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
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years of age, whose record was 41
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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.