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right upon us. l rushed back to my
engine and obeyed the bell to back,
which was followed by bell to stop;
and then, seeing that the boat was fast
sinking, the engineer threw skiff in
the water and ran after my coat. When
I got back the skiff was so full of ter
ror stricken people that knew it would
sink, so l jumped into the river and
jumped into the river and struck out for
the West Virginia shore. The current
was strong, and in order to save myself
struck out for the Ohio shore, but with
all my strength I was barely able to
reach the shore and assist two boys who
were in the water near me, whom l
helped as could. We all arrived safe
IL, bat so exhaused that we could
scarcely stand. As to how many lives
were lost, can not tell; nor do l know
how many were saved, or what caused
the accident. In looking around me as
I swan saw sight that fairly took'my
breath. The water was black with peo-
pie struggling for their lives, and the
expression of the faces l can never for
get. 1t was the most terrible thing that
you can imagine. Women and children
were crying, men were shouting and
cursing, and the wholesome was a pande-
monium such as is seldom witnessed on
earth, and they so unnamed me that l
could hardly swim.
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Railroad SOciahilitv-

speaking about the sOciability of rail-
road travellers" said the man with the
crutches and watch pocket over his eve.
Il never got so well acquainted with
passengers on train as / did the other
day on the Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road. We were going at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, and another train
from the other direction telescoped us.
We were all thrown into each others
society, and brought into immediate
contact, so to speak.
81 went over and sat in the lap of a
corpulent lady from Manitoba, and a
girl from Chicago jumped over nine
seats and sat down on the plug hat of
preacher from La Crosse, with so much
tlmId, girllsh enthusiasm that it showed
his hat down over his shoulders.
Every body seemed to lay aside the
usual cool reserve of strangers, and we
made ourselves entirely at home.
"a shy young man with an emaciated
oilcloth valise, left his own seat, and
went over and sat down on a lunch bas-
ket where bridal couple seemed to be
wrestling with their first picnic. Do you
suppose that reticent young man would
have done such thing on ordinary oc-
casions? Do you think if he had been
at celebration at home that he would
have risen mpetuously- and gone where
those people were eating by themselves,
and sat down on the cranberry jelly of
a total stranger?
Il shsuld rather think not.
"Why, one old man, who probably at
home led the class meeting, and who was
as dignified as Roscoe COnklirg's father,
was eating piece of custard pie, when
we met the other train, and he left his
seat and went ever to the front end of
the car and shot that piece of custard
pie into the ear of a beautiful widow
from Iowa.
people travelling somehow forget the
austerity of their home lives, and form ac-
quaintances that sometimes last through
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Cultivate a Sweet Voice.

There is no power of love so hard to
get and keep as kind voice. A kind
hand is deaf and dumb. 1t may be
rough in flesh and blood, yet do the work
of soft heart, and do it with a soft
touch. But there is no one thing that
love so much needs as sweet voice to
tell what it means and feels, and it is
hard to get it and keep it in the right
tone. One must start in youth, and be
on the watch night and day, at work and
play, to get and keep voice that shall
speak at all times the thought of kind
heart. But this is the time when sharp
voice ls most apt to be got. You often
hear boys and girls say words at play
with quick, sharp tone, as if it were
the snap of whip. When one of them
gets vexed you will hear voice that
sounds as if it were made up of snarl,
a whine and bark. Such a voice often
speaks worse than the heart feels. IL
shows more ill-will in the tone than in
the words. 1t is often in mirth that
one gets a voice or a tone that is sharp,
and sticks to him through life, and stirs
up ill-will and grief. and falls like drop
of gall on the sweet joys at home. Such
as these get sharp home voice for use
and keep their best voice for those they
meet elsewhere, just as they would save
their best cakes and pies for guests and
all their sour food for their own board.
l would say to all boys and girls, use
your guests voice at home" Watch
it by day as pearl of great price, for ID
will be worth more to you in the days
to come than the best pearl hid in the
sea. A kind voice is lark's song to a
hearth and home. 1t is to the heart
what light is to the eye.-Jewish Messen-
ger.
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Dependency.

Sometimes there comes within the life,
This checkered life of ours,
So much of loss and pain and strife,
That our sad eyes, with tear drops rife,
Look up and see no flowers.
A sudden sorrow clouds the day,
And the tired heart grows faint,
For strength and courage die away,
And lips that have been firm to pray,
Can only make complaint.
And life becomes at such time
An unattractive thing;
There is no sound of CHEEKY chime,
The days move on in dreary rhyme,
And bring no heart to sing.
If such time should come to thee
lAnd somewhere in the years
For every one its pain will BEL
Do not despair, but try to see
Some sunshine through the tears.
And know that he whom sorrows teach
Receives gift from heaven,
His tenderness some hearts may reach,
To whom the glad in vain might preach.
And joy through Him is given.
Oh, then, be thou a comforter
To some more sad than thee;
And while thus thou dost minister,
Strange bliss in thine own heart shall
stir,
And grief forgotten be.
London World.
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When to Ston Advertising.

When every man has become so thor
oughly creature of habit that he will
certainly buy this year where he bought
last year.
When younger, fresher and spunkier
concerns in your line cease starting up
and using the newspapers in telling the
people how much better they can do for
them than you can.
When nobody else thinks "it pays to
advertise"
When population ceases to multiply
and the generations that crowd on after
you, and never hear of you, stop coming
on.
When you have convinced everybody
whose life will touch yours that you
have better goods and lower prices than
they can get anywhere outside your
store.
When you perceive it to be the rule
that men who never do and never did
advertise are outstripping their neigh
bors in the same line of business.
When men stop making fortunes right
in your very sight, solely through the
discreet use of this mighty agent.
When you can forget the words of the
shrewdest and most successful business
men concerning the main cause of their
prosperity.
When you would rather have your
own way and fail, than take advice and
win.
When you want to go out of business
with large stock of goods on hand.
When you want to get rid of the
trouble of waiting on customers.
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An Honest Man.

One day in the years gone stranger
arrived at Dearborn, in this county, and
inquired for citizen commonly known
as Uncle Ike. The old man was soon
found in a grocery, and after the usual
"how-de-do" the stranger said:
"Do address Uncle Ike Barlow?"
"You dew" was the reply. @
"Well, my name is ThOrburn of Ann
Arbor."
"Jess So"
"They tell me that you are great
horse-trader."
wall, dew make a trade now and
then. What ye got?"
| "Pve got horse 1 brought along on
purpose to trade with you. Let us first
understand each other. You are men,
Der of the church? ?"
"Y-e-s-I expect be-"
"Then of course l shall expect you to
be honest with me. I've been looking
at your old nag over there by the post.
How old is hep"
"That ere hoss," slowly replied Uncle
Ike as he puckered his lips and squinted
his left eye-"let's see! Wall, now, l
quite forgit whether he's or 10 years
old, but we'll say TO-"
Uncle Ike, isn't that horse all of 20
years old? Come now as a member of
the church, give me an honest answer" !"
"Look a-here, mister" said the old
man after strong gaze at the stranger,
Il never trade hOsses but one way"
"How's that?"
when Pm buying of a hoss I'm a
purity good member of the church.
When I'm selling of boss reckon
on skipping about two prayer meetings.
When I'm a-trading bosses then 1 cal
kerlate on backsliding altogether for a
hull month, or until 1 know the victim
won't begin no lawsuit. Now then
stranger. that's me, and if you have come
here to trade hosses don't reckon that
Matthew, Mark. Luke, or John ever
writ line advising church member
to come right down and give away the
ringbones on his own animilep
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On the Brink of War.

Alexandria, the port of Egypt, now
threatened with bombardment by the
English and French fleets, is a city OF
25O,0OO inhabitants. 1t lies fiat, is well
built in the European quarter, while the
Turkish section is squalid and dirty. Its
ancient walls are broken, but it has two
strong fortresses. 1t has two ports, an
eastern and western, the latter, some
times called the Old Port, being the larg
er and better of the two. 1t is about q
mile and balf wide, and has three en-
frances. That nearest the city is about
seventeen feet deep, and is used only by
small vessels. The middle one, which
is quarter of mile wide, has twenty
seven feet Of water, while the third is
twice as broad as the second, and has
twenty-five feet of water in the shallow.
est places, and about forty in the deep
est. 1t will thus be seen that the larg-
est vessels can come within range of the
city. An elaborate breakwater and a
mole erected under English supervision
thoroughly protect the harbor, and a
fine lighthouse was also built about for
ty years ago.
The foreign war vessels in the neigh
borhood numbered thirty-two a week OF
two ago, and their aggregate has in
creased before this. The period is crit
ical one. England has determined on
action, and France seems to have
thrown off her fears of Bismarck, and
will join in the bombardment of the
place, unless Arab Bey backs down, OF
which there is no probability. He has
stirred up the fanaticism of his co-relig-
ionists to such degree that If he were
to yield he would have as much to feal
from their resentment as he now has
from the Western powers. His follow.
ers are earnestly awaiting the NANTES
tation of FL Mebdi, the Messiah, on the
18th of November, and the Sultan doubt
less has an understanding with Germa.
my. The widespread preparations in
England are sufficient to prove that the
opening of hostilities is not regarded as
any child's play or mere demonstration
against an offensive Egyptian Cabinet
The Suez Canal, and with it the short
route to India, is in danger, and nothing
can be gained by waiting, now that
Egypt and Turkey have proved deaf tC
remonstrances. Gwen as q money in
vestment England has too much stake
in the canal to tolerate its closing or de-
struction. 1t amounts to about $50,
100000 The work is about one hundred
miles long, extending from Port Said tc
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New Series-Vol. 20. No. 81

ers and other responsible parties are pre-.
pared to take two per cent. bonds run
ming for period of one year, and re-
deemable at the option of the Govern
ment at the expiration of that period
provided that the lower rate bonds shall
not be called until the six and i've per
cent. extended bonds have been redeem
ed by the Treasury. When the Senate
shall have eoneurred the bonds will be
issued, and the United States will have
the credit of having borrowed money at
a lower rate than any other nation.
The history of the country's
financial management from the
days of Buchanan until the present
is full of interest and highly instruct
i've. 1t shows the broad difference be-
tween Democratic and Republican man.
agement, and should be carefully stud
led by the voters Of the country
cleveland Leader.
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The Treatment of President Garfield.

The Treatment of President Garfield
The Philadelphia Medical News for
June "a contains lengthy review OF
the treatment of President Garfield by
the surgeons in charge of his case. 1t
is by DR.. J. William White, Professor of
Surgery in the University of Pennsylva-
MIA, and its sentiments and opinions are
indorsed by DR.. Agnew. Its conclusions
are:
1. 1t was never possible at any time
or by any method to ascertain definitely
and safely the precise character and ex-
tent of the Presidents wound.
2. Any attempt in this direction fur
ther than was made by the attending
surgeons would in all probability have
resulted fatally at once, and their stead
fast resistance to extraordinary infiu-
ence in favor of operative interference
entities them to great credit.
8. The treatment, which was direct
ed to meeting the indications as they
arose, was in every respect that which
it would have been necessary to adopt
had it been possible fully to determine
the exact nature of his injuries.
4. Life was prolonged for an unusual
ly protracted period by the careful and
skillful attention which the distinguish
ed patient received.
5. Death resulted from the secondary
efferts of the wound upon structures
far beyond the reach of surgical inter-
ference.
6. No undoubted instance of recovery
from such wound is to be found re-
corded in surgical literature.
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PLAYING Chickens.

"I say, girls" said a little, blue-eyed
flaxen-haired boy on State street, yester-
day, "let me take your candy and We'll
all play chickens"
ais it nice?" inquired half a dozen
s;x-year-olds in chorus.
Mice? You bet it is! Let me show
you. Now, I'll lay the candy down here
on the step, and you all go down there,
and come up when you hear me call like
a rooster"
The girls retreated and gathered in q
group, about fifteen feet off, while the
boy got down on his hands and knees,
with his head over the candy, and began
to call and strut, and flap his arms like
a ROSTERS wings.
"Cluck, cluck, rat, tap, rap, cluck," and
all of the girls came running up and
bent to pick up the candy, when the
little fellow opened his mouth and took
it in at one gulp.
"Oh, you mean boy" they cried; "you
have taken all of our candy"
That's 'canse l played rooster" said
the boy; 'roosters always calls the hens
up when he finds grain of corn, and
then picks it up himself. .'-lPretzers
Weekly.
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She Knew His Worth at Last.

"You do not doubt me, Myrtle?"
"Neverl" exclaimed the girl, putting
on her invisible net as she spoke and
placing her bandoline bottle where she
would be sure to see it in the morning.
The sun had glared down tiereely all
day upon the parched earth, and now
that night had come the heat was even
more oppressive than ever, because the
cool wind that had been waited from
the lake during the day had died away.
1t was dreamy, sensuous, One-gauze-
Observation-Disclosures evening. such as
one can often notice while travelling in
Palestine.
"You have great faith in me, have
you not, little One?" Vivian Mccarthy
said, taking the girls hand in his.
"Yes," replied Myrtle, Il believe in
you with child-like faith akin to that
which enables boy to bite pie in the
dark, and love you with deep tender
ness and fair loyalty that can never. die"
"And would you believe anything 1
told yoa?" Vivian murmured, kissing
the dimpled hand that lay in his.
Looking at him with her starry eyes,
in which there cleaned holy love-light,
the girl replied, slowly, and with inin-
ite pathes: II would believe every word,
no matter what you told me-"
"Then," said Vivian, while baleful
light shot from his near eye, "there is
no ice cream in Chicago"
For an Instant, dazed by the shock.
Myrtle did not speak. But presently
the voice of her heart found echo in
words.
81 can never leave you now" she
whispered. There cannot be another
such liar in all the wide, wide world -
Chicago Tribune.
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Sir Jones and His Ride.

Sir Jones he twisted his slight mustache,
And he gaZed in the glass with pride.
And if it were not" he said, $50 hot,
would take her this day to ride;
For she is wealthy and 1 am poor,
And she is fair to see,
And gayly she laughs at my little jokes,
And sweetly she smiles on me-"
Sir Jones he pOndered in thoughtful
mood,
And he gazed in the mirror still,
Till at last right firmly be upstoed,
And he said. "By st. George, will
For she hath ducats and have none,
And she hath house so brave,
While in this garret must pine alone,
A MISUNDERSTANDING SLAYER
Sir Jones he hired stately steed,
And a buggy both narrow and high,
And he drove to the lady's door with
speed,
And waited for her reply;
For it was legal holiday,
Yclept the Fourth of July.
The lady graciously said him yea,
And she decked herself in white.
And he lashed the steed, and they went
with speed,
Until they were out of sight.
And what he said will never be known,
Nor yet what she replied,
But he brought her back on that self
same track,
From very short half-hour's ride.
Sir Jones he gazed from his window
high,
And his face was sad to see,
And he ground his teeth that Fourth of
July,
Saying, "Curst shall this holiday bel
Yea, ever henceforth, this Fourth of
July
Shall be black-letter day,
For she said me nay, with scorn in her
eye,
And for the steed and the tall buggy
Must whole weeks snlary payp
Margaret Vandegrift, in Century
Bric-a-Drac.
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THE DISASTER AT MINGO.

WHEELING, w. VA. July 5.-The scene
at the wreck of the Scieto to-day almost
beggars description. To the anguish OF
those looking for lost ones is added the
walls and sobs of those bending over
the inanimate forms of dead loved ones
recovered from the water. The Associ.
ated Press reporter arrived at the scene
at noon, at which time only nine bodies
had been recovered. Both banks of the
river were lined with people, making a
crowd of perhaps 2,00C persons. The
work of dragging in the vicinity for bo-
dies is still going on. VIM. MulhOlland
of Wellsville, O., under whose auspices
the excursion on the Inflated Scieto was
given, said that the boat took on about
200 passengers at East Liverpool, and
250 at Wellsville. The boat was very
much crowded, and refused to stop at
other points where tickets had been sold.
Taking his statement with Others, it is
safe to say that 500 souls were on board
at the time of the collision.
Capt. Smith, of Martins Ferry, who
was on the John Lomas, says that when
some distance from the Scioto he noticed
the boats were going to come together,
and made his preparations for the shock.
Both steamers had on full head of
steam. The Lomas was going down
stream at the rate of fifteen miles per
hour, and the ascending Scioto at the
rate of twelve miles. 1t seems to be the
prevailing opinion that the collision re-
suited from misunderstanding or con-
fusion of signals.
The Lomas struck the Sciota on the
port side, fifteen feet from the bow, and
made large hole through which the
hull filled rapidly and sank at once. The
boat is now lying on the bottom of the
river, and the water is two feet deep in
her cabin.
Charles Page, of Marietta, O., the
striker" or assistant engineer of the
Sciote, said that they started from East
Liverpool at half-past six in the morn
ing with large party of excursionists
on board, who we're off for a 4th of July
frolic. They went down the river as far
as Moundsville, arriving there at 80 in
the afternoon. After lying there about
two hours we started up the river for
home, stopping at Wheeling and Mar
tins Ferry. People hailed us all along
the river, but the Captain refused to
take any more On board, as he said we
already had enough. When we collided
with the Lomas, as near as l can judge
from what heard others say, we had
at least 400 people on board. and proba-
bly, 500. l was on watch at the time of
the accident, and when the boats whist
led for passing L noticed there was some
thing wrong, but thought nothing of it,
and stepped out on the deck for sec
ond, when l saw that the Lomas was
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The Government Credit.

In the expiring days of the last Dem
ocratic administration the credit of the
country had fallen so low that the whole
of twenty million loan could not be
negotiated even at 80 high rate as
twelve per cent. After the inaugura-
ton of the Democratic rebellion it was
difficult for Republican administration
to raise money on six per cent. bonds ex-
cept at frightful discount on its face
value. When it was found that the
Government was able to cope with the
Rebellion matters began to improve.
Capitalists were willing to take five per
cent. bonds on better terms. At sub
sequent period four and a-half per cents.
were negotiated, and eventually large
portion of the debt was refunded at four
per cent. 1t was then supposed that the
Government had reached the very low
est figure at which it could borrow. But
so firmly had the national credit been
established by Republican administra-
tion, and so prosperous had the country
become through Republican statesman
ship, that Mr.. Window, when Secretary
of the Treasury, found no difficulty in
extending six or seven hundred millions
of expiring six and five per cent. bonds
at three and half per cent. While
there were some who insisted that three
per cent. bonds could be easily sold for
refunding purposes, provided they had
a long term Of years to run, yet the
great majority of inanciers believed
that the Government had touched bottom
in refunding at three and half per
cent, and ought to be content. Such
low rate of interest, the very lowest at
which national loan had ever been ne
gotiated, everybody held to be proof
of the highest national credit. 1t was
matter of rejoicing that we could bor-
row money at as low rate as England,
and that we could refund hundreds Of
millions at a nominal rate, while the
loans of other nations went begging for
takers even when much higher rates of
interest were offered. But what shall
be said of the credit of nation when
capitalists offer to take its bonds at two
per cent, and almost beg for them
Tlfs is just tho case with the United
States. The nation which could not bor-
row money under the Democratic ad-
ministration of James Buchanan at
twelve per cent, can now find ready
takers for its bonds at one-sixth of that
sum. The House of Representatives, at
Washington. has just passed a joint res
olution authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury to issue two hundred millions
in bonds, bearing interest at the rate of
two per cent. per anHum, which bonds
are to be exchangeable for those bearing
a higher rate of interest. This action
has been taken in consequence Of repre-
sentations made to Congress that bank