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VOL. .LI 1 1.
MIFFL.INTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1899.
NO. 21.
ByJlteDucfies$.
CHAPTEK XVIII.
Joyce, on the whole, had not enjoyed
hst night's dance at the Court. Barbara
bad been there, and she bad gone home
with her and Monkton after it, and on
waking this morning a sense of unreality,
of dissatisfaction, is all that conies to her.
Joyce, however, had not been the only
one to whom last night had been a dis
appointment. Beauclerk's determination
to propose to her to put his fortune to the
touch and to gain hers failed. Either
the fates were against him, or else she
herself was in a willful mood. She had
refused to leave the dancing room with
him on any pretevt whatever, unless to
gain the coolness of the crowded hall out
side, or the still more inhabited supper
room.
He was not dismayed, howeTer, and
there was no need to do things precipi
tately. There w::s plenty of time. There
could be no doubt about the fact that she
preferred him to any of the other men of
her acquaintance; he had discovered that
the had refused Dysart not only once,
but twice.
Well, she shall be rewarded now, dear
little girl! He will make her happy for
life by laying his name and prospective
fortune at her feet! To-day he will end
bis happy bachelor state and sacrifice him
elf on the altar of love.
Thus resolved, he walks np through the
lands of the Court, through the valley
filled with opening fronds of ferns, and
through the splnny beyond that again un
til be comes to where the Monktons live.
The bonse seems very silent. Knocking
at the door, the maid comes to tell bini
that Mr. and Mrs. Monkton and the chil
dren are out, but that Miss KaTanngh is
within.
"Ah! How good of your says he as she
enters, meeting her with both hands .out
stretched. "I feared the visit was too
early!" -,
' "Early !" Bays Joyce, wit Httfc laugh!
"Why, yon might have found me chasing
the children round the garden three hours
ago. Providentially," giving him one
hand, the ordinary one, and ignoring his
other, "their father and mother were
bound to go to Tisdown this morning or I
should have been dead long before this."
"Ah!" says Beauclerk. And then with
Increasing tenderness. "So glad they
were removed; it would have been too
much for you, wouldn't it?'
"Yes I dare say. On the whole, I be
lieve I don't mind them," says Miss Kava
nagh. "Well and what about last night i
It was delightful, wasn't It?" Secretly
he sighs heavily, as she makes this most
untruthful assertion.
"Ah! Was it?" asks he. "I did not find
It so. How could I when you were so un
kind?' Then he precipitately launches
Into a proposal and is as precipitately re
jected. "Ah, you'll regret this," he bitterly ex
claims. "I shall not regret It," says she, coolly.
"Not even when Dysart has sailed for
India, and then 'the girl he left behind
him' Is disconsolate?" asks he, with an
Insolent laugh. "Hah! That touches your
It had touched her. She looks like a
living thing stricken suddenly into mar
ble, as she stands gazing back at him,
with her hands tightly clinched before
her. India? To India? And she bad
never heard.
Eitreme anger, however, fights with hei
grief, and overcoming it, enables her to
answer her adversary.
"I think you, too, will feel regret," says
she, gravely, "when you look back upon
your conduct to me to-day." .
There is such gentleness, such dignity.
In her rebuke, and her beautiful face is so
full of mute reproach, that all the good
there is in Beauclerk rises to the surface.
H flings his hat upon a table near, and
himself at her feet.
"Forgive me!" cries he, in a stifled tone.
"Have mercy on me, Joyce! I love you
I swear it! Do not cast me adrift! All I
have snid or done I regret now! You
said I should regret, and I do."
Something in his abasement disgusts the
girl, instead of creating pity in her breast.
She shakes herself free of him, by a sharp
and horrified movement.
"Yon must go home," she says, calmly,
yet with a frowning brow, "and you must
not come here again. I told you it was al!
useless, but you would not listen. No, no
not a word!" He has risen and would
have advanced toward her, but she wave
him from her, with a sort of troubled hat
red in her face.
"You mean " begins he hoarsely.
"One thing one thing only," feverishly,
"that I hope I shall never see you again!"
Two hours later Barbara has returned
and has learned the secret of Joyce's pnle
looks and sad eyes, and is now standing
on the hearth-rug looking as one might
who has been suddenly awakened from a
dream that bad seemed only too real.
"And you mean to say yon really
mean, Joyce, that yon refused him?"
"Yes. I actually bad that much com
mon sense." with a laugh that has some
thing of bitterness in it.
I'-ut I thought I was sure "
"I know you thought be was my Ideal
of al! things admirable. And yon thought
wrung."
"But if not he "
""Barbara!" says Joyce, sharply, "was it
not enough that you should have made
one mistake? Must you insist on making
another':''
"Well, never mind," says Mrs. Monk
ton, hastily. "I'm glad I made that one,
at all events; and I'm only sorry you have
felt it your duty to make your pretty eye
wet about it. Good gracious!" looking out
of the window, "who is coming nowi
Iickr Browne and Mr. Courtenay. and
"Jose detestable Blakes. Tommy," turn
t ,arply to her first-born, "If yoa and
oteI stay here you must be good. Do
hear now, good! Tou are not to ask
ngle question or touch a thing in the
joom, and you are to keep Mabel ooiet.
n not going to have Mrs. Blake go
Qme n say you are Ute worst-behaved
'.""ycer anxiously to her sister.
. n, l suppose so. I couldn't leave you
in AnnnM s t
Z 1. wnaer mercies alone."
Tbat s a darling rirll Yon kn.
a CnJfet on w, that odloua woman.
Ah! how d'ye do, Mrs. Blake? How sweet
ofou to come, after last night's fatiguer
"Well, I think a driv. . .w.i .iL .
after being np all night," says the new-
,, w utile ill-natured woman, nest
ling herself Into .the cosiest chair In the
room. "I hadn't quite meant to come
here, bnt I met Mr. Browne and Mr.
""y, " i tnought we might aa well
Join forces, and storm yoa la good earn-
est- Mr- Browne has just been telling me
that Lady Swansdown left th Rnm ki.
morning. Got a telegram, she said, sum-
tii er lo "lonceatershlre. Never do
believe In these sudden ttlmma
Stayed rather long in that ante-room with
tora Baltimore last night"
"Didn't know she had been In any ante
room." says Mrs. Monkton,. coldly.. "I
dare say her mother-in-law is ill arin
She has always been attentive to her."
Not on terms with her son. vou know:
so Lady Swansdown hopes, by the atten
tion yoa speak of, to come In for the old
lady's private fortune. Very considera
ble rortune, I've beard."
"Who told you?" asks Mr. Browne, with
a cruelly lively curiosity. "Lady Swans
down?" "Oh, dear, no!"
Pause! Dicky still looking expectant and
Mrs. Blake uncomfortablel She la racking
her brain to try and find some person
who might have told her, but her brain
fails her.
"Have you heard," aaks Mrs. Blake,
"that Mr. Beauclerk Is going to marry
that hideous Miss Maliphant? Horrid
Manchester person, don't yoa know! Can't
think what Lady Baltimore sees In her,
except" with a giggle "her want of
beanty. Got rather too much of pretty
women, I should say."
"I'm really afraid," says Dicky, "that
somebody has been hoaxing you this time,
Mrs. Blake," genially. "I happen to know
for a fact that Miss MaHphant Is not go
ing to marry Beauclerk."
"Indeed !" snappishly. "Ah. well, really
he is to be congratulated, I think. Per
haps," with a sharp glance at Joyce, "I
mistook the name of the young lady; I cer
tainly heard he was going- to be married-".
"So 'am I," says' Mr. Browne, "some
time or other; we are all going to get mar
ried one day or another. One day, in
deed, is as good as another. Yon have
set us such a capital example that we're
safe to follow it."
Mr. and Mrs. Blake being a notoriously
unhappy couple, the latter grows rather
red here; and Joyce gives Dicky a re
proachful glance, which he returns with
one of the wildest bewilderment. What
can she mean?
"Mr. Dysart will be a distinct loss whea
be goes to India," continues Mrs. Blake,
quickly. "Won't be back for years, I
bear, and leaving so soon, too. A disap
pointment, I'm told! Some obdurate fair
one! Sort of chest affection, don't you
know, ha, ha! India's place for that sort
of thing. Knock it out of him in no time.
Thought he looked rather down in the
mouth last night. Not up to much lately,
it has struck me. Seen much of him this
time. Miss Kavanagh?"
"Yes. A good deal," says Joyce, who
has, however, paled perceptibly.
"Thought him rather gone to seed, eh:
Rather the worse for wear."
"I think him always very agreeable."
says Joyce, Icily.
A most uncomfortable silence ensues.
Barbara tries to get up a conversation
with Mr. Gourtenay, but that person, nev
er brilliant at any time, seems now strick
en with dumbness, Finally Mrs. Blake
rises and takes her departure. She car
ries off Mr. Courtenay. Dicky goes, too,
and Barbara, with a sense of relief, turns
to Joyce.
"You look so awfully tired," says she.
"Why don't you go and lie down T'
"I thought, on the contrary, I should
like to go out for a walk," says Joyce, in
differently. "I confess my head is aching
horribly. And that woman only made me
worse."
"What a woman! I wonder she told sc
many lies. I wonder if "
"If Mr. Dysart is going to India," sup
plies Joyce, calmly. "Very likely. Why
not? Most men In the army go to India."
"True," says Mrs. Monkton, with a sigh.
Then, in a low tone, "I shall be sorry fot
b'"Why! If he goes" coldly "it Is by
bis own desire. I see nothing to be sorry
about."
"Oh, I do," says Barbara. And then,
"Well, go out, dearest. The air will d
rou good."
CHAPTER XIX.
It is far into the afternoon, still the
spring sunshine Is streaming through the
windows. Lady Baltimore, in a heavy
tea-gown of pale green plush, is sitting by
;he fire reading a book, her little son upon
the hearth-rug beside her. The place is
strewn with blocks, and the boy, as hii
father enters, looks op at him and calls
to him eagerly to come and help blm. At
the sound of the child's quick, glad voice a
pang contracts Baltimore' heart. The
child He had forgotten him.
"I can't make this castle." says Bertie,
"and mother Isn't a bit good. Hers al
ways fall down; come yon and make me
"""Not now," says Baltimore. "Not to
day. Run away to yonr nurse, l.want to
speak to your mother."
There is something abrupt and jerky in
bis manner-something strained, and with
sufficient temper in it to make the child
reuse from entreaty. The very pain Bal
timore la feeling has made his manner
harsher to the child. Yet, aa the flatter
passes him obediently, he seises the small
figure In hia anna and presses Mm con
vulsively to his breast. Then, potting
nl down, hepolnu silently bat peremp
torily to the door. . .
"WeUr says Lady Baltimore. She has
risen startled by hia abrupt entrance his
tSJ2d more than ln" tow.ra
but passionate burst of ectton
the child. -Ton wish to apeak to me-
'g4DhCre won't be many more opportuni
ties," say. he, grimly. "J?"
give me a few momento to-day.
you good news. I am going abroad. At
once, foreverl"
sue ever met in her life. Tou will
In antte Sf the terrible aolf-mntml aha
baa taught herself. Lady Baltimore's self
poaseaatoa give way. Her brain seems
to reel. - - . .
"Hah! I thought so I have touched
her at last, through her pride," thinks Bal
timore, watching her with a savage aatia-
racnon, which, however, harts him horri
bly. And after all he was wrong, too. He
had touched her, indeed! bnt it waa her
neart, not her pride, ha had wounded.
"Abroad?" echoes ahe, faintly. '
"Yea; why not? I am aick of this sort
of life. I have decided on flinging It np."
" "Since when have yon come to this de
cision?" asks she, presently, having con
quered her sudden weakness by a supreme
effort.
"If yon want day and date, I'm afraid 1
shall not be able to aupply you. It has
been growing upon me for some time the
Idea of It, I mean and last night you
brought it to perfection.''
"ir
"Have yoa already forgotten all the
complimentary speeches yon made mel
They" with a sardonic smile "are so
sweet to me that I shall keep them ripe
in my memory until death overtakes me
and after It, I think! You told m, among
other wifely thing if my mind does not
deceive me that yoa wlsht-d me out of
your life, and Lady Swansdown with me."
"That la a direct and most malicious
misapplication of my words," says she,
emphatically.
"Is it? I confess that was my readini
of them. I accepted that version, and,
thinking to do yon a good torn, and re
lieve yoa of both your betes noires at once,
I proposed to Lady Swansdown last night
that she should accompany me upon my
endless travels."
There Is a long, long pause, during
which Lady Baltimore's face seems to
hsve grown into marble. She takes a step
forward now. Through the stern pallor
of her skin her large eyes gleam like fire.
"How dare you?" she says. In a voice
very IpWi but so intense that it rings
through the room. "How dare yoa tell
me this? Are yon lost to all shame? Yoa
and she to go to go away together! It
is only what I have been anticipating for
months. I could see how it was with you.
But that yoa should have the insolence to
stand before me" she grows almost mag
nificent in her wrath "and declare your
iufamy aloud! Such a thought was be
yond me. There was a time when 1 would
have thought it beyond you!"
"Waa there?" says he. He laughs
aloud.
"There, there, there!" says she, with a
rather wild sort of sigh. "Why should I
waste a single emotion upon yon? Let
me take yon calmly, casually. Come
come now." It is the saddest thing in the
world to see bow she treads down the pas
sionate, most natural uprisings within bet
sgsinst the injustice of life. "Makes me
at least an courant with your movements,
you and sue wui go wnere r
'Well, you will be disappointed .as far
as she is concernea. it appears snc
doesn't think It worth while to accompany
me."
"Yon mean that ahe refused to go with
you?"
"In the very baldest language, I assure
yon. It left nothing to be desired, believe
me,' m the matter of lucidity. 'No,' she
would" not go with me. Yoa see there is
not only one, bat two women in the world
who regard me aa being utterly without
charm."
"I commiserate you!" says she, with s
bitter sneer. "If, after all your attention
to her, your friend has proved faithless,
1 "
"Don't waste your pity," says he. Inter
rupting her rather rudely. "On the whole,
the decision of my 'friend,' as you call her,
was rather a relief to me than otherwise.
I felt it my duty to deprive you of her so
ciety" with an unpleasant laugh "and
so I asked her to come with me. When
she declined to accompany me she left
me free to turn to a port."
"Ah! yoa refuse to be corrupted?" says
she, contemptuously.
"Think what you will," saye be, re
straining himself with determination. "It
doesn't matter in the least to me now.
Your opinion I consider worthless, be
cause prejudiced as worthless as yoa con
sider me. I came here to tell yoa of my
determination to go abroad."
(To be continued.)
At the Pnbllo Expense,
It is stated that one morning recently
a young fellow who had Just secured a
clerkship In a Government office w-as
considerably startled by a little scene
which he witnessed. An elderly man,
one of the senior clerks in the room
suddenly rose from his desk, dragged
the comfortable chair on which he bad
been sitting Into the middle of the room,
seized a poker, and, attacking the chair
with great vigor, succeeded In breaking
one of Its legs. When It was done the
official gave a sigh of relief, and flung
the chair Into a corner of the room. The
budding Junior's first thought waa that
his senior had suddenly taken leave of
his senses, and be almost expected that
bis colleagues would forthwith put hlui
under restraint But, to his astonish
ment, the other clerks hardJy raised
their eyes while the work of destruc
tion was In progress. Before the office
work was over the new-comer sought
Information from one of his fellow
clerks. "Can you tell me." said he.
"why Mr. Dash carried on In that ex
traordinary fashion? I mean, of course,
when he broke a perfectly sound leg off
the chair in which be had been sitting."
"Oh. that was all right!" replied the
other, with a meaning laii;r!i. "A
caster had come off one of the legs of
the chair, and. you know, 'my lords"
will not provide ns with new casters;
they will attend to nothing less than a
broken leg. So Dash had to break one
of the legs In order to get his chair p i'
right at the public expense."
The electric trauma of Cannes, the
.well-known French resort, have been
suppressed by a Government decree in
consequence of th number of acci
dents. M. MauraJn, a celebrated French
scientist, asserts In the Journal de
Physique that careful measurements
t-how that the Intensity of gravitation
on Islands la greater than on conti
nents. On two leading Western railroads
the experiment is to be tried of running
ail locomotives continuously, regardless
of the engineer in charge. Kver since
railroads began operations in this coun
try" it has been the custom to assign
one engineer to each engine, so that
when the man waa off duty bis loco
motive lay idle In the round house.
This traditional practice baa proved
very expensive thus far to the railway
companies, but no attempts were made
to change it until the inception of the
Western experimei.t above noted.
A resident of Munich has Invented
a fireproof mat, consisting of asbestos
fibres, which, when applied in good
time, will extinguish a fire, or allow
people to approach without risk of
burning for the purpose of turning on
water or rescuing property.
On July 1, 1808, when the battle at El
Caney waa hottest, a carious commo
don among the Spanish soldiers was
risible In one of the trenches which de
fended the town. Toward the middle
f the day the watching American Mi
llers on the nearest line saw a naif
frown pig come running out of a low
thatched building Inside the Spanish
trenches, and, rounding a corner of the
lltch, take to flight outside the trenches
n the direction of the American posl
Jon. Evidently he bad been lodged under
:he thatch-roofed house just behind the
U-eueh, in the free-and-easy domestic
uanner In which Cuban pigs are gen
erally taken care of. A bullet or a shell
lad Invaded bis retreat, shattered his
nclosure, set him free and scared him
Uniost to death at the same time.
The Spanish soldiers ceased their fir
ng as the pig escaped, and there was
iommotion among them. Presently
ills commotion resolved itself fnto a
ush of several soldiers out of the
Tench and in the direction of the pig.
CAPTCBIKG THE BPHA WAV.
Soon there were fifteen of them out In
the open. In the full sweep of the
American fire.
Some of them ran to head off the pig
ind others pushed up behind to catch
him. The pig wheeled and dodged, and
the soldiers wheeled and dodged after
aim. Their voices rose In chorus of
Spanish shout. Up and. do wnwenl
the pig; when a soldier's bands were
n him be would make a twist and
ariggle himself away.
Once he made a long straight ran to
ward the American lines; it did not
kelp him, for the soldiers were after
him, entirely unregarding the battle.
Some of them beaded hit" off again
and In another moment an athletic
young soldier had seized first bis tail
nd then his legs. Still another mo
ment and the pig. firmly held, was on
bis way back to the trenches, riding on
:he shoulder of this young man, his
Torelegs gripped by one hand and bla
hind legs by the other.
The soldiers resumed their places In
die trench; the one who had the pig
?ut him back Into the thatched roof
lulldlng, and presently returned to bit
wn place and took up bis gun.
It Is safe to say that during the chase
it the pig no American soldier who
saw the affair discharged his gun at
the gotip. The Americans who saw It
were too full of admiration aud aston
ishment to add to the dangers which
the audacious Spanlrds were under;
but thousands of Americans who could
not see the Incident were blnzlng away
in that direction, 4 and the Spaniards
who were chasing the pig must have
heard a great many bullets whistling
ibout their heads during their perform
ince. Highly Appreciated,
An old Latin saying, Laudant qaod
ion intelligunt (They praise what they
lo not understand), was once Illus
trated by an English tourist who hap
pened Into the Lutheran church al
Elsinore one Sunday morning. The
tourist did not know a word of the
Danish language, but he wrote, "The
clergyman had a quiet earnestness ol
manner and a persuasive eloquence
that pleased and attracted. I admired
the discourse, although I did not un
lerstand a word of it." The book frorc
which we have copied this illustration
jf a common practice tells the follow
ing amusing story of a Dutch audience
listening to one of Shakspeare's plays:
I will tell you, such is de powers of
de Shakspeare, that I vunce saw a
play de great man acted In Angllsh,
In Holland, where der vas not vnn per
son In all de house but myself could
onderstond it; yet dere vas not a per
son In all dat house but vat vas In
tears, dat la, all crying, blowing de
nose, and veep very mouch; couldn't
onderstond vun vurd of de play, yet all
veeplng. Such vas de powers of dt
Shakspeare!
Irish IjovcMavklnst,
A writer In Macmlllan's Magaslne,
treating of "Love-Maklng In Ireland."
elates the following anecdote:
A bashful lover wished to make
proposal of marriage, but his courage
railed him. and he Induced his sister to
lecome an Intermediary, he remaining
ratslde the half-closed door, hidden,
ut within earshot, to learn the result.
It waa not favorable. The fair one
taucily tossed her head, and replied:
"Indeed, now, if I'm good enough to
e married, I'm good enough to . be
axed!"
Hearing this, the anxious swain
thrust bis head Inside the door, and
said, beseechingly:
"Norah, dartln', win ye do what Mag
gie axed ye?" . .
She When yoa asked me to be yout
wife yon deliberately deceived me." He
-In what way. Martha? She Yoa told
Be yoa were well off. He Well, I may
nave said It. Martha, bat I didn't know
how well off I was at that timev Rich
MBd Dispatch, -
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LAW AS INTERPRETED.
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The presence of a stenographer for
the State's Attorney to the Grand Jury
mom daring the taking of the testimony
r witnesses, and the taking and tran
scribing of such testimony In full, it
eld. In SUte vs. Brewster (Vt),
U R. A. 444, Insufficient to abate the In
llctment. In the absence of any statu
xry provision or any prejudice to the
accused.
Employment to secure the passag of
rdlnances for paving streets and alleys
it a compensation which la In part con
tingent upon success in obtaining th
necessary ordinances and securing the
contracts Is held. In Crlchfleld vs. Ber
mudes Asphalt Paving Company (IU.I,
12 L. B, A. 847, to be void on grounds of
public policy because tending to brib
ery and corruption.
An ordinance requiring abutting own
era to keep sidewalks free from snow,
as they are required to do almost every
where. Is held. In State vs. Jack man
IN. II.), 42 L. It. A. 438, to be unconsti
tutional as a taking of property foi
public use without just compensation.
This Is In conflict with the conclusion
f the courts elsewhere.
A stipulation that a life policy is in
contestable after three years front datt
Mid the payment of three full yearlj
premiums Is held. In Massachusetu
Benevolent Loan Association vs. Rob
inson (Ga.), 42 L. II. A. 2G1, to be valid
and applicable to a defense based upon
misrepresentations or warranties,
whether fraudulent or otherwise.
A contract by an Insurance agent tc
keep a person's property Insured In his
company Is held. In Its m speck vs. Patll
o (Ga.), 42 L. B, A. 107. to be Invalid
juless the company consents, because
:be agent cannot act In a doable capa
city, and this contract would require
aim to perform inconsistent duties and
require the consent of both parties.
A provision that a life insurance pol
icy shall be Incontestable after one
rear Is held, in Clement vs. New York
Life Insurance Company (Tenn.), 42
L. R. A. 247, to be neither unreasonable
nor contrary to public policy, but, while
It Is held applicable to fraud In procur
ing the policy, it is held applicable tc
the defense that the plaintiffs had pro
cured the Issue of the policy and Its
transfer to them as a speculation, and
that It was therefore a gambling oi
wagering contract. With this case Is
in extensive note on Incontestable lift
policies.
A French statistician has calculated
that the human eye travels over twe
thousand yards In reading an ordinary
sized novel. ' The average human being
Is supposed to get through 2,500 miles
of reading In a lifetime.
It has been shown that, while Nan
sen's observations prove that the North
Polar region is a great ocean cavity,
nearly two miles deep, the South Polai
region, on the contrary. Is, apparently,
l vast solid mass of land, surrounded
by a belt of water about two miles in
iepth. The area of the South Polai
continent Is estimated to be about fout
million square miles, one million more
than that of the United States, exclud
ing Alaska,
An anthropologist named Ammon
states that Bismarck's brain was prob
ably the heaviest on record. He Judges I
rrom measurements or scnaiers dusi
jf the great chancellor that his brain
must have weighed 1,867 grammes
over 59 ounces); Cuvler's brain welgh
id 1,830 grammes; Bryon's. 1,807;
Kant's. 1.C50; Schiller's, 1,030; and
Dante's, 1,420. The average for a
well-built European man Is given as
1,380 grammes.
It has been suggested that as Ice at
jnly twelve degrees below freezing has
a specific Insulation of over one thou
sand megohms. It might be possible to
have hollow conductors which could be
placed In a trench Oiled with water and
used to carry brine for purposes of Ice
making and refrigeration. The frozen
water would act as the Insulator, and
the calculations have been made show
ing that the arrangement is feasible on
i commercial scale.
It seems probable that we shall, with
in a few years, learn something more
about the wonderful volcano, 12.00C
feet high, which Sir James Ross saw,
half a century ago, discharging flame
and smoke amidst the vast snow and
Ice fields of Victoria Land. At the
Antarctic Conference of the Royal So
ciety in London, last February, the de
sirability of a thorough scientific ex
ploration of the South Polar regions
was strongly urged, and still later the
German Antarctic Expedition Commit
tee at Lelpslc unanimously resolved to
advocate the sending of a ship toward
the South Pole to explore Victoria band
and Its surroundings.
' A manufacturer of artificial limbs It
credited with the statement that am
putations tend to enhance vitality,
hose who have lost an arm or a leg
frequently having their lives pro
longed and their health Improved as s
result of the loss. Even the mental
forces are represented as being
strengthened In cases of amputation
The alleged explanation Is that the re
moval of an Important part of the body
decreases the demand on the vital
forces, and enables them to concentrate
more effectually upon what remains.
It Is not likely, however, that anybody
will ever voluntarily sacrifice a leg oi
an arm for the sake of brightening the
wit, or adding a year or two to the
length of life.
Sisal la a fibrous plant abounding to
Yucatan, and now beginning to be cul
tlvated In Jamaica. Puerto Rico, and
Southern Florida, from which a substl
te for hemp is derived. It Is reported
iat the English admiralty has adopted
deal fibres In place of hemp for making
ope cables.' The fibre Is obtained from
the long leaves of the sisal, which bear
t resemblance to the leaves of the cen
tury plant But a perfect machine for
separating the fibres from the pulp Is
rreatly needed, and American inven
tiveness is expected to supply the want.
hf i,nnnnnnr . V..
rtv advantages to be obtained from
m& a machine have been likened tc
those derived from the Invention of the
cotton gin.-
IN FAVOR OF 8HORT PRAYERS.
A Ploaa-laa- that Was Tlaaed by a
Lomsr-Wtadad Iavocatloa,
"It happened," said Col. Jack Chlnn,
'that there were two colored preachers
n habiting cells In the penitentiary al
bTankfort at the same time. If I re
member aright both were sentence:
for polygamy, bnt old Sam was a Meth
idlst parson, while old Jske wss of the
Baptist faith. It seems that Sam had
lone something to greatly offend the
warden, and the punishment decided or
was an old-fashioned lashing. Some
areeks after the affair came off. the Rev
3am, whom I had known from boyhood
was telling me about It
" 'I didn't mind de whlppln' so much
Mars Jack, ef It hadn't been for de waj
)ld Jake acted. Yoa see de warden he
Mid to me: "Sam, I'se gwlne to whip
vou, and I 'low de whlppln' will do you
a whole heap nv good. I'm gwlne to let
ld Jake pray fer you, and de blows
will continue to fall on your black hide
while Jake'a pra'r la a-goln' on. When
he come to a final stop de punishment
will likewise end."
" 'Land sakes. Mars Jack, I knowed it
was all np with me den, for that Ignor
ant old nigger never did know when it
was time to get up ofTn his knees. D
fac dat a po' human betn' was in dis
tress wasn't gwine to make a bit of dif
ference with him. Well. sir. it was jes'
like I 'spected It'd be. Dey brought me
ut and old Jake, de old villun, started
in, and as fast as he prayed the warder,
come down on me wld a whip dat cul
like a knife. I never did want to beai
a pra'r come to an end so bad In my life
but It weren't any use. Every time I
thought he waa most through old Jake
took a fresh hold and down come dt
licks hardern ever. Shorely It seemed
to me like he prayed a month, and
Mars Jack, I wants to tell you righl
now dat I am sot against long pra'r
for de rest or my life.' "
BUILDING OF A WATCH.
Marks the Hlarbeat State of Develop
sst ta Labor-EJavtaar Machinery.
If we were asked to state the most
Important element in our rapidly ap
preaching Industrial supremacy. w
would name without any hesitation la
bor-savlng machinery. If we were
asked where labor-saving or automatic
machinery waa to be found In Its very
highest state of development we would
direct the Inquirer to visit one of the
great American watcb factories, which
are at once the pride of the watch In
dustry In this country and the despait
of all foreign competitors, says a writes
In the Scientific American.
Time was when all watches were
made by band, and the prejudice against
machine-made watches, based upon the
mistaken supposition that they must
be necessarily rough In their construc
tion and uncertain In their running,
tiles a lingering death. The credit fot
the scheme of applying machinery tc
watch manufacture belongs tc
this country and Is due to a Boston
watchmaker, Aaron L. Dennlson,
whose earliest work In this direction
.la tea from the year 1848. Mr. Denni
son's theory was that the substitution
of special machines for human skill
would Insure such uniformity of prod
uct that similar parts would be prao
tlcally Interchangeable.
Getflaa: Alcohol from Smoke.
Chemists, who can make sugar fron
old shirts, and perfumes as well as col
ors from coal tar, have other triumphs
awaiting them In the twentieth cen
tury. One of these Is the manufacture
of alcohol from the smoke of blast and
other coal furnaces. Coal smoke of the
kind contains ethylene, from which al
cohol Is readily made by simple means
aud It Is recognized that ere long tb
smoke of high furnaces, coke ovens and
gas works will be turned to account Ir
this way.
FOUNC A SATURN SATELITE.
How Prof. William Henry Pickering
Has Lately IMatir Knlshed Himself.
Prof. William Henry Pickering, wbc
lias Just distinguished himself by dis
covering a new satellite of Saturn (ot
rather of bringing to light an old un
known one), belongs to a family of as
tronomers and has In every way served
jnly to add to the fame already
achieved by his relatives. He is a na
tive of Boston and Is only 41 years old.
lie was graduated from the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology In 1875
and for six years thereafter was an In
structor In physics In that big school.
He began his practical work In astron
omy by observing bis first total eclipse
at Denver in 1878. In 1S87 be became
connected with the Harvard observa
tory, and he has conducted the affairs
of that institution With much skill and
success. He established several plants
in far-off places f of watching the stars
and planets, and his work In stellai
photography has been of especial value
He has established stations at great
heights on mountains. Including that a
Areqolpa, In Pern.
"Come and dine with ns to-morrow.'
said the old fellow who had made hit
money and wanted to posh his way Intc
society. "Sorry," replied the elegant
nan, I can't; I'm going to see 'Ham
et,' " "That's all right," said the hos
tltable old gentleman; "bring blm with
ro" Tlt-Blta. u
raorxssoB fickxriso.
he Dm
SO
Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmags.
Sabjeet: "A Great Man Fallen" Knlov)
of the Lata Justice Field One of th
Moat Notable Characters of Oar Time
Ww Ufa la Worthy or Kinnlatlun.
Tbxt: "Kdow not tbat tbere U t
rlnce and a great man Ml lea this day it
waW?" U Samnel III., 34.
Here is a plumed catafalque, followed b
King David and a funeral orntiutt which hi
delivers at the tomb. Concerning A(ner
the great, David weeps out the text. Mor
appropriately than when originally ut
tered we may now ntter this resounding
lamentation, "Know ye not that there Is a
Lrlnce and a great man fallen this day ir
irael?"
It was thirty minutes after six, the exael
boor of sunset of the Sabbath day, and
While the evening lights were being kin
dled, that the soul o.f Stephen J. Field, the
lawyer, the judge, the patriot, the states
man, the Christian, ascended. It was sun
down In the home on yonder Capitol bill,
Washington, aa It waa sundown on all the
surrounding hills, but in both cases the sun
set to be followed by a glorious snnrlse.
Hear the Easter anthems still llnserinir in
the air, "The trumpet aball sound, and th
dead aball rise."
Our departed friend eame forth a boy
from a minister's home In New England.
He knelt with father and mother at morn
ing and evening prayer, learned fro-u ma
ternal lips lessons of piety which lasted
him aad controlled bim amid all the varied
and exciting scenes of a lifetime and helped
him to die in peace an octogenarian. Wot
out from American history the names ol
these ministers' sons who have done bonoi
to judicial bench and commercial circle and
national Legl-lature and Presidential chair,
and yoa woald obliterate many ot the
grandest chapters of that history. It is nc
small advantage to have started from a
home where God Is honored and the sub
ject ot a world's emancipation from sin
ana sorrow Is under constant discus
sion. The Ten Commandments, wtilct
ore the toundutlon of all good law
Soman, law, Germun law Englist
law, Americau la are the ba-t foun
dation upon which to build character, anil
those whiob the boy, Stephen J. Field, sc
often heard In the parsonage at Stocc
bridge were his guidance when a balf i-ea-tory
after, as a gowned justice ot the Su
preme Court ot the United .States, he un
rolled his opinions. Bibles, hymn books
eateohlams, family prayer, atmosphere
sanctified, are good surroundings fur boy;
and guia to start from, and II our laxei
Ideas of religion and Sabbath days and
home training produce as splendid men
and women as the much derided Puritanic
Sabbath and Puritanic teachings ua?e pro
duced, it will be a matter ol congratulation
and thanksgiving.
Do not pass by the fact that I have not
yet seen emphasized that Stephen J. Field
was a minister's son. Notwithstanding
tbat there are conspicaoua exceptions to
the rule and the exceptions have bnlit up
a stereotyped defamation on the subject
statistics plain and undeniable prove that
a larger proportion of ministers' sons turn
ont well than are to be found in any othet
genealogical table. Let ail the parsonazea
of ail denominations of Christians where
children are growing up take the consola
tion. See the star of hope pointing doau
to that manger!
Notice also tbat onr departed friend was
a member of a royal f antllv. There were
no crowns or scepters or thrones la that
ancestral line, bat the family of the Fields,
like the family of the New York I'r mes,
like the family ot the Princeton Alex
anders, like a score ot families that I might
mention, if It were best to mention them,
were "the children ol the king," and had
put on them honors brighter than crowns
and wielded Influence longer and wider
than scepters. That family of Field trace
an honorable lineage bark HCi) years to
Hubertua delaFeid, coadjutor of Wlllla.n
the Conqueror. Let us tfannk God lot
suoti families, generation after gener
tlon on the side of that which is righl
aud good. Four sons of that coun
try minister, knovru the world over for ex
traordinary useiulness in their spheres,
legal, coimnerulal, literary and theological.
and a daughter, the mother of one of tut
associate justices of the Supreme Court.
Bucn families eountei-Daiance lor good
those families all wrong from generation tc
generation families tuai stand ror wealth,
unrighteously got and stlngl y kept oi
wickedly squandered; families that stand
lor fraud or Impurity or malevoieuue:
family names that Immediately come to
svery mind, though through sense of pro
priety they do not come to the lip. The
name of Field will survive centuries and rc
t synonym for religion, for great jurispru
dence, for able Christian journalism, as tiit
Barnes of the Pharaohs and the Cresars
tand for oruelty and oppression and vice.
while parents cannot aspire to nave
such conspicuous households as the one
the name of whose son we now celebrate,
all parents may, by fidelity In prayer and
holy example have their sous and daugh
ters become kings and queens unto God.
to reign forever and ever. But the work
bus already been done, and l could go
through this country and Ond a thousand
households which have by the grace of
God and blessing npon paternal and ma
terial excellence become the royal families
ol America.
Let young men beware lest they by their
behavior blot such family records with
soma misdeed. We can all think of house
holds the names of which meant everything
honorable and consecrated for a long
while, but by the dead of one son saori
Bced, disgraced aad blasted. Lookout
bow yoa rob yoar consecrated ancestry of
the name they handed to yoa unsullied!
Better as trustee to tbat name add some
thing worthy. Do something to honor the
Old homestead, whether a mountain cabin
or a city mansion or a oountry parsonage.
Bev. David Dudley Field, though thirty
two years passed upward, Is honored to
day by the Christian life, the service, the
death of his son Stephen.
Among the mon absorbing books oi toe
Bible Is the book of Kings, which again
and again illustrates that, though piety is
not hereditary, the style of parentage hat
mucb to do with the style oi aesoeuaant.
It declares of Klne Abllam. "He walked lc
all the sins of his father which he bad done
before blm," and of King Axariah. "He did
that which was right In tbe sight of tha
Lord, according to all tbat bis lather Ami
tlah had done." We owe a debt to those
who have gone before In onr line as oer
talnly as we have obligations to those who
subsequently appear in the household. Not
to ? acred Is your old father's walking staff,
which yon keep In his memory or the eye
glasses through which your motherstudled
tbe Bible In ber Old age as the name they
bore, tbe name which yoa ' inherited.
Keep It brigot, 1 coarge yon. aeep it
uggestive of something elevated in
sbaracter. Trample not underfoot that
which to your father and mother was
dearer than life Itself. Defend their graves
as tbey defended yourcradle. Family coal
of arms, escutcheons, ensigns armorial,
lion ooucbant, or lion dormant, or Hon
rampant, or lion combatant, may attract
attention,- but better tnan all neraldle in
scription la a family name which means
from generation to generation' faith It
Bod, self sacrifice, duty performed! a life
well lived and a death happily died and s
heaven gloriously wonl That was th
kind of name that Justice Field augmented
and adorned and perpetuated a namt
honorable at tbe elose ot the elghteentt
sentury, more honored now at the elose o:
the nineteenth.
Notice also tbat our lllo-trlous frienc
was great In reasonable aud genial dis
tent. Ot 1012 opinions be rendered, noni
were more potent or memorable than tbos
rendered while be waa in small tnlnorit
and sometimes In a minority of one. t
learned and distinguished lawyer of this
sonntry said be would ratner do autnor oi
lodge Field's dissenting opinions than to
be the author ot the Constitution of the
United States. Tbe tendency is to go
with the multitude, to think wbat others
think, to say aad do wbat others do. Some
times tbe majority are wiong, and it
requires heroes to taks the negative,
bat to do tbat logically aad in good
1 wmoa aaaalsas SQjne elements oi Mat BO
11
lot often found In judicial dissenters or,
ndeed, In any elass of men. There are so
nany people In the world opposed to every
iilug and who display their opposition la
ancorous and obnoxious ways that a Judge
field was needed to make the negative re
jected and genial and right, minorities
mder God save tbe world and save the
thureb. An unthinking and precipitate
'yes" may be stopped by a righteous and
le role "no." The majorities are not ale-ays
right. The old gospel hymn de
llarea it:
lumbers are no mark tbat men will right
be found;
t few were saved In Nosh's ark to many
millions drowned.
The Declaration of American Inde wnd
inoe was a dissenting opinion. The' Free
'Lurch at Scotland, under Chalmers and
lis compeers, was a dissenting movement,
rne Bible Itself, Old Testament aad New
Testament, is a protest against the the
irlea that would have destroyed the
vorld and Is a dissenting as well
is a divinely Inspired book. The decs-oa-ue
on Sinai repeated ten times "Thou
halt not." Forages to come will be quoted
rom lawbooks In court rooms Justice
field's magnificent dissenting opinions.
Notloethat our ascended friend hadsuoh
i character as assault aud peril alone can
levelop. He had not come to the soft
inshlons of the Supreme Court bench step
ling on cloth of gold and saluted all along
he line by bandclapplng of applause.
Jountry parsonages do not rock their
tables in satin lined cradle or afterward
lend them out into the world with enough
tnelr bands to purchase place and
tower. Pastors salaries In the early part
)f this century hardly ever reached C700 a
rear. Economies that simetlmes cut into
:he bone characterised many of tbe homes
f tbe New England clergymen. The young
awyer of whom we apeak to-day arrived
n San Francisco in 1819 with only 10
n his pocket. Willlamstown College was
inly Introductory to a post-graduate
lourse which our Illustrious friend took
vhlle administering justice and baiting
u Onanism amid tbe mining camps of Cali
fornia. Ob, those "forty-niners," as they
a-ere called, through what privations,
through what narrow escapes, amid what
ixposures they moved! Administering
ind executing law among outlaws never
las been an easy undertaking. Among
mountaineers, many of whom had no re
tard for human life and where the snap of
ibitol and bang of gun were not unusual
-esponses, required courage ot the highest
nutal.
Behind a dry goods box surmounted by
allow candles Judge Field begun his Juili
ilal career. What exciting scenes he
ased through! An infernal machine was
landed to him, and Inside the lid of the
Kx was pasted his decision in the Pueblo
:a.ie, the decision that had bnlked nnprin
ilpled speculators. Ten years ago his life
vould have passed out had not an officer
f the law shot down his assailant. It took
I long training of hardship and abuse and
nisinterpretatlon and threat of violence
ind flash of assassin's knife to Ot him for the
ligh place where he could defy legislatures
ind congresses and presidents and tbe
vorld when he knew he was right. Hard
hip Is the grindstone that sharpens intel
ectual faculties, and the swords with
vhlch to strike effectively for God and
ne's country.
Notice also how much our friend did for
he honor of the judiciary. Wbat momen
tous sceues have been witnessed in our
Jnited States Supreme Court, on the
ench and before the bench, whether, far
rack, it held its sessions in the upper room
if the Exchange at New York, or after
yard for ten years in the City Hall at
Philadelphia, or later in ttie cellar ot
ronder capitol, the place where for many
rears the Congressional Library was kept, '
t sepulcher where books were buried alive,
he bole called by John Randolph "tbe cave
if Trophoulus!"
How suggestive the" lnvitat!dnwhioh"'
William Wirt, tbe great Virginian, wrote
its friend inviting him to yonder Supreme
Courtroom: "To-morrow r. week will come
n the great steamboat question from New
fork. Emmett and Oakley ou one side,
Webster and myself on the other. Come
lown and hear it. Emmntt's whole soul
a In tbe case, and he will stretch all his
lowers. Oakley is said to be one of the
In est logicians of the age, as much a
?bocion as Emmett Is a Themlstooles, and
ffobster Is as ambitious as Cnsar. He will
lot be outdone by any man if it Is within
be compass of his power to avoid it. Come
o Washington. It will be a combat worth
vitnessing." The Supreme Court has stood
io high In England and tbe United States
bat the vices of a few who have occupied
hat Impor: int place have not been able to
llsgrace it, neither the corruption of
Francis Bacon, nor tbe cruelty of Sir
' Jeorge Mackenzie, nor the Sabbath desecra-
loo of Lord Castlereagh.
To tbat highest of all tribunals Abraham
jlnooln called our friend, but be lived long
inough to honor the Supreme Court more
:han it had ever honored him. For more
han thirty-four years he sat la the pres
ince of this nation and ot all nations a
nodel judge. Fearlessness, integrity, de
ration to principle, characterized blm. No
iri be ever touched his hand. No profane
rord ever scalded his tongue. No blemish
if wrong ever marred his character. Fully
(uallfled was be to have bis name assoria
ed in the history of this country with the
;ruatest of the judiciary.
To have done well, all that such a prof
ession could ask of him, and to have made
bat profession still more honorable by bis
irllllant and sublime life, is enough for na
lonal and international, terrestrial and
telestial congratulation. And then to ex
ire beautifully, while the prayers of his
ihurch were being offered at his bedside,
he door of heaven opening for bis en
rance as tbe door of earth opened for his
leparture, the sob of tbe earthly farewell
Slight up into raptures that never die.
fes, he lived and died in the faith of the
ild fashioned Christian religion.
Young man, I want to tell you that J lis
ten Field believed in the Bible from lid to
Id, a book all true either as doctrine or
llstory, much ot it the history of events
:bat neither God nor man approves. Our
'riend drank the wine of the holy saara
nent and ate the bread of which "if a man
at be shall never hunger." He was tbeup
ind down, out and out friend of the cliuroh
)f Christ. If there had been anything 11
oglcttl in our religion, he would have
Hsouted it, tor he was a logician. If there
lad been In it anything unreasonable, be
aould have rejected it, because he was a
treat reasoner. If there had been in it any
thing that would not stand research, he
would have exploded tbe fallnoy, for his
i'u was a life of research. Young men ot
Washington, young men ot America, young
neu of the round world, a religion tbat
would stand the test ot Justice Field's
penetrating and all ransacking Intellect
mist have In It something worthy of your
sonfldence. I tell you now that Christian
ty has not only the heart ot the world on
Its side, but the brain of the world also,
fe who have tried to represent the religion
f tbe Bible as something pusillanimous,
bow do you account for the Christian faith
t Stephen J. Field, whole shelves ot tha
law library occupied with his magnlSoent
iecislons?
And now may the God of all comfort
speak to the bereft, especially to her who
was the queen of his life from the day when
as a stranger be was shown to her pew in
tbe Episcopal Church to this time of tha
hroken heart. He changed churches, but
did not change religion, for the church in
which be waa born and the church in
which be died alike believe in God the
Father Almlghy, Maker of heaven and
rtb, and In Jesus Christ, His only begot
ten Son, and in tbe communion of saints.
and in the life everlasting. Amen.
In Madras, India, there is an elec
tric tramway on tbe overhead system.
It Is a very popular institution with the
natives of the country.
A pill maker In England, who
spends $2,000,000 a year on newspaper
advertising alone, has given his pub
lisher orders for 7.000,000 books, each of
which Is to contain twenty-four photo
graphic views of England. The price
to the public Is to be a penny a copy.
A London plumber was arrested the
other day for stealing two houses. He
was two months at work tearing them
down and taking away the material
without anyone interfering with him.
It was only when the owner went to
look at his bouses himself that he
found they were gone.
Gibralter la now supplied with elec
tric light.
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