B. F. SCHVEIER, THE COtlSTITUTIOnTHE UniOfl AflD THE EnFORCEUERT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor YOL. L.IV. MIFFLIKTOWy, JUNIATA' COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1900 NO. 50. BY B. 2UT. CROKBR JB CUAPTEK XXII. (CxntiunedJ How the tidings, were broken to Mrs. Brabazon we need not linger to relate; for do pen could give the faintest idea of that lady's indignant incredulity in the first phase, wild, incoherent invective la the second, and hysterical, weeping and Jcnuncintion of Honaus inhuman"in iratituJe in the third and last scene. She vent about, her handkerchief applied to her eyes, a model of injured innocence, at posins as a melancholy representation of fallen greatness. She wrote reams of letters and made many farewell calls in the neighborhood good-naturedly taking her acquaintances into her confidence as regarded her opinion of the bride-elect tuJ she left not a few directions to Esme of a distinctly testamentary nature. In deed, one would imagine, from the way he tre herself, that once she had shak en the dust of Barousford from off her feet, its downfall was a mere question of time. Mrs. Brabazon had a large, really sur prising amount of baggage; trunk and case, and case and trunk, were filled and nailed down djy by day; and certainly the china and curios about the house be came smaller by degrees, and beautifully less, as these packages increased In num ber and size. One moruing Esme fetched her aunt upstai-s to the big spare room in which Noises and her mistress bad beeu closet td since breakfast time. They simultane ously uttered an exclamation of hasty an no j a nee as Ksme slowly pushed back the door against a pile of books and stuff on the tloor. and admitted Miss Jane. "Now. now. Miss Esme, just please to ....r.r .r I onsaiy as sne spoae. 1 aon t mean a tartly: and indeed, she had need to do so. J candidate for an asylum, quite, but simp Also her aunt, who stepped nimbly over ly that you have an unusual deficiency all ol.sti.-Ies and stared about her with a of sense." face of undisguised amazement. The car pet was littered with lace, house linen, knick-knacks and old china, and the bed was spread from top to bottom with fam ily silver, punch bowls, teapots, cream Jugs, marrow spoons, sauce ladles, snuff boxes, candlesticks nothing had been toe insignificant to escape notice. The dress ing table was loaded with piles of old brocade and needlework, and three greedy looking big trunks-yawned open mouthed in the middle of the room ready to swallow those treasures. Before one of these boxes Mrs. Brabazon was kneel ing. "Good morning. Sara. said her sister-in-law. briskly. "Busy. I see, as nsuaL I just came np to ask if Iconld help you In any way?" "No, no. thanks. I can manage very well by myself with Nokes," looking greatly put out, as she spoke, and scu fling away some articles out of sight. "I never can pack if I am watched; it puts me out altogether. Here," closing the lid with a bang. "I'll come down with you. Jane." "But, surely, you are not packing these things, are you, Sara? You are only put ting them away, and I can- do that fot you. you know," said the. old lady, still hanging back. "1'utting them by? No, I'm packing them np to take away," now driven to bay, "they are my own property. "Good gracious, Sara! what do you mean? Is not that my grandmother' f posset bowl that Nokes has in her hand?" she asked, with an air of pious surprise. "There must be some monstrous mistake in your packing up family silver, lace, linen and china." "No mistake at all! Everything in tht room is mine," waving her hand dramat ically toward the floor, the bed and the dressing table, resolved to put down Mis Jane, as she had ever been wont to do. "My dear hnsband gave me all," she add ed, with a kind of sniff, that might mean either defiance or a tribute to his mem ory. But these were heirlooms;- and for once the old lady was firm. "He could not give you what never was his, Sara. They are heirlooms; they be long to his children and children's1 chil dren. --fis must be seen to. I'm really istonlshed that you do not see the mis take yourself," stiffening visibly as she poke. Mrs. Brabazon failed to see La; "is take; and her instincts of rapacity and plunder extinguished everything else, in her bosom even ordinary prudence. Each lady stoutly maintained her own opin ion, and the result was a. very pretty quarrel, to which Esme and Nokes were the two speechless seconds.- Mrs. Brabazon figuratively bounded in to the arena, and let herself go for once ne arena, ana lei uerrii v so far forgot Jierself as to call Miss ie a "miserly 'old sneaV and a ."med- f he Jane dlesome old cat:" and the latter, ithout descending to such vulgar expressions, made some very telling hits, and managed to have her say in a collected and im Dressive manner: and. in the end, by a clever maneuver, concluded the battle by locking up the room and carrying off the kev. which, needless to say, was tanta mount to capturing her enemy'a colors and euns: and as she departed. Key in pocket, she sternly announced that it was her immediate intention to summon the fumily lawyer, The family lawyer duly arrived the next day, and went into the matter of the late Mr. Brabazon s will and personality, and found not a few Iood holes and flaws. It appeared that Mrs. Brabazon had so far overstepped her rights that rlonan was his sister s legal guardian, ana ma the lady had for years been trading o the ignorance and Innocence or ner step children, and regularly pocketing the ia- erest nf Kamo'a liftlp fortune. . Half tht modern silver was the widow's share but of linen, plate, Inee-nnd china there was no mention. A very solemn cene was enacted in the dining room when the ilver was divided, and weighed under the eyes of the lawyer, a silversmith. Miss Jane. Cnssie. Psme and Noses, airs. Brahazon enM and trembling. Stood very close o the scales, with an air of tragic nrihW filu MindilaMii tnm she wan bo ms tmnsfnii. nkKaH Still she made It Point to grasp what she could from the wreck of hp nrnnortv: and once, wnen her share in the balance was half ounce lighter than Klorian's. she fiercely insisted on her due her half-ounce an to that end wrested a spoon oat of a mustard pot. with her own qaivenus, i .v hi ll- 1 HIT WW" ..- I nngers. JD me wu.. nsion of the spoil was harmoniously con- ducted, for MiJ-n..Bd her nieces pre erved throughout the ceremony a re served sir and prudential silence. d.e w,"1rry hen Mrs. Brabazon brougham, and was promptly whirled "he Towfd many, many Tengeances on Flonau and that little serpent, his fu ture bride. However, there were crumbs of comfort-very solid, pleasant crumbs -in the shape of safe inTestments Inthe three per cents; so let no one commiserate ier as she is most cheerfully driven to the station and thus passes out of the story. CHAPTER XXIII. dorian is a married man! Hatty Clip Perton reigns boisterously at Baronsford. and Game hss been spending a season in town, and has really seen the great world at last, has become alive to the fact that she is considered "one of the beauties," and has had several "unexceptionable" offers. It is a very warm and almost tropical afternoon near the end of June, and she and Gnssie are alone in Gussie's little front drawing room, which Is crowd ed with flowers; in banks between the windows, in the gate, on the chimney piece, and on every available bracket, shelf and table. The windows are open, the rose-colored blinds are half drawn down, yet the atmosphere Is oppressive and stifling. Both the sisters are dressed in white, Gussie with mauve ribbons and Esme with black; the former ia stretched out on the sofa in an attitude of complete physical prostration. "I have been thinking, Esme," she ob served at last, "thinking seriously about you, and I have come to the conclusion tuai yon are an miot: fanning away "I'm sure I am greatly obliged to you." rejoined lthe other, looking up with a smile. "May I ask why yon think I have no sense?" . "Certainly, you may ask. Because here you are refusing to make bay while the snn shines: obstinately declining offer af ter offer. There was." now rapidly count ing on her fingers. "Foster Forbes. Sit David Campbell, yonng Galloway, all sent to the right about. Pray," sarcas tically, "what do you expect a duke?" "No," with curt decision. "The season is getting on. and yon have been considered quite one of tht belles, and yet you are not engaged,' grumbled Gussie, aggrievedly. "What if the good of having a pretty sister, and ev eryone making a fuss about her, whet she will not take any advantage of hei opportunities? Ton are enough to pro voke a saint!" "Which you are not." returned hei companion, with more truth than courte sy. " "I wonder you are not tired of the subject, Gus; I am. I have told you ai least fifty timea that I do not wish tc marry. I mean to take a leaf out ol Aunt Jane's book. It is not penal to pre fer single blessedness. I intend to be very nice old maiden lady." An old maid!" disdainfully. "A likely tale: but," angrily. "I know why you tals i;t thU I holiew von have still a lik ing for Miles; you infatuated young worn- j an! Milea was good-looking ami genue manly I give you that in. les. yes. half sitting up, and gazing keenly at hei sister; "you need not speak, your face if sufficient. Positively, I could light a can die at it, I do assure you! Ah. I sec that K la still Miles. And I must say I wonder yon have not more Bride; even il he would marry yon. to marry him would be madness, for instance, you know that I am very fond of Fred; but, all th same, if he had not been well endowed with this world's goods. I would not havt married him." "It is quite superfluous to mention that," rejoined her sister, sharply. "Now, don't be cross, Esme. I'm only doing my duty, and it is really most un selfish of me to put these things plainly before you, for I would much rather yoc remained single, and a companion for me But when A see Craven Hepburn and twenty-fire thousand a year actually beg ging of yon to take them I feel that 1 must speak." "Well, now you have done your duty and relieved your conscience. I will tes tify to the fact to all inquiring friends, said Esme, impatiently, "and let us heal no more about it. Never mind my low affairs. Gussie. What about going to the Bohuns this evening? It's too hot. isn I "Oh" fanning very fast, "one may Just as well be hot there, where one ia anuis ed as here, where there's nothing to do We will go. of course," with decision. Mrs Vashon was a little lady who live on excitement, and was never happy un less she was flying from one entertain ment to another. Her appetite for con slant amusement was insatiable, and thf same spirit which prompted her to ru down and play tennis at the Bells tc walk into Byford. to volunteer-Jor ba wars children's parties, and school feast. "J" thing for a change, anything fo. novelty., the same that now impellec Ser to one continual round of dance. JS?5! "nothing on hand. -Ir was one great event over than she . thll"ng of -"other: and the sugges "o'n that "they should stay -t.homeo. once and have a quiet evening, she look about for some ?to Mi,es and home, we tu.rnce m ore to b his friend moths on nied- been in England 1 for mon lng teal certificate. " " in ni, ,tire in ladies society. not, ganter pas north, but in the lrle- Vu He does fcre. ot: te Jte,Sr Army not look much of the Juu Navy in the South Af- MUes. wbo nI' 'ndt,e,ve hpurs. It to He. .with- the 1t twelve nearly tw years '... mo dreary the djnina; room 8tran rears swfm at a auu. " -a Jin VTriU . II to mace jne . ..t. I tD.gt,nCe. endeavoring, wits) i monotonous -eis . -. might, to forget what "might have oeen, and yet dreading every newspaper -f. every letter be opened, to see the announcement of his cousin Esme's marriage. Of course, she would marry! rom words Ignorantly let fall by his brother officers lately from home, from copious descriptions from Annie, he was fully alive to the fact that Miss Braba zon was no longer a mere pretty little country flower, born to blush unseen: but that all through the fall fierce light of a Umdon summer, she had ranked as one of the season's beauties. It waa by no wish of his own that he found himself in London. He bad been sent home, at two days' notice, in charge of invalids, and had only had time to tele graph to Dicky from St. Vincent. He found that gentleman eagerly awaiting him at Southampton, ready to welcome him the moment the gangway was out. The two friends journeyed np to Lon don, and of course dined at the club to gether, sitting a long time over their meal and talking any amount of "shop," for Captain Gee was greedy of regimental news. When he had severely cross-examined his companion down to the personal appearance of the latest, he suddenly said in the most matter-of-fact manner, but looking askance under his white eye lashes: "By the wsy. Miles. I'm going to take you to a party to-night." Miles merely stared at his friend for some seconds wit st lazy amusement, nnd then said, as he deliberately helped him self to cheese. "Not If I know it. old man." "Oh. come, you know; none of yonr nonsense. You must come to oblige me." "And why? What is the special attrac tion r "I promised Mrs. De Montmorency Bo bun to go, to be sure, and put in an ap pearance, and I could not disappoiu; h r." with conscious importance. "Bosh, my good sir: sne'ii never miss you," said his companion, discoj'agingly. "She will never know whether you weie there or not. I'm afraid you are getting that red head of yours turned." "I promised to go and bring a friend." proceeded Dicky, firmly "to bring a friend. Ton are the friend." with a pompous sweep of bis hand. "Am IT ironically. "I rather fancy that by the time you are fighting your way into this good lady's drawing room I shall be in bed." "I have invested in two of the most touching buttonholes in London, and I'm not going to have yours wasted," return ed the other, coolly ignoring his friend's remark. "It would be ratner hard lines if we did not spend the first evening to gether, eh? And, strictly between yon and me, there's a little girl I particularly wish you to see." "Meaning the future Mrs. Gee?" ex pressively. "I'm not sure," grinning: "anyway, she does not stand half a bad chance." "But can you not manage to present me some other time? Why not to-morrow?" feebly. "You know how I loathe par ties." "Yon won't loath this one, I'll go bail. You'll come? You must come." "Well" irritably. "I suppose I must; but, mind you. I'll only look in for half an hour. Remember. I'm not as keen a society man as you are. and I'm only go ing to oblige you." Within five minutes of midnight ws discover the two gentlemen leisurely winding their way up Mrs. Bohun's tsair rase. (To be continued.! Current Topics. A prize of 600 will be offered by Sll William Lyne for the best ode in com memoration of the new Commonwealth of Australia New Orleans City Council has re jected a proposed ordinance providing for separate street cars for negroes, in spite of great pressure brought to secure its passage. A similar move ment failed In the State Legislature at the recent session. Prizes to servants who had served their masters a long time were distrib uted in Austria on the occasion of the Emperor's 70th birthday. Twenty-one prizes of $75 each were given for serv ing thirty years. Among the recipients were a valet 71 years of age, who had served his master 46 years; a nurse 72 years of age, who had been 42 years in one family; a maid of all work. 77 years of age, whose record was 41 years, and a cook, kitchenmald and a maid of all work, who had each stayed In one place 39 years. The New Zealand Parliament Is about to authorize the expenditure of 1.000, mm for the extension of the railways of that colony. The outlay will be provI(M ed tor oy me negotiation ui nau. Upward of 48.000 Turks have been ex iled from their native country during the past eleven years; and It is said that the Sultan has expended nearly $5,000,000 since 1895 In trying to persuade certain of the exiles to return. The London Dally Mail says that the days of the banjo are numbered in Eng land, and that that instrument will soon be included in the same category with the mouth organ and the accordion. The zither is growing in popularity, and will probably be the favorite Instrument during the coming winter. Personals. ' One of the remarkable things about the-late Max Muller waa that be -vemployedlIla a lypewr.v.. ,1.,- hand. life a Another iSaward A. Ross, who has been at Dr. K1 waru j. V tment Df econo the head of h de,,Jarhm inland Stan- mL " "il Member of the In- elected an the n-ing " ,-, who are endowed reigning monr. WS,th the Emper wlth literary talents. Bot" from or f PtlVears devoted themselves their earlier y " . f , the verse Vr ls cor- SnatarTpost Innumerable. : General Sports. peter riM "of S. 5S - More B Louisville Ky.) clu b. f The new Nat onaM at nt ball Clubs wiU meeti. month. Prhands then r lose Se'fnte-re.ro'f ffplU- "Tg to Ianci. Prisoner of War. Ml ( rant again this month? This la the third time It haa happen ed within the half-year. I'U go there myself and get the money, or I'll know the reason why." Matthew Deane waa In particularly; bad humor this raw December morn-. Ins. Everything had gone wrong, Stocks had fallen when they ought to have risen hie clerk had tipped over the Inkstand on bis special and pecu liar heap of paper the lire obstinately refused to barn In the grate In short, nothing went right, and Mr. Deane waa consequently and correspondingly cross. "Jenkins!" "Yea, air." "Go to the Widow Clarkson's and teD her I shall be there in half an hour, and expect confidently mind, Jenkins confidently to receive that rent money. Or else I shall feel myself obliged to resort to extreme measures. You understand, Jenkins T' "Certainly, sir." Then don't stand there starln' like an Idiot," snarled Mr. Deane. in a sud den burst of Irritation, and Jenkins dis appeared like a shot. Just half an hour afterward Matthew Deane brushed the brown hair just sprinkled wfth gray from Ms square yet not unkindly brow. Putting on his fur-lined overcoat he walked forth Into the chilly winter air fully determined, figuratively, to annihilate the default ing Widow Clarkson. . It was a dwarfish little red brick house which appeared originally to nave aspired to two-storyhood lot, but cramped by circumstances had settled down Into a story and a half, but the windows shone like Brazilian pebbles, and the doorsteps were worn by much scouring. Neither of these clrcutu- stances, however, did Mr. Deane re mark as be pulled the glittering brass doorknob and strode Into Mrs. Clark- son's neat parlor. There was a small fire Tory small, as If -every lump of anthracite was hoarded hi the stove, and at a table with writing Implements before her aat a young lady whom Mr. Deane at once recognized as Mrs. Clarkson's niece. Miss Olive Mellen. She was not dis agreeable to look upon, though you would never have thought of classing her among the beauties, with shining black hair, blue, long-lashed eyes, and a very pretty mouth, hiding teeth like rice kernels, so white were they. Miss Mellen rose with a polite nod. which was grimly reciprocated by Mr. Deane. "I have called to see yonr aunt. Miss Mellen." "I know It, sir, but as I am aware ol her timid temperament, I sent her away. I prefer to deal with you my self." Mr. Deane started the cool audacity of this damsel in gray, with scarlet ribbons In her hair, rather astonished Dim. "I suppose the money Is ready?" -No, sir. It Is not." Then, Miss Olive, pardon me, I must peak plainly, I shsll send an officer here this afternoon to put a valuation on the furniture, and " "You will do nothing of the kind, s4r." Olive's cheek' had reddened and her eyes flashed portentously. - Mr, Deane turned toward the door, but ere he knew what she was doing, Olive had walked quietly across the room, locked the door, and taken out the key then she resumed her sest. "What does this mean?" ejaculated the astonished "prisoner of war." "It means, sir, -that you will now be obliged to reconsider' the question," said Olive. "Obliged." "Yes you will hardly Jump out ot the window, and there is no other meth od of egress unless you choose to go up the chimney. Now, then, Mr. Deane, will you tell me If you a Christian man in the ulneteentb century intend to sell a poor widow's furniture be cause she Is not able to pay your rent? Listen, sir!" Mr. Deane had opened his mouth to remonstrate, but Olive enforced her words with a very emphatic little stamp of her foot, and he was, as It were,-stricken dumb. . "You are what the world calls a rich man, Mr. Deane. You own rows of bouses, piles of bank stock, railroad shares, bonds and mortgages who knows what? My aunt has nothing I support her by copying. Now. If this case be carried Into a court of law, my poor ailing aunt will be. a sufferer you would emerge unscathed and profiting. You are not a bad man, Mr. Deane; you have -a great many noble qualities, and I like you for them." 7be paused an instant and looked In tently and gravely at Mr. Deane. The color rose to his cheek It was not dis agreeable to be told by a pretty young girl that she liked him, on any t ran, yet she had' Indulged in pretty plain speaking. "I have beard," she went on, "of your doing kind actions when you were' In the humor of It. You can do tbem, and you shall In this Instance. You are cross this morning, yon know you are! Hush, no excuse; you are elfish and Irritable and overbearing! II I were' your mother, and yon a little boy, I should certainly put you In a corner until you promised to be goad." Mr. Deane smiled, although be was "i ran ran to mil with toc mtielf." getting angry. Olive went on with tht utmost composure. But as it is. I shall only keep yon here a prisoner until you have behav ed, and given me your word not te an noy my aunt again for rent until she Is able to pay you. Then, and not un til then, will yon receive yonr money. Do you promise? Yes or no?" "I certainly shall agree to no such terms," said Mr. Deane, tartly. "Very wall, sir, I can wait" Miss Mellen deposited the key In the pocket of her gray dress and sat down to her copying. Bad she been a man Mr. Deane would probably have knock ed her down as It waa, she wore an In visible armor of power In the very fact that she was a fragile, slight woman, tnd she knew It. "Miss Olive," he said, sternly, "lei us terminate this mummery. Unlock that door!" "Mr. Deane, I will not!" 'I shall shout and alarm the neigh borhood then, or call a policeman." "Very well, Mr. Deane. do so, if you please." She dipped her pen In the ink and began on a fresh page. Matthew sat down, puzzled and discomfited, and watched the long-lashed eyes and faint ly tinted cheek of his keeper. She was very pretty what a pity she waa so abstlnate. "Miss Oliver "Sir?" "The clock has Just struck 12.' "I heard It." "I should Hke to go out to get soma lunch. "I am sorry that that luxury la out f your power. "But I'm confounded hungry, "Are your "And I'm not going to stand this sort f thing any longer. "Nor "How provoklngly nonchalant she wss. Mr. Deane eyed the pocket of the gray drees greedily and walked up ind down the room pettishly. "I have an appointment at 1. "Indeed! What a pity you will be livable to keep It.' He took another turn across the room. .Hive looked up with a smile. "Well, are you ready to promise?" "Hang It. yes! What else can I do?" "You promise?" "I do, because I can't help myself." Olive drew the key from her pocket R'ltb softened eyes. "You have made me very happy, Mr. Deane. I dare say you think me un womanly and unfemlnlne, but Indeed rou do not know to what extremities are are driven by poverty. Good morn ng. sir." Mr. Deane sallied forth with a curt- us complication of thoughts and emo lons struggling through his brain, in vhlch gray dresses, long Lashed blu yea and scarlet ribbons played a prom nent part. "Did you get the money, sir?" asked :he clerk, when be walked into the fflce. "Mind your business, sir." was the :art response. "I pity her husband." thought Mr. Deane aa ae turned the papers over on lis desk. "How she will ben peck him. By the way. I wonder who her hus tand will be?" The next day be called at the Widow .'larkson's to assure Miss Mellen that ie bad no idea of breaking bis promise, i ml the next but. one after that be a me to tell the young lady she need utertaln no doubt of bis Integrity. And be next week he dropped In on tbem vlth no particular errand to serve as in excuse! "When shall we be married. Olive? ext month, dearest? Do notlet us nit It off later." "I have no wishes but yours, Mat hew." "Really, Miss Olive Mellen, to bear hat meek tone one would suppose you tad never locked me up here and tyrannized over me as a Jailer." Olive burst Into a merry laugh. "You dear old Matthew; l give yon earning beforehand that I mean to lave my own way in everything. Do rou wish to recede from your bargain? t Is not too late yet." No. Matthew Dean didn't; be had a ague Idea that It would be very pleas- tnt to be henpecked by Olive! Watch-Chaln of Peach Stones. A Lewiston. Me., man baa a curious vatch chain made of peach stones. Each of the nine stones Is carved on ach side In a different device, so that here are eighteen different designs. rtiA atfinui a r. 1n1n1 with tiar a m ,- h.i. m.bin. . rt-h mA wvel chain. How to Save School Children. In the Ladies' Home Journal Edward Bok takes up the cudgel again against the cramming methods Inflicted on school children, and urges as a step toward a reform of the abuse "that every parent who has a child at school will send a note to the teacher that, under no circumstances whatever, will the father and mother permit any home study by the child. "This may seem to be a very simple thing to do," he contends, "but often the simplest things are the most effec tive. If the teachers of this country should, within the next month, receive, thousands of notes from parents to the effect pointed out, which they could and I can speak for hundreds of teach ers when I say that they would gladly do so band to the heads of their schools. It would practically mean a readjustment of the entire system of study. This may be better understood when It Is realized that the entire sys tem of study during school hours In many of the schools Is so arranged as to allow for some of the work to be done by the pupils at home. Let this taken-for-granted home study be stop ped, and a change would at once have to be made. The studies at school can not be Increased In number, for already there are too many. The school hours cannot be lengthened because the tide has set in to shorten them. Hence, some stules would have to be thrown out, if home study were eliminated. And this la the result desired." ; Adam, must have been swift-footed Inasmuch as he was first In the humac race. ' live not to eat. but rather eat te U DEATHS ON LAND AND SEA. Vafer te Oo te War er te Sea tfcaa U Travel br Ball. According to the o facial returns one's chance of being drowned by falllna overboard or losing one's life througk shipwreck In the British merchant ma rine is as one to 147. Taking into a count all the other accidents which oc cur on board ship, the chances are as one in 129. This Is for the officers and crews of the merchant navy. The pas senger has a much better chance-ls fact, bis risks are. almost nothing. Of the hundreds of thousands of passen gers carried by British ships in the last year only 116 lost their lives through shipwreck. It would almost seem thai It Is safer to go to sea than to stay ashore, provided one Is a passenger. Great Britain employed over 221.00C men In her merchant marine last year, a smaller number than she has em ployed before for many years. Of these 1,908 were lost by wreck or drowning and 206 by other accidents, making a total of 1,706 sailors of British ships, sail and steam, who perished at sea in the course of 1889. Sailing vessels are not aa safe to work In aa steamers, fot one sailor In ninety who shipped In a "lime Juice wind Jammer," which, be ing Interpreted, Is a British sailing ves sel, last year lost his life by wreck or drowning, and enough were killed aboard such ships in other wsys than wreck or drowning to bring the aver age up to one In eighty -one sailors who never again will see the "dear white cliffs of Dover." In steam vessels the number lost from every cause was only vne In every 162 sailors employed. It is Interesting to compare this rec ord of lives lost at sea with the report of the United States Interstate com merce commies lonera, showing the deaths .""g railroad employes in this country as the result of sccldents. Last year 2,210 railroad employes were kill- frhl and 84,923 Injured, a total of 37.133. his Is nearly two and one-half times many men as were killed and wounded In the British army In South lafrlca up to July 1, which Is set down In round numbers as 18,000. Taking the record of deatha on American rail ways among the employes, those peo ple -who are technically known to the roads as "trespassers" and the passen gers, the number of killed foots up to 7,123, besides which there were 44,620 people Injured a total of over 51,000, This is far in excess of the number of people killed and wounded In the wart in South Africa and In the Philippines, Including friend and foe. It would seem that warfare and seafaring were, after all. safe occupations compared with traveling by railroad. The figures also would seem to prove that we art atlll far away from the perfection of railway travel. In spite of all the In genious Inventions which have been made to make it safer to travel by rail, the loss of life due to railway accidents Is still appallingly large. LURED THE DOQ TO COMBAT How a Wlee Cat Ketabllaked Her Ae thorttr la a Cafe. Cats and dogs do not fraternise aa a general thing, though now and then they strike up an alliance. - An interest ing Instance of this took place In an uptown cafe the other night, but not until after the cat and dog Involved were. In accordance with the usual custom, at sword's point. The dog wss Captain, a particularly small cocker spaniel. The cat waa Lena, who, aa her name suggests. Is fond of frank furters and Swiss cheese, and who hitherto has maintained a standing Feud against all dogs. Lena la a fight r, and dogs, barring Captain, are bet et aversion. Captain belongs to John Hogan, tht old-rime minstrel man, and It came to pass that the first time be ventured in to Lena's stronghold he was looking for trouble. Lena never exerts her self to avoid trouble, and Captain was accommodated before Ms visit was 0Ter. Lena posted her forfeit and lost rio time In quibbling over the time for weighing In. The point of the story, hoWTr t the deliberate manner in 1 .niCB i.en brought about the conflict. i ,t ,, has two feline as- tf who mpe 0f a peaceful nature, rhustai- anoeared on the scene the two timid cats were sharing a bone, whtoh p.p.tw at once appropriated. Lena waa close by taking note of the proceeding!!. For a minute she did nothing but think. Her plan of cam paign figured out, she arose and slowly walked behind the lunch connter. Her sctlons were noted by Captain's own- ad who knowing Lena's prowess as a repeiier or aag Doaraers, had regarded Captain's temerity with unazement. Lena's plan was apparent when she merged from behind the lunch coun ter with another bone. This she carried to within a few feet of Captain, where the laid It down and coolly stepped islde to await developments. It was s Mlpabie challenge. Captain accepted the issue Instanter. He walked over, took Lena's bone in Ms teeth and then put his foot on the other bone. The next Instant he had other things to at tend to than bones. Lena was on h1t back and the battle was on. Captain ts a valuable dog and the combatants were quickly pulled apart. Captain was minus a few locks of hair, while Lens had the bone and a smile of triumph. Captain and Lena are friendly Snougb now, although Captain has not )t recovered from his surprise at dis covering that there Is one cat that not snty doesn't go out of Its way to avoid dogs, but lures them Into conflict as well. New York Times. Hte Idea of Iswtttatioa. The Orator My friends, the trust: are engaged in a dastardly attempt to destroy our Institution.! Weary Watklns WeU, I hope they'll stop at tsaxln' down the penitentiaries in' leave the porebousea alone. Tee Many Cooks. Aunt Mallody laid down her rolling pin, set her hands on her hips and de livered herself of this proud bit of wis dom: "Great trouble In dis world is, day la too many people who don't know enough to be foat cook aa know too much to be second." IncMsnspolis SB Of 1 DAY lreacbed by Rev. Dr. Talmage Sp'-Jeci . The Welfare of Others r Bhould Kanlah SelflahnMS Job Deliv ered From Kvll When He Prayed Fol friends Happy From Doing Good. ICo-.Tric'it IWKlLl Wahhixgtox, 1). C. In this discourse Dr.- Talmage wars on narrowness ot view and urges a life helpful to other; text, Job xlii, 10, "And the Lord turned the capitivity of Job when lie prayed for hie friends." Comparatively few people read this last chapter of the book of Job. The earlier chapters are so full of thrilling incident of events so dramatically portrayed, ol awful ailments' and terrific disaster, of domestic infelicity, of staccato passage, of resounding address, of omnipotency proclaimed, of utterances showing Job to nave been the greatest scientist of his day, an expert in mining and precious stones, astronomer, and geographer, and zoologist, and electrician, and poet, that most readers stop before they get to my text, which, strangely and mysteriously, announces that "the Lord turned the cap tivity of Job when he prayed for his friends." Now, will you please explain to me how Job's prayer for his friends hailed his catastrophes? Give me some good reason why Job on hia knees in behalf of the welfare of others arrested the long pro cession of calamities. Mind you. it was not prayer for himself, for then the cessa tion of his troubles would have been only another instance of prayer answered, but the portfolio of his disaster was rolled up while he supplicated God in behalf of Eli phaz the Temanite. liildid the Miuhitc, and Zophar the Naamathite. I must con fess to you that I had to read the text over and over again before I got ita full meaning "And the Lord turned the cap tivity of Job when he prayed for hia friends." Well, if you will not explain it to me, I will explain it to you. The healthiest, the most recuperative thing on earth to do is to stop thinking so much about ourselves and go to thinking about the welfare of others. JrH had been studying his misfor tunes, but the more he thought about his bankruptcy the poorer he seemed, the more Le thought of his carbuncles the worse iney hurt, the more he thought of his unfortunate marriage the more in tolerable became the conjugal relation, the more he thought of his house blown down the more territic seemed the cyclone. His misfortunes grew blacker and blacker, but there was to come a reversal of these sad conditions. One day he said to him self: "I have been dwelling too much upon my bodily ailments and my wife's temper and my bereavements. It is time I began to think about others and do something tor others, and I will start now by r aying for my three friends." Then Job dropped upon his kuees, and a " did so that lost shackle of his captivity of trouble snar ed and fell on. ilear it, all ye ages of time and all ye ages of eternity. the Lord turned the captivity ot Job when he prayed tor his friends." The fault with most of us is too much self concentration our health, our for tunes, our advancement, our social posi tion, our achievements, our losses, our de feats, our sufferings, our persecution, our life, our death, our immortality. Of course there is a lawful and righteous selfishness. In a world and in a time of such activities and rivalries and temptations we must look after our own interests and our own destiny or we will go under. Do not wait for others to take care of yon. Take care of yourself. Hut it will not hinder our preservation and prosperity if we enlarge the sphere of our wishes and prayers so as to take in oth ers, the law in the natural worm wouxi do well fcr the moral and spiritual world. The centripetal force in nature would throw everything in toward the center, and the centrifugal force in nature would throw everything out from the center, but the centripetal and the centrifugal work beautifully together. The one force that would throw everything toward the cen ter is bal need by the force that would throw everything outward. Our world, with its own interests, feels the pull of other worlds. No world, no nation, no community, no man, no woman, can afford to exist on'y for itself or him self or herself. The hour in which Job has that soliloquy about the enlargement of his prayers so as to take in his friends and he put into execution his good resolu tion was the hour when lie felt a tonic, a sedative, a nervine, a cataplasm, that helped to cure his body and revived his fortunes till they were a hundred per cent, better than ever before, for the record is "the Lord gave Job twice ns much as he had before." and tended to make him a wonder of longevity, for he lived 140 years after hia troubles were gone. Oh, what a mighty medienment is the contemplation of and the effort for the welfare of others! "But," says some one, "it , was easy enough for Job to pray for his friends. Anybody can do that. There are those to whom we are obligated for years of kindness. They stand so close to us in sympathy and reminiscence and antici pation that it is easy for ns to pray for their welfare." Well, I see you do not understand that- these friends of Jnh were the most tantalizing and exaprrati-ii friends a man ever had. Look at their behavior. When they heard of his be reavements and the accidents hy whir! wind and lightning stroke, they came in and sat down by him a whole week, sev en days and seven nights, and the record is "none spake a word to him." What a disreputable and wiclfed silence! Mind you, they professed to he religious men. and they ought to have been able to offer some religious consolation. Instead of that they were dumb as the snhinx which at that time stood in the African desert and stands there still. Why did they not s.-y something about reunion in the heaven ly realms with his children, who had been slain? Why did they not talk to him about the satisfactory explanations in the future world of things we do not under stand in this world? Why did they not go to the apothecary and buy a noultice that would have soothed the carbuncles, or some quieting potion that would calm his nerves, or a few drops of fehribiiee that would cool his heated frame? No! For seven days and seven nights they did nothing and said nothing for his relief. They must have almost bored him to death. After these three friends had completed their infamous silence of a week they be gan to lecture Job. First Kliphac the Temanite opens with a long story about a dream which he had in the night and ir ritates the sufferer with words that make things worse instead of better, and sets him in an attitude of defense against the lecturer. Then comes Dildad the Shuhite. who gives the invalid a round scolding and calls him garrulous and practically tells him that he deserved all that he had got and that if he had b -haved h'mself aright he would not have lost bis house or his children or his estate. He practically said: "Job, I will tell yon what is the matter with vou. You are bad. You are a hypocrite. You are now getting paid for your wickedness." No wonder that there came from Job an outburst of indigna tion, which calls out the other quondam friend. ZoDhar the Naamathite. who be gins denouncing Job by calling him a liar and keeps on the discourse until Job re sponds to all three of them in the f-r-eastic words, "No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you." On, what friends Job had! Heaven deliver us from having one such friend, to say nothing of having three of them. It was for such friends that Job prayed, and was it not a religious triumph for him so to do? Would you. th. very best f you, De in . very aevout mood and capable of making intercession for people who had come to you in a dav of trouble and said: "Good for yon. You ought to be chastised. You are being taken in hand by eternal justice. If you had le haved yourself aright, you would not have been sick or persecuted or impover ished or made childle?." Oh. no, mv friend, you woold not have felt like Job when he prayed for his friends, but more like Job when he cursed the day of his nativity. - You people who weigh over 200 pounds avoirdupois had better never lose your temper, for at such times apoplexy is not far off. Get the enuipose of Job in the text, and it will help yon in business di rections. Proving for all offenders, yon will have more nerve for large undertak ings; von will have a better balanced judgment; rou will waste no valuable time in trying to pet even with your enemies. Try this height of nrayer for your an tagonist to-dav, and if von fail try it to morrow. Keep on until yon accomnlisli it, and I should not wonder if, in addition to the moral and relitrious strength it gives vou. it should add a hundred per cent, to ronr worldly prosperity. Job xln. 10 "The Ixird gave Job twice as much as he ha i before." What we all need is to get out of our selves -and eo to heloing others, whether friends or foe. As beautiful an instance of how this can be done I found last summer in Ixndon in the person of rlor ence Niphtineale. the heroine of hospitals and of battlefields when there were no hospitals. The lounge on which she lies prostrate is a throne of power-. Bnd though she has passed into the eighties, she trains nurses for sicklieds. and her in fluence is row felt among the wounded in South Africa, while her memory is full of the story of Ta'akhva. Sevastopol and lnkerman. where England and France and Russia grappled. She told me that he hail not been ha'ppv until she under took to alleviate suffering and that since she began that work she had never seen an unhappv dav. To that work she con secrated her life, her classic attainments, her social position, her brilliant person ality. Her whole life for others, and her face shows it. I think so much of heaven is to be found in no other human coun tenance. Tennyson's "Charee of the Li?ht Brisade" is not more thrilling to me than the womanly bravery and sacrifice that took care of those who were shot from the saddles of the "Immortal six hun dred." My text enthrones prayer and gives it a scepter to wave over our temporal and eternal life. Under God it cured Job and fixed up his finances and restored his home and made him so robust of health that he lived fourteen decades. "But," some one says, "I do not believe in prayer for friends and foes, because I do not think that God ia going to change the laws of nature because we ask Him so to do." Neither do I think that God will change the law of nature at our request, but I am sure that He answers prayer through natural law. Not a physician of any skill, allopathic, or homeopathic, or hydropathic, or eclec tic, but has some time been surprised that what was thought to be a talal disease suddenly relaxes its graps of the patient, and he recovers. Not one law of nature has been fractured. Prayer may have given the sudden turn to that illness. A business man may be in ditiiculty in extricable mortgages against him tore closing, goods to be sold for some reason become unsalable, new invention in ma chinery making the old machinery of his factory worthless, all kinds ot commer cial troubles pouncing upon him at once. Most business men have at leant once in their lives been put in such agonizing crisis, but the harried merchant or manu facturer gets out of it. Creditors become lenient, the wheels that were made use less for making one kind of fabric turn out to be good for making another style of fabric, the stock of goods that could not be sold comes into unexpected de mand, and whereas all things were against him all things are now. for him. What an opportunity is prayer! Why not oftener use it praying for ourselves aud, line Job, praying for others? What better work would we do, what better lives would we live, what better hopes wouh. we entertain, if we multiplied aud intensified our prayers! Some one asked a soldier of Stonewall Jackson the secret of the great general's influence over his men. "Does your gen eral abuse you, swear at you, to make you march?" -""Swear!" replied the soldier. "No! Ewell does the swearing; Stone wall does the praying. When Stonewall wants us to march he looks at us soberly, just as if he were sorry for us, and says, 'Men, we have got to make a long march.' We always know when there is going to be a long march and right smart lighting, for Stonewall is powerful on prajer just before a big light." When Stonewall Jackson was asked the meaning of the passage "instant in prayer," he said: "If you will not mistake and think 1 am set ting myself up as an example, whiilu 1 am not, I will give an illustration from my own habit. 1 have so fixed the habit of prayer in my mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips witiiout a mo ment's asking of God's blessing; I never seal a letter without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward; I never change my classes in the section room without a minute's petition for the .cadets who go out and those who come in." Now, if God has during these remarks shown us the uses, he importance, the blessedness of prayer, suppose we try to do what Job did when he prayed for his exasperators. Many of us at the begin ning of this subject felt that while we could pray for ourselves and pray for those who were kind to us we never couM reach the high point of religious expe rience in, which we could pray for those who annoy us and make us feci worse in stead of feeling better. That was a Mat terhorn, that was an Alp, to the top of which we feared we could never clinib, but we thank God that by His omnipo tent grace we have reached that . height at last. Let us pray! Oh, Christ, who didst pray for Thine assassins, v.-e n-v.r pray for those who despitefully use us and say all manner of evil against us. For their eternal salvation we supplicate. When time is no more, may they reign on thrones and wear coronets and sway sceptres of heavenly dominion. M-an-while take the bitterness from their soul and make them soon think as well, of in as now they think evil. Spare their bodits from pain and their households from be reavement. After all the misunderstand ings and controversies of this life are over may we keep with them eternal jubilee in the mansions on the hill, ami as Thou didst turn the captivity of .lob when he had prayed for those who badly used hiin, and health came to his body ami prosper ity to his estate, now that we have by Thy grace been able to make s-sp-.V-a"-tion for our antagonists, cure our iis eases, if we are ill, ami restore our ei:ii,-, if it has been scattered; nnd awaken ga-l-liess in our homesteads, if they have .,i-i bereft; and turn the captivity of our ,-li. ical pain or financial misf.uwuie or 't-..- fal distress, and Thine shall be the I, Wi--lom and the r and glory forever and aver. Jinaaf A man with a good conscience can sleep to the music of the storm. Things sweet to taste prove In di gestion sour. If one thinks that he shall not., it too often happens that he will not please. All our sorrows may be made the aervants of sympathy The sinless Man wa the silent One when accused of sin. Individuals die, but the amount of man's impatience with the limitations of bis knowledge declares him native to. the infinite inheritance of expan sive reason. Let us learn to regard our life here as the school time, the training ground the awful yet delightful threshold for the eternal ages of the life with God. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well.
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