A TORTURED MAN,
WHAT A
RTAND,
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orl ' PROVED A BOOMERANG JOKE.
ogsible now to lay up anything for a | are on the roada nnd streets of this land toe ———
a Y. od Know it, but we are at the day- | dav little children, barefooted, unwashed
of OnE SPOR 0 , i 3 a $
Ht onal pat a Fiby. Somt people | nnd unkempt —want on every patch of their with an English Reporter,
+ iL 18 ean to turn the gas low when | faded dress and on every wrinkle thelr
out of the - | prematurely old countenances, who would] MAaDy good stories are being told
; © ri 'v ava y 3 " y Jf Lallros N "he 8 .
Lif the doo wre they have churches to-day, and as well | about the late Prof. Blackie, and some | A Railroad Man Who Knows What Saf.
Photographed Out of Focus,
Under the pretext of a consclentious
realism it has become the
practice of latter-day writers to devote
How Professor Blackie Once Fooled WONDERFUL MAN CAN
"REY. DR TALMAGR
The Eminent New York Divine's Sun -
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have beon in
their exclusive attentions to the drains
and dustbins of humanity, and then,
with supreme effrontery, to claim cred-
it for the brave, beautiful and eman-
cipating of their labors.
Their accuracy of detall may be photo.
graphic, but the result is
to a photograph in
character
comparable
which one feature
or limb is preposterously out of focus,
And, as a matter of fact, it often hap-
pens that this vaunted accuracy entire
ly to satisfy the of
science.—London World.
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CURE FOR
H LS
day Sermon.
Subject:
idden de
t
n hur
perat ye i
If the
vages and the
Khe followin
observation
his six
Marring
fiv
he weddit
kK extra eve
haut:
lng empl yment,
eyesight, Wi
ment to the day employmen
Why did he waat to get mo
something for a rainy
life insured, so that in his
wife would not be a beggar? N
the extra evening work to the day w
he might get nn hundred and Atv dollars to
got his wife a sealskin coat. he sister of
the bride heard of this achievement, and was
not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and
ghe sat up working nearly all the nights for
a great while until she bought a sealskin
cont. I have not heard of the result on that
street, The street was full of those who are
on small incomes, but I suppose the eon
tagion spread, and that everybody had a
ning en
i with the day's v
It alr
get his
HY © death his
He put
rk that
and cried, practically, not literally: “Though
cont!"
pel told me, in Lowa, that his chureh and the
neighborhood had been impoverished by the
fact that they put mortgages on thelr farms
in order to send their families to the Phila
delphia Centennial, It was not respectable
not to go to the Centennial, Between such
evils and pauperism there few very short step,
The vast majority of children in your alm-
haonges are there because their parents are
drunken, or Inay, or recklessly improvident,
1 have no sympathy for skinflint saving,
but I plead for Christian prudence, You say
1
ie hall lighted, ‘hoy Le ys for
plain meal, if vou rise them at the
Wall ly to pile upa mi
talk
Jug-
Have vou
Inquisition,
of the eru
hem all at ones, 3
ward of the hospital where
pee inebriates are dying, the stench of their
driving back the attendants, their
ding ti igh the night? The
ea up and save, “Hush, now, bw
p making all this noise!” But it
tual only for a moment, for as soon
they begin again,
3
sing
en in the
the keeper is gone
“Oh, God! Oh, God! Help! Help! Rum!
Give me Help! Take them off me!
Take them off ! Oh, God!" And then they
d they rave, and they pluck out
their hair by handfuls, and bite their nails
into the quick, and then they groan, and
they shriek, and they blaspheme, and they
ask the keesper to kill them ‘Stab me!
Smother me’ Strangle me! Take the devils
Oh, it is no fancy sketch! That
rus
yi !
~
shriek, a
land, and I tell you further that this is go-
ing to be the death that some of you will
| die, I know it, I see it coming.
Again, the inebriate suffers through the
wa of home,
I do not care how much he loves his wife
and children, if his passion for strong drink
| has mastered him, he will do the most out
{ rageous things; and if he could not got
drink in any other way, he would sell his
family into eternal bondage. How many
{ homes have been broken up in that way no
{ one but God knows, Oh, is there anything
{ that will so destroy a man for this life and
| damn him for the life that is to come? I hate
| that strong drink. With all the concentrated
energies of my soul I hate it, Do not
| tell me that & man can be happy when he
| knows that he is breaking his wife's heart and
| clothing his children with mgs, Why, there
1
eld a are, but for the fact that rum de
stroyed their parents and drove them into
the grave. O rum, thou toe of God,
Her of hot , thou
pit, I h :
¥
uh
desn
Of tha
recruiting offi
Ig Just One (
in
inte
wong
Put
briate
! the our Ww uld
the maniacs
yin this seryvio
'n and
idren tne
would
) it aprinz dav to
ut th AWAY to the last
all of south wind the
1 up all over the grave
f the resurrection! God
has a balm such a wound; but what
lower of rt grew on the blasted
heath of a drunkard’s sepulehre?
aap
out som
y, and §
t the
sweet prop
mf
ir aver
CENTRAL AMERICAN FEDERATION.
An Experienced Opinion of the Sentiment
of the Five Republics,
General Plarce M, B. Young, United States
Minister to Guatemala and Honduras, now
at home on leave, says: ‘I believe a large
majority of the intelligent patriotic citizens
of Central America would like to soe a union
I believe that at this time
men, The Government of the United States
has but one sentiment for these republics,
and that is affection,
“In the five republics there are, perhaps,
4,000,000 of people. The population of
Gustemala is, in round Eo 1,000,000,
The people are intensely American in sent!.
ment, and are groat believers in the United
States, Their (dea is that federation should
be based on the Constitution of the United
States,”
Production of Aluminum,
The production of aluminum in the United
States in 1804 wns 555,000 pounds, The time
ports were valued at #4110. Bauxite has
wen found in sufMelont quantities to be come
mercially valuable in only three localities in
the United States. These are in New Mexion,
Arkansas and the Coosa valley of Georgia
and Alabama. Aluminum has now found
the position in the arts predicted for it, and
the demand is judsqming, Its metallurgioal
use has proved more valuable than was ex.
peated,
others will doubtless see the light An
the ban-
of the
monyu-
amusing episode occurred at
}
quet which followed the laying
Jug
foundatie tl
Lil
Abbey Cral
Wallace
, near Stirling.
of the pr
mn stone of
ment on
Prof. Blackie was one
red
}
prepa
At
about an ners 18 nowa
days, and it until Blackie
gan to speak that the late Thomas Paul,
chief reporter of the Scotsman, inform
other papers
that time ther a8 nore myst
thing
these
wis not bie
ed his colleagues on the
that had proofs in his pocket with
which, by Prof. Blackie's instructions,
t}
he
mn TT}
Sein. Lhe
he would supply grateful re-
porters ce wi 11 but
were
taking
thelr labors,
Paul
Tey wok and
putting down every word ¢
to them that wis
wrong.
8 he signaled
thiere something
was soon out, for Prof
fering Means and What Joy There is
in Hellef,
Herald, Ball
Highest of
To Oats 3
Latest U.S. Gov't Report
i
Bakin
Pow.
NO ONE TO TELL THE TALE.
of the Greatest Known Ex-
plosion of Gunpowder.
Origin
osion
in the
gd OCioeR
pagazine
through
like noth!
wagon
plosion
ked Into large wooden
with tin, each b ing
foet
gabhove
wheel
were
pa boxes,
about
The tin linings profes
tops of the boxes about two
square
thos
and, wh a box was packed,
folded down over a tin cover fitted
It
1s ”
of the warkmen
fnches en
ware
1 er
ClOB3EN
upon the cakes of powder
was the
William Green, to solder these tin edges
down upon the tin cover, a hot iron be
ing used for this purpose.
On the day in question what he fear
ed came to pass. A fellow workms
William MeGarvey, was bringing
hot irons from a charcoal brazier
about twenty-five yards distant. Green
stood just at the door of the open mag-
azine, and all around him were uncov
ered boxes filled with the hexagonal
powder, ready to be sealed and stowed
away. There were also dozens of boxes
that had been sealed. Just what hap
pened will never be known, for neither
Green nor McGarvey were left to tell
the story, but the probabliity 1s one
of we soldering irons was a little too
hot and by touching a particle of dirt
on the tin cover produced the deadly
epark.~MeClure's Magazine
I 5855550
Arithmetic and Dress,
Teacher--1f your mother had twenty.
five yards of stuff, and made a dress
containing eighteen yards, how much
would she have left?
Little Girl-Mamma can't make her
own dress. She bas tried often, and
they are always either too
Teacher~8Suppose she sent it to a
dressmaker, how much would the dress.
maker send back?
Little Girl-Depends on which dress
maker she sent It to, Some wouldn't
send back any.
Teacher (Impatientiy)-8uppose she
sent it to an honest one?
Little Girl--8ome of the honestest
ones cut things to waste, so that there
fa never anything left, no matter Yow
much you send ‘em,
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the
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