Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 November 1894 — Page 2

- CAPRIVI'S FALL. Resignation of the German Chancellor Accepted. JPossibilitles of the Succession—Why Ca- ! privi Quit—He Was Crushed Between the Emperor and the Federal Envoy. BERLIN, Oct. 29.—The report that Chancellor von Caprivi has handed his resignation to the emperor is confirmed. Count Zu Eulenburg, president of the ministerial council, has also resigned. Dr. Miquel, Prussian finance minister, has been appointed president of the council. The Succession. - Prince von Hohenlohe-Shillings-furst, governor of Alsace-Lorraine, has been offered the e chancellorship. Be- \} fore offering the . chancellorship to % 9 Prince Hohenlohe, 'L Emperor William T = T consulted with the By envoy from Bavaria, 4/,,%4,/’/;/" Wurtemburg, Sax- ,""*‘/ | ony and Baden. It //"'"',7%,/ | is reported that ‘ Prince Hohenlohe CAFPRIVL ' declined the office owing to his age. 'The emperor has summoned Gen. Count Waldersee, the political soldier who was conspicious in the final intrigues against Bismarck. The general inference is that he intends to make him Caprivi’s sue-, cessor. Should VWaldersee become chancellor the office of Prussian premier probably would be given him shortly, and thus the division of the two posts which was effected at the

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ime of the schoo = bill crisis would be ended. There is a rumor that Gen. Bronsart-von Schellendorf is a candidate for the Prussian premiership and the chancellorship. Either of these generals would-be acceptable to the conservatives,whohave become totally estranged from the government under the Caprivi regime. ) Why He Resigned. The immediate cause of Chancellor von Caprivi’s resignation is not entirely clear. It is known, however, that the differences’ between him and Count. Botho Zu Eulenburg had grown too sharp to be ignored or compromised. Caprivi at first was strongly opposed to severe steps against the social democrats and anarchists, while Eulenburg favored extreme measures. Under pressure from the emperor the chancellor is said to have yielded several points early in the week, but his master only got him into trouble with the federal ministers, in whose council he presided Thursday. Several ministers opposed his proposal that the reichstag amend the penal code so as to deal more .severely with the socialists. The individual states, they said, should be left to legislate within their own borders for the suppression of the social democracy and anarchy. 'The chancellor was equally embarrassed when the question of financial reforms was broached. The envoys made several demands for changes in the financial relations of the states to the empire, but the chaneellor was manifestly out of sympathy with all of them. ‘

Caprivi is believed to have been crushed between the emperor and the federal envoys, not going far enough to suit the former and going too far 4o suit the latter. The difficulties of his position were increased, moreover, by the intrigues of Miquel and Eulenburg, who for more than a year have spared no effort to discredit his policies and diminish his influence with the erown. 3 Socialists Will Rejoice. Loxpoxy, Oct. 29.—The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent says: +“Everybody with a sense of fair play denounces the . despicable intrigues of the agrarian and Bismarckian reactionist groups agzinst Count von Caprivi The socialists will rejoice because the dread.of them, although they did not raise a fin®®r, has been sufficient to plunge the empire into a crisis.” The Impervor Makes a Choice. The Daily News' correspondent in Berlin says of Caprivi’s fall: “After the conference with the federal ministers the chancellor had an audience with the emperor, who is understood to have approved of his ministers’' proposals in everything. It was settled that he should remaim. The only difficulty was in bringing about tolerable relations between Caprivi and.- Eulenberg, whose antagonism was an open secret. The matter had assumed the character of a personal quarrel. which in the interest of -the authority of the government had to be settled. I his seems to have been the cause of Caprivi's fall. The emperor had the alternative—Caprivi or Eulenberg—and he decided in favor of the latter. .l |, : =Tt is- not known " whether the chancellor previously informed his majesty of his intention to convole the federal ministers: if not, the reason of hisfall isclear. It was.animperial reprimand. Bismarck's conference with Windthorst without the imperial knowledge really eaused Bismarck's fall, and tho present zituation is somewhat similar to the one in th spring of 1850, Bismarck will enjoy a hamg day. By his hand his successor has at lasp been overthrown, and unde: similar ch‘cisfi,@ siances. ¢ i o “Caprivi’s fall is a purely domestic afafr, and in no way affects Germany's foreign Peli e T ~ The legislature of Georgia convened saAtenter -0

ROUTED THE CHINESE. Detalls of the Japanese Victory at the ) ‘ Yalu River. e YoromAMA, Oct. 29.—Later dispatches from the Yalu river show that in the battle fought Thursday between the Chinese and Japanese 8,500 Chinese troops of all arms were utterly routed. - ) CrEMULPO, Oct. 29.—Dispatches from Wi-Ju give additional details of the battle fought between the Chinese and Japanese across the Yalu river. Gen. ' Nodzu, the Japanese chief of staff, it appears, succeeded in getting the main body of the Japanese army across the Yalu river without mishap before daylight on Thursday. Then Col. Sato was sent forward at the head of a flying column on a reconnoitering expedition. He discovered the enemy ’occupying a fortified position near the village Fushang on the right bank of the Yalu. In spite of theg fact that he had no artillery at his disposal, Col. Sato immediately commenced an attack upon the Chinese and a fierce fight followed. The Chinese fought desperately and stubbornly. The attack began at 10 o’clock in the morning and lasted until noon, when the Chinese began wavering, broke, and eventual- \ ly retired in great disorder, falling back upon Kulienchas. The troops commanded by Col. Sato, after the Chinese had retired, set to work upon the demolishment of the fortifications of Fushang. Inside the fortifications they found 200 Chinese dead. - The Japanese also captured a number of prisoners, among whom was a Chinese officer who stated that - tihe position was held by eighteen battalions of Chinese troops. The Japanese, escorting their prisoners, then marched

in the direction of Gen. Nodzu’s main body with the intention of rejoining it. The number of Chinese wounded is not known. The Japanese lost five officers and ninety men killed and wounded. )

Later dispatches said that the Chinese outposts were falling back -upon Kulienchas, where it is expected that the only really determined stand of the Chinese in Manchuria will be made. : : BADLY SHAKEN UP. Earthquake Felt on Both Sides the Pacific Ocean. LoxpoxN, Oct. 25.—Advices from Tokio to the Central News' state that the town of Sakaite in the province of Akita was visited by a violent earthquake Monday evening and almost entirely destroyed. Many of the residents of the town were killed and a large number injured. ' SAN Francisco, Oct. 25.—Dispateches received in this city Tuesday evening show that southern California was shaken by several earthquake shocks shortly after 8. o’clock Tuesday after- ’ noon. At Los Angeles they were light and scarcely noticed, but at Oceanside, Santa Ana, San Diego and other places the troubles were more severe and drove people from the large buildings into the streets. Windows were broken and clocks stopped at San Diego, and a telephone message received there from Campo, a small town on the Mexican border 55 miles east, says the shocks were very severe, but the damage was not serious. Seismic disturbances were heaviest at San Juan Capistrano, where, besides the breaking of windows, crockery of all descriptions was shattered in many houses, and the old mission bells tolled in low tones. The »vibrations were from . northeast tg southwest, and each shock was of about a minute’s duration. SWEPT BY FLAMES. Prairie Fires Rage in F¥ive Nebraska - Counties. ‘ OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 27.—The most de- | structive prairie fires 1n the history of the state are now raging in Cherry, I Thomas, Grant, Hooker and Sheridan counties. They first started in Thomas ! county, in the Bnake creek valley Tuesday, and after once getting under headway, fanned by a stiff breeze, traveled westward into Cherry and Hooker counties with a speed and ferocity that was startling in the extreme. ln these counties -hundreds of thousands of heads. of cattle have been grazing, they having been sent here from the southern portion of the state where the drought was felt most heavily, the grass in this section being fair, and it isthought the most of them are burned, as they were in the direct path of the flames. - : Near, Mullen on the ranch of L. E. Lasher, four lives are reported lost, including Lasher himself, and several thousands of tons of hay are burned. { At Whitman and Hyannis several hundred head of stock perished and a con'siderable quantity of hay burned. He Will Be Shot. ‘ - TusgAEOMA, I. 'T., Oct.. 29.—80th | houses of the Choetaw council adjourned at noon Friday. The house { passed the bill giving to the governor | power to pardon Silon Lewis, sentenced to be shot November b, and it was vetoed. There are uc other steps to be taken and he will be shot acsord|ing to the sentenes. - -+ .~ ... . .

WHERE BISMARCK SAT. Prince Hohenloha 1s Appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. BERLIN, Oct. 29.—Prince Hohenlohe von Schillingfuerst, who was called by Emperor William to succeed Caprivi as chancellor, at first declined, but at 9 o’clock Saturday evening it was announced that he had accepted the position. He will fill also the office of Prussian premier, made vacant by Eulenberg’s retirement. The emperor’s choice of Hohenlohe for chancellor is taken as:evidence that his majesty does not intend to adopt the extreme view of the measures required to arrest the spread of socialism. Hohenlohe, although 73 years old. is very aetive physically and mentally. - : s

Ex-Chancellor Caprivi in an interview says the leading question upon which he found it impossible to reconcile his own views with those of the emperor and Count Botho Zu Eulenburg was the anti-revolutionary measure. The second bone of contention between the same parties, he added, was the proposed treatment of the Polish question. : : BERLIN, Oct. 29.—The article which annoyed the emperor more than all others in the Caprivi-Eulenburg press feud was published by the Koelnische Zeitung to remove the impression produced by -the emperor’s reception of the Kast Prussian agrarians. This article said: ‘‘Chancellor von Caprivi won a complete victory over Count Botho Zu Eulenburg, and as the emperor stood behind Caprivi nothinge is left for Eulenburg but soumetire ou demettre.” Eulenburg, who had already decided to resign, regarded this as an offensive notice to quit, and showed it the emperor. The emperor sent Herr von Lucanus, chief of the civil cabinet, to ask Count von Caprivi whether he had inspired the article in the Gazette. Count von Caprivi replied in the negative, but expressed his sympathy with that paper’s views. The emperor then summoned Count von Caprivi and demanded a public disavowal of the article. Count von Caprivi repeated that he had not inspired the article and would not publish a disclaimer, because he agreed with its views. He now had no alternative but to resign, which he did. It is now known as a fact that the emperor tried to reconcile the personal differences between the two men, but failed.

In summoning the federal envoys to another conference the emperor said that Caprivi’s policy would be continued. This statement is taken with a grain of salt, as the emperor made a similar statement immediately after Bismarck’s fall.

The envoys expressed their satisfaction with the choice of Prince Hohenlohe. The South Germans were especially complimentary to the new chancellor who, they said, enjoyed the full confidence of their governments.

[Clodwig Carl Victor Hohenlohe, Prince von Schillingfuerst, who has been chosen to bear the burdens of state that have strained the shoulders of Bismarck and Caprivi, is 78 yvears old. He is a native of Bavaria. He entered the Prussian diplomatic service but resigned to enter the diplomatic service of Bavaria on becoming possessor of the family estates of Schillingfuerst. In 1867 he became Bavarian prime minister, and also undertook to fill the office of minister for foreign affairs. He at once, in the latter capacity, became the opponent of Prince Bismarck’s plans for German unity, and was even thought to be organizing a southern rival to the North German bund. His election in 1869 to the post of vice president of the customs parliament of the German confederacy was supposed to be a direct slight to Bismarck. Although a Roman Catholi¢c Prince Hohenlohe was no ultramontane, and on account of his opposition to the decrees of the ecumenical council of the vatican, the influence of the priests was brought to bear against him in the Bavarian elections of 1870, and he was forced to resign. By this time Prince Hohenlohe had become a convert to the creation of a new empire and the incorporation in it of Bavaria, and the members of the first German parliament marked their appreciation of his services by electing him their vice president. After ‘the recall of Count Arnum in 1874 Prince: Hohenlohe was chosen to succeed him as German ambassador to Paris, an appointment which he resigned in September, 1885. His investigations were the cause of the famous Arnum trial. In 1878 he was one of the three German plenipotentiaries at the congress of Berlin. In 1885, having entered the Prussian service, he was appointed stadtholder of Al-sace-Lorraine, which position he has held up to his present elevation. ] FOREST FIRES IN THE SOUTH. Tennessee and Mississippi Suffer from T Serious Blazes. TrRIMBLE, Tenn., Oct. 29.—Forest fires are spreading ruin in this section. The long drought has made the timber and grass as dry as tinder and the flames spread with lightning-like rapidity. The valuable range in the Obion river bottoms has been swept bare, causing a loss of thousands of dollars.

CorINTH, Miss., Oct. 29.—PForest fires are raging in the vieinity of Corinth and dense smoke overhangs the town. Several cotton fields have been destroyed in the outlying districts, valuable timber ruined, and the country laid waste. Hundreds of farmers are fighting the flames.

THE GUN EXPLODED. » A Distressing Accident to a Newton (Mass.) Family, NEwToN, Oct. 29.—Philip Raymond was attempting to shoot a muskrat at West Newton Sunday afternoon when the gun exploded, mortally wounding his wife, probably fatally injuring his son Raphael, aged 9, and seriously injuring himself. Two younger childrea were in the room, bait they escaped injury. The weapon was a cheap and poorly made doublebarrelled shotgun, heavily charged. Mrs. Raymond is dead. “ Gen.” Coxey’s Home Destroyed. MassILLON, 0., Oct. 29.—At 8 o’clock Saturday night the home of J. 8. Coxey, located at Coxiana, 4 miles north of Massillon, was destroyed by fire. The household effects and several costly outbuildings were also burned. The fire is supposed to be of incendiary origin. Thé loss is estimated at between $lO,OOO and $20,000. ‘Railroad Loses a Big Suit. ; MarixgrTE, Wis., Oct. 29.—The jury in the case of Cook Brothers against the Minneapolis & St. Paul railroad for $55,000 damages has rendered a verdict for the plaintiffs for $28,000. " Devastated by a Cyclonec. - - PeErmry, O. T.," Oct. 29.—A cyclone visited the northern part of this county and K ecounty in which twenty houses were blown down aud wrecked. ‘No one was seriously injured. The tracls of the eyclone was 500 yards wide and it swept everything in its path*for twenty miles. L Reglstration in Chicago. Cuicago, Oct. 29. ~Revised figures show the total registration for the coming election to be 348,175, of which 80,338 are women. New York city’s total registration is 2,000 less than thatof this ity & | co kg A ENT B SN By i s .

BUSINESS INDICATIONS. They Are More Favorable Than They _Were a Week Ago. New Yorg, Oct, 29.—R8. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: ‘'Engrossing political exocitement in many of the states causes a natural slackening in some kinds of business. But on the whole business indications are rather more favorable than they were a week ago. Gold exports have ceased, quite a number of mills have gone into operation, and the demand for products, if not equal to that of prosperous years, is bet—ter than it has been most of the time this year. The prices of farm products do not improve much, anfl there are still some strikes to resist reduction of wages, so thas the purchasing power of the people. cannot have materially increased, but there g & more hopeful spirit which rompis greater activity. On the other hand, the record of past transactions is somewhat less faveggable than of late. Payments through the principal clearing houses throughout the country show a decrease of 1.2 per cent. compared with last year, and a decrease of 21.9 per cent. compared with the same week in 1892, the decrease for four weeks being 29.8 per cent. ‘“‘Cotton has sold at 5.81 cents for middling uplands, and the large receipts at such low prices indicate clearly that the crop willat least be close to the largest, if not the largest ever produced. The anticipated settlement of difficulties at Fall River has not been realized, and at present'a good many spindles and looms are idle. "It is interesting that, in spite of the low price of the principal southern crop, manufacturers and wholesale dealers report rather more improvement in trade with the south than with any other section. “The wheat market isa quarter lower, and nothing appears to justify any important change. Corn [s higher, without any very clear reason, and it is noteworthy that at the same time porkis 76¢ lower—lard, 85c per 100 pounds, and hogs 40c lower. The contrast indicates how litile the provision market depends at present on natural relations of supply and demand.

‘‘lndustrial accounts are on the whole encouraging. The boot and shoe industry leads in improvement{, actual shipments from the east being larger than in any previous year. The demand for wool is not as large as it has been. Prices were put down before the new tariff took effect. so that results of foreign competition are felt mainly in reduced sales of some domestic wools. Almost nothing Is doing in spring woolens for men’'s wear, but manufacturers are more encouraged to believe that, as to a large share af the cheaper goods, they can meet any prices that foreign mills may make. ‘lt is still, as it has been for some months, 8 very encouragiag fact that the volume of commercial failures is small. Reports for the three weeks of October cover liabilities of only- $5.639,741, of which $2,629,671 were of manu-~ facturing and $2957,567 of trading concerns. The failures for the week were 231 in the United States, against 352 last year and 52 in Canada, against 44 last year.” |

Bradstreet’s says

“Merchants interviewed in various portions of the country report in some instances the condition of business as not having realized anticipations and at other points that the recent Dbright outlook for trade is modified. Such advices are based in part on the practical conclusion of the fall trade and delays in demanund for holiday goods. General trade continues checked throughout some portions of the regions suppli=d by Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha. Minneapolis and St. Paul, due to unseasonably warm weather.”

OUT OF A JOB.

United States Marshal Bede’'s Resignzation Is Accepted.

WasHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The publication in St. Paul of J. Adam Bede’s letter of resignation as United States marshal is regarded at the department of justice as a sufficient reason for the publication of the attorney general’s letter of acceptance. In the course of his letter Marshal Bede, afteruneéonditionally tendering his resigmation because he eanneot censcientiously obey the president’s order forbidding federal appointees doing campaign weork, says:

“I do this because the party to which I have ever given my allegiance an® in the principles of which I have an abiding faith, is this year being maligned.by know-nothings and mounte~banks and charged with evils that come from others’ crimes. :

‘““When I must choose between public office and my friends I shall take my friends. and nothing shall stand between my best efforts and their interests.’” .

The attorney general’s letter accepting Marshal Bede’s resignation is as follows:

“I have yours of the 16th inst., in which you tender your resignation of the office of United States marshal on the ground that you cannot consistently or conscientiously govern yourself by an order of President Cleveland of 1886, which forbids. federal office-holders from engaging in political campaign work. “I have just been obliged to call for the resignation of a United States marshal, whao beginning a political campaign with. speech~ making, ended by shooting, and is now under. indictment for murder. From the tone and temper of your letter, it would not be surprising to find you in the like predicament should you undertake to: be a political worker and a United States marshal at the same time. Undue excitement and recklessness are always most inevitable when the ordinary political partisanship is added to the personal interest inseparable from afficeholding. Your resignation as marshal is accepted, to take effect upon the appointment| and qualification of your successor.” WHITE CAPS AND BLUEBILLS. They Fight a Pitched Battle in Tennes~ see—Three Are Killed. . KxoxvILLE. Tenn., Oct. 29.—For two years there has existed in Sevier county a large organization ef white eaps. They have committed eutrages on defenseless citizens especially women. Some weeks ago another gang was organized in opposition which is known as bluebills. It is said te be composed of a better element of eitizens amd was organized for the purpose of wiping out white caps. _ "Thursday night a body of white caps numbering twenty-five or thirty started out to whip a man who lives 5 miles from Sevierville. It happened that this man was a bluebill and he hastily summoned his gang together. About twenty of them went to a bluif on Pigeon river and secreted themselves in a dense thicket of laurel. Shortly before midnight they heard the approach of white caps who were passing up the Iroad in the jolliest humor discussing plans for their midnight work. As they approached the thicket bluebills opened fire with Winchesters and a pitched battle raged for several minutes. "Two white caps, Laban Latham and John Kibble, were killed and several others wounded. 'The bluebills lost one man, Elithnan Allen, a prominent farmer. Two or three others of their clique were badly wounded. j RASSED AWAY. Overwork Causes the Death of a Promis ' nent Temperance Worker. . CricAago, Oect. 27.—Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, corresponding secretary of the Women’s Christian Temperance tinion, died Thursday evening at 6:11 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. C. E. Bigelow, who is a cousin oi Miss Frances Willard. Mrs. Woodbridge was known as ‘‘Miss Willard’s right arm,” and her death is the direct result of overwork. The disease with ‘which she died is termed embolism. Her health was exceedingly good up to two days ago, and she died before her friends realized that she was really sick. S L Will Resume Operations. WiLKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 29.—The Delaware & Hudson Coal company have given notice that on and after Monday next all their collieries will , resume work on full time. They employ over 10,000 miners, laborers and outeldebands: & 00 oo Fe N £of Foiis Ak eridn Fodaiih e Fom A o

| THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | N e R E TN International Lesson for November 4, 1804 —Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath— Mark 2123-28; 8:1-5. oy [Specially arranged from Peloubet’s notes.] GOLDEY TEXT—The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.—Mark 2:28. . PLACE IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST—Toward the middle of the second year of His ministry, the yvear of development. There has so far been & development of His fields of preaching, of training His disciples, of His power and teach~ ing through miracles. _ : LESSON NOTES. . A Question of Sabbath Keeping.—The Scene. 23. “He went through the corn fields.” Through the grain fields of wheat and barley. The English call all grain corn. Our corn, Indian gorn, was probably unknown in Palestine. ‘‘On the Sabbath day.” They were doubtless on their way to or from the morning service in the synagogue, for His disciples were an hungered (Matt.). The rabbinical law allowed no eating on the Sabbath, except in case of sickness, prior to the morning prayers of the synagogue. A similar canon in the ritualistic churches of to-day forbids breaking the fast before partaking of the communion.—Abbot. ‘‘Began, as they went, to pluck ‘the ears of corn.” Luke adds: ‘‘Rubbing them in their hands,” in order to separaté the kernel from the chaff. There was no road with fences, but a mere path through the fields of standing grain, so that they did not have to go out of their way. - : We see Jesus walking along by the margins of extensive stretches of standing grain. These stretches, spreading far and wide over the plain of (Genesareth, come down, on eithfer side, close to the path on which our Lord was walking. His disciples are with Him, and a group of others, inclusive of a band of disputatious and censorious Pharisees. They are on their way to or from some adjoining synagogue. Conversation and lively disputation go. on all along the way. At a certain point the Lord’s disciples ‘‘began to advance. They began to go ahead of our Lord, plucking the corn as they went.”—Morison.

- Note. — The narrative carefully avoids saying that Jesus plucked the grain and ate. He simply defended the right of His disciples todo so. Jesus had a perfect right not to pluck the grain, if thereby He eould remove any obstacles in the way of the success of His work. He gave the Pharisees no ground . for a personal accusation against Himself. Teachers thus may often refrain from using theirrights with the same object. ,

‘Talse Critics. 24. ‘*And the Pharisees said.” These Pharisees were accompaning Jesus, not to learn ' the truth, good or bad, but for the ene purpose of finding some fault with Ilim. They hated Him because they were wrong, and His teaching reproved them; He swept away many of their false rules and customs, and they must either change their lives, or prove the teacher to be in some wrong. Therefore they found every fault possible; tiey perverted His acts and lis words; they measured them by a false standard; they were pitilessly unfair. 'There can scarcely be any habit more injurious to the character than that of looking for faults in others, putting the worst possible construction on what they say and do, and shutting their eyes- to the good in them, Why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful? There was no harm whatever in plucking the ears; that was not only sanctioned by custom, but even distinctly permitted by the Mosaic law:. But the heinous fact was that this.should be done on a Sabbath!—Farrar. The law and practice of Palestine continue to: be this day what they wcre so many thousand years ago. (Dent. 23:25.) The law allowed them to pluck the grain toappease hunger, but not. to.apply the sickle to another man’s standing grain. : :

The unlawfulness, in the opinion of the Pharisces, was that what they did broke the law of the Sabbath. It was doing work, namely,. harvesting: on the Sabbath. The disciples really ' transgressed, not the: Divine law of the Sabbath, bnut the Pharisaical interpretation of that law.

The Pharisees’ Interpretation. of the: Sabbath Law. There are two ways of destroying the Sabbath; one by disregarding its principles, the other, quite as effectual, by smothering them under an immense number of artificial interpretations and prohibitions, which keep the letter of the law, but utterly destroy its spirit. The Pharisees took this latter course with the utmost ingenuity, almost satanic shrewdness of folly. It was impossible to keep the Sabbath on their plan. The econscience was continually bound with fetters. There could be no true, loving Sabbath spirit. ' : The law. commanded them to do ne work on the Sabbath. day. The Pharisees based on t;Eis thirty-nine principal prohibitions. Then they made a'multitude -of decisions gs to the definite things. these thirty-nine permitted or forbade. For instance, reaping and threshing were forbidden, hence it was asserted that plucking grain was wrong because it was a kind of reaping, and rubbing off the husks was a sin becausc it was a kind of threshing. “Grass was not to be trodden, as being akin to harvest work. Shoes with nails =ere not to be worn, as the mails would be a ‘burden,” and a ‘burden’ must not be carried. A tailor must not have his needle about him towards sunset on the I'riday, for fear the Sabbath should begin while he tvas vet carrvine it "—Eugene Stoels. :

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. ~~ EMPRrESS F'REDERICK promises to be . & facsimile of the queen before long. GEORGE DU MAURIER,, who is a wellpreserved man of sixty, is said to be a i striking blending of amiability and satire. © SAMuUEL HAvVENS, of Morgan county, Ky., has six daughters, four of whom married McGuires and the other two Carrs. - : ! THE queen incurred a fee of 7s 6d for having allowed six weeks to elapse be- | fore registering the birth of the present duke of Edinburgh. ’ i CnAuNcEY M. Drpew, Henry Irving - and Dr. Horace Howard Furness have l become members of the Edwin Booth Shakespeare league of New York. [ Tur late president of the Argentine ' Republie, Dr. Pellegrini, is now a part- - ner in a firm of auctioneers, while the ex-minister of finance is very appropriately a money lender. ; l Tue French Duchess @'Vzes has between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 bottles of champagne in her cellars in the Rue. de Temple, Paris, and as many more in her vaults at Rheims, ..~ ' = 5. SiLENCE in times of suffering is the besth"‘D‘:yden- eAT e ’ixn ‘‘a

A SMALL BOY'S MORNING. _ First I'thought I'd dig a well, And so I took my spade, ] : And underneath the apple-tree , . : : A deep round hole I made. o But though I worked like anything - Till I was stiff and lame, A ! . Ifound I couldn’'t have a well, - Because no water cams. > Then I spied a little bird; - ; It lay there just as dead! . And so, without anotber word, _ o I dug a grave instead - : I put poor birdie in a box, e And hid it in the ground, ; : And heaped the dirt above it close, - And planted flowers around. Bird funerals are lots of fun— ' Of course, they're very sad—‘When I had covered up the bird : An appetite I had. : S I ate a plate of gingerbread, Some bread-and-butter, too. ; And then I hurried out to find - Some other things to do. —Harper's Young People. J A MISCHIEVOUS BEAR. He Was a Clever Cub, But. He Stole Bread : and Pies. : Tappan Adney, in St. Nicholas, tells the story of a bear cub, captured by a backwoodsman named Ben Lawson, and saved as a pet for his children. - Ben’s little girl, about eight years old, took a fancy to the young orphan; and called him ‘“Billy.” Billy looked like a big Newfoundland pup, blaek and shaggy, but with a tail conspicuous by being ‘“hardly a tail at all;” .as. Ben said. He was as playful as a young dog or kitten, and used to romp on the floor with the children, hugging them and pretending to bite them. : But the good woman of the house vicwed the little fellow with suspicion, and was not easily persuaded that all bears were not equally dangerous. It was plain from the first that even a baby cub was hardly welcome. So

N e e i d,---—____:-._"—‘i:“‘ A, "TW i e ] i’?[}{(} * w"n‘»f- | — & i U!» "h|il| r —a& > ittt s .":'4"l#"’”\%”/’ ] D - 7 i (T b 7, ’/14 == ===l 4 i o f//: —_— ~ paEE=—— BILLY HELPED HIMSELF. ‘ Billy was provided with a smallleather collar that could be let out as he grew, and a small chain, which, however, ‘was never used. He wasfed at first on milk,” and afterward on bread and buckwheat pancakes. Indeed, he was confined to a strictly vegetable diet, because they thought his savage nature might be developed by eattng meat. : : = : Billy throve and soon needed a bigger eoilar. It was never thought necessary to-keep him chained up,; because he was so gentle. He had, therefore, the run of not only their own farmyard, but. those of their neighbors. as well. Ie was bent upon every sort of mischief; but it was not until long afterwards that he began the series of depredations that led to his untimely end. Summer came and passed. In the autump, when Ben dug his potatoes, Billy followed behind, watching' what was, going on, and, it issaid, as the chilfiren picked the potatoes up, Billy himself learned to look for them and paw them out of the soil. Be this as it may, every bear uses its paws with great cleverness —and Billy was a e¢lever bear. _ '

' When the days grew colder; at the i approach of winter, he commenced to dig a hole under the side of the barn, | and soon he had a great cawity under | the floor of the cow stable: Into this | den he began to carry all sonts of stuff, and Ben thought Billy was getting ready for winter in his natural way. One day .when bread was being lbaked, Billy hung about. the kitchen with a malie-believe indifferent air. !‘ After the bread was ecarefully laid f away under a white cloth upen the | pantry shelf, Billy waited until the ' mistress’ back was turned. In an - instant, the cub made for the pantry. : There was a shuffle and: rattle of claws, followed by a scream. ‘“The bear, _quick! The bear’s got. the bread!” cried i the wife in distress, as she turned in ’ time to see the rascal running out of ‘ doors with several fine loaves in his " arms.

Ben, as it happened, was close by, and heard the hubbub. He sprang to the door of the house just in time to intercept master Billy. Billy reared on his hind legs, and, as Ben caught him by the back of the neck, he growled savagely and struck back at Ben with on-cafrce paw, but never quiting his hold of the bread. _

Finally, after getting a good shaking and a cufiing about the ears, Billy broke away, earrying otf the middle loaf of the three. He disappeared into his den, where he ate it at leisure.

EE COURTOUS, BOYS. And That, Too, Whether Other Boys Are So or Not. i : ““I treat him as well as he treats me,” said Hal - His mother had just reproached him because he did not attempt to amuse or entertain a boy. friend who had gone home. i : I “] often go in there and he doesn’t notice me,”’ said Hal again. “Do you enjoy that?” e “0, I don’t mind! I don’t stay long.” “]I should call myself a very selfish person if friends came to see me and I should pay nc attention to them.” *Well, that's different; you're grown up.” s ‘“Then you really think that politeness and courtesy are not needed among boys?” Hal, thus pressed, said he didn’t exactly mean that; but his father, who had listened, now spoke: = . “A boy or a man who measures his treatment of others by their treatment | of him has no character of his own. He t will never be kind, or generous, or. ’ Christian. If he is ever to be a gentleman, he will be so in spite of the hoorishness of others. If he is to be noble, no other boy's meanness will change | his nature.” And very earnestly the father added: ‘“Remember this, my ‘boy, you lower your ownself every time you are guilty of an unworthy ac- | tion because some one else is. Be true to your best self, and no boy can drag vou down,"—Christian Work. [ ; L

‘—.—w '~ THEY SHOOK HANDS. Story of a Frenchman Who, Though ® Soldler, Was Still a Man. A story has lately been told by an old soldier of the French army as a souvenir of the Crimean war. In one of the attacks of the French left upon the Russians in the neighborhood of Sevastopol, the retreat was sounded on both sides, and the Russians retired to their fortress, the French to their trenches. On the way a French sergeant of the line encountered alone a Russian sergeant, also alone. The two men were face to face, and enemies. - Their guns were empty. Simulsaneously they took cartridges from their pouches and began to load, methodic--ally,like well-drilled soldiers, but as swiftly as possible. The guuns, like all others in that campaign, were muzzleloaders. The cartridges were forced to place with a ramrod. Simultaneously the two ramrods entered the guns, and simultaneously they were withdrawn, but the Russian, accustomed by inflexible discipline to do everything in a set way, put back his ramrodin its place along the barrel, while the Frenchman threw his away with the movement that withdrew it." This gave him the needed moment's advantage over hisantagonist. Clapping his gunstock to his shoulder, he had the Russian’s-life in his hands. The Russian stopped still, awaiting the shot that should be his death. Then the French sergeant dropped his gun from his shoulder and put out his right hand. The Russian grasped it, and the two soldiers shook hands without a word.—Harper’s Young People.

THE CONDOR’S FLIGHT. He s«l‘ya?rs Higher Than the Kagle and Is . ¥Far More Graceful. When we speak of the soaring eagle and of his power to look with steady eye upon the sun, we should not forget that there is a bird larger and heavier than the eagle, which has the power of rising in its flight to a greater distance above the earth than any other bird. The bird in question is the eondor of the Andes, South. America. The sight of a flock of conders, sailing in mid-air, mnst be a beautiful one. People who have watched them say that, except when rising from the ground, not one of them has ever been: seen to flap its wings. , They move in large eurves, sweeping in circles, descending and ascending, without giving a single flap of their wings. It is wonderful to see such a great bird hour afterhour, without any apparent exertion, wheeling and gliding over mountain and river. Humboldt claims that the condor soars'to a height of at least twentythree thousand feet above the sea, and other travelers say that it sometimes reaches a height of six miles. =~ The strange thing is that from such an elevation, where the air must be so highly rarefied, the bird will drop suddenly to the valleys, thus in the briefest time passing through an almost incredible change of temperature. But it loves the heights,. and they are its chosen home. . .

It is when away up a! a great height that the condor brings its keen eye to bear upon the movements of a herd of cattle far beneath. When some weak member of the herd falls to the ground,, the condors sweep down to the feast, and gorge themselves'until they have no longer power to rise. Then the Indians appear and noose them with the lasso.—Golden Days.

THE BIRD OF WISDOM.

A Little Lesson on the Habits of the OwlL ; and His Family.

. The owl has always been called the bird.of heroism and the emblem of wisdom. Perhaps it is because he lq\'(‘)ks SO solemn, perhaps because he flies abcut in the night and makes a curious, m:l--ancholy noise, that sounds Jike a piur- ; petual ‘“Who! who! who!” " . There are many different kinds of owls, from the great horned owl, tiro feet high, to the little bits of fellov sy - and the burrowing owl, which is aboat as large as a pigeon, and which makes ‘its home underground. This last owl is not very honest in the way he acquires his home. Inste;d of mkingfl the trouble to digout a house for himseilf he goes to the cozy litile -residence, already made, of some quiet little prairie-dog, who is too peaceful and timid in dispesition to dispute the matter. ' There he- selects. a snug corner for himself with the prairie-dog’s family in a curious, fellowship. But the usual home of owls is in some old, ruined building; or im the hcllow : NS % N U e e t' 4ly I 1, ‘\‘ E ‘\\. NS = et : W) W lAT : ____n s e, | ' . 3 A QRS SN ! R\ ‘_:\“"l';\\';“\\ N S | i " lj‘,“\lk‘.\\:"u}“ S ‘ 0“. !\.\ \ J} & “a}“\ ~—~ - =2 NEA) | 20 =\ : QR N RN ME. BARN'OWL. trunks of trees. There they sleep all’ day, and at night go out on a forage in search of something to eat. The owl does not seem very particular about his food. 'Any small animal he can catch makes a meal for him. Rabbits, rats and mice, even frogs, toads and such such small fry, he will eat and carry home to his nursery of hungry little owlets. : Most owls are of dark, grave colors, brown, gray or black. But the owl of Greenland, the cold region, is sunny white. Naturalists tell us that that is so that he can travel about the country unseen to search for his food. Owls live over almost the whole world. The commonest kind is that which all country boys know well enough, the barn owl or screech owl. This creature ‘malies a very unpleasant noise, and certainly merits his name. Farmers dislike him, and take every occasion to kill him. Butin spite of his nnpleasant hootings he does them good service in clearing the house where he lives of rats nnd mice to supply himselfand ail Dis family. Mad Me Barn’ Ovl is am RB M OOEA Y. DR s el i SR iR R RN Tatyy