TV B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOHTHE UHIOII AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL.. L,m. MIFFMNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1899. NO. 51 fa,' 14 1 kit I ' V I 1 u J I A i CHAPTER XVI.-fContlnped.) Tt was the morning of the twelfth when 1 Sellars boarded a train for Memphis, and when he left New Orleans behind he felt that Stephen Craven, as Stephen Craven, bud never disgraced the city with his presence. Twenty-four hours was devoted to Mem phis. Then Savannah was visited. Next Charleston. Then up the line and a halt at Columbia. Nothing of C. A. Stephens, nothing of Stephen Craven, could he learn. On the morning of the nineteenth the de tective again entered the postotflce in Wil mington. "Not a line. Sellars! Not a thing out of the ordinary ran." said the postmaster, "and court has convened." Sellars stopped to hear no more, but paid a hasty visit to his home, another to the office of Attorney Dobbs, and was off for Washington, where he was delayed two days. From Washington to Richmond. All in vain. No clue to C. A. Stephens, Done to Stephen Craven. Home again at eight o'clock on the night of the twenty-third, and straight to the office of Attorney Dobbs, where he found the old attorney, his son and Directors Chadbourn and Hammond in consulta tion. - HoDe lighted od their eyes as Sellars entered their presence, but it was soon dispelled by the detective's words: "I have nothing encouraging to impart, gentlemen. You must obtain a continu ance of the case against Kobert Camp bell to the December term. If he comes to trial now an innocent man may be sac rificed." "Heavens!" exclaimed Attorney Dobbs, springing to his feet. "You are too late, Sellars. The case was called at noon yes terday. Robert Campbell is already on trial for my old friend's murder. The jury has been chosen that will decide his fate. The prisoner has already been confronted by the charge of murder, and the evidence of Herman Craven and the dead man's daughter has been taken. In the eyes of the public a guilty wretch occupies the prisoner's box." "Guilty or innocent, it is a foregone con clusion that he will be condemned to death," said Director Chadbourn. "In that event," said Sellars, "you, Mr. Dobbs, must nrge that the sentence of the ' court be deferred for sixty days at least. 1 Should. Judge Fowler not listen to you I will obtain a stay of sentence from Gov. Hogg. How does the prisoner bear him self?" "Why, as an innocent man," answered Attorney Dobbs, "and as one who has faith that he will be vindicated, but the testimony against him is overwhelming. When Herman Craven described the scene that he beheld when he entered the library door with his cousin after being aroused from sleep by the dead man's cries of help, horror was pictured on the counte nance of every juror in the box. All could but note with what reluctance Miss De Rosette took the stand, but her evidence only fastened the coils the tighter around the form of the prisoner." y "And Herman Craven?" "The coolest man in the court room, Sel lars. ne sat throughout the time court was in session by the side of District At torney Robbing, and apparently from time to time was coaching him and shuddering with horror when his eyes rested on the prisoner at the bar." "He has undertaken no unadvised steps as yet, as president of the bank?" "No," answered Director Hammond; "but he wears his laurels with a kingly supremacy. His every act and movement is watched closely. As administrator of his uncle's estate he has already advertis ed the late banker's holdings in Wilming ton and Weldon Railroad bonds for sale. An ill-advised step, and one Mr. DeKo sette would never have taken. Why, the stock last year paid fifteen per cent." "But the sale cannot be effected at once?" "At the expiration of thirty days, Mr. Sellars." "Well, many things transpire in thirty days." "We can only wait and hope," said Ar thur Dobbs. "Wait and hope!" observed the detec tive, "but above all appear to be fully sat isfied with the course matters are shap ing themselves. And now, gentlemen, good night. I have much to do. Remem ber what I have asserted. The wrong man occupies the prisoner's box." "But the right one, Sellars? The right one?" exclaimed Attorney Dobbs. "Has a longer lease of fancied security, but my pledge shall be fulfilled. Alvin le Rosette's murderer shall swing a life less corpse from the gallows in your coun ty jaiL Good night, gentlemen !" The next moment the detective was gone. CHAPTER XVII. A half hour after leaving the office of Attorney Dobbs, Sellars was admitted to the home of the Widow Campbell, where be found the mother and sister of the prisoner in jail bowed down with appre hension and grief. Under his words of hope and encourage ment their spirits were greatly buoyed up. "Hemember, madam," said the detec tive, "Herbert Russell even reacjid,titf trap of the gallows, and yet war vlflaT cated. Your son shall hot stand there, though he may be condemned to death. Be not despondent. And yon. Misa Jen nie, bid both your brother and hi sweet heart be of good cheer. The darkest hour, you know, comes just before dawn. Good night!" The detective left the Campbell home with the widow's "God bless you!" ring ing in his ears, and repaired to his own residence, which he entered, notwithstand ing bis words of cheer, in a very despon dent frame of mind. "I am sorry for you, Lang!" aaid hia wife. "Your face looks gloomy. Yon i . ...-A ..la wAtir tnvsterv. "But Mars Lang gwine to do It, Missu ' Martha," observed Calban, who was oil ing a brace of revolvers by the kitchen fire. "Golly I" he continued, shaking his big head. "You cl.:i r kui ,a. l-i to fail?" "No, Calban, never!" said Mr. Sc.lars with a smile. "An he ain' gwine commence faihn now." "Good fpr you, Calban,"-exclaimed the Jetective, as he gave his wife a hearty, kiss. "I am' as hungry as a wolf, wife, he added, "come to think about it, I have not been to upper." Whyt a& ,n1 it , e,eTen oVItK.k. Sally!" "Yes, Missus, I hear what Mars Lang say, an' I gwine feed him till he earn walk." "Don't you do it, Sally, said Lang, with a laugh, "for I may have to run be fore I am through with this case. Where is Willie, the rascal T" asked the detec tive, glancing around. "Where you should be, Lang," replied hia wife; "sound asleep." "And where I will be, my dear, in about twenty minutes," said Sellars, as be seat ed himself at --- "Calban!" he presently called out. "1 wish you would have Adam, the coach man, here at six o'clock in the morning." "Yes. Mars Lang." A half hour later, Sellars was in th land of dreams; but though for fifteen days and nights be had not known three hours" consecutive sleep, at six o'clock the following morning be was conferring with Adam in his office. "You are sure then, Adam, absolutely certain that should you see that man agait you would recognize hira?" "Certain, Mars Lang! Certain!" "Then go home and give this note to your mistress. Do not give it to her un til after Herman .Craven has left the house. She will give yon a missive for me. Put on your best suit not a coach man's toggery, but the suit you spark that girl of Freeman's in, and be here at twelve o'clock." "G'long, Mars Lang! Wha yon know 'bout my sparkin'?" "Well, be here. Go now. I want no de lay." At nine o'clock Sellars again entered tb private office of Postmaster Grady. "Sellars! By the great guns!" exclaim ed Grady, leaping to his feet. "Yon are lust in the nick of time. I was about to send for you. Here is a letter that arriv ed this morning. You can see it is ad dressed to Herman Craven, president of 'The Cape Fear Bank, and is marked 'personal.' I do not think it pertains tM bank business. Look at it Sellars took the envelope in his hand. "Postmarked Baltimore," he observed. "If I mistake not, it ia the letter I have been looking for." With a sponge from the postmaster's desk be moistened the mucilage on the back of the envelope and soon held the sheet of paper it had contained before hit eyes. - "Good heavens!" he presently exclaim ed, while his band trembled and hia fea tures paled. "I half expected it, several days ago. One mystery la a mystery no longer! Grady, to your vigilance I owe much! ' The scoundrel! The murdering hound! Cool, consummate, smiling vil lain though you are, ere twenty-four hours roll by I will have you in my grasp!" ' "Why, Sellars, I never saw you so work ed up!" "You have discretion, Grady; read that!" The postmaster did so, and became scarcely less agitated than was the de tective. "Not a word, Grady, and ask me no guest ions, I beg you; bat give me the nse of your desk for ten minutes, and furnish me a large envelope not of the official kind, but one that will contain considera ble bulk. I think I can counterfeit his hand. If not, it does not matter." A half hour later Sellars entered the ex press office, bearing a large yellow envel ope, on the upper left-hand corner of which were these figures, $12,500. He looked twice at the address on the envelope before he approached the win dow bearing above it the words: "Valua ble Packages." "I wish this package to go oat on the Baltimore express at six-thirty to-night," he said to the clerk, "and without fail. I wish no one to know of the fact that such a package Is in existence save those who will handle it." "Your desires shall be carefully com plied with, Mr. Sellars. Yon have been at rreat service to our company and we wilT not ncgiect your wishes." "Thanks!" said Sellars as he pocketeo his receipt. But his eyes followed the package until it had disappeared in the Iron road safe of the company before he left the office. He walked with a lighter step and happier heart on his way to his home than he had when but a short time before he bad left there, and his left hand often arose instinctively to his breast pocket. where rested the missive that had wrought this change. "Golly! Dar comes Mara Lang!" ex claimed Calban, who in front of the honse was making a kite for Willie, while. Mrs. Sellars. seated on the piazza, was looking on. "Shu's you born. Missus Martha, he got ebery ting befo' him. He got de righ clue at las', dat he is!" "Hush, Calban !" "Has Adam arrived?" asked the detec tive, as he entered the gate. "Dar he comes. Mars Lang. Look at de nigger! ne dressed np lak be gwine see dat gal ob Doc Freeman's." "Bring him in the office, Calban," said Sellars, as he entered the house, followed by his wife. "Lang, Lang, tell me!" "Smooth sailing, wife, from bow ob God bless you!" "Here him. Mars Lang!" ."Well, Adam, have yon a letter for "Yes, Mars Lang. Here it Is. "Yes. well, be seated until I read It. and Sellars was soon doing so, and over lrter we will do likewise: "Dear Mr. Sellars-In compliance wttD ronr reouesr. senu auuiu. as long as yon desire. Hencso will not know of his absence for some aays at io, a period of three months, only one least. If he inquires for him he will be burial took place In the Dutch church informed that I have sent him on an er- yard, and that waa of a small child rand. That God may aid ana airect tue oue who is our sole reliance at this trying time 1 devoutly pray. Tours sincerely. "HARRIET M. DEI RUSKii wood, of Mountain Top, near wiuces iiisA hleaa the airll" exclaimed Lang, barre. Pa. The little stranger is her . . . i... ki. ivult as he tnrust ion r, " Now. Adam," he continued, uo not leave the house nntu you ao so u at six o'clock this evening. oawlu company me on a trip np the roao. "U rairoaa, nan ut "Yes, Adam, 'de ralroad. Now you sea leave Calban behind and take you with nar m nrtrT Bl TIT I fUUBIUCI jwaa " me- ... - 'v Isf Calban behin', Mara LangT" " ' "Yea. Calban. this time. It Is Adam's eyes that I require; but whlla we are gone I have an important mission for yon. A very important one. I wish you to keep your eyes on Herman Craven from the time he leaves the court house at night un til he enters the door of tbe De Rosette residence; to watch that door until he de parts therefrom, and to see him again enter the court house; to do the same to morrow and each successively until my return. He must not leave me city wita out your knowledge. You understand?" "Yes, Mars Lang, and be sba'n't. But what I gwiue do if he goes to de train?" "Go to Lawyer Dobbs and notify him at once of what train he has departed on. But I do not think yon will have that trouble. Be careful that he does not sus pect yon are watching him." Trus' me fer dat, Mara Lang." "I do, Calban. I dor exclaimed Sel lars, as he turned from the room. The balance of tbe day dragged by slow ly to the detective; nor did he feel content until be was seated in one of the Wilming ton and Weldon coaches, at six-thirty, aud until the train drew ot of the depot and sped northward through the pines. Adam, the coachman, waa seated in the (contraband car, the proudest African In au lav oubsj vuv tuu tuc vu that kept ringing through nis bead was: "I's gwine 'long wid Mars Lang to fine de man what answer to de name ob C A, Stephens." (To be continued.) - COLONY THAT FAILED. Caltared Poles Wbo Didn't Make a Sncceaa of Faraatna Arden la all that remains of a Uto pian colony which wag established here by a party of sentimental Polish patri ots about twenty-three years ago. Itwaa composed of refugees and reformers, artists and idealists, under the leader ship of Vladscot, the poet, whose odea and lyrics have - since made him fa mous; Michael KroscblskL the famous and perhaps the foremost Polish paint er; Helena Modjeska, who was then at the zenith of her fame as an actress; Count Bozenta, her husband, wbo was expelled from Poland because of bis patriotic energy; Henryk Sienklewlcz, who has sluce become famous as the author of "Quo Vadls," and others of similar stripe, who made a vain and patriotic attempt at co-operative agri culture, with the most unhappy results. There were thirty-three of these peo ple all told twenty-four young men and nine young women, mostly artists, musicians and authors. Four were act ors and two were sculptors of eminence In their native land. All belonged to tbe artistic professions and none bad the slightest experience or knowledge of farming or the practical affairs of life. They expected to live au :?yllic existence in California, Uke tbe lotus eaters in Tennyson's poem, with much love and little labor, and from tbe fleeces of their flocks and the fruit of their olive and orange groves they ex pected to find sustenance, while the artists could paint the turquoise sky and the purple mountains, and the rest could dream and write. They came In 1870. They settled on tract of land In Orange County, which they were Induced to buy through the enterprise of a Los Angeles real estate agent, and they expended their entire capital of $54,000 in the purchase of the property, the erection of Buildings and securing machinery, implements and live stock. Only two or three could Bpeak English, and none had ever work ed on a farm before. Therefore, they were at tbe mercy of unscrupulous neighbors, who did not hesitate to take advantage of tbe confiding and unso phisticated foreigners. It Is said that if the Poles bad beeu willing to lie quietly under the orange trees and smoke their cigarettes with out attempting to interfere with nature tbe farms would have given them a living; But being unaccustomed to manual labor and undertaking to con duct their business upon theories which they found in books the only reward they reaped for their serene faith was poverty and disaster. Notwithstanding all the books they had read and the theories they had formed to the con trary, they found that farming was not as much fun as they had expected, and to the end they were never able to un derstand wby their books did not con tain antidotes for tbe misfortune which seemed the ordinary every-day fate of farmers. But during all their afflictions ana distress they never forgot their artistic tastes, and one of their neighbors now living In San Diego tells how be found the whole colony assembled in the loft of the barn one morning listening to a symphony by Sebastian Bach In D minor while the last cow was dying of colic caused by Improper food. Starvation' finally compelled the cot ony to disintegrate. Modjeska and the other theatrical people went back upon the stage and Henryk Sienklewlcz went to Los Angeles, where he lived in an attic and cooked his own meals until he could get money to pay bis passage back to Poland, while the remainder found temporary employment until they could obtalri relief. Sienklewlcz Is well remembered by the old residents here. He was then about 24 years old . and was always writing. He learned a little English at the boarding bouse where he found refuge in Los Angeles, but no one ever suspected his talent until "Quo Vadlsi' appeared In print. San Diego (CaL) letter In Chicago Record. Horace Greeley Is editor of the En terprise at Thornton, la. Alton, 111., has the largest glass bot tle factory in the world. Women are increasing In number in the British civil service. of the heaithiet years ever ex- I .Unnui in Alhanv. TM Y occurred ,n 1?g5 From December 9 to March run ur An Infant boy has Just come to de- Hght the home of Mrs. William Swart- I twpnlv.fifth child, and haa twenty- " " C' VC .v. " Horace Howard Furness. of Philadelphia, has received the degree of doctop oc awB from the University or Cambridge. England, in recognition of nis achievements as a Shakespearean nillllir M lit I fHllinr. i Mining; industries In the Transvaal were so prontaoie last year mat ,- ' 000,000 in dividends were forwarded to j the EngUsh stockholders. I New York City has many expert horsewomen. 1 . . . TKADE IN HUMANITY. CANNIBALISM IN COUNTRY OF THE CONGO AFRICA, - .savagery of the (Un Traffic Be tween Two cf tbe Native Tribe-Vic-tiaia Led Aroand, and Cboica Cato t old "on Foot." Of the numerous Instances that might be recorded In Illustration of the organized traffic In human beings which exists, reference may be made to the conditions which hold in the district through which the Lulungu River pass es. This river, which constitutes a con siderable affluent of the Congo, empties Into the latter river, on the south bank. at a point some 800 miles from tbe At lantic coast Within a short distance of the confluence Is to be found a series of strongly fortified villages, represent ing the headquarters of the Ngonibl, wherein numbers of slaves are Impris oned, pending the periodical visits of traders from the Ubangl country, which is situated on tbe opposite side of the Congo. A visit to one of these slave depots at the mouth of tbe Lulun gu Uiver reveals a condition of sav agery and suffering beyond all ordinary power of description. At the period to which these remarks bear reference It was no uncommon experience to wit ness at one time upward of a hundred captives of both sexes and of all ages. Including Infants, In .their wretched motaers arms, lying In groups; masses of utterly forlorn humanity, with eyes downcast in a stony stare, with bodies attenuated by starvation, and with skin of that dull gray hue, which among col ored races is always Indicative of phy sical distress. In cases when a suspicion existed of an individual captive's Intention or ability to escape, such unfortunate crea ture was doomed to He hobbled with one foot forced through a hole cnt In the section of a log, while a spearhead was driven Into tbe wood close beside tbe limb, rendering It Impossible to Move except at tbe expense, of lacera tion. Other means to insure tbe prison er's safe custody consisted In binding both hands above the bead to the king post of a but, or in binding the arms and plaiting the hair Into a braid, which was made fast to a branch overhead. At Intervals these villages were visited by tbe Ubangl, who came In large dug out war canoes, and the process of bar ter commenced, elephant tusks being the medium of currency used In the purchase of the slaves. Upon the con clusion of this unnatural transaction, the visitors retired, taking with them is many of the Individuals as had been transferred to their possession bwthe tedious nrocesa of bartfainlnt i, N react lug their -destination the catarasZli were In most cases subjected to many further ordeals, being exchanged Into sther - bands, until eventually, after having been deliberately fattened, they met their tragic fate, and their bodies were consumed. . There Is a prevalent belief Among nany of the riverine tribes of tbe Up per Congo that tbe flavor of human 3esh Is improved by submerging tbe prospective victim up to tbe neck In water for two or three days previous :o the sacrifice. Indeed, upon two sep arate occasions It was my privilege to release several - poor creatures who were bound band and foot to stakes In :he river. In certain native market ilaces, notably In the vicinity of the "bang!, it Is an ordinary occurrence for :aptlves to be exposed for sale. In most rases with the sinister fate In view of eing killed and eaten. Proportionate y, a greater number of men than wom ?n fall victims to cannibalism, the rea son being that women who are still young are esteemed as being of greater value, by reason of utility In growing and cooking food. This rule does not, lowever, bold good throughout, for In the vicinity of the Arulml River our bservat)ons revealed a contrary order f custom. Probably the most Inhuman practice f all is to be met with among the tribes wbo deliberately hawk the victim piece seal while still alive. Incredible as It nay appear, the fact remains Justified by an only too abundant proof; captives ire led from place to place In order that Individuals may have tbe opportunity f indicating, by external marks upon tbe body, tbe portion they desire to ac julre. The distinguishing marks are jenerally made by means of colored :Iay, or strips of grass tied In a partic ular fashion. .The astounding stoicism f tbe victim, wbo thus witnesses the bargaining for his limbs. Is only equaled sy the callousness with which be walks forward to meet bis fate. In explana tion of the extraordinary Indifference bus displayed It can only be assumed :bat death to robbed of all terror, life jnder conditions of slavery offering so little attraction. CasseU'a Magazine. A Mathematician. Old Gent (who knows tbe young man's salary) If you and my daugh ter cculd live respectably and comfort ably on 1 20 a week, I should not ob ject to tbe match. But yon can't Young man No; but my salary Is $20 a week, and that added to the $20 , a week you are talking aoout would make $40. Paris Messenger. RICHARD WATSON GILDER. .Cdltor of Ceatary Magazine Onm of tbe Bret Known Asnerlcaa Poeta. Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, one ol be best known of American poets, was orn on Feb. 8. 1844. in Bordentown. t. J. He began bis literary career as i Journalist became editor of "Hours it Home" in 1808. shortly after as sumed the associate editorship of "Scribner Magazine," and upon tbe Jeatb of Dr. J. Q. Holland, 1881. suc ceeded him as editor-in-chief, tbe name af the magaslne having been, la tbe meantime, changed to The Century. In this position his influence upon Ameri can literature and art haa been second to no man of his times. Mr. Gilder's first volume of Terse, Tbe New Day." appeared In 1875, and was followed, by "The Celestial Pac tion," 1887; "Lyrics," 1880 and 1887; "Two Worlds and Other Poems." 1881; "Tbe Qrsat Remsmbranos, and Other tBOa , mia.nta of -. - - Sir- M ,". Yi-i' nve volumes were gathered Into ont I' volume, under the title "Five Books ol Song," and published by the Ceuturj Company In ISM. He has since pub Ushed "For the Country," 18S7. and "It B. W. GILDER. ' Palestine" last year, both by tbe Cen tury Company. I Mr. Gilder holds a distinct and boi, orable position among American poets His first volume, written under tbe in fluence of Italian studies, contained lyrics of much Imaginative beauty. Its fine quality and verse since has been warmly received. In later years his work has shown a wide range ol themes a broadening vision and deepening purpose. As bas been well said, however. "He remains neverthe less essentially a lyrist, a maker ol songs; a thorough artist, who bas se riousness, dignity and charm. His is an earnest nature, sensitive alike tc. vital contemporaneous problems and tt the honey-sweet voice of the IdeaL" CONSUMPTION IN OLD BOOKS Twaaty Clerks Killed by Germs io Michigan ftate Record. Specialists In pulmonary diseases, physicians in general and particularly clerks and office managers, whose du ties compel them to constantly examine and handle documents and record cohstmpttvb's thumb mask. books, are Intensely Interested in the report sent from the Michigan Board of Health at Lansing, telling of the death from tuberculosis of twenty clerks, wbo contracted the dlseass through handling old records. It seems that the clerks were em ployed In a labor bureau, and their work compelled them to turn over and over old volumes of records. Within a short time the men were seized with consumption, one after another, and all died. It was finally discovered that tue volumes of records were full of the bacilli of tuberculosis, or consump tion, and It was decided that the men had become diseased through constant and close use of the Infected volumes. It was learned on careful inquiry that a consumptive clerk had been employ ed in tbe place, and that be bad a habit of moistening his fingers In bis mouth when he turned the pages of the books. SENATOR PLATT A HUSTLER. Attention to Small Tbinaa One Reaaon for Hia Succeaa. Senator Piatt, of New York, Is on. of the best workers that I ever saw. t enra a Hoiwrtmoti nfflfn1 In W a ahln fit. ton. Between sessions of Congress some Senators and Representatives never come to Washington. They at tend to all their business by correspond ence, half the time falling to accom plish anything. Senaor Piatt never does that He comes to Washington once a week, sometimes twice, and he saways comes with many matters to attend to for constituents. He does not think he Is too Important or too big a statesman to visit the departments In behalf of his pary friends and constit uents, and It Is surprising how small SSWATOBt PLATT. are the things he personally takes up. He goes from one department to an other and makes a strong presentation of every matter he Is asked to look out for. This shows that be has given it study and that he desires to oblige those who have called upon him for fa vors. There are many men In public life who consider this kind of work be neath them, and who permit their sec retaries to look after requests of con stituents except In cases of men of power or influence hi tbe State. Sen ator Piatt is a hard and successful worker, and his willingness to help his friends accounts for his marvelous con trol of politics In the Empire State. for real genuine sarcastic comment. axe rajwrsd to tba-tombatouM 10 ' : - r--.-'--V -- '.--"'.a.i; if ULUFF.WON THE DAY. 300D AS A LETTER OF CREDIT IN EUROPE. It Wouldn't Hav Worked la Ameri ca, bat In th tattle Nice Hotel 1 Carried Kverytaiaa Before-It -Aa aranca of a Yankee Toariat, "Here at home bluff doesn't count to. much." said a globe trotter, "but I'm telling you that a good, stiff bluff, with i cheeky American behind It, Is worth a lot of money In Europe. When I got iround to Nice last year the best hotels were crowded and I bad to take up with a small room. On the same floor was a German wbo was occupying a suite, though not spending much mon .y or putting on any great style. One Jay there was a great row. The land lord bad asked blm as a particular fa vor to vacate for a new-comer, and, of course, the man didn't propose to be turned out The landlord coaxed aud irgued, and tbe German growled and muttered, and I followed them down to the office to see bow it would come out. At tbe 'desk was an American I bad run across in Venice a buyer for a Chicago dry-goods bouse. .uen the landlord and the German began to nibble In chorus tbe buyer pulled a rrtnnk check from bis pocket and reach id for a pen and said: " 'All this talk Is of no use. I want rooms here. I will buy tbe hotel and lelect my suite. Sir, what Is your cash price for this hotel I" " 'You would buy the hoteir exclalm d the landlord, as be threw up hir hands In surprise. "Grounds and all,, and I want it to- lay. How much a million three or four? And what name shall I fill in n the check? "Say, now," laughed the tourist, "bu ou ought to have seen that thing work! The German bad determined to be ugly about It, but when he bumped up against a man who had as soon pay four millions as one for what be fan cied be felt awed' and bumbled and ready to quit The landlord figured that to turn away such a Croesus would ruin his bouse, and it wasn't inlf an hour before tbe bluffer was nstalled in tbe suite and tbe German was chunked out into a dog bole on tbe op floor. And that wasn't all. mind rou. When tbey sent the buyer a bill j lasea on nis supposed millions ne got lp and threatened to buy up the town ind start six soap factories to running, ind they cut every Item In two and pegged his pardon to boot I don't be ieve that chap bad $1,000 In his name, rat be Just walked over everything and everybody far two weeks, and It was urrent gossip that he owned the whole )f Chicago and a good share of St Uxilaacd Cincinnati. Nothing .but I ?old Muff which -wouldn't b " tim into an America lrr.d-head, but It v er of credit for $1 -Sc-ttle-TtaA. 1 FIQHTINfe. UUY HENrt '.Vae Oao of the Bravest Saldlers Who Ever Wore the Blue. Death mustered out of the service In he country In Gen. Guy V. Henry one it tbe bravest soldiers and most pic turesque characters who ever wore the blue. General Henry more than any ither army officer, perhaps, filled tbe romance writer's Idea of a "bean yibreur." During his long army career be was almost constantly with tbe cavalry, and he was always p-. the fore front of a charge. At Cold Harbor he rd a brigade across an open bullet iwept field. Midway of the charge he ivas wounded and bis horse was killed, de mounted another horse and led on. His second steed was killed just as. Id obedience to Henry's spur. It rose to lump over the enemy's entrenchment. The rider fell wounded valtbln tbe lines of the foe. For this Congress rave him a medal of honor. General Henry fought the Apaches In the early 70s, and a few years-later was shot through the bead In a battle with the Sioux. He recovered, and later on took tbe field again against the same Indi ans. As Lieutenant Colonel. General Henry was in command of the Ninth Cavalry In the field against the Sioux in 1890. His black troopers Idolized blm. One day under his leadership they had made a forced march of fifty miles from beyond the White River. They bad eaten only a little bread and a cup of coffee each. Word came that tbe Seventh Cavalry was surrounded. Henry looked at his jaded men and asked his junior officers to sound the temper of the troopers. Would they follow blm to the relief of the Seventh 1 When the colored men found out that Henry wished them to follow they sprang to their saddles and rode after him as though, as some one expressed it, they were going to a ball. Henry and his men rode altogether about elchtr miles that day. and the Seventh was saved. General Henry wore the army's medal of honor for consplcuoui gallantry. He sever held any b ureal position. He was a fighting soldlei pure and simple, being better ac quainted with the frontier camn thai with the streets of the city of Wash ington. " Some men are of no use until they die, and their life Insnranos OCX. OUT V. HEHBT. SERMON Rco. Br. talma Subject: The Comlne SerraoTnplratlea J-"cr the Future lCeligloue Kxhortatloa Will Be Drawn Kroin the Living ChrUt Theology Must Take a Back SeaU (Copyright. Louis Klopach. 1KV.I Washisotom, D.C. In this discourse Dr. Talmage addresses all Ouristlan workers and describe wliat he thinks will be the modes ot preaoliiag tbeirospel in tbe future; text, Itoinaus xil., 7, "Or ministry, let ns wnit on nnr ministering." While I was seated ou a piazza ot a hotel at Lexington, Kv., one Rnmmei evening; a giMitlemau asked mo, "What do you thiuk of the coining sermon?" 1 supposed he was asking melu regard to some new discourse ot Dr. Camming of London, who some times preached startling sermons, and I replied, "I bave not seen It." Hut I found out afterward tbat be meant to ask what 1 thought would be tbe characteristics ol tbe coming sermon ot tbe world, the ser mons of the future, the word "Cuinsiing" as a nonu pronounced the same as the word "coming" as an adjective. But my mistake suggested to me a very Important and practical tbeme, "Tbe Coming Ser mon." Before the world is converted the style ol religious discourse will bave to be" con verted. Yon might as well go Into tbe modern Sedan or Gettysburg with bowt and arrows. Instead ot rises and bombshells and parks of artillery, as to expect to con quer this world for Ood by tbe old styles of exhortation and sermonology. Jona than Edwards preached the sermons most adapted to the age in which be lived, but If tbose sermons were preached now they would divide an audience Into two classes those sound asleep and those wanting to go home. Bat there is a discourse of the future. Who will preach It I bave no idea. In what part of tbe earth tt will be born I have no Idea. In which denomination of Christians It will be delivered I cannot guess. That discourso of exhortation may be born In tbe country meeting honse on the banks ol the St. Lawrence orthe Oregon or tbe Ohio or the Tombigbee or tbe Alabama. The person who shall deliver it may this mo ment be in a cradle under the shadow o! the Sierra Nevadas or in a New England farmhouse or amid tbe riceflelds of South ern savannas, or tbls moment there may be some young man In one of our theological seminaries, in the jnulor or middle or sen ior class, shaping tbat weapon of power, or there may be coming some new baptism of tbe Holy Ghost on the churches, so thai some ot us who now stand In the watch towers of Zion, waking to a realization ol our present efficiency, may preach It our selves. That coming discourse may not be fifty years off. And let us pray God that Its arrival may be hastened while I an nounce to you whatl.thlnk will be the chiel characteristics ot tbat discourse or exhor tation when It does airive, and I want tc make my remarks appropriate and sug gestive to all classes of Cbristlau workers. First of all, I remark that that future re ligious discourse will be fall of a living Christ in contradistinction to didactic technicalities. A discourse may be fall ol Christ though hardly mentioning His name, and a sermon may be empty of Christ while .every sentence is repetitious of His titles. Thw world wants a living Christ, not Christ standing at the bend of a formal sys Item of theology, bat a Christ who menu; I pardon and sympathy and condolence and brotherhood and life and heaven, a pool man's Christ, a rich man's Christ, an over worked man's Christ, an invalid's Christ, f (farmer's Christ, a merchant's Christ, an ar- - an every (ban's Cbrfst. - e worded systatn-uj t- -on eu0uH.i tor, totueelOcvAial . ..osses, out It bas no more business in a Ipulpit than have the technical phrases ol 'an anaiomist or a psyohologist or a physi cian In the sickroom ot a patient. Tli world wants help. Immediate and world .uplifting, and it will come through a dis- 'AAnvu. In h nh rl.la, I. ... I 1 L course In which Christ shall walk right down into tbe Immortal soul and take ever 'lasting possession ot it, filling it as full of i light as Is this noonday Armament. 1 That sermon of exhortntton ot the future 'will not deal with men In the threadbare illustrations of Jesus Christ. In tbat com ing address there will be instances ol vicarious suffering taken right out ol everyday life, for there is not a day when somebody Is not djing for others us tbe physician saving his diphtheritic patient by sacrificing bis own lite; as the ship cap tain going down with bis vessel while be Is getting Us passengers Into the lifeboat; as the firemnn consuming In tbe burning building while he is taking a child out of a fourth story window; as In summer tbe strong swimmer at East Hampton or Long Branch or Cape May or Lake George him self perished trying to rescue tbe drown ing; as the newspaper boy one summer, supporting his mother for some years, his Invalid mother, when offered by a gentle man fifty cents to get some special paper, and be got it and rushed up in bis auxiety to deliver It and was crashed under the wheels of the train and lay on tbe grass with only strength enough to sny, "Oh, what will become ot mv poor, sick mother now?" Vicarious suffering the world Is full ot It. An engineer said to m on a locomotive In Dakota: "We men seem to be coming to a better appreciation than we used to. Did you see tbat acoount the other day of an engineer wbo to save his passengers stuck to his post, and when he was found dead In the locomotive wblcb was upside down, he was found still smil ing, bis band on tne air-Draker And as the engineer said it to me he nut bis band on the air-brake to Illustrate his meaning, and looked at me and thought: "You would be just as much a hero In the same crisis." Ob, In that religious discourse of the future there will be living Illustrations taken out from everyday life ot vicarious suffering Illustrations that will rriug to mind the ghastlier sacrifice of Him, who In the high places of tbe field, on the cross, fought oar battles, and endured our strug gle and died our death. A German sculp tor made an image of Christ, and he asked bis little child, two years old, wbo It was, and tlio said, "Tbat must be some very great man." Tbe sculptor was displeased with the criticism, so he got another block of marble and chiseled away on it two ot tbree years, and then ha brought In bis little child, fonr or five years of age, and said to her, "Wbo do you think that is?" She said, "That must be tbe One who took little children in His arms and blessed them." Then tbe sculptor was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what tbe world wants is not a cold Christ, not an intellectual Christ, not a severely magisterial Christ, but a loving Christ, spreading out His arms of sympathy to presstbe whole world to His loving heart. But I remark again tbat tbe religious discourse of the future will have to be short. Condensation I demanded by tbe age In which we livo. No more need of long Introductions and long applications and so many divisions to a discourse tbat It may be said to be bydra-headed. In other days men got all their information from tbe pulpit. Tbere were few books, snd there were no newspapers, and there was little travel from place to place, and people would sit and listen two and a half hoars to a religious discourse, and "seven teenthly" would find tbem fresh and chip per. In those days there was enough time for a man to take an hour to wiirm himself np to the subject and an hour to cool off. But what was a necessity thea Is a super fluity now. Congregations are fall of knowledge from books, from newspapers, from rapid and continuous Intercommuni cation and long disquisitions of whnt tbey know already will not be abided. If a re ligions teacher cannot compress what be wishes to say to the people In tbe space of forty-five minutes, better adjourn it to some other day. Tbe trouble is we preach an Hences Into I Chris' Ian fratr. and then wo .t.-.-'i hem out of it. Wn forget that ev-ry ninl tor bos so mnch eauncitv of nttniul.ui, mi 1 rhen that Is exhausted Ho Is rextle. 'i'tin-. tecldent on the Lou ; Inland railroad e-ir-t igo on me from tbe fact that the lr:ik' vers out of order, and when tin y w.n.te I o stop tbe train they could nr.t stop, m: 1 tence tbe easualty was terrific. In all rr Iglous discourse we want locomotive power lOd prnoulslon. We want at the same time. tout brakes to let ilow i at the right In- --taut. It Is a dl mal thing, after a hearer , ins com preli ended the whole subject, to tear a nina nay, "Now to recapitulate," ind "A few words by way f application" md "Once more," aud "Finally." and 'Now to conclude." 1'a u I preached until midnight, and Euty :hus got sound asleep and fell out of a vin iow and broke his neok. Some would lay, "Good for him." I would rather be lympathetic, iiko Paul, and resuscitate lim. That accident Is often quoted now ia religious circles as a warning against sora lolnnce in church. It is just as much a irarning to ministers against prolixity. Sutyehus was wroug in his somnolence, JUL Paul made a mistake when he kept on ni'il midnight. He ought to bave stopped it llo'clock, and there would have been 10 accident. If Panl might have gone on :o too great length, let all those of us wbo tre now preaching the gospel remember :hat there Is a limit to religious discourse, r ought to be, and that in our time wa lave no apostolio power of miraules. Ma jo'ioon I., an address of seven minutes i.rilled his army and thrilled Europe. Christ's sermon on the mount, tbe model lermon.was less than eighteen minutes long it ordinary mode of delivery. It Is not rieetricity scattered all over the sky tbat itrikes, bat electrioity gathered into a :handerbolt and burled, and It is not relig ous truth scattered over and spread out rer a vast reach of time, bat religious rratb projected In compact form tbat lashes light upon the soul and rives its ndifference. When tbe religions discourse of the future arrives in this land and In the Christian church, tbe discourse which is to arouse tbe world and startle the nations ind usher in the kingdom. It will be a brief ilsoourse. Hear It, all theological students, all ye lust entering upon religious work, all ye men and women wbo In Sabbath schools and other departments are toiling foi Christ and the salvation of immortals brevity, brevltyl But I remark also tbat the rellgiout discourse ot the future ot which I speak will be a popular discourse. Tbere are those in these times wbo speak of a popular sermon as though there mast be something wrong aboat it. As these critics are dull themselves, the world gets the impression that a sermon is good in proportion as it If stupid. Christ was the most popular preacher the' world ever saw and, con sidering the small number ot tbe world's population, had the largest au dience ever gathered. He never preached anywhere without making a great sensation. People rushed out In tbe wild erness to hear Him reckless ot their phys ical necessities. So great wo? their anxie ty to bear Christ tbat, taking no food with tbem, they would have fainted and starved bad not "Christ performed a miracle and fed tbem. Wby did so many people take the truth at Christ's hands? Because the all understood it. He Illustrated His sub ject by a hen and ber ohlckens, by a hushe! measure, by a handful ot snlt, by a bird'i igbt and by a lily's aroma. All the peopU knew what He meant, and they flocked tc Him. And when the religious discourse ol the future appears it will nut be Prince- . Ionian, not Bochesterlnn, not Andovt-rian ; not Middletonlan, but Olivetie plain practical, unique, earnest, compreliensivi of all tbe woes, wants, sins and sorrows o -an auditory. ' But when that exhortation or disconiv does come there will be a thousand glean. Ing sclmlters to charge on it. There are it so p any theological seminaries professors telling young men how to prenoh, lhem-v selves not knowing how, and I am told thai ' ' If a young man In some of our theological ' seminaries savs anything quaint or tliri'' Ing or unique faculty and stude" , blm and set blm right and s' out and smooth him dowr off until be says everyt bi body else says it. Oh, v" 4. M"ionsdiso"--" i cities will bnti. 2- olrltual belD. All wbo have burled -TT dead want comfort. AH know thnmselvri to be mortal and to be Immortal, and the) want to bear about tbe great future. I tej you, my friends, if the people of cur gre' Hties who have bad trouble only tboug Ibey could get practical and sympatbc help in the Christian church, tbere wou not be a street In Washington or New Vo or any other city which would be passnb on the Sabbath day tf there wore a church on it, for all the people would pre-s tc that asylum of mercy, tbat great house ol comfort and consolation, i A mother with a dead babe in her arms came to the god Siva and asked to have her child restored to life. Tbe god Hiv eatd to her, "You go and get a handful ot mustarU seed from a bouse in which there has been no sorrow and in which tbere has been no death, and I will restore your ehlld to life." 80 the mother went oat, and she went from bouse to bouse and from borne to borne looking for a place where there bad been no sorrow and where there bad been no death, but bhe found none. She went back to the god Siva and said: "My mission is a failure. You see, 1 haven't brought the mustard seed. I can't nnd a place where tbere bas been no sor row and no death." "Oh!" says the god Siva. "Understand, your sorrows are no worse than the sorrows ot others. We all bave our griefs, and all have our heart breaks." "Laugb, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow Its mirth. Bat has trouble enough of its own." We bear a great daal of discussion now all over the laud about why people do not go to church. Some say it is becaure Christianity is dying out and because peo ple do not believe In the truth of God'e word, and all that. They are false rensons. The tenson Is because our sermons and ex hortations are not Interesting and practl :al and helpful. Some one might as well tell the whole truth on this subject, and so I will tell tt. The religious discourse ot the future, tbe gospel sermon to come forth and shake tbe nations and lift people out of darkness, will be a popular sermon, just for the sim ple reason that It will meet the woes and tbe wnnts and the anxieties of the people. There are in all our denominations ec clesiastical mummies sitting around to frown upon the fresh young pulpit- ot America to try to awe tbem down, to cry out: "Tut, tut, tutl Sensational!" They stand to-dny preaching In churches tbat hold a thousand people, nnd there are a hundred per ons present, and If they can not have the world saved la their way It seems as if they do not want it snved at all. I do not know but the old wayot making ministers of tbe gospel Is better a col legiate education and an apprenticeship under the care and home ntteullon of some earnest, aged Christian minister, the young man getting the patrinn-h's spirit aud as sisting blm In bis religious service. The printing press is to be tho great agency of gospel proclamation. It is high time that good men. Instead of denounclug the press, employ it to scatter forth tbe gospel ot Jesus Christ. The vast majority of people In our cities do not come to church and nothing bnt the printed sermon can reach them and call them to pardon snd life and peace and heaven. Tbe time will come when all tbe village, town and city newspapers will reproduce the gospel of Jesus Christ, and Bermons preached on tbe Sabbath will reverberate all nround tbe world, an.1,so-ne by type and some by voice, all niitioi.s will be evange lized. . Reading Is seeing by proxy. There are two things that a man can't lose, and can't bequeath a vir tuous heart and a good education. Any one mav do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of the temperament. The purest water runs from the hardest rock. The theatre of life has no programs whether the first act is on, or the last, who sha'l say? ' Dan Collyer will Join Anna Held In "Papa's Wife." Crane will shelve "Peter Stuyves ant" and play -only "A Kich Man's Son" on tbe road. Man is' but a seed and the grave his furrow.
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