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wTtROBERT OODf Editor and Prop
Valentine - Nebraska
Prophet Totten says AH great
-events occur in even years Thata
odd
Whether in a nation or an individual
mpty pride is at least as bad as an
empty pocket Theres nothing in it
Even four hundred years ago when
dt ran up against America Spain hadnt
any idea it -was the great country it is
Abdul Hamid isnt saying a word
nowadays The Spanish atrocities in
Cuba evidently liave shamed him into
silence
Whats the use of sending an expedi
ttion out to search for Andree Why
not ask a Key West correspondent
where Andree is
A contemporary asks Whom are
missing Without attempting to an
swer this question we will wTager that
the list includes Lindley Murray
A New York paper says that a man in
that city has three wives living under
one roof That fellow apparently re
gards matrimony as a sort of three
ring circus
We have no doubt that Laureate
Austin would accomplish much better
results if he would furnish the subjects
only and hire somebody else to furnish
the verse making
The Russian Emperor thinks Cuba a
jvery small plat to fight over He breaks j
off a chunk of the Chinese empire that
3s larger than the suffering island
about once a week and adds it to his
territory
It is announced that thirty one wom
en have signified their willingness to
anarry General Cassius M Clay Be
fore these negotiations proceed further
the general ought to do a little busi
ness in divorce court
The booksellers of Paris ordered 63
00 copies of Zolas Paris in advance
of publication The subsequent expe
riences of the great painter of the woes
of the poor and the injustice of the un
thinking rich will not ultimately lessen
the number of his readers
The infelicity of ending a sentence
with a preposition is pre eminently
pardonable in this note addressed to a
collector of customs Find ten dollars
which the -writer defrauded the United
States of The English of sincere
penitence is above criticism
Arbor day is the antidote for the
flood disasters in the Ohio and Missis
sippi valleys It will take many de
cades to make -good the havoc of the
woodmans ax but persevere and even
tually equilibrium of nature may be re
stored and the devastations of the flood
withheld
A Boston girl who has been trying to
find out why her bicycle often runs into
objects she tries to avoid thinks she has
solved the problem at last She says
4It is hypnotic influence of concentrated
attention rendering the movements in-co-ordinate
so that the rider becomes
the victim of perverted reflexes of pur
poseless effort and the abject subject of
an optical delusion And perhaps she
is right
The hoisting of the Russian flag over
Port Arthur and Tai-Lien-Wan un
doubtedly marks the beginning of the
end of the oldest empire in the world
Up to this time China while passing
through many vicissitudes as modern
progress had crowded upon its ancient
conservatism has preserved its integ
rity and its sovereignty It has beea
forced in some degree out of its seclu
sion but it has remained a national
entity To day it is regarded as the
prey of European powers and its par
tition among the earth hungry West
ern nations has already begun
Scraping the lining of a chimney to
get gold and silver is a form of mining
which the books do not recognize but
it may be profitable under certain con
ditions The chimney -of the Assay Of
fice in Wall street New York is near
ly two hundred feet high A new lin
ing of fire brick has been put in it The
old lining over forty years old yield
ed almost fifteen hundred dollars
There were fifty two ounces of gold
and eight hunod and sixty ounces of
silver in the scrapings Smoke which
lias a market value through deposits
of precious metal it makes ought to be
treated with great respect
A Wyoming stock raiser dissatisfied
with his surroundings and in haste to
be rich recently sold his land and start
ed for the Klondike A few months
later a French mineralogist discovered
near the despised ranch a mine of co
balt a rare and valuable metal The
whole district promises to become a
new center of wealth It was upon
- land sold to enable the former owner to
start for the gold mines of California
that the great oil wells of Pennsylvania
were afterward found and both these
Incidents acentuate the fact that we
are continually within reach of import
ant discoveries and great opportunities
missing them by a hairs breadth of im
patience failure to observe or lack of
preparation
Why does not this great country have
a national air Not something borrowed
or paraphrased from abroad but an air
of its own original characteristic stir
ring full of life and motion What we
want is something simple bold a
swing a dash a clear shrill peat
tratiag clarion note that rings like u
wild bell in the night and turns men
pale with fervor Why can we not
have a battle song of our own Why
must we content ourselves with tepid
messes borrowed from abroad with
dressed up pious lamentations with dis
mal chants and dirges We are young
we are strong we are full of virility
and fire Give us something that speaks
for our splendid palpitating national
itysomething that jumps with our
free stride and passionate ambition
The career of Blanche K Bruce Reg
ister of the Treasury who died recent
ly was one of singular vicissitudes
Born a slave in Yirgina fifty seven
years ago and obtaining in his boy
hood only such education as he could
get by stealth few things could have
seemed less likely than that he should
enter the United States Senate at the
age of thirty four only four years
above the minimum age fixed by the
Constitution Yet lie did this in 1S75
as a Senator from Mississippi Soon
after the completionof his term in the
Senate he was appointed Register of
the Treasury by President Garfield
the same office which lie has held un
der the present administration Mr
Bruce s native ability and his traits of
character won for him the respect of
his associates in public life
Something entirely new in qualifica
tions for suffrage is about to be given
a trial in Louisiana The provision
finally adopted not without opposition
requires an educational test for suf
frage but makes an exception where
the illiterate voter possesses property
or his wife has property Exception
is also made in case of a foreigner nat
uralized prior to the first of this year
and in the case of an illiterate voter
whose father or grandfather was a
voter iu Louisiana or some other State
previous to Jan 1 1SG7 With voting
where suffrage is granted because of
the electors garden patch or his
wifes mules we are familiar for sev
eral States have similar property quali
fications But the plan of permitting
a man who cannot read and has no
mules to vote simply because his
grandfather was a voter more than
thirty years ago is a decided innova
tion The proposal would be amusing
were it not so serious In business life
young men frequently bank on the
credit of their fathers and in social
life there is a tendency to rely on
grandfathers or more distant ances
tors This however is the first sug
gestion of a hereditary qualification
for suffrage in any American State
It certainly is not a suggestion of the
surviving grandfathers for few of
them would care to continue voting in
definitely through illiterate descend
ants This strange suffrage qualifica
tion is of doubtful validity A majority
of the delegates opposed it but accept
ed it as a compromise Both of the
United States Senators from Louisiana
have declared it unconstitutional from
a Federal standpoint and a number of
other Senators consulted denounce it
If it is finally tried and sustained what
new and strange suffrage qualification
may we not expect from the next constitution-making
body
In Japans new Cabinet are several
young men who have imbibed much of
the commercial spirit of the age They
fellows who are
are aggressive young
committed to the developing of the ma
terial resources of the Empire Prime
Minister Ito who for the third time is
at the head of the Cabinet is disposed
to give his young colleagues wide lati
tude in which to carry out their policy
of building up the industries of the
country Last year over five hundred
miles of new railway were constructed
in Japan and this year it is proposed to
build even a greater mileage All told
there are two thousand miles of rail
way in Japan and in order to make
them pay they must be fed with the
traffic that springs out of commercial
activity These railways belong both
to the government and private corpora
tions and connect the principal cities
of the Empire In order to stimulate
manufactures the new Cabinet de
sides to negotiate a commercial treaty
Germany has been selected as one of
the countries which will be invited to
enter such a treaty The Japanese ar
gue that Germany manufactures ma
chinery which they need and con
sumes the products which they manu
facture Therefore a commercial treaty
with Germany is looked upon as a
desirable acquisition This eagerness
on the part of the Japs to secure a
commercial treaty under which the
products of the two countries thereto
may be advantageously exchanged
ought to attract the attention of our
government Germany produces no
machinery that we do not produce and
she consumes no Japanese products
that we do not consume We can se
cure the trade of Japan if we go after
it on terms that will be acceptable
to the new Cabinet but we cannot get
it if we remain inactive and silent while
Germany is pursuing the prize We
ought to furnish the Japanese the
greater part of their railway iron and
their rolling stock but we furnish them
only a small fraction of what they use
We ought to furnish them the machin
ery they use in their cotton and silk
mills but we do not furnish any to
speak of We ought to have a market
there for our machinery agricultural
implements etc but the foreigners od
the other side of the Atlantic enjoy a
monopoly of what we ought to share
The Japanese like us They are trying
to make their system of government
analogous to ours so far as it is possi
ble to make a monarchy resemble a re
public In view of this we ought to
compete with Germany for the trade of
the Japanese and if necessary make
such concessions as would secure for
us a continuing market for our staples
and the products of our mills and fac
tories which now glut the channels of
home consumption Japan wants to
trade with the outside world why not
have her trade with this country
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CLIMATE AND CROP BULLETIN
Farm WorlcKetarued by Cool Weather
and Moisture
The United States Department of Ag
riculture issued the following climate and
crop bulletin for the past week
The week has been too cool for best re
sults in New England the central val
leys and east Gulf States while exces
sive moisture has retarded farm work
generally in the States northward of the
Ohio river and in the east Gulf- States
In the middle and south Atlantic States
Texas the Dakotas generally through
out the Rocky Mountain region and on
the north Pacific coast the weather con
ditions have been more favorable No
rain has fallen in California during the
week and consequently the severe
drought previously reported continues un
broken Drought also continues in Flor
ida though partially relieved in locali
ties in the northern portion of the State
The hulli Of the com crop is planted
southward of the northern boundaries of
Arkansas Tennessee and the Carolinas
but northward of this line except in Kan
sas slow progress has been made owing
to excessive rains and the cool weather
None has yet been planted in Indiana but
planting has begun in portions of Ohio
Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania A
little planting has also heen done in Ne
braska
Poor -stands are reported from the South
Atlantic States and but light growth has
been reported generally in the Southern
States In southern and central Texas
however the crop is growing and is now
receiving its second cultivation Over
northern Texas the crop is late and ir
regular The winter wheat crop con
tinues in promising condition in the prin
cipal wheat States in the central valleys
Further improvement is reported from
Ohio and in Michigan the crop has been
benefited by recent rains In the South
ern States it is now heading As a re
sult of the severe drought in California
the grain crop has been injured beyond
recovery except iu the northern coast
counties aad in some of the foot hill re
gions and over the southern portion of
North Dakota Seeding is well advanced
over the northern portion of North Da
kota and in Montana In Oregon seed
ing is complete but considerable is yet to
be done in Washington The early sown
over the spring wheat region is coming
up and is generally in promising condi
tion Slow progress has been made with
oat seeding where unfinished in more
northern States
In the central and southern portion of
the country the crop has made favorable
progress during the week In Alabama
the early sown is nearing maturity The
general outlook for fruit in the Northern
States continues promising and the pros
pects in the middle and southern sections
appear more favorable There is abun
dant supply of tobacco plants Trans
planting continues in South Carolina
and has commenced in North Carolina
Tobacco is suffering from drought in
Florida
BIG POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP
Twenty Persons Believed to Have Been
Killed in California
At 515 Tuesday afternoon Santa Cruz
Cal was startled by a tremendous ex
plosion Buildings were shaken as though
by a violent earthquake and the first
thought was that one had occurred Hard
ly had the rumblings died away when the
second shock occurred not so violent as
the first and soon small boughs from
redwood trees shingles bits of powder
cans and other debris began falling in
the streets of the city They cleared up
all doubts as to the cause of the shock
The California powder works had been
blown up The second shock was follow
ed by a third and then a fourth more vio
lent than the others Between fifteen
and twenty people mostly young boys
employed at the works were killed and
as many more were injured
The first explosion occurred in the gun
cotton works This was followed by the
destruction of the nitroglycerin house
and then a number of buildings used in
the manufacture of smokeless powder for
the Government Then the inside powder
magazine blew up with a terrific roar
Although considerable powder was stored
there the amount was small in compari
son with last week as over 100 tons were
shipped to Chicago Sunday last to fill the
order of the Government
Nothing is known as to what caused the
explosion but it was probably due to spon
taneous combustion There were many
wild rumors afloat to the effect that Span
ish sympathizers did the work but the
stories are probably based on the fact
that a number of persons of Spanish de
scent live in the vicinity of the works
F1ESH BEEF FOR THE KLONDIKE
Two Tbrmsand Steers Will Go Over
tne Dalton Trail in June
Two thousand beef steers are being
gathered in Montana for shipment to
Dawson in June over the Dalton trail
They will comprise two expeditions in
which fully 300000 will be invested A
Tacoina dispatch says C W Thebo
backed by Butte Mont men has ship
ped 1300 steers to pastures here where
they will be fattened until May 20 Jack
Dalton is arranging to drive 700 more
steers over the same trail Each hun
dred steers will be in charge of six cow
boys each cowboy being provided with
pack and saddle horse the two expedi
tions employing 120 cowboys and 240
horses Thebo has chartered the big
barge Skookum to carry 900 steers and
3000 tons of freight to Pyramid Har
bor landing there in June The balance
of his band will be shipped from Van
couver on a barge now building The
steers will be driven by easy stages to
Fort Selkirk whence they will be rafted
to Dawson arriving in July His cat
tle will cost 130000 landed at Pyramid
Harbor the feed equipment and wages
bringing the cost of the expedition to
200000 The Daltons expect to receive
25 cents per pound live weight on the
Klondike which should make their re
ceipts over SO000O leaving 500000
profit Men have been sent to watch the
Dalton trail the indications being that
it will open early
State Items of Interest
Fessenden N D has 300 inhabitants
and four newspapers
J P Marcsh a pioneer business man
of Denison Texas dropped deau at his
place of business
Senator Morrill of Vermont celebrated
his Sth birthday anniversary in Wash
ington a few days ago
Hugh Fraser charged with murder
was acquitted at Bessemer Ala Fraser
was with Thomas Collins when J L
Howell was shot in the Bessemer prison
in Dcrember last
M wweeissS3S32SR
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Recently Speaker Reed wished to see
a man on some pending legislation and
telegraphed for him to come to Wash
ington The man took the first train
available but a washout on the road
made it impossible for the train to pro
ceed farther toward its destination
Going to a telegraph station he sent
this dispatch to the speaker Washout
on the line Cant come When Reed
read the message he sent back this re
ply Buy a new shirt and come any
way
Some years ago Edward E Rice was
presented to Von Bulow at a club din
ner in Boston It was just about the
time that all Europe was talking of
Mme Von Bulows flirtation with Verdi
who had taught the pianist almost all
he ever knew about music I want
you to become acquainted with Mr
Rice said a friend he doesnt know
anything about music but he has com
posed several operas Delighted I
am sure murmured the great pianist
with a sarcastic smile he reminds me
of a man I knew at home his name is
Verdi
The following is an exact copy of a
letter received by a young lady who
possessing a piano and being about lo
move to a small country town adver
tised for room and board with a family
musically inclined Deare Miss we
think we kin sute you with room and
bord if you preefer to be where there
is musick I play the fiddel my wife the
orgin my dotter Jule the akordion my
other dotter the banjo my son Hen the
gittar my son Jim the floot and koro
net and my son Clem the base drum
while all of us sings gospell himsin
which we would be glad to have you
take part both vocal or instrumental if
you play on anything We play by ear
an when we all git started there is real
musick in the air Let us know if you
want to come here to bord
When Secretary of the Navy Long
visits his old home way down in
Maine his reception is hearty but very
democratic and the people do not at all
appreciate the fact that the ruler of
Uncle Sams navee occupies a very
different station from the boy they
knew years ago The Waterville Mail
tells this story While at his home in
Buckfield this summer ex Gov Long
employed a woman in the neighbor
hood to do the family washing One
day as he was driving by the place lie
called to see if the washing was ready
The man of the house came to the door
in response to the secretarys knock
Is our washing done inquired Mr
Long The man turned and bawled
td his wife Maria Maria is John
nies washing done And Johnnie
forbore to smile in the presence of his
kindly old neighbor
President McCosh of Princeton was
accustomed to lead the morning exer
cises in the chapel every day and dur
ing the exercises he gave out notices to
the students One morning after he
had read the notices a student came
up with a notice that Professor Karges
French class would be at nine oclock
that day instead of half past nine as
usual Dr McCosh said it was too late
but the student insisted that Professor
Karge would be much disappointed if
the notice were not read The exer
cises went on and the doctor forgot all
about the notice He started to make
the final prayer He prayed for the
President of the United States the
members of the Cabinet the Senators
and the Representatives the Governor
of Now Jersey the Mayor and other of
ficials of Princeton and then came to
the professors and instructors in the
college Then Professor Karges notice
came into his mind and the assembled
students were astonished to hear the
venerable President say And Lord
bless Professor Karge whose French
class will be held this morning at nine
oclock instead of half past nine as
usual
An enthusiastic admirer of Miss An
thony says I shall always remember
a maneuver of Miss Anthonys which
X saw at a meeting at which she pre
sided three years or so ago She called
upon several of what she called her
girls to address the audience The
girls were exceedingly well bred well
educated and well dressed women
They were logical They were witty
They were in short the very cream of
women public speakers When the last
one had finished Miss Anthony rcso
Rnd with what I am sure was a twinkle
In her eye said Now well hear from
one of my boys Thereupon a Con
gressman from a new Northwestern
State mounted the platform He was
uncouth He was uncultured His
English was painful to hear his man
ners painful to see He ranted He
argued in stump speech fashion He
had neither good taste nor logic The
contrast between the holder of the
franchise and the gentlewomen who
had preceded him was marked Dear
simple man that he was he could not
see that every man in the audience was
ashamed of hini He did not see that
ne was an object lesson for the suffrage
movement but I am quite sure Miss
Anthony saw it I cant help thinking
she meant it too
The Romance oFthe Great lakes
In the St Nicholas W S Harwood
writes of The Great Lakes Mr
Harwood says
There is much of thrilling interest
mucli of romance much of daring sur
runding the shores of these lakes much
in a study of the early periods of their
history t for the historian or the novel
ist A long time ago so long it seems
like ancient history to us the first
white man probably about the middle
of the sixteenth century saw the
iv j
lakes It is not so easy to fix a date
for this event but we know that as
early as 1530 to 1540 the French priests
the voyageurs and the coureurs de bois
the trappers and adventurers of the
day visited the eastern lake region on
the north They came with two mes
sages one bore tidjngs of the cm
merce and proved that the French -nation
was alive to the value of the ntiw
country the other told the story of the
Christian religion It were well per
haps to mention another message a
more or less baleful one brought by
the adventurers for there were adven
turers among these early discoverers
men who had no other motive than tc
seek the strange and the exciting and
to spend their days in the alluring and
profitless occupation of seeing how
many hair breath escapes they could en
joy in how many scenes of pillage and
robbery they could take part
Those who have written so graceful
ly and elegantly of the early history ol
the regions surrounding the northern
portions of the Great Lakes have but
begun to tell the tales which will be
told with more and more freedom oi
invention as the writers of the future
come to appreciate more and more
what a splendid storehouse of materia1
lies in this Northland
JOURNALISTIC DIFFICULTIES
The Work of the Censor and the Press
in Austria
There is a censor of the press and
apparently he is always on duty and
hard at work A copy of each moraine
paper is brought to him at 5 oclock
His official wagons wait at the doors oi
the newspaper offices and scud to him
with the first copies that come from
the press His company of assistants
read every line in these papers and
inarfc everything which seems to have
a dangerous look then he passes final
judgment npon these markings Two
things conspire to give to the results a
capricious and unbalanced look his
assistants have diversified notions as
to what is dangerous and what isnt
he cant get time to examine their crit
icisms in much detail and so sometimes
the very same matter which is sup
pressed in one paper fails to be damned
in another one and gets published in
full feather and unmodified Then the
paper in which it was suppressed
blandly copies the forbidden matter
into its evening edition provokingly
giving credit and detailing all the cir
cumstances ina courteous and inoffen
sive language and of course the cen
sor cannot say a word
Sometimes the censor sucks all the
blood out of a newspaper and leaves it
colorless and inane sometimes he
leaves it undisturbed and lets it talk
out its opinions with a frankness and
vigor hardly to be surpassed I think
in the journals of any country Ap
parently the censor sometimes revises
his verdicts upon second thought for
several times lately he has suppressed
journals after their issue and partial
distribution The distributed copies
are then sent for by the censor and de
stroyed I have two of these but at
the time they were senr for I could
not remember what I had done with
them Mark Twain in Harpers Maga
zine
Horace Greeley as an Orator
Mr Greeley was not an orator in any
scholastic sense He had a poor and
somewhat squeaking voice he knew
nothing of gestures and he could not
take an orators pose which adds saich
emphasis sometimes to the matter and
argument to be set forth Not all his
years of practice on the platform and
on public occasions ever changed his
habits and methods as a speaker and
he end 2d as poorly equipped in the re
spects named for the vocation as when
he began But he -had one prime qual
ity without which all the others are
exploited in vain He invariably had
something to say and he said it in such
clear and wholesome English with such
sincerity that he was an orator in spite
of all the rules
To state it briefly of all the eminent
speakers I have introduced and more
than once there was not one who gave
better satisfaction different and nota
ble as they were than Horace Greeley
As a consequence he came to me often
est and wore the best We might or
might not agree with some of his pe
culiar premises as when he says The
moment a drop of alcohol is received
into the human stomach that moment
the stomach recognizes a deadly ene
my but he set his audience thinking
and illuminated his theme Harpers
Magazine
Two Remarkable Feats
Henry Wolfsohn recalled yesterday a
remarkable feat of memory by Signor
Gore who traveled as conductor with
a concert company organized by Cam
panini The music trunk not having
arrived in time for a concert Signor
Gore accompanied from memory on the
piano the entire third act of Faust
at the same time transposing the music
half a tone
An interesting story is told of Mas
cagni the composer of Cavalleria Rus
ticana One of his friends had cas
ually said that there was no work of
any of the six most famous composers
whose names were mentioned which
Mascagni could not play faultlessly
from memory The statement being
ridiculed asmpossible Mascagni reluc
tantly consented in order to settle the
dispute to make the effort A number
of musical experts were invited to at
tend the recital each one in turn se
lecting a composition for performance
In vain they tried to baffle the com
poser who not only answered the chal
lenge brilliantly in every instance bat
filled up the intervals with delightful
improvisations of his own New York
Herald
Wasps as PlyJestroyers
Tno best fly destroyer in the world Is
a common or garden wasp An expert
says he has known one wasp to kill
1000 flies in a day
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HEROES OF THE PALL ROOM
Remarkable Instances of Bravery Dia
played There by Dancinjc Men
The men who frequent dancing rooms
are not bj any means so effeminate as
some scornful members of the stronger
sex would have us believe Scented
dandies are capable of courage in emer
gencies and brave deeds are occasion
ally performed even in the enervating
atmosphere of the ball room
While in the act of snatching a kiss
froin an attractive girl under the mis
tletoe a young masher felt a breath of
hot air on his face and in glancing
up saw that the evergreens on the
large chandelier had caught fire and
were blazing away merrily A quick
look around the room told him that the
other dancers were unaware of the
catastrophe so he drew back a pace
measured his distance and with one
gigantic spring managed to catch hold
of the chandelier Hanging oh by one
hand he rapidly pulled down the burn
ing evergreens and cast them to the
floor scorching his arms terribly in the
process but never once flinching
Not until he was satisfied that every
bit of inflammable material was safely
accounted for would he relinquish his
hold Beyond a doubt his ready re
source prevented a conflagration but
he suffered so much that one of his
hands had to be amputated His beau
tiful mustache of which he was inor
dinately proud wasalso frizzled up by
the fire
A somewhat similar feat was per
formed by a conceited but daring
young coxcomb in a crowded ball room
last winter Several ladies had fainted
for want of air and as the ventilator
in the roof would not answer to its pul
ley the young dandy volunteered tc
scramble up the fragile rope and see
what was amiss This was the only
practicable method of obtaining relief
for some larking guest had locked the-
door of the room on the outside and it
was impossible to break it open
The young fellow cut his hands al
most to ribbons before he reached the
ventilator and even when he got up
found it impossible to open it Unde
terred by this though he unhesitating
ly banged his head through the thick
glass and then slid to the ground
where he fainted from the loss of
blood
During a dance in a Spanish ball
room a heavy plaster cast fell from a
bracket and would certainly have in
jured one of the hosts daughters had
not her partner warded it off with his
arm The accident frightened the girl
a little for she was extremely nervous
but the gallant who was dancing with
her insisted on continuing the waltz
and assured her that he was not in the
least hurt
Accordingly the couple kept up to the
music for fifteen minutes or more antE
their consummate dancing drew ad
miration from every one in the room
The girl was the first to plead fatigue
so her partner led hor gracefully to
seat and went off ostensibly to get re
freshments but really to find a doctor
for his arm was broken in two places
and his shoulder was dislocated With
remarkable endurance he had refrain
ed from mentioning the injury which
the plaster cast had done him and had
suffered acute agony for fifteen min
utes rather than alarm the sensitive
daughter of his host Tit Bits
TRUMPET CALLS
Ranis Horn Sounds a Warninj
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Agp0 JL
Note
to the Unredeemed
RAINING is the
art of gaining
Quietness is the-
magnet of peace
Patience is the
barometerof
faith
Good works are
the voice of faith
Influence is the
magnet of char
acter
Capability i s
the polestar of
revolution
Discipline is the crucible of responsi
bility
In forgiving a fault we may inspire
a virtue
The man who stands for God is safe
to stand alone
The gospel means not law over men
but love in them
Temptation is the balance where
character is weighed
Conscience makes cowards of only
those who fail to obey it
Emotional Christians like jelly fish
float with the tide
To put works against faith is to con
trast the tree with its roots
To define is to limit a finished theol
ogy would make God finite
Love has emulation without strife
unity without uniformity
Ones faith shows less what he is
thaai what he is trying to be
Beware of prosperity luxury was
the death knell of Romes vigor
Knowledge and wisdom make a
strong team when hitched togerher
Those who worship wealth will bow
in adoration before good clothes
Record ot a Russian Hospital
Moscow has a hospital large enoughs
to hold 7000 persons It was founded
in 17G4 and at present takes in children
at the rate of forty a day or about 15
300 a year There are twenty six physi
cians and about 000 nurses During the
first century of vzs existence the hos
pital received and brought up no fewer
than 4G85G0 childen On his retreat
from Moscow in iS12 Napoleon gave
special orders that this building should
be spared
The counterfeit coin may be lead but
its hard to push
A man may be fast asleep but rather
slow when awake
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