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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND . THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8.
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MIFFLINTOWIS . JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1898.
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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
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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
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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 ,