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A Remedy of General Utility. It to among the follire of which the mnnnfecturere of many proprietary remedlee are guilty, te term their medicine* ■panaoeae." or to claim for them the quality of panacea*. There la no auoh thing aa a "panacea.* which mean* a remedy adapted to all disease*. Thia abeurdtty haa never been perpetrated by the proprietor* of Hoetettar'e Stomach Bittern. But they do claim, and with justice, that It ie a remedy of general utility, and thia beoaune it reetorea that regular and vigorous condition of the atomach, liver and bowels which conduce to the recovery of general health. Thue it fortlflee the eyatem agalaet malaria by Infusing atamlna. and oaualug harmonious action of the organa which, aa long aa they go right, are the boat guaranty against an endemic malady like chill* and fever. It aooompltaheaadonble parooao by stimulating activity of the kidneys, since it net only prevent* their disease and decay*, but expels from the blood thronghtbem impurities that cause rhenmaUsm, gout and dropay. Uae It with confidence. Antiquity of Boots. Boots are supposed to have been the Invention of the Carlans. They were mentioned by Hoieer. 907 B. U. Grecian women jxjssessod twenty-two kinds of footgear, which may bo classed as those which cover all the foot up to the ankle and those which simply tied or the top of the foot with wide ribbons Ipr straps. The practice of shoe and sandal wearing can J>e traced back for seme thousands of years and is probably of Eastern origin. Frequent mention is made of the shoe in the Bible from the book of Exodus to the Acts and there is mention made of a shoe latchet ■•early as the time of Abraham. ALBERT BURCH. Whl Toted.. Oblc, says I ‘Hull * Catarrh Cure caved my Ufa." Write him fog particulars. field by Druggists, 75a. Not Good for Future. The "devil’s plant,” which clings 41oee to the earth and bears beautiful Red blossoms, is said to be abundant around Carthage, Miss. It is so Soisonous that bees, tasting of a liquid rop always found in the calyx of the lower, drop dead almost instantly, and thus, it is said, nearly every hive in the country has been depopulated. It oauses all other plants around it to wither away, and it is death on cattle. LOW RATE HARVEST EXCURSIONS to lowa. Minnesota. Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado. Wyoming. Utah. North and South Dakota. Manitoba. Tennessee. Mississippi. Alabama. Louisiana. Arkansas. Indian Territory. Oklahoma Texas, and Arizoni*. will have from all stations of the Wabash Railroad on Oetober 10th. at very low rates. i Tickets good returning twenty days from date of sale. For particulars apply to ths nearest agsnt of the Wabash Railroad. Wqree Than the Jim Jama. The Snake Laboratory now being ltd.lt under the Government supervision at Calcutta will be the first institution of its kind in the world. It is intended for the purpose of thoroughly investigating the properties of snake venom, and testing cures for snake bites. Nb mere old pllto tor nso. Small Bito Beans, if you please. JPretty Ornament. A watch in the form of a shirt stud haa been made by an English artisan. Its dial is 3-ltths of an inch in diameter, and is to be worn with two other studs. By turning tho upper stud you wind the watch, while by turning the lower one the hands are adjusted. Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup costs no snore than others and benefits more. Map of the OU Regions. The eil dealers have just had made a photographic relief mapshowing the •il-bearing districts of the United States. It is a map 7 feet long and 50 inches wide, and shows the States in which there are oil wells. NBavotTS. bilious disorders, sick headache. Indigestion, loss of appetite and constipation removed by Beecham's Pills. A man never admits that he has been slighted, but ha always feels it just the same. EeonomlsaL easy to take. Small Dlls Beans. ■ , Some people shoot tho bird they have ih hand.

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— '—“—' A MONSTER JUBILEE. — n..w» AN INTERESTING PROPOSITION FROM DR. TALMAGE. tie Suggests an International Jubilee to Celebrate the Nineteen Hundredth Birthday of Christ—A Banquet for the Hungry —Au Interesting Hermon. * The Tabernacle Pulpit. At the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday forenoon Hov. Dr. Talmage preached a sermon of unusual interest to a vast audience, the subject being "Tho Nineteen Hundredth Anniversary. A Proposition Concerning It.” The text was taken from Isaiah lx., 6, "To us a child Is born.” That is a tremendous hour In the history of any family when an immortal spirit is incarnated. Out of a verv dark cloud there descends a very Bright morning. One life spared and another given. All the bolls of gladness ring over the cradle I know not why any one should doubt that of old a star pointed down to tho Saviour’s birthplace, for a star of joy pointe down to every honorable nativity. A new eternity dates from that hour, that minute. Beautiful and appropriate is tho custom of celebrating the anniversary of •uch an event, and clear on into the eighties and nineties the recurrence of that day of the year in an old man’s life causes recognition and more or less congratulation. So also nations are accustomed to celebrate the anniversary of their birth and tho anniygrsary of the birth of their great heroes or deliverers or benefactors. The 22d of February and the 4th of July are never allowed to pass in our land without banquet and oration and. bell ringing and cannonade. But all other birthday anniversaries are tame compared with the Christmas festivity, which celebrates the birthday described in my text. Protestant and CAtholic and Greek churches, with all tho power of music and garland and procession and dox’ology, put the words of my text into national and continental and hemispheric chorus, “To us a child is born.” On the 25th of December each year that is the theme in St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s and St. Mark’s and St. Isaac's and all the dedicated cathedrals, chapels, meeting houses and churchs clear round the world. We shall soon reach the nineteen hundredth anniversary of that happiest event of all time. This century is dying. Only seven more pulsations and its heart will cease to beat. The flngers of many of you will write it at the ead of your letters and at the foot of your important documents, “1900.” It will be a physical and moral sensation unlike anything else you have before experienced. Not one hand that wrote "IqOl” at the induction of this century will have cunning left to write “1901” at the induction of another. The death of one century and the birth of another century will be sublime and suggestive and stupendous beyond all estimate. To stand by the grave of one century and by the cradel of another will be an opportunity such as whole generations of the world’s inhabitants never experienced. I pray God that there may be no sickness or casualty to hinder your arrival at that goal or to hinder your taking part in the veledictory of the departing century and the salutation of the new. But as that season will be the nineteen hundredth anniversary of a Saviour's birth, I now nominate that a great international jubilee or exposition be opened in this cluster of cities by the seacoast on Christmas day, Hie 25th of December, 1900, to be continued for at least one month into the year 1901. This century closing Dec. 31, 1900, and the new century beginning Jan. 1,1901, will it not be time for all nations to turn aside for a few wbeks Or months from everything else and emphasize the birth of the greatest being who ever touched our planet, and could there be a more appropriate time for such commemoration than this culmination of the centuries which are dated from his nativity? You know that all history dates either from before Christ or after Christ, from B. C. or A. D. It will be the year of our Lord 1900 passing into the year 1901. We have had the Centennial at Philadelphia, celebrative of the one hundredth anniversary of our nation's birth. We have had the magnificent expositions at New Orleans and Atlanta and Augusta and St. Louis. We have the nresent World's Exposition at Chicago, celebrative of the four hundredth anniversary of this continent’s emergence, and there are at least two other great celebrations promised for this country, and other countries will have their historic events to commemorate, but the one event that has the most to do wi.th the welfare of all nations is the arrival of Jesus Christ on this planet, and all the enthusiasm ever witnessed at London or Vienna or Paris or any of our American cities would be eclipsed by the enthusiasm that would celebrate the ransom of all nations, the first step toward the accomplishing of it being taken by an infantile foot one winter's night about five miles from Jerusalem, when the clouds dropped the angelic cantata, “Glory to Goa in the highest,

and on earth peace, good will to men.” The three or four questions that wquld be asked me concerning this domination of time and place I proceed to answer. What practical use would come of such international celebration? Answer—The biggest stride the world ever took toward the evangelization of all nations. This is a grand and wonderful convocation, the religious congress at Chicago. Jt will put intelligently before the world the nature of false religions which have been brutalizing the nations, tramping womanhood into the dust, enacting the horrors of infanticide, kindling funeral pyres for shriking victims, and rolling juggernauts across the mangled bodies of their worshipers. But no one supposes that any one will be converted to Christ by hearing Confucianism or Buddhism or any form of heathenism eulogized. That is to be done afterward. And how can it so well be done as by a celebration of many weeks of the birth and character and achievements of the wondrous and unprecedented Christ? To such an exposition the kings and queens of the earth would not send their representatives—they would come themselves. .The story of a Saviour’s advent could not be told without telling the story of his mission. All the world would say, “Why this ado, this vniversal demonstration?” What a vivid presentation it would be, when at such a convocation the physicians of the world should tell what Christ had done in the government of earthly dominions! Thirty days of such celebration would do more to tell the world who Christ is than any thirty years. Not. a land on earth but would hear of it and discuss it. No Van eye so dimmed by the superstition of ages but would see the illumination. The difference of Christ’sjpeligion from all others is that its one way of dissemination is by a simple “telling,” not argument, not skillful exegetists, polemics or the science of theological fisticuffs, but “telling.” “Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh.” “Go quickly and tell his disciples that he ■ ' S

has risen from tho dcfftl.” h Go home to thy friends and tall them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.” "When he in come, ho will tell us all things.” A religion of "telling.” And in what tyay could all nations so well bo told that Christ had come as by such an international emphasizing of his nativity? All India would cry out about such an afiair, for you know they have their railroads and telegraphs. “What is going on in America?” All China would cry out, “What is that great excitement in America?" All tho islands of the sea would come down to tho gangplanks of the arriving ships and ask, “What is that they are celebrating in America?” It would bo tho mightiest missionary 'movement the world has over seen. It would bo tho turning point in the world’s destiny. It would waken tho slumbering nations with one touch. Question the Second—How would you have such an international jubilee conducted? Answer—All arts should be marshaled, and art in its most attractive and impressive shape. First, architecture. While all academies of music, and all churches, and all great halls would be needed, there should be one great auditorium erected tp hold such an audience as has never been seen on any sacred occasion in America. If Scribonius Curio, at the cost of a kingdom, could build the first two vast amphitheaters, placing them back to back, holding great audiences for dramatic representations, and then by wonderful machinery could turn them round with all their audiences in them, making the two auditoriums one amphitheater, to witness a gladitorial contest, and Vespasian could construct the Coliseum with its 80 columns, and its triumphs in three orders of Greek architecture, and a capacity to hold 87,000 people seated and 15.000 standing, and all for purposes of cruelty and sin, cannot our glorious .Christianity fear in honor of our glorious Christ a structure large enough to hold 50,000 of- its worshipeps? If we go groping now among the ruined amphitheaters of Verona and Pompeii and Capua and Puzzuoli and Tarraco, and then stand transfixed with amazement at their immense sweep that held from 50,000 to 100,000 spectators gathered for carousal and moral degradation, could not Christianity afford one architectural achievement that would hold and enthrall its 50,000 Christian disciples? Do you say no human voice could be heard throughoutsuch a building? Ahl then you were not present when at the Boston peace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice enchanted 50,000 auditors. And the time is near at hand when in theological seminaries, where our young men are being trained for the ministry, the voice will be developed, and instead of the mumbling ministers, who speak with so low a tone you cannot hear unless you lean forward and hold your hand behind your ear, and then are able to guess the general drift of the subject and decide quite well whether it is about Moses or Paul or some one else —instead of that you will have -coming from the theological seminaries all over the land young ministers with voiee enough to command the attention of an audience of 50,000 people. That is the reason that the Lord gives uh two lungs instead of one. It is the Divine way of saying physiologically, “Be heard!” That is the reason that the New Testament, in beginning the account of Christ's sermon on the mount describes our Lord’s plain articulation and resound of utterance by saying, “He opened his mouth. ” In that mighty concert hall and preaching place which I suggest for this „ nineteen hundredth anniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring all the orchestras, all the oratories, all the Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn societies. Then give us Haydn’s oratorio of the "Creation,” for our Lord took part in universe building and “without Him.” says John, “was not anything made that was made,” and Handel’s “Messiah,” and Beethoven’s “Symphonies” and Mendelsohn’s “Elijah,” the prophet that typified our Christ and the grandest compositions of German and English and American master's living or dead. All instruments that can hum or roll or whisper or harp or flute or clap or trumpet or thunder the praises of the Lord joined to all voices that can chant or warble or precentor multitudinous worshipers. What an arousing when 50,000 join in" Antioch” or “Coronation” or “Ariel,’’rising into halleluiah or subsiding into an almost supernatural amen! Yea, let sculpture stand on pedestals all around that building—the forms of apostles and martyrs, men and women, who spoke or wrought or suffered by headsman’s ax or fire. Where is my favorite of all arts, this art of sculpture, that it is not busier for Christ or that its work is not better appreciated.? Let it come forth at that world’s jubilee of the nativity. We want a second Phidias to do for that new temple what the first Phidias did for the Parthenon. Let the marble of Carrara come to resurrection. Let sculptors set up in that auditorium of Christ's celebration bas-relief and intaglio descriptive of the battles won for our holy religion. Where are the Canovas of the nineteenth century? Where are the American Thorwaldsens and Chantrevs? Hidden somewhere, I warrant vou.

1 Let sculpture turn that place into i another Acropolis, but more glorious by as much as our Christ is stronger than their Hercules, and has more to ! do with the sea than their Neptune, and raises greater harvests than their Ceres, and rouses more music in the heart of the world than their Apollo. “The gods of the heathen are nothing but dumb idols, but our Lord made the heavens.” In marble pure as snow celebrate Him who came to make us “whiter than snow.” Let the chisel as well as pencil and pen be put down at the feetof Jesus. Yea, let painting do its best. The foreign galleries will loan for such a jubilee their Madonnas, their Angelos, their Rubens, their Raphaels, their | "Christ at the Jordan,” or “Christ at the Last Supper,” or “Christ Coming to Judgement,” or “Christ on the Throne of Universal Dominion,” and our own Morans will put their pencils • into the nineteen hundredth, anniversary, and our Bierstadts from sketching “The Domes of the Yosemite” will come to present the domes of the world conquered for Immanuel. Added to all this I would have a floral decoration on a scale never equaled. The fields and open gardens could not furnish it, for it will be winter, and that season appropriately chosen, for it was into the frosts and desolations of winter that Christ immigrated when He came to our world. But while the fields will be bare, the» conservatories and hot-houses within 200 miles would gladly keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aromatic during all the convocations. Added to all let ft he re be banquets, not like the drunken bout at the Metropolitan Ojpera House, New York, celebrating the centennial of Washington s inauguration, where the rivers of wine drowned the sobriety of so many senators and governors and generals, but a banquet for the poor, the feeding of scores of thousands of people of a world in which the majority of the inhabit tan is have never yet had enough to eat, not a banquet at which a few tavdred men and women es social or

political fortune shall sit. but such a banquet as Christ ordered when He told His servant® to "go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come'in.” Lot the Mayors of cities i and the Governors of States and the President of the United States prochdm a whole week of legal holiday—at least from Christmas day to New Year's day. Added to this let there bo at that international moral and religious exposition a mammoth distribution of sacred literature. Let the leading ministers of religion from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and the world take tho pulpits of all these cities and tell what they know of him whose birth wo celebrate. At those convocations lot vast Bums of money be raised for churches, for asylums, for schools, for colleges, all of which institutions were born in the heart of Christ. On that day and in that season when Christ gave himself to the world let the world give itself to him. Why do I propose America as tho country for this convocation? Because most other lands have a suite religion, and while all forms of religion may be tolerated in many lands America is the onlv country on earth where all evangelical denominations stand on an even . footing, and all would have equal hear- , ing in Hueh an international exposition. ' Why do I select this cluster of seacoast cities? Answer—By that time —Dec. 25, 1900—these four cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Hoboken, by bridges and tunnels, will be prac- ■ tically one and with an aggregate ■ population of about 6,000,000. Consei quently no other part of America will i have such immensity of population. Why do I now make this nomination I of time and place? Answer—Because • such a stupendous movement cannot be I extemporized. It will take seven years • to get ready for such an overtowering i celebration, and the work ought to be- > gin speedily in churches, in colleges, in legislatures, in congresses, in parliai ments, in all styles of national asseml blages, and we have no time to lose. I It would take three years to make a l programme worthy of such a coming • together. Why do I take ituponmyselftomake I such a nomination of time and place? ' Answer—Because it so happened that 1 in the mysterious providence of God, • born in a farmhouse and of no royal or • princely descent, the doors of com- ; munication are open to me every week 1 by the secular and religious printing > presses and have been open to me • every week for many years, with all. the cities and towns and neighbor1 hoods of Christendom, where printing ' presses have been established, and I ’ feel that if there is anything worthy in i this proposition it will be heeded and > adopted. On the other hand, if it be • too sanguine, or toe hopeful, or too iml practical, lam sure it will do no harm I that I have expressed my wish for such t an international jubilee, celebrative of I the birth of our Immanuel. " That such a celebration of out Lord's I birth, kept up for days and months, I would please all the good of the earth I and mightily speed on the gospel • chariot and please all the heavens, f saintly,cherubic, seraphic,arehangelic, " and divine, is beyond question. Oh, f get ready for the world’s greatest f festivity! Tune your voices for the world’s greatest anthem. Lift the • arches for the world's mightest prof cession. Let the advancing standard 1 of the army of years, which has in- ■ scribed on one side of it “190 J” and on > the other side “1901,” have also in- ' scribed on it the most charming name 1 of all the universe—the name of Jesus. Whether this suggestion of a world's i celebration of the nativity be taken or • not, it has allowed me an opportunity > in asomewhat unusual way of expressing my love for the great central char1 acter of all time and eternity. He is 1 the infinite nonesuch. The armies of ’ Heaven drop on their knees before 1 Him. After Bourdalone, before over- ■ whelmed audiences, has preached Him, ’ and Milton in immortal blank verse 1 has sung Him, and Michael Angelo has glorified the ceiling of the Vatican 1 with His second coming, and martyrs 1 while girdled and canopied with the > flames of the stake have with burning ' lips kissed His memory, and in the 1 “hundred and forty and fourthousand” 1 of Heaven with feet on seas of glass ‘ | inters hot with sunrise, have with up--1 ; lifted and downewung baton, andsound- ' i ing cornets, and waving banners, and 1 Heaven capturing doxologies eelebra- ■ ted Him, the story of His loveliness, and His might, and His beauty, and [ His grandeur, and His grace, and His intercession, and His sacrifice, and of His birth, and His death will remain untold. Be His name on our lips while we live, and when we die after we have spoken farewell to father and mother ■ and wife, and child let us speak that name which is the lullaby of earth and the transport of Heaven. Before the crossing of time on the 1 midnight between December 31, 1900, and the let of January, 1901, many of us will be gone. Some of you will hear the clock strike 12 of one century and an hour after hear it strike 1 of another, but many of you will not that midnight hear either the stroke of the old city clock or of the old timepiece in the hallway of the homestead. Seven years cut a wide swath through the churches and communities and nations. But those who cross from world to world before Old Time in this world crosses that midnight from century to century will talk among the thrones of the coming earthly jubilee, and on the river bank and in the house of many mansions, until all Heaven will know of the coming of that celebration, that will fill the earthly nations with joy and help augment the nations of Heaven. But whether here or there we will take part in the music and the banqueting if we have made the Lord our portion.

Oh, how I would like to stand at my front door some morning or noon or night and see the sky part and the blessed Lord descend in person, not as He will come in the last judgment, I with fire and hail and earthquake, but in sweet tenderness to pardon all sin, and heal all wounds, and wipe awav all tears, and feed all hunger, and right all wrongs, and illumine all darkness, : and break all Ixmdage, and harmonize all discords. Some think he will thus come, but about that coming I make no prophecy, for I am not enough learned in the Scriptures, as some of my friends are, to announce a very positive opinion. But this Ido know, that it would be well for to have an international and an into EWorld celebration of the anniversary of His birthday about the time of the birth of the. new century, and that it will bo wise beyond all others' wisdom for us to take Him as our pres- ’ ent and everlasting coadjutor, and if that darling of earth and Heaven will ; only accept you and me after all our lifetime of unworthiness and sin we can never pav Hifn what we owe, though through all the eternity to come we hail every hour a new sqng and every moment a new ascription of homage and praise, for you see we were far out among the lost sheep that the Gospel hymn so pathetically describes.’ Ont in the desert he heard It cry. Sick and helpless and ready to die. But all through the mountains, thunder riven, And up from the rocky steep. There rises «cry to U e gate of Heaven, ••Rejoice, I have found my sheep 1* And the angels echo round the throN, "Rejoice for tM Lord brings back Bia ewnF

A TRUCE ARRANGED. SENATOR VOORHEES AGREES TO A COMPROMISE. hoe President Stevenson M:»JT Force the Issue- Senate Sessions to Be Lengthened —Anti-811 verftes Still Fighting for Delay —Their Plan Outlined. Another Week of Talk. Washington correspondence: A TRUCE bMwuen the silver and antisilver elements of the Senate has

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upexpectedty boon arranged. It is not b y any means a final settlement of the question, yet it bring! the two elements together in a -formal agreement for the first time this session. By the terms cf the agreement the daily tesIsions of the Senate from and after next Monday are to be-

gin at 11 a. m. and end at 6p. m. This adds an hour to each end of the regular daily sessions. The new trder of things is regarded as a most significant concession on the part of Mr. Voorhees. It is mainly importint in assuring the silver Senators that they need not trouble themselvei over the fear of all-night sessions in the near future. Voorhees had threatened night and day sessions, and the silver men had defied him to adopt such a course. No exact time is set for terminating the agreement, but the general understanding among Senators is that the 11 to 6 o’clock session will be continued at least a week, at the end of which time the agreement mav be continued. The silver men are jubilant. They say that they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by it. They are fighting for time, and this gives them the calm assurance of at least another | week without any danger of being crowded by all-night sessions. Senator Jones (Ark. !, a silver man, and Senator Faulkner (W. Va.), an administration Senator who is very anxious to secure a compromise, planned the agreement. It was hardly expected that Mr. Voorhees would take to it kindly, but he was so worn out over the struggles of the last three weeks that he readily assented to the truce. But the interesting and almost sensational rumor is current in the Capitol that Vice President Stevenson hod determined to take the bull by the horns when the proper time shall come to secure action, and had agreed to seize some opportunity in the progress of the consideration of tho repeal bill for putting a motion for a vote. Diligent inquiry fails to thoroughly establish the truth of this rumor. Vice President Stevenson, when appealed to by a ccrrespondent, said simply that his duty and his whole duty was to enforce the rules of the Senate, and, while he might wish tho rules were different ana more in the direction of action and progress, he had had no hand in the making of the rules and no power to change them. He had given no assurance to anyone what he would do beyond this. It is known, nevertheless, that Senators friendly to repeal have often been in frequent conversation with Mr. Stevenson concerning tho rules. There are Senators who that, under the rules of the Senate, it is in the power of the presiding officer to put a motion tor a vote, and that in doing so the only law or rule violated will be the unwritten or traditional law of the Senate that debate cannot be cut off by a motion. The Tight to continuous debate is not a constitutional right, and it is not a right that finds a warrant or protection in tho written rules of the Senate—it is wholly traditional Routine Proceedings. The cloturo proposition was the subject of discussion until 2 o'clock in the Senate Friday, when the repeal bill, being the unfinished business, was taken up. Mr. McPherson gave notice that after Mr. Turpie shall have spoken on the resolution he should Insist that it go to the calender, whence It would take affirmative action to got it before the Senate. Senator Platt, it* author, desires Its reference to the Committee on Rules The opponents of repeal occupied the day— Senators Wolcott and Teller of Colorado in tho morning against a change of rules and Incidentally against repeal, and Senator* George of Mississippi, Hansbrough of North Dakota, an t Stewart of Nevada against the repeal of the purchasing clausal of the silver act. There was a marked falling off In the attendance at the Bouse, and no business of Importance was transacted. Quite a row occurred over a resolution for the appointment of an assistant clerk for the Committee on Claims, presided over by Mr. Bunn. The House adjourned without disposing of the question. In tho Senate Saturday the cloture resolution was taken up and Mr. Turpie argued against Its adoption. Cloture, declared Mr. Turpie. would not diminish the real power of the minority. Members of the fenato subjected to force and duress come back no longer In the minority, but In the majority. A vote by force was ■ot a vote; a vote by compulsion was not a free oct, nnd yet the first definition of a vote was volition, the expression of will. The very highest functions In a free government were not compulsory and could not be made so. In the present condition there was no reason for the adoption of the cloture or for the Invocation of what may be called constitutional obstruction. This was not the last congress and the people had ample remedy for the error of a majorby If such should be the case. The time In the House was taken np by unimportant reports, then Mr. Talbert of Maryland calle I up the bill remitting ?39,000 In penalties to the builders of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius Mr. Cummings, chairman of the navgl affairs committee, supported the bill. Mr. Sayers, chairman of the appropriations committee, opposed the bill. The bill finally went over without action, and the House proceeded to the consideration of the printing bill- Pending action on the bill the House adjourned.

Eccentricities. Barclay, author of the Argenis, in his leisure hours was a florist, ScaLIGER could not drink milk and would not sit at a table where it was. Disiderius Erasmus was always thrown Into a fever by the smell of fish. Thomas Carlisle’s most congenial recreation was smoking in his garden. Gladstone Is fond of wood-cutting, and often amuses himself in this way. Balzac, when not at work on his novels, entertained himself sketching. Henry VII., of England, had the reputation of being an inveterate miser. Frederick the Great was a musician and devoted much time to the flute. Ivan the Great was fond of torturing animals and seeing their blood run. John Wesley never took auy form of diversion, but utilized every moment Napoleon’s favorite dainty was blood pudding made with plenty of tallow. SCALIGER’B brother was always liable to convulsions at the sight of a Meander, the church historian, wrote for many years with the same qtlUk

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Too Much Threshing. Country boys who are inclined to think that life in the large cities is easy and comfortable compared with their daily toil in the country, are apt to find themselves mistaken when I they come to town and subject them-' selves to the high-pres«ure system of i business establishments. An amusing | example of this sort is related by a country exchange. A farmer’s boy went to the city, ' finding the work at home rather tiresome, and obtained a situation in a large “family supply” store where a “rushing business” was carried on. He "took hold” very well, and his employers liked him. They were surprised, however, when he came to them, before he had been two months in the store, and sairl: “Well, Mr. A, I guess I'll have to I get through here pext Saturday night ” ■■ ‘Get through?” said his employer. ‘.‘Why, what's going wrong?” “Oh, nothing in particular.” “Aren’t you treated well?” “First-rate; but I'll tell you just how it strikes me. Up on the farm , we used to have the threshing- j machine come once a year, and then we threshed for three days, and you’d ] better believe we worked hard: but i I tell you what, I’ve been here seven weeks, and you’ve threshed every day. I guess I’ve got enough pf it” He went back to the farm, convinced that a farmer’s life has its compensations.—Farmer’s Review. Civilization of an African Tribe. At the Eerlin Anthropological Society, Mr. Mereusky has given some curious particulars about the Kondeh people in the German district on Lake Nyassa. Their country is bordered on the north by the Livingstone Mountains ana on the south by the lake, and this favorable geographical position has enabled the people to develop in a peculiar manner and attain a relatively high state of civilization. “Their affections are largely developed. Friendship is espec ally valued among them, and love between the sexes strong and firm, as well as the domestic affections. Suicide, caused by grief for the loss of a wife, a child, or even a favorite animal, is not infrequent. The favorite form of suicide is to enter the water and allow one’s self to be devoured by a crocodile. In war time all unnecessary cruelty is avoided, and women and children who have been made prisoners are set free again. The position of woman among the Kondehs is unusually high. Women are on a perfect equality with men in the eyes of the law, and offenses against women areeven more severely punished than offenses against men.” —St James’s Gazette. Don't Forget. Should you spill ink upon the carpet or upon a woolen tablecloth, immediately sprinkle oyer it a thick layer of common salt. When th’s has absorbed all the ink that it can, carefully scrape it off and apply some more. Keep doing this until the ink is taken up. If your carpet has an ink spot upon it that you didn’t know how to attack at the time of the accident moisten it with hot water. Be careful not to u«e enough water to make tho ink spread. Then apply the salt. Yoursuccess will not be complete, but the spot will become dim and perhaps will not be noticeable. Freaks of Lightning. A fulgurite is formed by a bolt of lightning. A geologist gives this explanation: “When a bolt of lightning strikes a bed of sand it plunges downward into the sand for a distance, less or greater, transforming simultaneously into glass the silica in the material through which it passes. Thus, by its great heat, it forms at once a glass tube of precisely its own size. Fulgurites have been followed into the sand bv excavations for nearly thirty feet, thay vary in interior diameter from the size of a quill to three inches or more, according to the bore of the flash.” OU from Eggs. Extraordinary stories are told of the healing properties of a new oil which is easily made from the yolk of hens’ eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard, and the yolks are then removed, crushed, and placed over a fire, where they are carefully stirred until the substance is on the point of catching fire, when the oil separates and the oil maybe poured off. One yolk will yield nearly two teaspoonfuls of oil. It is in general use among the colonists of South Russia as a means of curing cute, bruises, etc. THE MODERN BEAITT Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. It her system needs the cleansing action of a laxativ.i remedy, she uses the gentle and pleasant liquid laxative Syrup of Figs. Never Lent It. The umbrella has rarely been enumerated among antiques, but John Bickel of Harrisburg, Pa., has one which he says is 105 years old. It has always been in the possession of the Bickel family—it has never been loaned. One Small Bile Bean every night for • Week arouse Torpid Livers. 25e. per bottle. The greatest ambition of most men is to own a buggy that won't rattle.

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' For any medicine you bear about, but to be made well by its use is still better. I » have for many years suffered with an irritable itching all over my body, and my , left let swelled and became so sore I had to give up work. Physicians preseribi ed tor me fOr scrofula, but did not ('lire me. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave me im- . mediate relief, drove all L disease out of my blood ') and gave me perfect cure." / W. O. Dux», 21 Lampson Court, Kansas City. Mo.

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A Ctover Imllutor. "You have no idea how clever my little girl is,” said a lady to her guests ;at desert. "She can imitate anylxidy.” I “She <an. indeed,” said the husband, I feeling quite proud of his child’s j talents. “Come, my dear, show us all what you can do. Pretend to boa I housemaid.” The little girl, curtsying to one of ! tho guests, very politely asked: “Will I you take any more chicken, ma’am, or ! a little beef?” Then to another: “Shall 1 I put your screen on your chair, ma’am the fire is very fierce.” And all the ! guests were greatly amused. "Is the performance over?” asked the father. “O, no, papa.” answered the child, and going tdward him she exclaimed in a terrific tone: “Sir, let me go! Don’t touch me, sir! Let mo go! Give you a kiss..indeed! Supposing, missus I was to hear you!” . *■ 7 Little missey was packed off to school : the following day. and father caught I it. The housemaid had also unaccountably changed her situation tho week after. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. She Kept Her Secret. Miriam Coles Harris, better known as the author of•• Rutledge.” has a pleasant summer home on the Long ! Island border of the Atlantic. Her most famous book was written when , she was a mere girl, and even her own i immediate family were not let into the ' secret of her employmejit until after it was finished. A favorite cousin who was much with her at the time says amusedly: “Say what you like about a . woman's' capability of keeping anything to herself, Miriam certain!/ demonstrated that it was possible ( one of her sex at leant. Not a word did she betray to me, who would have been so proud to think I was associating witlf areal, live authoress.” —PhiladelpL r 1 Press. Floated with Air Sacks. ' The Glenola, a two-masted schooner, which was sunk about six months ago ’’ : in Great South Bay, N. Y., has been ! j successfully raised by means of ajr sacks. Messrs. Grant Brothers’ air • sack system of raising vessels seems to ■ be practically successful. Divers descended into' the hold and adjusted ■ huge canvas bags or sacks, which • i measured 20 by 4! feet. Each sack was connected by hose pipes to a pow- , I erful air pump, and gradually inflated ’! by air. The gradual inflation of the ’ | bags with air slowly lifted the vessel 1 to the surface. It required only about ■ one hour to raise the Glenola alter the : work of adjusting the bags had been ■ finished. 1 To Clean Brass. ’ The Government method for clean--1 ing brass, and in use at the United 1 States Arsenals is as follows: A mixture composed of one part of common ! nitric, and one half part of sulphuric i acid is placed in a stone jar, and beside i it a pail of clear water and a box of ; sawdust. The articles to be cleaned are first dipped into the acid, then re- , moved into the water, and finally rubbed with the sawdust. This process at once gives them a brilliant color. If the articles to be thus treated have become greasy, they are first ; dipped in a strong solution of potash • and warm water, which dissolves the-, f grease, and enables the acid to act. The Cocked Hat. Even to the present day the naval \ ' full dress is incomplete without the • cocked hat, and on the continent many ; functionaries, civil as well as military, ' continue to wear it. Our old militia, 1 line and field officers of forty years ago used to wear them out of immense prol portions. The round hat. such as Ben ■ Franklin wore, was taken to Paris from 1 this country by the young officers who fought for our independence under Rochambeau and Lafayette. It met ( with groat favor there.' Robber Getting Scarce. The Brazilian Department of Agriculture deplores the rapid destruction of what were at one time looked upon as an inexhaustible forests of India* rubber trees. A recent report of the department suggests a remedy that 1 plantations for the cultivation of the tree be established, and shows by statistics that large profits would accrue to the planter. An unmarried young man never hears the truth about himself.

BALT-RHEUM; FLESH CRACKED OPEN AND BLEQ! Mia* Lorriz Clark, Riivr Falla, Pierce County, Wisconsin, write*: “It give* me pleasure to express my faith in the virtue of Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery. Having suffered for thres years from salt-rheum, and after having been unsuccessfully treated by a good physician, I

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impossible for me to describe the intense pain and differing which I endured night and day. After taking six bottles of th© “ Discovery * 1 was entirely cured. 1 cannot praise Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Sold by Dealers. NICKELf? ATE V Imus* west UHILI PALACE SUPERB BUFFET * DINING SLEEPERS,_ CARS. / No chance of ears between New York, Boe- / .ton and Chicago.,'' ! Tickets sold to all points at Lowest Rates. / Baggage Checked to Destination. Special Rate, / for Parties. / L. WILLIAMS, B. F. HORNER, / Genl Sit peri nt endrat. GcM PMs'(*r Agent / F.W.N. V. No. 29-tO / When Writing to Advertisers, say /on XiW I the Adverttoement tn thia paper.

began the use of the ‘ Discovery.’ The humor was in my bands. I was obliged to keep a covering on them for months at a time, changing the covering morning and night. The stinging, burning and itching sensation would be so Intense that at times it seemed as if 1 would go crazy. When I bent the fingers, the flesh would crack open and bleed. It is