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MIFFMNTOWN, JUXIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1900
NO. 32
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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Rtc Br. Calmaoc
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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. ,
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