The Londonderry Bifter.
"When yellow mmnOm vr sift! from blwf the grUtring bWowB give a golden how."
V01 V. NO. 18.
SO. LONDONDERRY. YT.. THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1888.
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Week'.y Discourse of the
Booklyn Preacher.
Subject i
Sertltlcates of stocks, gets a multitude ot
country people to put their small earnings
into an enterprise for carrying on some un-
.aUurl nn,l,.nn Via Anna nr.. iVmihI 11 lallfcl V
Great take their money, he only borrows. When a
young man with easy access to ms employer
money drawer, or the confidential clerk by
elose propinquity to tlie account books, takes
a tew dollars for a Wail street excursion, be
"Tli Ace of Swim expects to nut it back: he will put it all
I Km .1. k. win 11 1 1 hdnb vmv mn. He
only borrows. What is needed is some mau
die
KJrEntered at the Poet-offlo as
Condonderry, aa eceond-elau matter.
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LAWYER.
Office nearly oppos to Poabody lions.
BO. LOHUONDttRItT' VT.
W. R. WOODWARD.
Eoleetlo Physician and Surgeon,
OFFICE AT REPiriKNCl,
LONDONDERRY, "VT,
JOSEPH G. MARTIN,
lltornej & Connselor-at-Law.Solicitor
and Master in Chancery.
FACTORY POINT. VERMONT,
" H.T5. TYLER. "
Home, Carriage, 8ign and Ornamental Painter.
All work warranted to give aatialactwn.
SO. liONnONDISUIIT, VT.
P. S. BROWN,
Painter and Pa tier-Hanger,
SO. X.03DOR DIEBBt, VT.
William A. Shattuck,
teale; In Flow, Meal, Feed. Orate. Buckwheat Plain.
SO. LOXDONDEIiBT, VT.
Melendy Brothers,
UNDERTAKERS,
South Londonderry. "Vt.
E. S. GARFIELD,
Manufacturer, Dealer, and Repairer of
PlsfllS, HARROWS & CULTIYATORS,
LONDONDERRY, VT.
F. We W.LLIAEVtS,
M A O H I NI8T
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Jrpn Pinners, Lover and Power Punches, Tire
Upselta, liolt Clippeis, T.io-cnulk sharpening
toot vi?e, Saw Arbors and general Jobbing.
J.ONIJOWlEllItY. VT.
Text: " Whose trust shall bt spfdar'a
tieo." Jobviii, 14.
The two most skill ful architects In all the
world are the bee and the spider. The one
puts up a sugar manufactory and the other
builds a slaughter house far flies. On
bright summer morning, when the siin comes
out arid shines upon the spidor's web, be
decked with dew, the gossamer structure
seems bright enough for a suspension bridge
xor supornationai Deings to cross on. jsus
alas for the poor fly, which, in the latter
part 01 mat very any, ventures on it, ana is
caught and dungeoned and destroyed. The
fly was informer that it was a free bridge,
and would cost nothing, but at the other end
of the bri !ge the toll paid was its own life.
The next day there cornea a strong wind, and
away goes the web, and the marauding
spider and the victimized fly. Bo delicate
are the silken threads of the spider's web
that many thousands of them are put to
gether lefore they become visible to the
human eye, and it takes 4,000,000 of them to
make a thread as large as the human halt.
Most cruel as we 1 as most ingenious is tne
spider. A prisoner in the Bastile, France,
had one so trained that at the sound of a
violin it every day came for its meal of flies.
Job, the author of my text, and the leading
scient st of his day, had no doubt Watched
the voracious process of this one Insect with
another, and saw spider and fly swept down
with the sumo broom, or scattered by the
same wind. A las, that the world has so many
designing spiders and victimized flies.
1 here lias not loon a time When tile utter
and black irresponsibility of many men hav
ing the financial interests of others In charge
has heen more evident than in these lost few
yenrs.
The unroofing of banks and disappearance
of administrators with the funds of large
estates, anl the disorder amid postoffice
accounts and deficits amid United States
oflicials, have made a pestilence of crime
that solemnizes every thoughtful man and
woman, and leads every philanthropist and
Christian to ask: What shall be done to stay
the plague! There is a monsoon abroad, a
typhoon, a Birocco. I sometimes ask myself
if it would not 1 o better for men making
wills to bsqueath the property directly to
the executors and ofticeis of the court, and
appoint the widows and orphans a commit
tee to see that the former got all that did not
belong to them. The simple fact is that
there are a large number of men sailing
yachts and driving fat hor.-:es, and mem
bers of expensive club houses and controlling
country seats who m e not worth a dollar
lr tney return to others tneir just rights.
Under some sudden reverso they fad.
and with alliicted air seem to retire from
the world, and seem almost ready for
monastic life, when in two or three years
mey uiossom out again, naving compromises:
with their creditors, that is. paid them noth
ing but regrets, and the only difference be
tween the second chapter of prosperity and
tho first is that their mctures are Murillos in
stead of Kensetts, and their horses go a mile
in twentv seconds less than their predeces
sors, and instead of one country seat they
have three. 1 have watcbed ana nave no
ticed that nine out of ten of those who fail
in what is called hierh life, have more means
after than before the failure, and In many of
the roses failure is only a strategem to es-
cane the payment of honest debts and put the
wor.o. on me trac-K wane tney practice a
large swindle. There is something woefully
wrong in the fact that these things are pos
sible.
First of all. I charge the blame on careless.
Indiil'erent bank directors and boards having
in charge great financial institutions. It
outrht not to bo possible for a president or
cashier or prominent olncer or a hanking in
stitution to swindle it year after year with.
out detect on. I will undertake to say that
if these frauds ore carried on for two or
three years without detection, either the
directors are par ners in the infamy and
pocketed part ot the thett, or tney are guuty
of a culpable neeloit of duty, for which God
will hoid them as responsible as he Molds the
acknowledged defrauders. What tight have
prominent business men to allow their names
to be published as directors in a financial
institution, so that unsophisticated people
are thereby induced to deposit their money
in or buy the scrip thereof, when they, the
published directors, are doing nothing for
the safety of the institution. It is a case of de
ception most reprehensible. Many people with
a surplus of monoy, not needed for immediate
use. although it may he a little lurtner on
indispensable, are without friends competent
to advise them, and they are guided solely by
the character of the men who83 n imes are
associated with the in-titution. When the
crash came, and with the overthrow of the
banks went the small earnings and limited
fortunes of widows and orphans, and the
bonclesslv aired, the directors stood with
Idiotic store, and to the inquiry of the
frenzied depositors and stockholders who had
lost their ail. and to the arraignment of an
indignant public had nothing to say except:
" We thought it was all right. We did not
know there v.a3 anything wrong go-
inr on." It was their duty to know.
Thev stood in a position which de
luded the people with the idea that
they were carefully observant. Calling
themselves directors," they did not direct
Thev had oooortuuitv of auditing accounts
and inspecting the books No time to do sol
Then thev had no husiness to accent the Dosi-
tion. It seems to be the pride of some moneyed
men to be directors in a great many institu
tions, and all they know is whether or cot
they get their div i.ltrii Is regularly, and their
names are usea as decoy ducks to bringothera
near enough to be made game of. What, first
or all, is needed is that live thousand bank di
rectors and insurance company directors re
sign or attend to their business as directors.
The business world will be full of fraud just
as long as fraud is so easy. When you arrest
the president and secretary of a bank for an
embezzlement carried on for many years,
nave plenty oi snerirrs out tne same aay to
arrest all the directors. They are guilty
oither of neglect or complicity.
We mast esne -iallv deulore the misfortune
of banks in various parts of this country in
that they damage the banking institution,
which is the great convenience of the cen
turies, and indisiiensable to commerce and
the advance of nations. With one hand it
blesses the lender, and with the other it
blesses the borrower. The bank was born of
the world's necessities, and is venerable with
the marks of thous in Is of years.
We also deulore abuse of trust funds, be
cause they fly in the face of that divine good
ness which seems determined to bless this
land. We are having the eighth year of un
exampled national harvest. The wheat
gamblers get hoi i of the wheat, and tho corn
gamblers get hold of the corn. The full tide
of God's mer. y toward this land is put back
bv those great dykes of dishonest resistance.
When God provides enough food and clothing;
to feed and apparel thii whole nation like
Princes, the scrambh of dishonest men to get
more than their sli ire. and get it at all
haz ar Is, keeps everything shaking with un
certainty and evcr-ybo ly asking: " What
nextf Every week makes new revels,
tions. How many - more bank Presi
dents and bank cashiers have been snecn
acing with other people's money, and
how many more bank directors are in
imbecile silence letting the perfidy go on, the
great and patient God only knows! My
opinion is that we have irot near thn Ivitt-nm
The wind has been pricked from the great
bubble of American speculation. The men
who thought that the judgment day was at
least 5,MW years off. found it in 18SW. 1RS7 and
18-0; and this nation has been tanirht that
men must keep their hands out or other peo
ple's pockets Great businesses built on bor
rowed capital nave been obliterated, and men
l. U 1 r U .. 1 l . 1 1 . i , . .
a a Lane Ilhutrattd 1 1 Lilemr and Family helium wit are atarfc-ri on ft hihr
E. u , , -, A id rm- i .. .. ... . . .
, : . 1 T 1 . , , i prosperity man wis jona nas ever seen. if.
hrae f Interesting and ls&u-tt-UTg reading ' 'lyjy j
i i nere is nn wuru .iiav dih aeiuaea mors
people into uanxrupcr ana Slate orison ani
Who Is Mr Friend!
Who is my friendl My little song shall say,
For that I do not find him every day;
Though if by that vexed name alone I
guessed,
A motley multitude might pass the teat,
Nor, to my ear, their speech its gulls be
wray.
FRANK PIERCE,
jLtt.orney at JLav,
Salt I.olce City, Utnli.
Special attention given to Investing
money in Mines, Cat lo and lianohes.
HENRY Rf.. SHANKS,
Carriage & Sleigh Maker
So. Londonderry, Vt.
Repairing a Ppecially.
D. B. GODDARD,
So. Londonderry, Vt.,
Tb&vklliho Salesman roa '
PIANOS AND ORGANS
The Es'ey Organ a Specialty.
AH Communication Promptly
Attended To.
JONAS HILL,
OEAIUH IS
FLOUR, MEAL, PORK,
LARD, SALT, FISH, Eta
Bondviile, Vt.
S. M. H0LDEN,
REAL ESTATE BROKER.
South Londonderry, - - Vermont
Alee Sealer 1st Harass aae Cattle.
ITarma for aale, at all timea, en easy terms.
L. N. SPRAGTJE,
JAMAICA, - "VERMONT,
General Agent fat Windham Co. for the
MONUMENTAL BBOM CO,
Bridgeport, Coma.
"WHITE BRONZK" monuments and ate-
pass are the best in the world. Tbay hold
their solar and will not erack or beeome mesa
crown, like alone. Host beautiful in color.
eVign and inish. CHSAPRR and
ttNbuRffia Ann sssitto sc twite.
THE
.0
of gigantio limbs to take his place at the
curbstone in rront ot Trinity uourcn, aim
when that word borrow comes bounding
along, kick it clean through to Wall street
ferry boat, end if, striking on that, it bounds
clear over tut it striKes ci ooKiyn neignveor
Brooklyn hid, it will be well for the City of
Churches. '
Why, when you are going to ao wrong,
pronounce so long a word us oorrow, a word
of six letters, When you can get a shorter
word more descriptivo of the reality, a word
of only five letters, the word steall
tmiA are times waen we ait wirruwi cmiu
borrow leffltimatcly. and borrow with the
riivinA hlfsflinir. far Christ in His sermon on
the mount enjoins: "From him that would
oorrow ot thee turn not thou away." A
vnunir man riebtlv borrows money to get
his education. Purchasing a house and not
able to pay all down in cosh, the purchaser
riirhtlv borrows it on morttrneo. Crises
come in business when it would be wrong
for a man not to borrow. But 1 roll this
: 1 . 1 . .1.1 nnnw , 111!
wciriuu' tiiruugii an lUCm aiaioa, u .o.
backs of all thes? pews, never borrow to
speculate; not a dollar, not a cent, not a
lartuing. loung men, young men, x wain
you by your worldly prospects and the value
of your immortal souls, do not do it.
ff I hmi onlv n worldlv wearjon to use on
this subject 1 would give you the fact fresh
from tne highest auinoruy, mat wi per couu.
of those who go into speculation in Wall
streot lose all, but I have abetter warning
than a wordly warning. From the plac
where men have perishe 1 body, mind and
.mil stnnil nf Ktindof! Abstract DUlnit
discussion must aside on this Question. Faith
andrepentetice are absolutely necessary, but
faith and renentance are no more doctrines
of the Bible than commercial integrity. Ren
der to all their dues. Uwe no man anything.
And whilM I mean to nreach faith and ro-
pentence, more nnd more to preach them, I do
not mean to spena any time in ijuasiumu
Hittites and Jebusites anauirgasnesoi mine
times, when there are so many evils right
around us destroying men and women for time
and tor eternity, lue greatest evangelistic
S readier the world ever saw, a man who
ied for his evangelism peerless Paul
wrote to the Romans: "Provide things hon
est in the sight of all men;" wrote to the
Corinthians: "Do that which is honest;"
wrote to the Pbilippinns: "Whatsoever
things are honest;" wrote to the Hebrews:
"Willing in all things to live nonestiy.- ine
Bible says that faith without works is dead,
which being liberally translated, moans that
if your business life does not correspond
with your profession, your religion is a humbug.
(Jur ralierlon ouirht to mean lust as much
on Saturday nnd Monday as on the day be
tween, and not osa mere periphrasis of sanc
tity, uur religion uuglll, to umu awmvui
hearts, and then it ought, to clean our lives.
Religion is not, as some seem to think, a sort
ot cnurcn delectation, a Kino, oi comecuou
ery, a sort of spiritual caramel or holy gum
drop, or sanctified peppermint, or theologi
cal ancestlutic. It is an omnipotent princi
ple, all controlling, all conquering. You
may get along with something less than thnt
and vou may deceive yours i
you cannot deceive God, a;. t
deceive the world. The kee.i v.: -f
will put on his spectacles, a I.2X "
clear through to the back et yourv
whether j:our religion a v N
fact And you cannot hide j"r r. -i ; '. i
sugar, or rice, or tea, or conee lli u, tu
false; you cannot hide thtm under the cloth
of a communion table. All your prayers go
for nothing so long as you misrepresent your
banking institution, and m tne amount oi tne
resources you put down more specie, and
more fractional eurrency, and more clearing
house certificate!, und more legal tender
notes, and more loans, and more discounts
than they really are, and when you give an
account of vour liabilities you c.o not men
tion all the unpaid divuiencis, and tne unnea
States bank notes outstanding, and tho in
dividual deposits, and the obi gations to other
bauKs and nanners. An autnonty more
scrutinizing than that of any bank examiner
will go through and through and through
your business.
Let me say in the most emphatic manner
to all young men, dishonesty will never pay.
An aDDOt wonteu to vuy a p.ece oi nivuuu,
and the owner would not sell it, but the
owner finally consented to let it to him until
he could raise one crop, and the abbot sowed
acorns, a crop of fcOJ years! And I tell you,
young man, that the "dishonesties which you
plant in your heart and life will seem to be
very insignificant, but they will grow up un
til they will overshadow you with horrible
darkness, overshadow all time nnd all eter
nity. It will not be a crop for 200 years, but
a crop for everlasting ages. .
I have also a word of comfort for all who
suHer from the malfeasance of others, and
every honest man, woman and child does
suffer from what goes on in financial scamp
dom. Society is so bound together that all
the misfortunes which good people suffer in
business matters come from tho misdeeds of
others. Bear up uni'er distress, strong in
God. Ho will see you through, though your
misfortune should! bs centupled. Philoso
phers tell us that a column of air forty-five
miles in height rests on every man's head and
shoulders, iiut that is nothing compared
with the pressure that business life has put
upon many of you. God mode up his mind
litnir fl-m hnw mnnv nr how few dollars It
would be best for you to have. Trust to his
appointment. The door will soon open to
let you out and let you up. What shock of
delight for men who for thirty years have
tinpn in business anxietv when thev shall sud
denly awake in everlasting holiday. On the
maps of the Arctic regions there are two
places whose names are renmrKauie, given, j.
.,tv,a hv snnin Polar exnedition: "Cape
Farewell" and "Thank God Harbor." At this
last the Polaris wintered in 1871, and the
Tigress in 1813. Some ships have passed the
cape, yet never reached the harbor. But
from what I know of many of you, I have
concluded thnt, though your voyage or life
may be very rough, run into by icebergs on
fchia Ma anii iceherirs on that, vou will in
due time reach Cape Farewell and there bid
good-bye to all annoyances, and soon after
drop anchor in the calm and imperturbable,
waters of Thank God Harbor. "There the
wicked cease from troubling, and the weary
are at rest."
I mar not guage true friendship in thatway ;
The false like pure gold shines in Fortune's
ray:
In Its eclipse and shade I may know best
Who is my friend.
Since glittering ores oft fail the fire's assay,
And mocking Jewels, in tne glooms, grow
gray.
Give me no changeful bosom for my rest-
Save that it warmer throbs when I'm sore
pressed
And such sweet faith shall prove beyond
gainsay,
Wno is my friend.
(Youth's Companion.
WILLFUL MADGE.
BY IRElsE FRESTOH.
"They'll not treat me as if I were a
grown-up child. They'll not select I
husband for me, I detest Mark Thorn-
Ion. I'll run sway if thoy don't stop
pestering me about him."
Mad go had rushed from the presence
of her elders, vith rather disrespactful
haste, had ordered Brownio, and was
arranging herself hastily in her riding
habit. Her eyes wero flashing, and
two red snots were burning in her dark
clioeks.
Bho descended tho stairs, holding her
head like a young princess, not deign
ing to look riht or loft, and passed out
into tho sunshine. ' Tom held Brownio
besidothe block; Madge sprang into
the saddlo and galloped off down the
road in the direction of Saxonville,
small railway and post-office station a
few miles distant.
MUs Mary and Miss Martha watched
the angry cloud of dust sottlo away, and
then looked at each other helplessly.
They meant well, they were painfully
conscientious, alter their light, but
somehow they lacked tho tact and wis
dom to govern this girl, whom their
brother had found in the south, shortly
after tho close of the war, a homeless,
friendloss child, and had brought her
.home and ndnr.f-3 hor.
l -strung and willful,"
M
6he glanced over tho letter again. He
had given her his Boston address, and,
good gracious t tomorrow was the 16th.
Ho would be there tomorrow.
Acting on a sudden impulse, she
turned Brownie's head again towards
the station, walked into the telegraph
office and deliberately wrote this message:
"I shall leave for Boston oa tne ii.su
train.' Meet me at the depot." '
There! It was done and not to be
repented of. She galloped home and
took her. place at the dinner table with
a silent, subdued air. . .
She spent the rest of the day in her
room making a few preparations, mus
ing upon 'her grievances and picturing
the mooting on the morrow alternately.
She was allowed to remain unmo
lested by the sisters, who were used to
her moods. '
There was a da?h of Spanish gypsy
blood in her veins, as she herself sus
pected. She had a daring disregard
for conventionalities which was now,
under high pressure, overflowing its
boundaries. Yet she wa3 high-principled
and warm-heartod at bottom, and
would be easily governed by one wno
understood her complex nature with its
seeming contradictions.
When Miss Mary and Miss Martha
saw her gallop off the next day thoy
little guessed that sho wore a traveling
suit under her riding habit, nor that
she had stolen out tho evening boforo
and secreted a well-filled valise among
tho brushwood under tho trees by tho
road, hall a mile distant.
Making sure that no one was in sight,
she secured tho valise and rode on
again until she camo to a strip of wood
land not far from tho little dopot. Sho
removed her riding habit, then, after
securing Brownie and lavishing parting
caresses nnd a few tears upon him. sho
walked around the "bond" to tho
station, and was soon steaming over tne
road to Boston.
Excitement kept her up until, as the
train ncared Boston, she began to grow
nervous. Suppose Alfred should not meet
her? Suppose the telegram should have
miscarried? Was sha not doing a reck
less thing?
She banished reflection. She strug
gled against a homesick feeling as sho
walked up the long platform of the
depot and found her way to tho Indies
What am I to do? How am I to
go home and answer their questions?"
Madge asked, looking to him in her ex
tremity as a strong towor of protection.
"Will you leave it tome? Will you
trust me to make it all right?" he asked.
"I will do anything you say," she
answored, humbly, "if you will forgive
my rudeness to you a few minute) ago,"
"And I will retract my statement and
ask you to go home with me," he said,
with a smile. "The train leaves in half
an hour. I will account for your ab
sence." It shall never.be known. that
you met any one."
How Madge's grievances diminished
on that homeward ride I What a haven
of rest her quiet room would seem if she
once reached it, and how gentle and
deferential Mark's manner was toward
her! " -
Miss Mary and Miss Martha, who had
been half frantic, were greatly relieved
to see Madge under tho protection of
Mark Thornton, who pursuod a high
handed courso of explanation.
"Miss Madge and I havj had an adven
turo today," he said, airily. "Will you
ask no questions for tho prosent and let
Madge go at once to hor room? Somo
day later I will explain. I am only
sorry for your uneasiness."
The good women accepted the situa
tion without a word. Mark was a sort
of paragon with them. Madge was safe
and thero had been no alarm raised in
tho neighborhood. They could not be
sufficiently thankf u'.
Madpro learned her own heart tha'
day. She now enjoys full freedom as
the wife, friend and companion of Mark
Thornton.
A SEAL HUNT.
Description of an Expedition in
Quest oi Sealskin.
The Animals are Surprised and
Killed With Clubs.
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perdition than any other word in com
mercial life, and that is the word bor
row; that one word 'is responsible for
all the defalcations, and embezzle
ments, and financial consternations of tho
last twenty years. When executors conclude
to speculate with the funds of an estate com
mitted tn their charge, they do not purloin.
thev aay they only borrow; wnen a hanker
makes an overdraught upon his institution,
be does not commit theft, he only borrows.
rv nen uwomcerof a company, by naming ad-
i vartiaemeot in some religious papers, and sail
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Germany, has 163
"is iv"ould come homo,"
i Martha. "Everything
he went away.
rooVa. She sat down near tho 400M
Surclv ho would come soon. She had a
lonely, unprotected feoling. Men pass
- I. ., 1 1... 1..1J
Ho has a knack of smoothing things mg wo aoor gave uer ooiu, .uUO,
nvr The mora wo trv to smooth the tioning glances sue imngineu.
more we ruflb her, and she's never beon At longlh, with a cry ot relict in ner
the same anyway since she came home heart, sho caugnt a glimpse 01 A..rCua
from thnt visit in tho west."
Bkhlis University,
African students.
Thb floral decorations at the White House
for February cost $1000.
Twelve native women are students in the
Medical College at Bombay, India.
A BERiorjs unrisim? is feared among the
inmans 01 Manitoba, wno are starving.
Kentucky will have 1500 horses on the
race-tracks of the country next summer.
The Anti Treatine Club, of Chicazo. num-
Ders ju persons, everyone annas atone.
There is now a postoffice for every 1010
men, women and children in the United
btates.
Extensive floods have occurred in Austria-
Hungary. Nume rous cases of drowning are
reported.
each claiming to be the properly constituted
authority.
A silver mine that was once worked by
the Indians has been discovered in Fannin
County, Ga.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill re
quiring the teaching of temperance in the
public schools.
The Governor of Saratoff, Russia, reports
terrible destitution among the peasants in
that province.
Mns. Martik McCa.be, of North Creek,
Warren County, N. C, has just died at the
age of 112 years.
The late Charles G. Havens' will leaving
n.000.000 to charity is objected to by bis
heirs from Marathon, N. Y.
Bart Kiwo Alfonso XIII, of Spain, is
suffering from epilepsy, an hereditary dis
ease in his mother s family, the Hapsburga.
The State Senate of Massachusetts, by
tie vote, rejected a proposal to give woman
the right to vote upon the license question.
Colonel E. B. C Cash, the sur'ivor of
the last fatal duel in South Carolina, died
recently at his home in Chesterfield County.
Miss Martha would havo been still
more unhappy had sho known the exact
foundation for the fact of her last as
sertion. Madgo had formed tho ac
quaintance of Alfred Winsliip during
that vi-it. Sho had kept up a secret
correspondence with him ever since,
which was easily mannered, sinco sho
always rodo to the Ilieo for the mail,
and was to-day expecting a letter. -
"I am old enough to bo my own mis
tress," sho thought, all tho petty re
straints that had chafed her wilful, inv
pcrious spirit from childhood coming
uppermost. "I will not submit any
loDgcr. I would like now to irallop on
and on away into freedom. : I am an
alien any way. I feel like a caged bird
all the time. Thore is wild blood in
my veins, I believe. Whatever my
rjarcntaiio I never came of such hum
drum stock as theso people noverl"
Hur thoughts touched upon Mark
Thornton. Ho was owner of the estate
adjoining that of Mr. Bishop, no was
ten years older than sho, and had mado
no secret of his preference for her. Sho
liked him fairly well until sho found
that M.3S Mary and Miss Martha wished
her to marry him, when the began to
treat him with freezing civility,
"Tame and commonp'aco, always
reading and studying. What do I want
of him?" she questioned spitefully, giv
ing Brownie an extra touch with tho
whip. I want vim and dash of spirit.
How Alfred Winship-
. She had reached the station. Sho rode
up to tho window, through which the
postoffice clerk handed her mail as
usual. Sho Tcpaid him with a dazzling
smile as sho caught sight of Alfred's
handwriting, lifting him into the seventh
heivcn, for she was beautiful, and in her
gracious moods irresistible
She let hor reins fall upon Brownie's
neck while she read Alfred's letter. Her
heart gave a great bound. He was com'
ins east, would be in Boston on the
16th.
"How delightful it would be," he
wrote, "if you could get out of your
cage for a week and meet me
there. I suppose the dragons would as
soon give yon permission to visit the
moon without an escort; ana yet we
face at tho door of tho waitiDg room,
Ho stood looking around uncer
tainly for a few moments, then, with
rather unsteady steps, he crossed to
where sho sat, held out both hands and
said familiarly, "Ah, here you arc,
beauty. I've been looking for you this
half hour."
Madge was on her foot in a moment
warding'off his touch. Hii handsome
faco was flushed and tho quality of his
glance and smile was insultiug. The
odor of tho potations he had imbibed
sickonoi hor. She could have sunk
through tho floor with shame and dread
of him. Ho had undergone a motamor-
nhosis. Sho had never seen him thus
when she met him at Ilia home of hur
friend. Something like disgust sho
folt, which was quickly succeeded by a
flash of anger as ho laid liis hand upon
her shoulder and said rather unsteadily,
"Como and have something to eat. You
must bo hungry. You you are under
my protection, you know," ho fiuished
with a meaning lautjh.
The effect upon Madgo was madden-
3 , ,1 1 1 t
lng. DUO SCOrneu uim uuu uerau.i iur
her folly. He quailed a little under the
firo ia her eyes, as tho shook off his
hand and stepped backward, with an
imperious air, that had its effect upon
him.
"I am not under your protection,"
she retorted, with a certain desperation
in her voice and manner.
At that instant she saw Mark Thorn
ton coming towards her across tne
marblo floor.
Her first sonsation was one of dismay
that Mark had found her in such a com
promising situation. The next moment
she had rallied her forces.
They have sent you after me," she
said recklessly, after this quiet saluta
tion. "If I return it will not be with
yu . ..... r
"1 came on tno train wnn you, uut x
was not sent,'1 ho returned, "and I have
not the slightest intention of asking you
to return with me. I thought you
seemed in trouble, and I merely came
to ask if I could bo of service to you."
Madgo looked up at him. He seemed
so grand and grave and masterful in
contrast with Alfred that a sudden
sense of his superiority camo to Madgo
like a revelation, while a fear that sho
The Old Oaken Bucket.
Science goes for things dear to us
without morcy. Everybody who has
J lived in the country and who knows the
old well loves the "old oaken duckci.
We all love it because wo havo read
what tho poet says about it, and in our
schooldays wo choio" tho poem as our
"niece" and snoko it. We have
aucnehed our thirst from tho old oaken
tucket with its contents aftei carefully
looking into its dubious depths for
"wigglcrs" or worms. Wo have bal
anced the rusty, dripping inconvenience
on tho curb and submerged our noses
in the "nectar" we gulped. Wo have
spilled the "crystal" on our shirt front
. , , 11. it
nnrt nrolanelv crowicd as we ieit it
Tlffikle' down inside odr collar. We
havo seen tho leaking drizzle, from
holo in the bucket, spoil our five-cont
shine. We havo longed under thaso
circumstances for a cheap glass tumbler
or a common tin dipper, but ia all our
tribulations wo nevor thought the old
oaken bucket an iron-bound death
dealer, but it scorns that it is, for
scientist tolls us that it is "a compound,
condensed masi of nitrogenous and
phosphatio filthiness, tho homo of tho
microbe, and tho all-prevailing bacte
ria." Martha's Vineyard nerald.
Cure for Biliousness,
First, on getting up and going to
bed drink plenty or cold water. Eat
for breakfast, until the bilious attack
passes, a littlo stale bread, say ono
slice, and a piece half as large as your
hand of boiled lean beef or mutton. If
tho weather is warm, take instead a
littlo crackod wheat or oatmeal por
ridge. For dinner take about tho same.
Go without your supper.
Exercise freely in the open air, pro
ducing perspiration, onco or twico a
day. Ia a few days your biliousness is
all gone. This result will como even
though the biliousness is ono of the
spring sort, and one with which you
have, from year to yoar, been much af
flicted. Herb drinks, bittor drink, lager beer,
ale, whiskey, and a dozen other eprinst,
medicines are simply barbarous. Dr.
Dio Lewis.
could have a delicious time if you could had compromised herself forever in his
eyes came over her as Alfred saia sneer-
ingly:
"I thought your engagement was
ith mn hut it seems I am one too
many."
With that he walked off. Madge's
defiant mood broke down utterly. She
wss wretched, humiliated.
Mark stood regarding her gravely.
"You will despise me," she said. "I
screed ta me-t that man hero. 1 made
his acqtiaiutanoa in the west last winter.
Th'V thev ara- driving me mad at
home," she finished with tears of vexa
tion in her eyes.
"I understand," Mark said slowly. In
those few mi lutes ho had found the
keynote to the actions of this sweet,
loving, willful, imperious creature, whom
he loved so tenderly.
join me."
Had some evil clairvoyance conveyed
to Alfred Winship tho present state of
Madge's mind? In her unreasoning reck
less mood, with her "balance whoel,'
George Bishop, away, she was open to
any suggestion that had a spice of free
dom io it.
"Why not break loqse from this re
straint at once and forever? Why not
meet Alfred Winship as he suggested?
She knew he was desperately in love
with her. and she had never seen a
happy moment sicca she parted from
him.
''If I had any privileges like other
girls," she thought bitterly, "I could
invite him out to see me, but Miss Mary
and Miss Martha would be scandalized
at the mention of such a thing."
Snnshlne Kemedy for Obesity.
But here is a secret for women troubled
with obesity, which wo anticipate will
carry somo weight, namely, that bodies
exposed constantly to the sua "gain
such- activity of the blood forces as to
prevent any excessive forming of adi
pose matter." It must not, however,
be supposed that, oa the other hand,
1 1 , 1. .1 .. .... n Inan.
plenty 01 sunsiiiuu i uuuuutim 1
ness. Not so, for the really healthful
condition is neither fat nor lean, but
shapely and plump, and the sun's rays
quicken the nutrient functions, pro
ducing a beautiful and elastic roundness
of form; Indeed, tho constant action of
the sun upon a human body is like the
effect upon a plant, vitalizing ana
strengthening to every part Press.
The Age of Fishes.
Crows are commonly said to live for
a hundred years and turtles are said to
have even longer life; but if Professor
Baird be right the greatest animal lon
gevity is possessed by fishes. Professor
Baird says that a fish has no maturity,
there is nothing to prevent it from living
indefinitely and growing continually.
He cites in proof a pike, living in Rus
sia, whose ago dates back to the fif
teenth century. Ia tho royal aquarium
at St Petersburg there are fish that
have been there 140 years. Tho Twin
Cross.
A Leap Tear Explanation.
Griggs "See here, S.imley, a word
with vou before vou go. You've been
calling on my sister for three months,
and I think it's about time to ask your
intentions."
Slimley "Perfectly honorable, Tom.
She proposed to ms to-night, and we'll
be married soon." Siltioas.
Seals once having taken to a place
will never dosort it unless frequently
alarmed. Here they periodically return
to breed, and thence the old onos nevor
wander far. Throo expeditions, of two
nights on each occasion at most, are
made yearly, and as only one attack is
possiblo each time, great caution and ex
perience are necessary to ensure a good
bag.
The oars have to be mufibd, and tho
island approached accorJinj to the
wind; for seals are not tho sleepy crea
tures ono associates with the 209, but
post videttes in commanding positions,
and on the slightest alarm there Is a
rush and a splash, and good-byo to your
prospects for that night. Having dis
embarked in silence, the men, armed
with heavy clubs somewhat resembling
though longor than a policeman's staff,
are posted at intervals of two or thrco
yards on tho glacis by which the seals
invariably como and go. When all is
ready every one bczins to shout, and
then comes a rush like a thousand
sheep, and thwack, thwack, right and
left, as hard as you like, and the more
the better, followed by a splash, and
every one makes for tho boats and
shoves off.
For the old bul's, often six foet and
seven feet long, are very dangerous and
will ofton follow a boat knajving at the
trunwales. For purposes of commerce
the old onos aro absolutely worthless.
and attention is only paid to tho small
est and youngest. Wo started at one
m., the writer continues, for tho
seal island. A glorious moon mado
every object as clear as day, and
about half an hour we found ourselves
aloncsido about as difficult a landing
place as can well bo conceived. Imagin
then, a Tathcr steep glacis, as slippery
as a slide and extending without one
friendly foothold for about twenty
yards.
But our nimblo companions lost
time in the ascent, and in less time
than it takes to writo it, wo found our
selves seized by sturdy arms and ia po
tition at the top of the glacis, "noo.
hool" intermingled with shouts such as
nono but Afrikander lungs could possi-
bly emit, then rent tho air, and then
roar such as I can only describe as that
of a hundred oxen, followed by
scampering of what seemed a thousand
feet and a literal avalanche of seals
camo tumbling past us and dashed
furiously into tho water.
Personally, I was too excite I to do
justice to my club; I struck about, re
gardless of all instructions, indiscrimi
nately at old nnd young that came
within reach, and was delighted to find
when the counting began that I was tho
proud exterminator of four. Tb.3 ex
perts had, of course, dono better, and
our night's work for thirty-two clubs
was represented by 310 seals. To make
for the boats and shovo off was tho work
of an instant; and, having laid-to for a
short time in case of attack, wo again
landed, collected our victims and re
turned to the guano island.
Tho night's work, however, was by
no means over; and alter a hearty sup
per. U19 skiuninp; process began and
continued till well into the afternoon
Tho preliminary proparing (or braying
as it is called) of tho skins is somewhat
peculiar; and as tho fur known as seal
skin is an undergrowth, all tho bristles
havo to bo removed, i. e. : pulled
backwards from tho inside. In the very
young animals those bristlos havo not
appeared; hence, tho value of the seal
the younger ho is, and the absoluto
worthlcssncss of the old bulls. On the
following night tho seals were to bo left
in peace; but on the Thursday we re
peated the attack, with much the samo
experience and an addition of 207 to our
bag, making a grand total of 523.
London Field.
Tilt Virtues of the Ylolln.
In power, volume and varioty of t
sound, the organ is justly entitU d to bo
called the king of musical instruments.
But in two important points it ylclds.to
the violin and to the othor members ot
tho violin tribo the viola, the violon
cello and tho double, bass. When somo
one asked Mozart to state what was req
uisite to constitute a good pianoforte
player, he touched his fingers, his fore
head and his breast, thcroby indicating
that the pianoforte-player needs btaio,
feeling and dexterity of hand. Now,
given the feeUng, the piano is naturally
cold an instrument that even
the most skillful performers on it
find a difficulty in throwing all the feei
ng of which thoy are conscious into
their playing. The violin, on tho other
hand, ii a warm and sympathetic in
strument, and readily responds to the
mood of the performer. Ia other words,
the connection betwoon the performer
and the instrument is more intimate in
the case of the violin and its congeners
than in that of aay othor instrumont
Next, all othor instruments lack the
power of "singing." In this respect, tho
piano, tho harp, tho guitar, and its first
cousin, tho banjo, aro notably deficient;
since, rightly considered, they aro mere
ly instruments of percussion, and cannot
ovon sustain the notes which they emit
The flute, the organ, and all other wind
instruments, on the other hand, do pos
sess this sostenento capacity. Bat they
cannot, like tha human voice, fill in, so
to speak, the gaps in the gamut. But are
thero any gaps in the gamut ? Most no.
doubtedly thero aro enormous gaps.
The octave at prcsaut ia use among all
civilized nations comprises but thirtosa
distinct sounds, all told. But
in tho scalo constructed by scientists
Hclmholtz and othors and hence
called the Philosophical Scalo or Gamut,
the number of distinct sounds is seven
teen; and oven this gives but a very
faint idea of the almost innumerable
degree of tone, distinguishable by an
acute car, between, say middle C and
its octave. Now, tho knm voice can
render all theso shades of souad, an l so
also can the violia tribe. Tho music
produced on theso instruments may,
therefore, most aptly be termod "linked
sweetness long drawn out" CassolL
Mental Telegraphing.
It is said th it tb.3 Indians on the
plains have always practised a system
of mental telegraphing nunng them
selves, by means of which they commu
nicate with each other almost instanta
neously, and without messengers or sig
nals. This mental telegraphing is by
no moans peculiar to the Indians on the
plains of the United States. The same
thing has been done by many people on
the plaias, and among tho mountains,
both of America and other countries,
and is today, and always has been, one
method of manifesting knowledge
known to and practised by many per
sona
The manner in which such communi
cations aro made seems to be, and is, a
great mystery. Miay theories about it
have teen suggested, all of which fall
short of satisfying tho minds of people
as to how it is done. The fact that such
communications are sent and received,
and that they are often genuine and
true, and that such is one mode of man
ifesting knowledge, is now almost uni
vcrsally conceded. St Louis Repub
lican.
Past Mending.
Bjoncs That fellow Ga'ey trijJ to
borrow five hundred dollars of mo this
morning.
Smythe Fiv
cracked I
Bjones No, he's not cracked,
broke. (Life.
Effect of Glare upon Eyesight
It appears that Professor Plateau, ot
the University of Ghent, whilo trying to
observe tho effects of the irritation ot
the retina gazad steadily at the sua for
twenty seconds, the result being that
chronic irldo-choroiditis developed,
ending eventually in total blindness. A
number of casos aro known in which
choroiditis and retinitis occurrod in
persons who had observed an eclipse of
tho sun. The single flash of a sun-reflector
has been known to cause retinitis,
and other temporary visual disturbance
of a functional charactor have been fre
quently notod. M. Reich has described
a curious epidemic of snow blindness,
which occurrod among a body of la
borers engaged in clearing
a way through the masses of snow
which obstructed the road between Pas
sanaur and Mteti in the Caucasus; the
rays of the sun reflected from tho vast
stretches of snow on overy side, pro
duced an intense glare of light, which
the unaccustomed eye could not support
without the protection of dark glasses.
A fow of tho sturdiest among the labor
ers wore able to work with impunity,
but tho majority suffered so much that
among seventy strongly marked cases
thirty were so scvero that the men wero
absolutely unablo to continue work or to
find their way home and lay
prone on their faces, striving to liida
their faces from the light and crying
out from pain. Recovery was gradual
but complete.
A Pet Ostrich's Mishap.
When, as sometimes happens, a soli
tary chick is reared at the farmhouse, it
becomes absurdly and often incon
veniently tamo. Ono called Jackij was
tho terror of all tho little Africans about
the place; for, as they sat on the ground
with plates of rice and pumpkin in their
laps Jackio would bear down upon
them, requisitioning from one plato
after another. Occasionally he acted in
such a menacing manner that tho young
sters dropped their plates end ran away
crying. Jackio would then squat on
his heels among tho dobris and rogalo
lis enormous appetite at leisure. But
jno day retribution camo. Having
i buhdred. He must be
Ho'
spotted the pot in tho kitchen out of
which tbo pumpkin an l rice always
came, he thou ;ht he would attack tho
fountain head, so plumping his
head into tho pot, he
greedily scoopod up, and, with tha
lightning-like rapidity of ostriches,
tossed down his throat a large mouth
ful of boiling rice. Poor fellow I the
next moment he was dancing round the
kitchen, writhing in agony, shaking his
head nearly off, and twisting his neck
as if bent on tying i' into a knot
Finally he da hod wildly from the
house; and the la-t that was seen of him
was a littlo clou! of whito dust vanish
ingon the horizon. St. James Gazette.
A Well Endowed County.
Randolph County, ia West Virginia,
has many things to be prou 1 of. Its
area is nearly as great as that of Rhodo
Island. It has the highest mountain in
the state Mouut B lyard. Tho Wilson
vi in of coal is the richest in the world.
The Scott family, oa Roaring Creek,
will outweigh any family in the United
States, and Winchester Park, in the
county, is tho largest gamo preserve
east of the Rockies. New York
World.