Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1893 — Page 3

~ — . ,_.-l ... ■ - II 1- ————— - .1 ..1" - ' Safety from a Parladle Scourge. Do yon want to ba Insured. dwrllertn a m»latlona ration, anatnrttho periodical soourgn which threaten* to ra all yon in the form of ohilla and fever or aomo of the forma of mlaema-born diaeaae? 11 poet without aaylny that yon de Then, Instead of u-lna auiulne •r other alkaloid and mineral drugs, which merely relieve and aio ala aye detrimental to general health, seek aid where it la always tartboom tng-fiom the thorough preventive end reme< y, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Which, In regions where malaria la far more violent and preva ent than It is on tills ountlneat, eradicates it completely from the system. Biliousness, dyspepsia, constipation, u kidney and nervous complaints, neuralgia. and " rasumai ism at e an.oo« the maladies to which ' the na tonal tonlo and corrective la adapted. Bhrslulaas everywhere know its genuine worth. _____ Wrinkle Rules. IT you would avoid wrinkles, care not only for your skin but your nerves. Control your temper, and do not try to have a too expressive and vivacious countenance. Sleep nine hours a night and an hour a day. Decline to worry. Wear smoked glasses instead of scowling fiercely at the sunlight and the water. Refuse 'to try to distinguish things afar off. Wash your face in warm water with puro soap once a day and rub it softly with flannel after washing. Feed it with pure, cold cream. Don't be afraid of occasional sunburn. It smooths the face wonderfully. But, above all, be emotionless. REV. H. P. CARBON, tjcotlend, Dak., saw •Two bottloe of H All's Cet*rrhJ3ure complctel' cured my ll.tlo girl." Sold by Druggists, 740. .

•For a Rainy Day. r . To the German Emperdr Is ascribed,' provision for servant ■ Iwhich was put, in force two years ago. JJverV maid servant it seems, is pro»- k *' 'vided with a stamp boor. In thlsbdpk , every week a 3-cent stamp bought from" the Government is pasted ’by- net; mis-' trees. This is, oh thie which she pays the Government.' pre* sumabiy as her license' to keep a servant. The benefit accrues to the’ girl, for, should the girl be ill, the stamps will bo redeemed by the Government for her support, otherwise the stamps are kept and become a fund for her old ««eA Great Thing. It is a great thing for a man to get out a little and come in contact with other people and see how they live. 13. F. Johnson & Co., Bicbmcnd. Vs., are giving many young mon a chance to do this, and at the sumo time to put money in bank rapidly. Try them and ■see. Treasure Strewn. The route from England to India is strewn with treasure, owing, to the many shipping disasters. An industrious statistic an reckons that some hundreds of millions worth of gold and jewels lie at the bottom of the sea on that frequented way. Conch nfchts? On going to bed take a dose of Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup.

His Experience. Sh«—Do come to Bar Harbor, Cousin Tom. I know a nice girl with lota of money. •Cousin Tom (dejectedly but firmly)— You don t. Niee girls never have a cent.—Life. Ir are way after a good night’s sleep there is indigestion ana stomach disorder which Beecham's Pills will cure. No Need of Calle. Little Son—Goin’ out to make calls? Mother Calling is out of fashion. Little Son—Does you see all the ladies you know at the bargain counters?—Good News. Job weak and Inflamed eyes nse Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye-water. It is a carefully prepared physiol an's preset! ption. WE have great admiration for the woman who gives her best preserves 'to members of her own family. To aid Digestion take cne Small Bile Bean after eating. Why is it easy to break into an old man’« house? Beeau-o his locks are few and his gait is broken.

“German Syrup” I must say a word as to the efficacy of German Syrup. I have used it in my family for Bronchitis, the result of Colds, with most excellent success. I have taken it myself for Throat Troubles, and have derived good results therefrom. I therefore recommend it to my neighbors as an excellent remedy in such cases. James T. Durette, Earlysville, Va. Beware of dealers who offer you “something just as good.” Always insist on having Boschee’s German Syrup. @ PR. KILMEft’M SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME Os Kidney and Liver Complaint, Inflammation of the Bladder. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. T. Gentlemen:—“ft afford! me pleasure to give you a recommendation for Dr. Kilmer’s iWAMP-HOOT, of which I have taken 8 t small bottles. It has nearly removed the effect of the RHEUMATISM of about T yeersstanding, also a severe weakness of my back and kidneys of about 10 years’ standing and has helped a severe attack of I INFLAMMATION of the bladder, which I am sure bWAHP< W. R. tmiiaow. BOOT will entirely sure me of in a short time. I purchased the medicine of 8.0. Btone, the Druggist here in Butler, Ind.” W. B. Chilson. March, 7, va. At Druggists SO cents and *I.OO Sixs. -lavsMs> Guide to Health * ’ trss-Oomnltatlon tree. Dr. Kilmer fc Co., - Binghamton, N. Y. Dr. Kilmer’s PARILLA LIVER PILLS Are the Bert. 43 Pills, SS cents. — AU Druggists. This Trade Mart is ea the hurt WATERPROOF COAT fiISES* In the World I »**• A. J. TOWER, BOSTON. MASS.

TALMAGE’S SERMON. HE DISCOURSES ON POMPEII AND ITS LESSONS. An Arousing Theme for tho Cities of Today Drawn from the Tomb of the Dead Cities of the Paet-The Fate of Nlnevob —American Politics is Polluted. At the Tabernacle. In his sermon at tho Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday morning Kov. Dr. Talmage presented an urousing theme of ths living cities of to-day drawn from 1 the tomb of a dead city of the past. The subject was “Pompeii and Its Lessons;” tho text, Isaiah xxv, 2, “Thou hast made of a defunded city a ruin.” A flash on tho night sky greeted us as wo left tho rail train at Naples, Italy. What was tho strange illumination? It was that wrath of many centuries -Vesuvius. Giant son of an earthquake. Intoxicated mountain of Italy. Father of many consternations. I A volcano burning so long and yet to keop on burning until perhaps it may bo the very torch that will kindle the ' last conflagration and sot all tho world 1 on firo. It eclipses in violence of be--1 havlor Coto)>axi and JEtna and Strom- ’ boll and Krakatoa. Awful mystery. ■ Funeral - pyre of dead cities. Ever- j lasting paroxysm of mountains. It 1 leerna like a chimney of hell. It roars , with fiery re'mipUcences of what it has • .done, aha with threats of worse things

that (Ainay.yjtt. do. I would not live in tone ftßfe&eviJla'iOß at its base for a MM. it threw diufteiLjawiMr hundreds and huiwSwG of dropped in and, in- the Adriatic Sea,.aq^^myhe.Apennines, aS well as its own foot the lives ,6f r’", • Geologists have tried its mysteries, but tho heat consumed the iron instruments and drove back the scorched and blistered explorers from the cindery and crumbling brink. It seems like the asylum of maniac elements. At one time, far back, its top had been a fortress,where Spartacus fought and was surrounded, and would have been destroyed had it not buen for the grape vines which clothed the mountain side from top to base, and laying hold of them he climbed hand under hand to safety in tho valley. But for centuries it has kept its furnace burning as we saw it that night on our arrival in November of 1689. The Dead City. Os course the next day we started to gee some of the work wrought by that frenzied mountain. “All out for Pompeii!” was tho cry of the conductor. Anu now wo stand by the corpse of that dead city. As we entered the gate and passed between.tho walls I took off my hat, as one naturally does in the presence of some imposing obsequies. That city had been at one time a capi-

tai of beauty and pomp, the home of grand architecture, exquisite painting, enchanting sculpture, unrestrained carousal and rapt assemblage. A high wall, twenty feet thick, three-quarters of it still visible, encircled the city. On thoso walls at a distance of only luO yards from each other towers rose for armed men who watched the city. ■ The streets ran at right angles and from wall to wall, only one street ex- j cepted. | In the days of the city’s prosperity 1 its towers glittered in the sun. Eight strong ga es for ingress and egress— Gate of the Seashore, Gate of Her-' culaneum, Gate of Vesuvius being per-: haps the most important. Yonder ■stood the temple of Jupiter, hoisted at an imposing elevation, and with its six | Corinthian columns of immense girth, | which stood like carved Icebergs shim-; mering in the light. There stands the Temple of the Twelve Gods. Yonder see the Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Mercury, with altars of marble and bas-relief, wonderful enougn to astound all succeeding ages of art, and the Temple of JEsculapius, brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous with painting. Yonder are the theaters. Yonder are the barracks of the ' celebrated gladiators. Yonder is the summer home of Sallust, the Roman historian and senator, the architecture as elaborate as his character was corrupt. There, in thesuburbsof the city, is the home of Arrius Diomed, the Mayor of the suburbs, terraced residence of billionairedom. Along the i streets of the city arc men of might and women of beauty formed into bronze that many centuries had no power to bedim. Battle scenes on the walls in co.ore, which all time cannot efface. Great city of Pompeii! So Seneca and Tacitus and Cicero pronounce it. A Word Picture. Stand with me op its walls this evening of Aug. 23, A. D. 79. _ See the throngs passing up and down in tyrian purple and girdles of arabesque and necks enchained with precious stones, proud official in imposing toga meeting the slave carrying trays a-clink with goblets and a-smoke with delicacies from paddock and sea, and moralist, I musing over tho degradation of the times, passes tho profligate, doing his best to make them worse. Hark to the clatter and rataplan of the hoofs on the streets paved with blocks of basalt. Listen to the rumbling chariots, carrying convivial occupants to halls of mirth and masquerade and carousal. Hear the loud dash of fountains amid the sculptured water nymphs. Notice the weird, solemn, farreaching hum and din and roar of a city at the close of a summer day. Let Pompeii sleep well to-night, for it is the last night of peaceful slumber before she fahs into the deep slumber of many long centuries. The morning of the 2«th of August, A. D. 79, has arrived, and the day rolls on, and it is 1 o’clock in the Afternoon. “Look!” I say to you, standing on this wall, as the sister of Pliny said to him, the Roman essayist i and naval commander, on tho day of which I speak; as she pointed him in the direction in which I point you. There is a peculiar cloud on the sky, a spotted cloud, now white, now black. It is Vesuvius in awful and unparalleled eruption. Now the smoke and fire and steam of that black monster throat rise and spread as by gesture I now describe It. It rises, a'great column of fiery darkness, higher and higher, and then spreads out like the branches of a tree, with midnights interwrappod in its foliage, wider and wider. Now the sun goes out, and showers of pumice stone and water from furnaces more . than seven times heated, and ashes in i avalanche after avalanche, blinding I and scalding and suffocating, descend north, south, east, ano west, burying deeper and deeper in mammoth sepulcher such as never before or since was opened—Stabi®, Herculaneum, and Pompeii—ashes ankle deep, girdle deep, chin deep, ashes overhead. Out of the houses and temples and theaters and into the streets and down to the beach fled many of the frantic, but others, if not suffocated by the ashes, were scalded to death by the hoatea deluge. And then came heavier destruction in rocks after rocks, crushing in homes and temples and theaters. No wonder the sea receded from tho beach as though in terror until much ' of the shipping was wrecked, and n wonaer that wnun tney lilted Pliny I

1 the elder from the sailcloth on which ho was resting under the agitations of what he hud seen ho suddenly expired. For three days the entombment proceeded. Then the clouds lifted and the cursing of that Apollyon of mountains subsided. For 1,700 years that city of Pompeii lay burled and without anything to show its place of doom. But alter 1.700 years of obliteration a workman’s spado, digging a well strikes some antiquities which lead to the exhumation of the city. Now walk with mo through some of the streets and into some of the houses and amid the ruins of Basilica and temple and amphitheater. From tho moment the guide met us i at tho gate on entering Pompeii that day in November, 1889, until he left us at the gate on our departure the emotion I felt was indescribable for elevation and solemnity and sorrow and awe. Como and sec the petrified bodies of the dead found In tho city and now in the museums of Italy. About 450 of those embalmed by that eruption have been recovered. Mother and child, noble and serf, merchant and beggar are presentable and natural after 1,100 ■ years of burial. That! woman was found clutching hor adornments when the storm of ashes and fire began, and for l,7ooyrars she continued to clutch them. There at the soldiers' barracks are 04 skeletons of brave men, who faithfully stool guard at their post 1 when tho tempest of cinders began, and after l,7Uu years were still found standing guard. There is tho form of 1 gentle womanhood impressed upon the hardened ashes. Pass along, and here ann ♦ a rlsaort in thn hfUlO.lt.irt

we see the deep ruts in the oasamo ; pavements, worn there by the wheels of the chariots of the firstceptury. We stand among those suggestive- i scenes after the hour that visitors are usually allowed there and staid until there was not a footfall to be heard within all that city but our own. Up I this silent street and down that silent street we wandered. Into that windowless and roofless home we went and came out again on to the pavements that, now forsaken, were once thronged i with life. While I walked and contemplated : thecity seemed suddenly to be thronged with all the population that had ever inhabited it, and I heard its laughter ■ ■ and groan and blasphemy and unclean- ’ ness and infernal boast, as it was on ! the 23d of August, 79. And Vesuvius, , 1 from the mild light with which it , I flushed the sky that summer evening , as I stood in disentombed Pompeii, . seemed suddenly again to heave and flame and rock with tho lava and darkness and desolation and woe with which, more than eighteen centuries , ago, it submerged Pompeii, as, with . the liturgy of fire and storm the moun- ' tain proclaimed at the burial, “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” ■ Morals More Important than Art. I My friends, I cannot tell what prac- ■ tical suggestion comes to your mind • , from this walk through uncovered . : Pompeii, but the first thought that ab- • sorbs me is that while art and culture

are important they cannot save the morals or the life of a great town. Much of the painting and sculpture of Pompeii was so exquisite that, while ! some is kept on the walls where it was ' first penciled, to be admired by those who go there, whole wagon loads and whole rooms full have been I transferred to the Museo Burbonico at Naples, to be admired by the cen- | turies. | And yet many specimens of Pompeiian art show that the city was sunk to such a depth of abomination that | there was nothing deeper. Sculptured ' and petrified and embalmed abomina- ! tion. There was a state of public morals worse than belongs to any city now standing under the sun. | Yet how many think that all that is I necessary is to cultivate the mind and ; .advance the knowledge and improve the arts? Have you the impression that eloquence will do the elevating ’ work? Why Pompeii had Cicero half of every year for its citizen. Have you the idea that literature is all that is I necessary to keep a city right? Why, I Sallust, with., a pen that was the boast 1 ■oi Boman literature, had a mansion in ; that doomed city. Do you think that sculpture and art are quite sufficient for the production of good morals? Then correct your delusion by examining the statues in the Temple of Mercury at Pompeii, or the winged figures of its Parthenon and the col- 1 onnad.es and arches ,of this house of; Diomed. | | By all means have schools and Dus-1 Beldorf and Dore exhibitions and gal- i leries where the genius of all centuries can bank itself up in snowy sculpture, I and all brie a-.brac, and all pure.art. j But nothing, save the religion of Jesus Christ, can make a city moral. In pro- ■ portion as churches and Bibles andl i Christian printing presses and revivals i 1 of religion abound is a city clean and pure. What has Buddhism or Confu- j cianism or Mohammedanism done in 1 all the hundreds of years of their progress for the elevation of society? Ab-1 solutely nothing. Peking and Madras ] and Cairo are just what they were ages ago, except as Christianity has modified their condition. | What is tho difference between our Brooklyn and their Pompeii ? No difference, except that which Christianity has wrought. Favor all good art, but take best care of your churches, and your Sabbath schools, and your Bibles, and your family altars. Yea, see in our walk to-day through uncovered Pompeii what sin will do for a city. ■ We ought to bo slow to assign the , judgments of God. Cities are some-' times afflicted just as good jieople are 1 .afflicted, and the eartaquake, and the cyclone, and the epidemic, are no sign in many cases that God is angry with j a city, but the distress is sent for some | good and kind purpose, whether we j understand it or not. The law that ap-I paes to individuals may apply to Christian cities as well, “All things work together for good to thoso that love God.” i But tho greatest calamity of. history came upon Pompeii, not to improve its future condition, lor it was completely | obliterated and will never be rebuilt. It was so bad that it needed to be buried 1,700 years before even its ruins were Ct to be uncovered. So Sodom and Gomorrah were filled with such turpitude that they were not only turned under, but have for thousands of years been kept under. The two greatest cemeteries are the cemetery in which the sunken ships are buried all the way between Fire Island and Fastnet lighthouse, and the other cemetery Is the cemetery of dead , cities. The Cemetery Not Yet Filled. But the cemetery of dead cities is not yet filled, and if the present cities of the world forget God and with their : indecencies shock the heavens, let ] them know that God, who on tho 34th of August, 79, dropped on a city of, Italy a superincumbrance that staid there seventeen centuries, is still alive and hates s.n now &s much as He did then, and has at His command all the armament of destruction with whioh Hd whelmed their inquitous predecessors. It was only a few summers ago that Brooklyn and New Y’ork felt an earthquake throb that sent the people 1 affrighted into the streets, and that suggested that there are forces of na1 ture now suppressed or held in check I whioh, easier than a child in a nursery I knocks down a row of block houses,

could prostrate a oily or enyulf a contmedt deeper than Pompuil was engulfed. Our hope Is in the mercy of the I ord continued to our American cities. It uinazoa me that this city, which has the quietest Sabbaths on tho continent, and the bust order, and tho highest tone of morals of any city that 1 know of, is now having brought into as near neighborhood us Coney Island carnivals ol pugilism as debasing as any of the gladiatorial contests of Pompeii. Wnat a precious crew that "Coney Island Athletic Club” is, under whose auspices these orgies are enacted! What a degradation to the adjective “athletic.” which ordinarily suggests health and muscle developed for useful nurposel Instead of calling it an athletic club they might better style it “Tho Ruffian Club F or Smashing the Human Visage.” Vile men are turning that Coney Island, which isoneof the finest watering places on all the Atlantic coast, into a place for the offsCouring of the earth to congregate, tho low horse jockeys and gamblurs, and tho pugilists, and the pickpockets, and tho b.oats regurgitated from tne depths of the word wards in these cities. They Invite delegates from universal loaferdom to come to their carnival of knuckles. But Ido not believe that the pugilism contracted for and advertised lor next December will take place in our neighborhood. Evil sometimes defeats itself by go- ' ing too fur. You may drive the hoop ol a barrel down so hard that it breaks, i I will not believethatthe international, t nri-zw iiirht. will take nlace on Lonir

prize 11 gat win tatce praue on J-oug Island or in tho State of New York until I see the rowdy rabble rolling drunk off (he-car at Flatbush avenue and with faces banged and cut and bleeding from the imbruting scene. Against this infraction of the laws of the State of New York I lift a solemn protest. The curse of Almighty God will rest upon any community tuat consents to such an outrage. Does any one think it cannot be stopped and that the constabulary would be overborne? Then let Governor Flower send down there a regiment of State militia, and they will clean out the nuisance in one hour. American Politics. Warned by the doom of other cities that have perished for their ruffianism, or their cruelty, or their idolatry, or their dissoluteness, let all Our American cities lead the right way. Our only dependence is on God and Christian influences. Politics will do nothing but make things worse. Send politics to moralize and save a city, and you send smallpox to heal leprosy or a carcass to relieve the air of malodor. For what politics will do I refer you to the eight weeks of stultification eni acted at Washington by our American Senate. American politics will become a reformatory power on the day that pandemonium becomes a church. But there are. I am glad to say, benign influences organized in all our cities which will yet take them for God and

righteousness. Let us ply machinery to its utmost speed and power. City evangelization is ttie ! thought. Acbustomed as are religious pessimists to dwell upon statistics of evil and dolorous facts, we want some one with sanctified heart and good digestion to put in long line the statistics of natures transformed, and profligacies balked, and souls ransomed, and cities redeemed. Give us pictures of churches, of schools, of reformatory associations, of asylums of mercy. Break in upon the “Misereres” of complaint and despondency with “Te Deums” and “Jubilates” of moral and religious victory. Show that the day is coming when a great tidal wave of salvation will rod over all our cities. Show how Pompeii buried will become Pompeii resurrected. Demonstrate the fact that there are millions of good men and ’ women who will give themselves no i rest day nor night until cities that are I now of the type of the buried cities of I Italy shall take type from the New I Jerusalem coming down from God out I of Hea.en. I hail the advancing morn, j I make the same proclamation to-day that Gideon made to the shivering cowards of his army, “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead.” Close up the’ ranks. Lift the gospel ! standard. Forward into this Arma--1 geddon that is now opening and let the I word run all along tue line: Brooklyn I for God! All our cities for God! j America for God! The world for God! I Tue most of us here gathered, though : born in the country willdie in town. Shall our last walk be through streets i where sobriety and good order domi--1 nate or grogshops stench the air? ! Shall our last look be upon city ha.ls I where justice reigns, or demagogues i plot tor the stuffing of ballot boxes? ' Shall we sit for the last time in some I church wuere God is worshiped with 1 the contrite heart, or where cold formI alis.u goes through uumeaning genuI flexions. God save the cities! Kight- ; eousness is life; iniquity is death. Ke- • member picturesque,terraced, templed, sculptured, boastful, God defying and entombed Pompeii! For His Boys. In a paper read before the lowa Bankers’ Association, Mr. W. H. M. i Pusey related a characteristically | “human” anecdote of President Lincoln. While in Mr. Pusey’s office one day, Mr. Lincoln took out of his 1 pocket an old document and said: “I wish you gentlemen would locate this land warrant for me. It is my pension obtained as Captain in the Black Hawk War.” I Mr. Pusey remonstrated with him i for having kept it so long. | “Y'ou ought to have entered the warrant years ago, ”he said, “when it could have been placed in land further east ” “les, 1 know it,” answered Mr. Lincoln, “but I have kept it as a souvenir of the war, and to show Boh and Tad that I have been a soldier. ” • The French Language. Mr. Greard, who has recently made some important proposals on spelling to the French Academy, says a French dictionary should contain about 32,000 words. In the time of Fenelon the French language contained between 16,000 and 18,000, and In 1740 it was computed to have no more than 20,C00. So small a number of words would never do for an Englishman, certainly not for an American. The New Standard Dictionary is to contain 50.000 words never bei fore defined, and the Century already had some 250,000. Shakspeare used jin his actual writing about 15,000 words, several thousand more than any other famous writer. But he seemed to find that number sufficient for all his needs. The greatest example of heroism is found in the woman who confesses when a guest praises the cake, that she didn't make it c lx packing gowns they will bo found to crease very little if paper is place! between their fold.

ENGLISH REPORTERS. How They Treated a Celebrated Mardrr Caen in Ixrndon. Based upon two years of personal observation in London, 1 positively declare that I do not believe there is a single English reporter who has correct ideas about the gathering of local news. A few men like Forbes. O’Shea and O’Donnell have attained prominence as war correspondents; bnt the London reporter has no more conception of the proper way to handle a big local story than a printer's boy in a country office in the far West 1 recall an experience that may be referred to without any impropriety. I was sitting in the office of the editor of the Daily News, about 4 o'clock one afternoon, when the ed itor who receives the police reports (the title of city editor is given tc the financial reporter) entered and handed Mr. Robinson a small slip of paper. I He read It carefully and handed it I to me, asking—“ What would you do in New York?" A glance at the par-1 agraph showed that a man named Thomas Wainwright had been ar-. rested in a cab in company with a woman called Alice Day, as they were about to cross London bridge, ; bound, according to the cabman, to a small tavern in the Loughborough | road known as .the “Hen and. Chick

ens.” .In the cab with them wat round the body of a woman in two parcels, wrapped in “American cloth’ —the British for oiled cloth. Wain- • wright was a brush manufacturer in Whitechapel .road, suspicion as to the contents of the parcels had been awakened in the breast of a discharged'clerk who had followed the carriage and caused the arrest “What would you do in New York?!’ askel the editor. Briefly. 1 told him exactly what would be done: Two good reporters would be seat to Whitechapel road. | and the past history of the supposed murderer and the ide tity of the missing woman wou'd be fixed. Another reporter would be dispatched to the “Hen and Chickens,” and Wainwaight’s acquaintance with the pe pie in that neighborhood would be established. The cabman would be interviewed. The policeman whe made the arrest would be quoted. A talk wth the woman under arrest, naturally, as an accessory after the fact, would be obtained. The prisoner would be minutely described, aqd if he had any explanation to make he would be allowed to make it 1 jold the editor that four or five good men would be put on that story, and a two or three column article v i i * i _ i*. a.: r. 11 :— — d

would be the result the following day. He laughed good-natu:edly and said: “1 fear that we haven’t any such capable reporters here. If we were to send four of our best men out on any such an errand, thev would go tc the nearest tavern, drink ‘bitter* foi two or three hours, then return and say they could find o t nothing. We shall have to await the coroner’s in quest and trial.” There is no occasion to smile, exactly what he predicted occurred. The Daily News contained twenty lines about the crime next day. Bui the hard fact remains that every feature of the famous Wainwright murder—a case that convulsed all England and was da ly exploited tc the extent of a page to a page and i half in each of the London papers foi the two weeks during the trial, could have iieen obtained that first afternoon and printed by an enterprising journal the following morning. The onlv posssible exception to this state ment is the complicity of the prisoner's brother, after the fact, for whict he was sentenced to five years’ hare labor. Wainwright h mself wai hanged.—Weekly Journalist. Unhappy Kings and Queens. Queen Victoria leads a quieter ant iCss rutEed life than the sovereign o any other country in Europe Al t> e other sovereigns have a hard timi of it. Here is Oscar 11. King of Sweder and Norwav, tormented bv the Norwegian malcontents, by the obstructive Storthing and by Ibsen. Here is William 11. of Germany, d iven to his wits’ end by hectoring adversaries. Here is the King of the Greeks. Ge arg ? 1., always impecunious, and at this time always overwhelmed ii a sea of troubles. Here is the Kiag of the Belgians, Leopold IL, whose throne was men aced a few wee <s ago by his rebellious subjects, and saved for a time only by his prudence. Here is the little King of Spain Alfonso NHL. who must be fr ght ened when he hears bis subject; shouting for a republic. Here is the Czar of Russia, th< King of Italy, the Emperor of Au stria, and the Sultan of Turkey, the hardships of whom are known to al the world. The young Queen of the Nether lands, Wilhelm na, the mi.ldle-agec King of Portugal. Charles 1., and the old Kin rot Denmark, Christian IX., lead a solitary, quiet life, but they de not govern.countries of the first rank, and are comparatively speaking, insignificant. Presence of Mind. Bismarck and a friend were out hunting one day, when the friend incautiously walked off into a morass, and, feeling himself sinking, called out to Bismarck: “For heavens’ sake, come to uy help, or I shall be lost in this qu cksand.” Bismarck saw the danger was great, but he retained his presence of mind. “No,” cried, Bismarck, “I will not venture into the morass for then I should be lost, too. It is evident your end is inevitable; therefore, to relieve you from the c~uel agony of slow death. I will shoot you.” and he coolly leveled his rifle at his floundering friend. “Keep quiet,” cried Bismarck. “I cannot take correct aim. Remember, that in order to pit you at once out of misery I must shot you through the head.” The shocking brutality of this suggestion drove all foam of the morass out of the friend’s mild, the unlucky man thought only of dodging Bismarck’s bullet, and. with this in mind, struggled so violently that finally, by almost superhuman efforts, he succeeded in laying hold of the root of an old tree, and thereby he rescued himself.

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