Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 June 1893 — Page 2

femCAGO'S GH EAT DITCH.

t Will Connect Lake Michigan With tho Mississippi Rivor. An Inland Water Way that Will ITnltet Chicago With the Halt A Work of Great Import to the rjlie following iaterefrttng artiela 1 from a Ctfieago" speeial correspondent of the St. Louis GIole-Democrat: At 'be rate of ft0.to cubic fivt a minute CliliayoV (inlnxc will be carried southward tathxuir TUat U the me.iur of Htenst fclrh St. Uvul. bM in the bis; ilitcb bein cut M feet, deep tn th llme.tone rfcUe Wnw-Mn the twin of Ijkc Michigan ami the MU' -!pl Tslivj- A How el WJ.CCO cuUc Ice I a .laiattte xsesttt a cood-Mted water course It will apty Chicago rtrrr Sra time In twenty-four aoutx ana allow it to fill as oftoa wtth clean wafr frost tho lake. It I eqnat to oe-sUtt: ef the hole volume of the Mtiudvtiprd at St, Lam whea the river U at tow.Maje. Tbronsra th n?k part of tho bl Cltoh thU 60J.WJ cubic feet a minute will make a body of water JSI tret wide and SO feet ieejv The Suez. Ionian ant! Nicaragua canals are all .smaller tttsa this It appean that the ditch is. like so Eiaay other Chicago project, the bissest ever uoder taken. A tonple of ratllioss of df.lars hare teen p-tit Two-third of the whole dt.-itr.ru I a4-r contract. Hut for labor troubles based OBAtittiKithr to black help, aad ona noi of aotarinlni belter than 15 cents an hinsr. there wouM Iv SJTOJ men delvim; ia the ditch to-day Ootnirts let call for the completion la three year- from this tiaur. Tho ditch ay not te entirely ready for the water in Uie spring of lrVI Nit not much later than that LakeMI hi-a-sn will re what it once was. a tributary of th ll--i-vtl()pl. Tii!" man who will be made famous, if the them fulfills the exportation based upon it. 1 t E. Cooley He L-. the father of it With an experience of year on the improvement of h Illinois, the Missouri and th- Mlsiprl. JUr Cooley came to Chicago In Iv aad showed on tttpcr bow this fiat city a: the forks of a BlcvcUU bayos could olre the vital question ef dnilna e and by the same act Mcurt a s-hip octet to the irulf of Mexico. Only Mr. Cooky Cot nt put it tn that way. In hl comprrhenatre mind tho commercial purpose is the main one The dralnace of the whole city of Catcaco is merely an Incident assured. He speak of tho work a a ship canal, not a drair.3;? Cit h. -What will thl GCM cubic feet a minuto Co to lae rirer at St. Louis' Mr. Cooley was asked. "It will add about 3) per cent, to the nominal low water Cow." he .said "I was in St. I.ouls air years under Gen. Suter when he had chan-e of tho corernment work on that part of th rier from my knowlcdce coined then. I es-tlnut-this Laki Michigan contriw-tlon will Wfe tho rirer about I foot or foot ande iflths at low water At Grafton the InrnraM -urlll be 14 'f Helow Cairo tba addition will e from to & Inches Hut while that much water win be added, the irool effect on nariation ill i creator More will be trained hy coarJoe out the bottom than by rawing the surface A deeper channel than that miuh additional Wator represent will be trained "' Stecmboatmen have loa claimed that a foot risw out of the Illiaol river irlve doubl- that Increase In channel depth beloir white a foot rle of the, Mlsvjttrt will rliiw rath-r than In-crea-o channel depth. This U t-e.-au. tho IUiboi irurea. I -lear witer with ;rea: sw:rlnir power, white the MLsouri water I loaded with ilt which depo-it. Mr Cooley p.kf of this ia support of hU theory that the a pr cenL added to the volume of water at St LoaLs when the river i low. Is only about half what will te pained In channel depth. Hut what will be the effect on hlsrh water f was aked. "At times of Hood." was the reply, this Bow froei the lake will add about IH per cent, to tbetoltane. In the case of hl?h water, like thit of el, nay. I doubt if the addition would amount to an inch. Aa matter of fact, how ever. I te this tIcwt Any twMltire to low water will t9 improve the channel as to mrre Hut comteasatc for the addition. This improvement will enable the channel to carry the kich water on a lower plane. The more nearly hieb and low water planes approach the more table the streaaa become. I look for less laarer frora floods in the Mississippi with the addition of this steady flow from tin lake." Chlraco builds the ditch frocj her rirer to the Illinois at Joltet. She has cstablUhel a taxing flUtrlct Including the whole of tbf city south of NInrty-ekrhth street and a stnp outside of the city on the wch. "Tho law under whkh this work Is under taken." nald George E. Dawson, the principal assistant attorney, "authoriies a 5 mills Ul At present valuations this yields flJSW.WJ a rear As the outso is more than this tax. tbe lltrict is authorized to make a spectat Issu of bomU We have twld ti.WJO.lof 5 per cent bonds at a premium. Thelaccmefrcm the tax will grow as valuations increase Under the law the Interest and principal are to be paid oS within twenty years, Thr total cost Is ext'ecte-.l V fall within fcS.uw.C"), There ran 1; no charge for tolls on the canal but tho act provides for an iacems from the canal by the construction aud rental efdork Dock privilege alomr the Caicara river aro very valuable. They are so valuable that they Ketdosa change hands. The sanitary Clstriit, h it is called, elects nine commissionrs for nve-year terms and they are the rev ernm; lody We have already paid out for rijrht of way nbout IJS.ft. We hare con CctBued l.CU) acres and secureil a trip from IJn) to l.teo feet wido oa the 2) miles or thr route I. io Summit From Summit In to the river the ordinance authorizes us to acquire a trip no feet wide. On that part of the rout wc shall have to deal on a basis of city lots and the riht of way will te more expensive Th" land below .Summit we acquired at from fi to f75 an acre. We had to buy out three lance Ice plants at tXCW. iltO.OM and 13U) also a stone company at tlS.t. That swelled the tost of rishtot way considerably.' The work Ivsins to make a srood dtaj pf ebnw Soon after leaviuc Jollct. comlnu north by the Chicago & AHon. the traveler creat pyramid ami rldücs of freshly-bmkea llrae rock. ThU Ls the spoil." The canal is let la Bei t!on of about a mile The lower part Is almost entirely In rock. There Is about a foot of earth, and then come limestone. Th cut Is 18) feet wide, and in such a place as Fitz-palrk-kVt Mound'" the bottom Is 4 feet elow Ihe surface In other sections the depth IsS feet Aa avera?e depth of much of the work will lX) feet The bottom of the canal will 1 15 feet l low the water level of the lake. When finished the canal will I a thln of fceauty. There arc only four curres in the Whole thirty mites. There-arc straight reaches et eight and tea miles. While the width ls 14) feci In ths rock, with perpendicular sides, In the earth portions it will be SlOfeet wido at the bottom, and feet wide at tho surface of tha water Tho current flowing southward will be a mill-and a quarter in the clay settioBS, aad two milt an hour In the rock. From the edge oa loth sides tho contractors aro required to leave a clean space of 'O feet lteyond that they heap up the spoil mountain hlh. Each cotitrat tor has his own Idea about the cheapest mn I'xt to cci the material oat of tho cut and Mn Ike latii: Somj run trains f Hat cars In and out moving the traAc as t&s work iifrc?s-. Others have cables stretched across their sections and raise the material la liuee buckets, which are run out on either sloe and emptied. Still others twe the cantilever a gnnX arm, from the end of which the tea ls ntUcsl and swans around and dropped. There ls a carious contrivance which chisels a slit in the rock aa Inch wide and IS feet deep. Compressed air drills prepare the way for laut pon-der. Ia various ways tho excavation lcar riet on. The future use of this prrat mass of broken rock is a yet unsettled problem. Oae of the propositions is to carry it to the dty and widen the Lake Front park. Another point to be dc'tormlaed Is how to get the '.C"X) cubic feet of water a minute 1st the csnal. As at present planned the ditch taps the south branch of the Chicago river tear Bridgeport. The rtrvr can't m!? US

amount of water It would ran up stream Mfca torrent if it tried. At the mouth there roalj K' suck-la of daacerous power. Th river

will be tapped for all it can tive wtthoat rtaa eer Ua lu coaiaierclal iatrts. It uar be , deepened and widened to increase Its upstream Sow Further than that there will have to 1 one er BMtw Mealier sf r)r channels leading frcsauttee avarth brawrt. of the t river or from the lake iataebUMMl The ru.no cubic feet a minute will be drawn from l vi u aad probably three sewves at Cn!a;o. I r" ja' WHh ths completion at the canal from tha Chlcaro rirer to Jollet. at a round cost of K U(M.Chiwgo stt coasidcr her share of tho .wi rk üane. The corenHaeat aiatK do the rest. And hat is the rest , The remoral of th lams and locks la tho Illinois river from La Salle to Grafton a dis- , tacce of 5 miles," said Mr Cooley Thea mut follow systematic wurk. by drcUlnc and otherwise for deepentes the channel of the 1 Illinois. With the additioa! water wd will t furnish, the Illinois, for that iS miles, can be iswttt f et of water at a raialnam In a chaanel 3iW feet ride at the toitom. " "At what coat. Mr. Cooley'" -At a -ost of S.OM 0 n. And eight months in the year wo can make it 11 feet depth. That ahout cover the period of naviiratlon. We ar cloed by way of tho lakes five months.What arout the se.nion of the Illinois from Jollet down to La Salle' "That ls rock-bound and more of a problem than the miles 1h1ow. The descent ls TO feet. It will require four or five locks. I have Kot e ery survey made on that psrt of the river. To com-ipond with the contempt: I depth of ' water below H will cost !!S.ttO.0" to fix this ' part of the Illinois from the end of ocr canal to , La Salle. People have overestimated the cost Opt. Slar-'haU laid out a projected Improvement oa this rock-bound portion of the Illinois. , He thought it woull cost fca.0iJO to improve it for 11 feet of water. Hut he pat the levels flown to save proi?rty He made the cost ft.rOMMl creater to save fvrw.OM worth ol property. It would be better "to ioe 'WM la , land, and pay for It and make the canal J.fJ. 10 cheaper, wouldn't It People have talked aNrjt the Chlcajo part of the work costing from fcttftno-kj to -.Mono. I made estimates la , 1-T which run within 10 per cent, of what th contracts are now bein:- executed for Based on ocr knowledge of contracts let. we count on getting through for Kl.CKM.t between Chicago and Jolle:. I don't undertake :o say that that Is all we hall spend. This will re the cost ol the sot. ailed mala channel from the Chleagc river to the point w-re we can dlscharse the water, one-half of the way through solid rock. It Is the expenditure we are obliged to make before we can get any results. After that will come the question of further improvements at this end. such as widening for harbor purposes, other connections besides the river with the lake, and so on. This. ' continued Mr. Cooley. "Is atout a true state meat of th situation. Themoner wc will have Ut spend to get to Jollet Is about what it will cost to make cerrespoadin:; improvement for navigation from Jollet to St. LoaU. I look opon H feet as a useful development. The days of 7 feet of water from lake to gulf have Rone. Hy the time we reach St, Loais, w4th 10 feet ol water as a minimum all of the way down from Chicazo. the Lower Mississippi Improvement plans ought to be far enough along- to give corresponding depth all of the way to Xew Orleans. Jt has come now to be a question simply of how mcrh w want to spend. We can have , more water If we wact to spend the money for it- We are licurinr now on a depth ' ot-J feet across the divldi to the Illinois. He-' fore we finish we shall protaNy have W feet ol water la our canal. It Is only a matter of time I think, until sentiment will demand more than II feet from Chicago to the gulf. -Win tho lake stand it" "I doa't think It will make any appreciable HCeresce la the level of the lake. If we could lower the lake a foot it would do far more gooJ than harm. The beaerlts would be greater than . the cos: of dredginsr some of the harbors." ' "Yoa can't ay much about the drainage as-' pect!" , "We have got past that. All of the discus-1 slon row Ls oa the development of the cora ' aaerclal side That drainage controversy has ! turned out curiously. We have found that tht best plans for the toounercial purpose are also the test for drainage. Us a: fact Is not so well understood. "You had a good deal of trouble to convince I cago wouldn't hurt them Ye. but I think we have oveeeome 11 fenr of contamination. The fact is that when our canal Ls carrying 6,0M cubic feet a minute the conditions below will not be as bad as they are now. The pumps at present trassier about 40.X cubic feet of water a minute from the Chi cago river to tho old canal The caaal ls very sluggish. It Is about as bad as the river. It carries out only two or three times th amount of water pumped Into the city dally The discharge by the new canal will be fifteen times what it Is by the purapln system. That means dilutir of the sewaje. As it is now w- can ester dotect the sewage by chemicl ar lysis lower down tlrsn Ottawa, oa the Illinois, and ordinarily it doesn't show at Morris. I don't say That is true chemically Is true biologically The germs may travel farther before they die. I Typhoid germs, for instance, are very per- , slsteut. At the present time It takes thirty days for water to travel from Chicago to SL Louis, Of course under the new conditions the current will bo inereasM. Even th-n it will take lake water from sevea to ten days to reach Crafton. Illinois river water Is not potable anywar. That river drains swamps and marshes. like the Kankakee hundreds of thousands of acres. It Is full of decomposed matter. It is so highly charged from these natural sources that the free oxygen Is only from onethird to one half what it is la Lake Michicaa. , It naturally stagnates ant is full of malaria. . There passes the city of La Salle from ten to twelve times tho amount of organic matter held in solution by tho Illinois that it is pro 1 duced by the whole city of Chicago. When we turn out f.fl.a cubic feet p-r minute lato tht . Ifllaei it will be a contribution actually rmrei than tho natural condition of that river 1 have cone ovar this ground ayaln and again, and I thiak I caa prove a pretty good alLI oa the question of pollution of rivers by city drainage.' Our rivers are the sewers of ths j country. They ro.-eive lh- leachlags of all d.composing and'' decaying mixer To sup.w that ths amount of such materials a 1.1 to these streams by the people who ilvu oa tlie ' fodder is greater than that prolueM ty th . fodder itself ia all nonsense. Ttnsa bat- ' torn lands and cities ia Illinois fro-n Jolln t Grafton will be vastly improved in a aioitary : sene. The Illinois will be a llv str-inn. it gets down now to a flow of from lO.OJJt i :aio cBMcieei a minute, wewiuarfdtou permau-nt t ly ffu.wicnblc feet a miaute. Fish will thrlv in It, ami there will e no danger to the small boy who sits on the bank with line aad hook. In the present condition ash tan t lire arrive the mouth of the Kankakee. In the Cabao river the oygenof the water is so far destroyed that there isn't a vestige of life Isft, 1 have had samples examined from the top. ml-ldl bottom aad all parts ef tho stream. Kot so much as a small angle-worm can lire In It When the new caaal is dola its work I don't suppose you will be able to detect the sowag of thl. rreat city In the water cxeept for a slight .raylsh tinge of the water. I haven't any doubt that Hsh will be able to come trp from the Mississippi to lake Michigan ami make the rouad trip withoat discomfort. This stream through the caaal will be. as I aaid before th purest tributary of taa Illiaoh river." What this work means la th- households of Chicago no stranger can appreciate. Itriakiag water has beea sold In Chicago for several years. It Is piped all of the way from Wisconsin. Yon drop a penny la a slot aad you get a gllL Every hotel aad restaurant of respectability advertises coaspieaonsly upon bills of fare that It doesn't use lake water. Yet the city water-works draws 1U supply through a tuaael which exteads oat 4 miles under the lake to a crib. Kren at that distance the lake is foaled by tho sewer discharges. Only the well-to-do feel that they can afford to pay for water by the pint to drink. The pot boils every day In the houses ef the peer for the ci prows pwpote of killla the germs la lake water. When Mr. Cooley's grest ditch Wins to flaw Its cubic feet a mlnate lOl.OM heasewires will rise an aad him for reliif tnm ate extra duty. W.B S.

MR. HOLMAN TALKS.

The Indiana KrprrsrHtatUe Ill-nsse the KrorHt Terrible Iitrr In Whtsxta -CuagrruBirn Net HuiUlinc KiM-na. Mut Tbry are WiNInc I lrotlilc ?sf Quarter for (inirrnmrnl Kmptuyr latrrestiMC Talk .biut I'cblir l.ildtc. WAjiiu.Vf.Tt.v. June 15. Mr. Holntaa. cliainnan of the lioitx- coaitiiltt- un appropriations, sakl, in the c ut .f a eoarvt-Mitioa about the recent dMtter in thU ity. ami tke pn)lWHty uf other btttldintrs beinj insecure, that he K lievetl eoajrres hail ia thss fat. and wouM in the future, deal liK-rally ia the matter oi nrtirulinir safe public builtlinsis and enact Hch leiflation ns wouM looU lo thv prverra:5on of hu. ... . m:,B onwrmng the j,'oreranieni priniinc' omee. against iviucs the most criticiMn is directed. Mr. Holxnan said congress was pntotieally a unit in it willinfrneft.s to appropriate money for ä new and suitable bnild-injr-The trouble tip to this time had been in eeurinfr st site. The matter had not, he said, leen bronpht to the attention of the hotie by reflation or other-vise sinee the rifxy-irt coapre'ss. lut was in the hands of the joint committee on printing'. He lelieved a bHtldinj- was Jiadly needL and tliat a bill with that end in view wouhl le intitlt!cel promptly up-jn the asM?m1linr of consrrei and ai promptly passed. H.vf. rm .rrnonrn.. "Mr. Holtiuin is of the opinion that """der the joint resolution passe! February C, 1SS3, the public printer ha fall authority to lessen the weight on the lloorsof this building by remoring-stuiY and oecupyiny other buildings. In an emergency, at the time named, this resolution wa.s passed and approved the Rime day. and by night men were removing the heavy lnoks and storing them elx'where. The resolution directs the public printer to forthwith remove from the government printing oßice so much of the property of the United States in the upper storie as shall in his opinion, and in the opinion of the architect of the capitol. render the building entirely safe for the persons employed therein. This work was done and money appropriated for it, and since then, even last year. .,000 was appropriated under the resolution, which L still in force. A HIGH IIF.GAKI) rOR Urt "No government in the world," said Mr. Holiuan. "holds life in such regard as our. This has Ken instanced many times. Our extensive Hfe-savinc service, and the prompt way in which the Greely relief expedition was sent out, shows this. Had congress known this building was unsafe, do you imagine it would have been permitted to stand as it wa.s? Congressmen are not building experts, and if an orlicial report had Wen made, congress would have had something to go on. TO MAKE ROOM KOR "BIO CCSS. ' There is one thing in this publiebuildiag question that the press does not consider, and that is the overcrowding of rooms occupied by clerks and the large amount of space given to higher otlicials. Other public buildings are lumbered up with stuff little better than trash. Twelve years ago Mr. El v. thvn J"xt udJur. "bowed me Urns and tons of old post otlicc records and money orders that were absolutely worthless, and yet they are still Wing stoml away." THE HALL OF RIXORI). After the city post oilice. the next public building to be provided by congress will he a hall of record.-, and this will relieve many of the present buildings. There are many public records that have to be stored where they can be reached, notably among them those of the general laud office. Sach a building will relieve all the departments of an immense amount of trash and be a vast saving of room. TWO IMMENSE STRCtTTBEä REIXCI BtTLT. "While this talk of safer public buildings is before the public, it should be remembered that ther are two ander way that, when finished, will accommodate fully S.000 clerks. The city post office will only occupy the basement and first floor of that building, and Supervising Architect Windnm estimated that the building would accommodate, besides the post office. 3,000 clerks. The new library building will 1 completed in foar years. The congressional library, large as it is. when it is finished, will only occupy one-quarter of the building, which which will le larger than the state, war and navy building." thk iamii.:ks! or the victim. Hcturninp to the Ford's theater disaster, Mr. Ilolmati said he s-appoMd the matter would come Wfore congress in the shape of bills for the relief of victims, and he was sure that congress would do what was right. It was against the policy ef the govemment, he said, to establish a civil pension list, but he was confident some wav woald , - M ix- louna to recompense, so far a aar j recompense could be made, the families of thcje poor victim-" Aa Abaut'i Statement f'ivrn Its Qntetas by Archbishop Ireland. St. Pai'U Minn., June 1C. Archbishop Ireland was shown the dispatch from Rome which said the pope had issued an order that in the diocese of St Paul (United States) the clergy must instruct the Catholic and Protestant children alike, without exacting from the Protestants a promiv- to Wome Catholics. Archbishop Ireland snt.that such an order would be absurd, and that no such order had leea or would In; issued. Ex-Slate Senator Olds, of Montana. Radly Wan test at Helena. HntKNA, Mont, June 1 Officials arc looking for Loren lt. Olds ex-state senator and one of the best known mining men in the state. He is wasted on the charge of swindling people. Jackson t Co.. ore purchasers of Kansas City, charge that he swindled them out of f,Od0 oa a min ing contract. He is al-o charged with swindling a syndicate owning the Kitty Morris raiae at I'm tie. oat of f i0,000, and also securing f from llutte people oa a fraudulent -sort t-Hrc-

WELL PRESSED HIGHWAYMEN. I

mm m t'Uade Darm! aad Olhrr KnlshU ' ,K x Kd Wh FtosrUh! lwsg Claatle lhival wa extremely fastidi- j ous touching the cut and color of his costmae. and hu partiality for tiaatly tn taay liave fceea to a cwadcrWe extent due to tke fact o hi having been in the serrfee as fifcHwun of the . dache !'srt.soath.wlio turned hita 1 oat of doors, for thieving. lVrhaps the ( phtsh ha had ones vrora had entered iato his al. and he oald aot divorce ; ' himself from a love for the radiant garBents wiiieh he had on. worn. This impudent fo.itpd had aa artistic suecesser in James Maeleane. tvell known . ia the reign of f'eonre U. a the "geaI tleraaa highvraymin." who "- remarkable for the ,sp!ert list attire in ' tvhich he habttualh dLsporte.1 himsj-lf, aasl who. iu curious vindication of the principle of retributive justice, at length got convicted aatl hanged fr robbing a stage coach russentfvr on the highsay of a cloth coat, a laced waist- f coat, a pair of breeches, a periwig, a J pair of pumps, fire Holland shirts, a pair of silk stockings and three cambric cravats 3Ir. Macleane'sown wardrole would appear to have Kva , amply furnished at the time, since he hastened to sell his "ir to a dealer in eerad-hand clothes, oa j the counter of whose shop they were seen and identified by the wife of the t stage coach passenger whom he hai robbed. He was oal-twenty-six. The ordinary of Newgate, although admitting that he was known as the "gea- t tleman hihivnyaiaa." ani in his dres . and equipage very much aTectei the coxcomb, addel that to anyone acquainted with genuine good breclinsa.- custinguiheti from impudence and affectation there was very little in his addres or behavior that would entitle him to the character of a gentleman. He was in reality the son of a Scotch IVobvterian minister, lie had coma to grief through proütgacy in early youth, and had b?en a gentleman's butler, bat hail le?n disznisse.1 f r pilfering. It is a remarkable circumLs nee that in the interval between his arrest and his execution the "gentleman hightvaymaa was llbjral'y and even luxuriously supported by members of that fair sex in whose s-T"eiety he had always taken so much delight- For several years the saaatle which should hsve properly descended oa the shoulders of some equally fashionable rascal seemed tohave hovered, like Mahomet's colli a. in theain IratabocllTTO the ideal robe in question was doaned by John liana, who bad aW been a gentleman's servant, aad who. owia? to the fantastic eccentricity of his garb, acquired the sobriquet of "Sixteen "string Jac!c He als had been a footman in a gentleman's family. He was only iiro feet five inches high: he disdained a wig and wore his hair, which was of light brovrn color, eosibed over his forehead in a "friare-" He was particularly neat ia hLs dress, but ia two instances his taste was very peculiar. He vcas accustomed to have sixteen strings at the knees of his aether garments always of silk, and always wore a remarkable hat with ribbons and a gold button on the crown, while on Sundays he was very fond of apperariag ia the tea gardeas at UagaUrge Wells, elegantly dressed la a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat aad white silk stoekiHirs. Fine feathers make line bird. bat the ead of John Kaan'.s gay doings and maearorti appearance was his being sentenced to death for robbery and duly hanged at Tybam. Throairhoat his conSnemeat he lived a very joyous aad expensive life, the prisoa being frequented by larre numbers of female acqu tintancs, who provided hiaa with the taeans of giving cstly entertainments. Hut the cart, the gallows and the halter were not to be staved off by the orgies of game pie aad brandy panch. and Joha Haan had to climb the heavy hill aad be hanged from the triple tree. Loadon Standard. ANCIENT DIAMOND MINES. Traces ef PrrltUtorie Work in r la iseatla , Africa. The ancient diamond mines ia South Africa, which are beia-discovered from time to time, are sao-a interestiag. The oae at Wialmrg has been explored aad there is evideacc that diamond-miaing was followed iaqaite a systematic manEer and upoa aa exteasive scale long before the period of which European . have any record. The tools found are 1 primitive ia shape, bat made of very finely-tempered iron. What puzzles many persons is the Sailing of Banterous skeletons in groups ia the tunnels appeariag as if they had been .shut ap there purposely or as if they had beea suddenly entombed by a fall of earth. The iron chains found here aad there suggest the possibility of these workmen having oeea slaves. The sknlli aad boacs are those of a rare of which i there is no record. At this place the ' shaft is about oae hundred yards deep, and the principal tunnel is oae haudred and fifty yards long. The dia-: taoadiferous soil is similar to that of Kimlerley, aad the gems fouad ia exuavatioa are white and of good qaalitv, though small. From geaeral appearances it .vwas that the mine had been suddenly closed aad that hurried efforts had been made to hide the mouth of the shaft and the ' works at the surface. Jeweler's Cir cular. Trouble llrrwinjg. "Say, Jimmy." said one small Freeaaan street hoy to his Bcighbor. ia a sepulchrally pleading tone, "pleas don't -sling all them old chicken head over In our frost yard." "Why Hot? was the coul replr. "Why." said the first with ä sspicioss tremble ia his tone, "the preacher ' "ia our church is ia the parlor and if he sees them chicken heads he'll stay te ' dinner sure aad there's oaly oae pie, and it's got sagar oa it. too!" , Oae touch of natare made the whole world kin. aad the chicken heads were Hot thrown. - Ciacinaati Commercial Gazette. A Hard Lick. Fweddy "I didn't get to say a word to that young ladt you intwoduced rae to last night George "f'ad! You must have made a fjood iatptvessioa. old felkr.v. Truth,

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

International ! for Jan 2. lfta KcflrM-Th Uuel After the Highest ;mmL "SpertaUr Arranged froai IVtonbet's Nous St CJiXT -Trio csjest AtH-r the Ilistest tics.sL t Lvrx Text In all thy ways acknowledu Uta. and He stall direct thy paths. The old line: -Vuts. qui 1. uti. quibu aexiiiis. car. qMmodo, qcaaslo Who whatl her with what helpir waft tow t whea has sometimes been quoted aa imruing up the topics which are most tsece&i-ary by way of "introduction" to the sacred books. The summary ts not exhaustive nor exact, but we may be guided by it to some extent It will be well to ask these questions ia reference to the four lHwks. of the ISible we have lecn studying the last quarter. Especially should we review carefully the three books which belong to tho wisdom literature. The search is made in every way and frota every point of view. We hear three voices speaking' to u& as one truth, in varied forms, as to what is the highest good. I. Thruurrh the Discipline of Affliction The Ilook of Job. The historical foundation, the story of Job, his character, leases, his friends, the argument. The conclusion reached, and how.it was reached. II. Through the Teachings of WisdomThe Ifook of IYoverbi The character and composition of the book. Wisdom, who or wlit is meant by the tenn. The value of wisdom. How obtained. Her warnings. Her invitations. Note especially the two opposing pictctes intemperance and tha true home. III. Through the Experience of Life Ecdesiastcs. The meaning of Ecclesiastes. The object and plan of the book. The search. Solomon's experience and its lessons. The result of the search how and where the chief pood of life may be obtained, IV. The Power by which the lk-t Life may be Reached MalachL The Saviour comes, purifying away the evil, ami bringing the means of salvation and the conditions by which it maybe attained. He controls Divine Providence. He is wisdom's own self. He knows all things. Suggestion. This review can be best raade by looking over the previous lessons. A clear and deSnite knowledge of the facts should be impressed upon each scholar, together with the practical teaching which naturally flows from this broad view. VIEW BT Sl-BJECTS. 1. The afflictions of the righteous. 2. The experience of a soul amid sorrow and conflict. 3. The value of discipline. 4. The true life, according to Diviaa Provideace. 5. The prosperity of the righteous. 6. The quest for the highest gii. 7. The true life, according to experience. S. The true life, according to, the voice of Wisdom. . a.. The, warnings of Wisdom. ; 16. Tho invitations of Wisdom. Qt'AKTEKLT REVIEWS, liy Her K. T. llossall. tn Ssnday School Tlmea. A profitable form of review on some lessons would be to csll for the names of all the good mn and the bad men to whom the lessons referred, and then, arranging upon the blackboard the names as announced, under the respective headings, evil-doers and well-doers, cnl! for the reasons why they have been classed as they are. Sometimes it would be well at the beginning of the quarter to divide the classes into w no? IIEUE HAT? CLASSES. HY II EKE FORE and keep it before the school throughout the quarter that on review day, the "Who?" classes will be asked to give the names of. persons about whom the lessons told. The "Where?" c!as-es will be asked to come up and point out upon the school-map the places, etc. and give some particulars regarding them. Each of the other classes will perfom its part, as indicated by its distinctive title. The "Wherefore?" class, as distinguished (arbitrarily) from the "Why?" class (which has to do with the motives and reasons and actions shown in the lessons), is expected to draw onclusions from each lesson: that is. to give the practical teaching and moral lesson to be gathered therefrotäi-this portton it would probably be well to assign to the IHble classA variety of other plans for reviews occur to the writer, which, though never actually tried, he thinks would work satisfactorily. He can do no more, however, in this article than to give the names he would call them by, ami leave you to guess at what he means. The What-lesson-did-you-like-beat (and whyi? plan. The What - did -you-lcarn-from-that-lessoa? plan. The Hold-fast-all-I-grre-you', plan. The Write-a-letter-aboat-it plan. The Lesson-postscript plan. The fact is. dear fellow-workers in the Sunday-school, there are so many ways in which review flay C3n be cajoyably and profitably spent that there little excuse for those who fail to make it an occasion to Iks looked forward to tvith pleasure, instead of being dreaded as a dar of raere drudgery. DONT'S FOR MOTHERS. Dox't neglect the baby; the little fellow has the first right to year attention. Dox't lay the child down with his ears bent away from his head; the result will be a deformity. Dox't wake the baby to exhibit the tints of hts eyes to admiring friends: sleep is his most unquestionable right Dox't spoil the infant by walking or rocking it to sleep, and do aotlet anyoae else do so; it will sleep best aad asost aaturally wbM iyüur IMS a amfartahl

Hood's Cures

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