-v . t:h 1:i t B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UniOII ARD THE ENFORCEUEItT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. T ;1 VOL. JAY. MIFFMNTOWN, JUXIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1900 NO. 32 '1 .4r -1 I CHAPTER XV. Mr. Jack Duncombe seemed rery well pleased to be back among us, and was gay and talkative, hia facetlousaess chief ly taking the form of magnifying the possible dangers of that trip down the open Severn to which we were now defi nitely pledged. Perhaps he meant to show that this part of the expedition was as important as the passage of the tun nels, which he had miased; perhaps he was so sure of the seaworthiness of the boat that he could afford to scoff; bat in any case he entirely failed to terrify his hostess if that waa hia aim. "Oh, no," said she, with decision, "whatever may happen to the rest of you, Peggy and I will be safe. I am not going to take the opinion of any of yon gentlemen; I am going to take the opin ion of a professional seaman; I am going to ask Murdoch whether we should make the venture. And if he la in any way doubtful, then there la the landau for Peggy and me; and you may aa well keep an eye on ns aa we are driving along the road, for when we see you sinking we should like to wave a handkerchief, by way of good-by." At this moment Miss Peggy came out Into the sunlight; she had been adorning the saloon with the flowers that had done duty on the dinner table at the hotel the night before. Moreoiver, she had made bold to appropriate to herself a few hya cinths, and the little bouquet looked very well on her dress of dark blue serge. "Come here, you American girl," Queen Tita aaya to her, and takes hold of her by the arm, and make room for her by her side; "do yon know that 1 am re sponsible for your safety? and now that these people have determined to go down the Severn In this cockle-shell of a thing, the question is whether I am going to allow yon to remain on board." "I thought that was aU settled." ob serves Mis Peggy, rather appealing to Col. Cameron. - "It la not all settled," Mrs. Threepenny bit makes answer. "I will not permit of any foolhardiness, and, unless I can be assured that there is not the slightest danger, you and I will put ourselves Into a carriage and get down to Bristol on good solid land. I am going to consult Murdoch." "Oh, Murdoch?" saya Miss Peggy, quickly. "Yes, although he la a steward, he hat been a sailor, too, all his life; and nnlest he thinks we may safely run the risk, then ashore we go." "Oh, yes: very well. I agree to that." remarks Miss Peggy; and why should she again glance toward Sir Ewen Cam eron, this time with a kind of smile in her eyes? "I will hold myself bound by Murdoch's opinion, certainly." "Why, Miss Rosslyn," Inverfask inter poses, with a touch of reproach, "you promised to stay by the ship! "But I am not going to allow her to rnn into any danger," Queen Tita aays. In her-peremptory fashion. "I hare got to restore her safe and sound to the United States, and much good may they get out of such a piece of baggage!" So on this brilliant and shining day we got on by Rea Bridge and Quedgley and Hardwicka even onto Whitminster, where is the junction with the StrooaV water Canal. But we did not stay to make inquiries aa to the practicability of getting back to the Thames by this route; we had signed our articles, as it were, and were bound for Bristol: the allure ments of the Avon and the Kennet, among other considerations, had proved too potent. So we continued our placid voyage; and so fair and shining and beau tiful was the country around us that we pretended not to know that a breese had sprung up, and that those mighty masses of purple cloud were advancing, heralded by a few rags and shreds of silvery white. The storm burst forth while we were all inside and leisurely seated at lunch. It had been growing darker for some time before, but we had hardly noticed it, for we were listening to Jack Dnncombe's recital of hia experiences on the produc tion of his one and only piece, and our imaginations were away in the region of the lamp lighted Strand. But all of a sudden there waa a sound that recalled na to our actual surroundings a smart rattle as of buckshot on the forward window; and then we became aware that the world without was steeped in an un osual and mysterious gloom. The next moment the tempest broke upon ns with a roar a continuous thunder of rain and hail and ice that battered on the roof and burled itself against the windows with an appalling fury. We could guess that the sudden gale was tearing the water around us into a whit smoke, but we could see nothing, for the panes were steaming with half-melted Ice and hail stones. Then, in the midst of all this bewilderment of noise, there waa a aharp er crack, aa if a pistol had been fired just outside. "Why, what'a that?" cried Jack Dun combe, jumping up and making forward. "Here, don't open that window!" one had to call to him. "Do you want to swamp the whole place? Leave the hur ricane alone; If isn't meddling with you. But what waa this now? The "Name less Barge" was going more slowly: then it touched something gently; then It stop ped altogether. "I know what it isr said that young man triumphantly. "The tow-rope has broken, and Murdoch haa run the boat alongside the bank." When we went outside, we found a most tempestuous looking scene around na. Far away in the west the Monmouth shire hills steeped in a somber lm' but the hills in the east were swept ny flying rain clouds, followed by bursts of sunlight that produced a raiubow on me soft gray background. And If the colors of the landscape had been vivid before, they were now keener than ever in this daszllng radiance; the very hedge? ana willows beside ns were all shimmering m the silvery wet. There waa a brisk trees wowing, too, a stimulating sort W knase that seemed to suggest our our way against it as, indeed, wo very soon were. . For we found that the tow path were offered excellent walking, as we all got ashore. Jack Duncombe ana Queen Tita leading the way through tnJi whirling and changing world of showerl and flying clouds and sunlight. mr wdlLam JJLACK. Col. Cameron," said Miss I'eggy. witt .certain demure air, "didn't you say that the Highlanders were usually they would try to answer you as they thought you wanted to be answer- "They have a tendency that way, and J uon t blame them. Why do you ask TP aaid he. "Because I don't think we shall have any need of a landau to-morrow." "I I don't quite understand," said he. Lttdn t you say there should be no de serters from the ship when we go down to Bristol 7" she asked, still with her eye on tne ground. "Weil, it would be a nitv. wouldn't it if "he answered her. "Why not see the thing turough? You are not afraid, I know and 1 understood you to say you meant to keep by the boat. Oh, yes, I distinct ly think we should hang together. , "Don't you mean drown together?" aht asked, meekly. "If it cornea to that yes. My ews opinion is that there won't be the slight est danger of any kind. i "But you belong to the army, whereat It la a naval expert who is to be called in," Miss I'eggy continued. "And and 1 thought you looked a little surprised to day when I consented to abide by his judgment. Then you had forgotten what you told me about the llighlanderar' And still this tall, long-striding, sandy mustached colonel didn't perceive what she was driving at. "I think I know what Murdoch'a opin ion will be, she observed, modestly. And then he burst into a roar of laugh ter. "Excellent, excellent! Too are going to tell him beforehand that you are anx- ioua to remain in the boat, and then you will ask him whether you should or not Very skillful, very ingenious. Presently Queen Tita called aloud: Peggy, come along! Here is some thing for you." These two ahead had come to a halt at a corner of the winding towpath, and when we overtook them we perceived the reason why. In the great valley now opening before them lay the wide bed ol the Severn Hirer, here and there show ing long banks of yellow sand, and here and there narrower channels of lapping water of similar hue. Which was the main body of the stream we could hardly make out water and sand seemed id many places to lose themselves in each other. "Well!" aaid Mrs. Threepenny-bit. "doesn t it remind you " "Of what?" asked Peggy. "Why. of the Missouri at Council Bluffs?" she exclaimed. "I thought you would see the likeness at once those great mud-banks and the yellow water. I thought your loyal heart would leap up that we should see tears of gladness in your eyes. "But I never saw the Missouri any where," remarked Miss Peggy, innocent ly. . . "What! you never were at Omaha?" "No, never." "Well, you are a pretty American!" "Xee; that s just what she la," one ventured to observe, merely by way of defending the poor thing. "A pretty American yon are! Nevet saw the Missouri! I wonder if you evet heard of the Capitol at Washington?" "Aa for that," rejoined Miss Peggy, "I know ot somebody who haa lived all her life in England and newer went to Strat-ford-on-Avon till the year before last." "I consider you a very Impertinent young person," said Mrs. Threepenny-bit, with much dignity; and therewith she turned to her former companion, and they resumed their walk and talk. CHAPTER XVI. Now, aa our good friend the harbor master was coming along to have a look at the "Nameless Barge," it was not likely that the responsible people of the party were going to the ship's steward to get his opinion of her seaworthiness; V.ii. rfcuMftn Tit. had rnlt fnlHi In Mnr. doch; and Misa Peggy knew it; and on tne nrst cnance me young iaay naa, ...KI..K ra a.p. t Via n,tt mnmlnrr ihu set about beguiling and perverting the mind of tnat aimpie mgnianoer. -f iirdwti " aaid ah. in her Innocent .- - fashion, aa she was putting some flowers on the breakfast taoie; aiuraoca, you know we are going down to Bristol?" "Yes, mem." "And that the river is very wide down there V "Yes, mem." 4nn'. annnna. th.ra ta anw raallv serious risk, do you?" she asked, in an off-hand way. But at this Murdoch hesitated. Did the young iady wish to be encouraged to go by water, or persuaded to go by land? Then perhapa it may have occurred to him that he might as well tell the simple truth. "Well, mem," said he, "I do not know myself; but there was two or three o' them last night they were saying to me it was not for five hundred pounds they would go down to Bristol in this boat, if there was any kind of a preese from the sous or sou'west" Here was a most unexpected blow; even Peggy was a little bit startled. "What was that ?" she said. "Yes, mem; that'a what they were saying, not for five hundred pounds would they go down the ruvver in this "It's the landau for you. Miss Peggy," one observed to her. But she was not to be easily turned from her purpose. "Walt a bit Murdoch, who were these Tki tho were ehist men from the docks." he answered. "Yes; coal heavera ana people "c What could they know about a boat like this?" ,,. "Mebbe no mien, - saia me yuuus lander, cautiously, for it was nol ; cleat to him as jet which way she wanted hia to answer. "Well" she said; I wouldn't repeat Wish six-, b like that, if I were you fTve hundred pounds! a lot of babie. talk nK nonsense! Uow can there . be anj langer? I don't aee any possibility ol U'Ld now here was hi. cue at last; and i answer was forthcoming readily. ' "Dhe'r!" said he ere will be no d.ncher a .ho. V ihere wiu oe u ------ Mnr "You are quite co" . , - ., lochT ate dexterously pinning him jo his expressed belief. Severn ta "WelL mem," said he, U ferry weU again." - ""Z - This Bounded reasonable, though to ba rare, there are rivers and rivers. Bui Hiss Peggy went on to tell him of the roposal that certain members of the par ty ahould go by land; and of her own da sided opinion that we should all keep ts rether; and In a way appealed to him confirm her judgment. "Why, it would be cowardly to leave Jie others, wouldn't it?" she continued. 'And I know, at least I've heard, Mur ioch. that you never bad any great liking tor this boat; but you have seen what ihe can do; and she has never got us into rouble hitherto. So long as she keeps i Boat, what more can we want? Why, I believe she would float well enough on he open sea!" "At sea, mem!" said Murdoch, rather ighast. "Well, what would happen to her IT tsked this bold student of nautical mat rs. "Pless me, mem!" he exclaimed, "if .here was any wind at ahl, she would roll tbout like a tib, and tek in water, and .hen she would sunk ay, in five minutes the would be down." "Ob, she would roll about like a tub, ind then sink," observed Miss I'eggy, thoughtfully. Then she said, in a lighter ;one: "Well, Murdoch, it is no use talk-. ng about impossibilities. We are going 'o Bristol down a river, aa you aay and & would be a great pity for any of ns to eave the others, wouldn't It?" "Oh, yea, mem, a great peety!" said te. "And yon know quite well there won't e any danger," ah observed, insidious ly. "Oh, I do not think there will be any lancher at ahl!" he repeated. "And, Murdoch, I wouldn't say a word about that foolish speech you heard last tight," she said, by way of dosing the jjterview. "Ferry well, mem," Murdoch obedi mtly answered, and went about his du des. You should have seen her face when he khh gone: it was so serene and serious ind ingenuous; it was only her eyes thai ipoke. "Well, of all " "All what?" she asks, and there la aardly a amile in those telltale eyes. "To go and bewilder a poor Highland ad " "Don't you know this," she says, inter rupting in her usual unconcerned man ler, "that women are weak, helpless, de fenseless creatures; and that sometimes, when they have a particular aim in view, ihey have to use a little judicious skill u pure innocence." "Yes, a very simple, innocent young thing you are!" "Don't you think I am?" she saya, calmly, and she stalka across the saloon and takes her banjo off. the peg and sits lown and begins twanging at the strings. I ben this is what one hears: , 'When de good old Gabriel gwine to blow de horn. You'd better be dar sure aa you are born. For he gwine to wake you early in de morn. He'a gwine to wake you early In de mociua. Then, when she cornea to the chorus. ihe sings alto: 'Den, rise, children, sing around de door. we U gadder early on de golden shore. He'a a-comin' right now, an he'll come no more. . . Ba a a-gwin to saeet na early la de mornln . Then cornea a brisker air: "It'a early In de mornln', before we see he sun, Roll aboard dat cotton, and get back in a runr De captain's in a hurry; I know what he means: Wants to beat the Sherlock down to Now Orleans." This, also, haa a chorus, which she ;ings with much complacency (and all for ur own enjoyment, apparently) "Roll out, heave dat cotton. Roll out, heave dat cotton. Roll out. heave dat cotton. Ain't got long to stay!" Now, what on earth Is all this fright ful noise about?" demands Mrs. Threepenny-bit, suddenly appearing at the door of the saloon. "And at this time of the morning, too!" "Well, it isn't Sunday morning," the young lady makes answer. "Besides, he has been saying very rude things about ne; and I've taken refuge in music." (To be continued.) Paternal Advice. An' now man son dat yo' am erbout to marry, 'membah dat yo' duty an fust to yo' fam'ly, nex' to yo'self, ant las'ly to yo' fellowmen; but, beln' s membah ob yo' own fam'ly yo' kin nachully wo'k yo'se'f In twice. One oh yo' greatea' trials will be to keep yo' family In meat an' at de same time re tain yo' reppertashun fer honesty In de community. Ob co'se It am er 'stabllsb ed fac' dat de worl' owes ebery body er llbbln', but hit ain' nec'sary foh yo' to publish bow yo' collec's youaha. Say nuffin about yo' nightly oekerpashun. an alwas saw er little wood durin' de day, beln' keerful to make eg much noise 'bout bit ez posserble. Let de communerty undahstan' dat yo' am willin' to meet dem from de stan'polut of de golden rule; es yo won't bab nuffin' to do yo' sheer wlf yo'll hab de bes' ob de bargain. An las'ly should mlsforchune obertake yo', doaa let do fool lawyer Injuce yo' to plead guilty. No mattah wbad proofs am ergln yo'. one-half de people gwine to bllebe yo' lnnercent ef yo keeps denyln' de cha'ge. Membah mah son hit am bet tab to serbe de full thirty days an hab plenty ob frlens ler to gib yo' a belpin' ban' wen yo' gits out, dan to cut down de sentence one-half by pleadln' guilty, an' hab everybody gib yo' de col' shoul der forebber aftabwa'ds. Philadelphia Inquirer. -At Clifton. W. Va.. Frank Hinkle. while sharpening an indelible pencil, a small piece of it lodged in his eye, discoloring the ball to a deep purple. One eye ball is blue and the other purple. A Duauesne (Iowa) man has a dng which was sent him by express all the way from Manila. Philippine Islands. During the reign of Peter the Great, leather money was in circulation in Russia. Sanitary authorities in Boston have called on the barbers for the ster ilisation of mugs, brushes and razors and the use of a clean towel for each customer. Much disease has been found in the city attributable to untidy methods in barber shops. The coal fields in Pennsylvania are nearly taken up. Coal lands in Con nellsville district is selling for about $1000 an acre. The iron, coal and steel men are turning to the West Virginia fields. About thirty cities in Wisconsin are supplied with water from artlslan wells. t8 BLIND AND POOR. BARONESS JENNO VAN RAHOEN DYING IN AUSTRIA. . 4b Baa Had a Career in Which ba Koaaa.li tic and Traaie War Btraaaely Blaaded-Iafataated Husband Killed Fair Admirers, Wealth and splendor hare gone; the turn who killed four others for her love Jea molderlng under ground with his rictlms; the world that bowed before ler beauty has forgotten her, or, IX it remembers, remembers only to pity 'or a passing moment; the beautiful yes that once were watched eagerly y hundreds for a glance are sightless. It la the end of the glory of the Baron ws Jenny von Rahden. She lies In Nlzza Austria blind, miserably poor and lying. The magnificent trained horses xrhlcb she loved passionately, and with ffhlch she won applause from all of Europe,1 hare been sold long ago for lebt, and aha does not know who owns hem now. She has made with barely ne step the voyage from magnificence o bitter misery. It was as an equestrian that Jenny V'elsa first became one of the cele rities of Europe. Many wooed her. 3f them all none wooed aa did the big. landsome, dashing, prodigally rich Susslan, Baron von Rahden. He won ler, and became as fierce an adorer of lis wife as he bad been ber adorer dur ng courtship. He showered upon her ove and wealth and watched over her rith jealous care. For this man, with his savago love. jiere came torment His wealth was rwept away in a night and be faced lfe as a beggar. Unfitted for work, he draggled bitterly, until sheer necessity TBI BAHOXUt A.SD BKB BORSB. - "orced him to let bis wife return to the :lrcus arena with ber horses. Faith fully she labored for him and herself, ind ber work was rewarded excellently Kith both fame and money. But the ife was mortal agony for the Russian. Sight after night he stood where his lerce eyes could watch the audience, tnd every glance that seemed to lack aspect, every word that seemed to xnply admiration, even the applause that was lavished on her, bit into him is acid Into a wound. Soon Vienna was startled by the tews that a duel had been fought be tween him and an officer of high rank, ind that his opponent had been killed it the first fire. It was proved that the dead officer bad attempted to force lis attentions on the equestrian, and die baron was not prosecuted. The tragic affair cooled neither the baron'a Mood nor that of the admirers of the aroness. A second duel in the south it Europe soon followed the first, and mother dead officer was left oa the ield to testify to the prowess, this time, f the baron's sword. Again, In France, i civilian, one of the richest men of the lay. tried to send a note to the baron !ss. The baron intercepted it and the iext morning it became known In the town that the baron's deadly record lad been Increased by another victim. This third duel sufficed to frighten be most daring, and for a considerable line even this Insanely jealous man 'ound something like peace, for there jras no man In any of the crowds that vatcbed the beautiful woman ride who lid not keep himself in rein, well know ng that the Russian's sharp eyes were ovlng over each face in turn with lerce watchfulness In every glance. 3ut finally, in France, a Danish naval ifflcer became Infatuated with the rraceful rider. Perhaps he was reek ess; perhaps he did not know the reo rd of her husband. At any rate, he took no pains to hide his admiration of the Baronaas Jenny. His friends hast ined than to acquaint him with the ruth, but be only laughed at them. It vas a pretty romance and It amused ilm. One day the officer stared at the mroness with open insolence. The iext Instant a great form towered over ilm, a voice thick with rage addressed ilm and be fall, shot dead. As this tilling was not In a duel the baron was trrested and tried. The end waa that le was acquitted. There followed a lew years of comparatively serene life, rhrough it all ran the strain of a per fect love between these two. And then the baron died. That was two years and a half ago. in that time the baroness appeared with few Interruptions and earned the idmlratlon of all. Last January she ippeared In Nlzza. For some tlme.be 'ore that she had suffered from pain in the spine, but she Insisted on appear ng. She rode all evening, and her acts .rere even more brilliant than usual. But even while the applause was rlng ng through the place she fainted and did helplessly to the ground. She was carried to the hotel burning with fever. When she awoke the next morning she legged her attendants to open the shut ters. But the shutters already were Mde open. She was blind. Physicians :onsulted and consulted, to arrive only it the same verdict hopeless. The clr ;us folk did what they could until the ibow bad to depart from Nlzza. They left her behind them In the hotel, whence later she was taken to a hospi tal and where she la now dying. All of ber horses were sold for her mainten tnce. PREFER TO REMAIN IN MEXICO. Nattves) of Oar Bister Bepablis Seldom Kamlarata to tka Stataa, By the last census taken la UK the ft niatlaa Maate waa IfctoMW. us im in iiii i i ii iu.iiii. -ii m8u . J jrUl.'' Ji.L'jJ js.'j-av"1, '' n a. -j n. n u. J---"!"-: KwIi.--i VV-:... . . . . . . . -'-' ' """ ' ' " - " -' - By the last census of Canada, taken In 18DU, its population was 5,125.000. There are thus more than twice at many Inhabitants in Mexico as in Can ids, and the facilities of travel between Mexico and the United States arc equally good, but by the last census there were 1,000,000 Canadlana in the United States and only 77,000 Mexicans a disparity so great as to require some explanation. It has generally been supposed that a majority of the Canadians In the Uni ted States are residents of either the northern counties of New York or the manufacturing districts of New Eng land, Into which there has been of re cent years a very large immigration ot French-Canadians, but It Is a fact that the Canadian-born population of the United States Is pretty eyjnly distrib uted, and by the last Federal census there were 181,000 Canadians In Michi gan, 20,000 in California. 40.000 in the State of Illinois, 17.000 In Iowa, and. more curious still, perhaps, 3,000 in Texas. Two-thirds of all the Mexicans in the United States are to be found within the State of Texas and the other one-third In the other forty-four States and Territories of the country. By the last census the whole number or Mexi cans resident In New York was return ed as 330, of Missouri 130. of Illinois 143, and of Colorado 607. The most frequent explanation given for the scarcity of Mexican residents in the United States Is found In the differ ences of climate. But this explanation is not the true one, as is shown by the figures In Mississippi, a State whose climate more nearly, perhaps, than any other, with the exception of Texas, re sembles that of Mexico; there were only thirty -one Mexicans In Mississippi returned by the last census, In Ala bama thirty-four, and in Arkansas twenty-seven, while in the North At lantic States there-were 660. Another explanation of the lack of Mexican emi gration to this country is given in the unfamlliarity of its people with the language, but that view of the case Is not well supported. The republic of Mexico has not been Increasing much in population through Immigration In recent years and the number of American emigrants to Mex ico has been continuously small. There were by the last enumeration 7.200 for eign residents In the capital city of Mexico, the total population of which was 345.000. New York Sun. World's Smallest Battery. This picture of "Hlnk and Dink." the youngest battery In the world," Is copied from a snapshot taken of Fran cis Walsh, a young Kaunas City lad. who has been visiting Boston lately, and Fred Wlltzlnger, a youngster from Dorches ter. Both are friends of Charley Nich- HI9K AND DINK. ols, of the Boston Base-ball Club, two of whose uniforms were remade to 4t the young players. "Hlnk" Is the pitch er and "Dink" the catcher, but if Hink's" curves fall to bewilder the op posing batsman "Dink" takes his place on the rubber, and "Hlnk" dons the big mitt mask and protector. No Monotony. According to the statement of the ten-year-old daughter of a Massachu setts clergyman, there are waya of mak ing an old sermon seem almost new. "Molly," said one of the friends of this young critic, "does your father ever preach the same sermon twice?" "I think -perhaps he does," returned Molly, cautiously, "but I think he talks loud and soft In different places the second time, so It doesn't sound the same at all." Youth's Companion. Army Service la Russia. Russia has three armies, with differ ent terms of service. In Europe her men are five years In the active army, thirteen in the reserve and five In the second reserve; in Asia they sre seven years In the active army and six In the reserve; In Caucasia they are three years In the active army and fifteen In the reserve. A Trade In Itself. Citizen See here, I'll give you a dime, but I believe you asked me for money only yesterday. Why don't you learn some good business? Able-bodied Beggar I have learned one, sir; I'm a re-toucher. Life. A Ohtvalrto Bird. Even the birds recognize woman'a rights at least so an Audubonlte lec turer declared the other day in de scribing the habits of the golden crowned thrush, more familiarly known as the oven-bird. The word "oven" merely refers to the shape ol the philosopher's nest which usually if built on the ground with a dome-like roof. Even the family name suggests lire, being Furnarlldae. But the way in which the nest Is built explains the bird's answer to "eternal feminine" demands. A partition di vides the "oven" Into two compart ments. The Inside one Is for the lady bird and has a luxurious feather bed. The outer room Is the gentleman bird's boudoir, and Its only furniture Is a rough clay conch. This head of the family has a golden j crown which he deserves, for he's a! gentleman and a scholar a regular j bird of a bird, to fall Into the slang of j the day who might teach something' to humanity masculine humanity, that la, Maltimore Nawa AOMomsniNU il.uk an. Reproof and Advice St mmt Be Bny.ar Coated to Be Heeded. ' "The universal frailty of our human nature which dislikes to be told of faults must be taken into consideration when we converse with our grown-up children," writes Kate Upson Clark in the Woman's Home Companion. "After they pass the age of fourteen or flf teen they usually betray a greater sensitive ness than before to even reasonable fault-finding. By the time they reach eighteen or twenty this tendency hat become a marked trait They have then become substantially like the rest of us. Even from the lips of loving fathers or mothers and In strict prl vacy they want nothing but the same sort of honey on which our own souls love to feed. They wish no allusion made to the facts that they are acquir ing nasal tones; that their gait Is awk ward; that their taste in dress is uu formed and even bad; that they havi not good judgment In choosing asso ciates, and so on. Private discourses upon the wiles of the world and the weakness of youth and its proneness tc w under they wish none of. Whatever medicine of that sort Is to be given must be administered In small doses. Interjected with skill Into conversations upon ordinary matters, and sugar coated. If possible, with artful compli ment though It ahould be always de served. Even the best and dearest of our carefully-brought-up young people are likely to have their year or more of obstinacy and plg-headednes8,' or their permanent streaks of unreasonableness and contumacy. Therefore, they would better receive most of the telling strokes that mold into shape before they reach the age of fourteen. From that time up to the age of what is called 'discretion,' which does not arrive with moist of us before twenty-five (If then, the youth, in judgment and sense, is really not much superior to what he was at from seven to fifteen, but be has no suspicion of this fact" 11 unifies Citric 1 do not mean a girl who haa gone Into some trade or profession, for tht most domestic "home bird" of my girl readers may be one. Indeed, if she helps to carry out her dally duties suc cessfully she must do her utmost tc become a "business girl" In my sense of the word. And when. In course of time, she passes to a home of her own, she will be at no loss in taking up her position as housekeeper and mistress. She will win the respect of those in her employ by showing them that she un derstands how she should be served, and that while comfort is absolutely required, no extravagance will be al lowed. She will cause her husband's love for her to increase by showing him how truly bis interest is hers by bringing into play ber knowledge of "how to spend and how to save." To make home uncomfortable by mean, unnecessary savings Is no real jMjocfc omy, but to platTwIfS loving thought how to make every dollar yield Its true value is housekeeping in Its best sense, for such a "business girl" will make a small income go further and give more real happiness and comfort than would one of double and treble the amount in inexperienced hnnds. But to make uy girl reader a complete business one of the type which I write, she must also learn how to couduct ber charities Giving Indiscriminately, without in quiry or thought is often more produc tlve of evil than good, and she must be as wise over the sH'Udiug of the por tion allotted "to help others," and give as thorough consideration to It as she does to what she puts apart for her personal concerns. Aga and Marriage. A woman's prospect of marriage U distinctly affected by age. The statis tics of all countries show that the great majority of women marry between the ages of 20 and .'SO. Before reaching 20 a woman has, of course, a chance of mntrimouy, but the objections raised by parents or friends to marriage at a tender age frequently outweigh the de sire of the youug woman to acquire a husband, and lead her to defer the wedding day. All the statistics that have been gathered bear out the statement that a woman's best chance to marry Is at the age of 25, that over six-tenths of the inuri-iHges take place between 20 and 30, and consequently that a wo man's t-hnnce increases up to 25, and steadily decreases after that age until It readies the vanishing point some where about 00. Out of 1.000 married women 141) marry before the age of 20, 080 be tween 20 and 30, 111 between 30 and 40. the woman in the thirties having not so good a chance as the girl lu h teens; between the ages of 40 and .",( the falling off Is enormous, only 41 In 1,000 contracting an alliance In thnl decade, while past SO the chances stlii further diminish, for the woman win has celebrated the semi-centennial ol t-jr birth bas only nineteen chances lu a thousand. God Needs the Help ot Mothers. "The grave mistake of repressing chlMrcn," writes Barbetta Brown in the Ladies' Home Journal, "Is caused by the mother's failure to be keen enough to see where she may touch a child's life and where she may not; where it Is for her to guide, to help, to encourage, and where the child-life is sacred to Itself alone. That the child Is another Individual never occurs to some moth ers, nor that he has his own possi bilities for growth, not to be tampered with; his own privacies, not to be In vaded ; his own 'holy of holies,' to be held holy. The Power that Is working in the vast life of this universe Is work ing In your son or daughter as part of it; and It has Its own purpose In regard to each child life as surely as for each planet in its orbit God needs much help from mothers, but God does not Intend to be effaced by mothers. Co operate, then, with the Power working through your children, mothers. Do not make the great mistake of attempting to compete with it" Caeaar and Chicaao. Ruth Caesar said all Gaul was di vided Into three parts. Kitty Did he aay bow much of U a Chicago drnmmer got) SERMON T Rtc Br. Calmaoc . - I Subject God's Saving; Once Rllalon Is . aa Aeilva Priaelpla Which Wrti voaataauy For tba Welfare or Body aad ltlad aad Soul Hop For Slaaera. ' Copyright IMM.1 Washington, D. C Dr. Talmage ie now traveling in Norway, where he hat been deeply interested in the natural phe nomena and the quaint social life of that wonderful land. In this sermon he ar gues, contrary to the opinion of many, that religion is an active principle which works constantly for the welfare of body and mind and soul. His text is Luke xiv, 4. "Salt is good." The Bible is a dictionary of the finest similes. It employs among living creat ures storks and eagles and doves and uni corns and sheep and cattle; among trees, sycamores and terebinths and pomegran ates and almonds and apples; among jew els, pearls and amethysts and jacinth and chrysopraief!. Christ uses no stalf illustrations. . The lilies that lie plurks in His discourse are dewy fresh; the rnvenr in His discourses are not stuffed specimens of birds, but warm with life from wins tir to wing tip; the fish He points to are nol dull about the gills, as thouph loni; can tured. but a-squirm in the wet net jnl brought up on the beach of Tilerias. Ir my text, which is the peroration of one o His sermons. He picks up a crystal am holds it before His congregation as an illus tration of divine grace in the heart whet He says what we all know by exiicriment, "Salt is good." I shall try to carry out the Saviour's idea in this text and in the first place say to you that grace is like salt in its beauty. In Gallicia there are mines of salt with ex cavations and underground passages reach ing, I am told, 280 miles. Far underground there are chapels and halls of reception, the columns, the altars and the pulpits of salt. When the king and the princes come to visit these mines, the whole place if illuminated, and the glory of cryotal wallf and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal column, under the glare of the torches and the lainpa. needs words of crys tal to describe it. Tint you need not go sc fur as that to find the beauty of salt. You live in a land which produces millions ol bushels of it in a year, and you can lake the morning rail train and in a few hours get to the salt mines and salt springs, and you have this article morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowfl.-ike and water foam, with durability added. It is beautiful to the naked eye, but under the glass you see the stars, and the diamonds, and the white tree branches, and the splinters, and the bridges of fire as the sun glints them. There is more architect!! -al skill in one ol these crystals of salt tl an human inge nuity has ever demonstrated in an Alham bra or St. Peter's. It would take all time, -ith an infrinie ment upon eternity, for an cngel of God to tell one-half the glories in a salt crrstnl. So with the grace of Ood; it is perfectly beautiful. I have seen it smooth out wrin kles oj care from the brow; I have seen it make an aged man feel almost young again: I have seen it lift the stooping shoulders and put snarkle into the dull eye. Solomon discovered its therapeutic quali ties when he said, "It is marrow to the bones." It helps to digest the food and to purify the blood and to calm the pulsus and quiet the spleen, and instead of .Tvn dall's prayer test of twenty years ago, put ting a man in a philosophical hosnital to he experimented upon by-prayer, it keeps him so well that ne does not need to be prayed for as an invalid. I am sneaking now of a healthy religion not of that morbid relig ion that sits for three hours on a grave stone reading Hervcy's "Meditations Among the Tombs" a religion that pros pers best in a bad state of the liver! 1 speak of the religion that Christ preached I suppose, when that religion has con quered the world, that disease will be ban ished, and that a man 100 years of age will come in from business and say, "I am tired; I think it must he time for me to go." and without one physical pang heaven will have him. But the chief beauty of grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard and cold and repulsive and makes it all over again. It pours upon one's nature what David calls "the beauty of holiness." It extirpates everything that is hateful and unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust and worldliness lurk about, they are chained and have a very small sweep. Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of a summer garden as He comes in say ing, "I am the Rose of Sharon." and He submerges it with the glory of a spring morning, as He says, "I am the light." Oh, how much thnt grace did for the three Johns! It took John Bunyan, the foul mouthed, and made him John Hun van, the immortal dreamer; it took John STewton, the infidel sailor, and in the midt of the hurricane made him cry out, '-Mv mother's God, have mercy upon me!" It took John Suramerficld from a life of sin and by the hand of a Christian maker ol edge tools led him into the pulpit that burns still with the light of that Christian eloquence which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom He once despised. Ah, you may search all the earth over for anything so oaautiful or beautifying as the grace of God I Go all through the deep mine pas sages of Wieliczka and amid the under- End kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt and r me anything so transcendently beau as this grace of God fashioned and hung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is like salt in the fact tha it is a necessity of life. Man and ix-as perish without salt. What are those path across the western prairie? Why, they were made there by deer and buffalo goin Chemists and physicians all the world over tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And so with the grace of God; you must have it or die. I know a great many speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of (-houlili r strap adorning a soldier, or a light, froth ing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life is over, or a medicine to be taken after powders and mustard plasters have failed to do theii work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a string of bells around a horse's neck while he draws the load and in nowise helping him to draw it. So f.ir from that I declare the grace' of God to 1k the first and the I last necessity. It is food we must take or starve into an eternity ot tamine. it is clothing, without which w? freeze to the mast of infinite terror. It is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can hVtt shoreward. It is the ladder, and the on'y ladder, on which we can climb up into the light It is a postivc necessity for the soul. You can tell very easily what the effect would be if a person refused to take salt into the body. The energies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air slow fevers would crawl through the brain the heart would flutter, and the life would be gone. Salt, a necessity for the life ol the body; the grace of God, a necessity for the life of the soul ! Again, I remark that grace is like salt in abundance. God has strewn salt in vast profusion all over the continents. Russia seems built on a salt-cellar. 'Ihere is one region in that country that turns out 90,UtX. tons of salt in a year. Kngland and Russia ana Italy nave uiexnausiiuie resources in j this respect. Norway and Sweden, white j with snow above, white with salt beneath. Austria, yielding 900,(KI0 tons annually. Nearly all the nations rich in it i-ock salt, spring salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the world, when He uttered our text, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts were sunk, and the springs were bored. and the pumps were worKeci, ana the crys- tals were gathered. So the grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages. for all conditions. It seems to undergirt sverything-pardon lor tne worst sm com. fort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light tor the thickest aaraness. Around about the salt lakes of Saratov 'here are 10.000 men toiling -.v and night. md yet they paver exhaust the saUna trees- sres. And U the l.dou.uuu.oiK) ot our race should now cry out to (!od for Mis mercy there would be enough for nil for those turthest gone in sin, for, the murderer Handing on the dnvp of the gallows. It is in ocean of mercy, and if F.urope and sia, Africa. North and South America, ind all the islands of the sea went down n it to-day they would have room enough to wash and come ud clean. Let no man think that his case is too . one fOP 0od to ,ct upon. ThouKh roUr sin may be deep and raging, let me tell you that tiou s grace is a hndge not Diiilt on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful chasm ot your cunt. ne end resting upon the rock of eternal promises and the other on the foundations f heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so in rrusted with jewels that no one after hira ;vcr dared to wear it. But our King, Jesus, akes off the robe of His righteousness, a ohe blood dyed and heaven impearled, ind reaches it out to the worst wretch in ill the earth and says: "Put that on! Wear t now! Wear it forever!" " Again, the grace of God is like rait in Jie way we come at it. The salt on the airface is almost alwavs imimre that 'hieh incmsts the Rocky Mountains and be South American pampas and in India but the miners go down through Ihe :hafts and through the dark labyrinths aid long by galleries of rook, and with arches and pickaxes, find their way under he very foundations of the earth to where :he salt lies that makes up the nation's a-ealth. To get to the best saline springs f the earth huge machinery goes down, loring 'depth below depth, depth lielow lepth, until from under the very roofs of .he mountains the sn-line water supplies :he aqueduct. This water is brought to :he surface and is exposed in tanks to the mn for evaporation, or it is put in boilers nightily heated and the water evaporates, ind the salt gathers at the bottom of the jink. The work is completed, and the for ;une is made. Have you not been in enough trouble to lave that work go on? I was reading of.. Aristotle, who said there was a field of lowers in Sicily so s-cet that once a lound, coming on the track of game, came M that field and was bewildered ly the perfumes and so lost the track. Oh. that ur souls might become like "a field which ;he Trd hath blessed" and exhale so much f the sweetness of Christian character :hat'thc hounds of temptation, coining on ur track, might lose it and go Howling jack with disappointment! But I remark again that the grace of jiod is like the salt in its preservative piality. You know that salt absorbs the noisture of articles of food and infuses hem with brine, which preserves them for long while. Salt is the great antiputre actor of the world. Experimenters, in preserving wood, have tried sugar and imoke and air-tight jars and everything ?lse, but as long as the world stands Jhrist's words will be suggestive, and men vill admit that as a great preservative 'salt is good." But for the grace of God the earth would save become a stale carcass long before this. That grace is the only preservative Df laws and constitutions and literatures. Just as soon as a government loses 1 bis nit of divine grace it perisfies. The philo iophy of thiday, bo Jar as it is antagonis tic to this religion, putrefies and stinks. The great want of our schools of learning nd our' institutions of-science to-day it lot moreTeyden jars and galvanic batter ies and spectroscopes anil philosophical- ap paratus, but more of that grace that will teach our men of science that the God ol the universe is the God of the Bible. How strange it is that in all their mag nificent sweep of the telescope they have not seen the morning star of Jesus, and :ho in all their experiments with light anfi heat they have not seen the light and felt the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness! We want more ol the salt of God's grace in our homes, in our schools, in our col leges, in our social life, in our Christianity. And that which has it will live; that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tenden :y of everything earthly to putrefaction ind death, the religion of Christ the only preservative. My subject is one of great congratulation to those who have within their souls this rospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve -them through the temptations and sor rows of life and through the ages of eter nity. I do not mean to say that you will tiave a smooth time because you are s Christian. On the contrary, if you do youl whole duty I will promise you a rough time. You march through an enemy't sountrv, anil they will try to double up both flanks and to cut you off from youi lource of supplies. The war you wage will not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged to the hilt, and spurring on your steed over heaps of the slain. But I think that God omnipotent will see you through. I know He will. But why do I talk like an atheist when I ought to say I know He will? "Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation." When Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, died years ago I lost a good friend. He impressed me mightily with the horrors ol war. In the eight hours that we rode to gether in the cars he recited to me the scenes through which he had passed in the civil war. He said that there came one battle upon which everything seemed to pivot. Telegrams from Washington said that the life of the nation depended on that struggle. He said to me: "1 went intc that battle, sir, with my son. nis mothei snd I thought everytliing of him. You know how a father will feel toward hie on who is coming up manly and brave and good. Well, the battle opened and con centered, and it was awful. Horses and riders bent and twisted' and piled up to gether. It was awful, sir. We quit tiring ind took to the point of the bayonet. Well, sir, I didn't feel like myself that day. I had prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went into it feel ing that I had in my right nrm the strength of ten giants," and as the Gov ernor brought his arm down on the back rf the seat it fairly made the car tremble. "Well," he said, "the battle was dcserate, but after awhile we pained a little, and we marched on a little. I turned round to the troops and shouted. 'Come on, boys!' and I stepped across a dead soldier, and lo, it was my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a minute, for the crisis had come in the bat tle, so I just got down on my knees, and 1 threw my arms around him, and I gave, him one good kiss and said, 'Good-by. ilear.' and sprang up and Bhouted, 'Come on, bovs! " So it is in the Christian con flict. It is a fierce fight. Heaven is wait ing for the bulletins to announce the tre mendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of sa lire, fall of battlcax. groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereavement or anything else. With one ardent em brace and loving kiss we litter our fare wells and then cry: "Come on. boys!" There are other heights to lie cat. hired, there are other foes to be conquered, there are other crowns to be won." Yet as one of the Ixud's surgeons I mnst hind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever thry be. I have been told there is nothing like salt o stop the blcedinj of a wound, and so I take this salt of Christ's gospel and put it on the lacerated soul. Tt smarts a little at first, hut see, the bleeding stops, and lo the flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child! "Salt is good." "Comfort one another with these words." Every time you turn yoi'r eyes en evil iln uliailow fulls on your heart. Nothing Is so indicative of deepest culture us a tender considers.! inn ;if -abe ignorant, if you want you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you niuut toil f.ir it, and if pleasure, you must toil fur It; toil is the law. The individual who c'iinbs to fame and fortune over the shoulders f 'Uriel- must look down on thvir hatred. Knthusiasm Is the genhin of sincerity nrio truth aceomulisiies nj victories without it. j The man who fights country is never a hero. against his I 1.1,f,rv lhaf hIh ,...-. e Bnne.a . , neVer tired of eulottxin Its own Justice ana discernment. The bachelors In the state of New York outnumber the spinsters 120,- 000. , t X
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