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D. F. BOHWEIEB,
THB OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
SUUtmr and Poni hrtj.
VOL MI.
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MIFFMNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7 1898.
NO. 3!.
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on vlUUl 1
ciiaiteu vi rr.
Guardian anl ward had a long, delight
ful ramble. They discussed books and
people and future plana. Stnndish waa
unusually sympathetic, and not the small
at eats paw of difference rippled the
niooth surface of thiir confidential Inter
course. Sfandbjh parted with Dorothy at The
Knoll's gate, and she entered the house
with a profound seuse of depression
weighing her down. To-morrow! How
lonely and empty to-uiorrow would be!
What months unmt come and go before
she should enjoy another uninterrupted
talk! Hut she was too Billy nnd weak!
She must lenrn to lie siitlicient to herself!
In an almcnt mood she went to her own
room and luid aside her hat and mantle,
and bearing from Collina that Mrs. Cal
lander waa out, she descended to the
drawing room determined to occupy her
mind by an hour's diligent practice.
As she approached the piano, which
stood near one of the windows leading
Into the veranda, the sound of voices,
speaking low. met her ear.
She thought she distinguished Eger
ton's, and paused to make sure, intending
to retreat If convinced that It was. Then
some words caught her ear which seemed
to turn her to stone and for a moment to
deprive her of volition.
"You know I love ytiu," he was saying.
In low, deep tones, full of passion. "But
how intensely, how wildly, your nature,
ierhaps, forbids you to comprehend."
Then Maliel's voice murmured some
thing and Egerton replied: "No, Mabel,
I will not be fooled! You have let mo
see that I am of importance to you. You
have given me hope."
"I fear you, I do not think I love yon,"
said Mubel more distinctly, "and I can
not, dare not cut myself off from every
one, everything that makes life worth liv
ing. No, no, I cannot," her voice broke
olT into sob, suppressed sobs.
"You will drive me mad! Existence Is
torture! The thought of your husband
makes me capable of any crime, to think
tf your belonging to another seta my blood
on tire! You are miserable, too! lie la
cold and Indifferent. Leave him! Luten.
lUther than suffer disappointment rath
er than see you his, I would crush out
your life, lieloved as yon are!" The ton
of his voice waa deadly.
Dorothy's senses came back to her with
a wild thrill of horror, of rage against the
man who dared to insult and threaten her"
sister. And Mabel listened to him bad
listened to him! How strange it seemed
that she now felt what the formless shad
ow was which had lain upon ber, ,
What should she do) She moat not
driv Uiut fierce, bad man to desperation. ;
tone must appeal to Mabel, and strengthen
her save her. She stole softly away, and
stood for a moment by the stairhead win
dow. The sound of the outer gate closing
loudly roused her, and, starting to the
window, she saw Egerton walk rapidly
away towards the town,
Dorothy did not delay a moment. Run
ning down stairs, she tried to enter her
aister's room. The door was locked.
"Let me In, Mabel. I want you. I am
111 oh, very ill!"
In auother moment Mabel opened It.
Dorothy closed and re-locked it, then
stood an instant, gazing at her sister,
whose eyes bad a terrified, strained look.
Her face was deadly white
Then, clasping her closely, she exclaim
ed, brokenly, with heaving breast, "Ma
bel, what are yon going to do? Gould you
Ut that devil draw yoo to destruction?
I have heard him just now I wish I could
have struck him dead!"
"Heard what where?" stammered
Mabel, ber eyes growing vacant, as if too
overdone to understand anything.
"There In the drawing room, when you
were in the balcony."
"He said there waa no one there,"
gasjied Mabel, and she trembled so vio
lently that Dorothy hastily led her to a
chair lest she should fall.
"I came In and heard enough, Mabel!
What are you going to do?"
"I wish I were dead. I do not want
to yield I oh, Dorothy! can yon bear
to look at me to touch me?"
"I love you with all my heart and soul!"
cried iKjrothy, kneeling down and clasp
ing ber waist, while ahe laid her head
against her bosom, "and before that vile
wretch succeeds In his sorcery I would
kill him. You are not yourself, Mabel;
you are under a spell. Throw it off; defy
him! What can he do? Wonld you for
sake your own true husband for a traitor
like this? Where are your senses? For
bid hiin to come near yon. Let me be
it li you every moment of the day and I
111 exorcise this unholy spirit,"
"I am unfit to stay with my husband
my children," sobbed Mabel. "I ought
Lot to have listened."
"You are fit aulte fit; I tell you so,
You are not acting by youy own will;
Volt ATA linilAP t.h will of another."
"I do not want to go. On, Dorothy,
help nie. Randal Egerton always inter
ested me, and I can scarcely tell now i
came to like him. I fear him now. I
wih I had never let him mesmerize me.
Hut if I refuse him, what what will he
do? anvthinir for reveng even some-
tliinc desiiernte to Herbert.'"
"No, Mubel; he dare not. Never fear
to do right. Tell him to leave yoo; that
y-m have come to yonr sensea, I will give
him the letter."
I have written to him, yesterday, and
he came, you see, all the same. Oh, you
do not know him!"
"If you are true to yourself. Mabel, you
can shake him off!" cried Dorothy, rising
nnd stamping her foot. "How dare lie
iN-r.secute you? How dare he practice bis
villainy on you ? Write again, Mabel. I
twll cive the letter Into his hand."
I. t me collect myself a little and you
sltall lie tp me to write it. Now. If yoo
st.-mj bv me. I shnll have strength to do
right. it.it the idea of having so far lost
u; .--elf v. ill poUon all my life.
'.Mabel. .!e;ir. put your hand to the plow
end iii-ut l,Mik kick."
"If-if only ll.-rbcrt never suspects, V
n ill devote myself to him. Oh, cun I ever1
ue V"
Some more energetic persuasion on Dor,
Lilly's part, a few words here and there,
iii'lieativ,. of reviving hope and courage;
" lier sisters, and they started to find
I late it was. ,f .
"We must try to look as usual, sain
Io:,,y. "If you would like to keep quiet
a a ! not m any one, I will darken the
r .. i i. .. m hjkfinacne.
1 snv vou have s beadaene. .-co
- "i .111,1 rav vitii uu.c
(11(1 ftll-A
them all for you, sweetest, dear-
MabeL-
"Ah, yes; do, Dorothy." .
5Vlth theatrength an4 firmness which
true affection rives. Dorothy prepare,!
herself to play the part of hostess at din
ner. She was infinitely helped by a mes
sage from Egorton to the effect that be
could not Join them.
Colonel Callander said he wonld not
disturb his wife as she was trying to
sleep. Dorothy wished he would. A few
tender Words at this juncture miglit. she
felt sure, produce a great effect.
Dinner passed heavily. Then Cam. the
moment of parting. Colonel Callander
excused himself with, what Dorothy
thought, cold politeness, from accompany
ing Stnndi.sh to the station.
"tiood-by, my dear ward," ha said,
pressing lier hand In both his own. "It
seems to me that you have been a good
deal disturlied by something. There Is
a tragic look in your eyes. Will yon tell
me when we meet again?"
"rerhaps so," said Dorothy, trying to
smile. "Oh, I am so sorry you are going!"
Standish bent down aud kissed the wavy
braids into which her hair was divided
almve her brow, kissed ber lightly and
tenderly, and was gone.
The next day Colonel Callander stayed
Indoors for the greater part of the day,
writing and arranging his papers.
This gave the sisters time to study what
W09 best and strongest to say tn Mabel's j
nore to Egerton.
"You must get it from him aa soon as
he reada It," waa her final Injunction to
Dorothy as she put it in her pocket.
on, Mabel, if you think this necessary,
how could you dream of deserting us all
for him?"
for him?'
I cannot telL I I was not mvnelf. I
fancied I saw a change in Herbert. If
he suspected me, I could not face him.
Ever since we spoke of that tour, ltandnl
was like a madman.
"Don't call him by hta Chriatlaa name,
Did he make you refuse to go?"
Mabel bent her head, and then covering
ner race cried quietly and bitterly.
"Do not despair, all will be well yet.
uanei, lr you ara nrm now.
"Can I ever regain my self-respect ? Oh,
Dorothy, let us try never to name him
again."
But Egerton did nat present himself on
this day nor the nest until dinner time.
when ne and ftllss Uakeley joined the par
ty at The Knoll.
The presence and vivacity of Miss Oak
eley, seconded as she waa by Egerton,
helped to cover not only the taciturnity
of the host and hoetats. Which was not
cnuBual, but Dorothy's remarkable ab
sence of mind. At last Miss Oakeley bad
exhausted herself and her subjects, and
departed. "What a dark night," ahe aald,
Egerton and CoViander assisted to put
ber into her carriage.
"Yea, dark aa a wolfs mouth," said
Egerton.
"The moon will be np later," aald Cal
lander. "Can I give you a lift, Mr. Egerton?"
"A thousand thanks, no."
"Are you goifig?" asked Oallander.
"Yes, I want a smoke. Something
trotiger than a cigarette; and Callander,
do you feel all right? Yon sem to me
not quite yourself."
"I have rather a bad headache, but I
am subject to them since I came borne.
A good night's rest will be, I hope, a
cure."
"Then I wish yon a very go-d uijht.
Make my excuses to Mrs. Callander.-' und
Egerton set out into the soft darkness of '
a balmy Septemtier night, and not long
after the lights disappeared from the win
dows of The Knoll, from ell, at least, tn r
that of the nursery, where the careful
Mrs. McHugh kept a shaded lump burn
ing through the silent night watata.
The next morning broke fair and
bright Colonel Callander rose, as he gen
erally did, at cock-crow, and, wrapping
himself in his dressing gown, sat mak
ing entries in his journal, and adding a
few pages to a work begun long ago on
some military subject. Gradually the
sounds of movement below told him the
household was astir. Presently the Col
onel's factotum brought him his early cup
of tea.
Colonel Callander laid down his pen
and slowly drank it. He rose, and waa
moving towards the door, when It was
suddenly dashed open by Mrs. McIIugh,
her eyes wide open as though strained
with horror, her outstretched hanjs shak
ing, her whole asiieet disorilervd.
"Oh! sir! Come, come! My dear mis
tress is iyinK dead, murdered In her sweet
sleep, and us lying deaf and dull and use
letw all about her!"
"Woman, you are mad!" exclaimed Col
lander, In deep, hoarse tones.
"Come and see. Oh, would to nenven i
were in her place!" and turning, she went
rapidly away, followed by her incredulous
1 J rfl
master.
CHArTEB IX.
When Callander reached his wife's
room he made at once for the bed, where
she lay upon her left side, with one white
lmnd slightly clenched outside the clothes.
He bent over her and looked intently Into
her face.
"She seems to sleep," he snld honrselv
to Nurse, who followed him. "But,'
touching her hand, "she is quite cold.'
"Ah! cold enough. Look, sir. Don't
move her. Come round here. 1-ook.
where the villuit Mruck ber!" With a
tiumhrfng hand she pointed to a deep
wound in the back of the neck. Just below
the skull, from which some blood had
flowed not in any large quantity upon
her nightdress and pillow.
Callander uttered an Inarticulate excla
mation, and kneeling beside the bed, gent
ly turned Imck the clothes and MtJ''
heart: then, with a wall of despair: Oh!
dead! dead! dead!" he cried. -My t
tifnl darling! my pearl! No evil can
touch yon now; none ran hnrt your lie
pressed hU brow against the 1
and muttered, "No.I to save ber though
in the midst of tbaa who would have
e"ven their live, for BerP He stopped as
if choked.
tt. mir tfm nlaln enougn
bow the
wretches got In. J?'
aud we used to leave the
the outer gutter, open with th.f
across iiuuae-sae a.--,- th.
the bar la hanging loose,
ladder they got across by.
Callander rose and followed her to the
window-there, acros-area wtl
rounded the houe, resting on the top
of the bank at one side, and
. h other, was a ladder iaa-
der whTch mrse recognlzedabelongln.
to the olace. ualianaer u.vi -
with bis
, ,r,Mt, They haw
mnrmi m -w
eon.
" EK. table: W
lOOKlU " : -..- J MM
there last night, for I brushed her hair
for her, my poor, dear lamb, and they
were there when I left her. Why, why
did I ever leave that shutter open?" and
she rung her hands. "What are we to
do. sir?" But Callander waa past heed
ing her. He rose, snd again threw him
self upon his knees beside the tied, his
face la t'-ie clothes, while deep sobs shook
his frame.
Ily this time the whole household had
crowded Into the room and stood with
bated breath.
"Oh! don't stand there doing nothing,"
whispered Norse, In great agitation, to
Collina "Ton run and tell the police.
iHm't yon see the poor master has lost
his head, and no wonder."
"I'll run. Mrs. McIIugh, and fetch the
doctor, too. Here" in a horrified voice
"here's Miss Dorothy !"
"Ah, don't let her in. for heaven's
alter' But Dorothy waa In their midst
while ahe spoke.
"What can be the matter?" she asked
In her usual tone, "every one seems run
ning. Oh, Mattel," Interrupting hersolf,
'is Mabel ill? Why, Herbert!" Callan
der never moved. Before they could pre
vent her, Dorothy rushed forward and
laid ber hand on her sister's brow; then
drawing back with a look of wild terror.
"Is she dead? Nurse, dear Nurse, la she
dead?"
' Ay, my dear. It has pleased Ood to
take her to Himself," said Nurse, breath
leaaly, striving to keep the horrible fact
of the murder from br. "It waa awful
ly sudden; but we have sent for the doc
tor, and don't you stay! Yon just look
after the children a bit. Miss Dorothy,
lor l ll want Hannah to help me.
While Nurse spoke, she pushed her to
the door.
"Why do yon try to send me away?"
cried Dorothy. "There Is something you
do not want me to know." Breaking
from the agitated woman, Dorothy canght
sight of the blood upon the pillow. With
a scream, she darted to the bed, and
cbisping her bands aliove her head, cried.
he has I icon murdered basely murder-
' Oh! my sister! my sister! was there
! no one to nave von? Oh! nimp hnclr tn
no one to
me! Oh!
Hertiert, is she quite, quite
dead?" Still Callander remained in a
kind of stnpor.
"We can't rightly tell till the doctor
cornea, and this is no place for you, my
dear young lady. I'll tell you the minute
I know what the doctor says. Y'ou can
do her no good. My own head Is going
round and Mary! Mary! help me to hold
her, will you?"
(To be continued.;
Farm Notes.
Thre is much time and money lost by
farmers Ix-eausc they do not kmw lh,.M
varieties of grains and grasses adapted to
ihe climate. Plants with thic k leaves aie
le-it suited to a dry climate, while thi.e
wiih thin leaves aro more d sir-jble fur a
damp air. For this reason those living in
a dry climate should prow corn, grass,
elc, with thick leaves. Seed corn should
lie selected carefully. Nibs one and a
half inches lone on an ear of corn result
from bad section. On such an ear the
silks from the kernels on the tip of the
ear are so slow in maturing that there is
no pollen to fertilize them. Select ears
that show, by being well filled at the tip,
that the silks ma lure close together, nut
more than three or four dayi apart.
Hens will "steal" their nests in summer
and find some secluded location where the
ground apiiears moist. This fact has
prompted some farmers to believe that a
moist location should be preferred for
hens that are incubatins. The selection of
the nesting place by the hen is not be
cause the ground may Is? damp, but lie
cause she desires a cool location or to get
rtil of lice in the noultrv house. In win
ter the hen prefers a warm and dry nst.
r.xiieriinciits show that sitting hei,s
will hutch out as many chicks fr m I
the eggs when the nests are up on a dry
hay mow as when they are located on
dump ground.
Wherever wiMslland is cleared a flock
of sheep is extremely valuable to keep
the cleared soil from being overgrown
with the bushes, weeds and shrulis which
usually come up in following years. It is
desirable to get the cleured lund in gras
as soon as H.s.-ille. When it is once seeded
down it may In- iastured with shi ep all
through the summer, not only without in
juring the grass, but positively benefit
ing it, as the sheep will devote nu st i.f
their time to trimming down the hushes
and eating the leaves which shade the
land. To make more thorough destruc
tion of the shrubbery, an excess of sheep
ihuuld be put in the cleat ed lot. and these
must lie fed some grain, so as to iiiuku
their browse diet digest better.
The New Jersey law of 1R!W requires,
that all gardeners, Imrticulturi: ts, farm
ers, nurserymen and other growers of or
dealers in plants or fruits of any kind
upon their own or Umw leased lands or
premises, shall free and keep freed all
Iilants, shrubs, trees, cuttings, scions or
uds grown, cultivated or dealt in, by
them, from all injurious insects that
might spread from the plants infested to
ot tiers on the public highways, or uiion
lands adjoining or belonging to otheis.
The State Hoard of Agriculture will ap
point commissioners in each county to
act in co-oieration with the entomologist
uf the Agricultural Kxiieriment Station
in enforcing the law. Fuilure to oly the
orders of the c.mnu sioneis is punishatiie
l.v fino ml in inu of tMrcl!V- the
destruction of infested plants and trees is
provided for. It will lie interesting to
natch the operations of this luw and s e
how it works.
A cow giving a large quantity of milk
has been slaughtered, and every drop of
milk has been gathered up, and the lamest
amount ever found was about four quarts;
hence milk is largely mudn during the
time of milking: and the cow must be
placed under favorable conditions at the
timc.or you do not get the regular quanti
ty of milk. Do not think that the milk
is already there, and all you have to do
is to draw it out. Only a small pertion is
in this state. M, st of it is there, leady
to be changed into milk, but it is
not milktnd we must have things fayor
ble for the Cow to make this change.
In the pastures the principal drinking
places should le carefully examined;
first, to protect the source of supply if it
be liable to treading by the stock; seiond,
to remove the accumulations of mud, if
by so doing the capacity of the pi nd can
be thereby increased; and, thirdly, to
protect the whole supply, as far as possi
ble, from that fouling which is bound to
go on if the cattle can obtain free access
to the water, and which is never felt
more than when the water is scanty. It
will be understood by the thoughtful
reader that the terrors of a dry summer
and a deficiency of water may lie al
leviated to a certain extent by can ful
management, but no time should lie lost
in taking steps to remedy any defects
which might exist, or other pressing
works will shelvo the matter once for all.
Extremes are dangerous. One class of
farmers do not feed enough for profit,
especailly after grass is gone, while the
other class believe in the theory of "the
more feed the more product." Both are
wrong- An animal may consume more
toed than it can digest, making the pro
duct expensive. reeding deiends on
variety. Too much corn or ground grain
i lhA Klim mei st-uu am o uj
difficulty, and an excess in winter without ,
the addition of bulky material gives no
vrreaLimaU a suffiVenc. bui aoi
xcluMveiy oi one a.uu m , " " " will omy loot like a Dad dream then.
fwy, and then come back to be shot aDd we win forget It completely: com
ltut aa yot would keep aa ordinary ap- pletely. dear."
V at
HIS WORD
teen, but they were going to
shoot him, nevertheless.
The band ef Insurgents te which he j
belonged bad been routed by the Army
of Versailles, and, taken red-handed
with some ten of his comrades-, he bad
been conducted to the Malrle of the
Eleventh Arrondlssenient.
Struck by bis youthful appearance,
and also astonished at the boy's cool
aeaa In this hour of extreme peril, the
commandant had ordered that the fatal
verdict should, so far aa he was con
cerned, be suspended for the moment,
and that be should be kept a prisoner
antll bis companions had met their fate
at the neighboring barricade
Apparently qnlte calm and resigned,
his great eyes and his face the pale
face of a rartalan child showed neith
er emotion nor anxiety. He aeemed to
watch all that was passing around him
as though they held bo concern for hint.
He heard the sinister report of the
fusillade which hurled his companions
Into eternity without moving a muscle;
his calm, flxnd gaze seemed to be look
lug into the great "Afterwards" which
was soon to become the "rresont" to
him also. Terhups he was thinking of !
bin happy careless childhood he had I
hardly outgrown It; perhaps of his re- !
latlons and their sorrow when they !
heard of the chain of fatality which
had made him fatherless and had toss
ed him Into the seething turmoil of civ- ,
11 war, and now demanded his life at !
the hands of fellow-countrymen; and,
perhaps, he wondered why such things
were.
At the time war was declared he was
living happily with bis father and
mother, honest working folk who had
apprenticed him to a printer; politics
never troubled that little household.
It was not long, however, before the
Prussians had slain the head of the
family. The privations of the siege, the
long and weary waiting at the butch
ers' and bakers' shops when the scanty
dole ef food was distributed In the rig
ors of that terrible winter, bad stretch
ed his mother on the bed of suffering,
where she luy slowly dying.
One day when he Lad gone with oth
ers to dig for potatoes In the frost-
bound plain of St Denis a Prussian
bullet broke bis shoulder, and after
wards, driven partly by hunger, partly
by fear of his companions' threats, he
had enrolled himself In the Army of the
Commune. Like many another, fear
and fear only bad led him Into and
kept him In the ranks; he bad no heart
for a war of brothers, and now that his
life was about to pay the penalty he
was glad that he could lay no man's
death to his charge. He was Innocent
f that, at any rate.
The things be had seen and suffered
aurug the few last months had given
Vi. . .i . . . . . ! ,
of leaving bis mother In this terrible
world his mother whom he loved so
dearly, who had always been so Inex
pressibly good to him; but he comfort
ed himself wltb the thought that before
long she would come, too she could not
have much more suffering to undergo,
she was so weak when he last saw her,
four days ago.
"Kiss me again, dear again," she had
said, "for I feel that I may never see
you more."
"Ah." he thought sadly, "If they
would only trust blm would give him
only one hour of liberty how be would
run to ber and then come back and give
himself up to the hands that hungered
for his life. He would give his word,
and he would keep It Why not? Save
8ERUS BfcTTKn
I.IFK."
his mother and she, too, was dying
be bad no one to regret To see her
again, to kiss her dear lips once more,
console, encourage her, and leave her
hopeful then be could face death
bravely."
He was In the midst of these sad re
flections when the commandant fol
lowed by several officers, approached
him.
"Now, my fine fellow, you and I hare
a score to settle; you know wbut awaits
you?"
"Yes, mon commandant and I am
ready."
"Ilea Ily 7 So ready as all that? Y'ou
are not afraid of death?"
"Less than of life. I have seen so
much the last six mouths such awful
things death seems better than such a
life,"
"I wager you would not hesitate If I
gave you yonr choice. If I said: "Put
yonr best foot foremost and show me
how soon yon can be out of sight' you
would soon be off, I'll warrant"
"Try me, mon commandant try me!
Put me to the proof; It's worth a trial.
One more or less for your men to
shoot vhat does It matter? One hour
ef freedom only, not more; you shall
see whether I will keep my word, and
whether I am afraid to die."
. "ON da! you're no fool, but yon must I
OF HONOR, i
SB
swallow that my boy!"
"Listen, sir, I beg of yon. rerhaps
yon have a good mother; you love her,
yonr mother, more than anght else In
the whole world. If, like me, yon were
Just going to die, your last thonghts
would be of ber. And you wonld bless
the man who gave the opportunity of
seeing her once more, for the last time.
Mon commandant do for me what you
FLIW nOMK."
would pray others to do for you. Give
mponehour'sllberty.andl will give yon
my word of honor to return and give
myself up. Is life Itself worth a prom
ise broken?"
While he was speaking the command
ant was pacing to and fro, tugging vic
iously at his mustache, and evidently
struggling hard to appear unmoved.
"'My word,' he murmured. "This
nrchln talks of "my word' as though he
were a Knight of the Round Table!"
He stopped abruptly In front of his
prisoner and asked. In a severe tone,
"Your Bi.:-ie ?"
"Victor Otiry."
"Age?"
"Sixteen on the 15th of July next"
"Where does your mother live?"
"At Belleville."
- "What made yon to leave her to fol
low the Commune?"
"For the thirty sous chiefly; one must
eat! Then the neighbors and my com
rades threatened to shoot me If I did
not march wltb them. They said I waa
tall enough to carry a musket My
mother was afraid of them, and wept
and prayed."
"You have no father, then?"
"He was killed."
"And where 7"
"At Bourget fighting for his conn
try." The commandant turned toward bis
staff as though he would consult them
at a glance. All seemed to Interest and
Pity.
"Well, then. It Is understood," the of
ficer said, gravely, after a moment's
reflection. "You can go and see your
mother. You have given me your word
of honor to come back In an hour. C'est
blen. I shall know then whether you
are a nmn of character or simply a
cowardly boy. I give you until even
ing. If you are not here at 8 o'clock
I shall say that you are a braggart and
care more for life than honor. Allons!
Quick march P'
I thank you, mon commandant At
eight I will be here,"
"You are sure?"
"Certain."
"We shall see when the time comes."
The boy would have thrown his arms
about the officer In his wild joy and
gratitude, but the latter repelled him
gently.
"No, not now," he said. "This even
ing. If you return, I will embrace you
In front of the firing party," be added,
grimly. "Off with you!"
Victor ran like a hare. The officers
smiled as they watched blm disappear.
Twenty minutes later he knocked at
his mother's door, and the neighbor
who was tending her opened it to him.
She started and exclaimed when she
saw him, for like every one else, she
believed him dead. He would have
rushed to bis mother's room, but the
woman stopped blm.
"Oo In quietly," she said. In a low
voice; "she Is asleep. She has been very
111 since you went away, but she is a lit
tle better now. The doctor said yes
terday that If she could sleep she would
soon get stronger; she must not be
awakened. Poor thlngl she will be glad
to see yon, for she bus asked for you
so often. When she was not calling
you she was praying the bon Dleu to
preserve you and to restore jieace In the
land, nelas! one would say He bad
abandoned us, the bon Dleu, and let
men do Just as they like It Is awful!"
But Victor. Impatient, thought be
heard his name called In a fnlnt voice.
He moved on tip-toe toward his moth
er's bed. lie had not been deceived the
sick woman's eyes were opened wide.
"Victor! my boy!" she cried. In her
thin, weak voice. Without a word he
lay down beside her, and her arms
closed round hlrn hungrily.
And now the boy who had faced
death so Impassively could do naught
but sob. Now, In his mother's arms, ho
became a child once more, timid, de
spairing. The sick woman, who seemed to gain
strength from bis presence, sought in
vain to console him.
"Wby do yon distress yourself se, my
child, my best beloved?" she asked.
"You shall never leave me again. We
will throw that hateful uniform away;
I never want to see It more. I will make
haste and get well; I feel so much
stronger since you came. Soon you will
go to work again, aud you will grow
np an1 marry e good girL The past
Poor soul, how should she know rnai
her picture of a bright future only
deepened her boy's anguish? She was
silent telling herself that the best way
to dry tears Is to let them flow freely.
She kissed blm and let his weary head
fall back on the pillow, and then she
gave herself up to dreams- of happier
days In store for both of them.
ictos 8 sobs grew less frequent and
less violent and soon nothing coul 1 be
heard In the little room but the roj.nl.-.r
breathing 6f the mother and (iilld.
Ashamed of his weakness, the boy
forced himself lpto self-control, and
when he raised his head from the pi!
low, once more believing himself
stronger than love of life, his mother.
yielding to the reaction which her sud
den Joy had caused, was sleeping
peacefully.
The sight restored his energies. A
kind Providence, he thought, had wish
ed to spare him a scene which hU
strength and courage could not have
borne, and he resolved to go at once.
Lightly he kissed his mother's fore
head, and gazed at her earnestly for
a few moments. She seemed to smile,
he thought; then he went out hurriedly
and returned te his post as quickly as
me had come, not seeing a soul he met
nor daring to look behind him.
"What! so soon?" the commandant
cried astonished. He had hoped, like
the good -hearted man he was, that the
boy would not return.
"But I bad promised!"
"Doubtless, but why be In such a
hurry? You might have stayed with
your mother some time longer, and still
have kept your word."
"Poor mother! After a scene of tears
which seemed to take ail my courage
tears ef Joy for her, of despair for ino
she fell asleep so calmly, so happily,
that I dare not wait for ber to wake.
She fell asleep with her arms around
me, thinking I should never leave her
again; how could I have told hci the
truth? Who knows whether 1 should
have had the courage to leave her after
doing so? And what would you have
thought of me If I bad not come back?
"So I kissed her, and slipped away
like a thief while she was sleeping, and
here I am. Pray Ood may be good to
her as she has been to me. Mon com
mandant, I have one more thing to ask
to finish quickly."
The officer looked at the boy with
mingled pity and admiration. His own
eyes were full of tears.
"You are quite resigned, then; death
does not frighten you?" he asked.
Victor answered him with a gesture
"And If I pardoned you?"
"You would save my mother's life,
too, and I would revere you as a sec
ond father."
"Allons! you tre a plucky lad. and
yo- unit ".it rt"ierTed to suffer as you
have done. You s.boll go. Embrkoe me
first blenl Now go, and go quickly.
Join your mother, and love her al
ways."
As he spoke the last few words, the
officer took the boy by the shoulders
and pushed him away gently.
"It really would have been a pity.'
he aald, half apologetically, 'to his staff,
as he turned toward them.
Victor did not run he flew home. Ills
mother was still sleeping. He would
dearly have liked to cover her wltb
kisses, but he did not dare to wake her,
although her sleep seemed troubled. He
lay down again beside her.
Suddenly she sat up, crying: "Mercy!
Victor! My child! Oh! Mercy! Ah!
you are here; It Is really you?" she add
ed, waking.
Her thin, weak bands wandered all
over him; she pressed him close to her
and rained kisses on his face. Then
she was shaken by convulsive sobs,
which Victor could not calm.
"Oh! my boy! my boy!" she moaned.
"I dreamt they were going to shoot
you!" Strand Magazine.
The IxrI'a Itinerary.
A good story Is told by the Jewish
Messenger of a number of boys who
were playing on a Saturday In front of
an Episcopal church. The rector sud
denly came out of bis parconnge nnd
told the boys to be quiet In front of the
Lord's house.
That Is all right, mister," ssld the
boys. "The Lord Is not here to-dn. He
Is down the street at the Jewish syna
gogue." MARKS ENGLAND'S CENTER.
Pillar Has Been Erected at Bferide:
for This Purpose.
The pillar seen In the accompanying
Illustration Is situated in the village of
Meriden, which Is about Ave miles from
the city of Coventry, and was erected
A BOASTFCt, CLAIM.
expressly to show the cenfer of the eu
tire country of England. No doubi
captious critics will come along to dls
nute the correctness of tho nlncino- .,f
this pillar, but the people responsible
, ,; ' . , 1
viwiiuu must nave reit pretty
certain of their bearings before going
to the trouble of establishing this In-
teresUnf column.
"hi brcame a C1III.1 once iiork."
SERMOIIS OFTHEOAY.
Boiijecv: tvner. v. came mm" in,
Uncompromising War Between Selene,
Falsely .co-Callrd and Revelation Era
Intlon la Infidel and Heathen.
Text: "O Timothy, keep that which If
committed to thy trust, avoiding opposi
iions oi science misery so-called. .
Timothy vl., 20.
There is no contest hot ween gennlnt
scirnicennd mvelntlon. The same Ood whi
by the linnd of the prophet wrote on parch
mem', by the hand of the storm wrote oi
the rook. The best telescopes and micro
scopes and electrio batteries and philoso
pineal apparatus belong to Christian unl
versitles. Who gave us magnetic tele
graphy? Professor Morse, a Christian
v no swung tne ligntnings under the sea
cabling the continents together? Cyrm
Vi. Field the Christian. Who dhwoveret
the anpsthetlcal properties of chloroform '
doing more for the relief of human pnli '
iuuu nuy uinu iimi BKBr live,!, arivin?? LlflCfc
n 1 . . . l. t. - .
u,,iv-bc(iua ui iu iiurnin oi surgery
H T7 ?lmnson' OI f-dtntmrgn. as emi Kront while the evolutionist-, hoa-tod thai
? ?h - ? y ,for,sncoi on w"ek ny they hnd found the very stuff out of wlil-sh
lV.nSm r ! lecturing on profoundesl , this world nnd all worlds were made. The
KlT?i- J?"Vvand S s"hhth.a proaoh- llftod the telescope and they saw it, tlu
WhA T ,e38P.brW,,othemaas,,!:ry material out of which worlds ma.l
?i Jo- i a1, SOW the. "a'?"'08 "I themselves. Nebula or simple gas. Thej
that city draped ill mourning for his death BUghed in triumph l-ecuuso they hac
So-Vf his eulogy pronounced by th. foand tha flu.tory whore the worlds were
destitute populations of the
u..v,.,ua , i wgiiia
Science and revolution nre the bass an
soprano of the same tune. The whol
world will yet acknowledge the complou
harmony. But between wnatlmv text' de
scribes as science falsely so-called, and reve
lation, there Is an uncompromising war
and one or the other must go under.
At the present time the nir la nilnl witi-
nunai auu luiuiorm unci puinu ihik aooul
nvnilltinn n.l It la Mrrh iL. II..I .1
i ; r - L . i"" , aomotition.
pie who have not time to mnke Investiga ; So tUeso infidel evolutionists go wander
tlons for themselves understand that evo- lnF ,In An.vn B,,pwiniI thronuh the unl.
lutlon in the llrst plnce. is un and down
.out-and-out Infldoluyj in the second plac.1
.nfiMT, ... i. . ..s ,.cn' nnc
nthe third place that it is brutalizing ll
Its tendencies. I do not nrgue that this b
a. genuine book, I do not say that the Bibl
Is worthy of any kind of credence tlios
nre subjects for other Sabhnths but I want
Sou to understand that Thomas Paine an
ume and Voltaire no more thoroughly
,uu711t?vu me uoiv norinruros tnaniio nl:
the leading scientists who believe In evo
lution. I
I Put nnon the witness stand living nnr
dead, the lending evolutionists Ernst
Haeckel, John Htuurt Mill, Huxley .Tyndnll
Darwin, Hpencor. On the witness stand !
ye men 01 science, living and dead, nnswei
these questions: Do you believe the j
Scriptures? No. And so they say all. Dc
you believe the Bible storv of Adam nnr
Eve in the Onrden of Eden? No. And sc
tney say nil.
Do von believe in the mir.t. !
, : :L. ft, 1 .-
rBi "I'.,1 OM "".1 Testament? No.
nu,t bj lurry any mi. it u yon ooiieve trial
Jesus Christ died to save the nations? No.
And so they sny all. Do you believe In thf
regenerating power of the Holy Ohosti
No. And so they sny all. Do you bellov
that human supplication directed heaven
ward ever makes any difference? No.
And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, In the only address he
made in this country, tn his very first sen
tence ascribes his physical ailments to fate
and the authorized report of that address
begins the word fate with a big "F." Tro
feasor Haeckel, In the, very first page of hlf
.r,ZT TO"rs ueera n m miiw as a
;7 . 7 j '.u , T' """ By this they mean that the human race
prayer test, defied the whole of Christen. an(i the brute creation nre all the time im
dom to Show that human supplication proving because the weak die and tin
?Ji. ?.Dy d.'f.,;?nco a th "saK 1 things. - strong live. Those who do not diesarfivt -joon
Stuart Mill wrote elaborately against I because they are the fittest. Tiiey say the
Christianity, and to show that his rejection bro.,d oi sheep aud cattle and dogs and
M. "S ?omI,le.tfr' this epitaph fot mBn fs ai the time Improvlng.naturally im-
LmZ.' S A10' unhPPy;'' Huxle, proving. No need of Ood, oranv Bible, or
V u . reading of Darwin'f any religion, but just natural progress.
ii Y 00nT nd..' ihe. Ja2 tn", i ' ee the rn" started with "spontane.
IZZl J 51 rrelve1'1 ""death blow at dus generation," and then it goes right on
."A ILuarW,,n- A,11.fhe lp,B,1,n until Darwin can take us up with his 'nat
sciontists who believe In evolution, without selection," and Wallace with his "snr-
?PV0n . W.0r.ldfl,Tor.' ttro ,in!,'J"1"-; vival of the fittest," and so we go right on
Isay nothing against tnfldelitv, mind you. 1 up forovr. Beautiful! But do the llttost
I only wish to define the belief and the survive? Oarllcld dead in September
meaniugof the rejection. Guiteau surviving until thefollowing Juno.
Now, I put opposite to-each other, tc . "survival of the Uttest?" AM no. The
show that evolution is Infidelity, the BlMe martyrs, religious and political, dving fot
account of how the human race started, their nrin.-iniea ihir i.i..i. ,-',
Blble account: "Ondsald, let us make man
In our image. Ood created man In His
own Image; male and female created He
them." He breathed Into him the breath
of life, the whole story sotting forth the
iaca mat it was not a perfect kangaroo, 01
a perfect ourang outang, but a perfect
man. That is the Bible account. The
evolutionist account: Away back tn the
ages there wore four or live primal germs,
or seminal spores from which all the living
creatures have bepn evolved. Oo awav
back, and there you will find a vegetable
stuff that might be called a mushroom.
This mushroom by innate force develops a
tadpole, the tadpole by lurnte force
develops a polywoj;, tho polywog delovops
a fish, the fish by natural force develops
into a reptile, the roptilo develops into a
quadruped, the quadruped develops Into a
onuoon, toe Dunoon oeveiops into a mnn.
unrwin says tnnt tne 1111 man hand isonlv
a fish's fln developed. He says that the
numon lungs are only a swim I. ladder
showing that we once floated or were
amphibious. lie says that the human ear
oould once have been moved by foroe oi
will Just as a horse lifts Its ear at a fright
ful object. He says the human race were
originally web-footd. From primal germ
to tadpole, from tadpole to fish, from fish
to reptne, irora reptile to w
Wolf, from WOll
to chimpanzee, and from chimpanzee to it Is their originality, nnd so wonderful It
mnn. Now, If anybody says that the Bible the Infatuation that at tho Delmonico din
account of the starting of the human raoe nor given in honor of Herbert Spencer
and the evolutionist account of the starting ,omo fifteen years ago, there worn those
of the human race are the same accounts, who ascribed to him this groat originality
ho makes an appalling mlsrepresonta- 0f evolution. There the banqueters sat
tlon. I nround the tabln In honor of Iterltert .ii.ee.
Prefer, if you will, Darwin's "Orlirln of
the Speoles" to the Book of Genesis, but
know you are an Infidel. As for myself, aa
Herbert Spencer was not present at the
reation nnd the Lord Almighty was pres
ent, I prefer to take the Divine account as
to what really occurred on thnt occasion.
To show that this evolution Is only an
alterant to elect Ood and to nostnone Htm
and to put Him ciear out of reach, I ask a
qnestion or two. ine "Oon made tne
11 1 111 nu,, , 1 li n"i 1 luwjg iu7 uatjuuu, auu l
the reptile made the quadruped, and the
fish made the reptile, and the tadpole
made the fish, an t the primal germ made
the tadpole. Who made the primal germ!
Most ot tne evolutionists say: "We don't
know." Others say it made itself. Others
say it was spontaneous generation. There
Is not one of them who will fairly and
openly and frankly and emphatically say,
"Ood mado It."
The nearest to a direct answer Is that
made by Herbert Spencer In which he saye
it was made by the great "unknowable
mystery." But here comes Huxley with s
cup of protoplasm to explain the thing.
This protoplasm, be says, is primal life
giving quality with which the race away
back In the agis was started. With hfe
protoplasm he proposes to explain every
thing. Dear Mr. Huxley, who mnde the
protoplasm?
To show you that evolution Is Infidel, I
place the Bible account of how the brute
creation was started opposite to the evolu
tlontst's aicount, of the way the brute cre
ation was started. Bible account: You
know the Bible tells ns how thnt the birds
were made at one time and the cattle made
St another time, and the fish made nt an
other time, and that each brought forth
after its kind. Evolutionist's account:
From four or five primal germs or seminal
9pore9 all the living creatures evolved.
Hundreds of thousands of species of in
ets, of reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from
four germs a statement ftntlv contradict
ing not only the liiMe, but the very ABC
of science. A t,pccios never develops Intc
anything but its own species. In all acet
aud tn an tne world tnere Das never Deer
an exception to it. The shark never come)
out of a whale, nor the pigeon of a vulture
nor the butterfly of a wasp. Species nevei
cross over. If there be an attempt at it, 11
Is hybrid, and the hybrid Is always sterile,
and hag no descendants.
These men of science tell ns that r. hun
dred thousand species came freji four.
E.h n Vl14" ?" ihl0ah, tn universe is
that, starting In one species It keeps on In
that species, and there would be only foui
now It there bad been fonr at starting,
. 8'a says be found in a reef of Flor.
Ida the remains si iMecji tjijrty thouMJid
years old not throe, hat tntrty thousand
year old and that they were Just like
the insects now. There has been nc
change. All the facts of ornithol
ogy and zoology and ichthyology nnd
conchology, but an echo of Genesis flrsi
and twenty-flrsl: "Every winged fowl
alter his kind." Every creature after Its
kind. When common observation and sci.
ence corroborate the Bible I will not stul.
tlfy myself by surrendering to the elabor
ated guesses of evolutionists.
To show that evolution Is infidel I plac
also the Biblo account of how worlds wor
made opposite the evolutionist's account
of how worlds were made, liible account
Ood made two great lights the one tc
rule the dny, the other to rule the night
He made the stars nlso. Evolutionist ac
count: Away back lnthe nges there wa9 e
fire mist or Btar dust, and this fire mist
sooled off into granite, and then this gran.
Ite by earthquake ami by storm and hj
light was shapod into mountains nnd val
leys and seas, and ho what was origlnall
fire mist became what we call the earth.
Who made the fire mist? Who sot th
lire, mist to world-making? Who cooled ofl
the flre-mist Into granite? You have
pushed Ood some sixty or seventy milllor
mi
1111
s Irora the earlti, out lie is too neai
yet for the health of evolution. For a
I mnnufni'tured. an i there was no Ood anv-
where around the factory! But In an un
lucky hour for Infldol evolutionists thf?
spectroscopes of Fraunhofor and Kirehofl
were invented, by which they saw intc
that neubla and found It was not a slmpl
gas, but was a compound, and hence had
to be supplied from some other sourco
and that implied a Ood, and away wont
their thnnrv
V1'" . ' ''"J
shattered into everlasting
. .ui. i. 1....1. t..i...
van ,rom iIis emr,lr' ,.nd m.,k .,. on,
nouk which is His groat communication tc
the soul of the human race armour obsnlot-
nnd delusion. But I nm glad to know that
while some of these sclent Istrf havo goni
Into evolution, there nre many that do not
believe it. Among thiin, the man who b;
most Is considered the greatest scientist w
ever had this side of the water Ag:issiz. A
name that makes every intelligent man oc
earth over uncover.
Agapsix saj-3: "The manner In which the
evolution theory Inzooloiy is treated woulf
l iad those who are not special zoologists t
suppose that observations have boon mad)
by which it can bo inferred that there is in
nature such a thing as change among or
ganized beings notually taking place.
There is no Mich thing on record. It Is
shifting the ground of observation from
n fl,.l.l x Al..n.. .1... n rt. I...- ... ... I. n
. 4 , ., .
mis nmiviiK'UL, iiui n m-u ur ni'ril'ms lit
too far as to exclude from the doinain o:
, science those who will not bo dragged iut
this mire ol moro assertion then it is tlm
to protest."
With equnl vehemence against the doe
. trine of evolution Hugh Miller. Farradny
Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds ill
scientists In this country and other eoun
I trios have made protest. 1 know that the
1 few mon who have adopted the theory
j make more noise than the thousands who
: have rejected It.
j There Is one tenet of evolution which It
; Is demanded wo adopt, that which Darwin
calls "Nutaral Selection," aud that which
Wallace calls the "Survival of the Fittest."
living on to old ago. "Survival of tho fit
test?" No. Bitten with the fro.-ts of the
oeond death bo tho tongue that dare?
utter it! It Is not the "survival of the fit
test. "
How has it been in the families of th
world? How was It with tho child physi.
cally tho strongest, Intellectually tin
brightest. In disposition the kindest? Did
that child die because It was not ns lit tc
live as those of your family that survived;
Not "tho survival of the fittest." In nl,
communities some of tho noblest, grainiest
men dying in youth, or in inl l-iif-,, while
some of the meanest and most contemptible
live onto old age. Not "tho survival of the
fittest."
What Is remarkable about this thing Is,
it is all the time developing its dishonesty.
In our day it Is ascribing this evolution to
Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. It
is a dishonesty. Evolution was known nnd
advooatod hundreds of years before these
gentlemen boRnn to bo evolvod. The
Phu-nleians thousands of years ago de
clared that the human race wobbled out ol
the mud.
It is nn old heathen corpse set up In a
morgue. Charles Darwin ami Herbert
spencer have tried to galvanize It. Thoj
1r:l0 thfa nlil net ref net i,n rt llmm 1 1...,
snrnl l-enra nrim.! the nnrth I.m.uH..,. ,)...(
er chewing i.n,r ,,.i iri,,,. ,.,,.1 r.nu ..1..
which according to their do-trlno of evolu-
lion mnde them eating their own relations!
Mlelng up their own cousins! Driving a
carving fork Into their beloved kindred!
Dashing Worcestershire saueo, bedaubing
mustard over their uncles and aunts. And
while Herbert Spencer reail a patronizing
cture to Americans, tho banqueters sat
around tho tnblo with tholr hands up, say-
ing: "Dear me, it is the voice of a god nn 1
not Or A mnn
I am not a pessimist bnt nn optimist". I
do not believe everything Is going to de
struction; I believe everything Is going on
to redemption. But It will not be through
the Infidel doctrine of evolution, but
through our glorious Christianity which
has effected all tho good that has ever been
wrought and which is yet to reconstruct al
ine nations.
Away with your rotten, deceptive. Infidel
tnd blasphemous evolution, and give us
the Bible, salvation through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Success of Omaha Kxposltinn.
Tho Omaha Exposition makes a splendid
financial showing for the ttrst sixty days,
flic receipts for June were slightly in ex
cess of tho running expenses, while in July
there was a t5O,O0O surplus to apply on tho
(loating debt.
Kansas Cclobrntpd I'rare.
Oovernor I.oedy, of K-msas, ordered tht
firing of thirteen guns in honor of the
declaration of pence.
The true :"iiii,'in 111 i ;,.:i; mol,.f.
He is llliil'o l'e:l'ly to ,,l.t:ti:l the ,, ,1 ll i i,ns
of others than to parade his own.
iff who iigi'f--s w ith us is a w ise fellow
ml well instrui led.
Sorrow is an motion coii.litt'ive to on.
joy me ri I.
Wealth
in man.
Ihe most esiiii:il,e qualily
Oratiludi' is !
ften oxpor-tal i.u of
future favors.
It is impossible to
live anv higher
than we look.
The mind of 11 bieot is like Ihe pupil
of the eye the more lihl you pom- upon
it, the more it coul racts. ,
A character lh:tt is a s'riininy lieht !.
comes the attraction of eiiiuiiv
Tho average height of the human race
is, men, five feet six inches; women, five
feet two inches.
He hazardeth much who depends upon
learning for his exiK-i ience,
4