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B. F. SCHWEIER,
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THE COnSTITUTIOn-THE UIIIOII AHO THE ERFORCEE3EL1T OF THE UWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. LIII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1899.
NO. 31.
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CHAPTER XV.
The memory of them comes back upon
Annus- heart like a serpent sting.
"Jo ii. monsieur." be says la low
roi. ... trembling th passion.
V.iur father held a respectable posi
tion in Clusguw as clerk in one of the
uir(.-..t mercantile houses there, when he
met your mother. She was an actresa at
tome smnll theater in Scotland."
"Mr mother an actress! Never! Too
are altogether mistaken! This affair it
becoming a farce."
"I hope yon may find it a farce, young
man. Your mother, I repeat, was . an
actress, known by the name of Delia
Morton."
"And her name is Delia!" mnrmnrt
poor Angus.
"And a very low h actress, too!" chimes
In Mrs. Moray; "who hacted hin the most
indecent dresses, hand "
"My dear," interposes her hnsband
"will you permit me to tell his story to
the vouug man myself?"
"Have it your bown way, TVillyum. I
honly hinterfered for hall yonr good," ah
returns with offended dignity.
"My poor brother James met her, and
as I thought married her; at all events
he managed to deceive me on the subject;
be quarreled with his Glasgow employers,
however, uml brought you and your moth
er to I.ninluii, where I met him again)
Jn!ns was then in a very bad state of
to'itlth fast dying, in fact and I, having
a large fortune and no family to which to
leave it, proposed rather rashly to make
roil my heir, and adopt you on youi
father's denlh as such.".
"I- your heir!" stammers Angus Moray
in incredulous amazement.
'Certainly and you would have been
)ne of the richest men in London. How
ewr, your mother chose to interfere and
prevent it!"
"A merciful hinterfereuce!" murmurs
his wife.
"How could she do so?"
"By asserting her sole claim to you,
3ii the score of your illegitimacy!"
": monsieur! it is impossible! It can
never have been!" cries the young man,
distressed beyond measure, as he hides
bis face in his clasped hands.
"It is true as I stand here! Yonr fath
tr died and I produced the will he had left
in my possession, appointing me your sole
guardian. I was about to put it into
fun e, when your-mother declared before
witnesses she was not a married woman,
tnd therefore had the sole claim to you."
"I" cannot believe it," says Angus -de-pairingly.
"Ask your mother, then. She had ne
hesitation in confessing it at the time,
and her friend, Mrs. Horton. and a so
licitor of the name, I believe, of Bond,
heunl her make the declaration."
"Mrs. Horton! Why, she is in Bruges
at the present moment, staying with my
mother my mother, who is bo loved and
respected throughout the town of whom
I have been so proud. O, monsieur, I
would rather have heard any news than
this. You have given me my death blow!"
"If Mrs. Horton is here you can satisfy
four curiosity upon the subject at once.
Your mother is more likely to deny the
truth now that it will militate against her
feigned respectability! I trust you will
not usurp my family name any longer, or
rou will place me under the unpleasant
necessity of publicly proclaiming that you
have no right to it. Y'our name is Mer
ton. He good enough to remember thai
for the future."
This last sting is the worst of alL
"Your friend the doctor could hardly
trust his own ears when I told him the
!tory," continues Mr. Moray, maliciously,
"lie was uuite taken aback by your au
daeity'." Aivus stops short, wheels round, and
retraces his steps to the center of the
room.
"So it is you that have poisoned the
mil.'! of my best friend against me that
haw made him forget the affection and
the trust cf years that have helped to
mnr the brightest hopes that ever a man
held! I see it all now. It is your cursed
ti.nli.-e that has lost me Gabrielle and I
ill be revenged upon you for it; as there
is a judgment seat in store for both of us,
I will le revenged!"
He rushes from their presence aa he
sp' iiks, hut be cannot rush from the deso
atiou they have created for bim. He
tears through the vestibule into the open
where the sunshine blinds him and
the ordinary traffic sounds like the roar
3f thunder in his ears without being
!! t.i stitle those three awful words that
ring in his heart like a knell of death'
'Ant your mother!"
CHAPTER XVI.
Mi-nnwhile. Mrs. Hephzibah Horton,
if.ii. g at luncheon with her friend Delia
Moray, has a letter delivered to her, on
the r. . eipt of which she becomes much
iiKtiir'.cl.
"!'. :;y!- idiocy ! dotage!" she exclaims
it iMcrvals, like so many successive pis
tol s!,i.!s, as she peruses the missive in
lUesti.,11.
".'! I hope nothing is going to interfere
with oir holidays," says Delia, anxiously,
observing the ominous expression of Mrs.
Hi l.ii.uh's countenance. "That is not
l ush ss letter, is it, Mrs. Horton? Not
re. .1:1 to London, or anything disagree
te f that sort?"
"N-1 a bit of it. my dear; only that man
B ui. I I, :ls actually followed me over to
Bniu-es;"
"l ..!l,,ued you here, Mrs. Horton
Whltt t..r'"
"What for, indeed? You may well ask
was
""Mi ior. nen he nrst near a i
Mniing t0 ,.e you for a few weeks, he
sSfereil to accompany me. I said 'Ho;'
leei.U-dly and flatly, 'Nor What did he
"I 'I 'Os.. I wanted a little idiot of a man
ike himself tncked behind me for? He
uli kinds of lies to persuade me to
field to Lis wishes; said I oughtn't to
trav.-l alone; I. Hephzibah Horton, aged
who hnve supported myself ever since
' was 30! Faugh! Why. I should hava
"ad to look after biin into the bargain V
"Hut it was a kind thought, dear Mrs.
"urton, nevertheless. You have alwayt
keen very good friends, Mrs. Horton,
have you not?" "
"Well, I've helped him with his boys,
nd he's girsn me the advantage of such
legal knowledge as he possesses."
"And you wouldn't let the poor little
man come to Bruges with you?"
"Sol I wpuMn'fr-and whal j!fl Jtf -d
In consequence? Here's a letter written
yesterday, not twelve hours after my de
parture, to say that he Is Just about to
start on the same Journey by a different
route, and expects to be her this morn
ing." iTien he n ust be actually at Bruget
this moment!"
"That's Just K! Against all my orders,
the man Is actually in the place."
"And ha has crossed for the express
purpose of being near you and of nse to
you in traveling. It is a very kind and
friendly act, Mrs. Horton. Ton must
Tery good to him in return "
"Cood to him in return! What. for'
snail be no such thing. I have a great
mind to write to the Hotel Bclgique,
wnere ne says ne shall stay, and tell him
that unless he leaves Bruges at once. I
snail start for Antwerp to-morrow.
"Oh! that would be too cruel! Be
sides, you surely would not. punish me
for his offense.V Think how. feng it is
since we met each other. Why cannot
we make a pact with poor Mr. Bond, and
let him join us when we go sight-seeing!
tie will enjoy all the places we visit two
fold If seen in your company."
Mrs. Hephzibah does not appear unwill
ing to be molhtied. She sits there twist
ing the little lawyer's note undecidedly
round and round in her fingers, but the
thougnt dees strike the womanly part of
her. that now that he has been foolish
enough to make the jonrney on her ac
count, it would be rather hard to shut
him out in the cold. But if she yields to
Delia's request, it must be for Delia's sake
and not for her own.
"Well, my dear, if you wish It, of
course, I am not the one to raise objec
tions. I am your guest! I do not forget
that fact, and you are at liberty io ask
anyone to join onr party that you like."
"For old acquaintance sake. Mrs. Ilor-
I ton. If you really want to show him a
kindness it would be a great one to call
at the Hotel Belgique as we go out this
afternoon and take him with us."
Delia thinks that the little solicitor
looks like anything but a sbriveled-up
nut, as, on receiving her card at the hotel,
he descends with alacrity to the vestibule
to greet Mrs. Horton and herself. He la
a fresh-colored, pleasant, benevolent look
ing old gentleman, very neat and prim in
his appearance, and carrying his 64 years
bravely. His mild blue eyes seemed trou
bled also, as if his impending loneliness
grieved him more than lie cared to con
fess; and the eagerness with which he
turns to grasp Mrs. Hephzibah' s ' hand
proves where he looks for sympathy and
depends upon finding it.
I "If you mean to walk," says Mrs. Heph-
ziuau, you uuu oeuer come a I once, ior
the afternoon is getting on, and we want
to get on too."-
Mr. Bond expresses his gratitude and
promptitude to obey at one and the same
moment by running upstairs to fetch his
hat and stick, and the ladies step out upon
the pavement in front of the hotel to wait
for him.
It is a bright, beautiful afternoon, and
the street is crowded with pedestrians.
Delia, letting her eyes wander at will, j
raises inem 10 tne notei winaows, out
suddenly withdraws them with a sort of
frightened gasp.
"What have yon seen now, Delia?"
"Look the other way, Mrs. Horton. Ol
how foolish I ami I know it is only some
sickly fancy, but I saw a face at one of
the hotel windows, and Just for the mo
ment it looked to me so like the face of
William Moray.'
Mrs. Horton laughs aloud.
"What win you get Into that silly little
head of yours next? William Moray, in
deed! I wonder what he would feel like
set down in the middle of Bruges. Why,
I don't suppose he knows that such a
place exists! Put him out of your
thoughts, my dear. He's safe enough in
Cheapside, sorting his samples of wool.
Take my word for it."
Mrs. Hephzibah and her little solicitor
ijny their walk exceedingly, and are full
of regret when they find it is time to re
trace their steps. But Delia hopes to see
her boy, and the distance between the
cemetery and the Rue AUemande seems
twice as long as usual in consequence.
Bnt another disappointment awaits hei
at home. Instead of Angus' happy face
for greeting, she receives a note from him,
hurriedly written, and inexplicably mys
terious. "I cannot attend the theater to-night,"
it says. "You and your friend must go
without me. You will nnd the tickets on
the mantelpiece in my bedroom."
When she returns from the theater, and
having bid good-night to both her frieuds,
enters her own room an explanation
awaits her there. Seated by her table is
Angus haggard, pale and disordered in
appearance; but as the door opens, be
starts up from his chair and waits ber
approach. She is about to fly into bit
arms with an exclamation of pity and
affection, when he waves her from him.
"Mother," he says hoarsely, "1 wat
obliged to wait for you here. I couldn't
meet you before those people downstairs.'
"You couldn't meet me, Angus! Oh,
what is the meaning of this?"
"No! Not until I had received an an
swer from you to a question that is eating
Into my very soul. Mother, I have heard
that to-day which seems to have taken
aU the light and life out of my existence.
I cannot believe It but you are the only
person who can thoroutttly satisfy me up
on the subject."
-Anraa. what is it?" she says, trem-
1 bling; "tell me at once. There have never
'seen any secrets between us yet. Ther.
ever sll&il be . s
My tongue seems to cleave to the Tool
, my mouth when I try to form the
words, but they must be said. Forgive
s mother, if I wound you by theques
tlon, but think what I have suffered un
ier the doubt presented to me. Were you
married to my father, or were you notr
CHAPTER XVII.
For a moment ber relief at finding- that
lis uncertainty does not arise from any
fear ?th failure of his suit with Ga
briene? make, her forget everything but
Sat shcan answer hi. question w,th
truth in the affirmative. .
'My darting child! ye.! of course I wast
Who has been so wicked a. to try and
make you think otherwise r
"I knew it I was sure of Itr
the yoom, mas JoyfuUy. M
ber in M ana. and kisses her. "What
a frol I was to doubt you for a moment 1
Uive me your certificate of marriage,
mother, and I will flourish it in the face
of that liar to-morrow, and tear his false
tongue out by the roots afterward."
Something of the danger flashes on her
mind.
"My good name I Angus, for the love
of heaven, tell me what is all this about!
Who has dared to asperse me to you, or
to cast a doubt upon my respectability?"
"My uncle. William Moray."
"Your nnclef' she almost screams.
"Where have you met him? Not here?
Not in Bruges?"
"Yes here! in Bruges."
"What does he say V she whispers it.
a voice of fear.
"He says that when my father died he
left me to his guardianship, to be brought
op as his heir, bnt that when the time
came for asserting his authority, you set
It aside on the plea that I was illegitimate,
and no one but my mother had any claim
apon me. And that, but for your declara
tion to that effect before witnesses, 1
hould have been one of the richest men
In London at the present moment. Is it
true?".
"f trgive ma. Angus!" she cries, ss she
throws herself upon her knees before him.
I did It for your sake. Ah! oil is mint
know you never shall know the misera
ble lire I endured before I was tempted
to tell so foul a lie. You were all I had.
my darling! For you I had worked and
labored through pain and wretchedness
and discomfort, such as never woman en
dured before for you I had suffered vio
lence and insult and contempt And then,
when it was over when at last heaven
mercifully delivered me from an unholy
bondage, and I was looking forwsrd to
devoting the remainder of my life to you
they told me that your father had made a
will by which you would be torn from my
ras never to be mine again in the sweet
compan!oushlp of mother and child and
I could not bear It. The burden was too
heavy for me, and I escaped from it by
the only means I could. I destroyed the
certmcate of marriage which I possessed,
and denied there had ever been one."
"You blasted my whole life, in fact, by
falsely branding me with illegitimacy."
"Angus! Angus! do not speak to me in
that tone of voice. I did it for yonr sake."
"To gratify your own wishes, you mean.
Don't say you thought of me in the trans
action. My welfare was the last consid
eration you mnst have bad."
I.oJ nol Indeed It was not! What
should I have done without you? You
were my all my whole earthly posses
sion, i loved you as my own lifer1
And a nice way you took to Drove It.
by taking from me the only thing which
I possessed my father's name. Do von
know what that man said to me to-day?
xnat my proper name was not Moray, and
that if I used it for the future, be would
puDiicly denounce me as an impostor.
J he wicked, cruel man! He knows
you are his own brother's child and ex
cept in that one matter I have never
harmed him why should he rise up now
to destroy all my peace of mind 7"
.Because you pnt it in his power to do
so. By this lie which you told him te se
cure a temporary pleasure for yourself,
at the price of an everlasting shame' for
me, you placed a weapon in bis hand with
which he can stab us both to his life's end.
Uo you know the .mischief he has done
already with it? He has related the whole
base story to Dr. de Blois, who has per
emptorily refused. In consequence, to give
me oabnelle in marriage.
Ah, no, no, Angus! it cannot be. You
uiusi ne misiaxen. xnina now long we
have lived and been respected In Bruges
what honored friends we have gained
here. Dr. de Blois will never take the
word of a stranger against the proof of
his own eyes. He did not tell you so.
surely t
"To all my entreaties that he would ex.
plain himself more satisfactorily, with re
ipect to refusing my offer, he had but one
reply: 'Ask your mother she ought to
know.' "
"And would you rather, then, that I
had let you go to your uncle, Angus?"
he cries in an agony of pain. "Would
you have given up my love and tender
ness for all these many years for the sake
of that man s riches f
I would have given them up for the
take of an honest name," he answers
quickly; and then, seeing how he has
wounded her, he adds: "Don't think I nn-
Ijervalue your love, mother: but you might
have found a better way of showing it for
me than you did.
And this is the end! This is the fruit
of all those weary, tearful years that
cheerfully borne labor, and those cheer
fully expended earnings, that her boy
might have everything of the best that
she could give him Angus tells her that
be would have resigned it all to regain
that which her own hand wrested from
bim!
"To think," he exclaims, as he rises and
paces the room, "that for a single lie, my
life and my affections are blighted for
ever; that I have lost my Gabrielle and
my good name at one and the same mo
ment; that here in thia city, where I have
been reared to hold my head np with any
man, I mnst slink through the streets
with downcast eyes. I will settle up my
accounts at the office as soon ss ever it is
possible, and turn my back upon the place
forever !"
"Angus Angus! where will you go?"
wbs bis mother.
"Heaven knows and I don't care. Any
whereso it be to a country where the
disgrace you have cruelly tacked to me
is not known, and I can begin life afresh
under the only name you have left me the
right to bear. Life afresh! What a farce
it seems to me to seak so! Why. you
have destroyed my life, with all that was
worth having in it. I shall have no life
henceforward, as 1 shall have no name.
Ob, mother! mother! you may have called
it love, but you are the bitterest enemy
I have ever had."
(To be continued.)
Austria la tne only country In the
wmid which never places a woman iu
prison, no matter what crime she com
mits. Instead of being- locked np, the fe
male malefactor Is sent to one of a num
ber of convents, devoted to the pur
pose, and is kept there during the time
for which she is sentenced. The court
yard stands open all day, the only bar
to egress being a nun, who acts as door
keeper, just the same as In the ortiin
iry convent. -
JMffereat Fointa of View.
"Aa old bachelor," said the sweet
girl, "U a man who confesses) that be
not think he is.
A wit is a kind of urchin, that everv
man will set his dog at but won't touch
nimsen ior iear or pricking his fingers.
No man can be provident of his tlm
who ie not prudent in the choice of his
company.
Money will buy a dog. but it won't
buy the wag of his tail.
Might dont make 'right but
right
makes might.
skat TmI U
At tfc first calsJwatHM 1b Pbilads.
tlrta of oar national bottday, July 4
ITTT, tba mob at night smashed th
prlndowa of tba Quakers. "Toe town
Olumlnated, and a great number of
windows broken on ya Anniversary of
independence and Fseedom," write
Quakeress of that day m ber diary. ;
The Quakers had with difficulty, dur
ing the rumblings and heaving of the
ipproacbjng revolution, stood by their
peace prtnerplea, and the mob had re
lented their attitude. But there wet
Friends who revolted gainst maintain
ing' a passive part, and Insisted that it
sas the doty of every man to defend
Ma country against oppression. .
. These were called "Apostates" by
their non-restottes brethren; bnt they
named themselves "Free Quakers," and
the "world's people" called them
"Fighting- Quakers." Lydla Darraga,
who brought to Washington's camp
aews of the English army's intended
attack, and Elisabeth Rosa, who mad
the first flag carried by the American
army, were both Free Quakers. Agnes
Keppller. In her "Philadelphia," tells a
Itory illustrative of the feelings caused
!y the division of sentiment.
A wealthy Friend, meeting one of the
apostates girt with a sword, said to.
bim. "Why. what is this with which
thou hast bedecked thyself? Surely,
not a rapier!"
"Yes," was the stanch reply, "for
Liberty or Death! is now the watch
irord of every one who means to defend 1
almself and bis property."
"Ah!" exclaimed the serene Friend.
1 bad not expected such high feelings
n thee. Thy mind has become as fierce f
as thy sword. Aa to property, I thought
thee bad none, and aa to thy liberty, I
thought thee already enjoyed it through
the kindness of thy creditors."
The Friend alluded to the man's In
ability to pay his debts, for which he
was liable to be cast Into ;alL
Nearly a century afterward the old
combative Instinct again brought the
Fighting Quakers to the front. Hun
Ireds of Free Quakers marched against
the foes who strove to break up the
Union. One of them, a descendant of a
Fighting Quaker of the revolution, be
ing too old for active service, equipped
i company of soldiers at his own ex
pense and presented them te the State.
On a tablet Inserted In the wall of the
new meeting house built by the Free
Quakers, to which Washington and
Franklin gave liberal aid, are cut these
four lines:
By General Subscription
For the Free Quakers.
Erected A. D. 1783.
Of the Empire a
The word "Empire" has pnasied good
republicans. A member of the first con
gregation, being aaked why It was used,
I ar aH it. a. -
tald, "I tell thee. Friend. It la because
or country la sVetlaed-toTW the great
mplre over all the world." Present
vents recall attention to that cut word
"Empire" and to the Quaker's senti
ment.
Spanish Women.
Spanish women have very little out-
Sooi amusement The bicycle is Just
beginning to be admitted, but under
protest The young women love their
gueen next to pretty frocks and glitter
ing fans and ribbons. They flock to the
cruel shows In the bull-rings and laugh
and cheer at the horrible spectacles.
The favorite resort for tbe grande
tenoras Is San Sebastian, and the lives
the careless Spanish women of fashion
lead there during the summer Is said
to be a scandal over all Europe. There
la scarcely a pretense at propriety or
even ordinary conventionality. As in
France, a majority of tbe young girls
In the best families are educated In
the convents. Their greatest accom
plishment Is embroidery, afld they sit
and sit at their knitting until some
man from an ancient and bankrupt
bouse or a bull-raising plantation
comes along and marries them. Club
life is unknown. Marriages are cele
brated very early in life, and but lew
people who get weary of these early
alliances ever go to the trouble and for
mality of getting a divorce. The un
happy couples simply divide up the
household things and live tbe balancr
of their Uvea the best they can.
Indian Wisdom.
Some curiously illuminative examples
if Asiatic subtlety and superstition are
let down In the "Diary," kept chiefly in
southern India, which the Right Hon,
Sir M. E. Grant-Duff has recently pub
lished. One follows the appeal of a
Christianised native against a fine im
posed by an English Judge:
"Your honor may be right said the
native, "I may be wrong; I may be
right honor wrong. Let honor give me
back the fine, and then at day of rae
arrectlon, when all hearts will be open.
If I am wrong I will most gladly, air,
return your honor the money."
It Is perhaps needless to state that
bis honor did not agree to this exten
sion of mercy.
From the same source comes an iilus-
tratlon of the peculiar blaa of Justice la
the Asiatic states.
A native Judge, in the district of Gan-
am, used, when the time to give his
judgment came, to count the files on
the punka. It the number was even,
tie gave It for U)e plaintiff; if odd, for
the defendant
Hereditary Strength of tbe Ox.
The strength of an ox In pulling a
load is remarkable. How did It team
to pull so marvelously? Without doubt
this quality Is traceable to the habit
found among all wild cattle of waging
war with their horns. At Cbllllngham
Park, In Northumberland, England,
where there is still a herd of half-wild
cattle, it is found that the bulls engage
In desperate tussles for the leadership
of the herd. Plainly any ambitious
beast which has not sufficient strength
of neck to thrust his enemy backward
would be beaten In the struggle, and
would hare but few descendants.
From age to age the strong-necked
bulls have been victorious, and now
the quality naa become a proverb.
Ssalpe In Gerasausy.
Snipe are scarce la Germany. They
cost fl12 apiece In the masket, and
12S apiece to amateur hunters. At any
rate It is known that 100 amateur hunt-
tra spent $200 . ktat year, near Man-
altogether tweafr bMU.'kt."
Balls Aloasj Hi
ad tnagaalnes tor the
nraetnre and atoraae of hlan ex
plosives are soon to be trallt by the
Navy Department Tba plans call for
an expenditure of more than $1.000400,
which has been appropriated by Ooa-
gresa. Dnrthg the war the need of a
magaslne at a convenient distributing
point was felt severely: that at Ft
Lafayette waa overtaxed, and at best
only capable of supplying 1,000 rounds
a day, moat of which waa for the gun
of the secondary batteries.
The largest of the new tnagaalnes
will be bnttt on tne Palisades near
Edge water and almost opposite Grant
tomb. It will have a frontage of sev
eral hundred feet on the river and will
be built to the edge of the cliff. The
site selected la away from factories
with tall chimneys, which are consid
ered dangerous. Several large build
ings are to be erected. They will be
need for storing ammunition and aa a
laboratory for testing materials for
guns and torpedoes. There will also
be a building used solely for experi
mental work, and a large plant for the
manufacture of 'all kinds of powder.
Most of the buildings will be of solid
construction. Iron, steel and stone being
the material need. The smaller build
ings will be made of corrugated Iron.
Several nlera extending Into the water
about 800 feet will be buUt The river
Is to be dredged to a depth sufficient
to permit the largest battleships to be
moored to the piers, where ammunition
can be taken direct from the store
houses and placed In the magazines of
the vessel. This will do away with the
delay of handling the charged shells
and the explosives many times and the
danger, surrounding reshipment
When the plant ta completed It will
have. It is planned, a capacity sufficient
to supply high explosives to the entire
navy, and great enough to assemble
nearly all the fixed ammunition and
charged shells needed. It will cost. It
Is expected, about $600,000; and work
may be begun within a few months.
Another plant may be erected near tbe
naval proving grounds at Indian Head.
Neither will be dangerous to the prop
erty of the neighborhood. New York
Evening Post. .
, President Pairs,
How uneasy may lie tbe head that
wears even a presidential crown Is in
dicated by two true stories told of the
late President Faure of the French re
public Last autumn the president was
one of a hunting party, and during the
progress of the sport killed a pheasant
."It Is rather early, Mr. President
ne of the officers In the company re-
marked, tte shoot pheasanta. Ia
I month or two they will be better.'
f"iarm wenUror twT mU ne
dent sadly. "Who knows where I shall
be thenJ"
Shortly before his death President
Faure went to open a certain annual
exhibition. He exchanged a few cour
teous words with members of tbe com
mittee which had the ceremony In
charge, and then asked for an absent
member. Monsieur Jolllvet a Journal
ist He waa told that Monsieur Jolll
vet was unable to be present
"I am sorry," said the present "for I
had something which I wished to say to
him."
A member offered to carry has mes
sage to Monsieur Jolllvet
"It was only this," said tbe president
"In a recent article about me In his
paper he said that I am a 'happy man.'
Please tell him that I am much obliged
for the thought but that It Is a mistake
I am not a happy man,"
Caes of Salt.
for stains on the hands nothing Is
better than a little salt with enough
lemon Juice to moisten It rubbed on
the spots, and then washed off in clear
water.
Strong brine may be used to ad
vantage in washing bedsteads. Hot
alum" water Is also good for this pur
nose.
In a basin of water, salt of course,
fails to the bottom; so never soak salt
fish with- the skin down, as the salt
will fall to the skin and remain there.
If a chimney or flue catch fire, dose
all the windows and doors first then
hang a blanket In front of the grate to
exclude tbe air, throw coarse salt dowr
the flue.
For weeds In pavements or gravel
walks, make a strong brine of coarse
salt and boiling water; but the brine
In a sprinkling can and water tbe
weeds thoroughly, being careful not to
let any of the brine get on tbe grass.
A Penny Saved.
The Individual who saves a dollar la
one direction and Immediately pro
ceeds to spend two in another, as a
sort of reward of virtue. Is a familiar
character, "I've stopped economising,"
said the girl with the violets, aa she
stirred ber chocolate. "I can't afford It
I trimmed this bat I'm wearing last
month, and saved ever so much. I
saved so much that I Jelt able to buy
a new gown, and it will cost three
times what I saved before it's finished.
It's always, tbe way. If I save a car
ticket by walking down town, I spend
a dollar for violets before I get home.
I'm going to stop trying to save, and
I've painted- a proverb to go on my
mantel to remind me of It: penny
saved la a dollar wasted.' "
A Cigarette Horror.
Leeches, when applied to persistent
cigarette smokers, drop off dead, dis
tinct traces of tbe dangerous oil given
off of tobacco being found In them,
Strangely enough, the same experiment
tried upon excessive pipe-smoker, re
sulted in no apparent Injury to the
leeches.
Makina Bad War.
"Men are so Illogical,"
"What do you mean 7
"Why, those four men disputed over
a doctor's bUL They banged each oth
er all up, and that made more work for
the doctors."
Profs Isnnl Jealosny.
"My borae baa reasoning powers, X
sell you."
"In what respect partieulariyT
"WeH, instead of shying at that auto
mobile cab he edged up to it and kicked
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KEITH.
KEITH'S TENTH YEAR.
Over 1,000,000 People Entertained in the
Past Nine Years.
The annals of American amusements
will probably contain no record of
more successful managerial career than
that of B. F. Keith. His model
theatres in Philadelphia, Boston, New
York and Providence eniov clienteles
cua!le4 by no other p aybouses In those
cities, and the censored entertainments
combine agreeably diversions of all
sorts, each bill being so varied as to
please the most exacting theatre-go
er.
The floating population Is dally in
evidence and many visitors from near.
by cities spend an hour or two at
Keith's.
-It is claimed that over 1,000,000 people
have been entertained at this house
during the past nine years. The bills
have included Maurice Barrymore. Fe
lix Morris. Robert Mantel!, John T.
Sullivan. Tim Murphy. Robert Down
Ing. Rose Coghlan. Rose Eytlnge, Cora
Tanner, Robert Hilliard, Barton Hill,
Violinist Remenyl, Celloist Van Biene,
Isabelle Urquhart. Pauline Hall. Henry
E. Dixey. Del Puente. the 16-act pro
grammes enlisting the services of the
stars or grand opera, comic opera.
farce, comedy, drama and circus.
The Bear and the Wheelmen.
Right in the middle of the track was
a black bear, about four feet high and
six feet long. We had never seen
Bruin before outside of the Zoo or in
the cage of a perambulating menagerie.
So we were Interested, and the Interest
took tbe shape of a tightness across the
cheat and a quickness of breathing
sucn as you reel when easy and happy-go-lucky
in your mind. The bear was
Interested In us, and evidently glad to
see us. He gave a grunt slowly wagged
bis bead, and began to advance. At
Irst we thought of amusing him by rem
iniscences of stole buns given to his
ipeclea when we were younger and less
callous of heart Yet we cocked our
revolvers In case there should be any
disputing the fact, though we knew a
bullet from a six-shooter would have
as much effect upon the hide of a bear
aa a peashooter would have In wound
ing: an elephant . .
NowdOnTnre until -ne'e within
arm's reach; then drive into bis eyes or
open mouth." That waa the arrange
ment
We baited ready for action. So did
onr friend the enemy, and we saw be
waa scanning us with scornful eyes.
He moved to get a side view. "He's
funking it; he's frightened," we said.
with lowered voice. By way of an
swer the bear came on four strides at a
trot and up went the revolvers.
"Don't shoot, don't shoot, till he's
nearer."
Bruin beskated. He was consider
ing. He was something of a philoso
pher, and evidently thought "They are
Duly a couple of lanky, fleshloss cy
sllsts; what would be tbe good of kill
ing them?"
On which sage reflection he turned
about and sauntered up the mountain
side. Travel.
The Era of Peace.
Great Britain is now building eighty
nine war vessels; France is a close sec
ond, with eighty-three; Russia is now
working on thirty-nine peacemakers,
Italy on thirteen and Germany on nine
teen, but the late large appropriation
for the German navy will greatly en
large the Kaiser's operations. Explo
sive bullets have been long excluded
from civilised warfare as bariiarous,
but sensitive Britain Is chuckling over
a new missile designed to convert
heathen Afridls and Africans from the
error of their ways, which simply
means murder, expanding from a clean,
round hole at the point of entrance to
a ragged chasm three or four inches In
diameter.
Perfumery from Flowers,
Heretofore perfumery has been de
tacbed from flowers by soaking them
In lard. A Parisian named Passy has
now found a way of gathering the
fragrance by simply soaking the flow
ers in water, a process which can be
repeated several times without de
stroying the flowers.
Kaally Explained.
"Why Is H7" asked tbe inquisitive
man, "that coroners do not hold an In
quest over the body of every person
Who dlesT"
"It Is only necessary," replied his
observant friend, "when a person is
accidentally killed, or dies suddenly
without medical advice. When a per
son dies after being attended by a phy
sician, then everybody knows why he
died, and there is no need of an In
quest." The Voice on the Cylinder.
Diggs The phonograph must be an
ancient Invention.
Biggs Ifs considered quite modern
Why do you think it ancient?
Dlggs Why, the Bible speaks of
men lifting up their voices, and I nat
urally supposed they were on a phono
graph cylinder.
Benson Bnona-h..
"What made you quit the club, Bil
ly r
"Reason enough. I can tell you. 1
worked live years to be elected treas
urer, and then they Insisted on punting
In a cash register." Boston Traveler.
No Improvement.
Humorist It Is impossible for me to
think and operate tbe typewritei'at the
same time.
Editor Then you are no- better oft
than, when you used a pen.
The druggist would rather . sell a
pound ot cure than an ounce of pre
vention. . i ..:.......
SII or I DAY.
Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage.
tnbject: The Saered Nnnibrr SlgnlOcmnee
of Seven Important Truth of the
Bible Illnalrmted bv the Use of Thai
Numeral Favored bj the Divine Mind.
(Copyright. I-onla Klopach, 1899.
Waskikotok, D. C Many of the ir.ort
important doctrines of the Bible are by Dr.
Talmage presented In this sermon in a very
unusual way. Genesis II., S, "God blessed
the seventh day."
The mathematics of tbe Bible is notice
able; the geometry and the arithmetic; the
aqunre in Ezekiel; the circle spoken of In
salab; the curve alluded to In Job; the
rale of fractions mentioned in Daniel: the
role of loss and gain in Mirk, where Christ
asks the people to cipher out by tbut role
what it wonid "profit a man if be gain the
whole world and lose his soul." But there
I. one mathematical figure that is crowned
above all others In the Bible; it is the
numeral seven, which the Arabians got
from India, and ail 'ollowlng ages huve
taken from tbe Arabians. It stands be
tween tbe figure six and tbe figure eight.
In tbe Bible all the other numerals bow to
It. Over 300 times it is mentioned in tbe
Scriptures, either alone or compounded
with other words. In Genesis the week ia
rounded into seven days, and I nse my text
because there this numeral is for tbe first
time introduced in a journey which baits
not until In the close of the book of Revela
tion its monument Is bnilt into tbe wall of
heaven in chrvsollte. which. In the strata
of precious stones, is the seventh.
In tbe Bible we find that Jacob had to
serve seven years to get Rachel, but she
was well worth it, and, foretelliug the
years of prosperity and famine in Pharaoh's
time, the seven fat oxen were eaten np of
the seven lean oxen, and wisdom is said to
be bnilt on seven pillars, and tbe ark was
left with the Philistines seven years, and
Naa man, for the care of his leprosy,
plunged in the Jordan seven times; tbe
dead child, when Elisba breathed into its
month, signaled its arrival back into con
sciousness by sneealng seven times; to tbe
house that Ezekiel saw in vision there
were seven steps; tbe walls of Jericho, be
fore they fell down, were compassed seven
days; Zecharlah describes a stone with
eyes; to cleanse a leprous bouse the door
must De sprinkled with pigeons' blood
seven times; In Canaan were overthrown
seven nations; on one occasion Christ cast
out seven devils; on a mountain He fed a
multitude ot people with seven loaves, the
fragments left filling seven baskets, and
the closing passages of the Bible are mag
nificent and overwhelming with the im
agery made np of seven churches, seven
stars, seven candiestlsks, seven seals, seven
angels and seven beads and seven crowns
and seven horns and seven spirits nnd
seven vials and seven plagnes and seven
thunders.
Tea. the numeral seven seems a favorite
with the divine mind outside as well as in
side the Bible, for are there not seven pris
matic colors? And when God with the
rainbow wrote tbe comforting thought
that the world would never have another
deluge He wrote it on the scroll ot tbe Fky
in Ink of seven colors. He grouped into'
the Pleiades seven stars. Borne, tbe capi
tal of the world, sat on seven bills. When
God would make tbe most intelligent thing
on earth, the human countenance, Ue
fashioned it with seven features tbe two
ears, the two eyes, the two nostrils and the
month. Tea, our body lasts only seven
vears.and ws gradually sbed it for another
body after another seven years, and so on.
tor we are, as to our bodies, septennial an
nua is- bo cue numeral seven ranges througn
nature and though revelation. It is the
number of perfection, and so I nse it while
I speak of tbe seven candlesticks, tbe seven
stars, the seven seals and the seven thun
ders. The seven golden candlesticks were anil
are tbe churches. Mark you, the churches
never were, and never can be, candles.
They are only candlesticks. Thev are not
the light, bnt they are to bold tbe light. A
room in tbe night might have in It 500 can
dlesticks, and yet you could not see your
band before your face. The only nse of a
candlestick and tbe only use of a church is
to hold np the light. You see it is a dark
world, the night of sin. tbe nhzht of trouble.
the night of superstition, the night of per
secution, tbe night of poverty, the night
nf sickness, the niuhtof death. Ave. about
fifty nights have interlocked their shad
ows. Tbe whole race goes stumbling over
prostrated hopes, and fallen fortunes, and
empty flour barrels, and desolated cradles
and deathbeds. How much we have use
tor all the seven candlesticks, with licbts
blazing from tbe top of each one of them!
Light of pardon for all sin! Light of com
fort for all trouble! Light of encourage
ment for all despondency! Light of eter
nal riches for all poverty! Light ot
rescue for all persecution! Light of ru-
aaiea for all tbe bereft! Light of heaven
for all the dying! And that light is Christ,
who the light that shall yet Irradiate the
hemispheres.
But, mark you, when I say churches nre
not candles, but candlesticks, I cast no
slur on candlesticks. I believe ia beauti
ful candlesticks. T'-e candlesticks that
God ordered for tbe ancient tabernacle
were something exquisite. Tbev were a
dream of beauty carved out ot loveliness.
Tbey were made of hammered gold, stood
iu a foot of gold and had six branches of
gold blooming all along in six lilies ot gold
each and lips of gold, from which the can
dles lifted their holy fire. And the best
houses In any elty ought to be the churches
the best built, the best ventilated, tbe
best swept, the best windowed and the best
ehandeliered. Log cabins may do in
neighborhoods where most of the people
live in log cabins, but let there be palatial
enurcnes for regions wnere many of the
people live in palaces. Do not have a bet-
:er place lor yourself than for your Lord
and King. Do not live in a parlor and put
four Christ in a kitchen. These seven
sandleetlcks of which I speak were not
made of pewter or iron; tbey were gold
en candlesticks, and gold Is not only
s valuable but a bright metal. Have every
thing abont ytur cbureh bright your
ashen with smiling faces, your music jubi
lant, your handshaking cordial, your en
tire service attractive. Many people feel
that in church tbey must look dull, in or
der to look- teverential. and many whose
faces in other kinds of assemblage show all
the different phases ot emotion have in
church no more expression than the back
wheel of a hearse. Brighten op and be re
sponsive. If yon feel like weeping, weep.
If vou feel like smiling, smile. If you feel
Indignant at some wrong assailed from tbe
pulpit, frown. Do not leave your natural
ness and resiliency borne because it is Sun
day morning. It as officers of a church you
meet people at the church door with a
black look, and have tbe music black, and
the minister in black preach a black ser
mon, and from invocation to benediction
nave tbe impression black, few will come,
and those who do come will wish they had
not come at all.
Golden candlesticks! Scour up the six
lilies on each branch, and know that tbe
more lovely and bright they are the more
Bt they are to bold the light. But a
Christ less light Is a damage to the world
rather than a good. Cromwell stabled bis
cavalry horses in St. Paol's Cathedral.
and many now nse the church in which t
stable vanities and worldliness. A worldly
oburch is a candlestick without the candle,
and it had Its prototype In St. Sophia's in
Constantinople, built to tbe glory of God
by Constantino, but transformed to base
uses by Mohammed tbe Second. Built out
of colored marble; a eupola with twenty
four windows soaring to a height of 180
feet; the celling one great bewilderment of
mosaic: galleries supported bv eleht
columns of porphyry and sixty-seven col
umns ot green jasper; nine bronze doors
with alto-relievo work, fascinating to tbe
are ot any artist: vases ana vestment, la
erasted with all manner of precions stones
Four walls on fire with lndecribabl
Splendor. Though labor was cheap, thi
Duildlni.; cost fl.buu.uou. ecclesiastics
structure, almost supernatural in pom
and majesty. But Mohammedanism ton
down from the walls of that buildiDgall th
saintly and Cbristly images, and high nf
In the dome tbe figure ot the cross wot
rubbed out that the crescent of tbe bar
barous Turk might . be substituted. A
great church, but no Christl gorgeous
candlestick, bnt no candlel Ten thousand
poch ohurckes would not give tba world of
much light as one home-made tallow can
dle by which last night some grandmother
In the eighties pat on ber ectiol4 and
read the Psalms of David in larger type.
Up with the churches, bv all meanil Hun
dreds of them, thousands of them, and th
more the better. But let each one l s
blaze of heavenly light, making the world
brighter and brighter, till tbe last shadow
has disappeared, and the last of the suf
fering Children Of God shall hare twaehnil
I he land where tbey have no need of can
dlestick or "of candle, neither light of the
nn, for the Lord God glveta them light,
and they .ball reign forever and ever."
Turn now in your Bible to the seven
I'.ars. We are distinctly told that th'y are
:hc minl-ters of roligion. Some are large
ttars, some of them small stars, some of
:bem sweep a wide circuit and some of
:bem a small circuit, but so far as they are
f.m u Ine they got their light from the greot
;entral sua around which they make revo
ution. Let each one keep in his own
phere. The solar system would be soon
wrecked If the stnrs. instead of keeping
:helr own orbits, should go to linnum;
iown other stars. Ministers of rt-liiriou
should never clash. 'But in all the cen
turies of the Christian church some of
-hese stars have been bunting aa Edward
Irving or a Horace lSushnll or nil Alliert
Bnrues. And the stars that were in pur-
Mlit of the other stars lost tlielrotvn orldt.
and some ot them could never again find
,t. Alas for tho heresy hunters! The lmt
way to destroy error is to preach the
:rutb. The best way to scatter darkness
s to strike a light. There is in immeusity
room enough for all tbe ministers. Tbe
ninisters who give up righteousness and
:he truth will get punishment enough any-
low, for they are "the wandering stars for
whom is reserved tbe bl :ekoess of dark
less forever."
I should like, as a minister, when I am
lying, to be able truthfully to say what a
japtaiu of the English army, fallen at the
aead of bis column and dying on the Egyp
tian battlefield, said to General Wolseley,
vbo came to condole with bim: "1 led
hem straight. Didn't I lead thm
itralght, general?" God has put us ininis
ers as captains In this battle'leld of truth
igainst error. Great at last will be our
ibagrin it we fall leading the people the
vroug way; but great win be our gladness
f, when the battle is over, we ran hand
lur sword back to our great C.inunamlHr,
laying: "Lord Jesus! We led the peoplx
itralght! Didn't we lead thera straight?"
The ministers are not all PecksnllT and
mating hypocrites, ns some would have
fou think! Forgive me. If having nl other
imes glorified the medical profession, and
:be legal profession, and the literary p o
ession I glorify my own. I have seen
hem In their homes nnd henni them In
beir pulpits, and a grander array of men
lever breathed, and the Bible figure is not
il rained when it culls them stars; and
vbole constellations ot glorious ministers
lave already taken their places on hiirh,
where they sbfne even brighter than they
ihone on earth; Edward N. Kirk, of the
Congregational Church; Stephen H. Tyog,
f the Episcopal Church; Matthi-w Sitnp
lony of the Methodist Cburcli; John flowi
ng, of the Baptist Church; Siimnul K. Tal
nago, of tbe Presbyterian Church; Thdinas
Je Witt, of the Reformed Chinch; John
Chambers, of the Independent Church.aad
here I stop, for It so happens that I have
nentioned the seven stars of tbe seven
hurches.
I pass on to another mighty Bioie seven
and they are the seven seals. - Kt. John iu
rision saw a scroll with seven seals, aud lie
leard an angel cry. "Who Is worthy to
.oose the seals thereof?" Take eight or
:en sheets ot foolscap paper, paste them
together and roll them into a scroll, and
lave tbe scroll at seven different places
waled with sealing wax. ..i'ou unroll the
Jcroll till you come to-one of thos.-ia, -and
then you can go no farther until yon-
oreac mat seal; tnen unroll again until
vou come to another seal, and you can go
10 farther until you break that seal; then
rou go on until all the seven seals are
iroken. and the contents of the eutire
.croll revealed. Now, that scroll with
leven seals held by the angel was the
iropliecy of what was to come on the
;artb; it meant that tbe knowledge of the
uture was with God, and no mau and no -ingel
was worthy to open it; bat the Bible
lavs Christ opened it and brokenll tbasev-'
a seals. He broke the first seal and un
rolled tbe scroll, nnd there was a picture of
I white horse, and that meant prosperity
ind triumph for tbe Roman empire, ami so,
t really came to pass that for ninety years
rirtuous emperors succeeded each other jS
Merva, Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in
:bn vision broke tbe second seal and un
rolled aualn, nnd there was a picture ot a
red horse, and that moant bloodshed, and
o it really came to pass, and the next
linetv years were red with assassinations
ind wars. ThenChrist broke the third seal
ind unrolled it, and there was a picture of
I black horse, which in all literature means
amino, oppression and taxation; and so it
-eally came to pass. Cbrist went on an
il He broke ail the seven seals and
ipennd ail the scroll. Well, tbe future ot
ill of us is a sealed scroll, and I am glad
bnt no one but Cbrist can open it. Do not
et us join that class of Christians in our
lay, who are trying to break the seven seals
t the future. Tbey are trying to peep into
hings tbey have no business wit j.
Do not go to some necromancer orsplrlt
lalist or soothsayer or fortune teller to
Ind out what is going to happen to your
lelf or your family or your friends. Watt
ill Christ breaks the seal to find out
vhether in your own personnl Ufa or the
ife of tbe nation or the life ot the world it
s going to be the white horse ot prosperity
r the red horse of war or tbe block horse
f famine. You will soon enough see him
saw and bear him neigh. Take care of the
present, and the future will take care of
.tself. It a man live seventy years, his
3iograptiy Is In a scroll having at least
even seals, and let bim not during tbe
Irst ten vears of bis life try to look
into the tweatles, nor the twenties Into
the thirties, nor the thirties into the
forties, nor the forties Into the fifties, nor
:be fifties into the sixties, nor the sixties
into tbe seventies. From the way tbe
years have got tbe habit of racing along, I
rness you will not have to wait a great
while before all the seals of the future are
Droken. I would not give two cents to
(now bow long I am going to live, or In
what day of what year the world is going
:o be demolished. I would rather give
11000 not to know. Suppose some one
jould break tbe next seal in the scroll of
four personal history and sho ild tell you
.hat on tne next 4th of July, 1901, you
were to die, the summer after next,
low much would you be good for between
this and that? It would from now until
then be a prolonged funeral. You would
le counting tbe months and the days,
and your lamily and friends would be
:ounting them, and next 4th ot July you
would rub your hands together and whine:
"One year from to-day I am to go. Dear
met 1 wish no one bad told me so long be
fore. I wish that necromancer bad not
broken the seal of the future." And meet
ing some undertaker, you would say: "I
hope you will keep yourself frue for an en
gagement tbe 4th of July, 1901. That day
you will be needed at my house. To save
time, you might as well take my aieosure
now,. live feet eleven Inches." I am glad
that Christ dropped a thick veil over the
hour ot our demise and of the bour of the
world's destruction when He said, "Of that
day nnd hour knowetb no man; no, not the
angels, hut my Father only." Keep your
bauds off tbe soveu seals.
Kncourairinz.
"Do you think you hnve nny ehnnce
with her, R.-ggyr
"Of course I do. She snys herself
that I'm one of her c-liunt-e acquaint
ances." Detroit Free Tresa.
Prudence.
"What made you challenge that
American to a duel?" asked a I'nrishui
Journalist's friend.
"It was in self-defense. I thought
that if I could get him to tight with
weapons we could make It the usual
harmless affair. Otherwise he'd lx
likely to Insist on trying to whip uie
with bis fists, and probably hurt me."
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