Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 September 1892 — Page 4

deliv'age to a [ed to welpulpit. His ana UL. U. most cvchtful I must shortly, aud over from tho sea voyi an account of our mission 'to famine-struck Russia, and rpreaching tour through Gery, England, Scotland and Ireland; my first sermon on reaching here oust be a hosanna of gratitude to Christ, and from the text I hare chosen I have found that the greatest name in the ocean-shipping, and from Liverpool to Moscow, and from Moscow to London and Edinburgh and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus. Every age of the world has had its historians, its philosophers, its artists, its thinkers, and its teachers. Were there histories to be written, there has always been a Moses, or a Herodotus, or a Xenophon, or a Josephus to write them. Were there poems to be constructed, there has always been a Job or a Homer to construct them. Were there thrones, lustrous and powerful, to be lifted, there has always been a David or a QaBsar to raise them. Were there teachers demanded for intellect and- the hearts, there has been a Socrates and a Zeno and a Cleanthes and a Marcus Antonins coming forth on the grand and glorious mission. Every age of the world has had its triumphs of reason and morality. There has not been a single age of the world which has not had some decided tystem of religion. The Platonism, Orientalism, Stoicism, Brahminism and Buddhism, considering the ages in which they were established, were not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, in this line of beneficent institutions and of noble men, there appeared a personage moire wonderful than any predecessor. He came from a family without any royal or aristocratic pretension. He became a Galilean mechanic. He had no advantage from the schools There were people beside Him day after day who had no idea that He was going to be anything remarkable or do anything remarkable. Yet, notwithstanding all this, and without any titlo, or scholarly profession, or flaming rhetoric, He startled the world with the strangest announcements, ran in collision with solemn priest and proud ruler, and with a voice that rang through temple and palace and over ship’s deck, and mountain top, exclaimed: “1 am the light of the world!” Men were taken all aback at the idea that that hand, yet hard from the use of the axe, the saw, the adze, and hatchet, shonld wave the scepter of authority, and that upon that brow, from Which they had ao often seen Him wipe the sweat of toil, there would yet come the crown of unparalleled splendor and of universal dominion. We all know how difficult it is to think that anybody Who was at school with us in boyhood rhas got to be anything great or famous; and no wonder that those who had been boys with Christ in ;the streets of Nazareth and seen Him in after years _ in_the days of His complete obscurity, should have been very slow to acknowledge Christ’s wonderful mission.

r rom mis unm Die pouu me stream of life flowed out. At first it was just a faint rill, hardly able to find its way down the rock, but the tears ofweeping Christ added to its volume; and it flowed on until, by the beauty and greenness of the banks, you might know the path the crystal stream was taking. On and on, until the lepers brought down and washed off their leprosy, and the dead were lifted into the water that they might have life, and pearls of joy and promise were gathered from the brink, and innumerable churches gathered on either bank, and the tide flows on deeper, and stronger, and wider, until it rolls into the, river from under the throne of God, mingling billow with billow, and brightness with brightness, and joy with joy, and hosanna with hosanna! I was looking at some of the paintings of the artist, Hr. Kensett. I saw some pictures that were just faint outlines; in some places you would see only the branches of a tree and no trunk, and in another case the trunk and no branches. He had not-finished the work. It would have taken him days and months, perhaps, to have completed it. Well, my friends, in this we get only the faintest outline of what Christ is. It will take all eternity to fill up the picture—so loving, so kind, so merciful, so great! Paul does not, in this chapter, say of Christ He is good,or He is loving,or He is patient, or He is kind; but in His exclamation of the text, he embraces everything when he says: “Christ is all and in all.” I remark, in the first place, Christ is everything in the Bible. I do not care where I open the Hible I find Jesua In whatever path I start I come, after awhile, to the Bethlehem manger. I go back to the old dispensation and see a lamb on the altar, and say: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world!” Then I go and see the manna provided for the Israelites in the wilderness, and say: “Jesus, the bread of life.” Then I look at the rock which was smitten by the prophet’s rod, and as the water gushes out, I say: “It is Jesus, the fountain, opened for sin and uncleanness.” I go back and look at the writings of Job, and hear him exclaim: “I know that my Bedeemer liveth.” Then I go to Ezekiel and find Christ presented there as “a plant of renown;” and then I turn over to Isaiah, and Christ is spoken of “as a sheep before her shearers.” It is Jesus all the way between Genesis and ' Malachi. Then I turn over to the New Testament, and it is Christ in the parable, i. Is Christ in the miracle, it is Christ in the evangelist’s story, it is Christ in the apostles’ epistles, and it is Christ in the trumpet peal of the Apocalypse. I know there are a great many people who do not find Christ in the Bible. Here is a man who studies th* Bible as a historian. Well, if you come as a historian, you will find in this hook how the world was made, how the seas fled to their places, how empires were established, how nation fought with javelin ringing against until the earth was ghastly You will see the coro1 of princes, the triumph of conra and the world turned upside and back again and down again, ‘ with great agonies of 3 it, and battle. putting to in the accuracy of stupendous Thncy

in- tho Bible; erf sandals, crisping-pins, and gii-dles arid tinkling ornaIf you comet to look at military its, yon will find coats of !, and javelins and engines of war, andcircumvallation, and encampments. If you look for peculiar musical instruments, you will find psalteries and shigionoths, and rams’ horns. The antiquarian will find in the Bible curiosities in agriculture, and in commerce, and in art, and in religion, that will keep him absorbed a great while. There are those who come to the Bible as you would to a cabinet of curiosities, and you pick op this and soy; "What a strange sword this is!” and “What a peculiar hat this is!” and “What an un-looked-for lamp that is!” and the Bible to such becomes a British museum. Then there are others who find nothing in the Biblri but poetry. Well, if you come as a poet, you will Bnd in this book faultless rhythm, and bold imagery, and startling antithesis, and rapturous lyric, and sweet pastoral, and instructive narrative, and devotional psalm; thoughts expressed in a style more solemn than that of Montgomery, more bold than that of Milton, more terrible than that of Dante, more natural than that of Wordsworth, more impassioned than that of Pollock, more tender than that of Cowper, more weird than that of Spenser. This great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, and it weaves the flames of judgment in its garland, and pours eternal harmonies in its rhythm. Everything this book touches it makes beautiful, from the plain stones of the summer threshing-floor, and the daughters of Xahor fllliugathe trough for the camels, and the fish pcols of Heshbon, up to the Psalmist praising God with diapason of storm and whirlwind, and Job leading forth Orion, Areturus and the Pleiades. It is a wonderful poem; and a great many people read it as they do Thomas Moore's “Lalla “Rookh” and Walter Scott’s “Lady of the Lake” and Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade.” They sit down and are so absorbed in looking at the shells on the shore that they forget to look off on the great ocean of God’s mercy and salvation. Then there are others who come to this book as skeptics. They marshal passage against passage, and try to get Matthew and Luke in a quarrel, and would have a discrepancy between Paul and James say about faith and works, and they try the account of Moses concerning the creation by modern decisions in science, and resolve in all questions between tho scientific explorer and the inspired writer they will give the preference to the geologist. These men, these spiders, I will Aay—suck poison out of the sweetest flowers. They fatten their infidelity upon the truths which have led thousands to Heaven, and in their distorted vision prophet seems to war with prophet, and evangelist with evangelist, and apostle with apostle; and if they can find some bad trait of character in a man of God mentioned in that Bible, these carrion crows caw and flap their wings over the carcass. Because they can not understand how the whale swallowed Jonah, they attempt the more wonderful feat of swallowing the monster whale of modern skepticism. They do not believe it passible that the Bible story should be true which says that the dumb ass spake, whilo they themselves prove the thing possible by their own utterances. I am amused beyond bounds when I hear one of these men talking about a future life. Just ask a man who rejects that Bible what Hpftvmi n.nri hrair him hefofif vour

soul. He will tell you that Heaven is merely the development of the internal resources of a man; it is an efflorescence of the dynamic forces into a state of ethereal and transcendental lucubration, in close juxtaposition to the everpresent “was,"’ and the great “to be,” and the everlasting “No.” Considering themselves wise, they are fools for time, fools for eternity. m Then there is another class of persons who come to the Bible as controversialists. They are enormous Presbyterians, or fierce Baptists, orviolent Methodists. They cut the Bible to suit their erced, instead of cutting their creed to suit the-Bible. If the Scriptures think as they do, well; if not, so much the worse for the Scriptures. The Bible is merely the whetstone on which they sharpen the dissecting knife of controversy. They come to it as a government in time of war comes to armories or arsenals for weapons and munitions. They have declared everlasting war against all other sects, and they want so many broad-swords, so many muskets, so many howitzers, so many columbiads, so much grape and canister, so many field-pieces with which to rake the field of dispute; for they mean to get the victory, though the heavens be darkened with the smoke and the earth rent with the thunder. What do they care about the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ? I have seen some such men come back from an ecclesiastical massacre as proud of their achievements as an Indian warrior, boasting of the number of scalps he has taken. I have more admiration for a man who goes forth with his fists to get the championship than I have for these theological pugilists who make our theological magazines ring with their warcry. There are men who seem to think the otjly use of the sword of truth is to stick somebody. There is one passage of the Scriptures tlyit they like better than all others, and that is this; “Blessed be the Lord which teacheth my hands to war, aud my fingers to fight.” Woe to us if we come to God’s word as eon troversialits, or as skeptics, or as connoisseurs, or as fault-finders, or merely as poets! Those only get into the heart of God’s truth who come seeking Christ. Welcome all such! They will find Him coming out from behind the curtain of prophecy, until He stands, in the full light of New Testament disclosures, Jesus the Son of God, the Saviour of the world. They will find Him in geneologieal table and in chronological calculation, in poetic stanza and in historical narrative, in profound parable and in startling miracle. They will see His foot qn every sea, and His tears in the drops of de\ oipHermon, and hear His voice in tEe wind, and behold His words all abloom in the valley between Mount Olivet and Jerusalem. There are some men who come and walk around the Temple of Truth, and merely see the outside. There are others who walk into the porch, and then go away. There are others who come in and look at the pictures, but they know nothing about the chief attractions of the Bible- It is only the man who comes and knocks at the gate, saying: “I would see Jesus." For him the glories of that book open, and he goes in and figds Christ, and with Him peace, pardon, life, comfort and Heaven. “All in all is Jeaus” in the Bible. I remark again that Christ is everything in the great plan of redemption. We are slaves; Christ gives deliverance to the captive. We are thirsty; Christ is the river of salvation to slake our We are hungry; Jesus says: of life.” We are con‘■ftove that lWB

«It is % ^r«oTafrail” We are hi darkness; Jeans says; “I am the bright and morning- star.” We are sick; Jesus is the balm of Gilead. We are dead; hear the shrouds rend and the grave lliillocks heave as He cries: “I am the resurrection and the life; he that; believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” We want justification; “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” We want to exorcise faith; “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” I want togetifromundercondencnation; “There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.” The cross—He carried it. The flames of hell—He suffered them. The shame —He endured it The crown—He won it Heights of Heaven sing it and worlds of light all round the Heavens cry, “Glory, glory.” Let us go forth and gather the trophies for Jesus. From Golconda mines we gather the diamonds; from i Ceylon banks we gather pearls; from all lands and kingdoms we gather precious stones, and we bring the glittering burdens and put them down at the feet of Jesus, and say: “All these are Thine. Thou art worthy.” We go forth again for more trophies, and into one sheaf we gather all the scepters of the earth, of all royalties and dominions, and then we bring the sheaf of scepters and put it down at the feet of Jesus, and say: “Thou art King of kings, and these Thou hast conquered.” And then we go fcrth again to gather more trophies and we bid the redeemed of all ages, the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, to come. We ask them to come and offer their thanksgivings, and the hosts of Heaven bring crown, and palm, and scepter, and here by these bleeding feet and by this river side, and by this wounded heart, cry: “Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto Him, that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb forever and forever!”' Tell me of a tear that He did not weep, of a burden that He did carry, of a battle Ho did not fight, of a victory that He did not achieve. “All in all is Jesus” in the great plan of redemption. I remark again; Christ is everythingto the Christian in time of trouble. Who has escaped trouble? We must all stoop down and drink out of the bitter lake. The moss has no time to grow on the buckets that come up out of the heart’s well, dripping with tears. Great trials are upon our track as certain as grey-hound pack on the scent of deer. From our hearts in every direction there are a thousand chords reaching out binding us to loved ones, and ever and anon some of these tendrils snap. The winds that cross this sea of life are not all abaft The clouds that cross our sky are not feathery and afar, straying like flocks of sheep on Heaven’s pastures, but wrathful and somber, and gleaming with terror, they wrap the mountains in fire, and come down baying with their thunde.-s through every gorge. The richest fruits of blessing have a prickly shell. Life here is not lying at atehor; it is weathering a gale. It is not sleeping in a soldier’s tent with our arms stacked; it is a bayonet-charge. We stumble over grave stones, and we drive on with our wheel deep in the old rut of graves. Trouble has wrinkled your-* brow, and it has frosted your head. Falling in this battle of life, is there no angel to bind our wounds? Hath God made this world with so many things to hunt and none to heal? For this snake-bite of sorrow is there no herb growing, by all the brooks to heal the poison? Blessed be God that in the Gospel we find the antidote! Christ has bottled an ocean of tears. How many thorns He hath plucked out of human agony! Oh! He knows too well what it is to carry a cross not to help as carry ours. He knows too well -ndnit it is to climb the mountain not to help us up the steep He knows too well what is to be persecuted not to help those who are imposed upon. He knows too well what it is to be sick not to help those who suffer. Ay, He knows too well what it is to die not to help us in our last extremity. Blessed Jesus, thou knowest it all. Seeing Thy wounded side, and Thy wounded hand, and Thy wounded feet, and Thy wounded brow, we are sure Thou. knowest it all. Oh! when those into whose bosom we used to breathe our sorrows are snatched from us, blessed be God the heart of Jesus still beats; and when all other l ights go out and the world gets dark, then we see coming out from behind a cloud something so bright and cheering, we hnow it to be the morning star of the soul’s deliverance. The handlof care may make you stagger, or the hand of persecution may beat you down, or the hand of disappointment may beat you back, but there is a hand, and it is kind, and it is so gentle, that it wipeth all tears from all faces.

Editorial Requisites. in speaking Of what the editor of a religious journal must be, the New York Observer says: “He must be as serious as a parson, but as sointillant as the best of diners out. He must be as confident as a cyclopedia, but as cautious as a table of logarithms. He must not be alto, gether a philosopher, but he must certainly not be a buffoon, for in one case he will sink his ship with his own weight, and in the other his paper, like a toy balloon, will explode with its own gas.” Quoting the above, the Congregationalist adds: “In welcoming contributions he must be as omnivorous as the ostrich, and in publishing them as fastidious as an epicure; in dealing with visitors as patient as Job: in enlarging his subscription list as peripatetic as Ishmael; in responding to appeals for aid as ready as Paul, and in receiving reward as ‘other worldly’ as Lazarus, who had to be sab isfied with Abraham’s bosom.” Sources of Authority In Religion. There are three great sources of authority in religion, viz.: Reason, the church and the Bible. These are corelated. Agnostics, however, reject the two last Christians hold to all three, and are differentiated by the rank they assign to each. Thus, Protestants put the Bible first, reason next and the church last Catholics set the church first and then appeal to the Bible and to reason. Some religionists lay the emphasis on reason—only by reason they understand, not the opinion of any individual, but the cumulative consciousness of universal humanity. At the same time they value the Bible and the church.—St Louis Republic. —A religious controversy calls attention to the fact that the Christian weeklies are still discussing the perennial question as to why people do not go to church.. The real question is not what percentage of the population attend church, but what percentage of the people who attend get and give good by participation in church work and worship? We would like to hear that question debated. orator should at an early t his address make himself to b* his auditors, and thus a common

H. “Oh, yes, frequentlysaid a young lady who has had considerable experience as a stenographer, in reply to the elnbman’s question as to whether her employers ever dictated their family letters to her. “Now, there is Mr. Jones. Wldle his wife was down east he always dictated the letters he sent to her daily or else had me write them. It got to be quite the usual occurrence for him to say after business matters had been attended to: “Well, I guess, Miss Brown, you may write to my wife. You know about what to say. “So I would proceed and write a letter in his usual cardial tone, telling her that the baby was doing well and the boys were getting hlong finely with Mary, the house-servant. “Sometimes, when I was feeling quite in the humor, I would get off long letters of several hundred words each. Mr. Jones would look oyer the page and jot down his name at the end. I would address the envelope on the machine, seal it and send the message on his way to the absent wife. “But there came an end to all that. That wife must have become tired of receiving typewritten missives. I suppose they do seem rather cold, and perhaps then she did not like the idea of having a third party aware of the contents of her husband’s private correspondence. “One day Mr. Jones did not come down to the ofBce. I supposed he had 1>een out with the boys the night before. A long in the afternoon his brother came over to my desk and said: “ ‘Perhaps we had better get off a letter to Mrs. Jones, as otherwise she might think something had happened.’ So I wrote out a letter in the usual manner and signed it with the rubber foe simile of Mr. Jones’ signature. “The letter was posted and I thought no more of it for several days. Mr. Jones did not come down to the office that day or the next, and the third day there was an explosion. “It seems that the reason he did not come down on the morning that I wrote the letter was because his wife came home the morning before, and he had not heard of it till he went home at night, she thinking she would surprise him. Th e next day and the next he stayed at home, and the third day the letter that I had written unbeknown to him was forwarded to her, and you can imagine the breeze it created. “I really believe the woman couldn’t have been more angry if she had caught me flirting with her husband instead of doing my best to keep up pleasant relations between them. “Yes, that is why I found another situation. She put on such funny airs before me, and wouldn’t even speak to me when she came into the office, although she had always done so before that. “I think Mr. Jones enjoyed it on the quiet, but he was too honorable and too much of a gentleman to make sport of his wife even indirectly.” — Chicago Mail. A Summer Without Nights. To the summer visitor in Sweden there is nothing more striking than the almost total absence of night. At Stockholm, the Swedish capital, the sun goes down a few minutes before ten o’clock and rises at four hours later during a greater part of the month of June. But the four hours the sun lies hidden in the frozen north are not hours of darkness—the refraction of his rays as he passes around the north pole makes midnight as light as a cloudy midday, and enables one to read the finest print without artificial light at any time during the “night.” At the head of the gulf of Bothnia, there is a mountain on the summit of which the sun shines perpetually during the five days of June 19, 30, 81, 82 and 28. Every six hours during this season of continued sunshine a steamer leaves Stockholm crowded with visitors anxious to witness the phenomenon. At the same place during winter the sun disappears and is not seen for weeks; then it comes in sight again for ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes, gradually lengthening its stay until finally it Btays in sight continuously for upward of one hundred and twenty hours.—St. Louis Republic.

’ Just What Is Wanted. Business is alive to a great coming event, and in the hurly-burly of its preparations for the Colombian Exposition in 1893, too much is already seen on the streets of a fanciful or amusing nature, both superficial and catch-penny. There h»R been observed a void in the line of the strictly useful, combining therewith instructive object lessons and the beautiful in art. Books there may be by the score, but the experience of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia shows that the mass of these were mere trifles and unserviceable. The horde of visitors were ever at a loss for a handy pooket guide of official stamps not only reliable, but pleasing and always fit to keep. Just what is wanted of this unique kind has happily already made its appearance, and we nave before ua “The Official Portfolio of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” illustrated from Water Color DrawThis Portfolio is a rare and beautiful exponent of the main architectural features of the Great Exposition at Chicago in 1893. The fourteen magnificent structures are faithfully exhibited, whilo the Bird’s-eye View gives a realistic glance at the lay of the grounds, with their principal buildings, lagoons, etc. The illustrations are exact reproductions, in water color effects, of the original drawings, made especially for this purpose from the official plans, by America’s best known water color artist, Charles Graham. A copy of this exceptionally fine production will he sent to any address upon receipt of 10 cents in postage stamps by The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md. —-Some interesting facts as to the religions of British India are developed by the recent census returns. Out of the total population of 987,000,000 “Hindooism” claims 907,000,000, hut this is a loose term, meaning, it has been said, “any religion which is not Mohammedan. ” Nature worship is very common among the ruder tribes. Islam figures with 67,000,000, Buddhism with 7,000,000 and Christianity with only 9,950,000. The are 17,180 Jews, and the Parsees amount in all to 89,887. The Theists, Agnostics and the like are only 289 all told. Brahmos, or professors of reformed Hindooism, count only 4.301, while the newlyfounded sect of Aryans is represented by about 40,000 adherents. —“The School for Female Professions,” organized in Rome by Qaeen Margberita, gives instruction in Italian and French bookkeeping, needlework, dressmaking, lacemaking, church decorative needlework, mending, nursing and cooking. Every year sumB of money are pre ented to the best pupils by the queen, Intended to he applied to the purchase of a sewing-machine, or whatever is needed fer advancement in the special branch embraced by the student —Mrs. “Buffalo Bill” is an am table domestic woman, very popular in the neighborhood of North Platte, where she lives. Her home, Scout’s Rest, is a long, low building, four miles from the town, large and roomy, quite like a hotel, and it is surrounded by three thousand acres of prairie land, magnificent stables and fine pasture lands,

M. Marie, of Paris, is known as tht “dog barber.’* lie daily clips from ten to thirty dogs. The price of a clip is four francs. During the recent vacation trip of Cardinal Gibbons to Prince Edward island he proved to be the most expert trout fisherman of his party. A Mr. Goodman, of London, bet that he could smoke eighty-six cigars down to an inch in less than twelve hours. He did it with forty-two minutes to spare. Mr. Gladstone is about to go abroad for the purpose of spending a couple of months in the south of France as the guest of Mr. Stuart Rendel, who has acquired so much fame and distinction as the host of Mr. Gladstone. Justus Lipsius, an eminent man of the sixteenth century, made bold to recite Tacitus froip beginning to end, with one of his audience placed before him with a drawn dagger, with which he was to be stabbed if he missed one single word. The “waxfitter” in Queen Victoria’s household arranges the candles on the dinner table, for which ho draws sixty pounds sterling a year, but he does not light them. The duty is performed by two lamplighters, drawing a salary of one hundred pounds sterling each. A statue of Edward Irving has recently been erected at Annan, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. By most people in these days Edward Irving is recalled as the first teacher, and possibly the first love, of the gifted wife of Thomas Car lyle. He was a superbly eloquent preacher and an original thinker. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Bank of England requires sixty folio ledgers for its daily accounts. One thousand francs was recently paid for the broken wooden horse with which Napoleon played as & child. The government of New Zealand is considering the question of laying a cable to Australia at an estimated cost of $750,000. The total sum contributed for charity in England last year was $15,000,000. Of that amount $10,000,000 was given by a Jew, Baron Hirsch. A hunting hop® in Limoges enamel, made in 1530, and believed to havu formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, was sold recently for $31,500. The results of the census of India have received their final revision. The return shows a population of 287,223,431 individually enumerated. . According to information from Constantinople the Turkish government has decided to make vaccination compulsory throughout the Ottoman empire. The lieutenant governor of Bengal stated recently at a religious reunion In India that the number of Christians in its jurisdiction had increased in the last ten years from 122,000 to 189,000. COLUMBIAN ETCHINGS, A gold brick worth $230,000 will be exhibited at the world’s fair by Montana. The nitrate industry of Chili will be illustrated by an elaborate exhibit at the world’s fair. An offer of $120,000 in cash has been made for the exclusive privilege of selling peanuts at the world’s fair. Several Australian cyclists are coming to the world's fair to engage in the cycling contests which are being arranged. The Hoboken Ferry Company of New York wants to show a facsimile model of the twin screw steamer at the world’s fair, built in 1S05, with original engines and boiler. As a contrast to this venerable craft it will show the model of a modem screw ferry boat, the Hamburg, built in 1893. The Australian wood carving industry will be specially represented at the Chicago exposition by thirty four expert wood carvers from Vienna, who will exhibit their work in its various branches. Everything is being done to organize a thoroughly representative and interesting collection of exhibits.

INDUSTRIAL GATHERINGS. Guavas are becoming quite on article of export from Manatee river, Florida. A firm in Providence, IL I., has been making shoestrings for one hundred years. The linen manufactured yearly in England could be wrapped round the earth seven times. Of the 20,000,000 workers in the United States less than 1,000,000 belong to labor organizations, t Ten thousand pounds worth of pearls were in three years time during the last century taken from mussels in the Tay near Perth. About 250,000 canary birds are raised in Germany every year, and of these about 100,000 come to the United States and 50,000 go to England. Five hundred men arc at work on the Nicaragua canal, and about one mile has been excavated. Since the beginning, four years ago, $5,000,000 has been expended. FARMING IN FOREIGN LANDS. Farmers in the Argentine are being urged to export butter to England. The phylloxera exists in fifteen provinces of Spain over an area of 675,000 acres. Both Hamburg and Bremen are importing live cattle by steamer from South America. A consignment of grapes shipped from Victoria to London brought from $4 to $7.50 per case. THE MARKETS. Nxw You. Sept *7.1893. .* 3 20 • 4 96 7=8 440 H) 64 H 8819 13 00 68 ® CATTLE—Native Steers t'OTTON-Miflaiintf...... FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 300 WHEAT-No. 2 Red . TO CORN-No. 2. OATS—Western Mixed. 36 a PORK-New Meas. U 75 • ST. LOUIS COTTON—Middling. ® BEKVES-Cboice Steers. 4 TO ® Medium... 4 30 ® ROOS-Feir to Select . 4 90 e SHEEP-Fair to Choice.. 8 75 » FLOUR-Patents... 8 65 « Fancv to Extra Do.. 2 70 ® WHEAT-No. 2Red Winter... .... ® CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 43 S OATS-No. 2. 80 « RYE-No. 2. 62ia® TOBACCO—Lugs. 110 0 Leaf Barter.. 4 60 ® HAY—Clear Timothy (new)... 9 00 • BUTTER-ChoiceDairy....... 20 ® EGGS—Freeh. 714 626 466 685 4 76 370 835 4,1=8 8 14 53 5 10 7 10 U 60 22 16 • 11 00 8=s® ... ® 33 a Mt 83^ 46 0 660 6 00 4 10 4 60 78=8 45=8 PORK-Standard Mess (new). BACON—Clear Rib... LARD—Prims, Steam. WOOL—Choice Tub.».... CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping. 8 75 • HOGS—Fair to Choice. 4 75 ® SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 8 75 ® FLOUR-Winter Patents. 8 85 a Serine Patents. 4 00 ® WHEAT-No. 2 Bprinft. 0 CORN-No. 8. • OATS-No. 8.,. « PORK—Mess (New). 10 60 • K) WI9 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers ... 8 40 • 4 26 HOGS—All Grades.. 4 00 « 686 WHEAT-No. 8 Red. 64 • 66 OATS-No. 2. 86I9® 27 CORN-No.2 . 80 • tell NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade. 389 • 400 CORN-NoTS.,... .... « 57 OATS-Westorn. 40 0 41 HAY—Choice.... 16 00 • 16 50 PORK-New Mess...,. ® 10 75 7 e BACON-Skies. COTTON—Middling. CINCINNATI WHEAT—No. 2 Red. TO • 71 T—No. 2 Mixed. 4* • 47H dk a rSuS . — . 9 • 9 *•** ^ T1®

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with the flags of Spain and the United States suspended above it, and it may be added that a triumph of electricity has been attained to such an extent that the flags appear to ware during the illuminations. An immense number of special attractions are announced. The T. P. A. celebration will be on Saturday, October 1, on which day the Veiled Prophet will arrive by boat on the Mississippi river, and the great Veiled Prophet's parade and ball will tako place on Tuesday, October 4. The annual St. Louis fair, too popular and well-known to need description,opens October 3 and closes October 8, with two grand illuminations during the week. If you do not want your feelings hurt keep them out of the way.-^alnestou News. ^ Hark! What's Thgf? The dinner bell, of course. Not a particularly woloome sound to the dyspeptic. But if the stomach be put in working order, and appetite insured with Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, wo welcome the ting-a-ling-a-ling that announces a meal with delight. Tho Bitters not only promotes digestion, but overcomes malarial and liver complaints, constipation, nervousness, rheumatism. A bull knife will make even a fillet seem tough, but a sharp one makes a pounded steak seem a tenderioin.— Ram's Horn. It is of a beautiful golden color, has an elegant Hon flavor. “The A. 11 C. Bohemian Bottled Beer” of St Louis. A hotel charge is a “force bill” if the landlord has possession of your baggage.— Binghamton Republican.

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