Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 October 1895 — Page 6

SGUND CURRENCY.

Secretary Carlisle Tells What Is

Needed to Insure It.

Covernment Demand Notes Must Be Retived -Suwys the Administration’s PolMy of Redemption Will Continue — Address at Boston. . :

fosrow, Oct. 14.—The meeting of the Massachusetts Reformelnb at the Vendwme Saturdaymight was an ovation in Neeretary Uarlisle and his speech on the finances of the government under the present administration waslistened to with great interest. Secretary Carlisle spoke, in part, as follows:

~ *ime of the most important questions the 2eople huve now to consider is whether they am afford to adhere longer to a system which periodically augments the public debt for the parpose of _securing gold to be exchanged e moles. which when redeemed are not serdred and canceled, but are reissued and pot *in eircnlation to be over and wxyr again presented for redemption. So farus e merits of this single question are afected it is momaterial whether our standard wineis 1o L e gold or silver: because the coin %z 2mdemption purposes. whether it be-gold pain or ‘Silver coin, must be provided by the gevernment. anlii can be procured only by the sule of bonds ' Whether we continue to main--Izinthe goid stanlavd of value or debase our enzrency to ihe silver standard the obligation of the government to redeem its notes in coin @®w presentalion will remain, and, consequentIx. the questioa whether the notes when redeemed shall be retired and cancel=d. or reiswued. §s one which cannot be avoidel or setsded by o chanze in our coinage laws. It aast he seitied by legisl «tioa in another direction ' : : : “When bouads are sold in our market, experio has-shown that o large part of the gold to pay for them is tuken from the treasury reserve in the tirst instance, or withdrawn in a shart time aiter the bonds have been paid tor aod deliver:d. A regular banking institution: an easily provide u proper reserve and can pasily replenish it when reduced; but the treaswry depurituent can do none of these things. - =My contention is thit the notes ought to be Aept onsstanding, but should be retired and ranveled us specdily as sound and safe curgeney can be provided to take their places.. 4 hece can be no dnancial ‘repose.iu tais couniry o 8 long as these notes continue & purt of our currcney, because the fact that thoy exist compels the- govframent to provide o large gold reserve which, in the very naiture of taings, cunnot be permanently mainteined by any fixed amount; and whenever it vegias to diminish, distrust snd apprehension avise in the public mind, yalwes are ansettled, busicess is disturved, =ol MOre oy les=s loss 1s encailed upon tne people. The losses aiready sustamed on this aeeount are almost beyoal computation, aznd there is no gpod ; reason 1o believe that the country can e.cap® iurther jmiury in the tuture it the policyof the government is unchanged in this respect. Lhe fact yhat the sounduess of our currency depends, @r 13 supposed to depend, upon the mualutenxnee of » cervinin fixed resevve in the treasury, which keeps the business of the country in an slmost coastant state of agitation und alarm. is frowm every point of view detrimeatal to the interests of \hie people =Ny only parposc now is to assist in directing public atiention to the subject, and to express the decided opinion that ihis element of wealness must be eliminated from our sysgeny helfore wo can have uny positive assurauce »f permansnt Salety. After the exparience of the last Aaree years, it secns almost incredibie that a proposition to retire these notes sheuld encounter opposition, though there is, of course, room for wide diference of opinion as 1o the manner in which iv shull be uccomplished und as to the character of the currency that shall be substituted for them. “The responsibility is upon the people and sheir repre-entutives. in congress Lo deter;ming whether the public debt shall be insrewsedil Lxom vime to vime in order to redeem sid peissue th.s paper, which, to say the Wwsts 18 of doubtful constitutionality, and 8 wo more convenient for use thin other fomns Of currency, The executive auAhov.ties must obey the laws as they stand, wheter taey be good or bad, but il the pow-~ ars gonferved upon them by the statutes will be tadthfully aud fearlessly exercised wnengor nocessary. for ohs prescrvation of the public credit und thé muiatenance of o sound waed stabl: currency for the use of the peopie fru A%y wramsac dion of gheir business.

»If eur finaaein) and currency conditions are sacl aat these results cannot be aceomplished without in reusing the public debt let 4be sEstem be changed, but it is scarccly fair 10 irapose unplesant duaties upon us, -and then griticise us tor dischargin: them in the only way vhey ¢so bo disch irged “¥haaw is mace than on: way in which an sdegicaie and safe cuir.ney can be secured for The use of Lae psople withoat obstruct.ng the powers of the governnent, or s.bjecting its ereAlit Lo 8o viclssitudes of either legitimote Lrede er reekles s spooulation, wud £ most sinverely kope the suoject will reccive the caretul causideration of ail who teel an interest in U v B RN X e sawa:l 1);)11\:;,‘._ and that 2 plun may be formziated whica will meet the approFui ol ot ress. . 1

¢ *lp the meantine the government will continue o redezxm ils, obhigations on presentai, aotorioyg to the require weats of toue exting laws and pye poticy. Those who wank ol wiill - get 1%, and toose~.who want silver wi.\l'g,t:n i% anesparity of the two metals WAI D wasstained. and the wuole volume of pur aarreney. paper and coin-alike, will be ®ept egual to the piguest staadard recornized Ly the commercial nations of the world.”

FOUR DROWNED.

4. YXawl Bout Capsizes on the Patapsco | ginver in Maryland.

Bartistore, Md., Oct. 14.—A ferryman's yawlboat in which six persons were crossing the eastern branch of the Patapsco river Sunday was capsized and four of its occupants were growned. 'The accident wis witnessed v bundreds of people who lined either side of Spring gardens, and several bouls immediately put off to the rescne. One of the unfortunates was found elinging to the overturned boat, and another had managed to keep himself afloat by the aid of an oar. 'The | nther four had sunk. 'The bodies were | recovered. . SENTLCNCE CUT DOWN. Ex-ftate Treasurer Taylor Will Have to ‘ Yexve Lut Lwo Vears, Pimgne, 8. D., Oct. 14.—The supreme gonrt handed down its decision Saturday morning in the writ of error in the ease of ex-dtate Treasurer Taylor. The supreme court modifies the decision of the lower court and reduces the teym of imprisonment Lo two years, The sentence begins August 14. W ' Seutenced to Deatli. o © Frurrory, 111, Oct. 14.—The jury in ghe Frank W. Harris murder trial | bwrought in a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to be hanged. When the clerk read the verdict, Harris fainted. The erime for -which Harris wmast suffer was the murder of Charles W. Bengel, May 9 last. Harris isan ex-professional baseball player, and well known all over the country. : y; ; Insane Over Love, Tagerry, Ind., Oct. 14.—Dan Drook, son of a farmer here, committed suieide by hauging. Ile was 27 years ol and insane over u love affair. " Batox, 0., Oct 14.—At 11:30 o'elock ¢ saturday night Miss Gertrude Lally, o _beautitul girl of 19 summer. w’aspbop Vf;'f&y;"’ldhfi, Mouosmith, her lover. _Anger at the young lady's recent ap- - parent coolness towurl him and jeal- ,;‘?" ol :":T’, %@‘ ;:;;t:’ (r Iyn : R sbt QTR %P o ettt R e e T L T e Byt et 2 R S d ,i'-7, Sy Ay ,v»}.\‘? gértvin attorney fees. .

THE EPISCOPAL"‘CONVENTQQN. Head of the Church Will Be Kfio;ui_ as the “Primate,” ' = g % MiNNEAPOLis, Minn., Oet. la—gi‘he chairman at the opening session of the Episcopal convention Thursday morning announced the appointment of various committees: i

Buchanan Winthrop was elected treasurer. 'The sum of $4OO was voted to the presiding bishop. The salary of the house of bishops was fixed at $5OO for the first year $2OO for each subsequent year. The salary of the secretary of the house of deputies was fixed at $1,200 for the first and $5OO for each subsequent year.

The house refused to strike out section 3 of the revision committee’s report, thus fixing the title of him who may be chosen as head of the church by reason of seniority as ‘‘primate.” The house refused to concur in that clause of the revision which reduces the representation in the house of deputies from four clergymen and four deputies to three of each. : The house adopted resolutions of sympathy with the Armenians, and requesting the authorities of the Chureh of England to take such action as will fitly ¢commend the cause of the Armenian church to the whole English speaking world.

MiNyNEArorts, Minn., Oet. 14.—11 t was after ‘lO o'clock before the house of deputies was open for business. The chair announced several special committees, after which the house proceeded to routine business.

Dr. Jones, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution, which was referred to the committee on unfinished business, that the convention for 1895 adjourn on Friday. October 13. . Dr. Fairbanks, of IFlorida, offered an amendment providing for f-ur instead of three delegates from ull dioceses in the house of deputies as recommended by the house of bishops. Adopted. Both houses spent the day upon the revised constitutition. - A resolution was submitted calling for a full report from the commission on revision on Monday, and which brought out the statement from Dean Hoffman, the spokesman of the commission on the floor, that the body did not expect to have a coustitution adopted atthis convention. .

Section 1 of article 2 was adopted, providing that future conventions shall assemble on the first Wednesday of every October of every third year at a place to be fixed by the preceding convention, such convention, however. being given the right in the exercise of its diseretion to fix a different time than that of the constitution.

The upper house sent down the report: of ‘the committee of conference concerning the pluce of holding the next convention, and recommending that Washington, D. C., be selected. The house concurred by a unanimous vote. T

The bishops followed the example of the lower house by laying on the table the solemn’ declaration of faith which served as a preface to the revised constitution. Concurrence was voted with the | house of deputies in creating northern Michigan a new diocese under the name of Marquette. In opposition to the report of a special commmittee it was also decided to elect a second bishop for Japan with the designation of bishop of Kyota., :

At 8 o'clock the twvo houses again assembled as the general missionary board for a {further consideration of the Alaskan question. The pending business of the session was the resolution of Bishop (iilbert, of Minnesota, that the house of bishops be requestrd to choose a bishop of Alaska. The resolution was adopted.

ARMES RELEASED.

His Arrest Characterized as Unlawful and : Tyrannical.

WasniNaToN, Oct. 12.—Judge Bradley, of the district supreme court, Thursday ordered the discharge from custody of Capt. George A. Armes, who was arrested on the: order of Lieut. Gen. Schofield, just prior to the latter’s retirement from command of the army, for having written him an insulting letter. Judge Bradley scored the action of the late genziral of the army, charactgrizing it as unlawful, tyrannical amfé‘fiprieious.' In discharging Capt. Armes, whose arrest and confinement Gen. Schofield had ordered by virtue of his position as acting secretary of war, Judlge Bradley said: =~ ; *The =arrest and taking away of Armes into custody, carrying him away from his home to burracks and holding him in close arrest without any antecedent charge of crime preferred in any way zgainst bhim, was and is unjust, unlawful. ‘arbitrary, tyrannieal and capricious on the part of Gen. Schofield in whatever capacity he acted. whether acting as lieutenant geveral or acting secretary of war. The petitiover is discharged.” . : A Bad Storm. £ Guyas, Mexico, (via Nogales, A. T., Qct. 12.—1 n the hurricane which swept over La Puz 134 houses wers destroyed, four lives lost and twenty-one persons ‘were “s'vounded. Nineteen craft, including an American schooner, partly loaded swith dynamite, were beached, and a government cutter was sunis. - Gardens and orchards were washed \ away.

: ' Pardons the Floyd Boys. | Mixxearornis, Minn,, Oct. 12. — Gov. Clcugh oun Iriday pardoned the Floyd boys, who were sent to the penitentiary about two years ago; for complicity in the robbery of the Bank of Minneapolis by Paying Teller Scheig. s e S e Cleveland Wins the Tt{_mplé’ Cup. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 10.~ The Temple cup goes to Cleveland, and, as last year, the chamnions must be content with second place in the contest for the prize. Tebeaun and his aggregation took Tuesday's game with something to spare, the score standing: Cleveland, b; Baltimore, 2.° o . Save Something from Sunken Cralser. MADRID, Oct. 10.—A dispateii {from Tluvana says the safe, torpedoes and (uick firing guns of the sunken cruiser Cristobol Golon, have been saved, but that the big guns will be recovered is extremely doubtful. : Chose Death Rather Than Prison. - Kaxsas Crry, Mo., Oct. 10.—To avoid arrest and convietion for being the head of the ‘“l'ransfer gang” of thieves, whose peculations have recently been uncovered by the police 11. C. Litehfield, manager of the Railroad Transfer company, the largest eompany of its kind in the city, Wednesday comsieed walgide, 0y e oy American Apples in England. ‘s LaverrooL, Oct. 10.—There was a sale ‘of American apples Wednesday, at Awhich 3,888 barrels were disposed of. odzs, and Canadisns 158 to 198,

HIS CAREER ENDS.

Death at Washington of Gen. William Mahone, of Virginia.

He Was a Picturesque Figure at the Cap~ ~_ital, and a Stubborn Fighter Both as a Confederate General and United States Senator.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Gen William Mahone died at Chamberlins hotel at 1 o’clock Tuesday from the effects of a paralytic stroke sustained last Monday, September 30. lle had been totally unconscious for more than forty-eight hours previous to death and passed away seemingly without pain. Mrs. Mahone, Butler and William Mahone,

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EX-SENATOR WILLIAM MATOXNE. Jr., lus sons; Mrs. O. M. MecGill, his daughter; 1. L. Manry, of Southampton county, Va:, a nephew, and Capt. Rogers. secretary of Virginia state republiecan committee and former secretary to Gen. Mahone, were at the bedside when the end came. :

Sketch of His Life.

The country will long remember Gen. William Mahone as one of the most picturesque figures and characters in public life during the last thirty years. KExceptionally slight in stature and frame, he has been a marked man in great assemblages. - His peculiar style of dress. and especially his hat, atvracted attention to him. This. broaca-brimmed, soft=felt headgear seemed out of proportion to the tiny form beneath it. But beneath this shade sparkled a pair of the keenest eyes ever possessed by man. : g

Gen. Mahone marks an cpoch in the history of the United States since the late war. He has Leen, during the last quarter of a century, the central figurein Virginia politics. and at one time his slight figure was the nucleus of one of the most violeat political storms ever waged in congress. 2 He was in his (9th year. His favorite sobriquet was “Hero of the Crater,” won by his wonderful courage in the attack on Peversburg when the federal forces sprung a mine beneath the confederate defense. e tought like a tiger, and later historians give to him almost alone the credit of keeping Petersburg from the übnion hands by repairing before sunset the shattered confederate lines. He had joined the confederate .army at -once after the secession, participated in the capture of the Norfolk navy yard in 1861 and raised and commanded the Sixth regiment of Virginia. He was commissioned a bx'ig;u.giier general in March, 1864, und six months later became a major general At the close of the war he returned to his original work of engineering and became president of the Norfolk & 'l'ennessee railroad. -

His Political Career.

A spirit of leadership lead him into the political arena and he at once assumed a foremost position in the internal affiirs of Virginia, which was at that time laden with an enormous debt that soon became the issue of vital importance between the political parties. He was elected to the United States senate in 1879. He was like a firebrund cast into a mass of dry tinder, and from the peculiar attitude that he at once assumed he causedone of the most bitter controversies and stubborn deadlocks ecver known in the history of that body. Mahone at last acted with the republicans and gave them the organization of the senate. His course brought down upon lhis head the wrath of the democrats. but the republicans received him with open arms and the fe Zeral patronage in Virginia was turned over to himn. Since that time he has been par excellence the republican leader in Virginia He served in the senate unatil 1887, when he was defeated. Although he has siuce resided almost constantly in this city he retained the republican leadersaip in Virginia wnd in 1899 wus a candid.ate for governor. He was best known 'here-of late years by hisefforts to secure the purchase by the gouernment, for a printing otfice site, u square of ground owned by him. The guaint figure of its owner was always seen in the lobbies of both house and senate at the close oi every session und he was considered o great power in the third house.

Will Be Exhausted in Five Years.

Porr TowNseND, Wash., Oct. 12.— Sailing vessels and revenue cutters from Behring sea report a greater scarcity of seals this season than usual. Around the rookeries where thousauds of seals formerly rendezvoused not a seal can be found. Herds in the open sea are greatly .diminished likewise, and practical and scientific sealers aver that in five years the seals will be wholly exterminated. .

Great Reservoir Bursts.

ScrANTON, Pa., Oct. 12.—A storage reservoir containing 2,500,000 - gallons of water and ' owned by the Lackawanna Iron & Steel company burst Thursday night. It filled the repair vards of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad with wreckage and washed ‘away a portion of Maltes street. A girl was carried a quarter of a mile, but was rescued. Street car traffic was blocked.

Gompers Will Run Again. New YORk, Uct. 11.—For the first tiine in ton years the annual convention of the Federation of Labor will be held in New York this year, beginning on December 12. President MeBride will not try for a reelection and there is a strong movement, not alone here but all over the eastern states, to reelect ex-President Samuel Gompers. Two hundred delegates will attend the convention, representing over |,- 000,000 worikers. : . A Minnesota Tragedy. ALEXANDRIA, Minn., Oct. 12.—Thursday afternoon Edward Evans met his wife, who had just sceured a divorece from him, on the street. Drawing a revolver he slhiot her three times, inflicting wounds from which she will die. lle then shot bimself through the heart, dropping dead in his tracks. . Fell from a Tree. ¢ GREENVILLE, 0., Get. 10.—Frankie Wainwright, aged 16, while climbing o tree ior hickory nuts, lost his hold while over 30 feet from the ground and fell, alighting on his head. lle died in thirty minutes. : - Earthquake in Bogota, - CoroN, Colombia, Oct. 12.—Advices from Bogota state that ashock of earth;,‘giake on September 20 damaged a Jarge number of houses in the city. The inlmbitan?‘ are also threatened with a complete failure of their water supply, and a public meeting has been ‘held to consider measures of relief. . Reject the Agrarian Yrogramme, Bresuav, Oct. 12.—The socialist eongress Friday by a vote of 158 to 83 approved a- resowtion offered by Herr ‘K&@&&&@vhgh;a muwmr;une ) renosed agrarian programme.

OLNEY'S NOTICE TO SPAIN. Depriving Williams of Diplomatic Powers Violates Oui'__Treaty.{ - NEw York, Oct. 14.—A spedial to the World from Washington says the recent excited dispatches from Madrid are explained by facts | revealed in Washington. What this government has done has |been to formally notify the Spanish government that action recently taken by it in Havana is in violation of the treaty rights of this country-and that for any damage to American citizens or American dignity arising therefrom Spain will be held ‘refponsible. "The circumstances are as follows: Since Consul General Williams compeiled Capt. Gen. Calleja, while governor general of Cuba, to recognize the treaty of 1877 in the case of Julio Sanquilly, and by so doinz prevented the trial of the latter by a military court in Havana last February, -the Spanish government has boen restive over the question of Mr. Williams' diplomatic author:ty. Senor Canovas, the Spanish primme minister, after the subje¢t was fully considered at a meeting of the Spanish ministry at which he prcsided.decid;édto deprive Mr. Williams of all diplomati@ authority and confine him strietly to the |purely commercial or ‘consular privileges ot his office. Accordingly the Spanish minister of the colonies instructed Gen. Campos to irform Mr. Williams that henceforth he would not be recognized as possessing any - duthority to transact business with the governor general of Cuba upon other than commerecial matters. Gen. Campos sent for Mr. Williams recently and communicated to him the instruction from Spain. : | :

Secretary Olney straightway. prepared a state paper in whicL -he disagreed entirely with the conclusion of the Spanish minister. The agtion of the latter was based on the consular treaty existing between Spain and the United States. From this treaty, siQnecl in 1679, consular officers did not receive authority to cover any diplomatie questions. The treaty with Spain, however, specifies that United States consular oflicers shall have all the rightls and privileges of ‘‘the most favoréd nation.” This affords the basis for Secretary Olney's demand. The German government has a consular treatyi\vith Spain in which consuls and consul - generals may act as diplomats if circumstances demand. s

Sceretary Olney informs. Senor Canovas that the United States demands that his government concele the same privileges to the United BStates consul general that are given fto the consul general of Germany.; The language of “ Secretary Oine;,,:v’s dispatch is said to be peremptory. | Should an American citizen be arrestefd at Huvana and subjected Tto trial by court martial, or should any case arige that calls for prompt action by the %coasul general, the refusal of the ldcal povernment to recognize him nji;:ht lead to disastrous results. = . 1

LEAPS INTO NIAGARA FALLS.

Veéteran of the Rebellion Ends His Life

in a Trag.c Manner.

NIAGARA Farris, N. Yi, Oet. 14.—Saturday, in full view of a ddzen or more people, Lebbins B. King, a Lockport painter, deliberately took ¢ff his overcoat, mounted the rail of !Goat Island bridge, about 30 feet above the American falls, and deliberately turned a somersault backward into the rushing torrent, which at thut,sfiomb 18 the deepest and most furious/of any part of the rapids. He struck on his bacic and floated downward| in that position, and ‘a dew séc¢onds later, before the eyes of the horrorstricken spectators, was [swept over the brink. He nwas nbofatr 53 years old, a veteran of the late war, married and had two children. ' Il¢ is supposel to have been mentally unbalanced, The body has not been re¢overced. lie leit a note in his overcoap pocket saying: “‘Everybody has b_ee.n%kiud to me.”

DEATH BY FIRE.

Blazing Prairies in }lanitob:L Destroy Sev~

. eral Lives. | WiNNIPEG, Man., Oct. 14/ —There was loss of life and great damage to property Saturday night in tjhe Winaipeg distriect by prairie [fiires. The fire . started abont 3; o'clock in the atfternoon and - dpread with cyclonie rapidity, desgro‘yiu: hay stacks and,dwellings. Aft, Elm Creek station Foreman Thomas Hannah and Ed Lubyan, weil-known%youug men, were burned to death wihile *fighting the flames. At 5t Vita*{ Arthur St Germain, aged 12; was burned to a ‘erisp and his brothcref#tally injured while endeavoring.to save hay stacks on their father’s farm. ;It ileadingly D. Tait. a young farmen, was caught by the flames while driv?n-g‘ home and badly burned. Other fatatities will doubtless be reported. | 'Telegraphic communication is intérl‘!upted by the fire. |

'CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. Deaths in Two Weeks -Is\xmber 1,740; New Cases, 4.343. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 14.—The official cholera returns for the two weeks ended September 28 show that there were 4,249 new cases (LII(E 1,702 deaths in the government of Voihynia, 57 new cases and 21 deaths in the Berditeheft district, and 87 new cases and 18 deaths in the government of i’dciolia-. CUZAN CITY Blgf)WN UP. 1 Paracoa “aid to Have Bee’ln Destroyed by i the Insurgents. ‘ Tavaxa, Oct. 14.—It.}is reported in this city with a persistence which indicates reliability that [the sea coast town of Baracoa has been blown up by Cuban rebels. A nuwmber of the resi‘dents are said to have been killed outright and many .futally_ injured, but the numbers are not knpwn. ; Sceks a New 'Erlal. DaxviLLe, Ind., Oct: | 14.—A motion for a new trial in the H}inshziw murder case was filed Saturday. The motioa will be argued next Friday. The defense allege errors in t?xe judge’s rulings and have filed affidavits against jurors. One juror’s son made afiidavit that he knew before thitrini what his father's verdict would be. : _ IKills Hler Three K‘ rothers. ~ Corox, Oct. 14.—T0 prevent her pilferings being discovered by her parents a 14-year-old girl, the daugnter of a laborer in Santander,| murdered her ‘three little brothers. § . . . - Foul Play Suspected. e Cmipurcotne, Mo.. QOct. 14.—Eight stacks of hay were burped oa the farm of 5. B. Patterson. 10 miles south of ‘Chillicothe, Saturday night, and Sun~day merniug the charred remains of a man was found in“oae| of the staclks, burned bevond recoxnition. Circum_stances pointteo murder. . . . b : .tS'olgl“:(ur'G’zyD: 9,000, _';? ey Golden Reward mines and mills, one Lgfl%nfiwm The price paid R

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

fnternational Lesson for October 20, 1898 —Ruth's Choice—Ruth 1:14-22.

[Specially Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.) GOLDEN TEXT.—Thy people shall be my peo= ple. and thy God my God.—Ruth 1:16. TimE.—Keil, with great probability, places Ruth in the time of Gideon, B. C. 1222—1182. Pracec. —The early home of Naomi and the later cne of Ruth was at Bethlehem, around which so many intcresting events cluster. The early home of Ruth was in Moab, east of the Dead sea and southern Jordan. 5 ! EXPLANATORY,

During the rule of the judges, probably near the time of Gideon, there arose a great famine in the land o? Israel, which must have lasted several years. :

At this time there: lived a family at Bethlehem consisting of Elimelech, his wife Noami, and two sons, whose names indicate feeble health. Finding it difficult to obtain a living on the home farm. on account of the famine, the family determined to emigrate. In the course of ten years the sons marricd Moabitish women, and both sons and Elimeclech, their father, died in the land of Moabh, leaving the three women wvidows. 5

It is plain that Naomi’s personal character and her tcachings, shining out through the night of ‘sorrow, had commended to her family and neighbors the religion of the true God DBut this was not her home. Everything here reminded her of her loss. The two widowed daughters-in-law, Orpha and Ruth (‘‘The Rose of Moab”), went part of the way to see Naomi off, as. friends and relatives were accustomed to do, and as is still the custom in the ecast. When the time came to part, when they had kissed each other and wept together, they both declared they would not return, but would go with her to Israel. Like a wise woman she declined to take advantage of the impulse of passionate regret, and urged them, by strong arguments, to recturn. Orpha was prevailed upon, and gave Naomi the farewell kiss. !

16. ‘““And Ruth said:” Ruth’s passionate burst of tenderness. is immortal. *Entreat me not to leave thee:” All that Naomi had said, her solitariness, poverty, sorrow only served to attach Ruth more firmly. “Whither thou goest, { will go:” Compare the very similar entreaties of KElijah, and the steadfast determination of Elisha not to leave him (2 Kings 2:2-6). *“Thy people shall be my people:” even though she went apparently to lifelong poverty among strangers. DBut the blessedness that people had in the true God was infinitely greater than that she left, and transformed the dark clouds as the sun does with his setting glories. ' 17. “Where thou diest, will I die, and there will Ibe buried:” She gave herself up wholly and forever to the people of God. ‘‘The Lord do so to me:” calling upon herself the severest punishment if she should break her promise.

18. ‘‘She left speaking,” Persevering love conquered all opposition. . 19. “They came to Bethlehem:” the early home of Naomi, whicheshe had left ten years before. **All the city was moved.” Bethlechem was a small town (Mic. 5:2); and in such small-villages, and especially in an age whea there were no newspapers, mails, ete., every event flew quickiy abroad by the communications of friend to friend. ‘‘And they said:” They in the liebrew is femininc. The women of Bethlehem said: *‘ls. this Naomi?” Can this be the Naomi who went aivay so happily ten years azo? ‘ 20. “Call me rot Naomi,” “‘lovable,” *pleasant.” .That name once belonged to me.. . **Call me Mara:” ‘tbitter,” for this better ecxpresses my condition, “For the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.” Ile has given me this bitter medicine for my soul.

21 I went out full,” i e., rich, not in money and property, but in the possession of a husband ard two scns; a rich mother, but now dcprived of all that makes a mother’s heart ricii—bereft of Poth husband and sons.—Keil. “[ath afflicted Me:” 'The Jewish writcrs generallv think that they did wrong in leaving thewr own country to go and live 2mong idolaters. ‘ 22. **Barley harvest:” Usually in the middle of April. The fect of its being barley harvest suggested to Ruth that she might contribute semething ta their mutual subsistence by going forth to glean. This right of gleaning was onc of the legal provisions for the poor of Isracl. The part of the field to which Ruth was providentially directed belonged to Boaz, a near kinsman of Naomi’s late husband.—Kitto. The rest of the book of Ruth tells the story of her recorapense for all self-denying love and giving up all to religion and to God. Still, we are to be careful not to confound outwarc}fzrewards with the real reward of virtue. As ‘‘Love in loving finds<ts joy,” as the Savoyard singer,neglected and forgotten, declares that Eey

o eThe song itself shall yet reward ; : Thce labors of the Savoyard,” 4 so. virtue contains in itself, in the approval of God, in peace of conscience, in spiritual life and character, in helpfulness and service, its best reward.

Changed Brides at tho Altar.

Ata farm in Tyrol two young peasants woocd the two beautiful daughters of the owner and were accepted. Their bannswere pronounced from the pulpit. Aftor the service was over one of the youths said to the other: “Look here, shall we exchage brides?” The other answered: ‘‘lt's all one tome.” The brides were then asked whether they would agree, and, as they did oot objeet, the exchange was made. R

QN THE EBRINY DEEP, Tue blue whales of the. Antarctic ocean amuse themselves by traveling in schools, and simultancously jumping out of the water at intervals of half a minute, so that their cntire length may be seen above the sca. Tae idea of air-tight compartments in ships was suggested by the peeuliar construction of the nautilus. The shell of this animal has forty or fifty compartments, into which air or water may be admitted, to allow the occupant to sink or float, as it pleases. Tur British bark Omega arrived at Port Townsend with a c¢rew that included but one white man, and that onc the eaptain, an Englishman. The rest of the erew avere Japanese and Chinesc. © The captain had to give -bonds of €5OO for each Chinaman. and ‘also hire a watchman to seethat none TREIRDRGL e T Ax artificial larynx has beon invent~ed by Prof. Stuart, of the University of Bydney, and tried with success on a man who had lost his voice, The ‘mechanism can be regulated go as to e S

~ DOWN HILL TO DEATH. Runaway Car Plunges Over a Bign Bank ; ~i —Four Killed, - PrrrsBURGH, Pa., Oct. 14.—Three persons were killed outright and ten others injured in a runaway trolley car on the West End electric line jumping the track and going over an emr bankment at 6:20 o’c¢clock Sunday night. The victims are: : ; 5 KirLep—George Rothman. aged 50, furni--ture dealer, Carnegie, Pa.: Fred Heisel, aged 09, glass worker, Carnegic, Pa.: unknown woman, about 30 years of age. body taken to morgue. : ) : | INJURED—Mrs. Michael Foley. Pittsburzh, bad scalp wound and internal injurigs, may die: Conductor Albert: McGuire, aged 85, of Pittsburgh, scalp woun land internal injuries: Fred W.ddel. motorman, aged 30. Pittsburgh, shoulder dislocated; ' Michael Foley. Pitts‘burgh, bad scalp wound: James Foley, aged .7,’ son of Michael, slightly injured: Mrs. Leach, Pittsburgh, slight injuries; Henry Stilts, daged 17, Pittsburgh, leg broken; Prof. Alex Phillips, of Crafton, right knee lacerated aud may have to be amputated: Katie Foleyv. voung child, slightly bruised; -—— Baldwin, skull fractured. TE A 3t The disaster occurred on the Cainegie braoch of the West End “electric line, and the car left Carnegie at 6:04 o’clock. Just before the city limit is reached there is a sharp curve and hill along the track for about a quarter of a mile. \hen the car reached 'this point, the brake rod broke and the motorman -‘lost control. The car dashed down the hill until it reached McCartney street, where there is a sharp curve. Here it jumped the track amd turned completely: over, landing in a ravine alongside of the road. The car was broken into splinters and the three persons killed were horribly mangled. : Just before the car jumped the track Conductor McGuire yelled at the passengers to all fall down to the hottom of the car. Before they obeyed this order Mrs. IFoley dropped her- young daughter Katie out of a car iwvindow and probably saved the ¢hild’s life. As soorn as he could extricate himself from the wreck Conductor McGuire, who was badly injured himself, rushed to the houses of several residents in the vicinity and secured several axes and other assistance. As soon as pessible the city ambulances were called and all care possible rendered the injured . passengers. Tk ; . i

MINERS PERISH.

Four Are Suffocated in a Colliery Near

Story City, la.

WEBSTER | CiTY, T 2, Oect. -14.—Four men were suffocated by gas and smoke in a coal mine 2)4 miles from, Story Civy saturday night at 6 o’clock. = The dead are: Albert Peterson, Alexander Eastman, Ing¢ Ingeson and George Payne. i .

The men were in the mine just at closing time. The engineer had built a big fire in the furnace which hoists the eage and left for his supper. \While he was gone the timber adjacent to the {urnace ecaught - fire, and the flumes reached the cable attached to the- eaze. \When = the- engineer returned. he attempted ' to hoist the cage. with the men, but the cable brolke and they fell to -the. bot-. tom of the shaft. The fall was not over 3 feet and they were uninjured. The mine was. filling with' smoke from the burning wood, and theré was no other mode of egress for them. .

George Payne was foreman of the little gang of miners, and they followed huim to one of the cells thinking they would bank themscives in and prevent the smoke from entering. The cell was. only 100 feet from where the wood was ° burning, but before they ecould ecnter and build up the barricade they ivere suifocated. The first news of th&accident was brought to Story City about 7 o'clock. linmediately a rescu-: ing band was formed, and at the mine they.found the puanic-stricken friends ot the hmprisoned men standing at the opening of the shaft, from which dense volumes of smoke were poaring.. As soon as the smoke cleared: away a cage was rigged up and volunteers went into the mine to leamm the fate of the four men.. They were found almost in a heap, one” body lying across the three others. The indications were that death ensued within a half hour after they entered the cell. Great. vocks and chunks or coul had been moved to stop up the passagéway that showed how hard the imprisoned men. had worked to save their lives. :

MURDER OF COREA’'S QUEEN. YWith Four Othcrs*;rno 1s Slain by Japan-

ese—The Bodies Barned.

CorrA, Oct. 14.—The paldce was broken into Tuesday wmorning at 5 o‘clu& by a body of Corean troops and a band o 1 the Japanese soshiin civilian dress. The colonel in command of the troops, on refusing to. enter the palace, was killed, and 2 number of the palace guards were slain. The Japanese entered the queen’s room and killed the qucen, the minister of the household and three women. The bodies were taken outside and burned. The Japanese troops. were at: the palace, but took no part in the.proceedings. s e

Pariy, Oct. 14.—The Paris edition of the: New York“Herzdd has a dispatch from Seoul, tie capital of Corea, eonfirming the reports that the queen was murdered while the Japahese troops were at the palace 'gates. There is nothing to show, ghe dispatch adds, that the Japanese minister was aware of the plot. The Lking is now, a prisoner, and his fathev, the Tai-Won-Tuan, the leader of the reactionary element, has been proclaimed dictator. -

MRS, STANFORD WINS, Suit of Government to Recover $15,000,000 to Be Again Appealed. SAN Fraxcisco, Oet. 14.—Judges Morrow, Ilawley and Gilbert in the United States cireuit court of appeals handed down their decision Saturday morning in the case of the government against the estate of the late Senator Stanford to recover about $15,000,000. The deeision was read by Judge Gilbert and sustains Judge Ross, who deeided the case in favor of Mrs. Stanford. !Attorueys McKissicls, representing the government, says he will appeal the case to the United States supreme court. e S BOTH ARE DEAD. Marshal Cooks and Kx-Marshal Donnolly ; Shot to Kill, and Did It. di GrousTEß, O, Oect. 14, — Marshal David €. Cooimjw ile standing on a corner Sunday night was . approached by ex-Night Marshal ' Elmer Donnolly.. An 011, feud existed between- them. . Donnollyl drew a, gun, saying: “We . will settle this difficulty now.” He fired four shots, all of which hit Coolke. Cooke fired ome that went through L?onneufu heart. e dropped deud. e Vestde: him and: also ‘exSR e R

i R R »" %, "‘ R ) ’?_fiwW': ‘T"{"ug'j vk "-}‘, SR / 3 ‘f ' ~ VOLUME Is BIG. = T'rade in Several Brandches Surp;:ues Any : : Previous Year. v ‘[ NEw York Oct. 14—R. G. Dun & Co’s weekly review of trade says: =~ | - *The price barometer gives indications that are not-entirely favoratle Cotton goods g 9 ‘up with increasing eviaence thatv the crop o‘; ‘cotton-is short. Prices of other manufactured products ‘of wool, hides and leather, all show some decline, a general abatement in new orders being the prineipal’ ¢ause. With an fmmense volume of business, not much exceeded in the largest month of the cxcepnonjl year 1892, and with evidence that in several " branches the volume has surpassed that of au _previous year, there is a growing unce rtaimg {about the near future of industries. Money markets are neither strained nor thr.eateniué. foreign exchange no longer raises a.pprehenl-‘ slon, and all fears about the great northern crops are past. There have been few advance’p in'wages of labor within the past month and ~only a few works have been closed by strikes for an advance. ' } *The main cause of decreased ordershas been repeatedly pointed out by this jowradl during the past half year. When business begin torevive a million traders were in haste to order not énly the goods each expectoed to “sell within a given time, but enough more 1o replenish stocks which had been cut down ulmost to bare shelves by two years ol - prostration. Thus the buying was much in excess of réul consumption within the given timg. Also, as prices rose, many hastened to buy In -advance of visible needs, hoping thutv every purchase would mean - a gain, while multitudeés - hurried to get in Lheir orders - before- competitors could tuy as. - cheaply. Under such _ conditions buying continued for six months and still continues in cotton goods, which have risen less ‘than. the material But in most manufagtured. products buying for the same reaspn can no longer be expeeted, and the steady and regular consumption is not yet known. |

It is too early for cotton movements to cdy: much light,on the probable yield; port receiyts thus far 23 per cent. smaller than last year, do not Indicute as small a crop as many fear, in view of the known lateness of pickir?g. Widely circulated advices to hold back cotton have some influence also. |

. »In-weolen manufactures a demand fior dress goods and some specialties keeps many anly employed, but most of the works muking'men’'s woolens, for which new orders idre scant. find not enofigh to keep them runni%ig, To pile-goods up in advance wholly in the duric as to future foreign competition involves suci risk that some concerns may closc for a time. Failures for the week have ineladel two banks and several concerns of somie size, :inr:i have beeu Z€B in the United Stutes against 231 last ‘yeur, and b 2 jgx Cupada against 43 lps: year.'' . st e 7T ; { - Bradstreet’s saysy ' ,

_ **Cooler weuther has stimulated a seasonable demand for staple dry goods. millinery unl clothing, and jobbers in these lines) in|all parts -of the country feel the improwvement. Relatively, '‘mosg - gain. has ’bpen made at the south, \i‘here»un improyvement is reported in almost ail lines. lnt(:lior mcrchants are placihg more' hberal, forders than for several years and larger ‘éistributing centers repori sales of goods to the cotton belt and collections therefrom exceptionully free.. The more unfaicrable features are found in dis.ppointment at the moderation with which wheat is exported from week to week, the reported weakness in pig iron and steel billets wnd in the competition sulfered by domestic woolen manufacture froum abroad.” |

DEMOCRATS WIN.

Those of Indianapolis Elect Their Enrire . i City Ticket. i ~ Ixpravaronis, Ind., Oct. 10.—The republicans of .Indianapolis suffered the heaviest defeat in the history of the city in the municipal election Tuesday. Fairly complete returns at, midnight show that Thomas Taggart (dem.), is elected mayor by abont 4,000 plurality and the rest of jthe democratic ticket by about 1,200. 'lfiwu years ago the republicans carried the city by 5,100, and last year the city went. republican by 2,479 on the siateticket. Phis change of 6,500 in the ticket. ‘ | a’ Taggard’s plurality is the laré‘e.@t ever received by a candidate for mayor in Indianapolis. About 30,000 votes, 80 per cent. of the totalin the dity, were cast.- y | Latest unofficial returns indicate that the -republicans have possfbly? glected seven councilmen ouat| of the 'twenty-one. = \Vhile there J!w,us some local issues involved in the contest, it has been regarded as a political . cne. : 3 | % v ——— o : CONGREGATICNALISTS. J Their I'riennial Council Goes lnto)Se?fision e ’ at NSyracuse. s | SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 12.— The txj"iénnial council of the Congregatis churech, in session here, decide(m send a delegation to attend the dedicatioh of the John Robinson memorial / church, at Gainsborough, England. i Personel of the various standing committees was aannounced. Delegates J discussed the guestion .of the training | of ministers. A i ‘ The report of the committee on union [§ with the Free Baptists was read by Rev.. William H. Ward. The report] says that there are two ways in which § the union of separate deuomina&ibnsil can be made visible in the world. § One . is by actual corporate § union, the other by confedera- . tion, -each denomination maintaining | its separate existence, but méetini‘ and conferring together at stated times for | their mutual advantage and the prose cution of their common werlk. Whers§ ‘corporate union cannot be secured con- - federation may partly serve thel purpose of exhibiting the unity of I;Flie,vBTH : . } e w 7 Tthat New Siate, ‘ i MapisoN, Wis., Oct. 10.—In accordsp™ ance with a resolution ixitrod‘uc'fid by Senator Mills, of Superior, and adopted £ at the last session of the legislature.} Gov. Upham has appointed James Bar-§ don and John 1. Murphy, of Superior, antl ex-Lieut. Gov. 8. 5. Fifield, 0)1 Ash- @ larid; a committee to confer with the ¥~" ‘Minnesota committee concerning jthe ' proposition to form a new state out of § poitions of mnorthern \\'isconsig and Minnesota with the capitalat Superior- § Duluth. A L

S e D “’recked in Michigan. i ‘ . BrieurTox, Mich., Oct. 12.-—Freicht train No. 44 on the Detroit, Lansing & Northern road was wrecked here by a broken axle at 4 o'clock Friday morn-, ing. Six cars, together with their cox tents, consisting of 100 head of she apples, flour and general merchandisi were completely destroyed. Th(% trai erew escaped injury. L : Sl ~ Massacred. ; \L Brussers, Oct. 12.—The Indepef dance Belge says that mutinon blac troops at Luluabourg, in the Congc ‘Siate, have massacred Capt. Pelzer and Lieuts. Shaw and Bolen. | e il Fell Six Storics. S " PninabverLrmia, Oet. 12.—A great re ceptionat the new Odd Fellows' (empldt ‘which cost $1,000,000, was ended Friday Bight ina tragedy. * William Styatton, for thirty years secretary of a locall lodge, was pushed irom a baiconyand feil six stories’ down into the ofjen court of the building. He was instant: Yellgd s - Pumspukon, Pa. Oct. 12.—A bog named Foomey, 15 years old, Pras ?i%;fifi Beond sekine dlesittas. Mo solbe