i.2 p. SOHWEIBB, THS OONQTITUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE UWB. VOL Mil MIFFMNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1899. NO. 8. By Marion V.HollisW CHAPTER XXI. l'hl "ountl ot Vt ..ver-.-vt laugh was Mrs Kivers thought she had gone j h?.fd more than once, throuffh the greatest pain she could eve, I ,ea cane Christmas, and H waa my know. The agony of death waa not ao j J""' whim that Mrs. Rivers ahould be great, she thought, as the anguish of i ner almoner ahould give away blankets. .eeing and speaking ... ner ,... wuue , knew her not. But there waa even great- er pain in store. sine came out 01 iue bcuuu. ruum one afternoon, tired with the heat and the noise of the children: her head ached, her eyes were half-blinded with the glare of the sun; she longed for rest and sleep. The little cottage stood all alone; no osn ever came near It. She dreaded no In trusion, either of friend, or Tisitor, or foe. So, on this sultry afternoon, tearing the Joor which led to the garden wide open to admit a free current of air, ahe sat down in the pretty rocking chair, and lay ing her tired head on her hands, fell fast asleep. As she lay there, so unconscious, o happy in her dream, so peaceful in her sleep, the sunshine playing over her, the wind sighing gently round her, a step sounded on the path that led to the door. Lord Belwyn was passing the cottage, and thought to please his wife by an act of sttention to her governess. He went slow ly up the garden path, and smiled when he aw the open door. He entered, and there before him saw the sleeping woman, with a peaceful smile on her face. He did not recognize her. How should he, believing as be did that ahe slept under the white marble monument at Florence? He saw the dark hair and the widow's cat), the patient lips brightened by a tii 1 1 ii that n mo f mm til o nagna liMmi I " ' " " not earth, and his kindly, noble warmed to her. heart ; He will never forget her cry, he will never forget her terrified start, the un earthly fear that seemed for a few short minutes to paralyze her as she awoke. She stood before him, white, stricken with anguish in her face and in her eyes, wait ing as the criminal waits for the words of the judge who bos to condemn him. "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Rivers," aaid Lord Selwyn kindly;-"I would not hare' "Mrs. Rivers," he said, I hare come disturbed you so cruelly for the world. I , to telh you the news, because I thought It have alarmed you very much, I fear." i would please you. Come up to the Castle He heard the murmur of a few inar- , and see my little baby brother!" ticulate words, and. pretending to hare She looked at him agasht, the color understood them, said: going and coming in her sweet face. "Ton will find life rather dull at Thorn- , "What do you mean?" ahe asked, leigh; but yon must come up to the Castle ; "We are all so pleased," he said. "Lady sometimes. Lady Selwyn is rery much ; Beatrice has a beautiful little son, so that attached to her schools. She would Uk i I hare a brother now, and I mean to lore you to be very happy, I am sure," ' lim with all my heart." What waa she saying? He bent down Like wildfire the welcome news flew to listen, for her strength had failed, and ! over the neighborhood. Lady Beatrice she was sitting in the chair from which i Selwyn had a little son. She had care she had risen in such mortal fright, fully refrained from . even,-anylng one "He was very kind: LM tb was wordTahd people were takea by surprise, very good. She wanted for nothing." No one was more pleased than Rupert, you- do not seem rery well, or yet ' the heir of Selwyn. very strong." he said gantly. "Perhaps Lord Selwyn was rery pleased. He yon have not got orer the sorrow of your was fond of children; he liked the music loss yet?" , of their pretty laughter, the Innocent prat- "No," the white lips said. "I shall ner- j tie, the amusing ways. It was a delight er do that never get orer it while I j to him to think that once more he ahould live." hold a baby boy in hia arms, once more Suddenly bis eyes fell upon that some teach baby lips to speak. And if he waa volume of Wordsworth. He went hastily ! pleased and proud, what waa the happy to the little bookcase and took it down, ! mother? She had not the tenderness that she watching him breathlessly the while, j distinguished Violante; her heart did not She saw his face darken, and an angry ! look come into his eyes. ! ! "I beg your pardon. Mrs. Rivers." he said; "this book must hare been sent here by mistake." "Lady Selwyn was kind enough to se-1 lect a few for me," ahe replied, "and that was among them." "It waa a mistake," he said, curtly. "I value it very highly. I would not part with it on any account. Tou will excuse me if I take it away." Her very heart leaped at the words. Ah! then he did respect and even lore her memory. It was by no wish of his that the book had been sent from the Castle, as not worth keeping; and Lady Beatrice had spoken untruthfully orer that, as sb did over all other things. He quietly put the rorame in his pocket, and turned to go away with an expres sion of deep annoyance on his face. "It was heartless," he thought, "of Bea trice to give away anything that had be longed to poor Violante sweet Violanter and a deep sigh escaped him as the mem ory of his first wife's fsir young face rose before him. "You must accept my apologies foi having disturbed you, Mrs. Hirers," h said; "and pray remember. Lady Selwyn will feel great pleasure in attending to any request of yours." Then for the first time he saw the sad, pleading eyes, and a puzzled look came over his face. "Have I seen you before?" he asked hastily: "your face is strangely familiar to me!" She tried to smile, but the attempt was a ghastly one. That one question waa a most complete and perfect parody on hu man love better than a thousand vol umes written to prove its ranity. "I have not been out much since I have been here," she replied eraaively; but he still looked puzzled and mystified. "You find school duties hard," he said kindly; "you do not look strong." "I am very fond of children," she re plied; "I am happiest among them." "looil-morning, Mrs. Hirers," he said; "try and make yourself as happy as yoo can." The next moment he was gone, and the licht of her life seemed to pass away with him. CHAPTER XXII. H.iw Mrs. Rivers managed to surrire that visit and continue her work of drudg ery in the school room she could nevet afterwards tell. For several weeks afterwards she, hap pily for herself, saw nothing of either 1 Li ord Solwyn or Lady Beatrice. My lady ; was not well. Lord Selwyn thought a j chance would be beneficial to her. So they wont awar to the m-etty estate in ' Scotland. Hudson Hall, the boy Rupert , and. Hudson Hall, the boy Rupert ming with his tutor st the Castle, .i t,..-.-: j... a v,i t.r reina: laming with his tutor at the Castle, , for Lady Beatrice declared herself far ; too unwell to bear any noise. And during that time Rupert went often to the cottage. He could not explain tc himself how or why, but he grew warmly "ttached to the eentle. patient lady, who slways seemed ma delighted to see him, j ;iiKaieu w " ' . nd had always something nice waiting for him; who petted him and coaxed him ' no other woman had erer done; who listened with loring eagerness by the hour together to his talk of his studies, hi. rec- reations. and his father. So the summer nd the autumn passed, and she, sweet, niple soul, waa so happy with her son t a Im,op1pt raturnad to coaI wiue and fc , her name; and in tho8f charjties Kupert n S the attachment to the iotm. attachment to the aoverneaa was smuea at everywhere. "It will never hurt him," said his tutor once. "No boy of his age could be any thing but better for the companionship of a good and pure woman. Mrs. Rivers is that, and ahe is. besides, a lady In heart, mind and manners. The v will iu by every visit he pays to the school JUtage." "I think," aaid Rupert, one snowy day, as he sat with Mrs. Rivers in the warm, cozy little parlor of the cottage; "I think that If ever I were to have a bad illness, I should like you to come and take care t me, Wenld .tout" "I hope you will never hare any illness," ahe said, the mother's heart filled with ague, quick alarm. "If I do," he said gently, "I should ask my father to send at once for you." Long after he was gone she pondered orer those words. It ever he sent for her, she would hare to go. How could she bear to return, as a paid, poor, name leu dependent, to the place she had en tered as a beautiful, blooming bride? Winter passed, and the springtime came again; the trees began to bud, the birds to sing; and then Lord Selwyn wrote to say that he was coming home with her ladyship. There were grand preparations at Selwyn Castle, and early in the month of April they returned. Still Lady Beatrice never came near the schools, and Mrs. Hirers began to won der if she had offended or displeased her; yet that conld not be, for large baskets of fruit and flowers were sent continually from the Castle. And one morning early In Slaj' Rupert rode orer to the cottage. ! How well she remembered that day in after years. overflow with lore for the helpless. In no- ceu child in her arms. But she was prouu of him, fond of him, in her stately way. There was one drawback. This beautiful boy, so strong, so healthy, her own son, was not heir of Selwyn. He had no proud rank to sustain, no grand position to hold in the world; for him there was no title, no estate; ne wouia never oe anything sare a younger son, with a small income, and the thought of It was gall and wormwood to Lady Beatrice. She waa difficult to please In selecting s same for her child. She choae Lancelot, after much consideration. Lord Lancelot Selwyn, in olden daya, had won great fame as a warrior, and had made his name famous through all the land. Enry is a weak word to describe the jealons anger and gnawing, bitter hatred that filled the heart of Lady Beatrice for the heir of Selwyn. Her own boy was a beautiful child, fair of face, noble and generous of disposition: slightly Inclined to be tyrannical and imperious, yet loving and gentle when his little fits of anger were orer. He resembled his fsthcr even more than Rupert did. "The pity of it," as my lady often said, "that he, descended from a noble line on his mother's side, ss well as his father's; that he, who resembled so closely the master of Selwyn, should not be its heir." She detested this interloper, this grand son of a country attorney, this son of a plebeian mother. She hated him with all the scorn of a passionate, proud soul. Had little Lance nerer been born she would hare tolerated Rupert; but, side by side with her lore for her own child, grew her intense and angry hate for him. She was obliged most carefully to conceal it. Lord Selwyn would nerer hare permitted from any one liring the least unkind ness to Violante's son. No one knew better how to inflict s wound than Lady Beatrice Selwyn. She had a way of speaking to him a quiet sarcasm, a killing contempt that stabbed the boy; yet careful was she that there was no word erer passed her lips that could be repeated to his father. She made his home so uncomfortable that he went oftener than erer to the cot tage. Lord Selwyn just at that time was busily engaged in some political business, and was rery often from home. Lady Beatrice cared Utile where the boy spent hia time, provided it was not with her. So, when his day's lessons were orer. Rupert would mount his pony and gallop away. He nerer tried to explain even to himself, the attraction that took Mm tc Mrs. Hirers. He liked her gentle rolce. always hushed and low; her 5n,pI: fu manner, her sootning " ner to pet him, to indu ge "jm. w su. hour after hour, telling him tales tnsrre- , minded him of his mother he anew mi , why or how; stories of great men u !.' aa. trni. heroism, and grand minded him of his mother he anew mi whv or how; stones s braTe deeds, true heroum, ,. - . ter than aU the hours of study. ;,r.. one day when Lady Bea- ne wn. .-. , i vvl trfee had been rery an ntwi Selwyn was away, and sue j, to ayow Hupert to P1"?1 ' or eTen to see hiro retuaea " words that. If repeated, tost aU mm yet look that accompaniea . bitter as death. . Tji, Baatzfct It not ofien made Rupert wince he was rery patient under her scornful dislike; but on this day hot tears rose to his eyes and blinded him. The trace of the tears was quite perceptible on his face when he reached 1be cottage. The contrast between those two women was so great; the one indulg ed, caressed, and half-worshiped him; the other was cold, proud and disdainful. Little by little Mrs. Hirers drew from hlnr the story of his wrongs, each word sub bing her with deadly pain. i nen some daya passed and she did not see him. The summer was drawing to a close; the learea were beginning to fall from the trees; the sweetest flowers were fading, the birds sang of their approach ing departure. He did not come. Wear ily, hour after hour, she stood at the little gate, looking down the high road. There waa no chestnut pony, no bright face smil ing under a glengarry cap. She missed him with a pain that frightened her. Perhaps Lady Beatrice had prevailed. and he was sent away. Perhapa Lord Selwyn had changed his mind, and had sent hhn to school. She thought of a hundred different things. She woke up In the night, fancying aha heard the quick gallop of the chestnut pony, then went to sleep with a prayer on her lips. Still the daya passed on, and he did not come. She stood one day at the win dow, thinking to herself that if she heard nothing of him she would summon up courage and ask the rector for news. The sound of footsteps in the little gar den outside aroused her. There stood his lordship, looking pale, scared and anx ious. "Good morning, Mrs. Hirers," he said, rrsrely. "I hare come to ask a great faror. Will you grant It?" The sound of his roice always p) freed her heart like a sharp sword. "My son Rupert is rery 111," he con tinued: "sr ill that w. are all. frightened orer him! He cries incessantly ror you. Will yon get some one to take your place in the school and come to nurse him?" (To be continued.) FOUNDATIONS MADE OF DIRT; Com pre Med Earth Takea the Plaoe of Stone and Mortar. The subject of doing away entirely with atone and mortar foundations is being discussed by French engineers, compressed earth taking the place of these. The method is the conception of Louis Dulac It is well known that, when a stake Is driven Into the ground, a compres sion of the surrounding soil takes place, equal In volume to that dis placed by the stake. In the method of Mr. Dulac an apparatus like a pile driver Is erected, but Instead of the ordinary hammer-head ram. a heavy cone la allowed to drop, point down, in auch a manner that it makes a hole, the slse and depth of which depend npon the diameter of the cone and the height from which It has fallen. The cone generally used la from twenty-four to thirty Inches In diam eter, weighing about 3,000 pounds, says an article translated for the Engineer ing Magazine, and It la dropped from a height of thirty to forty feet. -With-a dzoav W M sort hole equal In aiam etsr to that of the cone and twenty to thirty feet deep may be made In a few hours, the time and depth depending, of course, upon the nature of the soil. The whole area npon which the struc ture la to be erected Is thus treated, the holes being five to six feet apart be tween centers and the result la the compression of the soil between the holes to an extent governed by the di ameter and distance between them. After the holes have thus been made they are gradually filled with a con crete made of broken atone or cinder and hydraulic lime and cement The concrete la thrown In shallow layers and pounded by allowing a spherical weight of about 2,000 pounds to drop from about the same height as that from which the cone was dropped. The effect of this procedure Is to drive the more liquid portion of the concrete Into the walla of the pita and thus, when the latter are filled and the concrete haa become bard, the foundation consists not only of the burled pillars of stone and cement, but also of the compressed earth partly charged with cement This method of making foundations haa been used with much success In various portions of Paris, some of the locations being considered very dif ficult, owing to the soft nature of the soil, and the system Is now being used to prepare the ground for the erection o fsome of the buildings for the expo sition of 1900. The effect of the pounding of the earth Is said not to extend to sufficient distance to disturb adjacent structures and In a number of cases the method has been used In the Immediate vicin ity of old and weak buildings without apparent injury. It Is possible that this system of com pression may be of service In many lo cations where the load Is not too great, and it appears to be of especial applica bility to foundations for temporary structures, avoiding the necessity of much digging. "ljost Ball" In Cowrt. A Detroit court has decided that a base-ball which is knocked Into prop erty adjacent to the grounds cannot be confiscated. Don't go without the thlugs you need In order to get thinfc- joa don't want A pneumatic corset, T nntnen learning; to swim i lie use of has been Great Britain and her colonies lead the world in tea drinking, allowing oer year 88 ounces for each person. We use 110.000,000 pounds a year (24 ounces apiece.) ' " The oldest family In the British Islands is that of Mar In Scotland, which dates from 1093. In Abyssinia the murderer Is de livered into the hands of the relatives of his victim, who kiU him in the same manner in which he committed the murder. . The eggs of a silkworm are about the size of mustart seeds. Coins 2000 yearn old are in circu lation In China. There are parts of Spain where the hat Is unknown except in pictures. The men. when they need a covering, tie up their heads, and the women use flowers Originally the custom of raising the hat was a sign of submission, im plying that the person uncovered placed himself at the mercy of bis fflsince 1895 the Protestant Episcopal church In this country has added Z.- 000 memoera to ,""L,r.. . ' Bamboo pens still retain their hold t In India, where they have been In use for more than 1000 years. A STRANGE DINNER PARTY. Coat CcMtlnuea a Dinner Party While HI Hobm Barn. There Is a familiar saying that a lady hould be mistress of herself, although china fall, but to be master of himself and bis dinner-table while his house Is In flames Is a degree of - self-control granted to few. Grace EUery 'Chan nlng, In her book. "The Sisters of a Saint," tells of a certain gentleman of colonial times who appears to have been endowed with even that measure of Puritan self -repression. -i The Royal Commissioners, then m Boston, were bidden to a dinner on Christmas eve at the stately Bristol residence of John Wentworth, a man of great natural parts and of a noble and lofty bearing. The table, set forth with old plate and damask, was loaded with good cheer of all kinds. The host gave the customary signal for the din ner to be served in the words: "Friends, you see your dinner!" As the visitors Hps opened to make the response demanded by etiquette, a servsnt rushed In with the announce ment that the house was on fire. Stern ly bidding the startled guests to sit down, John Wentworth commanded the servants to take out the tables and set them npon the lawn; then the chair were also removed. "The air will be keen outside. Bring hither the wraps," said John Went worth. But the flames had already con sumed them. "Bring whatever you can And. then!" and the slaves returned with their arms heaped with curtains and table-cloths, and these strange wraps were hastily donned by the com pany. "To the tables." commanded Went worth. and at the word the panic-stricken guests trooped forth from the now blazing house and seated themselves about the table upon the wintry lawn The host repeated the greeting. "And a very good dinner we seer was the tremulous response. In vain the guests essayed nervously to eat- and drink; fitful attempts at gayety died away In the ever-increasing roar of flames; but Wentworth kept up an easy flow of conversation, press ing upon bis guests the various dainties with all the concern of a man who had naught weightier upon his mind. Now and again the sound of a falling beam would be echoed by a falling glass from some shaking hand. As the last glass shivered to the ground it was answered by a dull crash; the last wall of the house sank and fell. Wentworth did not turn bis bead. '"There are 110 mountains Hvtolorado whose peaks are over 1,200 feet above the ocean level. A scientist looking for microbes says there are absolutely none on the Swiss mountains at an altitude of 2,000 feet In the American Museum of Natural History. In Central Park, New York, the skeleton of an ancient American rhinoceros, found In an old river bed in Phillips County. Kansas, has been mounted. It measures 10 feet 2 Inches In length, and 4 feet 1 Inch In height. The rare element, gallium, which was discovered in 1875. In rock from the Pyrenees Mountains, and which takes its name from Gallia, the old Roman appellation for France, has re cently been added to the list of subv stances occurring In the sun. Prof. Hartley and Mr. Ramage, of Dublin, have recognised Its spectral lines in sunlight According to the results of an inquiry among the beekeepers of Germany, hu man beings may acquire immunity from the effects of bee stings simply by being stung a sufficient number or times. In some cases thirty atlngs suf fice to Impart the desirable Immunity; In other cases as many as 100 stings must be endured before the victim ceases to suffer serious Inconvenience from the attack of bees. Occasionally a person Is found who is naturally im mune to the effects of bee stings, while other are not fcb'.e to acquire immunity by any amount of heroic experience. The experiments to be tried with liquefied air in the treatment of yellow fever will be observed with deep Inter est by the scientific world. The yellow fever bacillus succumbs to cold weath er. It will not survive the freezing point, and when the South is scourged with the disease the prayer Is for a frost By the use of liquefied air the temperature may be reduced to any de gree desired, even to 200 or 800 below sero. The cost of the operation Is not excessive, and the machinery is not complicated. All that would be needed. aside from the apparatus, would be a well Insulated room to keep the heai out The recent gift to the Peabody Mu seum ol American Arcnaeoiogy ana Ethnology of the famous "Calaveras skull." reawakens Interest In that re markable relic of antique man. The sknll was found la 1868, Imbedded In gold-bearing gravel In Calaveras Coun ty, California, at a depth of 127 feet Above It were four beds of lava that had flowed from a now extinct volcanic vent The late Prof. J. D. Whitney (whose sister. Miss Maria Whitney, made the gift to the museum) was con vinced of the genuineness of the discov ery. The owner of the sknll Is sup posed to have lived In the Pliocene epoch, a period so remote that the most ancient date of history seem quite re cent In comparison. Avalaaobo's Roar Heard Sixty Milra. An Immense avalanche came tear ing and roaring down the side of Mount Raaier, near Tacoma, Wash- recently U struck the base of the mountain with a report like that of a tremendous clap of thunder, being heard distinctly In Tacoma, sixty miles away. People tbere thought an earthqnaake had oc curred. The supposed earthquake was an avalanche, which came down the back bone of a "cleaver" lying between the two branches of Mowttch Glacier. The lot) ef this "cleaver" has an elevation of feet It ztaads) several thousand feet down the mountain aids, terminating where two glacial branch es come together. The avalanche start-' ed near the top of this cleaver and, swept the rocky surface to Mowitcn Glacier proper. Down this It sped ts where the glacier terminates with pre- j clpitous icy walls, over which It leaped Into a great chasm below. A large pari' of this glacier was carried down with , It Driver says millions of tons of rock, Ice and snow tumbled down. ' j Settlers about the mountain thought a terrific earthquake had occurred when they beard the report and felt! the Jar which followed. Some watch-1 ea Mount luuuer to See ll cnere was t. : be an eruption. But the great snow field which had existed where the ava lanche started had fallen down, and the path of the avalanche and broker glacier was plainly seen. BEWARE THE THIN BANANA. Infora i.tion that Every Lover of Tal Frnit Should. Have. When yon are buying bananas never buy the long thin ones unless you wsnt ifrnlr wfilli will nnplior vnnr mnuth. vr i Iii ., ,v.. t,i o matter how well ripened these thin ! pananaa may aDnear to be, they will always be found both sonr and acrid. This is because the bunch which con. talned them was picked too soon. The banana grows fastest at first in length. When It haa reached its full develop ment In that direction. It suddenly be gins to swell, and In a few days will double In girth. It is at the end of this time that It begins to ripen naturally, and the effort of the banana Importer Is to have the fruit gathered at the last possible moment, and yet before the . ripening has progressed even enough to tinge the bright green of the fruit with yellow. A difference of twenty-four hours on the trees at this time will make a difference tn the weight of the fruit of. perhaps, 28 per cent., and all the difference In tta final flavor, between a puckery sour and , the sweetness and smoothness which are characteristic of the ripe fruit To get the bananas to our market in good condition requires fast steamers, which I must be provided with ventilation and other means of keeping the fruit from ripening too fast in the hold. Much of the finest fruit does ripen In the few days of passage, and this Is sold to hucksters for street sale. New York Sun. Delicions Papawa. Real lovers of that peculiar fruit the papaw, which grows so luxuriantly along the river bottoms of the great Middle West do not hesitate to pro nounce It the most delicious and alto gether satisfying edible that nature turns out It has been happily de scribed as a "natural custard." its rich, golden-yellow pulp admirably carrying out the simile. Many persons cannot eat It at all, and many others have to acquire a liking for it A man from the far Northeast who was Visiting a:coi3s1n. In Ohio la, .early October, was shown one day a fine large specimen of the fruit "What la that?" he asked. "Break It open and see," was the reply. He broke It In two. Inspected it. and smelt of it "Welir he said. "Taste It" ' He did so. "Faughr he exclaimed. "What kind of game are you trying to play on me?" "I am merely giving you a chance to eat the . most toothsome dainty that grows In the world," rejoined the cousin. The next day the vlsltoi tried again to eat a papaw. He could tolerate It, but that was all. "You'll be eating them by the hatful before you go back East," said the cousin. As having some bearing on the out come of this prediction It only remains to be recorded that when the visitor returned home, a week or two later, he took along with him a half bushel of papaws, carefully selected and packed In a box, and that on his arrival at the ancestral mansion, he is said to have placed alongside the framed motto in the family sitting-room, "What Is Home Without a Mother?" a similar, but smaller one: "What Is Hom TUbout a Papaw?" Two Epigrams. Two old English epigrams were re printed In a London paper of compara tively recent date, for the amusement of the readers. The first referred to a worthy but tedious sergeant given to making long speeches. He had a rubicund countenance, and In the full-dress costume of the court of his day was a notable figure. One day when be was especially long-winded, an acquaintance wrote these lines: The sergeant pleads with face on fire. And all the court may rue It; His purple garments come from Tyre; His arguments go to it . The other epigram was written at the time when a certain Dr. Reed was al lowed to ventilate the Houses of Par liament by a system of alternate blasts of cold and hot air. ne was supported by Sir Robert Peel in this enterprise. Some wag wrote to the London Times: Peel's patronage of Doctor Reed Is very natural indeed; For no one need be told The worthy, scientific man Is acting on the premier's plan Of blowing hot and cold. The Bailor. Personal Fritle. Next to the creature comforts of his Inner man the naval sailor thinks most of his personal appearance. No Blue Jacket with any regard for himself will wear the uniform as It Is issued from the paymaster's stores. Only the new recruit or the coal passer lost to all shame will appear In public In such togs. There Is as much nicety of detail In the cut and trimming of the naval uniform as In the fashionable gown of society lady ashore. The snug fit of the blue shirt the careful hang of the bell-bottom trous ers, and the breadth and curve of the Jaunty hat all must conform to an arbitrary naval pattern, ana must aiso be made wltn tne proper uunimrr gQIguys and silk-worked stars and dla- oi monds so dear to the sailor's heart A great many of tbe men who claim to be self-made were evidently Inter rants before the Job waa completed. SERMONS OF THE DAY. PnmeM by bHt, Dr. Talsiag., wi. ''ZZllL. w h.w..d.n Christianity h.. Don Tor th. Weaker sx. y,,,. ..EUsh pa89ed to Shun.tn, when was a great woman." II Kings ir., 8. Th, hotel of our time had no counterpart in any entertainment of olden time. Th. wi majority o iravetero must iu.u m en- tertained at private abode. Hera comes Elisna, a servant of th. Lord, on a dirina i mission, ana ne mast una sneit.r. A bal eony overlooking the valley of Eadraelon Is offered him In a private house, and it Is especially furnished for his occupancy a ehalr to sit on, . table from which to eat, a candlestick by which to read and a bed ou which to slumber, the whole establishment belonging to a great and good woman. Her husband, it seems, was a godly man, but he was entirely overshadowed by his wife's excellences; just as now yon sometimes find In a household th. wife tb. centre ol dignity and Influence and power, not by any arrogance or presumption, out oy su perior intellect and force of moral nature, MAm domatia affairs and nt th. .m wielding domestic affairs and at the same time supervising all financial and business affairs the wile's hand on tb. shuttle or the banking bouse or the worldly business. You see hundreds of men who axe suc cessful only because there is a reason at home why tbay are so successful. If a man marry a good, honest sonl, he makes hia fortune. If he marry a fool, th. Lord help him. Tb. wife may be the silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices down on Exchange, but there often times oomes from th. hom. circle a poten tial and elevating Influence. This woman of my text was the superior of her husband. He, aa far as I can understand, was what w. often Bee in oar day, a man of large for tune and only a modicum of brain, intense ly quiet, sitting a long while In tb. same plac. without moving hand or foot, if you say "Yea," responding "Yes;" it you say "No," responding "No" inane, eyes half shut, mouth wids open, maintaining his position In society only because he bas a large patrimony. But his wife, my text says, waa a great woman. Her name bas not come down to us. She belonged to that collection of people who need no name to distinguish tnem. Wbat would title of duchess or princess or queen wttat would escutcheon or gleaming diadem be to this woman of my teat, who by her intelligence and ber Denavior cnaiieuges tne admira tion of all ages? Long after the brilliant women of the court of Louis XV have been forgotten and the brilliant women of tb court of Spain bare been forgotten and the brilliant woman who sat on th. tbronc of Russia bare been. forgotten some grand father will put on his spectacles, and hold ing the book the other aide the light read to bis grandchildren the story of this great woman of Shunem who was ao kind and courteous and Christian to the good proph.t EUsha. Yes, she was a great woman. In the first place, she was great in hat hospitalities. Uncivilized and barbarous nations have this virtue. Jupiter had th. surname of the Hospitable, and he was said especially to avenge the wrongs ol strangers. Homer extolled it in bis verse. Th. Arabs are punctilious on this subject, and among soma of their tribes It is not un til the ninth day of tarrying tbat the occu pant haa a right to ask his guest, "Who and whence art thou?" If this virtue is so honored among barbarians, how urrt-it to be honored among those rl us who be lieve in the Bible, whioh co'nmands as to use hospitality on. towar J another with out aradglngl. - - - - Of course f do not mean under this otorei to give any idea that I approve of that vagrant olasa who go around from place to place, ranging their whole lifetime, per haps under the auspices of some benevo lent br philanthropic society, quartering themselves on Christian families with a great pile of trunks in the hail and carpet bag portentous of tarrying. There is many a country parsonage tbat looks out week by weak upon the ominous arrival of wagon with creaking wheel and lank horse and dilapidated driver, come under the auspices of some charitable institution to spend a few weeks and canvass the neigh borhood. Let no such religious tramps take advantage of this beautiful virtue of Christian hospitality. Not so much the snmptuousness of your diet and the regality of your abode will Impress the friend or the stranger tbat steps across your threshold as the warmth of your greeting; the Informality of your recep tion, the reiteration by grasp, and by look, and by a thousand attentions, In significant attentions, of your earnest ness of welcome. There will be high appreciation of your welcome, though you have nothing but the brazen can dlestick and the plain cbair to offer Ellsba when he comes .to Shunem. Most beautiful is this grace of hospitality when Bhown in the house of God. I am thankful that I bare always been pastor of churches where strangers are wel come. But I hare entered churches where there was no hospitality. A atranger would stand in the restibule for a while and then make a pilgrimage up the long isle. No door opened to him until, flushed and excited and embarrassed, he started back again and, coming to some half filled pew, with apologetio air entered it. while th. occupant glared on him with a look which seemed to say, "Well, if I must, I must." Away with such aooursad lnde eenoy from the house of God. L.t every ehurch that would maintain large Christian Influence In eommonlty culture sabbath by Sabbath this beautiful grace of Christian hospitality. A good man traveling in the far West, in the wilderness, was overtaken by night and storm, and be pat in at a cabin. He saw firearms along the beams of the cabin, and be felt alarmed. He did not know but tbat be had 'alien into a den of thieves. He sat there greatly perturbed. After a while the man of the house came home with a gun on his shoulder and set it down in a corner. The stranger was still more alarmed. After awhile the man of the house whispered with his wife, and the stranger thought his destruction waa be ing planned. Tben the man of the bouse came forward and said to tb. stranger: "Stranger, we are a rough and rude peo ple out here, and we work bard for a living. We make our living by hunting, and when we come to the nightfall we are tired and we are apt to go to bed early and before retiring we are al ways in the habit of reading a chapter from the word of God and making a prayer. If you don't like such things, if you will just step outside the door until we get through I'll bs greatly obliged to you." Of course the stranger tarried In the room, and tb. old hunter took hold of the horns of the altar and brought down the blessing of G.d upon his household and upon the stranger within their gates. Bude but glorious Christian hospitality! This woman of tb. text was only a type of thousands of men and women who come down from mansion and from cot to do kindness to the' Lord's servants. I could tell you of something that you might think a romance. A young man graduated from New Brunswick Theological Seminary was called to a village ohurch. He bad not the means to furnish the parsonage. After three or four weeks of preaching a commit tee of the officers of the church waited on him and told hltn he looked tired and thought he bad better take a vacation of a tew days. Th. young pastor took It aa an intimation that his work was don. or not acceptable. He took the vacation, and at the end of a few days earn. back, when an elder aaid: "Her. Is the key of the parsonage. We have been cleaning it up. You had better go up and look at it." So th. young pastor took the key, went up to th. parsonage, opened th. door, and lo. It was carpeted, and there waa th. batxaek ill ready for the canes and th. umbrellas iml th. overcoats, and on th. left hand if the ball was the parlor, sofaed Jhaired( plotured. He passed on to the j otner sjde ot the ball, and there was the study tabl. in th. centre of the floor with stationery upon it, Dooasnoives alit, long ranges of new volumes, far beyond tbe reaah ot tbe means of the oung pastor, many ot these volumes, he Toona pastor went up stairs and found" all tiie sleeping apartments furn ished, - earn, down stairs and entered th. pantry, and there were th. spices, and the coffees, and tb. sugars, and the groceries for six months. H. went down Into th. cellar, and there was th. ooal for all th. coming winter. He went Into the dining hall, and th.re was th. tabl. already set the glass and th. silver ware. He went into th. kltch.n, and there were all the culinary Implements and a great store. Tbe young pastor lift.d on. lid of th. stove, and he found the fuel all ready for Ignition. Patting bnck the cover ot th. stove, he saw in an other part ot It a luclfer match, and all that young man had to do In starting to keep house was to strike th. match. You tell m. tbat is apocryphal. Oh, no, that was my own experience. Ob, th. kind ness; oil, the enlarged sympathies some times clustered around those who enter the gospel ministry! I suppose the man of Shunem bad to pay the bills, but It was the iarge-bearted Christian sympathies of the woman ot Shunem tbat looked aft.r tbe Lord's messenger. Where are the feet that have not been blistered on tb. hot sands ot this great Sahara? Where are the soldiers that have not bent under the burden of grief? Where Is th. shtp sailing over glassy sea tnat nas Dot after awhile been caught in a cycloue? Where is the garden of earthly comfort, but trouble hatb bitched up its fiery and panting team and gone through it with burning plowshares of disaster? Under the Deltlng ot ages of suffering the great heart of tbe world bas bum with woe. Navigators tell ua about the r.veis, and th. Amazon, and th. Danuba, and tb. Mississippi have been explored, but who can tell the depth or tb. length ot tb. Igreat rlrer of sorrow, made up of tears and blood roiling tnrougu an lanus ana all ages, bearing the wreck of families, and ot communities, and of empires, foam ing, writhing, boiling with tb. agonies of 6000 years. Etna, Cotopaxi and Vesuvius have been described, but who bas ever sketched th. volcano ot Buffering retcbing up from its depths the lava and scoria, and pouring them down tbe aides to whelm tbe nations? Ob, tf I could gather all tbe heart strings, tbe broken heartstrings, into a harp I would play on it a dirge sack as was n.ver sounded. Mythologlsts tell us of gorgon and centaur and Titan, and geologists tell us of extinct species of monsters, but greater than gorgon or megatherium, and not belonging to tb. realm of fable, and not of an extinct species, a monster with an iron jaw and a hundred iron hoots bas walked across tbe nations, and history and poetry and sculp ture. In their attempt to sketch it and de scribe it, have seemed to sweat great drops of blood. Bat, thank G.d, there are those Who can conquer as this woman ot the text conquered, and say: "It is well. Though my property be gone, tbouith my children be gone, though my home be' broken op, though mv health be sacrificed, it is well; It Is well!" There Is no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to rise in tbe binder part of th. ship and hush it. There is no darkness but tbe constellation of God's eternal love can illumine, and, though the winter comes out of tb. Northern sky, yon have some times seen that Northern sky all abl tze with auroras which seem to say: "Come up this way. Up this way are thrones ot light and seas of sapphire and tbe splendor of an eternal heaven. Come up this way." Again, this woman of my text was great in her application to domestic duties. Every picture is a home picture, whether she la entertaining an Elisha or whether she Is giving careful attenlon to ber sick boy or whether she is appealing for the restoration of ber property. Every ptoture In her case is one ot domesticity. Those are not disciples of thisShanemit. woman who, going out to attend to outside charities, neeleot tb. duty of home the duty of wife, of mother, of daughter. No faith fulness In pu'olic benefaction can ever atone for domestlo negligence. There bas been many a mother who hr inde fatigable toil has reared a largSfamfIy ot children, equipping them for the da ties ot life with good manners and large Intelligence and Christian principle, starting them out, who has done more for the world than many a woman whose name bas sounded through all the lands and through tbe centur.es. I remember when Kossuth was tn this country th.re were some ladies who got honorabl. reputations by presenting bim rery gracefully with bouquets ot flowers on public occasions, but what was all tbat compared with tbe plain Hungarian mother who gave to truth and civilization and tbe caue of uni versal liberty a Kossuth? Yes, this wom an of my text was great In ber sim plicity. When this prophet wanted to re ward her for her hospitality by asking soma preferment from tbe king, what did .be say? She declined It. She said, "I dwell among my own people," as much as to say, "I am satisfied with my lot; all I want is my family and my friends around me; I dwell among mv own people." Oh, what a rebuke to the strife tor pre cedence in all ages! How many there are who want to get great architecture ana j homes furnished witb all art, all painting, i all statuary, who have not enough taste to I distinguish between Gothic and Byzantine. and who could not tell a figure in plaster of parts from Palmer's "White Captive," and would not know a boy's penciling from Bterstadt's "Yosemite." Men who buy large libraries by the square foot, buy ing these libraries when they have scarcely enough education t pick out tbe day of tbe month in the almanac! Ob, how many there are striving to have things as well as their neighbors or better than their neigh bors, and in the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted and business firms thrown into ; bankruptcy and men of reputed honesty 1 rush into astounding forgeriesl I But what I want to Impress upon you, ' my hearers, is that you ought not to In ' rentory the luxuries of life among the in dispensables, and you ought not to depre j date this woman of the text, who, when ' offered kingly preferment, respondeJ. "I dwell among my own people. ies, this woman ot the text was great In her piety. Just read the chap ter after you go home. Faith in God. and she was not ashamed to t :1k about It before idolaters. Ab, woman will nerer appreciate what she owes to Christianity until she knows and sees the degradation of ber sex nnder pagan Ism and Mohammedanism! Her very birtb considered a misfortune. Sold like cattl. on the shambles. Slav, of all work, and at last bur bodr fuel for the funeral pyre ot her husband. Abov. the shriek ofthe fir.) worshiper In India, and above th. rumbling ct tbe Juggernauts I bear the million voiced groan of wronged, insulted, broken-hearted, downtrodden woman. Her tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris, the La Plata.and on the steppes of Tartary. She has been dishonored in Turkish garden and Persian palace and Spanlsb Alhambra. Her little ones bare been sacrificed in the Indus and tbe Ganges. There is not a groan, or a dungeon, or an Island, or a mountain, or a river, or a lake, or a sea but could tell a story ol tbe outrages heaped upon ber. But, thanks to God, this glorious Christianity comes forth, and all the claims of this vassalage are snapped, and shs rises from ignominy to exalted sphere and be comes tbe affectionate daughter, tbe gentle wife, the honored mother, tbe useful Chris tian. Ob, if Christianity has done so mnch for woman, surely woman will become Its most ardent advoeateand Its sublimest ex emplification! . . Fowls are oluckcl alive in Malta, In the public markets, and in some parts or Engiana. In th lKhteenth century Polish ladies c'. iged their daughters to wear little bells in order to proclaim where they were all the time. The nails of the Chinese nobility sometimes attain the length of eign teen inches, being protected by long silver c&scs. There are 300.000 Methodists In Ohio, 200,000 in Indiana and 200,000 In Missouri In Siberia. !f a man Is dissatisfied with the most trifling acts of his wife. TcVorTeU fm her" and that constfVites a divorce. The Scotch thistle Is growing in Greece, although there it is called the artichoke. The stockmen of Colorado and the adjoining states have figured it out that the wolves eat $100 worth of their property apiece each year. Household; Cranberry Jelly. Pick over -and wash in a colander one quart of cran berries, put them in a granite sauce pan with one cupful of cold water and sprinkle one pint of sugar on top. Cover and cook rapidly until every berry bursts. To prevent the syrup from boiling over, uncover every now and then, and gently press the berries down. Pour the - sauce into deep custard cups, and when ready to serve turn them out upon some delicate dish and you will have a dainty Individual lelly mould to serve each guest Mashed Turnips. Take off a thick paring from the outside and boll the turnips until quite tender. Drain them on a sieve, mash them In a colander, pressing and squeezing them well. Season with a little pepper and salt Creamed Parsnips. Boll tender, scrape and slice lengthwise. Put over the fire with two tables poonfula of butter, pepper and salt and a little minced parsley. Shake until the mix ture boils. Dish the parsnips, add to the sauce three tablespoonfuls of cream in which has been stirred a quarter spoonful of flour. Boll once and pour over the parsnips. Mashed Potatoes. Boll a quantity of potatoes and pass them through a sieve. Put them into a sauce pan with a good lump of butter and salt to taste: add a little milk and work them well with a spoon on a slow fire for some minutes, adding small quan tities of milk as it is required, until they get of the desired consistency. Chicken Pie with Oysters. Boil a year old chicken until tender, line dish with a nice crust and put In the chicken; season with salt, pepper and butter; add a liquor, should be about a pint In which the chicken was boiled; cover closely with a crust hav Ing a slit cut each way In the centre. Drain off the liquor from a quart of oysters: boil, skim, season with but ter, pepper, salt, and a thickening of flour and water; add the oysters, boll up once, and lift the crust and put them in about 20 minutes before the Die is done. Deviled Oysters. After draining and wiping the oysters dry, pour over them a mixture made of two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, a dash of cayenne pepper, a saltapoonful of salt and a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. Let them stand In the dressing for a short time stirring occasionally that all may be moistened. Fry several thin slices of salt pork and reserve the fat for cook ing the ovsters. Take the oysters from the dressing and roll In cracker dust, afterward In beaten egg, and strain In cracker crumbs. Allow them tn stand a few minutes In a cold place then fry In the hot fat, adding a little lard or dripping If there is not suffi cient to cook them nicely. Sweet Wafers. Six eggs, one pint flour, two ounces melted butter, one and one-half cups powdered sugar, one cup milk, one teaspoonful nut meg. Beat whites and yolks separate ly, and very stiff; rub the susrar and butter together, and work In first the yolks, then the milk, then the flour and whites. Bake In well-buttered wafer or waffle irons rery quickly, brown ing as little as possible. Roll them while hot upon a smooth round stlcki net larger than your little finger, sllp4 . oin4CJl,vTJ- wH.. J takes tkfe i- Custards In Glass. -Mak a cus tard of aix eggs (leaving out the whitei of two), one quart of milk, one tea spoonful of sugar, a little salt and two teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract Steam and strain through a siev.. Take cus tard glasses, put a teaspoonful of firm Jelly (currant or apple) Into the bottom of each glass, then pour In the custards till nearly full, eat the re maining whites stiff, mix In a verv little pulverized sugar and lay llghtlv on the top of the custards. Set In a cool place. Labor Notes. Tl.t- annual report of St. Paul's (Minn.) city engineer shows that over to miles of various street pavements have been lajd in that city during the past year at a cost of $1,593,775. Gelatoid, a mixture of gelatine with formaldehyde, is being used for unbreakable goggles to protect the eyes of workmen exposed to flying particles of stone, metal or wood. A movement has been set on foot in Boston toward securing a combi nation of all the "outside" telephone Interests in the country to act in op position to the Bell Telephone Com pany. Great beds of white sand, said to have all the qualities requisite for the manufacture of glass, have been found about fifty miles east, ot Saginaw. Mich., and specimens are now being submitted to chemical analysis. The Cyclops works at Sheffield. where the Queen witnessed the rolling of an armor plate, were btarted by Messrs. Cammell In 1837 when they em- ployd 300 men. Tbe number they em ployed in the works now is over 10. 000. The Russian Minister of War In experimenting with aluminum horse shoes in the cavalry service has found that these shoes, weighing 2 ounces icss than the iron shoe, wear longer and are less affected by mud and water. The Brandywine Knitting Mill, at Schenectady, N. T., which has not been in operation since the failure of the Empire Knitting Company, several years ago, will be opened in the spring of "99, giving employment to about 400 hands. The whole number of cotton mills In the Southern States at present, 425, shows an increase cf 23 mills during the past year; and the total takings of the se mills, 1,277,674 bales, shows an Increase of 30 per cent, over the preceding year. The most costly leather In the world Is known to the trade as piano leather. The seeret of tanning this leather is known only to a family of tanners In Germany, though the skins from which it is tunned come almost entirely from America. The contract for furnishing oak pine and hemlock lumber for the con struction of crosswalks, bridge floors, etc.. In the city of Rochester. N. Y., was recently awarded to a bidder at $7061.37. The contractor will furnish 106.500 feet of oak, 80.662 feet of pine and 220,000 feet of hemlock. According to the annual returns of the two great shipbuilding firms at Belfast Harland & Wolff and Work man. Clark & Co. 16 vessels, all screw steamers, with an aggiegate tonnage of 121.1380 and a united horse-power ot 65.870 indicated, have been put Into the water during the present year. The pupil of the eye is so called because when looking Into it a very small image of the observer may be seen, hence the term, from tbe Latin puplllus, or little pupiL The public school fund paid to white teachers in North Carolina last year was $451,574. and to negro teachers telJ The average attendance ( of both races at school was 110,(77 whites and 58.548 negroes. Wooden legs are used by over 1, 000,000 English speaking men. Hogs are fattened on oranges In Paraguay, and orange-ted pork is said to be very good. Both Mary Queen of Scot, and George III were buried at midnight. i s : I i- ; ! i- f ! n 'A i i i vi
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