"ajsjaa5sjgc!" B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOH-THE Union AHD THE EslFORCEUEflT OF THE LAWS. VOL. LIU. MIFFLINTOWK, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1899. NO. 24. JW JB 'L KilUIUPIPli g? . . . " . ' . I 111 li , 1 .. li..iJ,-1 CHATTER T. Mrs. ITephzilKih Horton has just come In from a weary trudge through the mud ind the grease of the city on a foggy No vember aftern.xm: fr,,ra standing in dingy offices until pert clerks shall have thought fit to deliver lier messages to their mas ters; from fighting her way into omni buses over a chevaux de frise of damp nmbrellas and dirty petticoats, and she thinks she has earned the right to make herself comfortable. Miss Ilephzibah Horton is her legal de nomination, for no man has persuaded her to enter into bondage to his will; but she stands out for the "Mistress" before her name on the plea that no woman has a better right to bear it than she who haa oever been a slave. And since she baa turned the corner of the forties, nobody dreams of disputing her right to do aa she thinks best in the matter. From little beginnings she has risen to olid, if not great ends; and now, at the tge when most women, if not married, have become soared through disappoint ment, Mrs. Hephzibah' s days are employ ed in a continuous round of duty, which leaves her no time for discontent. Sh does not realize large sums for her work. She is not a fashionable novelist, able to command a thousand dollars for a thou sand pages of bad grammar and worse taste; she is obliged to be as careful of her diction as of her subject, for she writes chiefly for the press, and tfiere are too many competitors entered for that race not to render it necessary to keep one's eye fixed uion the winning post. A low tapping has been going on at the door; but it is some time before she no tices it. "Come in." she calls out rather impa tiently: adding: "If it's the boy from the Anrora office. Sarah, just tell him that the ropy is not ready, and it won't be ready till to-morrow morning, so it is of no use sra'tini:. I'll son.! it by the first post." "It's not Sarah, Mrs. Horton; it's me." replies the low voice of somebody who aas partially opened the sitting room door. lelin Moray, whatever brings you round here on such a night as this? "I wanted to see you. to speak to you," ays the stranger, in a hesitating manner. "Besides, it is on my way to the theater." "Now yon must take off your things and have some tea with me. It will warm ron before your walk to the theater. How cold your hands are. Come nearer to the lire. Why, my dear! my dear! what's this?" .. . . For Delia Moray has sunk on a foot itool at Mrs. lleplizibnh's feet, and, lay ing her head upon her lap, commenced to lob bitterly. "Oh: Mrs. Horton, I am very, very mis erable." All the hardness fades out of the elder woman's face as she lays her hand upon her friend's head, and pats it soothingly. '"I'm sorry to hear it, Delia Moray, but ( could have told you as much long ago. What else can you expect, when you put yourvli" in the power of a man? Don't foil know that their tender mercies last just as Ion;; as their admiration of you, and that a worn-out woman is much the same to thorn as a worn-out suit of slothes only tit to be chucked away 7" "I was eu 7oung." pleads Delia. I knew so little of the world. I never thoniht it would come to this." "So every poor fool says, who has made t trial of them." "lint I feel as if I couldn't stand it any loiurer. I wouldn't mind bis cruelty to myself. Mrs. Horton! I could bear that but it is the child!" "What of the child ? Haw can he harm hirnT "He uses him as a tool to extract my submission, and if I rebel in the least thing he makes niv Door Willie suffer for it. I can hardly descrilie to you the pass J things have come to. lie is hardly ever sob.T. night or day. I have worked to supply him and the child with the neces saries of life; but he takes every penny I earn for drink, and when I remonstrate with him. and show him that Willie has act stinVient food or clothes, he insults ind ill-uses me. Last night he threatened to turn me out of doors. Look at my irms" she exclaims suddenly, as sh pushes up the sleeve of her thin alpaca iress, and shows the angry red and blue marks of a fresh bruise. She is a pretty woman, of five-and-twenty, this Ielia Moray, or she would be pretty if !ie were not so thin and worn. Her Irish breeding is evinced by h'r l,iu.. orl.s, black hair and rose-leaf complexion; but nil trace of the national srchncss ami espieglerie has deserted her coimtenaioe. Her sorrowful eyes are urroui!,,i ,v ,.lrB. rims the effect of constant weeping and there is a sad drooping about her pretty, quivering mouth, y.-t the inherent fire of her race is ot iy si.-. ping in her. It has nearly-been Mtiiiguish,.,! by ill-usage, but the embers smolder still, and only need a helping hand to fan them into a flame. "And tha; scoundrel can make a beast "f liinis. lf up,,,, y01ir hard-earned wages, and then tr. at you like that," says Mrs. Hephzil.ah. meditatively. "Now, be frank me, and tell me the whole truth. Have yon , ver given him reason to be Jealous i.f yoiiV" "Never; "What made you marry this man?" de nwnds Mr,. Ilephzibah abruptly, as the shM uieal is concluded. I'eiia Moray looks up with a startled. Hushed face. .t'.,','"'.t V"" near mT question? I don't sk it without a purpose. I want to learn " Joii can tell me about your former IVr,,Ps I may be able to help you." How ,an you help me?" "N'-vcr mind! We'll talk of that by and Jr Tell me now about your marriage. Where did you meet Mr. Moray?" . l,u away from here, at a little town m..u.""J""1 where I was playing." i k "n the 8tuge " el17' "n. no! He was a clerk in a bank, or me house of business in Glasgow; but ' ot into trouble, and had to leave.' "tie was kicked out, you meant V d "e embezzle money?' 1 am afraid so; but he never told m entire story, and I did not think It of ""en consequence then. I was only six-"J- James saw me first upon the stage J-reenock, and when he proposed to me m Kht il a "rand thing to be married J? Wm. I had no parents or relations, """St great deal pf isQlass-ow, "W.aa jour marriage with him a secret one?" "He kept It a secret from his famrfy. They were very proud, he said, and he was afraid If they heard he had married aa actress they would refuse to help him any further. 80 we waited till we could cites the border and were married in Ber wick." "Fin sorry for that! If it had been done In Scotland, we might have proved it to be an Irregular marriage. What is the name of the place at which yon wert married r "Chilton. Oh! I shall never forget uiat day, Mrs. Hephzibah. I was frightened out of my senses; and the horrible old man who married na was so tipsy he could hardly get through the service. - And the very same night the little church In which we were married was burned to the ground." "Burned to the ground, child! What! entirely destroyed?" "I believe so. x ney said It was struck by lightning, but some people thought the clergyman had set fire to it himself; and I am sure he was tipsy enough for any thing." "Delia Moray!" exclaims Mrs. Hephzi bah, suddenly, "have you got your mar riage certificate?" "Yes! I have a copy of it. - It was given us before we left the church. But why do yon ask, Mrs. Horton 7" with a dis tressed countenance "surely you do not suspect that I am not married to him?" "No, child! No! It would be much better, may be, if you were not. But the man is a villain, and may turn round upon you any day. Keep the certificate safe. Don't let it go out of your bands, or you may find your name ruined before you know where you are. Burned to the ground! I never heard of such a thing before. And what became of the drunken parson?" "I have heard nothing of him since. For a few months we lived near Glasgow, and then James was unfortunate, and lost his situation, and I had to go on the stage again, and have been there ever since." "While he does nothing." "No, nothing. He says he can't get anything to -do." "An idle excuse, because he prefers to live upon your salary. But It appears to me that things have come to a crisis, and that you ought to do something to free yourself from the clutches of this scoundrel. Tour friends can't help yon. Because you've got none, and his friends won't. Nothing remains for yon, there fore, Delia Moray, but to take the law Into your own hands and help yourself." At these words the younger woman's face becomes a picture of despair. "How can I help myself?" she cries. "As other wives have done before yon Have yon never heard of such a thing a a protection order?" "Never." "Really, the ignorance of our sex upon matters of general information is astound ing! I should have thought it was the interest of every married woman In Chris tendom to make herself acquainted with the relief the law contains for her. It's little enough, my dear, I can tell you, and would burden no one's brains to get by heart, A protection order, obtained from a magistrate, would render you safe from the assaults of that man to-morrow, and enable you to live in peace, and support yourself and your child." "Oh, Mrs. Horton! can It really be true? I thought that a woman, once married, was bound to remain with her husband till his death. I thought he could fore her to live with him." "So he can, If he supports her not U he supports him. Thank goodness! w are not quite such slaves as that! though, in my opinion, marriage is a one-sided contract, under the best of circumstances. Now, mind you look in again to-morrow and hear If I have been able to .extract any sense out of my stupid old lawy." But long after Delia Moray, with her bruised body and sick heart, has crept .way to her evening's occupation, Mrs. Ilephzibah sits motionless, staring into :he fire, and wondering what she can de .0 alleviate her position. CHAPTER II. Delia Moray, drawing her woolen wrap closely about her mouth to prevent thf thick November fog finding its way down her throat, traverses the sloppy streets to the stage entrance of the Corinthian The uter, where she has been employed, on and ff, for three years. - - Inside the theater little is known of the rirl's private history, except that ahe If aiarried. Of this fact she has never made concealment, using it as a protection in her dangerous position; but since her hus Band never appears upon the scene, eithei to conduct her to the theater or to take er home, she has not found his name of nearly so much use to her as her own. Most cf the womea employed in the same line of business consider that Miss Mer lon "gives herself airs." The part she has to play to-night a secondary character In the opening farct -she has acted over and over again, until .he is utterly sick of it. She dresses foi it almost in silence, while the girls around her are relating all the adventures that have befallen them since the evening be fore, and she is ponderinf ; on the-conver-Ution she held with Mrs. Hephzibah Hor ton. She walks on the stage and goes hrough her part almost meebanic-tUy wo7d. and gestures following each othe, i the old accustomed way. whUctht actress' heart is broodina over the orob abiIRy-no! not the probabUity. the possW Uilitjof a release from her present in tolerable bondage. Her lodging, are situated a long way troui the theater, somewhere in the back streets of the city; but how can three Se live decently on a couple of pounds eek ? It ta half an hour or more before Del Moray reaches the dingy old house Kiel sSfand her hosbandiivMn ,m pany with half a dozen otber families as poor as themselves. d The door is opened to her by ber iana irfv a battered old woman, who reJ' m a wiV ofteheveled cnrls-a legacy, "robabTy? left her by some of theatri cal lodger, to exchange for ren -sur- yaTor. but who cry son ---- bosom, never- 1 kr y rt&iSy W.ted to Iheless, and parucuxv Adtitt she Delia, whom ahe constantly ciare. wiU twt "nnt upo- The mother is in a hurry to see her boy. She runs np one, two, three flights of Mairs and quickly enter, a dingy sitting room. There la a strong smell of beer and tobacco pervading the place; but it Is empir ana tne are has burned down in the grate. Delia turns Into the bedroom. All is in darkness. She makes her way np to tha bed, and lays her cheek down upon the . -ow. The bed is vacant no one la there! Then a sudden fear attacks her. What has become of her child? She rushes out upon the landing, and calls to the woman who let her to at the front door: "Mrs. Timson! Mrs. Tbnson! Where is my Willy? Who has taken my boy awayl Speak to me; tell me where he la gone to for the love of heaven!" The woman in the brown curia and ar tificial flowers comes limping np the tairs. "Ixr bless you, Mrs. Moray! you're no call to be in such a stew. I would have told yon where he was at first. If yon 'adn't run past me like a whirlwind. The boy's only gone out with his pa." "With Mr. Moray, ana at una time ot the night! Wherever can they have gone?" "That I can't tell you. A11I know la that I waa Just going to slip off the child's things and put him to bed, when your 'usband called to me to put on his 'at and comforter, aa he was going to take him along of him. I said It wasn't fit weather to take the boy out, with his cough, too; but all I got for my pains was to be told to mind my own business. The other icntleman waa here, too, and went out with them." "What! Mr. William Moray, his broth er?" "To be sure. They left about seven, -" ven't been back since. When " 'card your knock 1 'oped It was them; for I knew you'd worry terrible to come home and find Willy gone." "Oh, Mrs. Timson! it will kill him in this dreadful weather!" sobs Delia. "Don't go to talk such nonsense, ma'am. The boy won't take no 'arm, though he was coughing terrible, to be sure, as I let 'em out. The gentleman seemed In high feather, though. Perhaps your 'usband 'ad some good news 'eard of an appoint ment, maybe, or something of that sort and it'll turn out all for the best; so don't you take on like that now." "Oh, will he ever come back, Mrs. Tim son will he ever come back? Surely something dreadful must have happened to them! Mr. Moray la taken UL or Willy haa been run over by a cab! What else should keep them so late? I am fright ened out of my life waiting for them in this horrible suspense!4 "Nonsense, my dear!" returns the land lady practically. "You know your good gentleman's 'ablta well enough. It's much more likely he's been a bit overtaken by liquor, and can't find his way 'ome. But, bless my soul, 'eve they are!" And here, sure enough, they must be or at all events, somebody must be for the knocker on the hall door commences to sound and continues to sound as vig orously aa It can, until every lodger In the house Is wakened from his slumbers. Delia flies downstairs to open the door, while Mrs. Timson limps after her, growl Ins audibly at the nunecc ry eommotkm mada by the returning party. "As if it wasn't enough to keep honest folk out of their beds till the small hours of the morning, but what 'e must come 'ome with row enough for the Prince of Wales. '.isseltV. . . . "Get out of the way, will you?" ex claims the stuttering, drunken voice of her husband. "What do you mean by blocking up the door in thia fashion? Don't you see we want to come in?" (To be continued. Devised Pllmsoll's Mark. Samuel Fllmsoll, who died the other day at Folkstone, Eng., waa the origin ator of the famous "Plirusoll's Mark," which prevents the overloading of ships and which appears on every merchant vessel sailing under the British flag. By a horizontal line the statutory deck line is marked, below which is a disk 12 inches In diameter, through which passes a horizontal line 18 inches long. Twenty-one inches forward of the center of the disk is a vertical line, with a horizontal line extending toward the disk, which is marked "F. W." (fresh water). To the right of the vertical line are four horizontal lines marked "I. 8." (Indian summer), "S." (summer), "W." (winter), "W. N. A." (winter North Atlantic), which Indicate the depth of water the ship is permitted to load to In different seasons. The fresh-water mark permits ships to load to that depth or Its proportion at certain seasons, as the ship rises In the more buoyant salt water. In accordance with the regulations made by the British Board of Trade the disks and lines must be permanent ly marked by punch marks or cutting and painted white, thus preventing any change of the mark. The sTloyds agency prescribes that where a vessel Is loaded to a greater draft of water than allowed by the mark, or If the maximum load draft be placed highei than the position assigned by Lloyds, the vessel forfeits her character in the register. The disks and Fllmsoll mark must appear on both shies of steam and sail Teasels. In winter the Waldoof-Astorla Hotel uses 140 tons of coal every day. T7n. . w. yamarlr Itnil.rtll'uiri VAIW tricked by a Joker, who engaged them separately 10 mm ana iue ensrse 01 an imaginary corps at the Pennsyl- 1 TVnn In that nltv Thpv wniftri several hours with their hearses and then the undertakers compared notes. One or tne unaeruueni mm kui ma Joker 2.50 and a pair of shoes. Ten per cent, of the cage canary l i 1 ( . wOTo,iwnntlin anil the. uirua ui 11 1 uuu tviiuM'"i'.''( communicate the disease to those who keep them. The first equestrian statue ereciea In Great Britain was that of Charles T. at Charinsr Cross. London, facing Parliament street. Eight of thejllve trees in the his torical Garden of Olives, in Jerusalem, are known to be over one thousand years old. Every day the Thames scoops out of Its banks 150 tons of matter, or half a million tons a year. All the rivers of the world are doing; almlliar work, the Mississippi at the rate of three hundred million tons a year. Tramps who wander Into Oakland, Me., are forced to take seats in what Is called a "Baker primitive chair." It IV a Bun 1 1 " - one experience Is considered enough by even a half-witted tramp. Deep curiosity was aroused toy a Wisconsin paper when It announced a lecture of "The Beneficial Effect of Flirtation on the Public Health." It ,i.iN, ...h.iHui1 whpn thf. letter for ming the fifth word were subsequently rearranges as 10 nam nuruu. The year 47 B. C. waa the longest -n nvnrd. as it had. by order of Julius Caesar, 445 days. Three miles an hour is about the av erage of the Gulf stream.' At certain places, however. It attains a speed ef 61 miles an hour, the rapidity of the current giving the surface, when the sun la shining the appearance of a sheet of Are. A red sunset Indicates a fine day to follow,' because the air when dry re fracts more heat or heat-making rays, and as dry air is not perfectly transpar ent, they are again reflected In the hori son. - A coppery or yellowy sunset gen-i erally foretells rain. - ' Italy baa had 294 square miles of land added to its territory in the last seventy years, by the advance of the delta of the Po into the Adriatic sea. The measurement has been made by Professor Marinelll, who carefully compared the Austrian surveys to 1S23 with the Italian surveys of 1893. The addition amounts to one-six-hundredth of the total area of Italy at the earlier date. The New Tork, New Haven and Hartford Railroad is striving to reduce the weight of its passenger-cars. The standard pattern cars weigh close upon thirty tons, and by reducing weight in every possible detail, nearly four tons can be taken off. This reduction repre sents pretty nearly the average passen ger contents of a car. Much of the traction resistance of a car Is due to Its weight. Consequently the reduction will Increase the number of cars that may be drawn by an engine. The air resistance la Independent of the weight. Glaciers are formed by the accumu lation tf snow on mountains or ele vated table lands. The snow is com pressed Into ice by Its own weight. Glaciers flow, like rivers, between banks, and follow furrows or ravines on the mountain slope. The rate of progress varies greatly, and depends on the grade, the number of curves, the volume of ice In the glacier, and the ac cumulations of its source. In the Alps these Ice streams advance from four to sixteen Inches a day. The central part of the Ice moves faster than that next the shore. Gravitation explains the movement of glaciers. Just as It does that of rivers. Recent experiments with Improved Instruments for measuring the velocity of projectiles have shown that the speed goes on increasing after the mis sile has left the mouth of the cannon. Leaving the muzzle with a velocity of about 1,474 feet In a second, a projectile has been observed to Increase its speed to about 1,639 feet per second within the first six feet.-" It Is only after hav ing traveled about twenty-five yards that the projectile's velocity becomes reduced to the speed that It had on leaving the muzzle. This Is ascribed to the impulse of the expanding gas be ing felt for some distance beyond the cannon's mouth. Prof. G. W. Hough of the Dearborn University, who has studied the planet Jupiter uninterruptedly for nearly twenty years, .recently stated some facts that are not generally known. He says the broad belts of various colors which cross the surface of Jupiter par allel to the equator, and the other con spicuous marks on it are not so change able in their general features as many hare supposed them to bo. The great red spot, which first made Its appear ance In 1878, has remained practically unchanged In shape and size ever since. Professor Hough Inclines to think that "the medium in which the red spot and the equatorial belt are floating may have a density approximating that of a liquid." Heretofore It has usually been assumed that Jupiter's surface was composed principally of clouds, through rifts and openings In which glimpses could be caught of denser por tions beneath. Sotath American Pickpockets. Practice makes perfect even In wrong-doing and in the use of what seem -to be very awkward means. A writer In the Boston Transcript says: The Gauche, or dwellers, on the exten sive plains of Buenos Ay res, are mar- velously dexterlous with both hands and feet. Many of them have ac quired, through long practice, such skill in using their toes Instead of fingers that they can fling the lasso and even pick pockets with them. Some time ago a Frenchman, who was fishing In one of the rivers of Buenos Ayres, was warned to be on his guard against the light-fingered natives. He forthwith kept a vigilant watch upon bis com panions, but, nevertheless, one day when his attention was closely riveted on his float, a wily Gaucho drew near and delicately Inserting his foot, ex tracted the Frenchman's hooks and other valuables from his pocket. In Burmese Schools. In Burmese schools making the lads shout Is the approved method of ele mentary Instruction. The Burmese ed ucationists argue that so long as a boy Is shouting his mind Is occupied. When be Is silent he Is certain to be scheming mischief. Therefore the best shoutert re the best pupils. Just Held Bands. "Have you given Mr. Staleight any encouragement?" asked the Impatient mother. "No, mamma," replied the confident daughter; "so far I haven't found it necessary." Hadn't a Dollar. Senator-elect Porter J. McCumber struck Dakota in 1889 without a dollar to his name, but chock full of law and determination. Zlmbabye fttjtna. Dr. H. Schlichter, in a paper read be fore the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain on Rhodesia, announces his belief In the great antiquity of the Zlmbabye ruins. He puts their date at 1100 B. O., aad asserts that so early the Semitic races of the Red Sea, Jaws, Phoenicians and 'Western Arabs had colonised Rhodesia and worked the "MEIN GOTT, IT IS UNHEARD OP.' 'Am Aaastrlna O "Bit's CosausMat on the ItotractHoa of Cn-rsra'a !. Capt Taylor gives an sa--ag ac oaunt In the Century of his later-view with an Austrian Ueoteaant, whs boarded the Indiana Immediately after the fight at Santiago: He was In full uniform, with a brU Hant display of epaulets and gold lace, white walsteeat aad tr users. Ha found ns covered with the smeka and dust of battle, groups of half-naked men lining up to salute him as vkt passed, their faces streaked with paw der-smoke and coal-dust He reached me an the bridge, finally, in a state ot polite bewilderment, aad presented hit captain's request for permission to past through ear blockading linos and brlni out from Santiago Austrian refugees desiring to leave that besieged town. After referring him to Admiral Samp son, and telling him be would be found some distance to tha westward, he asked for news, and I told him we had Just come out of action with Cervera'i squadron. He showed great surprise, and said: "Then there has been a battle?" "Yes," 1 replied. "And the result?" be asked eagerly. We have defeated them." "But where Is Ccrvera'a fleet now T he inquired. "His flagship, the Maria Teresa, it there, lieutenant" I answered, point ing, at the same time, to the beach 1 few miles distant. "But I see nothing there bnt oni smoke, captain!" "It Is the smoke of the Teresa burn ing, lieutenant; she Is a wreck upon the beach." He was silent, and I continued: "Close to her on the beach you win see another column of smoke; that is the Oquendo burning. On this side, nearer to us. Is the Pluton, sunk in tho breakers; and the Furor Is near her. but Is on the bottom In deeper water. ana is not visible.' "But," he Interrupted, "you hare then destroyed half those splendid ves sels of Cervera's!" "Walt, lieutenant." I continued, "and look a few miles farther to the west ward, and you will see another column of smoke; that Is the Vlzcaya, on thf beach near Aserraderos. As to th Colon, she Is still farther to the west ward, out of sight from us here, but you will see her presently as your cap tain steers in that direction to find Ad miral Sampson, who Is at that end oi our line." His eyes ranged along the shore as 1 pointed out the different vessels. "Mela Gottl he exclaimed. "Then you have destroyed the whole of thai splendid squadron! I did not think II possible." After a moment more of silent aston ishment, be said, with a polite sym pathy which concealed eager profes siojbal curiosity r "Tlnd your Injuries, captain?' ' Wnaf losses haa tha American squadron sus tained?" "None," I replied. "But. captain, you do not under stand; It la what casualties what ships lost or disabled that I ask.' "None, lieutenant," I said. "The In diana was struck twice, suffered no In jury, no loss. The other ships are vir tually In the same condition. We arc all of us perfectly ready for anothei battle as much so aa before Cervera came out this morning." His astonishment was now complete. "Meln Gottr be exclaimed again. "Admiral Sampson's fleet has destroyed these great Spanish ships, and without Injury to his own squadron! Sir, It Is unheard of. I must go to Inform my captain." pr.t Harte'a Love for Inzta-y; Bret Harte works away quietly In London, and seems to like the town, although the climate can hardly bear comparison with that of California. The effete luxury of the capital appears to suit him better than the rigors of the backwoods. I was speaking with blm once on this subject, and uphold ing the rigid life Henry Thoreau bad led at W allien Pond, as compared with the luxurious surroundings of many modern authors. I advocated a return to the simpler habits of our ancestors. "Yes." he said, "living on parched peas sounds very fine In a book. When jl visited Emerson I was astonished to find how " close Walden Pond was to 'the Emerson homestead, and I com mented on this. I bad imagined that the pond was away out in the wilder ness, miles from any human habita tion. Before Emerson could reply, Mrs. Emerson spoke up In the tone of a woman exposing a humbug: 'Oh, yes, Henry took good care not to gel out of hearing of our dinner horn.' "- Philadelphia Post A Modern RalelgH. It was a damp, chilly evening, and the crowd of children who had gath ered about the door of the East Sid Mission house hugged themselves closer together. There was to be s celebration. The children bad come early and had been waiting nearly au hour for the doors to open. They were a ragged throng, blue and chattering. One 11 tie girl was more blue and c bat tery than the rest. Her shoes were al most falling apart, and her bare toes touched the cold sidewalk. She kept np a sort of dance, resting first on one foot until it bad got warm, then the other. One of the boys stood for some time with his hands in his pockets watching her silently. Suddenly he snatched off bis cap and threw it down on the pavement beside the little girl "Say, Lis," be said, "youse kin stand on bis here If yer feets Is cold." New York Commercial Advertiser. No Stones In Manitoba. In Manitoba you can turn a furrow aiany miles long and not encounter a tone as large as your fist. The earth, for a distance down from three to five feet, is a rich, black Ioan. made by cen--urles and centuries of decaying vege tatlon. If there. were no other fools In the srorld we would be more dissatisfied with ourselves than ever. A man's sx-ond love Is apt to worth more money than bis first- be Industrial. One hundred and sixty-three millh.lt acres of land are under wheat. - Asphalt Is being superseded In Pari, and London by wooden pavements. Among the coachmen of Berlin are seven retired army officers, three ex pastors and 16 nobles. C M. Oueat, of Anderson, S. C, la forming a company to build a knitting mill of about (10,000 capital. The new addition to the Beargrass Woolen Mill, of Lousiville, will be a three-story brick structure 60 feet square. The production of lead in Colorado was SO per cent, more In 1898 than In 1897, and of copper nearly 40 per cent, more. The Gallant Silk Mills Company, of Delhi, N. Y., Is preparing to erect more buildings this spring to accom modate the fast increasing trade. In 1898 the aggregate tonnage of the new vessels launched In the world's shipyards amounted to 2,200,00 tons, of which 1,600,000 came from British yards. All the Australian banks, except in Victoria and South Australia, have adopted a resolution charging 5 shil lings per half-year on each current account. The towns of Port Arthur and Fort William, Ont., - are connected wlht a trolley system owned and operated by Port Arthur. The line Is managed by three commissioners elected by the people. In the fisheries of the Lofoden Is lands, belonging to Norway, between 85,000 and 40,000 men are often engaged and during the busiest -time, which Is toward the end of March, as many as 7000 vessels of various kinds are in those waters. It is reported that the Arnold Print Works Company Is preparing to erect a large mill In North Adams for the manufacture of a line of goods not handled by It at present, and in the manufacture of which fully 600 hands will be employed. The French-Belgian Company, with a capital of $250,000. will build a modern four-story brick mill for the manufacture of fine worsted yarns In Woonsocket, R. I. The City Council voted to exempt mill and mill machin ery for a term of 10 years. A syndicate of capitalists, headed by James R. Wilson, of Montreal, has organ! zed ( with a preliminary capital of $2,000,000. for the purpose of erect ing at some point in Canada the larg est ore refinery in the world. Of the Immense output of lead bullion with which Canada Is credited not a pound Is refined In the Dominion: it all goes from the British Columbia smelters to American refineries. - An experiment In storing eggs was recently tried at Leith. Scotland, where some 60.000 Scotch. Irish and Danish eggs were sealed in an apparatus for four months, after which only a small proportion of them were found to be addled. The air In the- storage ap paratus was cooled and ' allowed to circulate freely around the eggs, which were turned periodically to keep the yolk surrounded with albumen. This was done by mechanism. The largest loaves of bread baked In the world are those of France and Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy Is baked In loaves two or three feet long, while in France the loaves are made In the shape of very long roils. four or five feet In length, and in many cases six feet. There are no large factories for making, shoes in Mexico, aa In the United States. Thera are extensive establishments In Leon, Mexico City and Cfmdalajar. but fhey afre'itfft exactly factories. The shoes are made under a kind or tenement system. Workmen receive a stipulated sum for each pair of shoes made, according to quality. An Appleton (Wis.) firm has re ceived cable orders for plans for a b's groundwood pulp mill, to be construct ed at Stockholm. Sweden. The In teresting feature of the order Is that the entire mill machinery Is to be t American make on American models The order Is the fourth the concerr has received in the last two lears. In France matches are a Stat monopoly, and 400 million boxes ar sold annually. The Minister ot Finance proposed to make the boxes bear advertisements, and as each boa could carry two. one on each of th two flat sides, this would make 800. 000.000 advertisements, from which hf hones to obtain an annual sum o 6,000,000 francs. Household. RECIPES. Fig Tarts. Make your tart shells oul of a good rich pastry and fill with this 1 a caiiw a iSAn nice dried figs: mixiure. . - - . stew them in one cupful of water, with two cloves and a smaii pieve u cinnamon. When tender take out the figs and remove the spices; add half a cupful of sugar to the water and al low It to boll for five minutes. Add a teaspoonful of lemon Juice. Return the figs to the syrup and set aside to cool. Egg and Hominy Scramble. Take a quaxt of cold cooked hominy, add a saltspoonful of salt, a half-cupful of milk, four eggs, pour into a hot but tered skillet, and stir until the eggs are cooked. Serve very hot. Nut Butter Puffs. Mix together to an emulsion one helping tablespoonful of nut butter In one cupful of lcewater: add the yolk of one egg and beat until full of air bubbles, then sift In slowly, beating thoroughly meanwhile.two cups of whole wheat flour and a saltspoon ful of salt: lastly add the well-beaten ki.. n th. atrtr fnMlnor it in llghtlv. turn Into heated irons and bake in a quick oven. Imitation Chicken Salad. Two-thirds of finely sliced nuttrose. one-third cel ery sliced fine. When celery Is out of the market, celery seed or a delicate flavoring of onion or sage may be used. One-half hour before serving with the salad the following dressing: Rub two slightly rounded tablespoonfuls of pea nut or almond butter smooth with two thirds of a cup of water (the half-pint cup sold In the stores): let this boll ur for a moment over the fire. Remove from the stove, add one-half of a tea spoonful of salt and two tablespoon fuls of lemon Juice: cool befre using- The famous Loudoun madstonc, which for a century and a half has been in frequent use In Loudoun County, Va., and elsewhere, and has cured thoUFant's of dog. cat and rattlesnake wounds, was recently sold at auction and was bought by Dr. Turner, of Snic-kerville, for 682.50. The possessions of a debtor In Cow ley County, Kan., were sold the other day for the benefit of the creditors, after having been advertised according to law. The sale realized 1200 and the advertising cost J1.450. The creditors A newly married man In Kansas City -discovered that his bride spent & great portion of the day conversing over the telephone with a former suitor. He engaged a detective In the central office to take down the conversation In shorthand. Now the telephone baa been removed from the bouse. At a philatelic exhibition, opened at Birmingham, England, there are on view the most valuable stamps in the world a penny and a two-penny Mauritius. The market value of the two on exhibition at Birmingham is $10,000, Kats are unknown In the town of Deblola, Ms. mi 11$ 0 Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmaga. Safejaet: "Tanwd to Davrkaeu" A Graphic Wrd-Plctnt or a CtodleM Worlds Deplorable Condition Into Which la ' fidelity Weald flange the World. Txxt: "The sun shall be turned Into dark ness." Acts 11., 20. Christianity Is the rising can of our time, sad men have tried with tbe uprolllng va pors ot skepticism and tbe smoke ot tbelr blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose tbe archangels of malice and hor ror should be let loose a little while and be allowed to extinguish and destroy the sua In tbe natural heavens! They would take the ooeans from otber worlds and pom tbem on tbe luminary of the planetary sys tem, and the waters go hissing down amid the ravines and the caverns, and there Is explosion after explosion until there are only a few peaks ot Are left in the sun, and these are cooling down and going out un til the vast continents oi flame are reduced to a small acreage of Are, and that whitens and cools off nntll there are only a fow coals left, and these are whitening and go ing out until there la not a spark left in all tbe mountains ot ashes and tbe valleys ol ashes and tbe chasms ol ashes. An extin guished sunt A dead sunl A buried sunl Let all worlds wail at the stupendous ob sequies. Of course this withdrawal ot tbe solar light and heat throws oar ej.rth into a uni versal chill, and the tropics become the temperate, and tbe temperate becomes tbe arottc.and tbere are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic to an tarctic regions tbe inhabitants gather in toward the center and find tht equator as the poles. The slain forests are plied up into a great bonfire, and around them gather the shivering villages and cities. Tbe wealth of tbe coal mines Is hastily poured into tbe furnaces and utirred into rage of combustion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower, and tbe furnaces begin to go out, and the nations begin to dio. Coto paxi. Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboll, California geysers, cease to smoke, and the lee ol hailstorms remains unmelted in thelt crater. All the Bowers have breathed theii last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at tha mast, and belmi-men frozen at the wheel, and passengers frozen In the cabin. All nations dying, first at tbe north and then at the south. Child frosted and dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead at tbe hearth. Workmen with frozen hand on tbe hammer and frozen foot on the shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. All con gealing winter. Perpetual winter. Globe of frigidity. Hemisphere shackled to hem isphere by chains of ice. Universal Nova Zembla. The earth an ice floe grinding against other Ice floes. Tbe archangels ol malice and horror have done their work, and now they may have tbelr thrones of glacier and look down upon the ruin tbey have wrought. Wtat tbe destruction of the sun in tbe natural heavens would be to our physical earth tbe destruction of Christianity would be to tbe moral world. Tbe sun turned into darknessl Infidelity in our time is considered a great joke. There are people who rejoice to bear Christianity caricatured and to beat Christ assailed with quibble and quirk and misrepresentation and badinage and harle quinade. I propose to-day to take infidel ity and atheism out of the realm ot jocu larity into one of tragedy and show yon what Infidels propose and what. If they are successful, tbey will accomplish. There are those In all oar communities wbo would like to see the Christian religion over thrown and who say the world would be better without it. 1 want to snow you wbwx asses saa or tntsjoaa, tbe terminus of this erosade. world will be when atheism aad Infidelity nave triumpnea over 11, it tney can. 1 say. If tbey can. I reiterate it. If they can. In tbe first place, it will be tbe complete and unutterable degradation of woman hood. I will prove it by facts and argu ments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and cities and States and nations where the Christian religion has been dominant woman's condition has been ameliorated and Improved, and she is deferred to and honored In a thousand things, and every gentleman takes off his hat before her. If your association, bave been good, you know that tbe name of wife, motber, daughter, suggest gracious surroundings. You know there are no bet ter schools and seminaries in tbis country than the schools and seminaries for our young ladies. You know that while wom an may suffer Injustice in England and the United States, she has more of ber rights la Christendom tban she has anywhere else. Now, compare this with woman's condi tion In lands where Christianity has made little or no -.advance In China, In Barbay, In Borneo, In Tartary, ln'Egypt, in Hiudus tan. Tbe Burmese sell tbelr wives and daughters as so many sheep. Tbe Hindoo Bible makes it disgraceful and an outrage for a woman to listen to music or look out of the window in the absence ot her lias band and gives as a lawful ground for di vorce a woman's beginning to eat before her husband bas finished his meal. What mean tbose white bundles on the ponds and rivers in China In the morning? Infantlelde following infanticide. Female children de stroyed simply because they are females. Woman harnessed to the plow as an ox. Woman veiled and barricaded and In all styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a mis fortune. Her life a torture. Her death a horror. The missionary of the cross to day In heathen lands preaches generally to two groups a group of men who do as tbey please and alt where they please; the other groap, women hidden and care fully secluded la a side apartment, where they may bear the voice of the preacher, but may not be seen. No refinement. No liberty. Nohope fortbls life. No hope for the life to come. Ringed nose. Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embruted soul. Now, compare tbose two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go if Christian In fluences were withdrawn and Christianity were destroyed? It Is only a question of dynamics. It an objeot be lifted to a cer tain point and not fastened there and tbe lifting power be withdrawn, how long be fore that object will fall down to the point from which It started? It will fall down, and It will go still farther tban the point from which it started. Christianity bas lifted woman up from the very depths of degradation almost to tbe skies. It that lifting power be withdrawn, she falls clear back to the depth from which she was resurrected, not going any lower, because tbere is no lower depth, and yet notwithstanding the fact that tbe salvation ot woman from degradation and woe Is tbe Christian re ligion and tbe only Influence that has ever lifted her In the social scales is Christianity I have read that tbere are women wbo reject Christianity. I make no remark in regard to those persons. In the sllense of your own soul make your ob servations. If Infidelity triumph and Christianity be overthrown, it means the demoralization of society. Tbe one Idea In the Bible that atheists and infidels most hate Is the Idea of retribution. Take away the idea of re tribution and punishment fro:n society, and it will beieia very soon to ll.lntegrnte, and take atrny trim the minds of men tbe fear of hell, and there are a great many of them wbo would very soon turn this world into a hell. The majority of those wbo are indignant against tbe Bible because of tbe Idea of punishment are men whose lives are bad or whose hearts are Impure and who bate the Bible because of the idea of fu ture punishment, for tbe same reason that criminals hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard tbis brave talk about people fearing nothing of the consequences of sin in tbe next world, and I have made up my mind it is merely a coward's whistling to keep, his courage up. I have seen men flaunt their immoralities in the face of tbe com sunity, and I bave beard them defy the udgment day and scoff at the Idea of any "urtber consequence of tbelr sin, but when bey came to die they shrieked until yon tould hear them for nearly two blocks, an a the summer night the neighbors got nj o put tha windows down, because the) tould not endure the horror. The mightiest restraints to-day .against heft, against immorality, against llbertln sm, against ortma of all sorts th nightlest restraints are the retributions ol iternlty. Hen know that they can esoape Jie law, bat down in the offenders' soul :here is the realization of the fact thai :hey cannot escape Ood. He stands at tha and of the road of profligacy, and He will lot clear the guilty. Take all idea ot re tribution and punishment out of th learts and minds of men, and it would not no long before our cities would becomi Jodoms. Tbe only restraints agalnrt thi jvll passions of tbe world to-day are Blbl restraints. Suppose now these generals of athelsn ind Infidelity got tbe victory and supposa .bey marshaled a great army made up ol :be majority of tbe world. Tbey are it companies, in regiments. In brigades tb bole army. Forward, march! ye hosts ol nfldels and atheists, banners flying be 'ore, banners flying behind, banners in cribed with the words: "No Oodi Nc Christ! No Punishmantl No Bestralntsj Down Witb tbe Blblel Do as You Pleasel' The sun turned into darknessl Forward, marohl ye great army of in fidels and atheists. And flrst ot all yon will attack the churches. Away witb thost bouses of worship! They bave been stand ing there so long deluding tbe people witb oonsolatlon In tbelr bereavements and sor- . rows. All those churches ought to be ex tirpated; tbey have done so much to re lieve the lost and bring home tbe wander ing, and tbey have so long held np th Idea of eternal rest after tbe paroxysm o: this life is over. Turn the 8t. Peters and st. Pauls and tbe temples and tabernacle Into clubhouses. Away witb those churches Forward, march! ye great army of In fidels and atheists, and next ot all tbej scatter the Sabbath schools filled witb bright eyed, rosy cheeked little ones wh ire singing songs on Sunday afternoon and getting instruction when they ought to be on tbe street corners playing marbles or swearing on tbe commons. Away witb them! Forward, march! ye great army ot Infidels and atheists, and next ot all tbey will attack Christian asylums tbe institu :lons of mercy supported by Chrlstiac philanthropies. Never mind the blind yes, and tbe deaf ears, and the crippled Jmbs, and tbe darkened intallects. Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food, and orphans fight their own way, and the balf reformed go back to tbelr evil habits. Forward, march! ye great army of iutldels and atheists, and with your battleax rs hew down tbe cross and split up tbe mauicer ol Bethlehem. On, ye great army of infidels and athe ists, and now tbey come to tbe grnveyardt and the cemeteries of tbe earth. Pulldowi tbe sculpture above Greenwood's gate, fol It means the resurrection. Tear away at the entranoe of La.'.rel Hill tbe figure o; Did Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great army of in tide's and atheists, into tha grave yards and cemeteries, and where you sec "Asleep In Jesus," cut it away, and wbers you find a marble story of heaven, blast it, and when you find over a little cbtld'f grave, "Suffer little children to come ante Me," substitute tbe words "delusion" and "sham," and where you find an angel li marble, strike off tbe wing, and when you eonie to a family vault, chisel on tbe door, "Dead once, dead forever." But on, ye great army ot infidels and atheists, 00! Tbey will attempt to seal heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile bill on hill, and Pellon upon Osta, and then tbey hoist the ladders against tht walls of heaven. On and on until they blow up tbe founaations o jasper and tbe gatet of pearl. They;charge up tbe steep. Now they aim for tbe throne ot Him wbo llvetb " forever and ever. Tbey would take down from Tbelr high place tbe Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. "Down with Them!" they say. "Down with Tbem from th throne!" they say. "Down forever! Down out of sight! He is not Ood. He bas nc right to sit there. Down with Html Down with Christ!' A world without a head, a universe with out a king. Orphan constellations. Father- L -Mad what I galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A de- .. 1 and what thfST'"'''! JshmiA.- Aa- assassinated Ood.. 'and infldelltv Patricide, reglolde, delolde. That is whaT" - J tney mean. That is wnat tney win nave, if tbey can. I say, if they can. Civiliza tion burled back into seinibarbarlsm, and semibarbarlsm driven back into Hottentot savagery. Tbe wheel of progress turned the otber way and turned toward tbe dark ages. The clock of the centuries pnt baok 3000 years. Oo back, you Sandwich Isl ands, from your schools, and from yont solleges, and from your reformed condi tion, to what you were in 1R20, when the missionaries flrst came. Call home the 501 missionaries from India and overthrow their 2000 schools, where they are trying to educate tbe beatben, and scatter the 140, 300 little children that they have gathered out of barbarism Into civilization. Obliter ate all the work of Dr. Duff In India, ol David Abeel in China, of Dr. King In Greece, of Judson in Burma, of David Bralnerd amid tbe American aborigines, and send home the 3000 missionaries of the cross wbo are toiling la foreign lands, toll ing for Christ's sake, toiling themselvet Into the grave. Tell these 3000 men of God that tbey are of no use. Send home the medical missionaries who are doctoring tbe bodies as well as tbe souls of the dying nations. Go borne, London Missionary societyl Go home, American board ol foreign missions! Go home, ye Moravians, and relinquish back into darkness and squalor and death the nations whom y bave begun to lift. From such a obasm of Individual, na tional, worldwide ruin, stand baek. Oh young men, stand back from that chasm ion see the practical drift of my sermon I want you to know where that road leads Stand back from that chasm of ruin. Tb time is going to come (you and 1 may not live to see it, but It will come, just as cer tainly as there is a God, it will co ne) wheo tbe infidels und the atheists who openly and out and out and aboveboard preach and practice infidelity and atheism, will ba considered as criminals against society, as they are now criminals against God. 80 siety will push out the leper, and the wretob with soul gangrened and Ichorous and ver min covered and rotting apart witb his sestlallty will be left to die in tbe dltcb and be denied decent burial, and men will some witb spades nnd cover up the car sass where it falls, that It poison not'tbe atr, and tbe only text in all the Bible appropriaU tor the funeral sermon will be Jereunlab zxli., 19, "He shall be barled with tba bur a! of an ass." At the beginning God said, "Let there b light," and light was, ind light is, and Jgbt shall be. So Christianity is roiling -in, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in Its light. Men may shut the window blinds so they can not see it, or they may smoke the pipe ol ipeculation until they are shadowed undei their own vaporing, but tbe Lord God Is a sun! This wh Ite llebt of tbe gospel made op of all the beautiful colors ot earth and heaven violet plucked from amid tha spring grass, and the indigo of tbe south ern jungles, and tlie blue of the skies, ant tbe green of tbe foliage, and tbe yellow ol tbe autumnal woods, and the orange of the southern groves, and tbe red of the sun. lots. All tbe beauties of eaith and heaven brought out by tbis spiritual spectrum, 'treat Britain is going to take all Europe tor God. Tbe United States are going tc take America for God. Both of tbem to tether will take all Asia for God. All three of them will take Africa for God. "Who art tbou, O great mountain? Before Zerrubbabel thou sbalt became a plain." "Tbe mouth of the Lard bath spoken it.' Hallelujah, amenl Caution is often wasted, but it is n very good risk to take. Abuse is safe, for if a man deserves it, it may do him good; and if he don't deserve It, there la nothing so good for him. Earn money before you spend it. Live within your incom-. Never run into debt unless you oe a sure way to get out of it. Perfect peace is not possible even in tbe deepest retirement. A wolf will creep into the mofat pastoral life. It takes some strength of character o be even a respectable fool. Truth never need be in a hurry, but a lie must keep on the juntp; a lazy lie soon tires Itself out, and ends in confusion. As long as you don't want to bor row anything, you will find plenty of folks wbo are anxious to lead you anything. i:. iv JA im
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