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‘ . » oo L The Liyonier Banner, LIGONIER, :. : INDIANA. TyprolD fever can not be transmite mitted by sewer gas, is the report of experts to the London common council. The bacilli of the disease, also, find it hard to live in town sewage. - R S SRS BN R Jem A CANADIAN blacksmith named Allard has finally solved the great problem that has stood in the way of the general use of aluminum in place of iron and steel, and has succeeded in tempering ‘the new metal to the hardness ‘and resisting power of those heavier metals.

Tue board of aldermen of Brooklyn have voted to extend the rights of the Muniecipal Electric Light Co. over the entire city, with the understanding that at the end of ten years the municipality may take possession of the plant upon the payment of a sum equal to the cost of the plant. ; .

OxE of the savings banksin Portland had a book presented for settlement recently which was opened in 1863 with a deposit of §2OO, followed by $2OO in 1864 and $3OO in 1868; total deposits 4700, of which $528 was withdrawn in 1878. There is now due the depositor a balance of $2,027.97. «

THE peach growers in the lake shore fruit belt of Michigan nearly all agree that a temperature of 22 degrees below zero is required to. seriously affect the fruit buds'at this season of the year. After the first warm weather of spring expands the buds a much higher temperature will often do great injury.

- A RECEIVER will be appointed for the Icarian community, the socialistic village near Corning, la., conducted by adherents of the society founded originally in Texas in 1846 by Cabot and his associates. They eame from France. The existing- members have agreed to divide the property and dissolve the gociety. L e

A-BILY is being considered in ‘the Tllinois legislature to provide for the transfer: of the Lincoln monument from the association to the state, the purchase of nine acres of ground surrounding the burial place, the appro priation .of $30,000' to carry out the transfer and $50,000 to repair the historic pile.’ o '

. At the age of sixty-one August H. Merrike, of Laporte, Ind., fell in love with a comely young woman of twenty. She refused him, but he declared her opposition should be broken down, ang for thirty years he has been paying her assiduous court. Finally he prevailed, and at the age of ninety-one he has won his bride, who is now fifty.

It is probable that Norman A. Mogely, of Missouri, will be the young“gst member of the next house of representatives. He was born on a farm in 1866, and worked as a farm hand until 1887, when he had educated himself sufficiently to reach school and study law. Col. George B. McClellan, who is about thirty, will be another of the vouthful members of the house that bids fair to be noted for the young men in it: i

Miss ANNA GouLD, now the Countess Castellane, is a fairly good looking girl, but not pretty, as many newspapers have tried to makeout. Her one real point of beauty is her soft, dark brown eyes. To see her busily occu= pied taking notes at the law lectures you would never guess her to be one of the great heiresses of America. Her figure 1s petite and graceful, and her manners are entirely simple and unaffected. ' L

A MAN in Island Falls, Me., placed in the hands of an attorney for collection a bill of about §2O for work done on a building. A short time since he wrote to the disciple of Blackstone to see<¢if the bill had been collected, and received ahswer that it had, but the cost of collection was so great that the bill lacked sixty-eicht “cents of being enough to cover the expenses. He then hired another lawyer to investigate, who sustained the first verdict.

IT has been nearly two years since Dr. Nansen sailed from Christiana in the endeavor to solve the mystery of the North pole. Many arctic explorers believe the hardy adventurer and his eleven companions are dead, since he failed to call at "the various depots he expected to before throwing his ship in the great ice pack. Dr. Nansen himself, before leaving civilization, war&ned ‘the public it might be five years before intelligence could be had of him. o ; o

DrUNKENNESS has increased alarmingly in Belgium in the last forty years, according to M., Lejeune, lately minister of justice. The revenue fram the excise in 1851 was 4,000,000 francs, now it is 33,000,000: the number of saloons has increased from 53.000 to 175,€OO, and the annual consumption of spirits is 12 litres per head of the entire population, or 48 litres for each adult. Crinte has increased 200 per cent and insanity 138. and of every 100 deaths among males 80 are traceable to alcohol. . - i ’ L It has been demonstrated in England that three gallons of petroleum can be, made to do the servicé in one hourthat requires 170 pounds of coal, burning one hour and a half. In the consular reports for February, L. I. Richards, consul general in ! witzerland, shows that petroleum can_now be applied successfully to any furnace with a few alterations, whether for domestic or manufacturing purposes. The applicatio%-%& “double advant:igep‘b’f cheapness and an absence of all ashes or smoke. It is u practical solution of the smoke problem for large manufacturing cities. o G _ THERE are many points in the court etiquette of Spain that make it hard to be a boy king snd harder still to be the boy king's loving mother. As he was born a king little Alphonso had to have a household of his own, with his own Wit#fiw& He can not even dine at the same table with his mother, nor can she perform for him those tender little offices that mothers delight in und children find so com g 0 through with tedious state receptons, which - weary him sadly and &e&flMmfim e R

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, ~ FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Proceedings of the Second Session. MoONDAY, March 4. —ln the senate a number of Dbills were passed, one being to limit the severity of the copyright penalty, after which a resolution was adopted thanking the vice president for the ability, dignity and impartiality with which he had administered the duties of presiding officer. The vice president thanked the members for- the courtesy uniformly extended to him and then announced that the senate stood adjourned without day. In the house a resolution of thanks to the speaker was adopted. after which Mr. Crisp returned thanks for the uniform kindness, courtesy and consideration with which he had been treated by every member, and then declared the third session of the. Fiftythird congress adjourned without day,

FROM WASHINGTON.

Ix the United States the visible supply of grain on thé 4th was: Wheat, 78,761,000 bushels; corn, 13,676,000 é’ushels; oats, 6,586,000 bushels; rye, 318,000 bushels; barley, 1,417,000 bushels. Tae supreme court of the United States decided that American patents expired with those in foreign countries. Telephone, telegraph and electric light inventions are involved.

For February the treasury statement of circulation shows a decrease for the month of $39,122,958, reducing the aggregate circulation of all kindsof money to $1,574,584,557, a decrease for the year ending March 1 of $116,000,000.

DURING the seven months ended Feb-! ruary 1 the total number of immigrants arriving at United States ports was 113,375, against 189,582 for the seven months ended February 1, 1894, a decrease of 76,207, or 40 per cent. Taz president-left Washington in the lighthouse tender Violet for a hunting trip in‘ North Carolina waters. THe Bimetallic league issued an address in which voters are asked to desert their parties and settle the money question for all time. - Ar-the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchangesduring the week ended on the Bth aggregated $1,002,852,773, against $770,100,683 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 1894, was 6.8.

FRANCE, Russia, Japan and Hawaii may join with the United States in laying a Pacific cable, o

IN the United States here were 234 business failures in the seven days ended on the Bth, against 250 the week previous and 248 in the corresponding tioao i eeps. ' | . THE EAST. ; THE déath of Charles McFadden, who in his life built-more miles of railroad than any other man in the country, occurred in. Philadelphia. 5 _lx the lower branch of the Massachusetts legislature a bill to grant full municipal suffrage to women was defeated. : 3 o " REsoruTlONS'were adopted by the East Pennsylvania conference of the United Evangelical church scoring congress for continuing in session on Sunday. IN Pennsylvania a general strike among coal miners was ordered for an inerease in- wages. Twenty thousand men were involved. .

FrED DoucLAss left an estate valyed at $200,000. = « : .

TurougHOUT New York municipal elections resulted in the republicans carrying most of the cities and towns. TeE famous artist and writer, Edwin Forbes, died in New York city in his 54th year. , : SAMUEL WAKEFIELD, aged 96, the oldest minister in the world in point of service, celebrated his anniversary at West Newton, Pa. . A THEATER car, in which a miniature performance will be given on night trains between New York and Buffalo, is being built by Chauncey M. Depew.

- CHARLES A. DANA, editor of "the New York Sun, was indgted for alleged criminal libel on Frank B. Noyes, of the Washington Star.

IN Boston Mrs. Micah Dyer, Jr., a society leader and member of twenty women’s clubs, filed a voluntary petition in insolvency. Her liabilities were $lOO,OOO. L . MASKED robbers visited the home of George Wagner, of Exeter borough, Pa.; and burned him in an effort to extort money. WirLiaM WALL & Soxs’ cordage works in Williamsburg, N.. Y., were permanently closed, throwing 1,000 men out of work. ‘ . 8

Epltor DANA, of the New York Sun, indicted for eriminal libel, surrendered to the authorities and was released on his own recognizance. K

WEST ‘AND SOUTH. Frases destroyed the distillery of J. B. Wathen & Co. at Louisville, Ky., the loss being $lOO,OOO. - ~ Mg. HorLmAN, ‘of Indiana, with his retirement from congressional life at -the conclusion of the Fifty-third confi;tess,, completed a career of thirty E years as a national lawmaler. _Erlas HepaEs, 90 yearsold, a veteran of the Mexican war, died at Jeffersonville, Ind. ; ; Tuk doors of the First national bank of Texarkana, Tex., were closed through inability to meet its obligations. s : : At Kansas City, Mo., the Wingate Mercantile company went into a re“eceiver’s hands with liabilities of $llO,000 : : : } NEAR A'rapa,hoe, Q. T., J. Howard Payne, county attorney, was found frozen to death. He was a relative of and named after the famous author of *‘Home, Sweet Home.” L Firg destroyed the Locust valley coal wine near GJlilan, Mo., with the ‘buildings and machinery, entailing a loss of $lOO,OOO. ; : . | - IN Chicage Nora Keating, a notorious thief; who has been arrested 500 times within nine years, was sent to the penitentiary for two years. ' e ' 'ng business portion of F.ora, Ind., ‘'was burned. i e Tue people of Seattle, Wash., were horrified by the discovery of dead human bodies in the city’s main water { reservoir. ' - B : A TRAIN on the Indianapolis & Vincennes railroad was wrecked near San‘born, Ind., and six persons were inBA;gn‘s raidea a’ bank at'Adel, la., wounding the cashier and six others. | Citizens killed one robber, captured | the other and recovered the s‘olea - IN the Third district of Michigan Lient. Gov. Alfred Milnes, of Cold- | lican candidate for congress,

. JoEN TowNSEND, a prominent resident of Lynchburgh, 0., worried by his daughter’s marriage troubles, committed suicide by drowning. FREE silverites of the Third congressional district met in Battle Creek, Mich., and indorsed A. M. Todd, of Kalamazoo, the prohibition candidate for congress. s

SENATOR PEFFER in a speech at Canton, 0., predicted that the populists would be absorbed by a new anti-mo-nopoly party. ' : It was found that John L. Clark, of Muskegon, Mich., wanted at Sacramento, Cal., for bigamy, had at least four wives.: - ' e -

AT a crossing near St. Joseph, Mo., Joel Mallory, 80 years of age, his son-in-law, John Williamson, aggd Reuben Meßride were killed by the'cars.

TaE Idaho legislature elected George L. Shoup, of Salmon City, United States senator to succeed himself. :

'THE legislature of Missouri passed a bill prohibiting pool selling and bookmaking except upon race courses during the racing season. ’ SoME 300 negroes started from Mississippi and Arkansas to found a colony in Liberia. THE democrats of the Third Michigan district nominated Patrick H. Gilkey for congress. At Cincinnati the steamboat Longfellow ran into a lailroad bridge and sank and five of those on board were drowned. ,

A CYCLONE in the northern part of Georgia did great damage in the vicinity of Cedartown. THE jury found Harry Hayward guilty of the murder of Catherine Ging at Minneapolis. : STEAMERS arriving at San Frane¢isco reported "having éncounteved a terrific earthquake at sea the morning of March 12. : .

Tae death of Frederick E. Sickels, aged 76, inventor of the Corliss engine, oceurred in Kansas City from heart disease. .

THE legislature of Kansas adjourned sine die. :

THE March report of the secretary of state shows that the Michigan wheat crop for 1894 is already exhausted. At Little Rock, Ark., Thomas Watkins was hanged for the murder of a man named O'Bannon. Watkins declared his innocence to the last.

TrE legislature of Illinois adopted a resolution providing for hoisting the national flag over the state house every day in the year, - - .

Tue failure was announced of -the. Central Loan & Trust company of Russell, Kan.,.for $250,000. , > AT Scotland, Ga., an express train ran into an open switch, a woman ‘and her, child being killed and five persons injured, including Roland Reed, the actor. : s -

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

A DECREE was issued by the czar of Russia forbidding the use of the knout upon peasants, 3,000 of whom have been whipped to death during the last ten years. e . FrLaMmes at Port of Spain caused a loss of $4,000,000. American marines saved the place from destruction. - THE Japanese captured New Chang, the important Chinese treaty point. THE president of Venezuela ordered the French and Belgian ministers out of the country. - » A PLASTERER named Taylor, who lived near London, England, to save his family from starvation, cut the throats of his wife and six children and then took his own life. e e

INDIANS raided the Yaqui river valley and murdered seven Mexicans, among the number being two women.

FlvE men were:found frozen to death on a Mexican ranch near Zinacantepec. In the English house of commons charges were made that diseased meat is packed in Chicago for-shipment to Europe. ; Ture Norwegian novelist and leader of the Norwegian woman’s rights party. Mme. Collett, died at Christiania, aged 82 years. : . INSURGENTS in Cubaattacked Vinales, killing forty of the civilguard and capturing a lot of arms and ammunition.

It was said that Lord Rosebery was seriously 111, and only the entreaties of his friends kept him from resigning the premiership of England. -

LATER NEWS,

Frrry tramps ecaptured a freight train near Baltimore and rode to Wilmington, where eleven were arrested after a fight. : a 0 .G. A. Bupp & Co., hide dealers, of Cleveland, failed for $300,000, with assets at half that amount.

INCENDIARIES were again at work near Anderson, Ind., and bloodhounds had been employed by the farmers to run them down. . P

SAILORS at Nahant, Mass., killed a right whale, 75 feet in length, which bore a harpoon dated 1858. . ; Tar Missouri house passed bills pro hibiting alien ownership of lands and te‘close barber shops on Sunday. , - RicHARD JonN, who killed his wife and child at St. Louis, was se?fifiehced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. Carr. CHARLES CROPSEY, for thirtythree years master of the Pennsylvania union station in Chicago, died at Crown Point, Ind., aged 64 years. Mgs. MARY CARUTHERS, living near Paris, Tex., poisoned her two children that she might elope with a hired man. MAXY of the coal operators.in the Pittsburgh district conceded the advance in the wage scale asked by the striking miners. | THE peak of Orizaba, an anecient volcano in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, was in a state of eruption. 1 Mgrs. ANNA KISKADDEN, a pioneer of Ohio, died at the residence of her daughter in Union Plains, aged 105 years. , ‘ CHINA has notified Japan of her acceptance of the conditions imposed by the latter for a settlement of the war. : G - CATARINO GARZA, the notorious Mexican bandit and pretended reyolutionist leader, was killed in an attack on Bocas del Toro. _ * FLAMES were raging in the Hazle slope of the Lehigh Valley Coal company near Hazleton, Pa., and the loss would be $1,000,000. S AN explosion blew out the whole front of the manual trdining school “building at Toledo, V., causing a loss ~of $150,000. . , A 1 St. Joserh, M 0.,” Mrs. Thomas Allen was instantly killed at a grade }cropsing and her daughter and Mattie Dixon were fatally injured. - CountrrpElTEßS flooded Kansas City Ewith spurious 'dollars and twenty-five Swhpleces v e Cor. ANbmEw J. McNmrr, of the United States army, retired, ¢led at

, ey INDIANA STATE NEWS. ' The General Assembly. : INDIANAPOLIS, March 5 —SENATE—Substitute Senate Bill 165 was the special order for 10:30 o’clock in the senate Monday morning. This was the bill introduced by the committee on corporations to take the place of Senator Board’s bill for the control of building and loan associations. The substitute bill provides for the abolitiou of the expense fund, the taxation of paid-up stock, su‘pervision by the auditor of state, and an itemized statement of receipts and disbursements annually. Adopted.. Senator Houghton offered an amendment providing that there should be no examination by the anditot ¢ state except upon the application of ‘three stockholders, and the amendment was adopted. Senator Vaile offered an amendment to appear as section 6, providing a penalty not to exceed $l.OOO for the charge of a commission by any officer for procuring a loan for a stockholder. The amendment was adopted. HoUSE—The expected veto of the legislative apportionment bill came to the house Monday from the governor's cffice. The house passed the bill of Senator McGregor regulating the employment of children in factories, and. providing for the appointment of factory inspectors. The house passed the bill of Senator Shiveley to prevent the padding of school enumerations, and also the bill of Senator Bird, fixing ' the salaries of the commissioners of Allen county at $1,200 a year. The house also passed the following bills Monday night: Raising the age of consent to 18 years; for/the protection of song birds; providing that insane convicts shall be removed from the prisons to the insane asylums. The house defeated the bill to erect Bartholomew county into a separate circuit. * The bill of Senator Stuart to exempt homesteads from execution, and also exempting $650 of personal property, was also defeated. : Sl x

INDIANAPOLIS, March 6.—SENATE—The sen< ate Tuesday morning reconsidered the vote by which the Nicholson bill was made the special order for Tuesday afternoon, on request of the temperance committee, who promisedthat they would report upon it Wednesday morning. The congressional apportionment bill passed the senate. Senator . Self, whose @ district has been sadly mautilated and who kept out of the . caucus, voted with the democrats against the bill It has passed both houses. The senate Tuesday afternoon pa%sed the legislative apportionment bill, the congressional apportionment bill and the bill for the reorganization of the benevolent institutions. It passed the legislativé apportionment bill over the governor’s veto. The senate committee on fees and salaries has agteed to a recommendation that the salaries of the judges of the supreme court should be $5,000. e i

HOUSE—THhe house Tuesday morning passed the legislative apportionment bill pver the governor's veto. McCaskey's caucus bill amending the election law was passed. This places the republican bill first on the ballot, ‘allows. the name of a candidate, having thé nomination of two parties to appear on the ticket but once, allows each party to have watchers of the count and requires all ballots in dispute for distingt_xisliing marks. mutilations or, if refused to be inciudéd in the count, to be preserved for six .months as evidence in a contest:; it also increases the voting capacity of polling places by adding one booth, making four in all.

' INDIANAPOLIS, March 7.—SENATE—The senate Wednesday passed the bill abolishing the board of monument commissioners and creating a board of three regents. over the veto of Gov. Matthews. The vote was a strict party one of 31 to 19. The senate failed to pass the building and-loan’ bill for want of a constitutional majority, the vote standing 23 to 23. The senate Wednesday night passéd Moore's house temperance bill. Tt gives cities acting under general charter the right to prescribe where saloons may be kept and prohibits screens. It does not apply to Indianapolis. HovuseE—The "house passed a bill repealing Section 2 of the employes co-liability bill in accordance with the desirés of the railroad employes’ organizations, Another bill passed by the house of wide interest was the amend=ment to the present law offered by Mr. Stakebake, which will authorize the governor or attorney-general to bring a suit in the name of the state on their own behalf for the enforcement of law. The house passed the senate bill making an appropriation of §lO,OOO anrually to. the state board of agriculture for premiums on exhibits. The house also passed a senate bill for a municipal gerrymander, by amending the law so as to permit the cities to be redistricted every two years instead of every ten. Another bill passed by the house authorizes teachers holding a thir-ty-six months’ license to teach in any county in the state on that license. The house passed: the Remy bill for taxing pajd-up and debenture building and loan stock.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 8. —SENATE—The senate jumped on the Nicholson bill Thursday morning at 11 o’'clock and squeezed it far out of its original shape. Several amendments were offered. One to strike out the section dividing saloons up into small rooms, known as - wine rooms. The amendment to permit the saloonkeeper's family, as well as himself, access to the saloon in prpohibited hours for the public was amended by 31 to 17. The amendment restricting the forfeiture of licenses to the jurisdiction of circuit. superior and eriminal courts was lost by a-vote of 26 to 23. The amendment providing that for the third convietion the court shall order the!license forfeited was adopted by a vote of 33 to 15. The vote to strike out the section, which is a species of local option, was 20 yeas and 28 nays. Thus the bill stands ready for approval Friday on the third reading. Mr, Nicholson said Thursday night he would accept every amendment. e v Housk—The house Thursday night passed the prison bill notwithstanding the veto. The bill providing for the transfer of insane prisoners to hospitals has passed. both houses, also the bill creating a state library board.. This takes all patronage out of the hands of the caucus except"‘Engineer” Cain. The house passed the Stutesman civil service reform Dbill placing all the public institutions on a freform . basis gnd making the state board of charities -the commission; senate bill authorizing poliee :boards to appoint police matrons; also requiring street railway companies to protect motormen by vestibules; also requiring township trustees to keep records of all orders given for relief, and also for the relief of Joel S. Davis, of Bartholomew county. : INDIANAPOLIS, March 9.—SENATE — The Nicholson bill passed the senate Friday morning by a vote of 39 to 9. Of the affirmative vote eleven were by democratic senhators and twen-ty-eight by republicans. No republican voted against it, Senator Wishard still being confined to his bed by illness and Senator Boord being absent. When the vote was announced at noon, after a whole morning on the bill, the crowd that packed the chamber in every available foot of space almost raised the roof with applause. House—The Nicholson bill was the most i~ portant matter before the house Friday afternoon. On motion of Mr. Nicholson, :all the senate amendments, exeept the one referring to drug stores were concurred in, and a conference committee appointed ‘to make -some minor changes -in that section. The commit‘tee will report Saturday morning, when the bill will be finally passed. The house passed a senate bill authorizing ‘electric street railway companies to furnish light and power to other corporations, and to consglidate if approved by the unaninious vote of the stockholders. # Aveust NokDEEM, Ft. Wayne, has received a letter that was written by his father in Sweden and sent out on the ill-fated Elbe= The letter went down with the rest of the mail, but was recoveréd by divers. The epistle is still readable. ; . ; ‘BUENA VIsTA was touched by burglars. They entered the post office -and secured $4OO .and valnables from the store in which the office is situated. Tur famous whitecap gang has broken loose again, this time burning Isaac Goodman’s barn and stock near Anderson. Bloodhounds will be used to run 'em down. e | Tue Loganspart Electrie -Light Co. hasreduced the price of lighting onei e g ~ Tue body of achild was found in a lime vat, near the Buckeye factory, ApdSmeon, KNox county sold $90,000 worth of bonds to Chicago buyers. The bonds are for drainage purposes. - Two Bloomfield boys in trying to take e greasemark out of the foor of ‘a box car, set fire to it. The loss was BOM gt i L A six-wesks’ protracted meeting has Jurbploned at Broskin dusing whish Tt el

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL., International Lesson for March 17, 1895— Zaccheus, the Publican—Luke 19: 1-10. [Specially Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.] GOLDEN TEXT.—The Son of Man is come to ::-ellé and to save that which was lost.—Luke TIME.—The last of March, A. D. 30. Only a little more than a week before the crucifixion. PLACE —Jericho. 5 INTERVENING HISTORY.—After the Interview with the rich ruler, Jesus spoke the parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matt. 20: 1-16). Proceeding on His way to Jerusalem. He announced to His disciples His death and resurrection (Matt. 20:17-19). Then Salome and her two sons, James and John, came to Jesus, as king, for the chief places in His kingdom (Matt. 20:20-20). When Jesus reached Jer“icho he restored sight to Bartimeus and another blind man (Luke 18: 35-43); and as He was leaving the city for Jerusalem occurred the incident of Zaccheus. - : LESSON NOTES. . . The Seeker.—**And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.” On His last journey to Jerusalem. He had crossed the Jordan westward since ‘our last lesson. ‘‘Jericho,” city of the .moon, or place of fragrance. The largest city in the valley of the Jordan, about twenty miles northeast of Jerusalem, on the west side of the river Jordan, north of its entrance into the Dead sea. In the time of Christ Jericho was wealthy and flourishing. = ‘“Behold, there was a man named Zaccheus:”. He was a Jew (v. 9). ' His name is Hebrew from a root meaning pure, in contrast with his former char--acter and reputation. ‘‘Which was i chief among the publicans:” or gatherers - of revenue for the Romans. The taxes | {mposed by the Romans on subject nai” tions were farmed out to men of wealth, | who, for a specified sum paid at once . into the Roman treasury, obtained the _right of collectingithe taxes of a province .or city. These contractors, who were . usually Roman knights, intrusted the ' actual collection of taxes to subcon- ! tractors or tax gatherers. This system, | which is still prevalent in the east, gave | the widest scope for rapacity and extor- | tion.—G. W. Clark. It is probable that ! Zaccheus was the subcontractor under | the Roman knight who had bought out this privilege at Jericho, and “‘as such he had as abundant opportunities for enriching himself as a Turkish pasha.”™ “At Jericho was one of the principal i custom houses. Here alone was cultivated the famous balm of Gilead, now I quite extinet, and not a native of the ’ country, but of the east coast of Africa. l Tradition said it was originally intro- | duced by the queen of Sheba, who gave { some roots to King Solomon. From ' here plants were taken by Cleopatra | for her gardens at Heliopolis. It was ‘ always a government monopoly, and imperial guards were placed over the | plantations. Hence the importance of £ the position of the tax gatherer at Jeri- ! cho, who naturally would be a chief | officer of the publicans. Besides the i revenue from the balsam, Jericho was | the great halting place for caravans { from North Arabia to Palestine and i Egypt, and here they paid the duties on | their merchandise.”—Canon K Tristram, | The Seeking.—V.B. ‘“And he sought “to see Jesus:” Greek, kept secking, i resolved not to cease.— Van Doren. | Reports of His miracles and teachings | in Pcrea, not far away beyond the I Jordan, were brought by crowds who were coming through Jericho, on their ! way to the Passover at Jerusalem, and g the air was full of rumors and stories i about the Great Prophet. i : His Motives for Seeking Jesus.—(l) It is probable that curiosity had something to do with awakening his interest. (2) “From many hints in the Gospels, it seems that a work of grace was going on among the publicans as a i class. (See Luke 38:12; 5:29; 7:29; 15:1; 18:10. These should be taken together.” —Sadler. Thus the general pervading { influence around him would move him. , (8) His awakened conscienge would | give him no rest or peace. (4) He had « longings for a better life. (5) What he had heard of Jesus kindled a hope within him that the galling chains } which bound him to his old life might ‘be broken. , Jesus had parted the l clowds and lét in rays of light and | hope. A new life was possible, since | the new prophet had been favorable to ‘ publicans and sinners, instead of join- ! ing in the customary contempt and hatred. - : Hindrances to.a Religious Life.— There were not a few hindrances in the | way of Zaccheus, which are well | brought out in Robertson’s unsurpassed ‘asermon on this lesson. (1) There was | the outward hindrance of the crowds, which presented no small difficulty, because it must be -overcome at onee, or the opportunity would be forever lost. ; (2) His profession gave him great and easy opportunities to do wrong with t impunity, yet to the increase of hisown { gains. (8) It tended to make him satisfied with a low standard of morality, according to the customs of the business in which he was engaged. (4) Zaccheus was tempted to that hardness in evil which comes from having no character to support. Nothing but evil was expected of him, and thus society itself held him down. (5) Another hindrance lay in the recollection of past guilt. | “Remorse islike the clog of an insoluble debt. The debtor is proverbially extravagant. A little more or less malkes |no difference, so he plunges further into debt.” “If a man lose the world’s respect he-can retreat back upon the J.consciousness of God within. Butif a man lose his own respect he sinks down and down, and deeper yet, until he can | get it back again only by feeling that he is sublimely loved.” (6) Past guilt becomes a hindrance, too, by making fresh sin easier. (7) All his associations in business and society hold him back. ‘To repent was to declare that not only himself but his compnanions were wrane , FAVORITE SONGS. : - “Tar CAMPBELLS ARE CoMIN’” is a | very old Scottish air. Copies of it, dating back to 1620, are known to exist. | ‘"“BecoNE, DuLL CARE,” is over three | hundred years old. The melody was formerly known as “The Queen’s Jig.” - “ONE BUMPER AT PARTING” is one of | the best of Moore’s convivial songs. | The tune was called “Moll Roe in the T Motntag ! L s Lo | “BINGEN ON THE RHINE” was written by Mrs. Caroline Norton. The music | was composed by Judson Hutchinson P about 1848, oo e _ “Wno't. pE KiNe BuT CHARLIE?” _came from the pen of Carolina Oliphant. The air is from a collection of old ScotLR beliags . 0 "0 Bovs, CARRY Mr LoNG” was one | ‘of Foster’s later aon%s It was written +in 1851, and immediately attained a | mdopopulanity, Tetan s | . ‘Tmose EveNiNe Buris,” one of 7 Moore’s most ?01%!13“ songs, was sug- | gested by o melody entitied *The Bell of 8%, Petersburg.” . [ waws uoommxen» ovy popn ~ Grandfather's Clock f?‘i*“w**"m L Soembiers bk s

Pure Rich Blood

Is essential to good health, because the blood is the vital fiuid which supplies all the organs with life and the power to perform their functions. - ; e . Hood’s Sarsaparilla acts directly upon the blood, making it rich. and pure and giving it-vitality and lifegiving qualities. This is why Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cures when all other preparations and prescriptions fail. e “1 have tried Hpod’s Sarsaparilla and found it to be an excellent medicine for impure blood. I highly recommend it.” Faxnie E. PRicHARD, Utica, N. Y. o

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A IADY who called at a house jabout one o’clock, expec ting to share fmlevn:édday meal and obhged to go without receiving the desired invitation, betrayed,the current of her thoughts by taking leave of her friend as ‘‘dear ‘Mrs. Luncheon.” Dol rentiey Best of All e To cleanse the sy stem in a gentle and truly beneficial manner, when the springtime comes, use the true; and perfect remedy, Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 50 cents; the large size §l. Try it and be pleased. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. : o : ORKILMERS The Great - WARME) kionev, L@ (% LIVER& g, Qe BLADDER : - AtDruggists, 50c & 81, @ Q Advice & Pamphlet free, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. ¥,

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Babies and Childrel thrive on ‘Scott’s Emulsion when all the rest of theéir food _seems to go to waste. - Thin Babies and Weak Children grow Stromg, plump and healthy by taking it. oy Scott’s Emulsion | ARETTINNENEIITIEEY A S RRS overcomes inherited weakness and all the tendencies toward Emaciation or Consumption, Thin, weak babies and growing children and all persons suffering from Loss of Flesh, Weak Lungs, Chronic Coughs, and Wasting Diseases will receive untold benefits from this great nourishment. The formula for making Scott’s Emulsion has been endorsed by the medi6al world for fwenty years. No secretaboutit: . . Y el for PampNat vn Scolls Bwwision. FREB: 1060

_Blood is life and upon the purity and vitality of the blood depends the health of the whole system. The best blood purifier is = Hood’s Sarsaparilla This’ i® proved beyond any doubt ‘by the wonderful cures which have been accomplished by this medicine. Weak, tired; nervous men aund women tell of new strength and vigor and steady nerves given by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Sufferers from sleeplessness, scrofula, salt rtheum and the severest forms of blood °diseases have found relief in Hood’s. This is.because Hood’s Sarsaparilla purifies the blood. '

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- Last year wé comnienced an elaborate plan of advertising, but before we were half through, OUR ADVERTISEMENTS DISAPPEARED. Why? Because WE WERE OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS. There was but one thing to do: withdraw the advertising and devote every energy to filling the orders with which we were flooded. This we did, and handled with reu.sonable'prom_g’tness a most un;recedent_ed gar‘s business. " WITH ENLARGED FACTORIES, INCREASED FACILITIES, AND TWENTY BRANCH HOUSES FROM WHICH TO DIS. TRIBUTE OUR GOODS, WE CAN NOW CARE FOR ALL WHO ‘COME. Last year we could not reduce prices because we were compelled in some way to limit-the demand for Aermotor goods. We would have been satisfied-with lower prices, but why create A demand which we could not supply? We have made the heaviest purchasesof steel and material bought in America this year, and at unprecedented prices, and liave made terms to dealers which:enable them to make unpirecedented prices, In quality, character, variety, finish, and accessibility to full stock of goods and repairs, we are without competitors. In our plan of advertising last year, we proposed to furnish a feed cutter under certain conditions fonf 815. For reasons stated above we did not complete the advertising, and the feed cutter was not put out. We now propose to make amends in the following manner. We will announce in this paper our NEW ALL-S%EEL VERY SUPERIOR FEED CUTTER, WORTH cash with order, £. 0. b. Chicago. Only one to one person,-he to furnish addresses of ten neighbors who ought to have something in our line. Cut; description and full information regarding it will appear soon. . s We especially desire to” . caution you against paying excessive hpricesfz" wind- i mill owtfits. The temptation on the part of the L ’/-'/ & dealer to overcharge is great. - $lO added to \\" R the legitimate price is $lO clear Biael Yo RN profit to the dealer. To, be sure _':,«3;'\‘* QM Gl that you get the proper pride and arti- P P 4 7 \\§ cle, write us_of your needs and you i will be protected. We are, and always have bee Y helievers in low prices. Because of the prodigiousesties output of our factories we are- enabled to have special VEIR “tools for each piece, and thus reduce the hand labor on it to merely picking up the material and laying it down again. Sosmall has become the cost of labor put on the material which we sell’ that It.is not worth 8 mentioning. We have become the largest dealers in «material in the country; the material, of course, be- § R ing made up in the form of stee! galvanized-after-com- j‘ § pletion windmills, towers (tilting and fixed), tanks, \ / pumps, etc.,, To suchan “extent has this become true, ) and to such an extent has the. price of ourgoods (and @ M\'M on.that account the volume of our business ren- §i i dered competition im‘vossible), that FOCR LARGE WINDMILL CONCERNS ARE BUYING THEIR TOWERS OF US THIS YEAR. THEY DO IT BECAUSE WE MAKE THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE AND SAFE TOWER 3: BECAUSE-THEY CAN BUY OF US CHEAPER THAN THEY CAN BUILD; BECAUSE WE ALONE ARE PREPARED TO GALVANIZE EVERYTHING AFTER IT IS COMPLETED, AND COMPLETE EVERYTHING EXACTLY RIGHT, These concerns are wise, for, even though they may not furnish the best of wheels, the wheel will have the best of supports. - Send to us-your name and address, and those of your neighbors whe may need something in our line,'and thereby do them a good turn. The Aermotor Co. is one of the most success. ful business enterprises which has been launched in recent ‘times. In succeeding advertisements will be discussed and made clear the lines on which that success has been worked out. 1t was done by a farmer’s boy. A careful following of these ad--vertisements may suggest to some other farmer’s boy a career. Aermotcr Co., 12th, Rockwell & Fillmore Sts., Chicago.

The Greatest Medical Discovery | i of 'the. Age. * 'KENNEDY’S MEDICAL DISGOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, of ROXBURY, MASS., Has ~discovéred 'in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every - kind of ‘Humor; from -the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple, - = - He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed exceptin two cases (both thunder humor.) Hehasnow in his possession over two hundred certificates | of its value, “all' within twenty miles of Boston. - Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bogdle, and a perfect cure is warranted . | when tRg right quantity is taken. WhelY the lungs are affected it causes shooting = pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears iva week atter taking it. Read the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. . No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can: get; and enough of it. ~ Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bedtime. Sold by all Druggists.: 'WALTER BAKER & GO, . p= The Largest Manufacturers of . -@E PURE, HIGH CRADE (& COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES - '\‘ \3\- Y/ ;.‘;-’,‘ Continent, have received B e v WO IS HIGHEST AWARDS GRS . from the great : igy Industrial and Food iHfi EXPOSITIONS fid | | 108 Europe and America. N e 5 —_— : ‘ ."i‘fét‘ || & "'"" i\ Unlike the Dutch Process, no Alks~ Rt [ lics or other Chemicals or Dyes are - i R used in any of their preparations. “ Their delicious BBEAKF'AS{‘ COCOA& absolutely - : mfnd'nluble,andqo:tf le':uhaywnc»ceuta_}cup. n " BOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. - WALTER BAKER & 0. DORCHESTER, MASS, . BEST POLISH IN THE WORLD.

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DO NOT BE DECEIVED ~ SRS wu':h Pastes, Enamels, and Paints which stain the hands, injure the iron, and burn red. The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant,_ Odorless, and Durable. Each package contains six ounces; when moistened will make several boxes of Paste Polish. HAS AN ANNUAL SALE OF 3,000 TONS. Fayette Gounty, West Tennessee, isattracting more immlgratién from the North and Northwest than any other part of the South. Its glgeap lan%‘; fertile soil. genial climate. fine transporation and hearty welcome to homeseekers are the inducements. Large number of Northern people located here. Are ‘you thinking of coming South! Write to A. J. ROOKS, Sec’y, Somerville, Fayette Co., Tenn. 3~ NAME THIS PAPER every time you write. g