t i. 1. B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNIOfl--AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. VOL. LIV. MIFFLIXTOWX. JXIATA.COUNTY, PESX., AVEDNESDAY, JANUAHY 31, 1900. CITA I'TER XII. ,r!eMn. darting homeward throngh the twilighted garden, after another stol en meeting with Tom I'eyton on the gar j.n wall, strips as she reaches the sum mer house, a favorite resort of Vera's, notwithstanding the father unpleasant associations connected with it, and pokes In her heail to find Vera there. I've rome back," she cries, breath lessly, sinking into a seat and looking at Vera with despair in her eyes. "I hare jone as you desired me, I have said good oy to him forever!" "What did he say? Was he Tery much upset?" with burning interest. "He said he'd manage to see -roe In nonie way or other," says Griselda, with a heavy sigh. " h, well come now, that's not so had." says Vera, cheerfully, forgetful of prudence at sight of her sister's grief, "lie seems from all I have heard from you a a port of a person who would be difficult to baffle. I think I should put fuith in that declaration of his if I were you." "Oh. he said more than that." cries Hriselda. "Why, it appears that Tom Mr. I'eyton knows Seaton quite well, and likes him, too. Mr. Peyton says that he. Seaton, Is engaged to be married to a Miss Butler, a friend of Lady Ilir prilale's." For a moment there is a dead silence, during which the pretty crimson on Vera's cheek dies out, leaving her singu larly pale. No doubt the surprise is great. "Is that true?" she says. "I should not be surprised, though I confess I am; It ia only what I might have expected from my first judgment of him. And .me should not condemn him, either; it is not his fault that he calls Uncle Gregory father." A footstep upon the gravel outside makes them both turn their heads. "What is it, Grunch?" Vera calmly asks as the housekeeper appears on the threshold. "The master wishes to see yon. Miss Dysart, in the library." There is an ex pression of malignant amusement in the woman's eyes as she says this. Vera had gone into the library with a pale face, but it was with one paler still she came out ot it half an hour later, white as death, and with a strained look of passion on every feature not to be sub- a - , aura, one migm -remaps nave given way to the blessed relier of tears if she had had time to escape Griselda P'but as she finds herself looking at Seaton Dysart, who has at this moment entered the in ner hall leading to the room she has just left, all her being seems to stiffen into a cold horror of contempt. She stops short and fixes her heavy eyes on bis. "So you betrayed me!" she says, in a low tone that vibrates with scorn. "Betrayed you?" echoes he, starting. There is that in her face not to be mis taken, and a presentiment of coming evil sends a hot flush to bis brow. "You are a bad actor," says she, with a palesmile: "you change color, at a crisis; you have still a last grain of hon esty left in you. You should see to that; kill it quickly, it spoils your otherwise perfect role." "Yon are pleased to be enigmatical," says he, with a frown. "I am, however, at a loss to know what you mean." "Oh, are yon ashamed to keep it up the deception?" cries she with a sud den outbreak of wrath. "Oh, how could you do it?" "Great heaven! how can I convince you that I have done nothing?" exclaims he, growing pale as herself. "There waa no one else awake, there was no one to see me," says she, trying to stifle her agitation. "What, then, must I think but that you were the one to tell your father of that unlucky night when I was locked ont in the garden?" "He has heard that?" Seaton, a If thunderstruck, looks blankly at her. "Why do you compel me to tell yon what you already know?" says she, with a little irrepressible stamp of her foot. "If you will listen to what Is already no news to you, learn that your father sent for me just now a long time ago, hours ago, I think," putting her hand to her head in a little, confused, miserable way. "and accused me of having spent the whole night alone with you, purposely, in the garden." "And you think that I " "I don't think," with condemnatory Elance. "As I told you before, I know. Your father has insolently accused me of en impossible thing; but even if I had stayed in the garden with you that night, of my own free will, I cannot see where would lie the disgrace he connects with It." "You are right, no one could see dis grace where you were," says Seaton. calmly. "My father Is an old man, he " "Is old enough to know how to insult a woman," coldly, "when," with a terri ble glance at him, "shown the way. Oh," laying her hand upon her breast In a paroxysm of grief, "it was abominable of you, and you said twice yon said it," coming closer to him, and lifting accus ing eyes to his, " Trust me,' I remember it as though you uttered it but now, and I believed you. 'Trust me,' you said." "1 should say it again," says Dysart, "a hundred times again. Come," he says, a;;.) leads her back again to the library she has just quitted. tlregory Dysart still sits in his usual chair, his arms on the elbows of it, bis tare is set, as though death had laid its seal on It, save for the marvelously. horribly youthful eyes, so full of fire and life. "You will be so good as to explain to Vera at once," begins Seaton, in a dan gerous tone, "how it was you learned of her being in the garden the other night." "What night? She may have been out every night, for aught I know; she tells me she is fond of moonlight." replies the ohi man. impassively. "You understand perfectly the night of which I speak," says Seaton, his face now livid. "Who?" he repeats, in a low ut terrible voice. "Grunch," replies Mr. Dysart. shortly: something in his son's face warned hiro a"t to go further. "You hear?" says Seaton, turning tc Vera. "It was Grunch who betrayed ru. You are satisfied now?" "On that point, yes. I suppose. I should jffer you an apology." says 8ne, icily 'But." with a swift glance at his father, "how can I be satisfied when- Her voice- breaks. -"Sir," cries Seaton, addressing hif father with sudden passion, '-'why did you speak to her of this? Tby hare you deliberately insulted your -brother's .hild?" "There was no insult. I may have told her that if she choose to do such things s society disapproves of, she must only submit to the consequences and consider herself ostracised." " 'Compromised,' you said." "Well, it is as good a word; yon ar welcome to it." "Pshaw!" says Seaton, with a quick motion of the hand, as if dinging th idea far. from him, "let us have no more of such petty scandal. You forget,' sternly, "that when you seek to compro mise Vera, you condemn me, your son." "Dysart shrugged bis shoulders. "The man is never in fault; so youi vorld rules," says he. lightly. "You persist, then, in your insult," says Seaton, going a step nearer to him, the veins swelling in his forehead. "Yon rtill say that she " "I say that, and more," replied the old imp, undaunted, a very demon of ob stinacy having .now taken possession ol bis breast'. "I feel even bold enough to suggest to her the advisability of an im mediate marriage with you, as a means Jf crushing in the bud the scandal thai a sure to arise out of her imprudence." "Go, Vera; leave"the room," says Sea :on, with great emotion. ' '"' - "Why should she go? It seems to me rou give her bad advice," says Mr. Dv jart, looking from one to the other with i satirically - friendly glance. "Let her rather stay and discuss with us your carnage with ber. If he had been so foolishly blind as to lope by this bold move to force Vera into an engagement, his expectations are bow on the instant destroyed by his son. "Understand me, once for all, that I shall aot marry Vera," says he,' white with anger, and some strong feeling that be is almost powerless to suppress. "Were she to come to me this moment and lay ser nana in mine, and say she was wili ng so far to sacrifice herself, I should re cuse to listen to her." . . ' : 1" -- Vera, for the first, -time since her en trance, lifta her -bead to-took at .him. Was be thinking of Miss Butler? Wat ae true at last to her? A little bitter smile curls her hp. I "I thank you," she says, with a slight nclination of her head toward her cousin, ind with a swift step leaves the room: CHAPTER XIII. Four long days have crept languidly .nto the past, four of the dullest days Griselda Dysart has ever yet endured, as die is compelled to acknowledge even to lerself. Mowly, with aimless steps, she rises and flings aside the moldy volume she had found in one of the rooms below, md which she has been making a fruit ess effort to read, and looks out upon :he sunless pleasure-ground beneath het window. She becomes suddenly aware it an unfamiliar figure that, kneeling on :he grass before one of the beds, seems :o be weeding away for its dear life. It is certainly the new gardener. Pool reature, whoever he is, what could have nduced him to come here? Uncle Greg Dry bad evidently fonnd no difficulty, in replacing his former employe. Had he eenred this new gardener on the old poor terms? Unhappy creature! poverty ndeed must have been his guest before le and his clothes came to such a sorry ?asl At this moment the "unhappy :reature" lifts his bead, turns it deli ber itely toward her, and she finds herself 'ace to face with Tom Peyton! A little sharp cry breaks from her; she .tifles it, but turns very pale. "You! you!" she says. "Don't look like that!" he says, in a ow tone, but sharply. "Would you be ray me? Remember, it was my only hance of getting near you. Don't faint. mean, or do anything like that." "Oh, how could you do such a thing?" says she, in a trembling voice. "And ind how ' strange' you'look," and what lreadful clothes you have on!" "Well, I gave a good deal for them," ays he, casting an eloquent glance at bis :rousers; "more four times more than I ever yet gave for a suit. I'm sorry you lon't approve of them; but for myself, 1 hink them becoming, and positively tlory in them; I would rather have them :han any clothes I've ever yet had, and 1 think them right down cheap. It's -atber a sell if you don't think they suit ny style of beauty." He is disgracefully unalive to the hor or of his position. He is even elated by t. and is plainly on the point of bubbling ver with laughter. Given an opportu jity indeed, and it is certain he will give nirth away; Griselda, however, declines o help him to this opportunity. "It's horrid of you I don't know how rou can laugh," says she, beginning to ry. "I can't bear to see you dressed ike that, just like a common man." "Well I think you're a little unkind." ays he, regarding her reproachfully. "I lid think you would be glad to see me. '. thought, I fancied I suppose I was vrong that when we parted on that last lay yon were sorry that you would like o see me again." "Well, that was all true." says Gri ielda, sobtingly. "Then vhat are you crying about?" "I am uihappy that because of me you" nust be nade so uncomfortable." "If thats all," says he. beaming afresh. "it's notiing. I'm not a scrap uncom fortable. It strikes me as Deiug a son f a larl h'm a joke, I mean. I feel is jolly ts a sand-boy, and," with a ten ier, eanest glance, "far jollier, because I can new see you." "But iow long is it to last?" says she. r.nn.ir. "It can't go on like this for ever, aid Seaton comes down here some times, and he knows you." ., ... "I dire say I shall manage io him. fhough I have often thought late ly that it would be a good miug i aim lito our confidence." "Ol, no, no, no indeed," cries she; he migh: tell his father, and then .all would be u with us." . "Well, there's my sister, Gracie-she a veT good-natured woman. -an clever, too. If I were to tell her allshe would tell -Seaton, and between -them they might manage something. There's step! Go away, and try to see me to-morrow if you can." - ., : .. . , ... They have barely time to separate be-, fore the gaunt figure of Gcunch ia Been approaching through the laurels. , a-1 CHAPTER XIV. To-day Is wet; a soaking, steady down pour that commenced at early- dawn is still rendering miserable the shrubbery and gardens. i " - Vera, depressed by the inelaocholyof the day, has cast her ooox'Ttsifle.'a'nd, with a certainty of meeting, nobody in the. empty rooms apd. corridors, wanders aimlessly throughout their dreary length and ' breadth. These rooms are well known to her, and preseri'tly'wearying of them she turns aside and rather timidly pushes open a huge, faded, baize-covered door that leads she scarcely knows whith-' er. She pushes it back and looks eagerly inward. It is not an apartment, after all.- A long, -low, vaulted passage' reveals itself, only dimly lighted by a painted window at the lower end. " it appears to be a completely bare passage, leading no where; but presently, as she runs . her eyes along the eastern wall, a door meets them, an old oaken " door, -Iron-clasped and literally hung with cobwebs:.- Curiosity grows strpng. .'"within her. Catching the ancient handle, of this door a mere brass ring sunk in the w.oodwor she pushes against it with. all her might. In vain. But not deterred, -ehe pushes again and again; and at the- last trial of her strength a sharp sound a ring of something brazen falling on a stone Hoot crashes with a quick,, .altogether as tounding noise upon the tomblike silence that -fills the 'mysterious passage. - At the same moment the- door gives way; and she, unexpectedly yielding with it, steps hurriedly forward into a dark; and grewsome hole. : The poverty of the 'light has peiaiaps dimmed her sight, because after a little while a snadow on the' opposite ' wall, that resolves itself into an opening, be comes known to her. It is not a door, rather a heavy hempen curtain, and" now, resolutely determined to go through with her adventure, she advances toward it, pults it aside, and finds herself face to face with Gregory Dysart! He is on his knees, next that peculiar cabinet described 'in an earlier chapter, and as he lifts bis head upon her entrance,- a murderous glare, as of one hunted, desperate, comes into his curious eyes. ... The 'side of the cabinet is lying wide oped, and, as he involuntarily moves,, the. chink of golden coins falling one upon another alone breaks the loud silence that oppresses the atmosphere. ' In his hand he is holding an old and yellow' parch. ment. '. ' "I I'am sorry," murmurs "Vera, terri fied; "I did not know; I r" "What brought you ' here, giri--here where I believed myself safe? Go, go there is. nothing nothing, I tell you they lied to yon If they told yon any thinggo, I say!" " XT fias mtirelv lost tit Jf-twtaiiMitntV Sad tUl'keeBhg'1,bS''rh"flobr7h6w" hugging, bow trying to bide beneath him the paper he holds with his sinewy, ner vous fingers. "Go, go, go.!.T he shrieks, beside himself. He is in a perfect fwn ly; all dignity is. gone; to the girl stand ing trembling there it is a loathsome sight to see this old man on the brink of the grave thus crouching, abased, dishon ored. - -. "I, am going," she says, faintly. . She Is ghastly pale; the sight of him in his horrible fright, cringing thus upon the ground, has so unnerved her that she ac tually grasps at the curtain for support. .'-' (To be continued.) Mutually Surprised. There must have' been about four hundred people at Lake Bennett, writes Mr. Secret&n, In his entertaining book, "To Klondyke and Back," making four hundred different varieties -of death dealing conveyances, for each bad to construct bis own boat for descending to the Yukon River. The owner of a little wheezy, portable sawmill, which waa puffing away day. apd nigbt, tear ing spruce logs to pieces for .one hun dred dollars a thousand feet, was get ting ricn.- Anytblng that would float was at a premium. Once In a while you "would see something resembling 'a boat, but not often. As a general rule, the soap box and coffin combination was the most popular pattern. Some men could not wait to be sup plied by the wheezy sawmill, but went In for whlpsawlng on their own ao count ' One man stands on" top of the log," and the other below, and the saw ts then pushed up and down along a chaik mark. . A story is told of two "pardners" who commenced whipsawing. After working a while, till his tired muscles almost refused duty, the lower one ex cused himself for a moment, and hav ing hired the first man he met to take his place In the pit, disappeared. The sawing proceeded until the uppermost "pardner," all unconscious that lie was working with an entire stranger. Tie thought him of a device to rest. Slak ing some ordinary explanation, he got down from the log and quickly hired an Indian to take his place at the saw. The "pardners" were mutually sur prised to meet each other shortly after ward in an adjacent saloon. A Certain War. "How can you tell mushrooms from toadstools, little boy?" "Easy! If de guy dat eats 'em Is alive next day deys mushrooms. If be's shifted off de mortal coil den deys toadstools." When interest is at variance with conscience-, any pretence that seems to reconcile them satisfies the hollow- hearted. The dead tret more praises than the living; we don't envy them, and we are not afraid to do the square thing by them. Love, like honesty, is more lamea about than understood. Some of our happiest moments are spent in air castles. An hour of careful thinking is worth more than ten of careless talking. Reputation . is -like Wood there is nothing that will take the stains out of It. Money talks 6ut it converses with onlv the favored few. Hone for the future and regrets for the past form a large part of the world's philosophy.. - The wav of:, the .wise man is to let a woman have he.r own way. '' One is apt to strike a happy vein in I the vicinity of the- runny Done. trnu rton't .cure for the -thinsrs vou I can't -obtain you jiriil. be fairly happy. I i probably the most difficult " man In J the World to . please is. the2one who J doesn't know 'what he wants. I fea(ftventioni Geographical statistics show that flf-iy-two vol can Ic Islands have risen out ef the, 'sea 'since, the beginning of the century, nineteen of that number have since disappeared, and ten are' now in habited. ': ' ' The fruit of the nutmeg tree. Is pear shaped. It consists dt fohr'parts. a fleshy onter part, a red network within this, known to commerce as mace, the shell covered by the mace, and the kernel, or nutmeg proper.- - It is "Well known that anesthetics, e pecially chloroform and ether, are fatal to living beings, acting slowly -when they are used In small quantities for a long time,. and rapidly wbi-p-they are given in large doses.. This is true bolb for animal and for vegetable life. Fat, or. tbb materials dissolved from a feeding 'stuff-by ether.-.IsP-a substance of.-mixed character, and may Include, besides real,, fats,, wax, the green col erlpg matrer of. plajits..ejtc. .The fat 'of food la. either stored up in the. body as fat. or burned, to furnish .heat and energy,' " v ' ".. ', '. . y " Powdered sugar is said to possess de cided Inferior sweetening properties to those of the coarsely crystallized arti cle. In the process of pulverization it 'Is claimed that'the heat and electricity 'produced transform a certain propor. tion of the sdgnV toto "glucose, Whose Bweetenlng powers are two and a half times less than those of saccharose. ' The lung differs from all other struc tures In having two separate circula tions, the nutritive, supplied by the left side of the .heart .through the -bronchial arteries; and the functional, supplied by the right side of the heart through the pulmonary artery. This double cir-cuIaUon.upderlie9-all-the phenomena of pneumonia, .and. must be recognized in any: definition of the disease, as with out it the disease Itself cannot exist Our new' Island of Porto Rico,, ac cording to Mark W. Harrington, is "the most, uepsejy populated rural com munity, proper 4n America," It has about 220 inhabitants to the square mile. When -the Spaniards first occu pied If," It was as densely populated as It Is now. ' Before Columbus discovered Ani'erlca two successive races had oc cupied the Island; one seems to have been of northern origin and the other was of Carlb stock, pvery tillable part of the land has been cultivated again and again. ... .. Among the flint, quartz and jasper af-rw-heads frequently found -In : this tUpntry grg certain; forma known, to archaeologists" as "war. points:'. For arrows they were, made small, . some times net more than three-fifths of an Inch long. They are triangular in out line, and were intended to stick fast in a wound. Trof. W. K.' Moorehead says that war points are found abundantly scattered In certain localities .where there are no indication's ef villages hav ing existed, and the Inference is that such places were battle-grounds,- where the red men fought In ancient days. For many years efforts have been made from time to time to measure the heat radiated from some of the bright est stars. The most successful attempt appears to be that of Professor Nichols at the Yerkes Observatory: With the aid of an apparatus recalling the prin ciple of tbe. Crookcs radiometer, be has ascertained that the star Vega, which shines very brilliantly near the zenith In midsummer evenings, sends to the earth an amount of heat equal to that ef an ordinary. candle six miles distant ' Arcturus,-the ster celebrated by Job, and which has a somewhat fiery color, radiates atsat twice as much beat as Vega. ' ALUMINIUM A USEFUL METAL. It la Available for Many Purpose in the Mechanic Arta - The principal uses of aluminium are too many to be enumerated. Tbe pro perties of the metal are. so akin to those of copper and brass that broadly speak ing, aluminium or one of its light alloys Bhould, to a large extent, replace both copper and tin and also nickel or Ger man silver. Such a change would be followed by various advantages to all concerned. Not only -would there be a' considerable reduction in the weight of the articles, but they would not tar nish or turn black on exposure to air. The cost should be the same. If not actually lower. Inasmuch as, bulk for bulk, aluminium Is already cheaper than copper or tin, and Its price will continue to fall as the demand In creases. ' ' One field, however, remains which copper is bound to maintain as its own, namely, tbe construction of isolated electrical conductors. Experiments have already been made on-a large scale with bare conductors of alu minium for telephones, with perfectly "satisfactory results; Its conductivity. weight for weight,. being1 double that of copper. But .when tbe mains have to' be insulated copper is absolutely un approachable, on account of Its greater conductivity, volume for : volume, which is 10 per cent of that of alu minium. ' Besides the advantages set - forth" above aluminium is not poisonous and is pre-eminently adapted for the man ufacture of cooking utensils. A steady demand for aluminium is springing up In various kinds of printing processes as w.ell as In lithography. The metal appears to answer admirably for the construction of rollers used In calico printing, and when its surface Is prop erly prepared It Is also capable of re placing the ordinary lithographic atone. It can easily be Imagined that. Instead of having -cumbrous and heavy stones, which can be printed only on special slow-running "litho" machines, It is far better and cheaper to use thin sheets of a metal which can be bent Into a cir cular - form and printed on rotary presses. Bicycles, electric light fittings, chains. orldlM, stirrups, surgical Instruments, keys, cigar cases, pen and peueU hold ers, toilet articles, plates and dlshsji, Doona, forks, traBMS, ' name plates, I door furniture! bat and coat pegs, boot trees, fire engine- fittings, business and visiting cards and photographic cam eras are a few of the things that are being daily made In aluminum by vari ous firms. For motor cars there should be a large field for aluminum. A further d mand ' for. the metal will be brought about by Its Introduction into the mili tary services. All parts of the soldier's equipments have practically been made In aluminum, such as mess tins, water bottles, buttons, helmets, parts of rifles, cartridge cases, fittings for guns, tents, horseshoes, portable bridges, etc., and It is well known that continental armies, notably the German army, are employing aluminum on a large scaje. Cassler's Magazine. ' CACTUS PLANTS THEIR USES. Powerful Alcoholic Drinks Are Ex tracted from Their Trunks. Cactus is a genus of plants, the type of the natural order of cactaseae. and comprises numerous species, all of which are -native to America. .The name was originally given by Theo phrastus to a spiny plant found In Si cllyl The stems of the cactus are us ually leafless and fleshy, globular or columnar, and are armed with spines and bristles. The structure -of many of the species Is singular and grotesque In the extreme, and the roughness of the stalks and the beauty of the flow ers make them one of the most Inter esting botanical curiosities of our con tinent They are found chiefly in the hot stony places of tropical America, and their tough and almost'Imperretra ble skin Incloses abundant Juice, which enables them to support a sluggish vital action without Inconvenience even In a parched soil. Some "of the varieties of cactus are only a few Inches high, while others attain a height of forty feet. It Is a curious fact that tbe cactus flourishes even at the foot of Mount Etna. In Si cily. The most spleudid example of the cactus family 1s the giant cactus, of which a fine example is still stand ing, although It is slowly rotting and will soon fall.. It was found at a point eight miles south of Phoenix. Ariz., near the Pima reservation. It Is about forty feet high. What the date palm Is to the Afrienn deserts the giant cac tus is to our own arid lands. From It the Mexicans extract th drink called "mescal," and the Indians nlso obtain a beverage from it On its fruit the Tapago Indians live for weeks as a time. Woodpeckers dig their nests In the trunks and branches, and even doves feed on the fruit When the cactus of this kind dies Its usefulness is not destroyed, for tlie tough ribs beneath the outer skin are. used by tbe Papago Iudiansfor the foundation br their mud roofs and they also use It In building chicken coops and even as a covering for their graves. It Is not this species of cactus from which travelers are supposed to obtain a supply of water, but the small cactus, which contains a plentiful sup ply of sap. Scientific American. Railroads In Asia. The lines of railway now existing in Asia form a total length of about 30.U00 miles, of which two-thirds belong to British India. The portions of . the Trauscaspian and Transsiberian rail ways already constructed ieprts nt a length of 3.2U0 miles. In Chlua a uumr ber of European syndicates have ob tained concession for 3,000 miles of railroad, which will traverse regions which are rich In mineral and vegeta ble products;.. these. lines are for the most part in course of construction. Tie Chinese government has about 300 miles of railway,' these lines being very product! ve,. especially that from Pek ing to Tientsin. - Japan is well provided with railway communication, having 3. 2i0 miles. French Indo China has at present but 120 miles, but French pos-' sessions in Cochin China, Annam and Tonkin will shortly have 2,400 milrs which will develop the mineral and agricultural resources of these couu tries. Tbe Dutch Indies are provided Java alone having 1,000 miles. In British India the greatest length is to be found; here there are 21.000 miles of railway. As to Persia, there are as yet no railroads of any consequence, but Turkey In Asia possesses 1,500 miles, and 000 miles are in construction or projected. Scientific American. Old Map of the United States. State Librarian Galbreatb has just se cured another valuable addition to the collection of relics at the library, a map of the United States, made in the year 1700. The map was found In an old book shop at Philadelphia, and waa for merly the property of a gentleman who wa for years In the employ of the fed eral government It is made from cop per plates and Is mounted on heavy linen. On tbe chart Ohio is a territory With rather vague outlines. Cleveland Is not to be found, and Cincinnati is designated as Fort Washington. San dusky is the only city of any great prom inence. Tbe eastern states are showu with substantially tbe same boundaries as they have to-day. Georgia exti n is as far west as the Mississipi river, and the southern portion of Florida is ap parently unknown. Lake Michigan is much too narrow and Lake Huron Is far too broad. At the lower corner is a curious picture of Niagara Falls. Mr. Galbreatb has discovered another cban of the United States, drawn in 1774 and it will soon be sent to Columbus. Columbus Journal Cost of War. During the last 200 years England has spentover sixty hundred million dollars In ar, which still means a payment of over one hundred millions a year in interest on debt. But the naval wars of the future will be far more expen sive than the land wars of tbe past. It Is estimated that a naval action be tween 30 modern battle ships would cost something like five million dollars an hour; and that a naval war between England, France and Russia would cost a sum of money equal to the market value of every inch of English soil. All a nan's good for Is his life tnsur- COLLECTS BILLS FOR DOCTORS , fan Whose Business It Ia to Hake Patients Par Promptly. There was nothing remarkable about the appearance of the man. Nevertbe- Mess, one of the party felt himself called upon to say that he probably had the most curious job of anybody In the city. "He's a business manager for doctors." be explained. "There's nothing new In that" was die retort of another member of tbe party. "I know of a number of physi cians and dentists who pay a cettuin sum each month to have their bills made out Tbe man so employed goes to their offices for a day or two. writes np their books, makes out their bills, and malls them. Sometimes three or four doctors having offices in the same building will employ one man among them for this purpose. Members of these .professions are notoriously t-.- business men, and some of them low about half they make owing to that fact "But this man,, persisted tbe first speaker, "does even more than that He has taken up that idea and carried it to Its logical conclusion. He has an office of his own, and all bills are payable at that office, lie takes the books of his clients to bis own office, makes out the bills, and collects tbe money. Of cour.-e be has to be a man of standing, iu whom the professional men he serves place confidence, but he is all of that and be does just the work a physician needs to have done. For some reason a doctor's bill is tbe very last that most men pay. Tbe average citizen will pay his grocer or his butcher or any other tradesman with reasonable promptness, but will let bis doctor wait "Now, this young man of whom I am speaking simply conducts tbe financial part of the doctor's business on busi ness principles. He does just as much as a merchant would do and no more. The first bill Is followed by auother and If that receives no attention he goes out as a collector and presents the third In person. But he says, the mere fact of the bills being sent out on time and followed up with, reasonable prompt ness, sometimes with a courteous let ter requesting that they receive early attention, has had a wonderful effect In Increasing the number that are paid promptly, for, after all, the doctors are largely responsible for their own trou ble In getting pay for their services. The young man Is aot a lawyer, and be never sues for the money. He does not pose as a bad-debt collector, never writes threatening letters, and never resorts to bulldozing tactics. Vet, as 1 say, he has been most successful and has proved himself worth far more to hts clients than they have' to pay for having their business affairs methed Ically conducted. After he ls-through. If he has failed to get the money, it rests with the doctor to decide whether he wants the bill put into the hands of a lawyer, and he has the further .satis faction of finding out tn a much shorter time than ever before Just what bad aebts he has en his books." Chicago Inter Ocean. HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY. Observations of Commonplace Things by the Atchison Globe Man. Every man hates the consequences. Only a very wise man can take the world easy. Some men never go anywhere, ex cept when there is a fire. If you want to be forgiven for lying, tell lies that are interesting. Tears have been greatly overdone: crying is becoming ridiculous. When a man can get fun out of his business, instead of going out of town for it he Is all right There is a good deal said about "for ever" by lovers; meaning, probably, some time next week. There may be some gain In casting bread on the waters, but there Is more lb. throwing a bait in. Some people take a notion to be your friends, the same as some people take a notion to be your enemies. Those people who are always "visit ing,", to avoid paying board, accept some very funny invitations. After the first baby arrives a man finds it more difficult to get sympathy from his wife when business Is dull. An elderly woman who Is admired by ber elderly husband, in spite of the storms of life, is always worthy of it These days, when you speak of a widow, people want to know whether she Is a cemetery or a court house widow. A doctor's favorite charge against another doctor Is that he learned all be knew while acting as errand boy at a drug store. One of the funniest things in the world Is to hear a quiet, timid little woman trying to entertain a man who Is very deaf. When a woman sends ber children out of the room when another woman calls, it means that she regards the caller as a gossip. A woman cannot keep moth out of a few old duds In a single closet but think of the genius of men who keep moth out of clothing stores! When a man dies who has been mar ried twice, there is always some curi osity as to how his widow feels at burying him beside his first wife. Most Expensive Drag. A London specialist says the most expensive drug Is pbysostigmine, an ounce of which would cost nearly (1.000. It is prepared from tbe Cain bar bean and is used In diseases of the tye. Th Helpful Prana, Prunes afford the highest nerve oi drain food, supply he.tt and waste, but ire not muscle feeding. They should be avoided by those who suffer from the H"r. One or tbe Other.,- "Henderson tells me he means . name his new boy George." "Old or new stylet" "What do you mean?" "Washington or Dewey T" Indian polis exchange. It Is wonderful how many different ways there are of being miserable. When, two patJons arLAt war even tao dispatches oonfl las' SERMON BY Rep. Dr. Ca !;;::. Subert: Tti Aft-air of OtheraTTif Bny. boly Has a Mlwlnn to Perforin When Ills Motive Is Uooil Search Out the Miserable ami Offer Them Consolation Copyright. Loul Klopach, 1MU.I Washikotos. D. C. In this discourse Di. I Talmnga shows how we should interest . ourselves in the Rffnirs of others for their I boueflt, but never lor their datnnge; text, I Peter, iv., 15, "A busybody in other men's matters." I Human nature is the same in all ages, i In the second century of the world's ex j isteoce people hnd the same charncterUtlo I as people In the nineteenth century, the only diiTerence being that they bad the clmractcri-tle-i for a longer tl.ne. It was 500 years of goodaessor 500 years of mean ness instead ot goodnes or meanness for forty or fifty years. Well, Simon Peter, who was a keen observer of what was going on around him, one day caught sight ot a man whose characteristics were severe inspection nnd blatant criticism of tbe af fairs belonging to people for whom he had no responsibility, and with the hand once browned and hardened by fl-diing tackle drew this portrait for all subsequent ages, "A busybody In other men's matters." That kind ot person has been a trouble maker in every country since the world stood Appointing himself to the work of exploration and detection, he goes forth mischief making. He geuerally begins by reporting the infelicity discovered. He is the advertising agent ot Infirmities ami domestic inharmony and occurrences that but for bim would never have c me to the public eye or ear. He eels that the secret ought to be hauled out into light and her alded. It he can get one linn of it into the newspapers, that he feels to be a nohie achievement to start with. But he must not let it stop. .Ha whispers it to his neighbors, and they in turn whisper it to their neighbors, until the whole town is abuza nnd agog. You cm no more catch it or put It down than you can a malaria. It Is In tbe air r.nd on tbe wing and afloat. Taken by Itself, it seems ot little impor tance, but after a hundred people have han dled It and each has given It an additional twist it becomes a story in size and shape marvelous. It it can be kept going, after awhile It will be large enough to cull the attention of the courts or the presbyteries or conferences or associations. The most of tbe scandals abroad are the work of tbe one whom Peter in the text styles "a busy body in other men's matters." First, notice that su.-h a mission is most undesirable, because we all require all tbe time we can get to take care of our owu affairs. To curry ourselves through the treacherous straits ot this life demands that we all the time keep our hand on the wheel ot our own craft. While, as I shall sbowyou before I get through, we nil din ve a mission of kindness to oth rs, we have no time to waste in doing 4hat which . Is damaging to others. There is our worldly calling, which mut be looked after or it. will become a failure. Who succeeds in anything without concen trating all bis energies upon that one thing? All those whotry.to do-nimiy things go to pieces either as. to their health . or their fortune. They go on until they pay ten-cents on the dollar or pay their body into the grave,' We cannot manage the affairs ot others and keep our own. affairs prosperous. While we are Inquiring now. .precarious s the business of an other merchant and finding out how m-niv notes be has uppaid and hotv soon he will probably be wound op or make an assign ment or hear' the sheriff's hammer-smite bis counter our own affairs are getting mixed up and endangered. . While we are criticising our neighbor for his poor. crops . we are neglecting the fertilization of our owns fields or allowing the weeds to choke our own corn. While we are trying to ex tra t the mote from our neighbor's eye we fall under the weight of the beam In our own eye. Those men disturbed by the faults of others are themselves the depot at which whole trainsof faults arriveund from which whole trains of faults start. The men who have succeeded in secular things or relig ious things will tell you that they have no time for bunting out tbe deficits of others. On the way to their counting room they may have hear! that a Arm in the same line of business was In trouble, and they said, "Sorry, very sorry." Hut they w tut I In nnd sat down at their table and opened the book containing a full statement of their affairs to see It they were In peril of being caught In a similar cyclone. Gadders about town, with linnds In pockets and hats set far back on the head, waiting to hear baleful news, are failures now or will be failures. Christian men and women who go round with mouth and looks full of Interrogation points to find how some other church member Is given to exaggeration or drinks too much or neglects his home for greater outsHe attractions have themselves so little grace In their hearts that no olio suspects they have any. In proportion ns people are consecrated and holy rml useful they are lenient with others and disposed to say: "Wait nntil we near the other side of that matter. I cannot believe that charge made against that man or woman until wo have some better testimony than that given by these scandal mongers. I guess it is lie." -Furthermore, we are incapacitated for tbe supervisal of others because we cannot see all sides of the affair reprehended. People are generally not so much to blame as we suppose. It is never right to do wrong, but there may be alleviations. There may have arisen a conjunction of circumstances which would have flung any one ot us. Tbe world gives only one side of the transaction, and that Is always the worst side. That defaulter at the bank who loaned money he ought not to have loaned did it for tbe advantage of another, not for his own. That young man who purloined frm bis employer did so be cause his mother was dying for the lack ot i medicine, mil voung woman who went wrong did not get enough wages to keep ber from starving to death. Most people who make moral shipwreck would dorlght in some exigeney. but they hare not the courage to say "No " urtherinore, we make ourselves a dis gusting spectacle when we become busy bodies. What a diabolical enterprise those undertake who are ever looking for the moral lapse or downfall of others! As the human rice is a most imperfect race, all such hunters llnd plenty of game. There have been sewing societies In churches which tore to pieces more reputations than they made garments for tbe poor. With their sarcasms and sly hints and deprecia- ;.... A i .... n l . .. ... l unities lunu lunj linn iitseuier. , ilii fcucir scissors tbey cut character bios and back stitched every evil report they got bold of. Meetings ot boards of directors have some times ruined good business men by insinu ations against tbem. Tbe bad work may not have been done so much bywords, for tbey would be libelous, but by a twinkle of tbe eye or a shrug of tbe shoulder or a sarcastic accentuation ot a word. "Yes, he Is all right when he ts'sober." "Have you Inquired into that man's history?" "Do you know what business he was in be fore he entered this?" "I move that the , i .i i ii ii.i.i. : application be laid on the table until some j investigations now going on are consum mated." It Is easy enough to start a sus- plclon that will never down, but what a despicable man is the one who started Itl All people make mistakes say things that afterward they are sorry for and miss opportunity of uttering the right word and doing tbe right thing. But when they say their prayers at night these defects are sureto.be mentioned somewhere between the name of the Lord, for whose mercy tbey plead, and the amen that closes: the supplication. "That has not been my ob servation," says some one. Well, -1 am sorry for you, my brother, my sister. What an awful crowd you mast have got intol Or, as Is more prohilila, you ara one of tbe characters that niv text sketches. You have not been hunting foe i partridges and quail, but: for vul-1 tares. Yoa have been microscop- I Izing the. world's faults You. have' been down in tbe marshes when you ought to have been on tbe uplan Is. 1 I have caught you at last. Yoa are 'a busybedy In other men's matters.". . .How Is It that you can always fin i twt opinions ' about Any one arid those two opinions exactly opposite? I will tell yoa the reason. It is because there, are two sides to every character the best side and the worst side. A well disposed man chief ly seeks the best side. The badly disposed seeks chiefly the worst side, lie -ours the desire to see .the best side, for It is health ier for us so to do and stirs admiration, which Is an elevated state, while the de sire to find the worst side keeps one in a spirit of disquietude and disgust and mean suspicion, and that Is a pulling down of oar own nature, a disfigurement of our own character. I am afraid the imperfections ot others will kill as yet. The habit I deplore is apt to show Itself in the visage. A kindly man who wishes everybody well soon demonstrates bis dis position in bis looks. His features may fracture all the laws of handsome physiog nomy, but Old puts into that man's eyes and ia the curve of his nostrils and in the opper and lower lip tbe signature ot Di vine approval. And you see it at a glance, as plainly as though It bad been written all iver his face In rose color: "This Is one of My princes. He Is on the way to corona lion. I bless bim now with all the bene iictlons that' infinity can'afford. Look at bim. Admire him. Congratulate him." But there is a w orlhy and Christian way ot looking abroad upon others, not for the purpose of bringing them to disadvantage 3r advertising their weaknesses or putting In "great prl ner" or "paragon" type their frailities, but to offer help, sympathy and rescue. That is Christiik , and he who loes so wins the applause, ot the high heavens. Just look abroad for tiie people who have made great mistakes aud put a 3lg pluster of condolence on their, lacera :lons. Suoh people are never sympathized with although they need an Infinity or so ace. Domestic mistakes. Social mis :akes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political nlstakes. There is a public man who lias made a political mistake from which he will never recover. At the next elections he will be put back and put down Into n place of dis lpproval from which he will never rise, lust go to that man and unroll the scroll 5f 100 splendid Americans wfio, after oceu sying high places of promotion, wore rule rated to private life and public scorn. Show him in what glorious company he Das been placed by the anathema of the Fallot box. . There is a man or woman who has ma 1 i conjugal mistake, and a vulture has beu 5ut Into tbe snme cage with a dove or a .ion and a lamb la the same jungle. Tiie fforld laughs at the misfortune, ijut it is four business to weep with their woe. There is a merchant who bought nt the wrong time or a manufacturer whose old uachinery has been superseded bv a new nvention or who under change of tariff o:i certain styles of fabric has been dropped from affluence into bankruptcy. Oo to him ind recall the names of fifty business men who lost nil but their honesty and God ami leaven. Let them know there nre hiiti ireds of good men who have gone un-ler -:bat are thought ot in heavenly spheres nore than many whoare high up and going ligher. All will acknowledge that good ind lovely Arthur Tnppan, who failed in business, was more to be admire I thau IVilliam Tweed In possession of his stolen niilions. Hear itl The more you go to busying ourselves In othor men's matters the bet er if you have design of offering relief, jearcn out the quurrejs, that you may set ts them; the fallen, that you may lift hem; the pangs, that you may assuage hem. Arm yourielf with two. bottles of Divine medicine, the one a touic ami the itber an auiesthetlo, the latter to soothe nd quiet, the former to stimulate, to in ipire to sublime action. That man's mat ers need looking after in this respect. There are 10,000 men aud women who need Tour help sad need it right away. Tuey lo not sit down auif-cry.- i uev frtitffrf ippeal for help, but wituiu teu yards of where you sit In church and withla teu ailnutes walk of your bomether-i are peo ple In enough trouble to make tlpvn ihriek out with agony If they hal not re lolvel upon suppression. If you are rightly Interested In other nun's matters, g to those whoarejmt itarting in their occupations or profes lions and give them a boost. Tnose oi l physicians do not want vour help, for they ire surrounded with more patients than :hey can attend to, but cheer those vouug lectors who are counting out their lirst Irops to patients who cannot afford to pay. Those old attorneys at thelaw want no help from yo-'i, for they take retainers only from :he more prosperous clients, but cheer those fotmg attorneys who have not hid i brief at all lucrative. Tijo-e otd merchants have their business so well established that they feel Inde pendent of banks, of nil changes In tariffs, of all paules, but cheer those young merchants who are making their first mistakes in bargain and sale. That old farmer who has 200 acres iu best tillage and his barns full of harvested crops and the graiu merchant having bought his wheat at high prices before it was reaped needs no sympathy from you, but cheer np that young farmer whose acres are covered with a big mortgage nnd the drought strikes tbem the first year. That builder with contracts made for the con struction of half a dozen houses ami the owners impatient for occupancy Is not to be pitied, but give your sympathy to that mechanic in early a -quaintance with ham mer and saw aud bit aud amid all the limitations of a journeyman. And now my words are to the invisible multitudes I reach week by week, but yet will neversee in this world, but whom I ex pect to meet at the bar of God and hope to see In the blessed heaven. The last word that D wight L. Moody, the great evan gelist, said to me at 1'ialnfii'l 1, N'. J., and be repeated the message for me to others, was, "Never be tempted under any clreum 3tances to give up your weekly pub lication of sermons throughout the world." That solemn charge 1 w It beed as long as I have strength to give them and the newspaper types deire to take tbem. Oh, ye people back there in the Sheffield mines of England, and ye in tbe sheep pastures of Australia, and ye amid the pictured terraces of New Zealand, and ye nmong tbe cinnamon and color in flamed groves of Ceylon, aud ye Armenians weeping over the graves of murdered households in Asia Minor, nnd ye ami I tbe idolatries ot Benares ou tiie Granges, and ye dwellers on the banks of the Androscoggin, and the Al.ihima, and the Mississippi, and the U.eon, and the Shannon, and the lthiue, and the Tiber,, and the Danube, an i the Nile, and the Euphrates, and the Caspian and tbe Yellow seas; ye of the four corners of the earth who have greeted me again an 1 again, accept tills point blank offer of everything for nothing, of everything of pardon and comfort and illumination and safety aud heaven, "without money n-id without price." What .1 gospel for all lands, all zones, all agesl Go, el of sym pathy! Gospel of hope! Gospel of eman cipation! Gospel of sunlight! G pel of enthronement! Gospel of eternal victory! Take it all ye people, until your sins nre all pardoned, mil your sorrows all solaced, arid your wrous all righted, and your dying pillow lie spread nt the foot of a ladder which, though like the one that was let down to Bethel, may be throng d with descending and ascending Immortals, shall neverthe. less have room enough tor you lo ciijub, foot over foot, on rungs of -light till you go clear np out of sight of nil earthly perturbation Into the realm where "the wicked cease from troubling aud the weary are at rest." The good man's life is like the spark that is brightest at the close. ' Idleness is a craven's goal. No-man of worth wants to be free from work. Without work life is not worth the liv ing. If you want knowledge, you must toll for it; if food, you must, toil for It; and if pleasure, you must toil for it;, toll is the law. ' To let a man know that you recog nize and rejoice in some good quality of his. is trr bless him with a new heart and stimulus. Bonefieence should never . be -exercised at random, .nor -upon '.Irrational impulse, but should be the -outcome and exrressio"n:of a dispositfoh trained and nourished .Un. the a'tmosphere of hurnah friendship. ... ll K, 0 f s .! v tit
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