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on the night of the oath Prohibition


meeting. held in San Francisco, Cal,
adopted resolutions opposing the extension
of time for paying the taxes on bonded
spirits and supporting Summers postal
telegraph bill.
The cotton operatives strikes in Mas
sachusetts are reported increasing.
THE Russian Government offers to re-
duce its armament on the German frontier
If Germany will do likewise.
On the 25th the cornerstone of the
new Produce Exchange building in New
York was laid with appropriate ceremo.
MES.
OK the 18th pension legislation took
fresh start. Courage was also the subject
of several new bills in Congress.
On the 25th the last reliance in the
Egyptian soldiery collapsed when the
black troops at SualSem threatened to Join
the rebels.
A THRILLING deficiency of 100, ZOO, 600
rubles has been discovered in the admins
tration of Turkestan covering period of
fourteen years.
RUSSIA has invited England to Join
in constructing canal from the Sea OF
interests of both ma ions.
The performance in Chicago by the
Mapleson Opera Company for the benefit
of the food sufferers Melted $500, which
was paid on the 25th to the Mayor of Gin
cinnati.
The cornerstone of the new Cotton
Exchange building in New York was held
on the 25h.
AT its session in Cincinnati on the
25th the Grand Lodge of the Free Sons OF
Israel voted 81 900 to the flood sufferers. A
banquet was given the Grand Lodge the
same night by local committees.
A NEW wrought-iron bridge, LOO
feet long, to cost $4,000, is TO be built
across the Housatonic River by the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
| Company.
AN election for President and Vice
| President has just been held in Ecuador
after the close of successful revolution
and the Liberals already threaten a new
revolt
Il the Bank of Commerce at Toron
to, Ont, a vault became filed with ga
from open burners during Sunday, the
| l4UU, anu gTauu eA plOSlOH tOOh pluCe lns
next morning, when light was taken into
it, scattering things in promscuous man
ner.
AT New Madrid, Mo-, the Mississippi
River is reported to be twenty-five miles
wide.
OK the 25th meeting was held in
San Francisco, Cal, to devise means fol
raising funds to aid the sufferers by thu
Ohio River floods
In Egypt great uneasiness is caused
by repol Us that powerful Arab tribes nortl
of Khartoum have joined the revolt, thu
cutting off all connection between Genera
Gordon and Lower Egypt. Emissaries o
the Mahdi are spreading sedition through
out Egypt. There is even feeling tina
General Graham's expedition from Trinki
tat is hazardous venture. King John i
reported to have signed treaty with tn
| Prophet.
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A WEALTHY old farmer named Har-
vey Chappell, who lived alone near Leba-
non, Conn.,, was found murdered in his
house on the DIST.
On the 21st shocking tragedy was
usearthed at Avondale, o. On the 10Th the
cabin of an old colored man burned, and
since then nothing had been seen of the oc-
cupants until their bodies--those of Beverly
Taylor, his wife and grandchild-were
found at the Ohio Medical College with ev-
licences of their having been murdered.
Four arrests have been made.
THE bark Ada Barton of St. John, N.
B., is reported lost at sea with nine of her
crew.
A NEGRO roustabout named John
Fields, was fatally stabbed in st. Louis,
Mo-. on the 22d by John Long another OF
the same calling.
On the 21st John Heith, one of the
Bisbee murderers, was sentenced at Tomb
stone, ARIZONA, to life imprisonment On
the odd he was taken from Jail by a mob
and lynched.
On the morning of the 22d Benjamin
McCloud, boss of the Comet coal mine at
jackson, o., was found on the railroad
track terribly mangled by train. lnves-
tigation showed that he had been murdered
before he was placed on the track.
Ok the 23d several of the State re-
formatory buildings burned at Ionia, Mich.
On the morning of the 23d Catholic
school burned at Kershena, Wis. Seventy
pupils and six Sisters escaped in their
night clothes.
On the Esd, during a violent storm in
Colorado, two passenger coaches were
blown from the track near Georgetown.
Several passengers were injured.
ALLEN INGALLS, and Ben johnson,
the resurrectionists, who sold three MUIR
dered persons bodies to the Ohio Medical
College, have been held for murder in the
first degree.
BURGLARS raided iewelry store in
Troy, N. Y, and carried off between 500,
000 and $4,000 worth of jewelry early the
morning of the oath.
On the morning of the 25th two small
hotels burned in Denver, Col, and four
dodgers were roasted to death. Others es-
capped only by leaping from upper win
dCws.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Grand Army of the Republic has
invited Henry Ward Beecher to preside at
a meeting in Brooklyn, the object being to
raise funds in aid of home for disabled
soldiers of the South.
A WAsHINGToN's birthday party was
given by Minister Sargent in Berlin, not
withstanding the Bismarck Reichstag Incl.
dent
CoNsUL-GENERAL HEAP has been APP
pointed to conduct the negotiations with
Turkey regarding the new tariff.
APPOINTMENT Clerk Butler of the
Treasury Department is spoken of as the
successor of Assistant Treasurer New.
On the 23d Captain 'Happy" Char
ley Whitehead and Lieutenant Gibson of
the Salvation Army were each fined five
dollars for obstructing the streets of Tren-
ton, N. j. They had been previously dis
charged under suspended sentence, but re-
peated the offense.
On the 24th Theodore Thomas gave
the first of series of Tree concerts in New
York. They are designed to educate the
musical taste of the working people.
DIRECTOR BURCHARD, of the United
States Mint, has been reappointed.
In q recent election DR.. Rafael Nunez
was chosen President of the United States
of Colombia.
The press of Germany seem deter
mined to make a martyr of Minister Sar.
gent.
The bust of Longfellow by Brock is
to be unveiled in Westminster Abbey
March /.
SENTENCE of death has been passed
upon Mrs. Haight, who murdered her nus
band at Deruyter, N. Y.
A PUBLIC reception has been rendered
Lieutenant Harder at his home at Youngs
town, q.
JAMES r. PARTRIDGE, formerly con,
United States in South America, commit
ted suicide recently in Spain.
On the 25th Lieutenant Schultz, of the
navy, whose heroic search for Lieutenant
Chip, of the Jeanette, has given him
worldwide reputation, paid his respects t
the President and Secretary of the Navy
He intended starting for his home in st
Louis on the Goth on a six months leave o
absence.
On the 25th ex-governor Samue
Price, of West Virginia, died at his home
in Lewisburg. He was prominent in Vir
ginia politics before the war and member
of the Convention which passed the seces
sion ordinance, though he refused to vot'
for or sign the document. He was APP
pointed United States Senator by Governo
Matthews to fill the unexpired term of Sen
ator Caperton, who died shortly after cleo
tion.
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GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

B. f. BARNES killed his wife and cut
his own throat fatally at Boache, Wis, on
the 21st.
DETAILS of fatal casualties resulting
from the Southern tornadoes come with
every days dispatches.
AT PALMYRA, WIS, on the 2lst a
hotel and several other buildings were de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
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A Safe Blowers Assurance.

He was n tall Waterman who wore
metal buttons on his coat, dark Ian
tern on the inner side of his wrist, and
belt with club in il about the size OF
a small section of broom-handle. He
stood at the corner of Clark and Jack
son streets leaning against the Grand
Pacific Hotel while he flashed binding
streak of light westward along the
brown side of the huge hostelry. lie
chuckied rs the red shaft struck an as
tOnished porter in the face at the hotel
entrance and sent him staggering back
ward. Having accomplished this bit
of pleasantly the Waterman turned and
walked nOrthward on Clark street
The man with the lantern was I'M
usually careful in his examination of a
door a long distance down the street
from where he started. He chuckled
when he had satisfied himself that ev-
erything in the place was all right.
Then he said to a companion who had
accompanied him all the way:
''Three years ago l found a man try
ing to unlock this door as | came bv
with my lantern. When the light
flashed in his face he looked up a good
deal surprised and confused. Then he
laughed
Glad you came along he said to
me. Il needed a little light. Locks
rusty, and my key don't fit it very well.
Hold the lantern steady on the lock a
minute or two, if it is not too much
trouble. Don't throw it in my face
tina. way; it blinds me and | can't
work. L have to post my books to-
night, so came down after supper
He was good looking young fellow,
and he was dressed like clerk. He
talked like one. too. So l held the light
for him. and after few trials he opened
the door.
Much Obliged he said. Come in
and sit down awhile
Il thanked him, and said couldn't
stop. L moved on after seeing him 90
to work at a big ledger. 1 was uneasy,
though, and came back to the store in a
few minutes. He had turned the lights
down and was sinking a steel drill into
the lock of the safe. He heard me and
bolted, but caught him as he dived
through back widow. Then he began
to beg. He said the firm employed him
rs assistant-cashier on a salary of eight
dollars week. He had an aged father
and invalid mother dependent on him.
1t was his first offense. He shed tears.
He begged me to take him before his EN-
ployer instead of locking him up. But
l didn't He was behind the bars as
quick as l could get him there. He
proved to be an expert burglar He
got ten years"
ado you prevent many burglaries?"
"Well a good many, suppose, by
securing fastenings. People are care
less, and leave their doors unlocked and
their windows open sometimes. One
night l found the key of a store sticking
outside in the lock. There are plenty
of things to look after in the dark,
when all the shops are shut up. Good
night. ~ Chicago Netps
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who don't belong to their society, or
whom they wish to degrade below
themselves. How much better it would
be for such people and the world if
they would but look into their owu
hearts before they gave vent to their
passions that set the fires of hell to
blazing, producing smoke that will
only be blown into their own eyes.
II the most trivial report, unfavor-
able to persons reputation, be raised,
IL is to the slanderer and backbiter 8
least OF fat things. They seize upon it
as hungry eagle upon his prey, bear
ing it about, and, like whirlwind, it
draws into its vortex variety of i'm
probable circumstances, which increase
its force. One person relates it to
another. with little addition, the sec
ond to the third with something more,
and thus the devil is exalted and the
innocent degraded.
A certain writer on SANDER says:
'Hell can not boast so foul a fiend, nor
man deplore so foul foe. 1t is the
poisonous arrow whose wound is in
durable; it is the heart-searching dag
ger of the dark assassin; it is the NOR
tai sting of the deadly adder. Murder
is its employment, innocence its prey
and ruin its spoil" SANDER is dan
gerous poison, for who is secure, whose
reputation is secure, when such foes
lurk about in darkness seeking whom
they may devour? A persons reputa-
ton is as dear to him as his hearts
blood; for "a good name," says Solo
mon, sis rather to be chosen than great
riches" and says that illustrious Shake
speare:
WHO steals my purse steals trash; it's some
thing, nothing;
Twas mine, it's his and has been slave to
thousands.
But he that tilches from me my good name
hobs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed"
Yes, however wealthy person may
be, If his reputation is traduced he
may be said to be poor indeed" for
wealth without favorable reputation
is-but an empty sound. 1t is much the
best if people can not in conscience
speak well of their neighbors to say
nothing about them. If they can not
find any good to communicate in their
daily visits, concerning their fellow-be-
ings, whether high or low, rich or poor,
professor or non-professor of religion,
let that charity that ''covers q multi
tude of sins" be thrown over their sup
posed failings; and if any have just
occasion to speak or think evil of their
fellow-creatures, let them 60 and see
them face to face, and thereby settle all
difficulties. for where there is no 'tale-
bearer the strife ceases"
Then, o slanderer, whoever thou art,
remember that thou art accountable for
thy words, and that God twill by no
means clear the guilty; but will bring
every work into Judgment with every
secret thing, whether it be good or
whether it be evil. - Words of Faith.
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HOuse.CIeaning.

As you intend to have the house
cleaned next week, Mrs. Kumminlate.
presume you are happy. So am L.
You know always enjoy it so.
When l get up in the morning and
skip over the bare floors it makes me
think | am in the historic halls of my
ancestors.
When l go downstairs and nearly
break my neck over a roll of carpet i
feel as if had been out with the bows.
When / come home at night and
smell fresh paint, soap-suds and all sorts
Of odors 1 imagine that am in a con-
servatory.
When / see you with your head
swathed in atable-cloth, q feather-dust-
er in your band and fire in your eve, /
am reminded of the scenes of Oriental
sPlendor depicted in the Arabian
Nights"
Let the good work go on, Mrs. X. /
care not for the consequences. Alive
get to say is that if / find the house
turned toPsY-turvy next week you will
Ind me either at your mothers or in
the Morgue-R. Y. journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
He Was Competent.

An amusing episode recently occurred
in Judge Barnum's courtroom during
the hearing of an ejectment case. A
little boy of eight years was presented
by one side as a witness, and the oppos-
ing counsel objected.
do you know what an oath isP'
asked the Court.
YES, SIR" answered Charley. "It
is to ask God TO help you tell the truth "
where did you learn all this?''
frowned the opposing counsel.
lin the catechism," said Charley, not
TO be frowned down or sat upon by the
biggest lawyer in the business.
In the catechism? What cate
chismP''
lin the ten cent catechism, sir"
who told you to look in the cate
chismr'
my sister. She told me last night,
and got it and studied it."
Have you got your catechism with
you?"
Yes, sir. Here it is" and the we'll
thumbed little pamphlet was forthwith
produced from the depths of that mys-
FERROUS receptacle for all odds and ends,
the trousers-pocket.
You see the boy has his docum ents, -
interposed the court with a smile, and
quiet litter went around the court
room as it became evident that the
legal luminary was being "downed ~
by the child.
"H'ml Let me see the look Iwou-
der if you know anything more that's in
it. Who made you?"
why, God, o. course" was the re-
ply, as If the lad ooh-poohed the idea
OF being asked such q simple question,
and wanted somethin' hard.
Several questions we're asked, and
elected ready replies. The lawyer,
though loath to acknowledge the
corn" saw that he was in for it, and
accepted defeat as gracefully as posi-
bic. Turning to the Court,he said:
Your honor, / think we viii accept
this witness, and as for this little book,
would submit it to my learned friend.
the counsel for the other side, and
recommend its careful perusal by him.
1t win do him good. "-Chicaso Mmes.
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Everyday Faith.

God is one; Gods works and ways
are one. His laws for earth are in the
same statute book as those for Heaven.
The natural, as God made it, is not in
conflict with the spiritual. The line
between things secular and sacred is i'm
aginary and mischievous. We believe
God for time as well as for eternity, for
earth as well as for Heaven, for the
body as well as for the soul. Far De it
from any honest man TO coniine his
faith in God to certain mysterious and
impalpable concerns, and doubt Him
when it comes to immediate business,
and the trials of everyday life. We
are taught by our great Master to pray
to the Heavenly Father: ''Thy King
dom come;" and the same prayer in
cludes the petitions: ''Give us this day
our daily bread" To conide TO
Heaven the greater cares, and leave the
lesser to unbelief, would be as unwise as
to commit the door of the house to
Waterman, but expressly TO exempt an
open window from his oversight. What
is littlep What is tritiingp There exists
no such thing to wise man anxious to
be always right. No, we must have q
present, housekeeping. shop-keeping,
FURNISHING faith; for if our main
stay be only available on great occa-
sions, we may be utterly undone by the
ills TO which it is inapplicable. 1.-THE
just shall live by faith" Faith is not a
go-to-meeting coat for us; but an every
day suit. Comprehensive, universal
and constant in operation, it is a priu-
ciple which those always require who
are perpetually in danger, constantly
in need. AS the cherubic sword turned
every way to keep the gate Of Eden, so
does faith guard the soul from the adj
vance of enemies, let them come from
what point of the compass they may
SnnrneOn
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Choice Selections.

The highest form of Christian life
is self-denial for the good of others
DR.. Pdrke.
The power of choosing right or
wrong makes man a moral agent; his
actually choosing wrong makes him a
sinner.-LymGn Beecher.
We sometimes congratulate our
selves at the moment of waking from a
troubled dream; it may be so after
death. IN. HdWthor1ae.
Some people, says Alphonse
Karr, "are always finding fault with
nature for putting thorns on roses. l
always thank her for putting roses on
thorns."
The effect of water poured on the
roots of a tree is seen aloft in the
branches and fruit; so in the next world
are seen the effects of good deeds per-
formed here-iSidn..
The habit of faltering and disguis-
ing and concealing and putting forward
the edge of a truth, instead of showing
boldly.the full face of it, at last leads
men into an insincerity SO habitual that
they really do not know when they
speak the truth or not. Cardinal Man
nina.
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An Appropriate Motto.

Mrs. Slimdiet-'I am going to buy
some nice notices to decorate our home.
Have you seen any that YOU admire?"
Old Boarder-"Oh. yes. quite a num-
ber."
Mrs. Slimdiet--''I am so glad, be-
cause now YOU can give sore sugges-
tons. OF course l have n Bless Our
Home motto for the frons hall, and
also have some appropriate ones for the
Parlor. IL is the dining-room that
bothers me-"
Boarder-"I saw oDs to-day that
would be just the thing"
Mrs. Slimdiet -''Indeedl Where was
Boarder-"In grocery store.''
Mrs Slmdiet That is a queer
place. What did Il say?'
Boarter-"It said: II YOU don't see
what You want, ask Tor '"-FhiIadcE-
phia Call.
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Feed or Breed.

1t is a very popular subject Just now
for discussion whether feed or breed is
paramount in HE productive value OF
an animal, more especially in regard to
the yield of butter. One enthusiastic
believer in breed as ks why any ordinary
cow cannot be made to give two pounds
of butter day as a pure-bred Jersey
does. Any one can ask questions which
will puzzle wise man to answer. But
this question is no puzzle, and would be
harder to answer if it were true that a
Jersey COW as a rule gave two pounds
of butter day. So far there are about
forty of these aristocrats amoug, per.
haps, 10000 Jersey cows in the country,
all pure bred, but not all recorded.
But what of the others? 1t has been
said that the average yield of the 80.
goo plebeian Jerseys is about
three pounds per week. How
much does breed for these? On the
other hand, native scrub" cows have
been known that, owing nothing 10
breed at all, have just doubled their
yield of butter when fed as well as a
Jersey cow usually is, and it is these
native cows which have made the dairy
so profitable as il is. Also, one might
ask, was it breed or feed that made a
noted Jersey COW die of milk fever after
having been fed daily q bushel of
crushed oats and twelve pounds of corn
meal and bran, besides other feed to
force her to give three pounds of butter
q day? Perhaps, it may be said most
truly that if our native cows had been
fed and cultivated with as much care as
the Jerseys have been. they might have
outdone them in regard to their
product As it is they have sn excellent
record. not in any book, but in the
enormous aggregate yield of milk,
cheese, and butter which has made dai.
rying the most prosperous branch OF
farming.-N T. Times.
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Slandering and Backbiting.

Oh, how unlike the spirit of Christ is
the spirit of the backbiter and SLAM
derer! How unlike the followers of the
meek and lowly Jesus is the person
who. in the absence of another. en-
ploys a worldly member the
tongue-in slandering, insinuating and
seproaching some 1, neighoor to the graft ;,,
and revenge. What pest to society!
what curse to neighborhood is he
or she who, instead of doing to others
rs they would wish to be done by,
sneak, listen and strain to catch at
every sole word, or what they may
term an improper action. to stigmatize
and blast the reputation Of sumo one
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-16
Recalling Salamis

The most important naval battle OF
the ancient world was the one which
took place between the Persian fleet and
the allied uavies of the Greeks All Of
Greece but Sparta had been overrun by
the Pcrsians, and Xerxes was so certain
of his coming victory that he had
throne erected, from which he could see
the humiliation of the Grecian fleet,
which was hemmed in the straits which
lay between the mainland and the island
and harbor of Salamis Had Xerxes
been victorious the world would have
lost the most splendid page in its his
tory, that of Greek civilization and the
models she produced in every depart
ment of human activity for after ages
TO initiate. But the Grecians conquered,
and SO overwhelming was their victory
that Xerxes Immediately retreated to
Asia, and his armies were subsequently
defeated by the combined hosts Of
Greece. A great undertaking is now
under way to thoroughly explore the
bottom of the straits and bay of Sala-
mis- with view to the discovery and
reconstruction of the vessels, which
have been imbedded in the sands for
over two thousand years. Although
infinitely described, we have still but
faint idea of an ancient man-of-war.
We know they were open boats with
three tiers of rowers. Many OF them
were rams with beaks to destroy the
enemy. The soldiers fought on plat
form or on a deck near the bowsprit.
The combat was hsnd-to-hand. With
sail and oar these vessels were very
swift, especially il the wind helped
them. The twenty centuries have doub-
less covered these vessels with layer
upon layer of sand and detritus. But
still the diving apparatus of modern
times is so far perfected that these YES
sells can be exhumcd, and take their
place in the museums of the world, to
show the kind of ships that saved Gre
clan civilization from being over
whelmed by Asiatic barbarism. -DenF
Qrssfs Monthly,