jiiife .. golfed nl Segillraa B. V. OOHT7SIEB, THE OONBTITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL Lll. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PEN N A.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16 1898 NO. 49 1 1 -IV. CHAPTER XXIV (ConUnned.) ..effa U "Very KIad t find yon at last," he cried, in his ns. fnia, pleasant Toic, as be advanced, with outstretched hand; "I am Ion King to know " He stopped, silenced and astonished by the aspect of Standish, his stern fare, and the sight of his hand closed and resting on the table, quite irresponsive to Eger ton's friendly gesture. "What is the matter. Standish?" "I will explain. You must hear me without interruption, for what I am going to say is a sufficient strain on my self control. I have heard the whole truth which underlay the tragedy in which w have both played a part. I know the brutal rillainy of your conduct toward . . , 11. 0 T, 1 1 TT. .UUV LI Id h U1V ..-- . tlirfona whieh ahnnM hnVA fallen An VOU ' were directed to me, and I hare it from Callander himself that be, too, had learn ed the trnth, that he was aware of the debt he owed you, and was resolved to pay H in full; therefore, you are unfit to touch the hand of a gentleman, to sit in the room with a decent woronn! Ton took the heart, the will, of a weak, innocent child by falsest strategem into yonr iron, pitiless hands, and for the gratification ol a base passion, destroyed bcr soul's lift as certainly as her murderer struck hei dead!" While he spoke Egerton's large, dark yea grew larger, fiercer, and fixed them selves unflinchingly on those of Standish. "Yes! he returned, in a hard voice. Thls is bow, I suppose, a moral, blame less man like yourself looks upon me, and this is how I look upon myself: I found one of the sweetest, fairest creatures my eyes ever rested on. whose indefinable- charm fascinated my heart and tfcrilied my senses as no other woman among the numbers I have known ever did before. I found her tied to a cold, half-indifferent man, whose age, whose dull nature check ed and repressed hers. She feared him, she wanted the companionship of a young er, a more sympathetic man! She was formed for me, and all that was needed to secure such happiness as men and women rarely taste was that she should tnke courage and burst her bonds. It wonid have been but a nine days' wonder, soon forgotten, and I could have given her ev erything! But she dared uot! Heaven never created an angel pnrer or more self denying than Mabel! Whether right ot wrong, I have but one regret that I did not succeed In carrying her away from the oppression of her home to the heaven my f ve could have created from the cruel fc.adnian who destroyed her sweet life to A.. hr-. 'belter of ..ear arms. My love for hei I3 gave me superior rights! I shall nevei " jfc repent or. regret my share la the past!" ' ! "You, too, are Insane!" exclaimed Stan , l,rK amoroil nt fc's splf-decention end uot Vtruck by his allusion to Callander. "Feeling convinced, continued jiger ton, "from some strange innate convic- -v t tion mat tjauanoer muroereu uw wue, -I ) forced myself to endure his company f rather thaa give cruel tongues any chanft O Of touching the truth. I bore the bitter r reproaches of her sister. 1 will bear in ailence no breath from me shall evei -I tarnish the pure name of my beloved deadl But you and I have the honor ot Callander's name, the safety of his life : in onr hands, and though we" shall keep "'"far apart in the future we must guard it welL" - "His honor, yes! for the rest no earthl; 1 Judge can touch him now." "What!" cried Egerton. with a sudden revulsion of feeling. "Is he dead?" "I have reason to believe so," and Stan dish told the occurrences of the day a rapidly as he could. "Then that chapter is finished!" ex claimed Egerton. "We can never meet again as friends; but for the sake of the dead we must not seem enemies. Dorothy may rest satis-lied with her work," he add ed with a sneer. . "She has reason to be satisfied," re " turned Standish gravely. "Better mourn over her aister's early grave than blush for a faithless wife, a dishonored moth er." Egerton stood a moment In silence. Then he said, more to himself than tc Standish, "I shall leave England to-morrow." With one steady, defiant look into the face of bis accuser he left the room and the house. CHAPTER XXV. When Standish reached Prince's PIac next morning he fonnd Dorothy alone nl the breakfast table; she was looking a little brighter than' usual, and rose to re ceive him with a welcoming smile. - "I am so glad' you have come, deal ml! I am dying to bear how you and Wbert met.' 1f he is friends with yon 4j ''V trusts to you, he may recover some . . , .xning Ui UlS Viu iia 111c v& wiuu. - "Yea. Dorothy., I will tell you every- "3 5Ljand half-uneonsoiously in both his own iSvvlTBHt come into the study; we shall I nnriinrnrbod! Have you finished yom - - , Drealcrastr j --'''-? "Oh! yes, quite Henrietta has a henil jj$The, so she di not come down: but she 'V.; nts to see you before you go." '2 While Dorothy Bpoke she led the way Thto the study; small hre was burning, and the window was open upon a neat lUtlcpgatfenT the sunshine of an eafLf spring morning scwuwu i i" um.m future crop of grass and flowers. t. ,M .till " Mid Dorothy, closing f v- the window and turning to Standish, who -. . i-ii i :innt. -nnmtliintr in bit SftOOu SI 111 aim - e face, in bis compassionate eyes, struck hei heart. "Pauldear raul how dreadfully ill you look! Something bns happened! Some thing to Herbert! Tell me at once." "Yes! my dearest Dorothy! W e great ly fear that an accident bathing siwl- den cramp, perhaps " - Standish could hardly form his words. "Oh Paul! say it nt once. Is he deal .' "Sit down, mr child." drawing her tc so(a. and holding her hands in his. cannot say certainly that he Is! bw I fear we shall never see him again 1 wBI tell you all ' Dorothy listened with wide-open drj eyes). "Do you do you think he did It him self?" and she dung shuddering to him as she gasped out the words. "". certainly not!" returned Standish promptly. "Why be ordered breakfar 'or himself and for me (for he seemed t ive expected me), and in his letter h wke of objects to live for! No, Doro cy-put that thought out of your head. ,'He wrote to you, then?" ' Yes, very kindly and frankly, just Hk fc'ol4 self." , , Tl ... - E V o "Ah! how good he was, how kind h was how gentle, how true why. whj has one bad man been allowed to destroj our happiness? My head feels on fire ' "Think of those poor little children, at unconscious of their desolation," begat Standish, at his wits' end to draw tean to the poor strained eyes, when the dooi bunt ecen and Henrietta, her eyes rec with weeping and a handkerchief in hei hand, came in. "Oh! Have you told her? Isn't it tot dreadful! Oh, poor, dear Dorothy, how I feel for you! Yet what can your grief b to mine? I loved him all my life, quite al. my life," and sitting down, she covered ber face, and sobbed aloud. "How did you know?" asked Standish "I did not say anything in my note, tc save murdering sleep for one nigbt." "It was this morning. Collins read h in the papers and told Celestine, and ah ran, of course, to me. I kept out of tb way In my room, for I knew I should talk to Dorothy, and I told them to keep al the puper below. Now you mot U-V ' the whole dreadful story." Standiau complied noticing the con srant fits of trembling that shook Doro thy's slight frame. "Now," said Henrietta, rising, "I hopi you will not mind being left alone. Doro thy, but I am going off almost immcdi .itcly to catch the mid-day Calais boat. I feel I ought to break the dreadful new to my aunt. In losing her son she lose everything, and nobody seems to think ol her." "I certainly do!" said Standish, grimly "Had it not been for her " He stop ped. "Oh, yes, I know; she growled and Krumbled and made herself disagreeable, but then she meant well. At any rate. Iorothy, I feel I ought to go to Aunt Callander." "Yes, Henrietta, I don't mind staying with Nurse, I am so fond of her, and Pou! will come and see me. I think I will gc and lie down; my bead and eyes acht d read fully." "Well, do, dear, tied before I go." I shall see you set- "Good-bye, raul. How good and kind you always are to me!" A; last the gra cious tears came, and Dorothy hurried from the room. "Thank heaven, she can weep at last!" cried Standish to Henrietta. "For heav en's sake, come back as soon as you can. I feel certain she is going to be ill. But I dare say Mrs. McHugh will take good care of her. "I declare you don't seem to have thought for any one but Dorothy,' saic Henrietta, impatiently. "Not many," he replied, tersely. Henrietta stared at him as he left the room. Standish returned to his chambers on his way to the Foreign Office, and found a telegram from Brierly: "Body cast up by tide on western spit. Shnll do all that is needful. Come as soon as you can." Dispatching this by a messenger to Mist Oakeley, Standish perforce continued on his way, that he might clear off some work, and make what arrangements he could to attend the funeral of his unfor tunate friend. CHAPTER XXVI. It was all over. The mortal remains ot poor Callander were laid to rest beside those of the wife he loved too well. The only members of bis family who fol lowed him to the grave were a couple of distant cousins. Mrs. Callander was in a strange state of nervous depression. Henrietta in Paris. Dorothy laid np with n severe attack of low fever, Egerton no one knew where. Of all the pleasant party that used to assemble at The Knoil. Stnnddsh was the so'.e representative. A few days after he bad once more settled to the ordinary routine of his life, he paid a visit to the lawyer at his re quest, for Col. Callander, a few days be fore his unexpected death, had by a cotli ril revoked bis appointment of Egerton as executor, and named Standish in his place, requesting that so long is Dorothy was unmarried she should remain with his children. After examining the will Standish lef the lawyer's and walked toward his out lodgings in somewhat deep thought. He was uneasy about Dorothy, who had uot left her room since the day he Iind broken the news of Callander's disappear snce to her. She was very weak. Mrs. McHugh reported, and apparently quite content to lie still, without a desire for anything. "What an age it Is since I've seen her. ind nurse snys she will not be downsiair tgain for three or four days." Then his houghts wandered to Dil.'on. IPs i !iice and non-appearance puzzle.! S.an linh; "but I shall hot seek him. lie wi" be sure to present hiu!-clf. He lias Iic-mi .veil paid so far. but I should like to Im sure of his silence. The awful trnt' must never come out. It is huiuiliniiu t. think that we are at the mercy of such : 'camp ns Dillon. But he umst le s; enced." S'andish here hai'ed n hansom niid Irove to his own :i1m1c. Ar so'uetin;c happens, he fonnd his thoughts bail bceii l-rophetic. The servant or the hois.-, hearing his latchkey in the lock, came om of the front parlor. "If you please, sir," presenting a card, "the gentleman said he wonld call again." "If he does, show him up," returned Standish, reading the inscription "Luke C. Dilion." "I shall be at home most of the afternoon." He began a letter to Henrietta, for he was anxious that she should return to her temporary home and to Dorothy. His lucubrations were cut short by the announcement of "Mr. Dillon," and the detective entered, fresh, cool, self-satia-Eed and red as ever. "Thought I'd look you np," he began. "You'll have been wondering what has lx-come of me?" 'Well, no! You see, there is nothing more to do, as " Standish paused. ".lust so! Nothing more to do and a pretty tidy job I made of it, eh, Mr. Stan dish?" "I readily acknowledge your remarka b e ability," returned Standish cautiously. "Well, sir, the poor gentleman made away with himself sooner than I expect ed." "How do you know he made away with himself?" "Why, Mr. Standish, you and I, who know the whole truth, need not beat about the bush when we are face to face and no witnesses by. I dare say there's doubt enough to Intention to entitle you to I deny it was suicide, but what you think wuiiT pair or snoea. Between you and me, it's the beet thing the poor fellow could have done! His life was over any life worth living so he was right to get shut of It." "We need not discuss the question," re turned Standish haughtily. "We are not likely to agree on abstract questions." "Like enough!" with careless superior ity. "Now, the reason I have called la to show you that I have a good deal of what I believe you top-sawyers call delicate consideration, mixed with a due regard for my own Interest." He paused. "Pray continued. I am much interest ed." "You II be more so presently. When last yol and I had a talk, Mr. Standish, we differed about one or two trifles. One was the amount due to me for informa tion which would certainly lead to the discovery of the murderer, and also for an undertaking to hold my tongue as to tire same. Now, on reflection, I decided rut to trouble you. You were not of the fam ily, you could not be exactly a Judge of how far their feelings would urge them; so I just crossed otver to Paris and asked the old lady, Mrs. Callander, to graut me the honor of an Interview." "You did!" cried Standish. "This it exactly what I shoaid have wWhed tc have spared her""" "I dare say, but I suspect the old lady would rather do business with me. Any way, she saw me pretty quick. Lord, what a state she was in shaking like an aspenl She is just fifteen years oldei than when I last saw her. She's dying by inches, of fright. She soon let out that her son had confessed his crime, and that she was ready to pay me any amount If she could only ensure my silence. But I am a man of principle, Mr. Standish, always was; so I kept down the figure, and told her that two thou, was heavy enough to sink the whole business deep down out of sight forever. She was quite amenable to reason, not to say In a hurry to draw me a check, and wished to add a trifle for traveling expenses. However, I directed her bow the matter wns to be done; not all in a lump, to cre ate suspicion. That's neither here noi there any way, I have bagged the cash. Fortunately I got the matter settled be fore the news of the Colonel's death reach, cd her." Dillon paused, but Standish did not rpeak. Had he opened his lips, he fell sure his words would not have been complimentary. After waiting with ex pectant eyes, Dillon resumed once more: "I thought it right to tell you this, and as I am just going to start for Australia n a curious lay to let you know that all's square. I needn't tell you, as I am a man of honor, that you may make your minds easy, Hie family secret is safe with me." With a nod, Dillon left the room, and by an instinctive action, Standish threw up the window as if to breathe purer air. CHAPTER XXVII. "The day drags on, though storms keep nut the sun," and spring was now fat enough advanced to make Standish think it was time that Henrietta Oakeley too' Dorothy to Switzerland or North Italy. SI e bad been full .of the scheme at first, but for the last week or two seemed dis posed to postpone their departure till Standish determined to go and settle the date at which they should start for Brus sels, a town Dorothy wished to visit. It was a fine, bright Saturday, In mid April, when Standish drove up to th well-known house In Prince's Place. "Miss Oakeley was Dot at home," said the mournful Collins, "but Misa Wyiin is in the drawing room. The room looked delightfully home-like, the bright sunshine tempered by outside blinds, the atmosphere redolent of vio ets. Dorothy was at the piano when Standish came in, and rose with a quiet -mile to shake hands with him. She look A less delicately pale than formerly; there was a pale, shell-like, pinky tinge in her cheeks, but her great dark-gray yes were more pathetic than ever. "I am glad to see you at the piano once more, Dorothy," said Standish. "You are a good girl to try and get over your mor bid feelings." "Yes, I must conquer my dread of hear ing music." she said with a sigh, "though I don't like to think it is morbid. But if I do not resist, it will take too strong a hold on me. It will not do to be melan choly with those poor dear children." "No, certainly not. You are looklnr better, my dear ward," still holding bet hand. "I am gaining strength," she returned, gently withdrawing it. Standish leaned on the end of the sofa, and looked at her with tender regret for the young days which sorrow had so deep ly shaded. "It is time yoi were away In some sun ty new place. Where Is Henrietta? I iru determined to put matters en train to-day, and we can do nothing decided a ithout her." "I am afraid you will not see Henrietta :o-day nor to-morrow either; she has just irone to stay with Lady Kilruddc-ry a'. Twickenham, till Monday." "Lady Kilruddery? I did not know she ivas a friend of Henrietta 'sP "She is going to be more tbnn a friend," aid Iorothy, with a gleam of her former fun in her eyes. "Sh? told me a wonder ful tale this morning. She has accepted Major St. John." "This is indeed a piefc of news! I hope die will be happy. She is a good soul, thouch a little flighty." said Standish "We roust arrange something for yon, Dorothy," he said, in an odd, absent man ner. "I shall not go for a month or six weeks." He paused; Dorothy rose up and went to the window, as if to escape his eyes. "Though you will not confide In me, Dorothy," he resumed in a low, earnest tone, "do you care to hear a confession of well, I fear I must call it weakness from me?" "Of course I do," she said, while an aw ful thought flashed across her. "Is he go ing to say he is in love with Henrietta?" She believed he was. "To you I dare say it will seem folly In a man who has left youth behind him," continued Standish, grasping the top of a chair near him with a nervous grip, "but I have fallen, no, rather grown. Into love, deeper and more Intense, perhaps, than many a younger fellow could feel, with a girl almost young enough to be my daugh ter. I see her sweet, sad eyes brighten when I come near, but dare I hope it it anything beyond the almost filial affec tion which might be her natural feeling for me, that speaks in them? Shall I ask ber to be my wife? Is it not possible that for kindness, gratitude, pity's sake, she might say Yes, when nature might dictate No? Can I trust her to be true to herself as well as to me?" "Let me confess, too, before I answer," returned Dorothy, clasping and twisting her fingers nervously, while her heart bea so fast it stirred the folds of her black dress. "I, too, have been foolish, for I have let myself fall in love with a ms older, wiser, better oh, a thousand timet better than myself, and I have been very onhappy because I was ashamed of loving one who could only think of me as a half forjnfl locqn<t jBMtarc to -'"'mwi however good be might be, I could be only an object of charity in the way of affec tion or regard. To know he loved me Breath and utterance failed her. "And his name?" cried Standish, Impe riously, seizing her cold, trembling bands. is x-aui, wowperea isoruuiy,. as am gave her soft mouth to his and leaned un resistingly against hia breast, locked in s tender, loving embrace. (The end.) JloustlioM. Crystal Coffee. One need never havs muddy coffee if she imitates the fol lowing: While the water is coming to a boil grind the coffee and beat the white of an egg. Put coffee in cleu.n coffee pot, pour on boiling water, stir ring all the while; immediately add the beaten white of egg and give a vigorous stir for a minute or two. Let it come slowly to a boil; then set aside for a few minutes. Do so again, and keep on r epeating the proL-e?s until serving time. The crffee will be a beautiful color and clear as crystal. Dolly Varden Cake. Ingredients: Whites of three e ggs, one teacup?' ul powdered sugar, half-teacupful but ter, two teacupfuls flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls baking powdi r. Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten egg, mix in the flour with half teacupful sweet milk and flavor with lemon. Make a frosting of the yo'.ks of the eggs and one teacupful of sugar. Baked Squash. Cut up a winter squash in pieces the size of an ordinary potato, bake and eat as you would musk-melon leaving the rind. Baked Currant Pudding. One-h"lf pound of currants well washed and dried, one-haif pound suet finely chop ped, ten tablespoonfuls of flour, one quarter pound sugar, a little spie. three-quarters pint milk, two eggrs. Chop the suet finely, mix It with t"ie flour, currants, etc.; add the eggs, well beaten, with the milk, beat for tn minutes, pour into a pie-dish, and ba'.ce for one hour in a brisk oven. Creamed Ham on Toast. Warm one cup of finely chopped boiled ham In one pint of hot milk. Stir into it quick'y two well-beaten eggs, add a saltspoon ful of pepper, a little salt, if needed, should the ham not be salt enough to season. Turn over slices of nicely buttered toast. i-arm Notes. For experimenting to determine tr benefits of charcoal feeding, if an,, four turkeys were confined in a pen and fed on meal, boiled potatoes and oats, and four others of the same brood were at the same time confined In another pen and fed daily on the same articles, but with one pint of very fine ly pulverized charcoal mixed with their food. These had also a plentiful sup ply of broken charcoal In their pen. The eight were killed the same day, and there was a difference of one and a half pounds each in favor of those supplied with charcoal. They were the fattest, and the meat was superior in point of tenderness and flavor. It Is astonishing how much better a man knows how to do a thing after h? has learned the reason why he does It. It pays to get right down into the first principles of agriculture, and to learn how plants grow, what the soil is made of and how the animals are built. A roan who has Borne knowledge of this kind Is not likely to get carried away by hasty theories which look ridiculous at once to one who has gone below the surface of things. Farming is like a great building in that it ought to rest on a rock foundation of facts that are facts. It is claimed that within the past fif teen years there has been a decrease of fullly 46 per cent, in the number of our native birds. Surely this is appalling when we consider the vast increase in the number of injurious insectii. Strin gent measures should be adopted to prevent the wanton destruction of our feathered friends. Bring your hogs to 200 pounds on clover, and it is then an easy matter to finish them off quickly on corn in the fall, without the expense of feeding long through the cold weather. Feed ing corn in order to keep up the ani mal heat, while putting on fat, does not pay. Although you may not have quite such heavy weights in the end as by other methods, there will bo more money in the pursa. Nut growing is profitable, but it re quires years to bring a nut tree to a. stage of growth where it will pay well, hence only young farmers are induce ! to devote land In that direction. Wal nuts, chestnuts and butternuts would improve with cultivation. In a few years walnut trees will be so scarce that the farmer who has a grove will secure his own price therefor, the tim ber being valuable. When does the farmer make a profit? There are hundreds of farmers who have become wealthy, yet they have handled very little money and have had difficulty in meeting their obli gations. There is one bank account which they do not draw upon, and the deposits accumulate for years, and that is the soil. A farmer takes a poor farm, works it, adds manure, and re ceives but little over expenses, but ev ery year his farm has become more fertile and also increased in value. Tn ten or more years the farm may be worth five times the original cost, and it represents Just as much profit as though the farmer had received money. All farms are, to a certain extent, banks of deposit, where the profits of tbe farm slowly accumulate. the management of bees will find much I to learn before they can succeed. The winter care is important, for the bees must not be kept too warm, and if ex posed they may perish. A special house should be provided, which should be kept at a uniform temperature. When foods are fed on the farm and sold in some other form the valuable elements of fertility are retained nt home, and as long as this is done the farm may be cultivated to its highest limit of capacity, and becomes more valuable every year. Long articles have been written on the Importance of feeding liberally, but farmers are progressive an-1 are dis posed to go to extremes. It may be safely claimed that at the present day most farmers overfeed instead of cur tailing the supply, which accounts largely for milk fever In cows, weak liners ox pies ana diseases or me bowels. Compliments are said to cost noth ing, yet many pay what they value most to secure them. . j A mother's iove. In a decree, sancti Ties the most worthless offspring. 1 Greece has a 110-year-old woman. I In propotion to its size, a fly walks thirteen times as fast as a man can run. ' Croesus, of ancient times, possessed I about $20,000,000. j No deep-sea sounding is now con- ' sidered trustworthy unless a sample of . the bottom is brought up by the sound ing apparatus, as evidence that the lead has reached the solid ground. 1 A rhinoceros bird, about tbe slse of a turkey, which was recently shot on the island of Java had in its craw a rim from a small telescope and three brass buttons, evidently belonged to tbe uniform of British soldier. CORONATION OATHS. Folemn Promise. Mad by Knlen on Ascending; the Throne. On Sept. 0, 1898. the coronation of Queen Wilhelniina of Holland occurred, when she took the following oath: "I swear to the people of the Nether lands to always maintain and observe the constitution of the kingdom. I swear to defend and preserve with all my power the independence aad integ rity of the territory of the kingdom, to protect the public and private liberty and the rights of all my subjects, and ts employ for the maintenance and pro gress of public and private prosperity all the means which the laws may place at my disposal, as a good queen ought to do. So help me God." Before the king of Belgium tnkes pos session of the throne he swears In the presence of the united chambers "to ob serve the constitution and the laws of the Belgian people, to maintain the na tional independence and the integrity of the territory." The king of Denmark, in the presence of the council of state, swears to ob serve inviolably the constitution of the kingdom. And the king of Italy, be fore the cssemliled chambers, swenrs to observe loyally the present constitution. In Portugal the sovereign oath is: "I sweat to be faithful to the Catholic, apostolic and Roman religion; to pre serve the integrity of the kingdom; to observe, and cause to 1m? oliserved, the i ;.V.ltlcal constitution of the Portuguese nation, the ether laws of the nation, . cud to provide for the general good of 1 the kingdom, to the best of my ability." "I proai'se and swear to govern the ' kingdom of Norway In conformity with"' the constitution aul Uie laws. So help me God, and His holy word." This is Ihe oath which the king of Norway makes before the storthing. The President of the United States, before he enters upon office, takes the following oath of affirmation: "I do sol emnly swear (or airirm) that I will faithfully execute the office ef President of the Veiled States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States." Finally, to quote but one other exam ple of royal oath taking, there Is the oath which our most gracious sovereign took at the time of her coronation. This ran as follows: Archbishop Madam, Is your majesty willing to take the oath? Queen I am willing. Archbishop Will yon solemnly prom ise and swear to govern the people of this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dominion thereto belonging according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respec tive laws and customs of the same? Queen I solemnly promise to do so. Archbishop Will you to your power cause law and justice In mercy to be executed in all your judgments? Queen I will. Archbishop Will yeu to the utmost yt your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession ef the Gospel ind the Protestant reformed religion es tablished by law? And will you main tain and preserve Inviolably the settle ment of the United Church of England ind Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, jisclpllae and government thereof, as by law established within England and Ireland and the territories thereto be longing? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England and Ireland, and to the churches there com mitted to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do, and shall, appertain to them, or any of them? Queen All this I promise to do. The :hlngs which I have herebefore promts d I will perform and keep. So help me Sod. London Mail. Massachusetts claims to have more fliffercnt kinds of native trees than any kingdom in Europe, the number exceed ing fifty, among them being nine large oaks. In order to preserve the colors of p'auis it is necessary to kill the speci mens quickly, and this can be effected by plunging them for a few seconds in boiling water. If a plant Is allowed to die slowly, the colors of Its leaves and flowers will gradually fade. A writer in Meeban's Monthly says that some succulent plants will lire for months after being placed between the drying leaves of an herbarium, and finally dry np and turn black. A new form of electric lamp, from which important practical results are anticipated, has boen devised by Prof. Nernst, of the University of Gottingen. It has a filament composed of magnesia mixed with rare earths In place of tbe ordinary carbon filament, and no vac uum Is needled as in other incandes cent lamps. But the filament is non conducting when cold, so that it must first be warmed before a current will pass and cause It to glow. Tbe chief practical difficulty Is the original warm ing of the filament. Iu consequence of some experiments made In England, shopkeepers are warned of the danger of allowing in flammable goods to get Into contact with the bulbs of incandescent electric lumps. The wide-spread notion that such lamps are practically free from heat Is erroneous. A sixteen candle power electric lamp Immersed in half a pint of water will cause the water to boll within an hour. If burled In cotton-wool it will set the latter aflame. Celluloid placed In contact with an elec tric lamp bulb was set on fire in loss than five minutes. In northern Russia the month of Oc tober is characterised by features so remarkable that it is reckoned as a drth season, coming between autumn and winter, and called the rasputnya season. It is nearly coincident In time with onr Indian summer, but Is more regular in its occurrence, and lasts ionger. The word "rasputnya," says Mr. Trcvor-Battye, a recent trave'er In Uussla, means "the separation of the ro::ds." During tbe season- ten ring this name the country is Impassable, owing to the thawing of the first frosts and the blocking- of the streams with b okei ice. The land resembles a quagmire and even the government postal sarici is suspended for a month. The idea of Admiral Makaroff, th Russian explorer, that a powerfu steamer can be forced directly to thi north pole Is rather startling, yet It ha: i basis of experience. Ice-breaken have been used since 1864 in Rutsla and, la their Improved American form with two screws at the stern and om at the stem, have been made very pow srful, so that the Ste. Marie, of threi thousand horse power, easily sail through ice two and one-half feet thick sierclng Ice-walls fifteen feet high. Ad enlral Makaroff believes that an Ice breaker of twenty thousand horse paw er shonld penetrate to the pole li twelve days from latitude 78 degree! north, forcing a passage through let from four to seven feet thick. Winning Prise, An odd example of the caprice of for tune came to light at the last great Spanish lottery, says Tit-Bits. A grocei in Lyons thought he would give soma Df his customers a chance, and also par tially secure his own outlay in a ticket, so he offered all the servant girls whe traded at his shop a two-shilling share in a ticket he held. If It won anything, tbe prize was to be equally divided be tween himself and the girls who took a shore. Some one hundred of them paid him their two shillings, and, strange to relate, that ticket won the second prize of fifty thousand pounds, ao that there came a nice little sum of nearly five hundred pounds each tc deal out to these lucky servant girls! It need not be told hew delighted they were with the result. Rome years ago, In a large English town, yoang man who hud some lit tle capital heard two experienced bulk! rs talkla-g about a shop that was to be let In one ot the chief streets of that town. "Tea," said one of them, "it will be valuable some day; for when the railway company brings their station approach out into this street and they trill do It, within ten years! that shop Will be right in tho middle of their pro jected front, you'll see!" The young man heard the remark. He went away and thought. As the shop had never prospered, be took It on a long lease at a very low rental comparatively to its position. He worked hard, and by atrlctly atending to business got up a good connection. Six years later his re ward came. The railway people want ad bis shop. They were surprised at the sum he asked aa compensation for being driven out, but after much hag gling they gave It to him, and the young man "cleared out," with a for tune of five thousand pounds. How He Got HU Divorce, A good story Is told of Judge M. F. Randolph, one of the Wading lights of the bench in Kansas. A divorce suit, in which a gray-baired veteran of the savil war was plaintiff, came before him. The court-room was filled with spectators, and the old man seemed un willing to go on the stand in his own defense. "I am not going to grant di vorces without good reasons," an nounced the judge; and the plaintiff went to the, chair tJhat served as a wit ness box. "Now," said the attorney, Hell us Just what your wife did to make you leave her." The witness looked appealingly at the judge. "Answer the question," waa the or ier. "Well, she called me names." "That is not ground enough for a di vorce," said the Judge sternly. "And she neglected me." "Is tihat all?" "And she said that I was a coward and a sneak because I went to the war and came back alive. She said that all She brave and worthy men died in bat tle, and only the traitors and cowards came home; and " "That will do, sir. The decree pray d for in your petition Is granted," in terrupted the Judge. "I want you to understand, sir, that this court went to that war, and spent four years there and the court came back, too." Ao Honest Ring. Whoever reads the following must iwn to a feeling of respect for the hon ist king. King Frederick VI. of Den aaark. while traveling through Jutland, mm day entered a village school, and round the children lively and intelli rent, and quite ready to answer his ue8tions. '"Well, youngsters," he said, "what are the names of the greatest Kings of Denmark?" With one accord they cried out, "Ca aute the Great, Waldemar and Chris dan IV." - Just then a little girl, to whom the icboolmaster had whispered some :hlng, stood np and raised her band. "Do you know another?" asked the ting. "Yes; Frederick VI." "What great act did he perform?" Tbe girl hung ber head and stammer id out, "I don't know." "Be comforted, my child," said the ting; "I don't know, either." To De Quincey. When we read great names, name' "to conjure with," It Is sometimes hai to believe that the men to whom the) belonged were ever browbeaten by pub Ushers or crushed by critics. Even D Quincey had to be brought to a sens of the realities of this earth, hazy phil osopher as he was, and while he was yet a new contributor to Blackwood'i Magazine the publishers addressed tc him this sharp appeal. In the light oi his literary glory, it is interesting read Ing: "Jan. 6, 1821. "I must tell you frankly, at once, thai your mode of furnishing articles wll! neither answer your own purpose not mine. For Instance: This article which you hare not yet finished, yon positive ly promised to have with me complete on Tuesday by 2 o'clock. "No doubt you may have had man; unavoidable causes for tbe delay; still this Is nothing to a man of business who, as he adheres to his own engage ments, expects equal punctuality ir. those who engage wltb him. "It Is quite unnecessary, as I hare again and again told you, to make anj Inquiry as to whether an article will be in time, A good article is always Is tlmsV SERMONS OF THE DAY abject: "Improvamsnts in Heaven" Bt.ven Has Improved in Numbers, Society and Knowledge A fjrt Con solation to Good People. Text: "And I saw a new heaven." Rex, xxl-.L The sterotyped heaven does not make adequate impression upon us. We need the old story told in the new style in order toiouse our appreciation. 1 do not snp post that we are compelled to the old phraseology. King James's translators did not exhaust all the good and graphio words in the English dictionary. I suppose if we should take the Idea of heaven, and translate It into modern phrase, we wonld find that Its atmosphere is a combination ol early June and ot the Indian summer In October a place com bining the advantages of city and country, the streets standing for tbe one, and the twelve manner ol fruits for the other; a place of musical en tertainment harpers, pipers, trumpeters, doxologles: a place of wonderful architec ture behold the temple! a place where there may be the higher forms of animal lite the beasts which were on earth beaten, lash-wbipped, and galled and unblanketed, and worked to death, turned out among tbe white horses which the Book of Revela tion describes as being in heaven; a place ot stupendous llterntnre the books open; a place of aristocratic and democratic at tractiveness the kings standing for the one, all nations for tbe other; all botanical, pomologlcal, ornithological, arborescent, worshipful beautv and grandeur. But my idea now is to speak chiefly of the improved heaven. People sometimes talk of heaven as though it were an old city, finished centuries ago, when I have to tell you that no city on earth, during the last tlfty years, has bad such changes as heaven. It is not the same place as when Job, and David, and Paul wrote of it. For hundreds and hundreds of years it has been going through peaceful revolution, and year by year, and month by month, and hour by Lour, and moment by moment, ft is chang ing, and changing for something better. Away back there was only one residence in the universe the residence of the Al mighty. Heaven bad not yet been started. Immensity was tbe park nil around about this great residence; but God's sympathetic heart after a while overflowed in other creations, and there came, all through this vast country of immensity, inhabited vil lages, which grew and enlnrged until they joined each other, and became one great central metropolis ot the universe, st retted, gated, templed, watered, inhabited. One angel vent forth with a reed, we are told, and he measured heaven on one side, and then be went forth and measured heaven on the other side; and then St. John tried to take the census of that city, and he be came so bewildered that he gave It up. That brings me to the tlrst thought of my theme that beaven Is vastly Improved in numbers. Noting little under this head about the multitude of adults who have gone Into glory during the last hundred, or five hundred, or thousand years, I re membor there are sixteen hundred millions of people In the world, and that tbe vast majority of people die in infancy. How many children must have gone into heaven during tbe last Ave hundred or thousand years. If New York should gather in one generation a million population. It London should gather in one generation four mil lion population, what a vast increase! Bat what a mere nothing as compared with the five hundred million, tbe two thousand million, the "multitude that no man can number," that have gone Into that city! Of course, all this takes for granted that every child that dies goes as straight into heaven as ever the light sped from a star; and that is one reason why heaven will always be fresh and beautiful the great multitude ot children In it. Put Ave hun dred million children in a. country, it will be a blessed and lively country. But add to this, if you will, tbe great multitude of adults wtio have gone into glory, and how tbe census of heaven must run upl Many years ago a clergyman stood In a New England pulpit, and said that he believed that the vast majority of the race would finally be destroyed, and that not more than one person out of two thousand persons would be finally saved. There happened to be about two thousand people in the village where he preached. Next Sabbath two persons were heard dis cussing the subject, and wondering which one of tbe two thousand people in the village would finally reach heaven, and one thought It would be the minister, and the other thought it would be the old deacon. Now, I have not much admiration for a life-boat which will go out to a ship sinking with two thousand passengers, and get one off In safety, and let nine teen hundred and ninety-nine go to tbe bottom. Why, heaven must have been a village when Abel, the first soul from eartb, entered It, as compared with tbe present population of that great cityl Again: I remark that heaven has vastly Improved in knowledge. Give a man forty or fifty years to study one science, oi all sciences, with all the advantages ol laboratories and observatories and philo sophic apparatus, he will be a marvel ol information. Now, into what intelligence must heaven mount, angelhood and saint hood, not after studying for forty or fifty years, but for thousands of years study ing Ood and the soul and immortality and the universal How the intelligence ol that world must sweep on and on, with eyesight farther reaching than telescope, with power ot calculation mightier than all human mathematios, with powers ol analysis surpassing all chemical labor atory, with speed swifter than telegraphy! What must heaven learn, with all these advantages, In a month. In a year, in a century, In a millennium? The difference between the highest university on earth and the smallest class in a primary school cannot be a greater difference than heaven as it now Is and beaven as It once was. Do you not seppose that when Doutor James Himpson went up from tbe hospi tals of Edinburgh into heaven he knew more than ever the science of health; and that Joseph Henry, graduating from the Smithsonian Institution into heaven, awoke Into higher realms of philosophy; and that Sir William Hamilton, lifted to loftier sphere, understood better the con struction of the human intellect; and that John Milton took up higher poetry in the actual presence of things that on earth he bad tried to describe? When the first saints entered heaven, they must have studied only tbe A B C of the full litera ture of wisdom-wltb whl;h they are now acquainted. Again: heaven is vastly improved in its society. During your memory bow many exquisite spirits nave gone into Itl If you should try to make a list of all the genial, loving, gracious, blessed souls that you have known, it would be a very long list souls that have gone Into glory. Now, do you not suppose they have enriched the so ciety? Have they not Improved beaven? Tou tell of what heaven did for them. Have they done nothing for heaven? Take all the gracious souls that have gone out of your acquaintanceship, and add to them 11 tbe gracious and beautiful souls that for five hundred or a thousand years have gone out of all the cities and all the vil lages, and all the countries of this eartb into glory, and now the society of heaven must have been Improved! Suppose Paul, the apostle, were introduced into our so cial circle on earth; but heaven has added all the apostles. Suppose Hannah More and Charlotte Elizabeth were introduced Into your social circle on eartb; but heaven has added all the blessed and tbe gracious and the holy women of the past ages. Sup pose that Robert M'Cheyne and John 8am m 6s field should be added to yoar earthly circle; but beaven has gathered up all the faithful and earnest ministry of the past. There is not a town, or a city, or a village that has so improved in society In the last hundred years as heaven has improved. Again: I remark t iiat heaven bas greatly improved in tbe good-cheer of aunouueed victories. Where heaven rejoiced over one soul. It now rejoices over a hundred or a thousand. In the olden times, when the events of human life were scattered over tour or five centuries of longevity, and the world moved slowly, there were not so I many stirring events to be reported In heaven; but now, I suppose, all the great events of earth are reported in heaven. If ; there is any truth plainly taught in thi 1 Bible It is that beaven is wrapped np la syiapattiy 'ith human nistory. and we look at those inventions of the day tic telegraphy, at swift communication by steam, at all these modern improvements whloh seem to give one almost omnipres enceand we see only the secular r-ia.ion; but spirits before the throne look oat and see the vast and the eternal relation. While nations rise and fall, while the earth is shaking with revolution, do you not sup pose there is arousing tntelllg&nce going np to the throne of Ood, and that the ques tion is often asked before tbe throne, f'What Is the news from that worlJ that worm mat reoeueu, out 19 cuiinug uao iu its allegiance?" If ministering spirits, ac cording to the Bible, are sent fortn to Rilnlster to those that shall be heirs of heaven, when tbey come down to us to bless us, do tbey not take the news back? Do the ships of light that come out of tbe celestial harbor into tbe earthly harbor, laden with cargoes of blessing, go back unfreigbted? Ministering spirits not ouly, but our loved ones leaving us, take np tne tidings. Suppose you were in a far city, and bad been there a good while, and you heard that some one bad arrivei' - your native place rome ens who baa reeutlyBen your family and friends vou would rush up to that man, and you would askali about the old folks at home. And do you not suppose when your child went up" to God, your glorified kindred In heaven gathered around and asked about you, to ascertain as to whether you were gntting along well in the struggle of life; to find out whether you were in any espe cial peril, that with swift and mighty wing they might come down to intercept your perils? Oh, yesl Heaven is a greater place for news than it used to be news souoded through the streets, news ringing from the towers, news heralded from the palace gate. Glad news! Vic torious news! Now, I say these things about the changes In heaven, about the new improvements in heaven, for three stout reasons. Flr-t, be cause I find that some of you are impa tient to be gone. You are tired of this world, anil you want to get Into that good land about which you have been thinking, praying, ami talking so many yearn. Now be patient. I could see why you wonld want to go to an art gallery if some of tho best pictures were to r.e taken away tins weeK or next week; but If some one tells you that there are other bemittfnl pictures to come other Kensetts, IlapliHels, nul Kubens; otiier masterpieces to bo added to the gal lery you would say, "I cnu afford to wait. The place is improving ait tbe f iu.e." Now, I want you to apply the same rineipie in tnis matter oireacmng ucaven aud leaving this world. Not one glorv is to be subtracted, but many glories added. Not one angel will be gone, not one hier arch gone, not one of your glorified friends Koue. By tbe long practicing the muslo will- be belter, the proeession will be longer, the rainbow brighter, the corona tion grandor. Heaven, with mngnillcent addenda! Why will you complain when you are only waiting for something better? Another reason why I speak iu regard to tbe changes in beaven, and the new Im provements in heaven, is because I think It will be a consolation to busy aud enterpris ing good people. I see very well that you have uot much taste for a heaven that was ail done and finished centuries a?o. Aftnt von have been active forty or liily or ?lxty years it would be a shock to stop you sud denly and forever, but here is a progressive heaven, an ever-accumulative heaven, vast enterprise on foot there before tbe throne of God. Aggressive knowledge, aggressive goodness, aggressive power, aggressive grandeur. You will not have to come and sit down on the banks of the river of life in everlasting inoccupation. O busy men, I tell you of a heaven where there is some thing to do! That is the meaning ot the passage. "They rest not day nor night," in the lazy sense of resting. I do not think it was superstitious when, one Wednesday night, I stood by a doath bed within a few blocks ot the churot where I preached, and on the same street and saw one of the aged Christians of thf church going into glory. After I had prayed with ber I said to her, "We have nil loved you very much, and will always cherish your memory in the Christian church. You will see my son before 1 see him, and I wish you would give him our love.'' She said, "I will, I will;" and In twenty minutes she was in heaven tbe last words she ever spoke. It was swift message to the skies. It you bad your choice between riding in a heavenly chariot and occupying tbe grandest palace In heaven, and sitting on tbe throne nexl highest to tbe throne of God, and not see ing your departed loved ones; and on thf other hand, dwelling in the humblest place in heaven, without crown or throne, and without garland, and without sceptre, yel having your loved ones around you, you would choose the latter. I say these tbingf because I want you to know it is a domes tic heaven, and consequently It is ail the time improving. Every one that goes up makes it a brighter place, and tbe attrac tions are Increasing month by month and day by day; and heaven, so vastly more ol a beaven, a thousand times more of s heaven, than it used to be, will be a bettei beaven yet. Oh, I say this to intensify your anticipation! I enter beaven one day. It is almost empty. I enter the temples of worship, and there are no worshipers. 1 walk dowt tbe street, and there are no passengers. 1 go into the orchestra, and I find tue Instru ments are suspended in tbe baronial ball! of heaven, and tho great organs of eter nity, with multitudinous banks of keys, art closed. But I s9 a sliiniug one at the gate, as though he were Btauding on guard, and 1 ay, "Sentinel, what dcestblf mean? I thought heaveu was a populoui city. Has there been some great plaguf sweeping off the population?" "Have you not heard the news?" says the sen tinel. "There Is a world burning, there is a great conflagration out yonder, and all heaven bas gone out to look at the con flagration and take the victim out of the ruins. This is tbe day lot which all otbet days are made. This Is the Judgmentl This morning all tbe chariots, and tbe cav alry, and the mounted infantry rambled and galloped down the sky." After I bud liDtened to the sentinel, I loo'ced off ovei the battlements, and I saw that tbe fields of air were bright with a blazing world. I said, "Yes, yes, this must be the Judg ment;" and while I stood there I heard tbe rambling of wheels and tho clattering of hoofs, and tbe rearing of many voices, and then I saw the coronets and plan es and banners, and I saw that all heaven was coming back again com ing to the wall, coming to the gate, and the multitude that went off In tbe morning was augmented bv a vast multitude caught up alive from tbe eartb. and a vast multitude of the resurrected bodies of tbe Christian dead, leaving the cemeteries and the a'jbeys acd tbe mauso leums and tbe grave) ards of the eartb empty. Procession movlu; in tbrougb tbe gates. And then I found out that what was fiery Judgment Day on eartli was lubi ee in Heaven, and I cried, ''Door keepers of heaven, shut tbe gates; all heaven has come In! Doorkeepers, shut tho twelve gates, lest the sorrows and the wotsof earth, like handles, shoi.ld some day come up aud try to plnr-der the Cltvl" UsetuI Hints. Cut glass, washed In warm soap suds, rinsed in hot but not boiling water and stood in a pan of dry saw dust till dry, then brushed with a soft brush and rubbed with a piece of chamois, will have every bit of its brilliant beauty dazzlingly brought out. If you suffer from canker boll a carrot and hold the water in the mouth frequently; it will soon afford relief. If recommended by a physician to take any medicine containing iron, drink it through a straw or glass tube, as it is very Injurious to the eeth if allowed to come in contact .rith them. A nice way to keep wax for the orkbasket is to fill half shells of Kng sh walnuts with melted wax, fasten .g the two half shells closely together at one end. There will then be a small space at the other end, through which the thread will slip when the wax is being used. 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