Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 December 1895 — Page 2

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LIGONIER: . 32 8 INDIANE

" AN odd instrument has just been invented combining a fan and an ear trumpet. The deaf lady, when she desires to hear what is being said, folds her fan into shape somewhat like the paper packets used by grocers and applies the small end to her ear. ‘

SoME one having asked Speaker Reed the other day what he considered the most important problem now before the public, he is reported to have answered: ‘“How to dodge a bicycle; at least I judge so from my own experi~ ence since I came to Washington.”

Tue aggregate shipments of forest products from Saginaw river ports from the opening of navigation to December 1, 1895, were as follows: Lumber, 136,120,632 feet; shingles, 8,415« 000 pieces; lath, 2,002,000 pieces. The showing is the smallest in thirty years.

Avtnoven the recent motor cycle race at Chicago was run under trying conditions, it was successful enough so that the idea is spreading. Already a race is announed by Canadian parigi’es for next May, and another is said to be under consideration to take place near New York city. ;

MAINE'S state labor commissioner has b}:en making thorough inquiry as to the average cest of the average Maine citizen’s food per day. All conditions . have been included in the inquiry, and the commissioner figures that it costs Maine folk just 13 cents a day for food. i L

" SoMmE idea of the immense number of rabbits in Australia may be gathered from the fact that a mail man in the northern lce,rrit()ry recently came across a ‘“‘mob” of them about four miles wide and as close as they could run together. Some parts of the country are so houey-combed with burrows that it is hardly safe to ride or drive. = -

Axos HADLEY, af Concord, N. H., is the fortunate owner of the complete works of Xenophtn, with a Latin translation in parallel columns, printe ‘ed in Parisin 1545. It was bought at auction in Paris some years ago by a friend of Mr. Hadley, who knew of his love for books, and presented it to him. As far as known, it is the only copy in America. - :

Dr. E. P. MurDOCK, who is in charge of the corps of physicians administering anti-toxine to diphtheria patients in Chicago, reports that of 155 cases of diphtheria treated only eleven deaths occurred, which is seven per cent. Fifty cases were reported where the patients refused the administration of anti-toxine, and of these ‘twenty-two deaths resulted. :

Ix several towns in Holland a birth is announced by exposing at the door a silk pincushion, coveredand edged by plaited lace, the sex of the infant being shown by the color—for a boy, red; a girl, white. The house which shows in this manner that the number of its inhabitants has been increased enjoys, by ancient law and custom, various immunities and privileges. !

GEN. Dox CARLOS BueLL, who is not often heard of nowadays, was in Washington for a brief visit recently. The years that give the outward appearance of age to most soldiers of the rebellion seem to touch him lightly and he is in excellent health. Since his retirement from office Gen. Buell has lived quietly at Airdrie, his picturesque home on Green river, in Kentucky.

THE main building of the industrial exposition to be opened in Berlin is enormous. It has a front of 670 feet, while its depth is 690 feet. The floor space of this gigantic building is 591,800 square feet. The entire construction is of stone and iron, while the walls are constructed of pressed cement boards; the only wood in the building is used in the floors, and in the framework -of the dome, which, both on the outside and inside, is covered with sheets of aluminum.

A NEW religious organization known as the Christian Crusaders isattracting attention throughout Waushara, Portage and Waupaca counties, Wis., where they are prosecuting their work. The methods followed resemble in many particulars those of the Salvation army, but there are some differences. The members are divided into bands of four, each band being under a commanding officer. . The ' bands work independently of each other and hold protracted meetings . for four weeks’ time in each town visited.

. CHOLERA no longer has the terror it once Had in civilized countries. For example, when the German army was mobilized last year along the Vistula, and when the plague was prevailing in east and west Priissia, by reason of the precautions taken by the command of the medical authorities of the army not a ease was developed among the soldiers. . They were allowed to drink only water that had been boiled, and ‘whenever any of their clothing came in contact with any of the waters of the Vistula it had to be sent to the barracks for disinfection.

Tue Russian ambassadors are paid about twice as much as ours. The ambassadors to Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople, London and Paris receive 50,000 roubles, or $37,000; the ambassador at Rome 47,000 roubles; those at Washington, Tokio, Madrid-and Pekin 36,000 y at Teheran 25,000; at Athens, Brussels, The Hague, Copenhagen, Mexico, Munich and Stockholm 20,000, The ministers at Bucharest. Belgrade, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon and Stuttgards receive 18.000 roubles; the envoy to the vatican 12,000, those to Dresden and Cettinje 10.000, and to Weimar and Darnstadt 8,000 roubles, : e . P R St 8 S YW A CLEVELAND architect thinks that the ocecupancy of underground quarters by a large bank in that city will mark a revolution in building. He says: “The idea is not new, but in this case it has been greatly developed, and I look for startling results. It has been shown that with the aid of air shafts and other appliances quarters a story below ground may be rendered far more comfortable than those above, and with care exereised in the ventila. tion of these quarters will doubtless prove perfect from a sanitary point. If so one story flxm%i@mr or Sen or twelve it nesessar§?i e . -

Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. The Proceedings of the First Session. Washington. Dec. 17.—1 n the senate yesterday petitions were presented for a vestoration of the wool schedule of the McKinley tariff act, and for one cent letter postage. Bills were introduced to exclude aliens from public employment; to protect public forest reservations, and for a railroad . bridge across the Detroit river at Detroit. In the house Mr. Flynn (0.T.) severely arraigned Secretary Smith for the delay in the -appointment of the allotting agents to allot lands to the Wichita Indians. A bill was introduced to reenact the provisions of the McKinley tarift law that cover agricultural products and provisions, wool and manufactures of wool. and silk and silk goods. - Washington, Dec¢. 13.—The president’s message on the Venezuelan question occupied the main attention of the senate yesterday and after it was read it was referred to the committee on foreign relations. In the house the time was mainly absorbed in a debate on the ;‘\Tan to create three coinmittees of nine members each to deal with the election contests. Mr. Crisp introduced g bill that the sum of $lOO,OOO be appropriated to pay the expenses of a commission to be appointed by the president to investigate and report what is the true divisional line between the republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.

Washington, Dec. 19.—Bilis were introduced in the senate yesterday providing an appropriation of $100,000,000 for a heavy increase in the national armement, and making ex-confeder-ates eligible to service in the army and navy. A resolution was passed for an inquiry into alleged corporate influeuces operating in the election of Umited States senators and representatives. In the house a bill was passed appropriating $lOO,OOO for the expenses of the commissign suggested by Mr. Cleveland in hig special Venezuelan message. Adjourned to the 20th. Washington, Dec. 20.—The house pill appropriating $lOO,OOO for the expenses of the proposed commission to Venezuela was laid before the senate yesterday and many speeches were delivered, but no decisive action was taken. A bill was introduced by Senator Hale (Me.) for the construction of six sea. going coast line steel battle ships. A message from the president on the subject of the outrages on Armenians in the Turkish empire was referred to tte committee on foreign relations. The house was not in session. e FROM WASHINGTON. President Cleveland’s message to congress *transmitting the correspondence between Secretary Olney' and Lord Salisbury relative to the Venezuela boundary dispute insists upon the validity of the Monroe doctrine, and upon its application to present conditions, and clearly indicates a determination for its enforcement, as the English government has refused to arbitrate the question in dispute. ‘The delegates from national, state oand territorial societies, leagues and alliances of temperance reform workers met in convention in Washington. The venerable assistant doorkeeper of the senate, Capt. Isaac Bassett, died in Washington, aged 76 years. He had been in'the service of the government 64 years. 5

At Washington Mgr. Satolli, apostolic delegate to the United States, became Cardinal Satolli, a member of the sacred college of cardinals and a prince of the Roman Catholic church. The collections of internal revenue for the five months of the current fiscal year aggregated $64,423,418, a decrease of $8,124,287 as compared with the corresponding period of 1894.

THE EAST.

A big riot marked the opening day of the great strike of the street’ car employes in Philadelphia. Over 300 care were wrecked and other damage was done.

Frederick Fisher, Alec and Louis Bechtold were drowned in the Hudson river at Yonkers, N. Y., by the capsizing of a skiff. :

" In New York nine of the crew of the new line steamship St. Paul were killed by the bursting of a steampipe in the starboard engine room. Near Cortland, N. Y., Rensselaer Tripp, aged 73, a farmer, shot and killed his neighbor, George Calpin, aged 15, and then shot himself. 3

Near Mount Carmel a locomotive with a train attached ran away, and four men were fatally injured and nine others were badly hurt. In a fit of jealousy William 3upleben, 29 years old, a blind soap peddler in New York, killed His only. child, a girl four years old, and then shot himself dead. : : In New York American commerce celebrated the centennial of its liberty by a banquet at Delmonico’s. ' In the jail at Cam<en, Pa., Theodore Lambert (colered) was hanged for the murder of William G. Kaiver,on Decemker 4, 1893. _

The court of appeals liberated Erastus Wiman, of New York, serving a term .of five years in prison on the charge made by R. G. Pun & Co. of forgery. 3

WEST AND SOUTH.

The hero of Chickamauga,Gen. Moses B. Walker, died at Kenton, 0., aged 76 years. He was the last man that left the field ot Chickamauga. The doors of the German national bank at Lincoln, Neb:, were closed with liabilities of $150.000. 5

- Fier wiped out one-half the business portion of Vienna, 1111., the loss being $lOO,OOO, - ‘

The death of Nelson Driggs, the most famous counterfeiter of his time, occurred at his home in Dayton} 0., aged 86 years.

Flames destroyed the business portion of Richmond, Mo., the loss being over $lOO,OOO,

In San Francisco Hans H. Koehler, a wine dealer, failed for $375,000; asgets, one suit of clothes. 5

Osecar Hennegan was publicly hanged at Giddings, Tex., for the murder of Martha Bradley last September. At Moulton, Ala., Squire Jones, a negro charged with burning a barn, was shot to death by a mob. Christian Shultz, aged 82, and Miss Martha Cowan, aged 80, were married at McGuily, 0., after a separation of 40 yearz. : :

"Jm'ige Pardee declared in the United States circuit court at New Orleans that the sugar bounty law was constitutional, : In the Indian territory all the 7,000 coal miners weat on a strike.

In Chicago John Huntér made 9¢ balis in continuous pool at the Plaza club. This beats the world’s record by eight points. e At Canton John E. Kitzmiller, one of the best known horsemen in eastern Ohio, failed for $lOO,OOO. :

In Cincinnati a bicycle that goes a mile a minute is the inventicn of J. A. Ferguson. - At Duluth, Minn., cxperiments demonstrated that potatoes could be treated and preserved in much the same manner as apples. . ; i ‘The Virginia legislature refused to give tbe governor enlarged powers to order out troops to prevent lynching. “In T'ort Scott and other portions of Kansas where rain had been falliyg for 40 hours, high water did great damage. ‘ ; .

Great damage was done by a cyclone that swept over the country four miles north of Sherman, Tex. ' The Bergman family, residing in Dubuque, la., were notified that they were keirs to an estate in Australia worth $1,000,000. ,

The death of Martha Smith (colored) occurred at the Brooks county poor farm, near Wellsburg, W. Va., aged 106. Throughout Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Wiseconsin, Missouri and Kansas, a heavy rainfall was reported. W. P. Harrison, of Chicago, arrived in San Francisco from an extended trip to the antipodes. During his stay on the Samoan islands he states that 25 individuals were devoured by the cannibals, and that he narrowly escaped a like fate.

Several arrests made by secret service officers in Kansas City, St. Louis and Paola, Kan., resulted in the seizure of $91,000 in counterfeit ten dollar silver certificates and the breaking up of a gang of counterfeiters. An explosion of fire-damp in a coal mine near Raleigh, N. C., killed 43 men. An ante-mortem statement of Harry T. Hayward, hanged recently at Minneapolis for the murder of Catherine Ging, says that he took the lives of four other persons before that of Miss Ging, and that he never got into trouble until he began to gamble. v

One of America’s foremost architects and designers, Charles B. Atwood, died at his home in Chicago, aged 46 years. On January 14 the National Editerial association is to meet in St. Augustine, Fla. :

A rainstorm, the heaviest in the history of Chicago, flooded %treets in the city, electric car tracks were under water, people in the suburbs were driven to the upper floors of their dwellings, and the furnace fires of hotels, residences and big manufactories were extinguished by the waters.

The democrats of Louisiana in state convention at Shreveport renomirated M. T. Foster for governor.

The will of the late Senator Thurman, of Columbus, 0., shows he was worth $170,000, all of which was left to his heirs. : ;

At Ann Arbor, Mich., Mrs. Mary Grossman, wife of a prominent business man, drowned herself an«d three-year-old child in a cistern. No cause ‘was known for the act. - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Chief Massais’ followers attacked a caravan near JEldora, Africa, and over 1,000 men with the caravan were killed. Advices say that 40,000 Armenians have been killed by the Turks in the past two months, and that property valued at $5,000,0000 had been either stolen or destroyed.

By an explosion the German ship Athena, from New York for Bremen, was wrecked at sea and the captain and 13 men were drowned.

John Kirby, Phil Young and E. S. Hubley, all of Halifax, N. 8., were drowned while on a fishing excursion.

A mail steamer from the northern coast arrived in St. Johns, N. F., and reported frightful ravages by recent gales. The schooner Victory and crew of 22 were lost and four other vessels wvere missing. The death of Miss Margaret Young, queen of the Manua group of islands, occurred at the age of 23 years.

Portions of the barracks at Buenos Ayres collapsed and 12 soldiers were killed and 60 were injured. d

LATER NEWS.

~ A dispatch from Constantinople says that the porte had ordered Mustapha Remzi Pasha to attack, with 10,000 troops and two batteries, the city of Zeitoun, to bombard and destroy it, and to massacre thé 12,000 Armenians in the city because they had kilied 400 Turkish soldiers. :

A. B. Payne, postmaster at Longview, Ala., was murdered by Jasper Nabors, his nephew. , , During a freshet near Old Monroe, Me., John Heitman, August Longnecker, Henry Longnecker, W. Meadows and wife, and a stepson of James Blankinship, named Martin, were drowned. Twenty-nine miners lost their lives in the Nelson mine near Dayton, Tenr., by an explosion of fire-damp.

There werz 377 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 20th, agninst 388 the week previous and 349 in the corresponding time of 1894.

M. M. Packard & Co., dealers in spices and teas in New York, made an assignment with liabilities of $lOO,OOO.

Steven Ross (colored), the greatest possum hunter in Ohio, was buried at Masgsillon, 0., after having lived to the age ofi 108 years.

Albert Neeland, a photographer of St. Louis, who already has three wives, was arrested in St. Joseph, Mo., when about to marry the fourth. The third floor of the Palace clothing house in Minneapolis collapsed under a heavy load of wall paper, killing Gale Walters, a clerk, and doing damage to the extent of $lO,OOO. The Tilinois Live Stoek Insurance company, organized in Chicago with a capial of $lOO,OOO, made an assignment, Washington, Dec. 21.—The senate yesterday, by unanimous vote, passed the biil adopted by (he house empowering the president to appeint a commission to determine the Venezuelan-Brit-ish Guiana boundary. A message was received from the president saying the nation’s credit was in peril, and that he desired congress to remain in session and do whatever it could to reassure the country that the government of the United States will continue to meet its obligagions, financial as well as otherwise. No action was faken. In Lhe house the only business transacted was the passage of a bill for the changing of. the terms of United ftates court in lowa and the presentation of a notice of contest against Representative Jones, of Virginia, on the ground of fraud, T £ g

UNDER ONE FLAG.

Union of American Republics 1s a Possl-% d bility.

Washington, Dec. 20.—Among Secretary Olney’s callers Thursday were! Ministers Andrade, of Venezuela, Mendonca, of Brazil, and Romero, of Mex{ ico, representing three of the first re-f publics of South and Central America.; Though it was diplomatic reception day at the state department, their call at that particular time occasioned much comment. Although none of the Central and South 2 American diplomats will consent to be quoted regarding their call, it is known that they, as a rulé, have cabled their government thatéthe present seems an opportune time for invoking the Monroe doctrine as a means of support against European pressure, several ¢f them beinginvolvecg in disputes with European nations at this time. The statement is made by one of them that several important results will follow from the vigorous construction of the Monroedoctrine. Firsti it is said, will be the official adherence of the southern republics, making thédeclaration practically unanimous from the countries of the western hemist phere. It is pointed out that Lord Salist bury insisted that the Monroe coctrine was not recognized as international law, but this, it is said, will be answered by a showing that all the republics of North and South America accept it as the law governing them. b, ‘The suggestion is made with much directness in diplomatic circles that the course of the United States assures tq it all the moral and physical support of all the South and Central American republics. In the aggregate the allied strength of the western republics, with the United States at its head, would constitute a formal factor in international affairs. Tt is not suggested among diplomatists that such an alk liance wili take the formal shape of 4 treaty, but it is urged that the feeling of union existing constitutes a compact guite as effective as a formal unden‘standing. : S AMERICAN COMMERCE. ! The Centennial of Its Liberty Is Gb=’ served in New York. { New- York, Dec. 20.—American commerce celebrated the centennial of its liberty Thursday night by a banquet at Delmonico’s. Thursday night was chosen for the banquet because it ‘/5/’l3' M =S () "= ©\ | Y. ) e \§‘9 | .. /,//,lf/ 2 ‘ U ‘ . 3 :\72::;,’ \\\“ A/://///'., Z i § & = \/(// A\ l: . e =H 4 il o NN AR AL LRGN ),\‘\\\ i \ ’ 3 *W ‘ I JOHN JAY. marked the 100th anniversary of the full approval by the president and senate of the treaty negotiated with Great Britain by John Jay, then chief j}istice of the young republic of the United States. The feast also inaugurated the annual observance of December 19 as “Commercial Day” by all organized commercial bodigs of the country, and it was held under the auspices of the editors of and contributors to 6 the recently completed history entitled *“One Hundred Years of American Commerce.” & RUN UNDER GUARD. Street Car Travel Partially Resumeéd with © Police Protection. Philadelphiza, Dee. 20.—Only a feav disturbances of a comparatively trivial character marked the third day of the strike of the employes of the Unipn Traction company and on several of its lines the company succreded in efi‘eé}ting a partial resumption of its interrupted traffic. Such cars as were I‘l'in, however, were heavily guarded, by police. The pclice authorities since the outbursts of Tuesday have acted with great firmness, and have succceded in keeping the mob spirit within bounds. On the lines on which cars were Tun the presence of the policemen on théir platforms enccuraged people to ride, and there were many more pussengdjrs carried than on Wednesday. : Despite the few disturbances the mob spirit was still apparent in the streets, and to avoid the risk of an outbreak the company again ceased running cars at nightfall.. General Manager Beetem, of the company, claims to have all the men he wants, and said that he expedts to increase the number of cars on each line each day until the regularschedule is again resumed. The strikers also claim to be much encouraged by the outlook, and at their headquarters it was generally reported that the company would compromise within.jfla day or two. ,

A Heavy Rain.

Chicago, Dec. 20.—The heaviest rainstorm inthe history of this city flooded sireets in the city, electric car tfacks were under water, people in the suburbs were driven to the upper floors of their dwellings, and the furnace fires of hotels, residences and big manufac’tq‘r-' ics were extinguished by the waters. The storm was general throughout Illinois, Towa, Michigan, Wisconsin; Missouri and Arkansas. : | }‘learly 100,000 Sparrows Killed, Niles, Mich., Dec. 19.—Van Buren county has paid out since Janijary;‘ 1, 1895, $2,822 for bounties on Engiish sparrows. Nearly 100,000 of the pests have been killed, but it seems as though the war of extermination had only begun, as they scem thicker than ever. Heavy Rains Stop Trains. i St. Louis, Dec. 19.—Passenger trainx cn the Frisco, both ways from Carthage, Mo., were abandoned Tuesday on account of the storms. Bloomington, Arcola and New Douglas, 1., report the roads almost impassable and houses cdamaged by the heavy rains. e Cigarettes Claim Another Vlctln;. 4 Niles, Mich., Dec. 20.—Willard Green, a i6-year-old Buchanan boy, who has been at the point of death some weeks from cigarette-smoking, died Thursday. The boyr has smoked as high as 165 boxes in u month, always inhaling the deadly nicotine. On his deathbed he raged and cried piteously for cigarettes. : ‘ ; il : Big Haul by Burglars. Kelso, Mo., Dec. 20.—The safe in George Wright's general store was blown by burglars Thursday night and $2,000 m currency and muctes stolen, The burglars left no clew, -

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

International Lesson for December 29, 1895 — Review — Psalm 78, Heb. 11:

24-40. . Speciaily Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.

TiMme.—This quarter’s lessons extend over gbout 400 years, from B. C. 1443, the beginning of the period of the Judges, fo 1055, the close of the reign of Saul. If we'include the lessons for the past six months, the period is 450 years, beginning with the year at ‘Sinal, 1491 B. C. 2

€OUNTRY.—The map of Palestine should be carefully studied, and the events located in their place. Thismap should become 80 familiar that whenever a Bible event is mentioned it will immediately be locat-d meéntally. Palestine proper, the land west of the Jordan, extends from Mount Hermon on the north to the southern end of the Dead sea, about 180 miles, which is also the length of the coast line. It is 25 miles wide at the north, and 60 from the Dead sea to the coast through Gaza. It has an area of about 6,600 square miles, a little less than Massachusetts. But the tribes at this time occupied also a large area east of the Jordan, so that the whole domain of the 12 tribes was about 12,000 square miles. '-+ 1. GENERAL REVIEW, : In this it will be wise to include the period covered by the lessons for six months. You will notice by the iccompanying diagram the main feature of this period. It divides itself into four epochs, each one having its peculiar pert in the development of the nation. It will be well to draw something of the kind on the blackboard, and drill the school in the main features of the period. -« 5 —_— % ISinai. = |Golden calf. s § ’ Spies. g <« o ¥ |Brazen serpent. |2 g = | - @ {Long discipline. 3 ~ é [The new start. ?og - {Death of Moses. o -~ d | e e ——————————————— .. 7 ICrossing Jordan. Q Jericho. L& 2 O Al 2 « 2 Caleb. g e a Wars. : & LA B ~ [Covenant. ’ H Pl—— ] ¥ . C’D | . | & S(8 n‘? & . - _ S . R -- c* - EE &9 g|F % g = 2= '- w “ ¢ls , & B o 5 ‘ F|B > = e . b - Elo Sa 8 gcesw |ET &% .pEF | &2 - B v o= = o < z - G c 8 Feg 8 3 &5 B " w - -8 & S o, : S Cg g &, 8% e ) . 11. REVIEW BY PERSOXNS. Most of the history of this period is connected with leading persons, whose history will furnish one view of the history of the times. Let the schol-ars-tell what part each of the following persons khad in the progress of events: MOSES GIDEON - SAMUEIL AARON SAMSON SAUL JOSHUA RUTH DAVID . CALEB ELI JONATHAN ACHAN ELI'S SONS GOLIATH B REVIE\V BY EVENTS. This review covers the same ground from a different standpcint. Show what each event had to do with the unfolding, through the Divine Providence, of the Kingdom of God in the Israelitish nation. ; : Giving of the law. The conquest. Golden calf. The covenant. Wilderness wander- Period of the judges., ings. Gideon’s victory. ; The report of the Call of Samuel. spies. Saul and his possiThe fiery serpents. : bilities. The death of Xloses. /David chosen. The captain of the Saul rejected. Lord’s host. Victory.over Goliath Crossing the Jordan. Friendshipwith JonFall of Jericho. _ athan. Defeat at Ai. IV. REVIEW BY MORAL AND RELIGIOUS

TEACHINGS

1. How the Lord trains a people by rewards and punishments. . 2. How the people sometimes chcose the second best. -

3. Two instances ot victory over great enemies, and the lessons they teach us toward gaining the victory over our spiritual enemies. 4. Three great men chosen in youth for great deeds that would help on the kingdom of God. Their early training and preparation, the effect of their personal choices, their possibilities, and how they used them. j 5. A beautiful example of choosing God and Ilis people, and its appiication fo us.

6. God’s call and our answer. 7. Rejecting God by disobedience,and its effects. % i

8. Obedience the test of true religion. 9. God’s past aid an encouragement in present difficulty. ‘ 10. An example of true frierdship. Apply to friendship with Jesus. 11. Howall these things helpedto prepare for the coming of Jesus into the world,and the founding of Hiskingdom. How the Saviour helps us to make the right choices, do brave deeds, live right lives, and possess true virtues.

. Baxcaonr, Me., has lately been invaded by an army of skunks, and the unpleas-. ant visitors are so numerous and, naturally, so objectionable that the residents are at a loss what todo. Thestate authorities have been asked for advice and assistance in getting rid of the animnials, though just what the state can do is not verv clear. - THE WORLD OF ART. A monument to the late Bishop Wyman (colored) will be erected-in Baltimore. : Twenty-one sculptors competed for the statue of Sarah Siddons to be erected in London. The model chosen is by a Frenchman, Chevalier. “The Sleeping Cavalier,” by Meissonier, which belonged to the late Mrs. Paran Stevens. has been sold, for $3,500, a sum much belosw its supposed value. A monument of Bertholdi, the/central figure in which is Helvetia, has been set up at Basel, to commemorate the hospitality shown to the people of Strasburg by Switzeriand at the time of the siege. No other painter has a home of such artistic luxuriousness as Alma-Tl'adema. Perhaps its most remarkable feature is the wall, which is panecled with tall, slim pictures, each of them by a different painter. Leighton, Boughton, Sargent, Calderon an{l a full score of the artist’s friends have contributed to this remarkable embellishment. Vomntezer. life-savers of New York nsk the board of education to add swimming to the publie-school curriculum,

: Consolution, ; : ; All are not taken; there are left behind Living beloveds, tender looks to bring, - ~ And make the daylight still a happy thing, s ! ; And tender voices, to make soft the wind. T:ut if-it were not so—if I could find No love in all the world for comforting, Nor any path but hollowing did ring, " Where ‘‘dust to dust’” the love from life disjoin’d, . And if, before those sepulchres unmoving, 1 stood alone (as some forsaken lamb Gees bleating up the moors, in weary dearth), ) Crying: ‘“Where are ye, O my loved and loving?”’ ’ I know a voice would sound: “Daughter, I AM. ' Can I suffice for Heaven, and not for earth 7"’ -—Mrs. E. B. Browning, in Boston Budget. ~ How completely THE BLACK CAT, Roston’s new five-cent magazine, has captivated the story-reading world, is shown by the fact that in three months it has already reached a sale of 150,000 copies. And the favor it has found with the press is equally well indicated by the editorial comments of leading papers throughout the country. The New York Mail and Express, for instance, refers to it as “the literary pet,” while the Louisville Commercial says: “We predict that this delightfully original and interesting magazine, which is published by the Shortstory Publishing Co., Boston, Mass., will have the largest sale ever reached by any publication. Its cleverly told stories of mystery, exciting detective tales, and thrilling stories of adventure render THE BrLAcCK CAT a delightful new departure in story telling.” ; ——— e e “Excuste me,” he said, “if I seem to bea little impertinent, but my curiosity has got so much the best of me that I must venture a question.”” *“What is it?” Are you a gentleman going golfing or a lady going bicycling #’—Washington Star. —_—e———— Atlanta and the South. . The Chicago and Eastern lllinois R. R. will during the time of the Exposition.at Atlanta Sept. 18, to Dec. 81, 1895, offer exceptionally fine service between Chicagoand the South.. A low rate ticket . will be sold, and through cars run to all southern points. This is 55 miles the shortest route to Atlanta, Chattanooga and the South. . ~ For guide to Atlanta and the Exposition address C. W. Humphrey, Northwestern Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn., or City Ticket Office,23o Clark St., Chicago. Charles L. Stone, General Passenger Agent,Chicago.

“T HEARD you were out sleighing with Miss De Riche, Spooner? Playin% for high stakes, aren’'t you?” ‘“Well, I held a full hand .on that occasion,” said Spooner, thoughtfullv.—Detroit Free Press.

“The Melancholy Days Have Come, The saddest of the year,’’ not when attumn has arrived, as poet Bryant intimates, but when a fellow gets bilious. The ¢sere and yellow leaf” is in his complexion if-not in the foliage at that inauspicious time. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will soon discipline his rebellious liver, and regulate his bowets, besides toning his stomach and healthfully stimulating his kidneys. Malaria, rhelumatism and nervousness are also relieved by the Bitters.

“Way, mamma,” said little Walter, “a snake is omnly a tail with eyes in it!"— Youth’s Companion.

To California.

Study all time cards and you will find no railroad carrying tourist cars make as %uick time as the Phillips Rock Island xcursions. One hour and thirty minutes quicker timeé than any other route Chicago to Los Angeles. i A. Phillips & Co. have carried over 125,000 fiatrons to and from California. Why? ecause every well-posted California traveler understands Phillips has the best regulated tourist system. . v JNO. SEBASTIAN, G. P, A, - Chicago, 111.

Tae WirE—*‘John, didn't you feel like a fool when you proposed to me?”’ The Husband—*No; but I was one.”—Life.

- County Map of the South, Free. If you are interested in the South and would like to have a county map showing the I]%rincipal counties in detail in the States of entuck%, Tennessee, Alabama and a portion of Mississippi and Florida, send %our address to P. Sid Jones, Pass. Agent, irmingham, Ala., or C. P. Atmore, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky. This map is made to fold up in convenient form, and contains letters written by several northern people who have settled at different points on the Louisville & Nashville R. R.

OxE who never drinks behind the bar—the mosquito.—Texas Siftings.

All About Western Farm Lands.

. The “Corn Belt” is a monthly paper published by the Passenger Department of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. It is designed to give reliable information concerning western farm lands, what can be raised on them successfully, and the experiences of farmers who live in the west. Copies of the paper will''be sent to any address for one year on receipt of 25 cents. Postage stamps accepted. Address “The Corn Belty”’ 209 Adams St., Chicago.

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Great Reduction in Time to Californis, Once:-more the North-Western Line has reduced the time of its trans-continental trains, and the journey from Chicago te California via this popular route is now made in the marvelously short time of three days. Palace Drawing-Room Sleeping cars leave Chicago daily, and run through to San Francisco and Los Angeles without'change, and all meals en route are served in Dining cars. Daily Tourist Sleeping car serviceis also maintained by this line between . Chicago and San Francisco and Los Angeles, completely equipped berths in ugholsbered Tourist Sleepers being furnished at a cost of only §6.00 each from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. Through trains leave Chicago for California at 6:00 p- m. and 10:30 p. m. daily, after arrival of trains of connecting lines from the East and South. i For detailed information concerningrates, routes, ete., apply to ticket agents of connecting lines or address: i W. B, KNISKERN. G. P. & T. A., Chicago. —_—— IN families well ordered there is always one ' firm, sweet tem&)er, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.—Bulwer. e e “Low Rates to the South. ; On ‘the first Tuesday of each month, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. will sell oue way tickets to all points in the South at greatly reduced rates. The fast train over this raute now leaves Chicago daily at 8:25 P. M. and runs through solid to Nashville, making connection there with all trains for the South and Southeast. City Ticket Office 230 Clark St., Chicago. . | el S G i WHEX a fellow swears to a girl that he would go- through fire and water for her he little dreams of lighting heaters and filling washtubs.— Philadelphia Record. Business Chance—A Good Income. - We pay Eou to sell fruit trees. Stark Nurseries, Louisiana, Mo.: Rockport, Il GeNlus may be described as the spirit of discovery. It is the eye of iuntellect, and the wing of thought.—Simms. It is the toper that would like to put a gurgle round the world.—Texas Siftings, BeecuaM’s PiLLs for constipation 10c and 25c. Get the book (free) at your druggist’s and go by it. Annual sales 6,000,000 boxes.

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