f B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTIONTHE UNION AND THE ENFORCEBENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. L.IV. MIFFLIXTOWX. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1900 NO. 31 mr ft 1 ira jm v'liwV' w - eTB--r CHAPTER XIII. (Continued.) "la he one of the distresses yon hare suffered from, and would rather now be free from?" one asks, la a general kind of way. "Certainly not, I liked him very well, J liked bim very well, indeed. Bnt if he cumes back now, it will be with a differ ence. Things hare got altered somehow dou't you feel that? This hardly seems tlie same boat that nsed to lotte itself in the middle of the Thames, with every body trying different kinds of poles. Doesn't it feel a long time since then? I believe it was the tunnels did it." 'Did what?" "Why, since we came through those tunuels we seem to have come into an other world altogether. Everything ia different the landscape is different" "Are the people different?" "I don't know," she says, reflectively; "but I seem to feel a different kind of atmosphere around us somehow. Don't you think it will sound odd to bear Mr. Duucouibe, if be comes back, talking about theaters and comedies and maga zine articles?" "But ilon't rnn went tn hap what hae been going on in town, what new books are being talked about, and new plays?" Miss Peggy lifts her eyes for a mo ment. "Don't too think." she says, with a little hesitation, "that be is interested in rather small things? To write a comic piece for a theater that isn't a great am bition, ia it?" "It ia a harmless one, sorely." "Oh, yes. You laugh at the moment and forget. But these are not the things that remain in the mind. Sometimes 1 almost wish that Col. Cameron had not repeated that ballad of 'Gordon of Brack la;' if 1 happen to lie awake at night it comes into my bead, I seem to bear the very tones he nsed. and it makes me shiver, it is so terrible a story. 1 wish 1 dared ask Col. Cameron to write out that ballad for me." "Dare! That is an odd kind of word. Why. he'U be delighted." "Will you ask him for me?" "Certainly not. Ask him for yourself. Do you think be will bite?" ."And why is be called colonel?" she demands, with unreasoning petulance. "Why isn't be a major, or captain, or general I wouldn't mind what - it was, but colonel r -v.- "You are a little too familiar with the title on your side of the water." "And you know.how that is?" she says, instantly. "N!o. you don'U. ! can see yoo .. duu'U Weil, 1 will tell you. You're al ways calling m a school girl, but there are lots of things I can teach you." t . '.."No doubt." . ...' Tue reason we have so soany colonels --s In America," she remarks. With an oracu lar air. "is simply this,' that at the end ofour war all the survivors were raised to that rank. That waa what a grateful country did. That is what I call true gratitude. What they did with people above that rank I don't know, but all the rest were made colonels. What do you do at the end of one of your wars?" "We haven't time to do anything be fore another has begun." "Then your soldiers get plenty of chances. Hay, do you think I could get a copy of 'Men of the Times' over there in Tewkesbury?" asks this persistent questioner. - - L "You would be more likely to get it in Gloucester." "Is if an expensive book?" "I don't know; perhaps eight or ten shillings.. But if yon mean buying it, it is a bulky thing to carry about." "I could cut out the pages I want. 1 should like to see all that Col. Cameron has done a list of the engagements he hi. ti in im-iniw-because naturally it is interesting, when you are meeting anyone from day to day well, jott want to know all about bim." "And who told you that Sir Eweat Cam eron was in 'Men of the Timer " "Your wife. I was asking her what battles he had been in. and she aaid I ought to look there." "Why not ask himself?" "Oh, I couldn't, I couldn't do thatr ehe exclaimed; and then she suddenly ceased, for at this moment the door was opened, and there was the tall, sandy-haired col ouel himself, looking very smart and fresh, and with a cheerful -"Good-morning!" on hia lips. Nor waa Miss Peggy much confused; no. she frankly gave him her hand, and there waa a amile on her face as she returned his greeting and in quired if he had heard any tidings of breakfast. We passed most of that morning la Tewkesbury, having got ashore and clam bered up the steep, ruddy, slippery bank, and thence made our way Into the town. We crossed the Avon, not running red m-vi . the chroniclers say it aid after the memorable battle of some four . hundreds years ago, DM running apate, with the recent heavy rains. We found the Severn a busy river, and we had quite sufficient occupation in get ting our awkward vessel past the sue " ccssive strings of barges that were being brought up by steam power against the flood, we having to keep outside of them, and get our tow rope over their s-ioke-stacks somehow or anyhow- But with Murdoch at the bow and Captain Colum bus on the bank, we succeeded In get ting by without any serious 18b'P- " this fashion we swung alomT. by Ch.sely Rye. and Deerhurst. and Turley. and tne. we halted for luncheon at Haw Bridge, there being a JSmiS in the neighborhood, where tP,Br iambus proposed to bait our ? "Well " said Mrs. Threepenny-bit, pull ing in her camp stool to the t.Mewitb much complacency, "we have got so f in safety thank goodness. Bnt 1 m gtaa rm'nponsible. When the wor comes to worst. I mean to ply sit and be drowned. We ought to hear Gloucester to-nixht whether Mc Daa con.be is coming. I am sure we owe great deal to him for J1 the trouble he took about this boat. He was most ta . . , .onld have thought h w7: p1.nuVnrthe whole expedition ft ought to be most grateful tohlm. 11 very well for you now; here J" Ja flnVsummer weather-windows open. V WILLIAM J) LACK. beautiful scenery all around you. and m on. I can tell yoo it was a very different thing last January, up at Staines oi Kingston, Inspecting on melancholy house-boat after aaothat. the ice crack ing on the slippery gang-boards, one teeth chattering with the cold. That wa what Jack Duncoinbe did for you." "Yea. but we are not ungrateful, are we. Peggy?" she observed, making a bold appeal. "I hope not. the yonnger person an swered. "And I am only sorry he has not seen .his brautiful Severn along with us. Per lans the Kennet may make it np to him." She seemed very certain that Jack Dun otnbe would come back to the boat; and there was this to be said for her convic tion, that, if he could get away at all. be would assuredly try to Join ouryparty now. for be had always been curious to see how the craft be had helped to con struct would behave ia the open waters of the Severn. But we bad no idea that we were to see bim so soon. On this still golden evening wc were quietly gliding on toward Gloucester, when Captain Co lumbus was aeen to stop and speak to a stranger. CHAPTER XIV. "Fancy Columbus meeting an acquaint ance ia thia out-of-the-way neighbor hood!" Queen Tita exclaimed. And then she looked, and looked again. "Why. I declare, it is Mr. Duncoiube! Isn't it. Peggy? It must be!" The waving of a pocket handkerchief put the matter beyond doubt. And then, in the course of a few minutes the Horse Marine, recogniaJng the situation, and observing a part of the bank where we could easily get alongside, stopped his horse; the bow of the 'Nameless Barge" was quietly run in among the reeds and bushes, the gang board shoved out, and Jack Duncoinbe, in boating Unu ueU, and with a small blue cap on bis head, and yet nevertheless having a curi ous town look about him. stepped on board, and was cheerfully welcomed by the women folk, and introduced to Col. Cameron. "And you didn't get my telegram at Tewkesbury?" said he. "We never thought of asking for tele " 1iiMm Tit mml. answer: "we were too much engaged in watching the people pumping tne water out oi ineir bouses." "Oh," said he, "I thought you must v. - ku. .w.w wMnpurhcre: 1 hardly ever expected to hear of you agaiu. . v.. t Did you ace tne newspapers -o, suppose not." Why, there waa nothing l.... ..lu J .ln.ni, mnA Hnmifl! miBff a time I wondered bow you liked the For est of Ardeu- In. mat aina or weamer. "I can assure yoo," said she, "we had nothing' to complain of ia the way 'Of weather." MAI. .am . nun In thai W.t HifcTb- AM, J.1 ' lands," he remarked, in bis off-hand way. Weil, now, II ne nau uoi uceu a new comer, and therefore to be welcomed, he might have been made to suffer for that imprudent speech; but sue only saiu: "There is l'eggy, who has never beeu in the West Highlands; what do you say. Peggy?" 1 think it has been just beautiful ami delightful all through," that young lady said promptly. "We had some rain, oi course, now and again, but we didn't seem to mind it. M nut i rememoer is just beautiful." "Aud you got tnrougn tne tuuueis an right?" J ,1. .n..b nf tkut th.t Vifl 1 1 W i dreadful." aaid Mrs. Threepenny-bit, with a shudder. "Thank goodness, we are to have no more of them!" "I see you have suffered a little ia the t h. Antinujwl crlftfaelnff alons? the roof and the sides of the boat. "You'll have to lie np aomewnat tor repairs, ui .nil must look verv smart before yon make your appearance la a gay and fashionable place use omin. "But wait a bit. my young friend." tin steersman put in; "what's this you're saying about Bath? Is the Thames aud Severn Canal blocked?" -I have been making inquiries." ail xwend this diligent youth, "since I caiu 10 Gloucester, and I rather fancy it is. However, I will get to know more to night or to-morrow morning. But any how, why should you not go down to Bristol? It will be ever so much better fun. I should like to see her go plowiug after a steam launch." "Thank you," said Queen Tita. with much dignity; "1, for one, have had enough of steam launches." "Oh, that was going through the tun nels." said he. with perfect good humor; "whereas this will be in the open. There won't be any danger not much,, at all events. If she should begin to do any thing we can howl to the people on board the steam launch, and they'll stop her. bark her" and pick us up. It's quite sim pie." "It's quite simple," complained Miss Peggy, "to have all our things sunk in i be middle of the Severn!" "And your luggage, Mr. Duncombe?" Queen Tita asked, for she knew that peo ple don't drop down from the clouds in a suit of boating flannels. "Of course I took my things to a hotel, ' said he. "When I got your Invitation 1 knew I ahonld be a fifth wheel to the coach; only It was too tampUng: and theu I aaid to myself that I could easily atop at a hotel whenever thera waa a chance." "You shall do nothing of the kind." said ahe; for she la a hospitable kind of creature in her way. "that la. If you will put up with the discomfort of a bed in the saloon." "And if you would taka my berth and give me the bed ia the saloon," Col- Cam eron interposed, "then I know you'd hate me less."- . "Not at all," aaid the yonager man with a good-natured laagh. - aa ta- who oaght to apologize for coming to diaturb a happy family. And to night, to show, you bear me no ill will, rou-e an couiiug to dine with me at Mr? Duncombe!" hia hostess protested. -Thb boat i provisioned for any length "Bthr dinner la ordered." aaid he: "and the reora; and I have got what : yoa havrn't gotaosne. fresh flowers. So I you should leave the boat at aom. anveTlent place juat o-taid. the towa. and we can. walk up to the hoteL "And how late do y " . m main your gU. M r. pnawwnibe Y Mrs. Threepeany-bit Inquired, mildly. -iTGtoacerter." aaid he. one ever goea ta bed before twelve; hat two is the fashionable hour." . ' " -. ' . "TbaaJ am afraid wa aaaB hava (a ha ' 0 : very unfashionable. But come along, Peggy, and we will get some things ready; for no one knows 'bow the time passes when men begin to smoke." "They don't seem to know, auyway; that ia their good fortune," remarked Miss Peggy; and forthwith these two dis appeared. And very gay this little dinner party proved ta be, when we were all assembled ia the small sitting room that Jack Dun combe had engaged; the table was bright and cheerful with flowers and wax can dles; and the banquet a good deal more sumptuous than the modest repasts ta which we were accustomed on board our boat. . Perhaps, too. Queen Tita if she were still cherishing certain dark designs was pleased to observe that the youug man'a position as host gave him a eertaiu importance, and enabled him to display all hia beat points of manners. One could not help Imagining that Miss Peg gy waa eying him a little critically thongb surely that brief absence could not have transformed him into a stran ger. But what pussled na most was this: How waa It that he, who had left oa in a moat perturbed and anxious frame of mind, should now on bis return be in the blithest of moods? He declared that the invitation we had aent him bad reached him at the most opportune moment; but that. If it had not reached him ,t all, be would have come uninvited, and begged to be taken on board aa a day passen ger, shifting for himself at uigbta. S (here was here no making up of any quar rel, or the removal of any misunderstand ing. On the contrary, be conducted him self just as if he had come once more among friends; and he was most anxious to please. It waa rather a festive evening, al though Miss Peggy was without her ban jo; for a little later on, when cigars had been lighted. Jack Duncombe, who bad beeu educated in Germany, proposed to compound for us a bowl of Mailrank, as appropriate to the season of the year; but Col. Cameron offering instead to brew some Scotch toddy, as a much wbolesom er mixture. Queen Tita uubesitatiugly declared for the latter; and whisky, hot water, sugar, lentous and the like, were forthwith sent for. We did not sit up till two; no, nor yet till half past twelve; but it was a merry evening. And at the end of it, in her own room, Mrs. Tbreepeuny-bit made these remarks: "Weil, I am exceedingly glad Mr. Dun combe has come back; and I thought be showed to very great advantage to-night, didn't you? And l'eggy baa eyes she must see. Of course, be waa much too profuse with his entertainment; ridicu lously so for a young mau; but I am hard ly sorry. It would remind her of bis cir cumstances." "And you think she was impressed by borrowed silver .candlesticks, aud fruits aad flowers? It seemed to me she was a good deal more interested in hearing bow we managed to live on blue bares and brown trout at Corrie-na-linnhe. that week the horse fell lame." "As I said before." she continued. "1 wouldn't for a moment compare Mr. Dun combe with CoL Cameron. Certainly not. But in Mr. Duncombe'a case, if bet fancy waa turned his way, everything would be most propitious and satisfac tory, and we should have nothing ta blame ourselves with. She must sea that, too; ahe has as much common sense as anyone. And t really do think that Mr. Duncombe showed to great advan tage to-night." (To be continued.) Household Recipes. RECIPES. Strawberry Charlotte. Boll half a cupful of rice five minutes in a quart of water; strain and boil until done in a' quart of milk, adding two tablespoon tula of sugar and a saltspoonful of salt. Kub the rice through a sieve. To one pint of it add one ounce of gelatine, dis wlved in two tabiespoonfuls of water, and the milk remaining after it is drained fiom the rice. Cook together three minutes, stir, cool, flavor with half I. teaspoonful of vanilla and stir in the well-beaten whites of two eggs. Poui it over a quart of capped, sugared straw, berries and pile, slightly sweetened whipped cream around the whole. White Cake. Beat a quarter of a cup ful of butter to a cream; add gradually one cupful of sugar; then three-fourths of a cupful of milk; add one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder to two cupfula of flour and sift; add the flour and a teaspoonful of vanilla; fold in lightly the well-beaten whites of foui eggs. Bake in a loaf. It may be iced if one prefers, but It ia more wholesonu without. Has a delicious crust. Thl same recipe makes an excellent cocoa nut cake by the addition of one cupfu of cocoanut Juat after the milk is put in. A very nice gold cake may be made with the yolks, using the aame measure, menta aa for white cake. The yoke t. be well beaten and added to the suga. before the milk and flour are added. Scallopd Meat. Two cupa cold, cooked, chopped meat put into a greased baking dish. Beat one egg very light, add two cupa of milk, then pour gradually into six large tablespoonfukt of flour, beating all the time; now atraln through a flue sieve. Add one-half teaspoon of salt, a daah of pepper and pour upon the meat. Bake In a moderate oven an hour. When done serve at once in the dish to which it waa baked. Froated Cherries Hold the cherries by their etema and dip them into the white of an egg and then into powdered sugar. Pile them on a flat glass dish and ornament the edge of the dish with cnerry leaves. Rhubarb and Custard Pie. Slice thin half a cupful of rhubarb and mix it with the aame amount of augar; pout over the mixture a custard made a: one and one-half cupfula of milk, the yolks of two eggs and four teaspoonful of augar; bake with one crust only, and when done cover with a meringue of the white of the two eggs and put back la the oven to brown. This pie should only be served cold. Pineapple Pie. Peel and grate one large or two small pineapples, two cups of sugar, yolka of three eggs, two table spoonfuls of flour, one and one-half cups of cold water, bake with one crust. Use remaining whites of egga with a dash of powdered augar for meringue. Cucumber Salad. Peel three medlum sised cucumber and cut them into halves lengthwiae, taking out the seeds. Place them in Ice-cold water for an hour. When ready to serve peel three small tomatoes and chop coarsely. Chop also one pint of watercress and mix with the tomatoes. Add a few drops of onion Juice, one-half to three-quarters teaspoonful salt and a dash of cayenne pepper. Dry the cucumbers. fill with the mixture and lay on lettuce leaves. Squeeze over the Ming the Juice of one lemon and a tabllspoonful of olive ol) and serve at once. Scrambled Eggs with Asparagus. Have a tables poonful of butter melted In a frying-pan. pour Into It six eggs, previously broken, but not beaten. Sea son with salt, pepper and a little bit of nutmeg. Mix thoroughly, having the pan over a very hot Are; aa the eggs begin to thicken put in a cupful ol cooked asparagus, chopped into small pieces and wanned. Put into a warm dish, pour a tablespoon ful of lemon julea over and serve. I AT THE THREE fit ym ayi ayn M avw.avi avMavM ayta BUT we don't take any great cred it to ourselves, even If the news papers did write 'a whole lot about It and aTbout ua. It waa Just what any one else would have done, most likely. We didn't know that there was going to be a big load of bullion on the express car that night, and we hadn't any Idea that the other things would happen; if we had bad, you bet we would have been somewhere else. And then It seems funny that It should be us, Duffey and. me, who dis covered It. But that Isn't so strange, nfter all, when you remember that we were always doing Just such crazy things navigating in an old birch bark canoe, exploring abandoned kad mines and stealing rides oa the "blind baggage" to Koshgonong and back, once in awhile. Among other ex ploits, we liked to get up early and en joy the freshness of the summer morn ings, when the birds sing and the sun rises, and the dew on the grass is damp and cold to your feet. More than once we have walked clear out to the rail road brldg" ovt. the "three-mile creek" before breakfast. Just for the sake of riding back on the little hand car of Mr. Stuntz, the watchman. You see, where the Northwestern road crosses the three-mile creek there used to be a very high wooden trestle. I guess It was sixty feet high, built ou a sharp curve. It waa a dangerous place for a bridge, and the railroad company always kept a man tbcro at night to watch and signal the engi neers that everything was all right It used to frighten me Just to stand at the door of Mr. Stuntz'a shanty be side the track when the big trains flew by. You would think that they must surely Jump the rails on the curve and rush right Into you, or at least tbat the wlud they raised would suck you in 1 under the roaring wheels. j It occurred to us that we might walk ' out to the bridge some afternoon, ! sleep there all night and In the morn- j Ing ride back with Mr. Stunts ou the; hand car. Duffy was working in town ' and couldn't gjt away till late at night, but a little before sunset I took a blanket from our house and started. My big brother had a variety of hunt ing Implements In his room, and out of this store I had borrowed a thirty-two calibre revolver and a big hunting knife took the revolver myself and loaned the knife to Duffy. I reached the shanty all right, but had to wait quite awhile for Mr. Stunts to arrive on his machine, but he j came at last, and we sat outside talk ing, while the sun went down and the stars came out. Mr. Stunts wasn't much of a conversationalist, and It wasn't long before I began to wish that Duffey would hurry. Nine o'clack came and no Duffey. It was a lonely walk over that railroad track, with dangerous bridges and deep cuts every Mftle way, and I couldn't have blamed him If he did not come at all; only he had never failed me before. So I sat and listened for the Bound of his du plex whistle. By and by I heard it down the track, half a mile away lu the darkness, and pretty soon he came Into the light of the lantern, brandish ing a hickory club In one hand and the hunting knife in the other, and slngtng bravely to make sure that ha was not afraid. But even with Duffey there and Mr. Stunts It seemed awful lonesome. The only sounds were the rippling of the creek down below, the tinkling of a cow bell far off. and the hooting of some old owl across the track. There was no good place for us to He down Inside the shanty, and besides we had come for adventure and prefer red to stay out of doors. We found a grassy place on the embankment, about fifteen feet away, where the ground sloped gently down. We used a railroad tie for a pillow and tried to make believe that It waa heaps of fun. "Say," said Duffey, "suppose that some one should try to wreck the 2 o'clock express? What would we do?" "I don't know," I answered; "I guess we would rnn. What do you think we'd dor "Well, If there wasn't too many, we'd surprise 'em. Hit one or two of them over the head before they knew what was up, then be ready to shoot the rest if they moved. Then we would tie them and signal the train when it aame by." "Bats! We wouldn't do any such a thing. But I don't like to talk about It out here. If a too real. JLef a go to leap." Wa lay there a long time after this without saying anything, while two freight trains polled by aad Mr. Stuata's lantern west across the bridge aad back after eaefa one. By and by wa quit looking at the stars, pulled our tsosos la under the blanket and tried to ajejn, The last thJtnc I btard waa r 1 DUFFEY WAS SWINOIHO IT WILDLY. - MILE BRIDGE 9mjAM09tu.miumiUL0i uuffey 'a "Yea, out 'sposen they snouiu come," to which I wouldn't listen, but shivered at the thought and snuggled closer under the blanket. I don't know Just how long we had slept, but I woke up suddenly at Duf fey's pinching me. I could feel thnt he was trembling. I looked, and there lu front of the shanty I could Just make out the forms of four men. The door was open and the light from the lantern shone out across the track. I could hear Mr. Stunts's snores plain ly. Then three of the forms stepped In to the; glare of the lantern and went Inside. We saw that they wore masks and were armed. The fourth man kept his place outside. All at once there was the noise of a short scuffle from the shanty a muffled yell, a confusion of low oaths, the lantern was kicked over and smashed and. we could bear a body falling to the floor, and then we heard a strange voice say: "Tie him up and gag the old cuss." Then fol lowed some muffled swearing. Were we scared? We were fairly stiff with fright. My hair stood on end and whole breer.es ran np and down my spinal column. It was awful they might be murdering Mr. Stunts. Somehow we didn't even once think of making an attack on the robbers. We Just slid out from under that blan ket as fast and as quietly as we could, working our wny, feet first, on our stomachs, down the hllL We would have been In a dreadful fix If one of us had started a stone to rolling or had snapped a twig. But none of these things hapiened and the man who kept watch at the door never saw us or heard us at all. At the bottom of the gully we stop ped and took hold of each, other for company. 1 still held my revolver and Duffey the bowle knife. My teeth were chattering and Duffey shook like a (eaf. "They're going to wreck the 2 o'clock express and we've got to stop 'em," said Duffey, his voice trembling. ., This js where he made a little mis take. The robbers did not mean to wreck the train, because it would have been vary easy to flag It, Just as if something were the matter with the bridge, and then rob the express car before the train crew- really knew what was the matter. Now, we didn't know what time It was nor bow many confederates the robbers might have strung out along the track to keep watch. But we guessed that It was near 2 o'clock and that we would have to go through the woods for a long way and be mighty lively if we were going to stop that train. So we felt for the barbed-wlrc fence that lined the right of way. crawlfi under It Into the black woods and started toward town. It was so Idark that you couldn't see your own hand, and we were nearly scared to death as we ran Into trees and caught jon prickly bushes time and again. : After a quarter of a mile of this we pushed out toward the edge of the woods and found that the railroad track had made a turn and that the shanty waa out of sight. Just then we heard the train whis tle. We slipped under the fence again Into the ditch and then stumbled up onto the track. Already we could hear the steady roar of the big, hoarse smokestack and the steady sh-sh-sh as the monstrous six-foot driving wheels pounded the rtcs. She waa coming a-flylng. Not eighty rods away ahe rounded the curve and the fierce eye of the headlight glared at us and a red band of whirling smoke appeared In the air aa they opened the door of the firebox. It waa like standing In front f a roaring, fiery dragon tbat cornea at jrota at the rate of fifty miles an hour. How were we to stop bar? Wa hadn't thought of tbat before. It wouldn't do to stand In the middle of the track till die engineer should see ua, and we had Just two matches and nothing to make a blaze with. It was here that Duffey showed his genius. Quick aa a flash he had Jerked off his coat and touched a match to the flimsy cotton lining. The flrst match went over He tried the second. It caught; a tiny flame erept up and grew larger and larger. Ia ten seconds that coat was one solid flame and Duffey was swinging It wildly around his head. The engine was bearing down en na with a frightful screech. The engi neer saw us, and not a second too soon. There was a snapping of air brakes, a grinding of wheels and a groaning and shaking of the whole train aa she slowed up. But even then we bad to Jump quick to save ourseJvea. The train came to a standstill and crew and passengers poured out to see what wai up. I suppose we were a funny-looking couple. I was still grip ping my revolver, and If I looked half as queer aa I felt I must have been a sight. And as for Duffey, the bowle knife waa sticking conspicuously out of his back, pocket. Hia face waa pale beneath the smoke, hia eyebrows were singed and hia hand blistered. The coat was a ruin. We told our story aa well aa we could, which wasn't very wall, because we were still frightened, bat -bay un derstood what the trouble waa we said "Bobbers, bridge" and "Killed the watchman." They put ua Into the train aad a crowd of men with guns and iWTolvers piled onto the angina and front can. But by the dm the train reached the bridge the robbers had attPDea with out leaving a trace, except Mr. Stunts, who was bound and gagged and knock ed Insensible with a coupling pin. They picked him up and put him on the baggage car. There waa a doctor iboard, who soon had him fixed up in good shape. He wasn't very badly hurt At the flrst station they telegraphed back to JanesvUle and a posse was sent after the robbers, but did not get them. So we didn't sleep outdoors after all that night. They carried us clear up to St, Paul on the sleeping car and treat ed up royally, too, and gave Duffey a whole new suit of clothes. Chicago Record. HE HAD PITCHED BALL. that Waa How the Sleader Maa Won at Tenpins. They were making up opposing teams In one of the swagger bowling clubs. Both of the captains were a little wary about choosing the tall, slender man whose hair was tinged with gray and whose outward appear ance suggested a lack of physical stamina. He said nothing and quietly accepted a place with the eleventh hour fellows, saya the Detroit Free Press. When the first match came oft, be did only fairly well, until he appeared as the last man on the last frame, and with 200 to beat. Enthusiastic snein liers of the team now tell that when be let go of the flrst ball it left a streak of fire all the way down the alley. Pins Hew as though In an explosion. He plied up strikes and spares till the on lookers held their breath, and the boy who set up the pins wanted to resign while he was alive. Only a raise In salary held htm. But all was not good luck, for an oc casional pin would stand up in appar ent defiance of all nature's laws. At the last there were the corner ones. Two would tie all would win. "Take your timer' "Steady, old manr "Hold your nerve!" "Roll a slow one!" were among the things he heard. He did everything but roll a slow one. The ball went like a rifle shot, struck the head pin Just right It knocked down another one and the ball caromed ou the third. The rest of the team shout ed themselves hoarse and the asked how on earth he kept that terrific pace. "Plaster on my back," he whispered. Next time all the others wore plas ters, some as high as three. Judicious ly distributed. They were practically ia straltjackets; the team lost, and the old man vowed be would never Joke again. He had worn no plaster at all, but he had pitched fourteen years In an ama teur base-ball team. Toothbrush Caused Cancer. "Cancer of the Hp," a pbyslclau stated :he other day, "is caused more fre quently than one would think by the :uothbrush. Let me illustrate this by i typical case which I am treating now. lohn Blank smoked a good deal, and to seep his teeth white be cleaned them hard three times a day with a brush whose bristles were like wire. He brushed a little patch of skin from his lower Up. Afterward he was careful, and the sore spot healed. But then he forgot, and the spot beck me sore again. Thia went on a year or so. Two days out of the seven this one place in Blank's Up was sore. Finally it began to pain bim; it hurt all the time; It smarted even when apparently hcuK'd. He would awake In the night with the sharp, pinching pain there, and the pain was like the clutch of a crab's .law, for be had cancer now cancer due to the Irritation which he had ap plied thrice dally for a year to that one spot with his stiff-bristled brush. No wonder he bad cancer, and no wonder there are many such cases. People won't learn that tooth-cleaning may do harm. They are proud of It as of bath ing, and they can't believe that any lit tle pain or Irritation due to It can be other than of benefit" Philadelphia Record. Bis First Oononrrenoe. An ex-President of the United States recently had occasion to attend his wife to the railway station preparatory to her setting out upon a long Journey alone. "If you should happen to need advice or assistance of any kind," the ex-President advised bis wife at part ing, "don't hesitate to call upon this gentleman across the aisle; I like hia looks," indicating a perfect stranger, but one whose appearance and man ner were such as to Inspire trust. The tourney was accompllshed safely, and the wife had no occasion to follow her husband's advice. But at an evening reception, shortly after her arrival In the dry of her destination, a man was presented to her whom she at once rec ognized as her fellow traveler. She related the incident "W1U yon please tell your husband," said the man. "that that is the flrst speech I ever heard of his that meets with my hearty ap proval? I belong to the opposite par ty." New York Evening Sun. Japanese WW. Oriental wit of a kind to be better appreciated than enjoyed in France is credited to the members of a Japanese embassy once sent to Paris to arrange for three free ports to be opened li Japan and France respectively. Tbt French officials after long deliberation announced that they would be content with the opening of Yokohama, Yeddo, and Han-Yang. The Japanese listen ed gravely, and, after they had deliber ated In turn, said they wanted Havre, Marseilles, and Southampton. There upon the Frenchman Indulged In su perior smiles, and called attention to the fact that Southampton was In En gland. "Yea," replied the Eastern dlplomata, maintaining the utmost gravity, "and Han-Yang Is In Corea." This story, which Is said to be so old as to be new, has been revived In con nection with the visit of the Japanese fl ii -asss(1nrs to the Paris exposition, and It I supposed In England to worry the ssavchw - lot New York Tt Ifs a poor ptaao taat.narar area AM sr-aa at ansa siaatg fata, " SERMON T Dr. Calmagc Snbjeet: The Bt mi All Books The Bible's Ulvla Ortcin Upheld Tot alled Prophecies of the Old Testament Prove Its Bmaaatloa From God. f Oopyrutnt .MM. I Washisgtox, D. C In the great con liict now raginu in Europe, as in this coun try, betueen Christianity and agnosticism l)r. Talmage lias taken a decided stand, and in this sermon declares hia unwaver ing belief in the divine origin of the Scrip tures; text, Matthew vii, 16, "Do men jrttliet' grat'es of thorns?" Not in ihis country. Xot in any coun try. 1 horns stick, thorns lacerate, b.it ill the thorns nut together never yielded ane cluster ot Catawba or Isaljella grapes, i'hrixt, who was the master of apt and po tent illustration, is thus setting forth what you and I well Know that you cannot get that which is pleasant and healthful and good trom that which is bad. It you lind t round, large, beautiful cluster of grapes, you know that it was produced by a good rapevine, and not from a tajigle of Can ida thistle. Now, if 1 can sliiuw you that mis Holy Hible yields good fruit, iiealthtu! fruit, grand fruit, splendid fruit, you will ;ome to the conclusion it is a gord liible, nd all the arguments of the skeptic tgainst it when he tries to show it is a bad look, will go overboard. lk men gather grapes of thorns? Can I bad took yield good results? Skeptic ith grtat vehemence declare' that the Hi jle is a cruel book. They read the n.t-i'y H the extermination of the Canannkirg nd oi a!) the ancient wars and of the Ivs ry of David and Joshua, and they come u the conclusion that the Bible is in fa for of laceration and manslaughter and aiassacre. Now, a bad book will produce I bad result, a cruel book will produce a :ruel result. You have friends who have been in the habit of reading the Bible a great many ?earn. Have you noticed a tendency to cruelty on their part? Have you ever beard any of them come out and practi ?ally say, "1 have been reading the story ibout the extermination of the Canaanites uid I am seized upon with a disposition to cut .md slash and maul and pinch anil murder and knock to pieces everything I 2an lay my hands on?" Have your friends in proportion as they become diligent lii ble students and disciples of the Christ ol the Hible, shown a tendency toward mas acre and murder and manslaughter? Has that been your observation? What has been the effect upon your chil dren of this cruel book ? Or, if you do not allow the book to be read in your house bold, what has been the effect upon the children of other households where the Word of God is honored.' Have they as a result of reading thia cruel book gone forth with a cruel spirit to pull the wings ff (lies and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob birds' nests? A cruel book ought to make cruel people: if they diligently read it and get absorbed with its principles that ;ause must produce that elicit. At wlipt time did you notice that the teachings of .his Holy liible created cruelty in the heart nd the life of George Pcabody, of Miss Dix, of Florence Nightingale, of John Howard, of John Frederick Oberlin, ol Abbot Laurence? Have you noticed in reading the biography of these people that in proportion as they became friends of the Bible they became enemies to human ity? Have you not, on the contrary, no ticed that all the institutions of mercy arere established, or, being established, were chiefly supported by the friends ol this book? There is the hospital in wai time. There are twenty Christian women, l'hey are binding up wounds, they are of fering cordials, tney are kneeling down by the dying, praying for their departing spir its. Where does the cruelty crop out? They have been reading the Bible all tlieii lives. They read it every morning; they read it every night; they carry it under their arm when they go into the hospital. Again, infidels go on and most vehe mently charge that this Bible is an impure book. You all know that an impure book produces impure results. So amount ol money could hire you to allow your child to read an unclea . book. Now, if this Bi ble be an impure book, where are the vic tims? Your father read it did it make him a bad man? Your mother read it did it make her a bad woman? Your sis ter fifteen years in heaven uied in the faith of this gospel did it despoil her na ture? Some say there are 20u,OU(,0Ou cop ies of the Bible in existence; some say there ire 400.000,000 copies of the Bible. It if impossible to give the accurate statistics. But suppose there are 200,000,000 comes of the Bible abroad, this one book read more than any twenty books that the world ever printed, this book abroad for ages, for ages, for centuries where are the vic tims? Show me 1000; show me 500 vic tims of an impure book; show me 100 de spoiled of the Bible; show m- fifty; show me ten; show me two; show me one. Two hundred million copies of an impure book, and not one victim of tne impurity, tin the contrary, you know very well that it is where the Bible has the most power that the family institution is most respected. Again, agnostics go on still further, and they say the Bible is a mass of contradic tious, and they put prophet against pro phet, evangelist against evangelist, apos tle against apostle, and they say if this lie true how, then, can that be true. Mr. Mill, who was a friend of the Bible, said be had discovered 30,000 different read ings of the Scriptures and yet not one im portant difference out of 30,000, only the difference that? you might expect from the fact tbat the book cajne down from gener ation to generation, and was copied by a reat many hands. And yet I put before fou this fact to-day that all the Bible writers agree in the four great doctrines of the Bible. What are these four great doctrines? 3od good, kind, patient, just, loving, om aifiotent. Man a lost sinner. Two desti nies one for believers, the other for un believers. All who accept Christ real-hint) that home and only tho.ne destroyed whu destroy themselves, only those who turn their back upon Christ and come to the precipice and jump off, for God nevei pushes a man off; he jumps off. Now in these four great doctrines all tlit Bible writers agr?e. Mozart. Beethoven, Handel, Hadyn, never wrote more harmo nious music than you will hnd in this ier fect harmony of the Word of God, the har mony in providence and in grace. You must remember also that the au thors of the Bible came from different lands, from different ages and from dif ferent centuries. They had no communica tion with each other, they did not have an 'dea as to what was the chief uesign of tho Bible, and yet their writings, got up from ill these different ages and all these dif ferent centuries, coming together, make a perfect harmony in the opinion of the very best scholars of all lands. Is not that 1 most remarkable fact ? Again, inhdeis vehemently charge that the Bible is an unscientific book. In a former discourse 1 showed you that there was no collision between science and reve lation, and 1 went from point to point in the discussion. But now let us have au thority in this matter. You and 1 cannot give the forty or tiny or sixty years exclu sively to the study of science tlir.t some men give. Iet us have authority in this matter. Who says there ia a collision between science and revelation? Well, Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, Darwin. They say there is a discord between science and revela tion. But I will bring you names of men who have found a perfect accord between science and revelation, men as much high er in intellectual character above those whom I have mentioned as the Alns and LMount Washington and the Himalayas ire nigner man tne mil dock oi your nouse, Herscnel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Ross, Isaac Newton. My frien-' -. we are in respecta ble company when we believe in the Ward of God very respectable company. Now, I mi(;ht. aa intidels have failed to prove that the Bible is a cruel book, that the Bible is an impure Look; that the Bi ble is a contradictory book, that the Bi ble is an unscientific book I might move a nonsuit in this case of Infidelity, the plaintiff, against Christianity, the defend ant hut I will not take advantage cf the circumstances, for when the skeptic goea J on to .ay that we are a giimnie people, when he goes on to say, as he often does, that the greater the improbability the more we like to believe it; when he goes on to say that the Bible is made up of a lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another there, and another from some other place, and that the whole thing is an imposition on the credulity of the hu- ' man rar. I must reply to that charee. The Bible is made im of the Old Testa ment anil the New Testament, iet us take the New Testament first. Why do I believe it? Why do I take it to my heart? It is because it can be traced bac' to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle can be traced to that door and that aisle to that door. Jerome and Kusebius in the first century and Origen in the second century, and other writers in the third and fourth cen t. ies gave a list of the New Testament writers just exactly corresponding with our list, showing that the same New Tes tament which we have they hail in the fourth centurv. and the third century and the second century and the first century. But where did they ?et the New JTesta- jit-ill : A lit- II Horn II T-iiiiciin. f. uric did Irenaeus get it? He got it from Poly- earn. here did I'olycarp get it? He eot it from St. .lohn. who was the personal as sociate ol the Lord Jesus Clirist. My grandfather trave a book to my father, my gave it to me. I give it to mr child. Is there any diriieulty in tracing this hue? On communion day I will start the cha lice at that end of the aisle, and the cha lice will pass along to the other end of the aisle. ill it lie difficult to trace the line of that holy chalice? No difficulty at all. This one will say, "1 rave it to that one," and this one will say, "I gave it to that one." But it will not be so long a line as this to trace the New Testament. It is easier to get rt the fact. But you say: "Although this was handed right down in that way, who knows but they were lying imposters? How can you take their testi mony?" They died for the truth of that book. Men never die for a lie cheerfully and triumphantly, 'l'hey were not lying impostors. They died in triumph for the truth of that New Testament. "Well," says some one, "now I am ready to believe that the New Testament is from the heart of Christ, but how about the Old Testament? Why do you believe that?" I believe the Old Testament be cause the prophecies foretold events hun dreds and thousands of years ahead events which afterward took place. How far can you see ahead? Two thousand years? Can you see ahead a hundred 'ears? Can you see ahead five minutes? No, no. Human prophecy amounts to nothing. Here these old prophets stood thousands of years hack, and they foretold events which came accurately true far on in the future centuries. Suppose 1 should stand here and say to you, "Twenty-five hundred and sixty years from now, three miles and a half from the city of Muneow there will be an advent, and it will be in a certain family, and it will be amid certain sur roundings." It would make no impression upon you, because you know 1 cannot fore see a thousand years or one year or out minute, and 1 cannot tell what is going tc transpire in a land far away. But that is what these old prophets did. You must remember that Tyre ai d Babylon and Nineveh were in full pomp and splendor when these prophecies, these old prophecies, said they would be de stroyed. Those cities had architecture that makes the houses of modern cities er feetly insignificant. Yet these old pro phets walked right through those magnifi cent streets and said. "This has all got to come down; this is all going to be leveled." Besides that, you must rememler that this book has been under fire for centu ries, and after all the bombardment of the skeptii'S o all the centuries they have not knocked out of this Bible a piece as large as the small end of a sharp needle. Oil, how the old book sticks together! " Cnsanctitied geologists try to pull away the book of Genesis, i'hey say they do not believe it. it cannot be there was liuht before the sun shone, it cannot be all tins story about Adam and Eve, ami they pull at the book of Genesis, and they have beeu pulling a great while, yet where is the book of Genesis? Standing just where it stood all the time. '1 here is not a man on earth who has ever Jed it from his Bi ble. And so the infidels have been trying to pull away the miracles, pulling away at the blasted fig tree, at the turning ot the water into wine, at the raising ol l-azaruH from the dead. Can you show me a Bible from which one of these miracles has beeu erasea? How niarvelously the old book sticks to gether! All the striking at tuese chapters only driving them in deeper until they are clinched on the other side with the ham mers of eternity. And the book is going to keep right on until the fires of the last d::y are kindled. Some of them will begin on one side aud some on the other side of the old book, l'hey will not find a bundle ol loose manu scripts easily consumed by the fire. hen the tires of i last day are kin dled, some will uurn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revelation toward Genesis, and in ail their way they will not find a single chapter or a single verse out of place. That will be the tirst time we can afford to do without the Bible: What will be the use of ttu book of Gen esis, descriptive of how the world was mude, when the world is destroyed '. hat will be the use of the prophecies when they are all fulfilled? What will lie the use of the evangelistic or Pauline description ol lesus Christ when we s Him taee to Lire.' But 1 do not think we will mve uu the Bible even at that time. 1 think we will want the Bible in heaven. 1 really think the fires of the last day will not consume the last oiv. for when vou and 1 net our dead children out of the dust we want to show them just the passages, just the promises, which comforted us here in the dark day of interment, and we will want to talk over with I hristians who have had trials and struggltw, and we will want to show them the promises that especially re freshed us. I think we shall have the Bi ble in heaven. Oh, 1 want to hear lavid with his own voice read, "The Lord is my shepherd;'' 1 want to hear Paul with his own voice read, "Thanks lie unto God that giveth us ' the victory;" 1 want to hear the archangel play Paul's march of the resurrection with the same trumpet with which he awoke the dead! O blessed book, gtxx. enough for earth, good enough for heaven Dear old book IhmjK bespattered witn the blood of martyrs who died for its de fense, book sprinkled all over witli the tears of those who by it were comforted! Put it in the hands of your children on their birthday; put it on the table in the sitting room when you begin to keep house; put it under your head when you die. Dear old book! 1 press it to my heart; 1 press it to my lips. "Where shall I go?' said a dying Hindoo to the Brahmitic priest to whom he had given money to pray for his salvation. "Where shall 1 go after 1 die?" The Brahmitic priest said. Vou will first of alf ' go into a holy quadruped." "But," said the dying Hindoo, "where shall I go then?" their you shall go into a singing bird. 'But." said the dying Hindoo, "where then shall 1 go?" "Then," said the Brah mitic, "you will go into a beautiful flow er." The dying Hindoo threw up his arms in an agony of solicitation as he said, "But where shall I go last of all?" Thank God this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you, tells me. not where 1 shall go to-day, not where I shall go to-morrow, not where 1 shall go next year, but where I shall go last oi ulll Where boasting ends, there dignity beirins. The poor always hear the truth. No one taknd the trouble to flatter them. When lortune wants to let a fellow beinR fall the hardest, she lifta him up the highest. You need not pack up nny worries. You can get them anywhere as you go along. Chastity Is like an egg: It falls, it breaks, and it can't be mended. More than one-half the sorrows In this world are profound secrets. There are many things that happen to us in this life for which time is the only cure. Strong prejudices indicate Insuffi ciency of present Judgment. As an omen of success. Industry is better than a four-leafed clover. -ajw. .s.i. at i--f" : i- t -V 5 -" f VvV.; tfJr
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