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MIFFLINTOWIN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 30 1898
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By Marion V.Hollis:&
CHAPTER III.
Selwyn Castle crown the summit of a
tall hill, whose sides, covered with trees .
and Bowers, slope dojrn to the sea. No ;
park surrounds it, but the pleasure
grounds are extensile and magnificent.
There is, too, a deed clear lake of vast
lr.I V. TT.klT" hT
is no park, the Thorileigh woods are close
and the River Thorie runs at the foot of
the hill.
On this morning, I fair one in June, the
windows of the breakfast room at the
Castle were thrown wide open; the wind
came in, in great perfumed gusts; the
flowers outside seemed as though they
bowed their heads in greeting; lilies and
roses were at their fairest: the sunbeams
swept through the flower shaded windows,
and they fell upon a quiet, pretty scene
that spoke of home, affluence and ele
sanoe. They fell first upon the proud. Imperi
ous face of an elderly lady, the mother of
the earl, the Honorable Mrs. Gerald Sel
wyn, a lady who sits calm and erect.
There is not a send in her figure, not a
wrii.kle in her calm, patrician face; one
can see that she is proud to a fault, scru
pulous, ambitious, worldly and fond of
life.
The sunbeams fall on something else
on the proud, high-bred face of a young
girl, who is arranging some lilies so as to
form a bouquet on a beautiful oval face,
with a short upper lip and a fresh, ripe
under one, with clear, calm, proud eyes,
and straight brows a girl with a long,
graceful, white throat and small white
bunds, with every mark of race about her
a thorough patrician; no smiling, dim
pled beauty, full of wild, fresh impulse,
such as Violante Temple. A court beau
ty, this an aristocrat, with all the haugh
ty loveliness and dignity of a queen. And
this young lady, who moves with such
calm, serene, proud grace, is called Bea
trice Leigh. She is the niece of Mrs. Sel
wyn, and cousin of Lord Vivian.
Next to her own son, Mrs. Selwyn loved
Beatrice Leigh better than any one else
In the world, and from the first moment
the child entered her house, she had one
wish, and it was that her prond, beauti
ful niece should marry her son.
As children, Vivian and Beatrice spent
much of their time together. When he
finally went to Oxford, and then into the
army, they were separated, Vivian re
taining for his beautiful little playfellow
warrn kindly, brotherly affection. She
led by bis mother's continual praises of
him, and constant reiteration of her
wishes, gradually came to love the brave
young captain better than all the world!
besides.
She looks very fair and serene, as the
sunbeams kiss the beautiful face and the
white dress; her hair, dark and shining
like the wing of a rare bird, is braided
round her beautiful head, after the fash
ion of a Grecian statue, leaving the two
pretty, pearly ears to be seen.
"Letters!" cried Beatrice, as the foot
man entered. "I wonder if Vivian has
written; if he is still lingering at that
wonderful place what is it Woodeaves,
In Leicestershire? What possible attrac
tion can he find there? Ah! this is hia
handwriting, I am sure."
From a number of envelopes she select
ed the one having his writing upon it.
Mrs. Selwyn smiled as she did so.
"How quickly you have found out, Bea
trice!" she cried. "Now, what does he
say?"
She read the letter hastily.
"He is coming to-night," she went on;
"and, Beatrice, he Bays he has a surprise
for us. What can it be?"
"A surprise!" she cried, a sudden gleam
-of light making her face still more love
ly; "perhaps he has brought you some
thing, auntie."
But Mrs. Selwyn shook her head.
"It do not fancy that is it," she replied.
MT fnncv Ttentrirp it in flomethinir nlmiif
himself. What has he been staying at I
this place for? Listen to what he says:
I hope to be with you on Tuesday night
prepare yourself, dear mother, for a sur
prise that will, I hope, be a pleasant one.'
What can this surprise be, Beatrice?" con
tinued Mrs. Selwyn; "he has done some
thing that he thinks will please me, rely
n it."
Beatrice had regained all her calm.
"We shall know to-night, aunt," she
aid quietly; "and the day is too warn
for conjectures."
CHAPTER IV.
The clock on the Castle tower had
struck seven, the cook had sent more than
one messake to say that dinner was ready,
and the Honorable Mrs. Selwyn, who had
expected her son at six, began to grow
anxious.
Suddenly carriage wheels sounded,
topped there was a confused noise, the
hurrying of servants; then the drawing
room door opened, and Vivian entered.
He looked very handsome in bis traveling
dress. He went np to Mrs. Selwyn and
kissed her.
"I am late," he said; "but there was a
delay in the Thornleigh train. How well
you look, mother!"
Then he turned to Beatrice, and as he
looked at. her he started In surprise.
"Beatrice," he said, "it would be an old
fashioned compliment to say that every
time I see you yon have improved, but it
la the truth."
Her beautiful eyes grew bright with
pleasure.
"You shall pay us as many compliments
as you like after dinner," interrupted
Mrs. Selwyn; "now go to your dressing
room you must be famished."
No word was said of himself during
dinner: but they talked of the young hero,
Bertie Temple, and of his early home.
"It must have been a comfort to his
father to have seen you," said Sirs. Sel.
svyn, with the proud, quiet complacency
of patronage. "They are people quite in
humble circumstances, I suppose?"
The young earl's face flushed; a quick
word rose to his lips, then he checked
himself. What need to feel angry? If
they were in humble circumstances, he
could soon remedy that.
"They are not millionaires, mother." he
replied, "nor even what the world calls
fich. The father, Mr. Temple, is a gentle
man; not only well educated, but a schol
ar; he is a lawyer by profession, and lives
in a very pretty house called Oakside."
"And the sister T' said Mrs. Selwyn,
after a few minutes.
His dark face flushed.
"She is older than I thought to find
ner," he replied: "and she has hair just
like poor Bertie'."
.Beatrice looked op at him .with a quick.
then, ana TTviun wus most composedly
eating his dinner.
But when dinner wa over, and they
had returned to the drawing room, be did
not seem quite so much at his ease. Bea
trice drew an easy chair to the open win-
dow- nd 'ked out at the blooming flow-
ers.
Mrs. Selwyn reclined upon a couch near
her, and Vivian sat down upon a little low
stool at his mother's feet. She laid her
hand caressingly on the dark hair.
"And now, Vivian," she said, "what is
thh surprise 7"
Again his face flushed.
"That is the very thing I was waiting to
speak of," he replied. "I hope you will be
pleased to listen to my story pleased as
I am to tell it.
"I am in love at last," he continued.
"All my life long I have wondered what
this strange passion men call love was
like. I used to believe It would pass me
by, and I should never know, but when
( went down to poor Bertie's home, I met
my fate."
Not a stir, not a word from Beatrice
Leigh. Mrs. Selwyn moved uneasily.
"1 hope what you call your fate is wor
thy of you," she said. "Remember, you
are head of an ancient and glorious ra
head of a grand old family that has never
known anything save honor. There is
no duchess in England who would not
proudly give you a daughter."
"It is no duchess' daughter that I have
learned to love," he replied with a smile.
"Oh, mother, you must not be disappoint
ed. You must not damp my happiness. I
love Violante Temple, and have asked ber
to be my wife."
"A lawyer's daughter!" cried Mrs. Sel
wyn; "a simple country girl I Oh, Vivian,
what an end to ail my dreams and plans
for your
He laughed; bowing his handsome,
stately head down to her.
'Now, mother," he cried, "you are to
kiss me and wish me joy."
"I cannot !" she cried. "I cannot, Viv
ian. I am most bitterly disappointed to
think, when you might have chosen from !
the fairest and noblest in the land, you
have thrown yourself away so cruelly."
"Nay," he said, with imperturbable good
bumor. "do not say so. Ton cannot judge
-you have not seen my love."
.1 T , V. n . . I InnmAwa . nil ttlAIW
daughters are like, a a rule," she replied;
' ''and Vivian I am in desnair."-
Th was an awkward silence which
lasted some minutes.
'Is it irrevocable?" asked Mrs. Selwyn.
"Have you really pledged your word?"
In all honor," he replied. "I have even
asked that my marriage may take place in
September."
Mrs. Selwyn positively groaned.
"It is useless for me to interfere,"
she
said. "I cannot forbid it. You are your : sooa wisres, u uMu - mmitu u.r.
own master. It would be nonsense for i Another minute and she was m
me to say that I shall not allow U: you j e traveling carriage; Oakside had disap
will do as you like; but I must express my peared, and Lord V ivian Selwyn had
stern dislike and disapproval. It is an al- clasped her to .his heart, saying:
i;n n.,it northr f vnn and von "All mine at last! ioiante my wife!"
might have aspired no matter how high.
Beatrice," be said, "help me to con
vince my mother. You are young and
tieautiful, and love will come to you some
day, as it has come to me. Tell her help
me to make ber believe that love is the
only thing for which a mau should ever
marry. Help her to make her like my
love."
There was a world of dreary pain in the
dark eyes raised to his, a world of anguish
and untold love.
"I should not know what to ay," she
replied in a strange voice unlike her own.
And then Lord Vivian Selwyn of Sel
wyn Castle stood embarrassed and uncer
tain what to do. He had some misgivings
ns be journeyed homeward that his moth
er would not think he had done anything
to add to the family renown. All the La
dies Selwyn had been women of high
uirth: he was the first to break the rule,
. "Well, said Mrs. Selwyn, with a i
re
signed smile, it is Daa news worse could
,ot have come to me; but if it be irrevoca
ble, 1 must make the best of it. I would
fur rather you had chosen a wife from
j our own class. I regret most deeply tha
I hoice you have made, x et 1 promise you,
(mviyi; said this, I will say no more. I
trill do my best to like your wife, Vivian,
and to make her as happy as I can."
And with these cold words, the master
of Selwyn Castle was forced to be con
tent. Long after he slept that night, the
two ladies, aunt and niece, sat np talking
in low tones of what he bad done, and
Mrs. Selwyn concluded with the words:
"It will not end happily, I fear!"
CHAPTER V.
They talk about it now in the pretty,
picturesque town of Woodeaves that
wonderful wedding, the like of which was
never seen there before or since. The
wedding of the young earl with Lawyer
Temple's daughter. They tell you of the
bright morning, the blue sky, that bad
uo cloud; the golden sun, that seemed to
rain down blessings; of the western wind,
that might have blown straight from the
spice lands, it was so fragrant; of the
birds that sang as though the wedding had
jcen in the garden of Paradise; of flow
ers that bloomed so fresh and fair, as
though in honor of the golden-haired bride
herself, the fairest flower of all.
Dim eyes are reading my pages now
eyes that look back through the long vista
of years eyes dimmed and dulled with
heavy tears; and they look back through
weary years of trouble, of toil, and of
wrong upon the wedding day. The day
that they believed was to be the last or
sorrow, the first opening into a golden life
of hope and promise.
There were grand attends of the young
carl, officers In glittering uuiforms. lords
whose iit'liies filled l!ie. simple country
1 io;i!e with awe. The bridegroom's niotb
t was not there: sl:e. it was rumored,
was husi!y euirrged in superintending the
..ei!ding feles given ct t!.e Castle. There
mis a whole string of briile.:iiaids. the
. rettiest gfiis iu tae county, who were
roud of the honor of attending one who
vps so scon to be Lady Selwyu.
The old parish church, with its tall spire
and gray wails, looked its best; it was till
ed with a brilliant crowd. Little chil
dren flung flowers under the feet of the
bride, flowers whose thorns pricked her
sorely in the sad after days; and then, as
she stood in the center of that magnifi
cent group, while the words of the mar
riage service were read over her, every
one saw from the eastern window a gold
en sunbeam streaming in and forming a
halo round ber fair young head.
Some smiled thjiy saw It, but It
People ,
looked at each other and said:
Happy the bride the son shines on.
While, as they went into the vestry to ,
Sign VII. PWH, WBmcu W
wife:
Even the sunbeam kissed yon, my
darling, and no wonder."
Horace Temple was like a man in a
dream; he had been in a dream ever since
the night Lord Vivian Selwyn asked him
for his daughter, and be could not re
cover from it. and now the grand climax
had arrived; his little Violante, his fair
raced, sunny-haired child, whose laugh
and song were both wild aa a bird, was
married; married to a rich and handsome
young nobleman whom any lady in the
land might have been prond to have called
her husband.
He was so bewildered that he did not
even recognise his own house. Lord
Vivian had done as he liked even with
that.
"Take no heed, give yourself no trouble
about the wedding breakfast," be said.
"The easiest and simplest plan will be
for me to send to Ounter; he will supply
everything needful."
So Horace Temple, on this his daugh
ter's wedding day, sat at the bead of his
jwn tible'Ji tfcjle laden with delicacies,
with ripe fruits from every clime under
the sun, with rare wines, the names of
which had never penetrated Woodeaves
a table whereon silver shone, and richly
cut glass sparkled, and he said to him
self it must be a dream.
When she remembered it in after years
it was to Violante a dream of sunshine,
and song, and fragrance; of love, that Bhe
thought almost divine in its tenderness;
a dream whereon brilliant figures and
strange faces were all confused; cnly her
father's face, shining out from the group
with the wondering, anxious expression
she remembered so well, and the hand
some face of her husband shining down
on hers.
The speeches were ended. The sun was
full in the sky when the traveling car
riage that was to take the bride and bride
groom away drove np to the door. Most
of the guests were going by train a few
minutes afterward.
There was no mother to clasp her lov
ing arms around the young girl just cross
ing the threshold of another life; no sister
to kiss the fast-paling face and whisper
golden prophecies. But when his daugh
ter had changed her dress and stood in
her room, looking round for the last time,
Horace Temple asked if he might come in.
"Vivian is very good," said Mr. Temple,
"and he loves you so much, my darling.
I bnve no fear. Yon will be very happy."
But she clung to him with weeping eyes.
'If you are not," he continued, gravely,
"always remember, Violante, while I live
there Is a home and the dearest of wel
comes for you here; always remember
you come back to me whenever you will;
and if this gay, new, bright world frown
upon you, you have a home here."
But she shook her bead gravely.
"Yon are all that Is kind, papa," she
aid; "but there is no going back; what
is done is done forever; there la no going
back. I shall be happy, I am ure; but
i who could say fare well to such a pleasant.
bappr,unalny unr-j-mtue Has -bee
without tears 7"
She kissed him, leaving her warm tears
wet upon his face, and then passed out
! f the pretty, white, fragrant room, where
. "iw
hood had been spent.
The dream of her wedding day finished
by a crowd of smiling faces, a chorus of
To the Scotch iakes they went. And
amid such glorious loveliness of seiand
sky as Violante had never even"areaTnea
of she finished the lesson of love she had
begun to learn at Wooaeaves.
. There, alone in the sweetest solitude
under heaven, Lord Vivian grew almost
to worship bis beautiful young wife. He
could see no fault, no shadow of imper
fection in ber. There were no envious
eyes near to note when she did not feel
quite at her ease, and be thought ber shy,
blushing, timid mannr more winning,
more charming than anything he had ever
seen.
When the chill days of November came
find they went home to Selwyn Castle,
Lord Vivian was more deeply in love than
ever with his fair young Violante.
(To be continued.)
Correct Enoneh.
"Now, boys, I have a few questions
In fractions to ask," said the teacher;
"suppose I have a piece of beefsteak
and cut It into sixteen pieces, what
would those pieces be called?"
"Sixteenths," answered one boy, af
ter meditating a moment.
"Very good. And when the sixteenth
were cut in half, what would they be?"
There was silence in the class; but pres
ently a little boy at the foot put up his
band. "Do yon know, Johnny?"
"Hash!" answered Johnny, confident
ly. Current Literature.
Farming Under IHfficnltiea.
"How did yon like farming In Ver
mont?" was asked of the Michigan
aian who went there because told that
the bulk of the wealth Is In the East.
"O, I guess it would a been all right
nly fur one thing."
""What was that?"
"I'll be doggone ef I'll work ground
no hard and rocky that yon have ter
plant wheat with a shotgun."
The names of the 105 battles are em
blazoned on the banners of the vari
ous regiments which form the British
army. But many actions of great im
portance are not so commemorated.
Last ".r the United Pcm.s ex
ported 360 locomotives, valued at
about $3,000,000. sewing machines to
the value of $2,500,000. and typewriters
worth l.;00.0l'0.
Waltham has joined several other
Massachusetts cities in adopting a
curfew ordinance.
.About 5000 words in the English
language have no rhyme to them.
These include such Important words
as honor, virtue, gulf, month and
echo.
And now the impetuous young
German Emperor has become a fire
man. At last he has a wide open op
portunity to extinguish himself.
By mixing a harmless powder.sub
nitrate of bismuth, with the food the
movements of the stomach can be
seen by means of the Roentgen rays.
The California woodpecker will
carry an acorn thirty miles to store It
in its nest.
The United States contains 35,47
drug- stores.
Dewey was satisfied to only take
up both ends of the Manila episode.
The SDaniards ous-ht to cnneratnlntA
themselves that he did not conclude
game.
The tongue of a full grown whale
measures 20 feet In length.
brought tears into other eyes.
DIVER'S DRESS.
Welg-lia Nearly Two Hundred Pontic's
and la Very Complicated.
livers in St. Nicholas. It Is written by
James Cassidy, who says: The dress cl
a fully equipped diver weighs in round
numbers, one hundred and seventy
pounds. Taking off his e very-day garb,
the diver pulls on his thick undercloth
ing a white knitted sweater and trou
sers and a pair of ribbed stockings,
also white. Should he Intend to work
In unusually deep water, he puts on
two, sometimes three, sets of under
clothing, to relieve the pressure of the
water.
The woolen clothing donned, the next
garment Is the diving-dress, measur
ing, for a man of average height, five
feet five inches from the collar to the
sole of the foot This dress is made of
solid sheet India-rubber, covered on
both sides with tanned twill. It has a
double collar, the Inner one to pull us
round the neck, and the outer one, of
red India-rubber, to go over the breast
plate aud form a water-tight joint. The
puffs also are of red india-rubber, and
fit tightly round the wrists, making,
when secured by the vulcanized india
rubber rings water-tight joints, at the
same time leaving the diver's handj
free. In the outer collar twelve boles
are bored for securing the breastplate.
This Is made of tinned copper. The
outer edge is of brass, and has twelve
screws firmly fitted to it at intervals,
aud projecting upward. These projec
tions pass through the corresponding
holes In the outer collar of the dress.
Tbe band of the breastplate Is in four
sections, and the holes In the sections
pass over tbe projecting screws, and
are secured In place by wing-uuts or
thumb-screws. A little careful consid
eration will make It clear that tbe
dress Is held In position by its rubber
collar, with the aid of the breastplate
flange and wing-nuts. The upper edge
of tbe breastplate Is fitted with a neck
ring and a segemental screw. The use
of this wo shall presently explain.
The boots are of stout leather, with
leaden soles, and are secured over the
instep by buckles aud straps. Tbe pair
weighs thirty-two pounds four pounds
over tbe quarter of a hundredweight.
The lead soles are firmly attached by
copper rivets. The tongues of the boots
are very wide. Boots Intended for
rough work are fitted with metal toe
caps. Thus far underclothing, dress,
breastplate, and boots Is our diver ar
rayed. He has now to be weighted.
Lead weights of forty pounds each,
shield or heart shaped, are suspended
back and front by means of gun-metal
clips, and studs or tabs, and lashings.
He bas now only to put on his helmet
and to affix tbe air-pipe.
The helmet, like the breastplate. Is
of tinned copper, and la Sited -with a
segment bayuuet-screw at the neck,
corresponding to that mentioned as be
longing to the breastplate. The eighth
of a turn, and the helmet Is firmly se
cured, being both air and water tight.
It has three strong plate-glasses in
brass frames, protected by guards, two
oval at the sides, and a round one In
front. The front can be unscrewed to
enable the diver to give orders with
out removing any other portion of the
dress. An outlet-valve Is provided at
tbe side or back of tbe helmet, which
the diver can close should be wish to
rise to the surface. This valve allows
tbe breathed air to escape, yet pre--ents
the entrance of water.
At the side of the front glass I a me
chanical arrangement for getting rid of
the excess of air, and It also assists,
when the back outlet-valve Is closed.
In regulating the expansion of the dress
In rising to the surface. There Is also
tan inlet-valve, and this 1 constructed
so as to allow the air to enter, but not
to escape In case of a break In the air
pipe. The alr-plpe 1 made In length
of from forty-five to lxty feet, fitted
together by means of gun-metal Joints.
Securely connected with the helmet by
mean of the Inlet-valve and an elbow
tube, the other end of the alr-plpe is
fitted on to the nozzle of the air-dellver-ing
diving-pump.
His leather belt Is buckled on; his
knife, well sharpened, and of good,
strong steel, covered with a metal case
to keep it dry and Intact, I slung upon
It; and after taking a drink, or a little
light refreshment, the word is given,
"All right," the face-glass screwed on, j
and receiving a tap on the helmet a a
signal to descend, down he goes by rope
or ladder, either of which must be '
weighted at the bottom.
Permanent Magnets.
Another opportunity for Inventive
genius to display Itself Is presented by
tbe Society for the Encouragement of
National Industry, Paris, In Its offer of '
various prizes to be awarded .during
the coming year. Among these Is a
prize of 3,000 francs In connection with
the manufacture of permanent mag
nets; research In this case may be di
rected to tbe composition of the steel
for the magnets and such mnterials
other than iron which may enter into
it. or to the degrees of temperature for
tbe liquids used In tempering; also the '
processes of annealing and other neces
sary accessory operations which are
likely to obtain this result. Another
prize likely to call forth considerable
effort is for an incandescent electric
light, one not to exceed a maximum of
two candle power decimal system.
Two thousand francs are also offered
for any set of electrical appliances or
tool suited to domestic life and to
small trade. New York Sun.
NoeeHesa Trajretfy.
Some of the Royalists who were
forced to endure tbe English common
wealth seemed to console themselves
for the dullness of life under a Puritan
government by fighting as many duels
as they could compass, so that Ignoble
squabbles and foolish plots make up
the history of their days.
"Tom" Porter was of a family which
aad zealously served the king; under
tbe new government his occupation
was gone, and be descended to a trivi
ality of life which finally Involved him
In a meet pathetic event This was a
auel which be fought with his friend.
Sir Hentf Bellas!, and which, says
, Pepya In hi "TjiAfT," ! worth remenj
be ring for "the sUlines of the quarrel
a kind ef emblem of the gen-
ml mmtmaem ef bat wkoie king- j
But silly as tbe quarrel undoubtedly
was. It carried in it an element of
heart-break.
The two young men Involved were In
timate friends and companions, but one
day, "being merry In company," Tom
Porter said he should like to see the
man In England who would dare give
him a blow. With that Sir Henry Bella
sis struck him a box on the ear. The
Inevitable duel followed, wherein each
was wounded. Sir Heiiry proved to be
seriously hurt, so he called Porter
kissed him, and bade him fly.
"For," said he, "Tom, thon hast hurt
me. But I will make shift to stand
upon my legs till thon mayst with
draw, for I would not have thee trou
bled for what thou hast done."
Porter profited by his friend's gener
osity, and escaped to France.- Sir Hen
ry died a few days later, and Pepya
concludes: "It Is pretty to see bow the
world do talk of them aa a couple of
fools that killed one another out of
love."
It Is a strange fact that injuries to tht
i". gue, whether of man or animal, heal
more quickly than those of any other
part of the system.
The population of the earth at tbe
t'.me of the Emperor Augustus Is esti
mated at 54.000.000. It Is now est!-
1 mated to be about 1.400.000,000.
The greatest depth In the Atlantic
I Ocean has been found some 100 miles
' to the northward of tbe Island of St.
; Thomas, soundings of 8,875 fathom
having been obtained.
The Limited Express service between
New Xork aud Chicago is said to be
seriously affected by the telephone.
Business men who would otherwise go
to Chicago for personal consultation
cau afford to utilize tbe long-distance
telephone Instead, and thus avoid the
expenditure of time and In many cases
can save largely on the expense. In
spite of the apparently high rales for
long-distance service.
Visitors to Niagara remember the
small cascades of water falling over
the edge of the cliffs just below the
Clifton bridge. The waste of power
thus represented has been stopped. The
water Is now received In a great pipe,
or "penstock," and Is used to drive
water wheels under Its 210 feet head.
Formerly It drove only wheels at tbe
top of the cliff. An Interesting feature
of the Installation Is the use of large
:ze aluminum Ainawtajr. fey the elecr
trie pwer dlstrlwutfon. It Is a fsflec
tion on modern engineering that this
source of power was for so many year
neglected.
A Dutch Investigator, Beyerinck, hat
lately made a special study of the little
organism called photo-bacteria, to
which. In a large degree, the phosphor
escence of the ocean Is due. He bas
been unable to discover that the lumin
osity of these singular creatures play
any important part in their vitality. It
appears to depend chiefly upon the food
that they are able to obtain. When
they have plenty of carbon they shine
brilliantly, and the ocean surface glows
with their mysterious light When fed
with sugar or glycerine, their phosphor
escent power Is Increased.
A rainfaU of 81.76 Inches In 24
hours Is reported to have occurred
last December at NedunkenL in tbe
northern province of Ceylon, where the
total fall for 1897 was 121.85 Inches,
although tbe average yearly rain Is but
54.70. Other great rainfalls on record
are 31.17 Inches In 22 hours at Joyense,
France; 80 Inches in 26 hours at Genoa;
33 inches In 26 hours at Gibraltar; 24
Inches In one night near Bombay; and
30 Inches on each of five successive
days on the Khasla Hills. India. The
greatest annual fall 1 600 Inches, the
record for the Khasia Hills.
In a recent number of Power, a sin
gular calculation 1 presented by J. A.
ltenla. It would require, according to
Mr. Rente's figures, the power of a ten
thousand-horse power engine about 70,
01 0,000,000 years to lift the earth one
foot In height, and to do this work, al
lowing thirteen pounds of water per
horse power per hour, would require
tome 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons
of water, or more than would be dis
charged at the month of the Mississippi
In 60,000 years. This would be enough,
ths writer estimates, to cover the entire
surface of the earth to a depth of about
300 feet, to convert which Into steam,
using good boilers, would require som
4,000,000,000,000,000 tons of coal.
Rise and Fall.
Miss Sheaf e Oh! just look at thai
wheat rising and falling in the breeze
Hew beautiful It la.
Mr.' Oltyman Ah! but yon ought to
see It rising and falling in the Corr
exchange. London Tit-BHs.
Honest with Hlaa.
Young man Do you think your
laughter would make me a good wife
tlr?
Old. gentleman A first-rate one.
young man, but you couldn't stand me
Long- Strtnz Beaaa.
Some of the string beans which grow
.n Pern are as long as a man' arm-
Graveyard Latin.
Ignorance Is never shown more ef
fectively than In an attempt to con
ceal It. A countryman wandering
about a cemetery, says Harper's Bazar,
came upon a stone which bore the In
scription, "Sic transit gloria mundi."
"What does that mean?" he asked the
sexton, who was at W6tk near by. The
sexton, not wishing to confess Ignor
ance, replied: "Well, It means, that be
was sick transiently, and went to gloi?
Monday morning."
Candor.
"What Is your opinion of the popular
songs of the present r!me?" asked thr
young woman.
"Oh," replied Willie Wlshlngton, "I
guess I'm like most people on that
point, I enjoy 'em, but I don't like to
own up te tbe fact in tbe presence of
my mutnesi blende." Washing
A BATTLS ROYAL.
Donbly Fatal Duel Between an Ante
lope and a Lion.
Mid-Africa and east Africa, climate
excepted, are still the sportsman's par
adlse. In Somallland and Germ m East
Africa are found the largest herds of
wild antelope. And here occurred tbe
thrilling fight between an oryx and a
lion which a returned traveler thus de
scribes: "The oryx spietzbock the boers call
him Is a graceful antelope with ex.
tremely long, slender, sharp horns. He
Is not much afraid of any of his fores
neighbors, for six reasons. Four of
these are bis legs; two are his horns.
"African hunters have often si en an
telopes grazing In full sight of a Hon
aud making no effort to get away,
knowing that their flight would be
swifter than the lion's charge. Unless
FATAL, TO BOTH.
the lion can catch an antelope at the
outset he must seek another dinner. It
Is a contest of quickness rather than
strength.
"I once by rare chance saw a lion
In the very act of leaping upon a superb
male oryx. The animal was grazing
quietly near the edge of the veldt aud
the Hon had crept up unseen.
"In the very moment that the lion
sprang the oryx saw him. It was to.)
late to run. But, like a flash, the oryx
turned his nose to the ground and
threw his mighty horns forward.
"The lion fell fairly upon their sharp
and slender tips. In a moment the
slender body of the oryx was crushed
to tbe ground, but the lion fell with
him, the horns of the plucky animal
driven clean through the brute's body
as you might skewer a bit of meat.
"They died together. When I ran up
I found the lion bleeding to death, the
oryx dead his neck broken by the fall.
I have bis head mounted, the horn
still reddened from their passage
through tbe huge body of tbe murder
ous cat.-. . I have never seen a beast die
GEri. SHAFTER S DAUGHTER.
Hia Only Child la tbe Wife of a Gal
lant Boldier.
It is generally known that when Geu
Shatter went to Cuba he carried with
him the burden of a great personal
grief. But a few months before, death
had robbed him of bis life's companion.
Mrs. Shafter was a woman of charm
ing manner and was one of the most
popular women in army circles. Her
daughter closely resembles her.
This daughter, Mrs. W. IL McKit
trick. Is the only child of Gen. Shafter.
MRS. SHAFTER.
MBS. M'KITTRICB
In ber girlhood pretty May Shafter was
a society favorite. She met a gallant
soldier and ere long ber place at the
family fireside was vacant. It Is sev
eral years ago that she married MaJ.
W. H. McKlttrlck and they have since
lived on a ranch a few miles from San
Francisco, not far from her parents.
The loss of her mother was a great
blow to Mrs, McKlttrlck. Then came
the war and father and husband both
inarched away. The husband went out
a captain and returned a major. It was
he who raised the flag over Santiago
qfter the surrender.
Importing Nutaanoea.
Australia Is overrun with rabbits, the
descendants of half a dozen Imported
from England some years ago. They
have become so numerous! that the agri
cultural Interests of the country are se
riously threatened. Devices of all sorts
have been employed In the effort to get
rid of them, bnt thus far wifSout avail.
Disease germs have been scattered
among them, but this Is dangerous, as
the rabbits die. and domestic animals
may devoor them. It Is a matter of
common remark that the English spar
row has become a nuisance. Brought
here originally to destroy caterpillars,
tt Is more annoying and destructive
than the Insects It was supposed to prey
upon. The danger of Importing crea
ture of this sort Is nowhere more aptly
shown than In tbe efforts now being
made In Massachusetts to exterminate
the gypsy moth. This insect was
brought to this country by an entomol
ogist. By some accident a number of
them escaped, and within the past four
years half a million dollars have been
expended in trying to get rid of them.
It In thought that some millions may be
required before tbe gypsy moth la en
tirely destroyed, tf this can be done at
all, which very many persons are
strongly Incllnded to doubt Some
years ago a hyacinth, brought from some
foreign country, took root m Florida
and spread to several of the rivers,
which have become so choked by tbe
growth of tt that navigation la difficult,
and considerable sums of money are re
quired to keep the cbaaoel open. AH
of which frrmWhn an excellent reason
for the greatest can la bringing foreign
plants and n,mmtir Into new locatttlea.
No Sealer Way. "Papa," said Sam-
mj Snaggs, aa be paused, pencil In '
hand, "how can yon make a Greek
cross?" "Mention. the concert of Eu- '
rope to him," replied Mr. Snaggs- '
Htsnburg OhroiUcta-Telecraph.
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SERMONS OF THE DAY
6u!t: "DlTlne Direction" Aclvlca
Atuierl t Cheer Thon Who Feel They
Have So Rinal Minion In the World
Follow God's Guidance.
Txt: "To this end was I born." John
XTill., 87.
After Pilate had suicided, tradition says
that his body was thrown Into tbe Tiber,
and snail storms ensued on and about that
river that bis body was taken oat and
thrown Into tbe Rhone, and similar dis
turbances swept that river and its banks.
Then the body was taken ont and moved to
Lausanne, aud pat In a deeper pool, wbich
Immediately became tbe centre of similar
atmospheric and aqueons disturbances.
Though these are fanciful and false
traditions, they show the execration with
which the world looked upon Pilate. It
was before this man when he was in full
life and power that Christ was arraigned
as in a court of oyer and terminer. Pilate
said to his prisoner, "Art tliou a king,
then?" and Jesus answered, "To this end I
was born." Sure enough, although all
earth and hell arose to knep Him down.
He is to-day empalaeed, enthroned and
eoroneted King of earth and King of
heaven That is what Be came for, and
that Is what He accomplished.
By tbe time a child reaches ten years of
age the parents begin to discover that
child's destiny, but by the time he or she
reaches fifteen years of age the question
Is on the child's Hps: "What shall I do?
What am I going to be? What was I made
for?" It is sensible and righteous ques
tion, and the youth ought to keep asking
it until it Is so fully answered that the
young man, or yonng woman, can say
with as much truth as its author, though
on a less expansive scale, "To this end was
I born."
There is too much divine skill shown in
the physical, mental and moral sonstltu
tion of the ordinary hnman belli of to sup
pose that be was constructed without any
divine purpose. If you take me ont of
some vast plain and show ids a plitarHd
temple snrmounted by a dome like Ht.
Peter's, and having a floor of precious
stones and arches that must nave taken the
brain of the greatest draftsman to design
and walls scrolled and niched and paneled
and wainscoted and painted, and I should
ask yon wnat this buiidiDg was put up for,
and you answered, "tor nothing at all,"
bow coolJ I beliovd you? An l It Is impos
sible for me to believe tliat any ordinary
buman being who has in his muscular,
nervous and ceravril organization more
wonders than ClirUtopber Wren lifted in
St. Paul's, or Pbl lias orer chiseled on the
WnTnSc S
as much a ruin as thu 1'artneuou tliut
such a being was cons rueted for no other
purpose aud to execute no mission and
without any divine intention tow-r-l some
end. Tlie object of tbls sermon Is to help
you find out what you are made for and
help yon find your sphere and assist you
into that condition where you can say with
certainty and emphasis and enthusiasm
and triumph, "To this end was 1 bora."
First, I discharge you from all responsi
bility for most of your environments. You
are not responsible for your parentage or
are noi responsium lor your parentage or ,one You oan see the ploture in its Im
?n, ;e.-a.h",e '2" 1 er'et state and get sooTe Idea of whaHt
for any of the cranks that may have lived
in your ancestral line and who, 100 years
before vou wore born, may have lived a
k. . ..... .u. u.u , yon
I. .Sf --!
fact that your temperament is sanguine or
nervorurthe7aTryou respoaTble for.;
the place of your n.tivljy.. whether among !
the granite hills of Not England or tbe
cotton plantations of Louisiana or on tbe
banks of the Clyde or tbe Dnelper or tbe
Shannon or the Seine. Neither are you
responsible for tbe religion taught in your
father's house, or the irrellgtou. Do not
bother yourself about what you can
not htlp or about circumstances that you
did not decree.
Take things as they are and decide the
question so that you shall be able safely to
say, "To this end was I born." How will
you decide It? By direct application to
the only Beng In tbe universe who is com
petent to tell you the Lord Almighty. Do
you know the reason wby He is the only
Dne who can tell? Because He can see
everything between your cradle and your
grave, though the grave be eighty years
off, and besides that He is the only
Being who can see what has been
happening in thu last 500 years in
your ancestral line, and for thousands
of years clear back to Adam, and
there is not one person in all that ances
tral Hue of 6000 years but bas somehow uf
fected your character, and even-old Adam
himself will sometimes turn up in your dis-i
position. The only Being who can take!
all things that pertain to you into consld-l
eration is God, and Ho is the one you can
ask. Life is so short we havo no time to
experiment with occupations and profes
sions. The reason we have so many dend
failures is that parents decided for chil
dren what tbey shall do, or children them
selves, wrought on by some whim or fancy,
decide for themselves, without any lm
ploritlon of divine guidance. So we have
now in pulpits men making sermons who;
ought to be in blacksmith shops making
plowshares, and we have in the law those;
who instead of ruining the cases of their;
clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts,1
and doctors who are the worst hindrances;
to their patients' oonvalesoence, and ar-
tlsts trying to paint landscapes who ought!
to be whitewashing board fences, while!
tbere are others making brloks who ought
to be remodeling constitutions or shoving!
planes who ought to be transforming lltera-j
tures. Ask Ood about what worldly busl-
ness you shall undertake until you are so
positive yon can in earnestuess smite your
hand on your plow handle, or your car
penter's bench, or your Blackstone's '-Commentaries,"
or your medical dictionary, or)
yonr Dr. Dick's "Didactic Theology," say-)
Ing, "For this end was I born." There are
children who early develop natural astnl
ties for certain styles of work. When the
father of tbe astronomer Forbes was going;
to London be asked his children what
present he should bring each one of tbe-n.
Tbe boy who was to bo an astronomer cried
out, "Bilng me a telescope!"
And tbero are children whom you find all
by themselves drawing on their slates, or
on paper, ships, or houses, or birds, and
you know they are to be draftsmen or archi
tects of some kind. And you find others
ciphering out difficult problems with rare
Interest and success, and you know tbey
are to be mathematicians. And others,
making wheels and strange contrivances,
and you know they are going to be mach
inists. And others are found experiment
ing with hoe and plow and sickle, and yon
know they will be farmers. And others :
are always swapping jackknires or balls or
bats, and making something by the bar-
gain, and tbey aru going to be merchants. ;
When Abbe de Ranee had so advanced in 1
studying Greek that be could translate
Anacreon at twelve years ol age there was ,
no doubt left tnat be was Intended for a ,
scholar. Bnt iu almost every lad there,"
comes a time when
n he does not know what
he was made tor, and his p. -ents do not
know, and It Is a crisis that C I only can
decide. Then there are those born for
some es "-lal work, and their fitness
does not nvelop nntil quite late. When
Philip Doddridge, whose sermons and
books have harvested uncounted souls
for glory, began to study for the min
istry, Dr. Culamy, one of the wisest
and best men, advised him to turn his
thoughts to some other work. Jsaao Bar
row, the eminent clergyman and Christian
scientist bis books standard now, though
he has been dead over 200 years was the
disbeartenment of his father, who used tc
say that If it pleased God totake any of bit
children away he hoped It might be his soc
Isaac. Ho soma or those- who have been
characterized for stupidity in boyhood ox
girlhood have turned out the mightiest
benefactors or benefactresses of the human
race. These things being so am I not right
in saying that in many cases God only
knows what Is the most appropriate thing
for you to do, and He is the one to ask?
And let all parents and ail schools and ail
universities and all colleges recognize this,
and a large number of those who spent
their best years in stumbling about busi
nesses and occupations, now trying this and
now trying that, and failing in all, would
p able to go ahead with a definite, d
elded and tremendous purpose, saying. To
this end was I born."
But my subjeot now mounts Into the
momentous. Let me say that you are
made for nsefuiaess and heaven. I
judge this from the w.iy you nr built.
You go into a shop where tbere is only
one wheel turning and that by a work
man's foot on a treadle, and you say to
yourself, "Here is something good .being
done, yet on a small scale," but if you go
Into a factory covering many acres and you
find thousands of bands pulling on thou
sands of wheels and shuttles flying and
tbe whole scene bewildering with aotivi
tles, driven by water or steam or electrlo
power, you conclude that the factory was
put up to do great work and on a vast
scale. Now, I look at you, and if I should
And that you bad only one faculty of body,
only one muscle, only one nerve, If you
could see but not henr or could bear and
not see, If yon had tbe ubc of only one foot
or one hand, and, as to your higher nature,
if you had only one mntal fuculty and you
had memory but no judg-noi.t or judgment
but no will, and if you had a soul with
only one capacity, I would say not much
ht axoeoted of you. Bat stand up, y man,
and let me look you squarely In the
faoel lives capable of seeing everything.
Ears capable of hearing everything.
Hands capaule or grasping everything.
Minds with more wheels tlian any fac
tory ever turned, more power than any
Corliss engine ever moved. A soul that will
ontltve all the universe except heaven, and
would outlive all heaven it tbe life of tbe
other Immortals were a moment short of
the eternal. Now, what has the world a
right to expeot of you? What has Ood a
right to demand of you? iod is the great
est of economists In the universe, and Ha
makes nothing uselessly, and for what par
pose did He bu ild your usdy, mind and soul
as they are built? There are only two be
ings in the universe who can r newer that
question. The angels do not know. Tbe
Schools do not know. Your kindred cannot
certainly know. Ood knows, and you ou?ht
to know. A factory running at aa expense
of $500,000 a year and turning out goods
worth Beventy cents a yeur would not be
luoh an Incongruity as you. O man, with
moh seml-inilnite equipment doing noth
ing, or next to nothing, in the way of uss
lalnassl "What shall I do?" you usk. My
brethren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask
Sod. There's some path of Christian use
fulness open. It may be a rough path or
t may be a smooth path, a long path or a
ibort path. It may be on a mount of ood
picuity or in a valloy nnobserred, but it is
i path on wblob you can start with such
faith and such satisfaction and such cer
tainty that you can ery out in the face of
sarth and hell and heaven, "To this end I
as born.
You have examined the family Bible and
ixplored the family records, and you may
jave seen daguerreotypes of some of the
tindred of previous generations, you have
I IftfflPSiH? M,a
n boyhood or girlhood, and what you were
:en years later, and It It very Interesting to
my one to be able to look back upon pic
tures of what he was ten or twenty or
thirty years ago. But have you ever bad a
lctare taken of what you may be and
vhat you will be If you seek after'God and
eel the spirit's regenerating power? Where
ihall I plant the camera to take the pic
ture? I plant it on this platform. I direct
t toward you. Hit still or stand still while
: take thw picture. It shall be an Instan
taneous picture. Tbere! I have It. It Is
vlll be when thoroughly developed. There
s your resurrected body, so brilliant that
ne noonday sua is a patch of midnight
j tompapsa with it. There is voursoul. so
ure that all the forces of diaboitam could
1 lfh . " fi
IJUShvJiSlV
ft" .fc" ., "hZ "
vould not weary you, and a world on eaoh
ihcuider would not crush you. An eye
hat shall never shed a tear. An energy
! bat shall never feel a fatigue. A brow
.bat shall never throb with pain. You are
fonng again, though yon died of decrepi
tude. Vou are well again, though you
soughed or shivered yourself into thit tomb,
four everyday associates are the apostles
tnd prophets and martyrs, and the most
xnited souls, masculine and feminine, of
til the centuries. The archangel to you no
embarrassment. GodHitnself your present
ind everlasting joy. That Is an instan
taneous picture of what you may.be and
vbat I am sure some of you wlil be.
If you roallze that it Is an Imperfect pic
ture my apology is what tbe apostle John
tald, "It doth not yet appear what we
hall be." "To this end was I bo'n."
if I did not tblnk so I would be over
whelmed with melancholy. The world
loes very well for a little while, eighty
)r 100 or 150 years, and I think that
auman longevity may yet be improved
ip to that prolongation, for now there
mho little room between our cradle and
ur grave we cannot accomplish much;
3ut who would want to dwell In this
world for all eternity? Some think this
)artb will finally be turned Into a heaven.
Perhaps it may, but it would have to
jndergo radical repairs and thorough
eliminations and evolutions and revolu
tions and transformations lnOnite to
Bake it dcsiruble for eternal residence.
s.11 tbe east winds would have to become
west winds, and all tbe winters chnnged to
ipringtides, and all the volcanoes extin
guished, and the oceans chained to their
Deds, and the epidemics forbidden entrance,
tnd the world so fixed up that I think It
would take more to repair tills old world
than to make an entirely new one.
In tbe seventeenth century all Europe
was threatened with a wave of Asiatic bar
oarism and Vienna was especially be
sieged. The king and his court had fled
and nothing could save the city from be
ing overwhelmed unless the king of Po
land, John Sobleskl, to wbom they had
sunt for help, should with his army come
down for the relief, and from every roof
and tower tbe Inhabitants of Vienna
watcbed and waited and hoped until on
tbe morning of September 11 the rising
sun threw an unusual and unparalleled
brilliancy. It was the reflection of the
Bun ou the swor.is and shields aud helmets
of John Hobieskl and his army coming
down over tbe hills to tbe rescue, and that
day not only Vienna, but Europe, was
savsd. And see yoa not, O ye souls be
sieged with slu and sorrow, that light
breaks In, the swords and the shields and
tbe helmets of divine rescue bathed in the
rising sun of heavenly dellveranoe?
Let everything else go rather than let
heaven go.
Wbnt a strange thing it 'must be to feel
oneself born to aa earthly crown, but you
have been born for a throne on which you
may reign after tbe last monarch of all the
earth shall have gone to dust. I invite
you to start now for your own coronation,
to come in and take tho title deeils to your
everlasting Inheritance. Through an Im
passioned prayer, take heaven and all of
tta raptures.
What a poor farthing Is all that this
world can offer you compared with par Ion
here and life immortal beyonj the stars
enough nnd beautiful enough and
d n foralltherauso .,,,, Wller.
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or far away, In this or some otn-r con
stellation, hail, home of light, and love and
blessedness! Through the ntonh g mercy
of Christ, may we all get tberel
A canal connecting the Mediterra
nean v.ith the lied sea existed a' early
us 600 years before the Christ. an era.
Its length is nim-t v-t vn miles.
A F-rencn doctor he.s invented an
electric helmet, inside of which is a
fninll motor that vibrates strips of
steel, the motor making 600 turns per
minute. This whizzing is suppose 1 to
cure nervous heada and put the
sufferer to sleep.
"The only thing we can do now.V
fays Dupuy de Lome, speaking for
Spain, "is to repent and reform."
Such things era quite poGsible. even
to Spain, when she can't do anything
else.
In 18D7 South Africa imported $!.
437,534 worth of bicycles. In the civi
lization process the wheel sems to
lake precedence of the rall-
japan had a colder spring than at
any time In eighty years. In the
middle of. May there was snow at
Kikko and .iir Toklo.
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