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TAI,MAGES SEUMON. THD CAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FLOURISHING.
A Dterotirm* from Uio T#*it: I.Hinenta* tioug, ('Impter III. V«*rgr 39 ‘'Wherefore Doth u Living Man Complain?" — ISettrr Daya Are Near at Hand.
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CHEERFl’I. interrogatory in the most melancholy book of the Bible! Jeremiah wrote so many sad things that we have a word named after him. and when anything is surcharged with grief and complaint, we call it a
Jeremiad. But in my text Jeremiah, as by a sudden jolt, wakens us to a thanK-
ful spirit.
Our blessings are so much more nuDif rous than our deserts that he is sur-
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prised that anybody should ever find fault. Having life, and with it a thousand blessings, it ought to hu«h iuto
perpetual silence everything like criticism of the dealings of Ood. “Wherefore doth a living man complain?’ There are three prescriptions by which I believe that our individual and national finances may lie cured of their present depression. The first is cheerful conversation and behavior. 1 have noticed that the people who are most vociferous against the day in which we live are those who are in comfortable circumstances. I have made inquiry of those persons who are violent in their jeremiads against these times, and 1 have asked the m, “Now, after all, are you not making a living?” After some hesitation and coughing and clearing their throat three or four times, they say stammeringly, “Y-e-s." So that with a great multitude of people It is not a question of getting a livelihood, hut they are dissatisfied because they cannot make as much money as they would like to make. They have only two thousand dollars in the hank,where they would like to have four thousand. They can clear in a year only five thousand dollars, when they would like to clear ten thousand, or things come out junt even. Or, in their trade they pet three dollars a day when they wish they couid make four or five. “Oh!” says some one, “are you not aware of the fact that there la i tlon out of employment hundreds of good families of this country who are at their wits’ end, not knowing which way to turn?” Yes, ] know it better than any man in private life ran know that sad fact, for It comes constantly to my eye and ear. But who is responsible for this state of
things?
Much of that responsibility I put upon men in comfortable circumstances, who, by an everlasting growling, keep public confidence depressed and new enterprises from starting out and new houses from being built. You know very well that one despondent man can talk fifty men into despondency, while one cheerful physician can wake up into exhilaration a whole asylum of hypochondriacs. It is no kindness to the poor or the unemployed for you to join In this deploration. If you have not the wit and the common sense to think of something cheerful to say. then keep silent. There Is no man that can be independent of depressed conversation. The medical Journals are ever illustrating it. I was reading of five men who resolved that they would make an experiment and see what they could do in the way of depressing a stout, healthy man. and they resolved to meet him at different points In his journey; and as he stepped out from his house in the morning in robust health, one of the five men met him and said, “Why, you look very sick today. What is the matter?” He said, "l am in excellent health; there is nothing the matter.” But passing down the street, he began to examine his symptoms, and the second of the five men met him and said, “Why, how had you do look.” “Well,” he replied, “I don't feel very well.” After a while the third man met him, and the fourth man met him, and the fifth man came tip and said, “Why, you look as if you had had the typhoid fever for six weeks. What is the matter with you?” And the man against whom the stratagem had been laid went home and died. And if you meet a man with perpetual talk about hard times, and bankruptcy end dreadful winters that are to come, you break down his courage. A few autumns ago, as the winter was coming on, people said, “Wo shall have a terrible winter. The poor will be frozen out this winter.” There was something in the large stord of acorns that the squirrels had gathered, and soma*thing in the phases of the moon, and something in other portends,that made you certain we were going to have a hard winter. Winter came. It was the mildest one within my memory and ■within yours. All that winter long I do not think there was an icicle that hung through the day from the eaves of the house. So you prophesied falsely. Bast winter was coming, and the people said, “We shall have unparalleled suffering among the poor. It will be a dreadful winter.” Sure enough it •was a cold winter; but there was more large hearted charities than ever before poured out on the country; better provision made for the poor, so that there have been scores of winters when the poor had a harder time than they did last winter. Weather prophets say we will have frosts this summer which will kill the harvests. Now, let me tell you, you have lied twice about the weather, and I believe you are lying this time.
The second prescription for the alleviation of financial distresses is proper Christian investment. God demands of every individual state, and nation, a certain proportion of their income. We
are parsimonious! We k"ep back from God that v ! ich belongs to him, and when we ke-p hack anything from God h* takes what we keep back, and lie takes more. He takes it by storm, by sickness, by bankruptcy, by any one of the ten thousand ways which he can employ. The reason many of you are i cramped in business is because you have never learned the lesson of Christian generosity. You employ an agent. You give him a reasonable salary; and, i !•' yon And out that he is appropriating your funds besides the salary. What do you do? Discharge him. Well, we are God's agents. He puts in our hands certain moneys. Part are to be ours. Part are to be his. Sup- | , pose we take all, what then? He wilf discharge us; he will turn us over to financial disasters, and take the trust away from us. The reason that great
multitudes are not prospered in business is simply because they have been withholding from God that which belongs to him. The rule is, give, and you will receive. Administer liberally, and you shall have more to administer. 1 am in full sympathy with the man who was to be baptized by immersion, and some one said, "You had better leave your pocket book out. it will get wet.” "No,” said he, "1 want to go down under the wave with everything. 1 want to consecrate my property and all to God.” And so he was baptized. What we want in this country is more
baptized poeketbooks.
I had a relative whose business seemed to be failing. Here a loss, and there a loss, and everything was bothering, perplexing and annoying him. He sat down one day and said, “God must have a controversy with me about something. I believe I haven’t given enough to the cause of Christ." And there and then he took out his check book and wrote a large check for a missionary society. He told me, “That was the turning point in my business. Ever since then I have been prosperous. From that day, aye, from that very hour, I saw the change.” And, sure enough, he went on, and gathered a fortune. The only safe investment that a man can make in this world is in the cause of Christ. If a man give from a superabundance, God may or he may not respond with a blessing; but if a man give until he feels it, if a man give until it fetches the blood, if a man give •autil his selfishness , cringes and twists and cowers under it he will get not only ritual profit, but he will get paid back in hard cash or in convertible securities. We often see men who are tight fisted who seem to get along with their investments very profitably, notwithstanding ; all their parsimony. But wait. Suddenly in that man's history everything goes wrong. His health fails, or his reason is dethroned, or a domestic curse smites him. or a midnight shadow of some kind drops upon his soul and upon his business. What is the matter? God is punishing him for his small heartedness. He tried to cheat God and God worsted him. So that one of the recipes for the cure of individual and national finances is more generosity. Where you bestowed one dollar on the cause of Christ, give two. God loves to be trusted, and he is very apt to trust back again. He says: “That man knows how to handle money; he shall have more money to handle.” And very soon the property ' that was on the market for a great while gets a purchaser, and the bond that was not worth more than fifty rente on a dollar goes to par. and the opening of a new street doubles the value of his house, or in any way of a million God blesses him. People quote as a joke what Is a divine promise; "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and it will return to thee after many days.” What did God mean by that? There is an illusion there. In Kgypt, when ibey sow the corn, it is at a time when the Nile is overflowing its banks and they sow the seed corn on the waters, and as the Nile begins to rreede this seed corn strikes In the earth and comes up a harvest and that is the allusion. It seems as if they are throwing the corn away on the waters, hut after a while they gather it up in a harvest. Now says God in ills word: "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and it shall come hack to thee after many days,” It may seem to you that you are throwing it away on charities; but It will yield a harvest of green and gold —a llarvest on earth and a harvest in heaven. If men could appreciate that and act on that, we would have no more trouble about individual or na-
tional finances
Prescription the third, for the cure of all our individual and national financial distresses; a great spiritual awakening. It is no more theory. The merchants of this country were positively demented with the monetary excitement in 18.")7. There never before j nor since has been such a state of fiI naneial depression as there was at that I time. A revival rame. and five hundred thousand people were born into the kingdom of God. What came after the : revival? The grandest financial pros- [ perity we have ever had in this coun- | try. The fin»st fortunes, the largest | fortunes in the United States, have i been made sinee 18. r >7. “Well,” you say, “what has spiritual improvement and revival to do with monetary improvement and revival?” Much to do. The religion of Jesus Christ has a direct | tendency to make men honest and sober and truth-telling, and are not | honesty and sobriety and truth-telling auxiliaries of material prosperity? If we could have an awakening in tills country as in the days of Jonathan Edwards of Northampton, as in the days i of Dr. Findley of Basking Ridge, as in ! the days of Dr. Griffin of Boston, the 1 whole land would rouse to a higher moral tone, and with that moral tone the honest business enterprise of the ! country would come up. You say a great awakening has an influence upon ) the future world. I tell you It has a | direct influence upon the financial welfare of this world. The religion of
THE IjATLY BANTSTEE TIMES, GREEXCASTLE, LNDIANA.
Christ is no foe to successful business; it is its best friend. And if there should come a great awakening in this country, end all the banks and insurance companies and stores and offices and shops should close up for two weeks, and do nothing but attend to the public worship of Almighty God — after such a spiritual vacation the laud would wake up to such financial prosperity as we have never dreamed of. Godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for that which is to come. But, my friends, do not put so much emphasis on worldly success as to let your eternal affairs go at loose ends. 1 have nothing to say against money. The more money you get the better, if it comes honestly and goes usefully. For the lack of it, sickness dies without medicine, and hunger finds its coffin in an empty bread-tray, and nakedness shivers for clothes and Are. All this canting tirade against money as though it had no practical use, when I hear a man indulge in it, it makes me think the best heaven for him would bo an everlasting poorhouse! No, there is a practical use in money; hut while we admit that, we must also admit that it cannot satisfy the soul, that it cannot pay for our ferriage across the Jordan of death, that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven for our immortal soul. Yet there are men who act as though packs of bonds and mortgages could be traded off for a mansion in heaven, and as though gold were a legal tender in that land where it is so common that they make pavements out of it. Salvation by Christ is the only salvation. Treasures in heaven are the only incorruptible treasures. Have you ever ciphered out that sum in loss and gain, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?” You may wear fine apparel now. but the winds of death will flutter it like rags. Homespun and a threadbare coat have sometimes been the shadow of robes white in the blood of the Lamb. All the mines of Australia and Brazil, strung in one carcanet, are not worth to you ns much as the pearl of great price. You remember, I suppose, some years ago, the shipwreck of the Central America? A storm came on that vessel. The surges tramped the deck and swept down through the hatches, and there went up a hundred-voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of the steamer, as though it would leap a mountain. The glare of the signal rockets. The long cough of the steam-pipes. The hiss of extinguished furnaces. The walking of G«.d on the wave. O, it was a stupendous spectacle. So, there are men who go on in life — a fine voyage they are making out of it. All is well, till some euroclydon of business disaster comes upon them, and they go down. The bottom of this commercial sea is strewn with the shattered hulks. But, because your property goes, shalln^our soul go? O, no! There is coming a more stupendous shipwreck after a while. This world—God launched it 8,000 years ago, and it is sailing on; but one day it will stagger at the cry of "fire!” and the timbers of the rocks will burn, and the mountains (lame like masts and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurricane. God will take a good many off the deck, and others out of the berths, where they are now sleeping in Jesus. How many shall go down? NO one will know until it is announced in heaven one day; “Shipwreck of a world! So many millions saved! So many millions drowned!” Because your fortunes go, because your house goes, because all your earthly possessions go, do not let your soul go! May the Lord Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save your souls.
The Dally Ta»k. We are not apt enough to think ot our daily work as the Good Shepherd's pasture field. We are too apt to givs heed to a miserable distinction between the sacred and secular and to seek to get out from what we call the secular into what we call the sacred, that we may find spiritual pasture fields. * * * This is the sacred service; this is God's work; praying, communing, preaching, buying, selling, bricklaying, doing whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, which God's providence has trust into your hand to do—doing them for God s sake and in His name, the shining motive for them God's glory. • * • The daily toil Is a real spiritual pasture field; and the host of herbage we will find In it, if we will have it so. if w» will take into it the motive of pleasing God, and so of doing in it our very best: How the spiritual life may nobly grow in this pasture field of daily duty done from a divine impulse!—Wayland Hoyt, D. D.
Children and Church tiolng. The fault may lie in some cases with the minister, but much more often the fault is with the fathers and mothers. In the matter of church attendance the parents and the pastor must combine. The parents should require and expect the children to accompany them to God's house as much as to sit at their table for their daily food in their own houses. The pastor should endeavor to attract the young to church by making his sermons simple in language, earnest In delivery and interesting with illustrations. Very few sermons are fit to be preached at all which are utterly beyond the comprehension of an average boy 10 years old. Grown people, in turn, relish fresh, vivid, simple, earnest, practical preaching as much ar their children do.—Theodore L. Cuyler.
In a home for sandwich men in London there are said to be several uni- | verslty graduates and medical men, ‘ and a Scotchman who ran through |
£50,000 in three years.
LOST CHARLEY ROSS. ABDUCTION THAT WAS THE TALK OF THE WORLD.
HI* Fate Fnrertaln FTen Now—The Death of Christian K. Rosa Recall* the Extraordinary FfTort* Made to Apprehend Mo*her and Douglas*, the Assumed Ahdurtors.
(Philadelphia Letter.) HE recent death of Christian K. Ross recalls vividly the world-wide sensation created by the abduction of his son, Charley Ross, on the afternoon of July 1, 1874. For twenty-three years the search has been kept up unavailingty. The United States have been ransacked, foreign countries have been flooded with descriptions of the boy, and the circumstances of his disappearance; a book has been published by the boy’s father, describing every event which could possibly throw any light upon the subject. Many other lost children have been restored to their parents through the constant stream of inquiry which was evoked by little Charley's loss, but of the stolen boy uo tidings have ever been heard. At the time of his abduction Charley was 4 years old, a rosy cheeked, fairhaired little lad, living in Germantown, at his father’s house, on Washington lane. For several days previous to I his disappearance Charley and his i brother, Walter, had been given can- |
dy by a man passing the house in a j wagon, and on the 1st of July this man ' invited them to take a drive, promising I to buy them some fire crackers. With him was another individual, who kept the boys in conversation while his companion drove. After they had gone some distance Charley began to cry and asked to be taken home, but he was pacified by being told that Aunt Susie’s, where the crackers were to be bought, was close by. On reaching Palmer and Richmond streets Walter was given 25 cents and told to go to a cigar store near the corner and buy firecrackers for himself and torpedoes for Charles. The boy did so. but when he
CHARLEY ROSS. (At time of abduction )
came out again with his purchases the wagon and his brother had disappeared. Finding himself deserted Walter began to cry: a crowd gathered round him, and, hearing his tale, took him back to his home. The police were immediately notified, and on the 3d of July a reward was offered for his return. The same day the following illspelt letter was received by Mr. Ross: July 3—Mr. Ros; be not uneasy you son Charley bruster be all writ we is got him and no power on earth can deliver out of our hand, you will hav two pay us befor you git him from us, and pay us a big cent to. if you put tlie cops hunting for him you is only defecting yu own end. we is got him put so no living power can gets him from us a live, if any aproach is made to his hldin place that is the signil for his instant annihilation, if you regard his lit puts no one to search for him you mony can fetch him out alive an no other existin powers, dont deceive yuself an think the detectives can git him from us for that is imposebel. you here from us in a few days. A rigid search was inaugurated; vessels in the rivers, the doubtful localities in the city, coal yards, lumber yards and unoccupied buildings were thoroughly examined and descriptions of the missing boy and his abductors, from his brother’s recollection, were flashed over the telegraph wires to every city in the United States. Three days had elapsed from the receipt by Mr. Ross of the first letter, when there came another. It was as fol-
lows:
Philadelphia, July 6—Mr. Ros: We suppos you got the other letter that told you we had yu child all safe and sond. Yu might offer one $100,000 it woud ; avale yu nothing, to be plaen with yu i yu mite invok all the powers of the I universe and that cold not get yu child | from us. we set god—man and the
devil at defiance to rest him ot of our bands. This is the lever that moved the rock that hides him from yu $20,000. not one doler less—impossible— impossible—you cannot get him without it. if yu love money more than child yu he it murderer not us for the money we will have if we dont from yu we be sure to git from some one els for we will mak examples of yur child that others may be wiser. We give yu ail the time yu want to consider wel wat yu be duing. Yu money or his lif we wll hav—dont flater yu self yu will trap us under pretens of paying the ransom that be imposible—don't let the detectives mislede yu thay tel yu they can git him and arest us to—if yu set the detectives in search for him as we teld yu befor they only search for his lif. for if any aproach he made to his hidin place by detective his life will be instant sacrificed, you wll see yu child dead or alive if we get yu money yu get him live if no money yu get him dead, wen yon get ready to bisnes with us advertise the foierin in Ledger personals (Ros. we be ready to negoeiate). we look for wu answer in Ledger. This letter was taken to police headquarters and it was agreed that still more vigorous efforts should be made to trace the writer. A "personal” in the columns of the Public Ledger was inserted, as follows: “Ros, we be ready to negoeiate." This appeared on July 7 and at 2 o’clock the same afternoon a letter was received through the post in reply renewing the demand for $20,000 and threatening to kill Charley in the event of treachery. About this time the public began to know that anonymous letters were being received: the most intense interest was manifested in aiding the search;
suspicious looking men and women were stopped and examined, houses were searched, drop boxes, both outside and inside the postoffice, were carefully watched. Mr. Russ' mail was flooded with suggestions for the capture of the miscreants, from bloodhounds and clairvoyance to ambuscades. One man went so far as to offer Mr. Ross $20,000 in rash that he might get his son back, but from the heinous nature of the crime and the effect it might have in inducing other similar outrages, Mr. Ross believed it his duty to let the matter rest with the police. On July 22 a reward of $20,000 was offered by the mayor of Philadelphia for the arrest and conviction of the abductors. This immense reward attracted world wide attention and set thousands of detectives to work and millions of tongues wagging. Meanwhile Mr. Ross continued to receive and answer letters. Sixteen came in all, but though every effort was made the writers were never detected. At length Superintendent of Police Walling of New York found a clue that ended in fixing the crime of the abduction on William Mosher and Joseph Douglass, two notorious burglars, who had long had their headquarters in Philadelphia. Detective Sharkey and his surviving partner. Detective Charles F. Miller, of this city, were convinced of the authenticity of this clue, and confirmed it to the satisfaction of nearly every one connected with or interested in the famous case. This confirmation came through William Westervelt, a broth-er-in-law of Mosher, who had acted as go-between in the attempted negotiations with Mr. Ross and the burglars. Westervelt was evidently willing to sacrifice Douglass, but wanted to save his brother-in-law. The police of the country were looking for the two burglars when the res-
WALTER LEWIS ROSS. (Identified the Abductors.) idence of Judge Van Brunt of Bay Ridge was entered by burglars on December 14. 1874. The burglars were attacked by a brother of the judge and several servants. One of them was shot dead and the other mortally wounded. They were Mosher and Douglass. Mosher was deair when their slayers reached them anu Douglass was in the death throes. The latter gasped; “R’s no use lying now. Mosher and I stole Charlie Ross Mosher knows all about him.” The dying burglar was told that his partner was dead. “Then God help his poor wife and
THE ROSS RESIDENCE.
family.” gasped the dying man. "Ha 3[ 4 \KIN(t GOOD UOYv' knew about Charlie. The child will be
restored in a few days.” The child was never returned.
The bodies of the dead burglars were Identified by Walter Ross. Former associates of Mosher and Douglass were arrested all over the country, but they could or would not throw any light on the mystery. Westervelt was brought to this city, tried and convicted of complicity In the conspiracy to abduct the boy and was sentenced to seven years
in the eastern penitentiary.
In the presence of Detective Miller the wife of the convicted man begged him to tell what he knew of the crime, but he maintained a stolid silence, and if he ever knew anything he never told It. He served his sentence and is supposed to have returned to New York.
HOW THE KING’S DAUcHTe b HELP NEW YORK. tRS The I.nil* In the Tenement llou, e tril ls Made to Clean I p the ' Some of Their Weekly Reports '
Amusing*
A Novel Hrlilge. A British consular report gives an interesting account of a novel bridge which has just been begun in Rouen. It is the first of Its kind in France, and the only one like it in Europe is across the Nievron, below Bilbao. It is called a "pont transbordeur,” and serves all the purposes of a bridge, while not interfering with the free passage of ships, even of those with masts 150 feet high. Two diminutive Eiffel towers are to be erected, one on each bank of the Seine, three-quar-ters of a mile below the lowest existing briege at Rouen, and a narrow iron bridge will be suspended by chain cables beneath their heads. It is to be net less than 160 feet from the level of the quays, but it is not intended either for carriages or for foot passengers. Several lines of rail are to be carried along it. and on these a skeleton carriage or platform on wheels will run. This will be dragged from side to side of the river by steel ropes passing over a driving wheel, to be worked by steam or electricity from one of the banks. To the skeleton platform will be hung, by steel hawsers, at the level of the quays or 160 feet below the bridge, the transbordeur —a slung carriage, within which passengers and vehicles will be transported from one bank to the other. The electric tramways running on the quays on both sides of the river are to make a connection at this point, and the transbordeur will be fitted to carry the tram-cars, so that passengers by them will cross the river without changing their seats. The work l as been left to private enterprise. The municipalily grant a monopoly for eighty years of the bridge traffic over the Seine at this point at a prearranged tariff.
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EQPLE Who li T(ij Wo) r f r think of lamenting themseivu or their neight*., on cleanliness person or surrou^ ings. It is Mpec , ed, and a matter r
Greatest Living Horsewoman* The most daring equestrienne in the world Is Signora I’epina di Montbello, a young Italian woman, blonde and lithe and celebrated for her magnificent horsemanship. She is the daughter of a colonel in King Umberto’s army and ran away from home twa
course. Under g u conditions, i t * ^ dirty man or ho^
or street, not the clean one, that p-
vokes comment.
But in a region of tenements, w t, ; . everything is unfavorable to it, liness becomes a shining virtue, wor '- to attract attention. So the Tenem^ House Chapter of the King s ters listened with pride and the other day to statements of -t’ work of certain .poor boys, who members of "street cleaning clubs \ doing what they can to make V, York attractive and wholesonny Most of the boys are of foreign na* entage, and they handle the langua^ as the Irishman played the violin-J main strength. Naturally their w r ten reports are amusing. Yet hey ^
touching also.
“I saw a ash can and a paper cm" wrote Abram Poshausky; “in the ^ can there were paper and in the pap' can there were ashes so I put the ashes in the ash can and the paper in
paper can.
”1 saw a boy tearing a big piece of I paper into little pieces,” was Abran;experience on another occasion, ; I asked him if he will scatter It iny the street he said yes ha | b ut ; told him not to he should put it in pocket and give it to his mother j ! light the stove.” Max Weiser's report for the wee.- | was arranged in diary form. On W>;' I nesday “I did nothing,” he record, I with exemplary frankness, but concert^ I Ing other days he writes: Saturday-—Some cruel boys threi I over a barrel of garbage and I help*-. I the lady pick it up. Sunday—I saw a lady slip on a piei- ] of banana peel I lifted her up an. i threw the peel in the garbage can. Tuesday—I saw a lady throw appe: j shells in the gutter I said would you!, so kind and pick it up? and she did. A significant phrase that perhaps rep- i resents the spirit in which the lac; f work oceurs more than once in the rt- i ports. The Poshausky boy says: “I once saw boys taking a ban* ■ and they said that they are going to I make a fire so I said that they mm. J not make any fire I said that our com- ( try wants to be very clean.” And S. Blumo repeats the sentiiM F in misspelled words that vividly sug i gest his grotesque, pathetic prommeta
Lion:
"I so hoys carrying barrels to mas 1 a fire whit It. Then I went to the!. J and I tall them that they should no make a fire in the Street. Because: makes a axtra work for the sweeper? And wo want that our country shouiil be clean.” Great reforms have marched undea less inspiring watchword than this “We want that our country should be clean.” That aspiration is at the roo; | of all the civic virtues. The boys o! I the tenements are patriots as well u philanthropists.
SIGNORA MONTBELLO, years ago to make her debut as a bareback rider in a circus at Berlin. La Felie is a chestnut and her strong point, leaping, was first recognized by Signora Montbello, who devoted all her time to improving and l erfectiug that ability. One of her greatest feats is to jump La Foiie over four other horses, all tail and not particularly patient animals, who stand in the middle of the ring unattended. This feat was regarded as extraordinary but some ten days ago the signora beat her own record by jumping La Folle over a landau full of people. She performed the feat twice in succession, clearing each time without a tremor. The beholders wondered whom to admire most for nerve, the courageous rider or the people in the carriage whose heads are brought into such dangerous proximity to the iron-shod hoofs. <Soo«l People to Know. Mr. Commutor—It’a getting along pretty near summer now, Harriet and there's no reason for you to be cultivating the acquaintance of the Frosts any longer. We shan't want the r snow shovel any more. Mrs mutor—But we must have some neighbors to pass the time of day with Mr Commutor Certainly; what's the mat ter with the Dales? ! noticed that Sv have got a new lawn-mower ] -, w .. on the express wagon last nighTi Boston Transcript. nignt.— Preaching Practice. A Danville, 111., Justice the <tay held that poker chips were fhl same as money, and fined a man for Playing cards for them nn .w strength of this decision the nrL 0 offered to pay his fine with is P f“ er The judge was in a an in t* 6 ChlDB ' couldnt take the chips, bec au » th® court wouldn't accept .w 0 l the folly contradicting Ms ^ was He finally dismissed " as e. eCi8l0n -
The Demand for Plntlnnm. | Among the commodities which halt greatly increased in value during tin past few years is the motal platinua the price of which has more tha quadrupled. The demand has indwc almost exceeded the supply, and hai been occasioned by the new uses whi have been found for the metal, tbi I electrician wanting it for the necessa'? links of connection between the Intf S lor and exterior of the ubiquitous gl)i I lamp, and the photographer in a i nor degree for his prints. The prii j r-ipal source of supply is Russia, whidj produces more than forty times a j much as all other countries combined. I and even there the metal is foundonlj| in the southern Ural mountains.
The Flight of the Sun. Astronomers know that the sun, a companied by the earth and the otic planets, is moving toward a point - the northern heavens with great speJust what the velocity is, howe'e' cannot yet be told with certainty. Pr? • i S mon Newcomb, in a recent lectun said that it was probably between fb'; n.iles and nine miles per second. L i bright star Alpha Lyrae lies not L from the point toward which the s', is moving. Every moment we are P ting nearer to the place where tb« , star now is. "When shall we get ther ^ Probably in less than a million yeiri : perhaps in half a million.”
More Than Ho Couhl Do. "Oh, by the way,” observed ArcW' medes, “did you ever try to square ', circle?” “No,” answered Socrates, was more than I could do to square m) self.” Even as he spoke t; Xantippe could be heard demand * from mere force of habit ami with reference to the exigencies of the casion, why he hadn’t brought up '•••' coal.—Detroit Journal.
Plenty of Candidate** There are seven candidates in