,- ' - - .; ; If ' ipisiw B F. BOHWEIER. TUB OONUT1TUTION-THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL LIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29. 1899. NO. 16. By The Duchess. CMA TT Kit VIII (Continued.) "S'ime women are I:ke that," say. hi?, gloomiiy. "They can oj-en wide their heart to thoir chi'. Iren. yet close it against the fathers of them. Isabel's whole life Is given up to her child; she regards it a hers entirely; she allows me no share in him. Nut," eagerly, "that I grudge him one inch the affection she gives him. lie has a father worthless enough. Let his mother make it up to him." "Yet he loves the father bent," says Lady Swausdown, quickly. "I hope not," with a suspicion of vio lence. "He does, believe me. One can see it. That saintly mother of his has not half the attraction for him that you have. Why, look you. it is the way of the world, why dispute it? Well, weil," her triumph ant voice deepening to a weary whisper. "When one thinks of it all, she is not too happy." She draws her hand in a little bewildered way across her white brow. "You d.m't understand her," suys Balti more, frigidly. "She lives in a world of her own. No one would dare penetrate It Even I her husband, as you call me In mockery am outside it. I don't believe she ever cared for iue. If she had, do you think she would have given a thought to that infamous story?" "About Madame IstrayT "Yes. You, too, heard of it .then?" "Who hasn't heard? Violet Waldron was not the one to spare you." She pauses and looks at him with all her heart in ber eye. "Was there no truth in that story?" asks she at last, her words coming with little rush. "None. I swear it! Ton believe me7' He has come nearer to her and taken hei hand in the extremity of this desire to be believed in by someliody. "I believe you," says she, gently. Her voice is so low that he can catch the worda oniy; the grief and misery in them is un known to him. Mercifully, too. the moon has cone behind a cloud, a tender prepara tive t , a ir aMKsma p CSVBtfTV ttlttl d cannot see the two heart-broken tears that steal slowly down her cheeks. "This is more than Isabel does," says he, with a laugh that has something of despair in it. "You tell me, then," says Lady Swans down, "that you never saw Madame Is tray after your marriage?" "Never, willingly." "Oh, willingly!" "Don't misjudge me. Hear the whole story then if you must!" cries he, pas sionately "though if you do, you will be the first to hear it. I am tired of being thought a liar!" "Go on," says she, in a low, shocked ton". "We!!, one day, one of the many days dur n,' which I went np to town, after a lon afternoon with Goodman & Smale, In the course of which they had told me they would probably require me to call at their office to meet one of the most in fluential tenants at nine the next morning, I met, on leaving their office, Marchmont Marchuinnt of the Tenth, you know." "Yes, I know." "He and a couple of other fellow, be- lonfflEZ to his regiment were going down to liichmond to dine. Would I come? It was dull in town, toward the close of the season, and I was glad of any Invitation that promised a change of program any thin; that would take me away from a dull evening at my club. I made no in quiries; I accepted the invitation, got down in time for dinner, and found Mad ame Istrny was one of the guests." "(Jo on." "Yon are a woman of the world, Bea trice; you will let me confess to you that there h.id been old passages between me and Mmlame Istray at one time. Nothing very special nothing well, I swear to you I had never so much as thought of her Since my marr.age nay, since my engage ment to Isabel. From that hour my life had been clear as a sheet of blank paper. I had forzotten her; I verily believe she had forgotten me, too. At that dinner 1 don't think she exchanged a dozen words with me. On my soul," pushing back his hair with a slow, troubled gesture from his brow, "this is the truth." "Your wife has wronged you, terribly," says Lady Swansdown in a low tone. "Thank you," cried he, a passion of gratitude in his tone. "To be believed in by some one so thoroughly as you believe in in", is to know happiness indeed. What ever happens, I can count on you as my friend." "Y'.ur frnd, always," says she, in a very i,,w voice a voice somewhat broken. "O.rue," she says, rising suddenly and walkluz toward the distant lights in the hou-e. He aeeompanies her silently. ery suddenly 6he turns to him, and lays i.r hand upon his arm. "lie in y friend," says she, with a quick ice,.s i f terrii.le emotion. Entreaty and despair mingle in her tone. I ' r.-Terl" returns he, fervently, tight- - n.s zra-p on her hand. "Well," sighing, "it hardly matters. We hall not meet again for a long, long time." CHAPTER IX. eiir says Dysart. II" advances, and dropping on a .tone J-iose to Joyce, takes possession of one of h'-r Hands. "W:!l v, J"V f talnly i bee;i p-; i marry n:eV" irrov.s a little pale. She had oer prepared for this speech, bad lar.ns herself for it all the Ions. he- ' ' ' :k' ;uI "-Sht: ret now that she ,(,;'..,''. :!, -'"' as strange, as terrible, as . '- it had ir-ver suggested itself to her niUest form. "WTe. -V - last ;- U.M 1 nswer?" Bay. she Rt stn, . says .ne hi stammer n j -- disin;:" '"iiT""0 ;efraB 8omc: now h. u Z.L. OD naa Known, yet. not knn.t preiena mat sne oia Wphiess'Ti " man'S ,ast chance 01 luse w ucss lies TIT hi. Z! s'mI int the " " IU LDP nfl I anta Fi A vwrill hAW weighing of it-and, Ai thn.igh nrmoH d.. t,- . portable weight, the girl rise, and make ..I. . cn.non gesture as if to free her .".1m't- er face, still pale, betray. n inward struggle. After all. why can not she g,ve herself to him? Why can'l she love him ? He love, her; love, as some poor old fool says, begets love. And he is honest. Yes, honest! A pens shoots through her breast. That, when all is told, ia the principal thing. He is not uncertain untrustworthy double-faced as some men are. Again that cruel pain contraeta her heart. To be able to believe in a person, to be able to trust implicitly in each lightest word, to read the real meaning In every sentence, to see tht truth shimng in the clear eyes, this is . know peace and happiness: and yet - "Yon know all," says she, looking up a him, her eri-s compressed, her brow frown. Jng; "I am uncertain of myself, nothing eems sure to me, but if yon wish Jt "Wish itr clasping her hand, closer. -Ihere is this to be said. then. I will promise to answer you this day twelve month." "Twelve months, says he, with conster nation ; his grasp on her hands loosena. "If the prospect frighten, or displease! i you, tnere is nothing more to be said," re- join, she, coldly. It the whe ia calm and composed, he wht It mtiuii and ana- ious. t "But a whole year!" i 'That or nothing," My. .he. releasing her hands, with a little determined show of strength, from hi.. "It is for you to de cide. I don't carer Perhaps she hardly grasp, the cruelty that lies in this half-impatient speech, un til she see. Dysart's face flush painfully. 1 "Yon need not have said that." says he, "I knew it. I am nothing to yon reallv." He pauses, and then says again in a low tone, "Nothing." "Oh, you mustn't feel so much!" cries she, as if tortured. "It in folly to feel at all in this world. What's the good of it? And to feel about me, I am not worth it. If you would only bear that in mind, it might help you." "If I bore that in mind I should not want to make you my wife!" returns he, steadily, gravely. "Thinlc as yon will ol yourself, you do not shake my faith in you. W ell, with a deep breath, "I accent your terms. For a year I shall feel myself bound to yon, wbile you shall hold your eif rreerana H? too- - "2io, no. We roust both be equal both free while I " she stops short, coloring warmly, and laughing. "What ia it I am to try to do?" "To love me!" replies he, with infinite sadness in look and tone. Yes, says Joyce, slowly, and then again meditatively, "yes." She lift, her eyes presently and regard, him strangely. "And if all my trying should not succeed r If I never learn to love you." "Why, then it is all over. This hope of mine is at an end," say. he, so calmly. yet with snch deep melancholy, such .ad foreboding, that her heart ia touched. "Oh, it ia a hope of mine, too," .ays she. Quickly. "If it were not, would I listen to yon to-day? But you must not be so downhearted; let the worst come to the worst, yon will be a. well off as you an this instant." lie shakes his bead. "Does hope count for nothing, then?" "Yon would compel me to lore you," say. she, growing the more vexed as she grows the more sorry for him. "Would you have me marry yon even if I did not love yon?" Her soft eye. have filled with tears, there ia a suspicion of reproach In ber voice. "No, I suppose not." He half turns away from ber. At this moment a sense of despair falls on him, "Joyce," he then says, quickly, turning to her and grasping her Uanda, "give me my chance. Give me those twelve months; give me your thoughts now and then while tbey last. I brought yon here to-day to say all this, knowing we should be alone. But yon, Joyce twelve months Is a long time. You may see otners ii not isean- clerk others and Money would not tempt me," saya the irl. slowly. If money were your rival. vou would indeed be safe. Yon ought to know that." "Still Joyce Ua stops suddenly. May I think of yon as Joyce? I have called yon so once or twice, bnt " "You may alwaya call me so," says she, gently, if indifferently. "All my friends call me so, and you are my friend, aure- ly!" The very sweetness of her manner, cold as ice as it is, drives him to desperation. "Not your friend your lover!" says be with sudden passion. "Joyce, think of all that I have aaid all you have promised. A small matter to you, perhaps the whole world to me. You will wait for me for twelve months. Yon will try to love me. Y-ou " "Yes, but there is something more to be aid," cries the girl, springing to her feet as if in violent protest, and confronting him with a curious look set determined -a little frightened, perhaps. "More?" says Dy.art, .tartled by her expression, and puzzled aa well. "Year hurriedly. "This!" The very nervousness that is consuming her throws 6 re into her eyes and speech. "Dnri"f these long twelve months I ahall be free. Quite free. You forget to put that in! You must remember thatl If-if I shonld. tfter nil this thinking, decide on not hav ing anything to do with you-yon," vehe mently, "will have no right to reproach me. Remember," says she, going np to him and laying her hand upon hi. arm, while the blood receding froin her face a ves her very white: "remember should ,uch a thing occur-and it is very likely liowby. "I warn you of tbat-yon ar. n t consider yourself wrong- or aggrieve in ..ny way." . , thl, -Why should you . -- -...v i.;n he. .ceneved now at all begin be, ""You must recollect," I (,avc made you no promise. Not cm. I refuse even to look upon this matter asj. serious thing, I tell JO" J rutt After .II." P.u. J-JIS well if yon ow PJJ "VuiTi Byaeli between n.: and tell me t0 "- ' . . fnrMtr. and my dull life w e i- - low "I .hall never tell yon that, to a w lone. "The futurer-Who c what that great void will bring to oaf I will trust to It; and If only loss and Mr row be say portion, .till As for friend shir. Jayca, whatever happens, I .ball ha your tncM and lover. i CHAPTER X. "I hope I'm not dreadfully late." cries Joyce, carelessly, taking off her cap, and giving her head a little light ahake. a. if to make her pretty soft hair fall Into its usual charming order. "I have no idea what the time is." "Broken your watch. DysartT asks Beauclerk. in a rather nasty tone. "Come and alt here, dearest, and have your tea," aaya Lady Baltimore, makiiig room on the lounge beside her for Joyce, who baa grown a little red. "It is so warm here," says she. nervous ly, that one remark of Beanclerk'a having somehow disconcerted her. "If if I might " "No, no; yon mustn't go npstaira for a little while," aaya Lady Baltimore, with kindly decision. "Bnt yon may go into the conservatory if yon like," pointing to an open door off the library, that leads Into a bower of sweets. "It ia cooler there." "Far cooler," saya Beauclerk, who has' followed Joyce with a sort of determina tion in hia genial air. "Let me take yor. there, Mlas Ksvaaagfc," It Is impossible to refuse. Joyce, coldly, almost disdainfully, and with her head held higher than nanal, skirts the group that line the walla on the western side of the room and disappears with him into the conservatory. "A little foolish going for that walk, wasn't It?" say. he, leading her to a low cushioned chair over which a gay magno lia bend, ita white blossoms. Hi. manner la innocence itself: ignorance itself won id nerhapa better express it. He ha. decided on ignoring everything; though a shrewd guess that she saw something of his paa sages with Miss Maliphant last night hss now become almost a certainty. "I thou' ht you seemed rather played out last night fatigued done to death. I assure yon I noticed it 1 could hardly," with deep and affectionate concern, "fail to no tice anything that affected you."- "Yon are very good!" aaya Mis. Kav anagb, icily. Mr. Beanclerk let. a full minute go by, and then: "What have I done to merit that tone from yon?" ask. he, not angrily, only sorrowfully. He ha. tnrned his handsome face full on hers, and ia regarding bet with proud, reproachful eyes. "It is idle to deny," says he, with some emotion, hall of which, to do him justice, is real, "that you are changed to me; something hai happened to alter the feelings of of friendship that I dared to hope yon en tertained for me. I had hoped still more but what has happened?" demanda he, suddenly, with all the righteous strength of one who, free from guilt, resents accu sation of it. "Have I accused yon?" says she, coldly. "Yes. A thousand times, yc Do you think yonr voice alone can condemn? Your eyes are even cruder judges." "Well, I am sorry," says she, faintly smiling. "My eyes mnst be deceiver then. I bear you no malice. belUye. me.r, (To be eontHioi DEATHS THAT NECD NOT OCCUR Cae-Uoartcr of All Life-Deatroylasi Diaease Absolutely freveH table. In connection with the Sanitary In stitute a popular lecture was delivered by Dr. Alexander Hill, master of Downing College and rice chancellor of Cambridge University, on "Unnatural Death." He remarked that It waa not the dangers of railway traveling, nor the few murders that occurred, which brought down the average longevity of human life from 100 years to fifty years. They must seek for more subtle murderers than that. Every year 900, 000 babies were born in England and Wales. If they took 1.000,000 children, and saw what was likely to be the end of them, they would find that 30,000 died a violent death by accident, about the same number would succumb to the mysterious disease which they knew now te be absolutely preventable, be cause due to germs (tuberculosis In lta many forms); about 120,000 would die from absolutely preventable causes, suoh as smallpox, measles and scarlet fever, only 45,000 would be allowed to live out their natural lives, and nearly one In twenty might expect to die be cause the machine was worn out. One-quarter of all the diseases which destroyed life were absolutely prevent able. If the practice of hygiene were only on a level with Its theory the aver age longevity would be raised at once from fifty to sixty-five. The greater number of diseases over which the In dividual had control were due to mis takes In eating and drinking. He di vided disease Into three classes, and said they would never succeed In pre venting them until they had .the co-operation of the public Every citizen should have the same exact knowledge of the causes and properties of prevent able diseases that the medical officer himself had. The infectious nature of consumption was hardly realized twen ty years ago. About one-third of the cows in the country . ?re tuberculous, and half the milk distributed the bacil lus of tuberculosis. They could boll the milk, and he was no more afraid of boiled bacillus than he was of a well- cooked loin. The only natural form of death was the gentle falling asleep when the body waa urea. Lionuon Time. Deilh. by Starvation In London. A parliamentary paper Just Issued states that tne numoer oi case in which coroners' Juries in London found that death waa caused by starvation or accelerated by privation during th year 1S7 was 4L Trouble la toe Camp. There seemed to be a rather acrimo nious discussion going on aa I went by headquarters." Yes," said tne Haivauon Army cap tain sadly. "Brother Jones, who beats the drum, happened to aay to Brother Smith, who doea most of the preaching, that actions spoke loader than worda." Indianapolis J ooroaL Otoar Trowbloa. -Doesn't your broken engagement at the beginning of a new year make you unurably sad, bibaldr "No a man can't Ola of a broken heart 'when he has to hnatle for hlt naxt meal ec g hungry." ar far txnMlc," I hnT the compliMaat "Yes," answered Mies Cayenne, regret fully, "but you don't aing with you? ear." -", -)..' Helghta Im thm Old Way. Did jon ever go a-slpighing In an aM wood sleigh? I tell yon when you've tried it, thar ain't no other way. ) Perhaps thar's fun ha ridln' np and down the avenoo, A-sittJn' np sedately aa these dty people do. With a coachman on a-f orard aa another in the rear, I A-seein' what you're doln' and a'tryln' for to hear If thaf a the fun they're chooatn', I ain't got a word to aay. , Bat I'd rather go a-aleighin' hi the old wood aleigh. Twaa nigh on fifty year, ago. If i remem ber right ' An' aeema aa tho' the moonlight hasn't never been so bright As it wns them winter evenin's. When we b'ys would get a aleigh An rig it np for comfort in our own pa'tiklar way. With a good anpply of blankets, an' buf falo robe, an' straw. An' a nag that knew hi. bisneas,1 without a gee or haw. I never hear a sleighbell, be it night or be it day. But I think o' goin' a-aleighin' In the old wood aleigh. ; About Christmas was the jolliest, when 'twas time to deckerate. The b'y. an' gal. wns bu.y at -the church till aum'at late,' Bnt when we'd worked all eveain' jest as lively as could be A-stringin' rope, of evergreen an' histin' up the tree. We thought we'd earned a frolic, and we'd hev it, you kin bet ' The kind of timea a feller isn't likely to ferget. An' when I bear of aleighia' I hain't got a word to aay. Bat I'm doln' a pUe ' thlnkin' of the old wood aleigh. 1 Maybe I'm not as shipper a. I wus in them old days, Maybe my education ia a-wantln! . aa to sleighs. An' maybe it's a pleasure to be sittin' la state np A-drivia before sundown inatid of atayin' late, But somehow when I see 'em, my eyes will fill with tears. j Far I hear the aleighbella jinglin' as I did in other years. 1 An' I cannot help a-thinkin' of the dear one. passed away Aa used to go a-aleighin' in the old wood sleigh. Chicago Chronicle. COSTLY CHINESE FISH. Pea. of Theaa No Blara-er than a Dollar that Are Valaed at S700. : The most beautiful and costly fishes in the world come from China and the rarest, and most expensive of all Is the brush-tall gold fish. Specimens of these have sold for as high as 9700 each and in Europe the prices range from $2S0 to 1500. The brash-tall oi" 1. M v. ii in '0-,,r Aiootg, will cover it, and ptt tS75iT"; S la no other living thing of Its size and weight that la worth so much money.' The fish A BBUSH-TAIL OOLP FISH. has a body nearly oval In form, with rainbow hues. It Is stockily built and has wonderful breast and tall fins which are as beautlfuly and delicately formed as lace work. Its long, droop ing, brush-like tail is like silk, and while at one moment the little fish throws It around him as gracefuly as the skirt dancer envelops herself In her fluffy gown, at the next it becomes a sharp and stiff weapon of attack or de fense. In some parts of China gold flshe are held In the greatest reverence and awe. In Tal-Plng they are used as Idola, and, when not obtainable, wood or clay counterfeits are ued. They are painted In imitation of the living fishes. The "telescope" fish Is prayed to when rain is badly needed. The dwelling places of dragons are usually resorted to by the people to pray for rain, but any fish, frog or reptile found near a dragon pool will make a good enough IdoL Average Kieairth of a Man's Stride. Quetelet estimates the average length of a man's stride at 31 Inches, and the distance an average traveler can cover at this rate at 7,158 yards an hour, or 119 yards a minute. The number of strides would be 7,600 an hour, or 125 a minute. The length of the stride in the various European armies la aa fol lows: In the German army It la < inches, with a cadence of 112 steps per minute; In the Austrian army 2S Inches, with a cadence of from 118 to 130 per minute; In the Italian army 2ft Inches, with a cadence of 120 per min ute; in the French army 2&H Inches, with a cadence of 115 per minute; ha the British army 30 inches, with a cadence of 118 per minute. V Preveat Sleep-Walkings A device to prevent sleep-walking is to lay upon the floor beside the som nambulist a sheet of iron, zinc, or other metal, wide enough to insure that be will step upon it When the sleep walking fit comes upon him his foot touches the cold surface of the metal and be Instinctively draws that leg Into bed again. After two or three attempts the somnambulist gives It op and set tles down In bed. - Aa Atchison, Kan, woman. soul more for practical thing than poetry, has taken down the motto, "God Bleat Our Home," and pat np one which reeda, "Did Yen Wipe Year Feet tar J A FAMOUS LOO HUT. Wltaria It. Walla Was TLaM traaQrtMfr aa a tfca City a Iadlaawpalla. movement la now on foot In In diana, to preaerra, one of th moat fa mona and historic landmarks In th State the old toe boas at Strawtown In which tho capital commlaaloa seventy-eight years ago fixed upon Indianap olis aa the political headquarters of lo in 1819, three yean after the Btate had been adtnitted to the Union, It waa decided to remove the capital from Corydon and a commission was ap pointed to report on a site. The com mission met In a log house at Straw town and this Interesting building Is still standing. It la Interesting to note that Strawtown was a candidate for the honor of being the new capital and only lost by one vote. In 1821 the Legislature acted on the report of the commission and an appro priation was made for the erection of niSTOBIO LOG HOCSK AT ITS1WTSVN. the new State House at Indianapolis, then a barren section of land. The structure put up was a ramshackle af fair of four rooms. On the 28th of Jan uary, 1824, Samuel Merrill, the State Treasurer, packed the State House ef fectsrecords and books into a wagon and pulled them out of Corydon. He traveled at the rate of twelve and one half miles a day, and at last unloaded the State's effects Into the new build ing, and set the State up in business again. The Legislature of 1825 met In the new State House. The town was Inaccessible and was possibly the most trying place In the State to reach, espe cially In the dead of winter, when the Legislature met. The nearest point of real civilization waa Conuorsvllle, fifty miles away, and It is claimed men had to ride there to get their tobacco. Strawtown is now a village of less than 300 souls. It Is full of Interest, however. In it lived the famous old Chief Strawbrldge, from whom the town gets lta name. Ktkiongo, the cap ital of the Miami natlofi of Indians, was Just north of Strawtown, and the chiefs and representatives of the dif ferent clans, making pilgrimage to Mecca, always went by old Chief Straw's settlement In fact his hospi tality made all Indian trails lead to his camp. Ej-yi 'he white traders and later settlers '. there and caroused with - rrjT' It was at Strawtown in March, 1821, that John Shlnlaffer. a French trader, roasted an Indian to death and came near causing the Indians to wipe out the entire central section of Indiana. The war fires were lit all over the Miami and kindred tribe lands, and be fore the Government agents could In terfere one outbreak occurred near Strawtown in which Benjamin Fisher was scalped and others wounded. The most interesting of the Indian mounds Is located just out of Straw- MAIN STREET IN STRAWTOWN. town. It is 300 feet in diameter. To build It the aborigines had changed the course of the river. On it was found a cross, supposed to have been erected by French missionaries, and at another place was found an Indian fort. LIFE IN SIBERIA. Hardest the Tonriat and Strengthen. Bi. Health. The five years that I spent in Siberia were for me a great education in life nnd human character. I was brought into contact with men of all -descriptions; the best and the worst; those who stood at the top of society and those who vegetated at the very bot tom the tramps and the so-called in corrigible criminals. I had ample op portunity to watch the ways and hab its of the peasants in their daily life, nnd still more opportunities to appreci ate how little the state administration could give to them, even though it was animated by the very best Intentions. Finally, my extensive Journeys, during which I traveled over 50,000 miles in carts, on board steamers, in boats and especially on horseback, had a wonder ful effect in strengthening my health. They also taught me how little man really needs as soon aa he comes out of the enchanted circle of conventional civilization. With a few pounds of bread and a few ounces of tea in a leather bag, a kettle and a hatchet hanging at the side of the saddle, and under the saddle a blanket, to be spread at the camp fire upon a bed of freshly cut spruce twigs, a man feela wonderfully independent, even amidst unknown mountains thickly clothed with woods and to winter time. Siberia Is not the land burled in snow and peopled with exiles only, that it is imagined to be, even by many Rus sians. In Its southern parts It is as rich to natural productions as are the southern parts of Canada, and, besides half a million of natives, it has a popu lation of more than 4,000,000 aa thor oughly Russian aa that to the north of Moscow. Prince Kropotkin, in the At lantic. Cigar Stabs Put to Good Use. I A Christmas entertainment Is given I to nearly 2,000 poor persons in Berlin . with th proceed, from , contrlbationa of cigar stubs and tip-cutting, by char-. itable smokers who are considerate i enough to save those seemingly wortn- ygenft. H00SEKCLO. Oysters and Macaroni. Boil four oun ces of macaroni in plenty of boiling water twenty minutes. Then cut it into pieces about one Inch long. Put a layer of this in the bottom of a baking dish, then a layer of oysters, sprinkle with salt and pepper and a few bit. of butter, then another layer of macaroni, and bo on until all is used, the top layer macaroni, sprinkle the top lightly with grated cheese, and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Serve In the dish In which they were baked. Oyster Saute. Twenty-five nice, fat oysters, one-quarter pound of Irish breakfast bacon; pepper and flour. Drain the oysters and dry them with a towel, then sprinkle with pepper and roll them in flour. Put the bacon, cut Into thin slices, in a frying-pan, and let all the fat fry out of it; then re move the bacon and cover the bottom of the pan with oysters; aa soon aa crisp and brown on one side, turn and brown on the other. Serve on squarer of buttered toast. Cranberry Pie. Into one heaped cup pastry flour mix one-fourth teaspoon salt, then chop in one heaped table spoon lard. Mix with cold water into a stiff dough. Toes out and pat until flat and long. Put one heaped table spoon butter In little dabs over the paste, sprinkle slightly with flour, fold over in three layers and pat out thin and long. Fold and pat twice, then take half of the paste and roll out to fit the plate. Roll the remainder out long ' and cut with a pastry Jagger Into narrow stripes. Put a border on the edge, fill with stewed cranberries and make a lattice work of the strips of crust across the top. Bake In a uick oven until the crust is brown. Filling for Cranberry Pie. Allow one half cup of water, one cup and a half of sugar for one heaping pint of cranberries. Cook 10 to 16 minutes without stirring. Rose Doughnuts. To one-fourth pound butter add one pound augar and beat it to a cream. Add six eggs one by one and beat three minutes by the clock after each one. This 1b impor tant. Now sift two pounds of flour four times, add one quarter teaspoon soda and sift again. Add to this one nutmeg grated. Now put one-half the flour to the first mixture, beat well and add one gill rose water and beat again. Mix to soft dough with re mainder of flour, roll out and fry like other doughnuts and sift with pulver ized sugar. These are something out of the ordinary and the most delicious thing in shape of a "fried cake" that I have ever tasted. Brown- Breiad Rounds. Cut vetry thin slices brown bread, spread with grapenut butter. put together like sandwiches and stamp out with round cookie cutter. Boulettes. To two cups mashed pota toes add one tablespoon minced pars lev, one tablespoon onion Juee, one dessertspoon butter two tablespoons cream, one-half teaspoon salt, a dash each of cayenne and black pepper and one-half teaupon lemon Juice. Mix well together, put in iucepan and stir over Are till it leaves the"S.'S52i the pan. Take off. cool and form lfftfe" bells the else of English walnuts. Roll i inicRB Hint enwur uriuiiu a-u fjr M palates, using some fat. In .egg and cracker crumbs and coos INDUSTRIAL. Spain exported 3,000,000 pound, of raisins to the United States last year. More message, are sent by wire in the United State, than in any other country. The only stores in Peking that have glass window, are those of the watch makers. Nine-tenths of all the sewing ma chines used in the world are made in the United States. Women are employed at railway points and crossings in Italy, because they do not get intoxicated. The German ship building yards have been offered mare orders than they can possibly carry out. Gold-plated plumbing will be used in some of the new private residences now being built in New York. In the Connecticut woolen industry the amount of wages paid constitutes 22 per cent, of the product value. The Chattanooga Cotton Factory has hn formed at Chattanooga, Tenn.. for the purpose of erecting a yarn mill. Contracts, mnde on Sunday may be enforced in Minnesota, according to a decision of the Supreme Court of that State. The new Bennettsville. S. C. cotton mills, of Bennettsville. will be estab lished in time to manufacture the next crop of cotton. The completion of the five thou sandth locomotive at the works of Messrs. Henschell and Sons, at Cassel. Germany, has Just been celebrated. Lemon culture Is catching up with the orange bnslness in caiiromia. There are 85,000 bearing trees In the state, and 250.000 non-bearing trees. At Nortn xaaima, vv ami., nop-uuy-ers are now offering to contract the M rron at 11 cents. This is the best price offered for years thus early in the season. nn tinndred and nlnety-tnree meat shops In Paris offer horse meat for sale. The prime cuts sen ai inoui m renis per pound and the inferior at 10 cents. A memorial has been presented to the English Government, urging It to deal with the registration of plumbers in the ensuing session in the Interests of the public health. A new difficulty may soon confront the Chinaman who, desires British Col umbia as a home. The Legislature has been petitioned to Increase the per capita tax upon Chinese to $500. New Zealand has a law in force com pelling every Intoxicated man to have his photograph taken. His picture 1 then distributed among barkeepers and Innkeepers, and they must refuse to sell him liquor. Five miles for a penny! This Is the fare which is announced In connection with an extension of the all-night tram-car service in the North Metro politan Tramways Company between Stamford Hill and Holborn. England. The gold production of Japan since 1S8J has risen almost R000 ounces, and In 1894 reached the vleld of 28.300 ounces. The 19 existing gold mines are partlv in the Emperor's possession, partly In that of private parties. To encourage the removal of old buildings the authorities of Vienna have decreed that If the owners of 1263 specified houses will replace them with new structures they will be aruaran teed a release from the payment of taxes for 18 years. Social Change. A hundred years ago a fashionable evening gatrering was called a "drum," a figure taken from a closely packed drum of figs; a very extensive enter tainment of the same nature was known aa a "rout," from a Welsh word j signifying a crowd, and, as the fun of sucSi soirees "grew fast and furious," they were termed "hurricanes," in al lusion to the hnrrv. bustle, and confn- h.W rilarlnotiv .ho-. .uHn Som v tho iimm wo. n c&Ied riTal hoe teases vied with otber beating up guesta." True love Is always liberal. Order la the sanity of the mind. SERMONS OF THE DAY. byBav. Dr. T.lawgs. (abject: 'Brilliant BltteraaM" Attlla tne Baa Head aa a Horrible Examplf 14 Be a Type of the Wormwood Mea tloned la Revelation T Tsxr: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it tell upon the third part of the rivers, and anon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star Is called Wormwood." Revela tion x.. 11. Patrick and Iiowth, Thomas Scott, Mat thaw Henrv. Albert Barnes and soma other commentators say that the star Wormwood r ot my text was a type ot Atttia, King ot tne Huns. He was so called because he was brilliant a. a star, and, like wormwood, he lmbittered everything he touched. We have studied the Star of Bethlehem, and the Horning Star of Revelation and the Star of Peace but mv snblect calls us to gaze at the star Wormwood, and mv theme might be eailed "Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraordinary character history does not furnish than this man Attila. the king of the Huns, The story goes that one day a wounded heifer eame limping along through the fields, and a herdsman fol lowed Its bloody track on the gras to see where the heifer was wounded, and went on baek, farther and farther, until he came to a sword fast In the earth, the point down ward, as though It had dropped from the heavens, and against the edges of this sword the heifer had been cut. The herds man pulled np that sword and presented it to Attila. Attila said that sword must have dropped from the heavens from tbe grasp of the god Mars, and its being given to him meant that Attila should eonqner and govern the whole earth. Other mftrhty men have been delighted at being called llhAH a .ho HTA.lnl a .ha f- h Attila called himself and demanded that ! ous temples ot her pride! Who can imagine others call him "the Scourge of God." j the greatness of Thebes In those days, when At the head of 700,000 troops, mounted the hippodrome rang with her sports and on Cappadoelan horses, he swept evrv- I foreign royalty bowed at her shrines, and thing, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. ! her avenues roared with the wheels of pro He put his iron hee' on Macedonia and ; cessions in the wake of returning conqurorai Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and What spirit of destruction spread the lair Pavia and Padna and Verona eg fot I of wild beats in her royal sepulchers and mercy, which ho bestowed not. The My- j taught the miserable cottagers of to-day santine castles, to meet his ruinous levy, j to build huts in tbe courts of her temple; put up at auction massive silver tables I and sent desolation and ruin skulking be and vases of solid goM. When a city was I bind tbe oMelists, and dodging among tbe captured by him. the inhabitants were ' sarcophagi, and leaning against the col brought out and pnt Into ihree classes. 1 umns, and stooping among the arches, and The first class, those who could bear nrms. I weeping in the witters which go mourn- must immediately enlist under A'tlla or be butchered; the second class, the beauti ful women, were made captives to the Huns; the third class, the aged men and women, were robbed of everything and let go back to the city to pay a heavy tax. It was a common savins that the' cra never grew where the hoof of Attila's horse bad trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage and fought on the Catalonian plains tbe fiercest battle since the world stood 300,000 dead left on the field. Od and on until all those who oould not on pose him with arms lay prostrate on theii faces In prayer, then a cloud or dust wns seen in the rtlstanoe, and a bishop cried. "It Is the aid of God." and all the peooU took up the cry. "It is the aid of God.' As tbe cloud of dust was blown aside th banners of re -enforcing armies marched in to help against Attila. The 8conrge ot God." The most unimportant occurrence he used as .supernatural resource. After three month, of failure to capture the cltv ofLKiIej Jrhn army bad given up the sieges-, n if -"- srorx ana net "I"- - - young from the tower of t -' - Aullk it him as a sign that b occurence, resnmed h .iea-e and took the walla - -..... .Ve.w, which the stork bad emerged. So brilliant was tbe eonqueror in attire that ' hla AfiAmfMA ivinlfl nnf lnnlr at him hnl akall I h.l. n .nHA ht- I .1 - j Slain on tbe evening of his marriage by : his bride, Ildlco, who was hired for the as- ' sassinatton, bis followers bewailed him, ; not with tears, but with blood, cutting j IIIBUUOITQ8 KIIU KUIVOV RilU IBUCV. US , was put into three coffins, the first of iron, j the seoond of silver and tbe third of gold He was buried by ni,bt, and into his grave was poured the most valuable coins and precious stones, amounting to tbe wealth of a kingdom. Tbe gravedlggers and all those who assisted at the burial were massacred, so that ft would never be known where so muoh wealth was en tombed. The Roman empire conquered the world, but Attila oonquered tbe Roman empire. He was right in calling himself a scourge, but Instead ol being "tbe soourge of God" he was the soourge of hell. Because of his brilliancy and bitterness, the commentators might well have sup posed him to be the star Wormwood of tbe text. As the regions he devastated were port, most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic my text Is: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon tbe fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought bow many emblt tered lives there are all about us. mlsan-' throplo, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The European plant from which wormwooi is exiraccea, Artemisia aosmtntum, is a per ennial plant, ana an toe year round it Is ready to exude its oil. And is many hu man lives there is a perennial distillation of acrid eznerlenoes. Yea. there are anme wnose whole wore to abed a baleful In-i uuvaw wi viuan, luaraBniAU u ni the home, Attilas of the social cirole. At- j tllasof the ehurch, Attilas of the State, and one-third of the water, of all the world are poisoned by the falling of the star Worm wood. It Is not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as tbey tret great power, become overbearing. The more power men have the better, if their power be used for good. Tbe less powei men have the better, If they use It for evil. But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones paternal or maternal? Are your children everlastingly pecked at? Are you always crying "Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet, and to the laughter, which occasionally trickles through at wrong times, and is suppressed by them until tbey can hold it no longer, and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and caohinnation, as in high weather the water has trickled through a slight open ing In tbe milldam. but afterward makes wider and wider breach until It carries all before It with Irresistible freshet? Do not be too much offended at the noise your children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right band to hear one shout from the silent voice, or one step from the still foot. Ton will not any of you have to wait very long before your house is stiller than you want it. Alas that there are so many homes not known to tbe Societv for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where children are whacked and cuffed and ear pulled, and senselessly called to order, and answered sharply and suppressed, un til it Is a wonder that under such processes they do not all turn out Nana Sahibs! But I will ohange this and suppose you are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you have large opportunity. You can encour age that artist by buying his picture. You oan improve the fields, the stables, the highway, by introducing higher style of fowl and horse and cow and sheep. You ean bless tbe world with pomological achievement in the orchard. You can ad vance arboriculture and arrest tbe death fol destruction of the American forests. You can put a piece of acuipture into the niche of that public academy. You can endow a eollege. You can stocking 1003 bare feet from the winter frost. You can build a churoh. You oan put a missionary of Christ on that foreign shore. Yon can help ransom a world. A rloh man with his heart right oan you tell me how much good a James Lenox or a George Peabodr r a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge lid while living or is doing now that bo is lead. There is not a eity, town or neigh orhood tbat has not glorious specimens if consecrated wealth. Bnt suppose you grind the face ot the oor. Suppose, wben a man's wages are lue, yon make him wait for them because be cannot help himself. Suppose tbat, be tause his family is sick and he has bad ex r. expenses, be should politely ask you.to raise his wages tor this year, ana you roughly tell him It he wants a better place :o go and get It. Suppose, by your mau ler, act as though he were nothing and ?ou were everything. Suppose you are (elfish and overbearing and arrogant, four first name ought to be Attila and four last name Attila, because you are the itar Wormwood and yon have lmbittered one-third, if not three-thirds of the waters :hat roll past your employes and opera ives and dependents and associates, and :he long line of carriages which tbe under :aker orders for your funeral In order to sake the occasion respectable will be filled alth twice as manv dry, tearless eyes, as .-here are persons occupying them. Ton irill be in the world bnt a few minutes. As compared with eternity, the stay of the longest life on earth is not more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? What is true of individuals is true ol nations. God sets them np to revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood Tyre tbe atmosphere of the desert, fragrant spices coming In caravans to her fairs: ail seas cleft into foam by the keels of her laden merchantmen; ber markets rich with horses and camels from Totrarmah; the bazaar filled with upholstery from Dedan, j with emerald and coral and acnte irom Svria. with mines from Helbon, with embroidered wore from Ashur and Chil mad. Where now tbe gleam of ber towers, where the roar of ber chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let tbe fishermen who dry their nets where once she stood, let the sea that rushes npon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration ot all nations, let the barbarians who set set their rude tents where once her palaces glittered, answer the questions. She was a star, but by her own sin turned to worm wood and has fallen. Hundred gated Thebes for all time to be the study ot antiquarian and hleroglyphist. Her stupendous ruins spread over twenty seven miles, her sculptures presenting in figure of warrior and chariot tbe victories with which tbe now forgotten kings of Egvpt shook tbe nations; - ber obelisks and columns; Earnak and Luxor, the stupend- tuny oy, as tnougn taey were carrying the tears of all the ages? Let the mummies break their long silence and come up tc shiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaced sculpture, responding: "Thebes built not one temple to God. Thebes hated right eousness and loved sin. Thebes was a star, bat she turned to wormwood and nn fallen." Babylon, with her 250 towers and hei brazen gates and ber embattled walls, tbe splendor of tbe earth gathered within het gates, her banging gardens built by Ne buchadnezzar to please his bride. Amytis, ' who bad been brought up in a mountain ous country and could not endure the flat country around Babylon. These banging gardens built terrace above terrace, till at tbe height of 400 feet there were woods waving and fountains playing, the verdure. , tbe foliage, the glory, looking as it a moun tain were on tne wing. un the tiptop s king walking witn his queen among the ( statues, snowy white, looking np at bird; brought from distant lands and drinking , mil oi lauaarus oi suuu goiu or loosing on n. Wnf. anil UbMnnnn nallnna anhHuul ani tributary, crying, ""r "-V.i, ureal -Bxnylon which 1 have I f What battering ram smote . -.vausi" ' What plowshare upturned tha gardens? I What army shattered tbe brazen (rates! What long, fierce blast of storm put out this light which Illuminated tbe world! What crash of discord drove down the mu sic that poured from palace window and garden grove and called tbe banqueters tc their revel and the dancer to tbelr feet? walk upon the scene of desolation to find an answer and pick up pieces of bitumen and briok and broken pottery, the remains ot Babylon. 1 hear tbe wild waves saying: "Babylon was proud. Babylon was im pure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and has fallen." From the persecutions of the pilgrim fathers and tbe Huguenots in other lands God set upon these shores a nation. Th . council fires of the aborigines went out In the greater light of a free government. The sound of the warwhoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and pro gress. The mild winters, the frulttul sum mers, tbe healthful skies, charmed from other lands a race of hardy men, who loved God and wanted to be free. Before tbe woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ships' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on the banks of lakes be gan to rival cities by the sea. The land quakes with the rush of the rail car, and tbe waters are churned white with tbe steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushel; ol Western wheat meet on the way fabulous bushels of Eastern coal. Furs from the North pass on the rivers fruits from the South. And trading in tbe same market are Maine lumbermen and Smith i?nrrlinn : rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska ; fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylums scatter light and love and mercv and salvation upon 70,000,000 ot people. I pray that our nation may not copy tbe crimes of nations tbat have perished; that our cup ot blessing turn not to wormwood and we go down. Iam by nature and by frrA.ce an nm m sr. inn atimm that ihia country will continue to advance until the world shall reach the mlllenial era. Out only safety is in righteousness toward Ood and justice toward man. If we forget tbe goodness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths, and improve not by tbe dire disasters that have again and again come to us as a people, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemic, nor drought, nor mildew, nor scourge of locust and grasshopper; If the political corrup tion whtoh has poisoned the foundations of public virtue and beslimed the hieh places of authority, making free eovern- ment at times a hissing and a byword in ail the earth; if the drunkenness and li centiousness that stagger and blaspheme In tbe streets of our great cities, as though tbey were reaching after the fame of a Cor inth and a Sodom, are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin. Tbe pillars of our national and State Capi tols will fall more disastrously than wben Sampson pulled down the Dragon, and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with generous tears thestorv that the free nation of tbe west arose in splendor which made tbe world stare. It had magnificent possibilities; it forgot God; it hated justice; it hugged its crimes, it halted on its high march; it reeled under the blow of calamity; it fell, and as it was going down all the despotisms of earth from tbe top of bloody thrones began to shout: "Aha! So wonld we have it!" while struggling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars, with tears and groans and cries of untold agony, tbe scorn of those and tbe woe of these, uniting In tbe ex clamation: "Look yonder! 'There fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon tbe third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and tbe name of tbe star Is called Wormwood!' " A Pnxzlina; Letter. "I don't know whether this new man Is a very astute diplomat," said the rail way attache, "or a very bad speller." "Have you heard from your letter asking what he has done with refer ence to those hostile members of the Legislature?" "Yes. He says he Is doing his bet t to passlfy them." Washington Star. True valor is fire, bullying is smoke. Tou cannot reprove, unless you love. How narrow Is mental vision! If we look for crooked things we will see only them; if we look for honesty, it is al ways before us. Look for good mo tives and life will be a pleasure. mi bv. pity on me." IV
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