...-. V-."-"' B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTIONTHE UHIOH AND THE ENFORCED EOT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. LI V MIFF JjINTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1900. NO. 14. -.. aw - - VI i " CHARLOTTE CHAPTEH II Continued.) jjuW caa I teach them when I know SotbiDg?" she asked. "l'oa hare plenty of knowledge, and ben It fail I will supply what yon may need." he DaTe succeeded in a measure. But one life is not long enough for the work. You must carry It on for tat. The (trace and beauty of the woman teacher will do more even than the fame ,nd skill of the man. Leah, try to appre ciate, to understand, the grandeur of the mission I (rive to you." A liKht shone od the girl's face. "And dc you think I could do all this. father .' "Think! I am sure of it! Did not Joan of Arc, a girl feeble and frail as you, lead rast bodies of troops on to victory?" "Heaven called her," said the girl, rev erently. "Heaven calls you," be declared sol emnly. "A girl saved the French crown; a girl-queen saved Hungary from de struction in the olden days; Judith saved her country, yueen Esther her nation. It eeins tu me that from time to time wom en are raided up to save a great people from destruction. Tou, my daughter, are one of these." She grew pule, and trembled under the weight of his words. He took her hands In his, and looked at them lovingly, ff he were a false pretender himself, he did not mean for her to be one, and he knew that nothing succeeds like truth and earn estness. . "These are little hands," he said, "tc hold the great, bleeding heart of the peo ple littler hands to plead and implore, tc raise and beat down. But you must dc it, Leah. I see the grand spirit of noble women sweeping over you. Be a modern Judith, and slay the monster Royalty." She shrank back pale and trembling at these words. "I can slay nothing," she said. But he did not seem to hear her. H was looking at her, trying to weigh the effect of her graceful young loveliness oo the hearts of men. "Leah," he said slowly, "yon will dc better than I have done. Tou will make a fortune." A flame, almost of fire, spread over her beautiful face. "Make a what, father a fortune? I thought you gave up everything to the people you taught not took from them?" "Certainly," he answered hastily. "But there must be funds provided for the or ganization of sut-h a grand movement as ours. Nothing in this very prosaic world can be done without money. Leah. One way of raising money is by giving these lectures. They serve two purposes they find the means to enable us to carry on the war, and they teach the people." The girl's face fell, and the tight died out of it. 'I would rather earn money in some other way," she said. He interrupted her eagerly. "The earning of money is the least part of it, Leah; do you not see? It is true wt must have money, but the teaching of the people is the principal thing." "Tell me what they want to be taught," she requested. "I have no more time just now," said Martin Hay. "There is a meeting of the delegates at three, and I must be pres ent. I will find leisure to teach you. I.eub; and, believe me. a grand mission lies before you." Hut on the face of the girl there was no light of enthusiasm nothing but the fJmilow of doubt and of fear. ' Leah Ray had plenty of spirit she in herited it from the Hattons, but, with all her courage, she dared not tell her fathei - what was in her heart. She bad beei Indifferent at first as to what she had to do, now she hated and loathed it. When, one evening, her father gave hei permission to leave a conclave of some if his political friends who had gathered t. hear her repeat a speech he bad taught her, she went to Hettie.to seek comfort and consolation. "I can never go on with this work, my darling!" she sobbed. "Oh, Hettle. what must I do? I hate it all so. What shall I do? My father will be so angry when I tell him." "It seems almost a pity that you are so t.eautiful and so gifted, Leah," said Hei ne, compassionately Leah stood by the window, her face u.ised to the sky, where the golden star u-:e shining. "Do you remember, Hettie," she said, how the three Hebrews prayed in the ticry furnace? I am in a furnace of lire now. I stand between my own hatred t what my father wants me to do and my father'a anger if I do not do it. Whc will deliver me from it? Who will takt pity on me? I am so helpless. I havf lo friend. Oh, Hettie, Hettie, J feel 1 must pray to heaven to save me from this furnace of fire!" The next afternoon was close, heavy ii . J dull. Out of doors the atmosphere was oppressive in the house there was uarmtb without brightness; and Leah Hay. with a dull pain at her heart, stood waiting her father's return waiting to tell him that she never could and nerei would become what he wished her to be. It was lute when Martin Ray returned. ille was not in the most amiable of moods; something had gone wrong arrmnt inr- 'lelegates, and he was ruffled and an Ken-d. ";ive me my dinner," he said, brusque ly: and the two girls hastened to serve him. "Mind," he added half fiercely to ia eldest daughter "mind that you Rudy well to-day. I must give you a l-ssuti this evening; last night you did a t f,-m so willing as I should like to lave seen you. Understand that there ! If no shirking; you must do what I w.ab." i "L'-ali," said Hettie, trembling, "do lot rprak to him to-night he is angry, tun see: wait until to-morrow." "No; I could not rest another hour," her later replied. "The Voice of the People" had dined veil; Le had taken up the only consola tion that never failed him his newspa per and Leah, looking naler tad mor JHrrn.iued than she had ever looked lr- ture, ,ut ud to him. At that very moment a carriage rolled l;P the street and stopped at their door: came a loud peal at the bell, which the little drudge of the house, with a very black face and hands, hastened to an swer. They heard a loud, peremptory voice asking if Martin Ray was at home, md the girl's answer: "Yes." "Give him this," said the same voice. 1 at. UAEME. -and tell bin that I am waiting wa.ung you understand." . " Who can this be?" observed Martin with a wondering look at his daughters The little maid solved the mystery by ap pearing with a card. "He says he's waiting," she half whis pered, with a nod of her head toward the door. , Martin Ray took up the card and read: General Sir Arthur Hatton, K. C. B." "Sir Arthur Hatton?" he murmured. "I know no such name. Hatton?" Then memory suddenly awakened. Was not Doris Hatton the nam of the onlv wom an be bad ever loved, and who had died because he was not what she believed him to be? 8ir Arthur Hatton? It must be some relative of hers and of the proud father who had died without forgiving his only daughter for marrying him. Then he remembered that his wife had spoken more than once of a soldier brother away n India. "Ask the gentleman to walk in," be said to the servant, and the next minute Gen. Sir Arthur Hatton was ush ered in. At the sight of the two beautiful facer he uncovered his head and bowed low. "Are yon Martin Ray, demagogue and igitator?" he asked. "I am Martin Ray," replied the master jf the bouse. "I am Gen. Hatton, the brother of the unfortunate lady whom yon stole from her home." "What la yoar business with me?" ask ed Martin Ray. "I want the satisfaction, first of all. of speaking my mind to you; and, secondly, I wish to know what has become of my tister's children." Hatred flamed In both faces aa the two men looked at each other; hatred flashed from their eyes. "I have not asked you to my house," aid Martin Ray, "nor do I wish to see you here. State your business quickly, and begone." CHAPTER IIL It was an impressive scene. The fine, tall figure of the officer was drawn to its fall height, his face was expressive of in tense scorn. Martin Ray seemed to shrink into insignificance before him, and yet he faced him with a desperate kind of cour age. The two girls bad drawn close to gether, as though seeking protection from each other. The wan sunlight lay in yel low bars aloag tbe floor. "I have not come hither," said Gen. Hatton, "to bandy -word with yon to eek a quarrel with yon. Ton are one with w4tam no gentleman could quarrel. ( have a message from the dead, and I wish to deliver it. Show me my sister's children." "They are here," said Martin Ray, not without a certain amount of dignity "the good children of a good mother." Gen. Hatton waved his hand with a gesture of scorn. No word about his dead sister-could be tolerated from the man whom he thought utterly vile and base. He went to the girls, who stood, with fear on their faces, hand in band. The composed, well-bred manner, the low bow, and tbe courteous bearing were something novel to them. He looked into each sweet, shrinking face. "My sister's children," be said, "have you any word of welcome for me? I bring a message from your mother." Leah freed her hand from her sister's clasp and held it out to him. He drew her to him, and kissed the pale young face. She found that he was trembling with agitation and emotion. Then he took Hettie in his arms ud kissed her also. "I was quit a young man," hs said, "when I left home, and your mother was much younger than L She was my dear ly beloved sister, playmate, and treasure. It waa a great grief to me to be obliged to part from her when I went abroad. I remember her face, and la yours I see turoe trace of it. What word of welcome have you for me?" Impulsive Leah threw her arms around bioi, and raised her face to his. "Welcome home, dear uncle," she said. "What is your name, dear child?" he asked. "Leah," she replied. "Leah! It is a beautiful, sorrowful name. Why did your mother give it to you? Did she foresee a shadow in your life? Tou look like Leah; no other name would suit you. And you?" he continued, turning to the younger sister. I am Hettie," she said. "Heaven bless you, my dear; yon have a sweet face of your own! Tour mother bade me here is the letter you can read it she bade me, when I returned home, seek yon, find you and save yon." "Save us!" cried Leah. "From what?" "She must have known what she was writing, replied tbe general. "She was sweet-tempered and never complained; but she died young, and of no complaint to which men could give a name. She was not happy, and she asked me to save you." Martin Ray stepped forward. "I will not allow yon to speak In that fashion," he said. "Their mother loved me, and they love me; yon will never set my children against me." "I have no wish to do so," said the gen eral, coldly. "Knowing yonr true charac ter, as I suspect my sister knew it before her death, I can imagine yon to be quite unfit to have the charge of young girls: therefore I bring their mother's message to them, and they can make their choice." "Why am I unfit?" cried Martin Ray. his face white with rage 'In what way?" "I judge yon from yonr public charac ter. Tou are without honor, honesty and loyalty; you are the very ringleader of se dition: treason is natural atmoanher to yon. Ton live on the hard earnings it the people yon mislead. Tou spread lisa flection, rebellion, ruin, misery and ieath wherever yon go." A low cry came from Leah s lips. It teemed to her that these words of her mcle's gave life to a horriwe specter iu. sad always hanuted ner. "If," continued the soldier, "yon were honest, I hould hare some respect for ron. Bnt yon are an impostor; -you, and such aa you, lira on the hard-earned pence of tho men you deceive. If you - Instead of taking from W.w- .nm. little faith In .. m. iif. to the cause I aave at heart," rejoined Martin Bay--Tou are not a persoa to have the .1. . -4-1. ilka these. Tou would sell them, heart and soul, to further your cause;" and ueua suns ralne their youth, their fresh, sweet grace nj beauty, only so far as they will help ron and lure men to your belief whom fou cannot teach yourself. I declare to heaven," he continued passionately, "that - am relieved and grateful to find them they are. " I should not have been sur prised had I discovered that you had, fveu young aa they are, tried to make platform orators of them." 'I'bo candom shot went home to the very heart of Martin Ray, and blanched Leah's face with a great fear. This was indeed the furnace of fire from which she had longed to be free. "My children are my own," said Mar tin, "to do aa I will with." "They are not aU your own," rejoined Gen. Hatton. "A dead hand is stretched out from their mother's grave to save them. They belong to her. dead though she may be, as much aa they belong to you. They have no business with you; yon are no fitting guardian for them. Those two girls have good blood in their veins. Their ancestors were loyal; they ve their lives for the safety and well being of the throne that you are trying to overthrow; they lived and died in tbe service of the royal race that you would destroy." "There is one thing you must allow me to say; you have not been in any great hurry to fulfill your sister's wishes. Sn had been dead some years; It must, there fore, be rather late to aave my children, as you choose to express It." A dees) flush covered the soldier's face. "It is true," he said, "that I have been neglectful In this matter; I reproach my self bitterly for it- When that letter came, I ought to have started for Kng land mt once; but I did not, and other in terests drove the subject from my mind. I will make all the amende I can. Armed with my sister's authority, I am here by her wish to aave her children from tbe fate that, living with you, an agitator and impostor, must of necessity bring up on tnem. "My children areTny own," repeated Martin Ray, with difficulty repressing his passion, "and l shall keep them." "Tou are unfitted for the charge. Tos are a disloyal subject you have spent some of the best years of your life in prison: what can you have to do with the training of innocent young girls?" A cry from Leah interrupted him. "Ia it true, father?" she said. "Have you been in prison?" while Hettie went up to him silently, and placed her hand in his. Ia tbe midst of his shame and expos ure one at least of Martin's daughters was faithful to him. "Ia it truer repeated Leah, ia a voice of anguish that smote both men with re gret. "I waa a political prisoner, Leah," he replied; "and that ia a very different mat ter from being a common felon. Kings have been political prisoners before now. I am not ashamed of it" yet bis eyes drooped before the wistful, imploring gas of bis best-loved child. "1 am not ashamed of It, Leah, be repeated. - ' "I come," said the general, "to make a proposition; bow it will be received I know not. I make it la my dead sister's name. I abhor and detest tbe principles, and teaching of Martin Ray; I held them in such supreme contempt that I can nev er after this day have any communica tion whatever with him. I would rather cut off my right hand than let it touch his. But his children are the children of my dead sister, and I am here to make them an offer. I am a rich man; I have been married, and my wife, in dying, left me a large fortune; besides which, all that I have undertaken haa prosper ed. I have no children, no relatives save my two nieces, and consequently no one to succeed to my wealth. I shall never marry again; and I propose. In accord-"' anc with my slater' wishes, to adopt Leah and Hettie and treat them as daughters of my own. I will educate them, find a proper chaperon for them, introduce them to their proper sphere, and I will divide my money equally be tween them." (To be continued.) THE ORIGINAL SPEECH. True Primeval Tongue of Man Unllk. Any Languaice We Know, The original siieecli, tbe true prim eval tongue of man, was Quite uulik any language we bare ever beard; ye. we have all talked It and aU Its ele ruenta are present in the tongues of to da, nays the Cou temporary. The prim eval language was a vowel language altogether; It had no consonants, o. contacts, a we ought to call them, a alL Its words consisted of vowc sounds following each other, repeatet or varied of words like aeaea, aoao ala, auau, aeoia, iaua, oioi, ouou, uaua ueue, all of which, I may say In pass log, are taken from a language In us to-day. The sentences were intermit tent streams of vowels, each streau. held on so long as the speaker' a breatL allowed or whim dictated. When all literature waa recited, the same con slderatlon, the capacity of tbe lungs determined the length of the bardii Una; so we have our shlokas, our hexa meters, our Alexandrines and so forth encb a lungful of verse, in the prim eval tongue it was likewise, but tin see fences were vowels only. There are about ten or a dozen pun vowels to go upon, and rowel word: may run up to five syllables; so w have) a very considerable fund to draw on for our vowel streams. And tbesi streams of vowel speech corresponditi to aad expressed streams of emotion oi feeling rather than descriptions of con erate objects. For we hardly reallzt how terribly overladen with materia! trifles our life la to-day and thereon what great demands we make on lan guage for concrete words. But our ei clamAtions, each of which indicates u single emotion, teud to remain pun vowel sounds even at tbe present day svxeroiae tor the Langs. . . Strengthening the lungs, especially the apexes, may be done by blowing through a small pipestem or tube that will allow the breath to pass'out slow ly. First fill tbe lungs with good alt. then blow with steady force vigorously ut4nofioletrtlr."A w' "f tt will be sufficient ry ' " A Will ana a way. "George," ne cooed, "why can't r get marr'ed next Sunday?" "Well," hesitatingly replied the te calcitrant but manly youth at her side "we could, I s'pose; but It may rain Sunday." "George. If It rains Sunday couldn t we get married Satnrdayr-Judge. To know yourself and 'other too, I tbe ria-ht o human knowledge. It Is said that In tbe case of heavy vehicles, such as motor carriages, tbe principal source of wear and detrnc lion of the pneumatic tires is not punc turing or breaking, but Internal strain and friction. In som tires the interior fibers of the rubber have been found reduced to a fide powder by the con stant wear. The Agricultural Department baa constructed a new building at Wash ington to be used solely for testing feeds of all kinds, in order to afford pro tection against dishonest dealers. Re rent tests gave remarkable results. Meadow-foxtail see . from Germany, costing 35 cents a pound, waa adulter ated more than 70 per cent, with seed worth only 10 cents a pound. Orchard grass, purchased in tbe open market, was more than half bad. Some crim son clover, similarly purchased, was 98 per cent. bad. As Is well known, the soldier's risk of death In battle Is not nearly as great as of finding a grave as tbe result of disease. Tbe most competent authori ties state that on tbe average it takes a ton of shot to kill one man. For In stance, it has been estimated that In th Crimean war the British and French troops tired between them the enor mous amount of 45,000,000 projectiles, resulting In tbe death of only 51,000 Russians, while on their side th Csar's adberenta killed some 46,000 of the allies, with an expenditure of over 50,- 000,000 projectiles .this representing a dea th for every 1,087 shots fired. After an experimental study of morif thau Ave years at tbe psychological laboratory of tbe Saltpetrlere, M. Vas- c':i!de has concluded that the brain is always active, and there Is no such tiling as dreamless sleep. He has matched the sleep of thirty-six subjects ranging In age from twelve months to eighty years, and his own observations have been checked by those of forty-six other persons. He finds that the dreams of deep sleep differ from the hallucina tions that come at tbe moment of fail ing asleep and that of waking. The superficial aleep reflects more the sen sations of every day, while tbe dreams of deep sleep sre more continuous, more logical, farther from .reality, and have iiore to do with one's earlier existence. Geologists are of the opinion that the vast territory now 1c now n as Wyoming once had numerous fresh-water lakes and a climate approaching tbe semi tropical, and that the animals whose bones are from time to time coming to light Inhabited these lakes and the ad joining swamps in myriads. They sank Into the mud In dying, add their bones were covered with other deposits and became petrified. Tbe large beds are found at points supposed to have been the mouths of great rivers, the animals after death ba-vrag floated down these rivers to plates where they were de posited in these estuaries, thus account ing for tbe vast. deposits which charac terize certain localities and which have proved such a study to scientific inves , 1 1 gators. ' Prof. R. 8. Wood worth describes Ir Science a new movement for writers with the pen which, he thinks, has decided advantages over older methods. To write In the new manner, let tbe top of the -paper slant to' tbe right instead of to the left. The lv,.'---Ml lines across the paper can then. followed by drawing tbe wTiole arm, in the direc tion of the forearm, back toward the flank. "Meanwhile impart to the wrist (and forearm) a back and forth lateral motion which shall produce the vertical strokes of the letters." When this method has been mastered. Prof. Wood- worth says, "rapid writing is freer and more legible, showing no tendency to degenerate Into the flat scrawl." The movement can also be taught, with rel ative facility, to the left hand. AN ODD C SE. ft Will Linger Long in the Mirnorj of n Bargtoa, 'What was the strangest case I ever had ? "said one of the surgeons in at tendance at the late convention, repeat ing tbe question of a reporter with whom he was chatting. "Well, let me see. 1 believe ttie Oddest incident or my career occurred in but hold! on second thought I don't care to give any names or dates. The facts. If you like. were these: I was called by messenger to a cheap boarding bouse one evening to attend a man who was said to have been hurt in a fight. I found a young fellow of 25 or thereabouts, half dazed, with' a bloody contusion on one of his cheeks and a badly broken nose. The bridge was smashed almost flat with tbe face, and I saw at once that the case would need very careful handling to prevent great disfigurement. Not to bother you with technical details, 1 confined myself that night to a supe ra cial dressing, and deferred further pro ceedings until next day. When I called the following morning the young man had quite ecovered his senses, and al though hla clothes were shabby and all his surroundings poor and mean, it was evident from his- banda, talk and bearing that he had never done any bard work and was a person of educa tion and refinement. I took him for tbe black sheep of some good family, but made no comments, and explained briefly that I would try to restore his nose as far aa possible by performing a slight operation and Inserting an arti ficial support. To my astonishment he objected flatly, and Insisted on letting It heal exactly as It was. 'But you will be frightfully disfigured.' I protested; I doubt if yonr best friends would rec ognize yon.' Strange to say. that as surance seemed to render him only The firmer, and I was compelled to lechlm hav his way. It was nearly three weeks before he was well, and, as I an ticipated,, he looked exactly like some battered bruiser of the prise ring. 1 never saw the man again, but six months biter I was shown the photo graph of a handsome young chap who was badly wanted for a big embezzle ment. I pat my linger over th nose and recognised my late patient. He had walked aboard ship right under the eye of I be detective and sailed for the Argentine -Republic. They bad his photo, but never dreamed of con necting It with the caved-ln counte nance of that particular passenger." "Did b get somebody to break his nos on purpose?" asked tbe reporter. "I never ascertained," said the surgeon. New Orleans Times-Democrat. CAMEO CARVING. Brief Description of th Tool and th Method Ensnloycd. All the tools used by the cameo carver would make but a handful. Tbe worker sits before a wheel turned by a pedal; tools occupy a small corner of th table surface on which tbe work er's hand rest while be holds tbe shaped stone or shell beneath the needle-like drllL Tbe little pointed In struments which are used to drill re semble those employed by a dentist, and, indeed. It was from tbe cameo carver'a kit that the dentists got msny of their Ideas when tbe tools now in use by them came to be manufactured, thirty years ago. The drills vary in thickness according to the portion of tbe figure or design to be executed; some are as fine as the point of a cam bric needle. A small china receptable also stands near, filled with oil and dia mond dust, and Into thia the workman frequently dips bis tool during the progress of bis work. Tbe caioeo cut ter's occupation is very exacting. He can put in only a few hours' work at a time as a usual thing, because of the tension on bis nerves. A quavering hand may be responsible for the siogU stroke which will spoil a week's work. He must have an eye almost like a microscope, and a very delicate touch; he must be an artist In soul and aa skilled a craftsman as is a watch maker; he must know bow to model and draw, and he imixt have a knowl edge of chemistry, so as to remov offending spots. The work is executed In relief, on ninny kinds of bard or precious stones, but essentially the clmlcedonic variety of quartz, and on shells. Tbe cameo cutter himself pre fers onyx because of its dark and light layers, which throw out In hold relief a white' head, say against a black background. lie evolves his picture by removing all that portion of the white stratum remaining after the bead has been completed. Sapphire blocks are used, carnellan. turquoise, amethyst and numerous other stones. It takes about one month to execute a portrait oo ouyx, wbile much less time is con sumed if tbe 'work Is done on shell There Is always great danger of the latter breaking; and Its durability, too. is uot great, so that shell, as a rule. Is not as destranle as the harder materials. A portrait on onyx will cost $20O, wbile one In shell may be -had for Ti0. - Tbe Inquiries foe tbesei are rare, and build ing up a patronage is slow, and Is ac complished mainly by satisfied custom ers Influencing' others New York Evening Post PERSIAN RUGS OF IRISH MAKE Deft Weaver of the Old Sod Tnrn Oa a Perfect Imitation. Just a year ago some manufacturers of artistic textiles, touring In Donegal resolved on establishing a place for the makiug of band-tufted carpets of the description generally known as "Turk ish" or "Persian." The peculiarity of this fabric Is that from Its nature it must be a hand production. The tufts are tied by the fingers In knots In longi tudinal warps, which are stretched be tween two long parallel beams. Tbe carpets are made to the size and simp of auy room. The design is placed in front, and the girls, from three to a dozen, according to the size of tbe car pet, select tbe colors indicated row by row, which are tied, then bound down by "shoots" of woolen weft drawn across tbe entire width and beaten firm by small iron-toetbed hammers. There is interesting variety and pleasure In tbe work, and It is such that Individual skill and workmanship come largely into play. Altogether, It Is just such an Industry as is suited to the ratal dis tricts of Ireland. No steam power I required, and there Is therefore no ban dlcap on the commercial :;ide by tlx absence of coal. The first year's experiment with the Irish girls has proved tlint they are a I inlrably adapted for the work. Th girls show a nimbleness of fingers and sharpness of eye for color and form that have quite astonished their teach ers, and they take to the work with a sp'rlt and cheerfulness quite refres'i Ititf. So convinced sre the promoter of its ultimate success that tbey hav planned out a broad scheme that wil espread the work all over the west of Ireland and give employment to man' hundreds of girls snd boys. Ixrndo Furniture Record Why People Are Rtarhthan il. A professor who has made a study o' children says he has discovered wh the majority of people are rigbt-band'.'ri Infants use botts-hands until they begii to speak. The motor speech functlor controls tbe right side of the body and tbe first right-handed motions, tending to help out speech. As speech grows sr grows right-handedness. Of Great Importance. All the affairs of state of the village in which he holds office are carried upon the shoulders of the talking man of Samoa. In ordinary he is th? chief adviser, persuader, conrincer and re strainer of the leading chiefs. Having the gift of eloquence be makes tbe most of it. He enjoys lmmnnity fromJ many things. He cannot be spoken or in ordinary terms. If It should be necessary to speak of his eyes or his mouth or his limbs, special bonoiable words must be used, words which at tach to him alone and have never been applied to the personal parts of ordin ary! men..--Aa he stands to deli ver hi persuasive mellifluous oratory,- iwitii staff of office in his band and hla fly duster thrown over his shoulder, any one can see that he Is a man of great Importance, or if this Is not apparent from hla attitude it may be gathered from the attention paid to his utter ances by gray-haired chiefs and by youths and maidens. If tbe talkins man is a clever fellow and under stands bis business, be Is the chief ru! lng power In bis tribe, although tb nominal leadership Is always vested I a chief or patriarchal figuiw-haswl Ida She keeps her age well, doesu't ahe? May Tea; she can't get rid of It. Chicago News. "Why is Agutnaldo like a man who lives by hla wits?" "I dunno." "He carries bis capital with him." Chicago Times-Herald. Young Physician When you have a case which baffles yon, whom do you call In? Old Doctor (gruffly) The un dertaker. Life. . . . , . W hat is a bachelor. Aunt Martha :' un, ne S a man WUO .ninas every g n tnat looks at him intends to marry him." Indianapolis Journal. Justifiable. She Don't you think it Is better to marry for love than fo: money?" He-Certalnly-If "the con tracting parties are both wealthy." Chicago News. Ned I wonder if It amazes a girl when a fellow catches her under the mistletoe. Ted It must: she always seems to be rooted to tbe spot. Tow i Topics. Maud Tell me all about It. Maliel Well, when it began he was on h a knees. ' Maud And how did It end : Mabel In tbe end er I was on 1.1 knees. Town Topics. "What Is your occupation, my g .od woman?" said the examining attorney to tbe witness for the defendant. "Ul'm a washer-woman,, so nr." "Where di you bang out?" Judge. Demonstrative time-piece: "What a beautiful hall clock!" exclaimed the visitor. "Yes," said Mrs. (iaswell: "it cost us a pile of money. The penjiilum osculates just once every second." Chicago Tribune. Her natural rights: Mamma I don't see where you get your red hair; you don't get it from your papa, and you certainly don't get It from me. Litil Dorothy Well, mamma, can't I st.nt something? Puck. Ralph Suppose a fellow's best girl gets mad when he asks for a kUM? Curtis Take It without asking. ICfi pti Suppose she gets mad then? Curtis Then he's got some other fellowV girl. Harlem Life. Country Doctor (catechising) Now. little boy. what must we all do in ordo to enter heaven? Boy Die. Country Doctor Quite right but what must we all do before we die? Boy et sick and send for you. Judge. The doctor prescribes: Jimson Doc tor, I am getting too stout for coinforr and I want your. advice.. Doctor: Noflj ing reduces flesh like worry; spend .two hours a day thinking of the -uniait biU you owe me. Tit-Bits. - Mrs. Lash What did you gel bahy for a birthday present? Mrs. Rash I took four dollars and ninety -nine cents out of the little darling's bank and bought him this lovely lamp for the drawing-room. Boston Beacon. Football Mrs. Newcome (her Br ' game) Oh! Isn't It awful? HorrTbt Why. they will kill that man umle -neatb! Her Daughter (an enthusiast) -Oh! he doesn't mind It. mother; he's unconscious by this time! Puck. Mrs. Kelly (1 a. m.) How could yei. get droonk wldout a t int In your pock et? Mr. Kelly Whol, Rooney was talk . , i' , - In' war, Casey waa taikln politics, and Hogan was taikln' baby! All I hod t do was to kape me mouth shut! Puck "This la murder!" cried tbe memy. as the captain of marines opened with the ship's machine guns from tbe top of the hill. "No, only a salt and bat tery!" we shouted back st them, thin deftly adding Insult to Injury. Detroit Journal. "Jaysmith fairly worships his wife." said Fosdick, "and yet be won't -give her enough money to dress herself properly." "It Isn't always the most devout worshiper that puts the mo-t money on the collection-plate," replied Keedlck. Town Topics. Inquiring Child Father, there's a lot In thia book about Othello. Who wa Othello? Father Othello! Why, b e s me, my boy, do yon mean to tell me yon go to Sunday school, and don't know a simple thing like that? I'm ashamed of you! Tit-Bits. Parson Nw -To' expects me totiio.e heab an' preach fob yo' wldout salary How does I lib? Deacon Snow W'y. yo' gits youah libbln' de same as d rest ob ns; but bein' er preacbsb de fingah of suspisbun doan nebbab poiut in youah dlreckshnn. Judge. Canvasser "I bave here a work ' Master of tha House "I can't read." Canvasser "But your children " Master of the House "I bave no chil dren" (triumphantly), "nothing t ut a cat." Canvasser Well, you waat something to throw at the cat." H took the book. Tit-Bits. "Who is your favorite author?" in quired the young woman who is col lecting autographs. "I don't know what his name Is," replied Aguinaldj; "but the man who wrote 'He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day' certainly knew Ida lu I ness." Washington Star. Preparlrg Him for the Worst. I had a cheerful experience the other day," remarked a gentleman who bad speut several days at one of the springs for rheumatism. "What waa It?" asked the observer.' "I was carried Into a depot near th' springs and deposited on a neat neai an old lady, who looked at me with a complacent smile and Inquired: 'Be -n hurtr " " 'No I replied. . "Rums tlx r " " 'Yes. " 'Water do you any good? " -Not much.' " 'WetL lots of people come here for th water. Tbe patient returns borne, and so the paper announce that Mr. So-and-so has returned from the sprlngi much Improved by th ns of th water; but If you read the paper In a few days you will see that Mr. So-and-so has died and been burled.' The con- venation waa to cheerful to be ttaMd." MM OF 1 0,11. Preached by Rev. Or. Talmage. KBbjMtt: Kvil Companions Klndlr d vico to Toast Mm-Avoid Mad Com paar. Especially Skoptios and lalors Shan ThMa Who Saok Only rioasora, (Coprnatit !. Washihotoh, D. C. la this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks oft a theme which all moo, yoong and oi l, will bs glad to ae dlreussed, and the klodlr warning will no doubt In many eases be taken: text. Pro verbs xill., 20, "A companion of fools absll be destroyad." "Hay It please the court," said a con victed ertmlnnl wbea asked by tbe judge , what ha had to say why sonteooo ot death 1 8hou,d BOt - Dr0B0.lnced noon him. "mnv , It please tue court, bad company Das been mv destruction. I received the blessing ot good parents and In return therefor prom. Ised to avoid all vil assoolatos. Had I kept my promise I should bave avoided, tbis shame and tbe burden ot cullt whlob. i like a vulture, threatens to drag me to Justice tor my many crimes. Altbouxn 1 once moved In blgli circles and was enter tained by dlstlngoisued men, I am lost. Bad company did the work tor me." Only one out of a thousand illustrations was tb"t ot tbe fact that "a companion of fools shall be destroyed." It is an Invariable i rule. ' Here Is a hospital with a houdred men down with tbe ship fever. Here is a healthy man who gons Into it. He does not so cer tainly calen tbe disease as a gcod man will satcli moral distemper if he consents to be shut up with tbe vicious and tbe abandoned. Id the prisons ol the olden time It was the custom to put prisoners in a cell together, and I am sorry to say it Is tbe custom still In some of our prisous; so that when the day of liberation comes the men. Instead ot being retorted, are turned out brutes, not meu, eacli one baring learned the vices of all the rast. We imy In our worldly occupation be obliged to talk to and commingle with bad people, bnt be who voluutarily chooses thlriod ot association ia carrying on a courtship with a Delilah wblcU will shear the locks ot bis strength, and be will be tripped into perdition. Look over all the millions of the race, and you cannot show me a single instance where a man volun tarily associated with the bad for one yeai and maintained bis integrity. Sin tscatob Ing: It Is Infections: it is epidemic. I A young man wakes up in one ot out great cities knowing only the gentlemen ot tbe firm Into whose service he has en tered. In tbe morning lie enters the store, and all the clerks mark him, measure him, discuss him. The bad clerks of that estab lishment, tbe good clerks ot that estab lishm nt stand in some relation to blm. Tbe goo l clerks will wish him well, but tbey will wait for a formal introduction, and even after tbey bave bad the Intro duotion they are very cautions as to whether tbey shall call lilm into their asso ciation before they know him very well. But the bad young men In that estab lishment all gatber around blm. They patronize blm, they offer to show him everything that there is in tbe city on one condition that he will pay the expense, for It alwnys happens so when a good young man and a bad yonng man go to gether to a place of evil entertainment the good young man always has to pay the charges. Just at tbe time the ticket is to be paid for or the ebampagoe bill Is to be settled tbe bad young man will effect em barrassment and feel around in his pockets and say, "Well, well, really I bave for .gotten my pocketbook." , In forty-eight hours after this Innocent young man has entered the store tbe bad young men will gatber around him, slap him on tbe shoulder with familiarity, and, if he !s stupid in not being able to take certain allusions, will say, "Ah, my yonng friend, you will bave to be broken In." And foribwitli they go to work to "break him In." Ob, young man, let no fallen young man slap you on the sbonlder familiarly! Turn around and give a withering glance that will make tbe wretch cower In your pres ence. There is no monstrosity of wicked ness that can stand before tbe glaoce o( purity and honor. Ood keeps the light nings of heaven In His own scabbard, and no human may reach them, but Ood gives to every young man a lightning which he may use, and that is the lightning of an honest eye. Anybody tbat understands the temptations of our great cities knows the ! use of one sermon like this, in which I try o enforc) the thonht t.,at' ..COmpeuloi of fools shall be destroyed." Aod, first, Icnargeyou, avoid the skeptln that is, the young man who puts his thumb in bis vest aud swaggers aiiont, wofflng at your old fasbloued religion, then taking out tbe Bible and turning ovec to some mysterious passnge and saying: "Explain that, my friend, explain that. I used to think just as you do. My father ami mother used to think just as yuudo. But you caa't scare me about the future. I used to believe in those things but I've got over It." Yes, be has got over It, and you will get over It If you stay In his compan ionship much longer. For awhile he may not bring one argument against tur holy Christianity. He will ty scoffs and jeer and caricatures destroy your faith in that religion which was tbe comfort of your father In bis declining years anil tbe pillow on which your old mother lay a-dying. That brilliant young skeptlo will after awblie bave to die, and bis diamond will flash no splendor into the eye ot death. His hair will lie uncombed on the pillow. Death will come up, and tbis skeptle will say to blm: "I eannot die, I cannot die." Death will say: "You must die. You bave but ten seconds more to live. Your soul give It to me right away. Your sonl!" "Ob, no!" says tbe skeptic. "Do not breathe that cold air into my fnce. You crowd me too bard. It is getting dark in tbe room. Here take my rings and take all tbe pictures In the room, but let me off." "No." says Death, Your soul! Your soull" Then the dying skeptic beirins to say, "OGoil!" Death says, "Yon declared there was no Ood." Then tbe dying skep tic says, "Pray for me," and Death says: "It is too Inte to pray; you have only three seconds more to live, and I will count Ibem off one, two, ttree. Gone!" Where? Where? Carry him out anil lay blm down beside bis old father and mother, wbo died under the delusions ot the Christian religion singing the songs or vlctorr. Again, avoid tbe Idlers that is, those people wbo gatber around the store or the shop or tbe factory and try to seduce you away from your regular calling aod in tout business hours try to sedne you away. There is nothing that would please them so well as to have you give up yoar em ployment and consort with them. These idlers you will find standing around tbe engine bouses or standing at noonday or about noon on the steps of some hotel or fashionable restaurant. They have not dined there. Tlmy never dined there. Tber never will dine itirre. Belore you Invite a yonng man Into yonr association ask him Elainly, "What do you do for a living?" II e says, "Nothing; I am a gentleman," look ont for him. I care not bow soft his band or bow elegant bis apparel or bow high sounding bis family name, bis touch la death. These people who have nothing to do will eome aronnd you in your busy hours, and tbey will ask you to ride with tbem to Chevy Chase or to Central Park, and tuey will tell you of some excursiou tbat you must make, of some wine tbat you must drink, of some beautiful dancer that you must see. Tbey will try to take you away from your regular work. Associate with these men. and. first ot all. you will be come ashamed of your apparel; then you will lose your place, then you will loss your respectability , then you will lose yout sonl. Idleness Is the next door to villainy. When tbe police go to find criminals, where do they go to find tbem? They find them among tbe Idle those wbo bave nothing to do, or. Having something to do, refuse to engage in their dally work. Some oae cam to good old A-'ibel Green and asked blm why be worked at eighty years ot age when It was time for blm to rest. "Ob," he replied, "I work to keep out ot mischief!" And no man can afford to be idle. I care cot huw strong bis moral character, be eannot afford to be Idle. fiat von sar: "A great many -people are raftering from enforced Idleness, uuring :be bard times there were a great many people out of employment." I know It, but the times of dullness in business are tbe times when men ought to be thor oughly engaged In Improving their minds and enlarging their hearts. The fortunes to be made twenty years from now will be made by the young men who In tbe times when business was dull eultivated their minds and improved their hearts. Tuev will get the fortunes after awhile, while those men who bang around their stores, never engaging In any useful occupation, will be as poor then as they are now. It Is absurd for a Christian man to say hs has nothing to do. I went Into a store In New York where there were live Christian men. and tbey said tbey bad nothing to do. The whole world lying In sin. Poverty to be com forted, sickness to be allevinted. a Bible In tbe back office, every opportunity of men tal culture, spiritual culture; every in ducement to work, vet a Christian inau. sworn before high betven tooonseortte his whole life to usefulness, has nothing to dol It you have not any business for this worlJ. my Christian friend, thon you ought to be iloing business for eternity. Again, I counsel you, avoid tue pleasure teeker, the man whose entire business It Is to seek for recreation and amusement. I believe In tbe amusements of the world so far as they are innocent. I could . uot live without tbem. Any man of sanguine tem perament mnst nave recreation or die. And yet tbe amusements and recreations of life must administer to bard work. Tbey are only preparative for tbe occupation to which God has called us. God would not bave given us tbe capac ty to laugh If He did not sometimes Intend us to Indulge it. God hath bung In sky and set In wave and printed on grass many a roundelay. But all the music and tbe brightness ot the natural world were merely Intended to Bs us for the earnest work of lite. The thundercloud has edges exquisitely purpled, but it jars the moun tain as it says, "I come down to water tbe fields." The flowers standing under the fence look gay and beautiful, but tbey s ty, "We stand here to refresh the husuaud inen at the nooning." The brook frolics and sparkles and foams, but it says, "I go to baptize tbe moss; I go to slake the thirst of the bird; I turn the wheel of the mill; In my crystal cradle I rock muck haw and water lily; I play, but I work." Look out tor the man who plays and never works. Look out for that man whose entire business Is to piny hall or sail a yacht or engage In any kind of mer riment. These things are all beautiful and fraud In their places, but when they be some the chief work ot lite they become man's destruction. George Brummel was idmired ot all England. He danced with peeresess and went a round of mi4i and folly uolil after a wbile, exhausted of purse, ruined ot reputation, blasted ot soul, he besrged a crust from a grocer, de claring as b'.s deliberate opinion that be though that a dog's life was better than a man's. These mere pleasurists will eome around fou while you are engaged In your work, nd they will try to take you away. Tbey have lost their places. Why not you lose your place? Tuen you will be oneot them. Oil, my friends, before you go with these Measure seekers, these men whose entire life is fun and amusement and recreation, remember while after a man has lived a life of integrity and Christian consecra tion, kind to tbe poor and elevating to tbe world's condition, when he comes to die he has a glorious reminiscence lying on his death pillow, the mere pleasurlst has noth ing by way of review but a torn playbill, a ticket for the race, an empty tankard or tbe cast out rinds ot a carousal. And aa In delirium of bis awful death he clutohestbe goblet and presses it to bis lips, tbe dregs falling on bis tongue will begin to unooll and hiss with tbe adders of an eternal poi son. Again, beware of Sabbath breakers. Tell me bow a young man spends bis Habbatb, and I will tell you what are his prospects In business, and I will tell you what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust Into our busy life a sacred day when we are to look after our souls. Is it exorbitant after giving six days to the feeding and the clothing of these perish able bodies that God should demand one day for tbe feeding and the clothing of the immortal soul? Our bodies are seven day ' docks, and tbey need to be wound np, and If tbey are not wound up tbey run down into the grave. No man can continuously break tbe Sab bath and keep his physical and mental health. Ask those aged men, aud they will tell you tbey never knew men who con tinuously broke the Sabbath wbo did not fall either In mind, body or moral prin ciple. A manufacturer gave this as his ex perience. He said: "I owned a fautory on the Lehigh. Everything prospered. 1 kept tbe Sabbatb, and everything went on well. But one Sabbatb morning I be thought myself of a new shuttle, and 1 thought I would invent that shuttle before suiiHet. and 1 refused all food and drink until I had completed that shuttle. By sun down I had completed it. Tbe next day, Monday, I showed to my workmen and friends this new shuttle. Tbey all con gratulated me on my great success. I put tbat shuttle Into play. I enlarged my business; hut, sir, that Sunday's work cost me 30,000. From that day everything weut wrong, I failed In business, and I lost my mill. Oh, my friends, keep tbe Lord's day. You may think It old fogy ail vlce, but I give It to you now: "Bememlier the Sabbath day, keep It holy. Six days shalt tbou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh Is tbe Sabbath of the Lord thy God; In It thou shalt not do any work." A man said that be would prove I hat all this was a fallacy, and so be said. I shall raise a Sunday crop." And he plowed tbe held on tbe Sabbatb, and then he put In tbe seed on the Sabbatb and cul tivated tbe ground on tbe Sabbatb. When the harvest was ripe, he reaped It on the Babbath, and he carried It into tho mow on tbe Sabbatb, and then he stood out defiant to bis Christian neighbors and said. rbcre, that Is my Sunday crop, aud it is all garnered." After awhile a storm cause up and a great darkness, and the Ught uiogs of heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunday crop. Beware, young mau, of all Sabbath breakers. Again, I charge you, beware of associa tion with tbe dissipated. Go with tbem and you will In time adopt their habits. Who is that man fallen against tbe curb stone, covered with bruises and beastli ness? He was as bright a lad as ever looked up from your nursery. His mother rocked him, prayed for blm, fondled blm, would not let the night air touch his c'teek and held him up and looked down Into bis loving eyes and wondered for what high position be was being fitted. He en tered lite with bright hopes. Tbe world beckoned 'blm, friends cheered him, tut tbe archers shot at him; vile men set traps for hlir., bad habits hooked fast to him with tbeir Iron grapples; bis font slipped on tbe way, and there be lies. Who would think that that nucombeil hair was once toyed with by a father's lingers? Would you think that those bloated cheek were ever kissed by a mother's Hps? Would you guess that that thick tongue ouca made a household glad with its Innocent iraltle? Utter no harsh words In his ear. Ielp him np. Tut the bat over tbat once manly brow. Brush the liut-t from that coat that ouce covered a generous heart. Show lilm the way to tbe Imme that once rejoiced at the soun i of Ids footstep and Willi gentle words tell his children to slaud back as you help blm through the hr.ll. Old men are apt to think that about ail they are fit for ia to make money and mve It. Politeness makes all other accom plishments easy and agreeable. He lives longest wbo best uses mM of the hours of bia life. Age is not a uiatter of y arn, but of employment. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it thia ia knowledge. Loving deecs alone make live devo tion. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand: the angels come to visit us nd we only know them when they are gone. What we lack la not more talents but more purpose with those we have. a sudden paU piercing her Man. -Too V v' 'fy-
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