BaddhisB in Bossla.
J According to Russian law no subject
Site Czar, whether born in or con
certed to the Russian Establishad
Chaich. that is, the Greek Eastern
-Church, can abandon his religion under
any cfccujnstauces whatever. And there
is nofitinishmcnt severe enough for the
traitor to his religion. Neither gibbet
nor bullet nor a Siberian mine is
dcamedBoughfor such a criminal. He
must eltiMt return to his religion or die
in an underground cell in some re
ligions -prSoiuri, Under such conditions
Hussia'cesftainly would seem to be not a
f avorable'soil for free religious thought
Yet no other country shows to-day such
a powerful religious fermentation as
Russia. The upper classes arc fast
abandoning the Established Church for
deism, atheism, spiritualism. Free
Masonry, posith-ismand Protestantism,
and among the lower classes the ltaskol
or Russian Protestantism is assuming
multifarious forms, from the purest
rationalism to the crudest superstition.
By virtue of her geographical situa
tion, Russia lies in the center of all the
cardinal religions of the world. On tho
west she faces the Roman Catholics
and the Protestants on the south tho
Mohammedans and on the cast the
B-uddhitts. the llrahmanfcts and the
Confucians. At home she has a great
majori'.v of Circek Catholics, S.OW.COO
Roman Catholics, :5.00',(XX) Hebrews
and as many Protestants, besides sev
eral million pagans. Since steam and
tin printing press hae irreparably de
stroyed the barriers between the na
tions of the world, a momentous ques
tion has presented itself- 'A hich re
ligion will be the religion of the world?'1
To-day, in the immense domains of the
Car, "a powerful religious struggle is
Hinr on, 'f which no other country
Eas Tiny idea, and it is here in Russia
that th'" principal and linal battles will
.be fought that shall forever settle the
question :c to where humanity shall
look for mora? guidance.
What curious things would happen
here if religious freedom should be pro
claimed in Kuss:n. Now, tnere are
millions and millions of Russians who
nu.wi.wi nuu
hold a double belief, one for the Czar s J
sake and on 10 suit their own con
science. But with freedom of religions
many who are u w officially orthodp
would at once turn Roman Catholics,
or Protestants, or Raskolmiks. or Mo
hammedans, or positivists. or atheists,
or spiritualists, or Buddhists, or the
followers of Brahma-Somaj.
The propagation of Buddhism in
Russia is of rather recent origin, and it
H sra,U,, !o,:,c ,,h,ra,c,1 a?d
WCIl-lU-iH1 i i;i-ol-- jai;iii-iui,. i nv;
long seen Russians entertaining in
secret all sorts of beliefs and unbeliefs,
but it is only a few days since I first
made the 'acquaintance of Russian
Buddhists.
'1 am only a novice in Buddhism,"
an aged Russian holding the office of
Justice of the Peace said to mo," and
hardly con-ider myself as being fully
initiated into the principles of my new
religion. Yet 1 feel that Buddhism has
a stronger hold upon me than hris
tianity ever had. While I wa a Chris
tian 1 had to believe in many things
against which my mind revolted, and
so 1 knew no p"acc in my conscience.
Buddhism brings that peace and har
mony for which every human .-oul
longs."
'Do you bel'eve that Buddhism can
be inoculated in Kuropeans?"' I asked.
"1 do, indeed." he answered. "There
is a notion that religions are formed
according to the characteristics of race
or nationality. It is wrong. Chris
tianity was "of Eastern and Jewish
origin, and yet it holds all the European
nations ( onsider that truth, eternal
truth, can be but one. There is only
one system of mathematics in all the
world, one sciem c of astronomy, one
exposition of plnsics and physiology,
and so on. Now. if religion embraces
truth, it can be only one for all the
world. I am sure that to-day mote than
three-quarters of mankind hold to this
or that religion only through mere
habit, cultivated iroin childhood. Do
not force upon our children any things
but pure moral principles, and you w 11
see that all men. whether, in Europe,
or Asia, or Afi -a. or America, will
have the sune lehgion, which will bo
the true one."
"And that religio'i will be "
"Buddhism in subtance."
J5"Are mere man v Buddhistsiu Russia?'
'Well, cter ay theie were were
hundred of them, and to-day there arc
perhaps thousand-:. But who will and
who can count them? Buddhism is
spreading also in d'ermany, England,
and. 1 believe, in the I n ted States.
But leaving out the luddhists of Eu
rope and America, Buddhism is already
the prevailing religion of the world,
counting at U a-t a hundred million
souls more than all the Christian de
nominations taken together, yet it nev
er has In eii spread by force, like Mo
hammedanism or Chri-tianity. Chris
tians will find in Buddhi-m the com
mandments ami moral : reocpt famil
iar to them, but they will learn also
that litiddhNts regard knowledge as a
virtue ind'spensable for thoe who long
for Nirvana or parad sc. To believe is
not enough for Buddhists, it is ncces
s-r
ary to practice a sweeping chanty of
which Christians have, no idea, and to '
cleave with ti.e thunderbolt of science i
the moui.ta ti oc giio-anee," in order to
reach the state of bliss." j
I learned from other p rxins that the .
BuihUiisin that is spreading among the
Russians is of a purified form, a " u- i
ropeanized Buddhism." :is they style it '
here. For instance, they do not intend
to part with music son-'-, and the the- !
atcr. and they fi id t unpractical in our
age lo abstain from taking gold and sil-
ver, although BiKldha omits all of theso
among forbidden thins.
ihequ stion ot a cnivcrsal rolig'on
is w..rmiy di-cu-sc.i hero at private tea
partie-. an I the siat'stcs aie conned
over which ho that in the world there
are tXK,U Hi .lews. :t7. 'k.,ii-- Chris
tians, 100.0 o,0 .i Mohammedans, l:Ki,
OOO.tXX) Hindus or Brahmanists. -180.-
100,000
Buddhists,
a'iont -'K t.000,000
Pasran
and a lew
in sitiviois. smrit:
ualists. Free .Masons, and atheists. when she was put on exhibition by Bar
St. Pctcrjtlturj C-jr. X. V. Sim. i mini, and it was only within a few
How Ben Hardin Fooled a Literary So
cictv.
"Ben Hardin was a brilliant fellow, development, you know, and I niay yet
and he had a strong -ense of humor, catch up with the rest of you. The
When he was elected to Congress in nia ority of the dwarfs exhibited are
1815 he had already served several really children, phenomena1! small,
terms hi the Kentucky I egi-lature. and m,t by no means the adult midgets
was noted throughout the Sta'e as a tnat tne rc represented to be, and
lawcr. H -taried, however, for consequently they grow out of the pro
Washington dressed in the rough cloth- fess'on. That h:is" been the case with
iug of a frontier .vtat. and he wore the many a 'freak,' as the showmen call
slouch hat and the long buff
overcoat
of the Wc-i. A- he was
passing
through lrgima tuoouug smart-look
ing fellows overt jo'v h in and tell into
conversation with hun. Hardin saw at
their first words that they took h m lor
a greenhorn, and h put on such man-
ners and accent as to confirm their il
lusion. Ihe meet ng took place within
a few miles of the town where they
were to stop for the night. In the
course ot tne comeisauon ;ne ounsr
Moods told him there wa to !e a" liter-
ary society meeting trnt n'ght, anil
that if he "would attend he might hear
omc fine speaking, and at this point
Xn nf tlmm. slv'v winking to the other,
said: "And perhaps, stranger, you will
join the debate yourself?"
"1 don't know," replied Hardm. "I
have spoke some in old Kaintucky.
What inoug.it your question be.-
not new lo uuii. it
wis one of the leading ones of the day .
ru n..os(w.nAv;i
o nolitical isue upon wnicu uc ws
thoroucrhlv posted. As old lien Har-
liu heard it. however, he shooK nisueaa
-,K,.,-n. liovs. vou win aev lO B-cuw
Me on thet. 1 ain't up.on thet subject.
.Now, if it was whether pursuit was oei-
tetthan possession, or some- ef oar aid
subjects, I allow I'd tackle ye. Bnt
about this yere politics I don't know."
After 'much" persuasion, however, ho
promised the young men:that he would
attend and lie would say suthin any
how.!! -hThe party separated at ihe.ho
tel, and the young fellows ;went oft
laughiag at the fun thevst&Jcted to
have tluft-might. -TheytWtbek'friendsr-aud
ia.a '"short time" "the, whole town
knew.sf the green Kentuckiau's arri
val, and when the literary society
opened every scat was tilled. The ex
ercises went off quietly until the debate
commenced, when every one looked at
Hardin. He sat quietly until the
close. The two young fellows made
their speeches, and very fai-ones, too.
As the second one closed and Mr. Har
din arose, each one in the at.dience
nudged his neighbor, and every faco
was ready to smile. Their expressions
changed, however, as old Den took up
the subject and treated it most elo
quently. He tore to pieces the speeches of
the young fellows who hail tried to p.ay
the trick on him, and as he was linish
ing the two were so bored that they uot
upand left. He referred to them as
thejr went and closed a'tc- an clo ,uent
peroration by tell-ng the society that ho
was a Kentucky member of Congress
on his way to Washington. At this tho
society gathered round him and wanted
to shake his hand. He chatted with
them for a while, and the remainder of
his visit was an ovation. The whole
town came out to the hotel the next
da' to see him off, and the smart oung
fellows were the laughing-stock of alk
Cleveland Leader.
How lo Make lee Cream.
The secret of making good iee cre.m
of any grade, lies in the freezing. Tho
old way of freezing cream, whichls still
in use among small confectioners, con
sisted of occasionally stirring the cream
while it was freezing in a tin can, set
in a tub of ice and salt. A more easy
and expeditious method is within the
reach of the average housekeeper in
these davs of uatent l'reeers. 'Ihe
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. I'" " - - " .' -t,""". 7C
huinui l;ilt;iiL-, j. t., niu iiii.mii jm. ..
i
cream oy a woouen ueaier. wnica ru
volves inside the can by the Mime mo
tion that slightly change the position
of tho can in the outer tub of ice and
salt. This freezing mixture hould bo
composed of three parts of crushed iee
to one of coarso salt, of which care
should be taken that it does not reach
1 T -.
hi'rh enough around the sides of the can
" ..! i .. ;i
I ' 'Bd I.' 'So
outer tub bv the melting of the freezing
mixture need not be drawn oft whilo
the cream is being frozen unless
it is likely to get into the can. because
the water is intenscl) cold. If it is de
sired to pack the cream after it is fro
zen, the water may be drawn off and
enough more iee and salt placed around
the can to reach nearly to the top. L e
cream packed in this way can be kept
over night, or longer, if the freezing
mixture is properly renewed. When
ice cream is molded" or packed in the
molds of fancy shapes all the openings
should be closed with butter, or oiled
rap-cr fixed about the apertures of the
mold with paste or gum tragacanth.
Ice creams of themost ordinary sort
arc made with milk th'ekened with ar
rowroot or corn starch, in the propor
tion of a tablespoonful to a quart, dis
solved in cold water, and then boiled
in milk, which is cooled, sweetened
and flavored before it is fro.en. Tho
-ort of ice cream usually made at
home is composed of milk, with a
small proportion of cream, with eggs
and sugar added to it; for instance,
dissolve half a pmnd of sugar in a
quart of milk: place it over the lire
and let it heat to ooiling point: mean
time b-at three eggs to cream, pour
the boiling mil's: into them and then
return to the tire and stir until it
begins to thicken- then at once; remove
it from the lire; stir unt'l it is smooth;
then llavor it, cool it, and when it is
cool freeze it according to d'reetions
given. Frozen custard is mado in ihe
same way, only live eggs at least are
added to'a quart of milk.
French ice cream, thick and yellow,
is made by boiling a quart of cream
with a long vanilla bean, and then
cooling and straining it; then the
yokes of two eggs are beaten smooth
with three-quarters of a pound of
sugar: the flavored cream is then
mixed with the eggs and stirred over
the lire until it begins to thicken; di
rectly the cream begins to tlreken,
take it from the fire, and stir it for
live minutes, then cool it and freeze it,
Juliet C-raon.
The Diminutive Widow,
The little Widow Thumb is casuallv
a resident of New York and a welcome
visitor in a considerable number of
rather wealthy and fashion a le fam
ilies. She is now a lad. so mature and
dignified, notwithstanding her dimin
utive si e, that nobody in the way of
social intercom sc dares, or is much in
clined, to treat her as a human trifle.
To see her in the midst of a round of
calls is lo get the impression, at first
sight, that vour eves have somehow bc-
comj teles joji'c inversely, so exactlv is
s,lu a miniature ot the conventional
dames of ceremonious society. .She
dresses for an afternoon of formal visit
ing in a toilet of semi-mourning, suita
ble in style for a quiet woman of forty
live which age she acknowledges
and orders from a livorj' stable one of
those coupes that, as to liveried driver
and general appearance, are scareetv
distinguishable, from private e piipages.
Provided with a v.siting hst,
I 1 M " ,.
j.uu uasuy commanding an air
of well-bred balance, she lacks only in
, stature to be the ideal of a middle-aged
i millionair's wife, t f con se, she 'attract-
staring attenti n whenever she
al glits; but her manner of silent re
proof is usually elective as a cure for
impuden -e, anil she i- able tog .about
with far less annoyance than might be
supposed. She fs about three feet and
a half m height, or a f o t more than
I years that she skipped growing, "it
) would not surprise me." she lately sa'd,
"if 1 should take to growing again at
any time. My case is one of retarded
them."
The pertinence of the fair, fat and
forty-inch widow as a tpic here is the
fact that she has a suitor for her hand.
The account current in her circle of ac-
quaintance sa sthat Mr. John Spencer
Coyne, a mine operator, who canie east-
ward a year ago with a comfortable for
tune, began to scrioiisly woo her soon
after making her acquaintance in this
city. He is a handsome man of no
more .nan forty, with cultured taste.
Kood morals.
and about a hundred
pounds, his stature being limited to an
inch or so more than five feet. That he
deeply in love with Mrs. Thumb is
not doubted by any of her mutual
friends, but he does not seem to have
made much progress toward capturing
the estimable dwarf. It is said to be
her firm intention not to marrv aain.
N. T. Cor. Albany Herald.
There is some lorafort for a child
nuusnauunsamu-a piece, as one
child or another is in the habit of doing
almost daily; an eminent French phy
sician says that copper absorbed into
the system is a sure preventive si
c&olsra. Button Transcript.
A Stanp Frasi.
Stamp collectors in all parts of Europe
are just now considerably excited over
the very recent discovery that a couple
of rogues have been swindling them
most outrageously. It appears that
Afghanistan stamps are dear to the
hearts of all collectors. The first stamp
ever issued in that country appeared im
1870-71 (Mohammedan date 1288;, dur
ing the reign of Shere AIL It is a
large cjrcular stamp with the head ol a
tiger in the center and the value written
in characters above this head. Other
issues appeared in subsequent years, but
all such stamps arc extremely scarce,
and therefore valuable.
The brilliaut idea of personally profit-
. ing from these facts occurred to one
1 Hafez Hamed, who arrived in Paris
! some short time ago and proceeded to
J the old stamp-exchange in the Avenue
, Gabriel, Champs Elysces, where ho in
. formed buyers that the cx-Postmaster-'
General of Cabul had arrived in Mar
seilles, but that in one of his trunks,
still retained at a port in the Persian
Gulf, were stamps of tho early issues,
particularly those issued in 1293, and
valued at from one hundred and twenty
five to one thousand francs. Hafez said
he had written to the ex-Postmaster-Gen
oral to telegraph to the port and
have his trunks forwarded without de
lay, and that immediately on their ar
rival he would be in a position to fur
nish collectors with some rare stamps.
Just nine days later a letter reached
Hafez stating'that tho luggago had ar
rived, and very soon afterward the
Afghan stamps were in the market.
Of course they were bogus, which
fact was soon discovered, thanks to the
shrewdness of an English gentleman re
siding in Paris, who, knowing that it
was impossible for a vessel to come
from the Persian Gulf to Marseilles in
nine days, made a close study of one of
the stamps. He got Hafez to write" for
him the address of the Postmaster-General
of Cabul, and this address was
made in characters that neither Dgc
mel ed Din, "the learned Afghan," nor
any Arab, Egyptian "or other Oriental
in this city could read. They all said
that not a' single postmaster in Afghan
istan would be able to do so cither.
Moreover, some of the stamps were ob
literated in red ink, and the postmark
was almost as visible on the back as it
was on the front of the envelope. Now,
as a matter of fact, postage stamps in
Afghanistan are not sold to the public
as in Europe; it is the invariable rule
for the natives to lake their letters to
the oilice and money with them to pay
the postage; the stamp seller takes both
letter and money, and having first torn
off a piece of the stamp, sticks it on the
envelope and the operation is ended.
This method, known to the Paris col
lectors, was overlooked by Hafez Hamed
and his accomplices, hence the forgery
was soon discovered and Hafez had to
seek refuge in flight.
It is astonishing what a number of
stamp collectors there are in the world.
It is a passion which did not come into
fashion until 1861, but since that year it
has spread everywhere. Twenty years
ago the divers stamps to bo obtained
did not exceed livo hundred. Nowa
days some albums contain at least
three thousand. In tho Berlin museum
there are four thousand five hundred
specimens, so it is said, of which two
thousand four hundred and sixty are Eu
ropean and one thousand one hundred
and forty-seven American. The rarest
English stamps among those actually
issued are Ihe black penny with the ob
literating mark in red ink, and the
Costal envelopes with pictorial borders,
lack for thejpenny and blue for the two
penny ones.
When Marshal MacMahon was Presi
dent of France his wife was very anx
ious to see his image set in stamps,
and some such designs were pre
pared, but the postal commission re
jected them, and adopted the
present design. There are collectors who
believe that some of these MacMahon
stamps got into circulation; hence they
arc supposed to be withou tprice, as valu
able, in fact, as one or two "Victoria and
Albert" penny stamps, which some
people also confidently believe were not
destroyed, although never officially
issued.
There exists in Paris a regular market
or exchange for old stamps. As most
people perhaps know, it is held every
Sunday afternoon in the Avenue Ga
briel, and is attended by two hundred
or three hundred persons of all ages
and social standings. Among the num
ber can be regularly seen such famous
collectors as Dr. Legrande, M. Camp
bell, M. de Ferraci, son of the Duchess
of Galliera, the Baron Arthur do
Rothschild, Mr. T. Tapling. M. Castle
and M. Marco del Point.
A journal devoted exclusively to the
interest of stamp collectors makes its
appearance in this city once every
month, and I here are others printed in
Berlin and Vienna, One of the mem
bers of the Paris exchange, an English
gentleman, has a collection of two
thousand five hundred postal cards,
which is valued at upwards of fifty thous
and francs. There are collections
at Paris which cost their owners thous
ands of pounds, and which include
stamps valued at one thousand five
hundred francs. One amateur is now
on his way to Europe from Australia
who is said to have the best private col
lection in existence. Paris Jfetvs.
This iu Ken- England
For the credit of New England it is to
be hoped that Rhode Island Taw does not
often lend itself to the perpetration of
such cold-blooded, inhuman cruelty as,
according to the Providence Journal,
hastened the death of Peter McGrail.
Peter, the Journal tells us, was sued for
two debts. The larger one he declared
he did not owe either legally or morally,
and there was(no proof in any case that
he had been guilty of intentional fraud
toward his alleged creditor. But judg
ments were obtained against him. A
justice of the peace refused to let him
take the poor debtor's oath. Rhode
Island law, it seems, permits creditors
to lock up men in state prison indefi
nitely under these circumstances, pro
vided they pay their board. Peter's
creditors availed themselves of their
privilege. He was locked up last sum
mer. He was then well along in con
sumption. The prison officers Knew it;
other people knew it; if the creditors did
not know it. it was because they did not
care to inform themselves. The air of
a cell does not agree with the lungs of
consumptivesPeter grew steadily worse.
But he was long a-dying, and this spring
the General Assembly, his case being
brought to its notice, "passed a special
act directing that he should be allowed
to take the poor debtor's oath and go
free. The humane interference came
too late. Peter died the other day in
the prison hospital. "His suffering,"
remarks the Journal, "did not coin nis
blood into cash, and the only satisfac
tion his creditors could have had must
have been in weighing his dying strug
gles against the amount of their judg
ments." To readers who are not
Rhode Islanders it would seem that a
law under which such cruelty not only
can be perpetrated but has been perpe
trated should be modified in the interest
of common humanity to say nothing
of Christian and Yankee civilization.
But it might be well, before offering ad
vice as to the removal of the mote from
our neighbor's eye, to make quite sure
that there is no beam calling for surgery
in our own. Hartford Courant.
All people," 3ays an exchange,
have not learned the art of leaving a
room in an appropriate manner." Thf
trouble, we think, ariseS from the cus
tom so common anong fathers of wear
ing heavy shoe-', Boston Put.
OF GENERA r, INTEREST.
An Indian frtar, about ei?ht
inches in diameter and live inches deep,
has been taken from the top of a larm
bowlder, just north of Mansfield. Conn..
Thomas Murray dropped his cb'ar
while smoking in his bed-room in N"ew
York. It fell on a powder liask. and
the explosion blew his right hand off.
A spring of blood-red water, smell
ing like creosote and having a very pun
gent taste, has been discovered in a
mine near Virginia, Nev. Denver Trio
tine. Woodstock, Ulster Couuty, N. Y.,
has a snow-ball quilt which is a curiosity.
It consists of 7,C0 pieces, and is the
handiwork of a young lady named Miss
I. Shultis.
A Chambcrsburg (Pa.) florist has a
rosebush from which, during the last
three years, over ten thousand buds
were plucked, which sold lor fifteen
dollars a hundred.
Business is pretty poor in the dia
mond fields of South Africa. A man
who refused $l,."iO0.00i) for his claim
two years ago would be willing to sell it
now for live" dollars.
An exchange says: "John Glass
cock was run over by a train near Jones
Junction yesterday, and being deaf hu
was killed." We'presume that men who
are not deaf can be run over without
being killed. X. Y. Graphic.
A Mormon missionary has been ar
rested in Vienna and sentenced to a
month's imprisonment. He tried to
propagate, the Mormon faith, and bap
tized a man and woman in the Danube
canal in such cold weather that the man
took to flight and the woman fainted..
In the days when branding was a
punishment for crime in England, mur
derers were stamped with an M, makers
of frays with an F, and vagabonds with
a V. Tho left cheek near the nose was
the place selected for marking, by an
act passed in the time of William and
Mary.
A seven-year-old son of Robert
Tappindcr, of Kingston. N. Y., left his
bed in the night and wandered over
fields and fences in his night dress, a
long distance from home, recently. Ho
says that when he lir.-t awoke he found
that he had just fallen from a fence.
Albany Journal.
Some packers at Annapolis, Md.,
are investing very exteiiMveh in the
cultivation of oyster.-.. Many acres of
ground in the Severn River wero being
covered with old shells to receive the
spat as it lloats in the water, and largo
and permanent plantations are expected
to be established.
Camels utterly wild may be seen on
the desert lands at the head of the Gulf
of California, where they find a conge
nial home and multiply steadily.
Theso are a remnant of a head which
many years ago was imported by the
Government to act as boasts of burden
for the army in New Mexico and Ari
zona. San Francisco Call.
London Truth finds the following in
tho Scots ila7m';'c,March, 1755: "There
was lately presented to the Empress of
Russia a laboring man who had two
wives, tho first of whom brought him
four times four children at a birth, seven
times three, and ten times two. The
second wife once brought forth three
children, and the other -ix times two. The
wholo number of children by tho two
wives amounts to seventy-two.
A Boston boy, twelve years old, was
arrested in Portland, Me., the other day.
and in his pockets were found a quantity
of cheap pamphlets containing Indian
stories about "One-Eyed Dick, the
Giant Scout," etc.; a revolver, a bag of
cartridges, two brass watch chains, a
cheap nickel-plated watch, worth, per
haps, two dollars; a toy pistol, two old
jack-knives, a quantity of strings, a
piece of leather, a strip of calf-skiu with
tho hair on it, a button or two, a rag
ged handkerchief, several pieces of
woolen cloth, some candy, a lot of
dirty, broken lozenges, half a dozen
filthy raisins, and a handful of lino dirt.
Boston Transcript.
The Chicago Times publishes tho
following: "A man in Wilcox County,
Ala., has a remarkable tree growing in
his yard. It is of the China species, is
ten feet in circumference, and its top
has been blown away by a storm, but
six and one-half feet up the trunk of
this treo two more China trees have
sprouted, taken root, and grown up as
high as the old tree is; and just half a
foot further up the trunk of the old
.original tree a peaeh tree has taken
root, grown up to fair dimensions, and
is now filled with fruit. At another
place there is a blackberry vine and
also an elm bush, all iu a flourishing
ndition."
A negro recently passed through
'pur county, says the Piedmont (Ga.)
Press, representing himself as the sec
ond Christ; that he came to atone for
the sins of the colored race as the first
Christ came to atone for the sins of the
white people. He claimed to be the
identical Christ that was crucified by
the Jews, and showed seal's in the
palms of his hands and soles of his feet
where he was nailed on the cross, and
the hole in his side which was pierced
by the soldier. He created a great deal
of excitement wherever he stopped; had
crowds of people both white anil col
ored, to visit him. He is very intelli
gent, had an enticing way, and will no
doubt make an easy dupe of the credu
lous negro. At each place where he is
known to have stopped the negroes fell
down anil worshipped him, placing im
plicit confidence in the words of the dar
ing impostor.
Shoe Making by Machinery.
The Shoe and Leather licporter justly
remarks that the introduction of labor
saving machinery has been the most
potent cause of the changes that have
been wrought in the shoe manufacture
within a decade. The genius of invent
ors has devised implements for doing
pretty much all the work that is .required
iromthc cutting to the finishing of a
shoe, and doing it so neatly that the in
experienced cannot distinguish hand
work from machine-work, and the ex
perienced know perfectly well that tho
latter is for all practical purposes as
good as the former. The instruments
first contrived for sewing leather were
crude and imperfect; there were so
many little defects about them that they
were not regarded with favor, and did
not do satisfactory service. But by de
grees the faults have been so completely
remedied that they do their work ad
mirably, until now three-quarters of
the handsomest shoes sold in the coun
try are put together by machinery. In
the factories the hands are distributed
into "teams." each team constructing a
particular part of a shoe, many men
contributing in their several ways to its
configuration. Of course the closest at
tention has to bo given to all the details;
it is essential that the materials should
be selected with discriminating judg
ment: that the cutting should be so skill
fully done that there may be no waste of
stock on the one hand, and no inferior
material used on the other.
"Mr. Dupree," asked the little ten-year-old,
after the big sister's beau had
taken his seat, "won't you let pavhit
your breath just for fun?" "Why cer
tainly, my little man: but why do you
ask such a question?" "'Kause he said
this morning that he could hit your
breath any time and knock a quart of
whisky out of it; I think it would be so
funny to see anything knocked out of a
mans breath, don't you?" Dupree
didn't stop to reply. Atlanta Constitu
tion. m t
The most important lesson of mor
ality is this: Never do an injury to abj
one.
KRAUSE,
AGAIN TO
The season for self-binders and reapers, which has proved successful to us beyond anticipation
in the extremely large number of machines we sold, as well as in the perfect operation of each ma
chine and the unbounded praise and satisfaction expressed by each purchaser, being over, we are
again ready, and offer to the farmers of Platte and adjoining counties goods which are now in season
and which we propose to sell at EXTREMELY LOW PEIOES.
Mowers,
Hay Rakes,
Hay Sweeps,
Farm Wagons,
SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE,
At the Lowest
We sell the
Threshinff
DEEKING,
WAKRIOE,
CLIPPER,
WOODS,
Tiger,
Hollingsworth,
Hoosicr,
( -Umax,
Surprise,
Taylor,
Ohampioii,
and Daisy,
"THE WELL KNOWISPS
ABBOTT, STUDEBAKER AND RACINE
Buggies and Spring Wagons.
THE CELEBRATED
-AND TIIE-
Light - Running Orchard City Wagons.
HALLADAY, ECLIPSE, "I. X. L.," U. S.
STAR and ADAMS
EVERYTHING WE SELL
We cordially invite everybody to call on us.
in our line, and will give you BOTTOM PRICES.
Thirteenth Street,
-WE ARE PREPARED
iTIIE LAEGEST STOCK OF
Oixtler-y
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Living Prices.
celebrated AULTMAN &
Machines,
Horse
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near B. & M. Depot,
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TO GIVE BARGAINS
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Spring Wagons Buggies,
Sulky? Walking Plows,
Wind MiUs,
Pumps and Pipe.
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TAYLOR, and C. ATJI.TM AN & CO.'S
Powers and Engines.
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