6 B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOn-THE UniOnJWD THE EFlFORCEUEtH OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. L.IV. MIFFMNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1900 NO. 2G. CHAPTEB V. (Continued.) We passed the quiet little hamlet of Woolvercot, the only living creatures ris ible being some white geeite on the green; J and shortly thereafter we stopped onr uible vessel (or a second or two, and got out for a stroll along the towpath. And a very pleasant stroll it was; the air was soft and sweet, the sunlight was n'ore general now, and lay warmly on the hawthorn hedges and the grassy bunks. Of course. Miss Peggy was busy wiih lu-r study of English wild flowers; ami the young man who seemed rather glad to be her attendant did what he could to assist her; and as she got to gether wild hyacinths and primroses and sx--dwells and forget-me-nots and Kosa lind's "daisies pied and violets blue," she .metinu-s hummed or whistled a bit of the "Creen Bushes" tune that had ap parently got into her head. "I sha n't forget to write out that song for you," said her companion as If the assurance were needed! 4 "I think I know the air." she answer ed; "if you will kindly give, me the words." It turned out a clear and golden after noon; and the westering light lay softly on the foliage of the willows and elms, ' on the wide and silent meadows where he cattle were, and on the banks nearer as that were yellow with buttercups. And the night that followed was one of the most perfect moonlight nights I had erer seen. "On a night like this."" said onr yonng American friend, "isn't It a pity we haven't some beautiful music? The tink ling of a banjo spoils everything." "Peggy," said Queen Tit, putting her hand on the girl's arm for a moment, "sing 'My Old Kentucky Home.' " Thereupon Miss Peggy who la the soul of good nature when there is no mischiev ous project in her head took up her banjo, which lay in her lap, and began to sing, and very well did her rich contralto voice sound in the stillness of these slum bering woods and fields. One could not help wondering what some belated rustic would have thought of it all if he had L-lianced upon ns on his way home; the fcjlack trees and the gray canal showing kio sign of life; that spectral white thing moored in there among the willows with its motionless points of red fire; the si lence all around absolute but for the strange singing of a woman' voice. CHAPTER VL It was hard that snch a perfect night ehould be succeeded by a wild and, blus tering morning; the rain waa rattling on f ur house roof; there was a wail of wind hrough the swaying and dripping boshes find trees. In the midst of all this tar noil. Captain Columbus suddenly makes 5iU appearance, and, with serious aspect. Informs us that we cannot go any further tit present. The authorities, it appears, )-M.-k the canal gates every second Sun ilay. Queen Tita, of course, is far from jheing disappointed. She highly approves of stopping the traffic every second Sun- ilay, uud doubtless would have the regu ation extended to every Sunday, if she lad the power. We had three visitors that evening! fl'wo of them, whom we found on the imnk when we returned to the boat, were jut rustic mold, and in stolid silence, and with calm, immovable gaze they contem plated the strange object that had invad-I-d these solitudes. They made no re jnnrk; their eyes wandered not; they jnerely stood there and stared and stared, lis tished the famous fisher of Sunborle. rl'ucy stared at the boat, at the windows, kUe gunwale, the tiller, the roof, the an chor at the bow. And never a word they f MUe. We left them staring. Our third visitor to Jack Duncombe's obvious discomfiture was no other than Mr. Algernon A'Becket, who arrived route little time before dinner in high glee over his success in discovering onr where abouts. Indeed, he was quite hilarious, Notwithstanding that his trousers looked Vat her damp, and he was Just little bit hungry; Murdoch waa bidden to make speed, while the women folk began to light tbr lamps and candles in order to brighten tip the saloon. Jack Duncombe, of couise, would take no part in the entertainment of this new guest; but Mr. A'Becket r.eemed capable of making himself at home without much trouble; and Mrs. Threepenny-bit and her young American friend, as they were laying the cloth and otherwise getting matters made easy for Murdoch, were very courteous and com placent toward him. "And how are you to get back, Mr. A'Becket 7" his hostess said to him, not uunuturally. "I wish we could offer you a berth." ' "Not at all, not at all V he answered, with abundant cheerfulness. "I know precisely where I am now. "I am sure it's more than we do. she observed, rather ruefully. "And you know I waa anxious to see how you looked en voyage," be contin ued, with a well-satisfied glance all round; "and really nothing could be more snug and delightful. How strange it must be to feel yourselves so entirely Iso lated; a small party all by yourselves, and wandering away into these out-of-the-world places; really, it makes one a little envious." Jack Duncombe glared: was the man actually begging for an invitation? And t dinner, too. Mr. A'Becket seemed quite content so long as he could dress himself to the two women. Jack Don eombe rarely interfering, except when there was a chance of his posing as Miss Peggy's natural ally and champion. In deed, the younger man In that light whenever do off"T" and seemed ready to sacrifice the most Sacred institution, of his the mere sake of taking her part For example, our Oxford friend J about the irreverence lor nflltJ' uionly attributed to the Aericanpeople, and amid he had one heard an African oeciare tnat BquattersTllle, was of more value to the world than Westminster Abbey, because Squatter rille was foil of living men, I! Westminster Abbey waa full of dead ones. Whereupon Miss Peggy said, sen aibly and modestly enough, as we thought: -Well, sometimes our people at home say things like that, but they don t be lieve them. They think It clever to startle you. that la all." : 3V WILLIAM J LACK. That ought to have been enough. But it wasn't enough for Jack Duncombe. Oh. dear. no. Something must be said on behalf of Miss Peggy's countrymen. Miss Peggy herself was not to be crushed oy the dread might and majesty of West minster Abbey. After all." aald this reckless young man, "If you walk through Westminster Abbey, and impartially look at the names or tne people they have nut there. vou'U come to the conclusion that in former days it was orettv easv to t In Tw at John Phillips. Did you ever hear of John Phillips?-' Our learned friend from- Oxford, being thus directly challenged, had to confess ms ignorance of the enshrined John Phil lips. "Well, he was a writer of comic verses; at least, I believe they are considered to oe comic, the younger man continued witn superfluous scorn. "I know this? I esuld get you twenty livina writers who could do infinitely better vera: inAA If John Phillips were alive now there is one place where you would not find him. and that is at the Pnnch weekly dinner!" Mr. A'Becket turned to Miss Peggy, and aald to her. with a smile: "Tour countryman whom I heard make that remark Is said to be worth thirty million dollars." "He isn't worth consideration." she an swered, with a kind of audacious petu lance; and there the subject droDoed. You should have heard how that young man broke forth when our guest had to leave us to find his way across country to some railway station that he named. You would have thought that this harmless freak on the part of an Oxford Don, in stead of being in its way a kind of com pliment, was really a gross invasion of one's inalienable rights. If we wished to be by ourselves, why should we not be allowed to be by ourselves? Mr. Jack Duncombe made much nse of that word "ourselves." He seemed to like it, some- now. "I propose," said he, in hla reckless fashion, "that we should give up our leis ure time on this trip to the composition of a great and learned work, lust to show what we can do. Will you join. Miss Kossiyn?" "Oh, yes," saya the young lady, with calm effrontery. "What ia it to be about?" "Oh, anything will serve to show off with. We most make It imposing. The square of the hypothenuse, if you like." "That would be very interesting," she observes!! with mac hcomplacency. "Of course you will begin with a description of the square; I mean, the square in which the Hypothenuse lives?" "Certainly," he answers, "catching on" with alacrity. "Then we come to the habits of the Hypothenuse his time of getting up and going into the city." -"I would have something more roman tic than that," Miss Peggy says, thought fully. "If he lives in a square, there must be people opposite. One of them might be a young lady." "Yes. undoubtedly; but she Is rather an unknown quantity yet; we will call her X until we can settle more about her. She is living with her Uncle Rhomboid." "And the Hypothenuse has the greatest difficulty in meeting with her." she con tiunea. "The gardens in the square would be a good place; I suppose the Hypothenuse would have a key." "Naturally. But then, again. Aunt Par allelogram distinctly approves of the match, and Is going to leave all her money to X. Would you make the Hy pothenuse rich or poor?" So these two young idiots went on. one of them apparently taking a grim delight In thus revenging himself for the intru sion of a stranger among "ourselves." There was no other thought for the hap less Scholiast making bis way along darkened roads to wait for the last train in some solitary little railway station. Here the lights were burning clear, and they were now safe from all interfer ence, with aimless merriment and ban died words and laughing glances to fit full every glad and prccioijgjninute. CHAPTER VII. On this still morning, while as yet the unknown world around ns seemed but half awake, there is a tall young lady, of slim and elegant figure, standing all alone in the stern of the boat. It is the Person without a Character. She has perched herself on the steersman's plank; her arms are placed on the transverse iron rod, her chin rests contemplatively on her crossed palms. And who can tell That dreams and reveries may not be in the calm deeps of her eyes, which can be thoughtful and wistful enough when they are not full of malice? Apparently she is looking away across the undulat ing landscape, with its varied features of wood and meadow, of hedge-row and up land slope, emerging from the pale mist of the dawn; but there may be quite other visions before her. Perhaps she if thinking of the olden days of romance and heroic adventure, when noble eavla "came sounding through the town;" per aaps she is only thinking of New York, and of some facetious and correctly dressed young man there. When one civilly bids her good-morning she turn, round with a startled look; clearly bet thoughts have been far away. "Well." she says, "the more I see of England, the more I am surprised to 'hink how such a wonderful lot of thing should have happened in so small a place. And not only small, but but empty. The country seems dead. There's nobody in it, Last night I was reading about Warwick and Kenilworth, just by way of preparation, you know, for I suppose we shall get there this evening. Well, where did all those great lords find the people to build splendid castles for theml Where did they get such sums of money 1 (Vhere did all the armies come from that were in the Wars of the Roses?" Now the spectacle of a young mind in f knnwledce is. SB has been observed before, a pleasing sight; but it has to be pointed out to nii i ij .. j ti;.k hl.tnrv on eh t to re- main prohibited during the remainder of this trip, to a vol a miscoucvyuou, the better silencing of scandalous tongues. .,.,.' .. "Ah, now," she says, piainaveiy, . , j, .hnnM he snbiected to such cruel tannta and suspicions? And so unjustly, too; tnat is me part of it; if there was the smallest atom . . j-.: ... tho thinn they say of us. I shouldn't mind. I do really be lieve," ahe continues, wltn an air 01 enin conviction, "that you and I are the two most absolutely perfect characters the world has ever known. I have never met with any oo just unite so good NATIONAL TURNERS FESTIVAL, PHILADELPHIA, Foremost among the attractive fea tures of the coming National Turn Fest. which takes place In this city the week of June 18-23. as far as the general public ia concerned, are the mass exhi bitions of calisthenics. These will be performed by classes of boys and girls from all portions of the United States and will number about 6.000 trained turners. These exercises will take place at the Philadelphia Ball Park, which for this occasion will be converted into the finest out-door gymnasium that tli!s or any other country has ever beheld. The prime object of the exhibitions at the Ball Park are to demonstrate to the public the benefits of the German system of physical culture, more partic ularly In the public schools. For this purpose about six thousand boys and girls fiom the various turning socie ties throughout the United States have been drilled for the past two years In all of the different branches of calisthe nics so as to be thoroughly proficient for the coming Turn Fest. The classes to give the mass exhibi tions have been selected from the turn ing societies of the best turn verelns of the Pacific oist, the Western States, the South and the East, so as to show their workings in all sections of the Union. In some of the leading West ern cities and some of the most promi nent educational Institutions of Ameri ca the Turner Bund has succeeded in having the German calisthenics! exer- we are. And. of course, that is the ex planation. Perfect people are never pro perly comprehended. The only comfort Is," adds Miss Peggy, complacently, "that you and I understand and appre ciate each other; and they are welcome to say all those things about us as often as they please." This was all very well; and Indeed it was satisfactory to think that one had won the commendation Of a being so con fident of her own moral worth. But there was this to be considered aliout Peggy, that you could never be very sure of her. Indeed, when she was most amia- ( ble she was moat to be distrusted; wnen she held out both hands to you in the frankest fashion, you had to beware lest they should turn out to he the two knobs of an electrical machine. The next instant, with Immovable face and inscrutable eyes, ahe remarks. In a casual kind of way: "Mr. A'Becket Is coming to Warwick." "What!" "Yes, he is." "Well, you are I declare you are " "ir she says, with blank stare of Innocence. "What have I to do with it?" "Then how did he tell you and no one else of his coming?" "Oh, as for that," she says, in a care less fashion, "he only mentioned it in go ing away as a kind of possibility. If he had spoken of it to you, it might have looked like asking for an invitation. And perhaps he maya't come, after all. I'm ure. If I were he, I woumn't take the trouble." "Probably not." Just at this moment we were unexpect edly interrupted. There was a barge coming along, drawn by two donkeys, each with a nose-tin slung at its head; and along wMh tbem was a tall young bargeman, as handsome as Apollo, but with a sun-tan on his face and a mild fire in his eyes unknown to the marble figures in the Ufflzi corridors. After a preliminary and rather diffident glance at the young lady, he made bold to ask us whether we were going on that day? "Yes. certainly, was the answer. "Then you'll have to make haste," said the sun-browned. Apollo, for they're go ing to repair Clayton Lock, and unless you get on at once, you won't get through until to-morrow." Now, this was most unwelcome news; for. though it waa well enough, once in awhile, to spend a whole twenty-four hours by the side of a meadow, with speedwells, dandelions, pollard-willows, swifts, water rots, and an occasional sheep, as our only companions, still we felt that we had not been making sii in dent progress, and we had certainly cal culated on reaching Warwick that night. 8 there was nothing for It but to sum mon Murdoch forthwith, and bid him leave breakfast alone and go scour the neighboring country in search of Captain Columbus and the Horse-Marine. Well, we got through Clayton Lock eaUly enough: and thereafter entered upon a long stretch of eleven miles with out any lock at alL' This was by far the most lonely district into which we had as yet penetrated; and as the canal Is here on a high level, we had a suffi ciently spacious view of the richly culti vated but apparently uninhabited coun try . Far as the eye could reach there was nothing visible but fields, hedge-row and upland heights, with here and there a clump of trees, or perhaps a solitary bam, A bit of red showing pleasantly enough among the prevailing greens. The day was brightening up too; sweet, mild airs were blowing; there was even, now nd again, a ray of watery sunlight strik ing on some distant slope. We began to wonder whether we had at last escaped jfrom the rain that had pursued us so in cessantly; for, of course, we did not want bur pretty Miss Peggy to go away back to America with the impression that Eng land vti a land of perpetual mists.. (To be continued Tbf Dreams of Avarice. Dorothy Pa, I do wish we were rich. Dorothy'! pa How rich would you dke to be? Dorothy Oh, awfully rich; rich enough to snub people and still be call td agreeable. Chicago Record. There la quite a difference betweei going In and going out of office. A ma la sworn In. bnt he usually does V Mwriai himself when hp arm on MASS-EXHIBITIONS OF CALISTHENICS AT THE BASE In, . i raA mrA loll- MinCeSfl has been most pronounced wherever they are in vogue. These have been adopted with suc- t., In tha mitillf irhnnlN nf ICsnsaS City, Mo.. Chicago. Cleveland, St. Louis. Davenport. Iowa. AiiiwauKee, uoiuniuus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Rock Island, Dul uth, Denver, Sandusky. Erie. New Ulm, Minn., and Canton. Ohio. In addition to these the system is taught at the Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Cook County Normal School, at Englewood. III., Washington University. St. T-ouis. and In hundreds of private schools all over this country. The exercises of this character consist of marching In all forms, from the sim ple turn to all the complicated forms or evolutions. Calisthenics embracing exercises with short and long wands, dumb-bells, large wooden rings and clubs. Fancy steps, mainly for girls, embracing all the movements from a simple gallop to the most complicated forms executed by expert dancers. The exercises for children are dlvldeil to correspond with the number of school years of the common and grammar grades. The Turn Fest Is under the charge of Richard Pertuch. Festival Director.than whom there Is no more proficient tutor in the various branches of German Physical culture In this country. Pro fessor Pertuch has been chosen by the Field and Farm. Farmers will take extra pains when feeding a crop, but their greatest loss, s in not harvesting at the proper time.' rhe longer a crop remains on the ground after It is ready or matured the more woody fibre or Indigestible material It will contain. Streaky or mottled butter may be dua to the salt or the working of the butter. In the finest quality of butter the salt la so evenly diffused that, as appears under the microscope, every grain is runounded by a film of clear and trans parent brine, which shows the neces sity of avoiding the overworking of the butter before the salt la added. In the first working every particle of the milk should be gotten rid of, but enough clear water should be left to dissolve every grain of salt In 12 hour before the next working. If this Is done mere will be but little danger of streaklness In the butter, but to get the best re sults the salt should be very finely ground. Ordinary chimney soot Is an excellent fertilizer and should be carefully saved. That from coal is superior to that from wood. It contains nitrogen, and Is bene- m flcial to all crops. It Is disliked by some insects, and Is used as a preventive of their attacks, for which purpose It may be more profitably applied owing to the small quantity produced prohibiting its use extensively aa a fertilizer. Skill in the dairy Is Important, but the art of butter making does not de Tend altogether upon skill In the man pulation of the milk, cream and butter. Inferior .cows, that are half fed, or not fed properly, will not furnish 'milk of :he desired quality for producing the best butter. On some farms, during the warm days of summer, the cows su fer from lack of water. It will not do to simply water them morning and night, but they must have an abundant lupply. The food should also be varied ind of the best quality. Hay differs greatly In weight and quality. Ripe timothy hay Is the heav iest, about 400 cubic feet, well packed, being eatlmated as weighing a ton. If fut when In blossom a ton will take up bout 480 cubic feet. Mixed with clover a ton will vary from 450 to BOO cubic feet. Clover hay requires about 50 cu bio feet to a ton. Of pea vine hay about 100 cubic feet make a ton. About 700 ruble feet of meadow hay is the esti mate for a ton. These estimates are Bot strictly reliable, however, aa some thing depends upon how closely the hay Is pressed in the stack or mow. When aphides attack trees the best remedy is strong soapsuds made of srhale-oll soap. Strong tobacco water s also said to be excellent. The use of terosene emulsion Is a sure remedy, but t should be sprayed on the trees, so as ;o saturate all the branches, twigs and eaves. In winter painting of the trunks ind limbs with crude petroleum has given excellent results. The ground cannot be made too rich 'or gooseberries and currants, and any xtra attention given them the first rear will have Its effect for years af ter, as a good start Is an advantage. Plant In rows four feet apart, cultivate thoroughly, and then mulch. Cutting )ut the old wood should not be over ooked. It Is not difficult to get large fields of fruit when the soil la rich and :he cultivation Is thorough. Some weeds are valuable foods for aogs. and if cot down or pulled up and thrown Into the hog-pens can be utilized to advantage. Pigweed, purslaln, rag weed and young poke weeds will be highly relished by hogs, as will also lamb's quarter, which grows nearly everywhere. Some dairymen have a measure and give each cow the same quantity of food. There can be no uniformity in :he allowance of food. Some cows con lume more than others, and cows that ire In foil flow of milk require more "ood than the non-producers. The only rule to follow Is to give each animal as much as it will eat up clean if It I i producer. Ills Point of View. Fair Medical Student What do you think of women for physicians? , Old Doctor I think they are all right Why, we derive two-thirds of our In come from women. The Lord Almighty never yet madt tn ideal man like those to be found In very novel you pick up. and girl k should stop searching for him. JUNE 18-23, 1900 BALL PARK. technical ' committee of the National league, and he has arranged a pro gram, the completeness of which sur passes any as yet computed for a like event. The local management of the Turn Fest Is in charge of the following local turning societies: Philadelphia Turn Gemelnde, the Southwark Turn Vereln, the Roxborough Germanla Turn Verein, Columbia Turn Vereln, all or this city, and the Camden, N. J.. Turn Verein. The members of the various committees have been selected for their experience as well as their expressions of favor ing the Introduction of physical culture in the public schools. In order to make the festival one that will partake of the nature of a demonstration fiom all walks of life for physical culture, the following Press Committee has been ap. pointed to aid the turners In bringing the subject properly before the general public and make the festival one of the City of Philadelphia, rather than one of the turners only: Joseph Morwitz. William Itegens purger. Dr. Joseph Berndt, C. T. Mayor. Louis Holler, L. Werner. S. C. Wells. 3. B. Townsend, L. Clarke Davis. O. W. C. Drekel, James Elverson. Jr., Joseph Robinson, Col. A. K. McClure, D. G. Fenno. Thomas Wanamaker. E. A. Van Valkenburg. Barclay Warbur ton, W. Ambruster, John W Bailey. W. C. Russel. W. L. McLean. W. Per rlne. M. Richard Murkle. Dr. C. J. Hex amer. F. Ehrlleh and Dr. C Wetland. Household Recipes. Cream of Pears. Boil one-quarter of a pound of rice until tender; strain off the water; add half a cup of rich milk, three-quarters of a cup of sugar, salt spoonful of salt and half a dozen quar ters of canned pears cut In pieces. Sim mer ten minutes, pass through a sieve into a wetted mold. Serve cold with whipped cream. - Baked Halibut with Puree of Peas. Select a solid peace of halibut weigh ing about three pounds. Put on the rack In a baking pan, brush liberally with butter and dredge' with salt, oi omit the butter and spread thin slices of pork over the top of the fish. Set In a fast oven: after ten or fifteen min utes add a cup of boiling water and reduce the temperature; baste every ten minutes, dredging with flour aftei each basting, and at last with butter. Let cook until the central bone sepa rates easily from the fish. When baked remove the skin and bone and decorate with a puree of peas. Consomme a la Mancelle. Cut In Julienne Bhane half a carrot, a small turnip and half a head of blanched celery. Saute in hot butter for ten minutes: then cook in boiling watet for half an hour: skim, drain and add to three pints of consomme seasoned with a teaspoonful and a half of salt and a saltspoonful of paprika; add a cup of roasted chestnuts cut Into small strips when procurable. Baked Swedish Mince. Mince finely one pound or a pound and a half of J calves' or sheens' liver and chop one pickled onion very small. Mix togethei i add the meat of three cooked sausages. two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. ; level teaspoonful of salt, pinch of sage ' and one-half cud of blanched chopped almonds. Stir in one tablespoonful ol 1 flour, press Into a pudding dish with a : lid and bake In a moderate oven for ' two hours. Turn out the mince, which will be a firm mold upon a hot dish and surround with a puree of peas. Lettuce, Egg and Radish Salad. Arrange three hard-boiled eggs; cut In slices upon a bed of lettuce: dispose about these a bunch of radishes cut ir slices; mix half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of paprika and six tablespoonfult , of oil, then stir In gradually tiree ta blespoonfuls of lemon juice or vinegar: pour over the salad, tosa together and serve. Olive Custards. Beat two eggs well put over the fire with two ounces ol grated Parmesan and stir until thick Fry ten very small rounds of bread to a crisp brown, spread with anchovy paste, then with cheese mixture and put a stoned olive on each. Delicious with the salad. Useful Hints. In boiling meat for soup put cold wa fer to it and let it come slowly to a simmer to extract the juice. If meat Is boiled for Itself alone put It Into boil ing water, which causes the outer sur face to contract, and the richness of the meat is retained within. To make sealing wax for fruit cans, take eight ounces of rosin, two ounces turn shellac and a half-ounce of bees wax. Melt all together.- This will make a quantity, and may be melted for use when wanted. A farina boiler Is a necessity, aa with one there is no danger of scorch ing. Thick brown paper should be laid under carpets If the patent- lining is not to be had. It saves wear, and pre vents the Inroads of moths, which, however, will seldom give trouble - it salt is sprinkled around the edges when the carpet is laid. Green corn and lima beans deterior ate more quickly than any other vege tables; they should be spread out sin gly on the cool cellar floor as quickly aa possible after they come from the market. Hla Geacaurea. Probably the Catholic Standard, which prints this dialogue, did not in tend that stiff and awkward elocution lata abonld take It as a helpful bint: Teacher Your recitation waa ex tremely good, Johnny. The gestures were particularly naturaL, Where did you get them? Johnny Git what? Teacher The gestures. Johnny I alnt got the gestoora. It'a hlvea! PLUCKY MRS. VOIQHT. aloma Bha Bravely Attacked, Cornered and Killed a Coyote. When forced to an issue a woman ln rariably proves herself aa plucky as a man. Mrs. Bote Volght, wife of Mr. B. M. Volght, a farmer near Modesta, CaL, baa just furnished an example ot the courage and strength for which the women of the West have become fa mous since the days of the pioneer. The other night Mrs. Voight's dot caught a coyote off his guard and ran him Into the barn, planting himself noisily at the entrance so that bis vic tim should not come without settllDg accounts with htm face to face. The dog knew enough not to go In after the game. When Mrs. Volght heard the dog barking so significantly she knew there was a "varmint" of some kind Id trouble. She surmised also that Tow ser would not push the matter any fur ther without assistance from the house. She went to the barn and looked In. After a moment the form of the coyote became visible In a far corner, his eyes gleaming like the real story book eyes of beasts that are met in th dark. A pitchfork stood against the barn near the door. Mrs. Voighl grasped this belligerently and stepped inside. In five seconds or less there was a battle In progress in the dark ness of the barn, and the dog stood It the door and barked the louder to en courage the affair, and perhaps also tc encourage himself. The coyote, fairly cornered and left no alternative, had to fight or be killed like a sheep. He snarled with a kind of hopeless defiance and showed hit fangs, but Mrs. Volght was ready foi him. He bad no sooner turned to face ber than she jammed the fork full upon him. the prongs entering bit shoulders and running clear through him, so vigorous and well-aimed wai the blow. Yet he made a leap forward, the pain from the wound adding frenzy to desperation, and almost wrenched the fork from the woman's hands as she still held It In his shoulders. She held on, however, driving the weapon harder and harder Into the stricken beast until finally she got him actually pinned to the ground. He squirmed and writhed while she held him down, her intention bolns to ernsh tbe life out of him there and then. But coyotes are as bard to kill aa they are to catch. Mrs. Volght had to make a new attack. She reached and caught a rope with one hand while shf held the fork handle with the other, and with the rope she tied the fork tc the wall In such a way that the im paled victim could not dislodge It. Tuff left her free to go after a club. Witt which she soon returned and beat fie animal until he was past doing any i further mischief In this world. Then (he released him, put a noose around his neck and dragged him to the house, where she held him as a trophy for hei husband to see when he returned from the field, where he had been all day en gaged In plowing. LAW AS INTERPRETED. The rule that a common carrier can not grant exclusive privileges to lu patrons Is held. In Kates vs. Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company (Ga.). 44 L. R. A. 431, not to preclude a railroad company from discriminating between persons In respect to facilities for en tering trains te solicit transportation ol passengers and baggage, or the use of portion of Its baggage room. Custom of a' railroad company to set round-trip tickets at a certain station Buudays is held in Johnson vs. Georgi R. & B. Company (Ga.), 40 L. R. A. 502 not binding on the company after dis sontinuing such sale, so as to entitle i passenger who gets on the train with out a ticket to Insist on being carriec for the reduced price at which tin round-trip tickets had been previouslj old. An administrator who takes land at assets by express provision of law li (held. In Price vs. Ward (Nev.), 46 L. R A. 458, to have no such right, title oi Interest In and to the lands of his in testate In another State as will entltli blm to sue to redeem from a mortgngt thereon by setting off agalnet It wasti committed by the mortgagee In pos session after the intestate's death, oi to recover damages for waste or trcs pass on the lands. Enforcement of the liability of i stockholder in a foreign corporation t Ita creditors In an amount equal to thi amount of his stock Is held. In Crippit L. & Co. vs. Laighton (X. II.). 40 L. R A. 4C7, not to be required by prlnciplei f comity especially where the laws o: the forum -In respect to the stockbold ers liability are essentially different so that there Is no way In which thi obligation can be enforced with sub tantial justice. Kmger's Descendants. President Kruger by bis first mar riage had one child, who died young By his second wife be bad sixteen cbil area. His grandchildren number 104 Accepted the Cosurt's Invitation. At the Durham. England, assizes re cently the plaintiff In a trifling cast was a deaf woman and after a little th ludge suggested that the counsel shoulc get hla client to compromise it and bi ask her what ahe would take ta ttl It. The counsel thereupon shouted oul ' very loudly to his client: "Hla lord.! hip wants to know what you Willi tag." ne smiling replied: "I thank I hla lordship kindly and if It's Da In- i ctrnventeace to him 111 take a llttlif BERMON Reo. Br. CatoiSii nnfeMt TO Victor. ShoutThe Joy of Onnomlig Difficult).. Th. Sail faction EipniMd by Christ on the Outcome of His Earthly Labor. Coryrigut iwai Washthotojc, D. C In this dlscocrs. Or. Talmaga shows tn an unusual way the antagonisms that Christ overcame and Dnds a balsam for all wounded beirts; text. John xvil.. 4, "I have finished the work which Thou gavest He to do." There is a profound satisfaction In the completion of anything we have under taken. We lift the capstone with exulta tion, while, on the other band, there 1 nothing more disappointing than, aftet having tolled In a certain direction, to find that onr time Is wasted and our Invest ment profitless. Christ oame to throw up a highway on which the whole world might, it It chose, mount into heaven. He did It. The foul mouthed crew who at tempted to tread on Him could not ex tinguish the sublime satisfaction which He expressed when He said: "I have finished the work which Thou gavest Ma do." Alexander the Great was wounded, and the doctors could not medicate his wounds, and he seemed to be dying, and in bis cream the sick man saw a plant "with a peculiar flower, and he dreamed that that plaut was put upon his wound and that immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream, told this to the physician, and the physician wandered out until be found just the kind of plant which the sick man had doserlbed, brought it to him, and the wound was healed. Well, the hnman race had been hurt with the cbast llest of all wounds that ot sin. It wa the business of Christ to hrinir a balm foi that wound the balm of divine restora tion. In carrying this basinets to a suc cessful issue the difficulties wore stupend ous. In rasny of our plans wo have our friendi to help us; some to draw a sketch or the plan, others to help us in the execution, lint Christ fought every Inch of His way against bitter hostility and amid circum stances all calculated to depress and de feat. In the first place, II Is worldly occapbtlon was against Him. I And that He earned Hi: livelihood by the carpenter's trade, an oc cupation olwavs to be highly regarded and respected. But yon know as well as I dc that in order to succeed in any employ ment one must give his entire time to it, and I have to declaro that the fatigues ol carpentry wero unfavorable to the execu tion of a mission which required all men tal and physical faculties. Through high, bard, dry, husky, insensate Judaism to hew a way for a new and glorious dispen sation was a stupendous undertaking that was enough to demand all the concen trated energies even ot Christ. We have a great many romantic stories about what men with physical toil have accomplished In intellectual departments, but you know that after a man has been toiling all la with ads and saw and hammer, plane and ax, about all he can do Is to rest. A wenrj body Is an unfavorable adjunct to a tolling mind. You, whose life In purely mecbani sal, if you were oalled'to the upbuilding ol a kingdom, or the proclamation ot a new aode of morals, or the starting of a revolu tion which should npturn all nations, sould get some idea of the incoherence ol Christ s occupation with His hoaveulj mission. In His father's shop no more Intercourse was necessary than is ordinarily necessary In bargaining with men that have work to io, yet Christ, with hands hard from nse of tools of trade, was called forth to bo-i tome a public speaker, to proach In the) face of mobs, while some wept, and some ihook their fists, and some gnashed upon' Blm with their teeth, and many wanted aim out oi me way. io audress orderly and respectful assemblages Is not so easy is It may seem, but it requires more snergy and more force and more concen. tratlon to address an exasperated mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard the pound-1 Ing of His hammer, but all the wide teaches of eternity were to hear the stroke 1 3f His spiritual up building. do also tils nanus or dress and diet were tgalnst Him. The mighty men ot Christ's lime did not appear in apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the SaMars would have appeared in citizen's tpparel. Tet here was a man, here was a professed king, who always wore the same )oat. Indeed It was far from shabby, for tfter He had worn It a loner while the amblers thought it wortli rattling about, 9ut still it was far from being an imperial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary nan might have worn on an ordinary oc saston. Neither was there any pretension in HI" list. No cupbearer with golden chalice Drought Him wine to drink. On the sca Ihore He ate fish, first having broiled It aimself. No one fetched Him water to lrlnk; but. bending over the well In jamaria, He begged a drink. He sat at nly one banquet, and that not at nil lumptuous, for to relieve the awkward ness ot the host one of the guests bad to prepare wine for the company. Other kings ride in a chariot; He walked. Other kings, as they advance, have heralds ibead and applauding subjects behind; Christ's retinue was made up of sun aurned fishermen. Other kings sleep inaer emurohioroa canopy; tuls one on n ihelterless hill, riding but once, as far us 1 low remember, on a colt, and thnt bor rowed. His poverty was against Him. It re quires money to build great enterprises. Hen ot means are afraid of a penniless projector lest a loan be demanded. It re ulres money to print books, to bnlld in ititutions, to pay Instructors. No wondet :he wise men of Christ's time laughed at this penniless Christ. "Why," tby snid, 'who Is to pay for this new religion? Whc Is to charter the ships to carry the mis ilonarles? Who Is to pav the salnries ol ibe teachers? Shall wealthy, established religion be discomfited by a penniless Christ?" The consequence was that most of thr people that followed Christ hail nothing tf lose. Affluent Joseph ot Arimntbea buried Christ, but be risked no .ocinl position ir doing that. It ia always safe to bury t lead man. Zaecheus risked no wealth or social posl ion In following Christ, but took a positior in a tree to look down ns He passed. Nicodemus, wealthy Nicodemus, riskec nothing of social position in following Christ, for be sknlked by night to find Him All thin was against Chri.t. So the fnci that He was not regularly graduated wo. igalnst Him. If a man come with diplo Has of eoileges and schools nud theological leminaries and he has been through for Ign travel, the world is disposed to llstnn. But here was a man who bad graduated at no college, bad not in any ncnditiny by or llnary means learned the'alphabet of It'. Anguage He spoke, an I yet lie proposed li talk, to Instruct In subjects which hoc i-i. founded the mightiest intellects. Johr, aid, "The Jews marveled, saving, Hon hath this man letters, having nevei learned?" We, in our day, have found onl that a man without a diploma may know is much as a man with one and t hat a col lege cannot transform a sluggard into t philosopher or a theological seminary teach fool to preach. An empty head, after the laying on of hands ot the presbytery Is empty still. But It allocked nil existing prejudices in those olden tinies for a mat with no scholastic pretensions and no graduation from a learned Institution tc tet Himself up for atencher. it was against Htm. 8o there have been men ot wonderfu magnetism of person. But hear me wlillt I tell you of a poor young Man who came u from Nazareth to produce a thrill w Ich hot never been excited by any other. Napoleoi had around him the memories of Murengt tnd Ansterlitz and Jena, but here was I Alan who had fnnirtit no battle, who nn 00 epaulets, who brandished no sword. If bad probable never seen a prince or shaken hands wltn a nobleman. The oa'.y extraordinary person wo know of as being in His company was His own mother, and she was so poor that, in the most delicate and sobvnn hour thnt comes t a woman's soul, sliu was obliged to lie uown among drivers grooming the beast of burden. Again, I remark, there was no organiza tion in His behalf, and that was against Him. When mon propose any great work, they band together, they write letters oi agreement, they take oaths of .ealty, and tiie more complete the organization the more and complete the success. Here was one who went forth without any organiza tion and alone. If men had a mind to join in His company, all right; It they hud a mind not to join In His company, all well. It they came, they were greeted with no loud salutation; it they went away, they were sent with no bitter anathema, rotor departed, and Christ tnrned and looked at him; that was all. All this was against Him. Did any onn ever undertake such an enterprise amid such infinite embarrassments aud by snch modes? And yet I am here to say it ended In a complete triumph. Notwithstanding Ills worldly occupation. His poverty, HH plain face. His unpretending ifrrli, the fact that Ho was schoolless, the fuct that He had a brief life, the fact that lie was not accompanied by any visible organiza tion notwithstanding all that. In nu ex hllaraHon which .nil be prolonged In everlasting chorals, He declared, "I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." In the eye infirmary now many diseases of that delicate organ have been cured? But Jtisa says to one blind, "Be open!" uud tho light of heaven rnshos throun irates that have never before beon opened. The frost of an ax may kill a tree, but Jesns smites one dead with a word. Chemistry may do many wonderful things, but what chemist at a wedding, when the wine gavo out, could change a pail of water Into a cask ot wine? What human voice could command a school cl fish? Yet here is a voice that marshals the scally tribes until. In placa where they had lot down tho net and pulled It ap with no fish In It, they let it down agaiu, and the disciples lay bold and be fan to pull, when, by roaaoa of the multi tude of fish, the net broke. Nature Is His orvant. The flowers He twisted them In to His sermons; the winds they were Els lullaby when Hd slept In the boat; the rain it hung glittering on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem It sang a Christmns carol over His Cirth; the rocks they beat a dirge at His death. Behold His victory over the gravel Tho hinges of the family vault become very lusty be cause they are never opened except to take another in. Tnero is a knob on the out dde of the door of the sepulcher, but none on the inside. Here comes the Conqueror of Death. He enters that realm and says, "Dauchter of Jairus, sit npl" and she sits ap. To Lazarus, "Come forth!" and he same forth. To the widow's son He said. 'Oct up from that blerl" and he goes home with his mother. Then Jedus matched up the keys of death and bung them to His girdle and cried until all tne crraveyards of the earth heard Him: "O ieath, I will be thy plague! O grave, I will be thy destruction!" No man could go through all the ob stacles I have described, you say, without having a nature supernatural. In that irm, amid Its muscles and nerves and hones, were intertwisted the energies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal Ood. That foot that walked the 1eck of the slilp In Onnnesaret shall stamp kingdoms of dnrkuess Into demolition. This poverty struck Christ owned Augus tus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiherlas, owned all the castles on Its beach and all the skies that looked down Into Its water owned all the earth and all the heavens. To Him of the plain coat belonged the robes of cnlostial royally. He who walked the road to Erumaus the llght-aings-were the fire shod steeds of His :bnrlot. Yet there are those who look on and see Christ turn wnter Into wine, ind they say, "It was sleight of band!" nd they see Christ raise the dead to lite, ind thoy sny: "Easily explained; not really dead; playing dead!" Aud they soe Christ giving sight to the blind man, and :hev sny, "Clairvoyant doctor!" Oh, whut (hall thoy do on the day when Christ rises lp In judgmont and the hills shall took ud the trumpets shall call, real ou neal? In the time o' Tbeodosius the Great there was a great assault made upon the divln- cy ouesus unriHt, and during thnt time riieodoslusthe Oreat called his own son to lit on the throne with him and be a copart ner in the government of the empire, and sue day the old bishop came and bowed iown before Tbeodosius, the emperor, and onssed out of the room, and the emperor was offended, saying to the old bishop, Why didn't ;you pay the same honor :omy son, who shares with me in the gov ernment?" Then the old bishop turned to .he young man and said, "The Lord bless :hoo, my young man," but still paid him no iucIi honor as he had paid lothe Emperor. Vud the Emperor was still offended and lispleased when the old bishop turned to Thoodoslus the Oreat and said to him, 'You are offended with me because I don't )ny the same honor to your son, whom you lave made copartner In the government of :his empire, the same honor I pay to you, ind yet you encourage multitudes nf peo ile in your realm tc deny the Son of Ood inual authority, equal power, with God the ?ather." My subject also reassures us of the fact :bat in all our struggles we have a sympa :hlzor. You cannot tell Christ anything iw about hardship. I do not think that wide ages of eternity will take the scars rom His punctured side and His lacerated emplesand His sore bands. You will never oavn a burden weighing so many pounds is that burden Curlst carried up the bloody Jill. You will never have any suffering worse than He endured when, with tougue lot and cracked and Inflamed and swollen. He moaned, "I thirst." Yon will never be mrrounded by worse hostility than thnt which stood around Christ's feot, foaming, reviling, livid with rage, howling down His ornyers and snuffing up the smell of blood. 3 ye faint hearted, O ye troubled, O ye persecuted One, hero is a heart that c.-in tympathize with you! Attain, and lastly, I learn from all thnt las been said to-day that Christ was aw fully in earnest. If it had not been a mo nentous mission. Ha would have turned inck from It disgusted and discouraged, tie saw you lu a captivity from which He was resolved to extricate you, though it :ost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood, lie Mime a great way to save yon. He came 'rom Bethlehem here, through the place f skulls, through the chnrnel bouse, :hrough banishment. There was not imong all the ranks of celestials ono ooing who would do as much' for you. I lay His crushed heart at yonr feet to iay. Let it not be told in heaven that you ieliberately put your foot cn It. While it will take all the ages of eternity to cele brate Christ's triumph, I am here to make :he startling announcement thnt because of the rejection of this mission on the part of some of you all that magnificent work f garden and cross aud grave is, so far is you are concerns I, a failure. Helena, :be Empress, went to the Holy Land to llnd the cross of Christ. Oct :lng to the Holy Land, there were three :rosses excavated, and the qnestion was which of the crosses was Christ's jross. Tboy took a dend iiody, tradition lays, and put it upon one of the crosses, ind there was no ilfn, and they took the lend body and put It upon another cross, ind there was no life; but, tradition says, when the dead body was put up against :he third cross It sprang Into life. The lead man lived again. Oil, that the life giving power of the Son of God might dart rnur dead soul Into an eternal life, begin ning this day! "Awake, thou sleepest, urn rise irom in oeau, and Crist shall rive thee llfel" Live nowl Aud live for. avert The gieaust coward and the greatest slave in the world is the flatterer. The truly-refined man is he who has been purged from the dross of self. He who makes up his mind that h- shall not suct-eed has already failed. As long as pluck holds out no one can cluim a victory over us. Heaven Is very kind to us all, but Heaven promises nothing to one. Bee hunting is about the best busi nes for a lazy man. There is scarcely a human being, who is not an idiot, but what has a super stition of some kind. The only pedigree worth having is the one a man makes for himself. h ! j . H t ; If- u 3
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