St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 May 1889 — Page 4

aXTOES'Wiei BY HLEGRAPH. ELECTRIC FLASHES. LATEST TELEGRAPHIC news from all parts OF THE WORLD. Political Gossip, Railroad Rumblings, Personal Mention, Conflagrations, Accidents, Crimes and Criminals, Minor Occurrences and Erents. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Turing the Month of April It Was Decreased Several Millions. The following is a recapitulation of the public debt statement for April: DEBT. Bonas at 41$ per cent. « no ■u.i .inn Bonds at 4p Jr cent * m,-’'ti' 71 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent.. ’12J790 Ibwl'm^R 1 n° U 1T 3 per oeut - ■ ■ 14,000.000 lat Inc Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Interest 11 * 963,628,612 luteioat 6,547,318 MEBT ON WHICH INTEREST hls 'ceVeD SINCE Principal maturity. 'Total,.., $ 2,086,931 pkb t 'bearing no interest. ,Qsd demand and legal-tender notes. S 346 737 823 Certificates of deposit 14,580,000 Gold certificates 136,614,789 buyer certificates 254 939 203 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934. estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,916,319 Principal $ 750,7^554 „ . . , total debt. 1,0“ $1,665,349,112 I Inteiest 6,702,41)4 T ^' OU }' $1,672,051,607 1 Less casli items available for reduction of tho debt $414 769,028 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 $ 514,769,023 Total debt lies available cash items 157 <282 578 Net cash in the Treasury.' 55^77450 Debt l,ess cash in Treasury Slav 1. I, 889 . 1,101,605,428 Debt less cash in Treasury April 1, 1889 '51,114,683,662 Decrease of debt during the month $ 13,078,264 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1888 . 63,979,228 CASH IN treasury available for reduction of the public debt. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding .• $ 136,614,789 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 254,039,203 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit 14.580,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 8,634,250 .Fractional currency ’ '786 Total available for reduction of the debt $ 414,769,028 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin 24,975,567 Minor coin 923,900 Total $ 25,199,473 Certificates held as cash 24,345,263 Net cash balance on hand 55,678,150 Total cash in the Treasury, as shown by Treasurer’s general account $619,990,915 CANADA DIVESTED OF LANDS. Hallway Companies Fast Getting Possession of Fertile Northwest Soil. Mu. Dewdney, Minister of the Interior, said in the House at Ottawa, Ont,, that up to the present time the Dominion Government has given 35,000,000 acres to railway companies, which together with the 5,000,00(1 now proposed to be voted makes a total of 40,000,000 acres. The area of agricultural lands in the fertile belt of Manitoba ami the Northwest was 135,000,000. By deducting the lands in Manitoba and the reserve of 40,000,000 acres for settlement corresponding with the area granted to railways, it can bi seen that the Dominion has divested itself of all the good agricultural land in the Northwest. AROUND THE DIAMOND. Base-Ballista Competing for the League Championship. The official standing of the ball clubs that are in the race for the championship of the associations named is given below: National. W. L. U c Western. W. L. U a New Y0rk...4 1 .800 Omaha 6 2 .750 Phllada 3 1 .75t>|St. Joseph...s 2 .714 Pittsburgh. .5 2 .714,5 t. Paul 5 2 .714 Indianap.. ..4 3 .571 Denver 4 3 .571 Chicago 3 3 .509 Sioux City.. 4 4 .500 Boston 2 3 . 400 Des Moines. 2 5 .285 Cleveland.. .2 4 .333 Milwaukee. .2 6 .250 Washington.o 4 .... Minneapolis 2 6 .250 American. W. L. o| Ipter-St. W. L. c St. L0ui5...12 2 .857 Davenport. .3 2 . 600 Athletic 8 2 .809 Quincy 3 2 . 600 Baltimore...7 4 .636 Springfield. .3 2 . 600 Kansas City.7 5 .583 Burlington. .2 3 .409 Cincinnati...s 8 .384 Peoria ,2 3 . 400 Brooklyn.. ..4 7 . 363 Evansville ..2 3 .400 Columbus... 2 8 .2001 Louisville.. .1 11 ,083| Eulogizing Gen. Butler. The twenty-seventh anniversary of Gen. Butler’s occupation of New Orleans was observed by the Butler Club at the United States Hotel, in Boston, Mass, ■275 gentlemen paying their respects to the General and listening to addresses in •eulogy of him. Off for Europe. The Hon. John Sherman, the Hon. John C. New, Consul General at London; the Hou. W. W. Thomas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, and Lincoln Valentino, Consul to the Honduras, have sailed for Europe on the steamer City of New York. Probably Lost at Sea. The schooner Shiloh, which sailed from Gloucester, Mass., on a fishing trip to George’s Banks on March 26, is supposed to have been lost. She carried a crew of fourteen men. Quarantine Raised. Dr. Porter has ordered the quarantine restrictions raised at Sanford, Fla., such action being justified by the sanitary condition of the city. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Oliver Perry Lewis, of New York, fixed the day and hour of his funeral, sent invitations to his friends asking them to attend, and then, arrayed in a full dress suit, went to Central Park and drowned himself in a reservoir. A sheriff’s jury at New York declared Joseph Dion, the well-known billiard player, insane. He is now in the Bloomingdale Asylum, and believes himself to be a religious reformer. Charles E. Woodruff, ex-City Clerk of New Britain, Conn., has confessed that in the past six years he has forged notes for $500,000, but has managed to make all good save about $40,000. He is now in jail, the result of his reckless speculation in real estate. H. B. Spofford, historian and poet, died at Clarendon, Vt. President Barnabd of Columbia College, New York, is dead. A cargo of 1,150 tons of manganese iron ore from Macri, Turkey, reached Baltimore recently, consigned to the Edgar Thomson Iron Works. Another horrible tragedy has taken place near Somerset, Pa. Jacob D. Shaulis. a wealthy farmer, 60 years of age, who lived

I in Jefferson Township, eight miles from Somerset, was found dead hanging to a tree back of his residence. Lying in the barnyard a few feet away was his young wife. shot through the body and fatally wounded. After an investigation David and George Shaulis. sons of the old man and stepsons of Mrs. Shaulis, were arrested. They were taken to Somerset and lodgedin jail, charged with the crime. It is alleged , that the old man committed suicide first, and then David, his son, attempted to kill 1 his step-mother, who is only 25 years of age, to prevent her inheriting the estate, the two boys hoping by this means to secure the estate themselves. A cyclone blew down a circus tent at Washington, N, J., injuring a number of persons. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The Hon. E. M. Haines, ex-Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and a member of the Thirty-sixth General Assembly, died at his home in Waukegan, 111. The much-dreaded disease of smallpox has broken out at Guthrie and other Oklahoma towns, and hundreds of unfortunate persons are returning to their homes. There is a scarcity of water in that country, provisions are worth their weight in gold, and the situation is anything except what sanguine boomers anticipated. The railroads are appealed to by impoverished persons to take them from that “promised" land. From the fact that J. J. Waldo has accepted the position of traffic manager of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road, it is assumed that the International Railway I Association is “on its last legs.” | An unknown man attempted to shoot I Aiderman Jennings of Moberly, Mo. i John Oakes, who murdered Cashier I Morse at San Bernardino, Cal., has received a life sentence. There is considerable excitement in Saline County, Missouri, over the discovery of gold near Arrow Rook. At Helena, M. T., John J. McGrady has confessed to the murder of Barney Creegan in Maryland last February. The last of the constitutional cases brought before the Indiana Supreme Court has been disposed of in an opinion reversing the decision of Judge Howland and holding that the act authorizing the temporary loan of $1,400,000 is constitutional. Under this decision it is presumed there will be no difficulty in negotiating the loan, and the calling of an extra session of the Legislature will not be necessary. There is great excitement at Plainview, Minn., over the discovery of immense deposits of iron in the hills near there. The result of a critical test shows a yield of 60 to 00 per cent. The land has long been considered useless and was bought up for a song. Several representatives of Eastern capital will make a thorough investigation, with a view to developing the tract. ACROSS THE OCEAN. Consul Smithers, at Tientsin, reports to the State Department at Washington, D. C., that the Chinese Government has recently authorized an extension of the Tientsin and Tongshan Railway, which will make it possible to reach Pekin from Tientsin iu about three hours, whereas it now requires as many days. The Consul says that the opposition of the conservatives having at last been overcome, China may now be said to have fairly entered upon a career of railway construction. FRESH AND NEWSY. The gray cotton manufacturers of Montreal, Quebec, have decided, in view of the advance in the price of raw cotton, to raise the price of cotton doth from 1 to 2 cents per pound. The review ot trade for last week, reported by R. G. Dun A Co., is as follows: Reports indicate a continued improvement in trade, and even in the iron and woolen branches the signs for the present are more favorable. Money is accumulating, and there is plenty at all interior points; collections are generally better, though no improvement is seen at Milwaukee. The iron market continues nnsatistory, and Southern No. 1 is sold at $16.75, and a sale of steel rails at less than $27 at the mill is reported. But the feeling at Philadelphia is clearly improved. In the wool market also a better feeling is noted. In drugs and chemicals also, another trade which has been dull, distinct improvement is observed at Philadelphia, with collections in better shape and prospects higher. In most of the speculative markets prices are lower, and that fact, also gives promise of larger and freer trade. Wheat is two cents lower at 83 cents, with sales of 40,500,000 bushels for the week; corn is IQ cent lower at 42% cents, and oats one cent lower. Coffee has not changed, but speculation in sugar has turned downward. There is no change of consequence in pork products, and oil is a fraction stronger, but leather is again half a cent lower, butter two cents and cheese half a cent lower, and flour has declined for some grades 59 to 70 cents per barrel. Speculation in cotton is still strong, and the price is an eighth higher. Since April 1 the fall in the average prices of all commodities has been fully half of 1 per cent. The dry goods business is fairly on a level with that of last year, and prices are well maintained. It is a good sign that collections in this branch seem to be generally improved. The grocery trade has also been more active. The business failures numbered 213, as compared with a total of 246 for the previous week. The Government crop report for the week ending April 30 says: In the grain regions of the central valleys and in New York and New England the season is from three days to one week in advance, while in the Northwest the seasonable temperature has been unusually high and especially favorable to farm work, which is from ten to twenty days further advanced than usual. The rainrail for the week has been below the normal generally throughout the cotton, wheat, and corn regions ot the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Valleys, except in Eastern Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin, where large excesses are reported. The seasonable rain-fall continues in excess over the Eastern Rocky Mountain Slope from the Texas coast northward to Dakota. There is a large deficiency in moisture in the Ohio Valley, where the rain-fall for the season has been about one-half the usual amount. Over the greater portion of the winter-wheat region from 60to 75 percent of the usual amount of rain has fallen, while in Missouri and eastern lowa there has been about 90 percent of the normal rain-fall. In all of the States west of the Mississippi, from the west gulf northward to Minnesota and Dakota, the weather during tho week was favorable to all crops and fruit, which tyu reported in splendid condition, and corn planting is progressing rapidly. The deficiency in rain-fall from Kentucky northward to Michigan has retarded the growth of crops, which are greatly in need of rain. A dreadful disaster occurred on the Grand Trunk Railroad, two miles west of Hamilton, Ont. Tho limited express from Chicago was hurled from the track, the wreck caught fire and eighteen passengers were roasted alive in the blazing cars. Two others were killed outright. The express was crowded with people, the majority of whom were from Chicago on their way to the AV ashington centen- ’ nial celebration. Some eight or ten got |on at Hamilton. Ihe train was coniI posed of an engine, two baergage cars, a I smoker, a Chicago and Grund Trunk ’ through passenger coach, a Wabash coach, ; a Wagner first-class coach, a Pullman ■ car, and two Wagner sleeping-cars, in the order named. The train was running at a speed of twenty miles an hour. On passing a switch the engine Hew the track and plunged into a water-tank, smashing the tank into atoms and turning the en- ; gine upside down. The baggage-cars came directly after the engine, and the tirst of these was pitched over the locomotive and thrown on the main track, leaving its wheels behind it. The other baggage-car caught fire Iron the engine, and the two were soon in flames. The coaches following, with the exception of the two Wagner cars in the rear of the train, were huddled together by the shock, and immediately caught fire from the baggage-car. When the cars caught lire heartrending scenes were witnessed. Pinned beneath the

wreck were many victims, and as the Are slowly approached them their screams could be heard half a mile away. From the smoker hardly one escaped, the charred remains of eleven victims being found among the ashes. Next to the smoker was a tirst-ciass car, and bet ween the seats in this a man and a woman were pinned. Their appeals were ■ pitiable, but the tire slowly drove the i would-be rescuers back. All that re--1 mained of the two was a handful of charred bones. Blood lay around in pools, and the shoes of some of the rescuers were actually coated with brains. The twenty roasted unfortunates were burned beyond recognition. The loss to the Railway Company will be very heavy. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS Those AV ho Have Been Successful in Their Aspirations. Ex-Governor William M. Stone, of lowa, has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office. Division Inspectors of the Postoffice Department have been appointed as follows: Gen. Warren P. Edgarton, of New Jersey, assigned to Philadelphia, vice Timothy O’Leary, resigned; George A. Dice, of Illinois, assigned to St. Louis, vice B. F. Guile, resigned; Geo. L. Seybolt, of California, assigned to San Francisco, vice L. A. Kirkwood, resigned; W. C. Baird, of Illinois; J. D. King, of Illinois; and J. Q. Culver, of California, have been reinstated as Postoffice Inspectors on Mail Depredations, under Civil-Service Rule No. 10, they not having been separated from the service more than a year. George AV. Gitt, Chief of Division in the Pension Office, has been dismissed. The Secretary of the Ireasury has appointed Daniel* A. Grosvenor, of Ohio, to be Chief of a Division of the First Comptroller’s Office. He is a brother of Representative Grosvenor. President Harrison has made the following appointments: Dr. Daniel Dorchester of Boston, Mass., to be Superintendent of Indian schools. Warren Truitt of Dallas, Oregon, to be Register of the land office in Lake View, Oregon. Thomas B. Baldwin of Folsom, N. M., to bo Register of the land office at Folsom, N. M. James R. Mo. Gouigle of Colby, Kan., to be Receiver of publio moneys at Oberlin, Kan. Benjamin H. Shulter of Minnesota, to be agent tor the Indians of the White Eurth agency in Minnesota. Benjamin J. Horton ot Lawrence, Karn, H. J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kan., and A. D. Walker, of Holton, Kan., to be commissioners to negotiate with the Prairie band of I'ottawsttimuee and Kickapoo Indians in Kansas for the sale of all or a portion of their lands in Kansas, and the allotment of the remainder in severalty under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1889. John H. Baker, of Goshen, Ind., to be a commissioner to negotiate with the Cherokee and other Indians for the cession to the United States of certain land, as provided in section 14, act approved March 2, 1889. The following appointments have been made: J. M. Baker, of Michigan, Assistant Superintendent ot the Railway Mail Son ice , C. P. Uw renson, an Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service in the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, has resigned; Luther Caldwell, of New York, Chief of the Bond Division in the Postoffice Department, vice Morillo Noyes, resigned ; Francis A. Weaver, of Pennsylvania, Chief of Division of Lands and I Railroad in the Interior Department, vice John McMurray, resigned. The Navy Department has officially announced the appointment of the Board of Visitors to tho Naval Academy at Annapolis. The members will be as follows : Upon the part of tho senate 11. M. Teller, Colorado; M. C. Butler, South Carolina. Upon the part of the House of Representatives H. A. Herbert, Alabama; Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio; William McAdoo, New Jersey. Appointed by the President Prof. O. Root. Hamilton Colli go, Clinton, N. A'. ; Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, President of Ruso Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind , Gen. F. A. Walker, President .Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.: L. C. Garland. President University of Tennessee, Nashville, Teun. ; Commodore George Brown, U. S. N.; Edward T. Steele, School Lime, Germantown, I‘hiladvl- 1 phia; Stewart 1.. Woodrfod, New York. I District Inspectors of the Postoffiee Depart- I ment have been appointed and assigned to duly ■ as follows; C. C Hearss, of Indiana Cin< innati, O.; AV. H. Patterson, of Kentucky. Domer, Colo. ; Gen. E. G. Estes, of North Carolina, Washington. John M. Specs, of I’ennsi Ivanin, has l» 111 appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. W. H. BARNUM DEAD. Ex-Senator William H. Barnum. Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, died at Lime Rock, Conn. He had been confined to his bed but two or three days, but his death hud been momentarily expected. He hud been very feeble ever since his sickness during the Presidential campidgn. Ex-Senator Barnum was born in 1818, ami received only a common-school education. While

a boy ho found no pleasure in study, but curly in life evinced the remarkable liking for business which ultimately gained for him his vast wealth. His beautiful mansion is situated at Limo Rook, Litchfield Coun- ; ty, Conn., about forty ; miles from New Haven. Mr. Barnum's > public political career .began with his election Plto the Connecticut w House of Representa- ' lives in 1851. He was f re-elected the next year. In 1866 he was elected to the House of Representatives at Washington,and again

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in 1868 and 1870. HU popularity may be gauged by the fact that on the last occasion ho was the only Democrat in the entire Congressional delegation from his State. Upon the death of Orrin F. Ferry, Republican, Mr. Barnum was elected to fill tlie vacancy in the United States Senate occasioned by that event. His term expired in March, 1879, when he was succeeded by Orville H. Platt, a Republican. During the campaign of 1876 Mr. Barnum rendered valuable service to the Democratic cause. After the nomination of General Hancock for the Presidency in 1880 there was a serious difference of opinion as to who should be made Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The matter was referred to the candidate for his decision, when he selected ex-Senator Barnum, thus conciliating Mr. Tilden and his friends, who favored the choice of the astute politician of the Housatonic Valley. As a political manager he was cautious and wary, uncommunicative and sagacious. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Prime $4.00 © 4.50 Good 3.50 & 4.00 Common 2.50 & 3,50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 & 5.00 Sheep 4.0'1 & 5.25 Wheat —No. 2 Red 80 t® .80'j Corn—No. 2 ,33’^0 .34 Oats—No. 2 .21 & .22 Rye—No. 2 40 0 .41 Butter —Choice Creamery 21 09 .24 Cheese—Fu' Cream, flats OO'nf® .Wj Eggs—Fresh W 0 .11 Potatoes—New California, F bu 1.75 @ 2.00 Pork —Mess 11.25 011.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat Cash 77' v 0 .78 Corn—No. 3 331 a 0 .34!^ Oats No. 2 White... 27 0 .27J<j Rye No 1 42 1® .43 Barley- No. 2 56 0 .57 Pork—Mess 11.25 011.75 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 © 4.50 Hogs 100 © 1-75 Sheep 460 & 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Red 85 © .86 Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 35 © .35G Oats No. 2 White 27 09 .28 TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2 Red 88 © .89 Corn —Cash 34 hj© .35' 2 Oats—No. 2 White 26'4® .27' a NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 & 5.00 Hogs 5.00 © 5.75 Sheep 4.00 o 9 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 84 © .86 Corn -No. 2 45 & Al Oats-White 35 0 .40 Pork—New Mosh 13.00 ©13.50 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 at 4.50 Hogs 4.25 0 5.00 Wheat- No. 2 80 © .81 Corn —No. 2 .SO © .31 Oats 23 09 .24 Barley—Wisconsin 63 © .70 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 3.75 © 4.50 Hogs 4.50 & 5,00 Sheep 3,00 & 4.00 Laubs 4.00 & 6.00 CINCINNATI. Hogs—Butchers’ 4.00 @ 5,00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 © ,84 Corn—No. 2 36 09 .37 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 26 0 .27 Rye—No. 2 .48 © .49 Pork —Mess 12.00 09 12.50 KANSAS CITY. Cattle—Good 3.00 © 4.50 Common 3.00 © 4.00 Stockers 2,50 09 3.75 । Hogs—Choice 4,50 09 4.75 Medium 4.00 0 4.50 ! Sheep 3.50 0 4.75 . '

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of tho Lesson —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Keflectlon —Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures—Thue Well Spent. Tho lesson for Sunday, May 5, may b* found in Mark 13: 24-37. introductory. ‘‘Watch* is the key-word to this lesson. What does it moan? Looking oust or west, face alert, straining the eye for a coming form. That in part. But there is something else in tho watching our Savior enjoins. It is such a care of tho life as will tit one to best receive his Lord when he chooses to oome. This is the true Gregory, watcher. “Watch for me," says tho mother at the threshold. One child sulks and idles away tho hours, watching tho hands of the clock, or gazing up tho long road for 11 glimpse of a familiar figure. The other betakes him* self to tho wonted tasks and to the things jnother wishes to have done. AVhich one is ruly found watching when tho parent reurns? In all things wo scan the heavens 00 muoh and our lives too little. Frederick Robertson wrote among his " Resolves " oi 1845, “To get over the adulterous-generaticn habit of seeking a sign. I want a loud voice Jrom heaven to tell mo a thing is wrong, whereas a little experience of its results is enough to prove that God is against it." Live justly, walk humbly, have faith — that is watching. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. In those days. Dr. AV. N. Clark chooses to look upon tho time as now past, and referring to the destruction of Jerusalem, the subsequent language being considorod figurative and couched in strong Hebraistic hyperboles. Wo prefer, however, to view the words as looking forward to events not yet consummated, the whole panorama of mundane history passing rapidly before our Savior’s eye, and sketched in brief, pregnant sentences. It is the language of one with whom a thousand years are as one day After that tribulation. It is simply subsequent to tho events befoi e narrated. Christ is speaking of last thinus in general, the “those days” being eschatological days; and ho portrays coming events as related in this great scheme, without reference to other intervening incidents in time. To use Ellicott’s sagacious observation: “As mon gazing from a long distance soe tho glittering heights of two snow-crowned mountains apparently in close proximity, and take no account of the vast tract, it may be of very many miles, which lies between them.”—— Darkened. As narrated iu Bev. 8: 12. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. With, great power and glory. Tho time of His open triumph is approaching. His power and glory Christians already proclaim, but the world doos not yet acknowledge it. Tho day is drawing nigh when they shall no longer gainsay tho King of Glory, but shall fall before Him, though it bo to their infinite shame, and confess His “groat power ami glory.” The Lord is now rejected and by the world disownwl, By the many still neglected and by the few enthroned. But soon He'll come in glory the time is drawing nigh. For the crowning day is coming by and by. Gather together the elect. It is a bright hope. We all sorrow over loneliness, and there comes a thrill to tho heart at times as there comes to us tho thought of tho groat assembly of the ehureh of tho firstborn. "What a gathering that will be!" Our t'riehd from Japan lias just been tolling us, his comrades, meeting about the banqueting board, and tears the while shining in his eyes, of what longing sometimes oppressed his soul in distant and benighted ’solution for kindred sympathy and fellowship. Think of it, brothers, everywhere; ■fi m tho four winds, from tho uttermost part of the earth"—God "shall gather together his elect." Some time, lone, Teary toiler, there at your tusk, you shall look up and seo God’s angel sent for you. Learn a parable of the tig-tree, or rather, leurit the .fig-tree's parable. Let tho fig-tree touch you her lesson. They uro all touchers. Hugh .Miller wrote of his life-work amidst luturo s rocks and mountains and culled his • land book My Schools and Sohool-Mas-ters"--God bless him lor it! Everywhere he went, with pick ami hammer he was learning of life and God. 'The rocks, tho trees, have a message for us. 'Tongues in tro»'n, books in the running brooks, tii i nions in stones, and goo^l in everything." And nature is full also of predictions. God uses tho earth to herald his coining, ind to admonish man by many signs and tokens to prepare lor the coming of the rreat and notable day of the Lord. Have we ’earned from nature “her parable?" It is nigh, even at the tloors. The revision (ays, “He is nigh." At Christ’s approach there shall be. as it were, tokens of his nearaess. Have we tho discernment to reeoglize the threshold signs, these knockings it tho outer door ? It so. wo must keep very tear to the word, and deeply imbued with the spirit of the Christ. When tho Lord losus oame in tho flesh there wore only inna and Simeon, a few star-guided wise »on and a groupof angel-\isited shepherds •o recognize him ero he gave public declaration ot his mission. Shall it bo so again Then tho day of his second coming breaks ipon us? My word shall not pass away. Like himielf, it was impossible that they should bo Solden ot death. Did he not say, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit *nd they are life." The most living vital thing loft amongst us to-day is this word of h'Uth. The guards fell, the seal melted tike wax, the stone was tolled away. Christ Was stronger than they. So some time the ijky shall be rolled together as a scroll, the elements shall molt with fervent heat, but Christ’s words shall not pass away. They ero stronger than all else here, and when oiundane things shall bo consumed the truth pt' God alone shall stand unscathed in the general demolition. Says AV. N. Clark, "Tho Bible is tiie only book that shall last into eternity." It lasts because it is the nature ot God who is eternal. Treasure the word. For ye know not when the time is. Ceriainly not, if angels and even Christ in his mediatorial capacity, did not know. Strangely enough. Christ importunes us to jonsider the times, and yet assures us that ^ie day itself shall come upon us as a thief n the night. The same lips that say “know jhat it is nigh," add “for ye know not when ’he time is." That is. of the general apQroach of that day wo may become aware. Sut its breaking will be with the suddenness ¥f tho lightning flash 'This, Indeed, the jarable of the “mjin taking a far journey” teems to imply. Tho length of tho journey and tho work given to every man sot some reasonable boundary lines and means of testing. They may help us along with other signs to discover when the Master is approaching and is “nigh." But as to whether he shall come “at even, or at midnight, or at cook-crowing, or in tho morning," no man can tell—“but tho Father.” And what I say unto you I say unto all, watch. AVhy not unto all? Watching souls are loyal souls: waiting in working. That watching spirit has been the life preservative of the centuries. How many have live'd and died in the faithful keeping of those words! And shall tve say that with any of them, living or dying, their watching was vain? They saw not the "notable day.” but to each of them the time of mortality ivas a veritable day of tho Lord. Dr. Boise has just been conducting his class through tho strong, stirring sentences of Peter’s epistles, and when asked concerning those passages which describe the Lord as near he has quoted reverently and with a peculiar emphasis the sweet words of our Lord iu John 14: I go and prepare a place for you. And it Igo to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself .thiityvhero 1 am there ye may be also." If wo watch rightly for such a coming we shall not fail of a proper preparation for the coming that is with clouds and glory. Next Lesson: “Tho Anointing at Bothi any." Mark 14: 1-9. CluiiigiiiK His Direction. “Hello, Rambo,” said Baldwin, greeting his friend on a railway train, “which way are you traveling?” “G-going home, Baldwin,” replied Rambo, sometvhat thickly. “Well, you’ve boarded the wrong train. Yo\i are going in exactly the opposite direction from your homo.” “Thassho?” exclaimed Rambo. “I guessh 1 c’n tixsh that. Cnducfr! I’m (itic) goin’ wrong way. Come ’ere ’n’ turn thish b-blamed seat over!”— Chicago Tribune. The fees for ascending the Eiffel tower are five francs to the top, three francs to the second platform, and two ! francs to the first. The three plat- ’ lorma will hold 10,000 people.

The Causes of DeatfL Our readers are doubtless all familiar with the Robinson poisoning cases, which have ; recently come to light in Somerville. Mass., a suburb of Boston. | It seems that eight deaths have occurred from arsenical poisoning, seven in one fan»Hy, and within live years. It is doubtful if the murderers would have been brought to justice had not tin organization in which the victims were insured began an investigation as to why so many persons had suddenly died in one family. But the sensation, from a medical point of view, connected with the case took place in Boston at a recent meeting of the Massa- । chusetts Medico-Legal Society, when it was I stated by Dr. Holt that there was general ignorance of the symptoms of arsenical poisoning,and because of such ignorance the j Robinson poisoning cases had gone on without arousing tho suspicion of medical men. I The Robinson cases tvere all treated by regular physicians, with correct diplomas, men supposed to know what they were doctoring for, and to know the effect of drugs on certain diseases. Yet, in the live deaths from arsenical poisoning of which we speak, certificates of death were given for pneumonia. typhoid fever, meningitis, bowel disease, and Bright’s disease. Such a commentary on the general ignorance of the medical profession, made by j one of its own number, we believe to be : without a parallel. Is it any wonder that patients are losing faith in their doctors? Here were five ablebodied people slowly poisoned with arsenic before their very eyes, and yet these very wise medical men were doctoring them for pneumonia, typhoid fever, meningitis, botvel disease, and Bright’s disease. In the very same manner thousands of patients are being treated this day for pneumonia. heart trouble, dropsy, Incipient consumption, etc., when these are but symptoms of advanced kidney disease, which is but another name for Bright’s disease. The doctors do not strike at the seat of the disease —tho kidneys, and if they did nine times out of ten they would fail—as they are on record as saying they can not cure Bright's disease of the kidneys. , Rather than use Warner’s Safe Cure, a well-known specific for this and all other forms of kidney disease, they would let their patients die, and then give a death certificate that death was caused by pericarditis, apoplexy, ■ phthisis or cardiac affection. Is this not the honest truth? Do you not know in your own personal history very many instances where physicians doctored the wrong disease and caused untold suffer‘ng. and, many times, death? AVhich leads us to remark that very much can be learned by one’s self by careful observation, and that the doctors are very far from having a monopoly of the knowledge of medicine or disease. Promotion. As young Smithers moved out the card-table,, he asked casually: ” Where is that bright red table-cover you used to have? 1 always liked that * table-cover.” ‘‘You’ll never see that table-cover any more,” interposed little Tommy. ‘‘Tommy,” said his sister Clara, “run away and play, there’s a dear.” "I Avon’t,” answered Tommy. “Sister’s “Sh! Tommy, hush.” “I won’t,” answered Tommy again. And ns he was bustled from the room he yelled: “Sister’s Sunday petticoat’s made outer that table-cloth.” To DUlodgo tho Enemy, When It takes tho form of disease of tho kidneys or bladder, Is a task well nigh impossible of acoouiplishment. Renal and vesical maladies uro more obstinate than ruiv others. Counteract, therefore, the earliest indications of inactivity »J the many organs with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which possesses, among other exAdlent qualities, those of an efficient diuretic. Tho degree of stimulation apparent from its use reaches, but never goes beyond, tho bounds of safety. It invigorates always, never irritates, Bright's disease, diabetes, catarrh of the bladder, are diseases successfully combatted in their incipiency with this benign medical stimulant and । tonic. Besides reinforcing and regulating the kidneys and bladder, tho Bitters is a specific for favor and ague, constipation and dyspepsia. Eau Douce. CuHtomer "That cologne is very cheap ut ten cents a hottie. Is it good?” Shopkeeper “That depends upon what kind of an imagination you have.” “How is that?” “Why, if your imagination is vivid, the cologne is good.” "And if 1 can’t imagine much?” "The cologne is only passable.”— Yankee 111 tide. Deiifness ( an’t Be Cured. By local application, us they cannot reach the diseased portion ot the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu- . tional remedirs Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube, Wliou this tube gets in- , flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect , hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inthuumation can ' be taken out and this tube res ored to its norl nial condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition Os ; , the mucus surfaces. , ’ AVe will give Oue Hundred Dollars for any , ease of Deafness caused by calarrhi that we cannot euro by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure, bend ' 1 for circulars, free, F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. i Hf.—Do you know. Miss Bessie, vour father reminds me of the Czar of Rusi sia. She Indeed, Mr. Wilts? Ho— Yes, but Avith this difference: The ' Czar has all the ]>ower in his hands, while your father seems to have it i i mostly in his feet. 100 Ladies Wanted, ! And 100 mon to call daily on any druggist ■ I for a free trial package of Lane’s Family i Medicine, the great root and herb remedy, discovered by Dr. Silas Lane while in the Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys it is a positive cure. For constipation and clearing up the 1 complexion it does wonders. Children like it. Every one praises it. Large size pack- ( age. 50 cents. At all druggists. Gray hair is now fashionable—ex- ; cept in butter. Consumption Surely Cured. To the Editor: Please inform your readers ; that I have a positive euro for Consumption. ; By its timely use thousands of hopeless । cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption, if they will send me their Express । and P. O. Address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. C.. 181 Pearl St., N. Y. ; I cannot sing the old songs, As 1 have been requested ; When last I tried to warble them The Mayor had mo arrested. If afflicted with Sor* Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25a That Tired Feeling ’ Is experienced by almost everyone at this season, , and many people resort to Hood’s Sarsaparilla to drive away the languor and exhaustion. The blood, ! laden with impurities which have been accumulating for months, moves sluggishly through the veins, 1 the mind tails to think Quickly, and the body is still I slower to respond. Hood's Sarsaparilla is just what ■ is needed. It purifies, vitalizes, and enriches the 1 blood, makes the head clear, creates an appetite, overcomes that tired feeling, tones the nervous system, and imparts new strength and vigor to the whole body. I “My appetite was poor, I could not sleep, had i headache a great deal, pains in my back, mj bowels did not move regularly. Hood's Sarsaparilla iu a [ short time did me so much good that T L>el like a new man. My pains and aches are relieved, my appetite improved." Georue F. Jackson, Roxbury ! Station, Conn. > “For years I was sick every spring, but last year took Hood’s Sarsaparilla and have not seen a sick ’ day since.” G. W. Sloan, Milton. Mass. 1 Hood’s Sarsaparilla ' Sold by all druggists. $1; six for U>- Prepared only ' by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar 1 DAnTEIiITO F. a. LEHMANN, > rATtnITS * iMT last lecture with hints and r",7T“ • । weak Men helps for complete home eure.P'lJjL ; VVm ID— Dr.R.F,Caton.Boxs2s7.BosUm.l JSj

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