B. F. SCHVEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UniOnAIlD THE EflFORCEUEIlT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
YOLi. LIU.
MIFFL.INTOWK, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENX., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1899.
NO. 35.
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CHAPTER XXIV (Continued.)
"r.irish clerk of Chilton in Berwick!",
guirmurs Delia; "how wonderful I should
save mot hiin here, Patsy! I was mnr-1
ricd nt that church on the very day it
tii burned down, and your grandfather
must have been present at the ceremony.
"lt nr strange! And now I come to
think of it, ma'am, he often talks in his
ravings about a young lady a "lassie," he
calls her who was married In the midst
of the storm. Bless me! that is queer."
"l'utsy, what has he got In that bun
dle?" "Ah! now you beat me, ma'am t No
one. not even poor mother, ever saw the
bsi.li'."
"Couldn't you find out, by any means,
what is in that parcel, Fatsy?"
Delia baa become wonderfully curioni
iboiit the old clerk's worldly possessions.
"I dursn't, ma'am. Feyther would
nearly kill me, and the old man would
quite. I'd sooner walk up and scratch
the nose of Farmer Simpson's mad bull."
"Ah. well! I dare say there's nothing
af consequence in it. How did the feast
go ..ft-?'
"Itonutlfully, ma'am; and I'm obliged
to y.iu for letting me go.
Delia hurries from the farm parlor m
ilie speaks her head in a whirl of ex-riti-nu'iit
her heart not knowing what it
dares to hope for her mind filled with
one thought, the wish to meet and tell
nil to Mr. Le Mesurler. At the end of
the Ion; lane that precedes the village
roa.l she sees him, walking thoughtfully
to ami fro, and evidently waiting for her.
She at once tells him all she has learn
n. nnd her new-born hope that the par
rel, which the old man so carefully
ruanls, contains the parish books of the
church at Chilton, and in them the regis
try of her marriage.
".'mi so you think the books must
needs be tied up in his old bundle," says
Mr. Le Mesurier, smiling, as she finishes
the tale. -
"I feel sure of It! Oh, don't laugh at
me. Think what a change it will mnke
in my whole life. If the idea only proves
true. I must see the contents of that
bundle. I shall never be satisfied till I
have convinced myself one way or the
other."
"How do yon propose to accomplish it?"
"I cannot decide yet "Patsy says the
;!d mnn sits in the garden when the after
iwo is fine. I could get np by a ladder
and smash in the glass if I find it fasten
ed." "You'll be Indicted for housebreaking
with burglarious and felonious intent, if
r.u don't take care, Mrs. Manners. And
nln-n you have opened the bundle, at the
rik of your personal safety, perhaps you
ill find a mass of filthy rags."
"I care nothing about my personal safe
ty I care only to find my unfortunate
marriage certificate. Do you think I
iniu'ht give old Strother a glass of wine
with something in it to make him go to
simp?"
Mr. Le Mesurier laughs loud at the
suggestion.
"Don't kill him outright, or you may
he indicted for manslaughter along with
.he other misdemeanors. I am laughing,
Mrs. Manners, but believe me how sin
cerely I am interested in this new hope
of yours, and how rejoiced I shall be at
its'fultillmcnt."
"A nd believe me, Mr. Le Mesurier, that
I will not rest hand nor foot till I have
r-a. hed the bottom of that mystery, be it
what it may!"
CFIAFTER XXV.
Th most natural thing to suppose is
:hat Telia runs straight home, after her
Interview with the parson, to repeat the
li.eT. ry she has made to Mrs. Bond.
I'.ur, strange to sny, she does nothing of
the port. A hundred times during the
evening is it on the tip of her tongue to
t -U it, and a hundred times her courage
fnils her, and she decides she will wait
little lunirer and discover a little more.
before she makes her friend the recipient
Df her confidence.
The next day she anxiously awaits the
mining of Mr. Le Mesurier, who has
promised to show her the vestry books In
the church so that she may know what
s i. h books look like and be better able
to recognize them should she find any In
old Sirother's bundle.
When the parson comes she prepares to
areompany him at once.
"What queer-looking things!" she says,
m she examines the rough, brown leather
rovers in which the volumes are bound;
"and the ink in which the first entries are
mie'e is quite faded and pale. Fifty years
icn. Mr. Le Mesurier. Is it possible this
book has lasted all that time 7"
uite possible in Cloverfield, where we
do not celebrate half a dozen marriages
a year. What is It, Mrs. Webber?"
Tii is last question Is addressed to the
I ew opener, who is employed In cleaning
the church, and now beckons him myste
riously to her side from the open vestry
doe:-.
"Excuse me for a moment," Mr. Le
Mesurier says, hurriedly, to Delia, as he
l.avseg into the chancel.
She continues to turn over the record of
the Cloverfield marriages with a sort of
undefined curiosity. As she does so
name catches her eye one name among
the hundreds she has gazed upon mechan
ically nnd she reads the record.
)u such and such a day, "John Le Me
surier. bachelor, of Dublin, to Adelia
('"iuil.es, spinster, of Southampton."
She looks at the date; It 'is that of fif
teen rears ago five years before the pres
ent Mr. Le Mesurier came to reside in the
parish. Still, it seems strange that he
should not have noticed the name being
similar to his own; but perhaps, she ar
gues, clergymen never take the trouble to
read the records of marriages that occur
before they had charge of the parish.
"Is this a relation of yours?" she asks,
promptly, as her friend returns to the ves
try. "The name is precisely the same,
you see John Le Mesurier; but he was
married five years before yon came here,
o perhaps you never saw the certificate,"
Pointing with her finger to the entry,
"he turns to confront the clergyman, and
Is amazed to see the pallor that has over
spread his face.
"Mr. Le Mesurier! are you not weUT
"I am quite well, thank you! Have yon
finished examining this musty old book?
Thtn I think w may a well lock it B?
again! About Mr. John Le Mesarief,
who appropriates my lawful cognomen!
Yes, I believe he must be some sort of
connection of mine, because the name la
aot a common one; but I never knew him,
nd, as yon say, the event happened long
before I ever saw the place!"
But he Is very pale still, and the mus
cles of his face are working nervously.
"There are no Coombes living about
acre now," remarks Delia, thoughtfully.
"Oh, no! There la nobody of the name
here. There never was I" replies Mr. La
Mesurier, In the same agitated and uncer
tain manner. "Now, you are quite Bute
you will know realtr book again, to
swear to won't yon?" he continues, with
a sickly attempt to smile; "and be able
to tell at once If old Strother's possessions
are the property of the church or hii
own?"
"Oh, I think so; and. Mr. Le Mesurier,
I assure you his parcel is Just the size to
co-tain three or four of these books
making allowance for all the wrappings
iaey are aewn in."
"When do 700 Intend to make yom
first raid upon these wrappings?"
"To-morrow, I think; but I shall not ge
nnless It Is a really hot afternoon, that
will tempt the old man to sit out for some
time in the garden. Do yon not come
my way?"
"No, thanks! I have a visit to pay to
the Temples. Good afternoon."
He raises his hat and strides off ab
ruptly. Delia Is just wondering what can be the
reason of his sudden alteration of man
ner, when he retraces his steps and over
takes her.
"Mrs. Manners, when you told me a se
cret that affected your dally happiness
you relied on me fox respecting your con
fidence and keeping it sacred, did you
tot?"
"Certainly I did."
"Have I belied your trust?"
"I am sure you have not."
"Then may I ask you a favor In re
turn, not to mention to any one the record
you saw just now of my my relation's
marriage? He is not a person to be proud
of. and the marriage was strictly private,
and for many reasons It Is desirable it
shooid remain so. I know you will oblige
me in this particular. ' Good day."
And, raising his hat once more, Mr. Le
Mesurier leaves her again without wait
ing for the assurances be has so earnest
ly required.
CHAPTER XXVL
Delia does not know what to think of
diis little episode, bnt she has always con
sidered her clergyman friend to be rather
strange and erratic in his moods, and as
cribes his anxiety on the subject of the
marriage record not being mentioned to
some fad of his own, certainly not to any
thing that can concern her. She has so
much to think of and plan for herself at
this moment that she has no leisure to
speculate upon the actions of her ac
quaintances. She ponders hour after
hour on the best means of conciliating old
Strother, and rendering her voyage of
discovery easy; but she reaches Kennett's
farm the following day without having
arrived at any definite conclusion as to
what course it will be better to pursue.
It is a broiling afternoon, and Delia has
felt the trudge up the long lane very try
ing; but she is rewarded by the first sight
that meets her eyes being that of the old
Scotchman sunning himself by the bee
hives. He looks only a trifle less offensive
In the open air than he did in his close
bedroom, and he receives his visitor with
do greater cordiality. But she is delight
ed to see that he is smoking his pipe, and
ihe has a little flask of Scotch whisky h id
Ion away In her pocket.
"What a lovely day, Mr. Strother. I
m so glad to find you out Where is
Patsy V
"I dinna ken."
"Does she find It too hot In the garden?
I almost think I do. May I go round and
ask her for a glass of water?"
"You canna fash me wi' what you do.'-
Accepting the ungracious permission ex
tended to her, Delia walks up the gravel
path to the farmhouse. Her object is
twofold first, to find out where Patsy
may be, and, secondly, to obtain a glass of
water in which to put the whisky. At the
pen door she meets a servant girL
Is Miss Patsy in, Jane?"
"Well, she ain't azactly in, mum, but
he won't be long. She's only rin out the
back way to meet a friend, and I'm keep
ing watch In case the maister should re
turn and make a rumpus about it. Poor
Miss Tatsy's got very Uttle time to her
sel', mum, so ye meant tell the maister of
her."
"To be sure not, Jane. I have only come
to beg a glass of water. The day Is so
hot, and I am very thirsty."
The farm maiden lifts down a mug from
the nail on which It hangs and makes her
way out into the back garden.
"The poomp's at the back," she says hi
going.
Delia follows her. To examine the back
f the house Is her desire.
She finds that the "poomp" stands In a
wilderness of currant bushes and rasp
berry canes, now stripped of their fruit,
and the wall of the house Is thickly cov
ered with a vine of many years' growth.
On either side of theback door are win
dows with latticed panes and broad sills;
the lower one to the right Is the scullery
window, the one above It she believes to
belong to the bedroom of old Strother,
and it is fastened open by an iron hook.
"Is that the old gentleman's room?" she
tsks Indifferently of the servant
"Xlss, mum, that's his'n, and Hwull U
a good day for all concerned when he's
laid out in it" ,
Delia walks up to the window sill and
Cuds it is amply wide enough to stand up
on. In the scullery are a set of steps with
which she could easily reach the upper
window. Given ten minute, to herself,
she feels sure that her work would be ac
complished. She 1. "'V, Thl
still although the mother of a man. me
wors . difficulty win be to get the .tmnt.
time comes, of not bebf able to fet no
of Jane or to make use of ner.
Bheurn. to the old clerk full of hope
for the success fit esw
Her surprise, she finds be has leit hut sea
and Is peering in at the open front door.
"What air ye speerin' sae lang wi' the
lass fur?" he asks, in his usual suspicious
way.
"I was only getthV some water to drink,
Mr. Strother," replies Delia cheerfully.
"I find a Uttle weak whisky and water
the jnost cooling drink possible on thes
burning afternoons."
" W husky 1 What can e, leddy ken a boot
whnsky?"
"Oh! don't I "ken about It? Tou forget
I have lived In Scotland, where everyone
acquires a liking for it, and my friend,
Mr. Bond, has some of the finest Scotch
whisky in his cellar you ever tasted."
"Ay! It's mony a day sin the like e
me tasted whnsky."
"Mr. Strother, I want you to taste my
whisky, and if you think it good I shall
bring you a bottle for yourself."
"A hale bottle o' whisky to mysel'? Ay,
but ye're the rlcht sort o" leddy to veesil
a pnir auld chlel like me."
With his old tongue he commences ts
lick his lips as she produces the spirit
flask, and the wrinkled hand he extends
for the glass trembles visibly. Delia has
taken care to make the dose a potent one.
and Strother took it down at a draught
"Ay, tnat'e summat like whusky!" ejac
ulates the old sinner, a the last drop
trickles down his throa
Delia placed the flask itself in his bands
Old Strother's bleared eyes light up with
sensual pleasure as he applies his lips to
the neck of this little bottle, and ex
presses his satisfaction at its contents by
loud and prolonged smacks. But he does
not grow sleepy so soon as Delia expect
ed. Either he Is more accustomed to
drinking spirits than he will acknowledge
or his head Is very strong; bnt though he
becomes less loquacious and makes ab
surd faces to himself in the air, his eyes
do not show any disposition to ilose.
Finally, however, his heju) has fallen
forward on his breast, ana he has com
menced to nod, with those short, uncom
fortable jerks that assail one when sleep
ing in a chair.
Delia crawls up and down the path a
little longer, and then, seeing that all i
safe, skims past the sleeping old man
noiselessly, and rushes to the back of th
garden. There is no time to waste now;
she must do her work rapidly and without
delay.
"Jane," she exclaims, going at once to
the point, "here Is half a sovereign for
yon. I want that set of steps placed
against this wall. I have a great fancy
to gather some of the bunches of grapes
that hang up there by the second win
dow." Jane, who probably has never possessed
half a sovereign ail to herself In her life,
stares at the coin as If she were in a
dream.
"I must have It at once; do yon hear?"
repeats Delia, "or it will be of no use to
me."
Mure, ma'am but they Isn't ripe yet."
"Never mind that You bring the
steps."
The girl has them In her arms as she
speaks, and places them against the wail
without further remonstrance.
Delia mounts them like a squirrel. --
"What a qua re fancy!" thinks the ser
vant, as she watches the lady's ascent
But she has a half-sovereign in her
hand, and she cares for nothing else.
(To be continued.)
Useful Hints.
A bottle of sweet oil Is the house
-ife's friend. Few know of the many
sea to which It may be put It wit
:can bronzes, after carefully rubbing
hem with oil, they should be polished
vlth chamois skin. In laying knives
way appjy a little sweet oil very light
y and wrap them in tissue paper; thli
vlll prevent their rusting. For In
lummatory rheumatism dissolve In s
ilnt of sweet oil one ounce of pulver
zed saltpetre and thoroughly rub th
parts affected. Sweet oil will clean inst
ils: rub the metal well with a flannel
loth and wash off in warm soap suds
A bottle containing two parts of oil t
one of lime water will be found excel
lent for sunburn.
A Good Kalsomlne. Pour four pound!
of Paris white in a pail, cover it witk
cold water and let It stand over night
Into a tin kettle put a handful of glue
ind cover with cold water; in the morn
tig set the glue on the stove, and add
nough warm water to make a quart,
ind stir until dissolved; add the glue t
the Paris white: stir well and add
enough warm water to make a pall
three-quarters full: then add blueing,
little at a time: stir well until ft is
very slightly bluish. Use a good brush
o over one place in the wall until It ti
thoroughly wet: if your brush drlse
quickly, add more warm water, as th
mixture Is too thick; the brush must
be kept wet
To Dye Oak Black. Oak may be
dyed black and made to resemble eb
ony by the following means: Immerse
the wood forty-eight hours tn a hot
saturated solution of alum, and then
brush It over with a logwood decoction
ns follows: One part of the best log
wood with ten parts of water, flltei
through linen, and evaporate at a gen
tle heat until the volume Is reduced
one-half. To every quart of this add
frem ten drops to fifteen drops of a
saturated solution of Indigo. After ap
plying: this dye to the wood rub the
latter with a saturated and Altered so
lution of verdigris In hot concentrated
acetic acid, and repeat the operation
nnttl a black of the desired intensity
la obtained.
Track and Turf.
William C. F. Cornwall, of Lebanon,
has purchased five hackney fillies or
E W. Twaddell. of Westtown.
The S-aear-old filly by Directum.
1054. that Andy McDowell recently
drove a half In L10, is called Emma
Wprince" MeClurg is still held by a re
ceiver awaiting the termination of the
Applegate-Weller contention.
Congressman Bailey, of Texas, will
breed Lena Hill, 1.12: Nannie F...
M74, and HJen Fife. 2.18, to Electric
BTsie horses of W. M. Rogers have
been shipped from St. Louis to Haw
thorne. They are a formidable lot of
runners.
Lady Ophlr, dam of Klamath, 8.07,
recently foaled a colt by McKlnney.
1.114, and has been bred back to the
same horse.
Work on .the new Empire City track
Is progressing at a marvelous rate of
speed, and everything will be ready for
the opening day.
The horses of the late Robert Bon
ner, barring Maud S 1.08. will be
sold, probably in November. Immedi
ately after the National Horse Show.
Roy Miller has bought a controlling
Interest In the Selma, Ala., track, and
be intends to hold a meeting follow
ing the one at Nashville, Tenn.
Camp Brown has resigned the posi
tion of head trainer at the Kinwood
Farms, near Norristown. W. Carl
Chamberlin has accepted the position,
taking charge.
Parole, now tn his twenty-seventh
year, looks wonderfully fresh. The fa
mous gelding occupies a stall in the
yearling stable and runs in the pas-
jure at Rancoca N. J, w:
un tne year-
UFE-SAVINQ HEROta
rkriUlnsr Bescae-Ma. We
CklMrtaWho Have Won JIaaala.
The "Heroes of Peace," celebrated by
Gustav Kobbe tn the Century, are the
volunteer llfe-mvers. Many deed are
recorded that equal the bravest ex
ploits of the battlefield. '
For many years before the; United
States life-saving service was estab
lished, the Massachusetts Humane So
ciety maintained, along the coast of
that State, houses of refuge fee ship
wrecked sailors, and stations equipped
with life-saving- apparatus, in charge
of keepers, who, when toe emergency
arose, summoned volunteer crews.
This volunteer ltfe-earlng service is
(tin kept up, and is often able not only
to render effective assistance to the
regular government crews, but occa
sionally, also, to save life when the
nearest United States llfe-Mvlngs sta
tion is too far from the. scene Of dis
aster for its crow to arrive in time.
The rivalry between these two corps
been moat generous. There bave been
no bickerings, no attempts of ojie to
outwit the other, but a singleness of
Impulse to serve in the cause of hu
manity. Naturally the gold and stiver
medals awarded by the United States
government for heroism, displayed In
saving life, hare been more frequent
ly bestowed upon members of the regu
lar service, as this extends along our
entire seaboard and lake coast, but the
volunteer corps has had Its share of
honor.
But by far the greater numbe of
medals for heroism displayed In tear
ing life from drowning have been
awarded to Individuals people from
the moot varied walks of life; men of
high social position. Western Indians,
a Southern negro, pJeaeure-eeekera
along the coast, a Japanese cabin stew
ard, steamboat men, and officers and
men of the United States army. nsVy,
and revenue-cutter service. Every sec
tion of the country seems to have con
tributed its hero or heroes to the roll
sf honor. There are also heroines on
that roll. A number of women- hold
stiver medals, and two women the gold
medal Silver medals have also been
awarded to mere boys and girls for
displays of daring far beyond their
years. Frederic Kernocban was a lad
when he received a sliver medal for
saving a woman from drowning in the
Naveslnk River, near Highlands, New
Jersey; and Marie D. Parsons, a girl
of only 10 years when she rescued a
trhlld at Fireplace, Long Island. Nor
was Edith Morgan, of Hamlin, Mich,
much beyond girlhood when she tried,
with her father and brother, to row to
a vessel capsized three miles out Beat
en back by the heavy waves, she aided
in clearing away the logs and drift
wood from the beach so as to make as
track for the surf-boat At a previous
rescue she had stood."-' " "' 2a,.
taeapewi- san-- g -uw WuueT-in
landing salktra from a wreck.
Would I could add to this record
diose unknown heroes "greater than
thoee who are known" whose hero
ism lacks a human reward because
they not only risked but lost their lives
in the endeavor to save others. Would
there were a roll of the unhonored and
unsung! .The medal list Is a long one,
but the roll of-the perished longer. Oc
casionally a memorial like the Brokaw
Field at Princeton, which commemor
ates the heroism of Frederick Brokaw,
the Princeton student who gave his
life to save two servants from drown
ing, reminds us of one or another of
these sacrifices. But far more fre
quently a grave In an unfrequented
church-yard, or a proud pang In a
woman's heart. Is the only memorial
f the "unknown hero."
QUEER OOPHER3 IN FLORIDA.
Borrowing Turtles that the Natlvei
Kat Llka Eplcni-M Do Terrapin.
"The most Interesting creature I ever
aw in Florida," said a New Tork man
who spent the winter there, "was the
burrowing turtle. This turtle Is pecu
liar to Florida, and H Is an Important
factor In the domestic economy of the
cracker population, for the Florida
cracker dotes on the gopher that's
what they call this burrowing turtle
and tthlnks tt is the finest thing In the
edible line that eTer existed.
"Another thing that Induces the
fopher to dig its burrow out of the
reach of water is that in those dry and
andy places the rattlesnake and varl
us kinds of hideous-looking lizards
ire most plentiful, and the gopher is
never happy unless Its burrow is
shared by a colony of either one or the
tner of these, if not of both. Find a
gopher hole and uncover it and you will
be sure to find from half a dozen to a
lozen or more rattlesnakes, and maybe
Sfteen or twenty lizards of various
ilzcs and colors and degrees of ugli
ness occupying It with Its proprietor.
The gopher plainly lores the compan
ionship of these deadly things, al
:hougn It is Itself as meek and harm
ess as a dove.
"No dweller in those parts of Florida
;ver goes anywhere about without a
bag slung over his or her shoulder.
This is to put gophers in, as some are
pretty sure to be found pasturing In
the wild grass patches. The moment
t gopher is surprised by a person with
1 bag It shuts itself securely in Its
then, and the cracker picks it np and
tumbles it into the bag. The gopher
s likewise trapped by digging a bole
dose to the entrance of Its burrow and
linking a barrel or box Into It and
wverlng the trap with loose twlga
When the gopher comes out and starts
jn a foraging trip it tumbles Into the
trap and can't get out What terrapin
ire to the high-living epicure, the go
pher Is to the Florida cracker."
The WaeS of Oolft
"Did you see any golf players around
ere, boy!"
"I seen one cad, mister."
"Ton mean a caddy T"
"No. I don't mean de kid dat car
ries de sticks; 1 mean de guy dat uses
em."
His "oft Snot,
Edna Did the sentimental singer im
press you, BeggyT
Beggy Teas; she touched a soft spot,
Joncnerknow.
Edna Tou must have been sitting
folte near the stage.
A PORTO RICAN FOREST.
It Abeswasa with Strange Birda, Nate
- and Frolta.
A wr correspondent's adventures are
set forth by Edwin Emerson, Jr., in
the Century, in an article entitled
"Alone la Porto Rico." Mr. Emerson
says:
By nightfall, after I had ridden up
and down some of the most unprepos
sessing bills, and got tangled In no end
'of chaparral, cactus, and other thorny
undergrowth, which changed a new
pongee coat I had bought In San Juan
Into an old rag. I found myself on a
high range of sierra. From a Jibaro
negress I learned that I was half-way
between the towns of Qnemados and
Jaguas, and that I would find a better
trail for my horse below. So I rode
down a lovely green valley, where
plantations of coffee and tolmcco lay
side by side. As It grew darker, bats
flew all about me, and I heard the
evening cries of birds which sounded
like our whlppoorwills and mocking
birds. At last I struck the trail that
the woman had mentioned. I rode on
a little way, and took the horse into a
clearing, where there was a spring well
hidden from view, and then I hobbled
his feet to the halter-rope, flung my
self on the ground,, and went fast
asleep. The last thing I heard was
the beautiful song of the solitaire sing
ing In a copse above me.
I was awakened early the next morn
ing by - the screeching of green par
rots, quarreling with other birds in the
top of ' a cocoa-nut palm. I was
drenched with dew. but forgot all ns
t thought of my horse. To my great
relief. I found htm standing behind a
bit of oleander-bush red with flowers,
crunching the juicy stalk of a prickly
pear. I watched him with Interest as
he took the stalk and with his teeth
ripped off the skin with all its thorns,
ire whinnied as If we were old friends.
After bridling and watering him. I
found the trail, and rode off southward.
On the way I ate everything I could
find, from green cherries and guava
plums to Juicy mangoes, which stiincd
the front of my coat, and bull-apples,
the meat of which suggested mildew.
There wore also costard apples, a largo
green fruit not unlike cream-puffs in
side. The most astonishing and the best of
all was a fruit railed pulnio In our
language, sour-sap. It is about as large
s a quart bowl, and 90 nourishing and
full that a single fruit was enough for
a good meal, although that did not de
ter my "hweifcpnv?at!ns. four. Later
I found that they are also relished by
dogs. Of springs and streams there
were so many that I had no fear of
dying of thirst. If water was not
handy. I could always climb a cocoa-hat-tree,
and throw down the green
nuts, which were Ailed with an abund
ance of watery milk; to ""J co""l
were In plenty; but many were more
curious than edible, even to my will
ing appetite. One had a delicious
odor. I tasted a little, and thought it
ideal for flavoring candy. But it soon
lia&olved in my mouth In a fine dust,
absorbing all the moisture, so that I
had to blow it out like flour. Notnlng
ever made me so thirsty in my life,
and even after rinsing out my mouth
( felt for a long time as If I were
shewing punk or cotton. The fruit of
the tamarind only added to my tor
ments by sotting all my teeth on edge.
When we reached the next spring, I
Tell off my horse for fear he would get
til the water. Only after I had satis
Sed my thirst would I let him drink.
"Bfavrted" Niagara Suspension Itrl 'ge
There lately died at Lincoln, Neb., a
man named H. J. Walsh, who had an
Important part In the construction of
the first suspension bridge at Niagara
Fails. Mr. Walsh was born In Ireland
In 1S34, but was brought to this coun
try when he was a baby, his parent
going to live at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
When be was still a boy the first
steps for the construction of the sus
pension bridge were taken. The first
thing of all was to stretch a single wire
across the chasm. The engineer' in
charge bad thought of a way to get it
across.
"What boy is the best kite-flyer in
town?" he asked a resident
The Wnlsh boy was named, and th
engineer asked that he be brought He
was made to understand that he must
fly his kite across the Niagara River,
lie flew it across, and allowed to come
down on the other side. Men . were
there to seize it Then the engineer
attached a wire to the string on his
side, and the men on the other side
detached the kite, and by means of the
string drew the wire across. By this.
In turn, a cable wns drawn across, and
the bridge was well begun.
Mr. Walsh afterward moved to Ne
braska, and became a prominent citi
zen of Lincoln.
Tree Twenty Centuries Old.
The oldeet tree on earth with an au
thentic history Is the great BI100 tree
of Burmah. For twenty centuries It
has been held sacred to Buddha, and
no person Is allowed to touch the trunk.
When the leaves fall they are carried
away as relics by pilgrims.
A Neighborhood Tngrrty.
"We bought a lawn-mower at the
Montague auction."
"Well, that was all right, wasn't It?'
"All right? Maria says it Is our old
one which they borrowed and never
returned." Detroit Free Press.
On the Wrong sh. If.
A correspondent of the London Acad
emy writes that a bookseller In a lnrg
provincial city recently discovered nb
assistant arranging four new copies ot
Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" oc
the shelves devoted to books on gar
lening.
A Keen Reto:
Cardinal Manning's keen wit war
often used to drive home a moral warn
ing.
"What are you going to do in life?'
he asked a flippant undergraduate a
Oxford.
"Oh, I'm going to take Holy Orders.'
was the airy reply. .
"Take care you get them, my sou."
The advanced woman who set
things as they are sometimes driv
bar husband to seeing things double.
SERMON
BY
Rv. Dr. Calmagc
Subject: The Glories of Heaven Christ'
attraetlveaeu 1'alnted in Glowing Col-
- on From Ivory Pnlaeee to the Agony
of the Craciflxloa.
Copyright, Loots Klopjeh. 189B.1
Washington, D. C In this discourse Dr.
Talrnage sets forth the glories of the world
to come and the attractiveness of the
Christ, who opens the way; text. Tsalms,
nr., 8, "Ail Thy garments smell of myrrh
and aloes and cassia out of the ivory pal
aces." Among the grand adornments of the eity
of Paris is the Church of Notre Dame, with
great towers and elaborate rose windows
and sculpturing of the last Judgment, with
the trumpeting angels and rising dead; Its
battlements of quatre foil; its sacristy,
with ribbed eeillugj and statu os ot saints.
But there was nothing in all that build
ing which more vividly appealed to my
plain republican tastes than tba costly
vestments which lay la oaken presses
robes that had been embroidered
with gold and been worn by Popes and
archbishops on great occasions. There was
a robe that had been worn by Pins VII. at
the crowning of the first Napoleon. Tliere
was also a vestment that had been worn at
the baptism of Napoleon II. As our guide
opened ttie oaken presses and brought out
these vestments of fabulous cost and lifted
them np the fragrance ot the pungent aro
matic tn which they had been preserved
filled the place with a sweetness that was
almost oppressive. Nothing that bad been
done In stone mote vividly impressed me
than those things that bad been done in
cloth and embroidery and perfume. But
to-day I open the drawer ot this text, and
I look npon the kingly robes of Christ, and
as I lift them, flashing with eternal jewels,
the whole house Is Ailed with the aroma of
these garments, which "smell of rayrrb
and aloes and cassia out of the ivory pal
aces." In my tsxt the King steps forth. His
robes rustle and blaze as He advances. His
pomp and power and glory overmaster the
spectator. More brilliant is lie than Queen
Vashtl moving amid the Persian princes;
than Mario Antoinette on the day when
Louis XVI. put npon her tho necklai-e of
800 diamonds; than Anne ltoleyn the day
when Henry VIII. welcomed her to his
palace all beauty and all pomp Jorgotten
while we stand In the presence of this Im
perial glory. King of Zion, King ot the
earth. King of heaven. King forever! Her
garments not worn out, not dnst be
draggled, bat radiant and jeweled nnd re
dolent. It" seems as if they must have
been pressed 100 years amid the flowers of
heaven. The wardrobes from which they
have been taken must have been sweet
with clusters of camphor and frankin
cense and ail manner of precious wood.
Do yon not inhale the odors? A ye, aye.
"They smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia
out of the ivory palaces."
Your first curiosity U to know why tht
robes ot Christ are odorous with myrrb.
This was a bright leafed Abyssinian plant.
It was trlfollated. The Greeks. Egyptians,
Bomans and Jews bought and sold it at a
ftighrlce. The first present that vat
ever r-MiaCbrist was a sprig ot myrrb
thrown ou" iMflrfantile bed in Bethlehem,
and the last girt tiii Christ ever had was
myrrh preraed Into the cip of His cruci
Bxlon. The natives would' " """V a stone
and bruise the tree, and tb "" 'id
exude a gum that would sat art,
raoaad "tbv This gnm was u
tit ne larger than' a chestnut w. . . -
whelm a whole room with odors. It was
put la closets, in cheats. In drawers. In
rooms, and Its perfume adhered almost in
termtnab!7 to-scything that wasauywbero
near tt So when In my text I real that
Christ's garments smell of myrrh I imme
diately conclude tbe exquisite sweetness
of Jesus.
Would that you all knew His sweetness!
How soon you wonid turn from all other
attractlonsl It tbe philosopher leaped out
of his oath in a frenzy ot joy and clapped '
his bands and rushed through the streets
because be had found tbe solution of a
mathematical problem, how will you feel
leaping from the fountain ot a Saviour's
mercy and pardon, washed clean and made
white as snow, when tbe question has been
solved, "How can my soul be saveJ?"
Naked, frostbitten, storm-lashed soul, let
Jesus this hour throw around thee tbe
"garments that smell of myrrh and aloes
and cassia out of the ivory pnlaoe."
Your second curiosity is to know why tht,
robes of Jesus are odorous with aloes.
There Is some difference of opinion about
where these aloes grow, what Is the color
of tbe flower, what Is tho particular ap
pearance of tbe herb. Sufllce it for you
and me tcknow that aloes mean bitterness
the worid'over, and when Christ comes
with garments bearing tbat particular odor
they suggest to me the bitterness of a
Saviour's sufferings. Were there ever such
nights as Jesus lived through nights on
the mountains, nights on the sea, nights in
tbe desert? bo eyer had such a hard re
ception as Jesus bad? A hostelry the first,
an unjust trial In oyer and terminer an
other, a foul mouthed, yelling mob the lost.
Was there a space on His back as wide as
your two fingers where He was not whipped?
Whs there a space on His brow an Inch
square where He was not cut of the briers?
When the spike struck at the instep, did it
not go clear through to the hollow of the
foot? Ob, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage!
Aloesl Aloes I
John leaned his head on Christ, but who
lid Christ lean on? Five thousand men
fed by the Saviour: who fed Jesus? Tbe
sympathy of a Saviour's heart going out to
the leper and tbe adul tress; but who
soothed Christ? He had a fit plaoe neither
to be born noa to die. A poor babel A
poor iadl A poor young man! Not so
mnoh as a taper to cheer Hi dying hours.
Even tbe candle of tbe sun snuffed out.
Was it not all aloes? Our sins, sorrows,
teres veraon ts, losses and all the agonies of
earth and hell picked up as in cue cluster
and squeezed into one cup, and tbat
Stressed to His lips until the acrid, nauseat
ng, bitter draft was swallowed with a dis
torted countenance and a shudder from
head to foot and a gurgling strangulation.
Aloes, aloesl Nothing but aloes. All this
for Himself? All this to get the fame in
the world of being a martyr? All this in a
spirit of stubbornness, because Ho did not
like Cn'sar? No, nol All this because He
wanted to pluck me and you from hell.
Because He wanted to raise me and you to
heaven. Because we were lost and He
wanted us found. Because we were blind,
and He wanted us to see. Because we
were serfs, and He wanted ns manumitted.
Oh, ye in whose cup of life the saccharin
has predominated; oh, ye who have bad
bright and sparkling beverages, how do
you feel toward Hip who tn your stead
and to purchase your disnnthrallment,
took the aloes, the unsavory aloes, the
bitter aloes?
Your third curiosity is to know why
these garments of Christ are odorous with
cassia. Tills was a plant which grew in
India, and tbe adjoining islands. You do
not care to bear what kind of a flower it
had or what kind of a stalk. It is enough
for me to tell you tbat it was nsed
medicinally. In that land nnd in that age,
wberetbey knew but little about pharmacy,
cassia wns nsed to arrest many forms of
disease. Ho, when in my text we find Christ
eomlng with garments that smell of cassia,
it suggests to me tbe henling and curative
power of the Son of God. "Ob," you say,
"now you have a superfluous ideal We
are not sick. Why do we want cassia?
We are athletic. Our respiration is per
fect. Our limbs are lithe, and on bright
eool days we feel we could bound like a
roe." I beg to differ, my brother, from
you. None of yon can be better in
Dhvstcal health than I am, and yet I
must say we are all sick. I have taken the
diagnosis of your oase and have examined
si) the best authorities on the subject, and
I have to teil you that you aw "lull ol
wounds nnd bruises and putre.'ylug sore
wlilch have not been bound up or mollllled
with ointment." The marasmus of flu is
on ns the palsy, tbe dropsy, tbe leprosy.
Ihe man that is expirlog to-nlRlit in the
next street the allopathlo and homeo
pathic doctors have given him up and his
friends now standing around to take bis
last word i no more eertalnlv dying as
to hi body than you and 1 are uying uniesc
we have taken the medicine from God's
apothecary. All tbe leaves ot this Bible
are onlv so many prescriptions from the
Divine Physiolan, written, not in Latin,
like the prescriptions of earthly physicians,
bat written In plain English, do that a
"man, though a fool, need not err therein."
Thank God tbat the Saviour's garments
smell of cassia!
Suppose a man were sick, and there was.
a phial on his mantelpiece with medicine
he knew would cure him, and he refused
to take It, what would you say of him?
He Is a suicide. And what do you say of
that man wbo, sick in sin, has the healing
medicine of God's grace offered him and
refuses to take it? If be dies, he Is a sui
cide. People talk as thougb God took a
man and led him out to darkness and
death, as though He brought blmup to the
cliffs and then pushed him off. Ob, not
When a man is lost, it Is not because God
pushes bim off; It is because he jumps oft.
tn clden times a suicide was buried at tbe
crossroads, and the people were accus
tomed to throw stones npon bis grave.
80 it seems to me there may be at this time
a man wbo Is destroying bis soui, nun as
tuougn too angeis 01 ugu were nere 10
bury him at the point where the roala ot
life and death cross each other, throwing
npon tbe grave the broken law ami a gr uat
pile of mi.-lmproved privileges, so that
those going by may look at the fearful
mound and learn what a suicide It is when
sn immortal soul, for which Jesus died,
put itself out of the way.
According to my text, He comes "out ot
Ihe ivory palaces." You know, or if you
do not know I will tell yon now, thit some
of tbe palaces of ol len time were adorned
with Ivory. Ahab and Solomon had their
homes furnished with it. Tbe tusks of
African and Asiatic elephants were twisted
Into nil manner of shapes, and there were
stairs of Ivory, and chairs of ivory, and
tables of Ivory, and floors ot lvor , and
pillars of ivory, and windows of ivory, and
fountains that dropped into basins of
Ivory, and rooms that had ceilings ot
Ivory. Oh, white and overmastering beau
ty! Green tree branches sweeping tbs
white curbs. Tapestry trailing the snowy
floors. Brackets of light flashing on the
lustrous surroundings. Silvery muslo rip
pling on the beach of tbe arches. l!ie
mere thought of it almost stuns mv bruin,
snd you say: "Oh, if I could only have
walked over such floors! If I conld have
thrown myself in such a chair! It I
could have beard the drip and dash of those
fountains!" You shall bave something bet
ter than that if vou only let C irist intro
duce you. From tbat place He came, and
to that place He proposes to transport you,
for His "garments smell of myrrh and aloes
and cassia out ot the ivory palaces." What
1 place heaven must be! The Tulleries of
the French, the Windsor Castle of the Eug
lisb, the Spanish Alhambra, tbe Husmhu
Kremlin, are mere dungeons compared with
It! Not so many castles on either side the
Rhine as on both sides ot the river of God
the ivory palacesl One tor the angols.
Insufferably bright, winged, fire eyed, te-n-pest
charioted; one for tbe martyrs, with
Dlood red robes from under the altar; one
for the King, the steps ot His palace the
;rown of the church militant; one for the
singers, who lead the 144,000; one for you,
ransomed from sin; one for me, plucked
from tho burning. Ob, tbe Ivory pnlnccs!
To-day it seems to me as it tbe windows
ot those palaces were illumined for some
rreat victory, and I look and see, climbing
tbe stairs ot Ivory and walking on floors of
Ivory, some whom we knew and loved on
earth. Yes, I know them. There are
father and mother, not etgbty-two years
and seventy-nine years, as when they left
ns, but blithe and young as when on their
marriage day. And there are brothers nnd
sisters, merrier than when we nsed to
romp across the meadows together. The
. ch gone. The eanoer OTd. The
J, Cow fair ire .."ury palaces!
and your dear liTtle children that went
out from you Christ di I not let one of
them drop as He lifted them. He did
not wrench one of them from yon. No
they went as from one they 1 ved well
to one whom they loved better. If I
should take your littlo child and press Its
soft face against my rough cheek, I might
keep it a little while, but when you. tlto
mother, came along, it would struggle to
go with you. And so you stood holding
your dying child when Jesus passed by lu
the room, and the little one sprang out to
greet Him. That is all. Your Christian
dead did not go down into tho dust and
the gravel and the mud. Though It
rnined ail that funeral day, and the water
came up to the wheel's hub ns yoti drove
out to the cemetery, it made no difference
to them, for they stepped from the home
here to the home there, rig'it into the
Ivory palaces. All Is well witb them. All
is well.
It is not a dead weight tbat you lift when
you carry a Christian out. Jesus makes
the bed up soft witb velvet promises, and
He sajs: "Put her dowu here very gently.
Put tbat head which will never ache again
an this pillow of hallelujahs. Send up
word thnt the procession is coming, lling
the bells. Ring! Open your gates, ye
ivorv palaces!" And so your loved ones
are there. They are just ns certainly there,
having died in Christ, ns that you are here.
There is only one thing more they want.
Indeed, there is one thing in heaven thoy
bave not got. They want it. What is it?
Your company. But, oh, my brother, un
less you chabge your tack you cannot
reach thnt harbor. You might as well take
the Southern Paciflo Railroad, expecting In
that direction to reach Toronto, as to go
on in the way some of you aro going, nnd
yet expect to reach the ivory palaces.
Your loved ones are looking out of the
windows of heaven now, and yet you seem
to turn your back upon them.
When 1 think of that place nnd think ot
aiy entering it, I feel awkward. I feel as
sometimes when I have been exposed to
the weather, and myshoes have been be
mlred, and my coat is soiled, nnd my hair
is disheveled, and I stop in front ot some
fine residence where I have an errand. I
feel not fit to go in as I am and sit among
the guests. So some ot us feel about
heaven. We need to be washed; we need
to be rehabilitated before we go into the
Ivorv places. Eternal God, let the surges
of Thy parJoning mercy roll over us. I
want not only to wash my hands nnd my
feet; but, like some skilled diver, standing
on tbe pier head, wbo leaps Into the wave
and comes up at a far distant point from
where he went in, so I want to go down,
and so I want to come up. O Jesus, wasb
me;in tbe waves ol Thy salvatloul
Aud here I ask you to solve a my-ter)
that has been oppressing me for thirty
years. I have been asking it of doctors of
divinity who have been studying theology
nail a century, ami mey nave given me
no satisfactory answer. I have turned
over all the books in my library, but got
no solution to the question, and to-day 1
come and ask you for an explanation. By
what loglo was Christ Induued to exchange
tbe ivory palaces of heaven for the cruci
fixion agonies of earth? I shall take the
first thousand million years in heaven
to study ont that problem; mean
while and now taking it as
the tenderest, mightiest ot all facts that
Christ did come, that He came with spikes
In His feet, came with thorns in His brow,
came with spears In His heart, to save you
and to save me. "God so love I the w rld
tbat He gave His only begotcon Son, that
whosoever belleveth in Uim should not
perish, but bave everlasting life." O,
Christ, whelm all our souls witb Thy com
passion! Mow them down like summer
grain with the harvesting slcklo of Tuy
Brace! Ride through to-day the conqueror,
Thy garments smelling "ot myrrh a:id nloes
and cassia out of the ivory palacesl"
Hundreds of the best artisan's ot
Finland have already left their father
land for Sweden and Norway, and hun
dreds more will set sail for Canada and
the United States during the summer
to escape service as conscripts in the
Russian army.
The elephant has 40,000 muscles In
his trunk alone, while a man has only
at 1 in nis entire Dotly.
Ants have brains larger In Drooor
tion to the size of their bodies than
any other living creature.
The Duchess of Fife, accompanied
by the Duke, is often seen walking In
Hyde Park and Kensington Garden,
ixndon.
Shirt waist lengths of exclusive
silk and linen materials consisting of
four different shades to the set.
Household.
Pineapple Punch. Boil together fct
five minutes a quart of water and a
pound of sugar, strain and add the
Juice of one lemon and one cupful o'
freshly grated pineapple. Let stand
for half an hour and strain again.
Serve with an abundance of fine crush
ed Ice, some whole raspberries and
itrawberries and bits of cut pineapple.
Raspberry Mousse. Mix well togeth
er one pint of very thick cream, three
tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and
two-thirds of a cupful of strained
raspberrry juice. Whip, setting the
bowl in ice water. Take off the froth
as It rises and lay it on a sieve. When
no more froth will rise turn the drain
ed, whip carefully Into a mold with a
very tight cover, butter the crack and
bury in ice and salt for three hours.
Turn out on a platter and serve wltt
sponge cake.
Rice Border with Rasrjberrles.
ready a kettle of boiling water. Drop
Into it one-half pound of carefully
washed rice and boll hard for five min
utes. Drain, turn the rice Into a dou
ble boiler, add one pint of milk and two
tnblespoonfuls of sugar and cook, stir
ring occasionally until all the milk la
absorbed. Pack Into a buttered bor
der mold and set away until cold, then
turn out on a large platter. Press
enough berries to give one scant cupful
of juice, add enough thick sugar syrup
to sweeten and with this baste the
rice until it has absorbed most or it.
Fill the centre with raspberries, heap
over them some stiffly whipped cream
and garnish with some extra large ber--ies.
Sardines and Spinach Mayonnaise.
Arrange on a dish a little mound of
cold boiled spinach. Fillet a little fish
and arrange around the base and mas
all with mayonnaise.
Marmalade Cheese Balls. In six cot
tage cheese balls make deco depres
sions with a spoon. Fill with a spoon
ful of orange marmalade and serve
each In a little sea of sweet cream.
Broiled Liver and Mushrooms. Sea
son tbree tablespoonfuls of salad oil
with a teaspoonful of salt and a salt
spoonful of pepper. Cut a pound of
calf's liver in inch square pieces; pour
boiling water over, and let stand fif
teen minutes; then drain. Clean and
cut into quarters ten spring mush
rooms. Roll liver and mushrooms In
the oil and string alternately on skew
ers (two to a person), and broil for ten
minutes over a slow, clear fire, cooking
on all sides. Pour over a gill of maitre
de hotel butter and arrange around a
pint of cold boiled asparagus tips, well
nridulated with the Juice of a lemon.
The white part of the asparagus need
not be wanted, as it is fine for a puree
Bananas In Chocolate. Peel six bnn
anns and bake in a hnlf-inch of water,
to which the Juice of an orange has
been added. When done carefully re
move fruit to a glass dish: add to the
syrup two tablespoonfuls of sugar and
a quarter tablet of grated sweet choco
late; simmer for ten minutes, and pour
over the fruit. Serve cold with whip
ped cream.
Industrial.
ha J" a '-' " as ' '
1800 a ye . ;
Area of w m. nryA'avsx-.-r' 1,801
square miles.
Rochester marbtecutters now enjoy
the eight-hour day.
It is said that spme of the sheep
farms in Australia are as large as tht
whole of England.
It is estimated that about - 400.000
acres of land in the United States are
planted with vines.
The sprinkler fitters of St. Louis won
a strike for eight hours and $2.50. Hel
pers are now paid $1.75.
Eastern capitalists are to establish
a structural steel plant at Menominee,
Mich., which will employ GOOD hands.
No one in Switzerland is allowed to
Import yellow phosphorous for matehei
but only for scientific or medical uses.
While Canada's tax on Chinese Im
migrants is to be increased. Japanese
are to be permitted to come in free only
for Imperial reasons.
There has been a considerable In
crease in the wages of iron moulders all
over the United States. In general,
the increase has reached 10 per c.-nt.
Slate pencils are marie in Tennessee
from slate dust and other ingredients
compressed by hydraulic means. One
concern made 25.000.000 in a year.
Belgium exports 2.200,000 dressed rab
bits yearly to Kngland. They weigh
from six to eight pounds apiece and
the rabbit crop sells for $1,170,000 on
the average.
Cleveland meat cutters and packers
demanded an advance of 25 cents per
day. The advance conceded them, ac
cording to the company, amounts to
about 17 cents per day.
A committee of Iron moulders called
on Governor Mount, of Indiana, and
protested against the employment of
paroled prisoners from the Reforma
tory in a foundry in Louisville.
Burlington, la., people have raised
$30,000 of the $100,000 which they are
asked to subscribe in stock in order
to secure a new railway that will run
north from that city and penetrate
new territory.
In Baltimore considerable Interest
has been aroused by the statement of
the City Register that when the Board
of Estimates fixes the tax rate for next
year he will vote to reduce it from the
present figure to $1.75.
An agreement has been reached be
tween representatives of the Washing
ton breweries and their employes which
establishes a uniform work day of ten
hours in local breweries and raiwo
the scale of wages of all brewery work
ers from S to 20 per cent.
A working miner In a coal pit In
September, 1890, a master of arts of
London University in June, 189(5. That
is the remarkable record of Thomas
Reese, M. A., who has just been ap
pointed to a professorship at Brecon
College, one of the leading theological
Institutions in the principality.
Worcester Iron moulders recently pre
sented a demand for a minimum wage
of $3 a dav and the abolition of
piece work, and succeeded In obtain
ing an agreement with five of tbe
eleven foundries of Worcester, gaining
every point except the pay, which they
compromised on at $2.75 minimuaa.
The Illinois Central is constructing
a freight car yard at New Orleans
which will have 28 miles of tracks and
will hold 8600 cars. The yard is being
so arranged that cars can be distributed
from the receiving point to any other
point by gravity. This will save an
Immense expense for switching cars
In.
It Is reported that the Oliver Iron
Mining Company has leased the Bessie
mine at Humboldt, Mich., and that it
will be started up soon. It is also re
ported that the Oliver Company Is
negotiating for the old Humboldt mine,
which was active for more than twenty
years and produced almost 800.000 tons
of ore. It has been idle for some
years.
The railroad coal mines In the Pitts
burg district are being operated to their
fullest capacity. Operatores in some
parts of the field are complaining of
a scarcity of cars and also a lack of
men. One of the largest operators
In the district said that from present
Indications the tonnage of the North
west shipped over the lake this sea
son wll reach s.000.000 tons. The ship
ments last season amounted to about
4.600,000.