Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — Page 7

THANKSGIVING

The Sutuect of Dr. Talmage’s Sunday Sermon. What Maa Em to Be Thankful for—Kings that Have Placed rhelr Thrones . on American Soil. . Rev. Dr. Talmage preached Brooklyn last Sunday. Text: Psalm cxlviii, 10-12-13. He said: What a scene it was when, last Thursday, at the call of the President and Governors, this Nation assembled to chant the praises of God. But the day was too short to celebrate the Divine goodness of such a year: The sun did not rise over Brooklyn till one minute before 7 o’clock, that morning, and it set at 4:35 o’clock that afternoon. What a small space of time in ’ which to meditate upon twelve months of benefactions! So I add to that day this Sabbath morning service, and, with the fruits and harvests of the earth still glorify!ng the pulpit arid the galleries. ask you to continue the rehearsal of the Divine goodness. a sublime egoti&ffFJHati has come to appropriate this world to himself, when the fact is that our race is m a small minority. The instances of human life, as compared with the instances of animal lite, are not one to 1,000,000.- We shall enlarge pur ideas of God's goodness and come to a better understanding of the text-if, before we come to look at the cup of our blessing, we look at the goodndss of God to the irrational creation. Although nature is out of joint, yet even in its disruption I am surprised to find the almost universal happiness of the animal creation. On a summer day, when the ah' and the grass Tare most populous with life, you will not hear a sound of distress unless, perchance, a heartless Schoolboy has robbed a bird’s nest, or a hunter has broken a bird's wing, ora pasture has been robbed of a lamb and there goes up a bleating from the flocks. The whole earth is filial with animal delight—joy feathered, and scaled, and, horned, and hoofed. The bee hums it, the frog croaks it, the squirrel chatters .it, the quail whistles it, the lark carrols It. the whale spouts it. The snail, - the rhinoceros, the grizzly bear, the toad, the wasp, the spider, the shellfish, have their homely delights—joy is great to them as our joy is to us. beat climbing the rocks; anaconda crawling through the jungle, buffalo plunging across the prairie; crocodile baskihg in the tropical sun: seal Euffing on the ice.;-.ostrich striding cross the desert, are so many bunflies of joy ; they do not go moping or nielai|choiy; they are not only half supplied; God savs they are filled with good. The worm squirming through the lod upturned by the plowshare, ind the ants racing up and down the hillock, are happy by day and happy by night. Take, up a drop of water onder the microscope, and you find that within it there are millions of Creatures that swim in a hallelujah “jF jnidriFss. Tlie sounds in nature that are repulsive to our ears are inly evidences of joy—the growl, the croak, the bark, the howl. The good nod luade these creatures, thinks of them ever, and will not let a plowihare turn up a mole's nest, or a fisherman's hook transfix a worm, until, by eternal decree, its .time has come. God s band feeds all .those broodstand shepherds all these Hoicks and tends all these herds. He sweetens the clover top for the oxmi's taste; and pours out crystalline waters in mossed cups of rock, for the hind to drink out of on his way down the crags, and ppurs nectar into the cup of the honeysuckle to refresh the humming bird; and spreads a banquet of a hundred fields of buckwheat, and lets the honey-bee put bis mouth to any cup of all the banquet. and tolls the grasshopper togb anywhere he likes, and gives the flocks of heaven the choice of all the grain fields. The sea anemone, half animal half flower, clinging to the rock in mid-ocean, with its tentacles spread to catch its food, has the Owner of the universe to provide for it. We are repulsed at the hideousness of the elephant, but God, for the comfort and convenience •of the monster, puts forty thousand distinct muscles in its proboscis. I go down to the barren sea shore nnd say “No animal can live in this place of’ desolation;” but. all through the sands are myriads of little insects that leap with happy life. Igo down by the marsh and say “In this damp place and in these loathsome pools of stagnant water there will be the quietness of death;” but 10l see the turtles on the rotten log sunning themselves and hear the bogs quake with multitudinous life* When the unfledged robins are hungry God shows the old robin where she can get the food to'put into their mouths. Winter is not allowed to come until the ants havegranaried their harvest and the squirrels have filled their cellars with nuts. God shows the "hungry ichneumon where it can find the crocodile’s eggs; and in the arctic ifelimes there animals that God so lavishly clothes that they can afford to walk through snow storms in the finest sable and ermine, and chinchilla, and no sooner is one set of furs worn out than God gives him a .new one. He helps the spider in its architecture of its gossamer bridge, ju»d takes care of the color of the butterfly's wiugs, and tinges the ccchinegl and helps the moth out of itho ehjrysalis. The animal creation also has its army and navy. The ’most insignificant has its means of defense; the wasp its sting, the reptile its tooth, th® bear its paw, the

dog its muzzle, the elephant its task, the fish its scale, the bird its swift wing, the reindeer its antlers, the roe its fleet foot. We are repelled at the thought of sting and tusk and hoof, but God’s goodness provides them for the defense of the animal’s rights. Yes, God in the Bible announces His care for these orders of creation. He says that He has heaved up fortifications for their defense —Psalm civ., 18: ‘ 'The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies.” He watches the bird’s nest —Psalm civ., 87: “As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.” He sees that the cattle have enough grass—Psalm civ., 14: “He causes the grass to grow for the cattle.” He sees to it that the cows, and sheep, and horses have enough to drink—Psalm civ,, 10-11: “He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills; they give drink to every beast of the field, the wild asses quench their thirst. Amid the thunders of Simai God uttered the rights of cattle, and said that they should have a Sabbath. “Thou sfialt not do ariy work, thou, nor thy cattle.” He declared with infinite e-mpliasis that the ox on the threshing-floor should have the privilege of eating some of the grain as he trod it out, and muzzling was forbidden. If young birds were taken from the nest for food the despoiler’s life depended on the mother going free. God would not let the mother-, bird suffer in one day the loss of her’ young and- her owi liberty. And He<vho regarded in olden times the conduct of man toward the brutes today looks down from heaven, and is interested in every minnow that swims the stream, and every rook that cleaves the air, and every herd bleats, or neighs, or lows in the. pasture. Why did God make all these, and why make them so happy? How account for all this singing and dancing, and frisking amid the irrational creation? Why this heaven for the animalcule in a dew drop? Why for the condor a throne on Chimeorazo? Why the glitter of the phosphorus in the ship's wake on the sea, which is said to be only the frolic of millions of insects? Why the perpetual chanting of so many voices from the irrational creation in earth, and air, and ocean —beasts, and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowl, permitted to join in the praise that goes up from seraph and arch-angel? Only one solution, one explanation, one answer—God is good. “The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.” » I take a step higher, and notice the adaptation of the world to the comfort and happiness of man. The sixth day of creation had arrived. The palace of the world was made, but there was no king to live in it. Leviathian ruled the deep; the eagle the air; the lion the field; but where was the scepter which should rule all? A new style of being was created. Heaven and earth were represented in his nature. His body from the earth beneath; his soul from the heaven above. The one reminding him of his origin, the other speaking of his destiny—himself the connecting link between theanimal creation and angelic intellience. In Kim a strange commingling of the temporal and eternal, the finite and the infinite; dust and glory. The earth for his floor, and heaven for his roof; Ged for his father; eternity for his life-time. The Christian anatomist, gazing I upon the conformation of the human I bottle, ekclaims: “Fearfully, andwonderfully made." No embroidery so elaborate, no gauze so delicate, no color so exquisite, no mechanism so graceful, no hand wbrk so divine. So quietly and mysteriously does the human body perform its functions, that it was not until 5,000 years after the creation of the race" that the circulation of the blood was discovered; and though anatomists of all countries and ages have been so long exploring this cattle of life, they have only begun to understand it. Volumes have been written of the hand. Wondrous instrurhent! With it we give friendly recognition, and grasp the sword, and climb the rock, and write and carve and build. It constructed the pyramids, and hoisted the Parthenon. It made the harp and then struck out of it all the world's minstrelsy. In it the white marble of Pentelicon mines dreamed itself away into immortal sculpture. It reins in the swift engine; it holds the steamer to its path in the sea; it j snatches the fire from heaven; it feels the pulse of the sick child with its delicate touch, and makes the nations quake with its stupendous achievements. What power brought down the forests, aud made the marshes blossom, and burdened the earth with all the cities that thunder on with enterprise and power? Four fingers and a thumb. A hundred million dollars would not purchase fqr you a machine as exquisite -and *7onderful as your own hand. Mighty hand! In all its bones and muscle’s and joints, I learn that God is good. Behold the eye, which, in its photographic gallerj, in an instant catches the mountain and the sea. This perpetual telegraphing of the nerves; these joints, that are Jhe only hinges that do not wear out; these bones and muscles of the body, with 14,000 different adaptations; these 100.OOp glands; these 2,000,000 pores; this mysterious heart, contracting 4,000 times gpvery hour—this chemical process of digestion; this laboratory, beyond the understanding of the most skillful philosophy; this furnace, whose heat is kept up from cradle to grave; this factory of life, whose wheels and spindles and bands are God-directed. If we could realize the wonders of our physical organization, we would become

... . ’ . • ■ I -• • hypochondriacs, fearing every moment that some part of the machine would break down. But there are men who have lived through seventy years, and not a nerve has ceased to thrill, or a muscle to contract, or a lung to breathe, or a hand to manipulate. r • .. I take a step higher and look at man’s mental constitution. Behold the beriovolence of God in powers of perception, or the. faculty of transporting this outside world into your own mind— gathering into your brain the majesty of the storm and the splendors of the day dawn and lifting into your mind the ocean as easily as you might put a glass of water to your lips. Watch the law of association, or the mysterious linking together of all you ever thought, or knew, or felt, and then giving you the power to take hold of the clew line and draw through your mind the long train with indescribable velocityone thought starting a hundred apd this again a thousand —as the chirp of one bird sometimes wakes a whole forest of voices, or the thrum of one string-wilLrouse an orchestra. Watch your memory—that sheafbinder that goes forth to gather the harvest of the past and bring it into the present. Your pjwer and velocity of thought-—thought of the swift wing and the lightning foot; thought that outspeeds the star, and circles through the teavens, and weighs worlds, and, from poising amid wheeling constellations, coirie*r down to count the blossoms in a tuft of mignonette, then starts again to try the fathoming of the bottomless, and the scaling of the insurmountable, to be swallowed up in the incomprehensible and lost in God! In reason and understanding, man is alone. The ox surpasses him in strength, antelope in speed, the' hound in keenness of the ev.gle in far-reaching sight, the rabbit in quickness of hearing, the honeybee in delicacy of tongue, the spider in fineness of touch. Man’s power, therefore, consisteth not in what he can lift, or how fast he can run, or how strong a wrestler he can throw —for in these respects the ox, the ostrich, and the hyena are his superior—but by his reason he comes forth to rule all; through his ingenious, contrivance to outrun, outlift, outwrestle, outsee, outhear, butdo. At his all-conquering decree, the forest that stood for ages steps asfde to let himTmild his- cabin and cultivate his farm. The sea which raved and foamed upon the f race has become a crystal pathway for commerce to march on. The thunder-cloud that slept lazily above the mountain is made to come down and carry mail-bags. Men, dissatisfied with his slowness of advancement shouted to the Water and the Fire, “Come and lift!” “Come and drawl” “Come and help!” And they answered “Ay; Tsy^wß—eo^e;” 1 and the hands —the Fire and the Water —and the shuttles fly, and the rail-train rattles on, and the steamship comes coughing, panting, flaming across the deep. lie elevates the telescope, to the heavens, and, as easily as through the stethoscope the physician hears the movement of the lung, the astronomer catches the pulsation of distant systems of worlds throb- j ing with life. He takes the microscope and discovers that there, are hundreds of thousands of animalcule living, moving, working, dying within a circle that could be covered with the point of a pin—animals to which a raindrop would be an ocean. A Tose-leaf a hemsphere, and the flash of a fire fly lasting enough to give them light to several generations.

I take a stop higher and look at man’s moral nature. Made in the image of God. Vast capacity for enjoyment; capable at first of eternal joy, and, though now disordered, still, through the recuperative force of heavenly grace, able to mount up to more than its original felicity; faculties that may blossom and bear fruit inexhaustibly. Immortality written upon every capacity; a soul destined to range in unlimited spheres of activity long after the world has put on ashes and the so'ar system shall have snapped its axle, and the stars that, in their course, fought against Siser’a, shall have been slain and buried amid the tolling thunders of the last day. You see that God has adapted everything to our comfort and advantage. Pleasant things for the palate; music for the ear; beauty for the eye; aroma for the nostril; kindred for our affections; poetry for our t®ste; religion for our soul. We are j>ut in a garden, and told that from all the trees we may eat except here and there a forbidden one. He gives the sun to shine on uS; and the waters to refresh us; and food to strengthen' us; and the herbs yield medicines when we are sick, and the forest lumber when we would build a house or cross the water in a ship. The rocks are transported for our foundations, and metals upturned for our currency; and wild beasts must give us covering; and the mountains must be tunneled to let us pass, and the fish of the sea come up in our net; and the birds of the air drop at the flash of our guns, and the cattle on thousand hills come down to give us meat. For us the peach-orchards bend down their fruit, and the vineyards their purple clusters. To feed and refresh our intellect, 10.000 wonders in nature and providerce—wonders of mind and body, wonders of earth and air, and deep analogies and antithness; all colors arid sounds; lyrics in the air; idyls in the field; conflagrations in the sunset; robes of mist of the mountains; and the “Grand March” of God in the storm. * But for the soul still higher adaptation; a fountain in 1 which it may wasbf a ladder by which it may

climb; a song of endless triumph that it may sing; a crown of unfading light that it may wear. Christ cams to save it—came with a cross on his back; came with spikes in his feet: came when no one else. would come, to do a work which no one else would do. See how suited to man’s condition is what God has done for him! Manis a sinner, here is pardon.He has lost God’s image; Christ retraces it. He is helpless; Almighty grace is proffered. He is a lost wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He is blind; and at one touch of Him who cured Bartimeus, eternal glories stream into his soul. Jesus, I §ihg Thy grace! Cure of worst disease! Hammer to smite off heaviest 6hain! Light for thickest darkness. Grace divine! Devils scoff at it. and men reject it, but heaven celebrates it! I wish,you good cheer for the National harvest. Reaping machines never swathed thicker rye and cornhusker’s peg never ripped fuller ear, and mow poles never bent down under sweeter hay, and the wind mill’s hopper never shook out larger wheat. Long trains of white-covered wagons have brought the wealth down to the great thoroughfares. The garners are full, the storehouses are overcrowded, the canals are blocked with freight pressing down to the market. The cars rumble all through the darkness and whistle up the flagman at the dead of night to let the Western harvests came down, to feed the mouths of ths great cities. A race oFkingshas taken possession of’tins; land—King Cotton. King Corn, King Wheat, King Rice, King Grass, King Coal. I wish you good cheer for civil and religious liberty. No official spy watches bur entry here, nor does an armed soldier interfere with honest utterance of truth. We stand here to-day with our arms free to work and our tongues free to speak. This Bible, it is all unclasped. This puljSSjZZjffiere Is ~noZ chamZZMonnd about it. There is ho snapping of musketrvH4p=*4he street. * Blessedbe God that to-day we are free men, with the pro spect and determination of always being free. No established religion; Jew and Gentile, Armenian and Calvinist, Trinitarian and Unitarian, Protestant and Roman Catholic, on the same footing. If persecution should come against the most unpopular of all the sects, I believe that ali other denominations would band together and arm themselves, and hearts would be stout, and blood would be free, and the right of men to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences would be contested at the point of the bayonet and with blood flowing up to the bits of the horses’ bridles. For mercies temporal and spiritual let consecrated lives ba offered. Wherever God’s light shines, and God’s rain descends, and God’s mercy broods, let the thanksgiving arise.

DOUSES WITHOUT NAILS.

The Queerly Constructed Homes of the Carib Indians at Mosquitia. New York Home Journal. On the coast of Mosquitia, a recently created department of the republic of Honduras, there are few houses better than the watla of the Carib or the Waika Indian. The frame of the watla rests upon eight or nysre posts firmly set in the ground, and are usually of Santa Maria wood, which resists decay. In the short crotch at the top of. the post lies the pole. 5 or 6 inches in diameter, which is the “plate” on which rests the long, slender rafters which meet high above the ground. The rafters are held in place by light poles which run around the ends and sides of the roof. Cross-pie? s serve to strengthen the whole. Not a nail, not a bit of iron of any kind, is used in building this, cottage, but the whole frame is held together by bajucos or tie-tie vines, that are found in unlimited quantities in every forest, and that, whep green, can be used as easily as cords could be for lashing the nieces together. As they dry they snrink, and bind the whole most firmly. While the men are putting up the frame of the house the women are preparing the covering,, which is made of a kind of leaf called “monkey tail.” This they attach to strips some ten feet long and an inch wide, split from bamboo, the whole making a fringe about 16 inches wide. Beginning at the lower ends of these* rafters, these fringes are lashed firmly in rows extending entirely around the edge of the roof. The secondrow laps over the first and the third over the second, and so on, until the house is covered by a thatch which will turn the heaviest rain, and will last eight or ten years. The walls of the house are made of the trunks of papta palms, three or four inches in diameter. These are set upright and dose together in a shallow trench, and tied with bujuoos or poles running from post io post; or bamboos cut in pieces of suitable length are flattened into broad sheets or . “crickeries,” and fastened upright to the. frame, thus making a smooth, clean and attractive wall, through which the refreshing breezes draw steadily from morn ing until night. The daughter of a New York Jud"e has for more than two years made her home in such a watla, tip? walls being draped with muslin and 4h'e ceilings with pink mosquito bar in Slaits, radiating from the center. he Japanese decorations harmonize with the walls and the shelves of bainboo, filled with choice book’s. Moreover, there is a floor of pine lumber, pictures on the wall, an easel in the corner, and tables when baskets of oranges, mangoes', ba nanas and other luscious fruits du their season, tempt the visitor.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

The Secretary Thereof Submitt His Annual Report. AH of the Work of the Department Well 11 Hand—The Record of a Year Brletly Summarized, The annual report of the Secretary othe Interior was made public Monday. It shows that the General Land Office it nearly abreastof its work; that the Ipdiai bureau is accomplishing the rapid disinte grationof the Indian reservations, the severance of tribal relationsand the educa tiou of the Indian youth: that the Pensioi office is rapidly completing the allowance of all pensions legally passable Under tht Jaws, moving at the rate of about thirtj I thousand amonth: that the Railroad Ba reau is making ready for the maturity o the debts due from the subsidized rail r-ads, the Union Pacific and others that the Bureau of Education, be side having distributed the vast fund al lowed the agricultural colleges for whit* and colored pupils in the different Statei is engaged in new plans for the accumula lion arid distribution of information useftilfor the schools and their better man"ageinent; and that the Patent Office, having celebrated its centennial is still ad' vancing in the variety and volume of its interesting and great investigations anc patents. Regarding pensions, the repqrt stays: The present issue of certificates is about thirty thousand per month, and ii is thought that the Pension Bureau will be able to carefully adjudicate 35O.OO( claims during the present year. The work at this rate will allow all lawful pension claims within the next thirty months, and of course all first payments will then hav< been disposed of. This alone will cause a drop of $30,000,000 in the appropriation! and the list will thence on stpadily dimin-, ishfrom natural causes. It is predicted that the pensions will, when tije highesl point Is reached, not exceed very greatly he present sum. and be subject to a great decrease Immediately after. The estimate for 1893 Is $144,956,000. The Territories of the United States are, all shown to be prosperous and growing. The Secretary advises against the admission of Utah as a State.

RAILROADS.

The Commerce Commissioners Submit their Annual Report. Statistics Galore—Mileage, Number of 1.0-comotives comotives and Many Other Figures of Interest. The third annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commissioners is out. 11 show's that railway mileage in the United States on June 30,1890, was 163,587 miles: the increase in railway mileage brought Into operation during the year was 6,030 miles; The total length of tracks for the United States, Including all sidings and spurs, is 209,060 miles. The number o railway corporations on June 30,1890,wa 1,797. There were seventy-four companies In the U. S., whose gross income in 1880 was $837,000,000, out of a total gross incoma of all roads in the country of $1,051,877,632. The total number of locomotives in the United States was 29,928, of which 8.381 were passenger locomotives and 16,144 freight locomotives. The number of Carl used on the railways of the United States was 1,163,138, of which 26,511 were in tb» passenger service. The number of tons ol freight carried one mile per freight engin! was 4.L’1,629‘ and the number of passengers carried one mile per passenger engine was LM3,142. JThe total number of men employed on the railways of the United •States was 749,401, being an increase ol 15,558 over the number employed in 1889 The number of passengers carried during the year was 429,430,865, the number oi tons of freight 636,441,617. The total number of persons reported by railways as being killed during the year was 6,320 4 and the total number reported as injured wa» !3.034. Of the total number killed. 2.451, were employes', 285 passengers, and 3,58 i classed as “other persons.”

NEARLY THREE HUNDRED LOST AT SEA.

’S A dispatch from Manzanilloo, Mexico says the American steamer Roseville has arrived there and reports passing the brig Tahiti at sea, floating bottom up. Th« Talilti created a sensation September 3C last by putting into Drake's bay, Sap Francisco, in distress. She had 370 Gilbert Islanders on board under contract, for work in Mexico at starvation wages These men were practically slaves and there was much talk seizing the vessel. 'Collector Phelps, however, decided he had no right to detain her and the brig left. It seems almost certain that all on board have been lost, as the ship’s boats were still with her and nothing has been heard of any of the survivors. The wreck must haxß happened at least a month ago. Beside the inlanders, the vessel had nc board officers and a crew of twenty men making a total of 291 on board the ill-fated craft

THEY SHED TEARS When Their, Pastor Announnced That He Was to Become a Catholic.

Rev. James Spalding. D. D., the cele. bra ted Episcopal divine, pastor of the historic Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sunday, in his pulpit, mad< public, per announcement, his reasons fo> his resignation from his charge and withdrawal from his church. He formally acJiri ow I edge, t Ji Is Intention of joining th! Catholic church, saying that after long and mature reflection hq_hjtd become convinced that it only had the unity of fait!) and dogma that would satisfy the earnesj sttidentof Christiauity, and Its claim ol authority tn exnonnding the truth an< ,truths of the faith best founded. H 4 claimed a general tendency of Protestant* ism toward deism, its zeal of irreverenci and its doom. The congregation shd tears as he left the pulpit.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Bob-sleds are in vogue at Goshen. James Kuntz, of Peru, is 110 years old. A heavy snow storm raged in Virginia on the 30th. ~ ~~ "s 7 A robber cave has been discovered in Miami county. The persimmon crop in Southern In- , diana is abundant. Farmers of Delaware county will establish a co-operative mill and warehouse. One of the Tennessee prisoners released by the miners was -captured at Greensburg. The finest steel hull of its dimensions ever launched in the West went into the river at Jeffersonville Monday. Abraham Barker, the New York dealer in commercial paper who failed in August for $4,000,000, has been indicted for grand larceny. G. Glessnor, of New York, secretary of the People’s United Legion, which has offices in Boston, has disappeared with SIB,OOO of the funds of the order. The Chilian Government, it was announced Monday.,has no intention of offering an apology or granting an indemnity for the recent massacre of American sailors. A mob made an unsuccessful assault on the Indianapolis jail Monday night, with the object of lynching Jesse Bissow, a rapist. For want of a leader the mob failed of its object. * J -- - The recently suspend'id firm orFieid Lindley, Weichers & Co., brokers, New York, are found to be without assets and with liabilities of SBOO,OOO. Field istheson of Cyrus IV. Field. The g a n elevator of the “Soo” road, at Gladstone, Mich,, was burned on the 29th, together with $150,000 bushels of grain. The dock caught fire and several thousand barrels of flour and tons of coal were also destroyed, A west-bound train on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad was held up at Glendale, eight miles out from St. Louis, Monday evening, by six masked men, and ’he ex press car and registered mail of the postal car robbed. It is believed a large sum of money was secured. Mrs. Jefferson Davis has sued the Belford Publishing Company, of New York.to recover royalties on the sale of her book, “Jefferson Davis, ex-Presidentof the Confederate States; a Memoir by His Wife.” She also seeks to recover possession o the publication, alleging violation of th boh tract.

At Hammond, Sunday, five persons were severely bittewvby a supposed mad dog. A little boy named Reiley had his clothes literally torn from his body. Dr. Mullen, a prominent physician, and W. B. King were also attacked by the Infuriated animal. The dog frothed at the mouth, seizing hold of people and burying its poisonous teeth in human flesh. The Associated Press report on the : effects of the McKinley tariff law in France is reproduced by >ll gbe leading I journals of Paris, and is pronunced a most interesting document. Apropos of the question of admission of American pork. M. Siegfried, member of the Chamber of Deputies, says that the United States wil be able to introduce salt meats in France .In spite of the French duty, but that if i the United States Congress would diminish the,duties on French silks; woolen* ■ and cottons, a reduction of the French duty on American imports would be read- , Ily granted. A treaty of commerce with ■the United States, he added, was most desirable. I On West Main street, Muncie, are the two wives of one man, with their eight children, in destitute circumstances. They , are Mrs. Sheppard Falkner, No. 1, with I leven children, and Mrs. Sheppard Falkner, No. 2, with one child. Three years ago i Falkner was divorced from wife No. 1 at i Watseka, 111. Leaving her with seven ' children, he married No. 2 at Champaign, I lit, and moved to Muncie a year ago. Re- ' cently No. 2 has been in poor health, and i It was agreed to send for No. 1 and FalkI ner’s children, who were in a poor-house, The woman accepted the offer, not aware that she was to enter the home of another woman, for whom she was to act as servant, but she was in a helpless, condition and consented. It has now developed that Falkner soon tired of the gossip caused by the strange situation, and he has aban* dohed the whole party, leaving, them in quite a dramatc position. Jesse Jacobs is a murderer, for. Ilka Cain, he has slain his brother. The deed was committed at Boyleston, in Clinton county, and that vicinity Is in intensest excitement over the crime.. On Friday, Ellsworth Jacobs, tho victim, went to Frankfort, and after drinking and hanging about the saloons, returned homo to Boyleston in a reckless state of intoxication. Entering the village store, he found a party of men, one of whom was his brother Jesse, sitting at a table playing pedro. Being refused the privilege of playing, the drunken man playfully began an interference in the game, which resulted in his brother kicking him out of tho room. At the door he drew a knife and staggered to ward J esse. The latter, retreating, snatched up a wagon neckyoke and felled his brother to the walk. Friends gathered around and pickdd him up, and Jesse started home with him. However, he took him only as far as the barn, covering him with straw and leaving him until morning, when a doctor wa* summoned, who pronounced his injuries fatal. He died Sunday night. The murderer was not jailed until Monday, and he was found weeping bitter tears W|th the rest of the family Circle that clustered about the bedside of the dying man.

[?]sning in Georgia.

They have a new way of catching fish down in Georgiy From four to six men go into tho water with a log in front of them and a sheet with one edge on tha log and the other edge held up by the men so that the fish cant jump over, but fall in tha sheet. The log is pushed along to the land, rifid when near it tho fish begia to try to make their escape back to the deep water by jumping. If they fail to make a good leap they lodge oa the cloth, thereby becoming vicUau of their own destruction.