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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE COnSTITUTIOII THE URIOtl ARD THE EnFORCEdEttT OF THE LAWS.
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Editor and PrtprUUr.
MIFFLIXTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1900
NO. 51.
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BY B.
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CHAPTER XXIII. (Continued.)
Hie I"-r or tne drawing room waa
kicked and they bung outside for a eon-
lideruhle time, like a couple of Feris at
the sit'-. At In st they gradually succeed
eJ in . tlieir way in, and found ao
iEjni. ii-.-. ! . ti c room with scats all down
the ivCit, and un impromptu at a iff at
tie further end. immediately facial' the
juJiin. i1 was u huge picture framv Hlled
la with i-tirtnins, which, when parted,
r?vsVil some scenes. Just at the pres
ent moiiient there was a dead silence.
f?s-ifi"U of whispering and laughing, ai
the i nrtain slowly parted and revealed
"Helm of Troy," a tall, white-robed.
roMen -diademed form, thrown out by a
duky imckgroiind. The present person
it: beautiful enough to represent
the Spartan Queen whose face had
Isun.-hed a thousand ships. The audi
ence c.ized at the lovely living picture for
n:e time in appreciative silence, then,
the curtain gradually hid her from
their gaze, they burst into long and
hearty applause. The tableau was over,
the people began to talk, to look about,
mJ finally to move, and a groat wave ol
human faces was soon set toward th
door, seeing which our two friends re-tr.-.ited
and sought sanctuary, with other
belated folk, in a fern-embowered alcovs
on the stairs, from which coign of can
tae they could see the whole company
file past in double review order.
"We will have to go and make onr bow
to Mrs. Bohun before we follow the mul
titude," said Captain Gee; "and this give
one a splendid chance of seeing who is
here," indicating with a jerk of his head
the stream of people now pouring out of
the doorway. "Look at that lady with
the long neck and big eyes; she Is thought
a great beauty. She's not my style,"
superciliously.- "Do yoa see those two
c tiling out? They are American heir-e-e.
And that's a very pretty girl in
black, behind the big woman in red satin.
H-re she is. What do you think of her!
There's nothing like England, home and
b-auty. eh? Here she comes! Now,"
enforcing his remark with a sharp nudge.
Miles obediently looked as be was bid
den, and saw within two steps of him on
the crowded staircase a girl in black, car
rjinir an enormous white bouquet, arm-in-inn
with a ruddy-faced young man, who
was talking to her with eager empress
metit. She was listening with a smile,
her gaze bent on the ground. A block in
front compelled them to halt. and. raising
her eyes, Esme found herself once more
fare to face with her faithless Consin
M:!es. And it would be hard to say which
was the paler of the two. This sudden
meet jng was a shock o both. Each saw
in the o titer the embodiment of two yean
tribulation standing within two feet.
Esme was certainly the most startled.
She had been thinking of Miles as far
way in South Africa, among the Boers
tnd Kaffirs, and to come upon him quite
inexpectedly in a crowd on a London
lobby nearly tnrned her to stone. She
vas so overwhelmed with astonishment
that she stared vacantly at him without!
iny token of recognition, and in another
moment, pressed forward by the crowd,
the had passed downstairs.
Cai:aln Gee. who bad been looking at
aer with all the power of his keen, little,
Es;ht eyes, was amazed at the Instantane
ous alteration her face had nndergone.
The -oft curves about her smiling lips,
tad her lovely color had disappeared aa If
by magic, and left instead a rigid expres
tion and a deathlike pailor. Was she go
Is to faint? Who or what had been the
cau-e of this electrical effect? He glane
td involuntarily at his friend, and beheld
the am extraordinary change reflected
in hi countenance. The look of easy,
careless indifference had given place to
one ..f proud immobility; and yet he was
pali. even through his African fan. What
tiled him? What ailed her? The secret
was revealed to him in one flash he was
generally very successful in Jumping to
conclusions the girl in black was Esme,
poor Teddy's sister. Miles' forsaken
bride.'
Before he had time to put his thoughts
into the form of a question a very
pi'Piant, little, dark lady, clad in primrose
tulle and blazing with diamonds, had
pau.. 1 iu front of his companion, with a
rifled exclamation, and. holding out her
land very eagerly, exclaimed:
"Why. Miles! It is Milea! Who on
earth would have expected to find you
here? How very rude of you not to come
and e me. Pray, where nave yon drop
ped from?"
"From South Africa this morning," he
returned laconically, and now with com
p'.etely restored self-possession.
"Mr. Trent," said Gussie, sweetly, now
turning to her cavalier, and withdrawing
her hand from his arm with affected reluctant-,
"this is my cousin,, whom I've
not se- n for ages, just home from the
Cap-. If you don't mind 111 go down
with him." and, with a charming smile
Mr. Trent was coolly dismissed, and
Mii.s before he had time to realize the
f'-t found himself walking downstairs
rui-in-arm with Gussie, leaving Captain
Gee L'iaring after them with an expres-
"'! "f indiirnant amazement, and mut-"1
lennir ntijrry ejaculation s-mder his little
tuiidy mustache.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Mr. Hepburn Was by no means a stupid
young man. and he had not failed to no
i'e hi partner's violent start, her and
"Vu -n--c. ud her sinking color. In hlu
n mind he attributed these symptoms
a dark, soldierly looking fellow they
had passe,) on the stairs. Her faint re
Quest for a glass of water, the shaking
lowers in her hand, ail indicated some
onus,!..,! anil ,ia;nf agitation; for Miss
Emie was a serene, self-possessed young
fly. and not given to demonstrations,
jae had known that his case was quite
toneless, and, strange and uncommon as
K '"ay appear, was content, at any rate
mied. to r.irict. himself as friend. If
e had wanted further testimony that her
""art ,i, nrvtr e n,g -t had naw
"en mete,, t t(( nilI) ah'undantly.
i-mie. ,oine here!" cried the tactless,
J'.'' s" Augusta, who considered It a
'""! thing to get this meeting over, and
,"s f,lI1' resolved that it should take
' In h,.r presence. "She would not
it fr anything," she told herself,
l'haticnl:.r; a, it was best to put ev
T"ing ou a comfortable footing once
grabaoi?
CROKBR
tr zu. -Don't yon ace Miles? He only
arrived to-day!" pointing to him with her
mu,
ff Hi ....
ii i c.V .me saw .Miles; sbe was not
3lind. She put out her hand very prompt
ly, and said. In a cool, civil tone of voice:
"How do you do. Miles?" meeting her
lata lover's troubled gaxe with the utmost
composure.
xxe uttered something Inaudible. H
was not nearly as self-poaacssed as ths
young lady; but then ahe had been ..-nihil
Ing herself for this ordeal, and she would
sooneu die than allow her faithless cous
in to imagine that he was anything to
her now but the moat Indifferent ac
quaintance.
Mr. Hepburn and Gussie cased with
eager Interest at this little drama la real
ire. it waa a tableau vlvant not includ
ed in the program; on at which they
were the only spectators, although, tha
room waa crowded; none bat thy knew
that the couple before them mad not net
vnce tre eve of what waa to have bees)
their wedding day! They seemed hke tha
rest of the company to tha casual, care
less eye a tall, pretty, pal girt, a brons
ed, dark young man, talking society plati
tudes: but sharp-sighted Onaai observed
how grave Milea was, how strangely aet
his mouth, how formal his sentences; and
Mr. Hepburn was not to be deceived by
Miss Brabaxon's present caar manner.
and soft, society smiles they were as
sumed for the occasion.
'Miles, I wish to present yoa to Mrs.
Bohun." spoke Captain Gee. and Miles.
having made a deep obeisance to his ma
jestic hoatess, and uttered on or two dis
jointed remarks, was despotically borne
nway, and Introduced to a lively young
maiden In an aesthetic whit garment,
with a tousled head, adorned with a rery
pointed, fierce-looking green wreath-
Miles mechanically conveyed bia part
ner to the music room and found her a
seat. Luckily for him ahe was a rery lo
quacious individual; he had only to smile,
or nod, and drop an occasional monosyl
lable, to maintain hla share of the conver
sation; and all the time he waa revolving
this one burning question In hla head.
How am I to get away?" To be forced
to meet Esme and Hepburn to stand
calmly by and see another man in hi
place was unbearable! Esme and Mr.
Hepburn were seated In a window nearly
apposite, and, do as he would, he could
not help seeing them nor resist looking
at them. The young lady beside him.
who had not caught hia name, and who
had been relating one or two interesting
anecdote of the company to hla inatten
tive ear, observed that hia eyea frequent
ly strayed in' one direction, and quite mis
interpreting hia gaxe, said:
'I see yoa are looking at Miss Braba
son; la ahe not too utterly perfect just s
picture? I know her; we attend the samr
cooking class."
"Indeed!" now all close, concentrated
attention.
'She Is such a nice girl, and Inrmensel;
admired, but she does not care for any
thing of that sort. I do thiak it is st
sweet of her," pausing and surveying
Esme, with melancholy meditation.
"What do you mean?" rather sharply.
"Why does she not care?"
"There Is," promptly responding to thi
sudden show of interest, "a very romantic
story about her. They say she will nevei
marry, because once," lowering her voice,
"she cared very much for some man; h
was in the army, I believe, the wedding
day waa fixed. Indeed the bride waa dress
ed, the church decorated, and he nevei
came; he left the country. Waa It not
quite too utterly awful? Some people say
that she was Jo blame, that she had flirt
ed with someone else. Still It was a
frightful thing to happen to any girl, wat
it not?" opening her eyes very wide, and
surveying her companion interrogatively.
"Why who told you this? How did
you hear It?" he aaked, in a atrange voice.
"An intimate friend of theirs told me.
She begged me not to mention it, and,'
coloring guiltily, "of course I don't; but
to you, a stranger. It does not matter. Il
gives her an interest to you, does it not
and accounts for her rather sad and de
liciously weary expression," she couclud
ed, with rapturous enthusiasm.
"I am not a stranger," returned Miles.
Buickly, seized by some ungovernable im
pulse that made him speak in spite ol
himself. "I can tell you even more thai
what you have been ao good as to relate
to me. I can tell you the whole story,
vith a look of stern resolve. "Would you
rart to hear it?"
"Tea, I should," she returned, with
frank curiosity, and a glance of mild In
terrogation, wondering much at the ex
....,n.rr rhsnce in his voice and man
ner. This new acquaintance of hers.
with the somber dark eyea ana preoccu
pied manner, was evidently awayed by
riable moods.
"Then listen to me." suddenly leaning
toward her, and speaking in a low, im
pressive whisper, ail action not lostjapon
. aT . i na man'
his late lady love.
"Your ejaculated the girl, faintly
"Oh. no, you are joking; you look the
very last person in the world. I am sure,
hesitating.
,,iitv of such disgraceful con
duct " he added, completing the sentence
for her. "Nevertheless it U true: I wai
the bridegroom who left the country: i
was all owing to a mhrt.ke. a frightful
delusion, that has cost me Pre"T.d"',.
There was a frankness and s.mpl city
.k thU confession that almost took
away bVs hearer's breath. She looked a
hUn then she looked across at Esme
rg vainly to M'XgTSl
and Bympamw
power of expression. .hould
"You will think it atrange .t I ahould
tell you; I don't explain , why but I W
you to know uac " , nnder
first to last I UncieA7J Ini V
delusiorabout aomeone ow
quel," h ddo. In a low Toice.
Tne mediaevaldookmnbe
him was mute. Her . so
puxzled 'cBrabaW.
aghast waa ahe " u qulta run
amazing """""."rtrd 1 anotkef
short of JZStoMt. Hep
less personal JllTSmUMtiar
bly whisMrinv
- - . - ivujiuii mm aer not
Inattentive ear. and now and then easflag
rapid, but searching glance over fat the
direction of Milea; glances wrongly Inter
preted by that hot-tempered gentleman
as so many triumphant challenges, call
ing to hia notice the fact that the Jewel
he had spurned, and cast away, had been
won, and would be worn, by one who
knew Its value.
An hour later Mrs. Vashon and .her
sister were rolling homeward In the little
green broturham. tta...
"Well, Esme." exclaimed her chaperon.
impressively, "was It not extraordinary
onr meetina- Mile to-nlo-M? I
screamed when I saw him on the stairs;
i positively thought If waa hia ghost!
How nice he la! I wish poor dear Freddy
had a little of hla good looks. All the
same, looks bring in no income, and yoa
are not to think of him, my love." She
paused expressively, and drew np the
window.
"Yon need not alarm yourself, Gussie;
evervthlnff Vll mt .n mnA Imiv aim Iia.
tweep Miles and me," ahe replied with
ajricu lo-Acvt ura a auiaac m, nw a
her to.
(T to eontlaacd.)
BEAUTY'S GREATEST FOE.
Aa lU-Tcstsrr la Always Sure to Bala
Xta Victim's Beaaty.
Bad temper and worry will trace
more wrinkles In one night than hot
and cold bathing and maaaage and com
plexion brush es and creams and lotion
can wash out In a year's faithful appli
cation. Physicians assert that an Im
mense amount of nerva-force la emend
ed In every lit of bad temper; that when
one little part of the nervous system
gets wrong the face first records it The
eyes begin losing the luster of youth,
'uuscles become flabby, the skin refuses
to contract accordingly, and the Inevit
able result Is wrinkles, femininity's
fiercest and most Insidious foe. There
is no use attempting to reason with a
woman about tbe evil effects of 111-terh-per
while she Is In an ugly mood. She
knows perfectly well, that It Is bad
form; that It savors of the coarse and
underbred; that It Is weak and belltttbg
and Immoral, and that It hurts her
cause to lose her temper. But ahe does
not stop at Just that time to think about
It, and to remind her of the fact only
adda fuel to the flames.
But when she Is cool and serene and
at peace with all the world. If you can
convince her that each fit of temper
adds a year to her age by weakening
ber mental force by tracing croW
tracks about her eyes and telltale lines
around her mouth, ahe will probably
think twice before again forgetting
herself. For no matter what sbe as
serts to the contrary, woman prises
youth and beauty above every other
gift the gods hold It In their power to
bestow upon mortals. Woman's Home
Companion.
Odds and Ends.
Four hundred women are employed
as telegraph operators tn the Postornc
Building of Manchester, England.
In the United Kingdom an Income of
170 per annum will pay this year 10a.
tax. Before Sir William Harcourt ar
ranged matters it would have paid 1
Ida.
It Is the law In Maine that the bounty
for bears must be paid when the ani
mal's nose is shown, anu In New Hamp
shire the money la payable on exhibi
tion of the ears.
In England during the past few
years, it la claimed. 140.330 farm la
borers have been displaced by machin
ery, while the making of the latter. It
is aaserted, reoulred only the labor of
4600 man for on year.
Indian "relics" are now being turned
out in regular factories, one of which
is located in a nearby county of Wis
consin. The relic makers have a secret
process by which an ancient appear
ance la Imparted to bones, pots, arrow
heads, etc.
Paris has an Invisible defence the
submarine boats that patrol the Seine
from Asnleras and Ivry.
In 18M. 8.610. 60S duty waa paid on
unmanufactured tobacco in the United
Kingdom. Last year It had risen to
10.102.792.
Paper money la at a premium at
Nome. Miners And It more convenient
than gold, aad pay as much as 2 per
ent. in excess of Its face value for it.
The exports of butter, cheese, egga,
bacon, ham. mutton, pork, applea, oats,
peas, wheat, flour and potatoes to
fJreat Britain from Canada have more
than doubled since 1806.
The experiment station has xmcluded
that flax grown for seel .a Minnesota
is identical with Russian flax, and prob
ably equally as god as that imported
from Europe at a high price.
Personals.
Admiral Sampson's retirement Is
February next will not break his fam
ily's connection with the navy: for he
las three sons-In-laws (Lieutenants
Jackson and Roy Smith and Ensign
Cluverius) In the service, and his son
will probably enter the Naval Acade-
",Theesheliawhich killed General Vllie
bols De Mareuil near Boshof has been
mounted on an ebony base, and Is 4o be
presented to Lord Galway and the offi
cers of the Sherwood Rangers Impe
rial Yeomanry to commemorate tnetr
first engagement. tinn
Secretary Hay has contributed 1100
to the fund for enlarging the New
Hampshire Society's building at Con-
CRe'v. H. W. Jones, chaplain of the
United States training ship Mononga
hela, has Just been honored with the
degree of doctor of divinity from Wade
College, North Carolina. The degree
was conferred on him becaus L hfthw"
the chaplain of the only Southern
an,2 ship which took part ; In the San
tiago engagement-the battleship Tex-
. Prince of Wales make a point
Ivlna- every letter which he re
cIlveTansweEdwIth a. little de.ay a,
noMuble .For this purpose two secre
taries are kept busy nearly all th.
time.
A negro In Atlantic City. N. J- has
mlde nfmaelf famoua. In a while year
he kept a quarter of a dollar to hta
mouth, and thus won a wager of m
-American shoes have
'I",e,et fSeMuMS
tmetrate from 189 JTTabsorb all
arr wnu." -
tax '..SSal watches the
sarin "SLrtV anTahould therefor
Science
.tsf
ventiori
It has been suggested that It would be
Well for legations tn barbarous regions
" have a wireless telegraphic appar
atus, as communication could not then
be Interrupted by hostile forces.
The number of stars distinctly visible
M ithout the aid of a glass la put by
Jould at 6,333. Prof. Newcouib says
their number Is 7.047. These are up to
the sixth magnitude- Prof. Newcouib
estimates the number up to the 14.5
magnitude at two hundred million.
The new electric locomotive for the
Steepest portions of the Jungfrau
Mountain Railway will be tbe most
powerful electric rack-wheel locomo
tive ever constructed. Tbe two motors
will each have 125-horse power, and
will make 800 revolutions per minute
driving the toothed wheels.
A new application of electricity
comes from Portugal, where an inven
tion baa bven taken out for facilitating
fox and badger bunting. It consists of
a small electric lnuip Axed to the collar
of a dog, which Is to enter a burrow.
The effect of this light Is to frighten
"Hr'er Fox" and cause him to come out
of his burrow.
Dr. F. Larroque reports to the
French Academy of Sciences that his
studies of the action of sounds upon the
human ears prove that the auditory
apparatus of each ear operates inde
tiendently of the other. This appears
to have a bearing upon tbe question
whether tbe loss of bearing by one ear
exercises an injurious effect upon its
mate.
Orchids are famous for beauty and
general attractiveness, but It Is not gen
erally known that they have a place tn
the arts that minister to tbe physical
wants of man. But in some parts of
the tropics where orchids abound, a
delicate fiber Is prepared by the na
tives, which they use in the preparation
of the many ornaments these races pre
pare for trade with the paler races of
men.
Lack of proper nesting places, too lit
tle water, the English sparrow, boys,
collectors, birds on hats and the cat are
among the causes of the decrease of
song birds enumerated by D. Lang.
He suggests protection and encourage
ment of tbe birds by planting trees and
shrubs for them to live In, putting np
nesting boxes for breeding, providing
water for feeding and bathing, and
feeding In unfavorable weather.
A German physicist, G. Tammann,
fcns recently discovered some hitherto
unnoted facts concerning ice and the
freezing point of water. He finds that
not only does tbe freezing point vary
with the pressure, but that three differ
ent kinds of Ice can be produced, each
possessing Its own crystalline structure.
Thus water may now be said to have
five known forms, namely, water vapor,
water as a liquid, ordinary Ice, called
by Tammann ice I., Ice In Its second
form, or ice II.. and Ice In Its third
form, denominated as ice III. Some
non-scientific people would. In hot
weather, add a sixth form generally
known as Ice cream.
Through the Insertion of Inductance
coils into the electrical circuit. Prof.
Pupin, of Columbia University, has
greatly Increased the efficiency of long
distance telephony through cables. The
insertion of the coils enables the cable
to transmit 6,000 times ss much current
as It Is able to transmit without them.
With an experimental cable thus pro
vided. It has been found possible to
carry on a conversation distinctly at a
distance of 250 miles. By applying th
principle to oceanic cables. It Is be
lieved that telephonic messages might
Cc sent to and fro across tbe Atlantic
It would also greatly Increase the ra
i
$ OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON.
pidity with which ordinary telegraphic
signals can be transmitted by cable.
The principle la likewise applicable for
extending tha range of telephonic cosn
manlcation over aerial wires.
- KILLED BY A FLV3 BITE.
CUM Saff.ra Great Aa-oay aad Exalras
la a Loadoa Hospital.
AX St. Bartholomew's hospital th
other day Arthur C Langham, depnty
coroner, held an Inquest relative to the
death of Lydia Maria Chamberlain,
aged 9 years, the daughter of a riding
Instructor, lately living with her uncle
at 58 Chelmsford road, Walthamstow.
Alfred Lewis Chamberlain deposed
that the deceased, bis niece, wa play
ing at tbe window on Friday wl.h tls
own little girl, when she suddenly com
plained of having been bitten by a fly.
Not much notice was taken at tbe time,
but tn the morning tbe spot on the
nose where she had been bitten became
so much Inflamed and swollen that it
was thought advisable to call In a doc
tor. Afterward she became very de
lirious, and eventually lapsed Into un
consciousness. By this time ber nose
aiid eye had swollen to an abnormal
size, and It was thought advisable to
! have her removed to the hospital. De
1 spite every effort which was made by
the whole of tbe staff of the hospital
i the child gradually sank and died. It
was a case of such rarity that It was
watched with Intense Interest by all
the doctors.
"Ton are sure It was a' fly that bit
tier" aEked Mr. Langham.
"What sbe said was. Oh, I have Jurt
boen bitten by a fly and It Is painful.' "
Dr. Nixon, bouse surgeon, deposed
thut when he admitted tbe child she
was vnconscloua. Having heard the
history of the case, be never left her
until she died. The face was so swol
len tret be was unable to say at first
where tha btte was. He had slucj made
a poat-mortam examination and found
inside the lower lid of the rixut eye
an ulcer. This ulcer had set up In
flammation, which bad penetrated Into
the skin and Into the cellular i Issues of
the orbit So great was the Inflamma
tion that tbe pupil of the eye was forc
ed out from between the lil-i. the pain
being, no doubt, most terrible. On ex-
f.nluliig the lungs he found Infection,
fhewlug that a blood stream had run
from tht: head and carried the itolson
cus m'crobe8 over tbe body.
"Have you ever heard of s jch a case
before?" Mr. Langham asked.
"Yes. We have records of one or
two cases of the kind, but they are
extremely rare."
"The bite of the Insect caused the
micro-organisms, then?"
"I can see no other cause, from the
history of the case." Continuing, wit
ness said thrt death was due to general
blood poisoning set up by the microbes.
Tbe Jury returned a verdict of death
from blood poisoning set up by the bite
of an Insect, the death being caused by
misadventure. Pall Mall Gasette.
DUTCH HAVE RICH ISLANDS.
Holland, Next to Enaland, the Greatest
Laid Owner la the Pacific
The Pacific ocean, westward of Ha
waii and the Marquesas. Is like a fed
eration of European nations on Asiatic
soy. united by tbe free commerce of
the seas. Tbe nations vary In size,
strength and importance, as tbe states
of Europe or of the American Union.
Great Britain commands the field with
a landed area of nearly 3,250,000 square
miles. - Poor Spain's once magnificent
empire Is shrunk to less than fifty
square miles, a smaller total than be
longs to black King George of the
Tongaa. Holland, the country from
which emanated the doughty Boers,
owns over 735.000 square miles, settled
with nearly eight times as many people
as Inhabit the larger area owned by
Great Britain. Germany, the new clv
lllzer among the nations, has domi
nance over more than 1.10.000 square
OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON.
tones ana about as many people as
there are milea. France, with lass thai
one-tenth of Germany's land, la al
some of the moat Important points ol
strategy and at the point of greatest
travel. Several Independent states U
In the midst of this federation, as Swlt
serland doe In Europe; several other.
In the unhappy, suieralned position
of the Transvaal In South Africa.
If all the islands could be pot Into s
continuous body of land they would
form a most - heterogeneous empire.
They would Include, tn addition to Eu
ropean peoples with their various polit
ical and social systems, a tangle of ab
origines, a confusion of savages and
semi-civilized cultivators of soil and
commonwealth; an emporium of pro
ducts more diversified than a bazaar on
a midway plalsance, a mystery of tra
ditions as Inexplicable as the origin of
the American Indians. Profoundly for
ested In the Dutch East Indies, the isl-
I ands become In western Australia more
I barren than the lava beds of eastern
I Oregon and more Irredeemable than
tne uppermost wiioa or British Colum-
lrfa. Fertile, balmy and luxurious In
the beautiful lands of New Zealand,
FIJI. Samoa and Tahiti, they are trans
formed Into uninhabitable coral reefs
or Into hot and malarial beds of strug
gle In the guano-covered or copra-pro-
j duclng dots on the map north and east
of a line drawn from tbe Philippines to
New Guinea and through Samoa to the
Society Islands. Alnslee's Magazine.
A Happy Ending;.
A boy about 10 years old came Into
the Central Police Station of a Kansas
city, leading a fine shepherd dog by a
piece of rope. The boy's face waa red
;and he was crying A big policeman
( kindly asked what was the matter. It
was quite a long time before the boy
I could stop crying long enough to re
; ply. "My mother." he sobbed, "Is too
i poor to pay for a license for Shep, and
i I brought him here to have you kill
him."
Then he broke out with another wall
as If his heart was breaking. Shep
stood mute and motionless, looking lov
ingly at his young master. A police
man blew bis nose very loin".-, the desk
sergeant walked out Into tbe hall, while
the captain remembered that be must
telephone somebody. Then the chief
of police led the boy to the door, and
J patting him on the head, said gently:
"lhere. nttie reiiow, uon t cry any
more; run home with your dog. I
wouldn't kill Shep for a thousand dol
lars." The boy shed tears of Joy now, and
ran off with Shep barking and bound
ing at his side, and It was hard to tell
which was the happiest
Broncho Bncks a Locomotive.
We expect to hear of a bull disput
ing the right of way with a locomotive,
but a horse generally has more sense.
However, this was a broncho horse In
Colorado. He was wandering around
in bnppy fashion and had crossed tbe
railroad track, but, for some reason
took a notion to return and use It as a
promenade. Along came a train and
the engine whistled a warning. Bron
cho trotted along a little faster, but
declined to get off. Tbe engine shrieced
out fiercely, and this apparently an
gered the broncho, for he turned square
ly around, and reared up as If to as
sault the locomotive. There can be
only one ending to such a tale he war
knocked out In half a Jiffy.
No Room tor Argancnt.
She Tou need not think you are first
In my affections.
Jack Hughard (tighteuing his hold)
That may be. but you must admit that
I am a pretty close second. The Stuart
Set
Not for Him.
Magistrate Ton may go, Jones. I
see no ground for your wife's com
plaint Joues (in cold perspiration) Will
your honor be so good as to tell her so
yourself 7"
I by Rsw. Dr. Talaaga.
gahjaetf The Faith of Bahab Thera U
Meray For AU Slaasn Chrer For All
'Who Ara Kaaased la Uh'i UaltlaM
Bfmalaa; artua San' Btandlns bUIU
(Ooprncat Imm
WASHilTOTOir, D. C In this discourse
Dr. Talmage follows Joshua on his tri
umphal march and speaks encouraging
words to all who are engaged in the bat
tles of this life; text, Joshua i, 5, "There
shall not any man be able to stand before
thee all the days of thy life."
Mosea was dead. A beautiful tradition
says the Lord kissed him and in that act
drew forth the soul of the dying lawgiver.
He had been buried; only one person at
the funeral the same One who kissed him.
But God never takea a man away from
any place of usefulness until lie has some
one ready to replace him. The Lord doe.
not go looking around amid a great va
riety of candidates to find some one especi
ally fitted for the vacated position. He
makes a man for that place. Moses lias
passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero,
puts his foot on the platform of history
so solidly that all the ages echo with the
tread. He was a magniiicent fighter, but
he always fought on the right siile, and he
never fought unless God told him to fiiht.
He got his military equipment from God,
who gave him the promise at the start,
"There shall not any man b able to
stand before thee all the days of thy life."
God fulfilled this promise, although Josh
ua's first battle waa with the Bpring fresh
et, the next with a stone wall, the next
leading on a regiment of whipped cow
ards and the next battling agaii -t dark
ness, wheeling the sun and the moon info
his battalion and the last against the king
of terrors, death five great victories.
As a rule, when the general of an army
starts out in a war he would like to hare
a small battle in order that he may get
his own courage up and rally his troops
and get them drilled for greater conflicts,
but the first undertaking of Joshua was
greater than tbe leveling of Fort Pulaski
or the assault of Gibraltar or the over
throw of the Bastille. It was the crossing
of the Jordan at the time of the sprinc
freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had
just been melting, and they poured down
the valley, and the whole valley was a
raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand
on one bank, and they look across and see
Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh
and sav: "Aha! They cannot disturb
us until the freshets fall. It is impossible
for them to reach us." But after awhile
they look across the water, and they see
a movement in tbe army of Joshua. They
say: "What is the matter now? Why,
there must be a panic among those troops,
and they are going to fly, or perhaps they
are going to march across the river Jor
! dan. Joshua is a lunatic." But Joshua,
the chieftain, looks at his army and cries,
"Forward, march!" and they start for the
bank of the Jordan. One mile ahead go
two priests carrying a glitterinz box four
feet long and two feet wide. It is the ara
of the covenant. And they come down,
and no sooner do they jnst touch the rim
of the water with their feet than, by an
Almighty fiat, Jordan parts. The army
of Joshua marches right on without get
ting their feet wet over the bottom of
the river, a path of chalk and broken
shells and pebbles, until they get to the
other bank. Then they lay hold of the ole
anders and tamarisks and willows and pull
themselves up a bank thirty or forty feet
high, and. having gained the other bank,
they clap their shield and their cymbals
and sing the praises of the God of Joshua.
But no sooner have they reached the bank
than the waters begin to dash and roar,
and with a terrific rush they break loose
from their strange anchorage. As the
hand of the Ixird Uod is taken away from
the thus uplifted waters waters perhaps
uplifted half a mile they rush down, and
some of the unbelieving Israelites say:
"Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why
could not not those waters hare staid
parted, because, perhaps, we may want
to go back? O Lord, we are engaged in
a risky business! These Canaanites may
eat us up. How if we want to go back?
Would it not have been a more complete
miracle if the Lord had parted the waters
to let us come through and kept them
parted to let us go back if we are de
feated 7
But this is no place for the host to
stop. Joshua gives the command, for
ward, i.areh!" In the distance there is
a long grove of trees, and at the end of the
grove is a city, it is a city with arbors,
a city with walls seeming to reach to the
heavens, to buttress the very sky. It is
the great metropolis that commands the
mountain pass. It is Jericho. That city
was afterward captured by Pompey and
once by-Herod the Great and once afrain
by the Mohammedans, hut this campaign
the Lord plans. There shall be no swords,
no shields, no battering ram; 'here shall
be onlv one weapon of war, and that a
ram's horn. The horn of the slain ram
was sometimes taken, and holes were
punctured in it, and then the musician
would put the instrument to his lins, and
he would run his fingers over this rude
musical instrument and make a great deal
of sweet harmony for the people. That
waa the only kind of weapon. Seven
priests were to take these rude, rustic
musical instruments, and they were to
go around the city every day for si days
once a day for six days and then on the
seventh day they were to go around blow
ing these rude musical instruments seven
times, and then at the close of the serenth
blowing of the ram's horn on the seventh
day tbe peroration of the whole scene
was to be a shout, at which those great
walls should tumble from capstone to base.
The seven priests with the rude musiral
instruments pass all around the city wills
on the first day and score a failure. Xot
so much as a piece of plaster broke loose
from the wall, not so much as a loosened
roc-k. not so much as a piece of mortar !ost
from its place. "There," say tbe unbe
lieving Israelites, "did I not tell you so?
Why. those ministers are fools. The :dca
of going around the city with those musi
cal instruments and expecting in that
way to destroy it. Joshua has been spoiled.
He thinks because be has overthrown and
conquered the spring freshet he can- over
throw the stone wall. Why. it is not
philosophic. Do you not see there is no
relation between the blowing of these
musical instruments and the knocking
down of the wall? It is not philosophic."
And I suppose there were many wiseacres
who stood with their brows knitted and
with the forefinger of the right hand to
the forefinger of the left hand, arguing it
all out and showing that it waa not pos
sible that such a cause could produce such
an effect And I suppose that night in the
encampment there was plenty of carica
ture, and if Joshua had been nominated
for any high military position he would
not hare receired mnny votes Joshua's
stock was down. The second day the
priests blowing the musical instruments
go around the city, and again a failure.
The third day, and a failure; the fourth
day, and a failure; fifth day, rnd a failure;
sixth day, and a failure. The seventh
day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua
is up early in the morning and examines
the troops, walks all about and looks at
the city wall. The priests start to make
the circuit of the city. Tbey go all round
once, all around twice, three times, four
times, five times, six times, seven times,
and a failure. There is only one more
thin to do. and that is to utter a great
shout. I see tbe Israeli tish army straight
ening themselves up, filling their lungs'TOr
vociferation such as never was heard be
fore and never heard after. Joshua feels
that the hour has come, and be cries out
to hia host, "Shout, for the Lord hath giv
en you the city!" All together the troops
shout: "Down, Jericho! Down, Jericho!"
and the long line of solid masonry begins
to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand
from under! She falls! Crash go tbe
walla and temples, the tower, the pal
aces, the air blackened with dust.
The huzza of tbe victorious Israelites
and the groan of the conquered Canaan
ites commingle, and Joshua, standing
there in the debris of the walla, hear a
voice saying, "There shall not any man
be able to stand before thee all the days
of thy life."
Onlv one house snared. Who lives there?
"Some great king? No. Some woman dis
tinguished tor great, Kinaiy aeeas: ito.
She had been conspicuous for her crimes.
It is tbe house of Rahab. Why was her
bouse spared? Because she had been a
great sinner? No, but because she re
pented, demonstrating to all the ages
that there is mercy for the chief of sin
ners. The red cord of divine injunction reach
ing from her window to the ground, so
that when the people saw the red cord
they knew it was the divine indication
that they shouM not disturb the prem
ises, making us think of the divine conl
of a Saviour's deliverance, the red cord
of a Saviour" kindness, the red cord of
a Sarioue's mercy, the red cord of our
rescue. Mercy for the chief of sinners.
Put vour trust in that God, and no dam
ace cliall befall yon.
When onr world shall be more terribly
surrounded than was Jericho, even bv the
trumpet of the judirment day, and the
hills snd the mountains, the netal bones
and nlis of nature, shall break, thi y who
hare had Rahah's faith shall have Rahab'
deliverance.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ether
glow
And heaven's last thunder shakes the
earth below.
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins
smile
And lieht thy torch at nature's funeral
pile.
But Joshua's troops mav not hall here.
The command is "Forward, march!" There
is the city of Ai. It must be taken. A
scouting party comes back and says:
"Joshua, we can do that without you. It
is going to be a very easy job. You must
stay here while we go and capture it."
They march with a small regiment in
front of that city. The men of Ai look at
them and dive one yell, and the Israelite
run like reindeer.
Look out when a good man makes the
Txird his ally. Joshua raises his face, ra
diant with prayer, and looks at the des
cending sun over Gibeon. and at the faint
crescent of the moon, for you know the
queen of the night sometimes will linger
around the palaces of the day. Pointing
one hand at the descending sun and the
other at the faint crescent of the moon,
in the name of that God who shaped the
worlds and move the worlds he cries.
"Sun. stand thou still upon Gibeon. and
thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon." They
halted. Whether it was by refraction of
the sun' ray or by the stopping of the
whole planetary svstem I do not know and
do not care. I leave it to the Christian
Scientists and the infidel scientist to set
tle that question while I tell you I have
seen the same thins. "What!" sav you.
"Not the sun standing still?" Yes. The
same miracle is performed nowadavs.
The wicked do not live out half their
day, and their sun sets at noon. Rjt let
a man start out in battle for God and the
truth and against sin. and the day of hi
usefulness is prolonged and prolonged ami
prolonged. But Joshua was not quite through.
There was time for five funerals before the
sun of that prolonged day set. Who will
firearh their funeral sermon? Massillon
nreached the funeral sermon over Louis
XVI. Who will preach the funeral ser
mon of those five dead kintrs kinir of
Jerusalem, king of Hebron, king of .Tar
muth. king of Lachish. king of Eirlon?
Let it be bv Joshua. What is hi text?
What shall be the epitaph nut on th door
of the tomb? "There shall not any mau
be able to stand before thee all the days
of thy life."
Before you fasten un the door I want
fire more kinc? beheaded and thrut in
King Alcohol. King Fraud. King Lust, "
King Sunerstitition, King Infidelity. Let
them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then
fasten up the door forever.
What shall the inscription and what
shall the enitaph be? For all Christian
philanthropists of all area are doing
to come and look at it. What shall the
inscription be? "There shall not any
man be able to stand before thee all the
days of thy life."
Rut it is time for Joshua to go home.
He is 110 years old. Washington went
down the Potomac and at Mount Vernon
closed his days. Wellington died peaceful
ly at Apsley House. Now, where shall
Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his
greatest battle now. After 110 years he
has to meet a king who has more sub
jects than all the present population of
the earth, hia throne a pyramid of skulls,
hi parterre the eTaveyards and the ceme
teries of the world, hi chariot the world's
hearse the king of terrors. But if thi is
Joshua's greatest battle it is going to be
Joshua's greatest victory. He gather his
friends around him and give hi vale
dictory, and it is full of reminiscence.
Yonng men tell what they are going to
do; old men tell what they have done. And
as you have heard a grandfather or great
grandfather seated by the evening fire
tell of Monmouth or York town and then
lift the crutch or staff a though it were
a musket to fight and show how the old '
battles were won. so Joshua gather his
friends around his dying couch, and he
tells them the story of what he ha been
through, and a he lies there, hi white
lock snowing down on his wrinkled fore
head. I ask if God ha kept His promise
all the way through. As he lies there fie
tella the story one. two or three times
you have heard old people tell a story
two or three time over and he answers,
"I go the way of all the earth, and not
one word of the promise has failed, not
one word thereof has failed; all ha come
to pass, not one word thereof has failed."
And then he turns to his family, aa a dy
ing parent will, and says: "Choose now
whom you will serve, the God of Israel or
the God of the Amorites. As for me and
my house, we will serve the Lord." A
dying parent cannot be reckless or
thoughtless of his children. Consent to
part with them forever at the door of
the tomb we cannot. By the cradle in
which their infancy was rocked, by the
bosom on which they first lay, by the
blood of the covenant, by the Gvi ni
Joshua it shall not be. We will not part,
we cannot part. Jehorah-Jireh, we take
Thee at Thy promise. "I will b a God to
thee and thy seed after thee."
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
out. Handle him very gently. That
sacred body is over 110 years of age. Lay
him out, stretch out those feet that
r-alked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close
those lins which helped blow the blast
at which he walls of Jericho fell. Fold
the arm that lifted the spear toward the
doomed city of Ai. Fold it right over the
heart that exulted when the fire kings
fell. But where shall we get the burn
ished granite for the hecdstone and the
footstone? I bething mvself now. I im
agine that for the head it shall be the
sun that stood still upon Gibeon and for
the foot the moon that stood still in tha
valley of Ajalon.
We have no faults that the devil
don't keep account of.
Broken hearts are the easiest crockery
to mend.
A rich dress Is not worth a straw to
one who haa a poor mind. .
A bridle for the tongue la a necessary
piece of furniture.
No nan or woman of the humblest
sort can really be strong, pure and good
without the world being the better for
It. without somebody being helped and
comforted by the very existence of thla
goodness.
Toung man. don't have too poor ma
pinion of yourself.
You can rarely reason a man out of
an opinion which be has never been
reasoned Into.
JJo plaaaure fcs comparable to tha
standing upon the vantage ground of
truth.
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