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turn out badly-I never knew an exception
while those who are the most consistent,
the most useful and the most consecrated
have perfume In their conversation and
heaven in their face.
The happiest Christians that I have ever
known have been persons from sixty to eighty
years OF age. By that time people get over
the shams and the pretenses Of society and
have no longer any patience with anything
dare you be gloomy Is not God your Father?
Is not Jesus Christ your Saviour? Has not
your path all through life been strewn with
mercies? Are you insensible to the fact that
there are glories awaiting you in the better
land-doxologies of celestial worship, eternal
ehorals, fearless eyes, songs that resound
under arches cf strength and hosannas that
slap their hands at the foot Of the throne?
Is 1t nothing to you that all the hills Of
heaven are radiant with the faces Of those
who have gone up from you and who are wait
Ing Tor your coming, ready to keep with you
eternal holiday? Is there nothing in songs
that never cease, in hearts that never ache.
In splendors that never die, to make you
glad? Then take no more mercy at the hand
OF thy God! Give back the marriage ring of
love that Jesus put on your finger In the day
Of your espousal! Plant no more of the
aowsrs Of heaven where there ought to be
nothing but nettles and nightshade
We try to make this church q cheerful
church: A man on Saturday afternoon
stands In his store and says Chow shall I
meet these obligations? How can I endure
this new disaster that Is coming upon me?"
He goes home. Sabbath morning finds him
in the house Of God. Through the song,
through the sermon, through the prayer, the
Lord Jesus Christ says to that man 20
man, have watched thee. I have seen all
thy struggles. It Is enough. I will see thee
through. will stand between thee and thy
creditors. I will make up In heavenly
treasures what you have, lost In earthly
treasures. Courage, man, courage! Angels
OF God, command you to clear the track
for that man put your wings over his head !;
with your golden scepters strike for his de-
Tense throw around him all the defenses of
eternity" What Is the consequence? That
business man is strengthened He goes 10
the store next day feeling that God Is with
him and ready to deliver.
That same Sunday there is poor old wo-
man In the church hearing the gospel Oh,
how shrunken she Is! She wears the same
dress she wore twenty years ago. How faded
II is and now out ofdate She sits and listens
as we'll as she can. Her eyes ara 50 dim she
cannot see half way across the church. Her
ear is 80 imperfect that she can only catch
occasionally note OF the psalm or a word
OF the preacher. Some one sitting next to
her gives her book and finds the place for
her. She says, "Thank you, miss /; thank
you." She holds the book close up to her
eyes and with voice all full OF tremor5
sings:
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church in its undertaking But there Is a
larger idea that church may take-bringing
in the rich and the poor, the wise and the
ignorant, the high and the low. so that knsel-
ing beside each other shall be the man far1ng
sumptuously every day and the man who
could not get his breakfast. God speed SUCH
q church!
Oh, my friends, we need to break away
from slavery to ecclesiastical custom. We
dare not sing If anybody hears US. we dare
not preach unless we have rounded of our
sentences to suit the criticism OF the world
We dare not dress for church until we have
examined the fashion plates and would rather
stay at home than appear with coat or q
hat not sanctioned by custom. When Tlll
the iay of delivernnce come to the church OF
God, when. instead of q dead religion laid
out in state on a catafalque Of pomp and in
sincerity, we shall have "a living, bounding,
sympathetic, glowing Christianity?
remark, further, that we have tried here
to build and to conduct cheerful ohurch.
While, as you know, we have not held back
the terrors of the law and the sterner doc.
trines of the gospel, We have tried in this
house to present to this people the idea that
the gladdest, brightest, happiest thing In all
the universe is the Christian religion. There
is so much trouble in the world. Business
men have so many nnXieties. Toiling men
have so many fatigues. Orphans nave so
many desolations. For Gods sake, If there
ne any bright place on earth. show it to them
Let the church OF Jesus Christ be the most
cheerful spot on earth.
Let me say that do not want anybody to
come whining around me about the Christian
religion. have no faith in a religion made
up OF equal parts OF wormwood, vinegar and
red pepper. If the religion that is presented
to us be depression, we will get along
better without it. If it ioe joy, let it shine
out from your face and from your conversa-
ton. If man comes 20 my house to talk OF
religion with lugubrous countenance and
manner Iull OF snif1e and dolorousness, I
feel like saying to my wife, 'You had better
lock up the silver before he steals soms-
thing" have found it an invariable rule
that men who profess faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. prid:ng themselves at the same
:ime on their :anctimoniousnsss. a.wavs
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No! She had nothing to fear, and she
had done quite right
Then she began thinking Of Ralph,
and how thankful he must be to her.
All, how sweet to think that if he did
net love her with the love she felt for
him. he must at least be thankful to her.
And she felt proud of what she had
donc!
The train sped onward through the
night toward the sea-board, where the
steamer was awaiting her.
Soon she would see Ralph.
Wa ter Warringham was in fine rage
when he learned what his cousin had
done.
Ninety thousand dollars gone! Who
would have thought that the silly girl
would be capable of such a rascally piece
of business?
At the same time, he could not help
adm;ring the boldness OF the scheme.
Ninety thousand dollars! There was
nothing small about that Girl
Mr.. Warringham was probably vague
ly conscious that he would take such o
sum wherever he could get it, and no
questions asked. But he would prob
ably lack the nerve to get it in this mani
ner.
His first impulse was. naturally. to
have the forger pursued and prosecuted,
but he thought better Of it.
Having pledged the bank officials to
strict silence, he resolved to drop not a
word about it.
In the first place, such a course would
prevent a public scandal And Walter
did not like scandals; they intcrfered
with his comfort.
Secondly, Hattie was very silly girl,
after all. She had ninety thousand dol
lars. to be sure. But by far the largest
part OF her fortune was still in his
hands, and he vas determined that 1t
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carry one of these; they are smooth
outside, and sometimes painted.
A large industry consists in making
from paper imitation money, clothing,
shoes, hats and many sorts of objects
used in worshiping the dead and at
funerals, which are afterward burnt,
and in spirit find their way to the
abodes OF the dead to help them,
or pay their way to Nirvana.
Tseung-lan street is largely given up
to shops that deal in the edible birds
nests. 1t is evidently prosperous
business. In the back of each is a
restaurant where one can have the soup
made from this delicacy served at
prices according to its quality. These
nests are found in or near rocky sea-
coasts, caves in Borneo, Java and Su-
matra, and are builded by species of
swallow, from probably delicate sea-
weed which they find in the surf, and
which, with some secretion of the
crop, they form the nest, which is like
little rounded shelf, slightly con-
cave, of the appearance of Russian
isinglass, and is affixed by its own
gluey substance to the face of the
rocks. The best white ones are $40
catty; the darker ones, soiled with
feathers, etc, less, down to even IS
per catty. These darker ones / saw
soaking in warm water, by which they
fell apart, looking like shreds of wilted
cabbage; from these the long, dirty
nailed Chinese clerks we're picking out
the cleanest bits. l bought of clean
nests enough at least for one soup.
The wholesale drug stores were very
low buildings, full of strengthening
bales. At the doors were many Chi
nese, shaving or planning roots into
thin sections and drying leaves on
bamboo frames. The retail drug shops
were full of strange shaped packages
and curious vials, as foreign to me as
if l had never been i'll drug store
My guide was useless so far as helping
me in obtaining any information in
these places.
The pottery stores were disappoint-
ing, inasmuch as the ware now made
seems rough, heavy and without
beauty. Very few old pieces are seen
in the curio shops, which latter are
abundant, and such pieces are not as
fine as commonly seen in the collec-
tions of Europe. Hence it must be
that the ware of the old dynasties is
scarce and has mostly gone abroad.
Jade is the precious stone of the
Chinese. Every man, woman and
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the laggards are sure to come in for
beating.
The coffin stores are abundant, and
> good coffin is costly thing-when
of precious wood, Thousand dollars;
and IL is one of the proper things for
a son TO give his father nice coffin
as birthday gift on the close of any
decade in his life after fifty. They are
of the Sorm of the lower trunk of a
tree, and, indeed, consist of the trunks
of two trees, including the spread at
the root. Each trunk is sawed into
two planks lengthwise, and the four
planks so joined edgewise as to afford
space for the body; that is, the side
edges of the planks are fitted so the
plain surfaces are at right angles to
each other, the convex surfaces out
side; square panel is placed in each
end. II takes six to eight coolies to
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age. though they are generally be.
headed in lots of four to fifteen Mt q
time. 1t is said that at the close of
the TAPPING rebellion, few years ago,
over 80, 900 of the rebels were beheadcd
in one year in this yard. Life is cheap
in China, and nothing 80 convinces
one of the fact like a sight of the
prisons and of this Golgotha of yard.
In the street Sheung- or
street of booksellers and publishers,
is an old double-arched gateway
merly section of the city wall crossed
the street, but that was removed long
since, leaving this ancient arch az
temple or shrine. On top is an old
clepsydra or water-clock, which has
kept the time for about 700 years. II
consists of four large inverted cones
like teaching tubs, made of copper,
placed on a stair-like mass of masonry.
From openings near the bottom of
each the water slowly drops from the
top one into the next below, and 80 on
to the bottom one, which has a per.
forated cover, and through this hole
the graduated staff of float rises as
the water rises slowly and regularly.
The water is returned twice a day TO
the upper jar, and ut the beginning of
each hour big board with the name
of the hour is placed on the outside
wall, so it can be seen from the various
high buildings and fire watch towers
of the city. Here one can buy sticks
or circles of punk, or incense, which,
lighted at dawn, burn slowly, and
mark the time by hours by means of
black spots on the punk was much
interested in overlooking the house
tops from this old gateway. The tiled
roofs, on each many rows of round
stone jars filed with water for putting
out fires; but what seemed most
strange was a railed-in wooden walk
that led over the houses. mp and
down, adjusted to the varying nights.
abruptly turning TO the right or left,
bridging over intervals; all this for
the elevated night watchmen, who i'll
this way patrol large districts of the
city above the house-tops, on the
lookout for fires and robbers.
Robbery is very common, and yet
the authorities make short shrift of
the robbers when caught. The gables
or ridges Of the roofs are always
parallel with the streets. The tiles
are coarse brick, alternating fiat with
half-round ones to break joints, these
set in mortar.
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A Novel Blouse.

The smart blouse which is shown in
this sketch is arranged in lovely
new material which has only just made
its appearance in Paris II is soft
and silky velveteen, with small silver
spots scattered over it and sunk into
the velveteen surface as though they
had been stamped upon it with silver
paint The upper part of the blouse,
both back and front, is quite full, the
graceful folds being drawn in at the
waist 80 as to show the outlines of the
figure, under a very wide band formed
of black MORE, smartly held in place
by large buttons of fine jet. Below
this moire band there is very be-
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bridal crowns and other requirements.
Furniture of Chinese models, of
heavy woods, is stained black and con
siderably carved and often profusely
inlaid with bits of mother-of-pearl
Little of this is exported, but there is
very large home market for such
among the wealthier classes.
l visited the places where weaving
of Chinese figured silks was done. The
same old primitive hand loom, clum-
silly made and half buried in dirty
floor, with a stout Chinese "cherub"
of about one hundred and fifty pounds
"sitting up aloft" on the frame, pull
ing up alternately clusters of the
warp threads as the shuttle went back
and forth below and 80 formed the
figures in the web, all of which is
changed in western countries by the
Jacquard device
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child, even coolies, seem to wear
heavy, round bracelets or amulets OF
this substance, 1t varies in color from
a grayish pearl of a greasy appearance
to mottled copper-green. Earrings,
finger and thumb-rings, amulets, hair
ornaments, besides buckles and open
work carved ornaments are seen
these, however, without grace or
beauty. Jade is very hard and the
difficulty of working it adds to it's
cost.
Ornamental silver work, consisting
ofiewelry and various vessels, in both
fligree aud repousse, abound, and the
white silver amulets on the brown
skins of the children and women look
appropriate.
Ivory carvings by the Chinese are
familiar to most persons in our own
country. Such show much labor and
detail in deep and underwriting, are
in design crowded, crude and taste
less; for export they follow European
designs.
] noticed that each street at its end
or where there was q jog in it had
strong, wooden gates, which are closed
at night, and special watchman
guarding them.
Besides funeral undertskers there
are numerous wedding undertakers,
who furnish ON hire everything, such
- sedans, umbrellas. ornaments.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-01-17
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS.
PRoHrBrrros CONVENTION.

HARRISBURG. Prohibition State
Convention held here was attended by 90
delegates and Henry F. Morrow, Of Della
ware county, was nominated for Congress-
man at Large after an hours contention
over the party rules.
In the platform adopted an encouraging
view Of the Prohibitionists Is taken because
of the numerical progress it has made the
past two years. As to the depression n
business the platform has this to say:
The political and business conditions now
existing we claim are not of recent origin,
but are the result of causes eliminating for
years; that these conditions are chargeable
to the Republican and Democratic parties,
who have fostered and perpetuated the
liquor traffic to drain business and burden
taxpayers at the rate Of over d, ZOO, 900, 900
annually; who have inflicted upon the
country class legislation to the benefit of
the few at the expense Of q fair and equal
chance to the many; who through profigate
public expenditures have imposed needless
taxes;who have winked at political debauch-
cry and bribery till to-day rum and cash
are the potent factors In securing majorities
and municipal rule especially has become
an acknowledged farce.
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objects, religious symbols or reasons
for most habits, ways and customs, they
seemed densely ignorant. / shall in
this writing give without close con-
nection, or in the sequence as saw
them, some interesting points.
The pawnshops are striking fea-
ture in the architecture of the city.
They are lofty (seventy feet or sol,
about fifty feet square, brick, with
but few and small windows, and those
high up; large doorway in one front
corner-six feet--a strong wooden
partition, barred opening in this
about five feet from the floor, behind
which Chinese clerks receive the
bundles OF clothing or other things
which are offered in pawn for money.
These pawnshops exist under imperial
licenses of sixty years, for which a
large price is paid, MS we'll rs moder-
ate annual tax. These places charge
from one and half to three per cent.
per month interest on the money
loaned on things in pawn, the limit
being two years The city treasurer
loans money to the pawnbrokers at
twelve per cent. per annum, which
aids them in ready money capital. If
one pawnshop fails the rents are re-
quired to make good the Government
loan at least. Some bad years, late in
the season, when the distressed poor
need the winter clothing and bedding
placed in pawn in the previous spring,
the Government interferes and COM
pels the pawnbrokers to reduce the
interest, so that really the system is
under some sort of control. In Can
ton there are over hundred OF these
pawnshops; in the province over a
thousand.
The Touring mills are common and
primitive enough. One-Hop Sings
"a narrow but deep building, in one
lofty story, has twelve run of stone,
not cased in at all, each about thirty
inches in diameter the lower stone
fixed, the upper one revolving, the
grain fed in centre hole in the up
per stone; a scoopful at intervals runs
as coarse meal from the middle of the
edge. The power was in shape of
blindfolded oxen, blinded 80 that the
short circle they tread, going round
and round for hours, would not make
them dizzy. To keep the droppings
of the animals from contaminating the
-four and mill, tubs were tied under
them. The sitting of the -four from
the bran was done by simple sieve
or bolt
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A curious but rather coarse painted
enamel on copper was the product in
another district; it is rather pretty
and very cheap, the painted design
being burned on.
Whole streets seemed to he nothing
but fan making shops, and feather
fans, at that. l do not remember of
ever seeing such in our country. 1t
is said that whole villages in China do
nothing but make the common open
palm-leaf fans so much used in Amer
lea, and that the palms are especially
grown for this purpose on large
farms.
The shops for head and foot wear
and for clothing are endless. The
Chinese shoe with its thick felt sole is
good idea-easy to wear, noiseless,
warm in winter and waterproof, all
excellent qualities. OF course the
coolies are barefooted, or wear only
straw sandals.
There are many places where second
hand embroideries, the slightly-worn
garments are sold, of the wealthier
people, mandarins and their wives, and
of such I was enabled to get some very
fine examples at nominal prices. Every
master of such shop brought out his
recommendations given by foreign
patrons, many of which read, 81 have
bought embroideries of so-and-so and
found them unusually clean"
The prisons and the halls of Justice
claimed attention. ] found myself in
with lot of miserable creatures, who
crowded around me, saying, "Money,
money" / asked the guide who they
were. "Those sentenced to be be-
headed, he said. They we're in sort
of dirty court yard with shed for
shelter, and looked us if beheading
would be relief. Another room
part room and part court-was filled
with prisoners wearing the cangue, or
three-foot square wooden collar. They
cannot feed themselves or lie down,
save they place the big square collar
at an angle, one edge on the ground,
and then it is half incline with the
neck resting on the edge of two-inch
plank, and yet l saw lot of them
asleep on the ground, and in the filth
upon it. Torture is still used-bas.
tinado, beating the ankles, ball and
chain. whipping, thumb screws, i'm
palement, crucitixion and all that sort
OF barharity. From thence went to
the execution ground-a long, narrow
space used between times for drying
coarse pottery before it is burned. /
interviewed the big headsmsn, num-
Der one, with his sword. When he
saw me draw bead on him with my
camera he scowled and went back into
his den, but headsmen number three
saw some silver in my hand, and he
took up the scimster, rich with the
blood OF many hundred discovered
necks, and struck an attitude, 30
boxed that picture, the crowd grin
ming. The pavement, CORY with
bloody sswdust, cheap. and common,
great jars ~ large ~ barrels stood
there full Of heads. from which quick
lime was slowly eating away the flesh.
About one execution dsv Il the aver.
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ADJT. GEN. GREENLAND has issued COM
missions to National Guard officers in the
Second Pennsylvania Brigade as follows:
Alonzo Miller Porter, captain, Company II,
Tenth regiment; John X. McEwen, captain,
Company 9, Fourteenth Regiment Frank
Barr, first lieutenant Company F,Sixteenth
Regiment; J. Conrad Kay, major, Eigh.
teenth Regiment,
THE Governor commuted the death PEN
atty in the case of Joseph Zappe to impris-
onment for life. The reasons of the Board
of Pardons for the extension of executive
clemency speak Of the good character OF
Zappe and that careful review of the facts
furnished reasonable basis for doubt that
Joseph Iappe actually inflicted any wound.
HENRY MILLER and Thomas Doyle were
lodged In Jail at Butler charged with
burglary at Delano and other places on the
West Penn railroad, number of articles
found in their possession being identified by
owners.
T. A. BUTKIEwIcz, who has been appoint
ed postmaster Of Naticoke, Luzerne county,
is the first Pole to be appointed to Federal
office in this country. Heis hustling
politician and can speak eight languages.
Four deaths from diphtheria have occur
red within ten days in the family OF An
drew Albert at Water Gap, and two mem
bers are still down with the disease.
REFORMED church preachers Of the Lehigh
valley at a meeting in Allentown declared
in resolution that Santa Claus entertain
ments in churches are irreverent.
LAFAYETTE LowRY,a farmer near Jermyn.
fell over the side of his wagon in such q
manner that wheel caught his head and in
Its revolution broke his neck.
CLARENCE BURNS, l3 year old son of Martin
Burns of New Brighton, Sunday night died
from the effects of eating wild haws. The
seeds lodged in his bowels.
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. T. WILSON of Shady
Plain were dangerously and perhaps fatally
injured by being thrown from their carri-
age by runaway horses.
The Scranton glass company drew the
fires under its big tank furnace. Three
hundred workmen are out of employment.
Two Poles and Hungarian were killed
by a train in Carney's tunnel on the
Pennsylvania railroad near Greensburg.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to have the trustees
OF Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster,
opens its doors to female students.
AT the East Stroudsburg glass works.
non-union, the wages OF all employees have
been reduced 10 per cent.
TIE Reading railroad managers have
ordered Wholesale discharge Of shop hands
all along the route.
TRE Parkersburg iron works have shut
down and 800 hands are out Of employ
ment.
SCARLET fever Is an epidemic at Wash
ington and the schools have been closed.
THE Eighth Ward Hotel at Altoona was
gutted Dy fire. Loss 5000 partly insured.
MAPLE sroAR making. once considerable
industry in Berks county. is nearly dead.
; NEAR Selkirk. Frank Brown was run
over by tram car and killed.