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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD. INDIANA

THAT New Hampshire farmer who permitted two eastern highwaymen to rob him of $9,000 is respectfully reminded that a few of those desirable western mortgages are still to be had.

THE Niagara whirlpool may turn out. bo be simply a slightly turbulent nullrace. A young1 man with a cork jacket went through it unscathed. Who will be the first to shoot the falls in a canoe?

HORSE-T:IIEVES are dealt with leniently in Woodbury, X. J. The two who recently took Rev. Samuel Hudson's team out of the stable got oif with thirty-day sentences for disorder-j ly conduct.

AT the Vanderbilt "barn party'1 in Newport not long ago, a polo pony wan introduced in the Virginia reel, This might suggest the introduction of a mustang in munny-musk, or a pig-in-a-polce in the polka.

JOHN

CAIUFILLER, an Iowa well-

digger, claims to have found at the bottom of one of his diggings a piece of lock on which the stars and stripes |re distinctly formed. It is not reported whether or not the Under lias counted the stars.

NONE of the electricians who gravely doubt that an electric current, no matter how strong, will kill a man, have gone out and taken hold of a live wire carrying a current of 1,000 volts to back their doubts. Talk is not only cheap, but reasonably safe.

TnE editor of a weekly paper in Germany poked fun at Bismarck for having knuckled down to the United States in the Samoan affair, and now the editor sits in jail on a year's sentence and wonders if there is not such a thing as being altogether too funny for anything.

FOR years a Springfield, Mass., horse suffered from a sore shoulder. A Veterinary surgeon made a close examination of the shoulder and found a 2o-cent silver piece deeply imbedded in the flesh. How the coin got there is a mystery. No driver ever suspected that the horse was carrying three bits.

A TROY shirt in predicts that in less than ten years there will be a general return to the. old-fashioned shirt which buttoned in front, and from which at least one button was missing after every wash. If that were assured the average man would lay in a large stock of shirts of the present style at

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THE bishop of Marseilles has issued a formal protest against tho circular issued by the French minister of justice, in which the minister reminded the clergy that thov are prohibited by law from taking part in elections. The, bishop affirms the rights of priests to intervene in elections and other political affairs.

THE average white mau who lives to be 70 years old has spent over a year of his life in bhaving and two months on top of that in getting his hair cut. This is where the Indian is along ways ahead. He hasn't any whiskers, and they say he lets the coyotes chaw his hair off when it gets down to his tomahawk handle.

THEODORE KAMENSKY, the talented Russian sculptor, has become an instructor in the American art school at New York. He came to America because he thought his art would flourish more readily in the political atmosphere of a republic. Russia is not a land in which the lowly are encouraged to hopeful effort.

WHEN Stone, of the New England Ax Company, turned out to bo an embezzler and an absconder, the president of the company exclaimed: "Why, he has been with us for thirty years and has always been honest." Thirty years of honesty is no proof in this day and age. Even an Ohio man 92 years of age is under arrest for his first steal.

AN admirable benefit organization has come into existence among teachers in Boston, providing against the impecunious or laborious old age too often unavoidable in that hard-worked and ill-paid calling. The plan invoivos the payment of an entrance fee of $3 and small annual assessments varying according to the salarv received.

THE price of a swear word has been officially fixed in Chambersburg, Pa. A pugilist swore eighty-five oaths hand running, and he was fined sixtyseven cents for each of those profane ^exclamations. This is rather a low price for an oath when it is remembered that some of the dams which broke away last spring cost thousands •f dollars.

IF the preponderance of expert opinion goes for anything, wheat will show a rising tendency until the next crop is made. Here and there a contrary view is expressed, but most of those who have made the subject a study think tha,t the old crop is much more nearly exhausted than was the former crop at the same time last year and that Europe must buy more Iferxrelv.

NOT MOVED BY FIRE.

Dr. Talnag" oa tha Burning1 of Erooklya

Tabernacle.

li- D33truc'ioi of tho Grjai Chnrc'!i D393 'JOT Mean that KI3 \vor:c in Saving SDUIS Ended—Ho -will (1) Sight Forward.

Tho burning of Brooklyn Tabernacle left the vast eonerotjation of Rev. T. De itt Talmngo without a house for the moment, but the Academy of Music was thrown open for them on Sunday, and the pastor spoke to an audience of vast size. His subvert was '"The Baptism of Fire," and lie toolc as his text Acts xx, 24, "None of these th'.nsrs move me.?' He said:

But, Paul, have you not enough affliction to move you! Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most penial anu loving nature, have you not, in order to be free for missionary journeys, given yourself to celibacy' Have you not turned away from the magnificent worldly successes that would have crowned your illustrious genius? Have you not endured the sharp aud stinging neuralgias, like a thorn in the flesh? Have you not been mobbed on the land, and shipwrecked on the sea the sanhedrim against you, the Roman government against you, all the world and all hell against you* "What of that?" says Paul. "None of these things movo me!" It was not because he was a hard nature. Gentlest woman was never more easily dissolved into tears. He could not even bear to see anybody cry, for in the midst of his sermon when he saw some one weeping her sobs aloud, "What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." What then did Paul mean when he said, "None of these things move me?" He meant, "I will not bo diverted from the work to which I have been called by any and all the adversities and calamities." 1 think this morning I express not my own feeliugs but that of every man, woman and little child belonging to Brooklyn Tabernacle, or that was converted there, when I look toward the blackened ruins of the dear aud consecrated spot and with an aroused faith in a loving God, cry out: "None oi these things move me."

When I say that, I do not mean that we have no fei-ling about it. Instead of standing here to-day in r.his brilliant auditorium, it would be more consonant with my feelings to sit dswn among the ruins and weep at the words of David: "If 1 forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." Why, let me say to the strangers here to-day in explanation of the deep emotion of my Hock, we had there in that build ins sixteen years of religious revival. I believe that a hundred thousand souls were born there. They came from all parts ot the earth and we shall never see them a?ain until the books are opened. Why, sirs! our children were there baptised, and at those altars our young men and maidens took the marriage vow, and out of those gates we carried our dead. V\ hen from the roof of my house last Sunday morning at I! o'clock I saw our church in flames, I said: "That is the last of the building from which we buried our De Witt on that cold December day when it seemed all Brooklyn wept with my household." And it was just as hard for you to give up your loved ones as for us to give up ours. \.hy, like the beautiful vines tnat still cover some of the fallen walls, our allections are clambering all over the ruins, and I could kiss tho ashes that mark the place where it once stood. Why, now that I think of it. I cannot think of it as an inanimate pile, but as a soul, a mighty soul, an indestructible soul. I am sure that majestic organ had a soul, lor we have often heard it speak and sing and shout and wail, and when the soul ot that organ entered heaven I think Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Beethoven were at the gates to welcome it. So 1 do not use the words of my text in a heartless way, but in the sense that we must, not and will not be diverted from our work by the appalling disasters which nave befallen us. Wo will not turn aside one inch from our determination to do all we can for the present and everlasting happiness of all the people whom we may be ablo to meet. "None of these things movo me. None of these things move you."

When looked out through the dismal rain from the roof of my house and saw the church crumbling brick by brick ana timber by timber, I said to myself: Does this mean that iny work in Brooklyn is ended? Does this terminate my association with this city, where I nave been more than twenty years glad in all its prosperities,and sad in all its misfortunes? And a still small voice came to me, a voices that is no longer still or small but most emphatic and commanding, through pressure of hand, and newspaper column, and telegram and letter and contributions saying: "Go forward!"

I have made and I now make appeal to all Christendom to help us. want all Christendom to help, and I will acknowledga the receipt of every contribution, groat or small, with my own hand. We want to build larger and better. want it a national church, in which people of all creeds and all nations find a home. The contributions already sent in make a small hearted church forever impossible. Would not 1 be a sorry spectacle for angels and men if, in a church built by Israelites and Catholics, as well as all the styles of people commonly called evangelical, I should instead of the banner of the Lord God Almighty, raise a fluttering rag of small sectarianism? If wo had three hundred thousand dollars we would put them all in one great monument to the mercy of God. People ask on all sides about what we shall build. I answer, it all depends on the contributions sent in from here and from tho ends of the earth. I say now to all the Baptists, that we shall have in it a baptistry. I say to all Episcopalians, we shall have in our services as heretofore at our communion table portions of the Liturgy. I say to the Catholics we shall have a cross over the pulpit and probably on the tower. I say to the Methodists, we mean to sing there like the voices of mighty thunderings. I say to all denominations, we mean to preach religion as wide as heaven and as good as God. Wo have said we had a total loss. But there was one exception. The only things wo saved were the silver communion chalices, for they happened to be in another building, and I take that fact as typical that we are to be in communion with all Christendom. "I believe in tho communion of saints!" 1 think, if all the Brooklyn firemen and all insurance companies should search among those ruins on Schermerhorn street, they would not find a splinter large as the tip end of the little finger marked with bigotry. And as it is said that tho exhumed bricks of the walls of Babylon have oh them tho letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, I declare to you that if wo evor get a new church the letter wo should like to have on every stone and every timber would bo the letter C, for that would stand both for Christ and for Catholicity. The last two words I uttered in the old church on Friday night, some of you may remembea, were "Hallelujah! Amen!"

The two words that I utter now as most expressive of my feelings in this our first

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service after the Baptism of Fire, are Hal lelujah Amen "None of these things move me."

We are kept in this mood by two or three considerations. Tho first is, that God rules. In what way the church took fire I do not know. It has been charged on the lightnings. Well, the Lord controls the lightnings. He managed them several thousand years before our electricians were born. The Bible indicates that, though they flash down the sky recklessly, God builds for them a road to travel.

In the Psalms it is said: "He made a way for the lightning and the thunder." Ever since the time of Benjamin Franklin the world has bean trying to tame the lightnings, and they seein to be quite well harnessed, but they occasinally kick over the traces. But though we cannot master great natural forces, God can and does, and that God is our Father and best Friend, and this thought gives us confidence.

We are also reinforced by the increased consolation that comes from confraternity of sorrow. The people who, during the last sixteen years, sat on tho other side of the aisle, whose faces were familiar to you, but to whom you had never spoken—you greeted them this week with smiles and tears as you said: "Well, the old place is gone." You did not want to seem to cry, and so you swept the sleeve noar the corner of the eye, and pretended it was the sharp wind made your eyes weak. Ah! there was nothing the matter with your eyes it was your soul bubbling over. I tell you that it is impossible to sit for years around the same church fireside and not have sympathies in common. Somehow you feel that you would like these people on the other side of the aisle, about whom you knovr but little, prospered and pardoned and blessed and saved. You feel as if you are in the same boat, and you want to glide up the same harbor and want to disembark at the same wharf.

If you put gold and iron and lead and zinc in sufficient heat, they will melt into a conglomerate mass and I really feel that last Sabbath's fire has fused us all, grosser and finer natures, into one. It seems as if we all had our hands on a wire connected with an electric battery and when this church sorrow started it thrilled through the whole circle, and we all felt the shock. The oldest man and the youngest child could join hands in this misfortune. Grandfather said. "1 expected from those altars to be buried and one of the children last Sabbath cried, "Grandpa,that place was next to our house.'' Yea, we are supported and confident in this time by the cross of Christ.

That is used to the fire. On the dark day when Jesns died, the lightning struck it from above, and the flames of hell dashed up against it from beneath. Th it tearful, painful, tender, blessed cross still stands. On it we hung all our hopes beneath it wc put down all our sins in the light of it we expect to make the rest of our piljrritnage. Within sight of such a sacrifice, who can feel he has it hard? In tho sight of such a symbol, who can bo discourasred, however great the darkness that may come down upon him! Jesus lives! The loving, patient, sympathizing, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on earth, or in hell, or in heaven, that three Hebrew children had the Son of God beside them in the fire, and that a whole church was forsaken by the Lord when they went through a furnace about two hundred feet wide.

O Lord Jesus! shall we take out of thy hand the flowers and the fruits, and the brightness and tha joys, and then turn away because thou dost give us one cup of bitterness to drink! Oh, no, Jesus! we will drink it dry. But how it is changed! Blessed Jesus, what has thou put into the cup to sweeten it? Why, it has become the wine of heaven, and our souls grow strong. I come now, and place both of my fo3t deep down into the blackened ashes of our consumed church, and I cry out with an exhilaration that I never felt sin^e the day of my soul's emancipation, "Victory! victory! through our Lord Jesus Christ i' »ir liurpvc treml)lin(? Ra nrs,

Down ironi .e willow.s Lou I to Mie pralHC lovedivlie IJl.l every stri iij- Wake.

We are also re-en for,-ed by the catholicity that 1 have already referred to. We are in the Academy to-day, not because we ha/e no other place to go. Last Sabbath morning at 9 o'clock we had but one church now we have about thirty, all at our disposal. Their pastors and their trustees say: "You maytake our main audience rooms,you may take our lecture room3, you may take our church parlors, you may baptise in our baptisteries, and sit on our anxious seats." Oh! if there be any larger hearted ministers or larger hearted churches anywhere than in Brooklyn, tell me where they are, that I may go and seo them bsfore I die. The millennium has come. People keep wondering when it is coming. It has come. The lion and the lamb lie down together, and the tiger eats straw like an ox. I should like to have saea two of the old timo bigots, with their swords, fighting through that great fire on Schjrmerhorn street last Sabbath. I am sure the swords would have molted, and they who weilded them would have learned war mo more. I can never say a word against any other denomination of Christians. I thank God I never have bean tempted to do it. I cannot be a sectarian. I have been told I ousrht to be, and I have tried to be, but I have not enough material in me to make such a structure. Every timo I get the thing most done, there comes a fire, or something else, ana all is gone. The angels of God shake out on this air, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." I do not know but I see on the horizon the first gleam of the morning which shall unite all denominations in one organization, distinguished only by the locality as in apost lic times. It was then the Church of Thyatira, and tho Church of Thessalonica, and the Church of Antioch, and the Church of Laodicea. So I do not know but that in the future history, and not far off either, it may be simply a distinction of locality, and not of creed, as tho Church of New York, the Church of Brooklyn, the Church of Boston, th'j Church of Charleston, tho Church of Madras, the Church of Constantinople, tho Church of America.

My dear brethren, we cannot afford to be severely divided. Standing in front of tlie great foes of our common Christianity, we want to put on the whole armor of God and march down in solid column, shoulder to shoulder! one commander! one triumph!

The trumpet scire* a martlft: strain .. O Israel! slrd tliee for hoflcht Arise, the combat to maintain rise aid pur, t,liy cs to flight. We also feel reinforced by the thought that we are on the way to a heaven that onn nover burn down. Fires may sweep through other cities—but I am glad to know that the New Jerusalem is fireproof. There will be no engines rushing through those streets there will be no temples consumed in that city. Coming to tho doors of that Church, wo will find them open, resonant with songs, and not cries of fire. Oh, my dear brother and sistor! if this short lane of life comes up so soon to that blessed place, what is the use of our worrying? I have felt a good many times this last w^ek like Father Taylor, tho sailor preacher. Ho got in a long sentence while he was preaching one day, and lost himself, and could not find his way out of the sentence. He stopped and said: "Brethren, I have loet the nomina­

tive of this sentence, and things are generally mixed up, but I am bound for the kingdom anyhow."

And during this last week, when I saw the rushing to and fro and the excitement, I said to myself, "I do not know just where we shall start again, but I am bound for the kingdom anyhow." I do not want to go just yet. I want to be a- pastor of this people until I am about eighty-nine years of age. but I have sometimes thought that there are such glories ahead that I may be persuaded to go a little earlier—for instance, at eightytwo or eighty-three but I really think that, if we could have an appreciation of what God has in reserve for us, we would want to go, stepping right out of the Academy of Music into the glories of the skies.

Ah! that is a good land. Why, they tell me that in that land they never have a heart ache. They tell me that a man might walk five hundred years in that land and never see a tear or hear a sigh. They tell me that our friends who have left us and gone there, their feet are radient as the sun, and that they take hold of the hand of Jesus familiarly, and that they open that hand and see in the palm of it a healed wound that must have been very cruel before it was healed. And they tell me there is no winter there, and that they never get hungry or cold, and that the sewing girl never wades through the snow bank to her daily toil, and that the clock never strikes twelve for the night, but only twelve for the day.

See that light in the window. 1 wonder who set it there. "Oh!" you say, "my father that went into glory must have set that light in the window." No guess again. "My mother who died fifteen years ago in Jesus, I think must have set that light there." No guess again. You say, "My darling little child, that last summer I put away for the resurrection, I think she must have set that light there in the window." No guess again. Jesus set it there and he will keep it burning until tho day we put our finger on the latch of the dooi and go in to be at home forever. Oh! when my sight gets black in death, put on my eyelids that sweet ointment. When in tho last weariness I cannot take another step, just help me put my foot on that doorsill. When my ear catches no more the voices of wife and child, let me go right in, to have my deafness cured by the stroke of the harpers whose fingers fly over the strings with tho anthems ol the free.

Heaven never burns down! The fires of the last day, that are already kindled in the heart of the earth, but are hidden because God keeps down the hatches—those internal fires will after a while break through the crust, and the plains, and the mountains and the seas will be consumed, and the flames will fling their long arms into the skies but all the terrors of a burning world will do no more harm to that heavenly temple than the fires of the setting sun which kindle up the window glass of the house on yonder hill top. Oh, blessed land! But I do not want to go there until I see the Brooklyn Tabernacle rebuilt. You say, "Will it be?" You might as well ask me if the sun will rise to-mor-row morning, or if the next spring will put garlands on its head. You and I may not do it—you and I may not live to see it but the Church of God doos not stand on two legs nor on a thousand legs.

How did the Israelites get through the Red sea? 1 suppose somebody may have come and said- "There is no ncedot trying you will get your feet wet you will spoil your clothes you will drown yourselves. hoover heard of getting through such a sea as that?" How did they get through it? Did they go back? No. Did they go to tho right? No. Did they go to the left? No. They went forward in the strength of the Lord Almighty and that is the way we mean to get through the Red tea. By going forward. But says someone: "If we should build a larger church, would you be able with .your voice to fill it?" Why, I have been wearing myself out for the last sixteen years in trying to keep my voice in. Give me room where 1 can preach the glories of Christ and the grandeurs of heaven.

Forward! We have to inarch on, breakin? down all bridges behind us, making retreat impossible. Throw away your knapsack if it impedes your march. Keep your sword arm free. Strike for Christ and Mis kingdom while you may. No people over had a better mission than you are sent on. Prove yourselves worthy. If I am not fit to be your leader, set me aside. The brightest goal on earth that I can think of is a country parsonaire amidst the mountains. But I am not afraid to lead you I have some dollars they are at your disposal. I have good physical health it is yours as long as it lasts. I have enthusiasm of soul I will not keep it back from your service. I have some faith in God, and I shall direct it toward the rebuilding of our new spiritual house. Come on, then. I will lead you.

Come on, ye aged men, not yet passed over Jordan! Give us one more lift before you go into the promised land. You men in middle life, harness all your business faculties to this enterprise. Young man, put the fire of your soul into this work. Lot women consecrate their persuasiveness and persistence to this cause, and they will be preparing benedictions for their dying hour and everlasting rewards aud if Satan raallv did burn that Tabernacle down, as some say he did, he will find it the poorest job he ever undertook.

Good by, old Tabernacle. I put my fingers to my lip and throw a kiss to the departed church. In the last day, may we be able to meet the songs there sun?, and tho prayers there oTered, and the sermons there preached. Good-by, old place, whcc some of us first felt the Gospel peace, and others heard tho last message ere they fled away into tho skies! Gool-by, Brooklyn Tabernacle of 187'3! But welcome our now church. (I see it as plainly a? though it were already built!) Your gates wider, your songs more triumphant, your ingatherings more glorious. Rise out of the ashes and greet our waiting vision! Burst on our souls, oh day of our church's resurrection! By your altars may we be prepared for the hour when the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. Welcome, Brooklyn Tabernacle of 1800!

The Smoking Compartment.

A crusade against the smoking compartment of sleeping cars has, it is asserted, been inaugurated by Mrs. Frances Willard, the eloquent temperance reformer. In an interview with Mr. George M. Pullman, this enorgetio lady argued that the smoking rooms should be abolished and special cars provided for users of the weed, declaring that under tho present arrangement the smoke is blown into the body of the cars, to the disgust of the female occupants. It is to be admitted that if the odor of stale tobacco smoke invaded a sleeping car it would not be agreeable to most people, but the smooking rooms of the modern sleepers are so thoroughly divided off that it takes a very critioal nose in any other part of tho bar to know that tho combustion of tobacco is going on, ind it is rare that the most fastidious traveler has any complaint to make on that score.—Railway Age.

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RAUM SUCCEEDS TANNER.

An Illinois Man Appointed Pension wn* wissioner.

The President Saturday appointed General Green B. Raum, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions.

General Raum was sworn in at noon. Ho is a prominent member of the G. A. R. [Green Berry Raum "was born in Gol conda, Pope county, Ills., December 3' 1829. He received a common school education, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. In 1836 he removed with his family to Kansas and at once affiliated with the Free State party. Becoming obnoxious to tho pro-slavery faction, lie returned the following year to Illinois and settled at Harrisburg. At the opening of the civil war he made his liist speech as a War Democrat Lwuile attending court at Metropolis, 111.

Subsequently he entered the army as Major of the Fifty-sixth Illinois Regiment, and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General. He "vas made Brigadier-General of Voluu teers, February 16, 18(55, but resigned his commission May 6. Ho served under General Rosecrans in the Mississippi campaign of 1862. At Corinth he ordered and led the charge that broke the Confederate left aud captured a battery. He was with Graa' at Vicksburg and was wounded at Mission ary Ridge in 1863. In October, I8(i4, he inforced Reseca, Ga., and held it against General John B. Hood. In 1SG6 he became President of _tho Cairo & Vincennes railroad.

He was elected to Congress and served from March 4,1S67, until March 3, IStH). In 1S76 he presided over the ^Illinois Republican Convention, and the same year was a delegate to the National Convention of the party at Cincinnati. He was appointed by General Grant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, August 2, 1876, ccontinuing in office until May of 1883. In that time he collected $S50,000,000.

He wrote reports for his bureau for seven years successively. Ho is author of "The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy" (LSS-l.) He has been practicing law in Washington since retiring frcm officewhich he did by resignation.]

PIKE'S PEAK.

Viewed From the Plains it is a Sigrht Inspiring and Grand. Viewed from the prairies that lie to the east of its rocky slopes, Pike's Peak stands like some grim sentinel watching1 over the vast extent of country from its base to the Kansas line, stoic-like, indifferent to the shifting panorama that has passed before it. Could it speak, what a history it might unfold! What tragedies have been enacted in sight of its lofty summit! Over 14,000 feet high, it is, from its situ ition, standing in the first range of hills, the first peak in Southern Colorado that greets the traveler coming from the east, and its sight has iuvigorated inv a weary party in the days of overland travel, for at the giant's feet were found, if not riches, at least sweet waters and green pastures.

The writer cannot better describe its appearance from tho plains than by relating his experience when first seeing it. One morning as we reached the summit of one of those elevations, high but not abrupt, common to parts of eastern Colorado, we came suddenly in view of the range, many miles awav at their nearest point clotul-likc but distinct they appeared through the intervening distance. Pike's Po.ik, more than 100 miles distant, its summit crowned with snow, stood out against the sky in well-defined lines of a grayish tint in the morning in the evening it assumes a purplish hue apparently outlined in silver. The impressicn it gives one after crossing the dreary plains is inexpressibly grand. It is only on a nearer approach that it presents that craggy and rugged aspect so characteristic of the Rockies. From its position Pike's Peak is one of the most interesting as well as one of the most noted landmarks in the United States.

Salt For Moths.

For moths salt is the best exterminator. The nuns in one of the hospital convents have tried everything else without success, and their experience is valuable, as they have so much clothing of the sick who go there and strangers, when dying there, often leave quantities of clothing, etc. They had a room, full of feathers, which were sent there for pillow making, and they were in despair, as they could not exterminate the moths until they were advised to try common salt. They sprinkled it around, and in a week or ten days they were altogether rid of the molhs. They are never troubled now. In heavy velvet carpets sweeping them with salt cleans and keeps them from moths, as particles of salt remain in the carpets and corners. Salt is not hurtful to anyone, and has no Dad smell. Here is a little hint 1 add, which, perhaps, everyone does not know: For cleaning wash basins, ith, etc., use the ime thing, common dry salt, llub a little of the salt with your fingers on the basin. Often a sort of scum is noticed in the basins in a marble washstand in the bathroom the salt takes it off easily and leaves the bnsin shinning and clean.—Philadelphia Press.

Two Plncky Girls.

A Belfast girl deserves comparison with the plucky Squirrel Island girl who, falling from a

yacht, saug out,

"Luff her up, Cap'n, and I'll climb aboard!" A sailboat capsized in the harbor the other day and Mr. W. H. Howe went overboard. His five-year-old daughter, standing on tho bank, exclaimed: "Hold on, papa! Stand right on your feet. I'm cor.ing to you as soon as I can get my shoes and stockings off," and she proceeded to

prepare to go to the rescue.

Misunderstood—Pop-eyed country photographer (about to remove the cap)—"Look this way, please." Sitter "Not much, I wouldn't look like that in a picture for nothinV'

KENTUCKY COLONELS.

How It Happens tlvat They Are So Numerous in the Blue-Grass. State.

It is somewhat hard for an outside: bar bai'ian to understand why "Colonels" are so plentiful in Kentucky.. In the first place Kentucky furnished: a great many soldiers, both to the Northern and to tho Southern armies, during the war, and naturally some of these soldiers are sure-enough colonels by rank and service. Others who were minor officers, or perhaps high privates. are now dubbed colonels by way of courtesy. Then we have a very few colonels who hold over from the Mexican war, and there are other colonels of miiitia. like the Louisville Legion, who come by their titles honestly. The Governor of Kentucky has the privilege of appointing persons on his staff with the rank of colonel. Thesecolonels ire expected to look prettv and martial at the Governor's ball andto ride horseback when the Governor heads a procession. The last duty frequently gives them great pain and anxiety. There are scores and scores--of these Governor-staff colonels in this proud old commonwealth.

Some executives have been more, lavish than others in the distribution of these gilded honors. That kindly old gentleman, Gov. Luke Blackburn. M. I)., was fond of creating colonels. During his term he made some sixty colonels in the city of Louisville alone, if I remember the figures correctly. There are various reasons which entitle a man to this gubernatorial compliment. Col. Will Hays is a colonel because ho is such a gifted poet, while Col. Albert Dietznmn was given his title by Gov. Knott because he was the greatest business manager on earth.

I trust the facts will make it somewhat clearer to the wondering Northerner why colonels are so plentiful in Kentucky. But there are other reasons. Many prominent citizens are honored with this complimentary title simply as a recognition of their merit by the community. Thus every man who conducts a large distillery is ipse factoa colonel for instance. Col. John M. Atherton, or Col. Tom Sherley. Every prominent railroad officer is also a colonel: for instance. Col. Milton H. Smith. Every congressman is a colonel. as Col. Asher G. Caruth. Every man with a government office is a colonel: as Col. George Du Hello. Every great editor is a colonel, like Gol. Henry Wattcrson. The chief of the police department is a de facto colonel, as Col. Wood. Then there other gentlemen who are colonels because no otheit.it.le fits them. But the law on the subject is a little vague and has never been formulated bv the legislature.

If a man has been a captain in the war. never call him captain: call him colonel. lie is entitled to this promotion twenty-four years after tho war closed. The only men proud to be called captain are the commanders of steamboats, the captains of fire companies, the conductors of railroad trains and the officers in a Salvation army. The title of major is comparatively rare, and. therefore, is really more of a distinction than colonel. Only prominent people who have seen actual service wear the title: for instance. Major Ed Hughes and Major J. Washington Wann. But still if you call a major a colonel he is not likely to get mad at you. By the observanceof these, few rules I have jotted down, the sirang*r can get -long in Kentucky without committing anv serious broach of etiquette.—Louisville Po^l.

IN TWENTY-EIGHT BATTLES

And Can Freely Say That He Never Got "Used to It." Colonel James M. Tlrimpson gave his opinion as follows: i'hc quality of courage in battle I regard as being to a large extent a physical attribute. I have hen-da good deal of talk about the nonchalance of men in action and their ease and composure after the first gun was fired, but I never took much stock in it. I went through the war in the army, and it w.-v* my fortune to be in a portion of the service in Virginia, where there was a good deal of hard fighting to do. and there wasn't any creditable way to get out of it, either. I saw service in twenty-eight battles and I can freely say that 1 for one never got 'used to it.' I never went into a fight without an all prevading sense of danger and was always glad when it was over. Of course moral courage, high patriotism and the military spirit kept tho great majority of men right up to tho mark, but there were notable instances of men whose physical natures simply failed to respond when called on. They could not possibly go into a fight. A clear head and a full conception of the enormous consequences of cowardice to themselves failed to spur them to the staying point, and on the first whi/ of a bullet their signals of distress were visible to all in sight. A well known New York colonel, a perfect gentleman, a scholar, a patriot, and a really noble fellow, was so weak in point of courage and his humiliation so great at really being afraid to face danger that he was forced to retire from tho army, went to Washington, pined away and died in a few weeks. I knew another prominent officer whose friends, out of consideration for his well known failing, used to manage, on one pretext or another, to keep him out of engagements and thus shield him from exposure. Men like that are to be pitied, not blamed. They want to fight, but their bodies actually refuse to obey their will."—St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat.

Edison's Answer.

You ask mo about tho future of electricity. It is the coming motive power. It will be used on all railroads some day, bu)t the point is to get an economical Engine. My theory is to ha,ve immense dynimos located all along the lrne of the road and have the electricity jbonveyed from these stationary enginds to tho locomotives by wires through jhe rails. For example, I would pi/, two big engines between New Yorl and Philadelphia and enough power co ild be furnished to whisk the limited the rate of 100 miles per hour.

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