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Well. well, so this is New Year s 3ay," said Mr. Sooner. "Do you rerernber how we quarreled this day on year ago?'' "Remember! I think I do!" cried Iiis wife. "Why. the cards were ordered when it happened, and I didn't know whether I could have your name taken out and Dick's inserted, in case I changed my mind." '"In case I changed my min. you mean. dear. Strange that I never suspected how much poor Dora cared for nie until that day." "I'm sure she had concealed it very well the way she ran after Dick, as If he ever had eyes for anybody but me! He never told his love, but a woman's intuition was" "A synonym of vanity, dear. Of course, I couldn't help knowing that she cared for me when I met her in the boarding house parlor, with her eyes full of tears, on the very morning after you had told Marie, her dearest friend, that we were to be n.r.rried in a month." "Humph, that girl would cry about muything; I've known her to cry when the villain in the play was killed as if a villain could expect anything else in the last act. But as soon as I saw Dick that morning I knew that he knew it. Why, his necktie had slipped around under one ear and his voice, as he wished me a happy New Year, was so ad, that I felt guilty, though my conscience told me that I had not encouraged hjm." "You've forgotten how you used to raise the shape of his head." "As if that meant anything! A girl oaljr praises the shape of a man's head whea she can't find anything else to flatter him about. It it means no more than it does when she tells a srua-il man that he resembles Napoleon. But when I remembered that you had once gone down on the floor in your new trousers to pick up Dora's handkerchief I knew that I had been cruelly deceived. So when you reproached me about Dick, I" "I remember how badly I felt when she replied to my New Year's greeting with tin? remark that happiness for her was over forever. And before I could' comfort her Miss Marie came in and I could only go sadly away without telling her that I should always be a brother to her." easonable Sayings. The new leaf that very soldom gets turned over is the one in the diary. Some men claim that they sec the old year out and the new one in by setting so drunk that they can't see Anything. By New Year the silver plating wears off many a Christmas present. A good beginning is naif the battle axeept in the case of keeping a diary. The new date is as hard to remember as the new leaf. Even thougn the arctic explorer never discovers the north pole he deserves credit, for he always keeps a diary. New Year gives us a chance to reciprocate to those who unexpectedly save us a present at Christmas. Seeing the old year out puts a man in a fit condition to swear off the next day N. Y. World. The JVeto year's Creeling. "You look worried. Brown," said Green. "Worried! I should say I am, See those?" And he drew out of his overcoat pocket a great bundle of statements of accounts. "Ha! ha!" laughed Green, "you will make Christmas present to your wife, will you. without counting the cost first?" The lines around Brown's eyes deepened and his mouth drooped sadly. "No," he said, "that's not it. These are not for presents I made my wife." "Why, 'what are they for, then?" asked Green, wonderingly. "For the presents my wife made me. And the men shook hands In tender ympathy. Detroit Free Press. A. Happy JVeto &ear. A happy Xew Year!" Hovr many people realize the meaning of the words as they go about with this familiar greeting upon their Hps? "I wlah you a happy New Year!" Does it not seem that the wish carries a blessing with it? And I bellev it Coes when spoken by friends whost Word are always true and sincere. For the benefit of those thoughtless caes who never read between the lines, let u analyze this significant greeting. In the first place we wish our friends happiness, and the next question which naturally suggests itself is, what contltutes happiness? A little friend of Bine tells me that it Is to eat all the candy he wants and not to go to bed until he wants to do bo. Another

"And poor Dick, I asked him if there was anything I could do for him; he replied: Yes,' but just then the maid came in with a note for him, and he said he must go at once I think he wished to be alone with his sorrow. Then you came in, and. instead of sharing my pity for him. you accused me of flirting with him!" "I er don't remember that. But wasn't it odd that before I left you forever. Miss Marie should com in and tell us that Dora and Dick wer engaged! I've often wondered how it happened that they decided to console each other." "And so have I. Why, here is Marie now perhaps she can explain. Sit

"SHE AND DICK QUARRELED." down, Marie, do. Tom and I are just going over old times. Do you remember last New Year's day, and" "Indeed I do. I've just been to see Dora, and she was talking about it. She and Dirk quarreled last New Year's Eve about the date of their marriage, and almost parted forever. They think you both must have guessed it. I remember that Tom was in the parlor with Dora when I ran in on ! New Year's morning to tell hec of your engagement. She had been on the point of asking him to help her to make up with Dick. And when she told me about it, I wrote him a note telling him that I believed she would forgive him if he came at once. That note found him at your house, Irene, where lw? had gone to ask your aid as peacemaker. Odd, wasn't it?" friend of more mature years says that she would be perfectly happy if she had all the money she wanted to spend as she liked. Another desires fame, another social position. And so we might go on asking and finding out that almost every one has a different definition for happiness. If the young lad were allowed to follow his own sweet will and surfeit himself with sweets and late bout. I think the result would be anything but happy. As for wealth, who can blame anyone for wishing for all that one cares to spend, and especially a woman to whom a separate income is the exception rather than the rule. It is the spending of it which decides the happiness or unhappiness of the possessor. I Jo not believe that any one was ever really happy who used wealth merely to gratify selfish ambitions Fame, too. Is a good thing to' possess, but how iuiny who have gained this high pinnacle will tell you that it brings happiness Social position is also something after which there is much striving. Yet when the coveted place is reached it is so often found to be barren, and happiness has no resting place there. Social position brings heavy responsibilities with it. and social duties are hard and laborious without the happy results that follow labor In more worthy causes. It seems, then, that there must be some special way to happiness not easily found. There Is, but it is easy enough to be seen by all who care to follow its winding way. Wiser heads than mine found out long ago that only In trying to make others happy is real happi.iess ever gained for oneself. So in wishing our friends a happy New Year, we really obligate ourselves to do all that we can to make the wish come true; and for this reason the words should never be spoken idly, or used as a mere matter of form. On the other hand, to be sincere in the greeting and to do what the words Imply, is certain to bring happiness to all. And now, let us go on to the next word in th analysis, "new." Everybody likes new things, unless an exception may be made to the so-called "new woman." New gowns, new bonnets, new personal belongings of all sorts appeal especially to women. While "clothes do not make the person," every one has learned that appearance in this world goes a long way toward success. Under the inspiration ot knowing that one is well-dressed often one has done bis best and the key note of success has been touched. It Is human nature that womankind should love pretty new dresses, new bonnets and dainty surrounding, so let no one accuse her of vanity for desiring them. New ideas are sought after by the philosopher; new conditions by the scientist; new inventions by the inventor. Editors eagerly examine new matter; and that which is truly original or opens a new field of thought is never found "unavailable" no matter how poorly It ma7 be written. There Is a constant hunt going on for something new to further stimulate the energies, ambitions and de

sires of the worlfi's people: and never was this craving so apparent as now when we are closing the nineteenth century. Everyone seems to feel that we are on the verge of a new era which in spite of the inventions of the past is to b-i the most wonder producing period in the world's progress. If the inhabitants of Mara continue to signal us, as has been stated, who knows but what some shrewd, enterprising Yankee will put on his thinking cap. build a flying machine that will overcome all atmospheric conditions and go sailing over to the ptenet one of these coming days? Perhaps the North Pole wiil be discovered in the same way, although why so many people will risk life and property to find a spot that Is almost certain to contain nothing that will sustain life or hope, can only be laid to their insatiate greed for something new. It is to be hoped, however, that while these greater things are going on, some one may invent an automatic servant that will get up in the morning without being called, never let the fires go out, wash our best china w ithout brooking it, and, from the very nature of the invention, cannot "talk back" when we happen to go into the kitchen and scold a little Household Realm. Uhc Jfettf year Spirit. The return of New Year's day Invites many people to the most somber reflections. Undoubtedly most of us can find abundant occasion for these, but there is such a thing as pushing self-examination and self-condemnation to the point of discouragement. The best tamper with which we can enter upon the new year is that of faith, faith in God and, faith in ourselves through His help. It is about as certain as anything can be that the new year will bring us new experiences. Our courage, our capacity for endurance, our steadiness of character and power of resistance is to be tested. At the end of the year we are going to be nobler men and women than we are today, or we shall have deteriorated morally, and forever afterward there will be narrowing opportunities. While we think of the latter alternative it is well to strengthen our hearts by the former. Let us believe that we are not going to fall and we have taken a long step towards success. When another New Year's day comes around we are going to be able to reckon solid gains in character won through the trials and temptations and emergencies of the year's experience. .Boston Watchman.

The ylnnual Creeling. "A Happy New Year to youl" This is the greeting whirb will be heard on every side as we cross the threshold of the new year. It has become a custom to repeat it. In many cases it has fcittle meaning, and is nothing more than an empty compliment or an idle wisa. How much do you mean by it? It is very easy to repeat the formula. It is a very simple matter to buy a New Year's card and enclose It in an envelope. Rut when you send this greeting, or speak it. do you regard it as a pledge or promise that you will do nothing to make the recipient of it unhappy, and that you will do all in your power to relieve his anxieties and bring gladness to his he.irt? Raptist Union. Crowned evermore in endless light sht greets The New Year's dawn. While we, with heads bowed low and dull heartbeats. Live sadly on. Visions too grandly bright for mortal gaze, To her unfold Rlossoms each noble deed of earthly days, In beauty's mold. The glory of our Ird her eyes have seen. With undimmed sight. Safe In His presence dear, she dwells serene And knows no night. She clasps the hands of loved ones waiting there On Heaven's shore. With them she treads those streets so wondrous fair. In rapture o'er. In glad surprise, joyous and pure and free, ller soul so blest. Solves the deep mystery of eternity And perfect rest. Isabel L. Roardman, in N. Y. Observer. The JVcXjv Century. Love's harmonies flow toward him full and sweet; Sin's wild, discordant cries are past him hurled. With sad, glad heart and brave, reluctant feet He steps upon the threshold of th world. JVonc to Cum O0er, 'I thought you were going to tura over a new leaf, John," she ßald. "I was," he replied, "but I find I can't." "Why not?" "There won't be any new leaves natu 6pring." Cbfcago Post Merely on Official Form. He wished me a happy New Year; The words would have tickled me, but I knew from his bearing austere I waa booked for a salary cut. Chicago Record.

TALMA GE'S SERMON.

FOR THE WORLD'S THRALLMtNT. DISENSermol KifolillT Appropriate for the t'lirUt man a4nii The Mi ton of the aviour of th World Troof That Ciort Is I.ove. (Copyright, lfoo, Louis Klopsch, N. Y.) Washington. JVc. 23. In this discourse Dr. Talmage describes in a new way the sacrifices made for the world's disenthralment and deliverance. His text is I. John iv.. 10. ' God is love." Perilous undertaking would it be to attempt a comparison between the attributes of God. Th.?y are not like a mountain range, with here and there a higher peak, nor like the ocean, with here and theie a profounder d-?pth. We cannot measure infinities. We would not dare to say whether his omnipotence, or omniscience, or omnipresence, or immutabilitj, or wisdom, or justice, or love is the greater attribute, but the one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than any other. It was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not in his dotage, as Prof. Eichhorn asserted, but you can tell by the repetitions in the epistle and the rambling style and that he called grown people "little children" that the author was probably an octogenarian. Yet Faul, in midlife mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars hill, said nothing stronger or more Important than did the venerable John whn he wrote the three word of my text, "God is love," Indeed the older One gets the more he appreciates this attribute. The harshness and the combat iveness and the severity have gone out of the old man. and he Is more leniwit and aware of his own faults, is more disposed to make excuses for the faults of others, and he frequently ejaculates, "Poor human nature!" The young minister preached three sermons on the justice of God and one on the love of God. but when he got old he preached three sermons on the love of God and one on the justice of God. Christ's Ueacent to V'.arth. If high intelligences looked down and saw what was going on. they must have prophesied extermination, complete extermination, of these offenders of Jehovah. Hut no! Who is that coming out of the throne room of heaven? Who is that corning out of the palace of the eternal? It is the Son of the Kmperor of the universe. Down the stairs of the high henvens he comes till he reaches the cold air of a December night in Palestine and amid the bleatings of sheep and the lowing of cattle and the moaning of camels and the banter of the herdsmen takes his first sleep on earth and for 33 years invites the wandering race to return to God and happiness and heaven. They were the longest 33 years ever known in heaven. Among many high intelligences, what impatience to get him back! The Infinite Father looked down and saw his Sou slapped and spit on and supperless and homeless, and then, amid honors that made the noonday heavens turn black in the face, his body and soul parted. And all for what? Why allow the Crown Prince to come on such an errand and endure such sorrows and die such a death? It was to invite the human rate to put down its antipathies and resistance. It was because "(!od is love." Now, there is nothing beautiful in a shipwreck. We go clown to look at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on Long Isltnd or New Jersey coast. It excites our interest. We wonder when and how it came ashore and whether it was the recklessness of a pilot or a storm before which nothing could bear up. Human nature wrecked may interest the Inhabitants of other worlds as a curiosity, but there is nothing lovely in that which has foundered on the rocks of sin and sorrow. Yet it was in that condition of moral break up that heaven moved to the rescue. It was loveliness hover ing over deformity. It was the lifeboat putting out into the surf that attempted its demolition. It was harmony pitying discord. It was a llvi?ig God putting his arms around a recreant world. Our World' WU-ketineaii. But for this divine feeling I think our world would long ago have been demolished. Just think of the organized wickedness of the nations! See the abominations continental! Behold the false religions that hoist Mohammed and Buddha and Confucius! Ixxik at the Koran and the Shastra and the Zend-Avesta that would crowd out of the world the Holy Scriptures! Look at war, digging Its trenches for the dead across the hemispheres! See the great cities, with their holocaust of destroyed manhood and womanhood! What blasphemies assail the heavens! VThat butcheries sicken the centuries! What processions of crime and atrocity and woe encircle the globe! If justice had spoken, it would have said. "The world deserves annihilation, and let annihilation come." If immutability had spoken, it would have said: "I have always been opposed to wickedness and always will be opposed to it. The world is to me an affront infinite, and away with it." If omniscience had spoken, it would have said: "I have watched that planet with minute and all comprehensive inspection, and I cannot have the offense longer continued." If truth had spoken, it would have said, "I declare that they who offend the law must go down under the law." Hut divine love took a different view of the world's obduracy and pollution. It said: "I pity all those woes of the earth. I cannot stand here and see no assuagement of those sufferings. I will go down and reform the world. I will medicate its wounds. I will ealm Its frenzy. I will wash off Its pollution. I will become Incarnated. I will take on ray shoulders and !upon my brow and Into my heart the consequences of that world's misbehavior. I start now, and between my arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent from Olivet I will weep their tears and suffer their griefs and die their death. Farewell, my throne, my crown, my scepter, my. angelic environment, my heaven, till I have finished the work and come back!" God was never cos-

quered but once, and that was when he was conquered by his own love. "God is love." Christ the Comforter. If one paragraph of the creed se?ms to take you, like a child, out of the

j arms of a father, let the next paraI graph put you in the arms of a mothj er. "As one whom his mother comJ forteth, so will I comfort you." Oh. j what a mother wo have in God! And i my text is the lullaby sung to us when i we are ill, or when we are maltreated, j or when we are weary, or when we are trying to do better, or when we are be- ' reft, or when we ourselves lie down to j the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek I of the mother against our cheek, and j there sounds in it the hush of many i mothers: "God is love." This was the reason the Bible was j written. The world needs no inspired page to tell it that God will chastise sin, for that is proved in the life of ! many an offender. Yen can loolc I through the wicket of any prison and J see the fact which the world under- ! stood thousands of years before Soloj mon wrote it "The way of the transj greisor is hard." The world needed j no Bible to tell it that God is omnipoj tent, for any one who has seen Mont : Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean in a cyclone knows that. The world needed no Bible to tell it of God's wisdom, for everything, from a spider's web to the upholstery of a summer's sunset, from the globe of dewdrop to the rounding of a world, declares that. But there was one secret about God that was wrapped up In a scroll o! parchment, and it staid there until apostollic hand unrolled that scroll, and let out upon the world the start ling fact, "which it could never have surmised, never guessed, never expected, that he loved our human race so ardently that he will pardon sin and subdue the offender with a divine kiss and turn foaming malefactors into worshipers before the throne. Oh, I am so glad that the secret is out and that it can never again be veiled! Tell it to all the sinning, suffering, lying race; tell it in song and sermon, on canvas, and in marble, on arch and pillar; tell jt all around the earth "God is love." The Domination of Fear. ! Notice that the wisest men of fclie naf tions for thousands of years did not, t amid their idolatries, make something to represent this feeling, this emotion. They had a Jove, representing might; ! j Neptune, the god of the sea; Minerva. ! the goddess of wisdom; Venus, the I i j goddess of bape appetite: Ceves, the ; goddess of corn, and an Odin, an an ! Osiris, and a Titan, and a Juggernaut, and whole pantheons of gods and god- : ! desses, but no shrine, no carved image, j : no sculptured form has suggested a I god of pure love. That was beyond i ; human brain. It took a God to think ; J that, a God to project that, a God Ut I down from heaven to achieve that. 1 Fear is the dominant thought in all ; false religions. For that the devotees ; cut themselves with lances and swing : I on iron hooks and fall under wheels I j and hold up the right arm so long that t they cannot take it down. Fear, brut- j j i.sh fear! But love is the queen in our religion. For that we build temples. : i For that we kneel at our altars. For i ! that we contribute our alms. For that 1 ! martyrs suffered at Brussels marketi nlace and at Luc-know and Cawnnur ; and Pekin. That will yet bejewel the : round earth and put it an emerald on 1 the great, warm, throbbing heart of God. I roof That iol I I.ove. Do you want more proof that "God ' is love?" Yea, disinterested love. No I rnmripiisntinn for its bestowal n re- i I ward for its sacrifices. But I call that i back. The world did pay him. It paid . rivnrv ivid him ith bles on the brow and four spikes, two for the hands and two for the feet, and one sjear for the side near the heart; 1 paid him in execration; paid him with : straw pillow in a barn and a cross on i a hill: naid him with a third of a ruitury of maltreatment and hardship save one year-yea. is paying him yet in rejection of his mission of mercy. Having dethroned other kings, the world would like to dethrone the King of Kings. But he knew what he was : coming to when he left the portals of pearl and the land where the sun never goes down. les, he knew the world, how cold it Is, and knew pain, how sharp it is, and the night, how dark it is. and expiation, how excru- ; dating it is. Out of vast eternity he I looked forward and saw Pilate's crim- ! inal courtroom, and the rocky bluff ' with three crosses, and the lacerated body in mortuary surroundings, and ! heard the thunders toll at the funeral I of heaven's favorite, and understood that the palaces of eternity would hear 1 the sorrow of a bereft God. What do the Bible and the church ! I liturgies mean when they say, "He de- i I scended Into hell?" They mean that ' his soul left his sacred body for awhile j ' and went down Into the poison of j moral night, and swung back its great j door, and lifted the chain of captivity, . ! and felt the awful lash that would have , : come down on the world's back, and ! wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice, ! and took the bolt of divine indigna(inn oi'jiict tin ?tifr liinicolf on.l h n V

. . , . , i i ii make a good living. 1 hey never find ing vanquished death and hell, camel. . . , , . . , t it difficult to obtain employment when out and came nn. havincr achieved an I 1

eternal rescue if we will accept it. Head it slowly, read It solemnly, read '. it with tears. "He descended into hell." : j He knew what kind of pay he would . j get for exchanging celestial splendor ( ; for Bethlehem caravansary, and he ! I dared all and came, the most illustrious example in all the ages of disin- ! Kclioing ltak Dlvin Love. Now. the only fair thing for human j hearts to do is to echo back that sov ereign love. You and I have stood in mountainous regions where, utterins one distinct word, the echoes would come back with a resonance startling and captivating, and from all our hearts there should sound unto the heavens responses glorious and long continued. Let the world change Its style of payment for heavenly love. No more payment by lances, by hammers; no more payment by blows on the cheek and scourging on the back, and hooting of mobs, but payment in ardors of soul, in true surrender of heart and love to the God that made us, and the Christ who ransomed us, and the eternal spirit who by regenerating power makes us all over again. Alexander the Great, with his host,

was marching in Jer iai ?m to cantor and plunder it. The JnaMt? -.j came out, clothed in white, or. 'jy the high priest wearing u ui:t.er glittering breast plate on whie wa- emblazoned the name of God. iud Alexander, seeing that word, bowed and halted his army, and tl r city was saved. And if we have the '.nve of God written in all our hearts and -n all our lives and on all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation would fall back, and we would go Ci from victory unto victory, unt.il w? stand in Zion and before God. Leander swam across the Helks-it guided by the light which Hero the fair held from one of her tower windows, and what Hellesponts of earthly strug-

j gle can we not breast as long as we can see the torch of divine love held out from the tower windows of the King! Let love of God to us and our love to God clasp hands thia minute. 0 ye dissatisfied and distressed souls, who roam tho world over looking for happiness and finding none, why not try this love of God as a solace and inspiration and, eternal satisfaction? When a king was crossing a desert in caravan, no Mater was to be found, and man and beast were perishing from thirst. Along the way were strewn ttie bones of caravans that had preceded. There were harts or lfindeer in the king's procession, and ?onie one knew their keen scent for water and cried out, "Let loose the harts or reindeer!" It was done, and no sooner were these creatures loosened than they went scurrying in all directions looking for water and soon found it, and the king and his caravan were savgd, and the King wrote on some tablets the Words which he had read some time before. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee. O God." Some have compared the love of God to the ocean, but the comparison fails, for the oc?an has a shore, and God's love is boundless. But if you insist on comparing the love of God to th? ocean, put on that ocean four swift ! sailing craft, and let one sail to the north, and one to the south, and one to the east. and one to the west, and let them sail on a i thousand years, and after that let them ! nil i . . . i : i t i t. rtii iriuin aiiu quillt- one nan nie iieet and ask them if they have found the shore of God's love, and their four voices would respond: "No shore! No shore to the ocean of God's mercy!" FASTEST TRAINS. America Iari the M'orhl tu the lttrr of Ouirk 1 rauiportat iou. Statistics recently published reveal some interesting facts regarding the fastest regularly scheduled railroad trains in the leading countries of the world. The United States heads the list with four trains run from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. Two of thes3, running on the Philadelphia and Beading, attain a speed of miles per hour for a distance of fifty-five and one-half miles, being: the fastest regular runs in the world. The two other trains, on the Pennsylvania line, run at the rate of 61.3 miles per hour, the distance over its line being fifty-nine miles. The Midi of France, in a run from Morceaux to Bordeaux, a distance j ot sixty-seven and three-quarters ! miles, maintains a speed of 61.6 miles per hour. England brings up the rear with two trains, which are scheduled to make the run between Dorchester and Wareham, a distance of only fifteen miles, at the rate of 60.1 miles per hour. The fastest Ion g-di tance run is made over the Orleans and Midi t railway, in France. The run is from i 1 ans t0 Ronn,, a d,slan of 4SbU ! n,iIes" antl is matl- """S stops, "at the rate of 54.13 miles per hour. ' Then follows the New York Central's I "nipir? stat0 rx- nnlng from ' New York to Buffalo. 440 miles, includI iug four to' :U 5:5 "" n,i!os pPr hour i and fmiilly again Kn-,i,,ld- a train i on the Great Northern, running beI tween "d 311(1 Edinburgh. 393 . mi,es- at 50-77 mi,e ppr hour.-Chi-cago Chronicle. Americau Manlonr" Ahmad. American manicures are still mora in demand in Fncland than the native i SUppiy and some of the smartest shops announce in their windows that tho services of these desired manipulators are to be had inside. This information is not intended merely for Americans who happen to be in London at the time, but is meant as an appeal for English custom. Time was when the French manicure possessing the best Paris training was the most sought after in Ixmdon. When she proved in so many cases to be merely an English girl who had gone to Paris if not mere- ; ly to Leicester square to learn how to bungle through the French method of ..rwo ; n rr ' 1, n ....M.- Hin llllllw. oil I IltUllllJ, III- 11(11!?, I IIIIIltv ll-'?l llll t ii wr ill t: ill ill" m iiiij'uiiniiuu. . . . ! . l A. i ine was never v rencn aim sue wenc ai the hands with a seriousness characare a trial to any person accustomed i to the skill and ease with which the j Americans work. There are not many i American manicures in Iondon now, I but those who are there contrive to it is once made eviuent that they really are "Americans and have had experience in their work. New York Sun. I'rniiH.vl t RiiiH'o Forestry Itef rr Uon. During the past year the state of Pennsylvania has purchased more than 100.000 acres of land to be used as & forestry reservation. The policy of using land that is not adapted to agriculture for the purpose of timber culture has been adopted by both Pennsylvania and New York, the objects being to insure a necessary measure of rainfall to preserve the purity of mountain streams, to provide for the even flow of streams the power of which is utilized by manufactures and the like Amrl-Hii Honored by Italian Klag. General W. F. Draper of Milford, Mass., has received from the king ol Italy the grand cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazare as a token of appreciation of the general's services during his mission in Italy. Tht grand cordon is one of the highest deo orations conferred hi that court

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Kule Vnilinjr to rimy IIebalU Amos HusSe says- at Hartford City in regard to the report that he had signed with the Cincinnati team for next year: "J know nothing about having been sold to the Cincinnati team for next sea.-.ii, but I would a.s poon play there ,-:s w:th any team In 'he league. I will sign with the te.i:n ; lying me the most money. I have not conferred with .lohn T. Bru.-h. All I know about myself is what I read in the newspapers." ItraineU lv a Comrade. While working in the Diamond flint glass factory at Hartford City th-re was a quarrel be-tween Lemuel Skinner, 10. and Milton Htrter. 17 year old, and Skinner approached him froni th? rear, striking him ovt the hnad three times with an iron ladle, fracturing his skull. A portion of the bon? was removed by the surg-.-ons. Skinner escaped arrest. A MM 1 atlly 1 nriir.I. The four-year-old child of Edward Priie wmh fatally burned at Windfall. While alone in the house the child turned out the gas in the .tove. and afterward turned it on and lighted a match. Its clothing was. set on lire by the explosion and the little one ran to a neighbor's house ablaze. To IteliKiire O. . I . ltiiiir. The Standard association has been organized by the former oflic rs of th order of Chosen Friends to reinsure the members of that order, now la the hands of a receiver. Home I.lf Changr. William L. Atkin has been appointed general manager of the Koine Life Insurance company at Indianapolis, succeeding the firm of Atkin.s it Collins. Mr. Collins having res?gned. I'astor llawortli Itcttigu. The Rev. A. S. Ha worth, pastor of Friends' church at. Ia Porte, has resigned, and will take up special work at Chicago universitv. AVabanli Man' Federal Toillon. Abraham Iiwshe of Wabash has been appointed auditor of public accounts for the Philppines. .nral State . The Rev. George Scilla ppi. a clergyman of the Radic al l.'nüi d Urethren faith, died at I .a Paz, after a week of intense suffering. He wrs a believer in faith cure, and prav. incessantly for his own recovery, ;nd i:. was noc until within two hours of his death that lie consented to call ;i phyrian. He was ?A years old and a talcntel man. The dedicatory services i f the nc.v United Urethren church at Kokomo. which began ..st Wrdrcsday. los? I Monday evening. The juim-ipal sermons were delivered bv T.:hop E. P. Kophart. the H.-y. Dr. missionary secretary, and Prof. Tmdis of Dayton, Ohio. The now building ot $16.00'). David Sin der. Topher K;.ns. Samuel Brown an i Mo.ses W. Thanning of Blackford county are defendants In an attempt, by Joseph A. Rates of Dunkirk to collect on notes given to a calendar dovk safe patent-right man, who pretended to sell territory exclusively. They will plead "-'ant of consideration. The Citizens' bank of Anderson ha brought suit against the Northwestern Scraper company for $27."0o on notes, and the appointment of a receiver. The assets are placed at $f.0.000 and thf liabilities $40.000. The company I doing a good business, 'but lacks sufficient capital. The, special committee of the Kokomo district, North Indiana conference, headed by Presiding Elder Marb, will report against the proposed reduction of districts and presiding elderships, holding that the elders have all the work they can do. It is given out at Shelbyville that the plaintiff received $.".000 in the recent compromise of the breach of promise1 suit of Miss Flora Farlow of Rush county against ex-Represent it ive Alonzo Mull of Manilla. The family of Benjamin Weaver of Marion were prostrated by impure-food, the nature of which is unknown, and for several hours Mr. and Mrs. Weaver and two children hovered be'ween lifo and death. As the result of a collision between a backing freight train and th? Knickerbocker, on the Rig Four. at. Fortville. Fireman Way. who was underneath cleaning out his firebox, had on? hani cut off. John llallagher and Janes Varley. arrested at Vinocnnes, admitted the robbery of Mayor Tt lily's home anfi the post office at Nenia. 111., and they hava been returned to Rlinois for trial. A memorial window will be placed In tho Salem Baptist church by the DePauw family, in honor cvf Mrs. IHlzaleth lVPauw, w ho was the mother of the late Washington C. 3eTauw. C. C. Black of Chr formerly president of the Ft. Worth & Albuquerque Railway company, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $219.000; assets, $220. The Bev. James Quillon, 74 yearn old. who died at his home near Crawfonlsville. for many years was a active minister in the United Urethren church. While V. II. Magner was horseback riding near Orleans his saddle turned. and his foot catching in the stirrup, no was dragged, to his very serious iojury. Charles Webster, ex-chief clerk )f the Soldiers' home at Marion, hao dismissed his slander suit against Treasurer II. O. Heichert of the home. The burning of Mrs. LMlen Bumlay'a home at Spiceland, caused $1,000 loss. Tilth $700 insurance. The inmates escaped In their nightclothes. John Craves of Tipton county, accused of a grave offense apains: hi family, has- been sentenced t Art years' Imprisonment. The Southern Indiana Poultry association will give an exhibit a.. New AI-, bany, beginning on the 24th lust. M

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