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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
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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.
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