: - - r. ' " - i ''1. . i --a ' . " - " .' i D. P. BOEEWEIEK, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND . THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8. VOL LI!. MIFFLINTOWIS . JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1898. NO. 47 I - 1 r ANGLED CHAPTER XXI (Continued.) "Do you blame me. Paul?" Bhe murmur ed, at length regaining her voice. "Blame you I" he paused, looking down on the small brown head leaning against him, and stroking back the wavy hair from her brow "how could I blame you, dear? After all, it was only just to our poor Mabel to let her husband see the truth of her heart." Dorothy made a slight effort to release herself, but Paul's close, gentle hold did not relax. "What an infernal villain Eg erton has been!" he continued. "I should like to shoot him myself! and we must not attack him! I must do my best tc keep Callander quiet; the scandal of such fracas would be too hideous to incur; even you can see the cruel construction the world would put on it." "I do, Paul," she returned, extricating herself from him, and leaning against the back of her chair. "For poor Mabel's sake, we must let her murderer go free." "Her murderer?" he repeated. "What do you mean?" "Do you not see that he was her mur derer, either with his own hand or that of his emissary, the Spaniard?" "Dorothy! How do you come to su pect him of being such a monster?" ex . claimed Standish, gazing at her, amazed. "Did I not tell you I heard him threaten to crush out her life if she preferred her husband to him, only a few days before her murder? And she never saw him alone after." "But you forget he had not seen t! e let ter avowing her intention of breaking with him." "She had written before to tie same effect, and he took no notice." "Still. I never for a moment can be lieve that he, an English - gentleman, would do so foul a deed!" "I believe it. Look at his conduct, hi extraordinary grief and avoidance of U9 all." "Conscience, remorse for the guilt he bad already incurred, might account. "No, Paul. He is guilty. I had a atorroy interview with him just before he went to Spain, when I accused hira, wild ly and incoherently enough, and though he denied it, he did so in a half-hearted way. Remember, his blood is not all Eng lish. That unpleasant detective suspects him. too. I understand bis hints about the peculiar difficulties of the case. Oh, It is all too like a hideous nightmare. It has almost driven me wild to be obliged to see the base, cruel destroyer of my awoet aister. "There Is something queer about that fellow Dilon's mode of dealing with the case. Still, 1 cannot lor a moment accept T v,Bh vntn Kail nivt Bdnnhxl if it must have added considerably to the ' thJn puled me be always kept !n with that containing the water, but connect horrors you have so bravely endured in Egerton. I got to see Egerton more than ! wlth lt, Thls. discovery he pot to silence. Dorothy, you are a true-hearted . . ., .n t,;. tn.t ,t ' woman, to have locked an tnis into youT heart I would trust mv life with you. I heart, I would trust my me nn you i shall never caU you a child or little Dor- othy again. You have attained a mental j stature that forbids either, only my dear Dorothy you will always be. He took and kissed her hand, holding it awhile. "Right or wrong, guilty or not." he re-: snmed, "I must keep Callander from en countering Egerton. Shall I go to see him? It will be an infinite relief to feel that he is all right with me again. Shall I go?" "I almost think you had better not; he sent word by Collins this morning that he has a great deal of writing to get through, and as he told me be was going to write to you. you had better wait for his letter. I feel it very hard, Paul, to see Mrs. Cal lander; she has embittered all our lives." "She is a mischief-making, implacable she-devil !" cried Standish, with energy. "By heaven, I don't think I shall ever speak to her again! Were it not for you. Dorothy, I should tax her with the in famous slander of myself." "Do not mind me. I do not care to hold with her, except for Henrietta's sake. And, oh, Paul! Henrietta wants to know . so much what I had to talk to you about. I would rather not tell her all" hesitat ingly. "No; certainly not," promptly. "I will tell her that it was poor Callander's con fession of his mother's insinuation against me that you wished to explain. Leave it to me and, Dorothy, 1 shall write to fcg erton. I shall let him know that we fully understand the dastardly part he has played, and shall warn him that he has to reckon with Callander." "I think I heard Henrietta come in. Will you see her alone, Paul? I do not think I could bear to talk any more to any one." "Go and lie down end rest, then. I will see Henrietta and explain matters, as I said I would. Try and compose yourself. Remember, I am always at your service. I wish I could do more for you, my sweet ward." . "Thank yon. Good-by for the present." "I shall see you this evening, probably. 1 am not sure that I shall not go and see Callander. It might be some comfort to Sim, poor fellow." CHAPTER XXII. It was a wild, stormy evening when Standish, having dispatched a solitary meal at his club, returned to his own abode to await the appearance of Dillon, the detective. He bad not long to wait. A few min ites after eight Dillon was shown in. "Good evening, sir," he said, in a grave important tone. Standish fancied there was a triumph mnt riniiin in h! licht gray eyes. "Good evening, Dillon. I am looking forward with curiosity to your communi at:on. Sit down." "Hope you'll be satisfied, sir!" said Dil lon, drawing a chair and taking out a ..,.,.11 nnio hook, which he laid before hhn on the table. "I have done my bet, but it has leen a diUlcnlt job, and I did not feel at liberty to speak until I had my nt..in rf evidence complete. If y u 11 al low me, I'll begin at the beginning." Wc need not follow the detectives de tails, as most of them are already known to the reader. Coming down to his inves tigation of the death chamber, he saiUi "I observed, on the outside of her door, little splash, a mere speck, of blood, lovi down near the floor, and a speck near tb handle, which those dunderheads, the ! po lice, had not detected. You see, thej were all so taken up with the notion thai the murderer came in from outside, thai they never looked into the Interior of th room itself except to search the poor ser vants boxes. I believe! Besides these, 1 picked up, half under the bed. where, n doubt. It had been pushed by some of thj feet that trod there, this bit of a sdve, ornament.'' He drew it from an lnnei j pocket, and laid it before Standish, wh stared at it with distressed eyes. "You don't happen to have seen it be fore, Mr. Standkh?" "No, certainly not," replied Standisn sharply, while he thought with dismay of Dorothy's description of the broken sil ver shell with the half-holes at one side. "Wail sir. I thought xou miaht -bT -een it. i showed itbuec to Miss Wyun, and she said she had never seen it before, though her eyes didn't back her up! That little bit of silver has given me a deal of trouble. I have hunted to and fro to find the other bit of it, but I did at last." "for heaven's sake, go on!" cried Stan dish. "What have you discovered! Whom do you suspect?" "Hear me out," replied Dillon, sitting upright, and assuming a more earnest look. "I made up my mind when I rubbed away those sparks of blood, that someone in the house did the deed, someone to whom the poor lady was accustomed, whose presence did not disturb her, or frighten her, who would come in and out, and knew the ways of the place, where the ladder was kept, and how long it would be before any one would come to find her stiff and stark! Those strange sailors would never have dared to come into a house with a master and two men sleeping in it! No, sir; the hand that itruek the blow was her husband's!" "You are raving!" exclaimed Standish. "No, I am not, sir. Listen! From many a trifling indication I got out of Collins, and the old nurse, I believe the unfortu nate man was eaten up with jealousy. The more I watched him and I have shadow ed him for months the more convinced I grew that, m some mad fit, he put an end to her, and then tried to mislead us all by laying that ladder on to the window ledge!" "It is impossible!" ejaculated Standish. "No, It ain't! Jealousy is the uuder ininiugest thing out. It works like rata through a wall, gnawing and gnawing for many a long day unheard, tlil all at once its ugly head gets out to the light to kill and to destroy! Ah, Mr. Standish, the biggest lot of cruel deeds I have traced home took me straight to jealousy!" Standish stared at him with blank, be wildered eyes. "Well, though I was pretty sure it was he an did the deed. It was very hard to get proof. I followed him pretty dose; wher ever he went I was by him in some dis guise or another, and an awfui time he has bad f it. From ail I can see, I'd say hanging is a trifle to what be has : gone through! SUH I could never get a j glimpse ot any knife that had ornaments j OB UJV iuwui wCTUi w HU, JUWUWT j "" 1 - snuff-the-moon in his ways. I wasn't good enough to touch with a pair of tongs - - Droved ! -n. afr' no1 T rauer P "m S1' than other poor fellow. Latterly I've begun to think he suspects the truth. Anyhow, after waiting and watching, I got what I wanted at last. When Colonel Callander came back from the Continent the other day, I began to hang about, and pay a visit now and again to that respectable, civil-spoken man, Mr. Collins, and one morning I found him packing up the Colonel's duds, so I sat down and discoursed with him a bit, watching him sorting the things. Presently be come to pistols and a queer, long, narrow, foreign looking knife, with an Inlaid nanaie, ana sneii-iuc. Nti oi silver stuck on to the sheath. It was no common like the queer sort of weapons hung up in Mr. Eger ton's rooms, but the ornaments were different. I took it to the light to examine it, with my back to Mr. Collins, and tried this bit where one of the ornaments was jagged and broken. It fitted perfectly, thoroughly!" "Still " urged Standish, starring op and moving restlessly ro me nrepiace. "One moment," "aid Dillon, raking his nana. - ne man t uwi :u carrying cue uuiuer, 1 , broader.TaxgeV man than Egerton, though, ho..t hi. heieht Last of all." he con- tinued, speaking more quickly, "I follow ed the Colonel to Fordsea, where he wan dered about on land and sea. He was al ways going off in a boat with that old tnr yon know him! or else he'd be off, striding so fast that there was no keeping up with Mm, to the little churchyard by the hillside, with a basket of flowers for the grave. At last I hired a dog-cart, and used to drive past as if quite on my own business. Ho never noticed! Twice 1 saw him outside groping under some gorse bushes that grew above the low wall. You know the wide view mere is on arouna. Not a soul was to be seen stirring. I drove past, and waited under a piece of broken bank a little further on. I told the boy I had with me to bold the reins, as I wanted to gather some of the ferns about there, and I gradually got my head over the bank, and saw the Colonel com. ing slowly down the road. I watched till he disappeared on his way back, then I went on picking "specimens' here and there, till I came pretty nigh where I had watched him stooping down. Not a soul ... w I . V. n was to be seen. nen i was unre m j autumn time, there used to be bits of boys ' packed in wheat flour and allowed to herding sheep and goats, but there were j rtmain 24 hours. xcx , i j w ths dot 1' a shirt bosom or any other article none aow. When 1 j has bet.n scorched in ironing lay it where I had noticed the Colonel, I looked I wnere the bright sunshine will fall di well around under the bushes, nnd at lust I rectly upon it. i-Titiu. in.on n snot where tlie crass looked i Black silk may be renovated by a a lut disturbed and mixed wnn mourn, us if someone had been diKgirtiTVofYootst I took the bearings of if fin went -ft way hack to Fordsea with enough loaves nnd twijrs to set up a botanist Very early .w.r t ......... I.... T fmuul t li.i rVtlnnnl van ffo- ing off to London, so I bought a trowel, and then I watched him start off in tne train. As soon as I saw him safe I trudg ed away to the place I had marked. I would take no one with me. It was easy to dig, for the soil had been lately stirred, and scarce a foot below the surface 1 came to a gold chain nnd locket, then a bracelet, then I picked out three or font rius. then a gold bangle all messed wiia mould. There are more there, but these are enough for me." Ha took a brown paper parcel from hit pocket, and opening it carefully, displayed the trinkets. Boiled and bent. Standish took up and examined each, ne was stunned, yet did not let himsell go. Dillon was not the man to whom on KhiMil.l ninlrA an i.n tritfl rwt Admission. v, i,Ttranniinn-. invMinitr hna nn. earthed an extraordinary story," he said.men one-third. at length "The circumstantial evidence yalued wor,d against Lionel uananuer is oi course very strong, but it is not conclusive. "Perhaps not," returned Dillon, care - li-asly, "still I think there is enough to justify me in applying to the Eastport magistrates for the reward, and detailing my reasons for asking it." "No doubt," rejoined Standish, coolly, seeing Dillon's drift, while the revolving consequences of publicity rushed into hie mind. "I do not suppose Colonel Callan der's family would wish to rob you of a reward which yon have so justly earned by your zeal and perseverance, though certainly I little anticipated the curious direction your inquiries have taken! Youi own experience must have shown yon how misleading circumstantial .evidence very often is; further search might show a dif ferent side to the story! suppose I prom ise yon i anther thousand if, by your train ed skill and natural acuteness, you dis cover any other solution to the mystery?" "Look here, Mr. Standish," said th detective impatiently, "yon are a little too exacting. Why should I work any hard er for that second thousand than I have done? The more we seek, the worse the case will be against your friend. The best piece of service you can do him and all the family is to keep it all dark. I don't believe the poor fellow Is quite right in the upper story. Take a day to think over It and if you won't seal my lips with a second thousand, why, I'll make sure ot the first through the magistrates of East port." Paul's heart thrilled with painful pity, !w he thought of what the man's ter rible sufferings must have been! But was Dillon right in his conclusion? Was there not a loophole of escape somewhere from the ghastly conviction that Callander was the murderer? and that he should have suspected him Paul of having been so imse as to tamper with his own ward's fidelity to her husband! (To be continued.) HISTORY OF ICE-MAKING. Unique Method. Followed by the Ancient., The most ancient method of making ice is practiced in India. Holes are made in the ground, dry straw is put ut the bottom of these, and on it, at the close of the day, are placed pans of water, which are left until the next morning, when the ice that is found within the pans is collected. This in dustry is carried on only in districts where the ground is dry and will read ily absorb the vapor given off from the water in the pans. The freezing, of course. Is due to the great amount of heat absorbed by the vapor in passing from its liquid to Its gaseous form. Another process was practiced in the da;s of ancient Rome, when the wealthy- are said to have had their wines cooled by having the bottles placed in water Into which saltpetre was thrown, the bottles being the while rotated. Dr. Cullen, In 1755, discovered that the evaporation of water could be facilitated by the removal of the pres sure of the atmosphere, and that by do- lus is water coma do irozen. ixairn, 1" discovered that sulphuric acid would absorb the vapor of water If IMUCeU la a WXVliU veaeet BeLKLTaiU UUiiJ use In 1810 by constructing an appar- v.. ,. . .u- 1 atus for absorbing the vapor of the wnter that u was desired to cool or - ant.aratus irreatlv facill- fleze. This i apparatus greatly faclli- tated the freezing operations of a vacuum freezing machine, Jacob Perkins was the father of what is now known as the compression sys tem, having Invented the first machine of the kind in 1834, and, as these ma chines, improved, are at the present day more in use than any other, a de scription of Peralns patent may tie of interest. His apparatus consisted of an Insulated vessel, In which was in- closed a second vessel containing ether; a vapor pump, a worm and worm tub. a tube between the second vessel and the pump, another between the pump and the worm, a third between the worm and the bottom of the ether vessel, and the necessary valves. As afterwards constructed, the at ' pnratus was made up of a J.-icketed p in. within which was the water to be cool- ed; an Insulated box, In which was pmcei the pan; a pump to extract th vapor from the Jacket; a worm 1)1 whlch the vapor was condensed after " K'ft the pump; a worm-tub containing cold water to cool the worm, and by moans of the latter the vapor within it; and pipes connecting the top of the pan jacket to the pump, the pump with the upper end of the worm, and the lower end of the worm with the under side of the pan Jacket. The refrigerating njrent used with this apparatus was one derived from the destructive dis tillation of caoutchouc. James Harri son improved upon Jacob Perkins' ap paratus In 1S50, and it has been fur- Ut.r improved by many others since. (jusst.r's Monthly. . It Is said that one pound of butter gives a working force equal to that of ;ive pounds of beef, nine pounds of po tatoes or twelve pounds of milk. Usetui Hints. Grease may be removed from woolen goods by sponging it with strong cold coffee. Fine laces may be cleaned by being thorough sponging with stale beer. placed between- newspapers and press ed with a hot iron. It is we'll to' keep a small paint brush convenient for dusting the crevices in furniture, and all spots that cannot be reached with the dust cloth. Apply powdered alum to a fever sore. This will prevent it from becoming very unsightly or noticeable. Self-righteousness never has any mercy on Itself or anybody else. America contains 81.000 oil wells. -Since the Introduction In 1894 of the serum treatment Of diphtheria, the mortality from that disease has de clined in Vienna from 11.2 per cent to only 3.65 of all cases. A whale recently captured In Arc tic waters was found to have Imbed ded in Its side a harpoon belonging to a whaling vessel that had been out of service nearly half a century. While building the railway up the Swiss Gorner Orat, about 10.00 0 feet above sea level.it was ascertained that the altitude and mountain sickness re dueed the laboring capacity of the i he -BhoW8 by his conduct that he j wishes to be valued. 1 THE NAME, Of THE TRUNK, Mara ut I portent Part la the Life ofa'Bsjr, The twa men were passing along Seventh street where a trunk store had debouched upon tha 'ldtwalk, ae to Teak, and on one of 'th trunks sitting touspicuoualy front -was a bum wrtr ton la good black latter, "I never aea a trunk masted that way and set out In' front of a store (hat I am not reminded of experience that once cams under my notica," aald tlie elder man. "When I wa a lad of 15 I bad a cousin about my awn age. who was the apple af hla father's eye, and a very fine ehap he was, t-.o. He was an only son and a lad of spirit, and before ha knew the world at all ha had fallen Into evil company. He got no- better np to the Hme ho was 17, when he disappeared sDddonly and mysteriously, and hla broken-hearted father had every reason to believe that a gang of gamblers and thieves had got him Into their clutches and were going to use him for their own pur poses. My uncle Immediately set out for St. Louis to lived In the western lart of Missouri m It was believed one of thjei gang had come from there, though the headquarters were In New ork. A cine waa picked up In St. Louis, but was lost two days later, and my uncle bad given up hope and was ou his way to the depot to take the train home again, when he passed a trunk store, as we have done, and a truck sat out in front with bis son's name on It He nearly fainted when he saw It, but managed to get Into the place and ask a question or two, nnd thon he sat down and waited, as they told him the owner had said he would call for It. But he did not come, and my uncle stayed un til the store was locked up, and he was there again In the morning at daylight. waiting for It to open again. At 0 o'clock his son came In, and when the young fellow saw his father the hotter part of hhn asserted Itself, and before he knew what he was about he had Hung himself Into hla arms and was ?ry!hgllke a baby. You see, the boy was nil right, and the bad In hlin lost Irs grip for an Instant under tho sudden assertion of nature. The father had a talk with him right then, swid showed him the true character of bis new friends, and tlie boy showed how green he was when he had his own name written on his new trunk and uever thought to tell the dealer not to put It out where It might give him away. Well, the end of the whole mat ter was the boy went home with bis father, and his narrow escape from be- ro ming a criminal taught him a lesson which made a man of him, and he has been the Governor of a Southern State and will one day be a United States Senator, for he Is worth half a million and la In a fair way to double It" Washington Star. in 1808 Sir Humphrey Davy made the first electric light; It was not adapt ed to commercial use, however. Elec tric lamps were made in France enrty In the fifties, certainly before 1853. The exact date seems not to be known. Edi ban adapted the Incandescent light to commercial use. China grass Is cultivated In Japan for the purpose of manufacturing paper and twine, in order to maintain its price at a uniform figure and keep down competition large companies have been formed to supply the necessary Instructions for growing them. The farmers are bound to return the crops at a fixed price. The government of Belgium has of fered a reward of 50.000 francs (nearly $10,000) for the Invention of a match paste containing no phosphorus. The competition Is open to citizens and sub jects of all nations. It la required that the matches shall Ignite when scratch ed on any surface. Including cloth, but that they shall not Ignite readily by friction, so as to be dangerous when curried in the pocket It Is proposed In Germany that the various expeditions expected shortly to visit the Antarctic regions should carry with them scientlc kites, by means of which the upper atmosphere may be explored. In this way, it Is thought cot only could the temperature prevail ing at a great height around the poles be more accurately learned, but light would also be thrown on the direction of the air-currents, and If photographic apparatus were sent up with the kites, additional knowledge of the parts of the surface not otherwise obtainable might result The Immediate causa of volcanic ac tion Is now believed to be superheated steam. Aside from the water which percolates through fissures from the surface there Is a great quantity en closed In Instertlces of deep-lying and ancient strata, which Is liberated at limes In consequence of shrinkage stresses. It may be freed In other ways, too. At a depth of ten miles there Is a temperature of from 700 de grees to 1,000 degrees F and It la prob ably five times as hot aa this at five times the depth. Water turns to steam at 212 degrees In the open air, and If It suddenly vaporizes at these high tem peratures In the Interior of the earth, the pressures that result are nearly equal to that of gunpowder. The science of sociology explain aiany curious questions which might t first glance appear ta hare no foun iatlon In reason. The practice of dhar u:a in India, for Instance, has recently been the subjoct of special study by Dr. S. R. Stelnmetz. This custom Is many centuries old, and seems ditflcult to ex plain. When a debtor falls to Day hi lebta. his creditor goes and alts before Uls door, and remains there, refuting to eat a morsel until be Is paid. If the debtor does not pay, the creditor will actually starve himself to death. It would seem at first sight that a really heartless doctor might not be moved In this manner; but the usefulness of the custom becomes at once apparent when It 1 known. that If the creditor actually does die eC starvation In front of his debtor's door, the latter Is held guilty of murder, and after the manner of the country, the family of the dead man are entitled to kill the debtor oa aight Mental AstUrmac'ssaw To Illustrate the kind of lapse of reav savlnc power that great Inventors are known to suffer from and which Sir Isaac Newtoa was under the Influence of when he cut one hole la a wall to let a cat pass through and then a small bole for the kitten to use, an old story In the life ot Morse has been revived. Long before he invented the telegraph, Morse was known to the officers of the patent office as a persistent applicant for patents. When his great Invention of "distance writing" was about com pleted, he wanted the Baltimore and Onto Railway Company to try It. To get rid of Urn the president of the road turned him over to a subordinate. This official was struck with the beauty of the Invention, and became so interest ed In it that he sat up half the night discussing it with Its Inventor. At length, Morse confessed that there was only one thing which baffled him. "As long as the railroad runs," he said, "where poles may be erected. It will be easy sail, but when we come to the big bridges, what is to be done thenl We can't erect poles across the stream, and without them the wire would sag, and perhaps break from Its own weight. I confess I don't know what to do. Can't you suggest a way out of the difficulty 7' "Why don't you fasteu the wires to the bridge?" asked his companion, without a moment's hesi tation. For a moment Morse gr.zod at him with open mouth, and then ex claimed: "Why not. Indeed. Why, I never thought of that It's the very way." The layman's tip put the finish ing touch to the work of the great In ventor, and thus wires came to be sir ling oa bridges when crossing Iarg streams. Rain In Cuba. A sudden pattering in the trees, a sudden darkening In big spots of the white canvas, and down came the trop ical rain, now It rained! Like waves breaking; groat heavy Mobs of water volleying at you like bullets from a machine gun. Men who were ten yards from their tents were wot through before they gained shelter. In five mlntrtes the camp waa under water; on the slopes were rushing tor rents; on the levels were deep twirling pools. Down the trunks of the trees the water poured in cataracts. From the lower edge of every tent rt flowed In a broad stream. The men, drawing up the corners of their rubber blankets so as to keep the flood away from them selves and their belongings, crouched under their tents and shivered. It rained for two hours without stop ping. In the first half hour every man in camp waa wet through, so that many of them took off their wet clothes and stood naked lu the rain for the re mainder of the time. The sun came out again soon after, hotter than ever, and the damp earth steamed till the ?ajnp was an open air vapor bath. But blaze away as the sun might, the ground never got dry again that day. ana at night we turned In shlveiin-j with the damp earth striking cold through the rubber sheet and the blanket. Pity the poor de lis now who, when they were marching in the sunshine, threw away their rubber sheet and the blanket. London Chron icle. Curiously Worded. j Curiously worded advertisements, which are funny without Intent, are common in the London papers. It would seem. One paper recently offered a prize for the best collection of such announcements, and the following la the result: ' "Annual sale now on. Don't go else where to be cheated come In here." "A lady wants to sell her piano, a; she Is going abroad In a strong iron frame." "For Bale A pianoforte, the proper ty of a musician with carved legs." "Wanted A room for two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty feet broad." "LostA collie dog by a man on Sat urday evening answering to Jim wltt a brass collar round his neck and muz Ele." "Wanted By a respectable girl, hei passage to New York; willing to tak care of children and a good sailor." "Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to an nounce that he will make up gowns, capes, etc., for ladles out of their own skins." "Wanted An organist and a boy tc blow the same." "Wanted A boy to be partly outs!d and partly behind the counter." "To be disposed of, a mail phaeton, the property of a gentleman with a movable headpiece as good aa new." CALIFORNIA MINERS' MONEY. Kind of Cola. They Used Before Fan Francisco Mint Was Established. This Is a "Big River bit" In the Jays before the mint was established In San Francisco It was a current coin "bio bivkb bit." among the miners. It represents $50. It Is an eighth of an Inch thick, octa gonal In form. Its largest diameter be ing one and five-eighths Inches. There ore seme people so afraid the will be fooled, that the refuse to bo Uava th truth. Farm Notes. Clay makes a better stable floor that, planks, for It contains a little damp ness which conduces to good feet and the horse finds irregularities in its surface, and by placing the heels on the higher surface the tendons are relaxed, giving them needed rest, while in plank floors the slant is backward, leaking the animal stand with the tendons always on a strain. Many of the wild blackberries would. If cultivated, prove superior to those now used, and would no doubt be hardier. Cultivation may improve the wild berry and entirely change Its characteristics, the fruit being bet ter and larger, while the advantages of the native variety are retained. There are thousands of Muekberry vines along the roadsides that contain prizes if attention was given their selection and cultivation. Experiments in feeding and In com puting the value of eggs show that if no estimate is made for labor one doz en eggs can be produced at a cost of about six cents for food, or about half a cent per egg. If all of the food al lowed to hens was converted into eggs the profit on a dozen eggs would be large, even when prices are very low, but much depends on whether the hens convert the food into eggs, flesh or support of the bodies. It will cost more to purchase :horoughbred stock than to grade up a common herd or flock, but the Im provement will be much more rapid and a larger profit derived. It may require several years to gradually im prove a common herd until It nearly reaches the excellence of the pure breeds, but the farmer who desires to do so should save time by beginning with the thoroughbreds. Time is money on the farm as well as tn other pursuits. Butter is a product that does not impoverish the farm. A ton of but ter does not remove over 50 cents' worth of plant food from the farm. Being mostly carbonaceous, It Is pro duced from that element of the plants which is derived from the air through the functions of the leaves. The farm that is devoted to the production of butter, and on which skimmed milk Is used for pigs, will improve in fer tility every year. A quart of bran mixed with p. pr-k jf cooked turnips will give bitter re sults than when the same proportions of bran or turnips are fed separately, for the reason that the turnips .-.re composed mostly of water and the mix ture is more complete as a fooi. while the bran Is better digested when fed with the bulky food. Variety In feed ing conduces to health, and the lesa valuable foods become more valuable by mixing them with substances that are more concentrated and nutritious. It is doubtful If farmers who have kept the mutton breeds of sheep com plain that "sheep do not pay." Tt is the long adherence to the fine-woo! varieties and the use of scrubs that cause failure. The markets are not well supplied with choice mutton, such as may be found on English stalls, and when attention is given to this fact there will be a profit. In fact farmers who have kept mutton bree 's find that young lambs alone give large profits. Only about 25 per cent, of the food con sumed by a cow is utilized for produc ing milk, the remainder going to the support of the cow and into the manure heap. This estimate of 25 per cent, however, does not apply to all food or to all cows. There are cows with better digestive capacity than others, but all cows must be maintained from the food eaten, for which reason on good cow will give a larger profit than two cows that are Inferior, as the cost of support of two cows is greater than for one. Late tomatoes can be had until the weather is somewhat cold if a rude tent or shelter, made of cotton cloth, is placed over the vines, so as to protect them from frost. A few vines treated in this manner will cost but little. The covering will only be required at nl?ht Labor Notes. Vanilla brings into Mexico $1,090,000 or more per annum. World's annual coffee production Is 1,600.000.000 pounds. California yields 25 per cent of the world's quicksilver. The cheapest bread In England Is worth 7 cents a pound loaf. One pound of sheep's wool Is capable of producing one yard of cloth. A scheme Is on foot to take a large colony of Canadians. to Mexico. This year's Income In Oregon from grain, hops and wool is $14,000,000. Camden, Me., manufactures more ships' anchors than any other place In America. Ninety-five per cent of the railway tracks In the countrv are laid with steel rolls. More steel Is used In the manufac ture of pens than In all the sword and gun factories In the world. Last year 45 vessels of different kinds were constructed at Osaka. Japan, four of them being steel armored. In Mexico two crops of corn and of beans can be raised annually, while vegetables grow the year round. Alabama produced 947.8S1 tons of pig Iron last year, while the output of Tennessee argreirated 272,730 tons. It Is reported that a new 5000-splndle cotton mill will be built at Chapel Hill, N. C T. P. Lloyd Is Interested. All states collect taxes from the li quor traffic, except California, where It all goes to the counties and munici palities. The American Consul at Aden says that there Is a good demand in ArablH for clocks of the kind costing from $? to $10. It Is reported that Paul B. Patten, of Salem. Mass.. has a contract for the manufacture of cotton gins, to be shipped to Russla. The taxable property of Oklahoma Is s-tven In at J40.S23. 81 In 1898. showing an Increase over the previous year of almost $10,000,000. A Chilian company Is to put on a new line of steamers from San Francisco via Panama to South American coast ports, touching at all the Mexican way ports. China has undeveloped petroleum lands covering an area of 50,000 square miles, and conl and Iron over zi.ooo square miles. The coal formation alone has been estimated at 13.470 miles. All of the air-brake appliances we see upon the trains throusrh the country are manufactured In Pittsburg. One plant has an annual capacity for turn- Ins- rmt M te-Krtl lrp fnp 9KA Ann feotp-ltf cars. 6000 passenger cars and 10,000 lo - comotlves. The capital stock of the California cotton mills. Oakland. Cal.. has been Increased to $800,000. In order that the capacity of the manufactory may be enlarsred. The fact has been demon strated that cotton goods can Tie profitably manufactured In California, Work has begun on the railway ex tension from Ameca to Tequllla. Mer.. the merchants of the latter town hav ing raised a bonus of $30,000 for the road. It Is said the merchants Tepic will raise $100.ono to get the road1 extended to that city. American pulp making machinery is gaining considerable headway In Scandinavia. Investigations made officially In Il linois show that a pound includes 2, 1S5.000 seeds of blue grass, 1,421,000 of timothy, 863,000 of white clover, 152, 000 of red clover and 243,000 of alfalfa. SERMONS OF THE DAY Bnbiectt "AcroH th Coatlnent" Splrltaa. Thoughts SiieeMtod While Vie wins Scenes of MaJ.ty and Grmleu 'Wrought by the Hand ot Ood. Texts: "Streams in the desert." Isalat xxxv., 6. "He toncheth the hills and they smoke." Psalms civ., 32. II v first text means irrigation. It mean' the waters ot the Himalaya, or the Pyre nees, or the Sierra Nevadas poured througt canals and aqueducts for the fertilization of the valleys. It means the process bj which the last mile of American barrennesf will be made an apple orchard, or an orange grove, or a wheat field, or a cotton planta tion, or a vineyard "streams in the desert.' My second text means a volcano like Vesu vius or Cotopaxl. or it means the geysers of i ii.twaloue 1'arlc or o( California. You sect u loil cairn uud still, and for ages ltn diovim, Luc tlie Lord out of the heuvem puts llis finger on the top of it, and from it rise thick and Impressive vapors: "He toncheth the hills and they smoke!" Although my journey across the conti nent this summer was for the eighth time, more and more am I impressed with the divine hand in its construction, and with its greatness and grandeur, and more and more am I thrilled with the fact that it is all to be irrigated, glorified and Edenized. What a change from the time when Daniel Webster on yonder Captoline Hill said to the American Senate in regard tothe centre of this coSjtinent, and to the regions on the rani lie Coast: "What do you want with this vast, worthless area, tli!- rogion of savages and wild beasts, of deserts and cactus, of shifting sauiis and pntlrie dogs? To what use could we ever put these great deserts or these great mountains, impene trable and covered with eternal snow? Wbat can we ever hope to do with the Western coast, rock-bound, cheerless nod urtnviting, and not a harbor on It? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pactne coast one inch nearer ISoston than It now is." What a mistake the great statesman made when he said tiiatl All who bave crossed the continent realize that the States on the Tactile O.-eau will have quite as grand opportunities as the States ou the Atlantic, nud all this realm from sea to sea to be the Lord's cul tivated possession. Do you know what, in some respects, Is the most remarkable thing between the Atlautio and Pnclllc? It Is the tlgure ol a cross on a mountuli In Colorado. It 1m called the "Mount of the Holy Cross." A horizontal crevice tilled with perpetual suow, and a perpendicular crflvloo.llllml with snow, hut both the horizontal line aud the perpendicular line so marked, so bld, so slgnillcent, so unmistakable, that all who pass in the daytime within mnny miles are compelled to see it. There are some figures, some contours, some moun tain appearances that von gradually make oat after your atteution Is called to them. Ho a man's face ou the neks in the White Mountains. So a maiden's form cut lu the granite of the Adironilacks. So a city in the moving clouds. Yet you have to look under the pointing of your friend or guide for some time lierore you can see the similarity. But the lint instant yon glance at this side of the mountain in Colorado, you cry out: "Across! A cross!" Do you say that this geological In scription just happens so? No! That cross on the Colorado mountain Is not a human device, or an accident of nature, or the freak of an earthquake. The band of Ood out it there and set it np tor the nation to look at. Whether set up in rock be fore the cross ot wood was ret up on the bluff hack ot Jerusalem, or set up at some time since that assassination, I believe the Creator meant it to suggest the most notable event in all the history of this, planet, and He hung it there over thei heart of this continent to indicate that I the only hope for this nation is in tliej Cross on which our Imma-iuel died. The j clouds were vocal at our Saviour's birth, the rocks rent at His martyrdom, why not ! the walls of Colorado hear the record of I the Crucifixion? 1 I supposed in my boyhood, from its size on the map, that California was a few , yards across, a ridgit of laud ou which i one must walk cautiously lest ho hit his I head against the Sierra Nevada on one side, vriij un lull me j ariuu waiern ou me other California, the thin slice of land, as I supposed it to be In my boyhood, I have founa to be larger than all the Stntes of New England and all New York State and all Pennsylvania added together; nnd 11 you add them together their square miles fall far short of California. And then ail those new-born States of the Union, North and South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Each State an em pire in size. "But," says one, "In calculating the Im mensity of our continental acreage you must reme-nber that vntt reaches of our publio domain are uncultivated heaps ot drysHnd, nnd the 'Had Lands' of Montana and the Great American Desert." I am glad you mentioned that. Within twenty five years there will not be botweeu tiie Atlantic nnd Pacillo coasts a hundred miles of land not reclaimed either by farmers' plough or miners' crowbar. By irrigation, the waters of the rivers and the showers of heaven, in what are called the rainy sea son, will be gathered Into great reservoirs, and through aqueducts let down where anil when the people want them. Utah Is an object lesson. Some parts of that Terri tory which were so barren that a spear of grass could not bave been raised there in a hundred years, are now rich as Lancaster County farms of Pennsylvania, or West chester farms of New York, or Somerset County farms of New Jersey. Experiments have proved that ten acres of ground irri gated from waters gathered in great liy.lro loglcal bajins will produce as much as fifty acres from the downpour of rain as seen in ourreulons. We have our freshets andonr droughts, but lu those lands which are to be scientifically Irrigated there will be neither freshets nor droughts. As you take a pitcher and gel it full of water, and then set it on a table anil take a drink out of it when you are thirsty and never think ol drinking a vitcherful all at once, so Mon tana, and Wyoming and Idaho will catch the rains of their rainy season aud take up all the waters of their rivers In great pitchers of reservoir.-', and refresh thlt Innd whenever they will. But tlie most wonderful part ot this Amer ican continent is the Yellowstone Park. My two visit there made upon me an impres sion that will Inst forever. Go In by the Moneida route as we did this summer nud save 250 miles of railroading, your stage coach taking you through a day of scenery as captivating and sublime as tlie Yellow stone Park itself. After all poetry has ex hausted itself concerning Yellowstone Park, and all the Morans and ISierstadts aud the other enchanting artists have completed their canvas, there will be other relations to make, uud other stories of its beauty nud wrath, splendor and agony, to be recited. The Yellowstoue Park is the geologist's paradise. By cheapening of travel may It become the nation's playground! In sumo portions of it there seems to be the anarchy ot the elements. Fire aud water, and the vapor born of that marriage, terrific. Gey. ser cones or hills of crystal that have been over five thousand years growing! In places the earth, throbbing, sobbing, groan ing, quaking with aqueous paroxysm. At l the expiration of every sixty-five minutes one of the geysers tossing its boiling water 185 feet In the air and then descending Into swinging rainbows. "He touehetii the hills and they smoke." Caverns of pictured walls large enougli for the sepulchre ot the human lace. Formations of stone in shape and color of calla lily, ot heliotrope, of rose, of cowslip, of sunflower and of gladiolus. Sulphur and arsenic and oxide ot iron, with their delicate pencils, tnriiiux the bills into a Luxemburg, or a Yati-.-ar picture-gallery. The so-called Tlianatopali Geyeer, exquisite nsthe liryant poem It was named after, and Evangeline Geyser, love ly as the Longfellow heroine it commemo rates. But after you nave wandered along ths geyserite enchantment for days, and b gla to feel tlia1: there cau be nothing more of luterest to see, yon suddenly come upon the peroration of all majesty and grandeur, the Grand Canon. It is here that it seems to me and I speak it with reverence Je hovah sesss to hava surpassed Himself. It seems a great gulch let down Into the eternities. Masonry by nn omnipotent trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow unless you saw It thora. ll- i! You never 4aw red unless you saw it there. Violetl You never saw violet unless yon saw It there. Triumphant banners of color. In a cathedral of basalt. Sunrise and Sunset married by the setting of rainbow ring. Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, and Egyptian basilicas built before human architecture was born. Huge fort I II. -at lorn Df granite constructed before war forged its first canuon. Glbraltars and Sebasto pols that never can be taken. Thrones on which no one but the King of heaven and sarth ever sat. Fount of waters at which :he hills are baptized, while the giant cliffs stand around as sponsors. For thousands f years before that scene was unveiled to anman sight, the elements were busy, aud :he geysers were hewing away with their hot chisel, and glaciers were pounJing with their cold ham iuer-, and hurricanes were Meavfng with their lightning strokes, aud Gallstones giving the finishing touches, and ifter ail these forces of nature had done :ueir best, in our century the curtain irop; ed, and the world had a new nnd di rlnefy inapt -e l revelation, the Old Testa ment written on papyrus, the New Testa nent written on parchment, nnd this last t'esta-neut wrilteu on the ro iks. Staiiiliug there in the i.tn 1 Canon of he Yellowstoue Park for f ta nio.t part wo ied our pnce, but after awhile it Hashed ipon me with such power I could not help ut say to my comrades: "What a hall this would be for the last Judgmeut!" See that nighty cascade with the rainbows at the loot of It? Those waters congealed anil rausllxe l with the agitations of that day, what a place they would make forthes'iln ng feet of a Judgu of quick ami deadl ind those rainbows look now like the rrowus to be cast at His feet. At the bot tom of this great canon is a lloor ou which he nations of the earth might stand, and ill up and dowa these galleries or rock the unions ot heaven might sit. And what reverberatlou of archangels' trumpet there vould bo through all those gorges and rom these caverns aud over all these leights. Why should not the greatest of 111 the dnys the world shall ever see close iniid the grandest scenery Omnipotence sver built? 1 have said these things about llie mag nitude of the continent, and given you a 'w specimens of some of Its wonders, to et vou know the comprehensiveness of Jurist's dominion when lie takes posses ion of this continent. Besides that, the lalvation ot this coutinent means the sal ralion of Asia, for we are only thirty-six niles from Asia at the northwest. Only Duliriug Strait sopuratcs us from Asia, and ;liese will be spanned by a great bridge. The thirty-six miles of water betweeu these :wo continents tire not nil deep sea, but save three islands, and there are also ilioals which will allow piers of bridges, m I for the most of the way the water is inly about twenty fathoms deep. The Americo-Asiatii! bridge which will rot span those straits will make America, Ksiu, Europe anil Africa one continent. in, you see, America evangelized, Asia irill be evangelized. Europe taking Ai from one side and America taking It from :he other side. Your children will cross :bat bridge. America and Asia and Eu rope all one, what subtraction from the pangs of seasickness! ami the prophecies n Uevelation will be fullllled, "there shall 3e no more sea." But do I mean literally :hat this American continent is going to e all gospelized? I do. Christopher Co umbus, when he went ashore from the Santa Maria, and his second brother tlonzo, when he went ashore from the i'inta, aud his third brother Vincent, wbeu tie went ashore from the Nina, took pos session of this country in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Satan has no more right to this country :hnn I have to your pocket-book. To hear him talk on the roof of the temple, where be proposed to give Christ the kingdoms af this world and the glory ot them, you might suppose that Satan was a great cap italist or that be was loaded up with real estate, when the old miscreant never wned an acre or an inch of ground on :uls planet. For that renson I protest igalnst something I heard and saw this mmmor and other summers in Montana anil Oregon nnd Wyoming and Idaho and Colorado and California. They have given rlevilistic names to many places In the West and Northwest. As soon as you get in Yellowstone Tark )r California you have pointed out to you alaces cursed with such names ns "The ievUs Slide," "The Devil's Kitchen." The Dovil's Thumb," "The Devil's Pul Mt," "The Devil's Mush-Pot," "The Devil's Tea-Kettle," "The Devil's Saw Uill," "The Devil's Machine-Shop." "The Devil's Gate," and so on. Now It Is very nueh needed that geological surveyor or 3ongressionnl Committee or group of dis :Ingulshed guests go through Montana ind Wyoming and California and Colorado ind give other names to these places. All :hese regions belong to the Lord, nud to a Christian nation; nnd away with such Plutonic nomenclature! But how Is this con tinent to be gospelized? The pulpit and a Christian printing-press harnessed to gether will be the mightiest team for the Iret plough. Not by tho power of cold, lormalistio theology; not by ecclesiastical technicalities. I am sick of them, and the world Is sick of them. But It will be done yy the warm-hearted, sympathetic presen--.atlon of the fact that Christ Is ready to pardon all our sins, and heal all our wounds, and save us both for this world ind the next. Let your religion of glaciers ;rack ofT anil fall into the Gulf Stream and got melted. Take nil your creeds of all denominations and drop out of them all human phraseology aud put in only scrip tural phraseology, and you will sen how uleU the people will jump after them. Ou tlie Columbln Itlver we saw the sal mon jump clear out of the water in itiner ant places, I suppose for the purpose of getting the Insects. And if when we want to flsh for men aud we only have the right kind of bait, they will spring out above the Hood of their sins and sorrows to roach It. The Young Men's Christian Associations of America will also do part Df the work. They are going to take the young men of this nation for God. These institu. ions seem lu belter favor with God snd man than ever before, llu.siness m.-ii And capitalists are awaking to the fa.-t that tliey can to nothing better in the way if living benellcence or In last will and testament than to do what Mr. Maniiand iid for Brooklyn when he made the Young Men's Christian palace possible. These institutions will get our yomii: men all aver the land into a stampede for aeaven. Tims we will all in some wii aelp on the work, you with your ten :alents, I witli live, somebody else with :hreo. It is estimated that to irrigate the irid and desert lauds of Am-ri"a as they )ught to bo Irrigated, It will cot about )ne hundred million dollars to gather the waters Into reservoirs. As mivh contri bution and effort as that would irrigate with Gospel Influence-i all the wa-ite places of this continent. Let us by prayer and contribution nnd rigiit living all help to till the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket, and vou n cup. and even a thimbleful would help. And after a while God will send the Uoo.ls of mercy so gathered, pouring down over all the land, and some 'A ns on earth nnd some of us in heaven will Kinr with Isaiah, "In the wil-lerncs waters have brol;.ii out, ri'id streann ia the ilewirrl," nud with David, "fnere i u river the tr"a'n- wher--of shall ir.ak" i;lad ther.vh ol Go.!." Oh. Mil up the rener voV 1 America for Go It Of the nearly 2.000.000 inhabitants of Kerlin only 42,000 have an annual ; Income of over $750. It is reported that rats climb the orange trees of southern Italy and suck the blood oranges. The egg is currency in South Afri ca's interior. Condensed eggs are prepared in Passan. Itavaria. First the eggs are dried, then reduced to a fine powder, which is placed in air-tight cans. Thus . a most nutritious xooa is compressea i into smallest possible so- How fast can a bee fly? A hive cn the roof of a train was carried at the rate of thirty miles an hour be fore the bees were left behind. A novel sort of window glass has been invented. Persons on the inside of the house can see through it, but It is opaque to those on the outside. 'j ,
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