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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.
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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.