j.- j . . i i- : B. F. SCHVEIER, THE CORSTITUTIOH THE UniOH AHD THE ERF0RCEUEI3T OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. LIU. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA XJOUNTY; PENN., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1899. NO. 42. CHAPl'Ell IV, To two of the ladies from the Hoot i hove Sellars consigned his charge, and speaking a few words in a low tone to Hannah, he re-entered the library, while the Depress returned to the kitchen and loined her daughter. "It deems incredible, Sellara," observed Or. Norcum, "that Robert Campbell ihonld have committed this murder." "Many things seem Incredible at first fiance," said the detective. "The probability is," remarked Her nan, "that my nncle informed him that ip desired his daughter to become my -ife; that he utterly refused to sanction lis suit, and that In a fit of rage, Robert Campbell plunged the blade of the sheath rnife to his heart. He doubtless thought ao one else knew of his presence In th Souse. Perhaps he was appalled at th Sloody deed he had committed. I doubt ant. but that we heard my uncle's cries ad hastened down, in another moment h would have fled, and this murder might ng have remained a mystery." "Perhaps," assented the detective, "and ien some innocent party might have been inspected. Why, even yourself, Herman Graven 1 It is fortunate that your uncla't :rles aroused you." Herman's pale face became paler yet ind he glanced uneasily at the detective is he ran the fingers of one hand througt .lis black hair. "Fortunate, indeed !" he exclaimed, "Mj oor nncle has been like a father to me ind I have always tried to merit his affec tion. You know, gentlemen, my mothei was his sister." "By the way," observed Sellars, "1 would like to go through the house, lot know, of course, that the question wiC irise as to whether the premises wer jearcnea. it is best, .on your ao ount. Craven, that the fact should Je established that a thorough search was made. You know, Campbell Jnims that he brought a bag of gold roin here. He can undoubtedly establish :he fact that he procured it at the express ifflce." "He may have done so," said Herman, with a troubled look that he could not tvoid, "but assuredly he did not enter thif aonse with it in his possession." - "How. then, did he obtain that note and induce your uncle to cancel It? Had h paid it at the bank during the day you must have known of It" "Oh. he did not pay It at the bank. He must I cannot understand that." "Perhaps he brought the coin, secured four nncle's indorsement on the note and lad possession of It before he struck the jlow. He may have planned to secure the tote and retain his money also. He may lave secreted the coin here In the house, again, he may have had a con federate ind tossed the bag out of the window tc lim." "Yon forget." said the doctor, "that h was bending over the body of my expir ing friend with the bloody weapon in hie band when Herman entered the room. He could not have had time." "Scarcely," said Herman. "I cannol think he had the gold," he continued, "and aow be obtained that canceled note I can Dot surmise. You can examine my un cle's desk." Here Herman pulled open every drawer, raised the lid, opened the folding doors, ind it was thoroughly examined. So alsc was the entire library, chamber and batb room, bat no bag of gold was revealed. "We will go through the other rooms," said the detective. They were taken one by one the double jnrlora, pantry, storeroom, kitchen, ser rauts' rooms at the rear of the house, passage under the stairway, etc, but nc zag of coin. "I believe there Is- no basement to this souse?" said Sellars. "None," was Herman's response. "Well, we will ascend the stairs." "Oh. he could not have ascended them," Herman said., "after having committed the murder." "This search is In your interest." said the detective. "Have you ascended the stairs since you acconfpanied Miss De Itosette below?" "I have not," replied Herman. "As I n formed you, I had retired and wai -used from sleep by my nncle's cries. I ihonld know his voice I can swear those rries were not those of another. I sprang 'rom my bed, was joined in the hall by ny cousin, and together we descended the it airs." By this time the two men were in the lall above. Sobs and female voices were emanating .'nun the room of the banker s daughter. wliR-h was a front chamber on the east tide of the house, and a door opened into t near the head of the stairs. "This is my room," said Herman, "di rectly back of my cousin's. The door yet standing open as I left it." The two men entered the room. It waf inely appointed, for a gentleman's a part -nent. True the furniture that It contain d would to-day be considered somewhat -iimbersoine and considerably out of date. I'he room was fully twelve feet square. The high-post bedstead occupied a posi :ion in the northeast corner of the room, ts head being against the east wall of the louse, while one side pressed against tht artition that divided the room from thai r the banker's daughter. Sea, undoubtedly someone had occupies he bed that night. The clothing wat ast aside just as is naturally would hav een hod its occupant leaped suddenly out t led. One of the large pillows indicated rhere the bead of the aroused Hernial, ad lain. Flanging over the back of a chair, neai he head of the bed, was Herman's drcs birt, with a solitary diamond stud glis ening on its white bosom. "Why. yon see," he said. "1 yet havt ny night shirt on," Sellars bad noted that his hands anr ileeves bore no stains of blood. Those o Robert Campbell did. A large bureau stood between the twi ast windows, a trunk to the south of tb bureau ai J a door led to the closet, in thi aorthwest corner of the room. A t5rnsseis carpet covered the floor shile here and there rested Oriental rugs ne lying across the brickwork that ex tended out from the fireplace. Sellars took in everything at a glance then closed and locked the door. "We must not be interrupted." he said Herman Craven looked annoyed, and bit his lips in evident perturbation'. "You wish to search my room?" he ask ed. "The whole house," said Sellars, "no four room alone. I wish to place all mem bers of this household beyond the pale of suspicion and in doing so the coil around Robert Campbell tighten," - "II Me," Mid Henna. We will commence here," observed Sellars, and he seised the quilts and bed ling and dragged them from the bed. re moved the pillows, overturned the mat tress, and felt It through and through; moved the bedstead oat and examined tht walls next turned to the bureau, and withdrew every drawer, which he ru ro tund over. Herman In the meantime had ralaeo the lid of his trunk. "In any way I can i wisn to assist you, he said. Surely there was no evidence of alarm In his voice or manner. "Yon can remove the contents of youi rank," said Sellars, "I will observe." Hertuan did so, and down to the last ar- cie. Next the closet underwent inspection. The rag, before the fireplace, was re moved. A single glance at the even sut face of the brickwork told the experienced detective that there had been no hasty tampering with the brickwork. Tbe other rugs were overturned, the Casing of the windows and door examined no bag of coin, no blood-stained gar nent. waa revealed. "Now you see." said Sellars, "I am able to testify that I have thoroughly Inspect ed your room, and that not a single evi dence of guilt on the part of its occupant could I discover. Robert Campbell will Soubtless undertake to shift his crime to your shoulders. You now see how impor tant ta 70U that I Instituted this search before leaving the house." "The dastard I" exclaimed Herman. "I think he could make no one believe that I would murder my dear old uncle. Why, where would have been the motive?" "The bath room," observed Sellars. "At the end of the hall, on this floor." "We will take that next," "No coin here, and everything as clean as a pin," Sellars said five uinutes after having entered it. "Where next?" asked Herman. "These rooms, on the west side of the house," "There are but three, and none of them occupied at this time. This rear room next the bath room on the east side, is occupied by Millie, my cousin's maid. She is below with her mother, and will hardly return to It to-night. Hattie has always kept her near her on this floor." "We will look at it," said the detective. as he turned the knob of the door. The room was tidy, but tbe bed tun. bled. "Millie had also retired when the mur der was committed?" said Sellars. "Evidently!" observed Herman, "and the commotion below brought her down. Strange, too, for I have often heard my cousin remark that it was almost impos sible to arouse her." The west rooms were next visited. "There are no other apartments on this floor, save this room of Miss DeRo lette's," said Herman, as they passed out the door of the last one. the one opposite that of the banker's daughter. "I will not disturb her," said Sellars "It is unnecessary. Now for the rooiu. above." "The third-floor rooms are not oven fur lished," said Herman, "and not one or ;hein has been occupied. You know, my ancle built this house but four years ago There are no lights above." "Oh, well, we will pass up and take n walk through them," observed Sellars "Bring your lamp." They did so, but there was nothing bu ttle bare walla to be seen. "This narrow flight of stairs, I suppose leads to the loft," Sellars said, as the; passed to tbe end of the hall. "Yes," replied his companion, "to th ittlc one large, low room. It contain nothing, I understand, save old fninil. relies, trunks and various kinds of pluu ler; though I have never been in it. Han nah has the key. In rainy weather sh hangs her washing there to dry. Now ' hink of it, my cousin asked her ior tnt tey at the breakfast table yesterday .norning. She statin that she found sonu Id letters that interested her, and thai ihe wished to search for more. I doubt lot she has It now. It will be necessary o arouse her to obtain tbe key, if joe wish to visit It." Sellars glanced at his companion. He stood, the lamp in one band, looking n the direction of the stairs they had as -ended, as if contemplating returning foi be key. "It is useless," said Sellars. "I wili nercly step up and try tbe door to maki rare it is locked," and he scanned th iteps closely as he made the remark. "The servants take excellent care ol he house," be said; "there is no dirt here, ven on the stairs." , "Hannah Is a foe to dirt In any form.' vplied Herman, Sellars deliberately walked up the stair ray and tried the door. "Yes, it is lock d," he said. "Let us descend." Five minutes later the two men re-en ered the library. The parlors were light id, and there were at least a dozen ol Wilmington's leading citizens present, in .luding the old bank attorney. "Ah, Sellars," he exclaimed, "a terribli blow this community has sustained. I im glad to see you here; but is it possibii bat young Campbell can have committed Ilia crime? I can scarce believe a son ol ny old friend, Duncan Campbell, a innr lerer." "Sheriff Cobb has him In cnstoJy," wa Jie reply, "and circumstances would indi ate that he has tbe right man." "but remember that but for yon he would ve hung the wrong man on on occa ion." "I think." Sellars said, calmly, "that I may promise yon that be shall not hang tbe wrong man this time: neither will the wrong man, in my opinion, stand on the gallows trap and in the very shadow of death." The detective's keen eyes were nxea on Herman Craven as he uttered the words. He alone saw a perceptible start, and a deeper pallor overspread the young mac's countenance. The finger of his hands dosed convulsively, but in n Instant he was himself again. w , t h.va Mn ennfidenco that Mr. cel lars will bring thin crime homo to the guilty wretch who perpetrated JC " said. "I have lirtla doubt, nor do I think he has, that the mtvdarer of M dear an cle now occupies a Cell lit Wilmington jaiL" "Dr. Norcum baa stated the facta to me aa far as he was able." the attorney said, "and It certainly looks very dark tor Robert Campbell, but this bag of coin? I cannot understand that Here is Angel, the-express agent who delivered It to him. It to certain that he left tha xpress oflrce with V "He undoubtedly did. gentlemen." saM Angel, "after having receipted for It." "There is no evidence," observed Set lara. "that he brought it here. He may have done so, and after driving the blade of the sheath knife home have cast it out the window In the darkness, to where be expected to recover it when he made hit exit from the house. Again, he may have had an accomplice, who bore the gold away. There la nothing further that I can do here to-night. The inquest may develop many facta. It Is aet for 10 o'clock to-morrow. Good-night, gentlemen." "I will accompany yon to the door," said Herman. "Remain with these gentlemen," the de tective said. "Yon will have arrange ments to make tor your uncle's fnneral. Good-sri ght," and he stepped from tbe li brary and closed the door. A dark form stood sobbing at the rear end of the hall. -Hannah r "Follow me from the door." Arrived there, the detective asked this question: "Who drove the blade of that heath knife to your master's heart?" "I don't know that. Mars Lang," sob bed the negress; "but I does know who rung de door bell, an' da was in de bouse." "Is the back door unlocked T asked Sel lars, "and can yon enfir the house front the rear?" "Yea, Mars Lang." "Tirj follow me." The detective and the negress crossed the threshold, and Sellars. not very softly, dosed the door. (To be continued.) Industrial. A New York brewers union has do nated to the Denmark strikers. London bill-posters struck for $3.25 per week.53 hours to constitute a week's work. When first known to the Romans silk was so dear that it was sold weight for weight with gold. In New York 8500 carpenters and Joiners threaten to strike for $4 a day and eight hours work, on September 18. The Amalgamated Association of tramwaymen, hackney carriage em ployes and horsemen In general has 7000 members. Twelve years ago one sailor out of every 106, on an average, lost his life by accident. Now the proportion has been reduced to one in 258. Toronto claims to be the Lelpslc of Canada. Nearly $20,000,000 Is aid to be invested in that city and neighborhood in paper-making, printing and book binding trades. Nuremberg, Germany, has an elec trical and optical works, which employ over 4000 men, besides a large scientific staff, and which in 1S97 executed orders aggregating 15.000.000. At Munich there is a hospital which Is entirely supported by the sale of old steel pens and nibs collected from all parts of Germany. They are made Into watch springs, knives and razors. One woolen mill at Knoxvtlle. Tenn., has a paid-up capital of 1650.000, works 800 hands and sells Its excellent all wool casslmeres In Chicago and the Eastern markets. The big woolen mill at Draunfels, Texas, places its cloths mostly In Boston. A little more than 50 years ago a few workingmen of Rochdale, Eng., joined together to purchase a sack of flour and a chest of tea. -TtMrt -ww-thebe ginning- of a movement (co-operative) which now Includes 1000 societies, with a total membership of 1,000,000. Illinois ranks first In corn, wheat oats, meat packing, lumber trafflc.malt and distilled liquors and miles of rail way: second in rye, coal, agricultural Implements and hogs; third in popula tion, manufactures. Iron, steel and cat tle. First settlement French, Kas kaskea, 1682. Admitted to the Union, 1818. District Attorney Steele, of Kings County, during the recent trolley strik declared his intention of proceeding against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for alleged violations of the lo-hour labor law If a complainant should appear, and make out a reason able case. Such a complainant has ap. pea red. The decision of the Illinois Steel Company to return to the employment of American labor, after experimenting five years with cheap European labor. Is a strong argument In the cla'ms of trade unions that cheap labor Is dear and that well paid labor Is the best in the long run. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Municipal gas works of Man chester. Eng.. made a net profit of $370,260 last year. Tast month tbe Gas Committee handled over $256,000 of that sum to the relief of rates. During the year the number of gao consumers In ceased by 695, and the Increased con sumption of coal In the manufacture of gas was 20.000 tons. The general state of employment In the United Kingdom during tbe month of July CDntlnued steady and good, the percentage of unemployed being lower than at any period sinoe 1890. There has been a marked upward movement of wages during the month, particular ly among coal miners and iron and steel workers. Local hardware dealers were a few days ago notified of another advance of 15 cents a keg In the price of nails, and, according to A. V. Romadka, of Ro madka. Bros, trunk factory, nails and ether Iron and brass goods required In the trunk manufacturing business have advanced from 125 to 300 per cent. Milwaukee Sentinel. Track and Turf. The Queen, 2.10, has a bad leg be hind and may not race agin soon. Joe Patchen. 2.01Vi. Is now owned by ex-Senator John McCarty, of New York. In three races Idollta has won $17,000 for his owner, and $2300 for Palo Alto Farm. That first winning heat of her life In 2.0916 by VaJpa is a most unique world's record. Tommy Brltton, Cresceus, Blngen and other great stallions will meet al Louisville and Lexington. Palm Leaf, by Onward o, has won $1455 down the Grand Circuit without obtaining a record or winning a heat. Henry Y. Haws, of Johnstown, is said to have cleared $20,000 on Joe Patchen. 2.01 "4, during the five weeks he owned the great pacer. Up to the conclusion of the New York meeting Royal Baron, b. s.. by- Baron Wilkes, had won $10,450. heading the list of the money winners. Charlie Herr. by Charles Derby, Is next with $9150. Edward Winter, proprietor of the Penn Valley Stud. Morrisville, Pa., was offered $10,000 for the young stallion Ed. Winter, by Jay Bird. He refused the offer and also an offer of $5000 for the filly Emma Winter. Maxlne. 2.094, by William C. P., a son of William L., -formerly known as Bessie Stewart, after her Bethlehem engagement, will be prepared to beat the pacing road wagon record at Bel mont course, 2.18, held by Claus Forester. Glasgow numbers among its pop ulation a man who is making a man uscript copy of the Bible. He expects to finish It in two vears. In the African elephant both sexes have Ivory tusks, while In the Asiatic they are generally restricted to the male. ! America has 4,000,000 -working women. FfiEAKS OF AT0RN ADO QUEER PRANKS OF THE KIRKS. VILLI 8TORM. i Women. Boys and Horses Ar Cafrrled Thros-a-h tbs Air tOsharaiedPath of the Disturbance Mis; tit Be Traced by Fcattersd Clothins and Pa pan. John B, Mnslck. of Kirksvllle, Mo thus describes, In the Century, certain madcap pranks of a tornado which passed through that city on April 27: Many strange freaks were played by tbe tornado. In a tree-top was found a woman's hair, supposed to bave-been blown from her bead as she was car ried through Its branches, yet no per son was found near It. A human scalp was found three miles from the; city limits, under a bridge. Notes, letters, and papers were blown from the city Into Iowa, and found ninety miles away. One promissory note of four hundred dollars was found in a field near GrlnncIL Iowa, nearly one hun dred miles away, while clothing and papers were scattered along the entire 'listance. Si One woman was decapitated by a tin .oof. and her child was killed near her. Some persons who were outside ' the rotating curreut were killed or lnJUted by flying timbers, which, like bolts from the catapult of Jove, (lew with deadly force for a great distance, while others in the very center of the storm escaped with little or no Injury. V Perhaps the most remarkable expert nces were those of Miss Moo rehouse, Mrs. Webster, and ber son. Tbe three were caught np In the storm, and ware carried beyond the Catholic Church, nearly one-fourth of a mile, and let down on the common so gently that none were killed. Mrs. Webster had some slight cuts about the head, bee on had one arm fractured, bat Mist Moo rehouse was uninjured. I "I was conscious all the time I was dying through tbe air," said Miss Moo rehouse, "and it seemed a long time. I seemed to be lifted up and whirled round and round, going to a great height, at one time far above tbe :hurch steeples, and seemed to be car ried a long distance. I prayed to the Lord to save me. for I believed he could save me, even on the wings of tbe tor nado; and be did wonderfully perserTt my life. As I was going through th air, being whirled about at the sport of the storm, I saw a horse soaring and rotating about with me. It was white horse and had a harness on. By Ihe way It kicked and straggled as it was hurled about I know It was alive. I prayed" Ood that the horse might not xme In contact with me, and it did lot. I was mercifully landed opon sarth unharmed, saved by a mlracJo. Tonng Webster says be saw the horse a the air white ha was bein; -"s ilnng tig tha. M0Z3. 4, was directly over me, and X was very much afraid I would come in contact with its flying heels." The horse. It Is said, was caught np and carried one mile through the air, and, according to the accounts of reputable witnesses, at times was over two hundred feet high, passing over a church steeple.- Many s bo were not In the storm say that they law horses flying in the wind. Beyond being well plastered with mud, the white horse was uninjured by his serial flight JAW POWER OF ANIMALS. Cars Ivor a Ezsrcla Traasaadoas Fore In Their Conflicts. Not everyone In Chicago has beet iltten by a dog. a cat or other animal whose weapons of offense and defense are their teeth, and consequently has not lived In dread of hydrophobia or lockjaw or blood poisoning. Still fewer among our cttlsens have any compre hension of the great power required to Inflict the wounds that all have heard of, even though they have not experi enced them. The teeth, even of the largest carnlvora, are merely the "spear-heads;'' but the foroe which "works" these Instruments is prodigi ous. It seems as If for the moment the mlmal threw all its bodily energy Into the combination of muscular action which we call a "bite." In moat cases he mere shock of impact, aa the ani mal hurls itself on Its enemy Is en tirely demoralizing or inflicts physical Injury. A muscled mastiff will hurl a man to the ground in tbe effort to fasten bis teeth In his throat or shoul der. Then, the driving and crushing force of the jaw muscles Is astonish ing. The snapping power of an alliga tor's Jaws is more or less Intelligible. They are long and furnished with a row of pointed teeth from end to end. But the jaws of a lion, leopard, tiger, tter. ferret or baboon are short and the long and pointed teeth are few. Vet each of their species has a biting power which In proportion to Its Bit 's almost Incredible. . Sir Samuel Baker, who had a Ion and varied acquaintance with the bltea of the carnlvora, noticed that the tiger usually seized an Indian native by the shoulder and with one Jaw on one side and the other on the other bit clean through the chest and back. "The ratal wound was the bite, which, through back and chest, penetrated the lungs." Europeans are killed by the tiger's bite as well as lacerated by tha claws. A Mr. Lawes, son of a mis sionary of that name, was killed after being shaken for a few moments by a tigress, which then left him. He died next day. In nearly all cases the bite penetrates to the lungs. This kind of a wound Is characteristic of the at tacks of many of the felldae. Scarcely any bird recovers from a cat's bite fot the same reason. The canine teeth are almost Instantly driven through the lung, under the wing. The cheetah, which has a very small mouth, always bites through the black buck's throat. The leopard, when seizing smaller ani mals, such aa dogs, crashes the head; when attacking men it alms at biting hrough the lungs. Chicago Chronicle I xastesi up, Judge Coffey, of San Francisco, la 'described by tbe Newts Letter of that ' city as having a strong disapproval of 'garrulity. A lawyer, he declares, should cultivate conciseness. An attorney, learned In th law. but afflicted with the disease of long wlutl edness In a peculiarly malignant f-wm was neatly cut short tbe other day bj the tart and astute probate J mice. After pleading In a very plain rut with wearisome proflxlty, tbe worthj attorney suddenly asked. In a rhetori cal vein, but with no Idea of com-luiliu bis argument: "Need I say more?" Judge Coffey had be?n Impntlcnf.j waiting for an opening, and pi-i-relvlng his opportunity, answered quickly, but with the blandest courtesy: "No, brother, you need say nothln, more." Before the lawyer realized tbe re mark of the court, and while he was about to resume bio oration, standing with open month and outstretched hand, 'Judge Coffey decided against him, dismissed the proceeding, and called the next case on the docket. Aluminum gives highly colored com pounds with several other metals, even when the second metal Is clearly white The cyclone Is an Immense tornado, without the spiral, or rather with one o enormous that the diameter of It 1 thoussnds of miles. Tbe sun has three motions first. 01. Its axis; second, a motion about tbe center of gravity of tbe whole solat system (which center Is always within m tha sun's volume); third, a motlor toward the planet Hercules. According to Dr. L. O. Howard of tht: Department of Agriculture a little ker osene, say one ounce to every fifteen aquare feet, spread over the surface of ponds' and marshes where luosquitos breed will destroy the pests by form ing a slight coating over tbe water. This prevents the larvae from reaching the air. but the kerosene Is also effec tlve as an insecticide. Maj. Gen. Schaw has suggested, be fore tbe Institution of Mining Kugl neers In London, the substitution ol water for gunpowder In blasting cart ridges used in coal mines. Ills plan Is to Oil the cartridge with pure water. Insert It In tbe drill hole, and then turn tbe water Into high-pressure steam by means of an electric current of low ten sion. A cartridge maue to resist a pressure of 150 pounds per square Inch could be caused to burst, according to Gen. Sciaw's calculations, within about one mlnnte after tbe tnrntnc 03 f the current r - Among recent Inventions Is a device by which the alr-brakts of a railroad train can be applied from' the track. aa th train passes, without the lnter- . - j. - - - 1 syster to connected with a lever con trolling a Tent In the train pipe, and attached to the track of the pony wheels close to the track at tbe for ward end of tbe locomotive. On pass ing over an obstruction, placed on the track for the purpose, the lever Is tilt ed and the vent opened, thus letting the air In to the brakes. The engineer can reset the lever from his place In tbe cab. Prof. N. S. Shaler Is an authority on matters of the air. lie has studied air movements and atmospheric currents for years. He divides all these severe disturbances into three classes whirl winds, tornadoes and cyclones -all somewhat alike in that they have a more or less spiral and ascendant movement. Tbe cause of this Is com monthe existence of heated air near tbe earth, its rise and expansion through tbe cooler air and tbe suction ensuing. This heated stratum near the ground Is explained by tbe slower pas sage of the radiated heat of tbe earth, as compared to the direct rays of the sun. The latter pass rapidly tbrougn the air to the earth; the former, going more slowly, meet the bitter, and tbe blanket of hot air Is formed. This, gaining In temperature by tbe combi nation, rises; It strikes a layer of cool er air and is shut In; It grows thicker and thicker and literally bores its way Into the cooler stratum. The cool air fills the vacuum thus created, and the comes terror and destruction. Protecting tbe "Little Ones." Speaking of animals, the rabid theo rist who argues that all good acts arc prompted by selfishness, would vcrj likely unravel a few stitches in his the ory If be should lean over the rail In front of a cage of monkeys, and watch them perform for half an hour. A few days ago a little group was thus occu pied ha Wonderland. There were all sizes of monkeys In the cage, and nat urally there was a "littlest one." About that time there was a good deal of con tention over a piece of string, and la the fracas one of the monkey children hit the baby. Instantly an old mon key shot out from one corner of th cage and punished tbe offender. "She must be tbe mother of the little one. Isn't sheT" "No," said the keeper, "she's co rela tlon only that's a way they have o' doln' the older ones protect tbe little ones when they get Jumped on." Had Beeta Bbafcltaar Long Kaona-h. At a recent duel the parties discharg ed their plstola without effect, where upon one of the seconds Interposed and proposed that the combatants should shake hands. To this the other second objected aa unnecessary. "Their hands," said be, "have been shaking for half an hour." Lara-oat Bicycle Factory. At Schwetnfurt, Bavaria, Is one'ol the largest ef tbe world's manufacto ries for bicycle ball bearings. The two factories thera, belong! ug to one Arm, turn oat annually 2,000,000 gross Ql these little steel balls, and employ QUO men, working a day of ten hours' dura tion. Foreign (settlers In Chtaaw A nuknff tha 1 1 AAfl fnmlnm uMlui t in China at the end of MOT England had 4.929, the United States 1.JXH. Ja-1 pan LlOe, Germany 000. Franca 088. NEARLY EATEN BY BIRDS. ttraasr Kxperteacca la f'onaala mt th Kca farrot The gentle and Well-meaning poet who extols tbe pretty timidity of the feathered songsters of the air should save accompanied Irving Phillip on his recent trip to the region where the kea parrot la lord of tbe air and almost of the earth. He has studied this remark able bird at close range and the conclu sion forced upon him Is that he Is the moat fearless, destructive, highly Intel ligent, extraordinarily gifted bird un ler the ana. The stories that were told to me. h ays. had an to do with tbe killing of tbe sheep, that being the feature of the bird's destrnctlveness that Interested the New Zealandera most. The farm ers dreaded the bird aa they dreaded the evil one. Their flocks would be peacefully roaming tbe grazing rrannds, when swooping through tbe air would come a dark mass of flying reatbers carrying a small head that terminated In a bill as sharp as a steel tnarllnaplke. Each bird singled out a victim and lighted on Its back. Once those claws had twined themselves In to the wool of the sheep thelattermlght be given up for dead mutton. Firmly standing aatrlde tbe luckless sheep, the ATTACKED BT ItA H1KI- kea would go to work with Its Iron bill, driving down Into tbe kidneys of the inlmaL when, having pecked Its way Into the spine of the sheep, tbe bird of tvil releases his bold, flies slowly sway surfeited with his fenet. The kea does not sit around expect ing those who are curious concerning his habits to look for blm. He has a ii-vour'.ng curiosity of his own that will not allow blm to wait to be studied. He comes right np and studies the stu Jent When I lay down they would have pecked the! ng Into my .mat May andeatgn. XS?v Sd-4ad 1 not at ast sprung to my feetanovSlien-!h-eS" iff. I began my studies, having erected my abode, which I had brought along with corrugated luch a region to sleep with nothing to thle' l me from the keas. Tbe auda cious blrda would have pecked the mule ind me to death as we slept Just to see n hat we were made of. The next most Interesting thing I dis covered about tbe kea la that be seems to bare tbe power of conversing. If It was not a conversation that was be ing carried on between a flock of these birds that lighted near me. and If I was not the subject of that conversa tion, then I am myself unable to speak od hear. Tbe keas talked together while they gradually approached me and crawled around, bopping on to ev ery part of my outfit, prying Into my kettles, my boots, my bottles. Tbey would take things In their beaks and throw them playfully over their heads, :ry to bore their way Into the Ulterior of my camp tins, and, finding the metal harder than tbey expected, would turn It over and over, looking for a weaker part. That night I slept to the music of a Jin that threatened to distract me. The keas were on the roof of the corru gated bouse. They seemed to be play ing tag all night, for tbe scratching on the Iron showed that tbey were con stantly In danger of being crowded off the roof and saved themselves only by clawing at the metal. I bad bad enough of the keas by tbe morning and got ready to pack up and leave. But tbey bud not had enough of me. 1 was evidently tbe best show that had ever come their way. Pecallarltlea of Colored Children Colored children are much more sun iltlve to beat than white children, which probably means that their power jf discrimination Is much better, and oot that they suffer more from heat Colored girls have larger circumference of head at all ages than white girls. White children not only have a greater standing height than colored children, but their sitting height Is stlU greater; yet colored children have a greater weight than white' children, that Is, white children, relatively to their height, are longer bodied than colored hlldrcn. The percentage of long-headed ness (dollcocephaly) among colored boys si more than double that of white boys. This may be due to racial Influ ence. Journal of American Medlcaf Association. Calf Choked ts. De tb ota a Kit tea A remarkable atory comes from Som erset. Ind. Scott Davis, the leading merchant of the village, had a fine Jersey calf, which he placed in a stall In his barn, and was bringing it np by hand, the little animal being supplied with tbe best of milk for Its suste nance. A cat had a litter of kittens In the manger. One night the calf en deavored to swallow one of the kittens and was fonnd dead In tbe stall next morning, with tbe kitten fast hi Its throat. Indianapolis News. Ask any man of forty If he can re member that he ever. In all his life, did as he pleased for Just one day. Did anyone ever spend one whole day entirely as he wanted) Some families seem to be made up entirely of children; yon never hear of the father and mother. ' On. between kta is a good dea. "?"" to I wom me Insertions on tbe, back of a I Iron, it o aid iiSVPrTtmL. J SERMON BY Rw, Dr. talmage feuhja t: Tl Dlvnrea Question Domestic llawr.li m Subject of National In porta'ie Uniformity ot llvorre Law In tlie Various Stales Suscetel. CoprriRht, Ionia KUipmch. lDSfl.l Wakhixotos, d. C Dr. Talmaga In this dlorouroe dkruftses a question ot national importance, which is confessedly as dlffl ;nlt as It Is urgent. The text is Matthew xix., 6, "What tbereforn Ood liath Joined tOEHiucr let not man pat asunder." Tbnt there are hundreds nnd thousands of infelicitous homes In America no one Will doubt. If there were only one skeleton In the closet, that might be locked up and sbomtoned. bat in many a home there Is a skeleton in tbe hallway and a skeleton In all the apartments. " Unhappily married" are two words descriptive of many a home stead. It needs no orthodox minister to Erove to a badly mated pair that there Is a ell. They are there now. Hometlmes a Brand and gracious woman will be than In carcerated, and' her lite will be a cruci fixion, as was the ease with Mrs. Slitour ney, the great poetess and tbe great soul. Boaietlmes a eousecrated man will be united to a fury, as was John Wesley, or united to a vixen, as was John Milton. Sometimes and generally both part lea are to blame, and Thomas Cnrlyln is an intolerable crumbier, and Ms wife tins a pungent re tort always teady, nnd Fronde, the histo rian, pledged to tell the plain troth, has to pull aside the curtain from the lifelong sijUHbble at Oralgenputtock and 5 Cheyne row. Some say that for tbe alleviation ot all tbe?e domestic disorders of which we hear easy dl voice is a Rood prescription. Ood sometimes authorizes divorce as certaluly as He authorizes marriage. I have jast as much regard for one lawfully divorced as. I have for one lawfully married. But you know and I know that wholesale divorce Is one ot our national scourges. I am not surprised at tbls when I think of the influ ences which have been abroad militating against tbe marriage relation. For man) years the platforms ot the country rang with talk about a free love millennium. There were meetings of this kind held in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn; Cooper Institute, New York; Tremont Temple, Boston, and all over the land. Same of the women who were most prominent in that movement have since been distinguished for great promiscuslty ot affection. Pjpu lr themes for such occasions were the tyr iP.r,g ot man, the oppression of the mar rhge relation, women's rights ami the affinities. Prominent speakers were women with short curls mid short dress and very long tongue, ever lastingly at war with Ood because tbey were created women, while on the pint form sat meek men with soft nccent and cowed dcniennor, apologetic for masculin ity and holding tbe parasols while the termagant orators went on preaching the gospel of free love. That campaign of abont twenty vears set more devi s into the marriage relation than will be exorcised in tbe next fifty. Men and women went borne from such meetings so permanently con fused as to who were their wives and bus bands that ttey never got oat of the per plexity, and the criminal and the civil courts tried to disentangle the Iliad ol woes, and the one got alimony, and that one got a limited divorce, and this mothei kept the children on condition that tu? father could sometimes come and look at then -nd these went into poorhouses, anaur-went into an Insane asylum, nnd those went tV art jct! M"1110 ami all went to aZ-l T - ' ,,t " e mightiest wsr ever made-against the marriage institution was tbat ire- love campaign, sometimes aud-ir one name and sometimes under an ther. - l - - - Another influence tbat has warred upon the mrfili(J8 rsistlGS - bSS -been-'polygamy in Utah. That Is a stereotyped caricature of the marriage relation and has poisoned tbe whole land. You might as well tblnk that you can have an arm in a state of. mor tification and yet the whole body not be sickened as to have any Territories 01 States polygiimized ami yet the body of the nation not feel tbe putrefaction. Ilenr it, good men and women or America, that so long ago as 1862 a law was passed by Con gress forbidding polgamy in the Territories and In all tbe places where tbey bad juris diction. Thirty-seven years bave passed along and nine administrations, yut not until the passage of the Edmunds law in 1382 was any active policy of polygamic suppression adopted. Armed with all th power of government and having an army at their disposal, the first brick bad not till then been'knocked from that fortress of lib ertinism. Every new President in his inang nral tickled that monster with the straw condemnation, and every Congress stultified Its elf in proposing some plan that would not work. Polygamy stood in Utah, and In other of the Territories more intrenched, more brazen, more puissant, more brag gart and more internal than at any time In its history. Jnmes Buchanan, a much abused man of his day, did more for the extirpation of this villainy than all the subsequent administrations dared to do np to 1882. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army and, although It was halted in its work, still be accomplished more tban tbe subsequent administrations, whii-h did nothing bat talk, talk, talk. Even at this late day and with the Edmunds act In force tbe evil has not been wholly extirpated. Polygamy in Utah, though outlawed, is still practiced In secret. It has warred against the mar riage relation throughout the land. It Is Impossible to have such an awful sewer of Iniquity sending up Its miasma, which Is wafted by the winds north, south, east and west, without the whole land being nff ected by it. "Now," say some, "we admit all these evils, and the only way to clear them ont or to correct them is by easy divorce." Well, before we yield to that cry let us find ont how easy It Is now. I have looked over the laws of all the States, and I find thnt, while In some States it Is easier than In ethers, in every State it is easy. Tbe State of Illinois, through its Legislature, recites a long list of proper causes foi divorce and then closes up by giving to the courts the right to make a de cree of divorce in any case where they deem It expedient. After that you are not surprised at the announcement that in one year there were 833 di vorces. If you want to know how easy It Is, you have only to look over the records of the States In Massachusetts, 09 di vorces In one year; in Maine, 478 in one year, In Connecticut, 401 divorces In one year; In tbe city ot San Francisco, 333 divorces in one year; In New England in one year, 2113 divorces, and in twenty years in New England, 20, 000. Is that not eusy enough? If the same ratio continues the ratio ot multiplied di vorce and multiplied causes of divorce, we are not far from the time when out courts will have to set apart whole days for application, and all you will bave to prove against a man will he thnt he left his slippers in the middle of the floor; and all you will have to prove against a woman will be thnt ber husband's overcoat was buttonless. Cause of divorce doubled in a few years doubled in France, doubletl in England nnd doubled In the United Htntw. To show how very easy it is, I have to tell you that, in Western lleserve, Ohio, the propon ion of divorces to rinrr:nes cele brated was in one year 1 to 11; In Rhode Island, I to 3; in V. rriiout, 1 to 14. I3 not tbat asv enough? I wnnt yon 10 notice tbrt frequency ot divorce always goes aloug with the disso luteness of society. Home for 500 years had not one case of divorce. Those were ber days ot glory and virtue. Then the reign of vice began, nnd divorce became epidemic. If you want to know bow rap idly the empire went down, ask Gibbon. Do you know how tbe reign of terror was Introduced in Fra- ce? By 20,000 cases of divorce in one vear In Paris. What we want Is that tbe Congress 01 the United States move for tbe changing of tbe national constitution so tbat a law can be passed which sbnll be uniform all over tbe country and what shall be right In one State shall be right in all tbe State! and what Is wrong In one Stnte wili be wrong In all tbe States. How Is it now? If a party in the marriage relation gets dissatisfied. It Is only necessary to move to another State to achieve liberation from tbe domestic tie. i"i i efT-ore easily that the first one party knows of It is by seeing It in the newspaper that Rev. Dr. Somebody a few days or weeks after ward introduced into a new marriage rela tion a member of tbe household who went sfl on a pleasure excursion to Newport or a business excursion to Chicago. Married it the bride's house; no cards. There are jtates of the Union which practically put 1 premium upon the disintegration of the marriage relation, while there are other States, like the atnte ct New York, which lias the pre-eminent Idiocy of making mar riage lawful at twelve and fourteen years . if age. The Congress of the United States needs to move fcr a cbangs of the national eon ititutlon and then to appoint a committee not randa np of single gentlemen, hut of nen of families, and their families In Wash ingtonwho shall prepare a good, honest, righteous, comprehensive uniform law that will control everything from Sandy Hook to tbe Oolden Onte. Tbat will put an end :o brokerages In marriages. That will send livoroe lawyers Into a decent business. fbat will set people agitated tor many yesrson the question of how they shall get iwav rrom eacn oilier to planning now tnev inn adjust themselves to the more or less infavorahle elrcuinstaneas. More dl moult divorce will put an estop- pal to a great extent upon marriage as a llnancial speculation. There are men who ?o into the relation just as they go Into Wall street to purchase shares. The fe male to be invited into tbe partnership ot wedlock is utterly unattractive and In dis position a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody mows It, but this masculine candidate for natrimonlal orders, through the commer cial agency or through the county records, finds out how much estate is to lie In herited, and he calculates It. Ha thinks jut how long It will be Deiore the old man will die nnd whether he oan stand the re fractory temper until be does die, and then he enters tbe relation, for he says, "If I :annot stand it. then through the divorce aw I will back out." That process Is go ng on all the time, and men enter Into the relation without any moral principle, with out any affection, and it is as much a mat- :er of stock speculation as anything that was transacted yesterday in Union Pacific, Wabash and Delawaro and Lacknwanna. Now, suppose a man understood, as h inght to understand, that if lie goes Into ;liat relation there is no possibility of his etting cut or no probability. He would je more slow to put his neck in the yoke. He should say to himself, "Bather than a Caribbean whirlwind with a whole float ol 'hipping in its arms, give me a zephyr oil lnlds of sun shine and gardens ot peace." Rigorous divorce law will also hln lot women from the fatal mistake of marrying men to reform them. If a young man, by twenty-Ova yenrs of age or thirty years ot ige, have the habit of strong drink fixed in him, he is as cortatnly bound for a lrunkard's grave as that a train starting ut from the Oraml Central depot nt 8 j'clock to-morrow morning is bound for Albany. The ttain may not reach Albnny, for It may be thrown from the track. The young man may not reach a drunkard's rrave, for something may throw him oil :he iron track of evil hnblt. But the proba bility is that the train that starts to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will got tbere, and tbe probability is that the young man who has tbe habit of strong irink fixed on him before twenty-live or thirty years of age will arrive at a drunkard's grave. She knows ho drinks, although he tries to hide It by chewing cloves. Everybody knows be drinks. Parents warn; neighbors and friends warn. She will marry him, she will reform him. If she is unsuccess ful In tbe experiment, why, then, the di vorce law will emancipate her, because habitual drunkenness Is a cause for di vorce In Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con necticut and nearly all the States. So the poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice. If you will jg&as. me the poverty struek streets in 8!'Ujgiw- J will showja the homes of tKr llMAJBarTle'd meaHo reform them, ittonecase out of ten thou sand it may be a suocsgsfal eiperlruci -SS'i&l suWlhe successful experiment. Bat bave a rigorous divorce law, and that woman will say, "If I am afnanoed tc that man. It is for life, and if now. In the ardor ot his young love and I tbe prize to he won, be will not give up his cups, when he hns won the prize surely he will not give up his caps." And se that womnn will say to the man: "No, sir; yon are already mar ried to the club, and you are married to tbnt evil habit, and so you are married twice, and you are a bigamist. Go!" Let me say to all .young people, before you give your heart and band In holy al liance, use all caution. Inquire outside as to babits, explore tbe disposition, scrutin ize tbe taste, question the ancestry and find out the ambitions. Do not take the heroes and heroines of cheap novels for a model. Do not put your 'lifetime happi ness in the keeping of a man who has a reputation of being a little loose In morals or in the keeping of a woman who dresses Immodestly. Remember that, while good looks are a kindly gift of Ood, wrinkles or accident may despoil them. Remember tbnt Byron was no more celebrated for his beauty than tor his depravity. Remember :hat Absalom's hair was not more splendid than his hablls were despicable. Hear ttl Hear Itl The only foundation for happy marriage tbat ever has been or ever will be Is good character. Ask the counsel of father and mother in tbls most Important step of your life. They are good advisers. Tliey are the best friends you ever had. They made more sacrifices for you than iny one else ever did. And let me say to those of you who are n happy married union, avoid first quar rels; have no unexplained correspondence with former admirers; cultivate no sus picions; in a moment of bad temper do not rush out and tell the neighbors; d j not let my of those gndnhonts of society unload In your bouse their bnggage of gab and tittle tattle; do not make it an Invariable rule to stand on your rights; learn how to apologize; do not be so proud or so stub born or so devilish thnt yon will not make ap. Remember that the worst domestic misfortunes and most scandalous divorce ;oses started from little lnfellcltes. The whole piled up train of ten rail cars tele icoped and smashed at the foot of an em bankment 100 feet down came to that na :ntro lie by getting two or three inches DfT the track. Some of the grentest domes tic misfortunes and the widest resounding ilvorce cases have started from little mis inderstandlngs that were allowed to go on ind go on nnttl borne nnd respnctahlltty and religion and iminortnl soul went down !n the crash. Follow citizens as well as fellow Chris tians, let us bave a divine rage against anything that wars on the marriage state. Blessed institution! Instead of two arms t , flgut the hattie of life, four; Instead ol two eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four; Instead of two shoulders to lift the burden of life, four; twice tbe energy, twice the lourage, twice the holy ambition, twice :be probability of worldly success, twice the prospects of heaven, into thnt matri monial bower Ood fetches two souls. Out side the bower, room for all contentions, and all bickerings, and all controversies, bnt Inside that bower tbere Is room for only one guest the angel of love. Let thnt angol stand at the florni doorway of this Edenlc bower with drawn sword to hew down the worst foe of that bower easy divorce. And for every pnradlse lost may there be a paradise regained. And alter we quit our home here may wo have a brighter home In heaven; at the windows of which, this moment, are familiar faces watching for our nrrival nnd wondering why so long we tarry. It appears that Miss Enid Tandc". is not the only woman sculptor mem ber of the National Sculpture Society. In addition to Miss Yandell the so ciety includes Mrs. H. II. Kitson, of Boston, and Miss Bessie Potter, who, like Miss Yandell, now lives In New York. The first Irish woman to be elected a municipal councilor is Mrs. Maurice Dockreil. who was third In the polls in the Blackrock district of County Dublin at the last elections, with nine vacancies to be filled. Mme. Melba caught cold at a boat ing party on the Thames not long ago, and had to give up singing at Mrs. Ogden Goelet's party, where -she was to have been paid $2000. Mrs. Tower, me wne 01 tne Ameri can Ambassador, has the reputation ot being one of the best gowned women at tbe Russian court. H" 5 ..- ' I :' IF I "i I 4" Mi - ii 'If 'rA.i 1-a.jr fcrt--yf -wr- fxjyr: -
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