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INC VVO rtViVl INUVVnClVL. Contributions From Persons Who Are Interested in the Study of Phantasms, Ghosts Dreams, and Thought uransierence Amotf the reports cf the Psychical Research society Is the account cl a nan and bis wife who cultivated the cwer of mental telegraphy tele pathy to such an extent tlat at a cer tain hour each evening- Mien he was an ay. he being a traveling rr. an. they would sit alone In their respective rtcms and concentrate their thoughts upon each other, and were thus able to five mutually and briefly any Informa tion or communication dettred. Occa sionally messages were received, word for word, as given, but often the gen era substance of the thought. This was done without regard to distance. In 1888 I was employing an Inventor in another city on some labor-saving devices. He waa In great need of mon ey due him which I had failed to send promptly. He wu brooding over the matter one afternoon when he heard me say. "I must send K. some money." Then he saw me sitting at my desk, take out by checkbook, write a check for $50. inclose It and put It In the letter box for, mailing. He made a note of the matter and In due time received the check for the amount he had seen. Consulting me. the facts were found as he had heard and-seen. That same year I was In Boston on business, and a member of my family at home was anxious about some mat ters In which I was engaged. This was particularly the case one evening, when she sat alone In her room. Suddenly he heard me In conversation and saw me In a room conversing with another person. On my return she related the matter, described the room and the aurround'.ngs. which were In accord with the facts. The Inventor previously referred to. while working for me received a letter Informing him of the serious Illness of his only sister, who lived some distance away from bis home. He was under engagement with me to put up a certain machine in my office for exhibition, and proceeded to do it. finishing which he went to the depot to return some 230 miles to his home. Intending to take a night train from there to visit his sister. On reaching the depot nearly an hour before his train time he boarded his car. which was without other occupants. He took his seat, being In anxious thought about his sister. He remembered noth ing further until he was aroused by a sudden Jerking of his car when the train started and found It full of pas sengers. He made his Journey, took the night train from his home to his sister's, arriving: In the morning, went to his sister's cottage, walked Into the house and Into his sister's sick room, where she was lying in bed. the nurse Bitting beside her. The first greeting of his sister was. "Oh. Tom. why did you play us such a shabby trick yester day afternoon?" He replied. "I haven't played you any tricks." She said. "Yes. you did. Tou came in yesterday be tween 2 and 3 o'clock with that same black bag you have In your hand, look ed In here, turned and walked out through the kitchen Into the pantry and then disappeared. I spoke to you. but you wouldn't answer!" She then appealed to the nurse, who corroborat ed her. both seeing him at the time he cat lost In thought about her in the car 30O miles away. R A PROPHETIC RING. The Duchess de Bellmere writes: "The most superstitious people are invariably to be found In the extremes of society the highest and the lowest the world over. Among royalty, and the aristoc racy in particular, talismans are com mon enough, while the amulet Is held sacred by an overwhelming multitude. Czar Nicholas I. was In possession of a ring presented him by Princess Char lotte of Prussia. Her royal highness, the daughter of Frederick William 111., bad been reared by a Swiss governess named Wlldermuth. While superin tending the education of her royal pu pil Mme. Wlldermuth came Into a leg acy which necessitated her Journeying home, and on her return she showed the princess an antique ring among other articles of Jewelry. It was small nd Gothlo in shape. "This ring of yours." she said, "surely must be some oueer old talisman It looks like a tal isman I have read of." With that the princess Placed the ring on one of her own fingers, and when, later on. she tried to take It off It fitted so tightly thst all her efforts were v,n- .. -Your royal highness may be r,ni; aid Mme. Wlldermuth with a laugh -and you will honor me by keeping It s a aouvenlr." Yeara later the ring came off. and. much alarmed. the princess attempted to decipher an al most obliterated inscription Inside. The Inscription proved to be "Empres. of "it U your royal highness' destiny." cried the now superannuated govern ess: "take my word for It you are to become the future empress.' A twelve month to the very day of the decipher- .nH the Driocess was be trothed to the Grand Duke Nicholas. The brother of Csar Alexander I. was pot tN crown prince at the time, as bl, e.der brother. Constantly, had not renounced his right to succession. The betrothal banquet was held at the Ber- lln palace. and during ttie repast ..."- olas. who was seated oesiae ma - anced con.-f. n undertones: Chariots p you not give me that oldfashionl&Xring? I shall prize it l,''wb" said the princess, with a b'.usb.jw can you expect me to r-ve It to" TTi before aw mut n rirm of the JaDS. 9 rr . tnese are ruthless In their 1 Wuh nature. If they decide ant a bird or -"" .ir thev set about ivape or k hng the article, so to speak, ! Jse of exceedingly eler ;nd untiring patience. Here is how . m nSlr OI hira hiib.1 l u w o l .me room. here y tenr.e a person dressed in r i g 1 i s IV . nil ,1 1 A- . "The easiest thing 'in the world." said the duke. "Conceal It in a piece cf your bread, and 1 shall take the bread unpercelved." The union proved to be a happy cne and eight yeara later the grand duke ascended the throne. Too email for the imperial finger. Nicholas wore the ring attached to a cold chain on his breast. A LUCKY DREAM. A lady of St. Louis lest her husband by death. He lad a good bueiness. but there was no cne to go cn with it. She did not know what to do to tave It. One night the dreamed that her husband came to her and said: "You must take up the business and go cn with it. Write letters to all my patrons. and they will deal with you as they did with me. If you will do this you will be sure to succeed." With many doubts and little hope the lady followed the directions she had re ceived in her dream. She prospered far beyond the expectations of her friends, and la now In possession of a valuable business plant which has supported her for many years. D. P. SAW HIS DEAD SON. Sivlo Clbrario. a young man of good Italian family, while attempting to climb a peak In the Maritime Alps, lost his way. and on the following morning a search party found hi body terribly crushed and brulsei at the bottom of a deep crevasse. Count Clbrario his fath er, who was at Turin, and knew noth ing of his son's expedition, on the night cf the accident aroused the rest cf his family, announcing with tears that Sl vlo was dead. He had teen him distinct ly, he said, bleed flowing from his tat tered head, and had heard these words spoken in a voice of terrible ar.rulsh "Father I slipped down a precipice and broke my head, and 1 am dead, quite dead." Count Clbrario. It should be ad ed. is a very matter-of-fact person. In sound health. He has never affected spiritualism In any way. and the inci dent is well attested by himself and all of his family, who are well known and respected In Turin. THREE STRANGE EXPERIENCES By Mrs. Frank Leslie. Author and Publisher: I have never seen spooks, but I have had many peculiar experi ences. Once my husband was to give a din ner for me on my birthday at Delmon Ico'e. The table had been arranged and the time set for the dinner had almost come when we received a teiegrom from Mr. Blackmore. founder of the Sails bury Museum. In England, that he and his wife were off Sandy Hook. Mr. Leslie at once wired them about the dinner, said he would not take no for an answer, that he would wait until they came before sitting down to the table, and they came. The covers were laid for a dozen and we looked forward to a most enjoyable occasion. What do you think they did? They brought a friend! Of course. In the ex citement of Introductions and greet ings the number was noticed. We had had our oyr-ters and soup when a young- Latin who sat at my left said to" me: "Why. Florence, have you noticed that there are thirteen at the table V I held up my har.fis.speech less. I had always been a believer In the superstition cf 13 at the table, and though I didn't know what to do. I was going1 to do something. "Don't move." he said; "whatever spell Is upon us Is already cast." So I let the matter rest. Within three weeks Mrs. Blackmore was dead. Within three months the friend who had sat at my left had also died. The morning lie died J arose at 3 o'clock and got out cf bed. I had heard him call me by name three dis tinct times! I could not make myself believe that he was not somewhere about. Shortly after that I heard of his death at the rdentical time when I heard his voice. 1 have had experiences with friends from whom I had parted In anger, but for whom my attachment was very strong. With one. not a word was spo ken for eleven months. We wero sep arated by the ocean. At the end of eleven months our cablegrams crossed. We had both given in at the same time, and with the same person this has oc curred three different times. That Intense longing to see a friend, especially when one la dying, is per haps accountable for another expen nre which I remember distinctly. Mrs. Nicholson, who edited the Picayune of New Orleans, after the death of her husband, was a very dear friend or mine. One morning- when I was In Nice I awakened with the most Intense feeling of her presence, though I had not seen her in years. Verses she had written came to me and I repeated them over and over. I picked up the paper at breakfast and read that she waa seri ously 111. The Allowing morning I read of her death. It had occurred shortly after I first became conscious of her presence. SAW HER AUNT'S SPIRIT. By Marie Burrounds. Actress: When I waa a little girl I lived with my par ents In San Francisco. My mother's sis ter lived about four miles out cf town I had not seen her for several years. One evening I went Into our garden tack of the house and Aunt Llllle came floating toward me. robed In white. Naturally I was frightened, and after she had floated out of my sight I ran into the house and told my family of the experience. They quieted me. and told me I must have been dreaming: atlons of birds result In completely white bird. Japanese children are taught to write with both hand. The Japanese have translated. Max Muller'a works on India and Fawcett's "Political Economy." with many other learned works: but no attempt has been made, apparently, to translate Scott, Dickens or Thackeray. Japanese air cushions are made of paper and cotton, and take up. when empty, no more room than a pair of gloves and cost only one-third, aa much a rubber cushions passed It off. telling- me to give tha mat ter, no further thought. The next morning the news came that my aunt had died at the time I waa :n the garden. Shortly after this my little sister and her companion were both taken with scarlet fever. My mother nursed my sister night and day. She was recov ering. One night I was awakened by an Intense white light. I saw my sit ter's little friend sitting on the s'.di of my bed. She did not speak to me. tut her face was like an angel's Much frightened. I pulled the bedclothes over my head. My sister, who was sleeping In the tame room, said to me next morr.lr.g. 'Marie. I saw the most beautiful tight the side of your bed. with the most last night. Little May was sitting on beatuiful white light all about her." A neighbor coming in at that moment said she had died during the night, A VERY UNLUCKY DAY. One of the most remarkable instances of bad luck that ever have been re cored and vouched for authoritatively is that of a hospital patient whose his tory waa Investigated and reported by the London Lancet. Thi patient broke his right index tinker when he was 10 years old. The date waj August 28. In three years afterward he fell from a horse and broke his left leg below the knee. The date was August 26. In his fourteenth year, on August 26. he stumbled and broke both bones of the left arm. On August 2tl of the following year he caught his foot under an Iron car and broke his left leg In two places above the ankle. Cn the next August rg te was run ever ty a coal car In a ccal.rr.lne and tcth leg" 'r Injured. It was necessary to cut off the right leg telow the knee. After that the un lucky man carefully refrained frcm working cn August 26. ar.d he escaped accidents for twenty-eight years. In 150 he forgot himself and worked on that date for the first time. He fell and broke his ieg in two places. Since then he trends every August 26 In his ted. DRESSED BEEF TRADE. &W Beef Barons Makln Plans for B'tf War. BEEF Barons making plans for btg wa Startling news Is expected shortly from Chicago, concerning the dressed beef trade. It will affect both this country and England Three big pack ers. It Is said, are now conducting ne gotiations which will revolutionize the dressed beef trade of Great Britain. If put Into effect. There are rumors afloat concerning the matter. While It is contended in some quarters that a big combine Is being formed, the nore general belief ts that the principal beef shippers. are preparing plans for one of the biggest fights on record. One of the three firms mentioned has been shut out of the dressed beef ex port business until quite recently. It could not get refrigerator space until a few months ago. when It secured some of the si ace out cf Baltimore. The concern since then has put boxes on steamers tailing from New York and Bcston, and It is now claimed that It Intends to inaugurate a dally service of dressed beef between America and London. This service will furnish American beef to the English markets from re frigerator cars without the Interven tion of wholesale houses or special agents. Under present arrangements it would be Impossible to establish a service like this, but it Is claimed that refrigerator space in vessels of several trans-Atlantic steamship companies al ready has been engaged, the White Star and Cunard lines being- particularly mentioned. The English railway companies will provide the required refrigerator cars, and the beef will be sent to all parts of England. London ha? been the dress ed beef center and the market fluctu ates wildly as supplies happen to be excessive or below requirements. If this new plan Is put Into effect the interior markets will not have to de pend on London, as supplies will be brought to their doors Some weight is given to this story by the fact that the firm referred to l now making al terations In its refrigerating plant In Chicago, which will cost over $800,000. and that one of the firm is now in Eng land. But there is another story afloat. I There Is a member of another large meat cocnern In England, and the peo ple who claim to Know say ne is tnere chartering steamers to be engaged In carrying dressed beef and live stock, and incidentally in carrying- whatever other freights they can secure. Thl firm has expended enormous sums each year In freights, and has come to the conclusion that it would be cheaper for it to run a line of its own. The query comes: Can It be possible that the ta bles have been turned on this firm, and that they have been shut out by the people tbey have shut out so long? There Is a member of another large exporting Arm also in England, but It Is not known what he is doing. While these stories may be exaggerated it Is the general Idea that with the opening of 1899 the big fight between the beef kings of America will commence, that the English markets will be flooded with American beef: that the Britisher will buy his roasts cheaper than he has ever bought them before, and that the American consumer will find the price of beef advanced In this country In about the same ratio as the decline In Great Britain. Republican College Laague. Indianapolis. Ind.. Oct. 24. The sev enth annual convention of the Repub lican College league, postponed from May last on account of the war. will be held In Indianapolis, Ind.. November 17 and 18. as per official call Issued by the president of the league. Arnold I. Davis. Every college In the United States bavins; a republican club to en titled to representation In ''to convention. Talmages' Sermon. Washington, D. C, Oct. 30. All out of the usual line of sermonizing is this story of Dr. Talmage concerning the next world, and it may do good to see things from a novel standpoint. The text is Rev., xxl., 1: "And I saw a new heaven." The stereotyped heaven does not make adequate Impression upon us. We need the old story told in new style in order to arouse our appreciation. I do not luppose that we are compelled to the aid phraseology. King James' transla tors did not exhaust all the good and graphic! words in the English diction ary. I suppose if we should take the Idea of heaven, and translate it into modern phrase, we would find that its atmosphere is a combination of early June and of the Indian summer In Oc tober a place combining the advan tages of city and ccuntry, and streets standing for the one, and the twelve manner of fruits for the other; a place of musical entertainments harpers, pipers, trumpeters, doxologles; a place of wonderful architecture behold the temples! a place where there may be the higher forms of animal life the beasts which were on earth beaten, lash-whipped, and galled and un blanketed and worked to death, turned out among the white horses which the Book of Revelation describes as being in heaven: a place of stupendous litera ture the books open; a place of aristo cratic and democratic attractiveness the kings standing for the one. all na tions for the other; all botanical, pomo logieal, ornithological, arborescent, worshipful beauty and grandeur. But my Idea now Is to speak chiefly of the Improved heaven. People some times talk of heaven as though it were an old city, finished centuries ago, when I have to tell you that no city on earth, during the last fifty years, has had such changes as heaven. It is not the same place as when Job and David and Paul wrote of It. For hundreds and hun dreds of years it has been going through peaceful revolution, and year by year, and month by month, and hour by hour, and moment by mcrrent, it ia ehanging, and changing for something better. Away back there was only one residence In the universe the residence of the Al mighty. Heaven had not yet been started. Immensity waa the park all around about this great residence, but God's sympathetic heart after a while overflowed in other creations, and there came, all through this vast country of immensity, inhabited villages, which grew and enlarged until they Joined each other, and became one great cen tral metropolis of the universe, streeted, gated, templed, watered, Inhabited. One angel went forth with a reed, we are told, and he measured heaven on one side, and then he went forth and measured heaven on the other side, and then St. John tried to take the census of that city, and he became so bewil dered that he gave it up. HEAVEN'S MULTITUDE. That brings me to the first thought of my theme that heaven is vastly Im proved in numbers. Noting little under this head about the multitude of adults who have gone Into glory during the last 100 or 500 or 1.000 years, I remember there are 1,600,000,000 of people in the world, and that the vast majority of people die In infancy. How many chil dren must have gone Into heaven dur ing the last 500 or 1,000 years. If New oYrk should gather in one generation 1,000,000 population, if London should gather in one generation 4.000,000 pop ulation, what a vast increase! But what a mere nothing as compared with the 500,000.000, the 2,000,000,000. the "mul titude that no man can number," that have gone into that city! But add to this, if you will, the great multitude of adults who have gone Into glory, and how the census of heaven must run up! Again: I remark that heaven has vastly improved in knowledge. Give a man forty of fifty years to study one science, or all sciences, with all the advantages of laboratories and obser vatories and philosophic apparatus, he will be a marvel of Information. Now, Into what intelligence must heaven mount, angelhood and sainthood, not for st nd vine for forty or fifty years, but for thousands of years studying Rml and the soul and immortality ana the universe! How the intelligence of that world must sweep on and on, with eyesight farther reaching than telescope with power of calculation mightier than all human mathematics, with powers of analysis surpassing all chemical laDor atory, with speed swifter than teleg raphy! ITS VAST KNOWLEDGE. What must heaven learn, with all these advantages, , In a month. In a year. In a century. In a millennium? The difference between the highest uni versity on earth and the smallest class in a primary school cannot bo a greater difference than heaven as it now is and heaven as it once was. Again, heaven is vastly Improved in its society. During your memory how many exquisite spirits have gone into it! If you should try to make a list of all the genial, loving, gracious, blessed souls that you have known, it would be a very long list souls that have gone Into glory. Now, do you not sup pose they have enriched the society? Have they not improved heaven? You tell of what heaven did for them. Have they done nothing for heaven? Take all the gracious souls that have gone out of your acquaintanceship and add to them all the gracious and beautiful souls that for 500 or 1.000 years have gone out of all the cities and all the villages, and all the countries of this earth Into glory, and how the society of heaven must have been improved! Suppose Paul, the apostle, were Intro duced into your social circle on earth; but heaven has added more apostles. Suppose Hannah More and Charlotte Elizabeth were Introduced into youi social circles on earth; but heaven has added all the blessed and the gracious and the holy women of the past ages. ALWAYS PERFECT. But you say, "Hasn't heaven always been perfect?'" Oh, yes! but not in the sense that It cannot be augmented. It has been rolling on In grandeur. Christ has been there, and he never changes the same yesterday, today and forever; glorious then and glorious now, and glorious' forever. But I speak now of attractions outside of this, and I have to tell you that no place on earth has Improved in society as heaven hah within the last seventy years; for the most of you. within forty years, within twenty years, within five years, within one year; in other words, ty tne ac cessions from your own household. If heaven were placed In groups an apos tolic group, a patriarchal group, a prophetic group, group of martyrs, group of angels, and then a group of your own glorified kindred which group would you choose? You might look around and make comparison, but It wou' not take you long to choose. You would say, "Give me back those whom I loved on earth; let me enter into their society my parents, my children, toy brothers, my sisters. We lived together on earth, let us live to gether in heaven." Oh, Is it not a blessed thought that heaven has been improved by its society this coloniza tion from earth to heaven? WRAPPED IN SYMPATHY. Again: I remark that heaven has greatly improved in the good cheer of announced victories. Where heaven re joiced over one soul. It now rejoices over a hundred or a thousand. In the olden times, when the events of hu man life were scattered over four or Ave centuries of longevity, and the world moved slowly, there were not so many stirring events to be reported in heaven: but now, I suppose, all the great events of earth are reported in heaven. If there is any truth plainly taught in this bible It is that heaven ts wrapped up in sympathy with hu man history, and we look at those In ventions of the day at telegraphy, at swift communication by steam, at all these modern improvements which seem to give one almost omnipresence and we see only the secular relation; but spirits before the throne look out and see the vast and the eternal rela tion. While nations rise and fall, while the earth is shaking with revolution, do you not suppose there is arousing Intelligence going up to the throne of God, and that the question ts often asked before that throne, "What Is the news from that world that world that rebelled, but is coming back to its allegiance?" If ministering spirits, according to the bible, are sent forth to minister to those that shall be heirs of heaven, when they come down to us to bless us, do they not take the news back? Do the ships of light that come out of the celestial harbor Into the earthly harbor, laden with cargoes of blessing, go back unfreighted? Min istering spirits not only, but our loved ones leaving us, take up the tidings. But the vivacity and sprightllness of heaven will be beyond all conception when the final victories come In, when the church shall be triumphant every where. Oh, what a day In heaven it will be when the last throne of earthly oppression has fallen, when the last chain of serfdom Is broken, when the last wound of earthly pain Is healed, when the last sinner Is pardoned, when the last nation is redeemed! What a time there will be In heaven! You and I will be in the procession; you and I will thrum a string In that great or chestra. That will be the greatest day In heaven since the day when the first block of Jasper was put down for the fc undation, and the first hinged pearl swung-. THREE STOUT REASONS. Now, I say these things about the changes in heaven, about the new Im provements in heaven, for three stout reasons. First, because I find that some of you are impatient to be gone. You are tired of this world, and you want to get into that good land about which you have been thinking, pray ing and talking so many years. Now be patient. I could see why y-j would want to go to an art gallery if some of the best pictures were to be taken away this week or next week; but if some one tells you that there are other beautiful pictures to come other Ken setts. Raphaels and Rubens; other masterpieces to be added to the gal lery you would say, "I can afford to wait. The place Is Improving- all the time." Now, I want you to apply the same principle in this matter of reach ing heaven and leaving this --Tld. Not one glory Is to be subtracted, but many glories added. Not one angel will be gone, not one heirarch gone, not one of your glorified friends gone. By the long practicing the music will be better, the procession will be longer, the rainbow brighter, the coronation grander. Heaven, with magnificent addenda! Why will you complain when you are only waiting for some thing better? GIVES CONSOLATION. Another reason why I speak in re gard to the changes in heaven, and the new improvements in heaven, is because I think it will be a consolation to busy and enterprising, good people. I see very well that you have not much taste for a heaven that was all lone and finished centuries ago. After you have been active forty, or fifty, or sixty years. It would be a shock to stop you suddenly and forever; out here is a progressive heaven, an ever accumulative heaven, vast enterprise on foot there before the throne of God. Aggressive knowledge, aggres sive goodness, aggressive wwer, ag gressive grandeur. You will not hive to come and sit down on the banks of the river of life In everlasting Inoc cupation. O busy men, I tell you of a heaven where there Is something to do! That is the meaning of the passage, "They rest not day or night," in the lazy sense of resting. I speak these words on the changes In heaven and the new Improvements in heaven, also, because I want to cure some of you of the delusion that your departed Christian friends have gone into dullness, and silence, and uncon sciousness. They are in a stirring, picturesque, radiant, ever-accumulative scene. When they left their bodies they only got rid of the last hindrance. When they landed it was not as you land in Antwerp, or Ham burg, or Havre, wandering up a strange wharf, looking at strange faces, asking for a stranere hotel. They landed amid your glorified relatives, who were wait ing to greet them. Oh. does not this bring heaven near er? Instead of being far off. It cornes down Just now. and It puts Its arms around our necks, and we feel Its breath on our faces. It melts the frieid splendor of our conventional heaven into a domestic scene. It comes very close to us. If we had our choice in heaven, whom would we first see? Rather than look at the great po tentates of heaven we would meet our loved ones. I want to see Moses, ana Paul, and Joshua; but I would a great deal rather see my father, who went away thirty years ago. I want to see the great bible heroines. Deborah, and Hannah, andAbigail; but I would rather see my mother than to see the arch angel. JUDGMENT DAY. I enter heaven one day. It Is almost empty. I enter the temples of worship, and there are no worshipers. I rralk down the street, and there are no pas sengers. I go into the orchestra, and 1 find the Instruments are suspended in the baronial halls of heaven, and tht great organs of eternity, with multi tudinous banks of keys, are closed But I see a shining one at the gate sf though he were standing on guard, and I say, "Sentinel, what does this mean'. I thought heaven was a populous city. Has there been some gteat plague sweeping off the population?" "Havt you not heard the news?" says the sen tinel. "There Is a world burning, thert is a great conflagration out yonder, and all heaven has gone out to look at th conflagration and take the victims out of the ruins. This is the day for which all other days are made. This is the Judgment! This morning all the charlotf and the cavalry, and the mounted In fantry rumbled and galloped down the sky." After I had listened to the senti nel, I looked off over the battlements and I saw that the fields of air were bright with a blazing world. I said, "Yes, yes, this must be the Judgment;" and while I stood there I heard- the rumbling cf wheels and the clattering of hoofs, and the roaring of many voices, and then I saw the coronets and plumes and banners, and I saw that all heaven was coming back again coming to the wall, coming to the gate, and the multitude that went off In the morning was augmented by a vast mui tltude caught up alive from the earth, and a vast multitude of the resurrect ed bodies of the Christian dead, leaving the cemeteries and the abbeys and the mausoleums and the graveyards of the earth empty. Procession moving . in through the gates. And then I found out that what was fiery Judgment day on earth was Jubilee In heaven, and 1 cried, "Doorkeepers of heaven, shut the gates; all heaven has come In! Door keepers, shut the twelve gates, lest the sorrows and the woes of earth, like bandits, should some day come up and try to plunder the cityr QUANTITY The comptroller of the currency at Washington has for a rumter of years Invited all the larks cf the United States, national, state and private, ever nine thousand in all. to report the tc tal amount cf mrney of all klrds which they held cn a certain day. These re ports show that we have tct In cir culation In this country the amount of money that is usually claimed. For ex ample, the report given cut by the comptroller December 2, 1895. shows that on July 11. 195. all of the tanks In the United States, national, state anl private, held only $631,111,250. while at the same time there was In the treasury of the United State?, at claim, ed by the reports. I423.61T.7H; tut of this sum there was $101210.555 In gold which was held as a reserve and net available for c!rcu!atIon. This left the total amount of money In the 'bank ar.d in the treasury at that time 1952. 41S.448. This was all the rr.cr.ey in sight at that time available for circulation Of the sum held ty the tanks, t:27 621. 099 consisted of gold, and this wts all cf the available gold then in the United States. The foregoing sums comprise all the money we then had In this coun try except what there was In the pock e?j of the people. And inasmuch as we have banks In every village, and w have had years of idleness during which little savlnga were exhaus'ed and in asmuch as building associations have in late years absorbed nearly all the mon ey that used to be held by private In dividual. It is claimed by competent Judge that when you Include the col. ored people of the south and the poor everywhere that an average cf $5 per family would be a high average of what there was at that time In the pockets of the people. As there were less than fourteen million families, that would make less than $"0,000,000. but if we double this sum and assume that there was on an average $10 in the hand of very family in the United States at that time it would make less than $140. tOO.t'CO. Adding that to what there was then in the banks and In the treasury It gives us the total money In the coun try. which Is less than $1,100,000,000. But the treasury officials persist In giving out figures published ty the director of the mint. In which he claims that there are In this country altcgether $1,651, 310.000; that we have $23 9 per capita, and that there are $618,100,000 cf gold alone in this country. Eut in his re port for 1892 the directcr explains that these figures are In part estimated and in part based on assumption In the first place he assumed that every dol lar of paper issued by the national gov ernment during the !ast thirty years or more and by the national banks cf this country Is still in circulation, except where a record has been made cf its cancellation in Washington, and that none has been lost or destroyed in all that time. Second, he assumes that all of the gold which the records of the custom houses and at the mints show came into this country Is still In circu lation, except where there Is a rec ord of Its exportation or of its use In the arts. In other words, he makes no allowance for what was carried across our southern boundary for a quarter MARVELOUS INVENTIONS OF SOAE ANIMALS. Men and women ere very proud of the different things which they do In this world, but they really have no reason to be to. The little creatures which go under various names have done things much more wenderful than man even thought of doing. For instance, the invention of the electric light Is considered something great, but no one ever thinks of giving much credit to the little firefly, which, in the thousands of years that he and his species have been on this earth, have invented some thing which serves for them Just as well, if not better, than an electric light. They carry a light with them all the time, and can put it out when they derlre or they can keep It burning all the time. It is exactly the same with other creatures which we are pleased to call members of the lower order of life. Take, for Instance, the great Eiffel tower, which Is over in Paris, a thing which Is considered very high and won derful. It is over 1,000 feet high, over 187 times as tall as the man who In vented It. and consequently the same number of times as tall as one of the men who built It. But this record is beaten by a creature called the termite, an ant which lives in Africa. If men were to make building or towers In the same proportion that the ant does, man would have to build something about 5,000 feet high, or five times as high as the great tower now In Paris. These little ants are no bigger than a speck, yet they build hills which look like little mountains. Down In Africa It is no unusual Eight to see a big animal, very much like our American buffalo, standing on the top of one of these ant hills, using It as a watch tower and yet the creatures which built this same ant hill could live for thousands of years with no other meat than that provided by one of these buffaloes. Ants are not the only masons. The mason bee, common enough In Eng 'and, hollows out the crumbling mortar of old walls, and frcm the debris builds finely finished galleries, where she lays 'ier egg. She Is a clever engineer and always turns the mouth of her passage downwards towards the earth In order to prevent the rain from getting In. Of diggers and ditchers and miners there are excellent examples In the animal world. Don't imagine that the burrowing creatures start to work In a re:kless fashion. No. they look ahead and provide for all sorts of emergen-1 BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN Faith does not rest on the bed of 'ancy. A bad man's hate is a good man's reputation. The root of all evtl is the cause of -nuch digging. It takes a windy man to blow his own trumpet. Hope Is a staff In the morning and a couch at night. You can throw a ten-pound stone far ber thau a feather. AND PRICES. cf a century unrecorded, nor for what was carried across our northern bound ary during that time, ar.d of which as record was made, nor for what was car. rled to China during that time, and of which no record wax made. He makes no allowance for what was used in tht arts and cf which r.o report was made. and he makes no allowance for what was carried to Europe In the pockets ci our peopie curing a Quarter ci century. In his report for 1(91. the directcr says that the amount cf mon ey which the American people spent In Europe during the year of the Paris exposition was estimated at over $90, 000.000. Of course, most cf this was registered in the form of lettert ol credit, etc., but so much of It as was carried In the pockets of the people was not registered. S4 that the tables given out by the director of the mint, when carefully examined In the light cf information which he himself has given out in prior reports are fcur.d to be absolutely worthless. The ether fig ures given ty the comptroller, that I have referred to. are accurate. They practically constitute an Inventory cf everything in sight, ar.d they show that Ir.sted of having $23 59 per capita in circulation In this ccuntry we havs not got $15 per capita In circulation, whi'e Eng'and has $208 France $35 77. Germany $17 59. Belgium $27 62 and the Netherlands. We are drifting toward the basis of the pauperised countries of Europe. Italy has $10 79 per capita, Austria-Hungary $10 67. Ru.-sta $8 4$; even Impujverlshed fpaln hat $16 L5. It Is a most remarkable fact that the po sition held by a people lnit.e scale of civilization seems always to depend on the amount of money they have In ! arhial lrrii Ifl t inn A n 'nrrl i n ta tht tS. bles Issued by the United States treas urer. Turkey has $4 09 per capita. Mex lco $4 95. Central American states $1 6. India $3 33. Chlnt $2 .08 and Servia $3 74. Bankers have been heard to say. even during a panic, that there was plenty of money. This was done to keep the pub lic from becoming alarmed, for every business man knows that It Is not true, ar.d the fact that so many banks pay high rates of Interest on deposlts shows thai It Is ret true. During the last panic the New York banks actually suspended payments ar.d forced the public to take clearing house certifi cates. It has, however, been found that after a panic produced by a great con traction the money that if left flows toward the cities ar.d lies Idle becsuse business conditions are not favorable. Physicians tell us that If a large part of the blood Is taken out of the human body the remainder flows to the heart and the extremities get cold; and the same law applies to money, which Is the blood of commerce. Reduce its quantity and the body gets cold, while the heart may be'eongested. At pres. ent money Is In demand, not for new business enterprises, but by debtors who are carrying a heavy load of old debts and are forced to make new ar rangements. If prices were again to go up new life would come Into the business world, and money would then be In demand and new enterprises would be begun. JOHN P. ALTGELD. cles. The mole, fcr Instance, arranges his central chamber so that rain will never swamp him. Drains carry off the surplus moisture. The badger, our most elaborate digger, makes a regular cave about five or six feet below the surface, and has no less than from five to seven outlets, thus securing what the cleanly beast delights In excellent ven. tllation. We mortals think a lot cf the way In which we have learned to embalm our dead. The ordlrary beehive doesn't make so much fuss. But if. as often happens, a big moth intrudes and dies In the hive, the Insects quickly cover the body up In a thick coating cf wax, thus preventing unpleasantness. Bees, too, have learnt fortification. Death's head moths, when plentiful, enter the hive. and. secure In their thick, tcft ccats, rifle the cells Cr.e year, when these were very thick. It was noticed that the bees all over the country had closed up their hive entrances to that, whilst a bee might still squeese O.ra', a fat moth had to stay outside. But this whole page might be writ ten on bee marvels, how they venti late their hives, how their marvelous mechanical Instinct teaches them to build six-sided cells, an arrangement no mere man could improve on, and the like. ? Cabinet making is supposed to be entirely a human accomplishment, but it would puzzle many an expert to construct anything neater than the home of the mason spider. This small workman digs himself a neat pit, and fits it with a lid that closes so perfectly that the keenest eye could not detect It. even after seeing It open a second before. The II dls made of earth and hinged to a nicety with bands of web. The interior of the home Is cosily lined with soft spider silk. Another very neat miner is the mole cricket, which has front paws enor mously developed for Its size, and which are exactly like the paws of a mole. Mole crickets dig their nests with a smooth passege leading to them, and deposit their eggs within. The larvae, when hatched, find their way out by the passage. Chicago Pest: "How did he get his mone?" "Why. he caught an accident Insurance company napplng and suc ceeded In getting a policy that did not prohibit him from playing on a foot ball team. The company hasn't done a thing but pay money to him ever since." Few people get too miserly about laying up treasures In heaven. It is sometimes better to climb over a mountain than to remove It. Thinking over our own faults makes us talk less about those of others. Some people lend a helping hand sel domunless It Is to help themselves. If you feel like shaking a friend who la In trouble, let it be bis hand that you shake. w. . mi uinh that wa want the earth, we are not likely to give much thought to the world to come ib.wtl effect on a. en i
