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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.
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