Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 December 1895 — Page 6

TA I MAGE’S * SEKMON. The Great Preacher's Greeting to the New Congress. Leiwonn Drawn from the Prophet Eltihn'a Chariots of > Ire—The Glories of the Amerienn KvpuLlle Vividly smt Forth. Rev. T DeWitt Telmape, on the ere of the'assembling of the new congress, j 'delivered a sermon appropriate to the occasion to his Washington congregation, which included many of the nation’s legislators. lie took for his text:

And the Lmi opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and. behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around m About Elisha.—II. Kings, vi., 17. The American congress is assembling. Arriving1 or already arrived are the representatives of all sections of this beloved land. Let us welcome them with prayers and benedictions. A nobler group of men never entered Washington than those who will to morrow take their places in the senate chamber and the house of representatives. Whether they come alone, or leave their families at the homestead far away, may the blessing of the Eternal God be upon them! We invite them to our churches, and together, they in political spheres aud we in religious circles, will give the coming months to consideration^*? the best interests of this country which God has blessed so mnch in the past that 1 propose to show you and show them so far as I may now reach their ear, or to-morrow their eye through their printing press, that God will be with them to help them as in the text He filled the mountains with help for Elisha. As it cost England many regiments and twenty million dollars a year to Iceeraafely a troublesome captive at St. Helena, so the king of Syria sends out a whole army to capture oue minister of religion—perhaps fifty thousand men—to take Elisha, During the night the army of Syrians came around the village of Dothan where the prophet was staying. At early, daybreak the man servant of Elisha rushed in and said: “What 6hall we do? There is a whole army come to destroy you! We

must die! we must die! But Elisha was not seared a bit, for he looked up and saw the mountains all around full of supernatural forces, and he knew that if there were fifty thousand Syrians against him there were one hundred thousand angels for him; and in answer to the prophet’s prayer in behalf of his affrighted man servant, the j*oung jnaii saw it, too. Horses of fire harnessed to chariots of fire, and drivers of fire pulling reins of tire on bits of tire, oand warriors of fire with brandished swords of fire, and the brilliance of that morning sunrise was eclipsed by the galloping splendors of the celestial cavalcade. “Aud the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire rouud about Elisha.” I speak of the upper forces of the text that are to fight on our side as a nation. If all the low levels are filled with armed threats, I have to tell you that the mountains of our hope and courage and faith are full of the horses and chariots of Divine rescue.. You will uotice that the Divine equipage is always represented as a chariot of fire. Ezekial and Isaiah and Joliu. when they come to describe the Divine equipage always represent it as a wheeled, a harnessed, an upholstered conflagration. It is not a chariot like kings and conquerors of earth mount, but an organized and compressed fire. That means purity, justice, chastisement, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? yes,but a chariot,of fire. All our national disenthralments have been through scorching agonies and red disasters. Through tribulation the individual rises. Through tribulation nations rise. Chariots of rescue, but chariots of fire. But how do 1 know that this Divine equipage is on the side of our institutions? I know it by the history of the last one hundred and nineteen years. The American’ revolution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence hall in 177b. The colonies, without ships, without ammunition, without guns, without trained warriors, without money, without prestige. On the other side, the mightiest nation of the earth, the largest armies, the grandest navies, and the most distinguished commanders, and resources inexhaustible, and nearly all the nations ready to back them up in the fight. Xoth--ing, as against immensity. The cause of the American eolonies, which started at zero, dropped still lower through the quarreling of generals, and through the jealousies at small successes, and through the winters which surpassed alt predecessors in depth of snow and horrors of congealmenfc. Elisha surrounded by the whole Syrian army did not seem to be worse off than did the thirteen colonies encompassed and overshadowed by foreign assault. What decided the contest in opr favor? The wpper forces, the upper armies. The <ireen * and White mountains of Jfew England, the Highlands along the Hudson, the mountains of 'Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges were full of re-enforcements which the young man Washington saw by faith; and his inen endured tv.e frozen feet, and the gangrened wounds, and the exhausting hunger, ana the long march, because “the Lord opeued the eyes of the young man; and he saw: ‘and, behold, the mountains were full of horses aud chariots of fire round about Elisha.” Washington himself was a miracle. What Joshua was in sacred history, the first American president was in secular history. A thousand other men excelled him in different things, but he excelled them all in roundness and completeness of character. The vvorfd never saw his like, and probably never will see bis like .again, because there probably never

wilt be another such exigency. He was let down a Divine interposition. He was from God direct I! do not know how many can read the history of those times without admitting the contest was decided hy the upper forces. Then, in 1861, when our civil war opened, many at the north and at the south pronounced it national suicide. It was not courage against cowardice, it was not wealth agai^t poverty, it was not large states agai^t small states. It was heroism against heroism, it was the resources of many generations against the resources of generations, it was the prayer* of the north against the prayer of the south, it was one-half of the nation in armed wrath, meeting the other half of the nation in armed indignation. What could come but extermination? At the opening of the war the comma nder-in-ehief of the United States forces was a man who had been great in battle, but old age had come, with many infirmities, and he had a right to quietude, lie could not mount a horse, and be rode on the battle-field in a carriage, asking the driver not to jolt it too much. During the most of the four yehys of the contest, oh the south

erir siue, was a man in mullue, who had in his veithe blood of many genera tsons of warriors, himself oue of the heroes of Cherubusco and Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Chapultepec. As the years passed on and the seroll of carnage unrolled there came out from both sides a heroism, and a strength, and a determination that the world had never seen marshaled. And what but extermination could coine when Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sydney Jolintson rode in from north and south, and Granf and Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed! Yet we are a nation, and yet we are at peace. Earthly scourge did not excite the conflict. The upper forces of the text. They tell us there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout mountain; but there was something higher than that. Again, the horses and chariots of God came to the rescue of the nation in 1S76, at the close of a presidential election famous for ferocity. A darker cloud j'et settled down upon this nation. The result of the election was in dispute, and revolution, not between two or three sections, but revolution in every town and village and city of the United States seemed imminent. The prospect was that New York would throttle New York, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and lloston, Boston, and Savannah, Savannah. ahd Washington. Washington. Some said Mr. Tilden was elected;

others said Mr. Haves was elected; and how near we came to universal massacre some of us guessed; but God only knew. I ascribe our escape not to the honesty and righteousness of infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to the upper forces of the text. Chariots of mercy rolled in, and, though the wheels were not heard and the flash was not seen, yet all through the mountains of the north and the south and the east and the west, though the hoofs did not clatter, the cavalry of tfod galloped by. I tell you God is the friend 4of this nation. In tlie awful excitement at the massacre of Liucoln, when there was a prospect that greater slaughter would ooen upon the nation, God hushed the tempest. In the awful excitement at the time of Garfield’s assassination God put Ilis foot on the neck of the cyclone. To prove God is on the side of this nation, I argue from the last eight or nine great national harvests, and from the uatioual health of the last quarter of a century, epidemics very exceptional, and from the great revivals of religion aud from the spreading of the Church of God, and from the continent blossoming with asylums aud reformatory institutions, and from an Edenization which promises that this whole land is to be a paradise, where God shall walk. I am encouraged more than I can tell you as I see the regiments wheeling down the sky, and my jeremiads turn into doxologies, and that which was the Good Friday of the nation’s crucifixion becomes the Easter morn of its resurrection. Of course, God works through human instrumentalities, and‘this national betterment is to come among other things, through a scrutinized ballot-box. By the law of registration it is almost impossible now to have illegal voting. There was a time—you and I remember it very well—when droves of vagabonds wandered up and down on election day, and from poll to poll, and voted here, and voted there, and voted everywhere, and there was no challenge; or, if there were, it amounted to nothing, because nothing could so suddenly be proved upon the vagabonds. Now, in every wellorganized neighborhood, every voter is Watched with severest scrutiny. If I am in a regioa where I am allowed a vote. I must tell the registrar my name, and how old 1 am, and how long I have resided in the state, and how long I have resided in the ward or township, and if I misrepresent, fifty witnesses will rise and shut me out from the bal-lot-box. Is not that a great advance? And then notice the law that prohibits a man voting if he has bet on the election. A step further needs to be taken, and that man forbidden a vote who has offered or taken a bribe, whether it be in the shape of a free drink, or cash paid down, the suspicious cases obliged to put their hand on the Bible and swear their vote in if the}' vote at all. So, through the sacred chest of our nation’s suffrage, redemption will come. God will save this nation through an aroused moral sentiment. There has never been so much discussion of morals and immorals. Men, whether or not they acknowledge what is right, have to think what is right. We have men who have had their hands in the public treasury the most of their lifetime, stealing all they could lay their hands on, discoursing eloquently about

dishonesty in public servants; and men with two or three families of their own preaching eloquently about the beauties of the seventh commandment. The question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust In the face of this nation as never before, and takes a part in our political contests. The question of national sobriety is going to be respectfully and deferentially he^rd at the bar of every legislature, and every house of representatives, and every state senate; and an omnipotent voice will ring down the sky and across this land and back again saying to these rising tides of drunkenness which— threaten to whelm home and church and nation: “Thus far shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves

Ue stayed. I hare not in my min'd a shadow of disheartenment as large as the shadow of a housefly’s wing. My faith is in the upper forces, the upper armies of the text. God is not dead. The char* iots are not unwheeled. If you would only pray more, and wash your eyes in the Cool, bright water fresh from ! the well of Christian reforut, it would be said of you, as of this one of the text: “The Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Eli- j sha.” When the army of Antigonus went into battle, his soldiers were very much discouraged, and they rushed up to the general and said to him: “Don’t you see we have a few forces, and they hare so many more?” and the soldiers were affrighted at the smallness of their number and the greatness of the enemy. Antigonus, their commander, strightened himself up, and said, with indignation and vehemence: “How many do you reckon me to be?” And when we see the vast armies arrayed against the cause of sobriety,' it may sometimes be very discouraging, but I ask you in making up your estimate of the forces of righteousness—I ask you how raauy do you reckon the Lord God Almighty to be? He is our commander. The Lord of Hosts is His name. I have the best authority for saying that the chariots of God are twenty thousand, and the mountains are full of them. Have you any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and make decent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we have in this country great manufactories—manufactories of lies; and j they are run day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day, all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large lies and small lies. Lies private and lies public and lies j prurient. Lies cut bias, and lies cut diagonal. Long-limbed lies, and lies with double-back action. Lies complimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe, and lies that all the people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with humps like camels and scales like eroco

dues, and necks as long as storks, and feet as swift as antelope's, and stings like adders. Lies j raw and scalloped and panned and j stewed. Crawling lies, and jumping i lies, and soaring lies. Lies with at- ! taehment screws and rufflers and ; braiders and ready-wound bobbins, j Lies by Christian people who never lie j except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but beat themselves in a presidential campaign. I confess, I am ashamed to have'a foreigner visit this country in such times. I should think he would stand j dazed, his hand on his poeketbook, j and dare not go out nights. What will j the hundreds'of thousands of foreign- j ers who come here to live think of us? j What a disgust they must have for the ! land of their adoption! The only good j thing about it is, many of them can j not understand the English language, j But I suppose the German, and Ital- j ian, and Swedish, and French papers translate it all, an^ peddle out the infernal stuff to thd subscribers. Do you say that this is impracticable? No. The time is coming just as certainly as there is a God, and that this ' isJHis Book, and that He has strength and the honesty to fulfill His promise. One of the ancient emperors used to pride himself on performing that which his counselors said was impossible, and I have to tell 3*ou to-day that man's impossibilities are God’s easies. “Hath He said, and shall He not do it? Hath He commanded, and will He not bring it to pass?” The Christian religion is coming to take possession of every ballotbox, of every sehool house, of everyliome, of every valley, of every mountain, of every aere of our national domain. This nation, notwithstanding all the evil influences that are trying to destroy it, isVoing to live. By the mightiest of all agencies, the potency of prayer, I beg you seek our national welfare. Some time ago there were four million six hundred thousand letters in the dead-letter post office in this city—letters that lost their way—but not one prayer ever directed to the heart of God miscarried. The way is all clear for the ascent of your supplications heavenward in behalf of this nation. Before the postal communication was so easy, and long ago, on a rock one hundred feet high, on the coast of England, there was a barrel fastened to a post, and in great letters on the side of the rock, se it could be seen far out at sea, were the words ‘“Post office;” and when ships came by a boat put out to take and fetch letters. And so sacred were those deposits of affection in that barrel that no lock was ever put upon that barrel, although it contained messages for America, and Europe, and Asia, and Africa and all the islands of the sea. Many a storm-tossed sailor, homesick, got messages of kindness by that rock, and many a homestead heard good news from a boy long gone. Would that all the heights of our national prosperity were in interchange of sympathies—prayers going up meet A ing blessings coming down; postal celestial; not by a storm-struck rock on a wintry coast, bat by the Rock Ages. \ L

HONE TRUSTWORTHY. Republican Pmldnttsl Atpinau All Under a Cloud. Senator Sherman in the role of the ‘'enfant terrible**’ giving away family secret*, is rather interesting'. The assertion, already referred to, that the republicans were afraid to trust Mr. Harrison to veto a free-coin-age bill in 1890 is one whieh may be left to Mr. Harrison himself to determine whether this distrust was well founded. Mr. Harrison would have a large and appreciative audience if he would now come forward and say that he would have vetoed a free-coinage bill in 1S90, if congress had passed one. He would also be heard with some interest if be should say he would have signed such a bill. There is a third topic on which he could get a fair hearing. Why did be sign the Sherman bill? Was be afraid that he would otherwise sign a free-coinage bill, or that he would veto one? *With unlimited facilities for settling all these questions, the silence of the ex-president is painful to contemplate. Hut there is on this point no ground of objection to Mr. Harrison that does not equally apply to his competitors, for the nomination. There is Mr. McKinley. who voted for free coinage, voted and spoke for the Sherman law. and has denounced the democrats for the repeal of the latter law. Mr. McKinley is.tainted with all the financial heresies of his party, and at this time Is trusted by no party so far as the silver question is concerned. No party «*an say with any degree of certainty whether he would sign or veto a free- coinage

bill. No one can say whether he would sign or veto a bill similar to the Sherman silvbr-purehase act, if presented to him on Its own merits. If presented to him as a condition precedent to the reenactment of the tariff act that bears his name, he would, of course, si cm it, as he voted for it in 1S90 in pursuance of the terms of the bargain. /W to Mr. Reed, there is nothin" known of his attitude which ought to win the confidence of sound-money republicans. lie voted for the Sherman law, anti doubtless was concerned in the trade by which it was passed to pet votes for the McKinley bill. A man who will thus give his assent to panicbreeding measures is not worthy of confidence. But Mr. Reed has gone farther, lie has approved a proposition to impose discriminating duties on imports from such countries as will not go into an agreement to rehabilitate silver. As the Courier-Journal has repeatedly shown, this would entirely destroy our foreign market for agricultural prodnets without accomplishing anything for bimetallism. A man who is willing to conciliate the silver miners by a policy that would put down the price of wheat to 20 cents a bushel, of corn to ten cents, and of cotton to two cents a pound surely cannot be trusted by any convention that has any regard either for sound currency or the interests of the most numerous class of our population. Mr. Allison is handicapped at the beginning of the race by the connection of his name with the BTand-Allison bill. The republicans have said so often that this act was worse than the Shermau law that it would be hard for them to take it back now. The truth is, Mr. Bland is misrepresented when this bill has his name attached to itf- Bland's Dill was for free coinage pa re and simple, and Mr. Allison’s bill was substituted for it, so that it ought to have been called the Allison law. Now, even admitting that it was a w orse law than that which bears the name of Sherman, Mr. Allison is responsible for it. The contrary, of course, is true; the Sherman

law was immensely worse, -inis uoes not relieve Mr. Allison in the least; he toted to repeal his own bill by substituting a worse one for it. It is clear that he will not answer the demands of sound-money republicans. It is plain that if sound~money=men dictate the next republican nomination some other than the four leading candidates must be selected. There is considerable republican authority for the statement that republicans of this class are looking to Grover Cleveland. The Globe-Democrat some months ago demonstrated that he is far more trustworthy on the silver issue than any prominent republican candidate. William E. Chandler, whoiscoquetting with the silverites, says he would get a republican vote for every democratic vote he* would lose. Republican newspapers all over the country have been predicting that he will be again a candidate and this in the face of the fact that the democratic party is pledged against a third term. It would appear that these men were paving the way to tendering a nomination to Mr.Cleveland, but they ought to know that he would emphatically refuse to be their candidate. Not even their agreement to ipdorse him if nominated by the democrats would induce him or his party to violate the anti-third-term tradition. ! Unless the republicans abandon the Bound-money idea and thus insure the election of a democratic president, their quest of a candidate will be attended with many difficulties. — Louisville Courier-Journal. -In the six states of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky 466,000 democrats, compared with the last presidential election, did not vote at the late elections. The republican pluralities in these states aggregated 333,000. Sr* that the democratic stay-at-homes exceeded the republican pluralities tj 133,000. The republican vote fell off 78,000 in New York and Pennsylvania. It increased 92,000 in the other four states.—X. Y, World. -If the republican party expects to remain in power for eny great length of time it would do well to begin warning Platt, Quay and their assistant bosses to keep their hands off the congress.—Chicago Record (Ind.). -The Hartford Courant (rep.) packs “the whole strength and philosophy” of Benjamin Harrison's candidacy into these ten words: “It is better to be safe than to he sorrv,**

PROTECTION AND THE FARMER. BfWlstlou Which Furnish • Problem for tilth Thrimtco. Abraham Lincoln's pithy declaration that “you cannot fool all the people all the time” is commended to thp proteotire tariff league with the substitution of the farmers for the people. It is possible that the league has already made the discovery. Its officers are wrestling just at-present with a set of resolutions which are well calculated to convey to the dullest minds the idea hinted at. The resolutions referred to were adopted by the state grange Of California. at its last annual meeting, held at Merced, during the first days of October. The grange, as our readers do not need to be told, is composed farmers and apparently they belong to the level-headed class of tillers of the soil. Their action certainly shows that they do not intend to take for granted, as some of their brother farmers at the east do, that the protectionists are their friends simply becan«} they ciwim to be. The preambles and resolutions, however, will best explain the attitude 6f the California farmer. Here they are:

"Whereas, report 1.9#', house of representatives. 53d congress. third session. j page 13. contains the fqlowtfng: “First. The American protective tariff league requested Brother David Lubln. of Sacramento. Cal- to, contribute to the fund in aid of the work of said league. “Second. A contribution of $l.fin0 was handed to the president of the bank of t» ‘ O. Mills & Co- with instructions to pav sa ~e to league provided\a committee of five, impartially selected, would decide (a) that the present system of protection by tariff on imports is Just and equitable to th.' producers of agricultural staples as I long as there Is a surplus of these to export: (b) Or that a bounty on exports ol agricultural staples syould be unjust or InI equitable as long as th«?re is a protective tariff on imports. And. “Whereas, the said league refused 4 to • Submit to the above offer; and. whereas, j on September 4,of this year. 7.000 farmers gathered at the interstate harvest home meeting, at Marysville. Mo., did submit ; the Issue of principle In the above proposi- . tion to Hon. William McKinley, of Ohio, to which no reply was made: and. “Whereas.the American Protective Tariff league is assumed to be the representative exponent of protection, therefore be it “Resolved, by the state grange of Cali- j fornia at its annual session held at Merced, that we respectfully request said tariff league to forward to the secretary of this . state grange, replies to the following questions: “First Is the present system of protection by tariff on imports, just and equitable to the* producers of agricultural staples a* long as there is a surplus of these to export? * . “Second. Will a bounty on the exports of agricultural staples be unjust or Inequitable as long as there is a protective tariff on imports? “Resolved, that a copy of this preamme arid resolutions be at once mailed to the president and secretary of the American Protective Tariff league at No. 13a West23d street. New York city." The answer of the Protective Tariff league will l>e awaited with lively interest. not only by the state grange of California and the 7,000 farmers of Missouri—who asked the same question of McKinley, from whom they have not yet heard—but by all thoughtful citizens of the republic who are interested in the subject as good citizens must be. If the league can answer in good faith 1 that the tariff benefits the farmer and can show wherein, it can render not only the farmer, but the entire community, a great service. If it cannot so answer, it ought to have frankness and honesty enough to say so.—Detroii Free Press.

DEMOCRACY’S PROSPECTS. A Bulwark of Strength When Placed 1* the Opposition. Those democrats who for some weeks have been hearing the triumphant assurances of the republicans that the campaign of 1S96 is virtually no longer in doubt should not be too easily downcast. The late election unquestionably makes the republican prospect rosy. A snap judgment of the situation at the present time would be that the nest national administration will be under the control of the republicans. But if there is one thing certain in American politics it is the element of uncertainty. The quickness with which the people withdraw their support from one party in favor of another has been shown in recent years with startling clearness. They are remarkably sudden in administering rebuke. The republican party has at present to confront the prospect* of a congressional session in which it is practically powerless lb do any signal benefit to the country, while it may undertake measures which will make it unpopular. A single blunder—the bungling of the tariff bill —sufficed to give the democracy a crushing defeat a little more than a year ago. The republicans are not likely to make any such error this time. Should they* exiact vicious legislation they would but share the responsibility with the democratic president unless they chose to take the extreme measure of passing it j over his veto. But the chances for tactical errors are numerous and ever present. Either the Cuban question or finances, or even the tariff itself, might easily be made the occasion for as unhappy an exhibition as that attending the consideration of the Wilson bill. Poor though the democracy’s present prospects may look, the party will still ,have in its favor the advantage which may come from the blunders of op]*onents. And the democratic party, weak as it often is when in power, is a bulwark of strength when placed in the opposition.—Chicago Record (Ind.). -“The democratic tariff law has come short of supplying sufficient revenue by an average of over $4,500,000 per month,” says a republican organ. It has supplied more Tevenue than was raised during a large portion of the MeIvinley period. The trouble has been with the expenses, and they were incurred largely through republican legislation. But there will be no deficit to ! report at the close of the present fiscal I year, nor at the close of th'e next one, unless congress starts another panic.— | St. Louis Republic. -Sherman has taken every pains to show that he has belonged to a corrupt and venal party ever sins© the presidential bee found a buzzing place ia his bonnet.—Detroit Free Press. A

THE STAGE. Henry Arthur Jones, the playwright, is going to drop his Jones and call himself Henry Arthur. The Empress theater, London, has a stage so large that there is space on it for 6.000 people. It is said that Desperado BUI Cook, * who is in Sing Sing penitentiary, is writing a drama entitled “Men I Have ' Killed.’* The plot is laid in an Oklahoma cemetery. M. Lamoureux. the concert director, is going to build a theater in Parts on the plans of Wagner’s Bayreuth the- * ater. It will be finished in ISOS, when the first performances will be of the Xibel ungen trilogy. As a general rule, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt holds that an actor or actress should retire from the stage at the ago of 50, although she confesses that she has seen many who should have disappeared at the age of five-and-fcwenty. Eleonora Duse has recovered sufficiently from her illness to make engagements to act in Sweden and Norwavitt December and in Holland and Belgium in January. She has added Sudermann's ‘ Heimath” toiler repertory. Woman has forced her way into tho orchestra seats of the Comedie Francaise, which heretofore only man could - occupy. She must appear in full dress, however, and bonnets and all othet^ forms of coverings for the head must be left outside. Judi« is going to act in Berlin. She Rays that France and Germany ought to live on good terms with each other, and that she detests the thought of war, as she has two sons. Moreover, she wants to see Emperor William, who interests her greatly. THE WORLDS ODD CORNERS. Nails are not used in constructing Japanese houses. The parts axe joined by an ingenious system of mortising, A new volcano, which is emitting immense quantities of smoke, lava and fire, has been discovered at Jalcotan, Mexico. Cecil Rhodes has ordered large numbers of English song birds, linnets, thrushes, blackbirds, larks and nightingales, to be sent to Cape Town, where they will ne acclimatized and set free. The people of Honolulu still eat rawfish and use their fingers in carrying it to their mouths, but they use more telephones in proportion to population than New York does. A 20-year-old printer of Brixton, named Delago, recently scaled the westernmost and highest of the Kosengarten Dolomites in Tyrol and came down safely. The peak is 9,250 feet above sea level, rising almost perpendicularly. There are more than 20 speeies of furbearing animals known to inhabit the Hudson bay country, ranging in size * all the way from the meadow mouse and sand rat to the caribou, musk ox, bison and polar bear. . ^ / * AN ERA OF EXPOSITIONS. Canada is to have an international exposition at Quebec next year. It will be opened about the middle of May.. San Jose, Cal., is planning to hold a carnival of roses next May, and already $7,000 has been contributed toward paying the expenses. Hungary will celebrate its millennium us a state by a whole year's commemoration of the events of interest in .V:

its long history. A question like the Sunday closing of the Chicago world’s fair is troubling Berlin. The commission in charge of the exhibition there next year propose to close the grounds at nightfall, and the Berliners are holding mass meetings to protest against this. Berlin proposes to have an immense “Cairo Street” at her exhibition next year. Six times os much space will be green to it as was given at the Chicago exhibition, and besides reproductions of Egyptian scenery and monuments there will be a harem hidden among the shops.____. _ - - Always Taking cold, is a common couiplaint. It is due to impure and deficient blood aud it often leads to serious troubles. The remedy is fouud iu pure, rich blood, and the one true blood purifier is Sarsaparilla

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