:
<OTES AND COMMENTS.
Without a pass no child can go to
school in Russia, or adult make a short
trip. The government derives a big
revenue from passes—that's why.
A Baltimore man who long has been
afflicted with a nervous trouble tried
to commit suicide, shot himself
through the head, and is now appar-
ently well and entirely cured. Ventll
ation sometimes is a great ald to
health.
The aggregate bonded debt of the
cities of the United States is over
£500.000. 000: that of the cities of Eng-
land, $1,025,000,000, and that of the
cities of France, $640,000000, In the
last seventeen vears the increase in
the debt of American cities was 5116,
000.000, and of these of England
000.000,
R005,
are 300 farmers’ clubs in
Michigan, with a total membership of
20000, and they are being urged to
look sharply after the nominations for
the State legislature at the next elec
tion, and see that they men
who will care for the farmers’ inter-
ests. It is proposed to have a club in
every township.
The rinderpest and the drou
said, have brought the Orange
State to the verge of ruin. The droutn
has lasted for ten months, and still
continues, A cabbage is sold
shilling, and there
in carcases of bhul-
locks. Jusiness ig being wound up all
over the place, and trade almost at
a stand still.
There
to g0 to
for a
If no meat except
worn-out w
agon
iw
A Colorado man whe
turned from the Klondike
tune in nuggets and gold
antly exclaims
to sweat for
Klondike
that with an
ture of HO
tion rarely inter
of picking ug
regions
verage
degrees
“1 am willing
no place to
is better to
moral
ninet
woman abou
eentl
to a large d
laid
hands on.
she averred
Jock ed
streets.
A Georgia
be the largest
ermelons ever
section. The
Railroad opens
farming lands,
cent this road
a large acreage in
also be more melons planted alo:
line of the Georgia Sout
da Railroad than ever
year the melon-growers
owing to a light cre
money, | this year
they are going to very
the
r
hold of what
up to sj
paper
cage
before
Sparks, Mc
acer
wl
up
and the
are preparing t
mel
farmers adja
Lo 0 plas
ns
hern and
hefore
made
looks
tion,
into exister
repre
ences,
senting
to
:
stained glass designers
parent
tors, a
engineers
to appoint
branches
estate and
These sub-
respective]
pavements, ;
other things «
tifying of the m
words it
taxpayers
comm
matters of parks,
cart and
beau.
othe
on
rchitecture, public
the
In
an organizat
experience
onnected with
etropolis.
r
of
whenever it
OT Ine
toward architec
tion will
step
rfec have
read before the London Sta-
giving the
insanity
A paper
tistical
ipal
centage
of them, declares
Society, eight
prin-
causes of and
of cases
Only
in a hundred cases
of ciassif
lover are
self, ing to t
gponsgible, if somewhat !
authorit is a kind of transient
tending, he
» goes on
on the luna
her LIi(
he analyse
ati
get
rated tc
acord
ULSY
jes
ywever, to
and restore
to ways of iableness and san
Of the other causes of madness
same can hardly be said, their
showing much greater potency
persistence Drink
resSaon
the
force
and
is set down for
about one third of all the cases; a like
proportion i8 ascribed to domestic
troubles and mental anxiety: old age
and adverse circumstances are includ
ed in the classification, the cases re-
sulting from each being about thirteen
in the hundred; while only four in the
hundred are set down as due to re-
ligions excitement. Thus among the
causes enumerated religion and love
are, contrary to the general belief, by
far feeblest in their operation.
In line with the efforts which are
American
lands from complete devasta-
A. Schenck, the manager
the fa-
mous Biltmore estate, near Mashville,
N. C., maintains that the only practical
solution of the forestry problem rests
the co-operative institutions
formed within towns and cities and
designed for the purpose of protecting
the forest belts within their immedi-
ecighhorhoods. While Dr. Schenck
es to admit that towns and cities
would be much better |
forest
tion, Dr. C.
is
themeeives
account of the resources at thelr com- |
mand and the perpetual character of
sich corporations can ve induced to
WEEKLY SERMONS.
Rev, FT. DeWitt Talmage's Weekly
Discourse.
—
in enterprises of this kind,
therefore, is to create strong
cities of the country for the fal
purpose of protecting contiguous for
lands Dr. Schenck is firmly con-
that stockholders in such cor-
would be sure to draw good
from their investments in
run, if not in the beginning,
the experiment, if once un-
would inevitably prove suc-
cessful. As forests are rather slow in
coming to maturity, Dr. Schenck sug
zests that charters incorporating for-
organizations be granted for a
term of years than in ovdinary
preci
ost
vineed
porations
dividends
the long
and that
dertaken,
“Stirring Folks Up'wFonrtesnth Sermon
inthe New York Herald's Competitive
Series 1s hyn Pennsylvania Minister.
Dr. Talmage On Ordinery Feople.
“Ahab, whom Jezebel hls
up.” I Kings, xxi., 25
A large part of the ovil and a larger part
of the good in the world world never be
done but for the doers being stirred up
to it,
Life is much iike the sea; there scoms al-
wavs some wind to smite the surface or
some stealthy undercurrent to send its rest-
leasness up from the depths,
The lesson is many sided; if fully consid
ered it covers the whole complex question
of life's rolationships. It is not one part of
the world against the other; part of the
world giving, the other ever receiving im-
pressions, for one who is stirred up by evil
may be a constant impulss to another's
good,
No matter how weak
dependent on others, thers is still some
power going forth--conselously or uneoan-
| sciously--which makes more positive the
i :
| good or evil of the world's conflicting
| forces,
We find ourselves pressed by life's im
pulses or irritations, Its attraeti
repulsions find ready allies in our
tions, and often we fall because we
estimate the opposing!
realize that we have been impelled
wile stirred
ORLY
longer
OR
The Cost of Trains.
-five per cent, of
do not own In owl
through rental, a
including all its
as one of the
cars run
“Ninety {ravel.
ing public
right,
dwelling house, which,
contents, costs as much
rdinary modern
on any first-class rath
The oing statement,
arouse the incr
was
the
their
Or oceupy
ong
passenger
oad.”
is
of
re-
which
edulity
made
assistant
agent of
road.
facts to
continued Mr
the average
from S6G.00M) tn
foyveg
calenlated to
the averag
George J,
individual,
Charlton,
and ticket
Alton Rall
give you a few
cent by inelina-
general passenger under
he Chicago and orees, o
i
to a
| usefulness we had thought beyond our
| power,
The example of
{ beth of Beripture
| nearly three
costs |
me
assertion,”
The
to-day is
chair ear
These
Jezobel the
the “new w
thousand years awgo--fs
| chosen because women are mors prone t
i ktirring up to evil than though bl
! fs the woman who
whenever needs {t, and happy
{ man who never stirs up his wile
thing but good.
Wao are ready to
ving stirred u
cost of
I3s SAM nf
passenger al nan of
not
lining
from S10,000 to £12,000
LT.n A rec
figures
bare cost of the oar
asad
husband
is the
Bh
men
represent the ‘stirs up” her
When you
the expenses of
of figuring, as tl
tal will fig
for the
ha
that from
enance, in
add to year
maint
condemn
hab to
y how Ahab influ
His negative weakness pro
pe sitive badness We
oursel we sre on
io not great sins, |
ordinary busi
a return in in ay
capital invested, vot
geravate the situation yen et frm ons
bad bee
restful that
hoard ves that
aearag yes |]
id
Making Rats Work. ibility oF .
| direction of wr
if turned in the apr
Who can estimate
have lost had not
his true hearted w
great
rth St
Jute
S40 men in ne
Liz pr
What araretr
Charles H. Tayl
ID. Jordan wher
he said, "No man »
possessed a rarer gi
of etl and no «
more patien
y ” fis
par posit
#rmen,
wn just
arrangement
¥ Then
i ii
rl AD
a
play what
nanaged to entry
these he ae
with God
we sl
Mi
Likethe winds of th
fata
As we
He will given
ail he master fot
+h # it has hast
st bappily it ®
ese are ih
ore
caught ea
ceeding d and turned into
until a 4 fine
Enawing away in the
ing after the last
main rodent army,
trickle fron
steam were ap
veral
more Big w
the | urney thr
x Tis the zet af &
That decid
The! And not the
hi ment | How
specimens |
pipe
det Bld
Zen
ars
the
OTL
ola
water
Dip
plied
clear <2
1 to the
and
the
tonde:
oy SeWer was
6Y [ress
gionary So
opal |
hurch has been set
ia { the stormy
about
been
five
Progress and i
d the the mo
in
iring last
ivanced «
wol of Captain Pratt,
Penn., where they
horough training that
teachers in
Sheldon Jackson
near future there shall be
re
hild
n iren were
at . Carlisle
ROOD
was n
eat {1
and
vor
become
Dir our hand an «
It vas du
agfety? Are the mrdoans so
touch gained inereass of strength
sonl
doing G5d's will. Paul
of the Methodist Epise
} yd To a ay il 3 ing |
1i~ |
The Jesse lee Industrial | Wesley learned lessons of patience
self-discipline
has made,
| enee to stir up to right orwrong. Y¢
received the | roeky shore, and though thera
1s
ana
. . , | fineneced,
says If
Aleutian Islands, if | coloriesa until the warmth of ¥
Post-Dispatc h i heavy that tb ¥
hisd hero who |
Educating the Aleuts. i Jesus ‘set His face steadfast
said,
gather for good
working in Alaska | oh ue
the opposing foroes will bring benef
U'nalaska, sheltering and davas of sompanit natiig
We influence by what we are
year of
| watohed the groundswell as the
will fit them to | ible cause, knew of the tem
i
§ tha . 3
in ihe You have taken in y
3 ot saused it
Ia | tossed sea shall Lslp
{ Then learn of ti
'
. ‘ Jerusalem’ beeauss His
Fhe Woman's Home Mis
work tog to the
ast few years under great lim From the Daggings of a jealc us wife
thirty Aleut children, | *c0lding Xantippi Socrates drew le
i seeming but our being sends forth 1
sent he
t dashed, surging and moaning
their own + | on the ocean, Ho we influence
any native | the sympathetie stone,
teachers in the
y it :
ive Christian to glow with radianes o
shall be any nati
rae 4 . 80 there are lives about us; dull and unin
homes and native Christian parents, | teresting thay seem. but the stimu
they are now in process of being creat- | human sympathy will make them sine as
ed by that school, the Jesse Lee Home | With God's own glory, wns
at Unaiaska being the only evangel-| ¥OU are stieriag folks wp Goon: dat -
izing influence at work among the Pastor Bagtin Church, Claris, Penn.
Aleuts of Alaska, -
ORDINARY PEOPLE.
Dr. Talmage Discourses pon Ordisary
or Inconspicnons Veople,
“Salute Asynctitas, Phlegon, Her
our
there
ug of
Friends in Death,
The last few weeks have been trying
onee for the birds, even the hardiest,
A Brewer man reports a pathetic sight
that came under his observation. No-
ticing, partly covered by a drift, the
corpse of a frozen dove he went to ft,
when to his surprige he found under
cach outspread wing an English spar
row, both frozen dead. —Lowiston
{Me.) Journal,
Bad Weather to Die Ia.
An old Scotch woman was dying. The
the wind
was howling and rain dashing against
the window panes. They were gathered
around her bed. "I maun dee, doctor, |
maun dee,” “Ay, ay, I'm mickle feart
ye are gaun” “Weel, weel, the Lord's
will be done! But it's an awfu’ night
to be gaun skirling through the clouds.”
The largest mass of pure rock sit
in the world lies under the province of
It ia known to be
550 miles long, twenty miles broad and
250 feet in thickness.
Text:
iia." Romans xvi. 14-15.
Matthew Henry, Albert Darne:, Adam
Clark, Thomas Beott, and all the commen.
tators ss by theese verses without any
especial remark, The other twenty people
mentioned in the chapter were dislin-
guished for something and were therefore
discusasd by the Hlustrions expositors; but
nothing is said about Asyneritus, Phlagon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia. Where wers they born? No one
knows? When did they die? There is no
record of their decease, For what were
they distinguished? Absolutely nothing,
or the trait of character would have heen
brought out by the Apostle, But they were
good people, beeauss Paul sends to them
is high Christian regards. They were or-
dinary people moving in ordinary sphere,
attending to ordinary duty, and meeting
ordinary responsibilities,
What the world wants {a a religion for
Sriisay bo Jithers bo in the United
Btates 70 I le, there are certainly
pot more thas 1 extraordinary; and
then there are 69,000,000 ordinary, and we
do well 10 wen turn our backs joral clo while
upen t be Dib dade and consplencus
Jeopie of the Bibles and consider In our text
® Spend 3 too much
olour time int Daa oe remark-
ables, and building thrones for magnates,
and sculpturing warriors, and apotheosis.
ing fh ianthropist, The rank and fle of
the Lord's soldlery need especial help,
The vast majority of people will never |
lead an army, will never write a tate Cons
stitution, will never electr ify a bonate, wili
never make an important invention, will
never decide the fate of an nation, You de
not expeet to; you do not want to, You
will not ben Moses to lead a nation out of
bondage. You will not be a Joshua to pro-
long the daylight until you can shut five
kings in a cavern, You will not be a Bt,
John te unroll an Apoealypse, You will
not be 4 Paul to preside over an apostolic
college You will not bes Mary to mother
a Christ, You will more probably he Asyn-
eritus, or Phiggon, or Hermanas, of Patrobas,
or Hermes, or Philologus, or Julia
Many of you are women st the head of
households, Esery morning you plan for
the day. The culinary department of the
household is your domlaiovn. You decide
all questions diet. All the sanitary
regulations of your house are undor your
supe rvision, To regulate the food, and
the apparel and the habits, and decide the
ti wousand questions of home life is & tax
and general health
if there be no divine
{
ol
The
decide
ry who provide the food of the world
the health of the world You have
amid the tav-
United Btates and
» the fact that a
human race are
petent cookery,
may have takes
havo taken Jes.
08 ia astronomy
unless ‘
They who decide
and the food of
uran of the
of the
of
the
10
vast multitude
slaughtered by
Fhough a young won
use and m
painting, and less:
5 not well educated
lessons in dough!
apparel of the world,
he world, decide the
world
Then there are ali the ordiaary business
They need divine and Christ
When wo begin to t at % i
t right off and talk
sha large
f de
an
Ann
ay
lessons in m
she has
«ndd
on an nein,
15iness fifo
it men who
i who sold
nd!
we
i bs
P14 DU
{ions «
KiNes an
rid liars of go year nr “
nillion dollars of
ra or dm of
srt of Ti millon,
towns
or the amber &
ittie surplus f
wodding
me when tha
and the
and the
sagh the hot har.
oid man's vers
neinnatus,
just as noble
4 know
ve the fries at Christ
T drew His simi i the far
rs as H said a #OWer
went {orth to sow,” as en He built His
the = of a arn
anderings, and
< that night with
compared himself
8 lamb in the pastars feld, and who
said that the eternal God is a farmer,
‘My Father i= the husbandman,
now, let us have a religion for
pary people in pare isssions, in ovcupa
in ture. in thie b id, in
in verything, 1 salute
ituries Asyneritus, Phiegon,
as, Patribas, hermes, Philologus and
antfit
’
ine,
short
ften
life, when
Gry
ne
"
me
Toussh
if yon feel that
wl that you are not extra
ordinary. | am tired and sick, i bored
imost to death with extraordinary peo.
You know ras well as I do, my brother
nd sister, that the most of
by people
sens to say, “That is well done.”
The wenther of }ife is not sc severe onthe
Knows or galas
or does more than it can Know or gain or
do. If, therefore, you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God for the defenses and
tranquility of your position.
Then remember, if you hase only what
f= called an ordinary home, that the great
deliverers of the world have all come from
such a home, And there may be seated,
Joint for the ages, Jot uoroll
the seroll of men mighty in chareh and
State, and you will find thoy neatly all
came from log cabin or poor homes,
Genius almost always rane out in the third
or fourth generation. You can not find in
all history an instance where the fourth
generation of extrmordinary people amount
to anything.
1.2% us all be content with such things as
we have, God {s just as good ia what He
keeps away from us as in what He gives us,
Even a knot may be useful if it is at the
end of a thread.
AA
A Sensitive Pensioner,
Pension Commissioner Evans recently
received [rom a pensioner ia San Antonio,
Texas, an expréss order for $879, It was
money which the sender believed he had
not properly received. Mr. Evans had an
investigation made of the case, and ascer-
tained that the pensioner was honestly ene
titied to the money he was receiving, vis,
$12 per month for deafness, and d dirocteu
the entire amount be retuned to him,
Pauper Descendants ot Columbus,
announces that the
ts of “Christopher Cos
of a poor house
A Bpanish ne
Iu pis, descendants of “Ch
m
of Call,
|
1
Provided for Her Cat.
the death of un cat, the Temple
snys the
“By
quarter in Pars”
| Transcript, ’
francs for its elementary schools. The
cat's mistress, who died in 1802, lofi
the money for the maintenance of her
pet ent, with the reversion at its death
to the district municipality 1f it would
look after the cat, It speaks well for
the honesty of the trustees that the cat,
which #8 now dead at the age of 10
vears, should have survived its mistress
five years”
- en —-
An improved monkey
placed on the market has
mounted ball
it turn easily,
wrench Just
the adjusting
BCTOW bearings
make
on ww
Baby's Sore Hend
Lafed skin are quickly cured by Tetierine
t dot the poor litle thing scream fiself fui
pass when relief is CUNY Every skin
uhide from a simple chafe or chap to the
wert et Ar of Tetter or Ringworm 18 cured
Giekly and surely by Tetterine At druggists
bey roam! for Sik amps by J. T. Supt: luc
savannah, Ga
od
in st
Hope never hurls
fores with daly; it gives co
» Judguent,
anyoue it never inter
urage and clears
Denfness Cannot Be Cared
ul applications, as Jey st rearh the
send portion of the ear, 3
oO cure de aad that constitu.
remedies, DD afness is caused by an n-
condition of lining of the
istachian Tube tag bp
med you have a n d or lmper
oct hearing
rent ness | UU and 1
wmtion can be taken out
to its normal condit
lestroy: d for ver Xin
Ly eatarrh, whie
1s ondith
itl give Ons
fins, in by
the maneous
When
mbit
and whet
we restit sx the inflam
this tube re
caring will be
ut of ten are
ing butan it
sarfaces
Dollars for any
Arrh that ¢
srrh Bend
tored
Alin “5 |
mn of the
Hu
ase of Deafr {eatnsed by
wot be cured by Hall
, Troe,
mu =
Ad ed
O8 Cat
# Lat ure
Toledo, 0.
¢ the best,
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
1
vke Laxative Bromo Quis
rot
t=
permanent] rv ryred
& ut Ans
a f
ve Hest rer. $4rinl
tH. Kix Lad, Wl Ax
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant
yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tem effect: ally, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
remedy of its kind cover pro-
Supiable to the fwitach, prom it in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
many excellent qualities commend it
and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
sent bottles by all leading drug.
Any reliable druggist who
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
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ay [anno 8 Sa.
ILE, KY. W YORK, &Y
WAGON
A better Seals a
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Something
entirely
new,
FREIGMT PAID
SCALES
Por Netting. AL half cost of
=o best Farm
Yard, Cemetery Fences,
bE wz ZivoL
COULD NOT SLEEP. .
| Mrs. Pinkham Relieved Her of All
Her Troubles.
IAncock, 176 Seeond
Mich., had ovarian
attendant aches
is well, Here
her own words:
‘Your Vegeta
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made me feel like
4 new person
Before I be
gan taking it
I was all rus
down, felt tired
and sieepy most
of the tine,
had pains in
my back and
and soch
terrible
headaches
all the time,
and could not
sleep well
pights. I al
had ovarian
ible. Through
advice of a
nd 1 began
the use of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
and since taking
My monthly
so painful, but have
slightest pain since taking
| mr medicine. 1 cannd your
iw
|
Manor
Grand Rapids,
with its
Ow
Mrs
St.
trouble
and pains ’ eho
are
side
“£0
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the
{ric
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nt praise
1d too much. My
a change
such
r and have
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Most fertiizers d
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es need ¢ nly of pot
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PHILA, PA,
South Penn Square,
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