People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — Page 7

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

XX W. Sheudy, a well known attorney of Rockford, 111., and Justice of the Peace, attempted suicide by swallow* ing a dose of laudanum. He will recover. The celebration of the completion of a quarter of century of King Oscar’s reign will be signalized by a Scandinavian art and Industrial exhibition at Stockholm during the next summer. Madrid papers claim that the United States desires to ruin Spain’s colonial power. The porte has decided to decline payment of all claims for Indemnity for massacres except those advanced by Americans. . * Emperor William addressed the officers at the military school at Hanover and cautioned the soldiers to act In a more friendly manner toward civilians. It is said that Emperor William to considering the advisability of recalVirtfe all the officers whom he loaned to the Chinese government for the purpose of Instructing the Mongolian warriors in the arts of civilized warfare. Oscar Cespedee, an American citizen, has been denied a civil trial at M&tanzas. A. J. Boyce, proprietor of the Boyce machine shop and enameling works at East Liverpool, 0.. has assigned. Assets are estimated at (40,000 and liabilities at (20,000. The firm of Calloway, Walker St Miller, dealers in general merchandise at Boeoobd, Wia.. has made an assignment William H. Pittman, cashier of the State bank Is assignee.. Klinefelter & Freeman, machinery dealers of Sibley, la., have assigned to Q. W. Lister for the benefit of creditors. The assets scheduled over (16,000; liabilities over (11.000. J. S. ffye, hardware and Implement dealer at Prhngfhar, la., has failed. An Italian named Coraetto has Invented an apparatus fhich enabled him to remain under water eighteen houra Owlngto an accident to the apparatus, however; he oarne near being asphyxiated.

Going to Boise Cain In China.

Chicago, Dec. 7. —Regarding a London cable to . the effect that a prominent Chinese resident of that city had Stated that In the United States there was a powerful society of Chinese the object of which was to depose the present dynasty In China and make a republic of the country. Wong Chung Foo, editor of the Chinese News, of this city, says It Is true and that in the very near future the society will begin operations. TTie same news oomea from New York. >

Dashed into an Electric Car.

Leavenworth, Kan., Deo. B.—A Burlington plug train ran Into an electrlo car at the Choctaw crossing, smashing the front part of the electrlo car and severely Injuring Captain Montgomery of the pension department of the soldiers’ home at Fbrt Leavenworth, and Thomas Haskins, a member of oompany Dos the Institution. The other passengers escaped Injury.

THE MARKETS.

Hew York FinanotaL New Yon*, Deo. 7. Money on cal’ wfcs easy at 1)6 per cant.; prime mercantile paper I*4 per cent.; sterling exchange to easier, With actual business in bankers' bills at 438)6*43014 for demand and 483)4*484 for sixty days; posted rates, 484*484)6 and 487)4*133: commercial bills. 48254Silver certificates, 6514; sales, £5,000; bar silver, 6614; Mexican dollars. 50)6. United States government bond* firm; 4's registered. 119)4; do. coupons, 119)4; fi’s registered, 113)4; do. coupons, 113)4; ♦'* registered, 109; do. coupon*, 110)4; '■>'* registered. 93; Pacific 6’aof ’97, 99)4. Chicago Crain and Produce. ChJSAoo, Doc. 7. Following were the quotations on the Board of Trade today; Wheat- December, opened 77)4=, closad 77%:; May, opeaai 80)4c, closei 8054c ;July,opened nominal, dosed 74J4=- Corn —December, opened 33c, closed 28c; May, opened 280, closed 26)60. Oats— December, opened and closed nominal; May, opened 2194=. closed 21)4a Pori —December, opened £6.73, closed £6.75; January, opened £7.60, closed £7.57)4. Lard—December, opened and oloaed nominal; January, opened £3.80, £3.80. Produoei Butter—Extra creamery, 230 per lb; extra dairy, 19s; fresh packing stock, B®9)6c. Eggs—Fresh stock, 220 per dos. Poultry—Turfceyi, 10*10)4o per lb; chickens (hens), 6c; spring ehiokeas, 6*34=; roniters, 6o; ducks, 8.*10e; gsese, 7*9 a. Potatoes —Burbanks, 20-*24a per ba: Hebron, 20@23c. Sweet potatoes—Uliuoia, (51.43Jk1.60 per bbl. Hooey—White clover combs. 10* 18c per lb; extracted, s*7c. Applai—Common to fancy, 50c*£1.50 par bbL Chicago Live Stock. Chicago. Dec. 7. Live Stock—Prices at the Union Stock yards today ranged as follows: Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 49,iM* sales ranged at $3.70*3.80 pig*. 8110*3.35 light. £2.90 *3.00 rough packing, £3.19*3.34 mixed, and £3.05*3.30 heavy packing and shipping lota. Cattle—Estimated receipts for the day, 17,590; quotations ranged at £5.30 *5.70 Christmas beeves, £5.00*5.13 choics to extra shipping steers, £4.30*5.01 good to choice do., £4.15*4.50 fair to good. £3.63*4.10 common to medium do.. £5.50*3.93 butcher, steers, £2.80*3.30 stockers, £3.35 *4.00 feeders; £1.75*3.80 cows. £3.40*4.14 heifers. £1.7.5*3.75 bulls, oxen and stags, £2.83*4.20 Texas steers, and £2,75*5.83 veal calves. Sheep and Lambe—Estimated receipts for the day, 16,609; sales ranged at £2.35*3.63 western, £1.50*33)0 Texans, £1.50*9.74 native* and £2.85*5.40 lambs. East Buffalo Uve Stock. East Bdpfaio, N. Y., Dee. T. Dunning & Stevens Live Stock Commission Merchants, Blast Buffalo, N Y., quot-i as follows: Cattle—Receipts, 175 oar; market about steady for light bandy and heavy steer cattle; prime steers, £4.66*4.80; good to choice, £4.ff1®4.80; fair to mediums, £4.34*4.35; choice fat heifers,£3 65*4.03; oommon light to good, £2.90*3.25; prime fat cow*. £4.25*3.80. Hogs —Receipts, 322 cars; market dull and 10*Uo lower: Yorkers, £8.25*8.27)4; mixed packers, £3.30*3.35; heavy aui m>dium«, £4.23*4.25; light Yorkers, 83.90. Sheep anti Lambs—Receipts, 80 oars; market dull and lower; prime "native lama, £4.75*4.85; fair to gool, £4.85* 4.70; culls and commg i, £5.75*4.25; good to ohoice mixed sheep, £3.40*3.93; oommon to fair, £2.75*8.35; culU, £4.00*3.50; heavy fa ewes, £3.24*3,40. St. Louis Grain. 1 ■ Si. Loots, Deo. 7. - Wheat—Ho. 2 red oash elevator, 90o< track, 91)6*91)4c; No. 8 hard cash. 78)£o bid; December. 89)4; May, 8)69*900. Corn—No. 2 cash. 21)6c( December, 8054 c bid: May, S 3( Oats—No. 2 cash, 20c bid; May. e-34c bid. Milwaukee Grain. MitWAirxxa. Dec. T, Wheat—No. 9 spring, T9o; No. 1 northern, 88b; May, BQ)4a Corn—No. & 28a. Oats— No. 2 wh*a, 20*2134c. Barley— No. % t&4of samples, 24332 c. Bye—No. i, dC££a. JMiettChak. ivovwwwen n«e, x Wheat—Cash whim. 92c sake*; <tueik so\ 93s asked; December, Wf&Oi -Mas, Mfyfo Otojgked

WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO BE

Girts Desire to Teach, Boys to Handle Tools, When Grown Up. Children in their early. teens have strange ambitione. Prom 8,600 replies to the question, "What would you like to do or be when yon grow npT’ it la recorded in Che annual report of the deportment of instruction in New York that among the girls 88 percent wanted to be teachers, 84 per oent milliners, H per oent clerks and stenographers, 8 per oent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses and servants, each 8 per cent; artists, 1 per oent ; then follow missionaries, musicians, factory hands and those who hope to be wives and mothers, each about three-fourths of 1 per oent. It is indeed a poor showing for the desire fox motherhood. What is wrong with our schooling system that most-young girls make up their minds that they would like to be teachers, and that only threefourths of 1 per cent of them express any interest iq being a wife and mother} Among the boys who were .questioned the most popular occupations related to the trades. Fourteen per oent bad this preference. Next in frequency came the desire to be merchants, 18 per oent; then olerka, ? per cent; then farmers, 6 per oent; doctors, about 6 per oent; lawyers, about 6 per oent; engineers, nearly 4 per oent; teachers and Boldiers, each 8 per oent; railroad men and sailors, each per oent; business, 8 per oent The rest named 86 different occupations. It was notioed that the boys thought that an oooupatiou that dealt with tools, plants or animajs meant something that conferred power over one’s fellows. Only in boys about 7 years old was there a large preference for such occupations as that of polioeman, fireman or railroad man. As be grows older the average boy modifies bis desire for the perilous, until at 14 he wants to be a bank clerk. There is one interesting exception to this. The ambition to be a Bailor appears at 7 and increases slowly, oulminating at 14. Here is the composition of a boy of 14; parents American, bis father a laborer : * ‘ When I am a man, I will go to sea and be a sailor on tbe stormy ooean. Then I oan see strange and foreign lands and plaoea, where no man but the sailor oan go. * * * I oan go among the ioefibrgs of the antarotio region, and I oan Bpend a nightly winter in some arotio oountry. The dark oon tinent holds many Jojb for the sailor. He can hunt and have adventures without other oost than walking into them. Because I speak in suoh glowing terms of the sailor does not say that I think he has no discomforts, for what kind of life does not have its full share of the dangers and discomforts? The millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will go under. * * * Even the poorest laborer frets, fearing he and his family will starve to death when he has no work. And now, hurrah for the sal lor I” And here is a little end of the century old maid of 9, of English and American parentage, whose father is a staid minister of the gospel s “I want to marry a naan that doesn’t smoke, because I don’t like tbe smell of smoke. I want to teach school where they will let me spank the children. For children knead disciplin. I want to bloomers all the tima I want to wear a cutaway suit. Because it looks nice with bloomers. I will wear russet shoes and brown stockings. I want to have my hair cut short. Because it will be ooler.”—New York Prosa.

THE EVANGELISTS.

Ferhape It Is For the Best That Hone ol the Original Gospels Exists. Boms of onr readers there may be who find it difficult to understand why, Binoe God has revealed to ua his will in a book, or rather in a library of inspired books, as the Bible truly is, he has not at the same time given us an infallible text. How much labor would have been saved had we possessed tbs autographs of four evangelists 1 To this we answer that, had coe such autograph existed, some branch of the Christian church—possibly every branch, ourselves included—would have made an idol of the writer’s parchment while neglecting its teaching altogether. We cap only seek to oomprebend the ways of Providenoe in one sphere by observing them in another. Man is the heir of all things, yet be is sent into the world to depend for food, clothing and all the comforts and adornments of life on his wits. How greatly is he thereby differentiated from the brutes! How immeasurably is the educated man, and especially the scientific investigator, raised above the savage simply as the result of his own efforts! -Is it not possible that be who gave the word of life designs to quicken our interest in it by arousing afresh in each suooessive generation of Christians the desire to approach nearer to its sources, to remove the undergrowth of legand and tradition whioh has sometimes obstructed its free oourse, and that we arc saved from the danger of finding it trite by the feeling that we possess a divine treasure whioh, though a gift, is not entirely independent of our own exertions for the measure in which it shall minister to our edification? —Agnes Smith Lewis in Century,

Flocking Fowls.

Plucking fowls may be easily and quiokly aooompllsbed in this way: As soon as the bird is dead immerse it in a pall* of very hot water, the water to cover all the feathere. One minnte is usually long enough to keep the fowl under hot water. Too long soaking is liable to dlsoolor the skin. After this hot bath the feathers are so loosened that they oan be almost rubbed off. The bird is then rinsed in oold water and wiped with a soft doth. It should then be put into a ootton bag kept for this purpose and hung in a cool plaoe. When fowls are not to be used at onoe, they should always be loosely rolled in cloth or paper to keep them from dark. Ducks cannot be managed in this way, as their feathers contain so much oil that the water does not penetrate them. —New York Sun.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER. IND.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1896.

A RIDE FOR A LIFE.

A BICYUST'B SPEED BAVeB A FOUR-TEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Bob McCurdy of Philadelphia (he Hera; He Scorched the Distance and Had a Prescription In Eleven Bllnate*—lnteresting Inoident of Thanksgiving Day. A ride for life is an expression frequently heard, bat seldom are the incidents more interesting than in the story of Bob McCurdy’s wonderful ride from Thirteenth and Tasker streets to Broad and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, which was made in just 11 minutes and which was instrumental in saving the life of a little girl and bringing joy and gladness to the hearts of a grief stricken family. About a month ago 14-year-old Graoe McHenry, who lives with her parents at 1608 South Thirteenth street, was stricken with, typhoid fever. At first the attack was considered a slight One, and the family had little anxiety. But about two weekß ago the disease took a turn for the worse, and as day by day the child sank lower tbe home was filled with sadness. Thanksgiving morning found the McHenry household filled with anxious fear, for the attending physician had pronounced the case almost hopeless. In the afternoon a consultation was held, and three doctors declared that the child could not live overnight Robert MoOnrdy, better known amonff bicycle racing men as Rob McCurdy, boards at the McHenry residence. On Thanksgiving day, when all the rest had given up hope, Bob said he believed the child could yet be saved and thought he knew the man that could save her. After sapper he put on bis hat and oalled in to see a physician friend of his. He told the physician that a consultation had been held in the afternoon and that the ohild was expected to die that night, but he desired him to come around and prescribe for the case as a last resort. The dootor walked quickly around to the house, examined the sick ohild; then turning to MoCurdy he said: “Bob, I think we can save Grace if this prescription is filled and brought back inside of 80 minutes. It must be put up at either of these two stores,” and the doctor handed him the prescription and the names of two druggists in tbe vicinity of Broad and Chestnut streets. Without stopping to make answer McCurdy ran down stairs three steps at a time, jumped on his wheel, which was standing outside, and sped away. It was just 18 minutes to 8 by a watch held in the hand of the sick child’s brother when Bob McCurdy jumped on his wheel. Up Thirteenth street he flew, out Dickinson and up Broad to Chestnut. Glancing into the drug store window, he saw that there were several customers waiting, and, realizing that every second was gold, he sprang on his wheel and rode to the other store, a couple of blocks down Broad street Reaching the store, he ran in, threw down tbe prescription and a handful of coins and asked that the potion be put up at once at any cost. Three clerks dropped the work they were engaged in and turned in to fill the prescription which, if taken in time, was to save a life. In almost less time than it takes to tell it the precious prescription was handed to McCurdy,with no extra charge for the haste, and the rider was scorching down Broad street. At South street a special officer, who was leisurely riding his wheol, saw the scorcher and started after him. But he didn’t know his man, for before the officer had gone a square Bob was three squares in the lead It was just three minutes after 8 when McCurdy reached the steps of the McHenry residence. “Brave old man, Bob!” said the sick child’s brother, who was standing at the door, watch in hand. “You have covered the distanoe in 11 minutes and, I hope, saved our darling's life.” And the hope was realized, for the potion which Bob had brought broke the fever, the ohild rallied, and last night the physician said, “I have full confidence that our Graoe will live and soon be well and strong. ” A touching incident connected with the child’s siokness was the thoughtfulness of a number of her little girl friends. They were to have a party Thanksgiving evening, but late Thursday afternoon, bearing that their friend was going to die that night, they decided to use the money which they had collected for refreshments in baying flowers for Grace’s funeral. But the brave rider and the physician told them at 9 o’olook that their little friend would live, so they got .their sweets and spent a real Thanksgiving evening. Bob MoCurdy is one of the best known wheelmen on the track. His team mate is Charlie Church, and these two have won many a hot race in their time. Little Grace McHenry owes her life to Bob, who is now the lion of tbe house and neighborhood.—Philadelphia Press.

A Good Thing Anyhow.

Kansas City is to have a novel monament in the shape of a stone refuge in a triangular plaoe, called the Junction, where people wait to take the street oars. It is to be erected by the sons of the late Ferdinand Heim to the memory of their father, who was a wealthy brewer. The design of the refuse follows the style of the classic exuedras and is as beautiful as it is novel. The entire superstructure will be white marble, and the floor will be laid In Roman mosaic. It seems to be a question with some western newspapers as to Kansas City’s ability to live up to that sort of thing.—Chicago Tribune. A fly is almost invincible. It will survive long immersion in water and will sustain the odors of sulphur and other disinfectants without apparent injury. Only turpentine, chloroform and ammonia oan get the better of a fly. Thirty days are required for mail to travel between'New York and Bush ire.

A DREAM IS REALIZED

SPANNING THE NORTH RIVER, ONCE A TASK FOR GBNtl. topeulon Structure Twice aa tons n Brooklyn Bridge With Towers Twice us High—Cost Fixed at BZs,ooo,ooo—Marvels of Engineering Involved. When a group of enthusiasts and wealthy men met ten years ago and seriously proposed the building of a great bridge to span the North river, the idea was scoffed at aa impossible of achievement and absurd. Individuals had long talked of such an undertaking, but they had been looked upon as dreamers. True, the East river bad been bridged, but in that success the limit of engineering skill bad been reached. Tbe new bridge oonld not be built unless by the aid of genii such as shine in the pages of the “Arabian Night*” Yet the group of projectors went earnestly on. They bad faith in Amerioan genius and did not need Arabian genii. It did not trouble them that they were charged with dreaming dreams and seeing visions. They consulted with engineers, had plans carefully drawn and six years ago made their first formal efforts' toward their great end. Their plans were for tbe building of a oantalever bridge, with a river span of 8,000 feet an£ a tower 1,000 feet in midstream. But the greatest of the tasks that tgoed the bridge projector? were not tbe physioal difficulties. There was the congress of the United States and the seo-

WORTH RIVER BRIDGE.

re tary ot war and the legislatures of two great rival states, with their con.Aiding and jarring interests. There were city boards to meet and oonvinoe, and there were an infinity of peculiarities prejudices, all forms of selfishness and a multitude of private and corporate interests to combat. Diplomats were needed even more than engineers. A stonn of opposition arose to the project of a oantalever bridge. The secretary of war held that no bridge could span the mighty Hudson whose construction required the placing of a pier in midstream, for it would mean the certain injury of commeroe. The chamber of oommerce also opposed it. Other organizations did the same, and a new start had to be taken. It was determined to fling a suspension bridge across the stream. It was to be an engineering feat greater than had ever been attempted. The constructing of such a bridge involves difficulties vastly greater than those of acautulever. The oentral span was to be 8,204 feet in length. The floor was to be 100 feet above the water. It was to bo bread enough to have six parallel railroad tracks and of such strength that if all of the traoks were filled from end to end with loaded oars the bridge would no more waver under the strain than if only a featherweight lay on it. The towers were to reach far below the earth’s surface and grapple with the rock, and they were to rise toward the eky. The bridge was to be twice the length of the Brooklyn bridge, and its towers were to bo twice as high. The new plans were attacked as fiercely as the old. The opposition took a different form, but the same array of rival interests, of railroads who did not need tho bridge, of business men whose fortunes might be affocted, of lobbyists, of legislators, again faced the projectors. The secretary of war gave his official sanction to the plana, and congress was gained. At length also the legislatures of the states .were won, after long arguments and delays. But even then it was fonnd hard to find a. place where the bridge would be permitted to touch the city. Interests of great magnitude felt themselves too nearly affected to allow it to enter if entrance could be prevented. i It was hoped that the bridge could be located nearly opposite IJorty-second street and have a straight entrance into the city. This would at least have been best for the architectural appearance of the approach to the' bridge, but it was not to be. Permission was finally won to locate the New York end at Fiftyninth street. That was too far north for the terminal station, into which the passenger trains from all the railroads that now end at the western shore of the river were to bo run. The projectors fixed npon the section between Broadway and Forty-ninth and Fifty-first streets, and the ingenuity of their engineers planned a six track viaduct, that would have a compound curve, to reach that spot, while one street Bhould bo spanned by the great station building. It was estimated that the entire cost of the bridge and terminal station and the approaches would be fnlly $60,000,000. Yet such tremendous figures did not deter them. The freight was to be carried along the shore of the river and unloaded at stations. With the winning of the consent of the necessary officials and bodies, the □ext step was to secure enough capital for the enterprise. The impossible was agaiD shown to be possible, and a corporation, with a capital of $86,000,000, was formed. Moat of the stock was taken by Americans) but a third was held by Englishmen. And then came the queerest interruption to the plans. The trouble with England in regard to Venezuela began. The relations of the two countries became strained. The Londoners withdrew in a panic, taking their money with them, and this so dis- | oonraged many of the others that the affair came to an ignominious ending.

4 Thus a little South Amerioan nation spoiled the project of the bridge. Not only does hope spring eternal, but so does eapitai, if a project be rightly pushed. A new corporation was organized, and again were the plans put forward. England again held one-third of the oapital stock. It was necessary to find a oompany willing and able to assume contract for building the bridge. That company was found, and yesterday morning at 11 o’olook the pages were signed that bound the New York and New Jersey Bridge oompany and tbe Union Bridge oompany to mutual responsibilities, the contractors giving a bond for $1,000,000 that they would build aooording to the plans. They have oontraoted that the total oost will not exoeed $86,000,000. This is for the bridge alone. The approaches and the terminal station will be arranged for later. They agree that within six years from the date of beginning work the bridge will be completed, and it is expected that work will be begun early in the coming summer. Tbe bridge will indeed be more wonderful than the achievements of the genii. The weight suspended by tbe cable will be, when the bridge is empty of train* 88,000 tons. Over 100,000 cubio yards of masonry will be nsod in tbe construction of tbe towers. Anchor plates that weigh 86 tons each will be handled like toys. The concrete filling alone will be 80,000 tons. Three thousand men will toil in mills that the Iron and the wire may be made. When the bridge is fairly under way, 8,500 men will each day be employed on various parts of the work. The beautiful oreatlon, swinging itself across the Hudson, will be a marvel of beauty wb«n completed. And toe obange that its erection will mean for the oity of New York oannot be foretold. Instead Of a number of ferries discharging bunches of passengers into this oity at various points along the North river there will be one mighty stream, with its outlet near Oentral park. Another of the miraoles, therefore, that tbe men of the bridge will work will be a readjustment of the business center of the oity, and tho changing of tbe oharaoter of many of its streets.—New York Journal

HIS LONG SERVICE.

John Sherman Has Been a Senator Longer Than Any Other Man. John Sherman of Ohio has now served a longer time in tbe United States senate than any other man ever served. He has passed the reoord made by Thomas H. Benton of Missouri, tho “thirty years senator.” Mr. Benton was a member of the senate 80 years and 6 months, or from, Oot. 8, 1830, to March 8, 1861. John Sherman entered the senate in March, 1861, and has been there ever sinoe, exoept during the four years that ho was seoretary of the treasury under President Hayes. Mr. Sherman’s actual service to data, as shown by the official records of the senate, is as follows: March 21, 1881, to March 8, 1877 16 years, 11 months and 18 day* March 4, 1881, to Nov. 29, 1898—16 years, 8 months and 85 days; total servloe, 81 years, 8 months and 12 days. Only five other men have served a quarter of a oentury as members of tha senate. They are William R. King of Alabama, whose servioe aggregated 80 years; Justin 8. Morrill of Vermont, who will complete his thirtieth year next March; George F. Edmunds of Vermont, who resigned after a career of 26 years and some months in tho senate and is a very lively old man today; Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island, who was in the senate 26 years and 6 months, and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, whose senatorial career aggregated Just a quarter of a oentury. —Chicago Times-Herald.

IT CURED HER.

Five Minutes of Silent Prayer From a Congregation.

A singular case of recovery from hopeless illness through the medium of prayer has excited a large amount of publio interest at Piedmont, W. Va. For many months Miss Alioe B. Schaffer of Mount Storm was in a Philadelphia hospital snffering from almost total paralyse, being unable to rise from bed or talk above a whisper. Oofc 6 she was brought home, as medical relief was hopeless and she had expressed a wish to die at home. After she bad been at home for two weeks Rev. O, H. Kocb, a Methodist evangelist from Ohio, began a series of meetings at Mount Storm, and, hearing of Miss Schaffer’s case, mentioned» it from the pnlpit and asked the silent prayers of the congregation for five minutes for her relief. Miss Sobaffer’s sister was at church, and on going home asked the invalid how she felt She Baid she began to feel better at 9 o’clook and at her own suggestion got out of bed without assistance. She is now in perfect health and does not look to have hod a day’s illness in all her life.-—Cincinnati Enquirer.

War on Liquor and Cigarettes.

It looks as if the liqnor dispensary bill which seeks to establish in Alabama a liqnor system identical with that in effect in South Carolina will eventually pass. A strong sentiment in favor of the bill prohibiting the sale or giving away of cigarettes is also developing. A lobby of moralists is beginning to gather, and a hard fight will be made in favor of both measures. —Chicago Times-Herald.

Anticipation. Turkey on Than keel via day Mos’ too big ter lit’. Chrls’mns corn In cross de way— Gimme Chris’mus gif’ 1 Ain't so muob on veal en lamb) Rabbit ran too sMf’. Chrie’mna time I wants my dram— Gimme Chrls’mna gif! Chnoo dat fiddle—chnne ’em right) Gittin ole esa stiff. Bet I’ll dance, do’, Chris’mtu night— Gimme Cbria’mns gif’! —Frank L. Stanton in Atllnta Conatitntion.

ON THE CLERMONT.

INCIDENTB OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF FULTON*B STEAMBOAT. ▲ Group at Women Who Blade tbe Htetorio Trip—How tbe Engagement of the Inventor Was Announced—Predictions Made by Chancellor Livingston. Helen Evertson Smith, in The Century, has a paper on “A Group of American Girls Early In tbe Century, ” which gives pleasant glimpses of Ohanoellor Livingston and Robert Fulton. The ohanoellor invited several of his fair oouains to make a trip from New York to his home at Clermont In a new boat. Miss Smith says: The “new boat" of toe letter was tbe now oelebrated Clermont, the steamboat of Robert Fulton, which In August, 1807, made the first suooesaful steam voyage up the astonished Hudson and demonstrated to the world that a new force had been discovered by which old methods in nearly all lines were to be revolutionized. Very likely, with Ml their loving confidence in the wisdom of the chancellor, the sisters embarked with some distrust of his new boat’s making good its promise to get them home In less than three days, even if both wind and tide should prove unfavorable, bat they were not afraid of anything worse than delay, though most of their friends feared for them. During the nine years that had passed since “Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton had first secured the oonoesalon to navigate the waters In New York state for 80 years, providing they should build a boat of not lpss than 80 tons, that yrould go not less than four muea an hour against wind and tide, ” the subject had been so often talked over in their presenoe that the sisters were already quite Intelligent upon it and laughed at the fearc of their timorous friend* The embarkation was from a dock “near the state prison” (which was in "Greenwioh village,” on the North river) and was witnessed by a crowd of ’ ’not less than 500 persons. " Many were friends of the passengers, who bade them farewell with as much solicitude as if they were going to Madagascar, especially trembling with apprehension at the “terrible risk run by sailing in « boat full of fire. ”

The adventurous voyagers, who were the guests of Robert Fulton und Chancellor Livingston, were about 40 In number, including but a few ladies. Among the latter, besides our two young sisters' and their annt, Mrs. Thomas Morris (daughter-in-law of Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution), were at least one of the chancellor’s two daughters, four of the many daughters of bis brothers, John R. and Colonel Harry,and a young lady who was more interested in the result of this memorable experiment than any one save the invcDtor himself. In all tho biographies of Fulton Miss Harriet Livingston Is called the chancellor's nieoe, but she was really his cousin. She was a beautiful, graoeful and aooompllsbed woman and had long given her heart to Robert Fulton. 'The fair Harriet was at this time about two and twenty and ’ ‘deeply In love with her handsome, gifted lover as any girl well oould be. ” There were many distinguished and fine looking men on board tho Clermont, but my grandmother always described Robert Fulton as surpassing them all. “That son of a Pennsylvania farmer, ” she was want to say, “was really a prince among-men. He was as modest ns he was great and as handsome as he was modest His eyes were glorious with love and genius.” A little before reaching Clermont, when the success of the voyage was well assured, the betrothal was announood by the chancellor in a graoeful speech, in the oourse of which be prophesied that the “name of the Inventor would desoend to posterity as that of a honefactor to the world, and that It was not impossible that before the close of the present century vessels might even be able to make the voyage to Europe without other motive power than steam. ” This hardy prediction was received with but moderate approval by any, while smiles of Incredulity were exchanged between those who wore so placed that they oould not be seen by the speech maker or the inventor. John R. was beard to soy In an aside to his cousin, John Swift Livingston, that “Bob had many a bee in his bonnet before now, but this steam folly would prova the worst one yet. ” But the chancellor’s brothers lived to see the oooan regularly traversed by steam vessels, but the prophet himself and the inventor both passed away before the realization of their dreams.

The Sleeping Disease.

On the western coast of Africa they bare a singular and always fatal malady which is known as the sleeping disease, says tbe Pi ttsbazg Dispatch. The person attacked by it is seised with a sensation of drowsiness, which continues to increase in spite of the efforts made to throw it off. Finally tfie patient sinks into a profound sleep, which continues for about three weeks, or until death ensues. The most curious feature of tbe disease is that, aside from the drowsiness, tbe patient seems much as usual. Tbe pulse, respiration and temperature are ncnnal, while be may be easily aroused and will take nourishment and answer questions in a perfectly natural manner.

Utterly Bad.

“Yea,” spake they of the one vfho had gone, “he was utterly and hopelessly bad. Sis wickedness might have been forgiven had it been accompanied by any redeeming trait, but be had none. He oouldn’t even tell a funny story. ” Indianapolis Journal. Tbe white carnation is regarded in England os an emblem of disdain. This idea was probably suggested by the upright habit of tbe flower, which nods and waves haughtily in the breeze.

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