Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 August 1893 — Page 6

A GREAT WOMAN. JBav. Dr. Tatmage Discourses oi tlia Influence of Woman. 1Oer Influence Potential for Good—Chris. Uau Hospitality One of Her Shin, lug Virtues—Looking After the latrd'p Messengers. ' The' following discourse was deliv■errd recently by Rev. T. IX*Witt Tal--mage on the subject “A (Jreat Woman." It Is founded on the text: And it fell on n day that Elisha passed to Shunera. where was a great woman.—II. Kings. The hotel of our time hud no eoun•terpart in any entertainment of olden "time. The vast majority of travelers must Utett be entertained at private -abode. Here comes Elisha, a servant -of the Lord, on a Divine mission, and he must find shelter. A balcony overlooking the valley of Esdraelon is differed him in a private house, and it 5a especially furnished for his occupancy—a chair to sit on. a table from ■which to eat, a candlestick by which kd read, and a bed on which to sluml*cr, the whole establishment belonging to a great anti good woman.Her hu.si wind, it seems, was a godly man, but he wusentirely overshadowed by his wife's excellencies: just as now you sometimes find in a household the wife the center of dignity and influence and power, not by any arrogance •or presumption, but by superior intellect and force of moral nature wield)lng domestic affairs, and at the same -time supervising all financial and busi:ness affairs. The wife's hand on the '.shuttle, on the banking house, on the worldly business. You see hundreds of men who are successful only because there is a reason at home why ■they are successful. * * (f a man marry a good, honest soul, the makes his fortune. If he marry a fool, the Lord help him! The wife may be the silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices down on exchange, but there oftentimes comes from the home circle a potential and elevating influence.

This woman of my text was the suiperior of her husband. He, as far as I -can understand, was what we often see un our day, a man of large fortune and -jonly a modicum of brain, intensely -quiet, silting a long while in the same (place without^moving hand or foot—if you say “yes,” responding “yes"—if you say “no,” responding “no”—inane, !>eyos half shut, mouth wide open, raain'tain^ng his position in society only because he has a large patrimony, llut Ais wife, my text says, was a great •woman.. Her name hits not come down to us. 'She belonged to that collection of •people who need no name to distinguish them. What would title of ■ duchess, or princess, or queen—what would escutcheon or gleaming diadem be to this woman of my text, • who by her intelligence and her be- • havior challenges the admiration of all • ages? Long after the brilliant women -of the court of Louis XV. have been forgotten, and the brilliant women of -the court of Spain have been forgotten, and the baiHLant women who sat -od the mighty thrones have been for- : gotten, some grandfather will put on 1 his spectacles, and holding the book the • other side the light, read to his grandchildren the story of this great wopian of tShunem. who was so kind, and courteous, and Christian to the prophet .Elisha. Yes, she was a great woman. In the first place, she was great in ! her hospitalities. Uncivilized and bar1 barons nations honor this virtue. Jupi--tcr had the surname of the hospitable, and he was said to especially avenge the wrongs of strangers. Homer ex- ' tolled It in his verse. The Arabs are punctilious upon this subject, and . among some of their tribes it is not until the ninth day of tariying that the - occupant has a right to ask his guest: “Who, and whence art thou?" If this virtue is so honored even among barbarians, how ought it to be honored among those of us who l<elieve in the Hible. which commands us to use hospitality oue toward another without . grudging.

j>i)l so luucii uie Kuuipiuuu»ue» ui your diet and the regality of your abode will impress the friedd or the stranger that steps across your threshold, hs the warmth of your greeting, ftfite informality of your reception, the : reiteration by grasp and by look and i by a thousand attentions, insignificant ;attentions, by your earnestness of wel•cotne. There will be high appreciation ef your welcome, although you have nothing but the brazen candlestick and the plain chair to offer Elisha when he comes to Shuncm. Most beautiful is this grace of hospitality when shown in the house of God: 1 am thankful that I am paistor of a ■ church where strangers are always welcome, and there is not a state in the Uniox in which I have not heard the affability of the ushers of our church complimented. But I have en'tered churches where there was no hospitality. A stranger would stand In the vestibule for awhile and then -make pilgrimage up the long aisle. No door opened to him, until flushed •Laud excited and embarrassed he started hack again, and coming to some halffilled pew with apologetic air, entered it. while the occupants glared on him which seemed to say: “Well, if 1 must, I must.” Away with such accursed in- - decency from the house of God. Let .•every church tjuit would maintain large Christian iWuence in community; - culjnre Sabbath by Sabbath this beautiful grace of Christian hospitality. Again, this woman in my text was . great in her kindness towards God’s messenger. Elisha ipay have been a ... stranger In that household, but as slit found out he had come on a Divine -mission he was cordially welcomed AVe have a great many books in oui •day about the hardships of minister! • the trials of Christian min isters. I wish somebody would writ* uk book about the joys of tin •Christian minister, about the sympa <s:lis all uro-aud him. about the kind

nesses, about the genial considerations of him. Does sorrow come to our home, and is there a shadow on the cradle? There are hundreds- of hands to help, aijd many who weary not through the long night watching, and hundreds of prayers going up that God would restore the sick. Is there a burning, brimming cup of calamity placed on the pastor's table, are there not many to help him drink of that cup and who will hot be comforted because he is stricken? Oh. for somebody to write a book about the rewards of ; the Christian ministry— about his surroundings of Christian sympathy. This woman of the text was only a type of thousands of men and women who come dow n; from the mansion and from the cot to do kindness to the Lord's servants. I suppos.' the men of Sliunem had to pay the bills, but it was the large-hearted Christian sympathies of the women of Shunem that looked after the Lord's messenger. Again, this woman in the" text was greah, in her behavior under trouble. Her only son had died on her lap. A very bright light went out in that household. The sacred writer puts it very tersely when he says: ‘‘He sat on her kneesuntit nqoh. and then he died.” Yet the writer goes bn to say that she exclaimed: "It is well!” Or twit in prosperity, this woman Vfas great in trouble. Where are the feet that have not been blistered on the hot sands of this great .Sahara? Where are the shoulders that have not been bent under the burden of grief? Where is the ship sailing over glassy sea that has not after a while been caught in a cyclone? Where is the garden of earthly comfort but trouble hath hitched up its fiery and panting team and gone through it. with hurtling plowshare of disaster? Under the pelting of ages of suffering, the great heart of the world has burst with woe. Navigators tell us about the rivers, and the Amazon and the Danube and the Mississippi have been explored, but who can tell the depth or length of the great river of sorrow made up of tears and blood rolling through all lands and all ages, bearing the wreck of families rfnd of communities and of empires^— foaming, writhing, boiling with the agonies of six0 thousand years! Etna and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius have been described, but who has ever sketched the volcano of suffering retching up from its depths the lava and the scoria and pouring them down the sides to whelm the nations? Oh. if I could gather all the heart-strings,, the broken heart.-strings, into a harp I would play on it a dirge such as was never sounded. Mvthologists tell us of Gorgon and

Centaur aim Titan, and geologists tell us of extinct species of monsters: but greater than Borgon or Megatherenm, and not belonging to the realm of fable, and not of an extinct species, is a monster with iron jaw and iron hoofs walking across the nations, and history and poetry and sculpture in their attempts to sketch it and describe it have seemed to sweat great drops of blood. Hut, thank God, there are those who can conquer as this woman of tho text conquered, aud say, “It is well! though my property be gone, though my children be gone, though m.v home be broken up, though my health be sacrificed, it is well, it is well!” There is no storm on the sea, but Christ is ready to rise in ‘the hinder part of the ship and hush it- There is no darkness, but the constellations of God’s eternal love can illumine it, and though the winter comes out of the norther sky,, you have sometimes seen the northern sky- all ablate with auroras that seem to say: (“Come up this way; .up this way are thrones of light and seas of sapphire, and the. splendor of an eternal heaven. Come up this way.” We may, Uke the ships, by tempest be tossed On the perilous deeps, but can not bo lost: Though Satan enrage, the wind and the tide The promise assured us, the Lord will provide. I heard an echo of my text in a verydark hour when my father lay dying and the old country minister said to him: “Mr. Talmage, how do you feel now as you are about to pass tho Jordan of death?" He replied—and it was the last thing he ever said— “I feel well: I feel very well: all is well”—lifting his hand in the benediction, a speechless benediction which I pray God may go down through all the generations. It was well! Of course it was well. Again, this woman of my text was great in her application to domestic duties. Every picture is a home picture, whether sl>e is entertaining an Elisha, or whether she is giving careful attention toOier sick boy, or whether she is appealing for the restoration of her property—every picture in her case is a 'jiome jdeture. Those are not disciples of tnis sfhumenite woman who, going out to attend to outside charities, neglect the duty of home—the duty of wife, of mother, of daughter. No faithfulness in public benefaction can ever atone for domestic nesrligence.

There has been many a mother who by indefatigable toil has reared a large family of children, equipping them for the duties of life with good manners and largo intelligence and Christian principle, starting them out, who has done more for the world than many another woman whose name has sounded through all the lands and through all centuries. I remember when Kossuth was in this country there were some ladies who got reputation, honorable reputation, by presenting him very gracefully with bouquets of flowers on public occasions; but what was all that compared with the work of the plain Hungarian mother who gave to truth and civilization and the cause of universal liberty a/Kossuth? Yes, this woman of my text was great in her simplicity. v-_, When this prophet wanted to reward her for her hospitality by asking some preferments from the king, whft did she say? She declined it. She said; “I dwell among my own people.” as much as to say; “I am satisfied with : my lot; all I want is my family and rnv friends around mo. I dwell among

; my own people.'* Oh, what a rehake j to the strife for precedence in all' ages. | How many there, are who want to ! get great architecture, and homes furnished with all art all painting, all! | statuary, who hare not enough taste to distinguish between Gothic and t Byzantine, and who could not tell a figure in plaster of parisfrom Palmer's "White Captive.” and would not know a boy's penciling from Bierstadt's “Vosemite.” Men who buy large libraries by the square foot, buying these libraries when they bare hardly enough education to pick out the day of the almanac! Oh. how many there are striving to have things as well as their neighbors, or better than their neighbors, and in the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted, and business ! firms thrown into bankruptcy, and ! men of reputed honesty rush into astounding forgeries. Of course I say nothing against refinement orculture. Splendor of abode, sumptnousness of diet, lavishness in art, neatness in apparel—there is nothing against them in the Bible or out j of the Bible. God does not want us to ! prefer mud hovel to English cottage or i untanned sheepskin to French broad- | cloth, or husks to pineapple, or the j clumsiness of a boor to the manners of j a gentleman. God, who strung the I beach with tinted shell and the grass of ; the field with the dews of the night j and hath exquisitely tinged morning | cloud and robin redbreast, wants us to keep our eye open to all beautiful sights and our car open to all beautifqjacadences and our heart open to all elevating sentiment^. But what I want to impress upon you is that you ought not to inventory the luxuries of life as among the indispensables. and you ought not to-depreciate this woman of the text, who, when offered kingly preferment, responded: “I dwell among my own people.”

lea, this woman of the text was great in her piety. Faith in God, and she was not ashamed to talk about it before idolaters. Ah, woman will nerer appreciate what she owes to Christianity until she knows and sees the degradation of her sex under Paganism and Mohommedanism. Her very birth considered a misfortune. Sold like cattle in the shambles. Slave of all work, and at last, her body feul for the funeral pvre of her husband. Above the shriek of the fire worshipers in India and above the rumbling of the juggernauts, 1 hear the millionvoiced groan of wronged, insulted, broken-hearted, down-trodden woman. Her tears h$ve fallen in the Nile and Tigris ami the La Plata and on the steppes of Tartnry. She has been dishonored in Turkish garden and Persian palace and Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones have been sacrificed in the Ganges. There *js, no* a groan, or a dungeon, or an1 island, or a mountain, or a river, or a sea, but could tell a story of the outrages heaped upon her. But, thanks to God, this glorious Christianity comes forth, and all the chains of this vassalage are snapped, and she rises up- from ignominy to exalted sphere; and becomes the effectionate daughter; the gentle wife, the honered mother; the- useful Cbrisrtain. Oh, if Christianity has done so much for woman; surely woman will become its most ardent advocate and its subhmest exemplification. When I come to speak of womanly influence, my mind always wanders off to one model—the-aged one who; twen-ty-seven years ago, we put away for the resurrection. About eighty-seven years ago, and-: jnst before their marriage day, my father and mother stood up in the old meeting-house- at Somerville. N. J., and took upon then* the vows of the Christian. Through a long life of vicissitude she lived harmlessly and usefully, and came to- her end in peace. No ohild of want ever cam* to her door and was turned empty [ away. No one in sorrow came- to- her but was comforted. No one asked he* the way to be- saved but she- pointed him to the cross. When; the angel of life came to a neighbor's dwelling she j was there to-rejournat the starting of another immortal spirit When the anget®»f death came to- a neighbor's dwelling she was there to- robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her,.lending family prayers in- the absence- of my father, say: “Qh, Lord, I ask not for my children wealth or honor, but I do ask that they all may be subjects, ©f Thy comforting grace!” Hfer eleven children brought into bhe Kiugdjora of God, she had but one more wish, ag«l that was that she might see her long-ab-sent missionary son, ansi when the ship from,China anchored, in New York harbor, anditjie long-absent one passed over the threshold; of his-pateraal home, she said: "Now, Loud, lettest thou Thy servant depart in peace-, for mine eyes have seen- Thy salvation.” The prayer was,soon asasnered.

lib nao- au aai»iuiMEai «•» «• ucu g a the ted £nom afar and found only the house from the soul had tied forever. She looked very natural, the hands very much, as when they were employed ha kindness for her children. Whatever else we forget, we never forget the- look of mother's hands. As we stood there by the casket we could not help bet say: “Don't she look beautiful?’ It was a cloudless day when, with heavy hearts, we carried her out to the last resting-place. The withered leaves crumbled under hoof and wheel as we passed, and the sun shone on the Raritan river until it 1 looked like fire; but more calm and beautiful aud radiant was the setting sun of that aged pilgrim’s life. No more toil, no more tears, no more sickness, no more depth. Dear mother! Beautiful mother! Svreet is the slumber beneath the sod, While the poor spirit rests with God. I need not go back and show you Zenobia, or Semiram is, or Isabella, -or even the woman ef the text, or wonders of womanly excellence or greatness, when I in this moment point to your picture gallery of memory, and show you the one faee that you remember so well, and arouse all your holy reminisce uces, and start you in a new consecration to God, by the pronunciation of that tender, beautiful, glorious tv ord: “Mother! Mother!”

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. A ISift In the Cloud*. According; to R. O. Bmn A Co.*» Weekly Review of the t on* dltion of Finance and Trade Thoughout the Country—Business Trying; to I'ush Ahead IVithont Waiting; for Aetlou at I Wash lust on-The Week's Fallurts. Etc. Xkw Vo2x, Aug. 19.—R. G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade, published th i$ morninjr. says: There is a rift in the clouds. Faint and jtt definite signs of improvement are all the bet ter because they come not from possibly delusiye hopes or from monetary foreign aid but from the good sense and wonderful recuperative power of the people themselves. Business is_ trying to go ahead without waiting for Washington. Imported gold S9.000.000 or more during the week does not go to the right si ot. but the people are creating home-made currency for themselves by using certified checks la paying hands, selling local aocounts and purchasing grain and cotton. The bank circulation has increased ffJ.CWO.WJ. but the decrease on deposit* of natioval banks alone from May 4 to July 12 was #198,1® .588. and during the past month withdrawals hare also teen heavy. JLdttie money comes hack as yet from timid holders and the parading effect on exchange is nearly as complete as ever, but that very fact pushes each section and city into relying more on itself and naff ov the government. Many concerns ar 5 failing and closing, but resumptions are becoming somewhat frequent and in the very shrinkage of production men see that demand must soon overtake supply. PJg iron does not rally, but sells at #14 here and #13 at Pittsburgh for Mb. K though the weekly output has been reduced; 4d per cent, ■inice May. but large iron and sheet works are beginning to resume operations. Though 5 haive failed and 24 stopped during the week. 14 have resumed.

uuiy a mini or tne uonneiumue cose OTens •its at work, but coke at $1.25 gives* a better chance to iron manufacture. Sales of wool in seven weeks-have- been only 1.750,000 pounds, against 5.009XN0 pounds last year, and it Is stated that 90.0Wloomswitl4*).0J0 spindles in New England are now idle, which means more than a quarter of the cotton spin dies of the country; but twenty nigh 5 mills and five other cotton and woolen mills have resumed, while twenty-eight have stopped and one failed during the week. Somewhat fewer cancellations are met in dress- goedsovders, and there is more buying of fall woolenss Shipments of boots and shoes from Boston since the end of June have been 481848 cases, against 572.545 last year, a decrease of 17% per cent.; but a little more demand forgoods is dow seen, and some factories near Boston and Philadelphia have resumed. VTith the shankage in the great industries It is only surprising that railroad earnings do not decline more . .the decrease on roads reporting in August tht3»far being 18 per cent. The decrease of 24 per vent, in clearings outside of New York last week and :0this week is natural. The receivership for the Northern Pacific !»d teen so fully discounted that it produced little effect in the stock market, though thtt is t he third great railroad default this year, and the" aggregate stocks and bonds of the thr?e roads amount to £650.000.000. Prices of securities have increased comparatively little, the average for railroad stocks being $43.12. against 145 last week, and trading has been dull. Speculative markets have generally declined a fraction, in spite of crop reports, which are not solid enough to outweigh great stocks ia •light. Cotton fell a quarter of a cent, wish somewhat better reports of probable yield. Wheat drags near life lowest figures ever known, in spite of decrease in visible supply, for though western receipts are not large, tha* Hock on hand is far beyond the power of speculators to carry with money markets in there present condition. The movement of corn i» decidedly large, with crop prospects improT’Ing. Late advices from Washington are not more encouraging in regard to financial action, l'he treasury has been losing money rapidly Mid holds $6,000,000 less in gold. *1.700.000 less* in silver and $90 -.00 » less legal tender, in ex^ ?ess of outstanding certificates than it held one week ago. while the new treasury notes* >utstanding have increased $40Q.0^>. It i» -•oining small gold as rapidly as possible, and* issued #1.500.000 additional bank notes during, Ihe first half of August; but has very limited power because $he rapidly-diminishing receipts are no longer enough to cover the neosssary disbursements. The more hopeful signs which appear should! oe interpreted with full understanding that a\ renuine revival of business cannot begin until' larger demand for goods and better conditions* >therwise enable a greater proportion of theihops and mills to employ and remunerate la* 50r as usual. As yet the works closing exceed ;n number those resuming, and the failures. ;oatnue each week to restrict the number eff Inns able to shafce in the employment of hands. usd the transaction of business. Failures during the week number 455 in theUnited States, against 257 last year: and 25 in: ran a da. agaiust 25 for the same week last yeas. Df the United States failures 154 were in easuf;em states. 94 in southern and 215 in western Hates and territories. SHERMAN ON THE SITUATION! & Lrtl.r from the Ohio Statesman* onOar* Present Financial DiMculSJes. Cincinnati, Aujf. 19.—A special from \kron, to the Enquirer says: L. J. Ritchie, of Tallmadjje, O., the Camedian mine owner and capitalist, has made public the following- letter from Senator Sherman on the money quafie Sion: Dw r Pu t ttiim 1

Washington, Auk. !«< f - I* J. ErrcHIK, ESQ. — Dear Sir: Your* a* the I3tta h»s been read and read with pleasure. 1 believe that congress is addressing itself to provide a cure ot our present financial lifBculties. but this cannot be hastened in a body composed of 430 senators and members. In the meantime events aro rfitevtr»g slowly but surely. The incoming of gold, [he large increase ot our paper money; and confidence in our ability to maintain the- bimetallic standard of silver and gold aha parity with each other are helping to reii&we onr Qnnncial situation. I do not intenuito.be in a hurry in expressing my opinion erf the best filing for relief, for I think It is beMen-tt* move slowly and say litllo until scmst-fctngreflfcetive may be said or done. It is a greorf mistake to suppose that congress is inditerenn to the wants of our people. There is an honest ditto; hnce or opinion among the people .with respect to the best remedy and there is a, glassing feeling that all that is needed is an itn'aeaae of currency ot the national banks and “off the suspension of further purchases of (bullion. The latter I do not regar* as, [important except to dissipate the fears- of capitalists that we are coming to the single silver standard, which means the demonetization of gold, a large contraction of currency asd separation from the standard recognizediby all commercial nations. Very truly yours, Jo ax Sherman. Will Accept Forty Gents. •» the Dollar. Newark, N. Y., Avug, 19.—The creditors of the Wheeler 4 Pish Hat Co., have decided t». accept forty cents on the dollar at six., nine and twelve months. Willawd Pish, of Jersey City, has been appointed receiver of the Hjiilier Coffee Plantation Co. of New Yoafe. A Blighting Drought In Maine. Augusta. Me., Aag. 19.—'The drought which prevails over nearly the entire state has been, unprecedented in the crop-growing season for many years. The situation is becoming- worse every day. Temporary relief has been afforded over limited sections by light local showers, but there are extensive regions where scarcely an inch has fallen during the summer. Pastures are naked of feed and wells and springs are trying up; and to add to the distress fires of greater or less magnitude are burning in many se» tions of the state.

•TWAS AN ELEPHANT. A Paakug* of Diamond.. Lost of Stolen. Returned to Ifer Owner Through the Mail*—Thouch Valued at Thlrtr Thousand Dollar* It waa of No I'm to the I'nlatrfal l'i'tm»r,at He Could Sol Dispose of the Gems. * St. Louis, Any. KV—The black diamends have been found. The $30,000 package of black diamonds which was lost by or stolen from C. H. " Billings, traveling agent for Simeon IJessau, oi New York, while en route from the Lindcll hotel to the union depot Tuee day night, was returned this morning. The package was placed in the United States mail at the central postofiice between 8 and 13 o’clock, and was addressed: ‘"Day Clerk. Lindell Hofei, St. Louis.” The sender put six cents’ worth otf stamps oh the paekage. which lacked ninety-two cents of being enough to pay th» postage. This morning it was not delivered on ac count of the short postage, but aftel being handed through several departments. went to the ‘"short-paid” clerk. The eleek send for the package, paying the ninty two cents due postage, opened it and! fraud the missing diamonds. It was wrapped in the brown paper in which it was originally inclosed. Inside were several layers of brown I paper, then two Post-Dispatches, next ■ Quite a large piece of bed-quilt, and then Billings' wailiett. with $30,000 worth of diamonds all safb and sound. In the walletwas-a* letter, a verbatim copy of which follows: Sir this Is the pockuge that was picked up si union depo tus lay nite not sloln but found don't want name counseled if stolen wold nol send but found— i

nere me tetter- nrmce on aoruotiy and was left unsigned. The letter was- written on a hall sheet of small note paper addressed on side as follows: ‘‘Mr. Simeon Dissean of New York." The chirographytn^ (good and bore evidence of an attempt to disguise a good running business hand. Messrs. Dessau and Billings were two of the most excited men imaginable when told of the recpeerjt A peculiar thing about tie return of the package is that Friday a reward oi SI.000 and no questions, asked jvas offered for it. As the tinder is not known, this, of course, will not be paid. The fact that'- it was returned anonymously leads'to the belief that it was stolen, probably by some one at the depot. The thief did no* know the Talue of the black stones, but held them until he read in "the newspapers that they were such anauntrsual com- : modity as to be practically, unsalable, 1 when he decided to return iicm. j There is another peculiar- thing in \ connection with the affair." When the lots was first discovered it was decided to keep the matter from the newspapers. on the ground that publicity would ruin all chances of reeswerv. But Jthe newspapers got hold of the story and published it. Had they not done so the diamonds would not have i been returned, as the finder—if they were really found—would not have known to whom they belonged, oi their value, or anything about them. Mr. Dessau says he woufd like to know who the finder is so that he can reward him. The New Ybrifc diamond importer will pay the St." Loans detectives liberally for their tin:* the money going into the relief fund. THEY JUST QUIT. — The Greeley-ltnrnham GnaniT Co., of St tnuls enable to Realise oe Assets, Makes a Voluntary Assignment. _ St. Louis, Aug. ‘iO-v-THar GreelevBurnham Grocery Co. h#c made a voli lintary assignment to- -C; B. Burnhaiy, the junior member of tha- Srm. The assets are said to be approximately between *300.000 and $400.00tlland the liabilities between *200,000 and $303,000. The cause of the assignment is the inability to realize on the assets, the result of the present financial'stringency. According to thee, statement of the officers of the company the assignment is S not as serious as would appear at first i glance. They claim that it is really a ; liquidation in court ixstvwd of out. j Said he: “This is . really nothing I more than a liquidation in court. We have been in- liquidation since May 15 last, anyway, and we just decided that it -would be best for all concerned to. have the matter judicially settled. It will probably be as much as two .years before the affairs of so large ami old a concern can be straightened oat. Admitting that our liabilities will reach $300,000, our assets certainly pass this mark. Of the other $150,OOBj. #100,000 at least is fully secured, leaving but $50,000 oi unsecured liabilities. The assignment is practically for tllali amount. While the Ureeley-llnrnilnsn Grocery Co. is one of the oldest ami largest concern* in the eity, there- is no necessity ijx any fear or uneasiness being causedl hj the present state«off affairs.” Below will be 3wmd a statement ot the accounts in. tike matter of the- assignment of tho> firm, which was, filed with the records*- of deeds: T<* Cyrus B. itambam. trustee, ait tands tenements, (roods, chattels anti merclhuidise, together with newe stock and book accounts.

Sills receivable^ Accounts recei*Abl Slocks in othe^cwr Arkansas and.1text .,3jt».Gf5S 47 it ions . I! i ^T.M IWJOO OC .......... 37 5C *389.44H T " PkBAGl AS COLLAUBRAL, »toc'-s face-aftlue.«'. Bills receivable... ftp.ooo. ao 6.60ft ..3o2,4iS 71 Killed at a »roMtaf. LeroiTs N. Y., -Aug-, at.—An aecideni occurred here yesterday morning oa the Lehigh road crossing of Laid street in which five people were killed instantly. At lOi o'clock the five unfortunates started with a spirited teaj&tc drive to church. As they approached the raiiyoad truck the east-bound dyer came along air a speed oi nearly fifty miles an hour. Mr. llove did not see it until it was too late to cheek his horses, lie made a frantic effort t«i get across, but the engine- struck the carriage and all were mangled- beronij recognition

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—Mineral wa teir syphons coramot lv in use are subjected when full to a pressure of ab nttl.iO pounds per squi re in6I\. The bestt of them aire made in Germany and crated up to 200 pout ds per square inch, hut the most eare 'ul makcsrs of minora! waters test their :>yphon> bottles np» to 3<10 jiounds jier square inch. The glass, after having been placed i a ice-cold water, is suddenly plunged into boiling water. T he , , loss.from breaitage in the testing process is very greaifc. A syphon bottle has been known '»> keep pure and sweet for- seven yew®, a small quantity of mineral wate*ra<eeidentally left unused. This accidental test of water and lottie was though* highly satisfactory. —A paradise fish in a tank in a slow iin New York. is. snrrounde l by a h uni .ired or so otftkeyoung, that appea • as :| auere bubbles darting here and there. . if a finger he add near the surface the . |f fish snaps at it. vieiously; if the fry sink 1 It to the bottom it will take them: in its mouth aaft lift them to the weeds at the top. ‘•'f hat's a great fish,” said the owner, “ft’s an excellent parent, and takes as mach care of the lit tlefollov sag creatur*% of more alleged intellige ice. ' We had. take away theinatesand'put it into > separate tank because it was eating-file young ones. No,, it isn’t a, she. Wife is the father. The mo ;her.ls ovesrifisere by herself.” —'She-ancients regarded dancing a*, a nes^sary accomplishment. Sociateg. learned the :.rt in his oiKl age, while Pla%>, in bis “Commonwealth,” advocated the establishment of dancing seboofe. The Romans o-lebrated 1 Heir victories and pastoral festivities by e&borate dances. 'They excel esc. in ysofoMnine dunces, freon which the -bal3»t was evolved. Emperor Domitiam forbade the iien^toes. to lance, and for i so. doing removed 'several numbers. from the senate, Grave ktatesojjei and |‘ politicians oi high degree ha vy ex select1 ' H in the oldest of the arts. —The morkey’s intelligence-bas iei«r been able to arrive at a point vchich enables that animal to aeiiievetb » an* .tying of a knet You may see a won* key with a cord fastened with the sim* plest form of common knot, and s nless the beast caq break the string or gnaw it two he will never get lapse. To untie the knot requires < <bservatic n and , reasoning power, and tbougha m mkej may possess: both, he has neithe r in t sufficient degree to ena ble him t( ■ ovttp come the difficult?'