L.
nil jijtaii aoi.
ELOQUENT DISCOURSE
a That Vortlr Concern. This life.
,,4l!-i. iftroondent ('pom Karh
l1 ... . ft Hn.t ll-.l-l
Vr-A "...... .
. 11 . 4rt strikes through hla
'? -7," m.
m in anatomical nnJ physiological
' ri wre no very rat that h was
vt-sn alidad of the 8leotit of
H. niUrW '! a utiuitj
t).
th l.loou, WUlcu tcj ui.-ruvrmi
' (t,.f Christ, for when Kolomon
describing the human body.
L....I the pitcher t the fountain he
men"
o. heart that receive the blood llko
when he speaks to Ecclesiastes
..over cord of life, be evidently means
wninal marrow. j
I. ,i rari.Huter and Dalton and
t .nil llrown-Hequard have experiment-
4011 1,1
I io old K. producing the tremor of
lin.1 bead, "or the silver cord be
i'. ! he reveals the fact that he had
il that luriceat tfland of the human
the liver, not by the elm-trio light
''m 1 . ,i ...... .AAm t..., 1... .I...
,. modern UlSSWHUftj uui .'J.
.-m r comparatively dark aire, and
!a nfcn Its Important functions in the
iHlilt iwle 01 ,,IB "ull"u ""y, ?
.ullnit nnviir ita mirlitiia
ft (I)DKKI' 11 LiiauuiiiiiK iuto, n ui-
..IrLmaiishln In central and rlirht an 1
lot and the hepatlo artery through
l How tlm crimson tides. Oh, this
irfSB Is Ha! me eye oi uuu iu turn J'.
'mon knew of It and had noticed
in vivisection or pout mortem what
i (tiai'ks sin and dissipation make
it until the flat of Almighty God bid
wit anil soul separate, and the one it
UDil to the grave and the other It
LioiuJtfment. A javelin of retrlbti
inot claiielnn off or mnklnif a slight
1 1 ,t piercing it from Hide to side
.t.lL..i thpMittrli hla livMi
lilin in M.rt.. .... ..
,n ami Hlppocraten ascj-ibe to the
theniest of the world'g moral deprex--tD,
the word melancholy means black
iifh to you the Ronpel of health. In
illkKnosIs ol diseases or ttie Rom
unit also take a diagnosis of diseases
r IkmIv. As If to recognize this, one.
,. book of the New Testament was
,n y a physician. Luko wits a
ahliM'tor. and he discourses much of
Lvi'iil eouilltions, and he tolls of the
Samaritan's medication of the
i ls 1 1 y poiiriuff in oil and wine, nml
Izt'f Hunger as a ninuranee id near-
(t.wpel, so that tnu ooou were led.
records the Hparso diet of the
i,-Uwav from homo and the extlu
r,i vwiuht of the heeitar bv the wuv-
i.u.1 lets us know of the bemorrhni;e
nr.muil' of the dyiutf Christ, and the
ilousnost mortem resuscltntlon. Anv
,( of the spiritual condition that
it luciiiilu also the physical condition
tuplctc.
n tbe doorkeeper of Con cross fell
from excessive Joy becnuso BurKoyno
irreoilered at MiraloKa, and riilllp
Kpaiu, dropped dead at the news of
utry s ileteat In Dattlo, and Cardinal
faded away as the result of Henry
anathema, It was demonstrated that
ly ami soul are Htnmese twins, and
uti thrill the one with joy or sorrow
jirill the other. We may us well reeofj-
s tremendous fact that there are two
fortresses In the human body, the
nml the liver, the heart the fortress
graces, the liver the fortress of the
tuu may have the head filled with
llectuallties, and the ear with all
la! appreciation, and the mouth with
lucnce, and the hands with all in-
.and the heart with all generosities,
a uart HtrtKe inrougii tne liver,
let Christian people avoid the mis-
at they are all wrong with God be-
they miffer from depression of spirits.
a conseerntea man lias lound his
xl fky befogged and his hope of
bi blotted out and plunged chin deep
loujjh of despond aud has said: "My
not ritrnt wun lion, and I think
have made a mistake aud in-
f Wing a child of light I am a child
ni'ss. Xo one can feel as cloomv as
ami be n Christian." Aud he 1ms
his master for consolation, und be
llivtcd Havel's books nnd Cecil's
and linxtcr's books und read and
Jul read and iiraved nnd uraved nml
f)l ami wept and went anil went
iiticil and groaned nud groaned. Sly
your trouble is not with the heart:
astrie disorder or a rebellion of the
You need a physician more thnn you
'rgyman. It is not sin that blots
r hope of heaven, but bile. It not
ellows your eyeballs, und furs
mgue, and makes your head ache,
iw upon your soul in dejections
boilings. The devil is after you.
lolled to despoil your character,
doc the next best thing for him
' your peace of mind. When he
t you are not a forgiven soul, when
yu ore not right with God, when
that you will never get to heaven.
If you are in Christ you nre Just as
Iwaven as though you were there
Hut satan, flndimr that ho cannot
"ii out of the promised land of
. lias determined thnt thesnles shall
"if you any of the Esehol grapes be-
. ....1 nun you snail nave nothing i
ly pear and crabupple. You aro
much a Christian now under tho
ou were when you were aocus
" rise in the morniii.r ni n !.. i,
" ",lnR Ha!Hulah. 'tis done!"
' 'lid, llev. Dr. j0!(1,pl, F. Jones, of
"""sinieu spirit now.wrote
ntltlcd, "Man, Moral and l'hysl
wlilch he shows how different the
OIU IllflV Jtluioni, .HIT
. lv (iiucrMiii, lieu-
In mvs; f- II... ........ I,.....1.
; lo In 1N51), between the French and
'"onus on the one ul.U n.l tl... ....
. .....w t.uva inn uo"
' ? t,,"f thr, so disastrous to tlm
mn tlt!lntml nrmv fU-.ft,4.. i
h the viet, "ft-Y . " '
tt , " """i-rnmou oi ine
nl I,!l'mf' U F,V',n ,,V tW0 0rre-
I '"uuon Times, one of
Iraveled Wth thmiee...h.H.
"h the iler..niu.i " "r
iimI .i.i 4,,n uiuerenee in
HJ Ctatemenla n ... ..i
t .a. ."'."" 9 ninrkable. The fori
hi rS.I i. n,llr"nlnR through a
at ni. . a,u 00uMrr during the
. night encamping where they are
i .1 n,"1,ui',tn' of the best
i amtSi ".,ort ' rurttl dainties,
oolhlng of war aljout the proceed-
il la "tlm"' nd excitement,
n.. I k. P,T u'r'lli It Is Just
mum road th writer can scarcely
dh.gt.Ht existing around him.
;? ilk. .Wlmt ma, this
f Tha t" nu.t,1Mr' '0ne oM-
ba ,11 n,pJ srB "orlous, the
' 7V 'ftn defeated.'
latbeaa!1""1 I"" "JM
W Vhil. .lou .hBVe en travel.
"m Hon."' tl,1B tXitlm In your
,, " 1 !" It look dlffenmt.
Jwi. tW rTort yu have
Plu thn i ""'V ffrent as
C2 lf; E,lw" I'ayson.Bome.
trlne,;mn, med
hold h 1 '"rtloould
' WdeT' "om"tlm through .
0 a If tl ? I? f,t down ,l,t
IW Wun h'rWorld wou,d
ut Chrtl! "m Tper was a
rtitlaa. h ""J1 ,B(l wl" he loved
.""Mi church a long u It ainga
hla hymns beginning, "There Is fountain
flll4 with blood," "Oh, for a closer walk
with God." "What various hindrances we
meet" and ''God moves in a mysterious
way." Yet was he ao overcome of melan
choly or black bile that it was only through
the mistake of the cab driver who took him
to wrong place. Instead of the river bank,
that he did not-commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so mightily affected
by the physical state, what a great oppor
tunity this gives to the Christian physician,
for he can feel at the same time both tha
puise of the body and the pulse of the soul,
and be can administer to both at once, and
if medicine is needed he can give that, and
if spiritual counsel is needed he can give
that an earthly nnd a divine prescription
at the same time and call on not only the
apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy ot
heaven. Ah, that is the kind of doctor I
want at my bedside, one that cannot only
count out the right number of drops, but
who can also pray. That Is the kind of
doctor I have had In my house when sick
ness or death came. I do not want any of
your profligate or at heist lo doctors around
my loved ones when the balances of life ara
trembling. A doctor who has gone through
the medical college and in dissecting room
has traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism and found no God in any of the
labyrinths is a foof and cannot doctor me
or mine. Ilut, oh, the Christian doctors)
What a comfort they have been in many of
our households! And they ought to have a
warm place iu our prayers as well as pralso
on our tongues.
Another practical use of this subject in
for the youug. Tho theory is abroad that
they must lirst sow their wild oats and af
terward Michigan wheat. Let me break
the delusion. Wildonts are generally sown
In the liver, and they eun nevm be pulled
up. They so preoeeupy thnt organ that
there is no room for the implnntation of a
righteous crop. You see nged men about
us at eighty erect, agile, splendid, grand
old men. How much wild oats did they
sow between eighteen years and thirty?
None, absolutely none. God does not very
often honor with old age those who have in
early life gacrilioed fcwino on tho altar of
the bodily temple. Itemeinher, O young
man, that, while in after life and after
years of dissipation you may perhaps have
your heart changed, religion does not
change the liver. Trembling aud stagger
ing along these streets to-day are men, all
bent and ducnyed and prematurely old for
the reason that they are paying for Hues
they put upon their physical estate before
they were thirty. Hy early dissipation they
put on their body a first mortgage nnd a
second mortgage and a third mortgage to
the devil, and these mortgages nre now be
ing foreclosed, nnd nil that remains of their
earthly estate the undertaker will soon put
out of sight. Many years ago, in fulfill
ment of my text, a dart struck through
their liver, and it is there yet. God for
gives, hut out raged physical law never,
never, never. Solomon in my text knew
what he was talking about, nnd he rises up
on his throne of worldly splendor to shriek
out a warning to nil thu centuries.
Oil, my young brother, do not make tho
mistake that thousands nro making In
opening the battle against sin too Into, for
this world too late, and for the world to
come too late! What brings that express
train from Ht. Louis into Jersey City three
ho irs late? They lost fifteen minutes early
on the route, and that affected tliem nil the
way, and tjiey had to be switched off hern
and switched oft there and detained hero
and detained there, and the man who loses
time and strength In the earlier part of tho
Journey of life will suffer for it all the wny
through, the first twenty years of life dam
aging the following fifty years. '
Some years ago a scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts of tho human body
wneu nealtliy and the same parts when
diseased. Aud what the world wants now
Is some eloquent scientist to go through
the country, showing to our young people)
on blazing canvas the drunkard's liver, tho
idler's liver, the libertine's liver, tho
gambler's liver. Perhaps tho spectaclo
might stop some young man before h
comes to the catastrophe and thu dart
strikes through bis liver.
My hearer, this is the first sermon you
have heard on the gospel health, and It
may be the last you will ever hear on that
subiect, and I charge you in the name of
God and Christ nml usefulness und eternal
destiny take better euro of your health.
When some of you die, if your friends put
on your tombstone n truthful epitaph, it
will rend, "Here Ibis the victim of late sup
pers," or It will be, "Heboid what lobster
salad nt midnight will do for a man," or it
will be, "Ten cigars u day closed my earth
ly existence," or It will be, "Thought I
could do at seventy what I did at twenty,
and I n m here," or It will be, "Hero Is the
consequence of sitting a half day with wet
feet," or it will be, "This Is where I hnvo
stacked my harvest of wild oats," or in
stead of words the stone cutter will chisel
for an epitaph on. the tombstone two fig
ures iinmelv. a dart nhd u liver.
There is a 'kind of sickness that is beauti
ful when It comes from overwork for God,
or one's country, or one's own family. I
have seen wounds that were glorious. I
have seen an empty sleeve that was more
beautiful than the most muscular forearm.
I have seen a green shndo over the eye, shot
out in battle, that was more beautiful than
any two eyes that ha 1 misse l without in
jury. I have seen on old missionary, worn
out with the miliaria of African jungles,
who looked to nie more radiant than a rubi
cund gymnast. I have seen a mother, after
six weeks' watching over a family of chil
dren down with scarlet fever, with n glory
anniiul her pale and wan face that sur
passed tho angelic. It all depends on how
y ju got your sickness nu j iu what baltlo
yjur wounds.
If we must get sick and worn out. let It
lulu God's service and In the effort to make
t le world good. Not iu the service of sin.
to, no! One of the most pathetic scenes
t nut I ever witness, and I often see it, Is
that of men or women converted in the
bfties or sixties or seventies wanting to bo
useful, but they so served the world and
satan ill the earlier part of their life that
they have no physical energy left for the
service of God. They sa.-rillcod nerves;
muscles, lungs, heart and liver on tho
wrong flltar. They fought on the wrong
side, und now. when thelrsword Is all hack
ed up and'theirammunltfon ull gone, they,
enlist for Emmanuel. When the high met
tled cavalry horse, which that man spurred
Into ninny a cavalry charge with champing
bit and llaming eye and neck clothed with
thunder, Is worn out nnd spavined nnd
ring boi:c and springhalt, lie rides
up to tho great Captain of our sal
vatlou on the white horse and offers
his services. When such persotis might
have been, through the good flab
its of a lifetime, crushing tin ir buttlo-ax
through the helmoted Iniquities, they are
spending their days und night is discuss
ing the best way of curing their indiges
tion, and quieting their Jangling nerves
and rousing their laggard appetite, and
trying to extract the dart from their out
raged liver. Hotter converted Into than
never. Oh, yes, for they will got to heaven.
Hut they will go nfoot when they, might
have wheeled up the steep bills of the sky
In Elljuh's chariot. There is an old hymn
that we used to sing In the country meet
ing house when I was a boy, and I remem
ber how the old folks' volet trembled with
emotion while they snug It. I have for
gotten nil but two lines, but those lines aro
the peroration of my sermon:
'Twill savo us from a thousand snares
To wind religion young.
Minker for the Far West.
A colony of Blinkers will probably buy
!W,OO0 or 40,000 acres of land In Colorado or
Wyoming and settle on It. There Is now
no Hhnker settlemeut west of Indiana.
Boom In Flour.
The flour mills of Heattle, Wash., are said
to be running night and day because of the
great demand for brendstuffs from China
and Japan.
KEYSTOXE STITE KEffS GOMNSEa
ROBBERS USED ROPE LADDERS.
6uf Captortd Tkat Eai Bata Plaiderlaf
rralfht Can.
r.obbera, who lor two year bare, with
rope ladder attached to the sides of movtug
Fall Brook freight trains, in tho lonely Tine
Creek valley, successfully pluudered trains,
have been captured and are in jail at Will
iamsport and at Wellsboro. It was easy for
them, undisturbed on a rope ladder.to break
iuto any freight car in this wild region, and
they frequently did so, and got the goods
away before discovery. They have been tit
ling out pack peddlers extensively on the
plunder for two yaars. The men in jail are
Leonard Barton, 70 years ot age.and liarwln
1. and William Button, father aud son. The
Wellsboro prisoners are Thomas and Will
iam Button, nephews of Darwin Button.
Will Dtvslop Coal Land.
Henry Crosbore has sol J to Osborne, Hae.
ger A Co., coal operators, a tract of land in
ltosstraver township. Westmoreland county,
containing 673 acres. The consideration was
tlO.ONH, The tract is underlaid with the
l'lttsburg six-foot vein of coal and lies along
the Youghlugheny river, aud on tbe line
ot the l'tttsburg, McKevsport A Youghio
gheny rallroaJ. Tbe purchasers will de
velop tbe land and work will begin Boon.
Railroad Traok Blown Up.
Puuday morning the people of Hpangler
were awakenfed by a terrlllu explosion. About
90 feet of track on the new Ueecn Breek rail
road hud been blown up with dvuamlte. The
stuff bad been placed In a culvert under a
Oil aud tore an immense hole in tbe roadbed.
The powder magazine ot McCluIn A Co., at
Hiiangler, bad been broken into during the
night, and this Is where the explosives were
secured. A determined effort will be mads
to locate and punlau the perpetrators.
The first general appeal mndo by the West
ern University of I'enusylvuuia to tbe public
lor help since it asked for aud got 1 100,000
over 20 years ago, has been met, and as a re
sult the endowment fund of the Institution
Is 50,000 larger, while the appropriation
made by tbe Mate, two yeurs ago, of 5U.00U
for the establishment of a school of mines
and mining engineering, is miiae available.
The (60,000 which it was conditioned by the
Legislature must be contributed by tbe
friends of the university before any use oimlil
be made of the appropriation from the Suite
was finally made up Mnturduy evening, and
a little more besides.
Washington capital and Washington men
are going into business nt l'urkersburg. V.
Yu. Charles Chamberlain aud Mike Kgan,
local oil men, have put (10,000 into a foun
dry nnd machine shun thare, where they will
ui'ike rig irons, reels, nrms and other mate
rials needed about uu oil derrick. The com
pany formed is capitalized at 50, 000, and U
called the l'urkersburg itig and Keel Com
pany. John Crawford, who bus beeu elilef
bookkeeper lor Vi. Koigie, Washington, will
be secretary-treasurer uud iiiauager.
Four thousand people crowded the banks
of thu Allegheny river at the foot of Fifth
street Sunday afternoon to see flH persous
baptized by itev. Vi. K. Lowcry, of the East
Knil African Methodist Episcopal churc'i,
Kuelld avenue, and ltev. G. W. klnoaid, of
tho .lohu Wesley African Methodist Kplseop
ui Zlou church, 1'ittsburg. Thirty-eight
colored persons were Immersed near the
sauio place at sunrise the same day.
At the Washington county Prohibition con
vention tbe following ticket was nominated:
J. II. Powell, of Cnliforuia, sheriff; 1). A.
llubbltt, of MiirdocksvHIe, recorder; J nuns
Brndeu, of West Bethlehem township, jury
commissioner, and James Caldwell, of
Hlckory4 director of the poor. I'rof. Louis
Van Orden, of Washington, was chosen chair
man, H. W. Hall and Ituv. J. B. Burke secre
taries, und M. (Sharp treasurer.
The new extension of the Hops of the Ilea
ver Valley Traction Company from tleaver
down the Ohio river to Van port, one and a
half miles distant. Is open for traffic, and
the first curs thut paused over it were the
ltoyul Arcunuin trolley excursion from Hea
ver Falls. Tbe lines of the ileuver Valley
Traction Compsuv now cover thirteen
miles und extend from Morudo, north of
lioaver tails, to Van port, south of Denver.
Fire destroyed the plant of tho Venango
spoke works at Oil City. The faotory was
situated iu the midst of a number of frame
buildings used by mull factories and as
warehouses, and for a time the whole dis
trict, from Center to Dtiucomb streets, was
threatened. The loss is (12,000, partially
covered by insurance. A number ot other
concerns suffered small losses.
While a teamster employed by Michael Mo
Luughliu. ot l'arker, with n six-horse team,
was hauling a boiler over a bridge across
Hear creek, In l'arker township, Butler coun
ty, the structure gave way, and the learn,
wagon and boiler west) precipitated to the
stream, 10 feet below, killing oue of the
horses and badly Injuring the others.
Bclletonte Is to have another Industry In
the shape of a plnnt for the manufacture of
the iiew ueetylene gas- The projectors of
the enterprise nrrf A. G. Morris and bis two
sous, of Tyrone. They will expend ( 100,000
In establishing tho business. Work on the
erection of the necessary buildings will be
camraoucod within two weeks. This will be
the second plant of the kind In the United
Htates, the other being at Niagara Falls.
Following the example of Judge Htewart.
of Franklin, Judge Diddle, of Cumberland
county, Instructed the -sonstuliles in quarter
sesslous court to report any slot machines as
well as nil other gambling devices to the
court Ho stated that the law against those
machines, ns well as all other gambling de
vices, would be enforced to the letter, and
any constable who fulls to make returns will
be held accountable,
Tbe Forest Oil Company has a well drill
ing on the Bedull farm, back of Elizabeth,
which has reached n depth of ft.KOO feet and
H til I drilling. This is the deepest well In this
region, it is the purpose of the operators to
drill It down to the Limn oil lock. Humpies
of the different ruck unit gravel- goue
through buve been saved for scientific pur
poses. The new trolley line from Cnr.lsle. by wsv
of tho old turnpike, to Hagerstown nnd
Mechaulcshurg, which will be built this sum
mer by the Hnrrlsburg A Mecbaulcsburg
Electric Ilaliway company, Is being surveyed
by A. It. Itupp, of Meolianicsburg, and a
corps of surveyors. Worg will soon begin
eructlug poles and placing ilcf.
Four masked men entered Nathan Beam's
bedroom in Altoono, und while on held a
revolver at Beam's bead the others secured
his watch and pocketbook. ills landlady, In
the next room, awoke and screamed, aud,
firing a parting shot, the burglars fled. Two
officers gave chase and captured Patrick
Barry.
The New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
company is preparing to open four new
mines in East und West Pike ltun and Allen
townships, Washington county, for the de
velopment of 4,000 acres of coul. The new
works will give employment to 1.000 men.
The commission sppolnted by tbe courts
of Mercer sud Lawrence counties for the
purpose ot surveyiug and Axing tbe bound
ary lines betwseu tbe two counties began Its
duties, and. It will take a little over a month
to completo the work. For many years tbe
boundary line has been in dispute between
the two couuties, and Ibis commission is ap
pointed to forever settle the question.
Substitute for Duels.
The German Emperor's recent decree to
minimize duels In the army has just been
enforoed for tho Unit time, in the case ot
Landrath and Von Booll, In Posen, and the
two officers settled their dispute amicably
by a council ot honor.
CONGRESSIONAL
Abstruet sitae Important Msatnrsi la
Both Houses.
May 11. The resolution Introduced by Mr.
Morgan, Democrat, Alabama, declaring that
a state of war exists in Cuba, was taken up
In tbe Senate to-day and went over until to
morrow, Mr. Morrill, Kepubllcan, VermoW
spoke In opposition to it, saying that tbe
purpose ot ail the Cuban resolutions was to
wrest from tbe executive tbe right he aloue
hitherto had exercised ot reooKnlxlog tbe
belligerent rights or tbe Independence ot na
tions. The House to day voted to non-concur In
the Senate amendmeut to tbe sundry civil
appropriation bill revoking the forest reser
vation ord"r made by President Cleveland
and tbe bill was sent to co ferencev
Tbe House non-concurred in tbe Senate
amendment requiring tbe Secretary of War
to appoint a superintendent of the traffic
through the locks of tbe Monongabela river
at soon as the government comes into pos
session ot tbe works ot the Monongabela
Navigation company.
May 12 The Senate committee on foreign
relations to-day decided upon an adverse
report upon Senator Allen's resolution ex
pressing sympathy with the Greeks in tbeir
war with Turkey on the ground that the
subject had been covered In the action ol
the senate ot Inst session on a resolution of
Which (Senator Cameron was the author.
Senator Galllnger of New Hampshire to
day presented an amendment which be pro
poses to offer to the tariff bill against goods
which are tbe product of convict labor. Tbe
immigration and tbe klnetoscope bills were
reached during tbe day, but went ovet on
objections.
May la -The Indian; appropriation bill
was disposed of by the bouse to-day, with
tbe exception of tbe provision for opening
the Utah gilsoolte lands, which was post
poned until Monday. Tbe conference report
wbicb establishes sn Indian warehouse at
Omaha, ratifies tbe lease ot the Seneca oil
lands, and adds one to the Indian territorial
courts, was adopted try a vote ot 54 to 47.
Nearly two hours were consumed in a parlia
mentary squabble on the point raised by Mr.
Wbeeler, of Alabama, that the rule for semi
weekly sessions was In violation of the con
stitution. .
After a long period of calm, the senate was
considerably agitated to-day, first, by a dis
cussion of the senate sugar investigation,
aud then by a preliminary skirmish on the
tariff bill. Tbe Allen resolution to bring
Elvcrton II. Chapman before the bar ot tbe
senate was debuted In somewhat monoton
ous style until Mr. Tillman, ot South Caro
lina, gave a present interest to the subject
by referring to reports that seuators. within
tbe last week, bud speculated in sugar stock.
May 17. In tho house Mr. Hitt. of Illinois.
asked for tbe Immediate consideration of a
bill to appropriate 150.000 for tbe relief of
destitute Americans in Cuba, but Mr. llallev,
of Texas, said thut he must object unlets an
amendment embodying Senator Morgan's
resolution for recognition of the insurgents
be added. Mr. Diugley objected to the
amendment, whereupon Mr. lliilley objected
to the bill an 1 thu Cuban question was sidetracked.
An uudsrtoneof Cuban comment pervaded
the senate when the sesslun opened to-day.
Tbe anticipation of a Cuban message and a
Ciibun debute drew lurge crowds to tho
galleries.
following the reading of the messaire.
Mr. Uavls, of Miunesota, chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, favorably
reported with smondinents tho resolution In
troduced by Mr. Galllnger, last Tbursduy
appropriating (80,000 for ihe relief of desti
tute citir.ens of the United Stntes In Cuba.
Ibe resolution was then put on Its nassaue
and without division it passed unanimously.
tbre being no response to tbe calls (or nays.
u nan lasen exactly in minutes tor tne read
ing of the message, the presentation of the
committee report and tbe brief speech and
tbe Dual puesuge of the resolution.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
May 11.- The Keefer bill, aulhrlr.ltig school
directors aud controllers to levy a per capita
tax of from (1 to (2 auraaily for school
purposes ou Rlleus oyer 21 years of age. and
the Henute bill to provide for establishing a
bouse of detention for Juveniles in cities of
tne uri class, plisseil llnnllv.
The bill to uuthorlze cities of the third
class to make regulations for tho licensii-.g
of statlonnry steam engineers In said cities
was defeated on third reading.
Tho following bills putxed tho somite
finally:
Au act to provide for levying school and
school building taxes on lim city valuation
in cities or the third class where the school
district comprises thu same territory us the
city.
An act authorizing ami recording of all
releases, contracts, letters of attorney and
other Instruments of writing which a mar
ried woman is or shall be authorized by iaw
to execute without the Joinder' Of her hus
band, making the record thereof of the same
force and effect for all purposes as If unmur
rleil, and validating the records thereof
made prior to the pusssire of this ncL
An net punishing the sending of anony
mous communications or a libelous, defuur
utory, scurrilous or opproblous nature.
May 12. Tbo direct Inheritance tax bill
having been restored to its original shape,
pnstieu ine oeuuiu iinnuy. l Intro are some
trilling amendments which will necessitate
its return to the House. It should be In
tbo hands of tho governor wlthlu a very
short time.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Tllhrook, of
Allegheny, appropriating (20,000 to tho
Braddoek Hospital association.
The HeuHte suienilments to the Inheritance
tax bill were concurred In and the measure
passed filially by a vote of 147 to 10.
Tho House concurred this morning In a
rwnntn resolution to udjouru this afternoon
until Mouday night.
May 18. The House had n largo number
of bills on second reading and met an hour
earlier than usual in onler to get through
with the business nnd adjourn nt 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Speaker Dover called the
House to order nnd retired, leaving the chair
in charge of Mr. Kcyser, or Philadelphia,
A communication was presented by Mr.
Woodruff, of Philadelphia, from the Phila
delphia board of trade, protesting against
the bill permitting tbe deduction from tho
assessed valuation of property for taxation
the amount of all bona fide judgments and
mortgages.
OFFERED UP HIS BOY.
A Colored Preacher Sncrl fired Ills Aon
Like Abraham.
Oscar Williams, a country colored preach
er, residing in a settlement four miles from
Elba, Ala., left home with his ten-year-old
on Isaac. He told a neighbor as he passed
that tha Lord had appeared to him In n
vision and commanded htm to sucrllieo his
boy.
The neighbor thought but little of the old
man's remark for the moment, but a half
hour afterward recollected that ho hud the
Sunday before preached on the story of
Abraham and Isaac with singular earnest
ness, and expressed his willingness to obey
the Lord's command to tho exteut thut
Abraham hud done.
Ho followed Co) old mnn and enmo upon
him in a thicket standing over his son's
dead body, which was strapped to a log.
He had a bloody knife in his bund and his
eyes were raised heavenward. Blood sflil
flowed from tho boy's gaping throat, which
had been severed from ear to car. When
asked why ho bud done the deed, tho
munlao declared that tho Lord bad com
manded him to do so, and then turned nnd
walked away, his neighbor being too dazud
to stop iilm.
Wild Deer a rest.
Wild deer have multiplied immensely on
Long Island during the closed season. They
are not only eating the crops, but are de
stroying plants and Sowers.
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RIPANS TABULES
are intended for children, ladies and all
who prefer a medicine disguised as con
fectionery. They may now be had (put
up in Tin Boxes, seventy-two in a box),
price, twenty-five cents or live boxes for
one dollar. Anv drui'ist will u'et them
if you insist, and they may always be
obtained by remitting the price to
The Ripans Chemical
company-
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blnit to lialentf I'rotectTotiridrnK : ll.ev imiv
irlng yon wealth. Wiito JOHN H'l)li.:i:
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Qaality
Ouarantccd
the licit.
Too!
STYLES:
Ladles', Gentlemen's & Tandem.
Tii" I.teimv t Illumine Wheels on Knrlli.
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THE BELVIDERE,
Wc slways Msds Goad Sewing Machine;!
Why Shouldn't wo Mako Good Wheels !
3 National Sewing Machine Co.,
3ot;rodwsy, Factory:
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3.
The larsest auto-uobilt) enrrtuco ever con
structed lor actual sorvieu is iu Australia.
llils oar utilizes 7b borso-iionor.au unlieurJ-
of umouut lor uuy sueh velneie. Tho car
travels from (Joolgunlin to ibo eon-t for
iho transportation of mrrchnnilit'ti to tho
Uliuus. besides tho loud ou tho ear itself, it
drags two "trailers" over a ulstunoo of sOO
miles. A ruliroud whs too expensive it
luxury to Indulge iu In that country, aud so
tho ldoa ot the big minor was coueeivod. Ho
"cures is water oIouk tbo route truverst that
tbo steam is not oxhuunted into the uir. but
saved, reconverted into water, und tben used I
over ana over nnln.
Losses by Ore In tbo United Stntes nml
Canada during March was almost H.OO0.0D0
less tban they were la tbe eorrtsuondlutf ' tu, Tctim,,
u.vu.14 v ow, y
Youth Ii Out of Dstt.
There is no m Intake about It! To be younff,
to bu In tho Urst faint llusb of .remiero
jnunesso is no longer oitber admirable or on
viable. The fashionable uk lor n success
ful society woman in London now Is bet wee .
30 and 44). A mnn to bo thoroughly uprr
elated in that charmod circle kuowu ns "tha
best tot" can ruiiKo in years from US to 0.
Just at present the doctrine of middle mk Is
LohiK prenahed, und from thu iumost centres
ofMn) fa.r exclUHlvunoits to thu outer circle
of ran It bohmniiiuUm the men nud women
who are the most popular are those who
have "lived."
Within six weeks CO deaths have occurred
in Boston from cerebrospinal mouluKltls,
several prominent citizens nave been among t