Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 August 1895 — Page 3

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A COOL RETREAT.

Has Every Desirable Facility for an Enjoyable Summer Sojourn.

Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will And Eagle Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretmi ty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and aw Summer school, the youngest of the

Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as fc a Spring Fountain Park. They couslitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etchiug nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds have been platted and pretty cottages confer stitute the summer homes of persons who Soft here find rest ami healthgiviug recreation v. in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites are obtainable. In addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a :vr fine park has been ni'ide. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendi 1 facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium has a teiting capacity of 3,000, and the several college i'Is are used fo

Assembly purposes. Ago xl hotel, lestaurants and supply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A large fleet of row boats with two steamers will per- .• mit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing may enjoy that pa^timo to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the

Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effeet all season from ticket stations ©n these lines. In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest. John M. ,$wCoulter. of Lake Forest University,in con-

nection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania L"'ne Ticket Agent, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should ba addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

July 3 —D&YVlmo.

I'LKAII!ITK URS.

Numerous Excursion* tue Coming Summer at Reasonable Kates. Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the New Euglaud States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South: or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes aft a small cost for railroad fare this vear. In Aug excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Linas to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirab.e opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight-seeing jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets -will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excur sionists, enabling them to visit Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and to return by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sight-seeing at Newport. Narragansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod resorts to New York and thence through the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Allegheaie?, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnttowju And the coke and .ixoa regions of Western Pennsylvania. It is also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will he privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition .to the above, there will he plenty of other cheap excursions w*r £he Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not beqn consummated, but it is certain that auo railway will offer better inducements than the! liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania .Litres. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, Chief Assistant Glen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg, Pp. apr6wd-t-s-tf

DR. J. J(L L0CHH£AD,

HOiEOPMlC PHWUN and SURGEON.

Office at W. Main street, over Early's drug store.

FOBSALE.

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city,

JOHN CORCORAN.

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ELMER J. BINFORD. LAWYER.

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Residence, 12 Walnut street. Prompt attention to calls in city or country.

Specualattention to CblldtsealB, Womens' and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louls^ffospitft.

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MICHIGAN RESORTS.

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Traverse City, Ne-ali-ta-wan-ta, Ornena, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Bay View, Roaring Brook, Wequetonsingy Harbor Springs, Harbor Point, Oden-Oden, Mackinac Island UpperPeninsula Point?.

Tourist Tickets are on sale June 1st to Sept 30th, return limit Oct. 81st.

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NORTHERN" MICHIGAN RESORT REGION, Time Girds and full information may be had by application to ticket agents or addressing

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JONAH'S PEEYERSITY

MORAL LESSONS OF THE MEMORABLE JOURNEY TO JARSHISH..

Dr. Talmajfe Preaches an Interesting Sermon on the Waywardness of Man, the Delusions of Life and the Wages of Sin.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—At this season of the year, when a large portion of the community is journeying either by land or sea, Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his midsummer preaching and lecturing tour, has chosen 'us the subject of his sermon for today, "Man Overboard," the text being Jonah i, 6: "So the shipmaster came to him anTl said unto him What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so bo that God will think upon us, that we perish not.''

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The Rewards of Dissipation.

There is a young man who during the past year has spent a large part of iiis salary in carousal. What has he gained by it? A soiled reputation, a halrstarved purse, a dissipated look, a petulant temper, disturbed conscience. Hie manacles of one or £wo bad habits that are pressing tighter and tighter will keep on until they wear to the -bone. You paid your tare to Tarshish, but you have been set down in the midst of a sea of disquietude and perplexity.

Of 3 hundred dollars for Sunday hoisfe hire. One hundred dollars for wine suppers.

One hundred dollars for cigars. I One hundred dollars for frolics that shall be nameless.

Making four Jjgandred dollars for his damnation

is in the middle .of the Mediterranean. Here is iiterary -man tired of the faith of his fathers who resolves -to lannoh out into wh#t is called freethinking. He buys Theodore Parker's works for £12, ijLenan's "Life of Christ" for $1.50, Andrew Jackson Davis' works for £30. Goesjtohear inf dels talk at: the clubs and to see spiritualism at the table rapping. Talks glibly of David, .the psalmist, as an old libertine, of Paul as a wild enthusiast and of Christ as a decent kind of a man, a little weak in some respects, but almost as good as himself. Talks smilingly of Sunday as a good day to put a little extra blacking on one's boots and of Christians a$, ^for the most part, Jiypocrites and .of ^ernity as "the great ,to he," "the everi^stiqg now" or "Ahe infinite what is it." Sojpe d#y he .gets his leet wry wet and finds himself that night ohilly the nexf mwrnggta* hot mouth Apd is hea4aohy fiends wood over to ihe stove that he will not be there today bathes his £eet has mustard pilasters calls the doctor. *Fhe xnedjtcal qmn says 'afii^e,' "This is gOing ^o be a bad case of ppn-' gestion of the^angs." Voice fails. Children must be kept down stairs or sent to

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go to Nineveh oil He would not go.

G"d told Jonah to an unpleasant errand. He thought to get away from his duty by putting to sea. With pack under his arm I find him on his way to Joppa, a seaport. He goes down among the shipping and says to the men lying around on the docks, "Which of these vossels sails today?" The sailors answer, "Yonder is a vessel going to Tarshish. I think if you hurry you may get on board her.'' Jonah steps on board the rough craft, asks how much the fare is, and pays it. Anchor is weighed, sails are hoisted, and the rigging begins to rattle in the strong breeze of the Mediterranean. Joppa is an exposed harbor, and it does not take long for the vessel to get on the broad sea. The sailors like what they call a "spanking breeze," and the plunge of the vessel from the crest of a tall wave is exhilarating to thoso at home on the deep. But the strong breeze becomes a gale, the gale a hurricane. The affrighted passengers ask the captain if he ever saw anything like this before. "Oh, yes," he says. "This is nothing. Mariners are slow to admit danger to landsmen. But after awhile crash goes the mast, and the vessel pitches so far "abeam's end" there is a fear she will nob be righted. The captain answers few questions, and orders the throwing out of boxes and bundles and of so much of the cargo as they Can get at. The captain at last confesses there is but little hope and tells tbo passengers that they had better go to praying. It is seldom that a sea captain is an atheist. He knows that thero is a God, for he has seen him at every point of latitude between Sandy Hook and Queenstown. Captain Moody,commanding the Cuba of the Cunard liue, at Sunday service led the music and sang l&e a Methodist. The captain of this Mediterranean craft, having set the passengers to praying, goes around osamining the vessel at every point. Ho descends into the cabin to see whether in the strong wrestling of the wave.? the vessel had sprung aleak, and he linds Jonah asleep. Jonah had had a wearisome tramp and had spent many sleepless nights about questions of fluty, and he is so sound asleep that all "he thunder of the storm and the screaming of the passengers does not disturb him. The captain lays hold of him and begins to shake him out of his unconsciousness with the cry: "Don't you see thac we are all going to the bottom? Wake up and go to praying if you have any God to go to. What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." The rest of tho story I will not rehearse, for you know it well. To appease the sea they threw Jonah overboard. I

Learn that the devil takes a man's money and then sets him down in a poor landing place. The Bible says he paid his fare to Tarshish. But see him get the dead, and Christ shall give thee life.

sailors bring him to the sido

of the ship, lift him over the guards and let him drop with a loud splash into the waves. He paid his fare all the way to Tarshish, but did not get t?he worth of his money. Neither does any one who turns his back on his duty and does that which is not right.

Instead ^being in Tarshish now he wall talk about J,esus John fiprdqikk wvas aroused iby a dr#aiq, iu -wh^h pe sa^r .the last day, jutf the ^Ige *nd heard his oprja c^l^»d tnacp tereih^e ,eijapha«^, "^phn^W^Qak, PQffiP to judguient (jPhe^Lorg hasa thopuwnd ways ,of y^aking np jJonafc. W&pMit the messengers at aaeroy might vow find tfoeir way down ^rito the,sides erf the ship, .and that njan^ yrho ajre pneogsciously rocking ijn the pw£ul jteggpe^t of their sin might hear the warning: "What meanest4hou, 4)«leejer? Arise and call upon thy 45lod'l"

jighbor8 to keeg ,house guiet.

no. He does not believe in ministers. Yon say, "Read the Bible, to him." No lie

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writes a document that begins: "In the name of God, amen. I, being of sound mind, do make this my last will and testament." It is certain where the sick man's body will bo

in less than a week.

It is quite certain who will get his property. But what will become of his soul? It will go into "the great to be," or "the everlasting now," or "the infinite what is it.'' His soul is in deep waters, and the wind is "blowing great guns." Death cries* "Overboard with the unbeliever A splash. He goes to the bottom. He paid $5 for his ticket to Tarshish when he bought tho infidel books. He landed in perdition.

Satan's Swindles.

Every farthing you spend in sin satan will swindle you out of. Ho promises you shall have 30 per cent or a great dividend. He lies. He will sink all the capital. You may pay full fare to some sinful success, but yo'a will never get to Tarshish.

Learn how soundly men will sleep in the midst of danger. The worst sinner on shipboard, considering the light he had, was Jonah. He was a member of the church, while they were heathen. The sailors were engaged in their lawful calling, following the sea. The merchants on board, I suppose, were going down to Tarshish to barter, but Jonah, notwithstanding his Christian profession, was flying from duty. Ho was sound asleep in the cabin. He has been motionless for hours—his arms and feet in the same posture as when he lay down—his breast heaving with deep respiration. Oh, how could he sleep! What if tho ship struck a rock? What if it sprang aleak? What if the clumsy oriefital craft should capsize? What would become of Jonah?

So men sleep soundly now amid perils iiiiinite. In almost every place, I suppose, the Mediterranean might be sounded, but no line is long enough to fathom the profound beneath every impenitent man. Plunging a thousand fathoms down, you cannot touch bottom. Eternity beneath him, before him, around him Rocks closo by and whirlpools and hot breathed Levanters. Yet sound asleep! We try to wake him up, but fail. The great surges of warning break over the hurricane deck, the gong of warning soundB through the cabin, the bells rings. "Awake!" cry a hundred voices. Yet sound asleep in the cabin.

In the year 1775 the captain of a Greenland whaling vessel found himself at night surrounded by icebergs and "lay to" until morning, expecting every moment to bo ground to pieces. In the morning he looked about and saw a ship near by. He hailed it. No answer. Getting into a boat with some of the crew, he pushed out for the mysterious craft. Getting near by, he saw through the porthole a man at a stand, as though keeping a logbook. He hailed him. No answer. He w7ent on board the vessel and found the man sitting at the log- cradle was rocked book, frozen to death. The logbook was and it is a wonder dated 1702, showing that the vessel had been wandering for 13 years among the ice. Tho sailors were found frozen among the hammocks, and others in the cabin. For 13 years this ship had been carrying its burden of corpses.

So from this gospel craft today I descry voyagers for eternity. I cry: "Ship ahoy! Ship ahoy No answer. They float about, tossed and ground by the icebergs of sin, hoisting no sail for heaven. I go on board. I find all asleep. It is a frozen sleep. Oh, that my Lord Jesus would come aboard and lay hold of the wheel and steer the craft down into the warm gulf stream of his mercy! Awake, thou that sleepest! Arise from

Again, notice that men are aroused by the most unexpected means. If Jonah had been told one year before that a heathen sea captain would ever awaken him to a sense of danger, he would have scoffed at the idea, but here it is done. So now men in strangest ways are aroused from spiritual stupor. A profane man is brought to conviction by the shocking blasphemy of a comrade. A man attending church and hearing a sermon from the text, "The ox knoweth his owner," etc., goes home impressed, but, crossing his barnyard, #n .ox come up and li,cjss h^s liand, $nd he a^ya 'There it is.nojw. 'Tlie ox Jaioweth his owner and -the ass ihis master'^ crib,' but I do not know God." Tlie careless remark of a .teamster has 'led a man to

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iAgain: Learn that a man may wake up too late, if, instead of keeping, Jonah had been pn his knees jconfie^sing his sips from the time he w^nt cm board •the craft, I tl?ink that God ^onid hay.e rSayedhiMn ^rom being thrown overboard. But he woke up ioo late. The tempest isin ltfll .blast, fltnd the sea, in convulsion, is ^lashing itse/lf, and nothing will rstop it now but the overthrow of Jonah.

So i^en sometimes wake up too late. 'The |agt hour has 'coxqe. :Tfce .man has 'nomoreadea of dying than I have of dropping chptyvn tbis moment. The «4gis all white with the foam df ieath. How chill the night is "I moat

thoughtfulness and heaven. The child's turer was washed up on the beach senseremark: ^Father, they have prayer? .at uncle's house. Why Aon'tb me "h^e them?" has bright salvation to dwelling. 4 By strangest in thexnget unexpected manner men are awtticened. The gardener jof ijtip Coun^qss of Huntingdon was oouviote4 of £in by hearing the countess on ,tjhe opposite side «{f ftfte

die," he says, "yet not fead^.' I must pnshr out tipon this awful sea, but have notliing with vhicli to pay my fare. The white caps! The darkness! The hurricane! How long have I been sleeping? Whole days and months and years. I am quite awake now. I see everything, but it is too late." Invisible hands take him up. He struggles to get loose. In vain. They bring his soul to the verge. They let it down over the side. The winds howl. The sea opens its frothing jaws to swallow. Ho has gone forever. And while the canvas cracked, and the yards rattled, and the ropes thumped, the sea took up the funeral dirge, playing with open diapason of midnight storm, "Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, but ye have set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh.

Now, lest any of you should make this mistake,I address you in the words of the Mediterranean sea captain "What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." If you have a God, you had better call upon him. Do you say, "I have no God?" Then you had better call upon your father's God. When your father was in trouble, whom did he lly to? You heard him in his old days tell about some terrible exposure in a snowstorm, or at sea, o~ in battle, or among midnight garrotors, and how ho escaped. Perhaps 20 years before you were born your father mane sweet acquaintance Willi God. Thero is something in the worn pages of the Bible he used to road which makes you think yr.ur father had a God. In the old religious books lying around the house, hero are passages marked with a lead pencil—passages that make you think your father was not a godless man, but that, on that dark day when he lay in the back room dying he was ready—all ready. But perhaps your father was a bad man— prayerless and a blasphemer—and you never think of him now without a shudder. He worshiped the world or his own appetites. Do not then, I beg of you, call upon your father's God, but call on your mother's God. I think she was good. You remember when your father came home drunk late on a cold night, how patient your mother was. You often heard her pray. She used to sit by the hour meditating as though she were thinking of some good, warm place, where it never gets cold, and where the bread does not fail, and staggering steps never come. You remember her now as she sat in cap and spectacles reading her Bible Sunday afternoon. What good advice she used to give you! How black and terrible the hole in the ground looked to you when with two ropes they let her down to rest in the graveyard! Ah, I think from your looks that I am on tho right track. Awake, O sleeper, and call upon thy mother's God.

But perhaps both your father and mother were depraved. Perhaps your by sin and shame, and it is a wonder that from such a starting you have come to respectability. Then don't call upon the God of either of your parents, I beg of you.

Tli« Gcxl of Thy Children.

But you have children. You know God kindled those bright eyes and rounded those healthy limbs and set beating within their breast an immortality. Perhaps in the belief that somehow it would be for the best you have taught them to say an evening prayer, and when they kneel beside you and fold their little hands and look up, their faces all innocenco and love, you know that there is a God somewhere about in tho room.

I think I am on the right track at last. Awake, O sleeper, and call upon the God of thy children May he set these little ones to pulling at thy heart until they charm thee to the same God to whom tonight they will say their little prayers!

But, alas, alas, some of these men and women are unmoved by the fact that their father had a God, that their toother had a God, and their children have a God, but they have no God. All the divine goodness for-nothing. All warning for nothing. They are sound asleep in the side of the ship, though the sea and sky are in mad wrestle.

Many years ago a man, leaving his family in Massaohnsetts, sailed from Boston to China to trade there. On the coast of China in the midst of a night of gtorm be made shipwreck. The-adven-

less—all his money gone. He had to beg in the streets of Canton to keep from starving. For two years there was no communication between himself and family. They supposed him dead. He knew not but -that his family were dead. He had gone out as a captain. He was too proud to come back as a private sailor. But after awhile he choked down his pride and-sailed for Boston. Arriving'there, he took an evening train for the center of the state, where he 'bpd left Iris family. Taking the stage from the depot and riding a score df milee, he gdt hom,e. He says that, going up in front of the cottage in the .bright woonligh$, the place looked to him Jike hgayen. ,He $apjped on the window, #ud the affrighted servant let him in. He went to the room where his wife and child were sleeping. He did not dare to wake them tor fear of the shook. Bending over-to kiss his child's cheek, a tear fell upon the wife's face, and she wakened, and he said, "Mary and she knew his voice, and there was an indescribable scene of welcome and joy and-thanksgi ving to God.

Today I know that many of yOu toe sea tossed and drivep byjsjn in a yror$e storm th9P that which carpe do\yn on the coast of China, and yet I pray God that you may, like *thesailor, 'live'to get home. In the 'house off many mansions your friends are wtfitiing to me^t you. They toe wondering why yon do no$ come. pscijped fxQfp jbja ^pwjec^s .. e»rih, niay yon l^sjt.ifo in Jt W-ilJ kp a bright night—a very fright night as

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door, Ons^Atvyou will find the?#l(flamily faces sweeter than when you last saw them, and there it will be found that he who was your father's God, and your mother's'God, and your children's God, is your own most bhtesed Redeemer, to whom be glory and dominion throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Earthy Substances In Food.

When we consider the amount of earthy or inorganic susbtances, including some of metallic origin, that wre are in the habit of taking with our foods, it may be a question whether the ,eating and drinking habits of our most enlightened people are not open to criticism.

The Pacific Health Journal says that it is a well known fact that the habitual use of limestone and other mineral waters will cause goiter. The mineral products cannot be absorbed into the fluids of the body and thrown out. They are therefore deposited in the glandular system, giving rise to disease of these organs. And yet are not mineral waters extolled to the skies? And do not our invalids rush to the "mineral springs" all over the country, expecting to be healed? You could not persuade these people that pure water would answer just as well—in fact, better—though certain celebrated springs, the waters of which, as shown by chemical analysis, are entirely free from any foreign ingredient, have given most wonderful results.

One effect of the use of mineral or earthy substances in food or drink is to break down the kidneys. The habitual use of bicarbonate of soda in bread, pastries, etc., is no doubt injurious. But how many are willing to give up their hot biscuits at breakfast or their batter cakes, though very palatable bread can be made, and .also light, with nothing in it but air and water?

Coal Gas Tn Navigation.

Tho efficiency of coal gas in practical navigation has been demonstrated, according to accounts of recent trials at Havre, and French capitalists are reported as having taken the matter in hand with a view to its thorough development. In the late trials made by the promoter an iron boat of some 850 tons was employed, a vertical gas motor of 40 horsepower furnishing the power, coal gas compressed to a pressure of 1,400 pounds per square inch being stored in steel tubes placed between decks, and a regulator, situated between the gas reservoir and the motor, to reduce the pressure of the gas entering the motor to the flow ordinarily required-

Public trials of the craft show that the officer in charge has her in complete control, changing with ease her course, also slackening or increasing the rate of speed and stopping or even going backward almost instantaneously by the use of the reversible screw. Though the cost of power by this system will, as claimed, bo more economical than any other, the chief saving will be effected by the comparatively small room required for the motor, and tho fact is noted as remarkable that pure coal gas, compressed to a pressuro as high as 2,000 pounds per square inch, does not show an appreciablo condensation.

A Girl Soldier In Cuba.

A little romance is recounted in connection with tho battle of Des Rios. In the heat of tho battle a bugler of Sandoval's regiment was seriously cut over the head and shoulders with a machete in the hands of one of the attacking rebel officers. The bugler, a handsome young man of a decidedly feminine appearance, enrolled as Miguel Orbaneia Tarres, it appears, is a young girl. Thinking her wound mortal, she confessed her secret to a fellow soldier after the battle.

She had enlisted in Spain as a volunteer for service in Cuba, in order to accompany her affianced, whose name had been drawn for one of the first expeditions brought out from the peninsula three months ago. In the company the two passed as brothers. The lover had been killed a few weeks before the battle of Dos Rios in a skirmish at Hatillo, near St. Luis. She had taken the death of her supposed brother but real lover very hard indeed, but until the day she herself was wounded had never disclosed their real relations to an^ one.—New York Herald.

A Soldier's Gold Me^l Fonud. A gold medal has been found on 'the farm of Dr. Gnstavns Brown, Dickerson Station, Md., which would seem to have been lost while McClellan'-s army was encamped at that place in 1862. Some laborers engaged 4° digging post holes unearthed it about 18 incites below the snrfaee. It is about the size of a $10 goVlpteqe. Qn ojie aiders a vignette of Gtuieral JkfcClellan, encircled by the letters ot his name. On the reverse side, standing out plainly and distinctly, appears the name of "Franklin G. Pulisipher, Company J, Twelfth Vermont Volunteers." The med^l i?.fta |he possession of Mr. Jpipifp?, .^ superintendent of the farm. Dickerson Station is on th" ^fetropoclica^a bnwch qf the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 80 uniltt from Washing&on. —Washington Cost.

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When investigating the Vatican record^, Pope Leo XIII s,aid to G$9quet, tho librarian, "Publish evejpyithiQg of intent everything, whether intends to the discredit or credit of the ecclesiastical authorities, for you may be sure that if the gospels had' been written in our day the treachery of Judas amjl the denial of St. Peter would have ]been suppressed for fear of scandalizing woak consciences.'' So Lord Hplifa^:, $pld Ah* English chjarch unio# the other {day.

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