-V -' -, "- jrw ? ' 4" p s.V-Cv11 v - nC iaETI t -.-' W ; 55pSPr ?i? ' 7 ti!, V3- fir j5Cg& ? JACOBS WELL OcUnttoo of Dr. TUmut'i on PaJeattna. a thaMdj: JaeaV Watt-Other Na- rth Im h.i8 eiffhtk Hmm m ika TT1- ? P?acbe BrooMya, Rev. T. DeWittTalmaije's subject arms "Araonr the Bemouias," and his text, Numbers x. Jl: "For as muck as thou k no west bow wo are toeacampin the wilderness." He said: Night after night we aaro slept in tent in Palestine. There are largo vil lages of Bedouins without a house, and for 3,000 years the people of those places have lived in black tents made out of dyed skins, and when the winds and stores wore out and tore loose those ceverniegs, others of the same kind took their places. Noah lived in a tent Jacob pitched his tent on the mountain. Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot pitche his tent toward Sodom. la a font the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the General, to the ground, bavin? first K iven him sour milk called "leben" as a soporific to make him soundly sleep, that being the effect of such nutrition, asmodorn travelers can testify. ,The Syrian army in a tent The ancient battle shout was: "To your tents, O Israel!" Paul was a tent maker. In deed, Isaiah, magnificently poet!c, in dicates that all the human race liveun dor a blue tent when ho says that God "Stretched out the heavens as a curtain and sprcadeth them out as a tent to dwell in," and Hezokiah compares death to the striking of a tent saying: "My age is removed from me as a shepherd's tent" In our tent in Palestine to-night I hoar something I never heard before and hope never to hear again. It is the voice of a hyena amid tho rocks near by. When you may havo seen this monster putting his mouth between tho iron bars of a monagerio, ho is a captive and ho gives a humiliated and suppressed cry. But yonder in the midnight in tho throne of rocks ho has nothing to fear and ho utters himsolf in a loud, resounding, terrific, almost supernatural sound, splitting up the darkness into a deeper midnight I am glad to say that for tho most part Palestine is freo from beasts of prey. The leopards, which Jeromiah says can not change their spots, havo all disap peared and tho lions that once were common through all this iaud and used by all tho prophets for illustrations of cruelty and wrath, havo retreated be fore tho discharges of gunpowder, of which they have an indescribable fear. But for the most part Palestine is what it originally was. With tho one excep tion of a wire thread reaching from Jop pa to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to Nazareth and from Nazareth to Tiberi as and from Tiberias to Damascus, that one nerve of civilization, tho tele graphic wiro (for wo found ourselves only a few minutes off from Brooklyn and New York whilo standing by Lako Galilee) with that ono exception, Pal estine is just as it always was. Nothing surprised mo so much as tho persistence of ovcry thing. A sheep or horso falls dead and, though tho sky may ono minuto before be clear of all wings, in five minutes after tho skies are black with eagles cawing, scream ing, plunging, fighting for room, contend ing for largost morsels of the extinct quadruped. Ah, now I understand tho forco of Christ's illustration when He said: "Wheresoever the carcass is there will tho eagles bo gathered together." The longevity of those eagles is won der fuL They live fifty or sixty and sometimes a hundred v-ars. Ab, that explains what David meant when ho says: "Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." I saw a shepherd with tho folds of his coat far bent outward and I wondered what was contained in that amplitudo of apparel, and I said to tho dragoman: 'Ybat hasthatshopherdgot under his coat?" And tho dragoman said: "It is a very young lamb ho is carrying; it is too young and too weak and too cold to keep up with tho flock." At that moment I saw tho lamb put its head out from the shepherd's bosom and I said: 'There it is now, Isaiah's de scription of tho tenderness of God 'He shall crather tho lambs with His arms and carry them in His bosom.'" Pass ing by a village home, in the Holy Land about noon, 1 saw a great crowd in and around a privato bouse, and I said to the dragoman: "David, what is going on there?" Ho said: "Somebody has re cently died thero and their neighbors go in for several days after to sit down and weep with the bereaved." There it is, I said, tho old scriptural custom: "And many of tho Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning thoir brother." Early in the morning, passing by a cemetery in the Holy Land, I saw among the graves about fifty women dressed in black, and they wero crying: "O, my child!" "O, my husband!" "O, my father!" "O, my mother!" Our dragoman told us that every morning very early for throo months after a burial the women go to the sepulchre, and after that every week very early for a year. As I saw this group just af ter daybreak I said: "There it is again, the same old custom referred to in Lake, the Evangelist where he says, "certain women which were early at tho sepulchre." But here we found ourselves at Ja cob's well, tho most famous well in history, most distinguished for two things, because it belonged to the old patriarch after whom it was namodand for the wonderful things which Christ said seated on this well curb to the Samaritan woman. We dismount from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our dragoman climbing up to the woll over the slippery stones stumbles and fright ens us all by fairly falling into it I measured the well at the top and found it s x feot from edge to edge. Some grass and weeds and thorny growths overhang it In one place the roof is broken through. Large stones embank the wall on all sides. Our dragoman took pebbles, and dropped them in, and from tho time they left his hand to the instant they clicked on the bottom you could hear it was deep, though not as deep as once, for every day travelers are applying the same test and though in the time of Maun droll the traveler, the well was 1G5 feet deep, now it is only seventy-five. It is not like other wells dug down to a fountain that fills it but a reser voir to catch the falling rams and to that Christ refers whea speakiag to the Samaritan womaa about a spiritual sup ply. He said that Ho would, if asked, have given her "living water;" that is. water from a flowing spring ia distinc tion from the water of that well which was rain water. But why did Jacob make a reservoir there when there is plenty of water all around and abuadaaoe of springs aad fountains and seeming ly ao need of that reservoir? Why did Jacob go to the vast expense of boriag aad digging a well perhap?,20a feet deep as first com pleted, when, by gong a little way off be could have water from other foaat sjms at little or ao expense. Ab! Jacob was wise. He waated bis own welt Quarrels and wars might arise with other tribes .aad the supply of water might be cat off. so' the shovels -aad . pickaxes, aad boring instruments were ;" -- ia-" '-- 4 ifissvn" v rr , . sr-7ria j?v I'Ji V - S-: isisNiisa r;m-MM,mmumm ,--j..vM?AaTOy.y - , --YJ-.ff7 Titt rT'Mrn&iVi-z3"?-'rL lXJ jm- i irinii i , -an-',7miiaaaTHTTffaTaminaBnaTOrf f-awf rJi:,saBBBaBBBBBBBBBBBanajiifjj'1 fysfff rv trtgaa ra',g,- ' " T SBm'LiSmtBumi'mBaLiSSBUBmKBaaBUU vittftoif'&MJf&ft nfiifi iniTBr m iiiTBffaa iffl- -t f ftTfraTnBnfTna mlw """""""aaasasaasaaannni "iBBMlHnM Here aad the well of nearly 4,a rsajowasuak" through the solid tack. . Waea Jacob that wisely iatlsted ea taring at ewa well he taught as aot to be aaaacaatsrily dependent on others. Iadepeadeaos of business character. Iaaeaeadenoa of moral character. In dependeace of religious character. Hava your own well of grace, your owa well of courage, your owa well of divine apply. If you aro aa invalid you have a right to badepeadeat oa others. But if God has given you good health, com mon aeaaa, and two eyes, aad two ears, two hands, aad two feet He equipped you for Independence of all the universe except Himself. If He bad moant you to be dependent on others you would have beea built with a cord around your wafet to tie fast to somebody else. No; you are built with common sense to fashion your owa opinions, with eyes to find your own way; with ears to elect your own music, with hands to fight your own batt'.es. There is only one being in the universe whose advice you need and that is God. Have your own well and the Lord will fill it Dig it it need be through two hundred feet of solid rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig it with your yardstick, or dig it with your shovel, or dig it with your Bible. In my small way I nover accomplished any thing for God or tho church, or tho world, or my family, or myself except in contradiction to human advice and in obedienco to divine counsel. God knows every thing and what is tho use of go-ng for advico to human beings who know so little that no one but the all-seeing God can realize how little it is. 1 suppose that when Jacob began to dig his well on which we are sitting this noontide, people gathered around and said: "What a useless ex pense you are going to, when rolling down from yonder Mount Gerizim and down from yonder Mount Ebal, and out yonder in the valley is plenty of water." "O," replied Jacob, "that is all true, but suppose my neighbors should get angered against me and cut off my sup ply of mountain beverage what would I do, and what would my family do, and what would my flocks and herds do? Forward, ye brigado of pickaxos and crowbars and go down into tho depths of theso rocks and make mo independ ent of all excopt Him who fills the bot tles of the clouds! I must have my own well!" Young man, drop cigars and cigar ettes, and wine cups, and the Sunday excursions and build your own house and have your own wardrobe and bo your own capitalist "Why, I have only ?500 incomo a year!" says some one. Then spend $400 of it in living and ten per cent of it or 50 in bonevolence and tho other 50 in beginning to dig your own welL Or, if you have 81,000 a year, spend $800 of it in living ton per cent, or $100 in bonevolence and tho rcma n ing $100 in boginning to dig your own welL I suppose when Jacob began to dig this well on whoso curb wo are now seated this December noon, it was adry soason then as now and some ono comes up and says: "Now, Jacob, supposo you get the well fifty foot deep or two hundred feet deep and there should be no water to fill it would you not feel silly?" People passing along tho road and looking down from Mount Gerizlro or Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say: "That is Jacob's well, a great hole in the, rock, illustrating tho man's folly." Jacob replied, "Thero never has been a woll in Palestine or any other country, that onco thorougly dug was not sooner or later nlica irom the clouds, and this will be no exception." For months after Jacob had completed the woll people went by and out of re spect for the deluded old man put their hand over their mouth to hide a snicker and tho well remained as dry as tho bottom of a kottlo that had been hang ing over the firo for threo hours. But ono day the sun was drawing water and tho wind got round to the eastand it Lo gan to drizzlo and then great drops splashed all over the well curb and tho heavens opened their reservoir and tho rainy seasons poured its flood for six weoks and their came maidens to tho well with empty pails and carried them away full and tho camels thrust thoir mouths into the troughs and wore satis fied and the water was in the well threo feet deep and fifty feet deep, and two hundred feet deep and all tho Bedouins of the neighborhood and all tho passers-by realized that Jacob was wise in having his o vn welL My hearer, it is your part to dig your own woll and it is God's part to fill it You do your part and He will do His part Much is said about "good luck," but people who aro industrious and self-denying almost always havo good lnck. You can afford to bo laughod at becauso of your application and economy, for when you get your well dug and filled it will bo your turn to laugh. But look up from this famous well and see two mountains and tho plain be tween them on which was gathered tho largest religious audience that ever as sembled on earth, about 500.000 people. Mount Gerizim, about 800 feet high, on one side, and on the other Mount Ebal, the former called tho Mount of Bless ing and tho latter called the Mount of Cursing. At Joshua's command six tribes stood on Mount Gerizim and read the blessings for keoping tho law, and six tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading tho curses for breaking the law, whilo the 500.000 people on the plain cried amen with an emphasis that must have mado the earth tremble. "I do not bolieve that" says some one, "for those mountain tops are two miles apart and how could a voice bo heard from top to top?" My answer is that while the tops aro two miler apart the bases of the mountains are only half a mile apart and the tr.bes stood on the sidos of the mountains, and tho air is so clear and the acoustic qualities of this great natural amphitheater so perfect that voices can be distinctly heard from mounta n to mountain, as has been demonstrated by travelers fifty times in fifty years. Can you imagine any thing more thrilling aad sublime and overwhelming than what transpired on those mountain sides, and in the plain between, when the. rcspons vo service went on, and thousands of voices on Mount Gerizim rr.ed: "Blessed shalt thou be ia the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the fields, blessed shall ba thy basket and thy store!" and then from Mount Ebal, thousands of voices responded, crying: "Cursed be he that removeth his neigh bor's landmark! Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way!" and then there rolled up from all spaces between the mountains that one word, with which the devout of earth close their prayers, aad the glorified of Heavea finish, their doxologies: "Amen! Amen!" that sceace only to be surpassed by the times which are coaiing, whea the churches aad the academies of music, aad the auditori ums of earth, ao loager large eaoagh to bold the worshipers of God, the parka, asoaatala aides, the great natural am phitheaters of the valleys, shall be tiled with the oataoariag popalatioas of the earth aad mouataia shall reply to mouataia. aa Moant Gerizim to Mount Ebal. and all the people between shall ascribe riche and honor, aad glory, aad domtaloa. aad"' victory to God, the Lamb, aad there shall arise aa amea Uke the heemiag of the keaveas miagliag with the theater ef tho On and oa we ride aatil mow w fca- coma to Shlloa. a dead city a a hill 1 urramaded by rocks besa, goats,-alive - a .amamm yaajmna am ftniia Vlf " .aanaBam maaaatrm . f NMamajmamBmj- nWBasnFBaansBB aaaaJBaaaBf maat natr maaaal smaa mf Br- '11s aaamnmmammamraaTasmnnBmymmmmnnmnnmmm mpsaaaaaaaammsw -.laamnmmaaaajaaf -bbbbbj a-a-a-. aamaBBaaaB-a-; i T ' " '- .V ,-i-?iS- SjnfBBaBBBBBmBBBnByBi4BB aamamaammammm swaaBamnmamm Amrmamnnnm BB Bmf4mnBBfiBBA ? 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But I turn from this Sbilob of Elf, sudden decease under bad news from his boys and find close by what it called the "Meadow of the Feast" While this ancient city was ia tho height of its prosperity on this "Meadow of the Feast" there was an annual ball, where the maidens of tho city amid clapping cymbals and a blare of trumpets danoed in a glee, upon which thousands of spectators gazed. But uo dance since the world stood ever broke up ia such a strange way as the ono tho B ble de scribes. Ono night whilo by tho light of the lamp) and torches these gayeties went on, 203 Bcnjamltes, who had been hidden behind tho rocks and among the trees, dashed upon tho scone. They camo not to injuro or destroy, but wishing to set up households of their own, tho women of their own land having been slain in battle, anil l.ir nrvnnprfnrl nmnirxmonLMch one of the 200 Benjamitesse zed the ono whom ho chose for the. queen of his home and carried her away to largo estate and beautWul residence, for theso U00 Benjti litcs bad inherited tho wealth of a nation. As to-day near Shiloh we look at the "Meadow o the Fctst" where the maidens danced that night and at tho mountain gorge up which tho Henjam ites carried thoir brides, wo bethink ourselves of the better land and the bet ter t mes in which wo live, when such scenos aro an impossibility, and amid orderly groups and with prayer and benediction, and breath of orange blos soms and tho roll of tho wedding march, marriago is solemnized, and with oath recorded in Heaven, two immortals start arm in arm on a journey to last until death do them part But wo must this afternoon, our last day boforo reaching Naza.-cth, pitch cur tent on tho most famous battlefield of all timo tho plain of Esdraclon. What must have bocn the feelings of the Prince of Peace as ho crossed it on the way frtjui Jerusalem to Nazareth! Not a flower blooms there but has in its veins tho inherited blool of flowers that drank the blood of fallen armies. Hardly a foot of tho- ground that has not at somo timo been gullied with war chariots or trampled with the hoofs of cavalry. It is a plain reaching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan. Upon it look down the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and CarmoL Through it rages at certain seasons tho river Kishon, which swept down tho armies of Sisera, the battle -occurring in November, when there is almost always a shower of meteors, so that "the stars in their course" wero said to have fought against Sisera. Through this plain drove Jehu and tho iron char iots of tho Canaanites scythed at tho hubs of tho wheels, hewing down thoir awful swaths of death, thousands in a minute. Tho Syrian armies, tho Turk ish armies, the Fgyptian armies again and again trampled it Thero thoy ca reer across it David and Joshua and Godfrey and Kichard Cwur do Lion and Baldwin and Saladin a plain not only famous for tho past but famous because the Bible says tho great decisive battle of tho world will bo fought there the battle of Armageddon. To mo tho plain was more absorbing because of tho desperato battles hero and in regions round in which the holy cross, the very two pieces of wood on which Jesus was supposed to have been crucified, was carried as a standard at tho head of tho Christian host; and that night closing my eyes in my tent on the plain of Esdraelon for thero aro somo things wo can sco better with eyes shut than open the scenos of tho an cient war camo before me. '1 he twelfth century was closing and Salidin at the head of SO, 000 mounted troops was cry ing "Ho for Jerusalem! Ho for all Palestine!" and before thorn everything went down, but not without unparalleled resistance. In ono placo ISO Christians wore surrounded by many thousands of furious Mohammedans. For ono whole day tho 130 held out against these thousands. Tonnyson's C00" when "somo one had blundered," were eclipsed by these 130 fighting for the holy cross. They took holdof the lances which had pierced them with death wounds and, pulling them out of thoir own breasts and side, hurled them back again at tho onemy. On went tho fight until all but ono Christian had fallen and he, mounted on tho last horse, wielded his battloaxo right and left till his horse fell under the plungo of the javelins and tho rider, making tho sign of tho cross toward tho sky, gave up his life on the point of a score of spears. But soon after tho last battle came. History portrays it poetry chants it painting colors it and all ages admire that last struggle to keep in possession that wooden cross on which Jesus was said to have expired. Now tho wooden cross on which tho armies of the Christians had kept their oyo began to waver, begins to descend. It falls! and the wailing ot the Christian host at its disappearance drowns tho huzzah of-tho victorious Moslems. But that standard of the cross only seemed to fall. It rides the sky to-day in triumph, t ive hundred million souls, the mightiest army of the ages, are fol lowing it and where that goes they will go, across the earth and up the mighty steeps of the heavens. In the twelfth contury it seemed to go down, but in tho nineteenth century it is tho mightiest symbol of glory and triumph, and means more than any other standard whether inscribed with eagle, or lion, or bear, or star, or crescent That which Saladin trampled on the plain ot Esdraelon I lift to-day for your marshalling. The cross! the cross! The foot of it planted in the earth it saves, tho top ot it pointing in the Heavens to which it will take you, and the outspread beam of it like outstretched arms ot iavi tat-on to all nations. Kneel at its foot Lift your eye to its victim. Swear eter nal allegiance to its power. And as that mighty symbol of pain aad triumph is kept before us. we will realise how insignificant are the little crosses we are called upon to bear, aad will more cheerfully carry them. As I fall asleep to-night on my pillow in the tent on the plain of Esdraelon reaching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan, the waters ot the r.ver Kishon soothing me as by a lullaby. I hear the gathering of the hosts for the last hat tie or all the earth. And by their rep resentatives America is here aad Eu rope is here aad Asia ia here aad Africa ia here aad ail Heavea ia here aad all hell is here, aad Anollyon on the hlaelr kMM !! a t. j . 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The Kiowtn of the revenue was therefore a little greater thaa that of the expenditure aad th-r wiuid hVe teen a falling off in the latter but for the increase la tho pensions. The aarpla rev enue were MU.SU.rti. of w.nich IX.WM waapald oat In prcuthiBBS oa U.aJs tar chased. Accnrdlnv to the warraata. the receipt of tb rosc-rfaVe Dtptrtmeat wore S4l.lQS.0ll and the expenditure !63 GJ1,.'G1. aa Increase of tetweca i0.0tfj.OJi and J.000(wi oa both I Jen. At the rloso of buslncsi June sa. . there stood charged to the Treasurer on tb books of the department the auta of I ?J&lls To vthJa were added tho rccelpta of the ymr from the revenues, aad on account ot th public, amounting In a'.l to f61.S?.3J, so that Hi j aggregate for which ha ra ac countable during the year waafl SJl.77l.tSi. OltUU he ilbured!6tO,2l7,'i.9on warrant of the department. Icavinv ML 7.U1 la his harge o:i June S. L Thero I In cluded In thrso account. horer. up w rd of 2S.003.000 on deposit with the Mate uncJcr an old law. b.iie nearly ' H tallll n and a ha.f of UfiaVjIl tble lunda. for which tho Trca-urer wan nut rrpon I tic. On tho other hand there wj on de posit with him lor vriou purposes a lsr:e mm of which the department took no ac totin'. and he had rcelr-d other euuif which had not yet bsen chanced to him. Thv true amount for which he w.i account ab.e on June 30. li, wa t;e.6M.71. aad 7i" 9l3fi3 a year lau-r, aalnt which ne held a lik-j amount of assets consisting of cold, sllvrr, paper currency and deposits with National banks. Tho nuioant of KOld in the Trasuv Increased during the yesr froniyAl,".7:9to$320,033.Uund the klUcr from $il ,100,7?J to fJiC,). 1,406. Exc uilve of atuouuts on deposit there was in tho Treasury belonging; to the Gov ernment on June3, IWf. 53-.0 1,921 and on Junu M), iSjO, t2S-j.m.e!5, tho utnount of k Id having increased about $I.o),ci01. while the silver Ucciea'oJ nearly 19.0) ,J0. lhe lia bilities tiecreascd during tho yuar from 127,931t to U 7121,719. and the reserve, being in excess of assets over liabilities, ran down from :1W,:7J ui' to SITU :6 (97. The difficulties in the way ot making- a plain sUtutnoit of the liabilities of the Treasuiy and f the public dclit nre pointed cut and the hangrs recently made In the debt Mat ment cxpl.iinoJ. Tho toUl obll cntloni of the Treasury nail accounts were H,ttlO.G79,7 on June 60. 1WJ. and S1.72J 2IU63 m June 30. 1-iH The dbt lets cash in tho Treasury was fl,oy, Sl.tiOl on the former debt and vianiWH.ii ,04 on the latter. Not counting tho ccrtiflcites of deptHlt. the prop r vbt, in th- shape of bonds and clr culatin notes wj rcduc d from fl,2j,HJ, 13$ to SI,11,'.0.,J6& This wa tffectd at a total cost of ll.'t.95,?i3 fr print ipal and premiums. Nearly i'tflm 00 of 4 per cent. bonds w rj purchased. Important changes took p aco In the dr ew atlng medium, but hey were ot a mora lkvorable character than those of the year before. There was a gain or J15.oo.00O Id gold, an Increase of Si3,000,0'0 In that of sit v r. and a contraction of $2ti.oo.too in the volume of bank note, resulting lu a net In crease f Stt.OM.OOO In the aggregate supply of m noy. In view cf th prominence which the money circulations and the relations of the Treasury thereto have assumed In public discussion tho Treasurer thinks tho time opportune for presenting nformatlnn of a kind to throw light on the subjo t Accord ingly h explains w.tli cure tho effect which tho operutions of tun Treasury have upon the circuiting medium, how tho stock in the country le ascertained, and how the amounts of tho sever il kinds of currency In the hands or control of tho people aic arrived at, 'Ho gives voluminous tablex, extending over tun last thirteen yea-s. which show the Issues, ruilemptlons and amounts ot the standing ot each kind of United St ito cur rency hy denominations, the total volume of each dcnomlnatlo-i iutstnnillng t the end of each ear; tho amounts In the Treas ury arid circulation ut the en I of each month; tho estimated stock of g Id snd sil ver In the country ut thu end of each year to 1885, and at the cud ot each quarter there after, and Unally tho amount of em h and all held In tho Treasury or estimated to be In circulation nt thu sam-s period. Not much change hm tnfecn place In tho mi.vemjnt of the United States note There was ad cllnoof activity In tho lsue and redemption of gold certificate, with a not Increase of only 13.SD.00i in the amount standing. The handlings wero most.v of the taige denominations, which arj used In the collect on of customs and tho settle ment of clearing house balances in New York. The absorption of legal tender sliver into the circulation. In the form of the cer tificate of deposit, has been fully up to the means of the Treasury for supplying it. On Juno 30 there were nearly $,000,ot of uncurrcnt go'd and silver toin lu the Treasury, besides W. 1 00.000 at San Francisco wlilc hate much worn. Tin: appropriation -f 920,000 for the year will serve for the re col nag- cf only about UCO.OO) of silver. Counterfeit notes r presenting an sggte g to value of$4,l79 were presented at thi office, an increase of II voo v r tho year be fore. There were rcj-ttcd JJ.816 apurion silver coins, of which the greater part were dollars. There was a decrease of less than $1,00008 in the bonds held on deposit to secure National bank ciicnlatlrn. Scvcnty-tbree banks wero dlsconllniird as depositories and eight new ones were designated. nmc important changes occmr.d in the Pacific ra lroad sinking I unci and the In-' dian trust fund. Iho redemption of bank notes nmounted to nca Ir (70.0C0.010. a de crease of upwards of $1,0X),0C0 as compared with the year befer. Owing chiefly to tie lower prices ruling for bonds, tha deposits for the ret ir -ment of National bank notes amoaatedtoonlySll.oooOO) Ity the act of July II, 18 , these depnvit. to. ether with the balance of them remaining in the Trcasur er's hands, were required to be covered into the Treasury unit a like amount of out staniting lank notes to be reported each month as debt of ths United States bearing no interest The work of receiving the -deposits and redeeming the notes out of them has been dons heretofore with out accountability to the department The total amount of money received la th'-ac ieposit. tit July 21 last, was nearly $479,000,000 of which Jiai.ooo 0 were pa d ont In r dt-mption of notes and upwards of $20,000,000 was refunded or transferred Th balancs on band, amounting to T54.SN8 475, was d posited in the Treasury by the J re.es urr' check. Toe Treasurer Migrcsts tbst aa he is a bonded ofliccholJer he should be a lowed to scle-t his own force of cle k, without the restriction ot the civil serric. law, whi ethat law might govern a regards dismissals. Express Kobbect, Tipton, Ind., Nov. 19. The United States Express Company was robbed of a money package containing; 91, COO at an early hour. Elmer Meeker, the agent, received the package from the messenger of the north bound train at 12:33 a. m., and was leaving bis office when he was attacked by a masked man. Meokcr was knocked senseless, his keys to the safe taken and the money package secured. Meeker re gained consciousness before the robber departed aad opened fire on him with out effect. The thief returned the fire, seriously injuring the agent's right hand. There is no clew to the robber. Famaal Dead ha at HarmyaraL. Fostobja, Ct. Nov. ia At aa early hour as'a man named Trumbo, living in the extreme north end of town, went to h s barn yard he found a well-dressed man lying on the ground with a bullet in his brain. .Tan murdered man waa evideatly about 45 years of age, with heavy black mustache, black hair, slightly spriakled with gray: on one arm waa tattooed a womaa picture aad oa tho ether tho ialtials "W. L. C" Ha looks aa thongh he was aa iroa worker. la his pocket was foaadapieca ot pa per with, the address of A. Jamkima. Goodlaad. Newtoa Coamty." Et Paso. Tex-, Nov. m-Five Mexi- cana have been broaght. to thtaeitv ! with, murderiag an American e.,u" gcio, a small tewa oa tna Maxicanaide. Immediately after wnaf the deed the murderers crossed of to tB to Camp Rico, where ?7 3ew -T Coaatahla Grisio- ZZ? wl ? mV- T . . - " - "" . awanwej imaiaAa t ar m -- ww Miormem a aaauMTnumiakc ant tarn masaasaaa aaaanmaa nimimiiaa ttrii u . witia. j mr ,t rhar tw- . aisiawaalrg - -.-r . -,.- aV. --- MSnnar. ift! - 'KIVWWV!' .teWMMge -r i ?' . : NO USI VOTINC. Caste fct Ft st t?a ttta Threw aa ale et law Day. At a local electiea in a tewa la Loam- I waa ia a granary whan aa d aa- fro came la to la his ticket. There wnaoaly oaa ia the field, but he got out his pencil and looked it ever aad said: 1 reckon dat first man oa Leah is Man Wbeeleek. Ha called me Bigger 'totaerday an 111 scratch he off." He ram his pencil through the name and went on: "Can't make out dat second name, but I reckon its Mir Tobias, whose alias raaaiag far office. Trowed a club at ma oace, aa I caa't vote far him." There were twelve names oa the ticket, and though he couldn't read he followed the list dowa ono by oae sad scratched out each name ia succession, alleging some excuse in each case. When there were no more" to scratch ho scratched bis head instead and said: Why, dey is all dun gone off de tick et, an' so dey afn'Vno use to put it in and squabble around." Detroit Free Press. No Nosmsm Ahoat His. Mr. Suter l'e come to ask you for your daughter's band. sr. Old Mr. Dadkins Ilavc you obtained her consent? Mr. Sutcr No, sir: sho says she won't marry mo. But I want you to ex ert your parental authority, and make her. 1'uck. Have you suffered long by reason of Ma laria; tried everythiug, and finally come to tho conclusion that "all mcu aro liars V Send ouo dollar to Ir. A. T. Shalle-ihergcr, Rochester, Pa., and got a bottlu ot his Anti dote for Malaria. If not cured in a week, say so, and the money will be immediately returned to you. bl'Uat:: v.rr.ipers aro in high favor with cigariuukcrs, but the most sultablo rapj-cr for the immature smoker of cigarette is tho mother's feliiKr. liustou Transcript. Focl poisons that accumulate im the blood mnd rot the machinery of tho sys tern, are eradicated aad expelled by using Prickly Ash Bitters, a medicine that will not irritate the stomach or bowels. It acts in a gentle manner on these delicate organs, and restores health in every case. The young man who was said to havo run rapidly through his property" must have had a red shirt with a black bull bo hind him. Lawrence American. The saving in clothing wbero Dobbins' Electric Soap it used, is Utnty umt the soap bill. It is no new experiment, but has been sold for J4 year. To-day Just as puro as in 18CS. Try it. Your grocer has it or wiU order it Tue weight that has been tmugingon tho front gato ail summer will now bo trans ferred to the sola lu the parlor. jlurylaud Gazette. Tnoi'SASns of mothers bless the name of Dr. John Hull for inventing his celebrated Dr. Hull's Worm Destroyers. Children tcaso for them and they never fail to do good. Wiies you sink into a reverie you aro merely buried In thought. Pittsburgh Dis patcli. Bao5CRrris is cured by frequent small dosea ot Piso's Cure for Consumption. THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS C1TT. Nov. IL CATTLK Shipping steer 3 31 4 OS 1 25 2 4bl HI ",i Ml 411 tills 240 2 15 9 5) 21 1 20 11 Butchers' steers... Natlvecow HOGS Good to choice heavy WHKAT-Ko. 2 red No. 2 hard HAOb UAItr IlO. HI aV'JO k'LUUU Patents, per sack... fancy IIAT-Baled HUTTRK Choice creamery.. CUKESK Full cream aUUS Choice. UAUUN Hams. Shoulder..... alQfiJv 09 20) St 111 I 62 m 7J 6H 11 V w 2 31 w i in a 7 51 w IS f w lu at s m 7 st B 6tl 7 4 75 . Il 70 ft 15 75 S) 61 4SVft 7J 10 7S toe 3 70 ft 2) J sets ftoi 42 C61S 28 e) 4 75 40) ft n tot it 2.' 12 0 rOTATOUS. 61 8T. LOUIS, CATTLK Shipping steer.... 100 t Butchers' steers... Km (JOGS Packing. 16) a 8HKEP Fair to choice 4 0) O "LOUtt Choice. BSi w WHKAT No. J red 6sS CORN No. 2 50i OATS-No.2 45 UYK No. 2 'W HCTTKll-Creamery . VMWL 20 10 70 CHICAGO. CATTLK Shipping steers.... HOGS Packing and snipping sHEEP Fair to choice FLOUK Winter wheat. WHEAT No. 4 red 4 0) tli 4 0J It) 90 S) 41 6-J IS COKN Ne. 2 oats-No. 2 iiUTTKU Cramry PwamanV' . .. . ..... m ...... ... 8S7(k NEW TOttK. CATTLE Common to prima a 5i e HOGS Good to choice 4 2) FLOUR Good to choice 4 4 a WHEAT No. 2 red fl CORN No. 2 tr, OATS Western mixed. 49 ' HUTTKE Creamery l a tURm........ 11 ot a We'll write it down till everybody sees it Till everybody is sick of seeing it Till everybody knows it without seeing it that Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem edy cures the worst cases of chronic catarrh in the head, catarrhal headache, and " cold in the head." In perfect faith,, its makers, the World's Dispensary Med ical Association of Buffalo, N. YM offers to pay $500 to any one suffering from chronic catarrh in the head whom they cannot cure. Now if the conditions were reversed if they asked you to pay 550O lor a positive cure you might hesitate. Here arc reputable men, with years of honorable dealing; thousands of dollars and a great name back of them and they say MWe can cure you because we've cured thousands like you if we can't well pay you $500 for the knowledge can't cure." They believe in themselves. 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Tbcr first make you sick sad then karoyoa run- BtipatetL Carter's Little Urcr ItllsrCiruUu: the bowels and make j oa welL Diee,er pUL l i i i i BTKOCOC II 1 that whea thd moon rre hi last quarter, bo get fuUV-Boston Her ald, ' The Companion Calendar For I 7hihbH hta.-vlay for Hr.Ith. TuoUy tor Wuhh. WcdncMiay 4he IWml Day of AS. Tburvlky for Loims, Friiy (ar Crottci, Saturday No Luck t AX SunJay the Day that U lUnt With llravcaly I'rut aai Kt. m if W nva 9fJft mT" J fwf) J This Beautiful and luline Calendar aal AnnnttnmtM-M ctlM "Tim Hook ur Hay." It ha I'ourtrrn I'sirr finljr prihttd la CcJr, iW dta hig cta-trd from nrzrtr Tno ThiMtand rrrrltnl tmU- 1'tlic Co j-ii!Ua It l nHnl4tnt the moat noTrl sol attractlTr CairoUar of tltc Tr. Slalr4 ua rrrt-latl t Ira . Offer to New Subscribers. This Calendar will he seat le rark ,rr ftahM-rihrr h Wll.l. TtrT OI'T aa4 scad as tal a4rnlaaNrni. wtik ai.74 far a ear's aarrlastea. Tae Yeaiu's Casapnalou lll he Mnlleal freaa the llaar thai ihr aarrtsU la rrcrir4 JuMunrv. l.S'Jl. FUEK. aa4.rr a tall ,rar ttmm ibal 4mf. .Vti othrr itftll fxir ffirtt to lurgt a raritiy cf rntrrt.tining muiinf at tnyrit. Ooubla Holiday Numbers-lllustratsa Waehty ImmIswsbW. The Youth's Companion. Boston. mm. 3 Srrul Ch'.t, Vf-rjTY Onier or Ktyittrrfl Ulttr VJMMJMMtfMr Neflie Dales & namamsf 'SJ'mTnBnBmanmsf K afnmmV maanV smaamTr h m nffananBnananaanV jnl ik f f iwjBm w. Inmaw.mVT I r mnnVmaa' .. A :'ManmlS 1 J i"tWfBm tsSLmananansBaKadll sTamtimnnsst 1 x?fE5WJaanaPaiS 'IWnmaP 1 IVe send it free a 3 CURTIS 3!l!l?i?l?l?S4?iFI?t?i?l?il wr WATERPROOF COLLAR CUFF THAT MEEOB NO LAUNDCttlHC. CAB TO I THE MAWK j ! THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. Hedieine. 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