Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1893 — Page 2

©he gemocrtxt DECATUR,. BCD. W. BLACKBURN. ■ ■ - PuniaW. ■ Trot Governor or New York writes nothing wh ch is not a Flowery production. It Is wonderful what volumes of alienee a man ran utter when his own pot sin is under discussion. There is hope for the public when tire trusts put sc aruch water in their stock that their profits evaporate. Any financier or moralist who says that the whisky business will not hold water is not on to the tricks of the trade. Some women were backward about favoring crinoline because they feared that in a duel to the death it gave certain advantages to the mouse, A hundred-acre orange grove on the Wckiva River in Florida, known as the “Markham” grove, is reported to have yielded a net profit this season of $23,000. The Austrian Archduchess Stephanie will not appear on state occasions with less than ten pages. What she could get in free America would be about ten lines in the society column.

A Texas school teacher went to Washington and said that he must have the English Ambassadorship or nothing. His way of putting the thing enabled the President to accommodate him. The suicide of a 77-year-old Pennsylvania woman is reported. One would think that when a woman had endured this life for 77 years she would have grit enough to stick it out until the natural end. A German biologist says that the two sides of the face are never alike. In two out of five the eyes are out of line. One eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten, and the right ear is generally higher than the 16ft. Free shines are to be had in every large city in the United States todaf. }ut to get one, you must go to the shop where you bought your shoes. One concern gives to each customer a card with numbers to be punched out. The card is good for fifty shines. With Atlantic panies trying to import cholera, and Pacific companies trying to import coolies, it would appear not to be presumptuous for the Federal authorities to object. It might have no particular effect, but it would seem proper. Utah’s delegate to Congress has resigned because miffed about something. Other people have, under circumstances somewhat similar,done the same thing, and been grieved sorely upon puHing the string attached to the resignation to find how readily it broke. In 1892 the immigration to the United States from all countries amounted to 623,084, which figure has not been previously exceeded except in 1881, when we received 669,431 foreigners, of whom 210,485 were Germans and 125,391 were from British North America,

The distressing computation is made that the human system contains 10.000,000 nerves. What is the use of lettipg the nervous man know that he is really about tea times worse off than he thought? There will be no living with him if he finds \ out the real gravity of his condition. Mr. W. G. Stead writes to the Re- i of Reviews of a mighty African hunter who in four years shot 20 elephants, 12 rhinoceros, 5 hippopotami. 100 buffalo, J 3 lions, and enough of lesser game, giraffes, zebras and the like to bring the total up to 54*. Africa would be a good country for the dime novel youngster to emi-, grate to. Palm Springs, Riverside County, claims the earliest fruits in California, though the output is as y. t so small as to attract little attention in the market. It is claimed that oranges ripen there in ■ November, grapes in June and figs in May. Hol? Yes, 350 days in the year; and the other fifteen days are not by any means chilly; says the Enterprise. If any one sees anything of a whale careering about in the ocean < along the Atlantic coast, with a bell buoy attached to his tail, it will prove the truth of the most extraordinary fish story of modern times. Said whale purports to have been in the Vicinity of the sunken Vanderbilt yacht ALva when it was blown up with a ton of dynamite, and he was so alarmed that he fouled a buoy and towed it off, ringing the bell as he went. A manufacturing concern in Birmingham, England, drives something of a trade in crowus. They are real ones, of solid gold, with cap of crimson velvet, incrustations of ’garnet, topaz, and other kinds of cheap but showy stones, and are supplied to the kings of Africa, of whom there are several hundred, at a highly satisfactory return of ivory and other merchandise. The time has gone by When an ancient plug hat, adorned

with turkey feathers, sufficed to Im- ' part a halo of magnificence to Ethiopian royalty. Rowell's American Newspaper 1 Directory, the standard journalistic . work of reference of the United i States, contains some interesting sta- ! tistics showing the marvelous growth l of the press on this continent. For ! the first time the number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States exceeds 20,000. There are 20,006 in this country, 919 in Canada, and 9in Newfoundland. Os those In the United States 1,855 are published daily, 31 tri-weekly. 237 semi-weekly, 14,017 weekly, 85 bi-weekly, 349 semimonthly, 3,125 monthly, 78 bimonthly and 229 quarterly. It is said that an East Buffalo auctioneer, who lately broke the record by selling 375 horses in one day from one auction-block, receives $7,4500 a year for two days’ work in each week at East Buffalo. This is $l5O a week, or $75 a day. The same man receives $5,000 a year for two days’ work each week in Philadelphia, and because he can not stand any more travel, he has refused SB,OOO a year to add to his labors one day in the week at Chicago. Thursdays he has for himself, and on that day he runs an auction of his own in Richmond, Va. He seems to be a type of the busy and successful man. Legislatures, as is well known,are great foes to corporations, and especially to 'the railroads, which

have a bad habit of insulting members by sending them passes. It oc- ' casionally happens, however, that the railroads get something through which benefits them and bears heavily on the public. This was the case a few days since in New York, where the Legislature passed a law outlawing all claims for damages against railroad companies unless suit is brought, within two years. Watchful as Legislatures are to punish the rail- , roads, this bill slipped through and the Governor had to veto it. t There is food for thought in the . mortality statistics of the four or five great cities for the year 1892. j The death rate per 1.000 of popula- I tion was in New York, 27.26; Brook- j lyn, 27.07; Boston, 26.37; Philadel- i phia, 24.64; and Chicago, 18.23. Chi- j cago had not always this honorable ! place, but within the last two years . that city has constructed a new sys- i tern of sewers, adopted a better 1 method of street eleaning, and pro- J cured an abundant supply of pure , water, and the direct result has been < a great reduction of mortality, plac- 1 ing Chicago, in point of healthful- j ness, at the head of the list j 1 Swarthmore College, under the ’ direction of the Society of Friends, ] was among the pioneer institutions , of learning to admit the sexes to perfect equality. Its success has been j phenomenal, and the honors of the , institution are about equally divided. 1 There is freedom of association and 1 no complaint of any abuse. In every J field except that of athletics the girls j take an active part; and even the 1 successful athletes are nerved to their ! best by the encouragement of the ’ fair sex. Os the five speakers re- . cently chosen from the junior class to compete for the Sproul prize in f oratory two are girls. In the com- ‘ petitive oratorical contest between ( the sophomore and the freshman 1 classes, of the five orators chosen, £ from each class two of the sophomore J and three of the freshman class are s girls. t — - - t The mule is gaining quite an en- 1

viable place among those who do not > think that the art of healing is mo- t nopolized by persons who take out ( diploma- and are licensed to prac- t tice. It is only a short time since a ’ mule, that made no pretensions to j the powers of an oculist, cured a f | cross-eyed man with one treatment, 1 i and new comes another evidence of 1 bis surgical sk.ill. A Tennessee man had a carbuncle about the size of a 5 cow pumpkin on the back of his neck, t , and was. given up by friends and doc- ' tors to die. He went feebly forth to 1 take what might be the last look at i his farm and stock. He happened i near the knock-out end of the ; o:d famrir" mule, which let fly with ’ both feet and landed on the apex of • • the carbuncle. There was a loud re- : port, the man had a dazed idea that 1 a red-hot -treak of lightning had 1 gone through him, and from that 1 lime to this he has been gaining i strength and health so fast that the ’ doctors are.half di-poeed to check the 1 recuperation. Oculists and carbun> j clibts should investigate. ? —, Kenßfble Answer to a JJurning Question. ■ 'J At a woman’s club the burning question was advanced: “Suppose you ! should find a letter In a woman’s t hand in your husband’s pocket, what ( -would you do?” The question was to be answered in writing, that the la- - dies might not influence each other, 1 1 and you should have heard the pen- ’ cils scratch and seen how desperate 1 I they all looked just to think of it. » There were all sorts of answers. One t woman was going to confront him , j with it, another would at , once to. mother, another would leave . the brute, still another would not ‘ say a word but watch. One little - woman decided to read-lt flbt, to make sure it Was impropor. -But one little person wrote this: “I never look in my husband's pockets unless he ’ tells me to. If he told me to, and I i found such a letter, I should think it , -’ must be all right, and I should let it ' , alone, though if j found It made me t- uncomfortebh: I would aik him about e I should believe whatever he e told me.” Now, there was a wise _ I little woman. As she explained afterward, it doesn't do to mbnkey with | your happiness, and if there is any r i thing wrong you want to be awfully II careful not to And it out

JOT. TALMAGE’S SERMON. HOW THE LORD RAISED UP EHUD AS A ' Dr. Talning* Shown That the Nucoeig ot the Lett Handed Son ot Gera lUu»trate« the Value ot Industry and I’ergeverance 1 —The Gate of Tearn. At the Tnbernnele. The sermon Is founded op the text Judges 111, 15. “But when thrtchildren of Israel cried unto the Lord the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, a BenJair.Ha, a man loft handed.’’ Ehud was a ruler In Israel. Ho was left handed, and what was peculiar about the trice of Benjamin, to which ho belonged, there wore in it 700 left handed men, and yet so dexterous had they all become in the use of the left band that

the Bible says they could sling stones at a hair's I readth and not miss. Well, there was a King of the name of KglOn who was an oppressor of Israel, lie imposed upon them a most outrageous tax. Ehud, the man of whom 1 first spoke, had a divine commission to destroy that oppressor. He came, protending that ho was going to pay the tax, and asked to see King Eglon. He was told he was In the summer house, the placq to which the Klug retired when it was tod’Hiot to sit in the palaeo. This summer house was a place surrouadod by flowers and trees and springing fountains and warbling birds. Ehud entered the summer house and said to King Eglon that he had a secret errand with him. Immediately all the attendants were waved out of the royal presence. Kiug Eglon rises up to receive the messenger. Ehud, the left handed man. puts his left hand to his right side, pulls out a dagger and thrusts Eglon through until the haft went in after the blade. Eglon tails. Ehud comes forth to blow a trumpet of recruit amid the mountains of Ephraim, and a great host is marshaled, and proud Moab submits to the conqueror, and Israel is free. So. O, ,Lord, let all thy enemies perish! So, O Lord, let all thy friends triumph! 7*he Power ot Left Handed Men. I learn first from this subject the power of the left handed men, There are some men who by physical organization have as much strength in their left band as in their right hamd, but there is something in the writing of this text which implies that Ehud had sbme defect in his right hand which compelled him to use the left Oh, the power of left handed men! Genius if often self observant,*careful of itself, not given to much toll, burning incense to Its own aggrandisement, while’many a man with no natural endowments, actually defective in physical and mental organization, has an earnestness for the right, a patient industry, and all consuming perseverance, which achieve marvels for the kingdom of Christ Though left handed as Ehud, they can strike down a sin as great and imperial as Eglon, I have seen men of wealth gathering about them all their treasures, snuffing at the cause of a world lying in wickedness, roughly ordering Lazarus off their doorstep, sending their dogs, not to lick his sores, but to hound him off their premises; catching all the pure rain of God’s blessing into the stagnant ropy, frog Inhabited pool of their own selfishness—right handed men, worse than useless—while many a man, with large heart and little pulse, has out of his ! limited means made poverty leap for joy I and started an influence that, overspans J the grave and jwill swing round and round the throne of God, world without end, amen. Ah, me, it is high time that you left handed men, who have been longing for this gift, and that eloquence, and the ! other man’s wealth, should take your | left hand out of your pocket. Who made I all these railroads? Who set up all these j cities? Who started all* these churches' and schools and asylums? Who has done : the tugging and running and pulling? Men of no wonderful endowments, thou-; sands of them acknowledging themselves to be left handed, and yet they were earnest, and yet they were determined, and yet they were triumphant But I do not suppose that Ehud the first time he took a sling in his left hand could throw a stone a hair’s breadth and not miss. I suppose it was practice that gave him the wonderful dexterity. Go forth to your spheres of duty and be not discouraged if In your first attempts you miss the mark. Ehud missed it Take another stone, put It carefully into the sling.swing it around your bead, take better aim.and the next time you will strike the center. The first time a mason rings his trowel upon the brick he does not expect to put up a perfect wall. The first time a carpenter sends the plane over a board or drives a bit through a beam he ' does not expect tc make a perfect execution. The first time a boy attempts a ' rhyme he does not expect to chime a “Lalla Rookh’’ or a “Lady of the Lake.” Do not be surprised if in your first efforts at doing good you are not very largely successful. Understand that usefulness Is an art, a science, £ trade. The Value of Experience. There was an oculist performing a very difficult operation on the human ' eve. A young doctor stood by and said, “How easily vou do that; it don’t seem to cause you any trouble at all.” “Ah,” said the old oculist, “it is very easy now, but I spoiled a hatful of eves to learn that” Be not surprised it It takes some practice before we can help men to moral eyesight and bring them to a vision of the cross. Left handed men to the work! Take the Gospel for a sling and faith . and repentance for the smooth stone j from the brook, take sure aim, God di-1 reel the weapon, and great Goliaths will tumble before vou. When Garibaldi was going out to battle, he told his troops what he wanted them to do. and after he had described what he wanted them to do they said, “Well, general, what are you going to give us for all this?” “}yell,” he replied. “I don’t know what else you will get, but vou will nec hunger and cold and woflnds and death. How do you like it?” His men stood before him for a little while in silence, and their they threw up thblr hands and cried; “We are the men! We are the men!” The Lord Jftsus Christ calls you to bls service. Jdo not promise you an easy time in this world. You may have persecutions and trials and misrepresentations, but afterward there comes an eternal weight of glory, and you can bear the wounds, and the bruises, and the misrepresentations, If you can have the reward afterward. Have you not enough enthusiasm to cry out; “We are the men! We are the men?” I learn also from this subject the danger of worldly elevation, This Eglon was what the world called a great man. There were hundreds of people who would have considered ft the greatest honor of their life Just to have him speafle to them, yet although he is so high up In worldly position be Is not beyond the reach of Ehud’s dagger. I see a great many people trying to climb up in social position, having an Idea that there i» a place somewhere far above, not -Icnowiog that the mountain of fame has a u p like Mont Blanc, covered with perpetual snow. " - “ We laugh at the children of Sbinar lor trying to build a tower that would reach o the Heavens, but I think If our eyesight were only good enough wo could a Babe! ih many a the struggle Is fierce! It l> store against

store, house against bouse, street against • street, nation against nation. The goal for which tnpti are running Is chairs and » chandeliers and mirrors ami houses and lands and Presidential equipments. Il they get what they anticipate, what have they got? Mon are not safe from Mli umny while they live, and worse than , that they are not sate after they are , dead, for I have seen swine root up graveyards. Ono day a man goes up Into publicity, and the world does him honor, and people climb up into sycamore trees to t watch him as ho passes, and as he r goes along on the show J tiers of the people I there is a waving of hats and a wild i huzza. To-morrow the same man is . caught between the laws of the printing press and mangled and bruised, and the , very same persons who applauded him before cry: “Down with the traitor! ’ Down with him'” Bel.hßx.nr'. Feast. Belshazzar sits attho feast, the mighty monos Babylon sitting all around him. Wit sparkles like wine, and the wine like the wit. Music rolls up among thechandeliers; the chandeliers Hash down on the decanters. The breath of hanging gardens float’s In on the night air; the voice of revelry floats out. Amid wreaths and tapestry and folded banners a finger writes. The march of a host is heard on the stairs. Laughter catches In tho throat. A thousand hearts stop beating. Tho blow is struck. Tho blood on tho floor is richer hued than tho wino on tho table. ■ The kingdom has departed. Belshazzar was no worse perhaps than hundreds of people In Babylon, but his position slew him. Oh, be content with just such a position as God lias placed you in. It may not bo said of us, “He was a great general.” or ""Ho was an honored chieftain,” or “He was mighty in worldly attainments." but this thing may bo said ot you am? me," "Ho was a good citizen, a faithful Christian, a triend of Jesus.” And that In the last day will bo the highest of all oulogiums. I learn further from this subject that death comes to the summer house. Eglon did not expect to die in that tine place. Amid all the flower leaves that drifted like summer snow into the window, in the tinkle and the dash of the fountains, in the sound of a thousand loaves fluttering on one tree branch, in the cool breeze that came up to shake feverish trouble out of the King’s locks —there was nothing that spake of death, but there he died! In the winter when the snow is a shroud, and when the wind is a dirge, it is easy to think ot our mortality, but when the weather is pleasant and all our surroundings are agreeable how difficult it is for us to appreciate the truth that wo are mortal! And yet my text teaches that death does sometimes come to the summer house. He is blind and cannot see the leaves. | He is deaf and cannot hear the founI tains. Oh. if death would ask us for j victims we could point him trf’hundreds of people who would rejoice to have Him come. Push back the door of that hovel. Look at that little child—cold and sick and" hungry. It has never heard the name of God but in blasphemy. Parents intoxicated, staggering around its straw bed. Oh, death, there is a mark for thee! Up with it into the light! Before these little feet stumble on life’s pathway, give them rest Here is an aged man. He has done his work. He has done it gloriously. The companions of his youth are all cone, his children dead. He longs to be at rest, and wearily the days and the nights pass. He says. “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.” Oh, death, there is a mark for thee! Take from him the staff and give him the sceoter! Up with him into the light, , where eyes uever grow dim, and the air whitens not through the long years of eternity. Ah, death will not do that Death turns back from the straw bed and from the aged man ready for the skies aud comes to the summer house. What doest thou here, thou bony, ghastly monster, amid this waving grass and under this sunlight sifting through the tree branches? Children are at play. How quickly their feet go and their locks toss in the wind! Father and mother stand at the side of the room looking on enjoying their glee. It does not seem possible that the wolf should ever break into that fold and carry off a lamb. Meanwhile an old archer stands looking through the thicket. He points his arrow at the brightest of the group. He is a sure marksman. The bow bends, the arrow speeds! Hush now! Tho quick feet have stopped, and tho locks toss no more in the wind. Laughter has gone out of the hall. Death in the summer house! The Father’s Home Coming. Here is father in midlife. His coming home at night is the signal for mirth, | The children rush to the door, and there ' are books on the evening stand, and the I hours pass away on glad feet. There is nothing wanting in that home. Religion is there and sacrifices on the altar morning and night You look in that housohold.and say: “I cannot think of anything happier. Ido not really believe the world is so sad a place as some people describe It to be.” The scene changes. Father Is sick. The doors must be kept I shut The deathwatch chirps dolefully on the hearth. The children whisper and walk softly where once they romped. Passing the house late at night, you seo the quick glancing of lights from room to room. It Is all over. Death in tho summerhouse! Here is an aged mother—aged, but not infirm. You think you will have the joy of caring for her wants a’good while yet As she goes from house to house, to children and grandchildren, her coming is a dropping of sunlight in thedwelling. Your children seo her coming through the lane, and they cry, "Grandmother’s come!” Care for you has marked up her face with many a deep wrinkle, and her back stoops with carrying your burdens. Some day she Is very quiet She says she is not slck> but something tells you you will not much longer have mother. She will sit with you no more at the table nor at the hearth. Her soul goes out so gently, you do not exactly know the moment of Its going. Fold the hands that have done so many kindnesses for you right over the heart that has beat with love toward you since before you were born. Let the pilgrim rest She is weary. Death In the summer house! Gather about us what we will of comfort and luxury, when the pale messenger comes, he does not atpp to look at the architecture of the house before he comes in, nor, entering, does he wait to examine the pictures we have gathered on the wall, or, bending over your pillow. he does not stop to see whether there Is a color In the cheek, or gentleness in the eye, or Intelligence in the brow. But what of that? Must we stand forever mourning among the graves of our dead? No! No! The people In Bengal bring cages of birds to the graces of their dead, and then they open the cages, and the birds goSinglng heavenward. So I would bring to the graves of your dead all bright thoughts and congratulations and bid tbem think ot victory and redemption. I' stamp on the bottom of the grave, and it breaks through Into the light and the glory of Heaven. . The Gate of Tears. The ancients used to think that the straits entering the Red Sea were very dangerous places,and they supposed that every ship that went through tljoso straits would be destroyed.and they were in tho habit of putting on weeds or J mourning for those who had gone on that voyage, as though they were actually

t 1 dead. Do you k.now what they called 1 those straits? They call them the “Gate 1 of Tears.” On, I stand to day at the 1 gate ot tears through which many of f your loved ones have gone, and I want » to tell you that all are not shipwrecked - that have gone through those straits Into i the great ocean stretching out beyond. > The sound that comes frotn that other > shore on still nights when we are wrapped In prayer makes mo think that tho departed are not dead. We are the - dead—wo who toll, wo who weep, wu > who sin—we are the dead. How my i heart aches for human sorrow, this sound of breaking hearts that I bear all about I mo,this last look of faces that will never i brighten again, this last kiss of Ups that ■ never will speak again, this widowhood and orphanage! Oh, when will the day of sorrow bo gone? After tho sharpest winter, the spring dismounts from tho shoulder of a southern gain and puts Its warm hand upon tho earth, and in its palm there comes tho gross, and there como tho flowers, and God roads over the poetry of bird and brook and bloom and pronounce it very good. What, my friends, if every whiter had not its spring, and every night its day, and every gloom its glow, and every bitter now its sweet hereafter! If you have teen on tho sea, you know, as the ship passes in the night, there Is a phosphuroscent track loft behind it, and as tho waters roll up they toss with unimaginable splendor. Well, across this great ocean of human trouble Jesus walks. Oh, that in tho phosphorescent track of His feet wo might all follow and bo illumined! There was a gentleman In tho rail car who saw in that same car three passengers of very different circumstances. Tho first was a maniac. Ho was carefully guarded by his attendants. His mind, like a ship dismasted, was beating against a dark, desolate coast from which no help could come. The train stopped, and tho man was taken outinto the asylum to waste away perhaps through years of gloom. The second passenger was a culprit. The outraged law bad seized on him. As the cars jolted the chains rattled. On his ftce were crltae, depravity,and despair. The train halted, and ho was taken out to tho penitentiary to which he had been condemned. There was the third passenger under far different circumstances. She was a bride. Every hour was gay as a marriage bell. Life glittered and beckoned. Her companion was taking her to his father's bouse. The train halted. The old mau was there to welcome her to her new home, and his white locks snowed down upon her as he sealed his word with a father’s kiss. ■ Quickly we fly toward eternity. We will soon be there. Some leave this life condemned culprits. They refused a pardon; they carry their chain. Oh, may it be with us that leaving this fleeting life for the next we may find our Father ready to greet us to our new home with Him forever! That will be a marriage banquet! Father’s welcome! Father’s bosom! Father’s kiss! Heaven! Heaven! Bursting Bogs. The long deluge of rain to which so many districts have been subjected has resulted in misfortunes curiously characteristic of the regions in which they occur. Switzerland, for example, has been harassed by landslips. Germany and Hungary have been desolated by floods, and now it is the turn of Ireland to add to her. other unhappiness the peculiar calamity of bursting bogs. Already we are told that several thousand acres in the vicinity of Castlerea are submerged, mills arq stopped, bridges are choked, fields covered to the depth of twenty-six feet, and traffic on the road between Bellingare and Castlerea has been suspended by the overflow of a “moss,” flooded by the rain until it has broken its bounds, and is now advancing rapidly toward the town. The bog at Baslik, which “moved” some time ago, is also breaking up in several places, and threatens before long to begin its march on the arable country in the neighboring lowlands. Such mishaps are, unfortunately, too common in Ireland. Last June a large bog on the "Wistropp estate, in East Clare, began to crawl to the southward, carrying before it several patches of reclaimed land, planted with potatoes, and destroying a portion of the main road to Limerick. A few years ago some laborers Working in a field in Galway heard “a noise like thunder,” followed almost immediately, to use their phrase, “by the country rolling upon them,” in the shape of the black ooze of a “moving bog." By and by, the witnesses of this strange sight were driven from the field which they [ were cultivating; and, before the lavaI like stream ceased its progress, two ! corn-fields, a potato-patch and a considerable tract of pasture-land were inundated. The bursting of the Solway moss, more than a century ago, is a case even more familiar; for this vast morass, saturated by unprecedentedly heavy rains, left its bed and covered 400 acres of farms to such a depth that | several cottages were buried, and a further number so far entombed that their roofs alone appeared above the dreary expanse of liquid peat. When the inundation ceased it was found that the original level of the bog in its own area had sunk twenty-five feet, and that in the lowest ground which it had invaded as much as fifteen feet of turfy substance had been deposited. Again, in 1881, a bog of 100 acres, between Bloomfield and Geevah, in Sligo, burst, and, in addition to covering a large extent of arable land, cut up the ground into deep ravines and carried away the road, from Bloomfield to St. James’ Well for a distance of 9,200 yards. These instances could be multiplied almost indefinitely. But they have all .one feature in common—they are invariably caused simply by the vast turf deposits receiving more water than they can hold, and consequently breaking their banks and moving down to the lower levels.— London Standard. How Family Secrets Go Out. Lucy Hooper writes from Paris that notorious Parisian journals get their accounts of family secrets from the servants of the house. This has been done in New York by more than one “keenwitted valet or lady’s maid”—the making of money by revealing their masters’ or mistresses’ secrets. A few, years ago a prominent gentleman here found the conversations at his dinners repeated word for word in a morning paper. He finally questioned his waiter, who confessed that he belonged to a waiters’ blub, and that be was well paid by a reporter who came nightly to gain information. A lady recently dismissed a most accomplished butler because he was seen writing at odd hours, and as she had reason to believe that he was putting down the conversations which he overheard. As she had been betrayed' by a wicked governess a month before, she was naturally suspicious. A stray fragment, however, of the butleijan foolscap redeemed his reputation, for it was founa to be a sensational novel.—Boston Traveller. Moist hands are frequently relieved By bathing them in lukewarm water containing a teaspoonful of borax or ammonia.

I SECOND OPEN SUNDAY. ! - ■ — f VERY SMALL CROWD AT THE ‘ WORLD’S FAIR. > ' Exposition Officials Disappointed at tho . Result—Machinery at a RtandstUl-Qulet , on the Plaisance—Rein la the Afternoon —The InUnta In Chicago. Visitors N it Numerous. If the machinery had been running I and the exhibits had been uncovered . people at the World’s Fair Sunday . might have thought they had turned . the wrong leaf in the calendar, accordJ Ing to a Chicago correspondent. It , was more like a dull Monday than a wide-open Sabbath. The scattered, , straggling streams ot Sunday sightseers left enough room on the highways and in the buildings for half the population of Chicago to walk In comfort The paid attendance, as shown by the purchase of tickets at Jackson Park, was 54.304, of which number 3,960 were children. Exposition people attributed the light attendance to various causes. They thought that many were deterred from coming on account of tho heat, others because tho western horizon in the afternoon portended raffi, and still others thought the uncertainty of the In unction proceedings had left the people in doubt until too late for them to plan a Bunday trip. They all agreed, however, that the attendance was discouragingly light. At no time wefe the gates troubled by the size of the crowd. The bustle and liveliness of the preceding six days were missing, and for an open day the Exposition was wonderfully quiet. With the exception of the Government building all the Exposition halls were open, but many of tho exhibits were covered with sheets. yulot'on Midway PlaUance. Midway Plaisance concessioners were disappointed. The crowd there was small and those who were out did not spend mdney. When the thunder shower came uo many of the foreigners thought that the rain would drive the crowd into the almost empty theaters for shelter. But the shower had no such effect. The people crowded under the viaducts or splashed around In the mud, and as a result the theaters were almost empty. The zoological arena did the largest business and the Street In Cairo did fairly well, but the Dahomeyltcs and Chinese did not have crowds enough to yell to and the performances wore cut short. The glass works and the New England cottage were closed. The Irish girls in Blarney castle attended high mass in the morn ng and opened the village at 2 o’clock io inspection, but no work was done. The chair boys and the sedan chair men complained that they did not have anything to do. The people preferred to walk through the mud to paying for chairs. Tho night attendance was as much of a negative surprise as the day crowd. When theJiettlng sun b.roke through a rift in tho clouds the gate-keepers predicted a heavy influx of 50-cent pieces after 7 o'clock, and made pools among themselves on the number of people that would swing the turnstiles between 7 and 10 o’clock. Their expected rush failed to appear. A sira’l but steady lino of visitors came, most of them young people, and drifted up to the administration plaza, where Sousa scatter, d a mixture of sacred music and Strauss’ waltzes on the ev. ning air. The waiting listeners stood around on the wet ground or paid a dime apiece for red camp chairs, while the concert was going on. About 9 o'clock there was a general exodus homeward, and when the musicians packed their instruments at o’clock scarcely a corporal’s guard remained to see th* lights go out and the fountain’s play cease. , EULALIA IN CHICAGO. < How the Representative ot the Queen ol Spain Wm Received. The Infanta Eulalia, Princess o* the blood royal of Spain and guest of the Government ot the United States at the Columbian celebration, arrived in Chicago at noon Tuesday. Tho arrangements for her reception were a mighty delicate matter for consideration on the rough Western minds ot Chicagoans, but they wore finally, completed after much discussion. The train on the Pennsylvania Railway was met in Indiana by ex-Mayor Hempstead Washburne, acting as Mayor Hifrrlson’s representative; Hobart C. Chatflold-Tay-ra? wk folk INFANTA ZULALIE, lor, who is Spanish consul at Chicago, and Alligpn V. Armour. It was the business of these gentlemen to learn the pleasure of the royal party and 1o see that their entry to tho city was attended with no inconvenience. At the Union Depot Mayor Harrison met the party. The aidermen were there, too, but there was.no lunch and the aldermeii will remain in the background. Mayor Harrison was presented to the Princess, Prince Antonio, and the suite, and having been presented the Mayor offered his arm tc the Infanta and escorted her through a lane, fenced in with the biggest coppers on the force, to Canal street, where car Gages were taken to the hotel. The carriage which*carried the princess was Mrs, Fotter Palmer’s Igndeau and four, and in tho carriage were seated tin Infanta, Prince Antonio, the Duke de Tamames, and the Mayor, At each side of the carriage rode an officer of the cavalry and an orderly, and the whole procession was escorted Jbr two troops of horse from Sheridan. The mombm of the royal suite drove with carriages and pairs. A detour was made down Wabash avenue and around Michigan avenue, where the royal salute was fired. From Michigan avenue the party drove to the Palmer House, A carpet was laid from the edge of the walk to the private entrance, and Mayor Harrison escorted the Infanta to ner apartments. There she was presented with an invitation to breakfast with tho Mayor on the following day. • Telegraphic Click*. Joseph Jefferson is better, and will be removed from Boston to Buzzard’s Bay. The body of Miss Fannie Wykoff was found in the river near Hudson, N. Y. The girl had been murdered. THE G. A. R. and ihe Boys in Blue—the Populist veteran organization—held rival Memorial Day demonstrations at Topeka, Kas. Social Democrats at Berlin attempted to break up a meeting of antiSemites. A desperate fight occurred, which the poll e finally ended.

THE EIGHTH WONDER. ’ SIOUX CITY’S ANNUAL CORN PALACE. I i Grand PtwparaUoua Are Beta* Mad. ror th. Annual Corn JPalao. at Hou City, lowa—Win Open Sept.inb.r SO, and I Close October 18, 1803. A Harvest Celebration. This II the great Columbian Year I and it Is peculiarly fit that in the commemoration of Columbus’ groat discovery we pauss to pay duo tribute to > the great food product of the New World—the golden maize—ot which there was never a kernel in the world until carried from these shores. In ages past it was th) food of the wandering tribes of the North as well as of the Aztecs and Incas of the South and the object of their thanksgivings and festlvltles. With us, as with these primitive people, it is the most important grain product, nearly equalling in value that of all the other cereals. It is the foundation of the marvelous prosperity and growth of the West Then it is so graceful and lends Itself so effectively to decorative purposes. Its leaves, its tassels, its ears, with their varied tints, make it unrivalled for artlstio use. Aud abevo all it is always and only American. • : “Therose may bloom for England, The Illy lor Friuwe unfold.; Ireland may honor the shamrock, Scotland her thlsle bold: But the shle d of the Great Republic, The gloryj>f the West, Shall bear a stalk ot the tasselled con, Os all our wealth the best. • ••••• But the wide Republic’s emblem Is the bounteous golden corn I" The unique Corn Palace Festival originated by Sioux City in 1887, has yearly grown in interest and attractiveness until it may now be said to be a carnival of truly national Interest It is natural that it should be so, for the Corn Palace Is symbolic of the wonderful evolution of the West and replete with the life and activity of a country which has had no superior at any time or any place. Here an all-wise Providence has stored in the bosom of ths earth a golden reserve, to be revealed to man when the time has ripened, more precious than that which glistened and shimmered in Captain Suter's mill dam and changed tho history of tho Pacific Coast, lor countless ages 4 the prairie lay a vast monotone of sound and color. But at last, like the enchanted Princess in the fairy tale, at the kiss of the Pi Ince, it awoke to magic life at the toucli of the settlers* plow and the mellow soil yielded up Its treasure of'burled wealth In thousands upon thousands of rows of yellow corn. In tho early days when the Indian and the bn Halo were still lords of the prairie, the country along the Jim, the Big bdoux and the Floyd Rivers was a seml-neutral ground, where, even then, thesqiiaws raised the whiter supply of corn, and carefully “cached’’ it in the » fall to save it from the depredations of rival tribes. The red man In his wanderings had fixed with unerring instinct upon the region most responsive to his primitive cultivation, and following in his footsteps the white settlers raised the native plant’and after thirty years of culture offer the record of uufailing crops, year after year. When the perennial bounty of the crops of this region had been thus satisfactorily demonstrated, tho people naturally were eager to proclaim their good fortune to tl:e world. A sort of harvest home on a grand scale was proposed and the thought finally materialized as tho first Corn Palace. The natural evolution of the idea, together with tho growth of the surrounding country and the city have developed the Corn Palace from an erperJ iment costing $25,000 to an annual carnival not to he thought of at an expenditure less than SIOO.OOU Year after year the brains of the management have been taxed to devise new features} year after year the ladles of Sioux City have vied with each other in designing and executing as a labor of lo>e, decorations, which if performed by pafi labor, would have cost thousands of dollars. The people are more enthusiastic than ever before this year, as they wish to attract tho multitudes who will visit the World’s Fair from all parts of this country and from; foreign lands. The Corn Palace Fes= rival will begin September 20, contlnu-: Ing until Cctober is inclusive, and every nerve will bo strained to make it tho culmination of all previous seasons,; as Sioux l ity people have a reputation to maintain as tho originator* of most distinct National Carnival of the country, which they expect to triumphantly vindicate In this World s Fair Year. Those who have attended any of the Corn Palace Festivals of previous years do not,need to be reminded what wonderful specimens of creative art ■ they have been, and so far as they are concerned it Is only necesS'ary to add that the Palace of 1893 will eclipse Its predecessors to the full extent that experience gained can add to the beauty of design and decorations, backed by the most generous outlay of money that has over been made for tho purpose. It will amply repay people arranging to go to tho World's Fair to rime their visit and route their journeys so as to include that unique festival, the Sioux City Corn Palace. They should bear in mind the fact that Sioux City Is In the center of the greatest corn producing territory In tho world—that lows, Nebraska and South Daketa produce considerable more than one-fourth of the corn raised in the United States —that this change in the center of production from the middle West to the Missouri'Valiev has been almost entirely wrought during the past tea years: and then try to Imagine the wonderful condition of commercial activity that has accompanied it. It Is impossible to reach anything like a true conception of "the busy West" without visiting the Sioux City Corn Palace, because in no other way cari a correct idea ot the magnificent resources of this vast agricultural region and of the genius and enterprise which has so rapidly transformed It, bo obtained. The like of the Corn Palace can be seen nowhere else on the globe, and the experience of this most memorable year in the history of the continent will be irfomplete without IL 1 The expense or attendance will be very slight, as there will be low rates' from all points. ■ The Corn Palace is the artistic tribute of the West to the most distinctively American plant aud product which we have, and the tourist who goes to the World's Fair needs to visit It to understand the Great West, «s Id the recreations as well as in the Industries of a people are revealed, Jheir social and economic conditions. ‘ ■ .. •