. M "". MIFFLINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, .I'ENX., WEDNESDAY, APJJIX 19, 18DJ). NO. 19. B. F. SCWEIER, ' t ' ' B" ' THE COHSTITUTIOM THE UNION AUD THE ENFORCEMENT OF. THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. i ' X W T TT T" ? t " : ' 1 By Jite Duchess. CHAPTER XI V. (Continued.) This afternoon, one of many that Bar bara bas given up to duty, finds her aa usual in Lady Monkton's drawing room listening to her mother-in-law's comments on this and that, and trying to keep her temper, for Frederick's sake, when the old lady findii fault with her management of the children. She has one compensation for the visit. Dicky Browne aud Felix Dysart drop in md are both surprised and glad to see her and to learn that Joyce, too, is in town to stay for the winter. Before Barbara re turns home she has confided to Dysart the fact that Joyce will visit the art gal lery In Broad street the next day. "Well, did you like the gallery?" asks Mrs. Monkton, throwing aside her book to greet Joyce as she returns from Dore's the next day. Barbara bad let the girt go to see the pictures without telling her of the meeting with Felix. She had been, afraid to say anything about him lest that guilty secret of hers might transpire that deliberate betrayal of Joyce' intend ed visit to Broad street on the morrow. "Very much. So did Tommy. He ia very graphic in his remarks," says Joyce, inking listlessly into a chair, and taking off her hat. She leans back in her chair, the troubled look on her face growing Intensified. She seems glad to be silent, and with downcast eyes plays with the gloves lying in her lap. "Something baa happened, Joyce," says her sister, going over to her. ' "Something is happening always." re turned Joyce, with a rather impatient mile. "Yes, but to yon just now." "You are sure to make me tell yon soon er or later," says Miss Havana gh. "and even if I didn't. Tommy would. I met Mr. Dysart at that gallery to-day." "Felix''" says Mrs. Monkton, feeling herself an abominable hypocrite, yet afraid to confess the truth. Something in the girl's whole attitude forbids a confes sion, at this moment at al) events. "Yes." "He was glad to sea yo7" ery tud "Was he? I don't know. He looked very 111. He said he had bad a bad cough. He is coming to see you." "You were kind to him, Joyce?" "I didn't insult him, if you mean that." "Oh, no. I don't mean that; you know what I mean. He was ill, unhappy; you did not make him more uuhnppy?" "It ia always for him!" cries the girl, with jealous anger. "Is there never to be a thought for me? Am 1 nothing to you? Am I never nnhappy? Why don't rou ask if he was kind to me?" "Was he ever unkind?" "Well, you can forget! He said dread ful things to me dreadful. I am not like ly to forget them if you are. After all. they did not hurt you." "Joyce!" "Do yon mean to tell me, that for all that, you didn't know he would be at that pi ice to-day?" turning flashing eyes upon hf-r sister. "How could I know? unless a person ays a thing right out. how is one to be sure what he is going to do?" "Oh! that is unlike you. It Is unwor thy of you." says Joyce, turning from her scornfully. "You did know. And it is not," turning back again and confront ing the now thoroughly frightened Bar bara with a glance full of pathos, "it is not that your insincerity that hurts me to much, it is " "I didn't mean to be insincere; you are very cruel you do not measure your words." "You will tell me next that you meant !-. all for the best," with a bitter smllei "That is the usual formula, isn't it? Wall, never mind; perhaps you did. What I do object to is that you didn't tell me. That I was kept designedly in the dark both by him and you. Am I," with sudden fire, "a child or a fool, that you should seek to guide me so blindly? Well," drawing a long breath. "I won't keep you in the dark. When I left the gallery, and your protege, I met Mr. Beauclerk." Mrs. Monktop, stunned by this intelli gence, remains silent for a full minute. It' is death to her hopes. If she has met that man again, it is impossible to know how things have gone. His fatal influ-j ence her unfortunate infatnation all will be ruinous to poor Felix's hopes. ! "You spoke to him?" asks she at last, in in emotionless tone. "Yes." "Was Felix with you?" "When?" "When yon met that odious man." i "Mr. Beauclerk? So; I dismissed Mr! Dysart as soon as ever I could." "So doubt. And Mr. Beauclerk, did yon dismiss him as promptly?" , "Certainly not. There was no occasion. , "No Inclination, either. Ton were kind :o him, at all events. It is only to the man who is honest and sincere that you are ieliierately uncivil." "I hope I was uncivil to neither of thorn." "There Is no use in giving yourself that air with me, Joyce. Youate angry with nie; but why? Only because Lam anxious for your happiness. . O&i'.'that hateful man, how I detest him! H? has made you nnhappy once he will certainly make you unhappy again." 'i don't think so," says Joyce, taking up her hst and furs with the evident inten tion of leaving the room, and thus putting an end to the discussion. "You will never think so, nntil it is too late. You haven't the strength of mind) to throw him over, once and for all, ana rive your thoughts to one who Is really vorth of you. "On the contrary. JO" "pend your time comparing him" favorably with that good and faithful Felix." You should put that down. It will do lor his tombstone," says Miss Kavanagh, "W'th a rather uncertain little laugh. CHAPTER XV. " is six weeks later, "spring has come op this way," and all the earth U glad with a fresh birth. March &u indeed come; boisterous. Mothers'' in m"nJ Way" but ,ove" Mr. Monkton had come back from a r7 .h'S d,",nte brother. He had very little to tell on his return, and that of the saddest. It had all been onlv too true about certain iniquitous debts, and the old people were in great distress. The two town houses should be let at once, and the old place in Warwickshire the home, aa he had called it well! there was no hope now that it would ever be re deemed from the bands of Manchester people who held it; and Sir George had been so sure that this spring he would have been in a position to get back his own, and have the old place once more in his possession. It was all very sad. "There is no hope now. He will have to let the place to Barton for the next ten years," said Monkton to his wife when be got home. Barton was the Manchester man. "He Is still holding off.about doing it. but he knows it must be done, and at all eventa the reality won't be a bit worse than the thinking about it. Poor old gov ernor! You wouldn't know him, Bar bara. He has gone to skin and bone, and such a frightened sort of look in his eyes." "Oh, poor, poor old man!" cried Bar bara, who could forget everything of past on kindness where her sympathies were enlisted. Toward the end of February the guests had begun to arrive at the Court, Lady Baltimore had returned there during Jan uary with her little son, but Baltimore bad not put in an appearance for some weeks later. A good many new people un known to the Monktons had arrived there with others whom they did not know, and after awhile Dicky Browne had come and Miss Maliphant and the Brabazons, and some others with whom Joyce was on friendly terms, but even though Lady Bal timore had made rather a point of the girls being with her, Joyce had gone to hei but sparingly, and always in fear and trembling. It was so impossible to know who might not have arrived last night, or was gong to arrive this night! That, np to this, neither Dysart nor Beauclerk -had come to the Court, had been a comfort to her; but that they might come at any moment kept her watchful and Gaeasy. Indeed, only yesterday she had heard from Lady Baltimore that both were expected during the week. That news leaves her rather unstrung land nervous to-day. After luncheon, hav ing successfully eluded Tommy, the lynx- j eyed- she- decide apon goima for -tong walk, with view to working off the de gression to which she bad become a prey. Q his is how she happens to be out of the iway when the letter comes for Barbara that changes the tenor of their lives. , The afternoon post brings it. The de licious spring day has worn itself almost to a close when Monkton. entering his wife's room, where she is busy at a sew ing machine altering a frock for Mabel, Idrops a letter over her shoulder into her lap. "What a queer-looking letter !" says she, staring in amazement at the big official envelope. i Mrs. Monkton has broken open the en velope, and is now scanning hurriedly the contents of the important looking docu ment within. There is a pause a length ened one. Presently Barbara rises from her seat mechanically, as it were, always 'with her eyes fixed on the letter in ber ihand. She bas grown a little pale a little Ifrown la contracting ber forehead. I "Freddy!" says she, in a rather strange ,tone. , "What?" says he, quickly. "No more bad news, I hope?" ( "Oh, no! Oh, yea! I can't quite make It out but I'm afraid my poor uncle is Idead." "Your uncle?" ( "Yes, yes. My father's brother. I think I told you abont him. He went abroad years ago, and we Joyce and I. believed him dead a long time ago, long before I married you even but now Come here and read it. It is worded so oddly that tit puzzles me." "Let me see it," says Monkton. He sinks into an easychair and dragi her down on to his knees the better to see over ber shoulder. Thns satisfactorily ar ranged, he begins to read rapidly the let ter she holds before his eyes. "Yes, dead, indeed," says he, sotto voce. '"Go on. turn over: you mustn't fret about that, you know, Barbara erer" read ing. "What's this? By' Jove!" "What?" says his wife, anxiously. "What is the meaning of this horrid let ter, Freddy 7" "There are a few people who might not 'call it horrid," says Monkton. placing his arm round her and rising from the chair. He is looking very grave. "Even though it brings you news of your poor uncle's death, still it brings you, too, the Informa tion that you are heiress to about a quar ter of a million!" "What!" says Barbara, faintly. And 'then, "Oh, no! Oh, nonsense! there must Jbe some mistake." 1 "Well, it sounds like it. at all. events. rSad occurrence. h'm h'm " reading '"Co-heiresses. Very considerable for kune. " He looks to the signature of the letter. " 'Hodgson & Fair.' Very respec table firm! My father has had dealings 'with them. They say your uncle died in Sydney, and has left behind him an im-fnense- sum of money. Half a million. In Ifact, to which yon and Joyce are co-heir fS"There must be some mistake," rcpeati Barbara, in a low tone. "It seems too like a fairy tale." "It does. And yet lawyers like Hodg son & Fair are not likely to be led Into a cnl-de-sae. If"-be pauses and looks earn estly at his wife-"if it does prove true, Barbara, yon will be a very rich woman. "And you will be rich with me. she says, quickly. In an agitated tone. But, but " tt "Yes- It doea seem difficult to believe," interrupts he, slowly. "What a letterr His eyes fall on it again, and she, draw ing close to him, reads It once more care- tU"l think there Is some truth " she. at last. "It sounds more like being .11 right, more reaaon.ble, when read . 8eshned.tep.e; Uttl. bit away from him and a b!I TlllVZ ? slowly. that if there ia troth In this story, how ' much we can do for your father and moth- i 'Monkton startta- U For item. To do anything for them. For the two I aZ wantonly offended and Insult- uunng an ner married life. Is her first thought to be for them? "Yes, yes," says she, eagerly. "We shall be able to help them out of all their diffi culties. Oh! I didn't v ni.nl, V... their grief, their troubles, have gone to uij wktj nearc i couldn't bear to think of their being obliged to give up their houses, their comforts, and in their old age, too! Now we shall be able to smooth matters for them!" Monkton had to run across to London about the extraordinary legacy left to his wife and Joyce. But further investiga tion proved the atorv trn Tk. ,,.- was, indeed, there, and they were the ""'J neirs. rrom being distinctly poor they rose to the height of a very respecta ble income, and Monkton being in town, where the old Monktons still were, also was commanded by bis wife to go to them and pay off their largest liabilities debts contracted by the dead son, and to so ar range that they should not be at the ne cessity of leaving themselves houseless. The Manchester people who bad taken the old place in Warwickshire were now informed that they could not have it be yond the term agreed on, but about this the old people bad something to say. too. They would not take back the family place. They had but one son now, and the sooner be went to live there the better. Lady Monkton, completely broken down and melted by Barbara's generosity, went so far as to send her a long letter, telling her it would be the dearest wish of hers and Sir George's hearts that she should preside as mistress over the beautiful old homestead, and that It would give them great happiness to imagine the children the grandchildren running riot through the big wainscoted rooms. Barbara was not to wait for her Lady Monkton's death to take up her position as head of the house. She was to go to Warwick shire at once, the moment those detesta ble Manchester people were out of it; and Lady Monkton, if Barbara would be so good as to make ber welcome, would like to come to her for three montha every year, to see the children, and her son, and her daughter. The last waa the crowning touch. For the rest, Barbara was not to hesitate about accepting the Warwick shire place, as Lady Monkton and Sir George were devoted to town life, and never felt quite well when away from smoky London. This last waa true. As a fact, the old people were thoroughly imbued with a de sire for the turmoil of city life, and the three months of country Lady Monkton bad stipulated for were quite as much as they desired of rustic felicity. (To be continued.) BOY'S ESSAY ON POLITENESS. Delicious Philosophy In Regard to the Treatment of Girle. Politeness la rather a difficult thing, especially when you are making a start, says a boy, quoted by London Tit-Bits. Many people haven't got It. I don't know why, unless it Is the start. It Is not polite to fight little boys except they throw stones at you. Then you can run after them and when you've caught tbenv jut do arnta?ittt-tfcm,-iut?a all. Remember that all little boys are simpletons, or they wouldn't do It, It la not the thing to make fun of a little chap because be la poorer than you. Let him alone if you don't want to play with him, for he Is as good as you except the clothes. When you are In school, and a boy throws a bit of bread or anything at you over the desks. It Is not polite to put your tongue out at him, or to twiddle your fingers In front of your nose. Just wait till after school, and then warn him what you'll do next time; or, If you find you are bound to bit him. be pretty easy with blm. Some boys are very rude over their meals. Don't keep on eating after you are tightening and you will be far more happier. Never eat quickly, or you might get bones in your throat. My father knows of a boy who got killed over his Sunday dinner. The greedy boy was picking a rabbit's head In a hurry and swallowed one jaw of It; and my father says be was choked to death there and then. Be very polite over your meals, especially when it's rabbits. Since my father told me that I have al ways felt rather queer over a rabbit dinner. It Is not polite to leave victuals on your plate, especially anything you don't like. If you don't like turnips it Is better to eat well Into your turnips first, while you are hungry, and you'll eat the meat and potatoes easy enough after. Boys should always be polite to girls, however vexing they may be. Girls are not so strong as boys, their hair is long and their faces are prettier; bo you should be gentle with them. If a girl scratches you on the cheek, or spits In your face, don't punch ber and don't tell her mother. That would be mean. No Wonder. The reprehensible practice of kissing babies, and thereby subjecting them to danger of contagion as well as to dis comfort and annoyance. Is so hard to suppress that one cannot greatly mar Tel at the means of combating the prac tice which a certain father is reported to have adopted. "Why. I should like to know," a friend asked this prudent father, "have you taught your baby to eat onions?" "It keeps people from kissing him." answered the father. Youth's Com panion. The whirling winds of Arabia some times excavate sand pits to a depth of two thousand feet, the rim usually being three times that depth in diam eter. A sand pit thus made may be entirely obliterated in a few hours, and another excavation made within a short distance of It. Twenty years' study has led a cer tain scientist to believe that diphthe ria, apoplexy and other diseases are due to a deficiency of salt in the sys tem. It has been found that X-rays are fatal to bacteria. In the Hygienic In stitute of Munich, Bavaria, they ar used as a disinfecting agent. A German biologist has ' calculated that the human brnin contains 300.003. 000 nerve cells. 580,000 of which die and are succeeded by new ones every day. At this rate we get an entirely new brain every sixty days. The theory that malarial fevers are caused by the punctures of mosquitoes Is gaining more and more acceptance In Kuroiwan medical circles.. In China, which has long been known as "the land of opposites." the dials of clocks are made to. turn round, while the hands stand still. It is computed that the death rate of the world Is 67, and the birth rate 70 a minute, and this seemingly light percentage of gain is sufficient to give a net Increase in population each year of almost 1,200,000 'souls. PF.RIL OF WIN DOW. WASHERS. Dstaroraaa Employment of Janitor on hlcaaro'a fekyScrapera. The man who rents an office In one f tue large buildings of Chicago pays as much attention to the man who wasbes his windows as be pays to the charlady whr scrubs bis floors. In both cases he notices them only to wonder that they can put In so much time and achieve so little. The win dow washer, however. Is worth some study. Like the wild duck, he lives a Hfe of peril and barshlp and when be falls, as a general thing, he falls a good deal further. Chicago Is a town of high structures and strong winds and bitter weather and the proportion of accidents among the men who clean Its windows is large. It Is so large, in fact, that more than once a move bas been started to obtain State legislation looking to the enforced protection of the artists of the soap and rubber broom All of the window washers do not fall at once, so the public gives no heed to the number of fatalities among them. U in a fact, however, that more tbnn 400 men lost their lives by falling from window ledges In the United States last year. Of these casualties Chicago furnished Its share. Indeed, It is a i are week which passes without the chronicling of one or more of this class of accidents. . Ten, or at most tweniy, lines. In a newspaper give In formation of the workman's death. Ex cp t by the woman and children who lYpeinled upon -him for bread he Is speedily forgotten. The thing is so coniiunn that the risk of a window washer's life Is regarded as extra haa ardous by all Insurance companies. The danger of the calling Is appar-j ent A man earning bis living by, washing the windows of the Masonic' Temple has to keep his wits awake. ' That Is the windiest corner in the world. Even on still summer days, when the lake Is glassy and perspiring pedestrians a block further north orrfwas of stone, was converted into a door- south long for t breath of air, a blast? from the deepest lung cells of Boreas Is; whistling around the Temple, burling dnst Into the eyes of passers. plnyin4 bowls with their hats, wrenching their j cuaiians, lorcing tnem to lean iar out? of tiie perpendicular, and doing wicked,' things to the ladies' skirts. On the wln-j dow ledges which mark the twentieth ?tory this blast is a howling gale. Ofteni in tue winter rime it oiows so strong-; ly that a man cannot stand in it. In' WOHKIHO AT A DIZZT HKIOUT. tliee cases the window-washer wisely lostpones his work and the man who rents the offices goes down and swears at the Janitor. Fifty miles an hour Is a common rate for air travel about the upper stories of the Temple, and in this sort of blow work goes on as usual. Many times in the winter the stone ledge is covered with snow, or with smooth Ice an Inch thick. This ren ders the washer's task doubly peril ous. Above him Is the open sky. Far below are the stones of the cruel street. The people moving about look like ants. Between him and sickening death Is only a slender bar of steel, which fits Intol socket on each side of the window frame and passes across the small of his back. He is compelled to use both hands in his work. If he slips he trusts to catching the bar with his numbed fingers. It is contended that some window-wash develop claws on their feet after a yrnr or so. Those who do not are "dead when picked up." There are various safety devices, but the steel, or Iron, bar is the mast com mon. Sometimes the bar breaks; some times the socket breaks; sometimes the screw breaks. It all amounts to a cheap funeral In the end. One of the best of the guards Is a wide heavy belt of webbing or leather, which passes about the man's middle. It has a stc pie In the center of its back and througn this staple a strong rope Is passed and hooked to each side of the window. If a man slips while wearing the belt he Is suspended In air and spraddles about with arms and legs until he catches bold and resumes his task. The window washers make no com plaint of the dangers to which they are subjected or of the lack of guards with which they are furnished. The steel bar crossing the small of the back Is. in bad weather, but little better tbnn no protection at all, yet they ac cept the risks calmly. Poor men In a big city will do a good deal for per mission to make a living. They "(ay, when asked about It, that nearly every death among them is traceable to the carelessness of the workman. It is not often that one of the safety devices breaks that is, comparatively speak ing. A man who has washed a hun dred windows a day for three years in all sorts of weather gets to thinking that be cannot fall. When be reaches this state of mind tbe tumble always follows. Tea are killed from careless ness where one meets bis death through a fault in the bar or tbe belt, all of which they admit freely. ' When a man has a trouble be regards bis burden as being particularly heavy If be bas no one to go to for sympathy. He la fortunate that be is compelled to keep tt to himself, anq jtoesn't know It btr- ' '-o-.'--v.- . - i , i . .i- .1.1 vi win iHHasrapanr awnpj-i. i .is uisM.a.ihurfu . THE FIRST WEB PRESS. Said to Have Been Made by Jostak Warren, of New Harmony, Ind. According to the IndianapoH News fosiah Warren of New Harmony, Ind., aas the real pioneer in the mode.'n rueth d of rapid printing. One Sir Rowaid Hill outdated him. but Hill's machine, we ire told, was, "although very ingenious ia its design. Imperfectly executed, and not t practical and working success." He worked out the idea of his improved press In New Harmony, then went to Cincin nati, where proper facilities were to be nad, and built it. On its completion he tent It down the river to Evansville, where It waa;, to be utilized in turning out political literature for the famous cam paign of 1S40. It went tp the office of the Southwestern Sentinel, a sheet begot of that campaign. htnd did its work so effectively that the printers of the town made a crusade tgainst it. One man, with the aid of a Doy, conld turn out forty to sixty copies per minute, which was about ten times taster than the old rate of speed; hence the objection to it by the craft. The opposition was so strong and persist ent that finally Warren, in disgust, hauled it to New Harmony and de liberately broke it up. The bed, which WARREN AND HIS PRESS. tep, which ignoble end, it is said, it still serves; ana that, so far as history and legend go, was the end of the Josinh War ren web press. As an inventor Warren failed of his de serts. He devised not only the old web press, but also a stereotyping process, which some claim to have been the fore runner of the present process. He also adapted his type plates to a curved or cylindrical surface, such as is now gen erally used on the rapid presses. As pre liminary to his printing experiments he learned to make types and equipped him self with an outfit by molding them like o many bullets by the side of his fire place. Specimens of the work from his stereotype plates may be seen in the New Harmony Library, and it compares well with the more modern work of a perfected art. An abdominal bandage should scarce ly be worn to reduce fat simply. A moderately strong bandage gives the flabby abdomen a grateful support, but too much pressure results from some of ttt obesity bands, and uncomfortable pressure Is dangerous In all fat persons. For a cold in the head manifested by repeated sneezing, running of the nose and changed voice, hot water and borax should be used to wash out the nostrils every hour or two. If circum stances do not permit this, a powder of bismuth, myrrh and acacia may be used as a snuff. Poor soaps, improper diet, chronic diseases of the stomach and bowels and chauges Incidental to youthful de velopment cause pimples. Pimples should never be squeezed upon until there is a distinct yellow top on them. Then this should just be punctured with tbe point of a needle dipped in alcohol. After tbe pus is removed, the pimple should be covered with oxide of sine salve. Pains about the heart frequently oc cur from the upward pressure of gas in the stomach, as the organs are only sep arated by a thin membranous muscle, somewhat dome-shaped. Where this pain occurs with belching of gas. use some mild medicine like peiu, and avoid potatoes, fresh bread, corn, rice, peas, beans and cocoa, and eat thin soups, lean meats and eggs. Profuse perspiration indicates a pool condition of the ImiiIv. and children who ' sveat excessively are apt to show joint J deformities, asthmatic cough or other peculiarities which point to a poofcon-" etitutlon. For those afflicted thus, 30 drops of albuminate of Iron before meals, and a teaspoonful of pure cod liver after meals, will be found effica cious. -The Inhalation of tbe smoke of cubebs for this ailment, as in asthmatic conditions, will be found only slightly serviceable. Slice that Manufacture Thread. A Scottish artisan has conceived the Ingenious and . economic Idea of em ploying mice in the manufacture of thread. The small quadrupeds are made to turn a wheel with their feet, and In this manner, and by means of a simple mechanical contrivance, they are able to make about 2,800 reels of 137 yards each daly. To produce this quantity It Is estimated that they cover a course of 18,000 yards. Woman's Rights in China. The boatwomen of China have no need to agitate for women's rights they possess them. The boatwomen, whether she be a single woman or a wife or a widow. Is the head of the house that Is to say, of the boat If she is married, the husband takes the useful but subordinate place of deck hand or bow oarsman. She does the steering, makes bargains with the pas sengers, collects the money, buys sup plies, and in general lords tt over w- Useful Hints. Lamp wicks will become clogged with the settling from the kerosene unless cleaned occasionally? it will be well to boil, dry and trim them it they give a poor light and renew often there is no economy In using short or dirty lamp wicks. In mending gloves use fine cottou as silk Is far more apt to cut the kid If the rent Is in a seam, turn thf rlove inside out and sew them over ano over. If the tear is in the glove, sM a piece of kid under it and secure witfc a. few stitches. , When packing has wrinkled o. erushe l the clothing, a vigorous shak ing, after which to hang or spread ! out in a hot room for some hours, will greatly improve the appearance. People find that, though they pu, plenty of sucar into a frult-pte. It is not sweet when baked. The ordinarj cane sugar is converted into grape sugar when heated with any acid, an that sugar has only about one-thiri the sweetenintr power of cans suear r.ut if a little baking powder is added to the fruit, so ns to neutralize th acid, the sugar will retain its sweet ness in the cooking. To have broiled ham at its best bol the ham so that it is nearly cooked let cool in the water, then slice tc Droll. Sugar in the water for basting mean will add to their flavor. This is specially true of veal. Date vinegar added to the water n which fish is boiled will improve the flavor. When baking flsh place on the toj thin slices of salt pork. Industrial. Our potato crop last year yilded Si, 4.1.000. A new cotton mill Is to be built at Eelton. S..C. At Dawson City hay costs from $500 to JSOO a ton. Texas planters have shipped cotton seed to Manila. The Capital City Woolen Mills, Dn Moines, la., are to be eniarked. The Danville (Va.) Knitting Mill Company has been organized, with W. ?. Hodnet president. - The success of the Manchester Sli p Tanal has led Belgium to consider a jimlar undertaking for the bentfit )f Brussels. The carpetmaking Industry of Japan s of comparatively recent growth, and, the chief seat of the industry at the present day Is Sakai. North Carolina is to have a textile ichool at Raleigh. Proprietors of the State's cotton mills have agreed to :ontribute. the necessary funds. In Austria one can get a high-class haircut for a sum equal to Ave cents, 5r a first-class shave for something like three cents in any part of lb; :ountry. Contmon laborers who get $1 a day in :he United States get $1 an hour in Dawson City, but it is F?Id"m any of Ihem has a Job longer than a few hours. Fish Commissioner Mcfluire, of Or jon, declares in his 1S99 report that ap to the present time saimon to the ra.iue.cf -about 173.000.000 have fceen :akeri 7ut of tnn CoimnMa niwr. The Fairfield (111.) Woolen Mills hav been purehawd by en Evansville firm Tor $23,000. The mills have been shut down for three years, and the new jwners will open them up at once. In 1S40 there were but seven occupa tions open to women in the way of wnge-enrning. whereas now th- fieli Includes several hundred branches of Industry. About 61 per cent, of the women of Massachusetts between the acres of 15 and 35 years are wa?e parners. domestic servants forming a much smaller class than other occupa tions. It is reported that the Queen Oitv Cotton Company, Rurlington. Vt.. wl'l Jonble Its prcsnt capacity. The new mill will cost rr00.0O0 and will give em ployment to 200 more hinds. The Henrietta (X. C.) cntton mills recently made a shipment of 2"0 bnls f goods to Aden. Arabia. The fri-T-ht through to destination is to be $1 51 per 100 pounds, shipment being made via (Cew York. Household. Scotch Short Cake.-Stir twelve oun ces butter (one and a half cupfuls) to a cream; add gradually one pound powdered sugar, one tablespoonful cin namon, one .pound of flour and a littie milk, about a gill; work into a smooth paste; roll out to one-thiid of an inch thickness: cut into cakes; put them on Duttered tins and bake in medium hot jven. Thejt take about 30 minutes to pake. - Broiled Halibut Slice the fish, salt and pepper, and lay in meited butter one-half hour, allowing one table spoonful of the butter to one pound of fish. Then roll in flour and broil for Bwenty. minutes. Serve hot. - Baked Smelts. Wash thoroughly,- dry In a cloth, irrarfge-jn a flat baking dish, a'fter " buttering both flsh an J 3 1 sh." Season with salt and pepper and cover with bread or cracker crumbs. IMace a "piece -'of butter on each dish and bake 20 -minutes. 'Garnish with parsley and lemon. " Sunshine Sponge Cake. Separate four eggs and beat very hard. - It taiies two people to make this cake, ona to beat the whites, th other the yolk's. .- Beat whites stiff and add gradually one cup granulated sugar. To jl he' wen-beat en yolks add one tab'e spocmfV Ylnegnr f'rop by dron, beat ing constantly." Now start at same time and" beat yolks and whites three mirWtea. by the clock. I.ljrhtly mix the two and add one h of flour very gently but quickly. " Sift flour four times. Bake" In moderate 'oven. . Vanilla Cream. Break -thre- fre-h ?ggs into an egg bowl, add a t-?a spoon ful of vanilla susrar ar.rl a wjneglaps of syrup Wh's't the egr over a saucepan of boilina- water uit'l thev are thick and frothy. th"n add half in ounce of gelatine, previously soak ed in cold water, whisk the rraTi until cold, then mix it with half n pint of whipped creim and pour all at once into a vettet mou!d. ' Pekin is a city of dust, like most Chinese towns. Nevertheless, the only stores that have glass windows ar those of the watcLir.akers. Butter and bacon are declared by a medical writer to be the most nour ishing of all foods. It is supposed that the averas depth of sand in the deserts of Arrica is from 30 to 40 feet. Amputation of the four lesser toes of each foot of a lady patient has con vinced Dr. Heather Bigg, an English surgeon, that these toes have no use except for feeling, as only the great toe Is of any advantage in walking or even dancing. Glass would be a better and more lasting material than ston" ir making monuments, which ar -xposed to the wearing action of the weather. The windows of Persian houses, as a rule, are not visible from the street. A resident of a Minnesota town died recently of obesity. He weighed at his death 438 pounds. mm o Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage. onojecr: noia tmmx to sn. kidi rea son. Drawn From the Sword of Ktc.i.r A H. Graaped Hli Weapon So should We Cleave to the Old Gospel. Text: "And his hand elave nnto tbe aword." II Samuel xxiii., 10. What a glorious thing to preach the Oospell Some suppose that because .1 have resigned a fixed pastorate I will cease to preach. No, no. I expect to reach more than I ever have. It the ord will, four times as much, though in manifold places. I would not dare to halt with such opportunity to declare the ttuth through tbe ear to audiences and to the eye through the printing press. And here we have a stirring theme pat before as by the prophet. A great general of King David vat Eleazar, tbe hero of the text. The Philis tines opened battle against him, and his troops retreated. The cowards fled. Eleazar and three of bis comrades went into the battle and swept the field, for four men with God on their side are stronger than a wbcle regiment with God against them. "Fall back!" shouted the commander of the Philistine army. The cry ran along the host, "Fall back!" Eleazar, having swept tbe Held, throws himself on the gronnd to rest, but the mus cles and sinews of his band bad been so long bent around the hilt of bis sword that the hilt was imbedded In the flesh, and the gold wire of tbe hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the band, and he could not drop this sword which he lmd so gallantly wielded. "His hand clave unto tbe sword." That is what I cull magnificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel. And we want more of it. I propose to show yoa how Eleazar took hold et tthe sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's baud, and I come to the conclusion that he took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled had no trouble in drop ping their swords. . As they; fly over the rocKS I hear their swords clanging In every direction. It is easy enough for them to drop their swords, bat Elenaar's hand chive unto the eword. In this Christian conflict we wnut a tighter grip of the Qospel weap ons, a tighter grasp ot the two edged sword i of the truth. It makes me sick to see these Christian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go, so that the Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whale sword away from them. The only sate thing for us to do is to put our thumb on tbe book of Genesis asd sweep our hand around the book until the New Xestament comes into the palm and keep on sweeping our hand around the book nntil the tips of the flngera clutch at the words "In the beginning: God created the .heavens and the earth." I like an iull del a great deal better than I do-ouebf these namby pamby Christians-who. hold a part ot the truth and let the rest gov By miracle God preserved this Bible just a it is, and It is a Damascus Diaae. The sever est test to which a sword can be put iu a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and theu when the sword is let loose it flies back to its own shape. ho the sword of God's truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way' and that way and wound this way and that way, but it always comes back to Its own shape. Think of it! A book written nearly nineteen centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in our time the average sale cf this book Is more than 20.000 copies every week and d-mara thau 1,000,000 copies a year! I say cow mat a dooi wnren is uivinmy inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wreDch out of your band the live books ot Moses, and Htrauss will come along and try to wrench out ct your band the miracles, ani Benau will come along and try to wrench ont of your hand the entire life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates In tbe office or the factory or tbe bunking bouse will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar's grip hold on to it. lou give up tbe Bible, you give np any part of it, and you give up par don and peace and lite in heaven. Do not be ashamed, young man, to have the world know that you are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend cf all that is good, and it Is tbe sworn enemy ot all that Is bad. An eloquent writer recently give an incident of a very bad mac who stood la a cell of a Western prison. This crimi nal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows. Tbe convict standing there at the window of the cell, this writer says, "looked out and declared, 'I am an infidel.' He said that to all the men and women and chil dren who happened to be gathered there, "I am an infidel.' " And the eloquent writer says, "Every man and woman there be lieved him." And the writer goes on to gay, "If he had stood there saying, 'I am a Christian,' every man ar.d womau would have sai l, 'He is a liar!' " This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and it is the friend of all that is good. Oil, hold cn itl Do cot take part of It and throw the rest away. Held on to all of it. There are so many people cow who do not know. You ask them if tbe soul is immortal, and they say: "I guess it Is; I don't know. Perhaps it is; perhaps it isn't." Is the Bibletrue? "Well, perjaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all." They despise what they call the apostolic oreed, but if thir own rreed. were written out it would read like this: "I believe' in nothing, the maker ot heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath cent, .which nothing was born of nothing and which nothing was dead and bnried and descend ed into nothing and rose from . itoUilng. and ascended to nothing and cow sittetU at the right hand of nothing, from which it will-come tojudge nothing.. I be lieve -in the hply agnostic Iburou and la the. communion bl nothingarians and fa the forgiveness- of-nothlng and the ressr raction of nothing and in the llfethat never shall be. Amen!" That is the creed of tens of thousands of people m this day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I will not. "I believe iu God, the Father Air. mighty. Maker o! heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ and in- the holy catholic church and in the communion of saints and in tbe life everlasting. AmenK' Oh, when I see Eleazar taking such .a stout grip ot tbe sword lnjihe-Jwitle against sin and for righteousness, I Come to the con clusion that we ought tc take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth the sword of righteousness. . As I look at Eleazar's hand I also notice his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his band. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the conflict he was so anxious tot the victory he forgot himself, and that h it might go never so deeply into the palm of his hand, it could cot disturb him. "HI; baod clave unto tbe sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go into the Christian conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whethertbe world praises us or de nounces us? What do we care for misrep resentation or abuse or persecution in a conflict like this.? Let us forget ourselves. That man who is afraid of getting his hand hurt will nhver kill a Ptillif tl-.e. Who cares whether you get hurt or rot if you get the victory? Oh, bow many Christians there are who are all the time worrying about the way tbe world treats them! They are so tired, and they are so abused, and they are so tempted, when Eleazar did not think whether he had a hand or an arm or a foot. All he wanted was victory. We see bow men forget themselves in worldly achievement. We have often seen men who, in order to achieve worldly suc cess, will forget all physical fatigue and all annoyance and all obstacle. Just after the battle of Torktown In the American Revolution a musician, wounded, was told be must have his limbs amputated, and they were about to fasten him u the surgeon's table, for it was long before the merciful discovery of anesthetics. He said: "No; don't fasten ns to that table Get ma a violin." A violin was brought to blm, and be said, "Now, go to work as I begin to play," and for forty minutes, during tbe awful pang of amputation, be moved not a muscle nor dropped a note, while be played soma sweet tune. Ob, Is it cot strange that with the mnsio of the Gospel ot Jesus Christ, and with tbis grand m"roii of the church militant on tbe way to become tbe church triumphant, we cannot forget 'ourselves and forget all pang and all sorrow and al persecution and all perturbation? . ' We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do cot shrink back tor antagonism or for hardship. .You bave admired Pretoott's "Conquest of Mexico," n brilliant and beautiful a history as was sver written, but some of you may. not know under what disadvantages it was written tnat "Conquest of Mexico" for I'rescott was totally blind, and be had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fast sued, and totally blind, with his pen be tweeu those pieces of wood, he wrote tbe troke against one piece of wood telling how far tbe pen must go in one way, the 'troke against the other piece of wood tell ing how far the pen must go tbe other way. Oh, bow much men will endure for worldly inowledge and tor wordly success, aud yet now little we endure for Jesus Christ I How many Christians there are that go around ?ayiDg, "Ou, my hand; oh, my hand, my hurt hand! Don't yon see there Is blood on ;he sword?" while Eleazar, with tbe bilt im bedded in the flesh of bis right band, does lot know it. Must I be carried to the skies Ou flowery beds of ease, While others fought to wiu the prize Or sailed through bloody seas? "What have we suffered in comparison with r'tose who expired with suffocation or were l.urned or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution Df olden times. There is just as much per- !cut1on going on now In various ways, in LS49, in Madagascar, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to be hurled over tbe rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death tbe more dreadful in an ticipation, they were put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they wouid have to be dashed down, and while tbey were swinging in these baskets over the rocks tbey sang: Jesus, lover of my 9oul, Let me to Thy bosom fly. While the billows near me roll. While the tempest stili is high. Then they were dushe l down to death. Oh, how much others have endured for Christ, and how little we endure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping car. our feet cn soft plusb, the bed made up earl, so we can jieep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to enter the irolden city. We want all tiie surgeons to tlx our baud up. Let them bring oa all the lint and all the bandages and all the salve, for our band is hurt, v. htle Eleazar does Dot know bis band Is hurt. "His band ilave unto the sworl." As I look at Eleazar's hand I come to the conclusion that be bas done a great deal of hard bitting. I am cot surprised when I ee that these four men Eleazar aud bis three companions' drove hackihn army ot Poilistines that Eleazar's sword clave to . bis hand, for every time ao struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end of the sword wounded hi.t. When he took hold ot the sword, the sword took hold ot bins." Oh, we have found an enemy who cannot be conquered by rosewater and soft" speecnes. it must be snurp stroke and straight thrust. There is intemperance, and there Is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are 10.000 bat talions of iniquity, armed Philistine in iquity. How are they to be ruptured and overthrown? tioft "sermons in morocco cases laid down in frortof an exquisite an dieooe will not do it. Yoi have got to call things by their" right nttiiV. You-have'got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the Bacrement on Saaday and devour widow's bonses all the week. We have got to stop our IndtgDation acainxt the Hittites and the Jeousites and the Gir gasbites and let those poor wretches go and apply our indignation to the mod. ern transgressions which neel to ii dragged out and slain. Ahabs here, Herods here, Jezebels here, the massacre of the infants here. Strike for God so hard that while you slay the slu the sword will adhere to your own haud. I tell you. my friends, we want a few John Knoxes and John Wesleys in the Christian church to day. The whole tendency is to reilne on Christina work. We keep cn rcllning on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity we are about to capture it. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the Indies, and we must ride on white palfrey under embroidered hous ing, putting the spurs in enly just enough to make the charger dance gracefully, and theu we must send- a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask the old black trinnt of sin it he will not surrender. Women saved by the grace of God and ou glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbat ii classes he cause their new hat is cot done. Churches that shook cur cities with great revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper if be will not please to say "Amen" and "halleluiah" a little softer. 1c seems as if in our churches we wanted a baptism'of cologne and lialtn of a thousand flowers when we actnnllv need baptism of lire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But we are so afraid somebody will criti cise our sermons tr criticise our prayers or criticise our religious work that our anxiety for the world's redemption is loft. . in the fear we will get our hand hurt,., while Eleazar went into the canllct, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But I see ia the next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parted. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grasped around tbe sword he could not drop it when he proposed to drop it, and his three com rades, I suppose, came up and tried to help him, and they bathed the back part of his hand) hoping the sinews and muscles would relax. . But no. "His band clare uuto the sword:" Then they tried to pull open tbe lingers and to pull back the Uiiimb. but no sooner were they pulled back than they clqsed again, "and bis haud clave uato tbe sword." But after awhile they were sue 'cess'ul, and thea they noticed that the curve in tbe palui of tbe hand corresponded exaotly with the curve of the hilt. "His hand clave unto the sword." You and I have seen it many a time. There are in the United states to-day many aged ministers of the Gospel. They are too feeble now to preach. Ia tbe church records the word standing opposite their name is "emeritus," or the words are "a miDister without charge." They were a heroic race. They had small salaries and but few hooks, and they swam spring freshets to meet their appointments, but tbey did in their day a mighty work for .God. They took off more ct tbe heads of Philistine iniquity than you could count f ro n noon to sundown. You put that old minister ot the Gospel now into a prayer meeting or occasional pulpit cr a sick room where there is some one to he comforted, and it Is tbe same old ring to his voice and the same old story tf pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. His hand has so long clutched the sword in Christian conflict he cannot drop it. "His haud ave unto the eword." Elephants are fond of gin. but. it is said, will not touch champagne. The anti-smoke ordinance in Kan sas City waa sustained in court. The court held that careful firing of fur naces is preventative of the smoke nui sance. The sun gives 600,000 times as much light as the full moon. The average weight of a man's brain is three pounds eight ounces. Certain music prevents the hair from falling, according to one scientist, while other kinds have a disastrous ef fect. It Is but a step from poverty to riches, and but A step back again; and many a man fakes them both. One of the simplest ways to try most men's faith is to ask them to sub scribe to pay for fixing; up the meetinghouse.
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