if u I if i) ; i B. F. SCHVEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOn-TIIE URIOtl AIID f HE EnFORCEUEHT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. LIV. MIFFLINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1900. NO. 12. ff CHAPTER XXTT. Night has ijuite closed In, a night ex erptionally wild and violent, when once wore the -oiinil of wheels upon the gravel without rat.lies Vers's ear. lVrhups .-In- bad been listening for it is even iu a measure prepared for it, but even if so, this does not prevent the miJJen agitated change that overspreads biT fii'V us she hears it. Her pulses quicken unpleasant and she half rises to her feet. An hour, two hours, pass, and she is In her room dressing for dinner, when a servant brings her a note. "I have to thank you for the kind In vitation which Griselda gave me. Busi ness matters have compelled me to come here a:ain for the last time to-night; to trespass, for the last time, upon your hospitality. I beg you will not let my presence disturb yon; my stay will be.au short that I dare to hope you will not mark the coming or going." A quick wave of color dyes Vera! face; she lays the letter with studied slowness upon the table near. "My compliments to Mr. Dysart, and 1 hope he will dine with me to-night," she says, calmly, but with an unconscious touch of hauteur. How does be dare to treat her like this, to persist in believing or rather, to pretend to believe that his presence is so distasteful to her: What la he to her, one way or the other, that she should care whether he waa In her house or out of it? At dinner, however, she will have an opportunity of widening his knowledge tumewbat. It will be the simplest thing to let him see how utterly unimportant an item he is in the scheme of her exist ence. There is a brilliant light in net eyes as she tnrna to receive the woman lm has now come back with an answer to her message to Dysart. There is a timidity in the woman's all that warns her. "Mr. Dysart's compliments and thanks, luadame, but he has already dined in town." "Fasten this bracelet," says Vera, hold ing out her arm. She is aware that the woman is watching her, curiously if ner vously, and, she so moves that the sudden pallor of her face, the sole thing that shows her indignation, shall not betray her. "That will do; you can go," sh ays after awhile. She sweeps down ftairs almost in the servant's footsteps, and into, the green drawing room, a smaller apartment than the usual recep tion rooms, and now looking delicately euzy beneath the touches of lamps and firelight, and with the perfume of many flowers banging around it. The wind, the thunder, the lightning, still rage, but the rain has ceased, and :u the murky heavens above, a pale, sick ly moon is striving feebly to break a way through the dense clouds. Suddenly the door is thrown open by an agitated hand, and the woman who had attended her upstairs comes hurriedly, without cere mony, into the room. "Oh, madame, I thought you would like to know that you should be told " sh stops, frightened by the expression oi Vera's face. "Well?" says Vera, going a step nearer to her. . "There is a ship in great distress, ma dame somewhere out there," pointing vaguely In the direction of the ocean, "upon the rocks, they say! There is scarcely any hope " "But the life-boat 7" cried Vera, sharp ly, forgetting everything now but the aw ful thought of death and death so near out there upon those cruel rocks, with the boiling, murderous waves leaping to receive their prey. "Yea, madame, but that accident yes terday you will remember it? they say it has disabled six ot the men, and it is almost certain death to go at all, and the bands being short, there must be volun teers, and who will risk their Uvea " the townbred girl stops short with a quiver, and covers her face with her bands. "VolunteersI Wjere ! Mr. Dysart?" cries Vera, suddenly, with prophetic In stinct. "Speak, girl!" turning fiercely on her maid. "Gone down to the beach, madame, to ee what can be done." "Gone!" says Vera, slowly, as if daxed and then again, "goner A little conviu- sive shiver runa through her it is the final breaking up of any lingering de; ceits, any last illusions, that she may still have clung to. "Order the carriage," ahe says, after a minute or two, during which mistress and maid have remained silent. This sudden wakiug-up has been so far a shock that it has killed all Immediate nervousness. She feels chilled,- calmed, strengthened. The moon has in a measure conquered the clouds, and now shines out with a pale, watery luster, that rather adds to thun takes from the weird wildness of the night. The thunder still rattles over head, and vivid flashes light the black mcss. Here and there, aa the carriage passes by the outskirts of the wood, these intermittent bursts of light show where a tree has been felled, or the road ripped up, or a small bridge carried bodily away by the force of the swollen, cur-ei-iit underneath. All through the deadly crashing of the storm a booming sound may be heard at "Inrig Intervals. Half maddened by it, and by that other greater fear. Vera lie buck in the carriage, pressing her fin gers now to her ears, now to her throb bing brow, that feela if It were burst 'ug. Arrived at the entrance to the village, f drive of about a mile from Greycourt he stops the carriage, and opening the door springs to the ground. A sudden gust of wind passing by almost dashes her to the earth, but by a superhuman effort she defies it, and half blinded by the Bashing lightning, and bewildered by the raging storm, she turns aside, and runa panting, struggling, down side pathway that ah knows lead se the beach below. CHAPTER XXIII. V The wild scene that meets her sight trikes terror to her heart. The mad touring' of the waves that, mountains high, rush impetuously inland to dash themselves to pieces against the granite rooks; the criea of the women; the hoarse palU.of tfifi flaglggr -restless torches that fling a welrOghFupon the picture; all serve to unnerve her. And now a shont from the beach! A aark object being dragged forward, a valiant cheer, perhaps meant to reach those miserable souls hovering on death! brink, and ao give courage to their failing hearts; It la the life-boat, and now -A tall figure has suddenly become prominent; he seems to tower above all those around him. He is evidently ad dressing them with passionate words, and now he springs into the boat, and with renewed eloquence seems to compel those present to follow him. His voice, in its vehemence, prises .even -shave the tprm. iot that the stricken girl crouching with in the shelter of her rock needs that tes timony to know that It Is he whom her soul loveth. Vera staggers to her feet and stare? oHndly into the semi-dsrkness. A hearty cry goes up from those crowded together on the beach. The mists have cleared away from the moon, and she can ssi as well ss those eager watchers that the (ive black spots that were upon the rig ging are no longer there. They have been successful, then, sc far. They have taken those five half dead creatures into the blessed lifeboat Surely, if the rescuers could go through such a sea In safety, they can return. A blessed relief comes to her, so sharp ly, so unpreparedly, that she almost give way beneath it. The good ship, indeed, is gone! Where the black, indistinct masi stood a minute since, now all is bare there la but aea and sky, and the metnofj of It! But the lifeboat stiU lives. Every onward dash of the tempestuont waves drives the lifeboat the more sure ly Into shelter, until at laat It touchei ground. A hundred eager hands an stretched out to prevent the returning wave from carrying it backward, some ol the men, more adventurous than the rest, rush into the surging tide up to theii waists and selxe the boat and drag it for cibly into safety. Dysart, springing to land, helps out th rescued men, now exhausted by fear and exposure one of them, indeed, has faint ed but there are kindly, arms open to receive them and kindly voices to bid them welcome and to praise the God ol sea and land for ' their delivery from death this night. With a hurried wave of the hand h turns abruptly away from the cheerini crowd and the dancing torchlights, and makes his way through the heavy dark ness toward the small pathway that wit lead to the road above. Stumbling, un certain, and feeling altogether exhausted he nevertheless finds it, and puts out hit hand to grope for the rock that he knows stands at the right side of it, where thf beach commences. "Good heavens, what Is this? Hf tarts violently, and then his fingers fast en with almost convulsive energy ovet the small cold hand that has been thrust into his. A sharp little cry break through the darkness, and then the cold hand Is hurriedly withdrawn, and twe arms are thrown round him, and cling tc him with passionate vehemence. "It Is you youl And you are safe! Oh, Sea ton! Oh, thank heaven, thank leaven!" Whose voice U it? Not ra's? Vera. nd yet the clinging arms .. e warm, liv ing, and genuine; the sobbing voice h real; a small disheveled head Is very clost to him very! What has happened? Hai ae gone mad? He is ghastly pale, white aa the death from which he has but Just now so nar rowly escaped, and across his right tem ple there Is a slight stresk of blood, still wet. This adds to his pallor. Vera, see ing it, shudders violently, and involun tarily, almost unconsciously, lifts hei hand, and presses her handkerchief tc the wound. "Speak!" says he, and now the word Is a command. It rings sharply. Then Is a very anguish of doubt in his tone, and his eyes, burning into hers, are s full of desperate question, thst they ut terly unnerve her. The strain of the past terrible hourt haa been too severe, and now she sinki beneath it. She bursts into tears. "Oh, yes, yes, yes!" she cries, giving him thus vaguely the answer he requires. In a moment bia arms are round ber, crushing her against his heart. To him those Incoherent words are full of sweet est mesnlng. Yes. she loves him. Whc hall tell the joy this knowledge bring him joy thst is almost pain? "Darting, darling!" whispers he, softly And then after a little while. "I am too aappy. I do not know what to say. I :annot speak." And then again, "May I Mse TO" , . ' , He does not wait for permission, bul presses his lips to here dear lips, that kiss him back again, with honest, heart felt gladness. (The end.) When a man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men. It is a mistake to be forever copying copies. Forgiveness Is a high quality, an ex alted virtue. Loving1 deer's alone make live devo tion. " Every brave man is a man or "is word Chastity, like- the bubble on the top of the stream, once broken is one forever. Persons with gray or blue eyes J have keener vision than those with brown or SatE-colored eyes, and their s.ght Is more durable. There is a great difference between be ing in the world and having the world mus Let a ship be in the water and It is all right, but let the water be In the ship and down she goes. A good intention clothes itself with PThere Is more of equity In politeness than law. . . A grateful dog Is better than an un grateful man. Mountains of difficulty always ap pear steeper at a distance. - Our drifting dreams furnish no flt tmg for the reality of the rapids. belong to every thinking;, . .. Nsws Will Boras J. "No matter how engrossing the en tertainment may be, news, and asps dally war paws, cannot be kept oat of auy public building," said an experi enced theatrical manager. "I could give you some most striking Instances from my own experience of what I say. I hava seen a big audience convulsed with laughter at tt o'clock, but through a mar whisper of a great outside ca lamity that circulated . through the house, with almost the rapidity ot tel egraphy, that same audience baa been both restless, universally grave of face, and absolutely inattentive to the very culminating point of fun on the stage. And the singular thing la that actors who have never left the stage have, through the medium of whispers, among the band or from the stalls, known all that the original messenger of evil had to tell. air. Spurgeon once told me that he bad known this same thing' precisely to occur ' during the course of a religious service, and when a vast congregation were on their knees. He gave me the tuna and place, and explained how, from the whisper of a doorkeeper, a kneeling concourse of thousands knew the whole story of n national crisis In an incredibly short time." ' Ice will reach a lower temperature than 32 degrees If the temperature fit the air la leaa than that It will take practically the temperature of the at mosphere. Liquid hydrogen la transparent, and the lightest as well as the coldest liquid known, a cork sinking in it like lead. A whitish substance seen at the bottom of the vessel on Prof. De-war's first ex: blbltlon was really solid air .or air Ice. The multiplication of new compounds in organic chemistry Is something ap pAlng. In 1883 the total number of carbon compounds recorded waa 10,000. but a newly revised list by Dr. M. M. Rlchter enumerates not less than 7,(KX. and the end seems yet far off! A Canadian engineer has Invented a foghorn in which the noise is produced by half a dozen clappers striking a gong and actuated by electro-magnets. A dynamo, supplied with power by a naphtha engine, furnishes the current About 000 strokes per second fall upon the gong, thus producing a practically continuous sound, and this Is magnified and governed m direction by a mega phone. A small model of the horn is said to have made Itself audible ..at a distance of twp miles. Recent Investigation of the old prob lem of the diffusion of tin over eastern Kurope and Asia Minor In prehistoric times, leads to the conclusion that about a thousand years before Christ the tin of the British. Isles waa carried overland to the Aegean Sea. The In vention of the anchor led about 2.700 years ago to the opening of a marine route between England and the eastern end of the Mediterranean, and then the Phrygians controlled the tin trade with their ships. The short summer nights of North Britain were among the won ders that Greeks talked of In the days f Homer. According to the recent studies of Slgnor De Sanctlc. of Turin, children negln to dream before their fourth year, but are unable to recall dreams before the age of 4 or 5. This age, he con fides. Is that at which a child first be routes distinctly conscious of self. Aged people dream less frequently and less vividly than the young. Women's dreams are more frequent, more vivid and better remembered than those of men. Criminals and delinquents dream much less frequently and much less vividly than other people. Two-thirds .f the most depraved criminals exam ined by Slgnor De Sanctis were never conscious of dreaming. This is ascribed to lack of mental activity. Studies of the planet Jupiter during the opposition of 1809 have afforded some new figures concerning Its rate. or rather rates, of rotation. These fig ures do not affect the round numbers In which the equatorial velocity of Ju piter's rotation is usually stated, via., about 28,000 miles per houh. But they furnish additional proof that the' mo tions visible on the great planet s sur face are not uniform from year to year. Since the spring of 1897 the equatorial region appears to have experienced an acceleration of velocity. Relatively to the surface some 30 degrees north or toutb. Jupiter's equator rushes ahead with hurricane speed, between 200,and 300 miles an hour In itself a sufficient Indication that what telescopes show of Jupiter Is not a solid crust but layers ,nd masses of restless vapors. Women la Brasll aal Japan. The legislative bodies of Brazil and ti im 11 nreaent a rather striking con- in their nollcies toward the move ment for therf reedotn of women. The lenate of Brazil has under considera tion a bill to authorise women to prac :lce the learned professions, and the lapanese parliament has Just passed a new press law which prohibits women from becoming publishers or editors an the ground that "the discharge of such work by females Is neither be coming nor desirable." No Holiday. Berlin la to have a network f un lergreund railways. It ! expected that two years wlU suffice, as la the case of Budapest, for completing, tt. About Fingers Cave. Plngal's Cave, the wonderful grotto n the southwest coast of the Island of Staffs, about seven miles off the west coast of Mull, Scotland, la 212 feet deep.' 83 feet wide at the entrance, aad 22 feet wide at Its Inner end. At the open ing it Is 60 feet high, and the walls meet In a beautiful arch above basaltic pil lars which flank It on both sides. The floor of the care is the sea. and at low tide the water la 20 feet deep. There are many stalactites of various beauti ful tints between the pillars of dark gray basalt. The cave can be readily entered by small boats excepting at ex tremely high tide.. It probably takes Its same from Pingal. the legendary hero ef OaaUe poetry. MIOHTIggT OF BLACKSMITHS. ffnbnl Cain Was Not tnn Karllcnt Baaits f Warn ttm la Bacons. Ob the. banks of: the Tigris, three ifths of a mile south of Nineveh, at the village of XlmrodV'a place proline In ancient relics, that haa been worked for the laat ten years, baa Just been discovered a copper smithy. Four bur led cities exist here and In one of them, Investigated ' by '--a - commission from the University of Pennsylvania, this smithy waa found. Its owner plied his trade at least. 4,750 yeara before Tubal Cain, who waa the father of ore and forge work, according to the Bi ble, and with more skill and knowl edge of the arte than the-latter. Won derfully -preserved machines and. tools were found with the smithy; also a collection of clay tablets founjf In the shops covered with cuneiform writ ing, revealing Information .'respecting the age. development" and" scope of the business and 'other data - . The busipess waa' founded- by Ham Jau, and was carried '"on - through thirty-two generations of the family. ach owner not only studied the prac tical part of his-business, ' but was versed In mathematics.' .rawing and physical phenomena and. the laws of nature, which ; Tatter he . studied to bring the business to perfection. One of the slates bore the admonition not to use sine - or other .metals In the manufacture ef copkjpg, utensils and water vessels, because by law of na ture not understood the. stronger met al, copper,, bas.'a disturbing effect on the weaker metals. We know, now that this phenomenon Is the galvanic 0irrent produced at the points of con tact between the copper and the sine or other electrically opposed metals, and that It la this electrical current that accelerates oxidation at the points of contact Hamjau exhorts his suc cessors to perfect themselves In the practical part of the buxlness as well as In the theoretical part One of the machines baa a striking resemblance to a machine used to-day for the bend ing of metal booxs and rings -and no doubt was used for a similar purpose. For tbe making of gutters, pipes and cylinders the instructions are detailed. -New York Press.'-- - . GOOSE HUNTING IN MARYLAND How the Gunners Go. About It Alonir tae Chesapeake's Shores. There Is fine wild goose hunting a Sharp's Island, Maryland, according to tbe Baltimore Sun. A .blind In the form of a pit Is made lu lbe sand on shore near where tbe geese and swans are known to rest and feed. White woolen blankets are spread : lu .ami around tbe blind to 'make it comfort able, and corn is strewn within thirty yards of It.' After nightfall, the hunt ers hide themselves In the pit. strap-, ping up In white blankets which-cannot be detected -by- the .prater fowjs fKUH" tbe white sand of the beach. ' Absolutf silence Js.nialntafned.':' ;7T' "'" From far out in the. .bay "oSmfs the familiar "honk, honk,"' of the lncomfrig flock; and the hunters get down low.ln the pit The geese alight near the end of the beach, and soon are lu shallow feeding water. The "watch, .goose," which Is always a gander,-and .which never seems to eat -or -sleep, makes a reconnots8ance In advance of the flock and find?. the corn..- If,' after a closeJn spection pt the surroundings, he is sat isfied of safety, he calls tbe flock., and it eagerly responds. The geese, loom ing up In the night, look as big as os triches from the blind. "When within range tbe signal to fire is given In pan tomime by the leader of tbe hunters, and something happens when the. big No. 8 guns boom. Some geese are killed outright others are wounded so they cannot fly, and those unhurt take to Instant flight. As they rise another volley is poured into the flock.. The dead and wounded birds are retrieved by trained Chesapeake bay dogs. If the hunters have them; otherwise by the hunters themslves, wbo rush Into tbe icy water, pursuing first tbe wounded fowls and afterward picking np the dead ones. This ends tbe shooting from that blind that night. At times there Is a cold," tiresome, all-night wait with no results. No. 8 guns and the best ammunition are used. The sheila are loaded with six or seven drams of powder and with from two to three ounces of B. B. chlU ed shot. .' - Who Waa Shoe? A duel was once fought by two men named Sbott and Nott Nott was shot and Shott was not. In this case It is better to be Shott than Nott. There waa a rumor that Nott was not shot, but that Sbott was. shot notwithstand ing. -Circumstantial evidence . Is not always good. On trial It might ap pear that the shot Sbott shot shot Nott. or It might be possible that the shot Sbott abot shot Shott himself, when the whole affair would be frs at first, and Short would be shot and Nott would be not We think, however, that the shot Shott 'shot shot not Shott, but Nott; any way. It la hafdto tell who was shot , -- Mormon Marriages In'Mexloo. Tbe laws of Mexico provide that a t-slormon who wishes to take a second wife must present a certificate signed by his first helpmeet to the effect that she la willing; and be must also have the express consent of the second wlfr and her parents. Bow He Got Ahead'. "It's strange," sighed tbe trolley con ductor, "bow when two boys start out with equal' chances, one of tLem Is bound to forge ahead while the ot he lags behind. There was Jim; Jim anil I were, fast frleuds as youths, but look at me now. Equal as our chances wen Jim is ahead " "What ie be doing?" asked the pas senger who had paid bis fare. "He's tbe motor man np front Did I get your nickel?" Bang! Clatter! "Edmund placeT Bang! Clatter! Ting-a-ling. "Tea, air. It's strange." Detro!' Free Press. A theory that has neither faith' nor trust hi its foundation doesn't amount to very much. Happy la the bride the sun shines on IX gha isn't afraid of free Idea, I FORMINO A PARTNERSHIP. f FORMINQ A PARTNERSHIP. yX-sVWYM 0,-UeMnsVOVW 0!U eMsrtsVlaJUj V.UUJ V y.a.,3 N a summer morning a young man turned down a Yarmouth row. He waa a handsome young fellow, somewhat shabbily dressed, and as be walked he carelessly took stock of his surroundings. Near tbe bottom ef the row a win dow was open, and by a geranium that bloomed in a pot the first and only flower he bad seen, a girl was leaning lightly on ber elbow. - la the opposite doorway a woman, with a red face and brandishing a broom In her hand, was barring the entrance against a herculean man In an oily frock. "I ax ag'ln, John Wade," ahouted he of the oily, "If you're a-going to sear "An" I tell you ag'ln. skipper." re plied a dogged voice from tbe Interior, "I ain't a-goln' to sea." "Tben," cried the giant wildly, "what am I to do? Here's the wessel ready to sail, an' you a-nulkln. Bnt as sure as my name Is Bill Thompson I'll police ye." The girl at the window, wbo seemed used to such scenes, smiled. Looking up at ber, and seeing for the first time that she was In deep mourning, the young man smiled also. "Am I of any user be said to the wearer of the oily. "I want a Job." "If you're ready an' wlllln. my lad," he said, "you're of use. But If you aiB't, you ain't. D'ye want a berth?" "I want everything," answered the young man In a low tone. "I'm home less and penniless. But I'm a lands man." "That ain't a bit o' ' consequence What d'ye say? Will ye go? TIs for eight weeks." "I don't care If it's tor eight years! There's nothing to stop me hero." "Come on, then." cried the delighted fisherman. . "But stop what's your name, my lad?" ' ;John Smith," was the answer; and his hesitation escaped the skipper. . Well, Smith, for fear of accidents some one bad better rnke your moiey. Who'll ye leave It with V ' The young juan again looked up at the Window. a.t the. sweet, pure face above him. Tbe gaze of tbe rough sea gloat beside him followed his glance. ' "Oh. I see," be exclaimed; "vou're goto? to take it miss. Well, you know where, to go. Old Tom Price is fho owner, an' the name of tbe wessel is ' the Saucy Lass. Come on. Smith, no more hankyin. Your sweetheart 'nil take yonr money." And he seized the ! aewly shipped by the arm. j "No. no," she cried. In confusion. "I do not know the gentleman. I I " , But already Smith, with the hsnd of , tbe skipper on bis arm, bad been hur ried but of earshot and before she could reach the door the two had van ished down the row. Eight ' weeks later a young min. bronzed and hearty, stood on Tar mouth quay. It was John Smith. His ea rig had given place to a decent suit of clothes, and be seemed pondering which wayto go. At last he wandered away to tbe seashore. Finding a spot where pale blue violets lay low among tbe sea grass, he flung himself down aad pulled out an envelope. It contained a post office order wrapped la a sheet of note paper, and on this waa written "Kath arine Perry." The amount was tbe sum due to him on his pay card. He had been to the house, but found her gene. Yet here was his money left by her in this form. I On bis homeward path be stopped to ' buy a morning paper. It was the rule ' at Yarmouth to allow news time to mature before it was distributed, and Smith was handed the Standard with a short bark. Quite undisturbed he began to look It over. Suddenly be caught his breath; bis gaze waa riveted OB an advertisement that read thus: - "George Neal Is earnestly requested to communicate with Messrs. Furrr?-ss ' k Wapp, solicitors, Lincoln's Ian Fields, where he will bear something to bis advantage. Any person knowing of the whereabouts of the said G. N. and communicating tbe same to the above Irm will be suitably rewarded." Before noon that day John Smith, bad shaken the dust of Yarmouth from his feet and was on bis way to London.. Aa be burst into the office a carefully dressed old gentleman wearing a palt of gold-rimmed glasses stepped for ward to greet him. This he did by nearly shaking his arm off. "Why, my dear George," he cried, "how glad I am to see you! We have been advertising for you all over tbe country. How Is It you haven't seen our advertisement before?" In a few words tne young man told his tale.- The old solicitor listened with much Interest, then bis face grew grave. "So you have not heard the news, i my boy," he said. "Your undo Is dead." "Dead!" repeated George Neal, sadly, "and we parted In anger merely be cause I refused to follow the profes sion he had chosen for me." "If we thought oftcner of the kins of terrors there would be fewer .quarrels," said the lawyer kindly, Vbut he, too, was very sorry, George, though when you bear the rest you may think be took an odd way of showing It I was called in to draw up a fresh will. j Subject to one condition, he made his property over to you." - "And that condition r "Excuse me a moment" said Mr. Fnrneas looking at bis watch. "I ex- t a lady here presently; let as step to mjr private room." i "Aad that condition?" said George Neal. firmly. ' "New, my dear boy," said the law yer, "don't fire up. You have bad your way. let the dead man have his. In some lirtle misearble seaport on the east coast yonr uncle had what nearly every successful maa has nowadays a poor relation. It came to his kaowl edge that this poor relatlou bad died and left a daughter. This waa quite enough for your uncle, and he made It a requisite condition that you marry her. The lady's name Is " "Stop!" With bis face expressing all the bitterness he felt the young men rose. Footsteps had been coming nearer every moment, and Involuntarily Neat's face turned to the door. The clerk came first then tbe lawyer, with old fashioned courtesy, came forward tc Intercept the visitor. "Miss Kate Perry," he said, "and this, my dear young lady, la George Neat" All the blood that waa In Neat's body rushed to bis face. He stood grasping at tbe back of bis chair, un able to utter a word. Tben the little hand that the lawyer held started, trem bling so violently that It attracted Mr. Furness' attention, and he hastily led her to a chair. "It la possible." he said, "that my Introduction comes a trifle late. Am I wrong in this sur mise?" "I I." stammered Kate. "Mr. Smith." then Bhe stopped, blushing deeply. At last George Neat's tongue was un tied and be hastened to tbe rescue. "I have met this young lady before," he said, "under very singular circim stancesi we now meet under circum stances stranger still. An explanation Is due to ber, and If you will give a lit tle time to explain " . "Certainly, certainly," said Mr. Fur ness, rubbing his hands. "Take all the time you require. I am quite. content to let Cupid take my place aa media tor," and with a beaming face be bowed himself out. When It seemed to the - despairing clerk that the best part of tbe day bad gone. Mr. Furness ' went back to his strangely met visitors. : "May I hope," he said, gently, "that the explanation has not been a tire some one?" "No," said George, with a glowing face. "To me It hasn't I have offered my dear Kate the property without In cumbrance. But she has refused to ac cept It on any such terms. What are we to dor "My advice." said the old lawyer, "Is to go Into partnership. And If tbe wishes of a dry bit of legal parchment who had a love dream once, can fol low you far. they win repeat good luck and much happiness." Washincton'a Negro Population. Although not geneially known, it It nevertheless a fact that Washington, the fourteenth city of the Union In point of population, contains the great est negro population of them all. There are more negroes In Washington than In any other city of the Union, not ex cepting the great cities of St Louis, Baltimore and New Orleans, all situ ated in former slave Statea, and, ex cepting New Orleans, with more than double its population. There axe near ly three times as many black people In Washington as St Louis. Washington contains more than double the number of negroes counted among New York'i 8,500,000. Millions for Baowsbedaw Thirty-two miles of snowsheds, cost ing $61 a foot or a total of $10,813,440. represents the price one transconti nental railway had to pay before it could run Its trains over the Rocky Mountain division of Its road. That waa merely the first cost; since that outlay fully $1,000,000 has been spent annually In keeping the sheds In re Jalr and the exposed tracks free fron snow. Old-Tims 8nr ;ery. A grim souvenir of an old-time war waa .on view In a cutler's window In tbe east end of London recently. It Is an ebony-handled saw. which, accord ing to the Inscription on a brass plate attached to the Instrument was used by a snrgeon of the British army to amputate the Umba of wounded sol diers at -Blenheim. Malplaquet and Uamlllles. No Holiday. Walter girls In Munich restaurant work 14 to 16 hours a day without o single holiday all the year round. Too Great a Task. Mackliu, the actor 'and dramatist once boasted In tbe presence of Samuel Foote that he had brought bis memory to such a state of perfection, through severe training, that he could "learn anything by rote on hearing It once." Foote scribbled on a card for a few minutes and tben passed the card to Macklln, asking blm to read aud repeat what was written. This was tbe far rago: "She went Into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie, when a great she bear coming np the street pops Its bead Into the shop. 'What! no soap? So.he died, and she very Imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Plnlnnles and the Jobllllles not the Garyulles and the grand panjandrum himself with the little round button at top, and they all fell a-playlng tbe game of catch as catch can till the gunpowder ran out ef the beela ef their boots." It Is needless to remark that Macklin's memory did mot stand the teat Boston Transcript SERMON Rp. Br. Caiman Jeett Wht Religion rtoea For the Jroloncmtlan of Unutiin l.lfe .lleliglun Is Mnt m Hearse Cnree the Health a I-oaltive Christian Un.y. ICopjnant W Asms atom, D. C. This sermor. of lr Talmage preseuts a gospel for tills lite as well as the next aud shows what religion does for the prolongation of earthly xlst enoe: text. Psalm xoi., 16, "With long lire will I satisfy him." Through the mistake ot Us friends relig ion has been ehlerly associated with sick beds and graveyards. The whole subject to many people is odorous with chlorine aod carbollo aeid. There are people who eannot pronounce t ie word religion with oat bearing in it the clipping chisel ot the tombstone cutter. It is higU limn that this thing were ebanued and that rellglou, iu stead ot being represented as a hearse to carry out the dead, should be represented as a chariot In which tbe living are to tri umph. Beligion, so far from subtracting froic one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sensitive, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for tbe ears, good for the spleen, good for tbe digestion, good for tbe nerves, good for the masoles. Wnen David, In another part of tbe Psalms, prays tbat religion may be dominant, he does not speHk of it as a mild sickness or au emaciation or ao attack of moral and spiritual crump. He speak ot It as "the saving health ot all nations," while God in tbe text promises longevity to the pious, saying, "With long life will I satisfy him." The tact Is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the band of medical science in attempting to Improve human longevity. Adam lived 930 years; Methuselah lived 1)69 years. As late In tbe history ot the world as Vespa sian there were at one time in his empire forty-five people 135 years old. So far down as tbe sixteenth century Peter Zartan died at 185 years of age. I do not say tbat relig ion will ever take tbe race baok to ante diluvian longevity, but I do say that tbe length of human life will be greatly im proved. It Is said In Iaiah Ixv., 20. "The child shall die 100 years old." Now, If, accord ing to Scripture, tbe child Is to be 100 years old may not tbe men and women reach to 300 aof400 and 500? Tbe fact Is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some ot tbe generations that are to come. Take tbe African race. They have been nnder bomiage for cen turies. Qlve them a chance, and they de velop a Tonssalnt l'Ouvorture. And It the white race shall be brought out from under the serfdom of sin what shall be the body, what shall be tbe soul? Religion tins only just touched our world. Give It full power for a few centuries, and wbo can tell what will be the strength of man and the boautj of woman and tbe longevity of all? My design is to show that practical re ligion is tbe friend of longevity. I prove It, first, from the fact that it makes tbe ears of our health a positive Christian duty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digest able or indlgestable, whether thereshall be thorough or incomplete mastication, are questions very often referred to the roalm of whimsicality, but the Christian man lifts this whole problem of henltb into tbe accountable and tbe Divine. Hesays, '-God has given me this body, and He has culled It the temple of tbe Holy Ghost, and to jl face Its altars or mar l -walla orere'm Me Its pillars Is a God defying sacrilege." He sees God's ealigrapby In every patre ana tomical and physiological. He says, "God has given me a wonderful body for nohle fmrposes." That arm with thirty-two cur ous bones wielded by forty-six curious muscles, and all under the brain's teleg raphy 350 pounds ot blood rushing through tbe heart every hour, the heart In twenty-four hours beating 100,000 times, during tbe same time the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogsheads of air. and all this mechanism not more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished. The Christian man says to himself, "If I hurt my nerves, it I hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my physical faculties, I Insult God and call for dire retribution." Wtiy dld God tell the Levites not to offer to Him In sacrlSce animals imperfect and diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best physical condition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruins bis health is not ottering to God sncb a sacrifice. Whv did Paul write tor his cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul be anx ious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew Hint with pneumonia and rhematism he would not be worth halt as much to God and the church as with respiration easy an 1 fojt free. When It becomes a Christian duly to Inks eare of our health, is not the whole ten dency toward longevity? It I toss my watob about recklessly aud drop it on the pavement and wind It up at any time of day or nlgbt 1 happen to think of It. an. I often let It run down, while you are eare ul with your watch and never abuse it aud wind it up just at tbe same hour every night and put it lu a place where it will not suffer from the violent changes ot at mosphere, which watch will lust the longer? Common sense answers. Now, tbe human body Is God's watch. You see the bands ot the watob. You see the fare of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Ob, be careful aod do not let it run down! again, I remark tbat practical rellgioh Is a frlead of longevity in the fact that it Is a protest against dissipations which in jure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their sins kill them. I know hundreds of good old men, but I do not know half a do7..m bad old men. Why? They do not got ol I. Lord Byron died at Mlssolonghi at thirty six years of age, himself his own Mnzeppa, his unbridled pnsslons the horse that dashed with him into the desert. E Igar A. Poe died at Baltimore nt Ibirty-eigtit years of age. Tne black rnven tlmt alighted on his bust above his ciinmuer door wns delirium tremens. Only this and nothing more. Napoleon Bonapnrle lived only just be yond midlife, then died at St. Helena, and one of his doctors said that bis dL-teasn wus Induced by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austerlitz, tbe man who by one step of his foot in the center ot Europe shook the earth, killed by a anuffhox. On, how many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because ot their dissi pations and indulgences. Now practical religion Is a protest against nil dissipation of any kind. "But," you say, "professors of religion have fallen, professors of relllon have got drunk, professors of religion have misap propriated trust funds, professors of relig ion have absconded." Yes, but thny throw away their religion before they did tln lr morality. If a man on a White Hlnf line steamer bound for Liverpool in mid-At-lantle jumps overboard and is drowned, is tbat anything against tbe White star line's capacity to take tbe man acro.ss the oeeiin? And If a man jumps over tbe gunwale of bis religion aod goes down never to rise Is tbat any reason tor your believing that re ligion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In tbe one ease If lie hnd kept to the steamer bis body would hnvn been saved; In tbe other rase if he Imd kept to his religion his morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would have been dead twenty-five years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of people wbo lie in the ceme teries to-day slain by their own vices. The doctors made their ease-as kind and pleas ant aa they could, and it was called con gestion of tbe brain or something else, but the snakes and tbe bine files tbat seemed to erawl over the pillow In tbe sight or the delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, tbe aged Christian nan, walked along by tbat unhappy oue nttl yoa came to tbe golden pillar of tbe unnstlan lite, ton went so me njm; ne Went to the left. Tbat Is all the difference between you. Oh. it this religion is a pro test against all forms of dissipation then It Is aa Illustrious friend ot longevity! "With long life will I satisfy blm." A rain, religion is a friend of lonirc-vity In .be fu-t tbat it takes the worry out of our te-aporalitles. It is not work that kills men; It Is worry. When a mnu beeoinos a eenuine Christian, be inakis over lo God Hot only bis affections, but his family, bis business, his reputation, his body, bia mind, his soul everything. Industrious I'o will be, but never worrying, because Bod is managing his affairs. How can he worry about business when in answer to Ids pravers God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and, it be gala, that is best and, it he lose, tbat Is best? Supr0'" vou uadasupernatura! neighbor jrho oama in and said:. "Sir, I want you to en II on ne in every exigency. I am ynur fast friend. I could tall back on 20.000. D00. I hold tbe controlling stock lu thirty of tbe best monetary Institutions ot this country. Whenever you are in any trouble ea'l on me, and I will help you. You can have my money, and you can have my in fluence. Here is my hand in pledge of it." How innob would vou worry about bu-d-ness? Why, you would say, "I'll do the beet I can, and then I'll depend on my friend's generosity for tbe rest." Mow, more man tbat is promised to very Christian business man. God says to blm: "I own New York and London and St. Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia, aud California are Mine. I can foresee a panic 1000 years. 1 have all the resource of the universe, and I am your fust friend. When you get In business troulile or any other trouble, call on Me, and I will be!. Here is My hand in pledge ot omnipotent deliverance." How much should tbat man worry? N t much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Dnnlal? is there not rest in this? is there not an eternal vacation in this? ""Oh," you say, "here Is a man who asked . God tor a blessing in a certain enterprise, and he lost t5000 in It. Explain tlmt." "I will. Yonder is a factory, aud one wheel is goiug north and the other wheel is go ing south, and one wheel laterally and the other plays vertically. I go to tbe manu facturer, and Isay: "Oh, mnnufnctnrer, your machinery Is a contradiction. Why do yon not make all tbe wheels go one way?" " Well," be savs, "I irmde tbem to go in opposite directions on purpose, and they produce the right result. You go down stairs and examine the carpets we are turning out In this establishment and you will see." I go down on tbe other floor, and I see tbe carpets, and 1 am obliiteJ to confess that tbougli the wheels In tlmt factory go in opposite directions they tnrn out a beautiful result, and while I am standing there looking at the exquis ite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind "All tilings work together for good to tbem who love God." Is there not rest iu that? Is tbere not tonic in that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose a man is all the time worried 4lout bU reputation. One munsays be lies, another says he Is stupid, another says be is dishonest, and half a dozen priuting es tablishments attack him, aud lie is In a great state fit excitement aud worry and fume and citnuot sloop, but religion comes to bim and says: "Man, God is on your side; He will take enre of your reputation. It God be for your, wbo c iq be ugulnst you?" How much r honld that man worry aboat his reputation? Not much. It that broker who some years ago in Wall street, after lie had lost money, sat ilo-vn and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his braius out; if lusteadof taking out ot his poaket a pistol he bad taken ort a well read New Testament, there would have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous and feverish people of the world, try this al mighty sedative! Yon will live twenty-five ? rears longer under its soothing power. It snot chloral that you want or morphine that you want; It is tbe gospel of Jesus -.. Christ. "With long life will I satisfy him."" v Again, practical religion Is a friend of lougevity In tbe fact tbat It removes all corroding care about a future existence. Every man wants to know what is to be come of bim. If you get on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot it is going to stop. If you get on board a ship, you want to know Into what harbor It Lh going to run, aud it you should tell me you have no Interest lu what is to be your futnri destiny I would in as polite a wny as I know how tell you I did not be lieve you. Before I had this mntter settled with reference to my future existence, the question almost worried nui into ruined health. The nnxieties men have upon this suhject put together would make a martyr dom. This is a stale of awful unhealthi ness. There are people who fret them selves to death for fear of dying. Accept tbat sacrifice and quit worrying Take tbe tonic, the inspiration, tbe long evity ot this truth. Keligion is sunshine; that Is health. Religion Is fresh nlr and pure water; they are healthy. R illgiou is warmth; that is healthy. Ask all the doc tors, and thev will toil you that a quiet conscience and pleasant anticipations are bygienle. I offer you perfect peace now and hereafter. Well, you defeat me in my three export ments. I have only one more to make, and if you defeat me in that I am exhausted, A mighty oue on a knoll bnck of Jerusulem one day, tbe skies filled with forked light nlngs and the earth with volcanic disturb ances, turned His pale and agonized fnoe toward the heavens and said: "I take the sins and sorrows of tbe ages into My own heart. I am the expiation. Witness earth and heaven and hell, I nm the expln'.lou." And the hummer struck Him and the spears punctured Him, and heaven thundered, f'Tbe wages of sin is dent hi" "The soul that sinneth It shall die!" "I will hy ho means clear tbe luiltyl" Then there was silence for hnlf an honr, and the lightnings were drawn back Into the scabbard of the sky and the earth censed to quiver and all the colors of the sky be gan to shift themselves luto a rainbow woven out of the falling tears of Jesus, and there wns red an of the bloodsheilding, and tbere was blue as of tbe bruising, and there was green ns of the hesveuly foliage, and there was orange ns of the day dawn. And along the line of the blue I saw the words, "I was bruised for their Iniquities." And along the line of the red I saw the words, "The blood of Jeus Christ cleausetb from all sin." And nlonir the Hue of the green I saw the words, "The leaves of the tree ol life for tbe healing of tbe nations." And along the line of tbe orange I saw the words, "The day spring from on high Imtb visited us." What do you want In the future worldr Toll me, and you shall hare It. Orchards? There are tbe trees with twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the river of life, fro n under the throne of God, clear as crystal and tbe sea of glass mingled with lire. Do you want music? There is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the ora torio of tbe Itnd Sea led on by Moses, and theoratorio of the M-ssiali led on by St. Paul, while the archangel, with swinging baton, controls the one hundred and forty four thousand wbo make tin the orchestra. Do ycu want reunion? There are your dead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you, waiting lo twist garlands in your hair. You nave been nccurtomed to open the door on this side t!ieseiiile!n-r. I open the door on the other side t'a epulcber. You huve been nccuslo'ned to walk In tho wet grass on the top of the grave, I show you the. nuderside of I ho grave. The bottom has fallen ont, and the long rope with which the pallliearers let down your dead let th.-n i ar throuu'll Into heaven, tytory be to Ood for Hits robust, healthy religion, it will have u tendency to make ou live loug in this world, and in the world to come you will have eternal life. "iVitU Ion;; life will i satisfy blm." What we lack is not more talents -but more purpose with those we have. The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious abeut what is there to fear? ' Ornament is aa substance and sub stance Is as ornament. The hide of a tiger or leopard stripped of its hair is like the hide of a dog or goat stripped of its hair. A blackbird will stand at the side nf a hanfrinr wasn'a nesr'and dpfiber- J ately tear it to pieces in order to. get I at the larvae, aparently undisturbed I by the swarm of angry Insects. j Michigan and Kentucky are about I to try- to have laws passed tQ.. utilise convicts In improving the public Yoads. r i :' 'i . i -, ; : J. 8 ! I i. M ; '. t It ' it : : -. a ' i ft'.' , i .- mt s..a, v v - -fH
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