f 11111' -IM- ! ! JK 6HSOBHL THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWB A. F. lOHWEIBl!. t NO. 2. ? MIFFLINTOWIN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1898 VOL L1II By Marion V. Hoi I is. CHATTER X. Lord VlTlan Selwyn little rraliied how often, and in bow many different shape, that Idea came to him wishing hia wife wa more like Beatrice Leigh. The Lady Vlolante wa. sweet. Ken tie and of a most loving disposition. She was gifted with a refined mind, a cultivated and poetical taste; but there was no mistaking the fact she wae not, and never would be. a "woman of the world." They were sitting alone in the pretty breakfast room of Thornleigh House-a room gay with rose-colored chintzes, and stands of fragrant flowers. They had been breakfasting together, for neithei Mrs. Selwyn nor Mi.. Leigh were down. The windows were open, and through them cam a soft, weatern wind, perfum ed with the breath of mignonette. "I never can do it, Vivian V she cried. "I am only just twenty, and I never even arranged a dancing party in all my life. What shall I doT Hla face grew dark with anger. 'Vlolante," he asked, "do you intend al waya to remain a child? When do you purpose to assume the duties that belong to you as my wife?" "Do not be angry," she said piteously: I will do my best: but, indeed, I have o notion, no idea even how to begin." "It la nonsense," said Lord Vivian; "you are young, graceful, clever, quick to learn, apt to imitate. Why can you not learn to fulfill your duties? they seem tc toe simple enough." Perhaps after all, it had been a terrible mistake; and if ao, there waa now no remedy. So he looked blankly into the beautiful, sorrowful face, a dreadful con viction dawning upon him that he had snada foolish mistake. "Io not look so, Vivian," said Lady Sel wyn; "I will do my beat. Mra. Selwyn will help me." "That la the very thing," said Lord Viv ian; "I want you to learn aelf-reiiance. You will not always have my mother and Miss Leigh to help you. Miss Leigh will marry some day, then what will you do?'' "I am heartily giad of it," replied Vio lin te abruptly; and that answer did not quite please Lord Vivian. He had not the faintest idea that his wife was In the least degree jealous of Beatrice. Such a thought had never occurred to him. He Imagined her slightly envious, perhaps, of Miss Leigh's social qualities; but that Vlolante should be jealous of her never occurred to him. "Well, you will do the best you can. , Violante," he said, as he rose to leave the room. "Yon must come to me. if yon find jourtfeTrtlf aiffieultJes?' When he had gone she cried to herself in a pasaion of despair. It waa auch scenes as these she had foreaeen wheu Lord Vivian first aaked her to be his wife, and now her fears were all verified. She waa not equal to her duties never would bo, and her husband waa disappointed iu her. The evening of the ball came. Thanks to vigilant and well-trained servants, ev erything was In perfect order; and Lady Vlolante, as ahe looked round the mag nificent aulte of rooms, felt her heart light ened of a heavy load. Carriage after car riage drove up to the hall door; one group after another of fair guests entered; ev erything seemed promising and fair. Lady Violante went creditably through the reception of her guests; even the ter rible duchess did not awe her. But as the evening wore on, ahe grew physically fatigued and exhausted. The difficulty of inventing civil apeechea to so many people overtaxed her strength. Ixrd Viv ian had wished, too, that she should dance with his most honored guest. Lord Lous dale. She did wonders. She found partners for those who bad none, she made tir capital Quartettes for the whist table, she Ulked timidly, it is true to the ladies: and, but from a malicious remark she overheard from the duchess, the chance are that ahe would have gone through th evening successfully. Her Grace of Roxmioster was talking busily to Lady Beftone and the two to gather could get through more gossip and scandal than any other two women in England. Lady Vlolante saw them sit ting apart, talking In a low voice, and the Idea unluckily occurred to her that she ought to go np to them and see if tbey required amusement In any livelier shape. She went to the back of Lady Heftone's chair, and waa ia time to hear the duchess say: "Ah, poor Lord Vivian I he must have had a great taate for what Lord Byron would call bread and butter, when b married an unformed girl like that." "She was a mere nobody." rejoined Lady Seftone; "the daughter of some country attorney.. No one can imagine what he married her for. She has but a washed-out kind of beauty, after all." Poor Lady Violante! She did not knot that waa the common language of the faahionable world; ahe did not know that envy has no pity, no liking; that elderly beauties who have lost all their own charms have no occupation better than decrying the charms of others. A woman of the world overhearing such a conversa tion wonld have smiled to herself, and felt that ahe waa beautiful enough to ex cite envy. To Lady Vlolante the words brought a sharp, keen pain. They haunt ed her; ahe could not forget them. CHAPTER XI. Sunny Florence wore Its gayest aspect. The blue waves of the Arno rolled be tween banks of odorous flowers. One bright morning in August Lady Vlolante atood looking, with a far-off glance, over the Arno to the hllla beyond. Near her grew a gladiolus, all acarlet and gold; the bees had buried themselvee in the bells, humming for very Joy In the bright sunshine-, the blossoms around her were mu sical with the songs of the nightingales. She herself was beautiful as a poet's dream; but there was an expreaaion of weariness on her face, a shadow in the violet eyes. A few minutes more, and Lord Vivian joins her. "Still looking for Rupert. Violanter he asks. "How much trouble yon give your- f over that child. He i six years oH if iv. remember. You cannot expect mir, ; spend all hi time in the nursery." Hlie sighed. Like all mothers, she knew e time must come when ber nursling vuld fake flight and pass from her gen ii', tender care; yet she dreaded the time. She tuuged to keep him, to shield him from fill t- dangers that would beset him; to Keep nix, to heaven and herself. rl."i:l color flushed even her brow, a Du tiful light flashed in her eyes: for. fur amid the tall mjrtle trees, she heard tin clear, ringing voice of a child. "There is RupertT" cried Ixrd Vivian "That Is BeatrU-e wfrth him." - Then by the golden gladiolus, throne! the grove of silver-flowered orange tm comes a woman whose beauty is as Kr ,in a. naision flower iu the sun: fl woman with a face that wonld hav. -harmed a Titian, with its glorious color ing: her dark, radiant eyes, straight brow. nd magnificent futtnres. her "lips uk crimson Cowers." her marvelous lovci ness gladdening all who looked upon il A woman whose every movement was ful of imnerial grace and dignity, for lleutrio Leigh was in the spring-tide of her life. and nature had lavished every charm np on her. She made a anrierb picture as she paae- ed the shimmering orange trees, and Lord Vivian's eyes brightened with admiration. With one white band Beatrice held fast the little fingers of a child, evidently a naughty and somewhat refractory child, for he seemed most unwilling to comply with her wishes. "Where was he, Beatrice?" asked Lord Vivian, as she came nearer. "I will tell you myaelf, papa," cried the voung heir of Selwyn. "You have been lost for more than twe hours. Rupert." said Lord ivian gravely "where have you been?" But the child could not answer, foi Lavd Violante had seixed him In her arms. She forgot all the world but her boy. Sut nnlv saw him. and nothing besides. She covered his face with kisses, she murmur ed sweet words over him, such as only mothers' lips can frame. Lord Vivian stood by, wondering at this marvelou gift of mother love; and Beatrice Leigh I looked on with a sneer on ber peerles face. Then Lady Vlolante sat down on the garden chair, and the child stood by her knee. For the first time she noticed his face braised, and one eye swollen and dis colored. "Where have yon been, Rupert?" she asked gravely. "I know you will be very cross, mam ma," said the little fellow. "I have been to Lnigl's cottage." "After I had forbidden you to go there?" said his mother sadly. "Yes," he replied, and the brave little face flushed hotly. "1 know It waa wrong, bat Lnlgi struck roe yesterday, aril Ijan away to fight bim to-day." "To fight T she cried in horrified ac cents; "to fight!" Then the tender moth er's heart conquered, the aweet eyes filled with tears, the sweet lips trembled, the cender arms clasped him so tightly. "Oh. Rupert," she said, "how waa it?" "I will tell you, mamma," said tlir child. "Do not cry; Indeed, he did not hurt me! I took care of that! But yes terday, he, LuigU said ail English boy were cowards, and he atruck me; so, to day, I went down to hia house and asked him to fight. I beat him, though he is th oldest. I fought him for honor, you know, mamma." But she was looking at him with sweet frightened eyes. "You must not fight. Rupert," she cried eagerly: "never, never again. It la wick ed, my boy, wicked and wrong. Say yoc will never f.ght again." "I cannot, mamma." replied the child "Suppose, you know, a boy strike, me what am I to do then?" In a voice sweeter than the cooing ol a ring-dove, she told him those simple glorious words, spoken by lips divine words that teach patience under injuries forgiveness under wrong. "If a boy strikes me," said the child "am I not to give it him back again mamma?' "No," ahe replied eagerly; "you must show patience." "But," Interrupted the boy, "he would think. I waa a coward, mamma." And ahe, in her sweet timidity, wae startled at this. She hardly knew what la anawer. She felt like a woman; he already reasoned like a man. Then Lord Vivian came toward them, and Beatrice Leigh took the child's hand. "Nay, Vlolante," said her husband, "that is fals teaching. You must trait' my boy to be brave; to be able not only to take his own part, but to defend tb weak and the helpless, to fight for thost who cannot fight for themselves." A new view of the subject, which seem ed to relieve little Rupert wonderfully. He raised his earnest eyes, so like his mother's, to Lord Vivian'a face. "Then yon do not think fighting wrong, papa?" he asked anxiously. "Not if It be in good cause, my eon. was the somewhat puzzling reply. Then spoke Beatrice. "All the men of your race, Rupert, have been brave," ahe said. "You must not be the first coward in the family." "But if mamma cries?" said the boy. And the next moment his fair little head was hidden on her breast. "Come with me. Rupert," said Lord Vivian, "and I will explain to you." Father and aon walked away together. Now was the time for Miss Leigh to plant a sharp dagger in the gentle heart of her unconscious rival. "He is a splendid little fellow," she said. "It would be a thousand pities to make a milksop of him." "I only want him to be good," Vio lante replied piteously; "Indeed, Beatrice, that is ail." J . "If Lord Vivian takes my advice," said Miss Leigh, "ho will send the boy to a good Engliah school. He wiU be trainee like a man there." And as she walked away. Lady 10 lante looked after her with despairing eyes. CHAPTER XII. i reader, a woman combiniiig ,l,e .-harms of a Greek goddess and a Parisian coauette; a woman wonurous io in her superb classical loveliness behold .,,.1 csv. aracefnl. winning manner. iur Countess Sitani. the belle of r loret.ee. wo might have been Helen of Troj r from the fatal fascination and charm she had lor men. . , h. h Lady Selwyn," sne . -,y broken English. "1 have iretl l.rd Selwyn haa told me " t j... ieen smiling to myself at your attitude." . vinl.nte. My h? -rrr ,nd lltisoipg crw-. p thinking to berselt that she bad neen guilty of something unconventional. Yes," said the countess, with a silvery latijli. "the English are a wonderful peo ple! You are beautiful, young, beloved, rich: there is no fair gift of earth or heav en that ia not yours. Your husband is adorable, your child perfection, you can have no shsdow of care; yet, as I watched von standing there, no Niobe could have looked more sad. You, the happiest wom an in the world, are no sooner left alone :han yon aasume an attitude of desolation. Verily a wonderful people, so given to ev erything triste. What were you thinking sf as you bent over that superb gladiolus. Lady Selwyn?" Of my home," was the reply. in my mind then there was a picture of a green field close to my father's house; a com mon green field, I suppose, to others; to me the very light of heaven shines mou it." Yon are a poetess," said the countess. Bayly. "Do not deny it! now poetry flourishes among English fogs 1 cannot uiagine. Do you know what 1 have come to see you about? Sit down here. Lady Selwyn, and listen." They sat down together under tne tan syripga treat, tne erange diomi.ui. ...u oiyrt'e leaves falling at their feet: two the fairest women that ever met, evet in that fair clime. "It seems," said the conntess, a snub rippling over ier lovely face, "that yon--Lady Selwyn, Miss Leigh and myself are the three prettiest women in Florence. I heard yesterday that Prince Cosare called us the Three Graces.' My idea, the mat ter on which I came to sieak to you. is this could we not get up some charndes. or tableaux vivants, in which we could all three appear? I have mentioned it to some people, and they are charmed with the idea." "I do not know; I am not clever," re plied Lady Selwyn, and the wistful look deepened on her fair face. "You need never fear. You frighten yourself without cause. Promise me to join our tableau. I will bring you through safely. You have but to look pretty, and that will come natural to you. Lord Selwyn would be so pleased." She had touched the right chord at last. The hardest heart might have been soft ened at the wistful pleading of Lady Sel wyn's face. "I o you really think," ahe said, "that I might do well?" "1 am sure. Give me your promise that you will shake off that foolish timidity and shine as you were meant to do; leave the rest to me. We can meet at my house this evening to discuss and select the scenes that strike us most. We must find one. though. In which we can all ap pear together. Prince Cesar, likes MiBs Leigh. I think. "Does heT asked Lady Selwyn. "She is very beautrrui ana very ginea. one seems to know everything by instinct. She always does the right thing at the right time, and says the very words she should say when they ought to be said." You are very generous, cried coun tess Sitani, opening ber loveiy eyes. Now. if I were you, I should be horribly jealous of Miaa Leigh." "Why?" asked Lady Violante. calmly, but her heart beat as it had never doer I ' - - V - cannot oiihj-ur whr'Vprrw-K. countess, wKh a shrug of the pretty shoulders: "only that she seems so often ( Knowing tne car waa overci.waea. to take your place." j went right ahead regardless of s.gnal- "Because I cannot take It myself," In- Ing patrons. At the corner of Erie terrupted Lady Selwyn. : street a stout man waved his arm rlg- I wouldl" said the countess. 1 am or0u8ly, but tbe motorman shook his not very wise, but I have quick Instincts. nead and ,, cd bat.k where another and I foresee both danger and nnhappn d ca foi,owlng. The stout ness for you unless you make a great ef- ' ,. . , . . ?ort to assert yourself. Wbo win rule, I -!. however. He your house T-JIiss Leigh's! Who rulei Jelled fiercely at the conductor and your child? Miss Leigh! Who Influence? I made a wild dash at the car. He reach kn.h.nd? Ml.. L.i.h!" i ed for the band bar on tbe rear plat your husband I aiiss .eign: "Ah, no: criea l-aay oeiwyn, -not mat -anything but that." "Ton must be blind if yon do not ser It." ssid Countess Sitsni; "every one else does, and I must say it tbe fault i rour own! Instead of shrinking into your self, as I see yon do. and being fright ened at every shadow, be bold know vonr awn rights, snd let no one interfere with rha What a sin to sit preaching on this bright day; but a sermon will do you good. Lady Selwyn. Remember the committee this evening, and I shsll watch you narrowly, to see if my lecture hai been of any service to yon. Now, good by." (To be continued.) Cost of German Colonies. Germany can scarcely be considered as successful In ber efforts to secure fame as a colonizing power. The esti mated cost of colonies for the coming year ts fixed, according to the Imperial budget, at $2,000,000, In return for which she is able to point to 1.803 col onists, all told, of which number half are soldiers and officials. With regard to the trade, Germany's exports to her colonies do not amount to $1,500,000 per annum, so that from a business point of view the undertaking can scarcely be considered as a profitable one. It Is evident that the fault lies with the German government rather than with the German merchant-. The latter thrive and prosper to a phenom enal degree In the United States, and In all those English colonies where Ini tiative, enterprise and commerce are not submitted to all the vexatious and hampering restrictions that seem to be inherent to Germany's notions of col onial administration. New York Trib une. Fresh Water from Under the Ben in the garrison station forts standing In the sea at Splthead, England, the supply of fresh water Is obtained from wells Inside their own walls, which lie under the led of the sea. It Is said that the water Is exceedingly cool and pura The largest woman in the South, Mrs. Mary Maglque, colored, died re cently at Little Rock, Ark. Her age was thirty, and she weighed 660 pounds. It has been estimated that a single plant of Russian thistle six feet In diameter produces 2,000,000 seeds. At a recent auction in London $280 was paid for four volumes of a visitors' register kept in Shakespeare's bouse at Stratford from 1821 to 1848. A bill-board before a church in Paisley, Scotland, contains this an nouncement: "Only short sermons de livered here. Excellent music. This ts the place to savj your soul and be happy. Walk In." An English physician has discov ered a way of producing local anaes thesia without the loss of conscious ness or the use of ether or chloroform. He uses moderate currents of electric ity frequently interrupted. The house of bishops have selected San Francisco aa the place for hold ing the Protestant Episcopal conven tion of 1901. In Peru it was once the custom for domestic servants to have two of their upper front teeth extracted. Their absence Indicated their servitude. It has been ascertained that plate glass will make a more durable monu ment than the hardest granite. STOiES OF ROCKEFELLER raafuei ma Irritable Clark Helpa m Con-actor. A good m.iny years ago u certain young man he's ruddy and pertly now, and the father of a family was em ployed by a growing corporation. He was quite a young man. with an acute sense of his responsibilities, and, like yotiug men who are afflicted In that par ticular way. waa dreadfully touchy when bis work was Interrupted. He was the only employe In the room of one of the leading members of the cor pora t Ion, and was kept pretty busy with bis constantly growing dntlea. In the room was a health lift, a some what old-fashioned exercising machine, left there by some shifting of employes, and one day about noontime a quiet man came In and for the space of sev eral minute worked the machine. Ha made no noise about it, and departed as quietly as be came. The next day he came again, and the next, and the next The young clerk didn't like these vie Its. Tbey drew bis attention from his work. Tbey made him fidgety. One day he looked over the Tailing and caught the quiet man's eye. "Say," he sa?d Irritably, "I wish yo wouldn't do that. It bothers me. Cant you come in after office hours? Yon seem to pick out the very time wbea I have the most to do." The quiet man didn't get mad. "I'm sorry It Interferes with your work." was all be said aa be passed from the room. Tbat afternoon the lifting machine was taken away. It wasn't long after this that the offl cer of the company who bossed the youth took him into another part ot the) building to do some writing. They went Into a certain room, and there sat the quiet man. He looked np aa taa youth appeared and quietly ne--ea him. When the work was finished, and H was a somewhat uncomfortable job fer the abashed youth, he left tho apart ment with his superior officer. "Who Is tbat gentleman V ho asked aa they passed along the hall. "Haven't you seen him before?" was the astonished query. "Y yes. once." "And you don't know bis name?" "No." "Well, that Is John D. Rockefeller." The thoughts of the young man at (hat particular moment were long, long thoughts, but he kept a st.T upper Up and said nothing. And he's still In the employ of the Standard Oil Company. Not very long ago a crowded Euclid ear, bound east, took on a few extra passengers at the Hlckok street stop. Among them was a man In a gray suit, woo found, scooting on the rejr' plat foHu7 The last 1 ns tallmen rC jitro ns crowded the car to the utmdVu The - ViV w f '. . ... l. "'? w" "' lae Forra pe- t the footboard lined. The mitorman. form, missed it and went down In a heap. Tbe conductor Instantly stopped the car and went back and helped the stranger to his feet. He wasn't hurt, but he was frightfully mad. The con ductor took his name In the customary 1 way, brushed the man off and then back to the car. When he had went rung the bell to go ahead be asked for the names of a few witnesses of the oc currence, as conductors have orders to do. But tbe men on the platform shook their heads. They were not looking, or the motorman may have been to blame, or they didn't want to get mixed np in It. The conductor looked discouraged. Just then the man In tbe gray clothes reached across snd tapped him on tbe shoulder. "I saw the affair," he said 'yon may call upon me If necessary." The conductor looked relieved as he poised his pencil in air. "What Is your name?" he asked. The man in gray clothes hesitated slightly. Rockefeller," he replied; "J. D." The conductor shut his book with a snap that suggested he had all the wit nesses he needed, and the ca- bowled along. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Old A Pension. In New Zealand. New Zealand, which has prided her self for a good many years on "ad vanced" legislation, and which la often held up aa one of the most progressive countries In tbe world (though a Brit ish colony). Is about to Inaugurate what may be called an old age pension regime. The Legislature of the far-off colony recently passed an elaborate bill, mak ing provision for pecjlons to persons In straitened circumstances who are over 65 years eld. The pension amounts to but 90 a year, or about $1.75 a week, and no one who bas an Income of over $5 a week or property worth more than $2,700 win be en titled to It. Twenty years' residence In the colony and ten years' exem plary conduct are requisite In order to secure this state gift, which Is sig nificant, not so much for the amount as for the precedent which tt em I odiee. Boston Globe. Trees In New Zealand. The kauri Is tbe monarch of the New Zealand forest, an indigenous pine, growing to enormous height, frequent ly eighty feet, before it sends out a bougb, while Its average diameter Is from eight to nine feet. It Is said to be 800 years in reaching maturity. There Is no underbrush In a kauri for est, the prince of trees permitting no rival within bis domain. Tbe totara Is another species of pine, which, bow sver, baa none of the characteristics of the con I ferae of other countries, either In habit or In appearance. The most singular of all Is tbe rata, a peculiar tree with somewhat the nature of a parasite. If It springs up near a rlmu pine it winds about It like a huge vine. ! tightening colls gradually crushing the life out of the unfortunate pine. When It reaches the top It sends oat branches sod staods a colls knit closely together by IM network ot flbers, which tMMt f. last stage of Ita growth. ft haw a Wk affinity fer tta own specie aai a as nd rata spring-teg np hisldo ea t earlier growth will ah ink ass astray It as It destroys too tfram It, howw ever, neither rlmu nor rata hi wttkta reach. It grows up a respectable aa well-behaved tree, attaining a height f from fifty to sixty feet u hi used for masts In shrp-h-tMnsg.-4)tKar--quan. A first-rate coHec-ea of Insects eea- . tains about 86,000 distinct species. Oatr eae-tblrd of the world's popn- latloa use bread as a dally article of , food. Fully one-half of the people or ' the world subsist chiefly oa rice. 1 According to Nllsson, the geologist. ; the weight of the Greenland whale at 1 tains 100 tens, or 324.000 pounds, or equal to that of thlrrr !f at elephants ' or 440 bears. The electric current Is now applied to ' operating horse-grooming machinery. less than three minutes being sufficient for going over an animal. Horse-cllp-. pers can also be operated by electric power at high speed. Prof. George E. Hale, the director of I the Yerkea Observatory, speaking. In a recent address, of the fifth satellite of Jupiter, said that not only must Jupiter be DartlaSr ooaoealed behind a smoked J mcti acreea la order tbat the tiny satel- : iua m. be seen, but even the near may approach of one of the four larger moons of Jupiter la sufficient to render k Invisible. This little body was discov ered by Mr. Barnard, with the Lick telescope, la 18t2. snd It has leeu seen with only a few of the largest telescopes la existence. The sport of bnwking is still largely practiced, although It has ceased to te the fashionable amusement that It once was In England and Western Europe. A recent writer on the subject shows tbat an astonishingly large number of birds are trained for this sport, vsry Ing In size from a merlin to an eagle. Eagles are employed in Turkestan and other parts of t- Russian Empire. Among the animals hunted-with the aid of these powerful birds are the ro buck and the wolf. The fact has recently been ascer tained that male butterflies and moths are much more given to drinking than the. females, and that the habit Is In 'T$ed In to th greatest extent when the latter are al - -5njeir egg attracted by pure water. Tbat tbe males drink more than Is necessary has been shown beyond question, and cer tain moths have been observed almost motionless for over an hour engaged in sucking up and discharging mol.turr almost continuously. An extended study of the phenomena of Insomnia by De Menacelne, a Rus sian authority In medicine, brings hiin to tbe conclusion tbat It Is characteris tic of persons who blush, laugh, wci p readily, and whose pulse Is apt to quick en upon the slightest provocation. Loss of sleep, however, he admits, most fre quently results from overwork of either mind or body: overstrain of either kind dilates the blood vessels of the brain and eventually paralyzes them, extreme cold producing the same results. Ex periments also show tbat exercise of the emotions causes a rush of blood te the brain, and sleeplessness, if occur ring near bedtime. There Is a com mon theory that sleep Is required la proportion to the scarcity of red corpus cles in the blood, and tbns all persons do not correspond In their need of sleep, and many authorities agree that j the need of sleep depends upon the strength of consciousness. Be Kills Legally. The methods of selecting him whe shall act aa executioner have through out history been many and curious. In earliest Roman days the sentence wa carried Into effect by tbe accuser and a similar practice was In vogue in th Crimea when that was a kingdom. Formerly In Germany the dnty de volved upon the youngest member of tbe community. In Tburlngla upon the latest settler and in Franconla. Justly, upon tbe new At married. In Spain tbe office Is, or was, hereditary, and In France It became practically so. The dignity of the function was bettei recognized in ancient times than It is o-day. In old Greece tbe presentation of the hemlock was an honorable ser vice and the man who performed It wa ranked by Aristotle above ordinary magistrates. In tbe code and sacred books of tbe Parsees no provision Is made for capi tal punishment, but a cnlprit Is to be beaten with thongs a number of blows. proportioned to bis offense, and If h succumbs no one is to blame. Features of Manila. Manila is a beautiful city, about the size of San Francisco. It is built on both sides of the river Paslg. which is navigable to ita Fource. Old Manila lies on the left tank. Parte of the masonic stone wall which was built around it three hundred years ago are still vis ible, and some of tbe gates survive, through whicb a stream of solemn friars, grinning Chinese, resplendent Spanish officials, beggars in rags, pious nuns, handsome senoras. gay native girls, mestizos in uniform, natives In breech-clouts, four-hoi se carriages. two-wheel pony wagons and creaking buffalo carts, pours from morning till night. The cathedral, monasteries and government offices are In old Manila; the business quarter, and foreign ship ping houses, the banks, stores and cus tom house, are In Binondo, on the other side of tbe river. Between the walls and the shore ts the Luneta. the fash ionable promenade, where the l and plays and society enjoys the evening breeze, flirts under hundreds of electric lights, and drives around the circle in carriages, which follow each other In a sw. dignified procession. wag The emales-evfcieh a, coTR;-r- Vf jWid tw i - t .T?T3 m. Vi"r. ' v -i-TEkiT TT. i r. fine" teasDoonal maies, nut tne tatter atone seem to te .noonful of celerv Labor Notes. The trusts now in existence in Ameri ca have an aggregate capitalisation of 12.788.773,800. In New Oreleana molasses is being put op in t-pound cans similarly to those used for syrups. At Elyria, O., the local Bell company Is making a residence rate for tele phones of 60 cents a month. The steamship Lord Charlemont re cently loaded 2500 tons of steel rails at Canton, Hd for use on a railway In Ireland. A plan Is being arranged to estab lish in the mills at Olneyville, R. L. the system for small savings similar to that In the public schools. The largest sewing machine In the world Is in operation in Leeds, Eng land. It weighs 8500 pounds and sews cotton belting. The imports Into Tacoma this year to 1st Inst., were 14,538,672 as against JH.K71.805, same term in 1897. and ex ports, $10,971,454 compared with $6,000, 123, last year. T." -Xrmlr m!,h MAM tltntl than anv other State in the Union, j West Virginia. Maryland and Pennayl- j ania ranking after it In the order In ' which they are named. j According to English statistics the j live stock of that country is on the increase, cattle now numbering 6.622,- j 354. against 6,139.555 In 1889, the lowest inn open mv aarx savings on a narp. number in ten years. t Interrogation the first: Why does Ood A ship building firm in Belfast, ! take out of this "rorld those who are use Ireland has received instructions from . fnl and whom we cannot spare and leave . i.i,nnnl ontnnanv for the construe- alive and In good health so many who are tion of a cargo -Stwrmer to be 680 teei"- .. -s hP9m To rjrotect tassengers from the ex tortion of cabmen in Havana the lamp- costs are painted in various colors red for the central district, blue for the second, green for the third, etc. The silk Industry in the United States Is assuming gigantic propor tions. Thirty years ago the value of silk produced In the United States was less than $6,000,000. Last year it ex ceeded $87,000,000. A new kind of cloth is being made In Lyons from the down of hens, ducks and geese. Seven hundred and fKtv grains of feathers make rather rr. than a square yard of light water proof cloth. At Sheffield a single mnchlne wli! turn out 5000 finished knives per :h.y. and It can be adapted for elthi-r tabie or pocket cutlery, razor hollow r straight- sheep shears: indeed, for n' most any kind of tools. The use of the diamond circular saw for cutting stone is facilitating the erection of the Paris Exposition build ings. The diamonds which form the cutting teeth of the saw are worth about $S. a karat, and are fixed In a steet disc over six feet in diameter. It is stated that as recently as 1S84 the total investment in electrical ap pliances throughout the United Stat did not aggregate much over $1,00(0 u. while at the present time the total capitalization of electrical railroad, lightning and other concerns i put down as fully $l,90o,ooo,oo. Household. RECIPES. Hot Potato Salad. Put one tablespoonful of b of drippings; when br one-halt piiitS-Of -dlr toes. JfYy .a iiKbt b u zttof eggs stirrc? cook until set-' oraiTT 3he-tofc . mustard, one s"i- snoon' salt and half that much pepper mixed together. Pour this over the potatoes, stir and h ;at for a moment and serve in hot dish aa warmed plates. More vinegar may b added If one prefers. Baked Apples with Meringue. Wash and core nve large apples, put in dbk ing dish with a little water: bake until nearly tender, then fill holes with sugar and sprinkle over top a good half-cUDfuI. Return to tne oven ana bake until apples are tender and juice syrup-like, then remove and let cool while preparing a meringue with white of two eggs and two neaping taoie- spoonfuls of sugar. Beat the egg stiff, then beat In sugar. Pour over the ap ples, return to moderate oven ana brown to golden color. Cranberry Sauce. Put three pints of carefully picked over cranberries in to a porcelain-lined or granite kettle, with one-half pint of water, cover and allow to stew slowly until tender, then add one pint of granulated sugar. Al low to come to a boil ana remove irom the fire. If preferred pass through a colander to remove the skins; po'.ir into a mould and stand away to cool. Marble Cake. Light part Two cup fuls of white sugar, one cupful of but ter, one-half cupful of Bweet milk, whites of four eggs, two ana one-half teaspornfuls of baking powder, two cupfuls of flour. Dark part One cup ful of brown sugar, one-half cupful of molasses, one cupful of butter, one fourth cupful of sour milk, half a tea spoonful of soda, yolks of four eggs, flour to thicken, and flavor. Hickorynut Cake. One cupful of but ter, two cupfuls" of sugar, half a cup fu of milk, four eggs, one cupful of chopped raisins, one cupful of chopped hickorynuts. two cupfuls of flour, half a teaapoonful of soda, juice of half a lemon. Bake in two square loaves and frost. Estelle Pudding. Three eggs, thor oughly beaten, two and one-half table spoonfuls of sugar, three-fourths cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted in flour enough to make like cake batter, one cup of raisins cropped fine. Steam thirty-five min utes. Two eggs and the two yolks left from the meringue can be used for this. Hard Sauce. One cup of light brown sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half nutmeg prated, two or three grates of lemon peel juice of half a lemon. Blend butter, and sugar and flavoring. Put away in mold to cool and harden until ready for use. Pumpkin Custard. Cut a pumpkin Into inch square pieces, stew slowly until thoroughly cooked, then press through a colander or sieve. To every pint of pumpkin add a piece of butter about the size of a walnut, half a teaspoonful of salt (scant)., one pint of good milk, half a teaspoonful each of mace and cinnamon, one teaspoonful of ginger, one cup of sugar, and four well-beaten eggs. Bake in a pudding dish, without crust, or in pie tins with a light crust. Green Apple Pie. Stew well-grown green apples. mah, and strain. To every pint of the apples add half a teacupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of butter and the beaten whites of two eggs; flavor with lemon and nutmeg: line pie pans with puff paste, fill with the apples: bake very quickly, cover the top with meringue and set It in the oven one minute to brown slight ly. Always look for a hind a silver lining. golden cloud be- Close your eyes to truth. and yon tumble into the ditch of error. Overcoming a difficulty changes into a blessing. it The man who has no physical cour age has but verv little moral cour age. The best teacher one can have is necessity. As the dawn precedes the sun. so acquaintance should precede love. Woman can smile in the face of the world when her heart ts breaking. SERMONS OF THE DAY SdH "- "Life. Minor Chord" Trial, and , 1 'V alatlon. Are 9(awe.n for t. Proper Developnt.nt of Cfi.ract.r-. j Man. CompeDMtlon For Bartering-, i Text: "I will open my dark saying upon 1 the harp." Psalm xllx., 4. The world Is full or the Inexplicable, the Impassable, the unfathomable, the insur I roonntablo. We cannot go three steps in any direction without coming up aealnst a hard wall of mystery, riddle., paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths; prohlnms that we I cannot solve, hieroglyphics tbat we cannot 1 decipher, nnauratts w cannot snell out, ' sphinxes that will not speak. For that '. reason David in my text rropoed to take i np some of these somber and dark thlntr I and try to set them to sweet music. "I I will open my dark savings on a barp." I Ho I look off upon soiriety and find people j In nnhappv eonj'inotion of circumstances, and thev do not know what it means, and thev have a right to ask. Why Is this? Why Is that? and I think I will be doing a good work by trying to explain some of these strange things and make you more content with your lot, and I shall only ba answer- Ing questions that have often been asked me. or that we have all asked oursnlves, while I try to set these mysteries to music '"7 putsanc to the world? I though would begin with the very touirhest of ATT most useful men and women die at thirty or forty years of age, while you often find j"" pwpm iit sixiy n --.y and eighty. John Careless wrote to Mrad- ford, who was soon to be put to death. ! saving: "Why doth God suffer me and snnh other caterpilllars to livJ, that can do, nothing but oonsume the alms of the ! ehnrob, and take away so many j worthy workmen In the Lord's vine- yarl?" Similar questions ar often asksd. Here are two men. .The one Is a noble character and a Christian man. He chooses for a lifetime companion one i who has been tenderly reared, and she ; U worthy of him and ho Is worthy of her. ' as merchant or farmer or professions I man or mechanto or arttr-; he tolls to educate and rear his children. He is succeeding, but he has not yet established for his family a fall competency. He seems Indispensable to that household; hut onn day, lieforo he has oaid off the mortgage oa his house, he Is coiaing home through a strong north ast wind and a chill strikes through bi'i and. four days of pneumonia end his irthly career, and the wife and ehlMren go tnto a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a man who though strong and well, lets his ;irlfe support him. He is around at the ; srrocery store or some general loafing place ' in the evenings while his wife sews. Hit ! boys are Imitating his example, and lounge and swagger and swear. All the use tiiat ' man Is In that hous is to rave because the soffee is cold whn h. comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutting things abont his wife's looks, when he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that ! sould happen to that family would be that ! man's funeral, but he declines to die. H . -r and on and on. So we have all i-rfavs bas a cncor-.., the useful are early ' .or of tbe Great V have great vita' -r w-. yt been just ahead, and tbey altogether Iu. !,- anwn in the vortex of . Qiiin(. wl.Pnh nirr year swallows nri ! 10,000 households. And so be went while ' he was humble and consecrated, and they I were by the severities ot life kept close to j Christ and fitted for usefulness here and ! high seats In heaven, and when they meet ' at last before the throne they will ac knowledge tbat, though the furnace was hot, It purified them and pre- ! par8d them for an eternal career ol K0ry and reward for wtiich no other kind j 0f nf could have fitted them. On the nther hnn.i the use ess man lived on to I fifty or sixty or seventy years because all j the ease he ever can have he mnst have in this world, and you ought not, therefore. , begrudge htm bis earthly longevity. 1 ' u the ages there has not a single loan ever entered heaven. There is no plaoe f- him there to hang around; not even in tli temples, for they are full of vlgorou alert and rapturous worship. If tbe goo and useful go eaily, rejoice tor them tha. they have so soon got through with human lire, which at best Is a struggle. And t; the useless and the bad stay, rejoice tha they may be out In the world's fresh air n good many years before their final Incar ceration. Interrogation the second: Why do good people have so much trouble, siokness, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks Into one set ot Jangled nerves? I think now of a good friend 1 once had. Ha was a oonsecrated Christian man, an elder In ths churoh, and as polished a Christian gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave oat and hs hobbled around on a oane, an old man at forty, after awhile paralysis atruok him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost what property h bad. Then hia beautiful daughter died; then a son became hopelessly demented, another aon, splendid of mind and com manding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father's household, but under tbe swoop of yellow fever at Fernandlna, Fla., be suddenly expired. So yon know good men and women who have bad enough troubles, you think, to orush fifty people. No worldly philosophy oould take such a trouble and set It to muslo, or play It on violin or flute, but I dare to open tbat dark saying on a gospel harp. You wonder that very eonseoratad peopl. have trouble? Did you- ever know any very consecrated man or woman who bad not bad great trouble? Neverl It was through their troubles sanctified that they were made very good. If you find anyJ where in this olty a man who has now, and, always has had, perfect health, and never lost a child, and has always been popular and never had business struggle or misfor tune, who is distinguished lor goodness, Cull your wire for a telegraph mesa.nger ov and send me word, and I will drop everything and go right away to look al bim. There never has been a man like that and never will be. Who are those arro gant, self conceited creatures who move about without sympathy for others and who think more of a St. Bernard dog or an Alderney cow or a Southdown sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They never had any trouble, or the trouble was never sanctified. Who are those men who listen with moist eye as you tell them of suffering and who have a pathos in their voice and a kindness In their manner and an excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? They are the men who havs graduated at tbe Royal Academy ot Trou ble, and they have the diploma written In wrinkles on their own countenances. My, myl What heartaches they badl What tears they have weptl What injustioe they have suffered! The mightiest Influ ence for purillcatlon and salvation is trouble. There are only three things that ean break off a chain a hammer, a file or a fir and trouble is al! three of them. Tb greatest writers, orators and reformers get mneh of their force from trouble. What gave to Washington Irving that exquisite tenderness aud pntho which will make his books favorites whilethe English language wnnHini to t written and spoken? Ar early heartbreak, that he never pnef mentioned, and when thirty years aft.f tbe death ot Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been bis bride, her father picked np a piece of embroidery and said, "Tbat Is a piece of poor Matilda's workmanship." Washington Irving sank from hilarity Into silence and walked away. Out ot that lifetime grief the great anthor dipped his pen's mightiest re enforcement. Cllvin's "Institutes ot Re ligion," than which a more wonderful book was never written by human band, was begun by the author at twenty-five Jears of age, because of the persecution Iranoif. king of Francs. Faraday toiled fo all time on a siKrv of so a year and candles. At every brick of the wall ot Babylon was sta-nped with the letter N, standing for Xebuchadnr.znr. so every part of the temple ot Christian achieve ment ia stamped with the letter T, stand ing for trouble. When in England a man is honored with knighthood, he ts struck with the flat ot the sword. But those who have come to knighthood in the kingdom of God wera first struck, not with the flat of the sword, bat with tbe keen edge of the sel meter. To build bis magnificence of character Paul eoald not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What i true of individuals Is true of nations. The horrors of tba American Revolution gave this oonntry this side of the Mississ ippi Biver to independence and France gave the most of thi oonntry wet ot the Miss issippi to tho United Htates. France owned it, bat Napoleon, fearing that England would take it, practically made a present to the United States for hereoe'.yed only 15. 000 ,00 J for Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota. Mon tana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Oit of the fir of the American revolution came this country east of the Missisiipni, out of the European war came that we-t of the Mississippi River. The British em pire rose to its present ovenowering crandeur through gunpowderplot and Ouy FawkeV eonspiracv and Northampton in surrection and Walter Raleigh's beheading and Bacon's bribery and Croiri well's disso lution of parliament and the battles of Edge Hill and the vicissitudes of centuries. So tha earth Itself, before it could become an anoronriate and beautiful residence for the human family, had, according to geol- uVpIS-shed by p;,lversal deluge an i scorched and maa incnoamcuoi y uni versal fires, and pounded by sledge hammer of Icebergs and wrecched by earthquake that split continents, and shaken by vol canoes that tossed mountains' and passed through tho catastrophes ol thousands of years before paradise became possible and the groves couldshake out their green ban ners and the first garden pour Its carnage of color between tlieGihon and the Hidde kel. Trouble a good thlug for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for Individuals. So whoa you push agniust ine with a sharp interrogation point. Why do the good sutTer? I opeu the dark saying on a harp, aud, though I caB neitber play an organ or cornet or hautboy or bugle or clarinet. I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, nnd if you would like to hear mo I will play you these: "All things work together for good to those who 'ove God." Interrogation third: Why did the good Ood let sin or trouble come into the world when He might have kept thetn out? My reply is. He nad a good reason. He had reasons tbat He has never given us. He bad reasons whlah He could no more make as understand in our Unite state than tha father, starting out on some great and elaborate enterprise, could make the two-year-old child in its armed chair compre hend It. Ooewaito demonstrate what gran deur of character may be achieved cn earth by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, then this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua or an Ezekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington or a John Milton or s John Howard, and a million victories which have been gained by tbe oonsecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had there ijeen.no bat'- 'here would have been .no - ueiestiais wilt do ouiaone an; lown their trumpets to listen ak oe In heaven when those who bavnn luered sin and sorrow shall enter as It would be In a small singing school on earth f Thalberg and Gottschalk and Wagner and leethoven snd Bhalnberger and hchnmanu Mould all at once enter. The immortals :mt have been chanting 10,00u years before is throne will say, as they close their irettos, "Oh, It we could only sing like utt!" But Ood will say to those who have . 'ver fallen and consequently have not I ein redeemed, "You must be silent now; v .u have not the qualification for tnis jo in - n." So they sit with closed Hps and folded hands, and sinners saved by grace ii enp the harmony, for the Bihle says man oould learn tbat song but the hun i 1 and forty and four thousand whicb .v redeemed from the earth." A great prima donna, who can now do anything with her voice, told me that when ths first started in music her teacher la Berlin told her she oould be a good singer, but a certain note she could never reach. "And then," she said," I went to work and Studied and praotioed for years until I did reach It." But the song of the sin or re deemed, the Bible says, the exalted har monists who have never sinned could not reaon and never will reach. Would you like to bear me in a very poor way play a snatch ot that tune? I an give you only one bar of tbe musie on this gospel harp, "Unto Him that hath loved us and washed us from our sins In His own blood and bath made us kings and priests unto Ood and the Lamb, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, amen." But before leaving this Interrogatory, why Ood let sin come into the world, let me say tbat great battles seem to be uothlng but suffering and outrage at tbe time of their occurreuce, yet after they have been a long while past we can see tbat It was better for them to have been fought, namely, Sal amis, Inkerman, Toulouse, Arliela, Agin court, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. But here I must slow up lest In trying to iolve mysteries I add to the mystery that we: have already wondered at namely, why preachers should keep on aft4r all the hearers are tired. Ho I gather up into one great armful all the whys ami hows and wherefores of your life and mine, which we have not bal time or the ability to an swer, and write on them the words. "Ad journed to eternity." I rejoice that we do not understand all things now. for if we did what would we learn in heaven? If we kuew It all down here In the freshman ami sophomore class, what would be th use of our going np to stand ami J the jdulors and tbe seniors? If we could put down one leg of the compass and with tbe other sweep a circle clear around all the inscrutable, if we could lift our little steelyards and weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, If we could with our seven-day elmrk measure eternity, what would be left for.neavenlv revelation? So I move that we cheer fully adjourn what Is now heyilnd our comprehension, and as, according to Rol lln, the historian, Alexander the Oreat. having obtained the gold casket In which Darius had kept his rare perf-uuie, used that aromatic casket thereafter to ke-p his favorite copy of Homer iu and called the book, therefore, the "edition of t !ih casket," and at night put tho casket an I Ills sword under his pillow, so I put tt.i day into tii perfumed casket of your riches: iifTt)'.ions and hopes, this promise worili more than Homer ever wrote or sword ever run qaered, "What I do thou kn"vrcst iwt now, but thou shall know hernajter," and chat I call the "edition .cletj.al.'f The more vanity sonic people possess the easier it is to make them happy. An outraged friend is v tti.-iu ;i dozen enemies. Jkbout twenty new books are publish ed daily in Great Britain. Both of the silk factories at Water town. Conn., are working overtime. Universal primary education is the bulwark of free Institutions. Fashion costs the world more than bread and religion. The present is the child of the past and the father of the future. Fashionable calls niiKht properly be termed a game of cards. That man Is wise who makes a wise use of his knowledge. Many a valuable tbing is lost Tor want of the asking. All that man wants here below Is a little more than he's got. The errors of childhood should not be treasured ngainst maturity the un taught mind i as clay in the huhds of tne poif- S V Then br face brightened, and a bean- rA-.-.v-v-'..r !:iaha .7 e I li il mm - -1
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