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Although we ore not very jubilant over a
municipal reform that opens the exercises
by n doxology to rum, we have full faith in
God and in the gospel whioh will yet sink
all iniquity as the Atlantic Ocean melts a
flake of snow. What we want, and what I
believe wo will have, is a great religious
awakening that will moralize and Christian
ize our great populations and make them
superior to temptations, whether unlawful
or legalized. So I see no cause for dis-
heartenment. Pessimism is a sin, and those
who yield to it cripple themselves for the
war, on one side of which are all the forces
Ot darkness, led on by Apollyon, and on the
other side ot which are all the forces
of flight, led on by the Omnipotent. I
risk the statement that the vast majority of
people are doing the best they oan. N no
hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand
of the officials of the municipal add the
United States governments are honest.
Out of a thousand bank presidents and
oashiers, nine hundred nnd ninety-nine are
worthy the position they occupy. Out of a
thousand merchants, mechanics and profes
sional men, nine hundred nnd ninety-nine
are doing their duty as they understand it.
Out of one thousand engineers and conduc
tors and switchmen, nine hundred andnine*
ty-nine are true to their responsible posi
tions. It is seldom that people arrive at
positions of responsibility until they hnva
been tested over nad over again. If the
theory of the pessimist we/e accurate, so
ciety would long ago have gone to pieces,
and civilization would have been submerged
with barbarism, and the Whoel of the cen
turies would have turned back to the dark
ages. A wrong Impression is made that be
cause two men falsify their bank aeccunts
those two wrongdoers are blazoned before
the world, while nothing is said In praise of
the Hundreds of bank clerks who have stood
at their desks year in and year out until
their health is well nigh gone, taking not a
pin’s worth of that which belongs to others
for themselves, though with skilful stroke of
pen they might have enriched themselves
and built their country seals on the bHhks oi
the Hudson or the Rhino.
It is a mean thiag in human nature that
men nnd women are not praised for doing
well, but only excoriated when they do
wrong. By divine arrangement the most of
the families of the earth are nt peace, and
the most of those united in marriage have
for each oiher affinity nnd affection. They
may have occasional differences, and here
and there a season of pout, but the vnst ma
jority of those in the conjugal relation chose
the most appropriate companionship, and
are happy in that relation. You hear nothing
of the quietude nnd happiness of such
homes, though nothing but death will them
part. But one sound of marital discord
makes the ears of a continent, and perhaps
of a hemisphere, alert.
The one letter that ought never to have
been written prlntbd in a newspaper makes
more talk than the millions of letters that
crowd the post offices and weigh down the
mail carriers with expressions oi honest love.
Tolstoi, the 'great Russian author, is wrong
when he prints a book for the depreciation
of marriage. If your observation has put
you ia an attitude of deploratiou for the
marriage state, one of two things is true in
regard to you. You hnve either been un
fortunate in your acquaintanceship, or you
yourself are morally rotten. The world, not
as rapid as we would like, but still with
long strides, is on the way to the scenes of
beatitude nnd felicity whioh the Bible de
picts. The man who oannot see this
is wrong, either in his heart or liver ot
spleen. Look nt the great Bible picture
gallery, where Isaiah has set up the pictures
of nrboreseenco, girdling the world with
cedar and fir and pine and boxwood and the
lion led i y a child, and St. John's pictures
of waters and trees, and Whitehorse cavalry,
and tears wiped away, nnd trumpets blown
and harps struck, and nations redeemed.
While there are 10,000 things I do not
like, I have not seen any discouragem n
for the cause of God for twenty-five years.
The kingdom is coming. The earth is pre
paring to put on bridal array. We need to
be getting our anthems and grand marches
ready. In our hymnologywe shall have
more use for “Antioch” than for “Wind
ham,” for “Ariel,” than for “Naomi." Let
“Hark, From the Tombs a Doleful Cry!” be
submerged with “Joy to the World, the
Lori is Come!" Really, If I thought the
human race were as determined to be bad
nnd getting worse, as the pessimists repre
sent, I would think it was hardly worth
saving. If after hundreds of years of gos-
peiization no improvement has been made,
let ns give it up and go at something else
besides praying and preaohing.
My opinion is that if we had enough faith
in quick results and oould go forth rightly
equipped with the gospel call the battle for
God nnd righteousness would end with this
nineteenth century, and the twent eth
century, only five or six yents off, would be
gin the millennium, nnd Christ would
reign, either in person on some throne set
up between the Alleghenies and the Rookies
or in the institutions of mercy and grandeur
set tip by His ransomed people. Discouraged
work will meet with defeat. Expectant and
buoyant work will gain the victory. Starr
out with the idea that all men are liars and
scoundrels, and that everybody is as bad as
he oan be, and that society, and the ohurch,
and the world are on the way to demolition,
and the only use you will ever be to the
world will be to increase the value of
lots In a cemetery. We need a more
cheerful front in all our religious work.
People have enough trouble already and
do not want to ship another cargo of trouble
in the shape ot religiosity. If religion has
tieen to you a peace, a defense, an inspira
tion and a jov, say so. Say it by word of
mouth, by pen in your hand, by faoe Illu
mined with a divine satisfaction. If this
world is ever to be taktn for God, ft wi'l not
be by groans, but by halleluiahs. If we
,and the
_ 5T stand sen-
couch in the farm
her face over nnd
shows Signs of dreams about
the heaven she read.of before retiring, in
the morning the day s work has begun down
stairs, and seated at the table the remark is
made, “Mother must havo overslept her
self.” And tho grandchildren afso notice
that grandmother is absent Irom her usual
place at the table. One of the grandchildren
goes to the foot of the stairs aud cries,
“Grandmother!” But there Is no answer.
Fearing something is the matter, they go up
to see, and all seems right. The spectacles
and Bifile on the stand, and the covers of
the bed are smooth-, and tho face is calm ;
her white hair on the white pillow case like
snoW oh show already fallen. But her soul
is gone up to look upon the things that the
night before she had been reading of in the
Scriptures. What a transporting look On hor
dear old wrinkled face! Sne has seen the
“King in His beanty.” She has been wel
comed by the “Lamb who was slain.” And
her two oldest sons, having hurried up
stairs, look and whisper, Henry to George,
“That is religion !” George to Henry, “Yes,
that is religion!”
There is a New York merchant who has
been in bus ness I should say forty or fifty
yenrs. During an old-fashioned revival of
religion in boyhood he gave his heart to
God. Ho did not make the ghastlv and in.
finite and everlasting mistake of sowing
“wild oats.” with the expectation oi sowing
good whoat later on. He realized the fact
that the most of those who sow “wild oats”
never reap any other crop. He started right
and has kept fight. He went down in iS57.
when the banks failed, but ho tailed honestly
and never lost his faith in God. Ups and
downs—be sometimes langbs over them—
hut whether losing or gaining he was grow
ing better all the time. He has been in many
business ventures, but he never ventured the
experiment of gaining the world and los
ing his soul. His name was a power
both in the church and in the business
world. He has drawn more cheeks for contri
butions to asylums aud churches and schools
than any one. except God, knows. He has
kept many a business man Irom failing In
tending his name on tho back of a note tiii
the crisis was past. All heaven knows about
him, for the poor woman whoso rent he paid
in her last days, and the matt With consump
tion in the hospital to wndm he sent flowers
and the cordials just before aset-ntion, and
the people he encouraged in many ways, af
ter they entered heaven kept talking about
it, for the immortals are neither deaf nor
dumb. Well, it Is about time for the old
merchant himself to quit earthly residence.
As it is toward evening, he shuts the sale,
puts the roil of newspapers in his pocket,
thinking that the family may like to read
them after he gets horn He folds up a 85
bill an 1 gives it to the boy to carry to one
of tbe car men who got his leg broken and
may be in need of a little money j puts a
stamp on a letter to his grandson at college,
a letter with good advice, and an inCiosure
to make tho holidays happy, then looks
around the store or office and says to tho
clerks, “Good evening.’ 1 and starts tor
home, stopping on the way at a door to ask
how hiB old friend, a deacon in the same
ohurch, is getting on since his last bad at
tack of vertigo. He enters his own home,
and that is his last evening on earth. He
does not say much. No last words are
necessary. His whole life has been
a testimony for God and righteous
ness. More people would like to attend
his obsequies than any house or ohurch
would hold. The officiating clergyman be
gins his remarks by quoting from the psalm
ist, “Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth,
for the faithful fail from among the children
or men.” Every hour in heaven for all tho
million years of eternity that old merchant
will see the result of his earthly beneficenoO
and fidelity, while on the street where ho did
business, and in tho orphan asylum in which
he Was a director, and in the church of
which he was an officer, whenever his gen
iality and beneficence and goodness are re
ferred to, bank director will say to bank di
rector. and merchant to merchant, and
neighbor to neighbor, nnd Christian to
Christian: “That is religion. Yes, that is
religion!?’
There is a man seated or standing very
near you. Do not look at him, for It might,
be unnecessary embarrassment. Only a
few minutes ago he came down oil tho steps
of as happy a home as there is in this or any
other oily. Fifteen years ago, by reason of
h s dissipated habits,-his home was a horror to
wire and children. What that woman went
through with tu or ter to preserve respecta
bility and hide her husband’s disgrace is a
tragedy which it would require a Shakes
peare or Victor Hugo to write out in five
tremendous acts. Shall Iteli it? Hestruok
her. Yes ; the one who at the altar ho had
taken with vows so solemn they made the
orange blossoms tremble! He struck her!
He made the beautiful holidays “a reign of
terror.” Instead of his supporting her, she
supported him. Tho children had often
heard him speak the natneof God. but never
in prayer—oniy in profanity. It was the
saddest thin? on earth that I oan think of—
a destroyed home! Walking along the
street one day an impersonation of all
wretohedness. he saw a sign at the door of
a Young Men’s Christian Association.
“Meeting Fcr Men Only.”
He went in hardly knowing why he did
so, and sat down by the door, nnd a young
man was in broken voice an l poor grammar
telling how the Lord bad saved him from a
dissipate i life, ana the man back by the
door said to himself, “ Why cannot I have
the Lord do the same thing for me?” an 1 he
pat his hands, all a-tremble. over his blotto I
face and said : “O God, l want that! 1 must
have that!” aud God sail. -‘You shall have
it, an 1 you have it now!” Ant the man
came out and went home a changed man,
and though the ehildreu at first shrank back
and looked to the mother and beg in to cry
with lright they soon saw that the father
was a changed man. That home has turn ed
irom “Paradise Lost” to “Paradise Re
gained." The wife sings all day long at her
work, for she is so happy, and the children
rush out into the hall at the firs', riltteof the
lather’s key in the door latch to welcome
him with caresses nnd questions o', “What
have you brought me?” Tory have family
prayers. They are altogether on the
road to beav.-n. an 1 when the journey of
life is over they will live forever in each
SOlltt-
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’mofniUg. The
otder by its presi-
lan B, Anthony,
ivention met in DeGive’s op-
louse and the down stairs portion
ffis comfortably filled with delegates
and visitors.
The delegates all Wore bfilliant yel
low satin badges, oh which Was very
significant pictures. At the top of the
badge appears the Coat of arms of the
state of Georgia.
At the bottom of the badge is the
same coat of arms, but in a rather di
lapidated condition.
The column representing Wisdom,
the legislative branch of the govern-
thentj is inissing; as it is claimed there
can he no wisdom in a government
where women are not allowed to vote.
The column of Justice, the judicial
branch of the government, is broken
nnd leaning, and the column of Mod
eration, the executive branch of the
goverhlheht, is badly cracked. The
whole arch of tho constitution is bent
and out of plumb, all on account of
the fact, ihe delegates Bay, that the
womeh of the state ate not allowed to
VOtBi
Pacing the audience and just above
the stage were two flags ohe belonging
to the National Association and one
belonging to the State Association.
The national flag is like the United
States flag except that the blue ground
is covered with black velvet on which
are only two bright yellow stars rep
resenting Wyoming and Colorado tht
only states that have adopted iu.ll
woman suffrage.
The Georgia flag is like this except
that it has all the forty-four states
upon blue ground.
The first two states, Colorado and
Wyoming, are bright yellow, the next
is nearly all yellow, representing Kan
sas, which has municipal suffrage for
women, theh seventeen stars are
shaded With yeiloW, representing the
states where women voto on school
questions; the next,representing Iowa,
is shaded, for there the women vote
on bonds, then two stars are faintly
shaded, representing Mississippi and
Arkansas, where women vote on fence
questions and certain kinds of peti
tions. The other stars are all black,
representing the states where women
do not vote at all.
In calling the convention to order
Miss Stisan Anthony glanced tip nt the
flags above het head and explained
their significance to the audience.
“Good friends,” said she, as she
rapped upon the table with a gavel,
“this is tbe first national convention
of the Woman’s Suffrage Association 1
have ever had the pleasure of calling
to order south of the Mason and Dixon’s
line. I am delighted to stand here in
Atlanta and give this first rap to call
the attention of the men and women
of the south to the principles of the
order.”
She then balled attention to the
gaVel she held ih her hand and said it
was the same one used in calling to or
der the legislature of Colorado which
gave women the right to vote. She
spoke of Colorado being tbe first gen
uine republic in the world, this little
spot on top of the rookies, the place
where men first gave to their better
halves equal rights.
Rev. Anna Shaw, the woman
preacher of Pittsburg, Pa., was called
ou to open the convention with prayer.
She began c- her _ player by saying,
“Almighty God, our Heaven Father
and Mother, we thank Thee that Thou
hast permitted us to gather here to
discuss the great questions that are
before ns.” When the prayer was
finished, the recording secretary, Miss
Alice Stone Blackwell, called the roli
of states, and nearly everyone of them
had representatives present.
WILL COME SOUTH
Whore They Can Compete With the
Whole World.
A prominent Greenwoods manufac
turing company, the New Hartford,
ConD., manufacturers of cotton goods,
says the company has practically con
cluded to abandon their plant in New
Hartford tnd move south. The com
pany is especially nettled over the ac
tion of the town in raising the taxes
on the plant from $25,000 to $40,000.
It claims that, with such heavy taxes,
high freights on raw materials, etc., it
cannot compete with southern manu
facturers and make a reasonable profit.
The controlling interest in the Green
woods company is owned by J. Spen
cer Turner, of New York, who has
large interests in southern manufac
turing plants. The capital of the
company is $300,000, and its pay roll
$175,000. It is the principal industry
in New Hartford.
Guarding Canal Works.
A Panama special says there is dan
ger that the canal works will be de
stroyed by d ; scharged employes. The
works are guarded by troops.
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near the
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iirds driTo ths
places. Game chick-
on barnyard fowl—nabor
Try are better to eat, and Lave
He had said this so often that
thought she would see if it was so.
Tad one of bis fine shawlneeks killed white
e was away and had it nicely coo ed. and, as
be was enjoying it, she said: “Now, do you
really believe that a game chicken is any better
than this one?" “Why, my dear,” raid he,
‘ there is no compirison: This chicken tastes
like all tbe common chickens, but it hasent got
the flavor nor the delicate juices Of a game
chicken.” She told it on lnm- and he basent
mentioned tho subject since. Nevertheless, it
is a fact that game fish are better than the stu
pid, submissive kinds—trout ranks all t lie fish
east of the Alleghanies—trout aud Spanish
mackerel are tho gamest fish down litre, and
they are the bast for tlie table. But I will not
write any more about fish for fear of losing my
reputation for truth and veracity. I only in
tended to illustrate a fact, which is, that cour
age is the best mark of aristocracy in animal
life; courage of couvibtions. courage in duty,
marks the best type of manhood, not only in
war, hut in peace. Galileo and Lather had it
as strong as did Lee and Jackson. It is force
of character and will power that marks tho
true aristocrat. Webster and Clay and Cal
houn were typical aristocrats. They had con
victions and dare l to maintain them regard
less of person <1 peril. We have, no doubt, a
few statesmen now of equal brain power, but
they are lacking in moral conrago—they deem
it safer to follow the people than to lead them.
There is not a statesman in the nation who
stands np pre-eminent for his political wis
dom, his moral courage, his unselfishness
and his patiiotism. . There is bo Moses to
lead its blit the wilderpess—party 14
a biggbr thing than eohntry. If it were not
so, congress would sgreo ou a commission freni
b»tu parties to frame A tariff hill and a silver
bill that would give the nation peace, and take
these great national questions ont of partisan
politics. As it is now, one party says to the
other, we will Oppose anything yon advocate.
The reflecting, conservative people everywhere
are not only tired, hut despairing. They wonltj
welcoihe the disruption of the oil parries—“I
never exptet to vote again” is a common re
ntal k.
Bnt there’s life in the old land yet. The south
is gei ting along fairly w. 11, con idering the
panic. The people ha+e got used t» hard
times, and are adapting themselves to a contin
uation of the general depression. The south is
a blessed land. I have before me a letter frond
a man in northern O iio, who says: ’‘Tell your
people who are disconragod over the losses by
the freeze lo bo thankful they are not np here
in the north, where we have been buying feed
for our stcck for sir months on acconnt of last
summer’s drought, and many are suffering for
the commonest necessities of life. Onr chari
table institutions are all taxed to their ntmost
to relieve them—snow is now from fifteen to
twenty inches deep, and the morenry 20 de
grees below Kero, aud the iev wind Mowing a
gale. How we would rejoice to spend the fedt
of the winter in sunny Florida;”
My friend Iiobert McCay says lie spent sev
eral years in Europ ■, and mingled wi'h the
common people in their humble homes, and
found them more contented in their poverty
than ours arerivith their comforts of life. They
live on what we would throw to the dogs—every
scrap is carefully saved. If a Gorman family
has a son or a father in the army (and nearly
every family has one or the oth r), they save
every penny to send to him and keep him com
fortable. Just think what a drain it is upon
tho energies and toil of a people who havo to
nvinta n half a million soldiers as a Btan ling
army in times of poace. No, we should not
c tnplain of anything down here in ihe south
land, where gbod crops hate for many years
ble sed the farmer’s toil, and where a man cSd
live comfortably on 25 cents a day. There is
no excuse for a man to becomo a tramp, the
laziest negim can command more Ilian that
anywhere every day in the year.
Tha’ is so, the wages of a negro man has not
fallen below 50 eents a day in Cartersvillc—
most of them get 75 rents. Down here in
Florida they get from $1 to 81.25 for unsk lied
labor—for grubbing, hauling, making up mor
tar or digging in the phosphate mines.
The greatest source of discontent is envy of
thos9 who are better off. That old dogma of
Thomas Jcff- rson, who declared that “all men
are bv nature fiee and equal,” baa done much
harm, for it is not true, and never will to until
the millennium. It w 11 not he true then, for
there are grades arid ranks and classes in thS
futnie state Ttiere arfe shfreis sndarohangelfi
—Gabriel and Moses and Elias rank hjghef
than LaZarn-. There is also a hell and a lower
h l|_why should we envy those who rank us
in Wealth or fame or powef or digriity? Web.-
ster rbowed the right s.-irit Tfhen he said; "I
thank God that, if I cannot raise a mortal to'
the skies, I have n> de-ire to prill an angel
down.” Oh, for more of sn li noble aristocrats.
But it is not so he e in Florida for vis.tor-.
We are luxuriating on very fine oranges every
dav, and tnev cost us ouly nrty cents a Hun
dred. The thick-skinned fruit has not been
f r . z n inside, some of it is a little touched
next to the stem, but we cat that off and the
rest is good. They make excellent ambrosia.
The fruit that still hangs on the trees is gener
ally eatable.
Grapo fruit has not suffered like the oranges
and we have it rvery morning at the breakfast
tab’e. The weather is delightful, and oar so-
called female invalids - port every day on or in
the water, and some of tin m can row a boat to
the island without a man. I he r the same old
song that I hear at home. “Worn in rules here,”
and I am content to take a second place—for
my wife is an aristocrat and I am nothing but
a democrat.—Bill Arp in At anta Constitution.
TRUST RECEIVERS.
Two Appointed by Judge Grosscup
in Chicago.
A grand cotip was sprung at Chicago
Tuesday night by President Greenhnt
and his friends, and now the big or
ganization known as the Distillers and
and Cattle Feeders Company, is in the
hands of two receivers appointed by
Judge Grosscup, of the United States
district court. The receivers are:
E. F. Lawrence, a director of
the First National bank of Chi
cago, and Joseph B. Greenhnt, of
Peoria. They immediately filed their
bonds for $300,000 each before the
court and were duly qualified to act.
The property represents a nominal
valuation of S35,000,000, with a pres
ent actual valuation of probably
$4,000,000 or $5,000,000.
WHISKY TRUST’S TROUBLE.
The Receivers Placed Under Orders
Restraining Them From Acting.
A Chicago special says: The re
straining order preventing the whisky
trust receivers from taking any action
in the proceeding under which -they
were appointed, will remain in force
until Saturday moruigg.
wreck were
<y the fishing
They are: Stoll-
er; Neussel, first en-
, paymaster;Schultheiss,
_t and Sitting, assistant pay-
Furst, chief stoker; Vioebe,
.ward ; TVenning, Singer and Seinert,
jailors j Dreson and Batko, ordinary
seamen; DeHardee, German pilot;
Greenham, English pilot; HofmaaD,
Lngen, Schiegel and Yevera, of Cleve
land, O., saloon passengers; Bolthen,
a steerage passenger, and Miss Anna
Buecker.
The Elbe loft Bremen on Tuesday
afternoon. The few hours of the voy
age before the disaster were unevent
ful. At 4 o*clock Wednesday morn
ing the wind was blowing very hard
and a tremeudous sea was running.
The morning was unusually dark. Va
rious steamers’ lights were seen in all
directions, showing that many vessels
were near by. The captain, therefore,
ordered that rockets should be sent up
at regular intervals to warn the craft
to keep out of the Elbe’s course. It
was near to 6 o’clock and the Elbe
was somo fifty miles off Lowestoft,
coast of Suffolk, when the loekout
man sighted a steamer approach
ing. He gave tho word and, as a pre
caution, the number of rockets was
doubled; and they were sent up at
short intervals. The warning was with
out effect. The steamer came on with
unchecked speed, and before the Elbe
could change her course or reduce her
speed noticeably, there was the terrific
clash of the collision. The Elbe was
hit abaft her engine room. When the
small steamer wrenched awav an enor
mous hole was left in the Elbe’s side.
The water poured through and down
into the efigine toom in a cataract.
The room filled almost iflstftntly. The
engines wore still and tho big hulk be
gan to settle.
A Panic on Board.
The passengers were in bed. The
bitteF cold and rough sea had pre
vented Sny early rising, flfld none ex
cept the officers and cre-fr on dtity was
on deck when the 6hip was struck.
The shock and crash roused every
body. The steerage was in a panic in
a moment, and men, women and chil
dren, half-dressed or in their night
clothes, came crowding np tho com
panion ways. They had heafd the
sound of rushing water as the other
steamer backed off and had felt the
Elbe lurch and settle. They had
grasped the fact that it was
life or death with them, and
almost to a man had 3uccutnbed
to their terror. They clung together
in grotips, fariing the Cold and storm,
and cried aloud for help Of prayed on
their knees for deliverance. The offi
cers and crew were ca'm. For a few
moments they went among the terror-
stricken groups trying to quiet them
and encouraging them to hope that the
vessel might be saved. It was soon
apparent, however, that the Elbe was
settling steadily. The officers were
convinced that she was about to found
er and gave orders to lower the boate.
In a short time three boats were got
alongside, bnt the seas were breaking
over thri steainer with great force and
the first boat xVas swartiped before any
body fcoiiid get into it, The other
two boats, lowered at aboiit the Fame
time; xrffire filled quickly with members
of the crew and soirio passeitgets, but
the number was small, as the boats
had ouly twenty persons each.
The boat carrying the twcDty-one
persons who were landed at Lowestoft
put off in such haste from the sinking
steamer that nobody in it noticed what
became of the other boat. The surviv
ors believe, however, that she got away
safely. They s8y that they tossed
about in the heaVy si as for several
hours before they sighted the Wild-
flower. The little smack bore down
on them nt once and took them aboard.
The Elbe was commanded by Cap
tain Von Gossel. She arrived at Bre
men from New York on January 26,
and sailed from Bremen last Tuesday
for Southampton and New York.
She was built in 1S81 at Glasgow
and was of 4,510 gross tonnage, was
420 feet long and had 45 feet beam and
the depth of her hold was 36 feet 5
inches. She was a four masted screw
Bteamer and was owned by the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company.
A cable dispatch from Rotterdam,
Holland, says: The steamer Cratihe,
from Rotterdam to Aberdeen, bas re
turned to Matluis, her stem having
been stove in by coming in collision
with an unknown vessel at 5 o’clock
Wednesday morning, thirty rn'les from
Hook, Holland. She is not leaking.
It is supposed that the Elbe is the
steamer with which the Crathio was in
collision.
M. DE GIERS DEAD.
Russian Dtplomist and Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
M. deGiers, for many years Russian
minister of foreign affairs, is dead at
St. Petersburg. He was a statesman
whose position for many years as the
chief counsellor in foreign affairs of
the Czar of Russia gave a unique in
fluence on European international af
fairs. Fortunately for Europe, M. de
Giers was devoted to a pacific policy,
and it is as one of the trustees of the
world’s peace that he will chiefly be
remembered.
Yon may not know, and if yon do
not, yon will find it useful to bulletin
in the kitchen the fact:
That slamming the door of the oven
will make cake “fall.”
That a little knowledge, far from be
ing dangerous, often saves the cook
cookery from disaster.
That plunging macaroni for a sin
gle minute in a bath of cold water
after it has been cooked tender in
boiling salted water prevonts it being
“pasty.”
That 'a pinch of powdered sugar,
and another of corn starch beaten in
with the yolks of eggs will keep an
omelet from collapsing. Beat the
whites stiff and cut them into the
yolks.
That a half-teaspoonfnl of chicory,
to one-third of a cup of Mocha and
two-thirds of Java (or thereabouts)
gives the rich, dark tint and peculiar
flavor of French after-dinner “black
coffee.”
That a couple of sheets of big news
paper wrapped about ice will keep it
half as long again as ice that is uncov
ered. The paper is much more cleanly
than a piece of blanket, as it can be
removed daily.
That shaking potatoes after the
jackets are off for a minute at the open
window will make them “mealy.” The
cold draught causes the starch cells
to burst open, making the feathery
white flakes that are in snch agreeable
contrast to the sodden mass served too
often for a potato.
That the secret of making sponge
cake is not to beat the air all out of the
eggs after it is once beaten. Beat the
yolks to a mass of bubbles, and the
whites a stiff froth. Then cut them
into each other with a few
crosswise thrusts of a fork, and cut
the eggs into the cake mixture in the
same fashion. Do not beat the cake
afte? tho eggs are added.
That Young Man Again.
“Lid ydti ever pay any attention to
theosophy, Mr. Slogo?” she asked, with
deadly sweetness in her tones.
The young man admitted that he had
not.
“Oh, it is just lovely,” she contin
ued, “I have often thought how per
fectly charming it would be to send
one’s astral self down into the par
lor to entertain, while one’s real
tired self was sound asleep.”
The ticking of the clock became so
palnfnlly lond that the young man was
foiled to look at it and suddenly dis
cover that it was really growing so aw
fully late.—Indianapolis Journal.
Do not indulge the habit of giving
yonr children money in an indiscrimi
nate manner to spend as they like. It
leads to a great many ills, not the least
of which is an impaired digestion from
overeating. A child who has a penny
or nickel every time he asks for it can
soon make himself ill eating the cheap
candy nnd cakes put up to look so at
tractive on the outside, and then you
I rush off for a doctor and fill the child
up with medicine as a result of your
own selfishness in giving him money
to get rid of his importunities. Then
it is apt to make the child grow up
with extravagant ideas, and stealing is
a natural second step when parental
indulgence has worn out.—Chicago
Record.
MEDICAL
DISCOVERY
Many years ago Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the Invalids’ Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., com
pounded this medicine of vegetable ingredi
ents which had an especial effect upon the
stomach and liver, rousing the organs to
healthful activity as well as purifying and
enriching the blood. By such means the
stomach and the nerves are supplied with
pure blood; they will not do duty without K
any more than a locomotive can run with
out coal. You can not get a lasting cure of
Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, by taking arti
ficially digested foods or pepsin—the stom
ach must do its own work in its own way.
Do not put your nerves to sleep with so-
called celery mixtures, it is better to go to
the seat of the difficulty and feed the nerve
cells on the food they require. Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Biliousness and Nervous Af
fections, such as sleeplessness and weak,
nervous feelings are completely cured by
the “Discovery.” It puts on healthy "‘-Fh,
brings refreshing sleep and invigorates the
whole system.
Mrs K. Henke, of No. 896 North HaJsUd St.,
Chicago, III., writes: “I regard my improve
ment as simply —
wonderful. Since
taking Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Dis
covery in connection
with his * Pleasant
Pellets ’ I have gain
ed in every respect,
particularly in flesh
and strength. My
liver was dreadfully
enlarged and I suf
fered greatly from
dyspepsia. No phy
sician could give
relief.
Now, after two
months I am entire
ly relieved of my
disease. My appe- Mrs. Henke.
tite is excellent;
food well digested; bowels regular and sleep
much improved.”
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Brings comfort and improvement and
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less expenditure, by more promptly
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the necias of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
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beneficial properties of_ a perfect lax
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disneliing colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because It acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute ii offered.
The ecmperativevalue of these twoeards
Is known to most persons.
They illustrate that greater quantity £*
Not always most to bo desired.
These cards express the beneflcinl qaaTi
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Ripans • Tabuies
As compared with any previously known
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WnLL O I i FRREto readers of this paper.
Five, ’03
Smallpox at St. Louis.
Seven cases of smallpox are reported
at the St. Louis city hospital and three
at quarantine. All are traced to the
Madison, 111., race track. Free vac
cination is being done by all the city-
physicians and every means taken to j
| check the contagion.
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