Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 22 November 1889 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD. INDIANA

IT is noticeable that most of the im portant eclipses are visible only in (Africa. When Oklahoma is settled up with colored people, may be it will be bifferent

THE mental philosophers have given much attention to dreams, but they have never discovered a reliable, method that would enable a man to dream with any personal profit or advantage.

In reference to the desperate way in which the young1 kaiser rushes about from place to place the Germans style their three emperors thus "Der greise, kaiser," "der weise kaiser," "der reise kaiser'1—King Snow, King Know, King Go.

AN electrical device whereby the name of an approaching station is inscribed on a conspicuous tablet on a railroad car is coming" into use. It

brakemen and porters

WHILE the man who swings off the gallows has invariably undergone a moral preparation which enables him to state that he is going to glory, this is not the case with the usual victim of a lynching party. Its members are usually rough and unfeeling men, without any religious inclinations, and they string up their victim in the full blossom of his sins without any regard for the salvation of his soul. A man may have other reasons for disliking to be lynched, but luck of religious preparation is undoubtedly a strong objection to the process.

THE INTERNAL REVENUE.

The annual report of Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason was made public Saturday. It slio vs that during the year ended June 30 last, in Indiana there was collected by collector William D. II. Hunter, for tbe Sixth district, $2,013,470, aud by collector Mahlon D. Manson, for the Seventh district, in,174,7t»0. In the State, during the year, 573 cigar manufacturers had accounts with the government, manufacturing 47,089,150 cigars, which consumed 1,103,383 pounds of tobacco. There were in operation fifteen tobacco manufactories, which manufactured 43,924 pounds of leaf tobacco, 6,094 pounds of scraps, consuming 136 pounds of licorice, 559 pounds of sugar, and 103 pounds of other materials, a total of 51,595 pounds. There were produced by manufacturers 1,551 pounds of plug tobacco, S, 103 pounds of smoking tobacco, and 31,778 pounds of snuff. The amount sold aggregated 48,636 pounds, and the sales of stamps aggregated $3,890. The seizure^ in the State during' the year were twenty gallons of spirits, worth $10. The number of person who paid special taxes were as follows: Rectifiers, 11 retail liquor dealers, 233 manufacturers of 3tills, 4 manufacturers of cigars, 445 dealers in leaf tobacco, 53 dealers in leaf tobacco not exceeding 35,000 pounds, 17 dealers in manufactured tobacco, 17,SS4 manufacturers of tobacco, 13 peddlers of tobacco, 31 brewers, 44 retail dealers in malt liquors, 198 wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 113 manufacturers of oleomargarine, 1 retail dealers in oleomargarine, 48 wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, 3 total, 31,924. There are but

eleven distilleries registered and operated

fruit spirits there was produced in the State 50,875 gallons of apple brandy, 2,372 of peach brandy and 473 of grape brandy, a total of 53,523 gallons. Around the Indiana distilleries during the year there were fed 4,635 head of cattle and twenty head of hogs. The amount of taxes assessed by the Commissioner was $(35,914.

TO CURE ALCOHOLISM.

good moral counsel. Acting upon this

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rro»n, .M iU influence has been

the various medical and international

medical congresses. In 1872 Dr. Parrish, upon urgent invitation of the British louse of Commons, appeared before that jody and explained the system and work one by the American Association, with

Ae result that several large hospitals have oeen established by the English government for the treatment of inebriates ex' chisively.

The meeting was very enthusiastic. About seventy-fivo prominent medical tnen, lawyers and ministers were present a number of whom delivered addresses Resolutions were also read from members in foreign countries, acknowledging t*w valuable services, persistent efforts ar4 able literary contributions of Dr. Josc*4 Parrish.

will be warmly welcomed by the pub-, upsetting things, or, as they termed it, lie, who have suffered so long from the "turning tbe world upside down." This Volapuk, Choctaw and Hindustani of

in the State for grain and fifty-six for on it to tho beach. Here, strong swimmers fruit. The grain distilleries consumed spread their arms through the waves until 1,251,760 bushels of grain, malt, etc. Of

In n'ual Meetiny of tli« American Associn' tion for tlie Cure of Inebriety.

An event in which the medical profession throughout not only this country but tin Whole civilized world is interested, GO eurred in Burlington, Thursday, when tha American Association for the Cure of Ina briety held its seventeenth annual meeting. This organization, which has done such good work in the reformation of inebriates, was the first society of the kind ever formed. Dr. Parrish was the first to undertake tbe organization of such a society. He believed that intemperance was a disease rather than an immorality, aud that it should be considered as such aud y°u tried to get into harbor, did they" hold' treated as other affections, rather than bj *or

A MEDITERRANEAN VOYAGE.

Dr. Talmage Preaches to the Italians at Brindisi, on His Trip.

The Eminent Brooklyn Divine Draws a Lesson from His Own Experience—He Exhorts His Hearers to Be of Good Cheer, Every

One. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the Brooklyn divine, spent the Sabbath at Brindisi, Italy and addressed an interested audience on the text—Acts xxvii, 44: "And so it camc to pass, that they escaped all safe to land." Dr. Talmage said:

Having visited your historical city, which we desired to see because it was the terminus of the most famous road of the ages, the Roman Appian Way, and for its mighty fortress overshadowing a city which even Hannibal's hosts could not thunder down, we must tomorrow morning eave your harbor, and after touching at Athens and Corinth, voyage about the Mediterranean to Alexandria, Egypt. I huve been reading this morning in my New Testament of a Mediterranean voyage in an Alexandrian ship. It was thi.3 very month of November. The vessel was lying in a port not very far from here. On board that vessel were two distinguished passengers: one, Josephus, the historian, as we have strong reasons to believe the other, a convict, one Paul by name, who was going to prison for

convict had

gained

the

confidence of the

captain. Indeed, I think that Paul knew almost as much about the sea as did the captain. He had been shipwrecked three times already he had dwelt much of his life amidst capstans, and yardarins, and cables, and storms and he knew what he was talking about. Seeing the equinoctial storm was coming, and perhaps noticing something unseaworth.v in the vessel, he advised the captain to stay in the harbor. But I hear the captain and the first mato talking together. They sa.y "We cannot afford to take the advice of this landsman, and he a minister. He may be able to preach very well, but I don't believe he knows a marlinespike from a luff tackle. All aboard! Cast off! Shift the helm for headway! Who fears the Mediterranean?" They had gone only a little way out whon a whirlwind, called Euroclydon, made the torn sail its turban, shoolc the inast as you would brandish a spear, and tossed the hulk into the heavens. Overboard with the cargo! It is all washed with salt water, and worthless now and there are no marine insurance companies. All hands ahoy, and oat with the anchors!

Great consternation comas on crow and passengers. The sea monsters snort in the foam, and the billows clap their hands in glee of destruction. In a lull of the slorm I hoar a chain clank. It is the chain of tho great apostle as he walks the deck, or holds fast to the rigging amidst the lurching of ihe ship—the spray dripping from his long beard as he cries out to the crew: "Now I exhort you to be ot good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but for the ship. For there stood b,y me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul thou must bo brought before Caisar: and, lo, God hath given thee ail them that sail with thee."

Fourteen days have passed, and there is no abatement of the storm. It is midnight. Standing on the lookout, the man pears into the darkness, and by a flash of lightning, sees the long white line of the breakers, and knows they must be coming near to some country, and fears that iL a few moments the vessel wjjl be .shivered on the rotks. Tne ship flies like chaff in the tornado, They drop the sounding line, and by the light of the lantern they see it is twenty fathoms. Speeding along a little farther, they drop the line again, and by the lantern they see it is fifteen fathoms. Two hundred and seventy-six souls within a few feet of awful shipwreck! The managers of the vessel, pretending they want to look over the side of tho ship and undergird it, get into the small boat, expecting in it to escape but Paul sees through tho sham, and he tells them that if they go off in the boat it will be the death of them. The vessel strikes! The vessel parts in the thundering surge! Oh, what wild struggling for life! Here they leap from plank to plank.

Here they go un-

der as if they would never rise, but catching

hold of a timber come floutin? and panting

tlieir

chins plough the sand, and they rise up and ring out their wet locks on the beach. When the roll of the ship is called, two hundred and seventy-six people answer to their names. "And so," says my text, "it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land."

I learn from this subject: First, that those who get us \nto trouble will not stwy to help us out. These shipmen got Paul out of Fair Heavens into the storm but as soon as the tempest dropped upon them, they wanted to go oft in the small boat, caring nothing for what became of Paul ana the passengers. Ah me! human nature is the same in all ages. They who get us into trouble never stop to help us out. They who tempt that young man into a life of dissipation will be the first to laugh at his imbecility, and to drop him out of decent society. Gamblers always make fun of the losses of gamblers. They who tempt you into the contest with fists, say ing, "I will back you," will be the first to run. Look over all the predicaments of your life, and count the names of those who have got you into those predicaments, and tell me tho name of one who ever helped you out. They were glad enough to get you out from Fair Havens, but when, with damaged riggrin,

you a

vonsideration ho secured the co-operation TY^ co-iuu led them into theft, but he would not hide an

plank or throw you a rope?

one"

Satan has got thousands of men

gentlemen, and on Nov. the goods or bail out the defendant. The

^9,1870, at the rooms of tho Young Men's spider shows the fly tho way over the gosChristian Association in New York City, samer bridge into the cobweb but it never tho American Association for the Cure ot

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Inebriates was formed. over the gossam jr bridge. I think that The association since then has steadilt y^e.,WerG

the fly the way out of tho cobweb

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cial ana widely felt. Since that timo riotou3 living, they lot him go to tho swine inebriety has been regarded as a disease, pastures, while they betook themselves to and now occupies its special section among

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to

other new comer. They who take

PaTl1 out of

f^dr Havens will be of no help

to him when he gets iuto the breakers of Melita. I remark again, as a lesson learned from the text, that it is dangerous to refuse the counsel of competent iidvisers. Paul told them not to go out with that ship. They thought he knew nothing about it. They said: "lie i3 only a minister I" They went, and the ship was destroyed. There are a great many people who now say of ministers: "They know nothing about the world. They cannot talk to us!" Ah, my friends, it is not necessary to have the Asiatic cholera before you can give it medical treatment in others. It is not necessary to have yonr own arm broken before you can know how to splinter a fracture. And we who stand in the pulpit, and in the office of a Christian teacher, know that there are certain styles of belief and certain kinds of behavior that will lead to destruc-

tion as certainly as Paul knew that if that ship went out of Fair Havens it would go to destruction. "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth: but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." We may not know much, but we know that.

Young people refuse the advice of parents. They say: "Father is over-sus-picious, and mother is getting old." But those parents have been on the sea of life. They know where the storms sleep, and during their voyage have seen a thousand battered hulks marking the place where beauty burned, and intellect foundered,and morality sank. They are old sailors, having answered many a signal of distress, and endured great stress of weather, and gone scudding under bare poles and the old folks know what they are talking about. Look at that man—in his cheek the glow of infernal fires. His eye flashes not as once •with thought, but with low passion. His brain is a sewer through which impurity floats, and his heart the trough in which lust wallows and drinks. Men shudder as the leper passes, and parents cry, "Wolf! wolf!" Yet he once said the Lord's Prayer at his mother's knee, and against that iniquitous brow once pressed a pure mother's lip. But he refused her counsel. He went where euroclydous have their lair. He foundered on the sea, while all hell echoed at the roar of the wreck: Lost Parities! Lost Pacific^!

Another lesson from the subject is that Christians are always safe. There did not seem to be much chance for Paul getting out of that shipwreck, did there? They had not, in those days, rockets with which to throw ropes over foundering vessels. Their lifeboats were of but little worth. And yet, notwithstanding all the danger, my text says that Paul escaped safe to land. And so it will always be with God's children. They may be plunged into darkness and trouble, but by the throne of the eternal God, I assert it, "they shall all escape safe to land."

Sometimes there comes a storm of commercial disaster. The cables break. The masts fall. The cargoes are scattered over the sea. Oh! what struggling and leaping on kegs and hogsheads and corn bins and store shelves! And yet, though they may have it so very hard in commercial circles, the good, trusting in God, all come safe to and.

Wreckers go out on the ocean's beach and find the shattered hulks of vessels and on the streets of our great cities there is many a wreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pen. Hulks abeam's end on insurance

You have my friends, had illustrations, in your own life, of how God delivers his people. I have had illustrations in my own life of the same truth. I was once in what on your Mediterranean you call a Euroclydon, but what on the Atlantic we call a cyclone, but the same storm. The steamer Greece of the National line, swung out into the river Mersey at Liverpool, bound for New York. had on board seven hundred, crew and passengers. We came together strangers—Italians, Irishmen. Englishmen, Swedes, Norwegians, Americans. Two flags floated from the masts—British and American ensigns. We had a new vessel, or one so thoroughly remodeled that the voyage had around it all the uncertainties of a trial trip. The great, steamer felt its way cautiously ^ut into the sea, T^e pijot -barged and committing ourselves to the care of him who holdeth tbe winds in his fist, we were fairly started on our voyage of three thousand miles. It was rough nearly all tho way—the sea with strong buffeting disputing our path. But one night, at eleven o'clock, after the lights bad been put out, a cyclone—a wind just made to tear ships to pieces—caught us in its clutches. It came down so suddenly that we had not time to take in the sails or to fasten the

of the Atlantic is strewn with the ghastly work of cyclones. Oh they are cruel winds. They have hot breath, as though they came up from infernal furnaces. Their merriment is the cry of affrighted passengers. Their play is the foundering of steamers. And, when a ship goes down, they laugh until both ^continents hear them. They go in circles, or, as I describe them with my hand—rolling on! rolling on! with finger of terror writing on tho white sheet of tho wave this sentence of doom: "Let all that come within this circle perish! Brigantines, go down! Clippers, go down! Steamships, go down!" And the vessel, hearing the terrible voice, crouched in tho surf, and as the waters gurgle through the hatches and port holes, it lowers away thousands of feet down, farther and farther, until at last it strikes the bottom and all is peace, for they have landed. Helmsman, dead at a wheel 1 Engineer, dead amidst the extinguished furnaces! Captain, dead in tho gangway 1 Passengers dead in the cabin! Buried in the cemetery of dead steamers, beside the City of Boston, the Lexington, the President, the Cambria—waitinc for the archangel's trumpet to split up the decks, and wrcnch o|)en the cabin doors, and unfasten the hatches.

I thought that I had seen storms on the sea before but all of them together might have come under one wing of that cyclone. We were only eight or nine hundred miles from home, and in high expectation of soon seeing our friends, for there was no one on

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counters. Vast credits sinking, having sail boom, and square sail boom, with tir ir suddenly sprung a leak. Yet all of them who are God's children shall at last, through his goodness aud mercy, escape safe to land. The Scandinavian warriors used to drink wine out of the skulls of the enemies they had slain. Even so God will help us, out of the conquered ills and disasters of life, to drink sweetness and strength for our souls.

hatches. You may know that the bottom night, Jesus came walking on the sea, from

board so poor as not to have a friend. But ^ave tomoi in to crimson.

it seemed as if we were to be disappointed. The most of us expected then and there to die. There were none who made light of the peril, save two. One was an Englishman, and he was drunk, and the other was an American, and he was a fool! Oh! what a time it was! A night to make one's hair turn white. We came out of the berths, and stood in the gangway, and looked into the steerage, and sat in the cabin. While seated there, we heard overhead something like minute guns. It was the bursting of the sails. We held on with both hands to keep our places. Those who attempted to cross the floor came back bruised and gashed. Cups and glasses were dashed to fragments pieces of the table getting loose, swung across the .paloon. It seemed as if the hurricane took that great ship of thousands of tons and stood it on end, and said: "Shall I sink it, or let it go this once?" And then it came down with such force that the billows trampled over it, each mounted of a fury. Wo felt that everything depended on the propelling screw. If that stopped for an instant we knew the vessel would fall off into the trough of tho sea and sink, and so we prayed that the screw, which three times since leaving Liverpool had already stopped, might not stop now. Oh! how anxiously we listoned for the regular thump of the machinery, upon which our lives seemed to depend. After a while some one said: "The screw is stopped!" No its sound liad only been overpowered by tho uproar of the tempest, and we breathed easier again when we heard the regular pulsations of the over-tasked machinery goin/ thump, thump, thump. At 3 o'clock in the morning tb* water covered the ship from

prow to stern, and the skylights gave way I The deluge rushed in, and we felt that one or two more waves like that must swamp us forever. As the water rolled back and forward in the cabins, and dashed against the wall, it sprang half way up to the ceiling. Rushing through tho skylights as it came in with such terrific roar, there went

dreamed the whole scene over again, but God has mercifully kept me from hearing that one cry. Into it seemed to be compressed the agony of expected shipwreck. It seemed to say: "I shall never get home again! My children shall be orphaned, and my wife shall be widowed! I am launching now into eternity! In two minutes shall meet my God!"

There were about five hundred and fifty passengers in the steerage, and as the water rushed in and touched the furnaces, and began violently to hiss, the poor creatures in the steerage imagined that the boilers were giving way. Those passengers writlied in the water and in the mud, some praying, some crying, all terrified. They made

vessel!" There was a lull in the storm but only that it might gain additional fury. Crash! went the lifeboat on one side. Crash! went the lifeboat on the other side. The great booms got loose, and, as with the lie ft of a thunderbolt., pounded the deck and beat the mast—the jib boom, studding

strong arins, beating time to the watchful march and music of the hurricane. Meanwhile the ocean became phospliorescent. The whole scene looked like lire. The water dripping from the rigging, there were ropes of fire and there were masts of fire and there was a deck of lire. A ship of fire, sailing on a sea of fire, through a night of lire. May I never sec anything like it again!

Everybody prayed. A lad of 12 years of age got down aud prayed for his mother "If 1 should give up," he said, "I do not know what would become of mother." Thero were men who, 1 think, had not prayed for thirty years, who then got down on their knees. When a man who has neglected God all his life feels that he has come to his last time, it makes a very busy night. All of our sins and shortcomings passed through our minds. My own life sepmed utterly unsatisfactory. I could only say, "Here, Lord, take me as I am. I cannot mend matters now. Lord Jesus, thou didst dieforthe chief of sinners. That's me It seems, Lord, as if my work is done, and poorly done, and upon thy infinite mercy I cast myself, and in this hour of shipwreck .and darkness commit myself and her whom I hold by tho hand to thee, O Lord Jesus!

The night was long. At last we saw the

dawn looking through the port holes. As in the olden time, in the fourth watch of the

wave cliff to wave cliii and when ho puts his foot upon a billow, though it may be tossed up with might it goes down. He cried to the winds, Hush They know his voice. The waves knew his foot. They died away. And in the shining track of his feet I read these leiters on scrolls of foam and fire, 'The earth shall bo filled with tho knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea." The ocean calmed. The patn of tho steamer became inoro and more mild until, on the last morning out, the sun threw round about us a glory such as I never witnessed before. God made a pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon to horizon, for all the splendors of earth and heaven to waik upon—a pavement bright enough for the foot of a seraph—bright enough for the wheels of the archangel's chariot. As a parent embraces a child, and kisses away ita grief, so over that sea, that had been writh ng in agony in the tempest, the morning threw its arms of beauty and of benediction, and the lips of earth and heaven met.

As I came on deck—It was very early, and we were nearing the shore—I saw a few sails against the sky. They seemed like the spirits of the night walking the billows. I leaned over the taffrail of the vessel, and said, "Thy way, O God, is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters.'

It grew lighter. The clouds were hung in purple clusters nlong the sky and, as if those purple clusters were pressed into red wine and poured out upon tho sea, every

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a rush for the deck. An olfioer stood on -tain small, low islands off the coast of deck and beat them back with blow after bloiv. It was necessary. They could not have stood an instant on the deck. Ch! how they becrged to get out of the hold of the ship! One woman, with a child in her arms, rushed up and caught hold of one of the officers and cried: -'Do let me out! I will help you! Do let me out! I cannot die here!" Some got down and prayed to the Virgin Mary, saying: "O blessed mother! keep us! Have mercy on us!" Some stood with white lips and fixed gaze, silent in their terror. Some wrung their hands and cried out: "O God! what shall I do? What shall I do?" The

time came when tbe crew could no longer occasionally gives warning of real or stay on the deck, and the cry of the officers was: "Below! ail hands below!" Our brave and sympathetic Capt. Andrews— whose praise I shall not cease to speak while I live—had been swept by the hurricane from his bridge, aud had escaped very narrowly with his life. The cycione seemed to stand on the deck, waving its wing, crying: "This ship is mine! I have captured it! Ha! ha! I will command it! If God will permit, I will sink it here and now! By a tliou-

sand shipwrecks I swear the doom of this: veniences like the temporary loss of their oven, for they know that their guest will pay a good price for her

ire

cleft stood opposite to fire cleft and here, a cloud, rent and tinned th light, see mod like a palace, with flames bursting from tho windows. The whole scene l"ghtid up until it seemed as if the angels of God were ascending and descending upon stairs of fire, and the wavecrests,

changed into jasper, and crystal, and ame-

thyst, as they were

fhing

toward the

Softly we drift on i.ho bright silver tido, Home at luBt! Glory to Goof' All our dangprs are o'er We Bland secure ou tho Rlorified shore. Glory to Gou! wo will shout ovurmora...,

Home 'xt Just! Hum ,£ 'tst!

So, I thought, will be the going off of the mistako the letter "c" was substituted storm and night of tho Christian's life. for the "u" in Hull,changing the sense The darkness will fold its tents and away! The golden feet of the rising morn will come skipping upon the mountains, and all the wrathful billows of the world's woe break into the splendor of eternal joy. And so we come into tho harbor. The cyclone behind us. Our friends before us. God, who is always I good, all around us. And if the roll of the crew and the passengers had been called, seven hundred souls wo ihl have answered to their names. "And so it c-ime to pa33 that we all escaped snfe to laud." And may

God grant that when all our Sabbaths on they at onco go hunting for a suitable earth aro ended that, through the rich

EIDER-DOWN.

How the Eider Duck Makes Its Nest, and What Becomes of It. The wonderfully soft and warm substance which we call eider-down, says L. B. Fletcher in the Jvevv York Home

up from the cabin a shriek of horror which Journal, is produced by the eider duck, I pray God I may never hear atrain. I have an inhabitant of the Arctic ocean, it is proper to call these birds inhabitants of the ocean, for they pass the greater part of their lives far out at sea, only coming to land a little while in spring for the purpose of laying and hatching their eggs.

descending twelve fathoms below the surface of the water and remaining submerged as long as live minutes at a time. Their food consists principally of mollusks, which they pick up from the bed of the sea.

Their favorite laying places are cer-

even a practiced hunter can hardly discover them when they crouch down among the reeds.

On coming ashore the duck, proceeds very deliberately to choose a place for a nest, while tbe drake follows aud

fancied danger. The duck is very hard to suit, and it is not an unusual thing for her, after examining all likely spots out of doors, to march boldly into a house and eooly select what she considers a suitable place for her nest, such as the oven if it happens to be unused at the time. The human inmates of the house welcome her gladly, supply her with food, and cheerfully submit to any small incon-

which not only covers the bottom of the nest but rises so far" above the ydge that it can bo folded over tho eggs when the duck leaves the nest in search of food.

Shc

Is

Wickedcr

writer in Bow Bells. Tlioy have their

praying that it may be a short struggle in fully pious in this life such a transmit'ne water, and that at the same instant we gration may take place, and I note may both arrive in glory!" Oh! I tell you that the chief worshipers at the pagoa man prays straight to the mark when he das here are women. has a cyclone above him, an ocean beneath Buddhist teachers put women much him, and eternity so close to him that he lower in the scale of morality than can feel its breath on his cheek.

say in all business matters, and the only place in which their inferiority is noticeable is in religion. The Burmese are Buddhists, and a Buddhist woman has no chance to go to heaven, save by her soul at death passing into the body of a man. If she is wonder-

men,

one vvoman are eqUal

Sl.ihomet and the Mountain.

It has always puzzled us to know wliy Mahomet hesitated about going to the mountain, expecting the mountain to come to him. It wouldn't have cost him a cent to stay at the mountain as long as he wanted to. The Mountain House would have been glad to deadhead him, giving him the best suit of rooms they had. His arrival would have been chronicled in the daily papers, people would have flocked to the mountain to see him, and he would have been a big card. He is sometimes called the "false Prophet," but he would have been a real profit to the house where he put up. We are satisfied that in refusing to go to the mountain Mahomet, whose system needed bracing up, anyhow, lost one of the greatest opportunities of his life. Come to think, though, it doesn't Mecca bit of difference to Mahomet naw.—Texas Siftimjs.

The Wrong' Vowel.

Talking of typographical errors, we do not remember seeing a more horrible specimen of this class of blunders than one which appeared in a Massa-

0julsotts

paper not long ago. At the

0f

beaeh, mide mo think of the crowns of|v". heaven cast before tho throne of tho great gistic obituary notice of a deceased Jehovah. I leaned over the taffrail again, lawyer, and the reporter desired to say and said, with more emotion than before: that "the body was taken to Hull for "Thy way. O God, is as the sea, aud thy interment, where repose the remains path in the great waters!" of other members of the family." By

an extended and highly eulo-

of the sentence to such a degree that no extra copies of the issue of the paper were ordered by tho family of the dead lawyer.—Rochester Herald.

Sparking, in Greecfl.

When a young Greek determines to take a wife to himself ho does not go a-eourting, but ho takes his oldest female relative into his confidence and

mat.0

mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, wu all ha'-a visited and silently appraised.

f01. him. Marriageable maidens

They receive the old dames courteous ly, answer all their questions and never venture to ask the nature of their errand. As soon as the visitors have made a choice the wooer dispatches them again to the maiden's home with instructions to hand in marriage.

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They are very awkward on land, but upon Mr. Stewart's individual interest are wonderful swimmers and divers,

Norway, which are called "eiuerholras." The birds visit these islands in pairs, which present a striking contrast in appearance, the drakes being brilliantly colored in black, white, and green, while the females are of a dull reddish brown, matching the color ox the scanty vegetation so perfectly that aside on the ground that by the excessive use of intoxicating liquor tho debtor had become mentally incapacitated to convey. (~1) A complaint must be judged by its general scope and tenor, and where a complaint to set as.'de a conveyance, when thusjudged. is always therein sufficient on the theory that the conveyance was made to defraud creditors and accepted by tho granted with, knowledge of the fraudulent purpose and as a volunteer, paying no consideration, it will be so held, and averments of other matters will be treated as surplusage.

When the six or eight eggs are laid they arc seized, together with the valuable eider-down mat, by the people of the house, and the duck goes oil dictrnent must in sorrow to her mate, who awaits her to account was on the shore, as his courage never be good. rises to such a pitch as to lead him into the house. (1) Where a husband in suing up-

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Mrs. Stewart and Sirs. Summers? own jointly a tract of land. The latter conveyed her interest in the land to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, who took as tenant* by entireties, and the purchase money took Mr. Stewart's individual note, which was secured by a mortgage executed by both the Stewarts

and also upon the land received from Mrs. Summers, in suit to foreclose the mortgage, Mrs. •Stewart set up coverture and suretyship, under section o.ll9. K. S. 1SS1. as to her individual interest in the land. Held: That the plea is good.

(I) A deed made by an insane person can only be avoided by the grantoror his privies in estate or blood, henc*a judgment creditor can not have a conveyance made by his debtor set

Where a criminal statute is not to receive construction as broad as the language used would seem to warrant,

board and lodging. When the duck hut it is to be narrows by construction, has selected a place she gathers grass an indictment drawn in the mgu igev and sticks and builds her nest. Then of the statute will not be sufficient, she plucks the soft down from her The act of March •'. 1SS (Elliott's, breast and makes a wonderful mat, I Supplement-see. 3-l'). makes it cmbez/lenient for a County Treasurer to faiI. to pay over the money in his hands afcl'. the end of his term to his successoi IS but as there may b, circumstance^ under which the failure of the Treas--:

I urer to pay over money will not rendeir: him liable to prosecution, the in--[illego that his failure felonious or it will not-

on policy of insurance joins his wife.

Burmese women are treated well in who lias no interest in the cause of the family, and they are the equals of action, as a plaini-iti". the complaint the men in family affairs, so says a bad.

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3,000 of the worst men that ever lived. There a "e about 200,000,000 women in the world, and none of these have any othei hope of immortality than this. Nevertheless, I am told that the Burmese women are more honest than the men and that their business promises are to be trusted. They are not educated as a rale, and it is only lately that there have been schools in Burmah for women.

A husband having merely

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no insurable in-

An affidavit charging trespass, under section 1,941, It. S. 1881, mustbM. contain some description indentifyingthe premises upon which it is alleged the accused trespassed.

One who has purchased real estate...^., from a, devisee and who has been com-«s polled to pay debts which werea charge upon all the land of which the testator®?# died, the owner may compel contribution from the other devisees or their grantees. The obligation of each per- I son liable to contribute is several and a plea of 1 ho statute of limitations by some of the defendants does not enure

(1) Real eslate owned by partners is regarded in equity as personal property and liable to be sold to pay S llrm's debts. As against firm's creditors, the widow and heirs of a deceased partner take no interest in sucb. property, except as to the excess over and above the amount necessary to^f pay. the partnership debts. (2) In case of the death of a partner the §f survivor must nav the debts out of the personal property if it is sufficient for that purpose: but if the personal property is not sufficient, sucn surviving partner has the right to sell and convey the partnership real estate, If he does"so in good faith, without an order of court he passes an equitable title to the purchaser. In case the real estate is so sold by the surviving- j| partner the heirs of the deceased partner take Only the surplus of the proceeds and not the real estate.

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