Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. *#■ j ;- -■iWiilT mi H.~ ? - . - Gxuxb E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

“And the Lord plagued the people because they made the calf, which Aaron made.” Round headed or shepherd’s crook walking sticks are alleged to be dangerous to those who use them habitually. Constant pressure in the palm of the hand from this source has been known in numerous cases to have produced a paralysis of the hand and arm. It is important th at sensible people who carry canes from necessity, or even vanity, should be warned of this lurking enemy of their future usefulness. The M. D.’s have testified to the facts, and common sense should teach that in this case they are right, even if they have failed to demonstrate the success of the new morphiae antidote by numerous experiments on cats and dogs.

We have beei looking for this and are in a manner prepared. When inexperienced persons play with gunpowder and fire a catastrophe is likely to result. The Brazilian war has been a harmless pastime for insurgents and nationalists, but the rebels have at last oome to grief through an accidental explosion of a magazine on one of their own vessels. The. child’s play reported as having been going on, that by courtesy has been called war-, has not resulted in so many fatalities as this accidental explosion on the Venus. The ship went to the bottom and the captain and crew perished, notone escaping to tell how it happened. This is sad, but those who “ta&a-the sword, must perish by the sword.” or 'get biowed up, to bf the scripture. It would never do to have a war and nobody getjiurt. A GObp Chicago lady, pious and a regular church goer, has been expelled from her church for drinking a glass ol sbeerrin a S&toon.' aTO pocjd H .All iimocence, *)eV up‘ A she drank the beer when she went to the saloon to collect the rent because the proprietor, on hospitality, bent, WtQpi Tlie 'saloonr - fIMWJ vUMgoodSlieCiaid,' and she did not like to offend him by refusing. The defense (tailed noth-' ing and the pious landlady was cast out into the cold world. The matter did not stop there, for the good woman proceeded to unearth a numtion who owned property that was rented for. business of an immpralThe reyelations caused a sensation and several pieces of city property changed owners —at least as records" - show. The city papers state that if all ahureh members .equallyguilty were Served in the same vigorous Jashion the membership would suffer a ser■sus numerical and financial loss.

Our readers do not perhaps use reet tears a great deal,’still it is &■ resting Io know what a nickel when they do. For instance, it has recently been held by a Chicago legal luminapy, and the position hasnot as yet been overruled* that a person entering a??street car and paying fare becomes a party to a a>pd is boupd to . wait till the car goes—no-matter how long. It is held .that he cannot recover his fare, off and walks, ho thereby relinquishes his legal rights' land the. pohtrict ‘becomes void —the street cat Company retaining possession of the nimble nickel. It makes no difference to the company rtf,the,map chooses to walk. True, he might have ■walked Without paying his nickel, but this legal light holds he had Do right to do so after having paid for his ride. The position taken by the corporation’s attorney may be summed up: As long as you stay on the car you may not have a ride but you’ll have a contract; if you get off and walk you are breaking faith with the company and ought to be held to account for it.

The Sunday Inter-Ocean,**March 4, gave an extensive write-up of gambling in Chicago. It estimates that there are from 1,500 to 2,000 professional sports in that city who prey upon the wage-earners and reap a luxurious living without toil. The dens are almost innumerable, and the traps that are laid to catch the unwary are ingenious and varied. Many of the places are magnificent in their appointments and luxurious in all their surroundings, but the less attractive resorts are quite .39 successful and are more largely patranked, The authorities are practically powerless to reflate the evil or purposely neglect tq attempt fry!

enforce the laws, and the J tiger” has an almost undisputed sway. Snide games and barefaced robberies are matters of daily occurrence, and although an occasional arrest and fine follows the discovery of an especially aggravated case, it causes but little comment, and is regarded as a matter of course. People who suspect themselves of any tendency to “greenness” would do well to take a guardian along when visiting the World's Fair city. Probably the most amusing feature of the long-drawn out discussion of the silver question is the petition now alleged to be in circulation in Colorado mining camps, looking to a secession of the silver producing States from the Union. It is proposed that these disgruntled citizens shall attach themselves and their silver mines to the Republic of Mexico. It seems incredible that sensible men would waste their time in an agitation so utterly foolish, or seriously contemplate an enterprise so absolutely visionary and hopeless. Yet the information that such a movement in contemplated is apparently trustworthy, and there may be a possibility that Uncle Sam may yet have to send a Gatling gun and a squad of artillery out West to suppress this latest venture of unbalanced minds. Seriously, while such a secession movement could never hope to succeed, there is no doubt that a few thousand desperate and determined men, .fully Acquainted with the mountain fastnesses of Colorado, could give the government at Washington a vast amount of trouble before they could be conquered.

The entire civilized world Will in the near future be joined together in a network of cables, and intelligence from the most remote quarters of the globe will reach us by their sympathetic nerves before our jeorrespondent at Possum Trot has gathered and mailed to us his Weekly budget. The .latest enterprise of this character is a cable..,line across the South China Sea from Borneo to Hong Kong? The route has already been surveyed, and the work cable’ laying will soon begin. British-oap’ ital will Control the company ahd the, cable will be of English manufacture. Naturally its workings will bfe manipulated to the advantage of [ British , commerce. British capiljalists a vast system’ bf Asiatic ocean cables, and English l have taken the lead in all parts of the world in the cable-laying busiAmericans, to whose ive genius the world owes the; stub.marine telegraphic cable, have (fallen behind in the competition for'their • cofiStrhetiqn began fifty cables are good as those manufactured inlEtag-* land;' but we' can not;- "it ig claimedjcompete in price with those of ifln,glish manufacture! The tru.e vexplanation, however, of this unsatisfactory state of affairs is our lack of capital to make investments bring-' ing a small percentage of return and extending over a long term of years.

Tale of the Dismal Swamp.

N. Y. Sun. Three and a half miles west of Aldie, jLoudoun cpupty, Va. ? is tb.o Jocallyjfhhibus “bllqjv’s.yfijmp,” and.a strange story has been- current thereabouts for the ..better .part, of, this century. Jesse McVeigh livedlong,ago in on old stone house on the edge of the swamp, and there yame Ao him once astranger- asking shelter. The stranger was taken in. and he lived there for five. •He never went beyond the swamps for'* exercise, and he took elaborate precautions at” night to guard ag&inst’ surprise. l When he died a ‘Stranger from a neighboring village caineland : claimed the body, professing tip .recognize the dead man as an acquaintance. The,stranger who claltned th.o foody,was .the dead man’s l cson, and he afterward became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The father, a wealthy and well-educated Marylander, but a man of ungovernable temper, had slain a guest at his own table by breaking his skull with a decanter. The homicide’s place of hiding was hardly more than fifty miles front the scene of his crime.

Queer Soathern Custom.

New York Sun. The United States Government is doing what it; can by precept and ex ample to bring order out of thf chaos of geographical names in this country. One source of confusion in the South is not the uncommon custom of giving county seats twe names. One may be anything, the other is usually the name of thi county, with C. H., for court house, attached. Ft grew up, doubtless, in times when the county seat consisted solely of the court house. The United States Government seeks,te drop the initial C. H. and to adofif one or the other name alone in the cases of such county seats. It would be a pity, however, to alter in any way the historic Culpepper Court House. Bleeding at the nose Is U&ually controlled by holding the arms of the !patient straight above the head.

CONQUEST TO CONQUEST

“All Hail the Power of Jesus' ——. Name.” ■-I From Conquest to Conquest the Word of God Proceeds—Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. Dr. Talmage, having returned from his Southern tour, preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject, “From Conquest to Conquest,” the text being taken from Amos ix, 13, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper. ” Picture of a tropical clime with a season so prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting time, and the swarthy husbandman swinging the sickle in the thick grain almost feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper.” When is that? That is now. That is this day when hardly havd you done reaping one harvest before the plowman is getting ready for another. An Arab guide was leading a French infidel across the desert, and ever and anon the Arab guide would get down in the sand and pray to God. It distrusted the infidel, and after awhile as the Arab got up from one of his prayers the infidel said: “How do -you know there is any God?” And -the Arab guide said: “How do I know- that a man and a camel passgd along our tent last night?, I know it by the footprints in the sand. And you want to know how I know whether there is any God. Look arthat sunset. Is that the footstep of man?” And by the same process you and I have come to understand that this book is the footstep of a God. But now let us see whether; the bible is a last year’s almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is in a Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing all the way. The great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning ancLoLgreat accuracy, not a clergyman. but an attorney as well us, a historian, gives this overwhelming statistic in regard to 'Christianity and in regard to the , number, of Christians in the -differ-, ep t cen to rips,:, I n the. first..century, 500,000 Christians; in the sebdnd century,’ 2,000,000 ChristihnS; iri the third century, '5,000,000 Christians; .in the,,: fo.u.rth, ypntury,;,. 10,000,000 Christians: in the fifth, century, 115,- , 100,000 ChtistianSy 'id thii Sikth .dgn,- _ tury,- 20(000, W OtifiiStians! fin j'the , jpyen th, ppp^qr.y,. 24,000,0Q(h' Cljijisin the'eighth century, 30,000,'-' ’ 900 ' Chris'tiah's; Yri thd' fiiirtH centurypGODOOjOOft jGhristidnspln (she. ; teqth, cqntuyy,fiO,ooo, poll Ch rip tian s; ’ tn the, eleventh century.l,o,ooo,ooo in ;i thb*''tW'effth k cehtu| i y,' ' 30,000,000 Christians; inmthb tHir-’ tqynth . -754100,000 Cfeiiism tiar.s: in the .fourteenth centurv r <OOO,OOOO -C'frris'tiahs;' i-fi' ! Hie fifteenth Sdentucy, • OIIJO, 000,0001 'ChrisJaaps# ..sixteenth - centqry; Christians: in thqseventdeiith ” Wttiry. 1 155'.(100.000 ’ ChtWtiarrs;in dhe decade; las you .opseryeph ope century and more thnn inhde'llp irf the 'following con’tiufies,'whilb it is the' ilsual .tatibn that there will. be when thp. record,of ,4he ; nineteenth penury is made up, at ledst dOOIOOOJIOO.Chris’-’ tians'

Poor Christianity!. What a pity i,t has ,up ; friends.l How lonesome:it must be!' Who will take i| out of. the poor hbusd? 1 Pbor Christianity! 1 Three hundred millions in'one century. In a. fe-w t weekg of .1881 1 12,qQ0, - ; DOO' copies of the Ntew Testament"’ distributed.'Why,’the earth'is like an old castle with twenty gates and a park’Of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay. aside all Christendom and she how heathendom iS-beingsurtonndcd and honeypombpd -and attacked by the all? .conquering gospel. At the begijv. hmgbf this 'century 'there were only 150 misbfortaries. Now there; are 25-,poo.tnissdouaries .and native Helpers and evangelists. .At the. beginning of this century there .were paly SO.WV Hehth&rt'' converts. Now there are 1,7»U,UM1 cohver ts,f .-.am .heatliendom..; .: mi . .. There .is pot a seacoast on," the planet bift a ! battery ot" the gospel is • planted and' steady' to march l on v nortip south, east, west.; You all. know that the chief work of an army is to plant the batteries. It may take many days to plant the batteries, and they may do all their work in ten minutes. These batteries are being planted all along the seacoasts and in all nations. It may take a good while to filant them, and they> may do all their work in one day. They will. Nations are to be born in a day. But just cdpie back to Christendom and recognize the fact that during the last ten years as many people have connected themselves with evangelical churches as connected themselves with the churches in the first fifty years of this century. So Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, they say. is becoming an obsolete book. I go into a court, and wherever I find a judge's bench or a clerk’s desk I find a Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the solemnity of an cath? What book is apt to be put in the trunk of the young man as he leaves for city life? The Bible. What shall I find in nine out of every ten homes in Christendom?’ The Bible. You know that there- a thousand men would die in defense of this book where .there is not more than one map; who woqid die ip. defense of any other book. You try to insult

my common sense by telling me the Bible is-fading out from the world. It is the most popular book of the century. How do I know it? I knowitjuSt as I know in regard to other books. How many volumes of that book are published? Well, you say, 5,000. How many copies of that book are published? A hundred thousand. Which is the more popular? Why, of course the one that has 100,000 circulation. And if this book has more copies abroad in the world, if there are five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book, does not that show you that the most popular book on the planet to-day is the word of God? The infidel says, ‘ ‘lnfidelity shows its successes from the fact that it is everywhere accepted, and it can say what it will.” Why, my frierids, infidelity is not half so blatant in our day as it was in the days of Our fathers. Do you know that in the days of ou r lathers there Were prb.nounced.infidels in public authority, and they could get any political por sition? Let a man openly declare himself antagonistic to the Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, whafi State wants him for Governor, what nation wantshim for President or King? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of onr.glorious Christianity, and he can not get a majority of votes in any State, in any city, in any county, in any ward of America. People used to say: “There are so many different denominations of Christians. That shows tnere is nothing in religion.” I have to tell you that all denominations agree on the two or three or four radical doctrines of the Christian religion. They are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ, and they are unanimous in regard to the divinity of the scriptures. How is it on the other side? All split up. You can not find two of them alike. Oh, it makes me sick tp see these literary fops going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under ihe other arm, telling about the “survival of the fittest” and Huxley’s protoplasm and the nebular hypothesis! They do not agree about anything. They do - not agree on embryology; do not agree on the gradation jof thespecies-. What do they agree on? Herschel writes a whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon .was not put in the fight place. He says t’hat if it had been, put four times fqrthei* from the earth than it is now there would.be more .harmony in the uni-, verse, but. LionvULe comes up j' .time tq prove that.the mqon was.puti in the right place. .... ~M , ; ’ How many colors woven info the light? ( ‘ Sbven, “says Isaac NeWtoh? Three, says Dayid Brewster. : How high is the aurora and a'fial'f' miles,, ",sayo, Aun'dred’arid ‘sixty'-eignt’j mjLas| bays l ■Twining.- ' Howfar ls' thA sun; freimv thfiiearth?, Sewntysslx million miles,. rsays u 1 ’miles; says Humboldt' Ninety millionl -'miles,' says' 'Hbndcrsbn.’ | fp.qr million milesj says Mayer.’ Only a little difference br 28 5 000,000-'mile^“ r ' ‘ >o Then you .notice a more significq.nl,; fact, if you havg .tailed with,, people on the subject,' thaj; thejr are getting dissatisfied with pnildsopnl audtscil ep.ee.as. a.mat ter of .comfdrt: ’ Thqy .say jt do.es, npt amount to anything when.you dead child in the

house. ’ They tell you; whep; they: were sick and the door of. the future SCemed ' opening the Ohly comfort, -they could. ,find was in the gospel! People are having demonstrated all over the land that science' afid pbil-! .osophy caninot solace, -the .trouble thq world, and.they wartt some btber religion, and they are. taking Christianity; the only sympathetic, religion that'ever came into the world. • Talk about ' the - exact' sciences; ■ there is-'only one- exact'science. It is not mathematics. ■ Taytor’b logarithms. have many, imperfections. .The on.ly,exact .science is Christianity—the only thing w.hjch yqu can appropriately write, \‘Qupd erat, 'demonstrandum."” You tell me that two arid i two make four. Ido nfit dispute it, but it is not so plain that two and two’make, lour as 'that' "the Lord God "Almighty made 'this World! and for man the sinner, ire'sent his only -begotten son' to die. ■ Here are some- men who isfiy they' have never seen Christ-browned in .tire- heart, and they, do not believe jt is ever done. There/js a group of men who say they have never heard the voice of Christ. They have never heard the voice of God. They do not believe it ever transpired or ever was heard—that anything like it ever occurred. I point to twenty, one hundred thousand or one million people who say: Christ was crowned in our heart’s affections. We have seen Him and felt Him in our soul, and we have heard His voice. We have heard it in storm and darkhess. We have heard it again and again.” Whose testimony will you take? These men who say they have not heard the voice of Christ, have not seen the coronation, or will you take the thousands and millions of Christians. who testify of what they saW with their own eyes and heard with their own cars. Yonder is an aged Christian after fifty years’ experience of the power of godliness in his soul. Ask this man whether when ho buried his dead the religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through the long years of his pilgrimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him when he looks forward to thq, future if he has not a peace, and a joy, and a consolation the world cdnnpt. take away. £u,t his testimony of what he ' has seen and what ne nds felt oppo-

sita the testimony of a man who says he has not seen anything on the subject or felt anything on the subject] Will you take the testimony of people who have not seen or people who -have seen? - - • I feel that I have convinced every man in this house that it ‘is utter folly to take the testimony of those who have never tried the gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart and life. We have tens of thousands of witnesses. I you are ready to take their testimony. Young man, do not be ashamed to be a friend of the Bible. Do not put your thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swagger about talking of the glorious light of the nineteenth century, and of there being no need of a Bible. They have the light of nature in India and China and in all the dark places on earth. Did you ever hear that the light of nature gave them comfort for their trouble? They have lancets to cut and juggernauts to crush,-but no comfort Ah, mv friends, you had better stop your skepticism. Suppose you are puffin this, crisis: Oh, father, your child is dying! What are you going to say to her?

AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE.

And When It Was All Over the Station Agent Mended Tilings, Louisville Commercial. At a way station on the. Louisville and Nashville one winter the‘Station keeper had an exciting time. It was midnight, and the station being-in a deserted part of the country had been left by the loafers. It beghn to rain. The station keeper was not sleepy and.determined to sitj up a greater part of the night, especially as he had an unusual sum of inoney in his cash drawer, and he felt pneasy about it. y Robberies of stations and farmhouses down the line had been frequent. So he settled himself down to a vigil? As' he felt hungry he took a can bf Cove oystdts down from the shelf and set it On the stove. A moment afterward there was a knock at the door and he admitted a; cold, drenched tramp, whom he allo toed to liqcjptoto by the fire,. Just tpep. a train came around the bf'tid and the station agent stepped outside to. display’ th'e go-ahead 'signal. He’ felt diitoiiStfdl'df the'tramp and 'eared that he' would fool -with the mqhpj’' drawer. As the train passed h i bur ; ried;ipto ;; the,r,QQm. aud- had sc irc'cty" opened .the Uqqe asd seen the mamp standing by the jstove with somethifig glistening "in his hand when , there was a report pud ..the...agent felt 'a Sti‘fi^h'g I 'sihfi^!at'i i 6n’ over his dyjßito tuil Joni cmjaww-' v? k b|inop l d l with frbtn’ th.e.wound, he drew his pistol;,mid? fifed' five 'tittieS ); lnsP?fHe' 'ifilbfr. Ha : fiibu dashedzDouudi < W ’M f S’ After an hour s timeme crawreUouv,'f u liilM 1 pioney <and>iihalnkful I ? ari !’ the fire was put. The tramp .had cvicfehJiiy'iisfelitJeicl toith hl's 'Sbfrd 'fowfuhy the •agent lit mdijhtoi, but •instantly it when tarnti sigljt met h'js-'eyes,? He lit ’another" ofito; i fOiind' i a i ehmlle'£bttf gUWd iabewt ■ ■ atthhiscone,'4f.dfcsolati()h,|>,oi'.!...... . The Ipnqp had bceiji, sba.ttey.p4 by a bullet. A cheese '■ had ’ been’’perfor J' altoiL-iVith two bAlletS? The room I whsfified, withsmoke from, .the stove ' pipe, which a fourth bullet hai perforated. ' Ht'rhhgest of all, the room. w&’S'filled' With'-cinders, and* jystcr fresCeed ’ every thing> .(Oyster, oysteys, oysters, cove ,.,Thq f aren’t' giisped and healtzea it all. The c&n had remaiiiefd hi Ithe stove tooilopg and being spalefi ujj had exploded from |he, steam when the. tram^'hohed.the fire. Of dodrqe. t|ic 'tramp' sliipped when thd commenced. The .cash dr.awef ,’ss3 intact. A piece of tin was founidnear; thh dobfi. wherb* it had ' recqilbfl: ( W 1 ' the;agent’s face. Thb agentepbnt the remainder of th,p..night. i«.> fiqnding the stove. . . ~, , ' j

ACME OF CONTENTMENT.

Dificovery of ithe Facial impression otthat Condition of. thq ,Mipd. —' ' ' ’ * j fri, * I have finally discovered thefociaL expression'whith typified Win acme ' Ofpbdtetitamntj • • By 'good,iright? it should belong to it doesn’t. , Man, with - his chlin!,' sdperiotr .wqy of appropriating all the nite, gbdd thipg?, has stowed, thk away in his vest pocket also; ad if you .wish to see the 1 fide rCflf'ctioti' of f pristine joy wiith the dew of perfection upon it just observe the fleeting ipomcnt of crystalized satisfaction which follows the lighting of a good cigar by one of creation’s self appointed lords. It does not last, but vanishes with the first puff and red glow of fire. There is an anxiety connected with the lighting of it, and a Common, everyday solace in the smoking of it, but that trifling second of time during which the smoker tosses away the match and leans back in his chair is apparently so deeply fraught with a heavenly —otherwise unattainable —state of beatitude that it is perfectly, excusable for the respectfully watching woman to long to be a man. ‘' * i It looks to be the combined essence .of his first love, his last big haul on the Exchange, that memorable bottle of an ancient i wine sent to him, and an acrepf CalifrtrniS roses with the thorns stripped off. And what more could any reasonable man want? . .There is nothing like ft for us. The nearest we corny to it is whqo we don our very newest gown., but 1 Hill that contentment is nevef perfect, for. some one) is sufe to.tel pa.tjiere’s a wrinkly irp, ttfe [back pf the color turns us into frights."* 1

THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

How the Extinction of That Bodj Might be Brought About. New York Sun. • —— Let us consider in. detail the method by which the extinction ol the Lords could be easily and quick ly compassed. We will assume, as a condition precedent, that the ( proposal to abolish the hereditary legislature has been submitted to the people, and has been sanctioned by an immense majority. We have no doubt as to the result of such an appeal, from which such prudent men as the Duke of Devonshire naturally shrink, foreseeing that the test would reveal the appalling weakness of their order. The House ol Commons, which should ba the outcome of such a test, would simply need to pass a resolution refusing to send up thereafter any bills to the Lords, and ordering the Speaker tc submit all measures passed by the people's representatives directly to the crown. Such a refusal to recognize the Lords could, of course, be described as unconstitutional and revolutionary, but we repeat that the revolution would be a peaceful one, for, sooner or later, the crown would acquiesce in the position taken by the Commons. It could do nc otherwise, for the Commons, possessing the power over the .purse, have the crown at their mercy. They can withhold the civil list, and they can withhold the appropriation for the maintenance of the/standing army provided in the annual mutiny bill, which must emanate from the lower branch of the Legislature. But the crown would never provokc.the Commons to such,..extremities. Its advisers wpuld instqhjtly point out that the principle bf ’’monarchy has survived the principle of hereditary legislatures all over the continent of Europe: that it would bean act of madness for the throne to imperil its own existence by supporting a moribund ahd anarghronistic institution against the determined purpose of the nation. Nor is there a particle of doubt that iffihe crown were foolish enough to defend the Lords it would inevitably share their fate, whereas, if it sidM*with the Commons, it would acquire an im"mense' accession of popularity and influence. . .'• ?;i i( ., " It is, in 1 fine, at the ballot box that the British cOnstitu'tW'd' 'tpay be amended, and there is no power in the ebuntryathat can set aside the nation’s verdict. Let the electors once retuhn a Hous'A’bf Commons pledged to abolish hexaditary legislators and' thb House' of Lords will be endedin spito of legal i principle and' .precedent of constitutional' traditions. ' Queen Anne Marylander. Kent county last year used nearly ' 100,000 ' bushels . of. dy^tSl&hells on its roads.in the-wayi ©f.)umpire and ihrprdvements. Kbtft buys ner shells by the..barge load of 8,000 to 10,000 bushels .in i3a'Ltim6re; J l“ ‘gpuld supply herself even more cheaply than Kent. The lime of the year is now approaching when the Milds' should be be any lasting improvement to re- ■ stilt fi’bm fifie wbtK clone on them. If the farmer supervisor waits until fie has planted, cultivated and laid by his crop before he works the roads, he might just as .well not w.ork. them at all, for he will only make/tliem woyse fojr' v Wsct winter. It,is impossible in this flat country ha-yg good roads except they are a drained, secondly, graded so as ed the water and thirdly graded and drained in'thfe'bAHy‘spring. If this ife 'done, then they *lll get so -packed by the use of thorn/through thq ‘spHfig. summer -apcF autumn that they will, hot put up ftp soon and badly in the winter, Packing is what makes a .lasting roller, weighing” five tonS,/gould be run overJhe Mads as they * are Shaped up in'tod a wagon with'two tons-ondt, would make no impression on. its surfaofi iiiu passing over it'lifter that until the road was • loosened, nagain by tha frost next . wlnpierj’-i.'it- 1 1".*. . mihq

Plain Talk to His Lordship.

St. Louis Republic, , j. e T A venerable and pompous English Bishop was having. \hls Iportrait painted by an eminentantist. After sitting steady for an hour in silence, the churchman thought he would break the monotony with a-remark: “How are you getting along?” he inquired. To the astonishment of the Bishop the knight of the palette absorbed in his work, replied: “Move your head a little to the right and shut your mouth./’ Not being accustomed 1 to such a form of address, his lordship said: “May I ask why you address me in this manner?” The artist, still absorbed in his work, said: “I want to take off a little of your cheek.” The Bishop collapsed.

A Cowboy Musician.

Jofieph Diem, who died ’in Constance a few days ago, began life as a Bavarian cowherd, ami became later one of the most famous violincellists in Europe. He,received his musical education at the conservatory in Munich, and, under Cassman, in Weimar. He went' to Moscow for a time and taught in the conservatory there. He returned to Germany in the seventies, and soon [became kopwp .in all principal -eitefi/of Europe.