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THE NORTHWESTERN. ■BNSCIIOTKR * ailiSON. Kd. .nd Fmht LOUP CITY, • * NEB. _ ... i ' To meet the great demand for new guns the royal gun factory of Wool wich, England, is being enlarged. A war balloon, such as Is used at fhe present operations, can be inflated and floated in not more than twenty minutes. Owing to the stubborn resistance of the Sultan the cities of the west coast of Morocco are still without tele graphic connection. A special service for the detection of gambling has been organized by the police of Vienna, Austria. The police seek for offenders not only In cafes, but also in clubs and private apart ments. Reports Just received from the Wlilte-House-Harrlson expedition to Abyssinia, which safely returned to Mombasa, on the east coast of Africa, on June 10, shows that the explorers found the districts around Lake Ru dolph and Stephanie deserted, and that the Inhabitants bad either died or left the country. It Is added that the kraals were discovered to be full of skeletons. Scientists are much perplexed over the finding of a curious chain In the ruins of a house at Pompeii, ami none of the wise men has as yet been able to give any idea as to the uses of the article. Further research may show that the Roman matrons were accus tomed to chain their husbands to the wall when the Gracchian league of Ad vanced Femininity held its weekly meetings. The first place at which one of the census-takers in the District of Colum bia called on the morning of June 1 was the executive mansion. The presi dent's secretary was prepared to tell him Mr. McKinley's age at his last birthday, his color, occupation, and whether he could write and speak English. The president is one man in the country whose census questions a great many other people could answer for him with reasonable accuracy. Nine out of ten travelers would tell Inquirers that the roughest piece of water is that cruel stretch in the Eng lish channel, and nine out of ten trav elers would say what was not true. In <*eality the "wickedest bit of sea” is not in the Dover straits; or in yacht ting, for example, from St. Jean de Luiz up to Pauillac; or across the Mediterranean race from Cadiz to Tanglers. Nor is it in rounding Cape Horn, where there is what sailors call a "true” sea. The “wickedest sea” is encountered in rounding the Cape of Good Hope for the eastern ports of Cape Colony. According to the annual report of the British comptroller-general of pat ents, a number of new acts have been passed in Japan to amend the law of patents, designs and trade marks. Un der these acts the duration of a patent is fixed at fifteen years, and of the copyright of a design ten years, sub ject to the payment of annual fees. The term of protection obtained by registration of a trade mark is fixe i at twenty years, except in the case of trade marks previously registered abroad, where the term is the same as that for which the original registra tion is valid. M. Leuret, the French manufacturer of artificial pearls from fish scales,says that he will come to the United States and erect works as soon as he hears of a locality where the right kind of scales can be had in large quantities. It is suggested that a suitable place might be found on the St. Lawrence river, among the Thousand Islands. The scales should be small and have a silver sheen. The brighter they are the higher price they will command. The scales should be removed while the fish are alive if possible. Twenty five thousand pounds of these scales can be used a year. It is anticipated that twice that quantity may be used in a few years. A timely warning is sound* d against my wholesale rush ot fortune-seekers \a South Africa. The ending of the car and the absorption of the Boer Cates into the British Umpire will ■ oubtless stimulate migration to thus* .egions and will also increase the op portunities of profitable settlement there. But it will not be prudent for any one to go thither without some capital, or at least sufficient resource, fo maintain him for some time in Inde pendence of anything he may or may not do there, it |s an expensive coun try to live In. and the gold mines and other sources of profit can be worked only at considerable expense It is a country In which capital will find prof (table investment, but mu one in which the pentnlees adventurer la likely to pick up a fortune. If village Improvement societies, to make n town more beautiful, why not public progress boards to make It mors busy? 8u*h a society has just been organised In Uaatlne. Maine, and Its , pr«a« at l".il. » tc »i..i i. » - •hip building firm tu bests its ,,|4Ut In that pretty town, which la a great deni more likely to get Its wish than It would be If It sat down and waited to te discovered Many a decaying p*weo would be prosperous today If It had SOOt Its advantages to market In •tend Of expecting some capitalist to •wee* after them with big ova wagoa. TALMAGES SERMON. RELIGION A P REV E JITATIVE OF THE WORLD’S ILLS. It I» an Acllft Prlnclpla, Says Dr. TaW un.gr. Which Constantly Works for the Walters ol tha Itody, Mind and BouL (Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.) Dr. Talmage la now traveling in Norway, where he has been deeply Interested In the natural phenomena and the quaint social life of that won derful land. In his discourse this week he argues, contrary to the opin ion of many, that religion is an active principle which works constantly for the welfare of body and mind and soul. His text is Luke xiv„ 34, ‘Sait la good." Tha Bible Is a dictionary of the finest ■linlles. It employs, among liv ing creatures, storks and eagles and doves and unicorns and sheep and cat tle; among trees, sycamores and tere binths and pomegranates and al monds and apples; among Jewels, pearls and amethysts and Jacinths and ehrysoprases. Christ uses no stale Illustrations. The lilies that he plucks for his sermons are dewy fresh; the ravens In his discourses are not stutt ed specimens of birds, but warm with life from wing tip to wing tip; the fish he points to are not dull about the gills, as though long captured, but a-8qulrm In the wet net Just brought up on the beach of Tiberias. In my text, which is the peroration of one of his sermons, he picks up a crystal and holds It before his 'on gregatlon as an illustration of divine grace in the heart, when he says, what we all know by experiment, "Salt Is good." I shall try to carry out the Savior's Idea In this text and In the first place say to you that grace Is like salt in Its beauty. In Galicia there are mines of salt, with excavations and under ground passages reaching, 1 am told. 280 miles. Far under ground there are chapels and halls of reception, the columns, the altars and the pulpits or salt. When the kins and the princes come to visit these mines, the whole place is illuminated, and the glory of crystal walls and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal columns, under the glare of the torches and the 'amps, needs words of crystal to de scribe It. But you need not go so far as that to And the beauty of salt. You live In a land which produces mil lions of bushels of It In a year, and you can take the morning rail train and In a few hours get to the salt mines and salt springs. And you fc.avc this article morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowflake and water foam with durability added. It Is beautiful to the naked eye. but under 'he glass you see the stirs and the diamonds and the white tree branches ind the splinters and the bridges of Are as the sun glints them. There is more architectural skill In one of these crystals of salt than human Ingenu ity has ever demonstrated In an Al hambra or St. Peter’s. find's Mrrrlm Innumrrnbte. It would take all time, with an in fringement upon eternity, for an an ,tel of God to tell one-half the glories in a salt crystal. So with the grace of God. It is perfectly beautiful. I have seen It smooth out wrinkles of care from the brow. I have seen It make an aged man feel almost young again. I have seen It lift the stoop ing shoulders and put sparkle Into the dull eye. So'omon discovered Us i merapeutic qua mes wnen ne said, "It Is marrow to the bones.” It helps to ligest the food and to purify the blood and to calm the pulses and qu!»t the spleen, and Instead of Tyndals r rayer test of 20 years ago. putting a ran in a philosophical hospital to be xperlmented upon by prayer. It keeps nim so well that he does not need to be prayed for as ait Invalid. 1 am speaking now of a healthy region—not if that morbid religion that sits for three hours on a gravestone reading ilarvey's "Meditation* Among the Toml s"—a religion thoO prospers best !n a bad state of the liver! 1 speak of the religion that Christ preached, l suppose when that religion has con quered the world that diiwise will be banl:hed and that a man a hundred years of age will come In from busi ness and sav: "I feel tired. 1 think t must be time for me to go." and without one physical pang heaven will have him. Hut the chief beauty of grace la in ihe eoul. It takes that which was bard and cold and repulsive and makes It all over again. It pours ipon ones nature what David calls the beauty of holiness.” it extir pates everything that la hateful ami unclean. If Jealousy and pride and mat and werldlluesa lurk about, they ire chained and have a very small sweep Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of g summer garden as he comes In. saying. I am the rose f Sharon." and he submerges It witn he glory of a spring morning as he says. ”1 am the light Oh. how atueh (hat gr.ee did for the three Johns! ll took John Hunyan the foul (north ed. and made John Hunyan. the tin mortal dreamer It tooh John New *on, Ihe lafldel siilor, and in the mid* of the hurricane made him cry <mii. "My mother e <Jod, have mercy upon me?" It toek John it urn me. Held (rum a life ef atn and. by the hand u( a 1‘hrletUn maker of edge Iwih. led him into the pulpit that burns etltl with the light uf I he I i'hnsuan eloquence • hivh iharmed thousand* le (he Jeett* whom he uwe* despised Ah. ywu may , eeervh all the earth ewer her anyihiag an beautiful or beautifying as the grae« of God. Go all through Che deep min* passages of Wieliczka and amid the underground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt, and show me anything so exquisite, so transcendently beautiful as this grace of God fashioned and hung in eternal crystals. A Kenolt; of Utc. Again, grace is like salt In the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. What are those paths across the western prairies? Why. they were made thnre by deer and buffalo going and coming away from salt “licks.” Chemists and physicians all over the world tell us that salt Is a necessity of life. And ■o with the grace of God; you must have it or die. I know a great many speak of it as a mere adornm«nt, a sort of shoulder strap adorning a soldier, or a light, frothing dessert brought In after the greatest part or the banquet of life is over, or a medi cine to be taken after powders and mustard plasters have failed to do their work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a string of bells around a horse’s neck while he draws the load, and in nowise helping him to draw It. So far from that, I declare the grace of God to be the first and the last ne cessity. It Is food we must take or starve into an eternity of famine. It is clothing without which we freeze to the mast of intinite terror. It Is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is the ladder, and the only ladder, on which we can climb up into the light. It is a positive necessity for the soul. You can tell very easily what the ef fect would be If a person refused to take salt into the body. The energies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air, slow fevers would crawl through the brain, the heart would flutter, the life would be gone. Salt a necessity for the life of the body; the grace of God a necessity for the life of the soul. Again I remark that grace la like salt In abundance. God has strewn salt In vast profusion all over the con tinents. Russia seems built on a salt cellar. There Is one region In that country that turns out 90,000 tons a year. England and Russia and Italy have Inexhaustible resources In this respect. Norway and Sweden, white with snow above, white with salt be neath. Austria yielding 900,000 tons annually. Nearly all the nations rich in It—rock salt, spriug salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the world, when he uttered our text, knew it would be come more and more significant as the shafts were sunk and the springs were bored and the pumps were worked and the crystals were gathered. So the grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all con- ; ditions. It seems to undergird every- ! thing. Pardon for the worst sin, com fort for the sharpest suffering, bright- ! est light for the thickest darkness Around about the salt lakes of Saratov there are 10,000 men toiling day and night, and yet they never exhaust the saline treasures. And if the 1,600,000, 000 of our race should now cry out to God for his mercy there would be enough for all—for those farthest gone In sin, for the murderer standing cn the drop of the gallows. It is an ocean of mercy; and if Europe and Asia, Africa, North and South Amer ica and all the islands of the sea went down in it today they would have room enough to wash and come up clean. Let no man think that his case is too tough a one for God to act upon. Though your sin may be deep and raging, let me tell you that God’s grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and span ning the awful chasm of your guilt, one end resling upon the rock of eter nal promises and the other on the foundations of heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so incrusted with Jewels that no one after him ever dared to wear it, but our King. Jesus, takes oil the robe of His righteousness, a robe blood-dyed and heavcn-impearled. and reaches it out to the worst wretch In all the earth and says: "Put that on! Wear it now! Wear It forever!" • Pure Helot? f he Surface. Again, the grace of Uod is like salt In the way we come at It. The salt on the surface Is almost always Im pure—that which Incrusts the Rocky mountains and the South American pampas and in India; but the miners go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrinths and along by galleries of rock and with torches and pickaxes And their way under the very foundations of the earth, to where the salt lies that makes up the nation s wealth To get to the best saline springs of the earth huge ma chinery goes down, boring depth be low depth, depth below depth, until from under the very roots of the mountains, the saline water supplies I I he aqueduct. This water la brought to the aurface and Is exposed In tank* to the sun for evaporation, or It I* put In boiler* mightily heeled, and th» water evaporates, and the salt gather, at the bottom of the tank—the work | la completed and the fortune made. Ho with the grace of Uod It Is to lie profound!) Bought after With all tht concentrated energies of body, mind and soul We must dig for It. No man ■tumble, accidentally on It. We need to go down to the very lowest atrata 1 of earnest ness and faith to And It ktipeiAltai exploration will not turn it up W. must strive and Implore and dig until w# strike lbs spring foaming with living water* Then 'h< noth of evaporation begins and ns • hen ike miins **>ii nr* mp«»i to the ton tbs vapors Boat away. Isav lag nothing but Ike pure white suit el Ik* bottom uf Iks tank, so whtu I Ike Christian e»ul la etpueed lu Uxe | Nun ef Righteousness the vapors nf pride and saSflshiifss and worldlfness float off, and there is chiefly left be neath pure white holiness of heart. Then, as in the case of the salt, the furnace is added. Blaring troubles, stirred by smutted stokers of darkness, quicken the evaporation of worldll ness, and the crystaltsation of grace, • • • The PIvotsl Hattie. When Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania died, years ago, 1 lost a good friend. He impressed me mightily with the horrors of war. In the eight hours that we rode together In the cars he recited to me the scenea through which he had passed in the civil war. He said that there came one battle upon which everything seemed to pivot. Telegrams from Washington said that the life of the nation de pended on that struggle. He said to me: “I fcent into that battle, sir, with my son. Ills mother and 1 thought everything of him. You know how a father will feel toward his son who Is coming up manly and brave and good. Well, the battle opened and concentrated, and it was awful. Horses and riders bent and twisted and piled up together. It was awful, sir. We quit firing and took to the point of the bayonet. Well, sir, I didn't feel like myself that day. I had prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went Into It feeling that I had In my right arm the strength of ten giants.” And as the governor brought his arm down on the back of the seat it fairly made the car tremble. "Well,” he said, "the battle was desperate, but after awhile we gained a little, and we marched on a little. I turned round to the troops and shouted: ‘Come on, boys!* and I stepped ncross a dead soldier, and, lo! It was my son! 1 saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a min ute, for the crisis had come in the bat tle. So I Just got down on my knees, i find I tnrew ray arms around blm, and j I gave him one good kiss and said, j 'Uoodby, dear,* and sprang up and i shouted, ‘Come on. boys!’’’ So It Is J In the Christian conflict—It la a fierce fight. Eternal ages seem depending on the strife. Heaven Is waiting for the bulletins to announce the tremen dous issue. Hall of shot, gash of saber, fall of battie-a*. groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereavement or anything else. With one ardent embrace and one loving kiss we utter our farewells and then cry: "Come on. boys! There are other heights to be captured; there are other foes to be conquered; there are other crowns to be won.” Yet, as one of the Lord's surgeons, I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have been told there Is nothing like salt to stop the bleeding of a wound, 1 and so 1 take this salt of Christ's gospel and put it on the lacerated j soul. It smarts a little at first, but ; see—the bleeding stops, and lo, the ( flesh comes again as the flesh of a lit- 1 tie child. "Salt is good.” “Comfort one another with these words.” TO PREVENT BALDNESS. Sugcestioiu for I’reurrvInB the Hulr by » UermatologlMt. The men of my father's generation habitually used pomades on the scalp, j To protect the hair coverings from the j grease on their heads tidies came into vogue. Then the pendulum swung the other way, and now pomades of all kinds are tabooed. That there has | been a great increase in baldness among young men of the present gen eration is a general impression, al though 1 know of no statistics to sup port or refute it. Some fifteen years ago, when I first became interested In the study of diseases of the hair, I accepted the teaching of the time that pomades did no good, and, becoming raociu, uiu pumiive tun m. v» uu cu- i larging experience I am becoming more and more convinced that l was wrong and that one reason why the hair is lost so early nowadays is be cause the sons have forgotten the teachings and practice of their fathers in regard to the use of pomades. They neither use pomades nor seek to stimu late the natural oily supply to the hair ; by systematic brushing. Instead they daily wet their heads with water to enable them to arrange their hair. By not using pomades and by wetting the hair instead of brushing it their hair becomes more and more dry, dan druff Increases, and their hair falls. I believe that If boys were trained to brush their hair thoroughly every night and morning and had a little po made that would uot turn rancid, such as contains sulphur or aalyclllc* acid, for Instance, rubbeu Into their scalps once a week or so, and avoided wetting their heads, baldness In the rising gen eration would uot be so prevalent as It Is in this.—Medical News. Rtrly In Kngboot. Articles of value could he sent If an arcount of them were given at (he othce. In 1711 an act wns passed abol- ' tahtng the penny poet. They were taxed with the rates and stamped with the mark of the general postofflee, and the rate was l shilling per ounce for parrels, letters could be carried eighty miles for 2 pence; letters more than eighty miles, 2 peuce and 4 pence. A letter to llublin rust 4 pence slugle, and double letters 1 shilling, and 1 shilling and 4 peine an ounce. For eign postage was not expensive. la I7i>3, for Instance, a letter of a single sheet could be carried to lh# West In dies fur l shilling and 1 pence, and In ; I Jo* Mr 1‘orey established s foot post carrying letters lu the lamdon district only, for half a penny, it was not 1 long, however, before the post*! au thorities stopped him Happiness to g grant bewail her. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IV. JULY 22—MATTHEW 16:13-26 Golden Teat—"If Any Man Will tome After Me, Let Him Deny Himself, and Take t'p Hl« Cross, and Follow Me”— Matt. 10: 24. 13. "When Jesus came.” The place from which he came is not stated, but It would naturally be through Bethsalda (Murk 8:22) on his way northward along the road that runs east of the Jordan to "the coasts." Parts, district, "the region belonging to a city, the country around it."--Thayer. Murk says “to the villages of Cesareu Philippi” (see “Place" above). "He usked his disciples,” ufter he had been praying alone (Luke). As usuul, the great epoch, the new work, began In prayer. His object seems to have been to draw out the faith of his disciples, and to reveal to them more fully his nature and his redeeming work. 14. “Some suy . . . John the Bap tist,” returned to life. Among these was Herod (Matt. 14: 1. 2). "Home, Kltas.” Greek form of Elijah, who had wrought some great mirucles. and had turned the tide of the nation from heathen worship to the true God, and was the promised forerunner of the Messiah (Mai. 4: 5, 8). "And others, Jeremlas.” The Greek form of Jeremiah. "Jeremiah Is placed lirst, because In the Jewish canon be wus placed first among the Old Testament prophets." "Or one of the prophets,” 1. e., "that one of the old prophets Is risen again” (Luke V: 19). 15. “But whom (R. V., "who") say ye that I am?" Observe "ye," plural, and by position tn the Greek exceedingly em phatic—In contrast with the discordant popular opinions. What have you learned about me and my work during the two or three years you have known me? 16. "And Simon Peter answered.” "The question Is addressed to all, and Peter answers as their spokesman, Just us he does In many other cases."—Broadus, "Thou urt the Christ." The expected Messiah for whom the people were look ing utul hoping. 17. "Blessed urt thou." Because thou hast opened thy heart to the truth; be cause thou hnst broken from the bond age of Jewish prejudice and worldly vis ion; because thou hast such tlrm confi dence In such a Saviour. "Simon Bur Jona,” I. e., son of Jonah. Bar Is Ara maic (the Syriac Hebrew then In use) for "son.” Jonah should begin with a capital J. as In the H. V. "For flesh and blood (man) hath not revealed” this unto you. It hag not Its origin In the mere human knowledge. In the workings of the human mind. "But my Father which Is In heaven.” God Hashed forth the truth, and Peter did not close his eyes that he might not see. IS. “Thou art Peter.” Greek, Petros, a stone, a piece of rock, as in Homer of Ajax throwing a stone nt Hector (Iliad. VII.), and now attention Is culled to Its meaning. "Upon this rock.” Petra, the feminine Petros, denoting rock, bed rock, as distinguished from a stone or piece of rock. "And the gates of hell.” Gales of hades, which Is composed of the Greek a not, and idein to see, and stgnltles the Invisible lund, the realm of the dead, 19. “I will give unto thee." As one of the ehlefest of the apostles, the first among “The keys of the kingdom of heaven.” The keys are the means fcy which one enters a house, a city, or a treasury. The kingdom of heaven, not the abode of the blest, but the kingdom of God on earth, Is represented under the figure of a city with gates, or of a large house with gates for entrance, and doors of treasure room. "Whatsoever thou shult bind on earth.” That Is, forbid or declare forbidden. “Shalt loose on earth.” That Is, ullow, declare to be per mitted. "Shall be bound In heaven." 20. “Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was . . the Christ.” Omit "Jesus,” or, that he, Jesus, was the Christ. Why not proclaim this glorious truth trom the house-tops? 21. "Prom that time.” The disciples were now strong enough In their convic tion that Jesus was the Messiah to have their errors concerning his nature and kingdom corrected. 22. "Then Peter took him” one side to speak to him privately. "And began to rebuke him.” Only began, for be was Interrupted. His was a mingled motive of love and self-assurance that he was right. "Saying, Be it far from thee, Lord.” The plan of redemption outlined by Jesus was so contrary to all Peter's < xpectatlons and hopes, so completely op posite to bis picture of the Messiah king and his reign, that It seemed Inconceiv able to Peter. 23. “But he turned." Turned round to the disciples (M irk S: 3ft). "And said un to Peter.” Publicly before them all. "Get thee behind me, Satan." Satan means "adversary," the great "enemy” or ail goou, uweu m inc saviours rune •if a proper name. "Thou art an offence." A stumbling block Instead of a founda tion stone; a hindrance, by placing be fore Idm the very temptation which Ha tan had presented to him In the wilder ness. “For thou savourest” tmlr.de“t "partakest of the quality of") "not the things that he eif Hod." Hod's wise [dun for his kingdom. "But those that be of men." The natural, human view of the Messiah, a worldly kingdom, riches, hon or. glory and triumph. 24 "If any man will (would, wishes to) eome after me." He his follower, his dis ciple; and seek to attain his character and his reward, "l-et him deny himself." Renounce self as master and accept t'hrlst as master. 25. "For whosoever will save his life." Wishes, wills to save It, by doing wrong, by avoiding hard duties and self-denial, by gaining worldly good at the expense of religion and righteousness. "Hhull lose It." Khali utterly fall, shall lose ev en the earthly rewards he seeks, and his eternal blessedness. I.lfe If the same word as soul In the next verse. It Is the man himself, and all that In his eyes makes life worth living "And whosoev er will lose his life." The lower life, the things that seem to worldly men to make life worth living g "For what Is a man profited, if be shull gain the whole world twhleh he never does), and lose his own soulT" All that makes It |ms*ltile for him to use or enjoy the world he has gained What good do worldly thlnga do to one who Is sick, or suffer* the stings of con science, or destroys the character which siijoy the world he has gained. ... sad Vr. b dear on. t'anon Bellalrw, who died In Kngland recently. was an t>ld enemy til the helltgerant Archdeacon lienlson lie waa a school Inspector la-fore the act al t>7U. and Kaat llrent waa In hts district. The nrchdeacon objected to government Inspection of his echaul. taught the children to alng some line# of ridicule when his brother clergy man appeared, and nt Inst wrote to Mr Be I la Ira telling him that he would put him In the village horsepon.l If he again dared to show his facs la that 1 part u4 jjwmerset i TRAVELING ON SUNDAY, f Its Dreartf cm Accounted for by a Veteran of the Road. A man who travels much on busi ness said yesterday that, as far as his observation went, the number of per sons who set out on long Journeys Sunday exceeded that of week days. .When he made this remark he was speaking of the suggestion made re cently in Chicago that a car for di vine service be attached to through trains. "Thli suggestion is idle,’’ he said. “Not S per cent of Sunday trav elers would heed the services, aatl those who d Id would get little good from them. It Beems clear to me,” he went on, "tLat more people prefer Sunday to any other day to make long journeys on. I know that every time I have within the last year bad to go to some distant point the train has been packed, not a seat empty. In or der to be sure of a seat I make a point of getting to the station early. Late comers frequently have to stand. This Is not because there are fewer trains; the fact is the number of through trains on all the railroads go ing out of New York is the same as on week days. I say this with regret. I am not a Sabbatarian, but I don’t like to see people travel on Sunday. There is nothing, not even open sa loons, more destructive of the sacred character of the day. The stir, the bustle, the rush and jostle of the train, make tatters of the Sabbath feeling. If my observation Is accur ate, not one out of every 100 passen gers gives a thought to the day. Sun day ordinarily disposes the mind to devotion, Inspires a prayerful feeling. Not Sunday on a rushing railway train. I think that the mind of near ly every man and woman aboard Is innocent of any thought, sacred or profane. The mind seems to be lulled to a peculiar Insensibility. To my mind nothing is more lonesome than Sunday traveling. Something is al ways lacking. At the railway station there is an absence of the week-day rumble of trains and hissing of escap ing steam. Streams of people are pouring to the trains, but in silence and dejection. This dejection, how ever, may be the reflection of my own mood, for I am always blue when set ting out on a Journey on Sunday.— New York Mall and Express. A jSTRANCE ACCIDENT. roUooed l>y Carbonic Acid tu • Ilrcwcry Tat. It sometimes happens that men whose work it is to clean out brewery vats are overcome by carbonic acid. One such case, which resulted fatally, occurred in the town of Khymney, En gland, awhile ago. The man was 2.> years old. The vat was 8 feet deep and 6 feet in diameter, having a man hole 18 inches square. The vat was of an almost obsolete pattern, the modern one being large and shallow. It was used for storing beer prior to ‘racking.” The beer had been drawn off, leaving a sediment or “slummage” of a few inches in depth at the bottom. The vat was then flushed with water and the cover put on the manhole sometime in the afternoon—It is said by the man himself. The object of covering up the vat was to facilitate the subsequent cleaning, as otherwise the sides became dry. After removing the cover and allowing the hose to run Into the vat for ten minutes the man entered the vat with a lighted candle in his hand. About twenty minutes or twenty-five minutes later a cellarman, wishing to borrow the mop, called out to him, and, receiving no answer, went up to look for him, when he saw him lying on the bottom of the vat, faco downward, with the ladder, which had fallen on its side, resting up against his body. The candle was subse quently found on the bottom. This is an important fact, as it Indicates that the man was overcome before or shortly after he had reached the bot tom—the custom being to stick the candlestick into the side of the vat, a spiko being attached to It for that pur pose. Having called for help and pro cured another ladder from an adja cent office, the cellarman descended the ladder, followed by another man. They hitched a rope around the arm, and with the aid of some others got him out of the vat in about three minute*, when a doctor was called and arrived within a quarter of an hour. Wade and Oungla*. It Is very much to be doubted whether Stephen A. Douglas ever had a superior on this continent as a de bater. He and Wade wore, of course, generally on opposite sides of ques tions In the Benate, but were Arm per sonal friends One day. In dlacuaainff some bill, the groat Illinoisan said: Mr. President .that proposition Is con rary to my code of morala." Wads lumped up snd shouted "Against his •ode of morals! Hood Ood, Mr I'resl lent, his code of morals' 1 didn't know he had any!” which was one of thus* df hand shots at point-blank range vhlch would disconcert any man. tem ;iorarily, at lenat. Ones Wad* was crossing the plains. On the train s man said. "All this region needa la more water and better acalety." "Yea.** growled old lien, "that's all hades needs to make It an Ideal dwelling olaos!'*-- Ibiston Herald. A alt*** WaMUa* Wanfctgk t: If Station* Which ars being madn at l»uab»rh. France. la connection with the eateastoa of the d«* ka have revealed a wooden aaiatup with au tlqus canmui* burled la the saad* It Is believed Ibal the vessel belonged to tha dpaaUh Armada, which was ■tied out la IMT fur the subjugation of Kagtaad
