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“season ison. The ort. S358 the Globe-
Democ:at, is {nll of fishing and
: uilds,
which are moving inually ‘aver the
placid waters of the Gulf of La Paz, and
ers ‘and ‘other landing places are
people preparing to embark, or
At 0- thirds of the entire popula-
Lucas to Bunlege
Mexican Govern:
years. This measure was ta
vent the exhaustion. of the fisheries.
The barques which engage in this indus-
try are boats of from twh to thres tons
burden, manved ordinarily by six men
including the “diver, who is, of course,
awaiting the return of the fishermen.
18400 a share.
ch only allowed one on mes
séction to be worked upon every two &
nto pre- |
such me
rep sen
ns Luc y Baldwin who had $3,000,
ank at one time, aod whe
ely respofisibie for the fatlure. ol
the Canfornia ng ab «anot time.
After getting control of the
he ran the stock®up to $333
by. making another’ mine of
he forced its shares to $3!
consolidated value of 1
He ¢
aetion $3,000, 000,
orth
“85 is 5’ now.” he sad,
§ , We got up: ‘pames of poker
Ss lost $10, 000 ¢ at a’single sitting, and
went out in the Street the next day. te.
even up. on
$sThers is a great deal that night bs
the most important personage on board, | would read stranger than fiction, but the
He is usually provided with a water.
proof suit; metal hemlet, lead weights
for the breast and shoulders, or copper’
“or lead shoes, which weigh altoether
some 150 pounds.
The boats generally gather in. roups
of twenty ‘and leave the port at midnight
30 as to reach the oyster beds at early
dawn. When all have arrived, a cannon
shot is fired as a‘sighal, and the. diving
sommences. ~~ When the diver is below
his compagions watch the’ signal and
baul up the baskets of oysters as a) wud I
as He can sll and finally bring up |
3 i himself, as he ean
known to resist the enormous pressure for
a longer time. =
Before the diver’s suit was introduged’
fn these parts it was the custom of the
native fishermen to anoint their bodies
with oil and dive to the bottom with
nothing about them but a Delt to which
the basket was attached in which the’
oysters were thrown. Even now the
practice exists among some few divers,
but the sword fish, the sharks, ana the
devil fish, of different varieties, which
abound in the waters of the gulf, render
this work extremely dangerous. <
The diving goes on from six o ‘clock in
the mor g untilmid-day, when anothers
signal is fired to announce that the fish-
ing is over, and the rest of the day is |
employed in ‘opening the oysters. Form:
erly: it was customary to pay the pearl
divers. one: quarter: of the proceeds, but
now the owners of the fishing outfits pay
their divers and helpers a fixed salary.
The pearls are separated or classified
by runninz them through different strain-
ing pans, commencing with the largest
‘and running/down to the smallest, after
"which operation they are appraised and
sold invariably by the weight, A flotilla
of pearl fishing boats is supposed fo
gather some three tons daily of oysters,
and it 18 estimated that one iba thousand
bivalves contains a pearl, During the
season of 1881 there was a larger amount
of pearls extracted than at any former
‘period; and sone of the Specimens were
remarkable for their size and beauty. A
black pearl taken out that season by the
divers of Juan Hidalgo weighed twenty-
eight earats, and was sold in Paris for
$10,000, This year there have been
sent over 3150,000 in pearls to Paris and
New York, and the season 18 not Je
~ . through,
The pearls of this section were held in
. great esteem in’ Mexico and Peru three
hundred years ago. Daring the first
quarter of the seventeenth century An-
tonio de Castillo, a Spanish colonist, who
was living south of Mazatlan, made an
enormous fortune in the pearl fisheries,
About this time, also, Captain Iturbe
Ortega engaged in the same business and
took some very valuable pearls to Mexico,
oue of which he sold for $4500, This
gave great impetus, to the industry. |
The most precious pearls to be found
to-day among the crown jewels of Spain
were taken from the fisherics near La
Paz before the French war of .inter-
vention, and they have always been in
great demand since the time of Cortez.
in 1867 an American ‘embassador to: the |
Court of Spain said that he had seen
‘pearls of the size of a plover’s egg among
the crown jewels of that: country, and
that they were - esteemed a3 among the
most valuable of the Bpanish jewels.
The value of the mother of pearl shells
1s from $10 to $12 per one hundred
pounds. The proceeds of these are suffi-
cient tu pay all the expenses of the fish-
ing, and the pearl is a net gain when
found. Several years aco. it was quite
a problem to tind some use for the pearl
oyster ‘shells, and they accumulated
rapidly on the hands of their owners.
But now they are sent to Europe, whence
they are returned to America in the form
of buttons, kuife handles and several
other articles. The price of pearls
fluctuates less than that of diamonds
because their production is lesser and
more regular, At present. the black
pearls are held in greater esteem than
the white ones, although they are much
inferior in point of beauty,
The Indians on the coast appreciated
fully the beauty of the pearls, and used
them with great profusion in their
It was ‘their custom to
givé their children a dower of pearls and
the ceremony was a very soleman ane, and
partook of a religious nature. .
There are many theories regarding the
{ormation of the pearls. The most com:
mon is that of some foreign substance.
like a grain of sand, finds its way i
the shell, and by the irritation which it
seasitive b
of Watet ower eighty OF | that he wanted $300,000 margin by 3
best of it cannot be made public; until the
fen who figured in it are dead. We
d stand on the street and take men’s
Jiput down the figures on our shirk sleeves’
to keep track ot it.
Bank broke 1t owed from twelve o four:
‘teen millions. It had plent real
estate, but no ready money. I took
$1,100,000 of its stock to start 1t up
again, and the stock is now worth $2000
! Tae festosation of this bank, with
1 how a oy
d me, Rallsto notified my broker
o'clock. At that hour an express wagon
backed up tc his office with $300,000 in
$20 pieces.”
Mr. Baldwin, Besides owning the 600-
| room hotel, which bears his name, in
San. Francisco, and which cost $2,400,
000, owns 50,000. acres in Los Angeles
Qounty. Ho has expended half a mil:
‘Lion building irrigating ditches to reclaim
his orange groves will remember how
they would drive all day in the beautiful
shaded avenues without getting off Bald
win’s land. He also has 5000 acres in
San Bernardino and 15,000 acres in ether
parts of California.
The Berzars of Malta.
Begzars swarm so in Malta that ac:
of Maltese life, the oniy WAY to avoid
being pestered by them is to put out tha
‘hollow of your hand and aaticipate thew
with their own winning *‘Give. me somer
thing,” ¢‘Me plenty poor mam,” <‘Me
very “large family.” Some of these beg-
gars are supposed fo * have acquired a
ood deal of money, and it 13 said that
the priests order people'to live on beg:
ging for awhile as penance. On the
the other hand with those who will work
reluctance to name a price for t their ser-
vices. The answer is **What you like"
which tempts the stranger«y reply, that
he *twould like to give nothing at all.”
The poorer Maltese have, it seems, a
ready wit. - An Euaglish officer,’ failing
to make a Maltese understand what he
meant, called the poor man #a fosl.”
Understanding this much, the man, who
had traveled about a good deal, thouzh
he did not understand English, replied
by asking. “Do you speak Maltese?”
“No.” +*Do you speak Arabic?’ ¢No.”
Do you speak Greek?" ¢No.” Do
you speak Italian?” “No.” Then, if I
be oue fool, you be four fools!’ Inillus:
tration of a curious sort of discrimin-
ating roziery which appears to be char:
acteristic of the Maltese dealers, Mr,
Hardy tells a story of a naval friend who
stopped one Christmas time in the great
market in Valetta before the stall of a
Joe” with whom he bad had many deal:
lines. The color of one of his turkeys,
all trussed and ready for the spit, at:
tracted him. The breast of the ‘victim
was of a bluish purple, the legs were
scraggy and also discolored, but. other-
wise the bird seemed to be well fed.
Pointing to it, be asked, ‘‘How much.”
Joe fell “back, and, beckoning to him,
explained matters ‘thus: “Dat not for
you, signor, dat for de hotel:’’ Thenin
a mysterious but impressive whisper, he
added, ‘*He die.”—London News.
renee erm
Tha First Map of Amoriea.
cA mong the relics appertaining to the
discovery of America brought ont in con-
nection avith the Columbian celebration,”
said the Spanish Consul at this port re-
cently, ‘is the first geographical chart
of America, which is preserved in Spain.
The chart is 1n the possession, of the.
Naval Museum of Madrid, and is said to
be the original autograph of the navi-
gator, Jian dela Cosa, a pilot of re-
nowned reputation in his ‘time, and of
whom Columbus ad a very high
opinion,
The ‘chart or map i8 signed tn the
Puerto de Santa Maria, in the year 1500,
but Juan de la Cosa, who actompanied
Columbus as pilot or sailing master on
hig. first and second voyages, was at
work on it during the voyage with
Alfonso de Ojeda in 1499. Tks said to
be the best of all ancient it map,
discovered territories, and has
tation of being the first ma
tant, showing, as known
whole of Europe and Africa, a
portion of Asia and the :
then discovered. It was executed with
| great précision,
Tepu.
tha faint trace of the old en-
‘written of the mien: of ‘those ‘times that
word he continued, ‘for $300,000 and |
Whe the California |
ying 1 to |
it, and those persons who have visited |:
cordinz to ‘the Rev. J. BE. Hardy's sketch
it is hard to do business owing to ‘their |
liged to stand in. a iclose, |
in its correctness and extent of 1ts newly
mandi ex
1500, the
and is luxuriant in gold |
and coloring, Baltimore ia.) Ameri | x
WoRDS or WISDOX. :
The breskig of 9 heart lexvesjn0
traces,
* Bad mén excuse their feults; good
men leave them. :
Love, that. needs forgiveness, has, for
its fitst duty, to forgive.
He who waits to doa good deat at
once will never do anything,
You cannot dream yourself into a char.
acter; you must hammer and forge you:-
“self one.
Repentance i is npt so much remorse for
what we have doug as the fear of conse-
qaences.
<A good deed is never lost; he whe
SOWS courtesey, reaps. friendship, and he
who plants Kindness gathers love.
“Hyprocrites are wiaked;
their defects with so much care that
| their hearts are poisoned by them.
Whatever the world may say there ars
some mortal sorrows; and our fives ebb
away less through our blood than Sirough
our tears.
Bo: long as you can say efather” and
smother” there is a love on the earth
which bears one ia its arms; it is only
when the parents ars gone thatone is set
down on the hard ground.
* Prehaps you have nothing in the world
but akind, sweet smile; then let that
fall upon some peor life that has mo
smile in it. Remember that a dew drop
slisteningz in the sua is Just; as beautiful
as a rainbow.
Thera is nothing of a man but the
word that is kept or broken—sacred as
life orunsta le as water. By this we’
judee each other, in philosopay ani
practice, and by this test shall - be ruled
the ultimy judgment.
Each of us as we travel the way of tits
“has the choice according to our working
‘of turning all the voices of nature into
one song of rejoicing, or of witherinz
and quenching her symphony into a fear
ful withdrawn silence of condemuation
or'into a crying out of her stones and »
shaking of her dust against us.
The Tight faith of man is sot intended
to give him repose, but to enable him to
- do his work.
It is notintended that he
should look: away from the place be lives
in now, and cheer himself with thoughts
of the place he is to live in next, but
that he should look 'stoutly into this |’
world, in faith that, if he does his work
well here, some good to others or him-
self will come of it hereafter.
can
pith tion for ita
The two chief articles of food
are wasted are bread and fat.
our cooks recognize the value of either
of these, althouzh the Preach cooks
know the value of the former under its
most imposing name of chapelure. In
plain English this is stale bread dried in
the oven and broken down, or nearly
pulverized, by being rolled with 3 heavy
stone bottle; not on any account with
the rolling pin that is used for pastry,
because the hard crusts indent the
wooden rolling pms and even scratch
the marble ones, and this is apt to make
the pastry heavy. These crumbs should
be assorted and kept in bottles, brown
and white bread separately and: coarse
and fine crumbs also separately, and they
are then ready for use when needed.
The preparation is an easy matter when
the cook gets into the habit of « callect-
ing all the clean bits of bread and put-
ting them to dry in the oven over night,
and any leisure moment can be spent in
pulverizing. and siffing the crumbs. ‘Chey
are used in many ways-—‘or fried fish,
for hams, for puddings.’ It is a vexation
to prepare crumbs every time ‘that they
are needed, while, if bottles of chaoe-
lure are at hind, of various decrees of
fineness; the dishes that require “crumbs
can be prepared at very short notice.
Sr I mn
Faithfalness.
A poor, hallew itted creature was ob-
hot room,
twelve hours a day, stitching harness,
He had heard from | some ‘preacher that
every-day work could be ennobled, but
he had only a aim idea of the man’s
meaning. One day he looked out and
saw a horse dash madly by with a car-
riage containing a woman and child. (A
man leaped from the curb, cauzht the
hotse by the bridle, and was dragged
along by the infuriated animal. But the
i l, the horse was. stopped, the
nd child were saved.
thought passe through the
mind ot i De a! “Sup-
pose the sewing on that bridie had. been
poorly done, with bad | thread. Then
the bridle might have broken, and the
’
"man, us well as those in the carriage,
would have been injured. How do }
Know but that sewing: was: some of my
work,
Animated by that srond thought, he
stitched away like a hero, determined to
do his humble work well for the sake of
others, From that time he ennobled
‘his calling, as everyone may do who has
the spirit of the Master, Whose life has
xi ours worth living. Epworth Her.
ald. :
they hide :
pens and inks, letters, etc.,
| fort, and what a. sight!
SOLDIE RS COLUMN
cuT DOWN B3 BY MINTES.
This Happened to Rate a Large Tree in
i $0f:she Zin Ind:
GEN. GRANT
\ in Vol 11 of his
£ : Memoirs speaks
a of atreel8inches
in diameter be-
ing cut down by
musket-balls. 1
want to tell vou
what I know
about that. We
of the 7th Ind.
were 1n line b
fore the Johnnies
near Spotsylvania Conrthonse on the
morning of May 12, 1864, when the good
news came down our line that Hancock's
Second Corps had charged that morning
just before daylight and capiured 4,000
prisoners, two field officers, 20 cannon, a
great many small-arins, and several stands
of colors, Of course we were much pleased
at this news, and threw up our hats and
shouted with all the force of our lungs.
| About this time our regiment was ordered
‘to make a forced march to the left: and
after marcaing four or five miles we heard
the roar of heavy musketry it#onr front.
and pushing forward across ow and
up a little hill, we came u ‘and relieved
8 regiment that had been fi ririg in frent of
arebel fort since early ‘mosning, which
had not yet surrendered, to “Hancock! We
were drawn up within 100 leet of the fort,
and ‘our orders were to fire as fast as
balls pouring over this fort, so that the
Johnnies could not ra‘se their heals above
the breastworks to fire at us without bei ng
“hit with our bullets, =
We ecntinned firing until latein the eve
ning, when, after our guns had beconte 80
dirty we could hardly get a ball down them,
we were relieved and moved back to our old
position in the line just beyond the fort,
and in aline with our firing stood a large
tree, which, when our regiment was reliev-
ed appeared to be almost cut down, and
when the regiment started back to its old
position, Capt. Jeffrey requested me to stay
‘and see if it did actually fall. In about two
hours after our regiment left the fort, the
Johnnies shot up the white flag justas the
tree ‘ell tothe ground. 1 was so glad it was
over and started up the hill to the fort where
Haneock’s Corps had charged early in the
morning. It had been raining all day and
part of the night before, and the mud was
| deep. The dead and wounded. had been re-
moved, knapsacks, portfolios, writing paper
were scattered
T.got on top of the
Worse = than a
slagughter-pen!-—muddy, bloody, and as wet
cas if they iad swam the river. There were
"200 in the entrenchments, every one of
them more or less. wounded, and
many dead. They were calling for food
and help. The scene was so deeply stamped
all over the hill:side.
yesterday, though it is 28 vears ago. After
‘talking tothe wounded for some time I1e-
turned toyny regiment; and I never could
tell why our regiment had been brought so
far to do that work, when there were others
so much nearer.
itis said a part of that tree. had been
taken fo Washington City. Is that true?
Also, I would like to hear from other com:
rades what they know ‘abont this particu:
lar fort.—A. D. SerixGer in National Tri:
bune. x
PREMONITIONS.
A Comrade Thinks Soldiers ars Somat
times Warned of Death.
‘Do soldiers have premonitions of their
death before going to battle? Yes, I think
that they do, an | numerous cascs have been
- cited truthfully that occurred during the
late eivil war. I will relate the following
incident, which canie under my personal
obseryation: and which seemsa clear case of
premonition that soldiers are impressed with
a strong foreboding that they are to meet
death in battle, and invariably it has proved
frue.
My regiment during the afternoon of May
19, 1864, moved across the Tredericksburg
and Spottsylvania turnpike and through the
gap inthe stone wall on tothe historical
Harris Farm, taking position upon a rolline
interval of ground south of the Harris Man-
sion. Here the regiment formed in line and
rested for a short time, the first battalion
resting on the right, with the 3d: battalion
resting on the left, near La strip of woods.
The boys were laughing and joking, there
being no signs of a battle, or that there
would be one.
Spon the scene changed, however, as Isaw
Cos. D and F enter the woods in our front,
and listened to the continuous roar of mus:
ketry that followed; for they had struck
Rodes’s Division, of Ewells’s Corps, and
there was sharp business ahead for the boys.
I stood under the colors, and as I looked
down thie long line of blue Isaw many faces
that wore expressions of calmness, and oth"
ers of determinations, and some wére pale
and anxious. | As I stood there with 01d
Glory flapping against my face, I'shall nev-
er forget the pale features and anxious look
of Capt. Wm. G. Thompson, who, laying
{his hand upon my arm, remarked: “Well,
Corporal, how do you feel about going into
battle?’
“Captain,’’ I answered, ' “this looks like
business, and some of us have come to stay;
but I am going to trust in’ Providence, and
think that I will come out all right.”’ Here:
marked, *'I am goingto be killed, andl can:
not help feeling so.”
The Captain's words were Setifiod; for
within twenty minutes after the regiment
went into action Capt. Wm. G. Thompson,
as brave a man asever drew a sword, was
carried to the rear mortally wounded —
Wx. Crane, in National Tribune.
A ———
“aotice that trailing dresses are liable
to sweep up cholera germs. If the
warning will only cause a removal of
| the trail, he Asiatic plague will not
red pear us in vain. ;
possible, and we kept & constant stream of
upon my memory thatitseems' but as
SOME scientific autnorivy nas servea:
| TALMAGES SUNDAY SERMON.
FAR WISER TH THAN WB
-
Are Feathery Songsters That Fly to
Their Hom in the South.
“Dr. Talmage's text: Sunday was Jere-
miah 8:7:
“The stork in the heaven know-th her ap-
pointed time; and the turtle, and the crane,
and the swallow A the time of their
coming; but my people know:th not the
Judgment of the dr
When God would set fast a beantifm
thought He plants it in a tree. When He
would we it afloat He fashions it intoa
fish. hen He would have it glide the air
He moulds it into a bird. My texts ® speaks
of four birds of = beautiful instinet—the
Towed familiarly to come, in Holland and
Germany, and build its nest over the door:
way; the sweet dispositioned turtle-dove.
mingling ‘in color white, and black, and
brown, and ashen, and chestnut; the crane,
with voice like the ¢c ang ofa trumpet; the
swallow, swift as a dart shot out of the bow
of heaven, ialing, mounting. skimming.
sailing—four birds startel by “the ‘prophet
25 centuries ag yet tlying on through the
, with inn truth under glossy wing
and in the clutch of stout claw.
The prophet. almost blinded from looking
into the dazzling heavens, stoops. «down and
begins to think how much superior the
birds are in sagacity about their safety than
mei about theirs. I propose, so far as God
may help me, this morning, carrying out
of the sir have more sagacity than men
and I begin by particularizing and saying
that they mingle music with their work.
1 suppose ‘their song gives elasticity to
their wing, and helps on with the journey,
| dwindling a thovsand miles into four hun-
dred. ould God that we were as wise as
they in mingling Christian song with our
every day work! 1 believe there is such a
thing as A the piteh of Christian devo-
Hon in the morning, and keeping it all the
day. I think we might take some of the
lest, heaviest, most disagreeable work of
Jul life, ‘and set it to the tune of “Antioch”
‘or ‘Mount Pisgah!’ Itisa good sign when
you heur a workman whistle. = It is a better
Tt is st1l a better sign when you hear® him
sing ihe words of Isaac Watts or Charles
esle;
1 Sonok believe that the power of Chis.
tian song has yet beer fuuly tried. I.
_ believe that is you could roll the **Old*Hun-
dred’! doxology through Wall street, it
would pr an end to any financial disturb-
ance! I believe that the discords, and the
sorrows, and the sms of the world are to be
swept out by heaven-born hallelujahs! Go-
ing through the wilderness of . this world
let us remember that we are on our way to
the summery chime of heaven, and irom
the migratory ‘populations flying through
this autumnal air learn: always to keep
singing. ‘the Church of God will never be
a triumphant caureh until it becomes a
singing church.
I go rurther, and remark that the birds
of the air are wiser than we, in the fact
that,’ in their migration, they fly very
high. During the summer, when they
are in the fie'ds, they often come within
reach of the gun: but when they start for
the annual flight southward, they take
their places and = go straight a8
an arrow. to the mark. We
fly so low that we dre within eas
range of the world, the flesh and the devil.
We are brought down by temptations that
ought not to come within a mile of reach:
ing us.
So poor is the type of piety in the ehtarch
of God now, that men actually caricature
the idea that there is any such thing as a
higher life. Moles never did believe in
eagles. But, my brethren, because we
have not reached these Heights ourselves,
shall we. deride the fact that there are
any such heights?
We go out and we conquer our tefapta-
tions by the grace of God, and lie down.
On the morrow those A tations rally
themselves and attack us, oe by the grace
of God we defeat them again; but staying
all the time in the old encampment we
have the same old battle ta fight over.
Why not whip out our temptations and
forward march, making one raid through
the enemy’s country, “stopping not until
we break ranks after the last victory? Do
my brethrén, let us have some novélty of
combat, at any rate, ‘by changing, by go-
ing on, ‘by making advancements, trading
off our stale prayers about sins we ought
to have quit long ago, going on toward a
higher state of Christian character and
ronting out sing that we have never
thought of yet.
Again, I remark that the birds of the air
are wiser than we, because they know when
to start. lt you should go out now and
shout, ‘Stop, storks and cranes, don’t be in
a hurry!” they would say, “No, we cannot
stop; last night we heard the roaring i in the
woods bidding us away, and the shrill flute
of the north wind has sounded the retreat.”
We say, "Wait until itis a little ‘later in
the season of mercy. Wait until some of
these green leaves of hope are all dried up
and liave been scattered. Wait until next
‘year.’ After a while we start, and it is too
late, and we perish in the way when God's
wrath is kindled but a little. There are, you
know, exceptional cases where birds have
started too late, and in the morning you
have found them dead onthe snow. And
there are those who have perished half way
between the world and Christ. 'Thev waited
until the last ‘sickness, when the mind was
gone, or they. were onthe express train go-
ing at 40 miles an hour, and they came to
thé bridge and the ‘draw was up” and they
went, down.
Some of you have felt the pinching frost
of sin. You feel it to-day. Youare are not
happy. I'look into your faces, and I know
you are not happy, There are voices within
your soul that will not be silenced. telling
you that you are sinners; and that without
the pardon of God you are undone forever.
lp What are you going to do, my friends, with
the accumulated transgressions of this life-
time? Will Jou stand still and let the ava-
lanche tumble over you? Oh that you would
£2 away into the warm heart of God's mercy.
he Southern grove, redolent with magnolia
and cactus, never wait for Northern flocks
as God has waited for Jor
Another frost is bid ing you away—it is
the frost of sorrow. Where do you five sow!
"Oh," vou say, “I have moved.”
you move? You say, ‘I don’t want we 3
a house now as formerly.” Why do you
want as large a house? You say, ‘My fam-
ily is not so large.” "Where have they gone
to? ‘Eternity I" Your mind- goes. back
through that last sickness and through the
almost superfiatural effort to save life, and
through those prayers that seemed unavail-
ing. ‘and thredgh that kiss ‘which received
no response becatise the lips were lifeless,
and I hear the bells tollinz and I hear the
hearts breaking-—while I speak. I hear them
break. A heart! Another heart! Alonel
alone! alone!
You may have noticed that when “the
chaffinch or the stork or the crane starts on
its migration, it calls all those of its kind to
come, too The treetops are full of chirp
and whistle and carol and the long roll-call.
The bird does not start off alone. It gathers
all of its kind. Oh, that you might be as
wise in this migration to heaven, and that
ou might gather all your families and your
{ friends with you! I would that Hannah
might take Samuel by the hand, and Abra:
ham might take Isaac, and Hagar might
take Ishmael
Start for heaven yourself, and take your
children with you.” Come thou and all thy
house into the ark. Tell your little ones that
there are realms of balm and sweetness for
4 those who fly in. the
‘Bwifter than pal § stroke, put. ont for
| heaven. | Like the crane or the stork, stop
not night nor day until vou sud the ight
ace or stopping. ; y
stork, of such strong affection hat it is-al-
the idea of the text, to shew that the birds |
sign when you hear him hum a roundelay.’
right direction.
KILDED BY A RUNAWAY CAR.
THREE MEX LOSE THEIR LIVES AND TWO WOM
EN ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A runaway car on the incline plane ax
the Phillips Glass Works, at Mapleton, ran
into a erowd of passengers at the Pennsyl
vania railroad station, killing Archie Dill,
William Temple and John Barclay instant
ly. Nerva Wilson and: Daisy Banks were
seriously injured. A hundred or more
persons were standing on a side track, which
connects the Phillips company’s works
with the Pennsylvania railroad, awaiting
the arrival of a passenger train.
the ranaway car, heavily laden, ran into
them.
the side track is very great and the carcame
down with tremendous velocity.
THE OHIO LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE.
The depth of water in the channel of the
Ohio at Bellaire, O , is but seven inches,
“Captain William Dillon; inspector of hulls
for the port of Wheeling; who is one of the
oldest rivermen hereabouts, says that this
stage is the fowest that has been known for
He remembers that in 1836 there
bb years.
was but 10 inches in the channel at Wheel-
ing, and he recalls pushing a baby carriagd
loaded with butternuts across
that time.
the rivera$
year, and had to remain there all summer.
TUDICIAT DECISION ON ONE POINT IN THE BAK-
ER LAW.
Judge Yerkes at Norristown gave as his *
opinion upon the right of the voter to take
a friend in the booth with him to mark the
ballot. The judge says thatifa man hap-
pens to forget his spectacles he cannot be
deprived of his vote because he cannot see,
but may call in a friend to help him. One
who is unable to read may also have a friend
inthe booth to tell him how fo mark bis
ballot; or a voter may, says the judge, have
a ballot marked beforehand, fake that in
the booth and mark the one given to him
by the election officer’ by comparison.
CALLERY JUNCTION IX RUINS.
The Ettle village of 'Callery Junction,
where the Butler branch of the Pittsburg
and Western railroad diverges from the.
main line; was completely wiped out by fire
Saturday morning. The settlement consisted
only of about a dozen frame buildings, and
high wind, lack of water and fire appara
precluded any attempt to stop the flames.
The fire broke out im Patrick Murray's pool
room, and in less than two hours the village
was a heap of smouldering ruins.
is about $16,000, with very little insurance
YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN KILLED.
An accident on the Delaware, Lackawans
na & Western road at Lehigh resuited in the
death of two young people, Edward C. Solar
and ‘Ella Cole, who had been calling on a
friend and who were returning upon the
track. An engine was backing and they
thought it svas on the other track. The
girl was killed instantly and the young
man died soon after. Their home yas but
afew vardsaway:
TWO KILLED ON THE BALTIMORE & OHIO.
The Baltimore & Ohio ‘fiver, westbound,
struck a cab containing Michael Kane and
wife of Phliadelphia at Darby junction,
killing both the occupants and scattering
their remains along the track half a mile.
‘The driver was throw 40 feet in the air, but
escaped with slight injuries.
In a freight wreck on the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad at Birdsboro, Berks county,
many cars were destroyed and engineer
Mitler and Fireman Kensel were badly in-
jure
THERE js a water famine in the vicinity
of Scottdale amit M¢, Pleasant, Westmore-
land county, and if a fire should start
nothing can be done to stop it.
* Ar Taylorstow.i, stonethrowers have beem
bombarding private houses nightly. Armed
Pasties are patrolling the country seeking a
clew
WHILE an unknown Slav was endeavor.
ing to crawl under a freight train at Bell
wood, the train moved and the man's hed
was cut from his body.
Tae Lehigh tand Wilkesborre Coax
Company has begun the construction of
the largest coal breaker in the world at
Ashley. The plant. will cost $250,000 and
will employ about 2,000 men and boys.
Ar Pottstown, the Miner's Journal build-
ing, occupied by.real estate offices and var-
ious clubs was destreyed by fire.
$75,000.
Mgrs. Nicnoras Rear, aged 78. of Butler,
while walking on the West Penn track was
struck by an engine and instantly killed.
Ar Bellefonte, Pa., fired destroyed three
large stables, two smaller buildings and ths
large residence belonging to Dr. Robers
Hay s, together with the Bush Arcade. Loss,
$20.000; insuranee, $10.000,
ONLY A STICK.
Greatness is not usefuluess. There are
many things too great to be usoful. What
would a ¢rowbar be worth in repairing a
watch? Persons sometimes beiittle them-
scives, and seem 1o regard themselves of no
account.
8uys Marion Lawrence to Sunday school
teachers: “Don’t allow yourselves to get dis
couraged in your work. One of my teachers
came to me one day and said. ‘I cannot teach
this class, T am only a stick.” I replied, ‘Do
you know what the Lord aid with a stick?
He opened the Red Sea witha stick. He
brought water out of the rock with a stiek.
You go back to the class and bea stick, be a
good stick. That is all the Lord wants of
you.’ The trouble is that we want tobe
something that we arenot. If weare crooked
sticks the Lord will* find crooked places for
us to fill.”
No man should be discouraged about his
place, his opportunities, or lus calling, but
each’ for himself should look to God for
guidance. for help. for wisdom that cometh
trom above; and those who look to God with
loving joyous trust, will find that he will
never forget them or forsake them, but will
guide their efforts to his glory and the good
of other men.
may be as useful as the work of the great,
for it is not by might nor by power, but by
my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts. [The
Christian.
JOHN CLARE, sevanty-tour years old
killed by a train at Sparkhill, N. x.) the
other evening, Just ten years ago he was
struck by tne same train, under the charge
uf tne same con luctor, at the same hour and.
near the sane spo t that time he was
thrown up. in tha; was unonct, :
Tag wiountain ir
Ws of Cloverdale,
1a dam:
: biserly about
it tr
Suddenly
The wonder is that many more
were not killed or wounded. The inclineof
The loss
And the work of thesmall
:
The Juniata,’ a’ small steamer,
ran aground on Wheeling creek bar that
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