.iy-rysi.f7 14 Irh itl, 'a. u r i B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COnSTITUTIOn - THE UMOI1 AND THE EriFORCEPE&T OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprlatsr. VOL. JAV. MIFFLJNTOWX. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900 NO. 28 U CHAPTER IX. Continued.) And so once more we are gliding on through the still, wooded landscape; and the larks are filling all the wide spaces of the air with their singing; and the sun light lies warm on the hedges and fields. And this is Miss Peggy, who is perched up here astern, with more or less com plete control of the tiller; although, as she seems rather absent eyed, one has to exercise a general sort of surveillance over her. "Why. what's that?" she exclaims, sud denly, catching sight of something ahead. "It looks like a series of gigantic steps and stairs, doesn't it? But it is really a succession of locks. We bare got to climb a hill, that's about all. And it will be very tedious process. You'd better go inside and tell them we will hare luncheon now, and send Murdoch out to take the tiller." By the time luncheon was over Miss Peggy discovered that we were in the last of the locks, and her proposal that we should seize the opportunity to get ashore was unanimously and immediately adopted. We now found ourselves on a consider able height, and all around us lay a rich ly wooded country, the abundant foliage of which kept shimmering or darkening as the 'low-moving sun rays and wide shadows trailed across the landscape. Miss Peggy, as we walked along, spoke but little; perhaps she was peopling those woods and open spaces and darker glades with mysterious phantoms. Her eyes, at any rate, had no mischief in them now. But as we drew' near to Wootton Wa wen she turned her attention to the wild flowers we were passing, and from time to time she stooped to add to the little nosegay in her band. We knew her pur pose. We knew whither was going that variegated little collection of red cam pions, blue hyacinths, yellow bed-straw, purple, self-heal, golden cowslips and the like simple blossoms. " "It is a very little trouble," she says. aud think of the gratitude I shall reap twhen they get them over there! I sup pose I may honestly say, 'From the For ets of Arden,' in the letter?" Overhead the silvery gray heaven were now mottled with soft lilac; toward the west were long bands of purple cloud, their lower edges fringed with f-rimson fire; beneath these, and behind the various clumps .of foliage in front or us. were breadths of golden yellow, that buly reached ns through the darkened branches in .mild flashes of light.- We 6ad been seriously delayed by one or two iffloult bridges. It was resolved to call a halt for the night. We were to be up Aelimes in the morning, for there wax. a long day before us, to say nothing of-fhe wild peril and adventure of getting through the King's Norton and West Hill Tunnels. So we chose out a mea dow bank where there were some conven lent willow stumps and alder bushes, and there we made fast; and then Murdoch now in the Forest of Arden, and proba bly wishing he were at home in a bettei place, though his courtesy would not al low him to say so was besought to pre pare some food for his comrades and brothers in exile. CHAPTER X. This is Sunday morning, still and beau tiful, the sunlight lying warmly over the wide Worcestershire landscape, with its far-stretching valleys and copse-crowned hills, its smiling farms and mansions half hidden auioug woods. The perfect silence is hardly lessened, rather it seems height ened, by the universal singing of the birds a multitudinous and joyous diu that almost drowns the velvet-soft noti of the cuckoo. "Good morning!" says Miss Peggy. ! coming out into the w hite light with her cheeks fresh-tinted as the rose, and her speedwell-blue eyes shining. "Thin la a surprise! I made sure it waa raining hard there waa such a pattering on the roof " "And didn't you know what the patter . ing was?" "Since it wasn't rain. I auppose it. was rata.- "Xof a: all. It was birds. They wen bopping about in search of crumbs anions all that rubbish that we scraped off in the tunnel. MurdoH must get a brush and sweep the roof; it isn't like him to be so neglectful." "I know why." she says. "He can hardly take his eyes off Col. Cameron: and he listens to no one else. I sr pose Col. Cameron is a great hero in Murdoch's eyes." "Well, you see, the Highlanders have a strong regard for these old families, al though the clans and clanship have lone been abolisl- d. There isn't much that a ii;i.i.w wouldn't do for Lochicl. 01 Cluny. or Lord Lovat, or some of those.- and you must rememoer mai " eron's name ia known-slightly-to othei people besides the Highlanders. "I think he is almost too gentle for s soldier, don't you?" she says. "No. I won't say that, for I like h,m very much and I'm not the least bit afraid of hiin now. Yes. I like him very much indeed: and that's honest now; and I don t see now anyone can help liking him. There is a kind of proud simplicity about bin that is so different froni-well. from tb kind of mock gallantry that young m u think so fine. Oh. V wish girls could talk!" "Can't the'" "I wish they were Wed '"tiTur their minds-some people would be- sur prised! Why. they'll come to feet stranger-and they 'II P so complaisant, and give har fascinating airs, and pretend cha ed. too. by your superior accVm",i. uiJnts; and they think you " -eh a fool a. not to see through It all! And I of course a girl can't say. 'Oh. go away and don't make a simpleton of your ""ircertainly would not he well brought up young lady to speaa 'Vily their vanity." conti.u; W reggy. wjth contemptuous -And what they to 7"? "JJ to the next, and to the "VuWnk that the next hundred; and ey thtakh" girls are so simple an not to know. Well, we're simple enough, butwe've ceased to be infants. I suppose h How far her indlgnan ml hn carried her. It is impossible to "" w JW WILLIAM J) LACK. j at His moment the door was again open ed and out came a tall figure with an other "Good morning!" while Miss Peggy was instantly struck silent, and that with some obvious embarrassment. She even flushed slightly; and. to cover her not quite intelligible confusion, one had to say. quickly: "Here is Miss Rosslyn. Cameron, -who wants to know all about the Highland clans, and the clansmen, and their rela tions to the chiefs. And about the '45 rising, too; she is to be a partisan oH narue; she must be turned into Jacobite if there's going to be any peace and quietude on board this boat. And who can do that better than your self?" "Oh. no." he said, with a smile, "no. no. no; all that is past and gone now. Chiefs and clansmen are alike loyal now adays; we are the queen's 'loyal High landers.' and oroud to wear the title." "Yes, but don't you understand," one says to him, "how interesting it must he to an ingenuous young student from America, where all the institutions and habits and customs are comparatively new, to bear of this very old-world state of society; yes. and to hear of it from one related to the people who were 'out' In the '45?" "Well, when you think of It," says In verfask. "it does seem strange that the clan system waa actually in existence in the last century, and within a couple of days' ride or a single day's ride, you might almost say from the city of Ed inburgh. And very little the good people of Edinburgh knew about the Highland ers and their ways. I suppose you never beard -the story of what happened to Lord Kilmarnock at Falkirk? Lord Kil marnock bad raised a troop of horses for the prince, and had been with hira all through the expedition into England, and all through the retreat, and so must have got some knowledge of the clansmen and their customs. But what happened at Falkirk uo doubt puzzled him. The day after the battle the prince and he were looking down from the window of a house in town, and, to their surprise, they saw a soldier coming along in the Eng lish uniform and wearing a black cockade in his hat. Lord Kilmarnock immediate ly went down stairs and into the street, went up to the man, struck off his hat, and put his foot on the black cockade. The next moment one of the Highlanders standing by bad rushed on Lord Kilmar nock and shoved him away: Kilmarnock instantly pulled out his pistol and pre sented it ft his assailant; the Highlander drew his dirk; and goodness only know what would have happened if a number of the Highlander's companions had not interposed on behalf of their comrade and driven Lord Kilmarnock off. And what was it all about? Why, the man with the black cockade was a Cameron who had been in an English regiment, and who, of course, deserted to join the stand ard of hia chief as soon aa he got the chance; and. being a Cameron, the other Cameron standing around would not have him interfered with by anyone, whatever his rank." Breakfast over Captain Columbus, makes his appearance without, and pres ently Murdoch is standing at the door of the saloon, awaiting orders. Now. this being Sunday. Queen Tita would rather have given our gay young mariners and their diligent horse a rest; but, as appeared from our noble captain's report, there were ominous .rumors abroad among the canal-folk of intended repairs somewhere or other; and he him self was distinctly of opinion that we should at least push forward and get through the two tunnels. So we assent ed to that, poled the boat across- to thi towpatb, had the line afllxed to the bar ness. and were once more gliding along. But when we came to the first oC the tunnels, we found we had just missed the steam launch, which had disappeared with its. long convoy into that black hole in the earth; and as there was now a considerable time for us to wait, we nil got ashore, and proceeded to explore the neighboring wood, which is known a Short wood Dingle. We wandered alone through the picturesque dingle, and up to a height from which there is a wide view over the adjacent country, and eventually back to the canal, where there were now reveral tiomr wnnn - onr oa awaiting the arrival of the steam launch. When that far from gay vessel arrived, we were all water-proofed and ready for the ordeal ail except Mrs. Th.-eepcnny-bi. who preferred to sit by herself iu the saloon, awaiting events, and consol ing herself with the reflection that these two Tardcbigg tunnels were shorter than the West Hill one. Shorter we found them, but also much darker; indeed, ab solutely dark, for the bargemen did not seem to consider it necessary to light I h-ir lamps on this occasion. We scraped and tore our way along first the one tun nel, and then with an interval of smooth sailing in the white day through its roc-k-bewn successor, until, ahead -f us in the dark, there grew up and waxed brighter and brighter a sort of fuligin ous, confused, opalescent glare; then filially we plunged into that bewildering glory bronze-hued or saffron-hued it ap peared aa we approached it and sudden ly emerged into a sunlighted greenness of foliage and the quietude of the outer world. ' "How many more of these tunnels shall we have to go through?" asks Queen Tita. Not another one; that ia the last. The next possible danger we have to face Is going down the Severn, and I dare say we shall be able to manage somehow. We'll warlse through.' " Oh I don't mind what it is, so long as .here is daylight." she says, and then she adds, looking back to the low archway of the tunnel, "bur I confess I am n' mxloua for any more experiences or tost '"But just think of the .tor, ' jo. will iave to tell wnen you - l.nf" MT8 MISS I'rjSKJ- nd heyr friends neck for is she ia passing along to her cabin, to "t the sand and wet-Ut P brown hair. CHAPTER' XI. PR1ZE SEEKERS Fifteen Hu dred Men, Women, Boys and Girls will Participate in the Within the past week the entries for I the various championship contests of America at the National Turn Fest, which takes place In Philadelphia the week of June 18-23, have been coming In at a rate hitherto unknown. There are now 905 entries enrolled in the varl. aus competitions. These encompass the best athletes and gymnasts, both male and female, of the leading turning so cieties of America. The entries for the various champion ship contests show the following socie ties with the number of men. women, boys and girls as herewith appended: New York Circuit: New York Turn vereln, Bloomingdale, 16; Central Turn erein. New York, 16; Turnverein "Vor waerts." New York, 12: Turverein "Vorwaerta," Brooklyn, 22; Brco'ilyn Turnverein, Brooklyn, 12; Turnverein "Columbia," Brooklyn, 10: Brooklyn (E. D.) Turnverein, 20. Total: 108. Indiana Circuit: (Including some Chicago Societies). Louisville, Ken tucky Turnverein. 12; Socialer Turnver ein of Indianapolis. 20; South Bend ! Turnverein. South lien a, and., 14; Chi cago Turngemeinde, 24: Central Turn verein, Chicago, 111.. 24: Suedseite Turn gemeinde, Chicago, III.. 12; Suedseite Turnverein, Indianapolis, 10; Turnver ein "Vorwaarts," Fort Wayne, Ind., 12. Total: 128. fr Tm.I. rH.-tf.ul. fiiiorl fit Tiil. Turnverein, St. Louia.48; Soolaler Turn- verein, St. Louis, 52: Turnverein "Con cordia." St. Louis. 50: West St. Louis Turnverein, 34: Nord St. Louis Turn verein, 48; Little Roclc Turnverein. Lit tle Rock, Ark.. 12; Mount Olive Turn verein. Mount Olive, III.. 12; Turnver ein "Humboldt." St. Louis. 2. Total: 258. New England Circuit: Boston Turn Tereln. 16: Manchester Turnverein, Man chester. N. H.. 16; Springfield Turn verein. Springfield, Mass., 14: Turn verein "Vorwaerts." Holyoke. Mass., 12: TJeutscher Arbeiterverein, Boston, 12; Kast Hampton Turnverein,East Hamp ton, Mass.. 11. Total: 81. Wisconsin Circuit: Turnverein Mil waukee, Milwaukee, Wis., 16; Nord Beite Turnverein. Milwaukee. 10; Fond du Lac Turnverein, Fond du Lac, Wis., the staring shop windows and signs: our ars distracted with the rattle of in numerable wheels. Our faint recollection 3t Worcester bad been that it was rather in old-fashioned and sleepy town; now we found ourselves suddenly transferred from the remoteness and the silence ot those pastoral wanderings Into the full roaring blast of nineteenth-century life. "I expected moats and battlements gates, portcullises, draw bridges, and so an," said Miss Peggy, as we sat at lunch at the Unicorn, "but it ia quite a modern city." "It is not a warlike town any longer." her hostess admitted; "it is more of an cclesiastical town; wait till we take you lo the cathedral, and show you all the quaint old buildings attached to it with their pretty gardens and ivied walls, and their look of learned repose." Late that night the miniature manager rs3 of this wandering party waa in her own room, engaged in overhauling her millinery purchases of the day, and dis posing them so as to admit of their being packed on the morrow. She seemed a lit tle thoughtful, and was mostly silent; but t length she said, in a cautions sort of way: "Do you know what Peggy told me be fore we went to the theater this even Ins r "I do not." "She told me that Col. Cameron had promised to give her some relic from Fnssiefern House a little mirror, I be lieve." "I was aware of it." She looked up quickly. "Oh, you knew?" And then she said, rather slowly, and with no great air of conviction indeed, she seemed question ing instead of assenting "I suppose it is nothing. Oh, of course not. It is an in teresting thing for an American girl to take home with her. especially when corn in g from Inverfask; a souvenir, that ia all." And yet, somehow, she does not seem quite satisfied in her own mind. The mil linery does not receive much of her at tention. Finally she turns from the table altogether. "Do be frank now! tell mr she says, in a half-pleading, half-frightened way. "Have you noticed anything? Don't you think that Col. Cameron's admiration for Peggy is just a little too marked? And she herself, too have you noticed the way in which she speaks of him? Oh, good gracious, I have been trying to shut my eyes and ears; but if anything were to happen between those two, and me re sponsible!" "But how are you responsible?" one says to this incoherent person. "We brought them together; isn't that enongh?" she exclaims. "And there he is. a widower, twice her age at least, with nn encumbered estate; and I suppose hardly anything beyond his pay. Think what her people would say of it! They wouldn't see any romance in it; they wouldn't find any fascination in her be coming Lady Cameron of Inverfask, and living up there in the north and winning the affection and gratitude of those poor people, which is quite clearly what Sir Ewen was talking about to-day. What do you suppose they care for the tradi tions of the' Highland clans, or for Col. Cameron's reputation as a soldier, eith er? Why, it's madness! He ought to marry a rich woman, if he marries at all, and get Inverfask cleared of ita burdens, and live there. And she must marry someone with money." "I think you wiU find that Peggy will marry the man she wants to marry with out taking your advice or the advice of anyone else." To be continued.) A bug flew Into the ear of John Monspeld. a farmer, of Muncie, Ind.. causing pain and Inflammation which resulted in death two weeks later. The sides of a bedstead sometimes draw apart, causing the slats and the occupants to drop to the floor. To pre vent such accidents, two cords are at tached to the sides, about three feet apart, with a turn-buckle In the centre, to keep the sides and slats in place. In Philadelphia the other day, a man fell down a flight of steps and fractured his skull from tripping on a dangling shoe-string. Never was there a more striking illustration of the neces sity of doing small things well. , AT THE NATIONAL TURN FEST 8; Sheboygan Turnverein, Sheboygan, Wis., 14. Total: 48. Chicago Circuit: Turnverein "Auro ra." Chicago, 111., 24; Turnverein "Vor waerta." Chicago. 32; La Salle Turn verein, La Salle. IU., 10; Grand Cross ing, 111., 8; Turnverein "Fortschrltt," Chicago, 111., 8; Soclaler Turnverein, Chicago, 111., 27; Turnverein "Eiehe," Chicago, 18; Turnverein "Voran," Chi cago. 8: WeBtselt.e Turnverein, Chicago, 10; Sued-Chicago Turnverein, 8; Deut scher Turnverein, Grand Raplda, Mich., 10. Total: 171. I Philadelphia Circuit: Philadelphia Turngemeinde. 36; Southwark Turn und Sonntagsachulvereln, Philadelphia, 24; Columbia Turnverein, Philadelphia, 12: Germania Turnverein von Roxbor ough, Philadelphia. 8. Total: 80. New Jersey Circuit: Newark Turn verein, 44; Paterson Turnverein. Pater son. 30: Turnverein "Vorwaerts," Eliza beth. 8: Union Hill Turnverein, Mee hawken. 20; Greenville Turnverein, Jer sey City. 10. Total: 102. Central New York Circuit: Troy Turnverein, Troy, N. Y 10; Schenec tady Turnverein, Schenectady, N. Y., 10. Total: 20. Pittsburg Circuit: Allegheny Turn verein. 12; Johnstown Torn verein, Johnstown, Pa.. 12; Central Turnverein, Pittsburg, 40; McKeesport Turn und Gesangvereln, zu; suedseite Turnverein, Pittsburg. 18; Allentown Turnverein. Pittsburg. 8.S., 10: Lawrencevllle Turn verein, Pittaburg, 13; Turn und Gesang vereln "Elntracht." Homestead, Pa., : Monaca Turnverein, Monica, Beaver County, 8: Central Turn und. Gesang vereln, Braddock, Pa., 10. Total 151. Missouri Valley Circuit: Kansas City Socialer Turnverein, 12. N TTpper Mississippi Circuit: Daven port Turngemeinde, 18; N. W. Daven port Turnverein, 8. Total 26. Rocky Mountain Circuit: Oat-Denver Turnverein, 24; West-Denver Turn verein. ; Leadvllle Turnverein, 8. To tal: 41. Central Illinois Circuit: Concordla Germania Turnverein. Motine, III., 8. Connecticut Circuit: Merluen Turn verein. 8: Soclaler Turnverein. New Britain, Conn.. 12; Waterbury Turnver Household Recipes. RECIPES. Eggs with Crabs. Beat five egga. sea son with hanT a teaspoonful of aalt and a aaltstoonful of white pepper; add the chopped meat of one-half-dozen hard shell crabs, boiled, and the tips of one bunch of cooked asparagus cut Into imall pieces. Put a tableapoonful of butter In a hot frying pan, and when hot turn In the egg mixture; atir gently for three minutes; when done turn on hot plate; garnish with parsley. Veal Kidneys and Mushrooms (Pol ish) Trim all the fat from twelve kid neys, slice them lengthwise Into strips, dust with aalt and pepper, flour them, dip in egg, crumb them, fry In butter, browning both sldea. Place one dozen stewed spring mushrooms In the centre of the dish; place the kldneya around, and over all pour a sauce made of two tablespeenfuls of mustard worked into a gill of oil and two tablespoonfula of good vinegar. Violet Vinegar. Put Into a large glass Jar one pint of violet blossoms, pour one quart of good vinegar over them, cover, and set in the sun for fourteen days; then strain through a cheese cloth; pour into small bottles and seal. Use for salad dressings, with salt and pepper added aa seasoning. Preserved Strawberries. Add to one pound well cleaned and washed straw berries half cupful of sugar, boll five minutes, put them In Jars, close and turn the jars upalde down every two minutes till cold. They will soak up a great deal of the Juice and look fine. Strawberry Flummery. One quart of strawberries will be sufficient for alx people. Hull them and cut each berry in half: cook to a syrup one pint of wa ter, one cupful of sugar and one table spoonful of lemon Juice; as soon as boll, ing add three level tablespoonfula of cornstarch dissolved In one-half cup ful of cold water, and stir until thick and smooth: add the berries, set over boiling water and cook ten minutes; then tarn Into a dish. Serve cold, with cream. Lamb and Rice Cutlets. Wash two ounces of best Patna rice and boll until tender In about a pint of weak stock: also boll one amall onion separately and chop it fine. Add a quarter of a pound sf minced cold lamb, an ounce of chop ped beef suet, one ounce of bread crumbs, the cooked onion and a season ing of salt, pepper and chopped pars ley to the rice and stock; mix well by stirring and cook together for a few minutes; then turn out on an open dish to cool. When cool form Into small cutlets, egg and bread crumb each and fry In hot fat. Serve with fried pars ley. Salad of Greens. Select any suitable green vegetables, such as romalne, chicory, escaio'e. taking care to have as many different shades of green as possible. Marinate each of the vegeta bles separately In a French dressing and arrange on a salad dish. To make the French dressing: Mix one-half tea spoonful of salt, one-quarted teaspoon of pepper, two tablespoonfula of olive oil and two of vinegar; stir well to gether. Strawberry Marmalade. Weigh the berries that are to be used and allow for every pound three-nuarters of a pound of sugar. Free the fruit from the rreen hurls, put them In .a colander, rinse off with cold water, drain and put them In a preserving kettle: boll twen ty minutes without a cover: add the ugar and boll five minutes. Put in '"ilt Jars, close and keep in a cool place. The earliest specimen of printing In existence is a Chinese bank note, which is now in the British Museum. It was printed In China In the year 1368. thirty two years before tka birth of Johann Gutenberg, the reputed Inventor of printing. Dr. Jameson, who led the famous raid upon the Transvaal, must think queer things when he reflects that he once Imagined that he could conquer the Boers with a force of 500 men. Events have shown him to have been the. prize mis-calculator of the age. Mr. Cecil Rhodes must beware. The Southern Presbyterian intimates that If It were on a Jury to try him for murder- It would hang him forthwith and that It would not regret very much the opportunity to sit on such a Jury. Contests Held Week of June 1823 ein, Waterbury. 9; Holyoke Turnverein. Holyoke, Mass., 16. Total: 45. Lake Erie Circuit: Turnverein "Ger mania." Cleveland, 0..12; Soclaler Turn verein, Detroit, 28; Turnverein "Ger mania," Canton. O.. 18; Turnverein "Stern." Cleveland, O.. 14; Akron Turn verein, Akron, O., 12; Turnverein "Vor waerts." Cleveland. O., 10. Total: 94. West New York Circuit: Syracuse Turnverein, 12; Buffalo Turnverein, 12. Total: 24. Ohio Circuit: Dayton Turngemelr , 34; West Cincinnati Turnverein. 12; Nord Cincinnati Turnverein, 18. Total: 64. Besides the eighty-nine societies who have entered their prise seekers from among thler classes there have been entered 160 individual gymnasts for the personal prizes in apparatus work. In addition to these will be presented the novelty of ten Old Men's classes with a total or 118 men over the ages of fifty years, who will alio turn for prizes allot -ed to this department in particular.Some of these have become grey In the service of ath't tics and gymnastics and prom ise to give their younger c 'eagues an interesting battle for the honors. The particinanta In the mass exhi bition of calisthenics at the Philadel phia Base Ball Park on the aftenom of Saturday, June 23, have been selected from the men and women classes and the boys and girls from the following cities and circuits: Newark and the New Jersey circuit: St. Louis. Mo.: Union Hill. N. J.; Denver. Colorado; New York circuit: Milwaukee. Wis.. Phila delphia, and several from Ohio and the Middle and Western States. In this exhibition there will take part 6.000 of the moat adept of the entire United States and these will present a gym nastic display far superior to anything that haa ever been seen at a Turn Fest in America or Europe. The different classifications of snorts to take place on that occasion will be more varied than at any previous time. The Tech nical Committee promises to the public that the exercises at the Base Ball Park will exceed those hitherto presented at I. A ui ii i rni ul ihc nut iu aiuciiv.au Turner Bund. Field and Farm. Where the cool nights of May have caused such tender plants as llmi beans to coma up sparingly and also have a yellow color, the best thins; to do 'a to plant seed In all the vacant spaces and the probability Is that the later plants will overtake the earlier ones lue to warmer weather and more favor able conditions. Less, difficulty would be experienced with sheep if they were taught to come Into the barnyard every night and he protected from storms. A trough Iu which salt haa been sprinkled, with hay In racks, will get them into the habit of expecting such, and they wl.l not be slow in showing that they ar- willing to accept of the delicacies. Al a rule sheep grass In the cool of the day aometlmes traveling over a dis tance o f ground, but they will a) way appear regularly for salt or a mess of bay or around oats. Variety of food Is essential to rapid growth of young stock. Experiments made In feeding pigs for four months on potatoes alone caused rlcketa, or sof tening of the bone. Other pigs, from the same litter, fed upon potatoes, oat meal and phosphates, had normal skel etons, but there was a difference, ac cording to the phosphates added. Those ted upon phosphate of potash had po rous bones. The plga tnat were given phosphate and carbonate of lime (aa food Ingredients) were healthy, thrifty and grew rapidly. An excellent method of destroying asparagua beetles is to cut the shoots as they are Just appearing above 'he surface, and such shoots are tender from tips to butts. If preferred the bee tles may be kept In check by going over the rows as soon as the stalks are a few Inches above ground and rub off the eggs. Do this twice a week for sevral weeks. It can be done very quickly. Alfalfa seeded on light sandy soil In Mew Jersey during the month of August three years ago haa given several crops of hay per year, and the fall sowing is declared a success, although the recom mendation has been to sow the need tat the spring. " The planting of waate land to trees for timber is receiving more attention than formerly. Farmers who planted trees twenty years ago now find that they then made good investments. It is claimed that cherry and hickory trees require about thirty years before they are valuable for timber: maple trees twenty years, and black walnut fifteen years. A black walnut tree is said to attain from twelve to fifteen Inches in diameter In fifteen years from the seed. Nuts are also a sou re e of profit with some growers ot timber. The land for late potatoes should be plowed deep and harrowed fine. The land should never be allowed to form a crust before the plants are up. Run a harrow over the field, both bf fore and after the potatoes are up. The seed may be planted about five inches deep and given level culture instead of hill ing. Clover sod land is excellent for potatoes, and to avoid disease It is best not to plant potatoes on the same land twice In succession. Frequent am! shallow cultivation . rather than deec should be given. The season for mowing will cause farmers to be busy, and It seems that Just as this work Is to be hurried romt accident occurs. - This does not alwayt happen, but many such dra?r back might be avoided If farmers will cleat their fields ot stones, sticks and othi obstructions to the machines before the grass Is too high to see them. An Injury to a mower knife may cause costly delay. Broom corn Is scarce and high. Tlx main crop la grown in Illinois. Tlx brush Is the salable portion, but som farmers also value the seed as an Im portant crop. The labor required foi broom corn Is about the same aa fa' corn. ' In three months the school attend ance in Cuba has been Increased from 4.008 to 80,000. This tells a story of advancement that needs no emphasis ing. The American public school will do the work of modernising the Queen Of the Antilles quickly and thorough ly. India haa a greater variety of plants than any other country in the world. DERMON T Rt9. Br. talmagr Sa-Jeest Life's Stamy Way It Is Bmc 8alla Wltlraat Ckrlat la iha Skip Re SoMotlia tb. Pathway For Tkasa na Trail la Hlat. Oopyrlsht IMW.1 WAbhixgtoi., D. C Dr. Talma pe, who ia now in Europe preaching to immense congregations in the great cities, sends this sermon, in which he describes the rough places of life and indicates the beat means of getting over them and shows how many people fail to understand their best blessings: text. Mar- iv, 39, "And He arose and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still." Here in Capernaum, the seashore vil lage, was the temporary home of that Christ who for the most of Hia life was homeless. On the site of this village, now in ruins, and all around this lake what scenes of kindness and power and glory and pathos when our Lord lived here! I can understand the feeling of th immor tal Scotchman, Robert McCheyne, when, sitting on the banks of this lake, he wrote: It ia not that the wild gazelle Conies down to drink thy tide, But He that was pierced to save from hell Oft wandered by thy side. Graceful around thee the mountains meet. Thou calm, reposing sea, But, ah, far more the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked o'er thee. I can easily understand from the con tour of the country that bounds this lake that storms were easily tempted to make these waters their playground. This Lake in Christ's time lay in a scene of great luxuriance; the surrounding hills, ter raced, sloped, graved; so many hanging gardens of beauty. On the shore were cas tles, armed towers, Koman baths, every thing attractive and beautiful all styles of vegetation in smaller space than in 1 most any other space in the world, from the palm tree of the forest to the trees of rigorous climate. It seemed as if the Lord had launched one wave of beauty on all the scene and it hung and swung from rock and hill and oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing this ' lake, and countrymen in fishing smacks j coming down to drop their nets pass each other with nod and shout and laughter or swinging idly at their moorings. Oh, what a beautiful scene! j It seems as if we shall have a quiet night. Not a leaf quivered in the air, not ; a ripple disturbed toe tace ot Uennesaret. But there seems to be a little excitement up the beach, and we hasten to see what it is, and we find it an embarkation. From the western shore a flotilla pushing out; not a squadron of deadly armament, nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor piratic vessels ready to destroy everything they could seize, but a flotilla, bearing messengers of light and life and peace. Christ is in the stern of the boat. Hia disciples are in the bow and amidships. Jesus, weary with much speaking to large multftudes, is put into somnolence by the rocking of the waves. If there was any motion at all, the ship was easily righted; if the wind passed from starboard to lar board, the boat would rock and, oy the gentleness of the motion, putting the Mas ter aajeen. And they extemporized a pil low made out of a fisherman's coat. I think no sooner ia Christ prostrate and His head touched the pillow than He is sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their lingers through tLe locks of the worn sleeper, and the boat rises and falls like a sleeping child on the bosom of a sleep ing mother.' -. --. r -r. -. .. - Calm night, starry . night, - beautiful night! Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let the large boat and the small boat glide over gentle Uennesaret. But the sailors say there is going to be a change of weather. And even the pas sengers can hear the moaning of the storm as it comes on with great stride and all the terrors of hurricane and darkness. The large boat trembles like a deer at bay among the clangor of the hounds; great patches of foam are flung into the air; the sails of the vessel loosen and in the strong wind crack like pistols; the smallei boats, like petrels, poise on tne cliffs ol the waves and then plunge. Overboard So cargo, tackling and masts, and the reached disciples rush int. the back part of the boat and lay bold of Christ and say unto Him, "Master, carest Thou not that we perish?" That great personage liftf His head from the pillow of the fisher man's coat, walks to the front of the ves sel and looks out into the storm. All around Him are the smaller boats, driven in the tempest, and through it comes the cry of drowning men. Bv the flash of the lightning I see the calm brow of Christ w the spray dropped from His beard. He has one word for tue sky and another for the waves. Looking upward. He cries, "Peace!" Looking downwasa, lie says, "Be still!" The waves fall flat on their faces, the foam melts, the extinguished stars relight .heir torches. The temiiest falls dead, and Christ stands with His foot on the neck of the storm." And while the sailors are baling out tne boats and while they are trying to untangle the cord lge the disciples s....id in amazement, now looking into the calm sea, then into the ealm sky, then into the calm Saviour's countenance, and they cry out, "What manner of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?" The subject, in the first place, impresses me with the fact tha. it ia very important to have Christ in the- ship, for all those boats would have gone to the bottom oi Gennesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a lesson for you and for me to learn! Whatever voyage we undertake, into whatever enterprise we star:, let us always have Christ in tue ship. All you can do with utmost tension of body, mind and soul you are bound to do, but, oh, have Christ in every enterprise! There are men w. i ask God's help at the beginning ot great enterprises. He has been with them in the past; no trouble can overthrow them; the storms might come down from the top of Mount Hermon and lash Uennesaret into foam and into agony, but it could not l:urt them. But here is another man who starts out in worldly enterprise, and he depends upon the uncertainties of thii life. He has no Uod to help him. After awhile the storm comes, tosses oft the masts of the ship; he puts out his lifeboat and the longboat; the sheriff and the auctioneer try to help him rff; they can't heli him on; be must go down; no Christ in the ship. Your lite will be made up of sun shine and shadows. There may be in it arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; I know not what is before you, but I know if von have Christ with you an shall be well. You may seem to get along with out the religion of Christ while everything joes smoothly, but after awhile, when -orrow hovers over the soul, when the waves of trial -dash clear over the hurri cane deck, and the decks are crowded with Si rat ical disasters oh, what would you o then without Christ in the inn! Take Sod for your portion, Uod for your guide, Uod for your help; then all is well; all is well for a time; c.l shall be well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord lis trust. He shall never be confounded. But my subject also impresses me with .he fact that when people start to follow Christ they must not expect smooth sail ing. These disciples got into the small ooats, and I have no doubt thev said, 'What a beautiful day this is! How de lightful is sailing in this boat! And as for the waves under the keel of the boat, why, they only make the motion of our little boat the more delightful." But when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that following Christ was not smooth sail ing. So you have found it; so 1 have Sound it. Did yon ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would aay if ever men ought to have had a smooth lite, a smooth departure, then those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure ana such m life. St. James lost his bead. St. Philip waa hung to death on a pillar. St. Matthew had hia life dashed out with a halberd. St. Mark waa dragged to death through the streets. St. James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Thafnaa waa struck throuch with a spear. Ihcr did not find following Christ smooth sailing. On, now they were all tossed in the tempest! John Huss in a fire; Hugh McKail ia the hour of martyr dom; the Albigenses, the Waldense. the Scotch Covenanters did they find it smooth sailing? But why go into history when we can draw from our own memory illustrations of the truth of what I aay? A young man in a store trying to serve God, while his employer scoffs at Chris tianity; the young men in the same store, antagonistic to the Christian religion, teasing him, tormenting him about his re ligion, trying to get him mad. They suc ceed in getting him mad and aay, "ou're a pretty Christian!" Does that youna man find it smooth sailing when he trie, to follow Christ? Or you remember a Christian girl. Her father despises the Christian religion; her mother despise, the Christian religion; her brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian religion; she can hardly find a quiet place in which to aay her prayers. Did she find it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesue Christ? Oh, no! All who would live the life of the Christian religion must suffei persecution if 70U do not. find jt in one raj you will get it in another way. But be not disheartened! Take courage. You are in a glorious companionship. Uod will see you through all trials, and He will deliver you. My subject also .m presses me with the fact that good people sometimes get fright ened. In the tones of these disciples ae they rushed into the back part of the boat I find they are frightened almost to death. They say, "Master, carest Thou not that we perish?" They had no reason to be frightened, foi Christ was in the boat. I suppose if we had been there we would have been just as much affrighted Perhaps more. In all ages very good peo ple get very much affrighted. It is often so in our day, and men say: "Why. look at the bad lectures. Look at the variou. errors going over the church of Uod. We are going to founder. The church is going to perish. She is going down." Oh, bow many good people are affrighted by in iquity in our day and think the church ol Jesus Christ is going to be overthrown, and are just as much affrighted as were the disciples of my text' Don't worry, don't fret, as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A lion goes into a cavern to sleeD. lie lies down with his shaggy mane covering the paws. I Meanwhile the spiders spin a web acrosF ! tK m-Ml.ll kf tti v n .nil b ' ". have captured him." Gossamer thread after gossamer thread until the whole front of the cavern is covered with the spider's web, and the spiders say, "The lion is done; the lion is fast." Aftei 1 awhile the lion has got through sleeping. I He rouses himself, he shakes his mane, he walks out into the sunlight. He does not even know the spider's web is spun, and with his roar he shakes the mountain. So men come spinning their sophistriec and , 4&eiiH.-iHni aimui aesus inrisi. tie seems to be sleeping. They say: "We have cap tured the Lord. He will never come forth -gain upon the nation. Christ is overcome Torever. His religion will never make any conquest among men." But after awhile the Lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse Himself and come forth to shake mightily the nations. What's a spider's web to the 1 roused lion? Give truth and error a fair rrapple, and truth will come off victor. Do not be afraid ot a great revival. Oh. that such galea from heaven might sweep through all our churches! Oh, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in England md Robert McCheyne saw in Dundee! Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards aw in Northampton ! I have often heard my father tell of the fact that in the earlv part of thia century there broke out a re vival at Somerville, N. J., and some peo ple were very much agitated about it. They. said: "Yon are going' to bring too many people into the church at once," and they sent down to. New Brunswick te-g-t John. -Livingston to stop the re-, viva). Well, there was no better soul ,n all the world than John Livingston. He went and looked at the revival. They wanted him to stop it. He stood in th. pulpit on the Lord s day and looked ovei the solemn auditory and he said: "This brethren, is in reality the work of Uod Beware how you stop it." And he wat an old man, leaning heavily on his staff a very old man. And he lifted that stall and took hold of the small end of the stall and began to let it fall slowly through be tween the finger and the thumb, and he said: "Oh, thou impenitent, thou art fall ing now falling from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certain ly as that cane is falling through my hand falling certainly, though perhaps falling slowly!" And the cane kept on falling through John Livingston's hand. The re ligious emotion in the audience was over powering, and men saw a type of theii doom as the cane kept falling and falling until the knob of the cane struck Mr Livingston's hand, and he clasped it stout ly and said: "But the grace of God car stop you as I stopped that cane," and then there was gladness all through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. "Well," said the people aftei the service, "I guess you had better sen Livingston home. He is making the re vival worse." Oh, for gales from heaven to sweep all the continents! The daugei of the church of Uod is not in revivals. I learn once more from this subject thai Christ can hush a tempest. It did seen: as if everything must go to ruin. The dis ciples had given up the idea of inanagim the ship; the crew were entirely demoral ized: yet Christ rises, and the storm crouches at His feet. Oh, yes, Christ can hush the tempest! You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you the sweetest child of the house hold, the one who asked the most curioiv questions, and stood around you with the greatest fondness, and the Sade cut down through your bleeding heart. Perhaps il was an only son, and your iieart has evei since been like a desolated castle, the on-If of the night hooting among the fallen arches and the crumbling stairways. Oi all your property swept awav, you said: "I had so much bank stock; I had so roan) Government securities; I had so man) houses; 1 had so manv farms all gone al gone." Why, air. all the storms thai ever trampled with their thunders, all the shipwrecks have not been worse than thii to you. Yet you have not been complete ly overthrown. Why? Christ says: "I have that little one in My keeping. I can rare for him as well as you tan, bettei :han you can, O bereaved mother!" Hush ng the tempest. When your property went way away, (Jod said, "There are treasures in heaven in banks that never break." lesus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which we will all have to run. The moment when we let go of this world, and try to take hold of the next we will want all the grace pos sible. Yonder I see a Christian soul rock ing on the surges of death. All the power of darkness seem let out against that soul the swirling wave, the thunder of th? sky. the shriek of the wind, all seem to unite together. But that soul is not troubled. There is no sighing, there are nr tears; plenty of tears in the room at th departure, but he weeps no tears calm satisfied and peaceful; all is well. By the flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, and you are making for that har bor. All shall be well, Jesus being our pilot. Into the harbor of heaven now we glide; We're home at last, home at last. Softly we drift on the bright, silv'ry tide: We're home at last. Glory to Uod, all our dangers are o'er; We stand secure on the glorified shore? Ulory to God, we will shout evermore, We're home at last. Stillness of person and steadiness of features are the signal marks of good breeding. Not every one that eayeth "Brother, brother," but he that liveth for an other. Alwaya apeak the truth. MaJce few promises. He who reviles the dead, abuses him self. Nothing rests our eyes like seeing through anothers occasionally. Nothing is so disappointing as the I effort to be good without Ood. i He who thinks most of his own hap piness knows least ot It. Take death away and life la but ex istence. If your hands cannot be usefully em ployed, attend to the cultivation ot your mind. AMKHIOAN POCKCTKNIVES. raaor Proprttoa. of Thoso Bold Her Mow Made ia TMa Coaatrjr Of the millions of pocketknlvea annu-; l!ly sold In this country probably 75 per cant, of the Jackknlves and other aoavy varieties are now made here, and Lhls proportion la Increasing; while taking the total sales more than BO per cent of the knives In value are now made here, and this proportion also Is ncreaatng. Fine penknives are Import ed from England and Germany; the .heapest Jackknlves. cheaper and poor it than any made here, come from Ger many. Pocketknlvea have been made In this country for many years, and there are now here some scores of factories for their production. The newest branch of the manufacture here Is that of fine penknives, which have been made In :h's country only about forty years, tud Lave come luto tbelr present large md extended use only within, about twenty years. There are penknives of English make that have been made con tinuously tinder the same names for more than a hundred years; so that the making of such knives In this country s something comparatively modern. Ibe American penknife. If not now ac tually the beat In the world. Is at least be equal in quality, style and finish of my produced anywhere. Pocketknlvea are made In almost end ss variety. One American concern makes 700 different sorts, which vary n kind, shape, size, number of blades, rind of handle, style and size of bolster, ind so on. The best pocketknlvea have band-forged blades. Great as Is the rariety of pocketknlvea now made here, i still greater variety Is made In Eu rope, where the Industry has been longer established and patterns and leslgns have accumulated; and the greater number of the odd knives, con taining corkscrews and various other Implements, still come from there. A fine penknife ot the best quality and handsomely mounted Is still more r less of a luxury; It might cost at re tall anywhere from $1 to S3 or $4. One tdaded Jackknlves can be bought at wholesale for seventy-five cents a doz n; fine penknives run up to $30 adozea -New York Sun- Some of the wooden churches of Nor way are full 700 years old, and are still In an excellent state of preservation. Their timbers have successfully resist d the frosty and almost arctic winters because they have been repeatedly zoatcd with tar. i All the flags for British ships of war, sxcept the royal standards,- te made In the Government dock yardajfand tbg snormonai : number- required be v Judged frouf the fact, that Jn the""colbr loft at Chatham alone about 18,000 Bags are made In a year. Four persons out of every 3,000 men, women and children In the United States are either In jail, or out on bail, r are fugitives from Justice. Tlielt total number is 90,000. out of a popula tion estimated at 70.000.000. Only per cent, of all those who have fallen foul of the law are women. People are right or left eyed Just ss tbey are right or left banded, and Jus' as the right hand Is usually the more powerful, so is the right eye. Only one person In ten Is left sighted. It Is very probable that the use of weapons dur ing countless ages has had something to do with the extra power of the rlgb' ye. At Mascall, near the foot of Mo"' Etna, Is to be seen the largest the world. Its trunk Is 304 fee .umfereuce. The largest tree Pi United States Is said to be the glga tree near Bear Creek, on the north fo. of the Tule River, in California. It measures 140 feet In circumference. The famous giant redwood tree In Ne vada Is 119 feet In circumference. A curious fishing wheel Is used on the Dolumbla River, near Portland, Ore. K Is fixed near the bank of the river, a place being selected where the river Is most rapid. The wheel consists of three receivers. These are Inclosed on three sides by wire netting, and, as the wheel revolves by means of the current sacb receiver Is submerged beneath the water, and scoops up the salmon as they Jump the rapids. The clock on the Philadelphia City Hall Is the highest In the world, and lias the largest dials. If the dials were removed, there would be apace for two trains to pass each other, running through. The glass In the four faces la fastened by a ton of cement. The glns .f laid on the ground, would make s walk a square long and ten feet wide. The minute band finished Ita year'i Journey on New Year's day by complet ing a 110-mlle trip. lacrioiiambutulnr In Court Dress The Philadelphia Record bears from 3t. Petersburg that Charlemagne Tow sr. the United States Ambassador al that court has donned gold stripes on full-dress occasions. Instead of the con ventional black that his hitherto dif ferentiated American diplomats. A re proof from the Grand Duchess Pau lo vna. la reported to have led to the change. Shamrock on Uraves In Africa. Shamrock will be planted on the raves of the Irish soldiers In South Africa. The Duke of York has accept d a thousand packets of seed, and ha forwarded them to the officers of tut Irish brigade. American Savings Banks. In 1SU5 there were 1,030 savlnga banks In the United States, and the It'posits In them amounted to $1,841,. XhO.OOO. In 1800 there were 942 savlnga Mnks In the United States, and theU leocsiU were S2.401.000.000. Good Clvle Work of Woman. The Town Improvement Association f MoDtclair, N. J., Is composed en lrely of women. Its annual report .howed the association's work last ear was very successful Stile crime n town, many needed public improve nents made and a balance In the as so, station's treasury. 1 1 .- . i - ii - 1,M T " it lij at ,V . r
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