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Dreyfus has quarreled with his law
yer. What was the fee?
It is good to be loved by one's fellow
man when there is not too many of
him.
Peace on earth, as a general rule.
Prominent exceptions, South Africa
and the Philippines.
Petroleum has been discovered in
Egypt, and light of other kinds is
gradually breaking through.
Beaumont oil may have greased the
path along which so many settlers are
now making a quick slide into Texas.
Encouraged by the absence of Gen.
Funston from the scene of conflict, the
Filipino insurgents are again becom
ing active.
Now that the German crown prince
is broken down with hard work the
time is ripe for princes to agitate for
au eight-hour day.
Being unable to settle its own w'ar
satisfactorily to all concerned, Great
Britain will try what it can do in the
Chilian-Argentine dispute.
* I
Every day another halo pales and
vanishes, another cherished illusion
goes bump. It is now discovered that
disease creates literary genius.
Mr. 11/ H. Rogers of Fairhaven,
Mass., has given to that town a
library, waterworks, town hall,
schools, a church and a drainage sys
tem.
A crowd of theater-goers in Rome
got into a fight over a new play and
many were wounded. Therefore it is
admitted that the play is a big suc
cess.
The grand jury in Manhattan re
ports in effect that the Brooklyn
bridge is all right, but that it needs
to be rebuilt to keep it from falling
down.
The manufacture of whisky from
watermelons is to be tried at Balti
more, and the idea sounds about as
exhilarating as extracting sunbeams
from cucumbers.
Telephones are to be reconstructed
so as to provide for sight as well as
hearing. This will have a tendency to
still further increase the annoyance
resulting from cross wires.
America is not conspicuous In the
Nobel prizes now being awarded for
achievements of the greatest benefit to
humanity. This looks like a slap at
the theory that our trusts aid the gen
eral public.
William Clegg, aged 88, was married
on Wednesday at Orangeville, to Mrs.
Fleming, his fifth wife. And the ris
ing generations hang off from matri
mony as if it was something intensely
unpleasant.
Buffalo Express: Virginia is taking
steps to hold an exposition in 1907 to
commemorate the 4u0th anniversary
of the founding of Jamestown, the first
permanent English settlement within
the present limits of the United
States.
The city of Philadelphia gets 20 per
cent of the money put into automatic
weighing machines in the public parks.
Since 1895 115,920 persons have used
the machines, and the profit to the
city has been $231.85. Ben Franklin,
who used to live in Philadelphia, used
to say: “l,ook alter the pennies, and
the dollars will look after them
selves.”
Baltimore American: The young
volunteer officer made famous a short
while ago through his love affairs
has been refused a commission in the
regular army because he jilted his
sweetheart. Uncle Sam is too gallant
to allow such things with impunity.
Perhaps, too, he is shrewd enough to
distrust the bravery of a man who
doesn't deserve the fair.
The decision to canonize Joan of
Arc will be regarded by the French
as a delicate compliment to them
selves. In spite of the numerous
changes of political system that have
taken place In their country, the fel
low-countrymen of the future saint
cherish everything that makes their
history picturesque. So a stern Re
publican points with pride to the dis
tinguished figures of monarchlal or
imperial times. It was only during
the great Revolution that the French
had a tendency to destroy the records
of a great past. The cult of Joan of
Arc is not professed only by those
who regret the old monarchy. All
true Frenchmen can adhere to it, no
matter what their political ideas may
be.
A Kansas newspaper man expresses
his thanks to a fruit grower for some
Ben Davis apples, which leads the dis
criminating Topeka Capital to ask,
“What do you think of a man who re
turns thanks for a gift of Ben Davis
apples?” Perhaps the editor felt that
he could afford to be polite, neighbor.
He didn’t have to eat the apples.
Better a good statue of a bad man
than a bad statue of a good one. The
good artist can idealize the character
of the one, but no bad artist can make
the other’s virtues lovable.
TALMAGES SERMON.
THE NEW YEAR, WITH ALL ITS
GLORIOUS POSSIBILITIES.
Great Event* That the World Wilt See
In the Coming Twelve Mouth*—Advice
and Encouragement for Those la
Trouble.
(Copyright, 1902, I.ouls Klopsch. N. Y.)
Washington, Jan. 5.—In this. Dr.
Talmage's first discourse for the new
year, he speaks words of encourage
ment to all the timid and doubting.
The text is Exodus xii., 2, “This
month shall be unto you the beginning
of months; it shall be the first month
of the year to you.’’
The last month of the old year has
passed out of sight, and the first
month of the new year has arrived.
The midnight gate last Wednesday
opened, and January entered. The
present year will, I think, be one of
the greatest years of all time. It will
abound with blessing and disaster. Na
tional and International controversies
of momentous Import will be settled.
Year of coronation and dethronement,
year that will settle Cuban and Porto
Kican and Philippine and South Af
rican and Chinese destinies. The tam
est year for many a decade past has
dug its millions of graves and reared
its millions of marriage altars.
We can expect greater events in
this year than ever before, for fhe
world's population has so vastly in
creased there are so many more than
in any other year to laugh and weep
and triumph and perish. Would to God
that before the now opening year has
closed the earth might cease to tremble
with the last cannonade and the
heavens cease to be lighted up with
any more conflagrations of homesteads
and the foundries that make swords be
turned into blacksmith shops for mak
ing plowshares.
The front door of a stupendous year
has opened. Before many of you there
will be twelve months of opporturtity
for making the world better or worse,
happier or more miserable. Let us
pray that it may be a year that will
Indicate the speedy redemption of the
hemisphere. Would to God that this
might be the year in which the three
great instruments now chiefly used for
secular purposes might be put to their
mightiest use in the world's evangeli
zation—the telegraph, the telephone,
the phonograph! Electricity has such
potent tongue, such strong arm, such
swift wing, such lightning foot, that
it occurs to me that it may be the angel
that St. John saw and heard in apoc
alyptic vision when he started hack
and cried out, ''I saw another angel
flying In the midst of heaven having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth and to
every nation and kindred and tongue
and people." They were tongues of
fire that eat on the heads of the dis
ciples at the Pentecost, and why not
the world called to God by tongue of
electric fire? Prepare your batteries,
and make ready to put upon the wires
the world-wide message of "whomso
ever will.”
Furthermore, I notice that January
has been honored with the nativity of
somo of the greatest among the na
tions. Edmund Burke was born this
month, the marvel and glory of the
legal world; Fenelon of the religious
world; Benjamin Franklin of the phil
osophic world; William H. Prescott of
the historic world. Sir John Moore of
the military world: Robert Burns of the
poetic world; Polycarp of the martyr
world; Peter the Great of the kingly
world; Chrysostom of the sacred rhet
oric world; Daniel Webster of the
statesman world.
In tins monm at Hampton court.
1604, a new translation of the Holy
Bible was ordered. King James ap
pointed a commission of fifty-four men,
afterward reduced to forty-seven.
Those men presented the world with a
Bible that held mighty sway among
the nations for more than 250 years,
the revision of the Bible thirty years
ago being founded on that revision,
which began tinder King James of 1604.
The old translation, made more than
two and a half centuries ago, sustained
the martyrs in the fire, illumined the
homesteads of many generations, was
the book that was read aloud at the
embarkation of the forefathers from
Delft Haven, cheered the weary voy
agers on the Mayflower, comforted
them in the wilds of America, was the
j book on which the first American con
gress, as well as the last, took the oath
and with which all the presidents of
the United States have solemnized
their entrance into office, Is the book
that has advanced the world's civiliza
tion as no other influence ever could,
and which now lies on the table of
more homes than any book that was
ever printed since Johann Gutenberg
borrowed money of Martin Brether and
John Faust to complete the art of
printing. What a January in the
world’s history—the January that gave
♦he ages a book like that!
According to my text. "This month
shall be unto you the beginning of
months: it shall be the first month of
tne year to you.’’ Through it make
preparation ror the other eleven
months. What you are in January
you will probably be in all the other
months of the year. Prepare for
them neither by apprehension nor too
sanguine anticipation. Apprehension
of misfortune will only deplete your
body and gloom your soul and unfit
you for any trouble that may come.
On the other hand, if you expect too
much, disappointment will be yours.
Cultivate faith in God and the feeling
that he will do for you that which is
best, and you will be ready for either
sunshine or Bhadow. The other
eleven months of the year 1902 will
not all be made up of gladness or of
grief. The cup that is all made up of
sweetness is insipid.
Start right, and you will be apt
| to keep right. Before the ship captain
gets aut of tin New York Narrows he
makes up his mind what sea route he
will take. While you are in the Nar
rov/s of this month make up your
mind w£ich way you will sail and
unroll your chart and set your com
pass and have the lifeboats well
placed on the davits and be ready for
smooth voyage all the way across
or the swoop of a Caribbean whirl
wind.
Behold also In this January month
the Increasing daylight. Last month
the sun ivent down at 4:30, but in this
month the days are getting longer.
The sunrise and the sunset are farther
apart. Sunlight Instead of artificial
light, and there is for our dear old
battered earth growing light. “The
day-spring from on high hath visited
us." We nhall have more light for the
home, more light foi the church, more
light for the nation, more light for tac
world—light of intelligence, light of
comfort, light of rescue, light of evan
gelization, light from the face of God,
light from the throne. The day en
larges very little, and the reign of sun
light is not much increased, but do
not despise the minute of increasing
light each day of this January, and
do not despise the fact that more light
is coming for the church and world,
though it come slowly. As we are
now in this season gradually going
toward the longest day of next sum
mer. so our world is moving forward
toward the long day of emancipation
and Christly dominion. It may now
in the state and the church and the
world be January cold, but we are ;
on the way to July harvests and Sep
tember orchards.
Do not read your almanac back
ward. Do not go out and ask the trees
hung with icicles by January storm
whether they will ever again blossom
in May and leaf in June. We are mov
ing toward the world's redemption.
The frozen tears will melt, the river
of gladness will resume its flow’, the
crocus will come up at the edge of the
snowbank, the morning star will open
the door for the day, and the armies
of {he world will "ground arms” all
around the world. The January of
frost will be abolished, and the balm
and radiance of a divine atmosphere
will fill the nations. If you do not
see It and hear It for yourself, I think
at the utmost your grandchildren will
see and hear it. The heavens will take
part in the conflict between righteous
ness and sin. and that will settle it.
and settle it aright, and settle it for
ever.
In tnis very muuiu ui uauum;, iuu,
two months after a great battle had
been fought between the army of the
king and the army of parliament,
shepherds and travelers between 12
and 1 o'clock at night heard the battle
repeated in the skies—the sound of
drums, the clash of arms, the groans of
dying men, and then the withdrawal
of the scene into complete silence.
These shepherds and travelers repeat
ed in the neighboring towns what
they heard, and large numbers of peo
ple. expecting that all was a decep
tion. went out on the following night,
when they heard the same uproar and
tumult in the heavens—the two armies
in battle. The king, hearing of this
seeming combat in the heavens, sent
embassadors to inquire into the mys
tery. In the night they also heard the
conflict and came back to the king and
took solemn oath as to this mysterious
occurrence.
Whether these shepherds and trav
elers and embassadors of the king
were in delusion I cannot say, but this
I know—that the forces of God and the
forcer of Satan are now in combat, the
heavens as well as the earth in struggle
as to who shall win this world for
blessedness or woe, and, as the armies
of God are mightier than the armies
diabolic, we know who will triumph,
and we have a right to shout the vic
tory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The King of Kings, the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Joshua and Havelock, leads
in the conflict. I have no fear about
the tremendous issue. My only fear is
that we will not be found in the ranks
and fully armed to do our part in this
campaign of the eternities.
Again, I remark that the month of
January has seen many of the most
stupendous events in the world’s his
tory and a rocking of cradles and the
digging of graves that have affected
nations. In this month American in
dependence was declared, followed by
Lexington and Bunker Hill and Mon
mouth and Valley Forge and York
town. January saw the proclamation
that abolished American slavery.
Though at the time there were two
mighty opinions and they were exact
ly opposed—those who liked the docu
ment and those who disliked it—there
is but one opinion now, and if it were
put to vote in all the states of the
south, "Shall slavery be reinstated?”
there would be an overwhelming vote
of "No.” The pen with which the doc
ument was signed and the inkstand
that contained the ink are relics as sa
cred and valuable as the original Dec
laration of Independence, with all its
erasures and interlineations. The in
stitution which for seventy or eighty
years kept the nation in angry contro
versy has disappeared, and nothing is
left to fight about. The north and the
south today are in as complete accord
as ever wero flute and cornet in the
Rarne orchestra. The north has built
its factories on the banks of the Chat
tahoochee and the Roanoke, and the
south has sent many of Its ablest at
torneys into our northern courthouses,
its moat skillful physicians into our
sick rooms, its wisest bankers into our
exchanges, iis most consecrated minis
ters into our pulpits—all this the re
sult of the proclamation of Jan. 1,
1863.
Rev. Solomon Spaulding was for
some time in poor health, and to while
away the time he wrote a preposterous
religious romance. One Joseph Smith
somehow got hold of that book before
It was printed and published It as a
revelation of heaven, calling it the
"Book of Mormon,” and from that pub
lication came Mormonism, the monster
abomination of the earth. Rev. Solo
mon Spaulding might have been better
engaged than writing that book of
falsehoods. However much time we
have, we never have time to do wrong.
Harness January for usefulness, and it
will take the following months in its
train. Oh, how much you may do for
God between now and the 31st of next
December! The beautiful "weeping
willow" tree was introduced by Alex
ander Pope into England from a twig
which the poet found in a Turkish
basket of figs. He planted that twig,
and from it came all the weeping wil
lows of England and America; and
your smallest planting of good may
under God beeome an influence conti
nental and international.
Now that the train of months has
started, let it pass, January followed
by February, with longer days, and
March, with its fierce winds; and April
with its sudden showers; and May,
with its blossoming orchards; and
June, with its carnival of flowers; and
July, with Its harvests; and August,
with its sweltering heats; and Septem
ber, with its drifting leaves; and Oc
tober, with its frosts; and November,
with its Thanksgiving scenes; nnd De
cember. with its Christian hilarities.
March on, O battalion of the months,
in the regiments of the years and the
brigades of the centuries! March on
and join the months and years and
centuries already passed until all the
risers of time have emptied into the
ocean of eternity, but none of all the
host ought to render higher thanks to
God or take larger comfort or make
more magnificent resolve than this the
first, month of the new year.
But what fleet foot hath the months
and years! People lightly talk about
how they kill time. Alas, it dies soon
enough without killing. And the lon
ger we live the swifter It goes. Wil
liam C. Bryant said an old friend of his
declared that the going of time is like
the drumming of the partridge or muf
fled grouse in the woods, falling slow
and distinct at first and then follow
ing each other more and more rapidly
till they end at last in a •whirring
sound. But Dr. Young, speaking of
the value of time, startingly ex
claimed, "Ask deathbeds!"
REFUSE OF THE UNIVERSE.
Curious fieothuk Indian Legend About
New found laud.
Tt was a Beothuk Indian legend that
when God made the world he swept the
universe of the refuse and cast it into
the sea, and when the white men came
from the rising place of the sun they
called the heap Newfoundland and
chose it for a dwelling place.
It may be so. In Its remoter parts
Newfoundland might easily be taken
for the leavings and rejected materials
of the work of creation there cast
away.
It is as fertile as an ash heap, which,
moreover, it resembles In that it con
tains r.craps of everything which en
tered into the making of the world—
iron, copper, coal, gold and all other
treasures under the ground.
The interior Is a soggy, rock-strewn
barren, an Interminably vast waste,
where not so much as a shrub is to be
seen and no man chooses to live.
Stunted forests fringe the coast, a
skinny growth of pine and spruce
and birch, through which you may
walk milles in vain search for a .
schooner’s spar.
The shore line Is rock, In some places
swept by flood and fire, bare of all
soil—grim, naked rock. To many a
Newfoundlander a sandy beach would
be as great a wonder as a horse.
“An’ you may say what you please,”
said a woman of the northeast coast,
notwithstanding, “but Round ’Arbor’s
good enough for me. They do say,
them that’s been there, that 'tis won
derfully crowded at ’Twillingate, an’
that the smoke t’ St. Johns is some
thing barb’rous.”—Ainslee’s.
SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY.
HU Courage Helped Out by a I.ucky
Introduction.
He was a bashful man, was Trotter.
He loved Miss Budd so ardently that
he was afraid to tell her so, lest his
dream be resolved to ashes and smoke,
and yet he was certain that at tfie
critical moment she would say “Yes.”
So it went on, and Trotter kept add
ing to his stock of courage until he
had accumulated almost enough to
brave the inevitable.
About that time Trotter escorted his
ladylove to a public reception given in
honor of one of the royalties, wl\o came
to open a big bazar in the town.
They were ushered into the crowded
room, and awaited their presentation.
Finally the time came, and Trotter
whispered to the man who aid the an
nouncing:
“Miss Budd and Mr. Trotter.”
But the first half of the whisper was
lost in the noise, and to the horror of
Trotter, he and Miss Budd were pre
sented as "Mr. and Mrs. Trotter.”
For a moment he was overcome;
then his stock of courage asserted it
self, and forgetting all about the per
sonage before whom he stood; he
turned to his fair companion and
asked:
“Isn't that right?”
They never noticed royalty. They
were hurried on in the crowd. But Trot
ter didn’t care, for he heard beside him
a gentle voice answer, “Yes. "—Stray
Stories.
Five years are five centuries when
they are registered upon the face of
untoward circumstances.
Few people would be satisfied if
they got all that’s coming to them.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON III. JAN. 19; ACTS 2; 37-47
- EARLY CHURCH.
Golden Text.—-The I,or<l Added to the
Church Hally Su< h hi Should lte
Saved"—The Effects of the Gift of the
Holy Spirit. .
I. Peter's Sermon.—Vs. 14-36. In our
last lesson we left the multitude amazed
and perplexed at the wonderful power so
vividly manifested before them, while
some mockingly declared that what they
hud seen was but the frenzied ravings of
those who had taken too much wine. In
"esponse. Peter as the representative of
the apostles, and Idled with the Holy
Spirit, made an address to the gather
ing multitudes. Of course only an out
line Is given in the Acts. The Opening
Kemarks. Peter begins by taking up the
report of those who explained the strange
phenomenon by the accusation of too
much wine. He makes a kindly and rea
sonable denial. He shows that the charge
arose from ignorance of the facts, and
was Impossible under the circumstances
(vs. 14, 15>. The excitement of wine
could produce no such results as were
here manifested, and never did.
II. The Inquiry Meeting, which follow
ed the Address.—Vs. 37-40. First: The Ef
fect of the Sermon. Conviction of Sin.
37. ‘‘They were pricked,” from, Inten
sive and to prick with a sharp point.
Hence they were pricked deeply, intense
ly, with the sharp point of his discourse,
“in their hearts.” Consciences, moral
nature, as with a scorpion's sting, “as
with a two-edgeil sword.” “So. Homer,
of the puncture of a spear; of horses
dinting the eartli with their hoofs, etc.
Here, therefore, of the sharp painful
emotion, the sting produced by Peters
words. Cicero, speaking of the oratory
of Pericles, says that Ills speech left
stings in the minds of his hearers (I>
Oratore III: 34).”—Professor Vincent. “No
word could better make known that the
sting of the last word had begun to
work.”—Kno wling.
They saw that they had committed an
awful crime against God and the nation
and themselves. They were In danger of
the judgment to come. They had re
jected their best friend and Savior. They
had done despite to the Son of God.
III. Joining the Church. — V. 41. 1.
Who. 41. "They that gladly received his
word.” The R. V. omits gladly, as do
the oldest MSS. All who received the
word were baptized, but doubtless they
did it gladly, freely, joyfully. It was the
most Joyful act of their lives. Compul
sory religion is no religion, it was es
teemed a great privilege to Vie a Chris
tian. The people were enthusiastic on
the subject. "Receiving the word" im
plies that they received Jesus as their
Messiah, Lord, and teacher; they com
mitted themselves to serve him. to obey
his teachings, to live according to the
principles of his kingdom, to devote
themselves to the task of carrying out
the mission of the Christ.
2. How. "Were baptized.” not neces
sarily on the day in which they believed
nor by the apostles alone.
IV. The Church Beautiful. An Ideal
for all the Ages.—Vs. 42-47. First; Train
ing in the Christian Life. As Hugh Mil
ler shows in his book. My Schools and
Schoolmasters, the processes of his edu
cation and growth, so here we see the
way in which the young converts of the
early church were educated into a large
and full Christian life. 1. By Instruction
42. “And they continued steadfastly, ad
hering strongly to, persisting against all
adverse influences. It is steady, persist
ent work that tells. No one can be 3
good scholar who is fitful and irregular
in his attendance at school. "In the
apostles' doctrine," I. e.. tile "teaching"
of the apostles in the truths of their re
ligion. and in the words an 1 life of Je
sus, and in the practical duties of relig
ion Teaching implies something taught,
and that is doctrine. One of the best
marks of a Christian life is the desire
to learn. Conversion wakes tip the mind
as well as the conscience. They went to
school to the apostles. Tftey would be
intelligent Christians, because thus they
would (a) be better themselves, (b) lie
kept from error, (c) be fitted to spread
the gospel to others. The whole body of
Christians should attend the teaching
services of the church. The Sunday
school should Vie the Bible school for
all. The Community of Goods. 1. The
circumstances at this time at Jerusalem
were peculiar, because there were great
numbers of strangers there without
means of support, and it. was wise for
them to remain for a time. 2. "Renan
and VlteMcrer alike have recognized the
beauty of St. Luke's picture, and of the
socia' transformation which was destined
to re new the face of the earth, which
found its pattern of serving and patient
love In Jesus, the friend of the poor,
whose brotherhood opened a place ol
refuge for the oppressed, the destitute,
tiie weak, who enjoyed In the mutual
love of their fellows a foretaste of the
future kingdom of God in which God him
self will wipe all tears Jrom their eyes."
—Khowling. 3. "The daily ministration
in AC TS O. 1 Fft'IH?* IU nuun tunv uw '
distribution of property was intended;
the act of Barnabas was apparently one
of charltty rather than of communism.”
—Knowling. ‘ The case of Ananias and
Sapphira clearly shows that the whole
thing was voluntary, not required, while
in communism in the strict sense no room
in jert for individual generosity. The
fact that Barnabas Is especially com
mended for selling his field also sug
gests that such generosity was uncom
mon McGtffert. 4. The account in the
Acts plainly Impltes that the possession
of property did not cease among t.hr.s
tlans, as we learn from the story of
Ananias and Sapphira. and the fact that
••some fourteen years later (Acts 12:12)
we find Mary, the mother of John Mark,
—evidently a person of consideration and
authority In the church-possessing ft
house of her own In the city.” Mnason
would seem to have possessed a house
in Jerusalem (Acts 21:1«>; Tabltha helped
the poor from her own resources; Paul
urges the disciples to give as they are
prospered; there is no Implication that
Barnabas sold all that he had. 5. I he
principle underlying Christian commun
ism viz., that all possessing goods and
industries are to be consecrated to God
In the service of humanity, is a funda
mental Christian principle (Matt. 25: H
?,0- Luke 13:6-9), but neither experience
nor Scripture Indicates that selling all
and dividing to the poor Is the best
method calculated to serve humanity, or
even the poor. “-Abbott. Christian love
and Christian principles are to abolish
poverty and want, and spread the gos
pel over the earth, and we are to live
daily according to the brotherly princi
ple exemplified *n this early church.
IN A NUTSHELL.
Net receipts from convict labor in
Mississippi last year were about $10,
000.
Lord Brassey says the British navy
in men and ships excels any other two
navies.
Half a million baskets of peaches
have been harvested in Connecticut
this season.
Manchester, England, has more
public houses than any other city in
the kingdom.
Ur«nt RngtUli A«trMl Coming.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell is to try her ^
fortune In this city the present sea
son. She conies in January, and will
be seen in new York and a few other
cities, acting In Sudermann's ' *«ag
da” (a new version); Pinero's “The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” and "The
Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith,” an adapta
tion of Jose Echegaray's Spanish
drama, “Mariana,” Maeterlinck's
“Pelleaa and Mellisande,” and soma
lesser pieces.
A Jag Car* I.lnroln Memorial.
Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace, a
farm of 110 acres, near Hodgensville,
Ky.. is to be turned into an Inebriate
asylum. St. Luke's society of Chi
cago has bought the place and has an
option on 350 acres adjacent. Dr.
Struble, one of the directors of the
society, says it will be a memorial to
Glncoln, and the greatest temperance
project ever undertaken in this coun
try.
Odd Rrtarn of Grn.nl'i Bprc*.
General Ian Hamilton, of the British
army, is the hero of an odd spectacle
story. It appears that when a subalt
ern he lost a pair of spectacles In the
battle of Majuba Hill. They were ap
parently picked up by a Boer whom
they suited, and who kept them for
twenty years. In the early part of the
present year the spectacles were found
on the body of a dead Boer. The case
bad General Hamilton's name on it and
they were in due course returned to
their original owner.
ItAther Mixed.
Mme. Patti was horn in Madrid, her
father was a native of Catania in
Sicily, and her mother a native of
Rome. She was brought up by an
American stepfather in the United
States, married two French husbands,
before she settled down in Wales, and
is now the wife of a Swedish noble
man. To prevent any difficulty In con
sequence of this complex state of af
fairs in connection with her property
she has taken out letters of naturali
zation as a British subject.
The Santa Fe at Charlentoft.
The series of special photographs
contibuted by the Santa Fe railway to
the exhibit of the Postal Department at
the Pan-American Exposition is one of
the few which are to be transferred
with the exhibit to the Interstate and
West Indian Exposition at Charleston,
S. C.
The series is illustrative of the trans
continental mail service on the Santa
Fe between Chicago and San Francis
co. and aside from the very interesting
railroad features shows many novel
portions of I’ncle Sam's postal service
between remote mountain districts. In
dian trading posts, etc. The pony ex
press and the Indian runner, lithe and
long limbed, are still necessary to the
government in some sections of the
West.
The postal department has asked
and received permission from the San
ta Fe, to place the photographs per
manently In the Postal Museum at
Washington after the close of the
Charleston exposition.
Some churches make very successful
butial clubs.
DO YOVR CI.OTIIF.8 LOOK YKT.I.OXY?
Then use Defiance Starch. It will keep
them white—16 oz. for 10 cents.
Poverty has kept lots of people from
making laughing stocks of themselves. ^
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It is the man born with a silver
spoon in his mouth who contributes
most to the support of the dentist.
I am sure Plso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins.
Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,1900.
Conduct shows the content of char
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Women Itarelj Fall.
To take advantage of a cheap article
of household value. But wise women
want to know if the low-priced article
has merits. Defiance starch costs far
Ies.3 than any other starch and gives
far better satisfaction in the laundry.
Makes linen look like new. Order at
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Co., Omaha, Neb.
The prairie dog in some parts of the
west is as great a nuisance as the rab
bit in Australia.
Date palms, brought in from Africa,
are thriving in Arizona and southern
California.
The tallest man in a crowd always
manages to get up well in front.
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cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by
sending this amount to us in pus luge stamps
we will send vou a lube by mail. No article
should be accepted by the public unless the
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