Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 December 1896 — Page 6

TREASURER’S REPORT Bhovrixm Total Rooeipta from All Sources During riiwl Iw Ended Jom SO-TlM VwT* OvMmcji tlMOMU. • Onlu of aiT.Ml.t7 7 from »h« PrtvInH Vnnr.

Wasuikqtox Not. 30.—The annua report of Dan el Morgan, treasurer of the Uuited States, made public Saturday afternoon, shows the total receipts from al. sources during the fiscal year ended dune 30 last to hare been $325,976,200, as against $313,390.075 for the fiscal year 1*95, an increase of $13,5*6,125 The receipts from customs aggregated $100,031,731, a gain of $7,563,134; from internal revenue $146,753,664, a gain of $3,341,193; from sale of public lands $1,005,523, a loss of $97,$23; from miscellaneous sources $19,156,050, a gain of $3,479,522. The total expenditures for the year were $353,179,446, as against $356,195.29$ for 1695, a decrease of $4,015,653. The deficiency for the year is $25,203,245, or $17,501,977 less than for last year. The net receipts from the $263,315,400 of bonds sold in 1894, 1895 aud 1895 were $294,164,295. In the 15 months ending with September last the withdrawals of gold j from tire treasury iu redemption of Uuited States notes and treasury holes amouuted to $192,972,205, while the net gaiua of gold from all sources at- j taiaed a total of $94,138,902. ‘1 he outstanding public debt June 30, 1896, aggregated 91,769,*10,323, as compared with $1,676,120,983 on the same date in 1805. Accordtug to a revised estimate of the department, the composition aud distribution of the inouelary stock for the fiscal year 1896 is as follows: In Treasury In CirculaKiS'U. and tuinu. lion Uoid ooln..v.4lU.5-v.V74 4 4MSJ6.0M Uoiti bullion ........ 33.IJC.9J1 . Ni.vcr dollar*.. 37s.67j.1S/ 52.116.904 i inci# is! silver emu .. 15.797.056 GO 204.451 SUier bullion. 19J.9Si.9jS 10S..56.. Total metallic.46fe.067.0il 4 66BX59.961 Untied Stales note* 4127.4 >1.146 Treasury uuU”i ul 9Ji 3l.6Ss.e33 Nalmuai Usus notea. laKC.Ui Gold Cefthu uK’S' .. U.M.U70 jitH'i ceruuoalev .. 11,967.313 Currvucy vwruUcatc* sau.feW 4 224.249.618 96,0463717 216,16s. 122 42.U8.U9 SJJ.fe7.l9741.69U.UU0 Total paper.*ise.su3.9'V 4 W9.3ib.547 Aft* rebate. 4siO.s7l.u4J ||,W7,467,631 The grand aggregate is $3,348,338, • 571, as compared with $2,399,794,588 for the fiscal year 1895. While these figures ahow an apparent loasof more tl.au filly millions uf money, the departuivnl officers say that, us u matter of fact, the loss does uot uuw exist. Many millious of gold went abroad prior to the cloaiug of the lust tipcat year, thu* show mg au uufavorabu balance, bill it is claimed, that since the inflow of gold has recurred aud the importations hare growu, Inis money, with u considerable addition thereto, lias come back to the Uniled Stale*. The uct proceeds of the national bank notes redeemed duriug the year were$107,891,025.34, the largest amount lor auy like period iu teu years uud, With the exception of three years, the largest siuce 1879. The cost for the looeiupliou of uationul bauk uotes has (>eeu assessed against the bauks at the rale oI $1.12>% j*er $1,000. '1 he appendix coutains a large amount of new matters of interest to bankers and students of fiuauce iu tabular form.

SUFFLHING AND DEATH , tullowluf in th« Wak« of the Ureal NoriliwHitru lltliurd. St. Paix, Mum., Nov. 30.—The in* tensely coiU weathe r which prevails iu U»e storm -swept districts of the uorth* wool lt»s brought on intense sutteriug auU the death list of four is expected to be increased unless wilder wvaiuer Milo iu. At Moorhead, Minn., Thomas An* detsou, u jpoang mau, tfter helping a notimu to her home, attempted to ieach iti» mvu, hut perished uud now ties buried tu the Units. At Devi, s Luke, .V I)., Henry llurroughs, Paul, ii wail clerk, otarled to walk to town from a station tram lie never reached there. At Fargo, N. D.. Frank Yach. of Chi* cago, was frozen on the prairie a wile from town.' At Church's Ferry, N. D., a train* man attempting to get help for a tra.u* load of cattle was irozea stiff. Ten carloads of sheep; destined for Chicago were frozeu at Uraud Harbor, Dkyils Lake. The November which is just closing is the coldest Known in the uorthwest for IS years. Suow fell on the fourth of the mouth and has not since disappeared, even for a day. There is great suffering on the slock rauges, and thousands of cattle way be killed if the weather continues cold. On the ranges west of the Missouri river the temperature is from tire to twenty degrees below aero, and below zero at all points iu the Dakotas. At Vermillion, Si. D., there is hardly a tree slaudiug uud every orchard is ruined. In many iustsnees trees a foot tu diameter were snapped off at the bottom. Every telegraph aud electric wire in town was pros'-rated aud it will have uo lights uuul ues1 week. A FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. Two Men Tsrhsps Fiull; IuJursU—Shook lit* i It). McKuaTuht, Fa., Nov. C9. — A frightful exploslou occurred yesterday afternoon at four o'clockutt the NY. DeNYeea Wood Co.'s iron works. Thomas Da la win, engineer, w as perhaps fatally .injured, auu David liall, fireman, was painfully scalded. The mill bad been abet for two weeks and the engineers aud l reincu had lighted the fires and wee getting things ready to start the viunt again on Monday, when a big drum head blew uut

DUN'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Til* PhwoMml Imnwm 1m ButitMi Huft ss KsnimMj W#ll' OuUUMd, NolvUhatMdlat Comb m»tt«M MHl Mt|h Prlex 1m Iron Mud »< «t* »ud ftkttM Baiard OrdMti — Mottoy Owtitog forward. N*w Yobk, Not. R-E. G. Di A Co. My to-day in their weekly review of-trade;

When the rush of order* after the election slackened, man/ began to think business dwindling. But sulosideuoe of deferred orders is not decrease io business. Disappointment is observed in the iron and steel industries, because various combinations have been and are still retarding or* ders by prices which buyers believe cannot be maintained, and the same is true in bootsand shoes and in a few branches of textile goods. But business is on, the whole, enlarging, and the employment of many more bauds will extend purchasing power. The settlement of the window glass controversy, starting many thousund hands, and the collapse of some important iron combinations, with tuo same effect,give promise ol more business. Broadly speakiug, the gaiu has becu greater than auybody expected, and it is not surprising if a small part of it is iu excess of the present consuming demand. Reports from all parts of the country show clearly the enlargemot t of trade, not at ail points in tbs same branches, but everybody helped by a more confident feeling. Moue .ary difficulties have vanished^ as if by magic and banks with an uncomfortably large supply of idle money are huuting borrowers, as the borrowers were reeeutiy hunting leaders. Enormous gaips in bauk deposits—$37,000, 000 iu un> weeks—indicate somethuig of tpCamount of funds reeeutiy hoardetC Wheat has risen over six cents*for the week without material chauge in foreign advices, which have, beeu, on the whole, less stimulating. Corn lias sympathised with wheat only a little and is coming forward freely. The important factor in the wheat market is that the visible supplies do uotgaiu as much as has beeu expected. Cotton has gaiued only a sixteenth after its considerable decline, and the remarkably heavy movement puts the speculators for aa advance in constant difficulties, and yet there is till the time to be remembered the fact that the crop was nearly one month earlier lliuu usual, and the present excess over last year's movement may be materially reduced Hereafter. Nevertheless the fact appears that northern mills are takiug much less cotton than in previous years, and the demand for goods is evidently disappointing. It cauuot be said that prices in this department are the hiudrauce, for even with some recent reduction iu quotations the sales of stupt» cottons are comparatively small. ^ Wool was and is still ^lOught largely for speculation earlier purchasers are uuloadmg, but the |uills are uot yet doing much more thap iu October. A few more have been 'started, but there is scarcely more demand apparent for staple goods. The boot uu4 shoe industry is still hiudered by the general refusal of dealers to pay the udvaueed prices demanded by manufacturers, except for the limited quantities which are immediately required, aud while most manufacturers are workiug on orders taken weeks ago at lower prices, which will keep them busy for some weeks to come, very little uew busiuess is coming. No further advance of importance lias been made iu leather, aud the market for hides has sharply reacted, so that the average of prices is slightly lower than November 12. The collapse of the nail combination aud probably of the beam combination aud considerable^ reduction in quotations for uaiis aud beauts, give reason to look for a larger demand for products of iron and steel, but at present the sales ugaiust speculative purchases made some time ago are depressing prices, aud Bessemer pig has sold at $12.2.'i, a ml according to some reports a .title lower, at Pittsburgh.. Tuo de0111 ud for such products u| are uot cohtrolied by the combinations is somewhat increasing, but by no menus as rapidly as expected. Iu minor metals la< is scarcely as slroug as it wa» a week ago, but ’copper and lead are stronger. failures for the week have been 3dp in the United Mates, ugaiust 2last year and 3s iu Canada against 4 7 .ast

MARLEY'S MISTAKE L>Ultte ta-Uuil »a Ovsrssalout I'artUsu lu lh* i «MilliMUl*ry. Washington, Not. US.—ScTerai days ago the mU'uliou of the eirt) service Commission was called to the case of Wuiiam R. Mar ley, employed as eugi* liter at the public building in Denver, C L, who was charged with collecting political assessments for thus demo* craftic campaign fund. Investigation showed that several employes of tae post office, who hud beau approached by Mariey, had subscribed sums of money and bud held meetings iu Marley's rooms which were used as head* quarters. The matter was laid before the secretary of the treasury! wnu at once ordered Mariey's dismissal <n accoidauce with the recomtueudaliou of the coiumissiou.J The case wfiil now bfc presented to the department of. justice for action. The penalty for such an u fife use is a fine not to exceed bo.out) or three years' imprisonment, or both. THE FLOODS IN GREECE. Ths lav tax Drowned nod is* um<1 Washsd from lbvtr Oraves. Aiukn*. Not. 24.—The loss of life by the 11 <od» is uiucu larger thau was at ' first reported. Forty bodies bare beeu | recovered at the 1’irueusT, and boats are searching for persoua who are* : missiug and who are supposed to uave ! perished. The cemetery at the Pi* | raeus was inundated. T-ij water swept across the burial place with such Viulcuoe that a number of bodies and skeletons were wasued out of their rusting plaoaa. |

TALMAGE’S SEBMON, Boquent Discourse Upon tike Dying Century, Tfco L«mm T»«|kt by the Put Hundred Imn of Chrletlaa Civilisation— Tho Progress of the WorM'e Nations.

Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage took “The Dying Century" aa the subject for a recent sermon before his Washington congregation, basing it upon the text: Thus salts the Lord, set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not lire.—XL Kings, xx., L No alarm bell do I ring in the utterance of this text, for in the healthy glow of your countenances! find cause only for cheerful prophecy, but 1 shall apply the text aa spoken in the ear of Heaektah, down with a bad carbuncle, to the nineteenth century, now closing. It will take only four more long breaths, eaoh year a breath, and the century will expire. My theme is "The Dying Century.” I discuss it at an hour when our national legislature is about to assemble, some of the members now here present, and others soon to arrive from the north, south, east and west. All the public conveyances coming this way will bring important additions of public men, so that when, on December ?, at high noon, the gavels of senato and house of representatives shall lift and fall, the destinies of this nation, and through it the destinies of all nations struggling to be free, will be put on solemn and tremeudous trial. Amid such intensifying circumstances 1 staud by the venerable century aud address it in the words of my text: "Thus saith the Lord, set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live." Eternity is too big a subject for us to uuderstand. Some one has said it is a great clock, that says "tick” in one century aud "tack" in another. But we can better understand Old Time, who has many children, and they are the centuries, and many grandchildreu, and they are the years. With the dyiug nineteenth ceutury we shall this morning hare a plain talk, telling him some of the good thiugs he has done, aud then telling him some of the things he ought to udjust before he quits this sphere and passes out to join the eternities. Wo generally wait until people are dead before we say much in praise of them. Fuueral tulogium is generally very pathetic and eloquent with things that ought to have been said years before. We put ou cold tombstones what we ought to have put iu the warm cars of the liviug. We curse Charles Sumner while he is living, anil cudgel him into spinal meuiugitis, and wait until, in the rooms where I have beeu living the last year, he puts his hand on his heart and cries "Oh!” aud is goue, aud then wc make long processiou in his honor. Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of the American seuate, accompanying; stoppiug long enough to allow the dead senator to lie iu state in Independence hall, Philadelphia, and haltiug at Bostou state house, where, not loug before, damnatory resolutions had been passed in regard to hiuvand then move on amid the tolliug bells and the boom of minute-guns, until we bury him at Mount Auburn aud cover him with flowers five feet deep. What a pity he could not have been awake at his own funeral, to hear the gratitude of the nation! What a pity that one green leaf could not have been taken from euch one of the mortuary garlands and put upon his table while he was yet alive at the Arlington! A'hat a pity that out of the great choirs who chanted at his obsequies, one little girl, dressed in white, might not have sung to his liviug ear a complimentary solo! The post-mortem examination coutradicted the aute-mortem. The nation could not have spoken the truth both times shout Hilaries Sumner. Was it before ar after his decease it lied? No such injustice shall be inflicted upon this veuerable nineteenth century. Before he goes we reeite iu his hearing some of the good thiugs he has accomplished. What au addition to the world's intelligence he 4 has made! Look at the old school house, with l he suovv sifting through the roof and the filthy tin cup hanging over the water pail in the corner, aud the little victims on the long benches w ithout backs, and the illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory gad, and then look at our modern palaces of free schools, under men and women cultured aud retiued to the highest excellence, so that, whereas iu our childhood we had U> l»e whipped to go to school, children now cry when they cau not go. Thauk you, venerable century, while at the same time we thauk tied. What an addition to the world's iuventiousl Within our century the cotton giu. The agricultural machines,

tor planting. reaping uuu iiiresuing, The telegraph. The phonograph, capable of preserving a human voice from generation to generation. The typewriter, that rescues the world from worse and worse penmanship. And stenography, eapturiug from the lips of the swiftest speaker mere than £ou words a juuuute. iicver was 1 so amazed at the facilities of our time as when, a few days ago, 1 telegrapher! from Washington to JSew Turk a long and elaborate manuscript, and a few minutes alter, to show its accuracy, it . was read Vo me through the loug-dis-lanee telephone, and it was exact dowu to the last semicolon and comma. What hath Clod wrought? Oh, 1 am so glad that 1 was nut bum sooner. Fur the tallow candle the electrie light. For the writhing* of the surgeon's table God-giveu anaesthetics, and the whole physical organism explored by sharpest instruments, and i giving not so much pain as the takiug | of a splinter from under a child's i finger nail. For the lumbering stage coach the limited express train. And them is the spectroscope of Fraunhofer, by which our modern scientist feels the pluse of other worlds throbbing with light. Jenner’* arrest by inoculation of one of tbe world’s worst pUguc*. Dr. Keeley’s emanci

patioo for inebriety. Intimation that tilt virus of ouioe, and oanear, and con sumption aro jet to be balked by magnificent medical treat* ment. The eyesight of the doctor sharpened till he can look through thick flesh and find the hiding place of the bullet. What advancement in geology, or the catechism of the mountains; chemistry, or the catechism of the . elements; astronomy, or the catechism of the stars; electrology, or the catechism of the light* nings. What advancement in music, at the beginning of this century, cbn* fining itself, so far as the great masses of the people were concerned, to a few airs drawn out on accordion or massacred on church bass voil; now enchantingly dropping from thousands of fingers in Handel’s concerto in b flat, or Guilmant’s sonnata in d minor. Thanks to you, 0 century! before you

die, for the asylums of mercy that you have founded—the blind seeing with their fingers, the deaf hearing by the mdtion of your lips, the born ijnbecile by skillful object lesson lifted to tolerable intelligence. Thanks to this century for the improved condition of most nations. The reason that Napoleon made such a successful sweep across Europe at the beginning of the century was that most of the thrones of Europe were occupied by imbeciles or profligates. But most of the thrones of Europe are today occupied by kings and queens competent. Frauce a republic, Switzerland a republic, and about fifty free constitutions, 1 am told, in Europe. Twenty million serfs of Russia mauuinitted. On this western continent I i can call the roll of many republics— | Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, flop- ! duras, New Grenada, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, BoliTa, Chili, Argentine Republic, Brazil The once straggling village of Washington, to which the United States government moved, its entire baggage aud equipment packed up in seven boxes, which got lost in the woods near this place, now the architectural glory of the continent and admiration of the world. The money power, so much denounced and often justly criticised, has covered this continent with universities, aud free libraries, and asylums of mercy. The newspaper press which, at the beginning . of the century was an ink-roller, by hand moved over one sheet of paper at a time, has become the miraculous manufacturer of four or five or six hundred thousand sheets for one daily newspaper's issue. Within your own memory, 0 dying century, has been the genesis of nearly all the great institutions evangelistic. At Loudon Tavern, March 7, British and Foreign Bible society was born. In 1616 American Bible Society was born. Iu 18-4 American Suuday-sehool uuiou was boru. In 1S10 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which has put its saviug hand ou every nation of the round earth, was born at a haystack in Massachusetts. The Natipnal Temperance society, the Women's Temperance society, and all the other temperance movements boru in the century. Africa, hidden to other centuries, by exploration in this century has been put at the feet of civilization, to be occupied by commerce aud Christianity. The Chinese wall, once an impassable barrier, now is a useless pile of stone aud brick. Our American nation at the opening of this century only a slice of laud along the Atlantic coast, now the whole continent iu possession of our schools aud churches and missionary stations. Sermons and religious intelligence which iu other times, if noticed at all by the newspaper press, were allowed only a paragraph of three or four lines, now find the columns of the secular press iu all the cities thrown wide open, and every week for 28 years without the omission of a single week, 1 have been permitted to preach oue entire Gospel sermon through the newspaper press. I thank God for this great opportunity. Glorious old century. You shall not l»e entombed until we have, face to, face, extolled you. Y'ou were rocked in a rough cradle, aud the inheritance you received was for the most part poverty, aud struggle, autl hardship, aud poor-ly-covered graves of heroes aud heroines of whom the world had not been worthy, aud atheism, and military despotism, and the wreck of the French revolution. You inherited the influences that resulted in Aaron Burr’s treason.aud another war with Eugland aud battle of Lake Erie, aud Indian savagry, and Lundy’s Lane and Gartmoor massacre, and dissensions, bitter

ami wild .beyoud measurement, ami African slavery, which was yet to cost a national heiuorhage of four awful years and a million precious lives. Yes, dear old century, you had an awful start, aud you have done more than well, considering your jtarentage and your earlj' environment. It is a wonder you did not turn out to be the vagaboud century of all time. You had a bad mother and a bad grandmother. Some of the preceding centuries were not fit to live in—their morals were so bad, their fashions were »o outrageous, their iguorauee was so dense, their inhumanity so terrific. O, dying nineteenth century! before you go we take this opportunity of telling you that you are the best and the mightiest of all the centuries of the Christian era, except the first, which gave us Christ, aud you rival that century in the fact that you, more thau ail the other centuries put together, are giving the Christ to all the world. Due humlred and twelve thousand dollars at oue meeting a few days ago contributed for the world's evangelisation. Look at what you have done. 0, thou abused and depreciated century! All the Pacific isles, barred and bolted against tne Gospel when you began to reign, now all opfen, and some of them more Christianized than America. No more, as once, writ* »nn over the church doors :in Cape Colony, “Dogs and Ilottentos not admitted." The late Mr. Darwin contributing 52.1 to the Southern missionary society. Canni

balls in driven off t be face of the earth. The rates of all nations wide open for the Gospel entrance when the church shall give up its intellectual dandyism, and quit fooling with higher criticism, and plunge into the work, as at a life-saving station the crew pull out with a lifeboat to }ake Hie sailors off a ship going to pieces in the Skerries. I thank you, old and dying century; all Heaven thanks you, and surely all the nations of the earth ought to thank you. I put before your eyes, soon to -be dim for the last sleep, the facts tremendous. I take your wrinkled old hand and shake it congratulation. I bathe your fevered brow, and freshen your parched lips from the fountains of eternal victory. But my text suggests that there are some things that this century ought to do before he leaves us. '‘Thus saith the Lord. Set thine house in order; for tbou shalt die, and not live.” We ougM not to let this century go before two or three things are set in order. For one thing, this quarrel between

labor and capital. The nineteenth century inherited it from the eighteenth century, but do not let this nineteenth century bequeath it to the twentieth. “What we want,” says labor, “to set us right is more strikes, aud more vigorous work with torch and dynamite.” “What we want,” says capital, “is a tighter grip on the working classes and compulsion to take what wages \te chose to pay, without reference to their ueeds.” Both wrong as siu. Both defiant. Until the day of jqdgment no settlement of the quarrel if you leave it to British, Russian or American politics. The religion of Jesus Christ ought to come in within the next four years aud take the hand of capjtal and employe and say: “You have tried everything else, and failed; now try the I Gospel of kindness.” No more oppression and no more strikes. \ The Gospel of Jesus Christ will sweeten this acerbity, or it will go on to the eud of time, aud the tires that burn the world up will crackle in the ears of wrathful prosperity and indignant toil while their hands are still clutchiug at each other’s throats. Before this century sighs its last breath I would that swarthy labor aud easy opulence would come up and let the Carpenter of Nazureth join their bauds in pledge of everlasting kindness and peace. When men and women are dyiug they are apt to divide among their childreu mementoes, aud one is given a watch, and another a vase, and unother a picture, aud another a robe. Let this veteran ceutury before it dies hand over to the human rate, with an impressiveuess that shall last forever, that old family keepsake, the golden keepsake, which nearly l.lHH) years ago was hauded down from the black rock of the Mount of Beatitudes: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that meu should do to you, jlo ye eveu so to them; for this is the law aud the prophets.” Auother thing that needs to be set in order before the veteran century quits us is a more thorough aud allembracing plan for the world’s gardeniaation. We have beeu trying to save the world from the top, and it can not be done that way. It has got to be saved from the bottom. »The church ought to be only a West Poiut to drill soldiers for outside battle. What if a military academy should keep its students from age to age in the mess room and the barracks? No, nol They are wanted at Montezuma, aud Chapultepec, and South Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. aud the church is no place for a Christian to stay very loug. He is wanted

. at the frout. lie is needed in the ties* porate charge of taking' the parapets. The last great battle for Gotl is uot ta be fought on the campus of a college or the lawn of a church. It is to be fought at Missionary liidge. Uefore this century quits us let u£ establish the habit of giving the forenoon of the Sabbath to ihe churches ami the afternoon and the cveniug of the Sabbath to Gospel work in the halls, aud theaters, and streets, aud fields, and slums, and wilderness of sin aud sorrow. Why do Christians who have stuffed the nisei rea with “the strong meat of the world,” and all gospel viands on Sabbath forenoons want to come up to a second service aud stuff themselves agaiu? These old gormandizers at the Gospel feast ueed to get into outdoor work with the outdoor Gospel that was preached ou the banks of the Jordan, aud on the fishing ; smacks of Lake Galilee, and in the bleak air of Assyrian mountains. 1 am told that throughout all our America!! cities the second Sabbath service iu the majority of churches is sparsely, nay, disgracefully, attended, and is the distress of the consecrated aud eloqueut pastors who bring their learning aud their piety before pews ghastly for their uuoccupaucy. What is the providential meaning? The greatest of ail evangelist* since liibte times recently suggested that the evening ! services iu all the .-hurdles be'-turned iuto the most popular iwlv o! evangelistic meetings for outsiders. Surely that is su experiment worth i making. If that does not succeed, j then it does seem to me all the churches which can iiot secure sufficient evening audiences, Ought to shut I up their buildings at night and go where the people are, and iuvite them to coihc to the Gospel banquet My hearers, as the nineteenth century was born while the faceof this nation was yet wet with tears because of the fatal horseback ride that Washington'took out here at Mount Vernon, through a December snow storm, 1 wish the next century might bo born at a time wheu the face of this nation shall be wet with the tears of the literal or spiritual arrival of the great -Deliverer of nations, of whom St. John wrote with apocalyptic pen: “And ] saw, and behold a white horse; aud lie that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto Him; and He went forth conquering, and to conquer.” “What was the happiest moment of your lifeF* “It was the moment when the jeweler took her enjraceaieai ring bae* acd allowed me half price for it.”—Cleveland

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Medieval Seeronanejr. There is another marvel performed by those Baesi, of whom I have been speaking as knowing ao^many en-* chantments., For "when the great Kaau is at his capital and in his great palace, seated at his table, which stands on a platform some eight cubits above the ground, bis cups are set be* fore him on a great buffet in the middle of the hall pavement, at a distance of some ten paces from his table, and filled with wine, or other good spiced liquor such as they use. Now, whet the lord desires to drink, these en* chanters by tlieir enchantments cause the cups to move from their placer without being touched by anybody, ami to present themselves to the em< peror. This every one present may witness, and there are oft-times mbre than 13,000 persons thus present. ’T is a truth and no lie! aud so will tell ypu the sages of our own country who understand necromaucy, for they also of.*, perform it.—Noah Brooks, in St. Nicholas. Garden Spots of the South. The Passenger Department of the Loutsville A Nashville R. R. has just issued a hundred page book with the above title. It Is descriptive of tho resources aud capabilities of the soil of the counties lying along this line iu the states of Kentucky, Tenuej* see, Albania, Southern Mississippi and Western Florida. It also contains a county map of the above mentioned states, ana is welt worthy of a perusal of any one interested in the South. A copv will'be sect to any addross upon receipt of ten cents in silver or stump's, by C. P. Atmoke, Gen. Pass. - i Agt., Louisville, Ky. Semi-monthly excursions South. Write for particulars. 1 “Yon kain't set down no fixed rule 6* conduct in dlsher life,’" said Uncle Eben. I “Samson got inter trouble case tie done got 'is h’nh cut, an’ Absalom pot inter trouble ‘case bb didn't.”—Washington Sm&. Hcmped and beut. Lame-back did it Straight and sound. St. Jacobs Oil did it --t---- s Don’t judue a man's bravery in the day time, when there aro no ghosts or mad women arouud.—Atchison Globe. HOW TO CLEAN CARPETS AND : RUGS, Shave^Peur bars of Ivory soap (which contains no rosin), and put in a kettle with one gallon of water. Let bod until dissolved. Spread Um^arpets or rugs on the floor. Add a quart of the mixture to a gallon of warm water. Dip a flannel cloth in it, and go over the article to be cleaned, being careful to rub the soiled spots* Then rinse in clear ; water, and let dry. ELIZA R. PARKER.

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