Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 July 1897 — Page 2

to HI* ClKeats r«rm« of TenpteUoa to WUeh Bo W E»pec lolly Subject. Bet. T. DeWitt Talmage addresses the following discourse especially to yosag men who expect to adopt the law aa a profession and to all who are Meads of lawyers. It is based on the - -text: Bring Zenos, the lawyer.—Titus ill. U. The profession of the law is here introduced. and within two days in the j -capital city 303 young men joined it. j . a»wi this season in various parts of | tihe land other hundreds are taking their diplomas for that illuatrious pro- j feat ion, and is it not appropriate that I j address such young men from a moral j and religions standpoint, as upon them are now rolling the responsibilities of teat calling represented in the text by Zeaas, the lawyer. We all admire the heroie and rigorous side of Paul's nature, as when he stands coolly deliberate </?’. the deck of tee corn ship while the jack tars of the Mediterranean are cowering in the cyclone; as when he stands undaunted amid the marbles of the patae, before thick-necked Nero, surrounded with fem 12 cruel lictors; as when we find him earning his livelihood with his own needle, sewing haircloth, and preaching the Uuspel in the interstices; as when we find him able to take the SS# lashes, every stroke of which fetched tee blood., yet continuing in his ariationary work; as when we jftad him, regardless of the contoequence to himself, delivering m temperance lecture to Felix, the Bovernment inebriate. But sometimes we catch a glimpse of the mild aud genial side of Paul's nature. It . seems that he had a friend who was a Barrister by profession. His name was Senas, and he wanted to see him- Perhaps he had formed the acquaintance of this lawyer m the court-room. Perhaps, sometimes, when he wanted to ask some question in regard to Roman j law he vreut to this Zeuas. the lawyer, j Jit any rate, he had a warm attachment for the man. aud he provides for . bis comfortable escort and entertain-i meat as he writes to Titus: “Bring J Zeaas. the lawyer." Among the mightiest pleas that ever ! have been made by tongue of Harris- j bear have been pleas in behalf of the j Mi Me and I'hristiauity—as when Dsn-I id Webster st -od in the supreme court at Washingt u. pleading in the famous ! Girard will case, denouncing any attempt to educate the people without J giving them at the same time moral I sentiment, as "low. ribald :aud vulgar -deism aud infidelity" as when Samuel C»- Southard, -of New Jersey^the leader of the forum in his day. stood on the j platform at Princeton conuuvncemmr at, advocating the literary excellency of the Scriptures; as when j Kdmund Burke, in the famous trial of Warren Hastings, not only in behalf of the English government, but in behalf of elevated morals, closed his apee.-U in the midst of the most august j .assemblage ever gathered in Wostwiu- i wter hail by saying “l itupesmi Warren Hastings in the name of the house -of commons, whose national character ] be has dishore 1; 1 imp *ach him in the | kune of the people of India whose j rights and liberties he has subverted: ! 1 impeach him in the name of human ! nature, which he has disgraced; in the j ■uk of both sexes, and of every rank, j mud of every station, and of every situ- J ■Um iu the world. 1 impeach Warren Hasting* ” Yet, notwithstanding all the pleas ; which that profession has made in be- j half Of God. ana the church, and the ] Guapel. and the rights of man. there ha* come down through the genera-: host among many people an absurd | and wicked prejudice against it. So j tong ago as iu the time of Oliver from- I well, it was decided that law yers might I mot enter the parliament house as j member*, aud they were called "Sous j wf Zcrniah." The learned Dr. John- j son wrote an epitaph for one of them ■da these words:

uod wort* woa-xrs now sod la-a Mm He* % lawyer, aa bon«*t man 1 aay these things* to show you that there has l»ren a prejudice going on ! down against that profession, from jf^neratiou to generation. I account for ii oa the ground that they eompel j ■aes to pay debts that they do not 'wvaat to pay, and that they arraign arrioMaais who want to escape the eoo•equeaees of their crime; and as long as that is so. and it alwavs will be so, just so long there will be classes of ■aait who will affect, at any rate, to 4csp.se the legal profession. 1 know •ot how it is in other countries: but 1 hare had long and wide acquaintance with uieu of that profession—1 hare found them in all my parishes— 1 tarried in one of their offices for three years, where there came real estate lawyers, insurance lawyers, criminal lawyers, marine lawyers, and I hare yet ho find a class of men more genial or more straightforward. There are in that occupation, as in ail our occupations. men utterly obnoxious to God sad mu; but if 1 were on trial for mv integrity or my life, and i wanted wveu-hauded justice a»iministered to me. I would rather have my caw submitted to a jury of It lawyers than to . s jury of It clergy men. The legal pro* fosdoti. 1 believe, have less violence of prejudice than is to be found in the snared calling. No other profession more needs the grso> of God to deliver them iu their temptations, to comfort them in their ■ariais. to sustain them in the discharge of their duty. While I would have you briag the merchant to Christ, and whi'e 1 would have you bring the farm* er to t ferial, and while l would have you betas th- mechanic to Chris Vl mi uvss* you now in th amis o! * aul tn Tilda: 'Being Zenas the iawver." Ur so much a* his duties are delicate, and great* by so much does he need <£feri»Un£ stimulus mud sa? ^ufirdL We

. ...■■■'- '—■= all become clients. Ido aofc suppose there Isa man 50 years adage who has been in active life who has not been afflicted with a lawsuit Your name is assaulted and you must have legal protection. Your boundary line is invaded, and the courts must re-establish it. Your patent is infringed upon, and you must make the offending manufacturer pay the penalty. Your treasures are taken, and the thief mast be apprehended. You want to make your will, and you do not want to follow the example of those who. for the sake of saving $100 from an attorney, imperil $350,000. and keep the generation following for 30 years quarreling about the estate, until it is all exhausted. You are struck by an assassin, and you must invoke for him the penitentiary. All classes of persons in course of time become clients, and there they are all inters ested in the morality and the Christian integrity of the legal profession. “Bring Zenss the lawyer.” But how is an attorney to decide as to what are the principles by which he should conduct himself in regard to his clients? On one extreme. Lord Brougham will appear, saying: “The innocent or guilt of your client is nothing to you. You are to save your client regardless of the torment, the suffering, the destruction of all others. You are to know but one man in the world —-your client. You are to save him though you should bring your country into confusion. At all hazards you should save your client.” So says Lord Brougham. But no right-minded lawyer could adopt that sentiment. On the other extreme, Cicero will come to you and say, “You must never plead the cause of a bad ina u,” forgetful of the fact that the greatest villain on earth ought to have a fair trial, and that an attorney can not be judge and advocate at the same time. It was grand* when Lord Erskine sacrificed his attorney-generalship for the sake of defending Thomas Paine in the publication of h is book called “The Bights of Man,’* while, at the same time, he, the advocate, abhorred Thomas Paine’s irreligious sentiments. Between these two opposite theories of what is right, what shall the attorney do? God alone ean direct him. To that chancery he must be appellant, aud he will get an auswer in an hour. Blessed is that attorney between whose office and the throne of God there is perpetual, reverential and prayerful communication. That attorney will never make an irreparable mistake. True to the habits of your profession, you. say: “Cite us some authority on the subject.” Well, I quote to you the decision of the supreme eourt of Heaven:: “If any lack wisdom, let him ask of God. Who giveth to ail men liberally, and upbraideih not. and it shall be given him.” What a scene is the office of a busy attorney ! In addition to .the men who come to you from right motives, bad men will come to you. They will offer you a large fee for counsel in the wrong direction. They want to know from you how they earf escape from solemn marital obligation. They come to you wanting to know how they can fail advantageously for themselves. They come to you want ing to know how they can make the insurance company pay for a destroyed house which they bur net! down with their own hands. Or they come to you on the simple errand of wanting to escape payment of their honest debts. Now. it is no easy thing to advise settlement, when by urging litigation yon could strike a mine of remuneration, it is not av»j4*y easy thing to dampen the ardor of an

maimed contestant, wnen you Know through a prolonged lawsuit you could get from him whatever you asked, it is no easy thing to attempt to discourage the suit for the breaking of a will in the surrogate's court because you know the testator was of sound mind and body when he signed the document. It requires no small heroism to do as 1 one* heard at attorney do in an office in a western city. I overheard the conversation, when he said: “John, you can go on with this lawsuit, and I will see you through as well as I can. but I want to tell you before you start, that a lawsuit is equal to a fire.” Under the tremendous temptations that come upon the legal profession, there are scares of men who have gone down, and some of them from being the pride of the highest tribunal of the state, have become a disgrace to the Tombs court-room- Every attorney, in addition to the innate sense of right, wants the sustaining power of the old-fashioned religion ol Jesus Christ. “Bring Zenas the lawyer.“ There are two or three forms of temptation to which the legal profession is especially subject- The first of all is skepticism Controversy is the lifetime business of that occupation. Controversy may be incidental or accidental with ns: but with you it is perpetual. You get so used to pushing the sharp question “Why?” and making unaided reason superior to the einotiona. that ; the rviigiou of Jesus Christ, which is a simple matter of faith, aud above : human reason, although not contrary to it. has cut tittle chance with some : of you. A brilliant orator wrote a book on the first page of which he announced this sentiment: "An honest God is the noblest work of manT | Skepticism is the mightiest temptation | of the legal profession, and that man who eats stand in that profession, re- [ listing ail solicitation:, of infidelity, j and can be as brave as George Briggs, of Massachusetts, who stepped from the gubernatorial chair to the missionary convention, to plead the vans.* of a ' dying race; then onhis way home from : the convention, on a cold day. tods 08 his warm cloak and threw it over th« ; shoulders of a thinly-clad missionary. S saying. “Take that aud wear it. il will do you more good than it will me;" or. like Judge John McLean, win can step from the supreme couri room of the United States, on k. the anniversary plaubra of the American Sunday-sehoo union, its most powerful urat.tr—deserves congratulation and encomium O. men of the legal pr»*fessioa, let tat ' ittg of y*»u to quit asking quustioaa u

their hearts. “Except ya become as a little child, ye shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of God.” If yon do not become a Christian, O. man of the legal profession, until yon can reason this thing out in regard to God. and Christ, an*' the immortality of the soul, yon will n,. ver become a Christian at all. Only believe. “Bring Zen as the lawyer. Another mighty temptation for the legal profession is Sabbath break* bag. The trial has been going on for ten or fifteen days. The evidence is j all in. It is Saturday night. The i judge’s gavel falls on the desk, and he i says: 4,Crier, adjourn the court until ! 10 o'clock Monday morning.” On Monj day morning the counselor is to sum j up the case. Thousands of dollars, I yea, the reputation and life of his client : may depend upon the success of his plea. I How will he spend the intervening Sunday? There is not one lawyer out * of a hundred that can wit hstand the ; temptation to break the Lord's | day under such circumstances. | And yet, if he does he hurts his own soul. What, my brother, you ‘ can not do before 13 o’clock Saturday S night, or after 13 o’clock Sunday ; night, God does not want you to do at alL Besides that, you want the 34 | hours of the Sabbath rest to give you ■ that electrical and magnetic force which will be worth more to you before the jury than all the elaboration 1 of your ease on the sacred day. My | intimate and lamented friend, the late ! Judge Nellson. in his interesting | reminiscences of Rufus Choate, says that during the last ease that gentieI man tried in New York the court adjourned from Friday until Monday on accouut of the illness of Mr. €hoat,but j the chronicler says that oa the interi venlng Sunday he saw Mr. Choate ia ■ the old “Brick Church,” listening to the j Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring. I do not ! know whether, on the following day, \ Rufus Choate won the case or lost it; 1 but I do know that his Sabbath rest ’ did not do him any harm. Every lawyer is entitled to one day's rest out of j seven. If he surrenders that, he robs ’ three—God, his own soul, and his ! client. Lord Castlereagh and Sir Thomas Komilly were the leaders of , the bar in their day. They both died suieides. Wilberforee accounts for ; their aberration of intellect on the ground that they were uainiermitteut in their work, and they never rested cn Sunday. “Poor fellow!" said Wilber- \ force, in regard to Castlereagh. “Poor | fellow! it wasnon-obs,*rvauce of tlieSabbath." Chief Justice Hale says: “When i 1 do not properly keep the Lord's day; all the rest of the week is unhappy and j unsuccessful in my worldly employment.” I quote to-day from the highest statute book in the universe: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." The legal gentleman who breaks ! that statute may seem for awhile to be | advantaged; but in the long run, the j men who observe the law of God will : have larger retainers, vaster influence, j greater professional success, than those ! men who break the statute. Observance of the law of God pays not S only spiritually and eternally, but it | pays in hard dollars, or bank bills. [ Another powerful temptation of the ! legal profession is to artificial stirnu- ; lus. No one except those who have I addressed audienees knows about the nervous exhaustion that sometimes comes afterwards. The temptations to strong drink approaches the legal profession at that very point. Through j the ill-ventilated court-room, the barristers health has been depressed for days and for weeks He wants to rally his enerj^-. He is tempt- | ed to resort to artificial stimulus It is either to get himself up. or let him- } self down. The flower of the American bar, ruined in reputation and t ruined in estate, said in his last moments: “This is the bnd. I am dying j on a borrowed bed, covered with a bor1 rowed sheet, in a house built by public eharity. Bury me under that tree in the middle of the field, that I may not | be crowded; I always have beeu crowd

l*oru *is>nourwa ana «r. auact were leading barristers in their da^. They died about the same time. A few months before their decease they happened to be in the same hotel in a Tillage, the one eonusel going to Devonshire. t£»e other going to London. They had both been seized upon I by a disease which they knew would be fatal, and they requested that they be carried into : the same room and laid down on sofas side by side, that they might talk over old times and talk over the future. So they were carried in. and lying there on opposite sofas they talked over their old contests at the bar. and then they talked of the future world upon which j they must soon enter. It was said to have been a very affecting and solemn interview between Mr. Wallace and Lord Ashburton. My subject to-day puts you side by side with those men in your profession who have departed j this life, some of them skeptical and I rebellions, some of them penitent, childlike and Christian. Those were wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blaekness of darkness forever, while, these others went up from the court-room j of earth to the throne of eternal do■j minion. Through Christ, the Advocate. ‘ these got glorious acquittal. In the other case it was a hopeless lawsuit. An unpardoned sinner vs. the Lord God Almighty. t>lu what disastrous litigation! behold, tie pomes * The Judge! The Judge! The clouds of Heaven, • the judicial ermine. The great white throue. the judicial Wneh- The archangel's voice that shall wake the dead: j the crier. “Ok., ye blessed—d.party® cursed.” the acqcital or the eoademna1 tioa. *And 1 saw the dead, small aud < great, stand before God. and the books ; were opened." j | UrbtiKS. We are coming to see that humanity j s our caeiitor; that wa arc deutor* to all men.—Ear. L. A Craa Ltii, lit *oA | Chicago, XU

MEN KILLED 4Um> a Largo Number Xajared ta a Wabaali Wrack—A Train Ptangae Through a Bridge. Carrying Its Living Freight Down to Death—Nearly All at the Train** Craw, Including Fire Kail war MaU Clerks, Killed. Kansas City, Mo., June 88.—Seven coffins were forwarded to SL Louis yesterday from Missouri City. They contained the remains of victims of Saturday night's wreck on the Wabash road. A corrected list of the dead is as follows: W. S. Mills, postal elerk, SL Louis. O. M. Smith, postal cleric, SL Louis. Gustave A. Smith, postal clerk, SL Louis. * j m Charles Winters, postal clerk, SL Louis. F. W. Brink, postal elerk, SL Loiiis. Edward Grindrod, baggageman, SL Louis. Charles P. Greasley, brakeman, SL Louis. The conductor of the train G. C. Copeland, of SL Louis, who was reported among the dead, is still aliTe. He was removed yesterday morning to the railroad hospital at Moberiy. With a fractured skull and several broken ribs, he Ungers between.life and death, but the surgeons express a hope that he will recover. Conductor Copeland was supposed to be dead when taken f am the wreck and his body, with a handkerchief drawn over his face, was ranged in a row with the seven corpses. A few minu; >s later some one j observed a sign of i.fe and he was j quickly transferred t > a stretcher and j given every possible attention. Of th« 18 others injured, not one is in a critcal condition. Among them there is not one broken limb, though many were thrown three-quarters of the length of the coaches in whiel? they were riding. Mrs. W. H. Wilkinson, of Kansas City, is the most seriously hurL Two small bones of hei left hand are broken, and she suffered a severe laceration of the thigh, as well as bruises about the face and neck. The wounds of most of the others are trivial. All indications are that death came to at least four of the five unfortunate mail clerks almost instantly. Theii ■ car pitched end first through the break 1 in the trestle, and they must-have been ; drowned in the raging stream while in I an unconscious condition. The rej mains of the four were carried from ; the wreck and were recovered some ; distance down the stream. There were signs of life in the body of the fifth j mail elerk when rescuers dragged him j from the wreck, but he died a. few minutes later on the bank of the creek, j Saturday night it was feared there ! were more bodies in the stream, but a search Sunday proved that the fatalities | were limited to those already named. 1 Saturday but a small stream was flowing beneath the trestle where the wreck ; occurred. In ordinary weather it is a dry creek bed. The storm of Saturday night, which was almost a cloud-burst 1 had swollen the little stream to torrential proportions. The flood carried : away a wagon bridge a short distance i above the Wabash trestle. The wreck I of this bridge was hurled down upon | the railroad trestle and carried away a | row of wooden supports in the center. A neighboring farmer noticed the , perilous condition of the trestle and resolve<l to flag the -passenger train, which he knew to be about due. For ; nearly an hour he stood there in the ' terrific downpour of rain, only tc fail at last in his good intentions, i for when the Wabash company's j fast mail came thundering on the | storm was almost blinding, and the engineer evidently could not see the sig- | nal which the farmer frantically waved across the track. The locomotive struck the trestle; a moment later the disaster was presented in all its horrors. The engine passed over, ; but the tender went through with the S tumbling trestle. The baggage cat ! toppled over on its side, while the mail I car, which followed, pitched into the stream end first. Every life in this j car was losL The smoker, next bei hind, followed. It was in this car that S Conductor Copeland was riding. The other occupants escaped serious injury. The chair ear. next behind, alsc i plunged in upon the mass of wreckage j end first and all its passengers were thrown to the forward end in an indescribable heap. How they escaped ! with no more serious injuries is a mystery which all the passengers in this j coach are puxxled over. The front end of the sleeper, next ir j the rear, jammed into the protruding ; end of the chair ear and was thus prevented from following the other iutc ; the chasm. The two Excelsior Springs ■ coaches in the rear end remained no | the track. The scene of the wreck, which is but 81 miles northeast of Kansas City, near ! Missouri City station, was visited yes- | terday by many persons. A wrecking j train worked there all day repairing j the trestle and raising the shattered i coaches, and last night trains were I moving over the road as usuaL

SWOLLEN RIVERS. fk» Tow* of Kob -Matt; 1*« la GaUcU • UrowrncK). ViessA. June 38.—The town of Kolo men. in Galicia. has been Hooded bj the rising of the rivers. Many houses hare been destroyed and the bridge between Kolomea and Turka has been swept away. The collapse took place while a train was crossing, and it i* believed that many persons hare been drowned. Th* Krone May to 6w*r« Amnwty. Dtrsus, June SSL—A meeting convened to bring further pressure to bear upon the British government to grant amnesty to the Irish political prisoners i.oor in Marlborough fail, was held in Phosnix park yesterday. Considerable surprise was expressed that the jubilee week had passed without the release which had been expected. W. A. Field. PameUite member for the SL Patrick's division of Dublin: ••It is useless -o look farther to the gagjafc government. Wi n*t call apua the voices, and perhaps t>* arms «f our countrvmen iu Am»sr:‘*» "

POINTERS FOR MEN. Hen’s rings are usually worn on the little finger of the left hand or the right hand. Seal rings, or polished fold ones w^th monograms engraved upon them, are the preferred styles. Seal rings are used lor sealing letters, and are, therefore, as useful as they are ornamental. Merely decorative rings are seldom seen on men’s hands. Cosmetics, or face washes of any tdnd, are not for the use of men. You will find, by taking cold baths every morning, by rigorous exercise, and by refraining from eating rich food, that your complexion will soon be relieved from oiliness. Pimples are indications ; of impurities of the blood, which can ! be cured by regular habits and a healthy ! regime. Morning Weddings.—The black cutaway coat is not the garment pre- | scribed for either morning or after- | noon weddings. Wear a black frock coat and waistcoat, light cassimere trousers and patent leather boots, a white Ascot or four-in-band tie, and gloves of earl gray or white kid. This would also be aprpopriate for a bridegroom when the bride is married in her traveling dress. Evening Weddings.—The costume for the bridegroom consists of dress coat, waistcoat and trousers, white shirt, high collar, white tie and patent leather shoes. If you and your bride are to take the train immediately after the ceremony, and she is to wear a traveling gown, then you should wear frock coat and light trousers, black or fancy waistcoat, white four-in-hand tie aud | irrav doves. *

WOUNDED IN THE WAR. Shot in the Abdomen at Cumberland Gap. Blind. Rheumatic and Dropsical. A Inion Colonel la Given Over to Die. Hon the Old Soldier Gave Aarael the Slip. From the Nears, Barboursville, Ky. In the year 1S63, while in command of a I Union regiment at CumberlandGap, Colonel i Messer, now of Flat Licks, Kentucky, re- | ceived a severe gunshot wound in hisabdomen. la a few months he was again in the I saddle, but soon was obliged to undergo fur- ! ther medical treatment, and his condition be- ' came so serious that in the winter of 1883 lie | returned to his home, and was never again ; tit for active service. During the years that have since passed. Colonel Messer uas been a confirmed invalid from the effect of his wound, and has been under the constant care of the local physicians, not improving, but growing worse as the years roiled on. His condition eventually became deplorabie. Alruost blind, legs swollen, so that he was unable to walk, the doctors who could do nothing to arrest the progress of the disease, diagnosed it as dropsy, and said recovery was impossible. » The old soldier did not half believe his physicians, but said that since they could do nothing for him, he would, upon an old friend’s strong recommendation, try Dr. Williams’ Link Cilia for IV.* People. The first box was taken by Col. Messer according to directions, and by the time that was gone, he felt so much easier and more comfortable, that several other boxes were, procured, and he continued to take them faithfully. boon the swelling in his legs disappeared, and with it the fierce rheumatic pains with which he had long suffered. Strangest of all, his eyesight, which for so many years had beei. useless, was restored. - In all, Colonel Messer took Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills six months, and then was thoroughly cured. He now is a healthy-looking man. rides on horseback, and stands as much fatigue as any man of his age. The Colonel, since his recovery, is never tired of descanting on the virtues oft these Sills, and every advertisement that hi finds e carefully clips, and sends to so tip s“,k | friend or neighbor, with the assure they will cure him. lne high standing of Colonel Me his remarkable recovery, makes th| more than usually interesting, and? was received at the office of the D hams’ Medicine Co.,it was referred to 1 Phipps & Herndon, the well-knowi fists of IVrhourville, Ky., for ventf fe append the reply: Harbourville, Ky., Aug. 18,1896. Dr. Williams’ Med. Co., Schenectady, X. Y. Gentlemen:—Yours of August 14th to hand, enquiring about testimonial written bv Mr. Sampson concerning Colonel Messer, ot Flat Lick, Ky., will say that the cure oi Colonel Messer was considered almost miraculous, and be claims Pink Pills did it. Yours truly, PHIPPS & HERNDON. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such irregularities and all forms as suppressions, of weakness. To build np the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. > A Setback. "We hunted ap that intellectual woman who invented the self-rocking cradle. We wanted to give her a vote of thanks.” “Well, how did she receive you?” “The inventor turned out to be a man who wanted to get off to the baseball game.”— Detroit Free Press.

BOILS, BOILS, BOILS They Ceme Thick and Fast—Till Cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. '• My brother bad terrible boils on the back of his neck. As fast as one would jet better another would come. He became rery much emaciated, and began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. One bottle made a ?reat improvement, and when he had taken two bottles he was completely cured.” Jakkik D. Ervin, Mound City, Illinois. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. St; six forth. Hood’e Pllle cure sick headache. 25 cents.

s so 3 75 MAKERS Cft'CAGO ni/KOfS CATAL9GVE FREE HER LIFELIKE STATUE. SlSMllMd Her Departare from the World of Artists. Before her marriage she had been a famous sculptress. She had made several portraits of well-known men, and everyone predicted for her a still more brilliant future,, when she suddenly set all predictions at naught by marrying a wealthy man who disapproved* of her keeping up her professional work. She was very quiet under tfcis#restriction. but was supposed to rebel inwardly. Therefore when, at a dinner partylone evening, she asked, her old friend, Gen. Bashar, to come and see her on the following evening and inspect her last piece of work, which she thought the best and most lifelike she had ever executed, he sup- ! posed he was to use his influence to prevail upon the husband to permit her to resume her place among the working fraternity of artists. “I am sure you will like it, general/' she -aid, with a winning smile. “It fairly lives ! and breathes. I confess 1 am in love with it myself/’ tin the appointed evening the general, with some misgivings over the delicacy of £ the task intrusted to him. presented himself. Instead of inviting him to the studio, his hostess, to his surprise, offered to bring her last bit to him. “Oh, it's a statuette, is it?” he asked. “Well, yes, you might call it so/’ she answered, as she went out of the room. In a few minutes she returned, bearing in her arms—a baby!—Chicago Tinies-Herald. Some Interesting r'nets (tegardtag the Ontimt of Creaceat Bicycles. This article is intended to couvey a coneeption of the enormous amount of raw material consumed during a season in supplying the demand for one of the most popular bicycles made. The \\ estern \\ heel\\ orks, Chicago, makers of the Crescent wheel, have the largest, and without doubt the most complete, bicycle factory in the world, and can turn out", when running to fullest capacity, 725 finished Crescents in twelve hours, or a complete “up to date” bicycle per minute. They used during 1896 350 miles of tubing, or enough to nearly reach from Chicago to St. Paul if placed in a straight line. The spokes were made in their own factory. and required TStTlinles of wire, or , enough to reach from Chicago to Lincoln, Xeb.: 50 miles of brass rod was required tor spoke nipples. If the spokes, spoke nipples and tubing were placet! in a straight line thev would reach from Chicago to the Rocky Mountains at Denver. The cranks, if p’aced end to end. would cover a distance of 22 miles. They used 35 miles of steel for crank axles, wheel axles and pedal axles, and 19 miles of steel for seat posts. If the rims that were used in the manufacture of Crescents in ‘96 were placed one upon the other they would make a pile 19.800 feet high, 6,000 feet higher than Pike's Peak and about the height of Mount Elias in Alaska, whose summit has never yet been reached by man. It required 32,084 square feet of sheet steel to make the Crescent hollow tooth sprockets, and 21,876 square > feet for the steel stampings of the head and ! scat post clamps, or iu jdt enough fiat steel ! to cover an area of If acres. There were | used 10 miles of cork grips, 10| miles of I fiuished hubs, and 28 miles of steel wire to pin frames together before brazing. The finished chains, end to end, would reach 70 miles, and the different pieces of which they are composed would reach 2374 miles, or in all 3074 miles, the distance from Chirago to Cincinnati. The bearings of 1S96 Crescents required 13.997,300 steel balls, whi£h, if placed m a straight line, side by side, would reach a distance of 45f miles. To lace the chain and dress guards on the ^ ladies’ Crescents manufactured in 1896 required 434.150 yards of cord, or 2464 miles, '? enough to allow a small boy to stand on the top of the Auditorium tower in Chicago and fiy his kite where the people in Bis Moines. Iowa, could see it. To supply Crescents sold in 1&J6 required 1,666,742 bolts, and 1,488,075 nuts, having an aggregate weight of 23 tons. The, total weight of the complete bicycles was 2.382,842 potHids. or 1,191 tons. To crate these bicycles required 1,235,740 square feet of lumber made up in pieces; 72*718.668 separate and distinct pieces entered into the construction of 1)6 Crescents, and if all wereplaced in a straight line, end to end, they*, would reach from New York to some di»-: tance in the Pacific ocean west of San Fran i cisco.—Crescent Bulletin, July 1,1897. Wheel Accident*. ,, “Flora had a dreadful time last evening. She didn’t come in town until after dark.” “What was the matter?” “She lost her powder-rag somewhere out on the road, and couldn't fix up fit to ba seen.”—Detroit Free /Press._ “Star Tobacco.” (As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use Star. It is not only the best, but the. most lasting, and therefore the cheapest. An old pair of shoes spoils the appearaacu ; of any woman.—Atchison Globe.

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