B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. I AY. MIFPLIXTOTO, JUXIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 28, 1900. NO. 16. ft! f . t j.xxJ.-MA4A44.4.44.j lillllll 11 IIH i Tvv:- ; ) 4 S- I 4 BY CHARLOTTE t-rt HrVTTT CHAPTER VI. It was drawing Dear noon. Some of the men ha I sought the coolness of the tiiilia room: some of the ladies had re tired to thf ?!iade of the great cedar tree, with lk-i and work. Leah had gone to her favorite spot, the terrace, where the pa-ii.n timers erew in such profusion. Shi- Mnii 'l as she gathered some of the flower, remembering the name "passion fl.iut r" had been given to herself. Then her thoughts went to Hettte. wbc aad loved the sweet white lilies best. How different life would be if that belov ed si.-ier were here, how doubly precious this grand domain if llettie shared it! In t ti -- gleaming light on the river, in the tire of the searlet passion-flower, in the ll.ive; nf the gay parterre, she saw the MVret. f:iir face with its aureole of golden hair. Would they ever meet again? Ab r.iptly he saw Sir Arthur standing close to her. a stranger by his side. "Leah," said the general, "our neigh bor. Sir llasii Carlton, has been kind enough to waive ceremony and call npou us firt. Sir Basil, my adopted daughter and dear uieee. Miss Ilatton." A f--!;: t bush, a great calm came ovei l.er. She saw a noble face, full of tire and impetuosity; she saw dark eyes and I straight brows, a Brm mouth, dark clus ters of hair, and a dark mustache- Yet beamy was not the chief charm of the ranger's face; courage and dauntless truth shone there. Most people, when :liey first met Sir Basil Carlton, were -truck by bis handsome features and manly bearing, but they were attracted ?ven more when the eyes took a tender light and the mouth a smile as sweet as any woman's. I like England better than Italy," said Sir Basil, suddenly, after a few remarks. "You cannot think what a picture you made. Miss Ilatton, standing against this background of foliage and flowers." "You have been in Italy for many (rears V" she said, quietly. He drew just a little nearer to her. A freat, trailing spray of passion-flowers ay between them; he raised it, and she thought to herself how strange a coinci dence it was that she should see him with her favorite blossoms in his haDd. "I was a boy of eleven when I went away," he said, "and now I am twenty five. Coming home is a very melancholy event for me, as you perhaps know." - "Yes; we have heard the cause of youi mother's departure from England aud a very painful one it was. Sir Basil," said the general. Leah looked up at him; all her sou. fhone in her eyes. "Let us help you to forget the shadow which has fallen over your house and your life," she said; and his face bright ened." "I shall be only too hapry. Miss Hat ton. I dreaded my return. I remember ed the Glen as one of the loveliest of homes. I have longed to be here. Yet the memory of that night will never leave me." His whole face changed. "My mother lived fifteen years after the acci dent happened; but the shock her system had received killed her at last." I-eah's dark eyes, full of interest aud sympathy, filled with tears; and, as he saw them, his heart warmed to her. How loug it was since any one bad shed tears for this old sorrow of his! "It must have been a terrible shock for you both," said Leah. "Yes; I was only a boy, but I worship ed my sister. Y'ou cannot tell how deep ly attached I was to her. I think the love of a sister is one of the greatest joys on earth." Why did the fair face near him grow so pale? Why did the graceful figure ' curink and tremble, the hand that held the scarlet flowers suddenly fall nerve less and helpless? Was It another coin cidence that he should value so highly a sisters love? "If I were in your place, Basil," said the general, "I would have plenty of friends about me. Stay with us to-day, and to-morrow we will drive over and see yonr gardens aud conservatories. We have a pleasant party, and I thiak you will enjoy yourself." He looked at Leah. "I shall be delighted," she said, simply a faint flush dyeing her face. "So shall I." replied Sir Basil. And that was how the first day of Leah Hatton's- earthly paradise began. As the days passed on, the intimacy between Leah and the baronet Increased. The general grew warmly attached to Sir Basil. He said what was a great thins for him to say that- if heaven had bless ed him with a son, he should have liked hint to resemble Sir Basil. All the visit ors and they were many admired an I liked him; he was a general favorite, aud he spent far more of his time at Brent wood than at Glen. It happens so often that a great love is lavished in vain. Sir Basil saw noth ing of Leah's. He admired her exceed ingly, but he never dreamed of loving her. The duchess, who had said to herself that she would not interfere, did jut this one thing she told Sir Basil of the splendid triumphs that Leah had achiev ed, and how she bad passed through three such seasons ns few even of the mos' brilliant beauties had ever experierh-ed She told him of the offers of marriag made to her, and how she had refused them all. "Why did she refuse them?" be. asked. The duchess meant to do a kindly ac tion when she answered: "She has ideas that are peculiar fot the nineteenth century: they are. I may say, obsolete." He looked anxiously at her. sin thought. "What ideas?" he asked "if my ques tion may be answered?" "I am sure I may answer it," said.th. duchess. "Miss Hatton has romantii ideas that are quite out of date. Mai riuge in these days is nn arrangement She might have been Duchess of Bar berry if she bad liked; but she is ronian tic, and will never marry until she car marry for lov." "That seems to me right," said Sir Basil. "I am glad you think so," returned the duchess, dryly. "But Miss Hatton has another theory. It is this that for ev ery person in this world there are one love and one lover half souls, she calls them, if you can understand th term. She believes that she will recognize Her half soul, or lover, whenever she sees t!ul-" 1 1 OA M-!? .t-: I M. BRALM-. "It la a very pretty theory." said Sir Basil. "I do not see why any one should object to it." He looked at her some what eagerly as he asked: "And has she met this ideal yet?" xnat is a question she alone can an swer. You must ask her yourself." laugh ed the duchess; and she smiled to herself is she thought she had given him a .very plain hint. The young baronet was far too modest to take It; that such a peerless beauty, such a wealthy heiress, should fall in love and find her ideal in him never occurred to him. If sde bad rejected many noble and great men. she was doubtless look ing for some one higher. Yet what ht had beard increased his affection and re spect for her. He liked the idea of a girl who could make to herself an ideal, and wait patiently until she met with it. How many would have yielded to the temptation of rank and wealth, and hav forgotten the belief and aspirations o; early girlhood: CHAPTER VII. The Duke and Duchess of Rosedeni-. with their visitors, were at Dene Abbey within sight and sound of the ever-mnr-muring sea. Miss Hatton had the whole day to herself; she had no great house hold to manage as at Brentwood, she had no care about the entertainment of vis itors; the long, bright hours were hers, to spend as she would. Lady Maude Trevar had gladly accept d the duchess' invitation; but pretty May Luson had promised to pay a risi: elsewhere, and could not break her en gageraent. The military element had di persed. Sir Basil Carlton had been de lighted with her grace's proposal to join the party at the Abbey. He liked thf duchess; her kindly manner pleased him he was touched by her kindness to liim self, although he did not know the cause. He did uot go with the party from Br. nt wood, but he followed them in a few days. It was a wonderful change from the green, sweet woodlands of Warwick shire to the country bordering on a sun ny southern sea. Leah was more shy and timid witl Basil than she had been at Brentwood She avoided him a little, but loved him just as much. She would have gone through fire and water for him; she would have made any sacrifice for him. The marvel was that the young baronet never dreamed of the conquest he had made. As for Leah, she had not yet be gun to doubt: she felt certain that bi love would be her Id the fullness of time. Sir Arthur Hatton was a stranger to al fair love-dreams and sweet fancies. Thai he should understand a nature or a love like Leah's was not to be expected; but he was one day the unwilling witness of a little scene that opened his eyes. In the library stood a large Japanesi jcreeu, and Sir Arthur enjoyed nothing more than placing this round one cf th great bay windows and intrenching him self therein with his newspaper. On morning there was some Indian news ii the Times which interested him greatly letters written by fellow officers w!ios opinions he valued highly. He wished t. be undisturbed; so he betook himself ti his favorite retreat. He found fhe library cool and empty; the sun blinds were al! drawn, the light was dim and pleasant. He placed the screen around his favorite window. "Thank goodness," he said to himself, "that I shall now be able to read in peace!" Fate was against him this morning The door opened. It was Leah who ap pes red. She was tn her favorite colors of amber and white, with creamy roe at her throat. She did not observe th screen, much leas wonder if anyone were behind it. For ten minutes there was almost com plete silence. Sir Arthur could hear th. sound of Leah's pen. She was writing rapidly. Then, suddenly, the door open cd, and Sir Arthur's smothered groan wns lost in the voice of the speaker. "Shall 1 disturb you. Miss Hatton T' It was 7'r Basil who put the question "I am in trouble, from which a lady alone can release me." "I am glad you sought me," she said "What can I do for you?" "There is an old proverb which ay that 'a stitch in time saves nine." Wi'. you make that first stitch now, and sav. the nine hereafter. Miss Hatton?" "Of course I will," she replied. "Where is the stitch needed T "In this driving glove,' 'he replied; "th button Is nearly off. Would yon be si good as to fasten it?" Leah laughed blithely. "Certainly," she said, as she took hi thick yellow driving glove that he held t ber. "Will you excuse me one minute while I find needle and thread?" she add d. She went away, leaving Sir Basil I xik ing over an open volume that lay npoi. the table. "I hope," thought the general to hin lelf. "that this good fellow will not fin. me out, and begin to air his idea o: Indian politics to me." But Sir Basil was in happy ignornne. jf the general's proximity. He read a fev lines in the open volume, hummed a fa jrite air to himself, and then Lean r turned. "I am sorry to have kept you waiting. she said. "I will release you now in . few minutes." The slender fingers soon aecnmplishe' their task. She held out the glove t him. and as she did so her eyes fell o the spray of stephauotis that he wore i. his coat. "Your flower is faded." she said: "b me give you another I have a suoer-i lion that It I unlucky to wear faded flowers." "By all means replace it, if yon will be good enough," he responded. She took the spray of atephanotis from him and laid it upon the table. From one of the vases she chose a beautiful moss rose bud, fresh as the dawn, and fastened it in his coat for him. He thanked her briefly, stood talking to her for some few minutes, and then went sway. Sir Arthur, looking oyer the screen, was about to thank heaven that he was gone; but no word came from his lips he was stricken dumb. What was she doing his proud, beauti ful niece whose love no man had been nau neen , . Sho had nev- g to care for love or admiration. for kvrf or majrrUg. She bad moved it " ' " 'VTTTttT TVV '. through the brilliant world like au ice tnaiden. What was she doing? She had taken the withered dower in her hands, and was kneeling down by the table and covering the faded spray with kisses and tears. "Oh, tny love," she sighed, "my love, if you only loved me! But I am less to you than the withered flower j i have thrown away."' The general would have spoken then and have let Leah know that he had overheard her, but surprise and wonder kept him silent. He saw her kiss the open volume where Sir Basil's baud had rested. "I shall die," she sobbed, "just as this flower Has TdiedVand" just isTtif frwj i; heart! Oh, cruel world! I have ;;-ked but for one thing, and it has been denied me. I wish I had never been bora. On, my love, why can you not love me': I am fair enough for others, why not for you? I can win other hearts, why not yours? I would give my life for your love!" The low, smothered sound of her bittet sobbing mingled with the song of the birds and the whisper of the wind; it smote the heart of the old soldier with unutterable pain. He had rescued her from what he thought a shameful i'.fe. adopted her, and given her his love j:id protection; he had made her heiress nf his vast fortune; and this was all that had come of it, this was the end of u!! h:s hopes for her. She was wearing her heart and her life sway for a love that could never be bers, or at least that was not hers. From the sight of the kneeling figure, the clasped hands, the proud head so despairingly bent, the general turned with tears in his eyes. "If I could but die," she said to her self, "and be at rest; if I could but sleep and tiever wake; if I could but bide my love and sorrow and pain!" He was tempted to go to her. to take y to comfort ier: but a sense of delicacy forbade him. She was so proud ami sensitive, what would she think or feel if she knew that he had possession of Iter secret? Yet the bitter, long-drawn sobs fell on bis ear and tor tured him. He could not help her. He would not for the world let her know that he had overheard her; so he laid down his newspaper and passed noiseless ly out through the open window on to the lawn, and not until he had walked some little distance did he feel at ease. "I would not have her guess that I have been a witness of that scene for treble my fortune, poor child!" he mur mured. (To be continued.) WANTED HIS GIRL. She Had Promised to Marry Him, and He Called for Her. ' A black-eyed young man came pant lug Into the barge office tbe other day, says tbe New York Commercial Ad vertiser. "Is this tbe place where they keep the immigrant girls?" be asked In Eng lish so broken that even to tbe inter preters of tbe establishment it seemed to be made up of rolling r's and b's. Receiving an affirmative nod tbe man turned about and -beckoned in the dl-J rectlon of tbe open door. Four other men, all as black-eyed as the first, mada their appearance. ' "These are my witnesses," the leader of the party said, by way of Introduc tion of two of the newcomers, and then In turn be added: "And this one Is tbe clerk, and this gentleman is tbe priest. So give' me my girl and I'll marry her at once, so that you need not be afraid there is any humbug about It." The Interpreters' sense of humor is drawn upon too heavily for them to laugh at a scene of this sort. They got anjgry Instead, and asked him wbut he was talking about. He essayed an ex planation, but all that be succeeded In making plain was that he was an Armenian, and that bis English con sisted in rattling r's and booming b's. "Why don't you tell your story in Armenian?" said one of tbe interpre ters lu the young man's native tongue. Tbe would-be bridegroom took of fense. He bad been three years in America, and be spoke English better Mian Armenian, he said. Finally Mrs. Ctucklen. the "mother of immigrants," ..ante up and shed light on the mutter. The man's name was Vabi Krihorian. He was 24 years old and made a com fortable living. At borne be bad a pretty girl, who now came to Join him. Her name was Toshkowbl Gobedlnn. She was four years youuger thau lie was, and very bashful so bashful that when Bbe spoke of her love for Vnlii and his promise to marry her, her olive cheeks glowed and her black eyes gazed at the leg of the matron's chair. "Have you got uuy mouey?" thf clerk bad asked ber. "So. sir. I have a sweetheart." 'tint bow do you know he'll marry you?" "Because God would strangle hiru If be went back on me." When the two were brought together Vabi offered to kiss the girl, but sbi blushingly held back. "Don't you want me?" he asked la despair. "Yes, but there are so many princes around. I am ashamed." The wedding took place outside of tbe barge office, a clerk of the lraml grant station being present to see that the ceremony was really performed, and then the girl was declared Vabl's wife and free to "go out into America." Mexico has seven glass factories. A strong dislike to the odor of pep permint has been discovered in mice. Cotton soaked in peppermint oil caused them to go away for a considerable time, and after a second application they disappeared completely. A Boston physician asserts that nine-tenths of the cases of diphtheria are traceable to defective drainage and Imperfect drainage and imperfect ven tilation. Cabs are r- Antwerp, Belgium, by the city. A yearly commutation ticket costs $20, : -.! the possessor of one can use it as often as he chooses, every day in the year. A copy of Queen Victoria's "Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," presented to her majesty by Charles Dickens, was sold at auction In London the other day for $500. About one-half of the residents In Brooklyn live in tenement houses. There are 31.687 tenement dwellings, giving shelter to 574.959 people an average of eighteen persons to each bouse. The efficacy of the serum treatment of diphtheria has again been demon strated in Austria, where the mortal ity, in cases so treated last year, was only 15.89 per cent., while of those treat ed without serum 39.30 per cent. died. It is only fools who never have any doubts. IAOUCT TO BE TAKEN DOWN. Immense Work of Engrlneerina; in Pennsylvania Will Be Destroyed. It Is authoritatively stated that the famous KioEua viaduct, the gigantic iron, girder and trestle bridge Id Mc Keau County, Pennsylvania, south of Bradford, Is to be replaced at an early date by a new and wholly different structure. Work on It was begun on May 5, 1882. and it was completed and opened for traffic less than four months later, on Aug. 29. 1882. It Is 301 feet high at the highest point and until tbe completion of the Oarabit wlsduct was the highest bridge la tbe world. The Oarablt spans the Truyere in tbe south of France. Is 1,849 feet long and nt the highest point the rail level la 401 feet above the river. It was de signed by M. Eiffel, builder of tbe fam ous tower, and was completed In 18S-! Tbe Kinzua bridge is 2,000 feet long Its completion gave to the New York. Lake Erie aud Western Railroad di rect communication with tbe coal fields of Western Pennsylvania. Tbe Buf falo. Rochester and Pittsburg has a t rattle arrangement with the Erie for tbe use of the bridge. Tbe valley of the Kinzua. which this great trestle spans. Is fifteen miles south of Brad ford and one of tbe wildest regions yel left in Western Pennsylvania. TJntI: receutly, perhaps even yet. bear were plentiful and deer occasionally fonnd In this valley. Tbe Kinzua viaduct :. GREAT KINZUA VIADUCT. 3WJTKET HIGH. TO BE TAKEN DOWN bns been a point of excursion and an object of curiosity for sight seers ever since It was built Gen. Grant was taken there on one occasion. GREAT OOKE AND COAL YEAR. Tremendous Output of Both Expected in Western Pennsylvania in 190D. This year will witness the greates; .-ra in tbe coke and coal regions of Western Pennsylvania In their history. In. the ConnellsvlIIe coke region , more new ovens will be built than In any previous year, and the coke production Willi be Increased fully 20 per cent. There are now projected and In th course of erection more than 2,000 new ovens, which will be put in operatiou by the middle of tbe coming summer, which will run the total of the coke region np to 21,000 ovens. At the be ginning of tbe present year there were in operation in the region 18.004 ovens. During the past twelve months the price of coke has nearly doubled, aud the demand to-day greatly exceeds the production. At the present price, $3, the business is most profitable. Two years ago coke was selling for $1 a ton. The production of the coke region for 1S!7 was 8.500,000 tons, while during tbe year 1S!9 9,529,0t0 tons was snip ped from tbe Connellsville region. The 1SU7 product was valued at $ 14,000.000, while that of last year represented a value of $20,500,000. The enlarged ca pacity will Increase the product for 1900 to about 13,000,000 tons, with a value of nearly $30,000,000. Just now there Is a famine In coke. The famine Is not acute because coke can be lmd for immediate delivery, but only in small quantities. Coke makers are Just now getting $3 a ton for fur nnce coke and $3.25 for foundry coke. Western Pennsylvania coke Is now bringing $5.90 at Ciucinnati and $6.60 at St. Louis. AU kinds of coal have greatly advanced In prices, and to-day there is not an Idle mine In all Western Pennsylvania. In many cases the wages of the miners have been ad vanced greatly. Tbe coal famine has induced many large Pittsburg consum ers to buy up coal lands, and many new mines will be opened soon. A large syn dicate, formed of Pittsburg consumers, has obtained control of more than 1,000,000 acres of rich coal lands around the city, and will operate mines o supply their manufacturing plants. MYSTERY OF THE MAINSPRING. Some Breakages Not Tet Understood Despite Much Investigation. Despite tbe investigations regarding the structure of mainsprings and the efforts to Improve them; despite the ex perimentation and theorizing on the subject, some of the causes of the breaking of mainsprings remain an un solved mystery. Many, Indeed, are the known causes responsible for breaking, such as faulty construction or temper ing, careless handling, leading to tbe formation of rust and poor fitting, but after all these which are recognized bare been eliminated there still re mains the fact well known to watch makers that the best springs will, In iplte of tbe most careful handling and proper adjustment, unexpectedly break, sometimes In a number of llacea. It wlU Uius aaspen that of -twerj springs made at tbe same tlmsvf tbe tempered In tbe same way and bandied with the same care, one may last for years, while tbe other may break after two weeks' use, or even while being placed in tbe barrel. When It is considered that the spring la bat from .008 to .009 of an Inch In thickness; that tbe material most be subjected to a process which shall give t a high state of elasticity, and at the same time enable it to do Its prescrib ed work for years, a slight molecular disarrangement In Its structure may be expected to occur from causes too in significant for observation. Many Jewelers state that It is their experience that they have many more mainsprings to repair after a warm, humid day than at any other time. Others believe the breaking to lie due to electric disturbances, stating that after an electrical storm they find that many of their customers bring their vatcbes to them for repair. TJie Mid leu cooling and consequent coutrac lion "of tbe tightly wound mainspring, -a used by the removal of the watch from the body on a cool night following a warm day. Is believed by some to ac count. In a measure, for the accidents mentioned. So far. however, uo en tlrely satisfactory explanation lia been suggested. The ouly conclusion to. be drawn from the acknowledged facts of tbe case Is that It is uut sate jc the watchmaker to Infer mercK from the breaking of a maluspring that it Is of an Inferior grade, nor foi hU customer to believe tbe watch ma k .-r deficient In skill because the tiiain spring of bis timepiece has snappe-' shortly after being replaced. Lilies In tbe Hooth. An Interesting experiment is now be ing conducted by the United Statef Department of Agriculture In Soutl Carolina and In the Southern State with the Bermuda lily, so popular ai Easter as a gift and for decorativt purposes Bulbs have been dlstrih uted freely in every section of Lot'.isi ana and South Caroliua with a view t ascertaining if the Bermuda lily wil bear transplanting to this solL An experiment made In tbe Itally ex perl mental station in South Carolina was attended with the most satlsfm tory results, and If the same luck fol lows the general experiment the Innn markets can be supplied with the mi tlve-grown product. Tbe supply in thf Bermudas Is still unlimited, but t lit stock has bo deteriorated as to cnusi general complaint from tbe recciviu;. florists in this country, and this re suited In tbe action of the Department of Agriculture. As a corrective meth od the British government has cstab Usbtd au experimental station in Ber muda to educate the natives In tli more successful growth of this, one ol their principal industries. Pliiladel phla Record. Another Rlpllni Story. Just before the famous writer le. England be was lunching at a rest.u rant In Fleet street much affected bj the literary and artistic set. In a til of absence of mind Kipling got up from his seat and began walking awav without payiug bis score. The wait ress, with a readiness of wit which de lighted the whole room, called out "Mr. Kipling Pay, Pay, Pay," tin well-known refrain of the "Absent Minded Beggar." It Is a story that will often be told against tbe authoi of the much-discussed patriotic iwiem London Madame. The Morals of Ants. . Sir John Lubbock has gone to the ant igain, and if he keeps up his visits and others Imitate him that interesting in sect will become useless for Sunday school purposes. Sir John succeeded in getting fifty ants helplessly drunk and then placed them outside an ant hill. The sober ants came out. picked np their friends, and put them to bed to-sleep off the effects of Sir John's liquor; the strangers, however, they sternly rolled over Into the ditch. A Reformer. Mrs. Corncrlbber I reckon our Hen Jery has Joined the law aud order league at Yale." Mr. Corncrlbber Why do you think Jiat? Mrs. Corncrlbber Why, he wrltit that he's helped to break up four shows at the opera bouse this week. Them theaters la very pernicious things, you know. Judge, Science V3 W - id vention BS.IW-" The light which comes to us from the tan in . eight minutes might journey tea thousand billion years and not reach the borderland of the universe. It baa no limit. It can have none. Yet the same laws rale It throughout And rery tore. iU power. within It, . all the laws that govern it. work for bar tony and happiness. A French engineer, Jean Berller, has worked out tn detail the plans for a railroad tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar. He would run it from a point tn Spain near Gibraltar to Tan gier, In Morocco, the total length, in cluding approaches, being 25 miles, or which 20 miles would He under the sea. The estimated cost la about $25. 000,000. Prof. C. E. Bessey announces In a letter to Science that he has obtained evidence that trees, including such spe cies as oak, hickory, willow, cotton wood, elm and box elder, are rapidly advancing In eastern Nebraska. Tbe areas covered by them are gradually creeping up the courses of tbe streams and spreading out laterally. In some cases the "tree belt" along rivers has within twenty-five years. Increased In width from 100 feet to half a mile nd even a mile. Prof. Arthur Thompson, In Knowl edge, deals with tbe form of skulls and brain capacity. The average weight of a man's brain Is about 50 ounces, that of a woman about 45 ounces. This difference between the sexes Is less marked In savage than in civilized races, and Is apparently explaiued by the fact that in the higher races more attention is paid to the education of die male than tbe female, and conse guently tbe brain Is stimulated to In reased growth. An Ingenious Frenchman. M. Louis Levat. recently administered alcohol, through tbe soil, to a geranium plant for the purpose of observing the ef feet. It was sufficiently startling. The leaves of tbe geranium began to turn fellow and gave off a peculiar etberic Bdor, symptoms of poisoning apiieared. the rootlets turned black and seemed to bave been burnt, the leaves drooped toward the earth, and in four days the alcoholized geranium, which had been a very beautiful plant, wns a totterlr wreck. The Arctic Ocean, says Nansen, 1 a kind of lagoon, separated from the Atlantic by a submarine ridge, stretch ing from Spitsbergen to Greenland. Ti this ridge is due a curious conditio?, The Arctic is covered with a layer cl tightly salt water from the Siberla.i rivers and Behrlng Strait, aud under this Is the normally salt Gulf Stream water. If the two layers were uiixei', the average temperature would fal'j but this average would not be as coll as the surface layer. This accounts for the enormous formation of polai ce. There Is a little bird In Costa Kicn. i. pretty black and orange oriole, who an expert In needlecraft. Having nt clothes upon which to exercise her skil she turns her talent to account ii home-making. Selecting a large, fresh growing banana leaf, she cnrefnllv sews the two edges together with hei bill for the needle, and some strong grass or rootlets for the thread. Sit even follows the grain of tbe leaf closi by one of tbe veins, and so neatly ni tbe stitches made that only tbe closes' examination reveals them. Inside thi pocket Is built a nest of soft grass n hair, and here the mother bird lays he . dainty eggs and raises her faiu 't vitbout fear of discovery. UNIQUE WATCH FROM PARIS. Kansas City Man the Owner of a Val uable Timepiece. TV. B. Clarke, president of the United States Trust Company, Is the recipient of a unique and valuable present from a Paris banket friend, says the Kan sas City Journal, i Is a large yet dell cately tint shed watch, which not only is a chronom eter, but It also telle the days of tbe we.-k, the month, tbe day trnmuE WAT0H- of the month and the moon's phases. The case is of gun metal highly polished, and is of the "open-face" variety. It is about thiei Inches In diameter, with a very heav crystal. The works of the finest Swiss watches bave gold mountings, with the running parts of steel fully Jeweled The watch is about three times a heavy as tbe ordinary large America u watch. It Is not Intended, of course, that the possesor will ever carry it lu his pocket, but with It Is a beautiful red morocco case with a bracket leg so that when the watch Is in its case ii resembles a small clock, tbe face be Inn exposed. It Is Intended as a desk chrnomoeter, yet It Is too valuable a piece of bric-a-brac to be left lyini around. When Mr. Clarke was In Paris on oni of his European trips he had the mis fortune to lose his watch, a very valu able one, and one day in a company of Parts bankers, all of whom he knew rery well, be related tbe circumstances of his loss. Nothing more was thought of the matter until Mr. Clarke received a letter the day before Christmas noti fying him that the watch bad .been for warded. It adds to tbe Interest of tbe present that so good a timekeeper Is it that It did not lose an hour on its loug trip from Paris and arrived as prompt ly as though It had been forwarded by messenger from a shop in Kansas City There is one thing certain: the son. f the women who play cards ail day will never torment their wives by boasting of the good pies their mothers used to make. It is bnt natural that a bfeacB-o! promise case should be hoard th courthouse. ire OF I ii Preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage. Subject: Drama Discussed It Canaet V Suppressed Christianity Should Con-' trol and Reform Public Amusement The Church Should Go to the Theater. Copyright 1WM.I Washington, D. C. At a time when the Whole oountrv la In controversy as never! : befors concerning the theater and somei ! plays are being arrested by the police audi (.others are being patronised by Christian ! peopio this sermon of Dr. Ta'.magn is ot I much interest-.--. The text Is I Coriuthlans i vli., SI, "They that-use this world as not abasing it." i My reason for preaching discourse Is . that I have been kindly invited by i .TO ol tne leading newspapers ol tnis country to Inspect and report on two of tbe populan plays ot the day to go some weeks ago to Chicago and see the drama "Quo Vudis" and criticise it with respect to Its morul ef fect and to go to New York nnd see the drama "Ben-Uur" and write my opinion of It for public use. Instead of doing that I propose in a sermon to discuss what we shall do with the dramatic element wulcbj God has implanted In many of our natures not la ten or 100 or 1000. but tn the vas majority of the human race. Home people speak of the drama as though it wen) something built np outside ot ourselves b the Gongreves and the Goldsmiths aud tbe ghakespeares and tbe Hheridans ol literature and that then we nttaue out tastes to correspond with human Inven tions. Not at all. The drama is an echc from the feeling which God has Implanted In our immortal souls. It is seen first In thf domestic circle among the children three or four years ot age playing with theii dolls and their cradles and their carts, seen ten years after In tne playhouses of wood, ten years after in the parlor charades, after that In the elaborate impersonations to the academies of music. Tbespis and .Ecby his and Sophocles and Euripides merely dramntized what was in the Greek heart; Terence and Plautus and Seneca merely dramatized wbnt was In the Hornau heart; Congreve and Farquhar merely dramatized what was in the English neart; R'tctne, Oornellle and Allleri only dra-natlzed what was In tbe French and Italian heart; Shakespeare only dramntized what was in the great world's heart. Tbe dithyrambic and classic drama, the sentimental drama, the romantio drama, were merely echoes of the human soul. I do not speak of the drama on the poetic shelf or of the drama in the playhouse, but I speak of the dramatic element la your soul and mine. We make men responsible for It. They are not responsible. They are responsible for tbe perversion of it, but not for the original Implantation. Godild that work, and I suppose He knew wiiat lie was about when lie made us. We ar nearly all moved by the spectacular. When on Thanksgiving Day we decorate our churches with the cotton and the rice and the apples and the wheat and the rye hu.I the oats, our gratitude to God is stirred; when on Easter morning we see written iu letters of flowers tbe inscription, "He Is Risen," our emotions are stirred. Every parent likes to go to the school exhibition, with Its recitations and its dialogues aud its droll costumes. The torchlight pro cession of tbe political campaign is merely the dramatization of principles Involved. No intelligent man can look iu any secular or religious direction without finding this dramatic element revealing, unrolling, demonstrating Itself. What shall we do with it? -.. Shall we suppress It? You ea n "as -easily suppress its Creator. You may direct it, yon may educate It, yon may purify it, you may harness it to multi-potent useful ness, and that It is your duty to do, just a we cultivate taste for the beautiful and sublime. Now, I bave to tell you not only that God has Implanted this dramatlo element in our natures, but I have to tell you iu tbe Scriptures lie cultivates it, Heappeulstolt, He develops It. I do not care where you open tbe Bible, your eye will fall upon a drama. Here it is In the book of Judges, tbe II r tree, the vine, the olive tree, the bramble they all make Bpeeohes. Then at tbe close ot the scene there is a corona tion, and the bramble Is proclaimed klug. That is a political drama. Here it is In tbe book of Job. Enter Ellphaz, liildad, Zophar, F.lihu nnd Job. The opening act of tbe drama, all darkness; tbe closiug act of the drama, all sunshine. Magnifi cent drama is the book of Job. Here it is in Solomon's Song tbe region, an oriental region; Vineyards, pomegra nates, mountain ot myrrh, flock of sheep, garden of spices, a wooing, a bride, a bride groom, dinlogue after dialogue Intense, gorgeous, all suggestive drama is the book, of Solomon's Song. Here It Is In tbe book of Luke: Costly mansion la the night. All the windows bright witb illumination. The floor a-quake with the dance. Hot u rued son In costly garments which do not very well lie blm perhaps, for they were not made for him, but be must swiftly leave ofl his old garb and prepare for this extem porized levee. Pouting son at the back door, too mad to go in, because they arc making such a fuss. Tears of syinpnthy running down the old man's cheek at the story ot bis son's wandering and suffering and tears of joy at his return. When you heard Murdock recite "Tbe Prodigal Son" in one ot his readings, you did not know whether to sob or shout. Revivals of re ligion have started Just under the reading ot that soul revolutionizing drama ot "Tbe Prodigal Son." Here It la In the book of Revelation crystalline sea, pearly gate, opallns mar, amethystine capstone, showering c?rons.s, one vial poured out Inoardinatlng thj wa ters, cavalrymen ot heaven gallop. rg on white horses, nations in doxology, hallelu iahs to the right of tbeiu, halleluiahs to the left of them. As the Bible opens with tbe drama ot the first paradise, so it closes with the drama of tbe second paradise. Mind you, when I say drama I do not mean myth or fable, for my theology is of tbe oldest type 500 years old, thousands of years old, as old as the Bible. When I speak of the drama at the beginning and close of tbe Bible, I do not mean an allegory, but I mean the trutli 90 elated that in grouping and in startling effect it is a God given, world resounding, heaven echoing drama. Now, If God Im planted tbls dramatic element in our na tures, and if He ha9 cultivated and devel oped it in the Scriptures, I demand tha. you recognize it. Because the drama has again and again been degraded and employed for destruc tive purposes is nothing against the drama any more than muBio ought to be accursed because it has been taken again and again into tbe saturnalian wassails of 4000 years. Will you refuse to euthrone muslo on the church organ becaue the art has been trampled again and again under tie feet ot tbe lascivious dance? It Is nothing against painting end sculp ture that in Cortnth and Herculaoeum tbey were demonstrative of vulgarity and turpitude. The dreadful museum at Pompeii shall throw no discredit on Pow ers a "Greek Slave" or Church's "Heart of - the Andes" or Rubeus's "De sjent From tbe Cross" or Angelo's "Last Judgment." The very fac: 'hat again and aeain tbe drama has been dragged through the sewers of Iniquity is the reason why v-e should snatch it up and start It out on a grand and a holy and a magnificent mission. Let me say at this point in my ermon that tbe drama will never be lifted to its rightful sphere by those people who have not sense enough to distinguish le tween t je drama and tbe playhouse. The drama is no mere tbe theatre than a hymn book is a church. I am not speaking in regard to tbe theatre at all. Tbe drama Is 1 literary expression of tbat feeling which Qod implanted In tbe human soul. Neither will the drama ever be lifted to Its proper sphere by wholesale denunciation ot all dramatists. It vou have not known men MA wtmM MIIIIMtMl With ttlfl T& RlS UfUtf ' are pare in heart and pure In speech and ' pare in life, it is because you have not had ' rerv wide acquaintance. 1 1- Wholesale denunciation of all dramatist! I will never elevate the drama. Yondet Itand a church and a theatre on opposite Ides of tbe street. The church shouts ovet , to the theatre, "You are all soonndretol' ' The theatre shouts back. "You are all hypo. orltes!" And they both falsify. Dropping all indiscriminate jeremiads against dra matists and realizing that the drama is not necessarily connected with this Institution or with that, I want to show you bow tbe dramatlo element In our natures mar b harnessed to the chariot of civilisation and Christianity. Fifty essays about the sorrows of thf poor conld not affect me as a little drama of accident and suffering I saw one slip pery morning In tbe streets of Philadel phia. Just ahead of me was a lad, wretch ed In apparel, his limb amputated at the knee; from the pallor of the boy's cheek, tbe amputation not long before. He bud a package of broken food under his arm food be had begged, I suppose, at the doors. As he passed on over the slippery pavement, cautiously and carefully, I steadied bim until his crutch slipped and he fell. I helped bim up as well as I could, gathered up tbe fragments of tbe package as well as I could, put them under one arm and the crutch under the other arm, bat when I saw the blood run down his pale cheek I burst Into tears. Fifty essays about tbe sufferings of the poor could not iCSJlhone like that little drama of accident and suffeiiuV Oh, we want In all our different depart ments of usefulness more of the dramatlo element and less ot tbe didactic. The tendency In thlsday Is to drone religion, to whlue religion, to cant religion, to moan religion, to croak religion, to sepuloharize religion, when we ought to present it in animated and spectacular manner. What we want, ministers and laymen, is to get our sermons and our exhortations and our prayers out of the old rut. The old backueyed religious pbrnses tbat come snoring down througb tbe centuries will never arrest the masses. What we want lo-day, you In your sphere, and I In my sphere. Is to freshen up. People do not want iu their sermons the sham (lowers bought at tiie millinery shop, but in Japoulcas wet witb tbe morulog dew. not the heavy bone9 of extinct meattieiiu:n of past ages, but the living reindeer caught last August at the edge or Schrson Lake. We want to drive out the drowsy ami the prosaic aud the tedious and tbe humdrum and introduce the brightness and the vivacity and tbe holy sarcasm and the sanc tified wit and the epigrammatic power nnd the blood red earnestness and the lire of re ligious real, and I do not know of any way of doing it as well as through the dramatic. But now let us turn to the drama as au amusement and entertainment. Rev. Dr. Bellows, of New York, many years ago in a very brilliant but mueh criti cised sermon took the position that the theater might be renovated and made aux iliary to the church. Muuv Chrlstiau peo ple are of the same opinion. I do not agree with them. I bave no idea that suc cess Is la that direction. What I have said heretofore on this subject, as far as I can remember, is my sentiment now. Hut to day I take a step iu advance of my former theory. Christianity is going to take full possession of tills world and control Its maxims, its laws, its literature. Its seleiiee and its amusements. Shut out from the realm of Christianity anything and you give it up to sin and death. If Christianity is mighty enough to manage everything but the amusements ot tbe world, then it is a very defective Chris tianity, is it capable of keeping account of the tears of the world and incompetent .o make record of its smiles? Is It good to follow the funeral, but dumb at the world's play? Can it control all the other elements of our nature but the dramatic element? My idea of Christianity Is that it can aud will caequer everything. Now, what we want Is to hasten that time. How will it be done? By the church going over to the tceater? It will not go. By tbe theater coming to tbe church? It will not come. What we want is a reformed amusement association la every city and town of the United States. Once an nounced and explained and tllustr ited. the Christian and philanthropic capitalist will come forward to establish It, and there will he public spirited men everywhere who will do this work for the dra-null element of our natures. We need a new institu tion to meet and recognize and develop aud defend the dramatic element of our nature. It needs to be distinct (ro;u ev erything tbat is or bas been. I would have this reformed amusement association having In charge this new In stitution of tbe spectacular take possession of some hail or academy. It might take a smallerabuilding at the start, but It woel soou need the largest hall, and even that would not bold the people, for he who opens before tbe dramatic element In human nature an opportunity ot grat men tion without compromise and without danger does tbe mightiest thing ot this l century, and the tides of such no tu-titu- tion wouiu rise ns ine Atlantic rises nc Liverpool docks. There are tens of thousands ot Christian homes where tbe sons and daughters are held back from dramatic entertainment for reasons which some ot you would say are good reasons aud others would say nre poor reasons, but still bold back. But on the establishment of such an Institution they would feel the arrest of their anxieties and would say ou the establishment of fits new institution, which I bave called the spectacular, "Thank. God, this Is what we have all been waiting for." Now, as I believe that I make suggestion of an institution which wiser men will develop, I want to give some characteris tics ot this new Institution, this speeta:u lar, If It Is to be a grand social and moral success. In the first plice, its entertain ments must be compressed within an hour and three-quarters. What kills sermons, prayers and lectures and entertainments of all sorts Is prolixity. At a ro isoualde hour every night every curtain of public entertainment ought to drop, every ehnrch service ought to cease, the instruments of orchestras ou at to be unstrung. Oa tbe platform of this new institution there will be a drama which before render ing bns been read, expurgated, abbreviated and passed upon by a board of trustees connected with tills reformed amusement association. It there be in a drama a sen tones suggesting evil. It will be stricken oai. If there be in a Shakespearean play a word with two meanings a good meaning and a bad meaning another word will be substituted, an honest word looking only way. The caterers to public taste will have to learn tbat Shakespearean nastiness is no better than Congrevean Hastiness. You say. "Who will dare to change by expurga tion or abbreviation a Shakespearean play?" I dare. The board of trustees of this reformed amusement association will dare. It Is no depreciation of a drama, tbe abbreviation of It. I would like to hear thirty or forty pages of Milton's "Paradise Lost" read at one time, hut I should bt very sorry te hear tbe whole book read at one sitting. Abbreviation Is not deprecia tion. On tbe platform of this new Institution this spectacular, under tbe care of the very best men and women in the community, there shall be nothing witnessed that would be unfit for a parlor. Any nttltud-, any look, any word that would offend you seated at your own fireside. In your family circle, will be prohibited from that plat form. By what law of common sense or of morality does tbat which Is not fit to he seen or heard by five people become Otto be seen or henrd by 1500 people? On the platform ot that spectacular all the scones of tbe drama will bs as chaste as was ever a lecture by Edward Everett or a sermon by F. W. Robertson. On that platform there shall be no carouser, no inebriate, no oyprian, no foe of good morals, masculine or feminine. Altbougn a great patron of the turf from personal taste and hereditary in stincts, the late duke of Westminster was never In the ordinary sense a sport Ing peer. Gen. Miles keeps up hie good horse manship by constant practice. Wher ever he may be or whatever the weath er, a morning never passes but he takes a brisk ride. This is the season of the year when you should guard against colds. Hink son's White Pine Balsam la an excel lent remedy. Queen Victoria always has her new ; boots worn a few times by one of her dressers, whose foot is the same size as her majesty's. Mere steel te used In the manufac ture of pens than in all the sword and gun factories In the world. Last year 18,677,920 pairs of shoes were made in Haverhill, Mass. ." :.-1 '4 t i ' ' i Hi i I. K i I "i H t j; 'i I r W !f'".fi. J'J1 . - anuuatiMUiaBm "ieO-
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