of misuse of the brain, on the excessive strain not seldom Imposed on it in these days In the fierce struggle of the race to be rlcls, and more especially on the over pressure Imposed on It In the name ot education when In an Immature state, but they were not less keenly alive to the correlative evils of the disuse of the brain. Elderly persons who gave up busi ness and professional men who laid aside their avocations without having other Interests or pursuits to which to turn, were In many cases plunged In despondency or hurried Into prema ture dotage. lie did not know any surer way of Inducing premature mental decay than for a man of active habits to retire and do nothing when Just past the zenith of life; and, on the other hand, he did not know any surer way of enjoying a green old age than to keep on working at something till the close. It had been said that one of the rewards of philosophy was length of. days, and a striking list might be presented of men distinguished for their intellectual labors which they had never laid aside, who had far ex ceeded the allotted span of human life. Galileo lived to 78, Newton to R5, Franklin to 85, Buff on to 80, Faraday to 70, and Brewster to 84 years. Sir James Crlchton-Browne drew special attention to the great age genorclly attained by our Judges. London Lan cet. r 1 DECADENCE OF THE NEGRO. Statistic. Show the Black Race to Be Rapidly Approaching Extinction. The race problem In the South seems destined to be settled according to nat ural laws, unless something Is done, and done soon, to save the negro from the results of his own vices and neg lect of elementary hygienic laws, sayi the Medical Record. The testimony of those who have studied this subject Is all but unanimous, and It has received additional confirmation through the In vestigations of Dr. R. H. Johnson of Brunswick, Go, himself a colored phy sician. The figures which he has gathered from a study of the vital statistics of iiearly 300 towns In the Southern States show that the death rate of negroes Is double that of whites In the same communities, and not only this, but the birth rate is also smaller among the colored than among the white population. Furthermore, the day of the stalwart negro Is passing, If not already gone, and the members of the younger generation" of - the race moke a poor showing aa regards their size and physical constitution wber compared with their grandfathers and grandmothers. Dr. Johnson attributes this degen eracy of his race rightly, wo believe to the careleasneso, want of fore thought, and dissipation go un&rtv.n- ately characteristic of a, large portion of the colored population In the South since the civil war. "In antebellum days," says Dr. Johnson, "the negro seemed to be an Immune to consump tion, and many great medical writers and teachers boast of never baring seen such among the negroes. Enforced temperate living and sanitary precau tious madb the black map physical giant, but the giants are disappearing;, and In their places Is coming on a race ef smaller stature and decreasing vi tality." That this Is the true reason ef the colored man's physical deterioration is further, shown by what 8urgeon Gen eral Sternberg has to say In his recent ly Issued annual report concerning the health' of the colored soldiers. "Great Improvement," he says, "has taken place In the past few years In the san itary condition of the colored troops. Tho white troops have participated In the Improvement, although their rates have not fallen so rapidly as the col ored men. .The colored soldier lost 0.42 days from disability during the yenr, the white soldier 12.71, the average time of treatmeut of each case was, among the colored troops, 10.84 days; among the whites, 11.22 days." O'd Annala. In nooks and corners of libraries ons now and then comes across a small or nate Early Victorian or Pre-Vlctorlan volume bearing In gin letters some such title as "Friendship's Offorlng," "Tho Gem," "The Forget-Me-Xot." or "The Book of Beauty." As a rule, one Is not tempted to "linger 'mid Its pages," as the Annual Itself would say; and yet a glance at Its contents suggests reflec tions which are not without Interest. Vox In ephemeral productions like these one sees most clearly the popular tastes 1 aud Ideals of a given time. Even Jane Austen, the "divine Jane" herself, does not throw as much light upon those of her day as the writers In the Lady's ; Books and Garlands of Beauty who ministered to the passing fancies of the fair reader and shaped their concep- Hons of female perfection to suit the fashion of the hour. The exqulslrely finished copperplates show white-robed weeping maidens clinging to stalwart lovers who are Imprinting kisses on their gentle brows; devoted wives half swooning In farewells upon tbclr husbands' manly breasts; maidens in tears npon the bosoms of their mothers or the knees of their fathers, or sitting beside open vine-clad windows and gazing mourn fully at various objects of melancholy interest which they hold In their hands; ladles with Immense eyes raised to the moon, or with lids lowered, and heavy curls drooping over one Infinitesimal hand, which supports the pensive head. Widows, orphans, the deserted, the broken-hearted, abound, with abnor mally large eyes and abnormally small mouths, and with a wealth of curia falling .about their Ivory necks or veil ing the transports of their grief. LIp pincott's. Inaealoaa Laundry Advertisement. While this Is not exactly the castle-In-tbe-alr age. yet there are thousands of persons who spend a very small portion of their time on terra flrma. This Is due to the "sky-scrapers," where the upper floors are honeycombed with of fices. Enterprising merchants have taken advantage of the fact and are trying everything In their power to at tract the attention of this elevated army, whose fleeting glimpse of the world Is obtained from lofty windows. The latest 6cheme Is one projected by a laundry, which employs dozens of covered wagons. On the top of the wagon cover Is painted In glaring let ters the name of the firm', and those who look down from above can read as the vehicles run by. New Signaling Device. The signal corps of the United States army now operates about 802 miles of military telegraphs. The most notable advance of the year In Its system has been the adoption of a combination telegraph and telephone apparatus, which only weighs sixteen pounds, and consequently can easily be carried by one soldier. With this apparatus one ' soldier can telegraph a message to an other, while a telephonic conversation with another station can be simultane ously carried on, the distant operators only receiving the messages Intended for each. Lnxnrlous Imperial Tr. velesr. The height of luxurious traveling has been reached by the Czar and Czarina. 1 The empress' private car Is upholster ed In pole blue satin. The electric lamps are all in the form of lilies, and It contains writing and tea tables made of mother of pearL The nursery Is the next apartment, and Is as comfortable : and handsome as the same rooms in . , ... mt ' any OI tne vzara paiucvu. iihw are dining-rooms and drawing-rooms and several sleeping apartments. In fact, this train Is a miniature palace. The wheels are covered with India robber circs. Stimulants In Accidents. In conditions of collapse and faint ness the use of stimulants Is Important When the face Is pale and bedewed with a cold perspiration, the pulse faint and the breathing Irregular, then li when the Judicious use of some stimu lating agent Is necessary. Coffee, giv en strong and hot In small quantities, Is a safe and useful remedy. Alcohol Is more potent In Its effect, and recovery Is quicker. Brandy Is the best of alcoholic stimulants and, falling this, rum or wine. Give a little at first and watch for returning color and quickened pulse, and If these fall with hold the alcohol entirely, for It Is doing harm Instead of good. - - If the patient has been wounded and much blood has been lost the amount of stimulant given may be large, com bining It with rest In a horizontal atti tude and plenty of air, but If there be no loss of blood and only nervous shock the Stimulant should be given cautious ly. As soon aa reaction seta In the stim ulant should be Immediately discontin ued. When a man refuses to sign a note as security, he says he would like to, but that ho has promised his wife never W sign another security not, Household. Raspberry and Rice ruddinp. Pick over and wash one-half of a cupful ol rice.; drop into boiling United water and boil for ten minutes. Irain, rov r wilt milk and cook until tender and the milk is unite absorlicd. Stir in i.n-fully oiie nsll of a cupful of sugar, one tablespoon ful of butter and two-well-bcatt-n eggs. Hutter a pudding dish, cover the botu.ni with fino bread crumbs. Put in alternate layers of rice and fresh rasplierrics, sprinkling a very little sugar over the latter. Have rice for the last layer aud Iwke for twenty minutes in a hot oven. Serve with hard sauce into which a few crushed raspberries have been whipped Bed Vegetable Salad. One pint of cold boiled potatoes, one pint of cold Imiled beets, one pint of uncooked red cablwge, six tublespoonfuls of oil, eight tablcspoon fuls of vinegar (that In which beets have been picklod), two tesspoonfuls of slt (unless the vegetables have been cooked in salted water), half a teasioonful of pi-pper. Cut the potatoes in thin slid s and the beets fine, and slice the cabbage as thin as possible. Mix all the ingredi ents. Let stand in a cold place one hour then serve. Ked cabbage and celery may be used -together ulso. Deviled Lamb Kidneys. First procure a half-dozen iamb kidneys; split in half and take out the centre veins and tissues aud let soak in cold water for two hours without salt; second, parboil for e1(-ht minutes in water "without salt;" third, make a dressing of olive oil, four table pooufuls; two teaspoons of English mus tard, dry, and one teaspoon of cayenne pepper and half teaspoon of paprika, and alt to taste; fourth, let the kidneys ttand in this dressing for three hours; fifth, dip in beaten egg, then roll in cracker crumbs, then in egg, then, if de lirod, one can grill them, but if frying is preferred fry th.m in tho best of olive ail. The above is autlicient for a lunch for two. This dish must be eaten to bo ap preciated. Fried Frog Legs. One dozen frog legs; Luke out the bones, chop the meat up fine; Due dozen soft-shell walnuts, mash the kernels; two eggs beaten; mix eggs, wal nuts and frog legs together, season with butter, pepper and salt; then add enough pulverized soda crackers to make a paste To be fried in hot fat. Frogs Legs a la Melba. Have one pound of very fresh frogs' legs; drop them in lioillng water for a second, then season with salt, pepper and nutmeg; put a pi-ce of butter in a saucepan with a teaspoon of chopped onion, six ounces of fresh minced mushrooms, chopped truthVs and a little cayenne pepper; moisten with a glass of good beef stock; when frogs uie tender, thicken the sauce with three raw egga diluted in half a gill of cream. Labor Notes. Hamburg's improved method for burn ing the garbage does the work for about nine cents per 1000 pounds. The earliest pottery with printed de signs of American subjects was made at Liverpool ot the end of the eighteenth century. TL-i annual report of the Sheffield Cham ber of Commerce asserts that !K per cent, of the razors used in the Australian col onies are supplied by Germany and the United States. The Marietta (Ga.) Knitting Company has made improvements, and may also add 24 more machines. The production is now H1 dozen hose per day from 45 ma chines. Frotu official sources, says the National I.abor Tribune, we learn that the war has not interfered with our commerce to any great extent, especially in the metal in dustries. The codfish industry of Newfoundland is the largest of its kind in the world, and has baen in existence nearly four cen turies. The annual .xport amounts to an average of 1,350,000 hundred-weight. Taxation of corp rations in l'aris has led to the transfer of many main offices to Brussels, French societies beini; incorp orated there under the laws of the Belgians to avoid the French income tax. bhoes made in the United States and imported into Germany have gained so much in favor in certain parts of Ger many that official attempts have been made to create prejudice against their purchase by German citizens. The small woolen mills in Ttuh have been accustomed to running with a mall amount of capital, getting much of their wool from farmers, who keep a few sh-er and take their wool to these small fac tories and exchange it for woolen goods for their own use, but this trade fulls off considerably when wool brings a high price, as it does this present season. Hawaii's imports from Great Britain last year amounted to $J-G5,71.25, the most important among them being cottcn goods, amounting to over f'0,000; linens, Jli.wiO; steam plwws, fcW.lHio; other ma ahinery, about (26,000; cloth banc, about fjl70.Ui.iO; Iron and steel rails, $37,000; other ruilway material, $9101; crockery and glassware, f 12,017; rooting iron,$4o, siMI; p olographic material, about $MKMi; woolen goods, about $50,000; lace f 10,04(1; ribbms, $10,245; linseed oil, $14,740. From Germany the imports during the last year amount.-d to $l2,32.1!l, the principal article ln-ing building mater ial, about $25,000; machinery, $30,000; dry goods, about $15,000, and railroad material, about $!HioO. Bicycle. TTow many cyclers ever study natural ph:losophv in hill climbing? Observe lor youi-sclf, and you will that some riders sit s .lid on their saddles and plrg away for dear life, straining evei-y nerve, when by bending slightly to their ti:sk or riding the pedals alone one can cause the gravity centre to bo directly under the cranks, and thus mount a steep hill with ease otherwise imnossi bio. In addition to a lot of intermediate records Willow Grove now holds the world's record for one mile. 1-S2 3 ". n.';,l the record for the hour, 34 miles, Vs.0 5 "janies A. Kennedy, of the American Cycle Hoeing Association, stated t hut a slVday bicycle race will be run by that organization this winter atMadison hquwe Garden. The race will be for 112 hours, and no interference of the L. A. W. will be brooked- . , Proper distribution of weight on a wheel makes a great difference. Tio an ounce weight to tho spoke of a cham pion's wheel out near tho rim and tho probabilities are that he will lose, but ho could carry it in his pocket or under tho saddle and win. When a wheel is perfec tly constructed a few pounds more or less in weight mattars but litllo. Enormous spr ket wheels, crank hang on dropped until the pedals do littlo moro than clear tho ground when a turn is made, the shortest of short heads and tho widest of wide handle bars, with something conspicuous in the way of finish such as partly nickeled frames and forks these are the distinguishing marks of a certain olass of riders- There is no denying the fart that they attract attention wherever they go, and as this is the real aim of tho riders it is pretty certain that they are satisfied. Many of tho officers of the League of American Wheelmen are quoted as say ing that the membership will bootn again as soon as the war is over. A large numlier of the old members who are now at tho front or in cairp have neglected to renew their membership- It does not pay to neglect the small things. Many cyclists neglect to oil their pedal bearings, thinking it unnecessary. These bearings should have the same at tention that is given other running parts. Hard-running pedal contribute toward the hard-running of the whole machine. Glaciers flow, like rivers, between ranks, and follow furrows or ravines on the mountain slope. There is no man wise enough to know what otliers think of him. ' SERMONS OF THE DAY "Writing In float" the Subject A Drau. rlmtlon or Hypocrisy The Injustice ' Condemning in Vomn Sins Thnt An Overlooked In Man. Text: "Jesus stooped down and will nts Angers wroto on the ground." Johi vill., 8. You must take your shoes off and pui on thn especial slippers provided at thf door if you would enter the Mohamtnednt mosque, which stands now where onot stood Herod's temple, the seeneof my text. Solomon's templo had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar had thundered It down. Zeru'nbahel's temple had stood there, but had boen prostrated. Now we take oui places In a temple that Ilerod built, beconst he was fond of great architecture, and h wanted the preceding temples to seem in significant. Tut eight or ton modern ca thedrals together, and they would nol equal that structure. It covered nineteen acres. There were marble pillars support ing roofs ol cedar, and silver tables, on which stood golden cups, nnd them wen; carvings exquisite, nnd Inscriptions re splendent, glittering balustrades and orna mented gateways. In that stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence snt Christ, and a listening throng stood about Him when a wild dis turbance took place. A group of men are pulling and pnshing along a woman who had committed a crime against society. When they have brought her In front of Christ, they ask thnt He sentence her tc death by stoning. They are a critical, merciless, disingenuous crowd. They want to get Christ- into controversy and pnlillo reprehension. If Ho say "Let hor die," they will charge Him with cruelty. If Ho let her go they will charge Him with being in complicity with wickedness. Which ever way He does, they would howl at Him. Then occurs a scene which has not been sufficiently regarded. Ho leaves the lounge or bench on which Ho was sitting, and goes down on one knee, or both knees, and with the forefinger of His right hand He begins to write in the dust of the floor, word after word. But they were not to be diverted or hindered. Tney kept on. do mnmltng that He settle this cose ot trans gression, until He looked up and told them they might themselves begin tho woman's assassination, if the eomplainnnt who had never done anything wrong himself would open tho fire. "Go abend, but be sure thnt the man who flings the first missile Is im maculate." Then He resumed writing with His finger nail In the dust of tho floor, word after word. Instead of looking over Ills shoulder to see what Ho had written, the scoundrels skulked away. Finally, the whole plnee Is clear of pursuers, antag onists nnd plaintiffs, and when Christ has finished this strange chirogrnphy In the dust Ho looks up and finds tho woman nil alone. The prisoner is tho only one of tho court room left, the judges, the police, tho prose cuting attorney having cleared out. Christ Is victor, and He says to the woman: "Where are tho persecutors In this case? are they all gone? Then I discharge you; go and sin no more." I have wondered what Christ wrote on the ground. For do you realize thnt this Is the only time that He ever wrote at all? I know that Euscbius says thnt Christ once wrote a letter to Abgarus, the King of Edessa, but there Is no good evidence of such a correspond ence. The wisest Being tho world ever saw, and the One who had more to say than anyono whoever lived, never writing a book or a chapter or a paragraph or a word on parchment. Nothing but the lit erati! le of the dust, and one sweep of a brush or one breath of a wind obliterated It forever. Among all the rofs of the volumes of the Hrst libr-itu Icun.it,-! at TheneS'there was not one scroll of Christ. AmiSlg the hooks of the Alexandrian Library, which, by tho Infamous decree of Caliph Omar, were used as fuel to heat the baths ot the city, not one sentence had Christ penned. Among all the infinitude of volumes now standing In the libraries of Edinburgh, the British Museum, or Berlin, or Vienna, or the learned repositories of nil nations, not one word written directly by tho linger of Christ. All that He ever wrote He wrote In dust, uncertain, shifting dust. My text says He stooped down and wroto on the ground. Standing straight up a man might write on the ground with a stair, but if with Ills fingers He would write in the dust He must bend clear over. Ave, He must get at least on one knee, or He can not write on the ground. Be not surprised that Ho stooped down, nis whole life was a stooping down. Stooping down from castle to barn. Stooping down from celestial homage to monocrotic jeer. From resi dence above tho stars to where a star bad to fall to designate His Innding-place. From Heaven's front door to the world's back gate. From writing in round and silvered letters of constellation and galaxy on tho blue scroll of Heaven to writing ou the ground in tho dust which the feet in the crowd hnd left In Herod's tomplo. Christ enme down from the highest neaven to the broiling of fish for His own breakfast, on the banks of the lake. From emblazoned chnrlots of eternity to the saddle of a mule's back. From the hom age cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, to the paying of sixty-two and a half cents of tax to Caesar. From the deathless country to a tomb built to bide human dissolution. The uplifted wave of Galileo was high, but He bad to come down before, with His feet. He could touch it, and the whirlwind that arose above the billow was higher yet, but He had to eome down before with His lip He could kiss It into quiet. Bethlehem a stooping down. Nazareth a stooping down. Deatn between two Durgiart a stooping down. Yes, it was In consonance with humiliations that went before an! self abnegations thnt came after, whon on that memorable day in Herod's temple He stooped down and wrote on tho ground. Whether the words He was writing were In Greek or Latin or Hebrew, I ennnot soy, for He knew all those languages. But Ho Is still stooping down, and with His finger writing on tho ground; In the winter in letters of crystnls, In the spring in letters ol flowers, In summer in golden letters ot harvest. In autumn In letters of fire or fall en leaves. How it would sweeten up and enrich and emblazon this world, could wo see Chrkt's cnligrnphy all over It. This world was not flung out Into space thou sands of years ago. and ihen left to look out for Itself. It Is still undf tho Dlvlnocare. CI rlst never for a hnlf second takes His hand off of it. or it would soon be a ship wrecked world, a defunct world, nn obso lete world, nn abandoned world, a dead world. "Let there be light," was said at the beginning. And Christ stands under the wintry skies and says, let there lie snow flakes to enrich the earth; and under the clouds of spring nnd says, come ye blos soms and make redolent the orchards; and In September, dips the branches in the vnt of beautiful colors, and swings them Into tne hazv nir. No v'. "f mln " his. "Without Him was not anything maue that was made." Christ writing on tho ground. If you could see His hand in all tho pass ing seasons, how It would Illumine the world! All verdure and foliago would be allegoric, and again we would hear Him say, as of old, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;" and wo would not hear the whistle ol a quail or the cawing ol a raven or the roundelay of a brown thresher, without saying, "Behold the fowls of the nir, they gather not in barns, yet your Henvenly Father feedcth them;" and a Dominic hen of the bnrnynrd could not cluck for her brood, but wo would honr Christ -saving, as of old, "How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathi-reth her chickens under hei wings;" and through the redolent hedge9 we would hear Christ saying, "I am the rose of Shnron;" we could not dip the sea soning from tbs salt-cellar without think ing of the divine suggestion, "Ye are th salt of the earth, but if tho salt hnth losl its savor, it is fit for nothing but to be casl out nnd trodden under foot of roei." But when Christ stooped down and wrote on the ground, what did He write" The Pharisees did not stop to examine. The cowards, whipped of their own con sciences, Bed pell mell. Nothing will flay a man Ilka nn aroused conscience. Dr Stevens, in his "History of Methodism," says that when the Rev. Benjamin Abbott. o nMen times. Was preaching, he ex claimed; . "for snght I kuow there mav be a murderer In tnts bouse," and a maa rose from the asseinhlngo and started fot the door and bawled aloud, confessing t murder be had committed fifteen yean before. And no wonder these Pharisees, reminded of their sins, took to their heels. But what did Christ writ on the ground! The Bible does not state. Yet as Christ never wrote anything except that once you cannot blame ns for wanting to know what He really did write. But I am cer tain He wrote nothing trivial or nothing unimportant. And will you allow me to say that I think I know what He wrote on the ground? I judge from the circum stances. He might have written other things, but kneeling therein the Temple, surrounded by a pack of hypocrites who were a self-appointed constabulary, and having In Its presence a persecuted woman, who evidently was very penitent for her sins, I am sure He wrote two words, both of them graphic and tremendous and re verberating. And the one word waa "hypocrisy" and the other word was "for giveness." Yes, I think that one word written on the ground that day by the finger of Christ was the awful word hypocrisy. 'What pretensions to sanctity are the part ,of those hypocritical Pharisees! When the fox begins to pray look out for your chick ens. One of the cruel magnates of olden times was going to excommunicate one of the martyrs, and he began In the usual form "In the name of God, Amen." "Stop!" says the martyr, "don't say ln the name of God!' " Yet how many outrages are practiced under the garb of religion and sanctity! When In synods-and con ferences, ministers of the Gospel are about to say something unbrotherly'and un kind about a member, they almost always begin by being ostentatiously pious, the venom of their assault corresponding to the heavenly flavor of tho prelude. About to devour a reputation they say grace before meat. But I am sure there was another word In that dust. From hor entire manner I am sure that arraigned woman was re- fientant. She made no apology, and Christ n nowise belittled hor sin. But her sup plicatory behavior and her tears moved Him, and when He stooped down to write on the ground He wrote that mighty, that Imperial word, forgiveness. When on Slnol God wrote the law. He wrote It with finger of lightning on tables of stone, each word cut as by a chisel Into the ham granite surface. But when Ha writes the offence of this woman He writes It in dust so that It can be easily rubbed out, and when she repents of It oh. He was a merciful Christ! I was rending of a legend that Is told In the far East about Him. He was walking through the streets of a city and He saw a crowd around a dead dog. And one man snld: "What a loath some object Is that dog!" "Yes," said an other, "his ears are mauled ami bleeding." "Yi-s," snld another, "even his hide would not bo of any use to the tnnner." "Yes," said another, "the odor of bis carcass Is dreadful." Then Christ, standing there, snld: "But pearls cannot equal the white ness of his teeth." Then the people, moved by tho Idea that anyone could find any- . tiling pleasant concerning the dead dog, said: "Why, this must be Jesus of Noza rethl" Reproved and convicted, they went away. But while I speak of Christ of the text. His stooping down writing In the dust, do not think I underrate the literature of tho dust. It is the most tremendous of all literature. It Is the grandest of all libra ries. When Layard exhumed Nineveh he was only opening tho door of Its mighty dust. The excavations of Pompeii have only been the unclasping of the lids of a nation's dust. Ohl this mighty literature of the dust: Where are the remains of Sennacherib and Atttla and Epaminondns and Tamerlane and Trajan and Philip of Macedon and Julius C'nsnr? Dustl Where are tho guests who danced the floors of the Alham bra or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerus? Dust! Where are the musicians who played, or the orators who spoke, and tha sculptors who chisled, and the architects who built, in all the centuries except our own? Dust! Where are the most of the books that once entranced the world? Dust! Pliny wrote twenty books of his tory; nil lost. Tho most of Mennndor's writings lost. Of one hundred and thirty comedies of Plautus, all gone but twenty. Euripides wroto A hundred dramas, all gone but nineteen. Eschylus wrote a hun dred dramas, all gone but seven. Quin tilian wrote his favorite book on the cor ruption of eloquence, all lost. Tulrty hooks of Tacitus lost. Dion Casslus wrote eighty hooks, only twenty remain. Bero slus's history nil lost. Where there Is one living book there nre a thousand dead books. Oh! this mighty literature of the dust. It Is not so wonderful, after all, that Christ chose, Instead of an Inkstand, the Impres sionable sand on tho floor of an ancient temple, and. Instead of a hard pen, put forth ills forefinger, with the same kind of nerve nnd muscle nnd hone and flesh as thnt which makes up our own forefinger, and wroto the awful doom of hypoorlsy, and full nnd complete forgiveness for re pentant sinners, even the worst. We talk about the ocean of Christ's mercy. Tut four ships upon that ocean and let them snll out in opposite directions tor a thou sand years, nnd see If they enn And the shore of the ocean of the divine mercy. Let them sail to the north And the south nnd the cast and the west, nnd then after tho thousand yenr4 of vogage lot them come back and they will report "No shore, no shore to the ocean of God's meroyl" And now I can believe that which I rend, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window evory night for ten years, and one night, very late, a poor waif on the street entered. The aged woman said to her, "Sit down by the fire," and the stranger said. "Why do you keep that light In tho window?" The aged woman said, "That Is to light my wayward daughter when she returns. Since she went away, ten years ago, my hnlr has turned white. Folks blame mo for worrying about her, but you see I am her mother, anil sometimes, half a dozen times a night, I open the door and look out Into the darkness nml cry, 'Liz zie! 'Lizzie!' But I must not tell you any more aliout my trouble, for I guess, ' from the way you cry, you have trouble enough of your own. Why, how oobl and sick you seem! Oh, my! can It tie? Yes, you arii Lizzie, my owu lost child! Thank God that you are home again!" Anil what a tlmoot rejoicing there was In that house that night. And Christ again stooped down, and Tn the nsbes of that hearth, now lighted up, not more by the great blazing logs than by the joy rf a reunited household, wrotq the same liberating words thnt had been written more thnn eighteen hundred years ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness! A word broad enough ninj high enough to let pass through it all the armies of Heaven, a million nbreast, ou white horses, nostril to nostril, flank to flnnk. Relief Neeiled In Aimin. Countess de Casa Valencia, wife of the former Spanish Ambassador to Great hritaln, ....penLstliroug i the London pnpera for contributions to her fund for the Spanish sick nnd wounded. She aavs: "There urn many thousands lying In hosoitnls nt Sail Sebastian, Las Palmn, Santiago do Cubit and Guantunnmo without bandages or lint or even beds to sleep upon, owing to Inade quate funds. And then are many widows and orphans Who are In most urgent need of relief." Careful measurements prove that the average curvature of the glolie is 6.9S inches to tin- statute mile. lie who cues around In bis requests wants couimonly more than he chooses to pjiear to want. Non-union Moulder Roliert Davis was fatullv licuton by strikers at Buffalo, N. Y." The corn crop of Nebraska, improved by the rains, will yield about 25,000,000 biishels. .... With his wife's savings Lewis l.inder, of New York, iKiiight a pistol and killed himself. Sirs. John Bradbury, wife of the ec centric young millionaire of California, has liecoine insane. A severe electrical storm passed over Ihe camp at Miami, Florida, resulting in the death of 1'rivtte C'hai 1 s E. Gill, of thn First Louisiana, and Corporal E. K. 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