i F. BOHWEIBB, TUB OONBTITUTION-THE DNION-AKD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS VOL LI II MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1899 NO. 10 " 11 Tf By Marion V.Holli? CHAPTER XXV. Foiled, l-allled, desperate, Beatrice Lady Ilcntrii-e no longer returned to her room. f-he fastened the door, she secured herself from all observation, and thes gave loose to the hot, angry passion that raced within her. Her eyes gleamed with fury: her face, in its livid passion, wu terrible to see. She set her teeth, aha clinched her strong white hands: hate and murder ran riot through her vein. She stood there like a beautiful, sullen fiend, forced to own that the Nemesis aha had laughed at and scorned had overtaken her at last. Further than that she would not go. She would not say to herself that her i-in had found her out, and heaven Itself had punished her. She scoffed al the notion. "Her fate," she said to her self with a sneer, "was in her own handBt and she might win yet!" Not until evening was that hateful se cret to be made known. She had still many hours, and it was, perhaps, in het power to sweep the woman she hated from her path to slay her as she would fain have slain her son. The vaJue of a human life was as nothing to her in her moody madness. What did it matter if, after death, the secret were known? It would be hushed up then. Lord Selwyn would do anything to keep it from the worldi After death its revelation would not in jure her. Hi lordship would then, in all probability, look upon her as deeply in jured. They would have to go througli the marriage ceremony again, and there it would end; no more would be heard of the matter! As for the sin bah! what mattered sin! "If a man sees a tigress ready to spring npon him and rend his heart, he sees no harm in shooting it down," she cried. "Why should my heart, my honor, my fair name and that of my son be rent I Why should I not destroy the one who would so rend it?" With flushed face and gleaming eyei she paced up and down her magnificent Toom. "The first thing," she cried, "1 will drive to Redruth and get what I want Before the sun sets we shall see who wins!" She never thought of going to sleep: het brain was too excited, her heart too much agitated. Sleep while she lived that hat ed, loathed woman! I Her purpose gained strength every hour. No need to enter into its terrible details no need to darken a memory that was never too fair. When the sun rose she had regained her outward calm, she was herself again; stern, cold and pj-ond. She was the first to descend to the break fast room. The morning was beautiful, s some of the darkest days in life often are serene and bright, the skies blue, the air fragrant, the birds singing, bees and butterflies hovering round the sweetest blossoms, a morning that reminds one of Paradise. Lord Vivian bad not yet left his roiim. Beatrice went to the window, opened it, stretched out her hand idly and gathered one of the large white roses that came peeping in. She stood idly watching the sky, the trees, the flowers, and no warning came to her of what that bright, tunny morning might bring forth; there was no cloud in the sky, no dirge in the sweet, joyous music of nature, no knell in the g!ad song of the happy birds. And no remorse came to her either. She thought quite calmly of the fact that be fore that same bright sun set she should have taken her revenge she should be to ali intents and purposes Lady Selwyn, with no rival to fear, no fair-haired wom an to dread. Before the sun set! The cry of a little child aroused her. It was pretty, imperious Lance, led in by his nure. "I beg a thonsand pardons, my lady." she said; "but Master Lance will not be dressed until he has been in to kiss his mamma." She turned and took him from the wom an's arms. Wicked, cruel, mad as she was, there was unbounded love in her heart for this her only child. She kissed his beautiful face, she ca ressed his bonny curia, she twined the soft, loving little arma round her neck, she called him by every endearing name she could Invent. Then to herself she murmured: "It is all for you, my darling all for you:" And again no warning came to her that the soft little hands caressed her for the last time that for the last time that beau tiful head was nestled to her heart that never more would the baby lips kiss her or lisp her name; no warning, although even at that moment a dense, dark ihadow hung over her, a stern angel, with drawn sword, stood by her side. "Take him away now, nurse," she said; "I hear Lord Selwyn coming." And long afterward the woman told how, when she reached the door, the babe looked back and cried, "Mamma!" and her mistress took him again, lavishing the sweetest caresses upon him, calling him by the most endearing names. "Poor lady!" said the nurse afterward, when she told the story; "it really seemed as though she knew what was going to happen, for she never kissed the baby gain!" CHAPTER XXVL "Papa," whispered a faint voice, "I am much berter, I feel life at my heart again; do you think I shall get well now?" "Yes, my darling," said his father; "heaven has been very merciful and has pared you to me this time." There was a smile on Rupert's face as be listened a smile that had not been seen there for many long, sad weeks. I.ord Selwyn turned to the gentle, pa tient woman who knelt by his son's side. "Rupert," he said, "you must always remember that, after God, you owe your life to the careful nursing of Mrs. Riv ers." "I know that," said the boy gratefully; "I shall never forget. I shall love her as long as I live." She bowed her head as he spoke. It they knew if they only knew, that the nour was drawing near! Before sunset Lord Selwyn would know that she was "ing. Rupert would know that the moth er whose memory he had worshiped had aeceived the whole world, and had nursed him. Before sunset and it waa now near noon. Then his lordship told her that lady Beatrice had been suffering all night and resting in her own room. While the word were still on his Una there came a gentle tap .a.t ths ante-room door. Fearing 3W Rupert might be oisturoed, Lord Selwyn went himself to answer it. There stood the butier with a white, terrified face. "Will yon please come out, my lord?" he aid. "I want to apeak to you." tie went, with a heavy foreboding as of some coming sorrow at his heart. "What is It, H.wson ?" he asked. "Is anything wrong?" "My lord," aald the man, turning abruptly, "I do not know how to tell you. I cannot find words." "I do not like suspense," aald Lord Sel wyn. "My lady went out thia morning, my lord," aald the man; "I cannot say whose fault H was, but she took the chestnut ponies and " "Oh, heaven V cried the unhappy hus band. "What has happened? tH me the worst." "There haa been an accident, and my lady haa been brought home in Dr. Ar gent's carriage from Shllton." "Ia she is she " then Lord Selwyn topped short, Ma white lips could not form the word. "No," was the reply; "the groom was killed on the spot; my lady still lives." "Where hare they laid her 7 'he asked. In low, hoarse tones. "In her own room. Let me tell you the worst, my lord; she will never leave it again." With a cry that resembled no human sound. Lord Selwyn hastened away. He met strange men and weeping servants in the corridor and on the broad staircase; they made way in silence for him. He entered the room where she lay proud, beautiful. Imperial Beatrice, proud no longer the color and flush of health and strength all gone. They had laid her upon the sumptuous bed, and the two doc tors stood on either side. They made way for him as he entered. He knew by the expression on both grave faces that for the hapless lady lying there hope had van ished. He went cm to her, but for the first rims her lips were mute when he called her name. r "It ia useless, Lord Selwyn," said Dr. Danvers. "Lady Beatrice will never see you or hear you again. "Is there no hope?" he asked. None," was the grave reply. "Hei ladyship haa sustained two Injuries, either of which would be fatal. Her spine ia ter ribly injured, and there la concussion of the brain. It is merely a matter of a few minutes; but she will never know you again. She may continue ia thla aiata u '. hour or two no longer; nor can we render any assistance by remaining." His distress was terrible to witness. He knelt down by her side, and took the white, helpless hands in his. It waa not that he loved her so dearly; but the man ner, the suddenness of her deals' bewil dered him. He bad been so happy a few minutes since, because Rupert was better, and now he stood by his wife's deathbed. The shock seemed too much for him. One by one the servants came, all anxious to render some assistance, but he waved them away. Nothing could be done for the doomed lady whose life was so nearly over. "Will she not know me? Will she nev er be able to speak to me again?" he cried; and the reply was, "Never in thia world never again." Some one he never knew who It was brought in little Lance, the beautiful, blooming boy, who cried with joy at the sight of his mother, then cried again, be cause he was frightened at the stillness of her white, death-like face. But neith er joy, nor sorrow not even the voice of the child she loved so dearly, and foe whom she had sinned so terribly had power to move her. They laid the child by her side. Its lit tle warm hands touched her; but never again would a mother's kiss soothe it, and Lord Selwyn, unable to bear the sight, motioned the child away. A few minutes more, and the solemn si lence of that death chamber was broken by the entrance of Mrs. Rivers. She made no apology, but went up to Lord Selwyn. "Is there anything I can do?" she ask ed gently; and when be shook his head for all words failed him instead of leav ing the room, she went round to the other side of the bed, and looked earnestly at the changed face. Then Dr. Danvers came up to the bed and looked at the white face. He laid his hand gently on Mrs. Rivers. "You can pray no longer for the living," be said; "she is dead." She was dead. When the soul passed to its judgment none of the three kneeling there ever knew! There was little change in the face, save that the gray shades deepened. Lord Selwyn's grief was piti ful to witness. "I could almost believe," he said, "that a curse rests on me and mine. My first wife died a terrible death. What have I done that I am so terribly punished V A gentle voice whispered in his ear: "Heaven's decrees are not always or dained in punishment; they are always wise, and always merciful." (To be continued.) Tree Irregularity. A naturalist pointed out the reason for trees growing In their Irregular shapes. Their irregularity serves a ,s imnnrtant ourDose. When a gale is blowing the branches will be seen to away in all directions, ana tneir niur- -.o .n . .nuince the tree. Were they to sway In 'he ssme direction the tree would be uprooted or oroaeu The love of country is universal the love of home is innate-thls shows that nature is changeless. The strongest friendships come trcm udversity. A friend then Is a friend to bTcherished, and no friendship of prosperity can ever ".PP" the te nacity of that begun when In trouble. Pain fertilises the soil ot them IndL Asthe summer daisy springs from de caying leave, of the Pous a utumj, sr. manv of the most helpful acts, beautiful thought- and inspiring words spring from a great hunger, an overpowering sorrow. The noblest Question m ine . ia what gooa mw -- --- . think- nf laxxe It is a great .. - --, matters, even n - " thinking cannot oe 1 anteed. for It creates intellectual iwWth and exercises the mental Us 5 w'r . . that makes over to them push and resolution. SIDE SPLITTFRS Wheeler I see they have been trying bicycle ambulances. Walker I thought these scorchers would make something k'nd necessary. Cincinnati En quirer. Suburbs I am not at all good enough for you, dear. Miss Boston I'm glad you confess It before we were married, rou're not the fellow for me. Boston Courier. "I often experience a shock of disap pointment when I get np close to some apparently beautiful woman." "Prob ably they feel the same way about you." Chicago Record. Hungry Higglns As fur eight hours being enough for a day's work Weary Watkins It ain't Any man who'U do a day's work orter git six months. Indianapolis Journal. "Julia had her husband's photograph taken with his head stuck In a news paper." "Why did she do that?" "She aid that was the way he always look ed to her when be was at home." He Did you tell your father that I would kill myself If I couldn't have ou? She Tea. He What did he say? She Ho said that settled It You couldn't have me. Chicago News. Jack Where's Bill now? Jill Out West "What doing?" "Raising ralms." "Doing what?" "Raising palms making the tenderfeet throw up their hands." Tonkers Statesman. "History repeats Itself," said the man who Is full of wise saws. "I know It does," replied his morose friend. "That's why I'm beginning to kind of lose Interest In base-ball." Washing ton Star. "Sad about the Duzenstlckers." "What's the matte. 7" "They've lived together fifteen years, and they never bad a quarrel until lately, when they bought bicycles of different makes," Chicago Record. "What In the world Is Smlthers build ing on the lot next door?" "A cold stor age house." "To ket.p his meats and groceries from spoiling?" "No; to keep his dally supply of Ice front melting away." Cincinnati Tribune. "Marriage," ' said the puffy man, "made me what I am to-day. Marriage Is the mighty engine of civilisation." "Then," remarked McCorker, "you are not self but machine made, I suppose." Philadelphia North American. "Thought you said Frank and George agreed in politics?" "So they do." "Well, they argue over It every time they meet" "That's because they don't know what it la they agree on." New York Sun. City Man This must be a very healthy place. Judging from the num ber of old people I have seen here! Na tiveHealthy? It's so blamed healthy that I guess a good many of 'em will have to be shot on the Judgment day. . ruck. "Women are naturally Incredulous," remarked the whist player. "That contrary to the common Impression." "I don't care; It's true. Ton never can make one believe you the first time you tell her what are trumps." Wash ington Star. Wheeler Have you learned to make the repairs on your wheel yet? Sprock No; I never shall either. I haven't a bit of mechanical genius. "Oh, yes, you have." "Indeed I haven't I could not even Invent a car coupler." Cincin nati Enquirer. . Mrs. Wlckwlre Don't you ever make even the slightest attempt at manual labor? Dismal Dawson Mum, I am Uvin' he way I am on a bet I got a wager of $50,000 up that I kin live eighty years without workln'. Indian apolis Journal. First Thespian When I was playing Hamlet In Omaha and getting my fifty a night I Second Thespian Hold on there, Jack! make that five. First Thespian No, Tom, 'pon me honor, fifty a night regular. Eggs are cheap out there. Harper's Weekly. "It's three-quarters of an hour since I ordered that turtle soup," snapped the angry guest at the restaurant "Tea, ah," said the waiter, with an obse quious bow, "but do turtle done make his 'scape, sab, an aey naa to cnase him 'bout a mile, sah." Detroit Free Press. v.f touched him: "It looks Uke rain to-day," said the affable milkman, as he dumped the regular quart Into the pitcher. "It always does," said the woman, and the milkman drove on wondering why some people take such gloomy views of everything. Detroit Free Press. Kir. air." said the Kansas editor, -your services are no longer required." "May I venture to ass. way m un charged ?" "You're too Diamea runny. That style may do In the blase and ..ii.a Rant, but when you refer to a death In a cyclone as 'a terrible blow to the family, you overoo u out nere. Detroit News. "What In the world's the matter, mar asked Arabella, aa her mother turned from the telephone and sake for her bonnet and wraps. "I'm going right down-town," said Mrs. High rocks, and there was a cold glitter In her eyes aa she spoke. "I Just tried to call your father np, aad I heard him tell the boy to say he wasn't "-Cleveland Leader. TJataooosratable. Among the several unacconntabU things which one sees in Russia, one It struck forcibly with the differences In shop algns In be large cities. It ap Vr that the Jews are made to writt their names out In full, giving the Jew l.h form of their given names Instead of those actually In use by them. whll. the signs of the Gentiles bear only thf Initials. When a girl writes her namt "May me" or "Mai," she puts a label anon herself that contains the word Cheap. She may be sensible In som ranects. but no one seeing the label win believe It The "Mai's" and "Mayme's" are not good daughters and they will not make good wives They are silly. Irresponsible, and ro mantic Show us a girl who change: her nam from Mary to . ' " t P B ihw a iotiubv If FOR HIS THE jury had retired to consldei their verdict and those remaining in court were discussing In ex cited whispers what would be the re volt of their decision. At length It came: "Guilty!" The prisoner at the bar turned paler, and clutched the dock for support; while the Judge assumed the black cap and pronounced sentence. "Richard Olood, you have been found guilty of murder upon evidence which, I think, can leave no doubt In the mind of any person who has been present In the court and heard It" Then followed the last dread sen tence. "Could there be a fairer daughter of Eve? If I could only win her!" Clarence Bolton gazed with eyes of passionate love upon a beautiful, girl ish figure. Just retreating with a tea tray from the ruBtlc arbor In which be was seated. Clarence Bolton was a pedestrian, and devoted his Saturday half-holidays to tramps In the country. In the course Df one of these be had entered a rustle cottage In Kent where teas were pro vided for travelers and pedestrians. Here he had met his fate, Nellie Gould. Clarence had resolved over and over j again to declare bis passion, but his courage had as often failed him at the critical moment That one moment in the lover's calendar advantageous above all others came at length, and he seised It 1 He had met with an accident and ripped the sleeve of his Jacket He asked Nellie for needle and thread. She not only brought both, but offered to do the stitching for him. t The compact was sealed In the little arbor. ; Many happy weeks passed. There al ways seemed to be one shadow, how ever. In their pathway Mrs. Gould, She wore an air of perpetual sadness . and .gloom, from which not even hei daughter's happiness could arouse her, "Why Is your mother always so sad?"' Clarence one day asked. i "Poor mother I Haven't you ever heard? I never like to speak about It but but ray father was murdered." , "Murdered!" exclaimed Clarence In horror. ' "Murdered. It's many years ago now I was only a little child at the time and my mother never speaks of It now. But can you wonder at her sadness?" "No, Indeed. But who was the mur derer?" "A wvtched mmm hum il-'ha JS'l- was tried, found guilty and hanged." "Thank heaven for that Well. Nel lie, wbea we are married we must have famr mother always with us and try to make up for the sorrow she haa kmowo." When he left the cottage that even ing Nellie Gould had promised to be his bride In a month's time. A happier man than Clarence Bolton when he entered the shop of bis guar Ban on the evening following It would have been difficult to find. William Seex was a --prosperous tradeaman who had taken a deep inter eat In the young fellow's career, and Clarence bad therefore considered It bis first duty to acquaint him with the step he had Just taken. "So long as you are happy, my boy, that's all I care for," said the old man, heartily, when Clarence bad told his story. "You've been a good lad and serve a good wife. But what's ber name? You haven't told me her name." "Oh. I kept that till the last." said Clarence with a laugh. "It's a very pretty name, I can tell you. What do pen think of Nellie?" . " Tain't bad sounding. What's the other part of It?" I "Gould Nellie Gould. Hallo, what's P?" I Mr. Seex had started from his chair, ' his pipe bad fallen to the ground. "Gould? You didn't say that Has she a father?" "Na poor glrL He was murdered years ago by a man named Clood. Ter- ; rlble. isn't it?" "Terrible yes." Mr. Seex strode up and down the CLAREXCK BOLTON MISTS BIS FATE, room In a state of great agitation. Then he paused and looked pltlngly at Clarence. "Poor boy poor boy," he said. "What 1s there to pity? Why. I'm one of the happiest men in creation." "Listen, Clarence. I must tell you chough, heaven knows, I would rather cat out my own tongue your real name Is Olood, not Bolton, and and " "Go on; quick, man, quick. Let me hear It all," cried Clarence. "And the man who murdered Gould was your father." Clarence covered his face with his hands, while Mr. Seex told him the rest of the story told him bow he, out of deep pity for the boy, had changed his name, educated him and brought him op more as a son than the child of i stranger. "Don't take It too much to heart lad What your father did is nothing to d with you. There's no disgrace resting en you." No disgrace resting on him! Clarenc shuddered, but took bis guardian'! hand between his own and pressed It tratefully. How waa he to act? Steal ke mar FHTHER'S j ry Nellie and say nothing of his se cret? Were be to do so, she might som day discover It and then she could only curse him. Should he, on the other hand, confess to her everything, and leave her to the responsibility of decid ing whether or not the tie between them should he broken? No; that was a responsibility be had no right to place upon her shoulders. A couple of days later Nellie Gould received a registered letter In which was enclosed $1,500. The letter accom panying It was brief: "Dear Nellie I am compelled to leave the country through no fault of my own. I shall never see you again, but my affection for you will always be the same. I shall love you until the day of HI LOOKED P1TYI.1SLT AT CLARKNCC. my death. The money I send Is yours. Have no hesitation In taking It for It was to have been expended on out home. Marry some happier man than "CLARENCE BOLTON." Fifteen years had passed. Nellie Gould was now Mrs. Elliott a middle aged matron, with three bright-eyed children. The Ios sof her lover yeart ago had come upon her at first with crushing force, and she had hoped U hear from htm again. Then, after a further lapse of time, she had followed her old lover's request, and married another. With the $1,500 they started a little shop ' together. It grew and grew until it became one of the most flourishing businesses In Elton. When the shop was closed In th evening her husband would usually g to the Chequers Inn, at the end of th town. In order to discuss the events ol the day with his brother tradesmen. Returning one evening, he found a shop. His hair and beard were quite white, his skin wrinkled, and his cheeks hollow. He appeared to be quite worn out John Elliott was a kindly hearted man, and now be was touched with pity. He invited the man Into the bouse and gave htm some supper. This the wanderer scarcely touched, but fol lowed with eager eyes the figure of Mrs. Elliott. Then he adroitly gained from John particulars about bis family- He had two sons and one girl, John told him. The eldest boy was named Clarence. "He Is named after an old sweet heart of the wife's. It was her wish, and I respected It; for he seems to have been a good sort of fellow. We owe whatever fortune we have to him. His money gave us our first start In mar ried life." The stranger's hand wandered to his eyes. Had the other been watching he would have seen a tear trickling down the furrowed cheek. "As you have been kind enough te give me a bed for the night may I ask one other favor? I would like to see that boy of yours Clarence. I mean before I go to-morrow. May I?" The next morning the three children were introduced to the stranger. H took them In his arms and kissed them In turn. At Clarence he gazed long and earnestly, sat him upon his knee and fondled him; and then, while Mrs Elliott's back was turned, seised a pail ef scissors and cut off a piece of tht boy's curly hair, which he secreted In his pocket Two days after a body was found close to the cottage where Nellie had lived with her mother so many yean ago. It was that of the beggar. An in quest was held, but there were no means of establishing It sldentlty. The undertaker found, suspended over the heart in a little silk bag, twe locks of hair one evidently that of a woman, the other that of a child; and though a parish undertaker Is not sup posed to have much sentiment he did not disturb them from their resting place. Checking- Babies. In some of the New York department stores babies can be checked like so many umbrellas, . while their mothers pursue the elusive bargain from coun ter to counter. A small boy is detailed to stand guard over a certain numbea of Infants. The small boy and thf Infants have not been asked an opin ion, but the mothers are enthusiastic In their approval. In Brooklyn th checking system as applied to bablei has appeared In a new form. Rev. Dr. Wiley, of the Nostrand Avenue Meth odist Episcopal Church, Is the origina tor of the scheme, and the mothers art once more gainers. A Urge room has been fitted up with hammocks and cribs, perambulators and toys. Here a volunteer committee of yomng women assembles every Sunday morning, and here the mothers, who would otherwise be kept home, leave their babies, white they themselves attend the regulai church service. The plan la a novel one, bat promises, and deserves, to be popular Harper's Basar. Plaa-ae of Spldere la alapaau Spiders are a serious plague In Japan. They spin their webs on the telegraph wires, and are so numerous as to cause a serious loss of Insulation. Sweeping the wires does little good, as the spi ders begin all overagaim. .tHrfr tea Lf LAW AS INTERPRETED. Notice of an Incident causing death, given to an Insurance company twenty nine days after knowledge of the factt was obtained. Is held, in Foster vs. Fi delity and C. Company (Wis.), 40 L. R. A. 833, to be too late to be "Immediate" within the meaning of the policy. The right of a servant to rely on tht promise of his master to repair defect! In the place where the labor 1b to be per formed la held. In Illinois Steel Com pany vs. Mann (III.), 40 L. R. A. 781, t exist for so long only as Is reasonably necessary to make the repairs, and af ter that period the servant Is held tc have waived the defects and to havt assumed the additional risk. With tbii case Is an extensive note on the right! of a servant continuing work on the faith of the master's promise to re move a specific cause of danger. Notice to an employer that one whe Is employed to manage a brake con trolling the passenger cage connected with a mine has become incompetent 1 held. In Walkowskl vs. Penokee & G Consolidated Mines (Mich.), 41 L. R. A. B3, not to be Implied from the fact thai the engineer thought he ran the cage too fast if there was nothing to show that the Information has reached the employer. With this case is a remark ably elaborate note on the subject of knowledge as an element of an employ er's liability to an Injured servant Publication of a delinquent tax list li the English language, but In a news paper which Is otherwise printed in the German language. Is held not to be suf ficient In state, Goebol vs. Chamber lain (Wis.), 40 L. R. A. 843. wben-the statute provides In general terms fot publication In a newspaper printed In the county, as the English language U the language of the country to be used In all official proceedings. In the ab sence ef statute authority to the con trary. The drainage of seepage or surplus water from Irrigated lands Into a canal from which water is supplied for do mestic purposes as well as for Irriga tion, Is held. In North Point Consolidat ed Irrigation Company vs. Utah and Salt Lake Canal Company (Utah), 4C L. R. A. 851, to be wrongful, when tb drainage renders the waters unfit elth er for domestic or for irrigation pur poses, and to constitute a nuisance, al though a prescriptive right to do sc might be acquired by twenty years' un interrupted use. The purser of a steamer who lives oo It Is held. In Jones vs. Skinner (Md.), 40 L. R. A. 752, to be unable to acquire by such residence the right to vote In a district at which the steamer ties up at her home port, where he had for merly acquired a residence In anothei part of the city. Substantially the same rule Is enforced In Howard vs. Skinner (Md.), 40 L. ft. A. 753. In th aje of a clerk who slept In a room on w-gtfaer r or place to live, and who was unmar ried. . . STRANGE, BUT TRUE. Pretty Woaaea Feldoaa Make Band aonte Plctarea. "It is a curious fact" aald an experi enced New Orleans photographer, "that it isn't the handsomest women who make the handsomest pictures. I'll venture the assertion that nine-tenth of the women who are noted for tbclr beauty are poor subjects for the cam era, and It Is undeniable that the more striking and attractive photos are those of people who seem plain and Insignifi cant In life. "Why Is It? Well, a beauty nearly always owes her charm to something beyond reach of the lens to her com plexion, her hair or the vivacity of her expression. Very few such women have regular features, and when they are reproduced In plain black and white they are at a great disadvantage. Their photographs are generally unsat isfactory and are really not correct like nesses. On the other hand, a woman who is regarded as homely may have singularly perfect lines, but attracts n attention through lack of animation ot color. I'll cite you a queer Instance. "A dozen or so years ago Maude Branscombe was the most populai model In the United States for photo graphic 'art studios.' Her best post K-as as a nun, and her pictured fact as strikingly beautiful. Thousands upon thousands of people have raved over her loveliness, but the real Mlsi Branscombe, whom I had the pleasure of knowing, was a demure, pale little Woman who would never In the world attract the slightest attention in s crowd. Without a doubt she was pass ed unnoticed by many a person whs treasured her portrait as a marvel." New Orleans Times-Democrat Property of the City. Bicycles play an Important part la business aa well as In social life. The distribution of bicycles to the employes of German towns laKreaeea from day to day. In the cities of Hanover and Ludvlgshafen.and In some towns ot less Importance, machines have been distributed to the municipal employe In order to facilitate their work. Tht municipal council of Cologne has Just decided that bicycles shall be reckoned In with the communal budget and placed at the disposal of the following city employes: Tax collectors, police men, foresters, commissaries of police, ; sergeants de vllle, watchman, men ol the health department and In the de partmenta of water, gas and electrical supply controllers, and all clerks In tht employ of the city. The machines re main the property of the city. The are simply loaned to the employes Forty marks a year are allowed to tht borrowers for each machine, to keep h In order. It ia expressly forbidden tt use the bicycles except In the perform a nee of the city's service. People do not appreciate the 1 sapor taace of difference In disposition. Thai which la polsoa to one man Is agree able to another. Because like i certain thing, do not Insist Jkat other enjoy It People like anarchy becaust the first principle Is, "I want to do as I please." It is all right for parents to compart prima donnas with their daughters, tc the prima donna's discredit bat la It right for thorn to expect their friend SERMONS OF THE DAY BahjMt: "Th of SellWhnaaa" Help Others to Bear Their Bardeas It Is sj Obriatlaii's Daty to ICneonrajr and AM His Comrade ia Life's Battle. Tsxt: "Bear ve one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." Oalatlans vl., 2. Every man for himself I If there be room for only one more passenger in the lifeboat get in yourself. If there be a burden to lift, yoo supervise while others shoulder it. Ton be the digit while otbers are the ciphers on the right hand side nothing in themselves, bat augmenting you. In oppo sition to that theorv of setflwhnessPaul ad vances in mv text the gospel theory. "Bear ?re one another's burdens and so fulfill the aw of Christ." Everybody ban burdens. Sometimes they oome down upon the shoulders, some times they come down upon the head, sometimes they come down upon the heart. Looking over any assembly, they all seem well and bright and easy, but each one has a burden to lift, and some of them have more than they oan lift. Paul proposes to split np these burdens Into frair- mts. Ton take part ot mine, and I must tx.t part of yours, and eaoh one will take part of the others, and to we will fulfill the law ot Christ. Mrs. Appleton, of Boston, the daughter .fti..i.l nr.k i i llinsV ThTeaV WP , an important case in tne courtroom on nts way home ptopped at the house of his daughter and went Into her sickroom. She said to him, "Fnthf, why are yon on t to day in this cold weather without an over coat?" The greaflawver'wsnt into the next room and wa" in a flood of tears, saving, "Dying herself, yet thinking ODlyof me." Ob, how much mora beautiful is care fot others than this everlasting taking care of ourselves! High up In the wall of the tem ple of B.ialbe" there are three stones, eact weighing 1100 tons. They were lifted up bj a style ot machinery that Is now amona the lost arts. Bat in my text Is the gosoe'. machinery, by which the vaster and tht heavier tonnage of the world's burden I tc be lifted from the crushed heart of the hu man race. What you and I most need to learn Is the spirit of helpfulness. Encourage the merchant. If he have a superior style of poods, tell him so. If be have with bis clerk adorned the show windows and the shelves, compliment his taste. If behave a good business locality, if he have bad great success, if he have brilliant prospects for the future, recognizf all this. Be not afraid that be will become arrogant and puffed up by your approval. Before night some shopgolng person will come in and tell blmthat his prices are ex orbitant and that his goods are of an in ferior quality and that his show window gave promise of far better things than he fonnd inside. Before the night of the 1av In which you say encouraging words to that merchant there will be some crank, male or female, who will come into the store and depreciate everything and linul down enough goods from the shelves to fit out a family for a whole winter witiiont buying a cent's worth. If the merchant be a grocer, there will be some one before night who will come Into bis establishment and taste of this and taste of that an-l taste of everything else. In that way steal ing all the profits of anything that he may Enrchae buying three apples while he i eating one orange! Before the night of the day when you approve that merchant he will have a bad debt which he will have to erase, a bad debt made by some one who has moved away from the neighborhood without giv--iDg anv bint of the place of destination utteren' enccft rafnVor?SflV fg, ehant there will be tome woman who will return to his store and say she bad lost her pnrse; she left it there Id the store, she brought it there, she did not take it away, she knows It Is there, leaving you to make any delicate and complimentary inference I" . i.i. . L L n.f... nbht i,.i I merchant will bear that some Myle ol ! goods of which he has a large supply if going out of fashion, and there will be some one who will come Into the store and pay a bill under protest, saying he tins fiald it before, but the receipt has been ost. Now, encourage that merchant, uol leariUK " y. puffed up. tor there win oe Detore utgnt enough unpleasant words said to keep him I from becoming apoplectic with plethora ! il nri j &. newspaper men. If von knew how many annoyances they have, II J you understood that tneir most elaboratf article is sometimes nung ont oecausc there Is such great pressure on the col umns, and that an accurate report of a speech Is expected, although the utteranc be to indistinct the discourse lb one lona stenographic gues, and tbat the miunighi whloh finds yoo asleep demands that the be awake, ana that they are sometimes ground between the wheels of onr great brain manufactories; sickened at the oftcr approach of men who want complimentary newspaper notices or who want newsi ap.-i onedYy 7ent7o naTo" ! the next day to report a pugilistic eneoun-. . .... TJ. J, 1 , . , ter; shifted from place to place by sudder revolution which Is liable to take plact any day In our great journalistic establish ments; precarious life becoming more anii more precarious if you understood it yon you would be more sympathetic. Be affa- fl. L kawA mA n mw Ia Ha d!iu .i- 1" j i j.aa ni.AA.. ia mind what the nineteenth century would """"U J . . be without tne newspaper and give en couraging words to all who are engaged it thia Interest, from the chief of editorial department down to the boy tbat throws the morning or evening newspaper into your basement window. Enoourage mechanics. They will pluml the pipes, or they will calcimine the ceil Ings, or tbey will put down the carpets, oi they will grain the doors, or they wlli fashion the wardrobe. Be not amougthos Who never say anything to a me-lmulc ex cept to find fault. If lie has done a job well, tell him it Is splendidly done. The book Is well bound, the door Is well grained, the chandelier Is well swung, the work if grandly accomplished. Be not among tlms-n employers who never say anything to theii employes except to swear at them. Do not be afraid you will make that mechanic sc puffed up and arrogant he will never again want to be seen with working apron oi In shirt sleeves, for before the night comes of tbat day when you praise him ther will be a lawsuit brought agniust liim because be did not finish bis work its soon as he promised It, forgetful of the fact that bis wife baa been sick and two ot his chil dren have died of scarlet fever and he has had a felon on a finger of the right hand. Denonnced perhaps because the paint is very faint In color, not recognising the fact that the mechanic himself has been cheated out of the right ingredients, mid A A A I A AA tl A A Allf tiM t-,tlll,lM It, time, or scolded at because beseems to bave lamed a horse by unskillful shoeing, when the horse baa for months bad spavin or ringbone or springhalt. You feel that you have the right to nnd fault with a me chanic when he does ill. Do yon ever praise a mechanic when he does well? encourage tue larmens. luoj cunie in- to yourstores. jou meet them in the city j In the summer months. Office seekers go j lUnfUKU III? HUU , H l llicj r-1 U ' I VU pillll cal platforms, and they tell the farmers tne story about tne inaepenaent lite ot i, farmer, giving natterv wnero tbey ought to give sympathy. Independent ol what? I waa brought up on a farm, I worked on a farm, I know all about It. I bardly saw a city uutil I was grown, and - I tell you there are no class of people In country who bave it harder 'but lu" woo mu u jour """" Vl eurcullo that stings the peach trees, or tho rust In the wheat, of the long rain with t'je rye down? Independent of the grass- hopper, of the loonst. of the army worm, ot tie potato bag? Independent of the drought that burns np the harvest? Inde- pendent of the cow with the hollow horn, or the sheep with the foot rot, or the pet horse with a nail In his hoof? Independent ot the eold tbat freezes out the winter grain? Independent ot the snow bank out ot which he mast shovel himself? Indepen dent of the eold weather when he stand thTiMng bit MBaid, .flexor tia"" bis body to keep them from being frosted? In dependent of ths frozen ears and the frozen feet? Independent of what? Faney farmers who have made theit fortunes in the olty and go out In the country to build houses with all the modern Improvements and make farming a luxury may not need any solace, bnt the yeomanry who got their living out of the soil and who that way hsve to clothe their families and educate their children and pay tneir taxes and meet the Interest on mortgaged farms suoh men And a terrtflo struggle. I demand that office seekers and politicians fold up their gaseous and Imbecile speeches about the Independent life of a farmer and substitute some word of comfort drawn from the fact that tbev are free from olty conventionalities and citv epidemics and city temptations. Encourage the doctors. You praise ths doctor when he brings you np from an awfnl crisis of disease, but do von praise the doctor when, through skillful treat ment of the Incipient stages ot disease, he keeps you from sinking down to the awful crisis? There is a great deal of cheap and ' eartless wit about doctors, but I notice mist cue people who get off the wit are the first to send for a dootor when there Is any thing the matter. There are those who undertake to say In our day that doctors are reallv useless. One man has written a book entitled, '- Every Man His Own Doc tor." That author ought to write one more book entitled, " Every Man His Own Un dertaker." "Oh," says some one. "phy sicians In constant presence of pain get hard hearted! " Do they ? The most cele brated snrgeon of the last generation stood in a clinical department of one of the New SSS'S ered in the amphitheater to see a very painful operation on a little child. The old surgeon said: "Gentlemen, excuse me if I retire. These surgeons can do this as well as I can, and as I get older it gives ma more and more distress to see pain." Encourage the lawyers. They are often cheated out of their fees, and so often have to breathe the vlilalnoos air of courtrooms, and they so often have to bear ponderous responsibility, and they have to maintain against the sharks In their profession the dignity of that calling which was honored by the fact that the only man allowed to stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lord was Moses, the lawyer, and that the Bible speaks of Christ as the advocate. Encour age lawyers in their profession of trans cendent importance a profe-sion honored bv having on the bench a Chief Justice Story and at the bar a Rufus Choate: Encourage the teachers In our public schools occupation arduous and poorly compensated. In all the cities when there comes a fit of economy on the part ot offi cials the first thing to do Is always to cut down teachers' salaries. To take forty or fifty boys whose parents suppose them precocions and keep the parents from finding ont their mistake: to take an empty head and All it; to meet the expectation of parents who think their children at fifteen years of age ought to be mathematicians and metaphysicians and rhetoricians; to iwork successfully that great stuffing ma chine, the modern school system, is a very 'arduous work. Encourage them by the usefulness and the everl.istingness and the .magnitude o! their occupation, and when your children do well compliment the In structor, praise the teacher, thank the ed ucator. Encourage all invalids by telling them how many you have known wltn the same ailments who got well, and not by telling them of their sunken eye or asking them whether the color of their cheek is really hectic or mentioning cases in which that style of disease ended fatally or telling them how badly they look. Cheerful words are more soothing than chloral, more stimulating than cognac, more tonic than bitters. Many an invalid has re covered through the Influence of cheerful snrronndlncpn. 4 ; En5tAfty,r ,,-BJ r enants, nyieiung mes yTung muroniin when you got your first cgstomer.and how you sat behind the counter eating your luncheon with one eve on the aoor. Es tablished lawyers, enoourage young law- u 113 irat i dovn in your first speech. Established ministers of the g ospel. encourage young ministers by merciful examination of theo logical candidates, not walking around with a profundity and overwbelmlngness of manner as though you were one of the eternal decrees. Doctor established, by telling young doctors bow you yourself once mistook the measles for scarlatina. .A h..hln to s.v Ih.t I. en j - couraglng.O man, put your teeth tight y together and cover them with the curtain of your lip, compress your Hps and put nan over J0" moutn and keBi U Encourage the troubled by thoughts cl release and reassooiation. Encourage the aged by thoughts of eternal juvenescei.ee. Enoourage the herdsman amid thetrougbs of sin to go back to the banquet at tiia father s Homestead. Ulve us tones In tee major key instead of the minor. Give us "Coronation" instead of "Naomi." Yoa have seen cars so arranged tbat one car going down the hill rolled another car up the hill. They nearly balanced eaca other. And every man that finds life up hill ought to be helped by those who have passed the height, "and are descending to the vale. "s "".""L' , "i "5, .u"ruo11"' . . A trnntlnmnn In Encland died leavlnir his fortune by will to two sons. The son that staid at home destroyed the father's will and pretended that the brother who was absent was dead and buried. The absent brother after awhile returned and claimed his part of the property. Judges and jurors were to be bribed to say tbat the re- h., .,rl . BAA Of .11 but only an Impostor. The trial came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride ot the English courtroom and for twenty years the pride ot jurisprudence, heard that that injustice was about to be practiced. He put off his official robe. He put on the garb of a miller. He went to the viliage where that trial was to take place. He entered the courtroom. He somehow got empan eled as one of the Jurors. The bribes came around, and the man gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, but as this was only a poor miller the briber gave to him only Ave pieces ot gold. A verdiot was brought in rejecting the rights of this re turned brother. He was to have no share In the inheritance. "Hold, my lord!" said th miller. "Hold; we are not all agreed on this verdiot. These other men have received ten pieces of gold In bribery, and I have received only Ave." "Who are you? Where do you come from?" said the judge on the benob. The response was: "I am from Westminster Hall; my name is Matthew Hale, lord cblet justice ot the king's bench. Off of that place thou villain!" And so the injustice was balked, and so the young man got his Inheritance. It was all for another that Sir Matthew Hale took oft bis robe and put on the garb ot a miller. And so Christ took off His robe of royalty and put ou the attire of our humanity, and in that disguise He won our eternal portion. Now are we the sons of Godl Joint heirs! We went off from hr.me sure enough, 'n "ceive our et but we got bacli ernal inheritance. And if Christ bore our burden, surely we can afford to bear each otber'B burdens. Despondency unnerves a invigorates him. Unnav (a Ka . Y. r.nn, hope manufae- turj p,ant t0Ts Z Happiness is a roadside flower bloom ing on the highway of usefulness. The courting of an heiress is a busi ness suit but the courting of a flirt is merely a masquerade suit. We never heard of husbands and wives auarrelinar about which IhvmI the other most. Most natures are insolvent; can not satisfy their own wants, have an 'ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg jay an(j night continually, when people voluntarily speak 111 it ,noWB a diseased organization that nothlng. wtI1 correct but affliction, .. j Strip everything off a person down to the very soul and character ia there and then wealth is where? Sooner or later the world comes round to see the truth and do right We are sent into this world to make it better and happier, and in proportion as we do so we make ourselves both. J; t i I I' t ! ' i ! i I!' j! ' t if ......i-nft. waSS
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