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Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. LTTT.
MIFFIJNTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 26,99.
ByJheDuchess.
CHAPTER XVI.
"What Is it?" says Lady Swansdown
iarshly. "Why do you look at me like
that? Has it come to a close between us
Isabel? Oh! if so" vehemently "it ii
better so."
The scene is the Court, and the guest
hare just left the dinner table.
"I don't think I understand you. sayi
Lady Baltimore, who has grown Terj
white. Her tone is haughty; she hai
drawn back a little as if to escape from
contact with the other.
"Ah! That is so like you," saya Ladj
Swansdown with a rather fierce Uttlt
laugh. "You pretent. pretend, pretend
from moraine till night. You intrench
yourself behind your pride, and "
"Yon know what you are doing, Bea
trice." says Lady Baltimore, Ignoringthli
outburst completely, and speaking in
calm, leTel tone, yet with a face like mar
b,e- T A
"Yes. and you know, too. saya Ladj
Swansdown. Then, with an overwhelm
ing vehemence: "Why don't yon do some
thing? Why don't you assert yourself T
"I shall never assert myself," says Ladj
Baltimore, slowly.
"You mean that whatever comes yot
will not interfere."
That exactly r turning her eyes full 01
to the other's face with a terrible disdain
"I shall neTer interfere in this or anj
other of his flirtations!"
It is a sharp stab! Lady Swansdowi
winces visibly.
"What a woman you are!" cries she
"Have you ever thought of It, Isabel!
Yon are unjust to him unfair. You"
possionately "treat him as though h
were the dust beneath your feet, and yei
you expect him to remain immaculate, foi
your sake pure as any acolyte a thing
of ice "
"Xo." coldly. "You mistake me. 1
know too much of him to expect perfec
tionnay, common decency from him
But yon It was yon whom I hoped to find
Immaculate."
"You expect too much, then. One ice
berg In our midst is enough, and that you
have kindly suggested in your own per
son. Put me out of the discussion alto
(ether.".
"Ah! you have made that impossible! 1
cannot do that. I have known yon too
long. I have liked you too well. I have,"
with a swift but terrible glance at her.
"loved yon !"
"Isabel!"
"Xo. no! Not a word. It is too late
nowr
"True." says Lady Swansdown, bring
ing back the arms she bad extended and
letting them fall with a sudden dull vehe
mence to her sides. Her agitation is un
controlled. "That was so long ago that,
no doubt, yon have forgotten all about it.
Yon." bitterly, "have forgotten a good
deal."
"And yon," says Lady Baltimore, very
calmly, "what have you not forgotten
your self-respect," deliberately, "among
other things."
"Take care, take care!" saya Lady
Swansdown, in a low tone. She has turn
ed furiously.
"Why should I take care? She throwi
op her small head scornfully. "Have 1
aid one word too much?"
"Too much, indeed," says Lady Swans
down, distinctly, but faintly. She turnt
her head, but not her eyes, in Isabel's di
rection. "I'm afraid you will have to en
dure for one day longer," she says in
low voire; "after that you shall bid me
farewell forever."
"You have come to a wise decision,
soys Lady Baltimore, immovably.
There is something go contemptuous in
her whole bearing that it maddens th
other.
"How dare you speak to me like thatV
cries she. with sudden violence not to b
repressed. "You of all others! Do yoc
think you are not in fault at all that yon
stand blameless before the world?"
The blood has flamed into her pal
cheeks, her eyes nre on fire. She ad
vances toward Lady Baltimore with such
a pas-sion of angry despair in look and
tone that involuntarily the latter retreatt
before her.
"Who shall blame me?" demands Lady
Baltimore, haughtily.
"I I for one! Icicle that you are, how
can you know what love means? Yob
have no heart to feel, no longing to for
And what has he done to youi
Nothing nothing that any other woman
would not gladly condone."
"You are a partisan," says Lady Balti
more, coldly. "You would plead his cause
and to mel You are violent, but that doe
not put you in the right. What do yoc
know of Baltimore that I do not know'
By what right do you defend him T
jjTliere is such a thing as friendship!"
"Is there?" says the other with deoj.
meaning. "Is there, Beatrice? Oh! think
think'" A little bitter smile curls th
corners of ll(.r Hps. "That you should ad
vo ate the cause of friendship to me," snyf
she. b.r words falling with cruel scon
one by one slowly from her lips.
"'' think me false," says Ladj
")u",!,,"n. She is terribly agitated
1 ai-re was an old friendship between us
' knw that I feel it. You think m
altogether fulse to it V
"I think of you as little as I can help.'
M.vs Isabel, contemptuously. "Why should
1 waste a thought on you?"
"True! Why. indeed! One so capablt
or controlling her emotions as you ar
feed never ciyc way to superfluous oi
o,-!e.''h -"guts. Still, give one to Balti
""re. !t is our last conversation togeth
er, therefore bear with me hear me. Al
his sins lie in the past. He "
U1,,st be mad to talk to me liki
. interruots Isabel. flushing crimson
ConM1" sUed yon t0 lQtercede for himl
l.t i Tf " hp co so far as that? Is it a
lUSUIt jf
W )l Q m . v. : ,L.
Von I. ' iu juu iu uiiu iubi
crie. v8 "dopt his cause? Answer me!"
her t ' ,D1Peri's'y: all her coldness,
stern determination to suppress her-
"V rr8 broken P-j-votnmgr
returns Lady Swansdown,
-oi; mg caIrner as she notes the other's
thiM V! mence- "l neTer 8baU w
fctfaran but one elcn" ,or T
wee--j eh pauses.
"And that?"
'OT Mmf steadily, but faintly. Her
7 . .Te ODKht th round.
An!" says Lady Baltimore.
"It is true," slowly. "It is equally true
tnat he does not love me. Let me.
then, speak. All his sins, believe me. lie
ueuina mm. That woman, that friend of
yours, who told von r hi. ,nnn.j
qnaintance with Madame Istray, lied to
"" inre was no truth in what she
saia .
"I can nnito nni.h
lag to believe in that story," says Lady
oaiumore, witn an undisguised sneer.
"Like all good women, xou cava take
pleasure In inflicting a wound." says Lady
Swansdown. controlling herself admira
bly. "But do not let your detestation of
me blind yon to the fact that my words
contain truth. If you will listen I can''
-ot a word, says Lady Baltimore,
making a movement with her hands as It
to efface the other "I nrill ha
your confidences."
"It seems to me" quickly "yon are de
termined not to believe."
"You are at liberty to think as you wUL"
"The time may come." says Lady
swansdown, "when you will regret you
did not listen to me to-day."
"Is that a threat?"
"No; bnt I am going. There will be no
turtber opportunity for you to hear me."
"You must pardon me if I say that I am
glad of that," says Lady Baltimore, her
lips very white. "I could have borne lit
tle more. Do what yon will, go where
you will, with whom yon will" with de
liberate Insult "but at least spare me a
repetition of such a scene as this."
She turns, and with an indescribably
haughty gesture leaves the room.
CHAPTER XVII.
Dancing is going on in the small draw
ing room. Lady Swansdown hardly un
derstands herself to-night. That scene
with her hostess has upset her mentally
and bodily and created in her a wild de
sire to get away from herself, and from
Baltimore at any cost. Some idle freak
has induced her to use Beauclerk as a
safeguard from both, and he, unsettled In
his own mind and eager to come to con
clusions with Joyce and her fortune, has
lent himself to the wiles of his whilom
foe, and is charmed by her fascinating, if
vagrant, mood.
Perhaps in all her life Lady Swans
down has never looked so lovely as to
night. Excitement and mental disturb
ance have lent dangerous brilliancy to
her eyes, s touch of color to her cheek.
There is something electric about her that
touches those who gaze on her and warns
herself that a crisis is at hand.
In a way she has clung to Beauclerk as
a means of escaping Baltimore throwing
out a thousand wiles to charm him to her
side, and succeeding. Three times she
had given a smiling "No!" to Lord Balti
more's demand for a dance, and, regard
less of opinion, had flung herself into
wild and open flirtation with Beauclerk.
But it is growing toward midnight, and
her strength is falling her. These people,
will they never go? Will she never be
able to seek her own room, and solitude,
and despair, without calling down com
ment on her head, and giving Isabel that
cold woman the chance of sneering at
her weakness?
A sudden sense of the nselessness of it
all has taken possession of her; her heart
sinks. It la at this moment that Balti
more once more comes up to her.
"This dance?" says he. "It la half way
through. Yon are not engaged, I sup
pose, as yon are sitting down ? May I
have what remains of it?"
She makes a little gesture of acquies
cence, and, rising, places her hand upon
his arm.
The crisis has come, she tells herself,
with a rather grim smile. Well, better
have it and get it over.
That there had been a violent scene be
tween Baltimore and his wife after dinner
had somehow become known to her, and
the marks of it still betrayed themselves
in the former's frowning brow and som
ber eyes.
It had been more of a scene than nsual.
Lady Baltimore, generally so calm, had
for once lost herself, and given way to a
passion of indignation that had shaken
her to her very heart's core. Though so
apparently unmoved and almost Insolent
in her demeanor toward Lady Swans
down during their Interview, she had
been, nevertheless, cruelly wounded by it,
and could not forgive Baltimore in that
be bad been its cause.
"I didn't think you and Beauclerk had
anything in common," says Baltimore,
seating himself beside her on the low
lounge that is half hidden from the public
gaze by the Indian curtains that fall at
each side of It. He had made no pretense
of finishing the dance. He had led the
way and she had suffered herself to be
led into the small ante-room that, half
smothered In early spring flowers, lay off
the dancing room.
"Ah! you see you have yet much to learn
about me," says she, with an attempt at
giiyety which fails, however.
"About you? Nor says he. almost de
fiantly. "Don't tell me I have deceived
mvself about yon, Beatrice; you are all I
have left to fall back npon now. His
tone Is reckless to the last degree.
"What Is it, Cyril ?" looking at him with
sudden intentness. "Something has hap
pened. What?"
"The old story." returns he, "and I am
si k of it. I have tnrown up mj " "
would have been faithful to her Beatrice.
I swear that, but she does not care to'
m, devotion. And a. for mo now-J
He throws out His arms "
death, and draws in his breath heavily.
"Now?" says she, leaning forward.
"Am I worth your acceptance?" says ne,
turning sh.n.lto her "I hardly dare to
think it. and yet you have been i kind to
me, and your own lot Is not s happy,
and "
yoHesitater ask. r '
terly. although her pale Hps are ln:
"WU1 you risk it nlir . T. .
"Will you come away with meT m
hive no friend on earth but you. WW
n? ? L ruiZJ
Anotner inuu
forgetfulness" M.lngr
I- IO you u .vi- white
yon now to decide. I nave sometime
thought I waa not entirely Indifferent to
you. and at all events we are friends is
the best sense of the term. If you were a
happily married woman, Beatrice, 1
should not apeak to you Uke this, bnt as It
is in another land If you will come with
me we
"Think, think!" says she, putting up hei
hand to stay him from further speech.
"All this is said in moment of angry
excitement. Yon have called me youi
friend and truly. I am so far In touch
with you that I can see you are very un
happy. Yon have had forgive me If 1
prolie yon bnt you have had some some
words with your wife?"
"Final words! I hope I think."
"I do not. however. All this will blow
over, and come, Cyril, face It. Are yoc
really prepared to deliberately break the
last link that holds you to her V
"There is no link. She has cut herself
adrift long since. She will be glad to bt
rid of me."
"And yon will you be glad to be rid ol
her?"
"It will be better." says he, shortly.
"And the boy?"
"Don't let as go Into it." a little wjldly.
"Oh! but we must we must," says she.
The boy you wlU T"
"I shall leave him to her. I am nothina
to her. I cannot leave her desolate."
"How you consider her!" says she, in a
choking voice. She could have burst into
tears! "What a heart! and that woman
to treat him so while oh 1 it Is hard
hard!" "I tell you," saya she, presently, "thai
you have not gone Into thi thing. To
morrow you will regret all that you hav
now said."
"If you refuse me yes. It Ilea in youi
bands now. Are you going to refuse me?"
"Give me a moment," says she, faintly.
She haa risen to her feet, and is so stand
ing that he cannot watch her. Her whole
soul is convulsed. Shall she? Shall she
not? The scales are trembling.
That woman's face! How It rises be
fore her now, pale, cold, contemptuous.
With what an insolent air she had almoat
ordered her from her eight. And yet
and yet
Oh! A groan that is almost a sob breaka
from her. The scale has gone down to
one side. It is all over, hope and love and
joy. Isabel haa won.
She has been leaning against the arm ol
the lounge, now she once more sinks back
upon the seat as though standing is impos
sible to her.
"Well?" says Baltimore, laying hia hand
gently npon hers. His touch seems to
burn her, she flings his hand from her and
shrinka back.
Y'ou have decided," saya he, quickly.
"You will not come with me?"
Oh! no, no, no!" cries she. "It is im
possible!" A little curious laugh breaka
from her that la cruelly akin to a cry.
"You like her better than you like me.
You are angry with your wife, and would
be revenged npon her, and your way to
revenge yourself is to make a second wom
an hate yo'u. -
"A second?"
"I should probably hate you In sis
months," saya she, with a touch of pas
sion. "I am not sure that I do not hate
you now."
"A second woman r repeats ne. as if
struck by this thought to the exclusion
of all others.
"Yes!"
"You think, then," gasing at her. "that
she hatea me?"
Lady Swansdown breaks into a low but
mirthless laugh. The most poignant an
guish rings through it.
"She! she!" cries she, as if unable to
control herself, and then stops suddenly,
placing her hand to her forehead. "Oh,
no. she doesn't hate you," she says. "But
how you betray yourself! Do you wonder
I laugh? Did ever any man so give him
self away? You have been declaring to
me for months that she hates you, yet
when I put it into words, or you think I
do. it seems as though some fresh, new
evil had befallen you. Ah! give np thi?
role of Don Joan, Baltimore. It doesn I
suit you.
He would have spoken to her again, but
she rejects the Idea with such bittern esj
that he Is necessarily silent. She haa cov
ered her face with her hands. Presently
she Is alone.
(To be continued.)
Giants of Patagonia.
Th tribes to the east of the Cordille
ras, In Southern Patagonia, belong to
Amiiranlan stock and are a superior
race. The Teheuichs as they call them
selvesof Southern and Eastern rata
rnnls are the oeople whose unusual
stature gave rise to the fables of the
early days to the effect tnat tne natives
of this region were galnts averaging
nine or ten feet In height It Is a fact,
says the Boston Transcript, that they
are the tallest human beings In the
world, the men averaging but slightly
less than six feet, while individuals ot
four to six inches above that mark arr
not uncommon. They are in reality by
no means savages, but somewhat civil
ho -Imi rians. They are almost unae
auainted with the use of firearms, not-
withstanding some coiimt-i mm m
whites, but they have plenty of horses
nd dogs.
aaed hunters, they capture
the guanaco and the rhea, or South
American ostrich, and from the skins
of these and other animals they make
,.uo coverings for their tents
riuiuB -
They make beautiful "capes" or "man
ties" of furs ana leaiuers, wun-u
highly prized by Europeans and And a
ready market, most oi iue ipiuwbu w
Inir supnt for bad whisky, which la
brought Into the country In quantities.
If you get lost you can recover your
at a clothing store.
The average life of a ship la about
26 years.
Scientists say tnat me orange wus
formerly a berry, and that it has been
developed for over seven thousand
Only seventy year have elapsed
since the first railway In the world was
finished. During tnat compumuveij
brief period four hundred thousand
miles have been constructed.
About 8,000.000 tons of coal are an
tu4ly consumed In London.
The total value of fish landed on
the English and Welsh coasts during
1898 amounted to ,12S.744, an increase
of nearly a quarter of a million over
the total for the preceding year.
There are more wrecks In the Bal
tic sea than In any other place In the
world. The average la one wreck a day
throughout the year.
In Buffalo a planer Is In operation
which at each cut removes a shaving
full 12 Inches wide from solid caat Iron.
The knife la between 12 and 13 Inches
wide. '
Laplanders think nothing of cover
. ,en m Aav mi their skates.
UK 4iV J
A London physician, Stanley Kent,
claims to nave discovered the specific
bacillus of smallpox, after live years of
experimenting. If he can substantiate
his claim the antl-vacdnatlonlsU will
bave lost their chiuf prop.
Fchosl Hysrtoae.
O. Stanley Hall has the right idea
Joncernlng school education. He tells
as that "the great danger In our schools
arises from Imperfect health. It has
become the custom In some countries
that some of the best and most pro
gressive city wards provide doctors to
amlne every child In the lower grades
sf the schools. This doctor examines
the child's complexion, eyes, muscles,
and as to appetite, etc., and gives di
rections according to the needs of the
zase. For myself, I say, whatshall It
profit a child If It gain the whole world
of knowledge, and lose its own health?
Or what shall a child give In exchange
Cor Its health? We have forgotten that
children cannot sit still, yet It Is one
Df the commands that resound In the
school-room from morning till night.
We have found that the Idea that chil
dren can sit still must be abandoned,
and teachers must learn to possess their
nerves and patience If the children do
ot sit still. We aU Uve for life. There
hi nothing so good as being alive."
Journal of Hygiene.
Where Is the College-Made Man ?
Andrew Carnegie having recently
asked: "Where Is the college made
man?" the Superintendent of Schools in
Sioux City, Iowa, has directed a sys
tematic search for the missing Individ
ual, with no little success. A canvass
of the leading -men In the following
named professions and occupations In
tne principal towns of Iowa gave these
results, which are published In the E Ju-
catlonal Review for March:
Whole number College Per
Profession, canvassed. bred. cent.
Ministers UT 00 W
Teachers 65 55 89
Lawyers 78 63 CM
Doctors 85 S2
Bankers 00 20 4U
Editors 53 10
Merchants and
manufacturers .119 31 If;
Philadelphia Record.
The f choot Grounds. '
It will not be difficult to educate
school boys to respect flower-borders,
window-boxes, vines, and shrubbery, if
teachers themselves will display Intelli
gent Interest and affection for the
school grounds. When these are of
considerable size a great educational
field can be opened by teachers who
know something of botany, plant
growth, and forestry. Such surround
ings can be employed to the highest
advantage In cultivating in children ob
servation, and In Imparting elementary
Ideas of natural science. How many
teachers m4 there who' care fee these
things or are qualified to Instruct chil
dren In the laws of plant-growth? We
apprehend that there are comparative
ly few who do not need an elementary
education In botany and forestry. The
beginning of this educational reform
really lies with the teachers them
selves. New York 'Tribune.
Praise for American Fchoola.
Dr. Krohn, a prominent educator, a
graduate of Yale and who has studied
in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and
England, says that be Is firmly con
vinced that the system of public schools
In this country Is far In advance of all
other nations, but that our system has
too much forcing, and unless much
care Is exercised In that regard It will
tell on the children. He further says
that precocity, unless carefully guard
ed and directed. Is almost as dangerou
aa imbecility.
Any Language bnt Her Own.
A writer on one of the newspapers
published in an Eastern city lately
overheard a conversation between two
high-school girls. This, acording to his
report. Is what they were saying to
each other:
"What do you think I done to-day,
Clara?"
"Well, what did you do?" asked the
other.
"I translated four pages of French
exercises. Wasn't that finer'
"Fine? I should say so. I wish I
had done as good as that. I only trans
lated two."
It is unnecessary to comment on such
a revelation of the English spoken by
promising young students of French,
except to say that It must be some one's
dnty to teach them less French and
more English. Sometimes we learn our
own language the better for acquiring
a knowedge of a foreign one, but that
peculiar sort of phlloglcal enlighten
ment comes only after we have acquir
ed at least a fair speaking knowledge
f our own tongue.
How Be Gets HI Money Back.
Wyseman I make It a rule never to
ask a gentleman to return money he
has borrowed of me.
Pratt Then how do you manage to
get It?
Wyseman On, after I wait a reason
able time. If he falls to pay up, I con
clude that he Is not a gentleman, and
then I ask him. London Tit-Bits.
Kxpellinar Foreigners.
Kaiser Wilhelm's tactics of expelling
foreigners from Germany are being ap
plied to Germans by some of his neigh
bors. Prof. Leo Mayer, for thirty-three
years professor of comparative philol
ogy at the University of Dorpat, In Li
vonia, has been dismissed and a Rus
sian appointed in his place.
Growth of Rnsalan Marine.
Because of the- growth of Russian
commerce by sea, a company for the
classification of ships has been formed
on the model of the British Lloyds and
the French Bureau Veritas.
A Matter of Doabt.
"I understand," said the morbid
spectator, "that the prisoner is show
ing wonderful nerve."
"I don't know," answered the cynical
lawyer, "whether be is showing won
derful nerve or whether he simply
lacks Intelligence enough to know when
It la time to be scared." Washington
HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY.
Co'nanion place Affaire ne Viewed by the
Atchison Globe Men.
A young man would rather be funny
(ban wise.
Every man occasionally feels like un
tying hia heart strings.
The etiquette that controls a funeral
Is becoming more complicated every
day.
People have learned nothing from ex
perience if they have not learned to be
patient.
After a woman sells her cow she gets
the yearning again Inside of a few
months.
An Atchison man to working himself
to death trying to keep up his life In
surance. The girls should give frequent min
strel shows; It gives them opportunity
to roast the men.
If a man does not Invest In a lot of
little swindles be Is very apt to be
caught by one big one.
An Atchison family Is so poor that
their home looks Uke the home of the
poor family seen on the stage.
The poorer a workman the more apt
he Is to take up with some foolish fad
and neglect his work still more.
A pie Is not well made unless It be
gins to make trouble within fifteen
minutes after reaching the stomach.
Every time a woman cooks saur
kraut to please her husband, ber grown
daughters complain for a week of the
sme!L
Don't get In the habit of going where
you are not Invited; don't Imagine that
you are always welcome anywhere.
As soon as a man buys a new cyclo
pedia his wife and daughters begin
agitating the necessity of organising a
literary club.
One of the rules of the Don't Worry
Club Is that to-day furnishes enough
trouble, without anyone worrying over
the Holy Grail.
An Atchison church which recently
gave the pustor a present of $5 to buy
books for bis library, owed the Jan
itor $20.
An Atchison girl feels that she Is
now competent to go on the stage; she
has a pink accordion plaited skirt, and
can recite all of "I Am Dying, Egypt,
Dying."
The Illness of some persons Is men
tioned oftener and more promptly than
that of others, not because they are
prominent, but because they are
Christian Scientists,
investigate any town family, and
you will find that most of Its trouble
originates with buying or selling milk.
The fiercest quarrels women have are
over their milk accounts.
Dr. W. C. Krauss, In discussing the
question of degeneration, which haa oc
cupied so much attention In the past
few years, answers the question, "Is
the human race degenerating?" In the
negative. He also says that "as com
pared with foreigners. Americans ex
hibit the fewest signs of degeneracy."
Our earth grows heavier every day
by possibly one hundred tons, making
a liberal estimate of the amount of
matter received from meteors and
shooting stars. At all times the earth's
atmosphere acts as a net catching
shooting stars that are crossing the
path. These stars vary In size from a
grain of matter to a large-sized rock.
Our war with Spain threw much
light on the question of the proper color
to render war ships Invisible to the
enemy. The best tint was found to be
a dull gray with a yellow shade. Ships
thus colored blend Inconspicuously
with the horizon, and with the rocks
alongshore. How nature deals with a
similar question Is shown by the black
and yellow stripes of the zebra and the
tiger, which render those animals al
most invisible amid their habitual sur
roundings. The skeleton of the largest animal
yet found, called the Dinosaur, has re
cently been unearthed In Wyoming,
the land of big fossil remains. The as
tounding figures are these: Whole
length. 130 feet, of which sixty feet
were the tall and thirty the neck. A
vertebra out of the middle of the back
bone measures sixteen Inches In length.
The femur bone is eight feet long. In
the cavity of the ribs forty men could
be seated. The hips would stand thirty-five
feet high and the shoulders
twenty-five. The weight of the living
animal Is calculated by Prof. Reed to
have been at least 120,000 pounds, or
sixty tons.
Many must bave noticed that In win
ter time the sky seems to lack the
roominess and , lofty arching of sum
mer. It appears on cloudy, or partially
cloudy, days to be nearer the earth
than Is the case on similar days during
the summer months. That this appear
ance Is no figment of the Imagination
Is shown by recent Investigations made
at the Cpsala Observatory on the ele
vation of clouds. It Is found that all
varieties of clouds float at a much
greater altitude In summer than In
winter. The months of greatest eleva
tion, at least In Sweden, are June and
July.
Among the Inventions which bad a
practical trial during our war with
Spain was a French device for stop
ping shot-holes, called the Colonies
stopper. One of these was employed
to close a rent made by a shell In the
battleship Iowa. The bole was about
a foot above the water-line. As soon as
the stopper was Inserted the Inflow of
water, which bad begun to flood the
deck, ceased. The stopper consists of
a rod having at one end an iron plate,
plveted at the center so that It can be
folded backward along the rod. To stop
a leak, the rod carrying the plate la
first thrust outward through the bole;
then a turn of the rod causesthe plate.
which Is weighed at one end, to become
parallel to the side of the ship, and la
this position It Is drawn back by the
rod so as more or less completely to
cover the hole. Next a cellulose cash
Ion to placed upon the rod, and by the
aid of a nut forced tightly against the
Inner side of the ship over the bole, so
as entirely to stop the leak. Stoppers
of various sizes are carried, to suit the
size of the hole that may nave to be
dealt with.
BOILING AWAY A DIME.
Silver Piece Disappeared la Vapor In
tmelle.t Pet and Hottest Pire.
Prof. M. L Pupln, of Columbia Col
lege, boiled a 10-cent piece the other
day, and watched It dissolve and pass
away In the form of vapor. Just as one
might do with a pot of water.
While he was doing It he declared
that any substance on earth might be
boiled and made to become vapor If
only you had heat great enough to do It.
He did not except granite rock.
First he boiled his dime. He cut It up
Into small pieces, which be placed In
the hollow carbon of an electric arc
lamp. When the lamp is lighted the
carbons stand one above the other, the
sharp point of one carbon fitting Into
the "cup" of the other.
It was In this little cup that Prof
Pupln boiled his dime. Probably It was
the smallest pot and the hottest fire In
the world.
He placed the pieces of the dime Ir.
the hollow end of one carbon, and fixed
the other pointed carbon down against
them. Then be turned on the electric
current. He had arranged his appar
atus In front of a magic lantern, so that
the whole thing could be seen on a
large white screen.
' Of course, the electric current pass
ing between the carbons made them
very hot, and the cup soon became fill
ed with a white beat." It was wonder
ful to see how quickly the silver dime
melted and simmered aud finally boiled.
It really danced around In the little pet
like any liquid, getting smaller and
smaller aa It turned to vapor and pass
ed away Into the atmosphere
In about two minutes the last of It
was seen to float away in vapor and
disappear. The 10-cent piece had, Iv
fact, boiled away. Boston Globe.
Surprised.
An old clergyman who bad held a
cure In a remote country district for
the greater part of bis life bad occa
sion, relates a contemporary, to consult
his bishop on a certain matter, and. In
answer to his letter, received an Invita
tion to the palace, where be would
have to stay all night. For forty or
fifty years be had practically led the
life of a recluse, and It was after much
cogitation that he decided to take the
Journey to the farther end of the dio
cese, where the bishop lived, lie ar
rived Just In time for 5 o'clock tea, a
meal to which be was a complete
stranger. After tea the bishop asked
him to accompany him to evensong.
When they returned to the house the
bishop, remarking that It waa quite
time they went upstairs, lighted a can
dle, and showed his guest to his room.
It was then Just 7 o'clock; the old cler
gyman thought it was rather early to
retire, but. admiring the bishop for
such simple habits, be prepared for bed.
He had Just put out the light and Iain
down to sleep, wishing he had eaten a
little more tea, when a booming noise
rang through the house. Quick as
thought he sprang from his bed, and.
shouting "Fire!" at the top of his voice,
rushed out on to the landing Just In
time to meet the bishop, with some oth
er guests, going down to dinner.
Matches Preferred by Iturgiar.
"There Is this to be said In favor of
the sulphur match," said the retired
burglar, "that It Is noiseless when
truck; but its odor is decidedly against
It. More than once, when I have struck
a sulphur match on the landing, I bave
beard some light sleeper, when the
pungent fumes of the sulphur permeat
ed the atmosphere, turn In bed in an
adjacent room.
"I stuck to sulphur matches a long
time naturally enough, I suppose but
finally I came to use safety matches al
together. They are noisy, but odorless,
and It may be possible to scratch them
when carts are passing, or when the
wind Is blowing, or there Is some other
noise abroad. At any rate I came to
prefer, from experience, the noisy.
odorless match to the silent sulphur.
"Of course, the Idteal match for any
body In my business would be one that
should be both silent and odorless. It Is
a wonder to me that nobody has In
vented such a match; it is greatly need
ed, and I should say that It would be
comparatively easy of invention. Now
that I bave retired, may be I will de
vote myself to the Invention of such a
match and to do something to promote
tb interests of an arduous and none
too remunerative calling."
In the Looklng-GI aa.
It Is really not a father's fault that
his little daughter supposes him tc
know everything. Children are bore
to have faith. But one Chicago parent
should have expected trouble when.
says the Tribune, bis child began:
"Papa, you took the scientific course
In college, didn't you?"
"Yes, dear, I spent two years on sci
ence."
"When you look In a mirror the left
side of your face appears to be the right
side, and the right side seems to be the
left. The looking glass reverses 'it,
doesn't It?"
"Yes."
"Then why doesn't It reverse the top
and bottom of your face the same
way I"
Hard Lack.
Castaway Dls to tough. Three day.
wldout a bite, and den dls box of cool
1 books washes ashore 1 Cincinnati Kb
auirac.
OF I DAY.
Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage.
Jebjaer: Tarcntal Heedlessness" Tan
Vow or Jephthah Typical of Much The
la DUtreaalns la Modern Life Chll
dren Saertfleed e Worldly Ambition.
Text: "My father, if thou bast opened
thy mouth nnto the Lord, do to me a
cording to that which hath prooeeded oat
Df thy mouth." Judges xl., 86.
Jephtbab was a freebooter. Early turns"
snt from a home where be ought to have
been eared for, ha consorted with rougt
men and went forth to earn his living at
best he could. In those times it was con
sidered right for a man to go out on ind
pendent military expeditions. Jephtbai
was a good man according to the light ol
bis dark aire, but through a wandering an
predatory life he became reokless and pre
elpltate. The grace ot God changes i
man's heart, but never reverses his nature
temperament. The Israelites wanted thi
Ammonites driven out ot their country, s
they sent a delegation to Jephthsb, askinf
him to become commander in chief of al
the forces. He might bave said. "Yot
drove me ont when you bad no uae for me
and now you are In trouble you want mi
back," but he did not say that. He take
sommand of the army, sends messengers ti
the Ammonites to tell them to vacate tbi
country, and getting no favorable re
spouse, marshals his troops for battle.
Before going out to the war Jepbtbat
makes a very solemn vow that If the Lord
will give htm the viotory then, on bis re
turn home, whatsoever first oomes out of
bis doorway he will offer In sacrifice as a
burnt offering. The battle opens. It was
oo skirmishing on the edges of dangers, nc
nnllmberlng of batteries two miles away,
but the hurling of men on the points ol
iwords and spears until the ground could
ao more drink the blood and the horse
reared to leap over the pile ot bodies ol
the slain. In those old times opposing
forces would fight until their swords were
broken and then each one would throttle
bis man until they both fell, teeth tc
teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death
tare, until tbe plain was one tumbled
mass of oorpses from which the last trace
af manhood had been dashed out.
Jephthah wins tbe day. Twenty eltl-1
lay captured at bis feet. Sound the vlctort
all through the mountains ot Oilead. Let
the trumpeters call up tbesorvivors. Home
ward to your wives and children. Home
ward with your glittering treasures.
Homeward to have the applause of an ad
miring nation. Build triumphal arches
Swing out flags all over Hizpab. Open all
your doors to receive the captured trees
ores. Through every hail spread the ban
quet. Pile up tbe viands. Fill high tbe
tankards. Tbe nation Is redeemed, tbe In
vaders are routed and the national honoi
Js vindicated.
Huzza for Jephthah, tbe conqnerorl
lephtbab, seated on a prancing steed, ad
vances amid the acclaiming multitudes,
but bis eye is not on the excited populaos!
BememberlDg that be bad made a solemn
row that, returning from victorious battle,
whatsoever first came out of tbs doorway
of bis home that should be sacrificed as a
burnt offering, be has his auxlous look
upon the door. I wonder what gpotlest
lamb, what brace of doves, will be tbrowo
upon the fires of the burnt offertngl
Ob, horrors! Paleness of death blanchet
his cheek. Despair seizes his heart. Hb
laughter, bis only child, rushes out thi
ioorway to throw herself in her father!
arms and shower upon blm more klssef
:han there were wounds on bis breast oi
lents on bis shield. All the triumphal
iplendor vanishes. Holding back this child
!rom bis heaving breast and pushing the
locks back from the fair brow and looking
Into tbe eyes of Inextinguishable affection,
with choked utterance he says: "Would tc
Gtod I lay stark on the bloody plain! Mj
laughter, my onlv child, Joy of my home,
life of my life, thou art the sacrifice!"
The whole matter was explained to her.
This was no whining, hollow hearted girl
Into whose eyes tbe father looked. All tbe
flory of sword and shield vanished in the
presence ot the valor of that girl. There
may have been a tremor of tbe Up, ai a
rase leaf trembles in tbe sough of the south
wind; there may have been tbe starting ol
a tear like a raindrop shaken from tbe
anther of a water lily. But with a sell
iacrifloe that roan may not roach and only
woman's heart can compass she surrenders
herself to Ore ana to deatn. uae cries out
In tbe words of my text, "My father, 11
thou bast opened thy mouth nnto tbe Lord,
do unto me whatsoever bath proceeded
from thy moutb."
Of course this offering was not pleasing
to tbe Lord, especially as a provision wai
made In the law for such a contingency
and Jephthah might bave redeemed hit
laughter by the payment of thirty shekel!
( silver. But before you hurl youi
enunciations at Jepbthah's cruelty re
member that In olden times, when vows
were made, men thought they must execute
them, perform them, whether they were
wicked or good. Tbere were two wrong
things about Jephtbah's vow. Flrt-t. be
ougbt never to bave made It. Next, having
mads It, it were better broken than kept.
But do not take on pretentious airs and
lay, "I could not have done as Jephtbab
did." If In former days you had been
tending on the banks of tbe Ganges and
rou bad been born in India, you might
bave thrown your children to the croco
diles. It Is not because we are naturally
any better, bat because we have more
Eros pel light.
Now I make very practical nse of thit
question When I tell yon that the sacrifice
of Jephtbah's daughter waa a type of the
physical, mental and spiritual sacrifice of
ten thousand children In this day. There
are parents all unwittingly bringing to
bear upon their children a class of in
fluences whloh will as certainly ruin them
as knife and torch destroyed Jephthah'e
daughter. While I speak, the whole
nation, without emotion and witboul
shame, looks upon the stupendous sacri
fice. in the first place, I remark that much o
the system of edu:atlon in our day is i
system of sacrifice. When children spend
ix or seven hours in school and then mus
spend two or three hours In preparatior.
for school the next day, will you tell m
how much time they will have lor suushini
and fresh air and the obtaining ot that ex
uberance which is necessary for the dutlet
of coming lite? No one can feel mon
thankful than I do for tbe advancement o:
common school education. Tbe printing
of books appropriate for schools, the mul
tipltcalion of philosophical apparatus, thi
establishment of normal schools, wbiol
provide for our children teaobers of Inrces
caliber, are themes on which every philan
tbroplst ougbt to be congratulated. Bu
this herding of great multitudes ot chll
dren In 111 ventilated schoolrooms an
poorly equipped halls of Instruction ii
making many of the places of knoTvledg
In this country a bugs holocaust. Politics
In many of the cities gets Into educations
affairs and while the two political partle
are scrabbling for the honors Jepbthnh'
daughter perishes. It Is so much so tha
tbere are many schools In the country to
day wbloh are preparing tens of thousand
of invalid men and women for the future
so that. In many places, by the time th
ehild's education la finished the child I
finished! In many places, in many citie
ot the country, there are large approprla
Hons for everything else and cbeerlul ap
proprlatlons, but as soon aa the appropria
tlon is to be made for tbe educational o
moral Interests of tbe city we are stmo
through with an economy that Is well nig
tbe death of us.
You may flatter your pride by forclni
your child to know more than any othe
children, but you are making a sacrifice o
that child It by the additions to its lntelli
gence you are making a subtraction froti
its future. Tbe child will go away Iron
suoh maltreatmeut with no exulwr
anee to fight the battle of life. Snch chll
lren may get along very well wane you
ke care of them, but, when you are old
r dead, alas for them if through the
vrong system ot education which you
idopted they have no swarthlness or force
f character to take care of themselves!
Be careful how yon make the ehild's bead
lobe or Its heart flutter. I hear a grat
leal about blaok man's ngnts. and Cblua
man's rights, and Indian's rights, and
voaaaa's dxaU. Woald to God that some
body would nse to piead for entldren's
rights! Tbe Cartbageniaas used to sacri
fice tbelr children by putting them Into
the arms of an idol which tbrost forth its
band. Tbe child was put Into tbe arms of
the Idol, and no sooner touched tbe arms
than It dropped into tbe Are. But it was
:be art of tbe mothers to keep the children '
milling and laughing until the moment
they died. There may be a fascination
ind a hilarity about the styles of educe-
.ion oi wmon i am speaking, but It Is only
augbter at tbe moment of sacrifice,
would God tbere were only oneJepb
:hah's daughter!
Again, there are many parents who are
Mcrtflclng their children with wrong sys
:em of discipline too great rigor or too
Itreat leniency. Therearechlldren lafaml
des who rule tbe household. The nigh
chair In wbicb tbe infant sits is tbe throne,
and tho rattle Is tbe sceptre, and tbe other
children make uo tbe iarllmnt h.
father and mother have no votel 8ucu
children come up to be miscreants. There
Is no chance in this world for a .i,im , k..
has never learned to mind. Suoh people
become the botheration of the uhurob or
Qod and the pest ot the world. Children
that do not learn to obey human authority
ire unwilling to learn to obey divine au
thority. Children will not respect parents
whose authority tbev do not rwom-t. Who
are these young men tbat swagger through
:be street with their thumb iu their vest
:alking about their father as "the old
nan." "the governor." "the sauire." "tha
ld chap," or tbelr mother aa "the old
soman?" Thev are those who in voutb. In
ihildbood, never learned to respect au-
horlty. Eli. having heard that his sons
lad died In tbelr wickedness, fell over back
yard and broke bis neck and died. Well
le might! What Is life to a father wbose
ons are debauched? The dust of tbe val
ey is pleasant to his taste, and the driving
-sins that drip through tbe roof of the
lepulcher ore sweeter than tbe wines of
ielbon.
In our day most bovs start ont with nn
dea higher than the all encomoassins dol
or. They start In an age which boasts it
tan scratch tbe Lord's Prayer on a tea cent
iece ana tne lea commandants on a ten
lent piece. Children are taught to reduce
norals and religion, time and eternity, to
rulgar fractions. It seems to be their chief
tttalnment that ten cents make a dime and
en dimes make a dol.ar. How to get
nonoy Ii only equaled by the other art
low to keep it. Tell me, ye who know,
chat chauce there Is for those who start
ut in lite with such perverted sentiments!
The money market resounds again and
main with the downfall or such people. If
: bad a drop of blooJ on tbe tip of a pen, I
vould tell you by what awful trutfeJy mauy
f tbe youth of this country are ruined.
Further on, thousands and tens ot tbou
lanits ot tbe daughters of America are
lacriltced to worldilnes.i. They aretaugut
0 be in sympathy witli nil the urtltloialties
t society. They are inducted into a!l tbs
lollowness of what is called fashionable
lie. They are taught to believe tbat bis
ory is dry, bnt that lifty cent stories of
idventurous love are delicious. With
lapacity tbat might have rivaled a Flor
ince Nightingale in heavenly ministries or
nado the father's house glad with filial
ind sisterly demeanor, their life i-a watte,
heir beauty a curse, their eteruity a de
notation. In the siege of Charleston, during our
31 vll War, a lieutenant ot the army stood
n tbe floor besidothe daughter of tbe ex
Jo ver nor of the Htatn of South Carolina.
They were taking the vows of marriage.
1 bombshell struck the root, dropped Into
he group, and nine were wounded and
lain, among the wounded to death tbe
iride. While the bridegroom knelt on the
arpet trying to stanch tbe wounds the
iride demanded tbat tbe ceremony he com
peted, that she might take tbe vows be
ore her departure, and when the minister
aid: "Wilt thou be faithful unto
leatb?" with her dying lips she said:
'I will," and in two hours she had de
parted. That was tbe slaughter and the
lacritlce of tbe body, but at thousands
f marriage altars there are daughters
(lain for time and sluiu for eternity.
It is not a marriage. It is a massacre,
kfflnnced to some one who is only waiting
intil his father dies so be can get tbe prop
erty; then a little while they swing around
n tbe circles, brilliant irels; then the
roperty is gone, and, having uo power to
urn a livelihood, tbe twain sink Into some
orner of society, the hushaml an idler and
. sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a
acrttlce. Ah, spare your denunciations
roin Jephtbah's head and expend tbem all
n this wholesale modern martyrdom!
I lilt up my voice against the sacrilloe of
hildren. I look out of my window on a
iabbatb. and I see a group of children un-
rasbed. uncombed, uu-Christiauized. Who
isres for them? Who prays for them? Who
liters to them one kind, word? When the
ilty missionary, passing' along the park
n New York, saw a ragged lad and beard
dm swearing, be said to him: "ily son,
top swearing! You ought to go to the
louse of God to-day. You ought to be
;ood. You ought to be a Christian." Tue
ad looked up in his face and said: "Ah! It
s easy for you to talk, well clothed as you
ire and well fed. But we chaps hain't got
io chance." Who lifts them to the altar
for baptism? Who goes forth to snatch
hem up from crime and death and woe?
ft'ho to-day will go fortu and bring tbem
nto schools and churches? No, heap tbem
IP, great piles of rags and wretchedness
ind filth. Put underneath them the fires
if sacrifice, stir up tbe blaze, put on more
agots, snd, wbile we sit In the churches
vlth folded arms nud Indifference, crime
ind disease and death will go on with tba
tgonlzlng sacrifice.
During tbe early French revolution at
Bourges there was a company of boys wbo
lsed to train every day as young sol llira,
ind they carried a flag, aui thev bad on
the flag this inscription; "Tremble.tyrants,
tremble! We are growing up." Mightily
uggestive! This generation is passing off,
ind a mightier generation is coining on.
Will they be tbe foes of tyranny, tbe foes
fsin and the foes of death, or will they
e the foes of God? They are coming
ipl I congratulate all parents who are
lolng tbelr best to keep their children
iway from tbe altar of sacrifice. Your
jrayers are going to be answered. Your
ihildren may wander away from God,
out they will come back attain. A voice
:omes from the throne to-day, encourag
ing you "I will be a God to thee and to
thy seed after tbee." And, though when
rou lav your head In death there may be
tome wanderer ot the family faraway from
Sod, and you may be twenty years In
leaven before salvation shall come to bis
leart, he will be brought into the kin--lom,
and before the throne ot God you
will rejoice that you were faithful. Come
at last, though so long postponed his torn
Ing. Come at lastl
I congratulate all those who are tolling
for the outcast and the wandering. Your
work will soon be over, but the Influenca
Lou are setting In motion will never stop,
ong after you have been garnered for
the skies, your pray-rs, your teachiugs
and your Christian influence will go on
and help to people heaven with bright
Inhabitants. Which would you rather
see, which scene would you rather
nlngle In In the last great day
Ming able to say, "I added house to
souse and land to land and manufactory to
manufactory, I owned half the olty. what
ever my eye eaw I had, whatever I wanted
I got," or on that day to have Christ look
you lull In tbe face and sny, "I was hungry
and ye fed Me; I was naked and ye clothed
Me; I was sick end in prison ye visited Me;
Inasmuch as ye did it to tbe least of these
My brethren, did It to Me?"
The yellow silk spider of Ceylon la
perhaps the largest of his species. ' Hia
average weight is nine ounces.
The first mode of public punish
ment in New York city was the whip
ping post, set up in 1635. Upon this
offenders were hoisted up by the waist,
and suspended for such length of time
Some of the machines for making
matches make 200 revolutions a minute
each, and turn out about 2,500,001
matches daily, or about 900,000,000 an
nually. The clay pipes of England, France
and Holland are mortly made by the
labor of children.
Heart wisdom Is ahead of book learn
ing. Don't burn the barn to kill the rats.
Greed is the incubator of monopoly.
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