A lift In thn Bureik On October 28, A. IX, 812, Constan tine the Great is said to have '’heard • great and mighty noise above and to the east’ of him,” and upon turning Us eyes in that direction "was as tonished beyond measuro at what he. r beheld.” Clearly outlinod upon the blue sky was a oross of pure white, and in the halo which surrounded the top was the Latin phrase, “In hoc eigno” ("By this sign"), in letters of deep scarlet. Mackey, the great his torian, says that there was a second inscription in Greek, the letters of which in English would be “En to nika.” __ The Delineator. The May number of The Delineator is called tne Commencement Number,' and its resume of Up-to-Date Modes in cludes a lengthy illustrated article on the appropriate attire for this season’s fair girl graduates. The lithographic plates show the Summer Styles in Costuming and Millinery. The leterary miscellany of the number is excellent, one of the most noticeable papers be ing the first of a series of “Metropol itan Types” by Jeanie Drake, author of the “Metropolitans,” one of the clever est novels of 1896. Lilian Whiting dis cusses the Social Life in Boston from a pleasantly personal standpoint. Is sued by The Bntterick Publishing Co. ’ at 7 to JL7 West Thirteenth Street, New ' York. PILKS CURED, FREE. Trial box of Pii.x-Balm. Curbs itching, blind and bleeding Piles. Write today, with stamp. Dr. H. Whittier, 10 W. Oth St., Kansas City, Mo. Space is devoted in the North Ameri ’ can Review for April to a considera ,1 tion of “The Uprising in Greece,” Sir Charles W. Dilke, M. P., presenting an English view of the affair, and the Greek Consul-General at New York, Demetrius N. Botassi, the Grecian. Mr. Botassi claims that the present conduct of Greece has enlisted the sympathies of the entire civilized world, and justified her people in their claim to be reckoned with as an im portant element in the regeneration of Eastern Europe. Hall's Catarrh Cora Is taken internally. Price, 75c. “Scientific Kite-Flying” will tie the subject of three papers in The Century for May, each one written by an ex pert, and illustrated by accurate draw ings. Mr. J. B. Millet describes the meteorological investigations carried on at Blue Hill Observatory, near Bos ton; Lieutenant Hugh D." Wise, U. S. A., tells of his experiments at Gov ernor’s Island, including the first ascent by kite-power made in this country, and William A. Eddy writes of his experiences in photographing, telephoning, and telegraphing by means of kites. 8AVK TOUR EYKS. . Colombian Optical,Co: make Spectacle! of alii hinds and dt them to ybur'ey es. 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It is worth noting, too, as a sign of the advance of modern civilization, that the very first- pared of the new in vention dispatched from England was for Rejkjavik, w'hicfa boasts of .the only typewriter in the whole of Iceland. Don't Tobacco Sptt and Smoko Your Lite Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, iWc or $1. Curo fuaranteed. Booklet and samplo free. Address terling llemedy Co., Chicago or Now York. Mistaken Kindness to a Crocodile. The superstition of the Hindoo dis played itself in a strangle fashion not long ago. Some fishermen at Kidder pore, on the Hooghly, had captured a crocodile, and being unable to kill it, were compelling it to accompany them to the nearcs.: police station— were “running it in,” as we say—for the sake of the reward usually offered for such creatures. On the way a native gentleman met them, and persuaded them, for a bribe to allow the animal to return to the river. In doing this foolish action he argued that, having shown kind ness to it, the crocodile would not attack him and his family when they went to bathe. It is to be hoped that the pious man possessed more sense in the water than he owned on shore, else his life would not be worth the purchasing if he came within reach of that selfsame crocodile. 1 believe that Piso’s Cure is the only med ioire tmt will cure consumption.—Anna M. Ross, Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 12, US. New Meaning In aa Old I>lno. “Do you mean to say that you are going to charge me all that just for doing a little surveying?” “Yes, sir.” “Wouldn’t you take the land in stead of the money ?” >;; -. “Possibly.” ■ sqa, * “Well, I guess ye’ll have to. TKM is the first, tiffie 1 -eydr, really appre ciated that poetry about ‘lam mon arch'of all I JtjPirY.qy;’ ”—Washington !>tar. y_ .Travel in Mrltzerliind. 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Tke Tariff Dill Going forward Rapidly— New Evidence* of Returning Fro* perlty—Voice of the American Pree* on Returning Good Tltneq. ' , (Washington Correspondence.) This is a business administration and a business congress. It has been only two weeks since the meeting of the house of representatives, which is controlled by the Republican party, and in that time has been introduced, dis cussed and passed a new tariff bill, which will bring increased and suffi cient revenue to the government in place of the shortages of the present inefficient Wilson law. This has been quick work. The bill now goeB into the hands of the senate. There it will be considered in committee and then in the senate, and it is hoped passed and signed by the president in time to begin its operation by July 1, the first day of the fiscal year. Japan Shocks the Free SUverlte*. Reports from Japan show that she is determined to “crucify" her people “upon a cross of gold.” She has adopt ed the gold standard despite the de nials of the silver people. Those who express surprise that Japan is not go ing to throw any of her silver upon the markets of the world.even if she adopts a gold standard, are evidently not fa miliar with the history of the growth of silver currency in the world. The mere adoption of the gold standard has 1 not decreased the silver currency at all. In the United States, for instance, the per capita circulation of silver in 1873 before the adoption of the gold standard was 15 cents, while in 1895, after 22 years of gold standard, it was $8.78. large Output of Silver. Silver miners and mine owners,while they want of course to get as big a price for their produce as possible, rec1 ognize the fact that the refusal of the United States to adopt a.sixteen yd1 one standard is not going to destroy the demand for silver. Silver mine pWners who have been’ here this week report that their mines are not only still run ning, but turning out unusually large quantities ot the white metal, and that the Improyed financial conditions and business activity which have followed the election, of McKinley are having their effect upon the mining industry, and the demand for the product of the silver mines. The Sugar Trust Suffer*. The greatest sufferer under the new Dingley law will be the sugar trust. Its framers were wise enough to avoid the criticism and the scandal which attached to the Wilson bill and no man has successfully charged or can charge that the present bill is framed in the interests of the trusts. A Farmer’s Tariff. > The New York Press characterizes the Dingley bill as the “first farmers’ tariff.” “The Republican party,” it adds, “has already placed the factory beside the field, and thus given the field the home market for its products, and now proposes to open the markets of other parts of the world to the field as well.” Bryan’s Paper Annonnces Returned Pros perity. . '-t , Copies of that sturdy fi;ee silver Dem ocratic paper recently edited by Wil liam J. Bryan, the, Omaha World-Her ald, which have bees received here show that it is rejoiced at the pros pective improvement of the agricultur al industries of its state under McKin ley protection. Quoting in commen datory terms the recent utterances of the Republican secretary of agriculture It says: "Nebraska has taken Into her feed yards since October last more than five hundred thousand sheep to be fin ished for the mutton markets of the world. The state of Nebraska can safely be set down as the best district of the country in the United States for the mutton Bheep industry in all its combined requirements. Nebraska is certain to become a popular,prosperous mutton growing and mutton feeding state.” All this, be it remembered, the World-Herald promises under the new plans of the Republican adminis tration, which is giving its earliest at tention to a protective tariff as the chief aid to the sheep industry of the country. Increased Railroad Construction. McKinley prosperity is making itself apparent in many industries, but in none more prominently than in that of railroad construction. The “Rail way Age,” a conservative Journal, es timates that the railway construction of the United States in 1897 will be 17, 600 miles, which, by the way, is more than twice as much as was accom plished during President Cleveland’s entire term. If this estimate is real ized. the railway construction of the United States in 1897 will exceed that of any period in the past decade, flood Outlook for Farmers. The farmers of the United States are likely to have an increased market for their productions at an ehrly date. The reciprocity features of the’Dlngley bill are expected to open a goM many markets which are Vow'closed to our agricultural products.'1 in’ addition to that it i’s expected to give to the United States such special advantages over other countries in certain markets as to give our farmers practically a mon opoly of the trade in those parts of the world. The average exportation of farm products during the past five years has been 621 millions per annum, of which amount 243 millions,or nearly 67 per cent, has gone to Great Britain, all other parts of the wosM taking but 43 per cent of our exports. This shows tho poBslblllties open to the farmers i in the matter of making for themselves as good a market in other parts of the world as they already have in Great Britain. Commendation for tho Maw Secretory. I Secretary Wilson's new plans for an intelligent distribution of seeds to the farmers of the country and a di versification of industries is meeting with universal commendation. Dem ocratic as well as Republican papers approve it in unmeasured terms. The Atlanta Journal, owned by ex-secretary of the interior Hoke Smith, oomments favorably upon the new secretary’s new plans in regard to the farmers, and numerous other Democratic papers join in the commendation of Secretary Wil son’s work. Will Return to the Old System. The Republicans of the house of rep resentatives are going to try and get back to the old system of placing tho appropriation bills in the hands of one committee. The free trade Democ racy adopted the present system by which the bills are distributed to a half dozen committees, and the result has been the enormous Increase in ap propriations which the nation wit nessed with astonishment in the past few yeara The Republicans are re formers, and will get back to a sys tem of economy as rapidly as possible. Professor Wilson Condemns the Dlngley BUI. Ex-Congressman Wilson, the author of the Wilson law, having been repu diated first by his own district, and then by his nation, has now no forum from which to address the dear people, and is therefore utilizing the columns of the newspapers to disseminate his views, and attack the Dlngley bill. His latest attack upon it has been an as sertion that its reciprocity features would be a failure. In all the matter which Mr. Wilson has presented. ifi the way of an attack upon the Dlngley bill, he has not been ablb to succeikffifl* de fend the law whioh-he himself framed or , to make ^kiikfactory explanation or its failure., 'This is a subject which he avoids in his tariff discussions at so. much per oolumn. G. H. WILLIAMS. ■ Democratic Banco Game Expowd< The report Which Mr. Dlngley filed with the new tariff bill points again the bunco game which the late Demo cratic administration. practiced upon the people. When Mr. Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle were issuing bonds the people were given to understand that they were demanded for the pur pose of maintaining the gold reserve which was being depleted by the Wall street speculators and money sharks everywhere. It was alleged that tbeso money operators were deliberately working the “endless chain" furnished by the greenbacks, and a great deal of business denunciation was expend ed upon the men who were supposed to be engaged in rifling the treasury of their own country for the profit which- would arise from the handling of bonds which must be issued to keep the reserve intact. Mr. Dingley’s report 3howB that the deficiency in the gold reserve was caused by a deficiency in the revenues, and was not therefore the consequence of a conspiracy to profit the working of the “endless chain."—Kansas City Journal. Improving Business Conditions. With the advent of spring there is a decidedly better feeling in commercial circles, which trade Journals are advis ing enterprising business men to take advantage of in an active way. The Chicago Dry Goods Reporter of Satur day’s date says the most important fact of the hour is the brightening outlook. The most timely advice it can give to the merchants of the west is to repeat: The moment has come for pushing your business. “Things have taken a turn. Satisfactory trade conditions are slowly but surely being called back. The new administration is in power, and the new policy has been satisfac torily indicated. A special session ol congress has been convened to put in force the wishes of the people as rapid ly as possible.” . "Now,” it says, “let us make up our minds to concentrate all our energies, faculties and attention upon our legitimate business. There is no surer way than this for wiping out the last remnant of business stag nation.” These terse sentences com prise the key-notes of a very hopeful article. A Cheering Record. The. record of the past week is cheering. The number of works that have resumed business is greater than in any week since the last of Novem ber. It is true that in many cases contracts have been secured at unduly low prices, and that therefore the rate of wages is not as high as it '.vss in 1892; but there is “bread for the eat er,” and this of itself is an improve ment. The first step forward must be a resumption of work; wages will rise as the demand for labor increases. It is not likely.that we can retorn' ^uick ly to the prosperity that the nation en joyed four year^ agb; It has taken four years to destroy; reconstruction can not be accomplished in as many months. After the new tariff law has been in operation for a year we may puss Judgment upon the present ad ministration with some degree of fair ness; not earlier than then.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Republicans and Populists of Kansas agree that the legislature which has Just adjourned was a dis graceful failure. In fact, the legisla ture is disposed to Join in the agree ment itself. Oatmeal is more largely used for food in New South Wales than in any other part of Australia. NEW SHRUBTHAT IS A REMEDY. A 8«r« Cnre far Klilnry l>in«Me« and Rlicnmiitlim. It In no doubt true that nett to con sumption. more people tile ycarlv-ftom diseases of the kidneys than tromiany other cause. In some respects Kfdney disease Is the most dangerous of all maladies, because It usually has made much progress before the victim Is awaro of Its existence. It Is, there fore, with great pleasure we commend to our readers the recent discovery In Bast India cf the Kava-Kava shrub, which has proved a most powerful remedy for diseases of the kidneys, rheumatism, or other ailments capsed by uric acid In the blood. The cures wrought by this new remedy aro indeed most remarkable. Many who have suff ered from the most severe forms of. the disease, have been completely cured in from twenty to forty days by Kava-Kava shrub. In the New York Weekly World of Sept. 10th, the testi mony of Rev. W. B. Moore, D. D., of Washington, D. C., was given, describ ing his years of suffering from Kidney disease and Rheupyitjgm, and his rapfol euro by Alkavis. Rev. John II. Wat-' son of Sunset. T&as, a minister of thtf gospel of thirty years' service, was struck down at his post of duty by Kidney disease. After hovering be tweeu life and death for two months, and all hiB doctors having failed, he took Alkarle, and,, was completely re stored to health aud strength and Is fulfilling his duties as minister of the gospel. Mr. R. C. Wood, a prominent attorney of Lowell, Indiana, was cur • d of Rheumatism, Kidney and Blad der disease of ten years' standing by Alkavis. Mr. Wood describes himself as being In constant misery, often com pelled to rise ten times during the, night on account of weakness of th.e bladder. Ho wa9 treated by all his home physicians without the least benefit and finally completely cured in a few weeks by Alkavis. Thq testi mony is undoubted and really wonder ful.. ‘ Any Of our readers who are so un fortunate as to suffer from Kidney dis orders or Rheumatism should write to tfcft phurch Kidney .Cure Co., of 422 Fourth avenue, New York, who will gladly send them free by mall prepaid a Large Case of the Kava-Kava Com pound, so that they can test its value for themselves. This generous free of fer Is made to prove the wonderful cur ative powers of this new botanic dis covery. Italics of on Heroic Afa> A lock of hair from the head of Charles Thompson,. the first secre tary of the continental congress, and a pair of high-heeled white slippers once worn by Martha Washington are claimed to be in possession of Catherine Shectz, an old resident of Lower Morion Township, near Nor ristown, Pa TO CURE A COLD IK ONE DAT. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money If It falls tooure. site The Smallest Nation. 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