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South and West.

EMORY A. SToRRs, one of the most promi-
few days since in Ottawa, Ill. He
was bern in Cattaraugus county, n. y,
in 1854, and since 1859 had practiced law i'll
Chicago
THREE ladies-Alrs. DR.. Marshall, Mrs.
Paul and friend-were drowned in Lake
Traverse, Mimi, by the upscttins of their
boat during storm.
AFRE1GHT train plunged through bridge
near Pleasant Hill, Mo. Fred Karl, engineer,
and P. McHenney, fireman, were drowned IN
the wreck.
STRIKING Bohemian and Polish iron work
ers at Cleveland Ohio, attacked foreman
on the street, when he drew his revolver ana
shot at his assailants, wounding two OIL them.
REPORTS from the western corn belt are
favorable to heavy crop The yield VIII
be the largest in years, tho estimate IN Onto
being IL, ~, 0JO bushels.
z A PASSENGER train left the track near
Lexington, Ky. and rolled down an embank-
mcnt ihirty feet nigh. Frank Watts. the
engineer, and Fred Burger, the fireman, were
killed. Thomas J. Nichols, prominent
Kentucky turfman, and colored woman
were fatally injured, and three other rail-
road employees were badly hurt
WHILE a threshing machine was in opera
ton on the farm Of Richard Lord, at Bryan,
Ohio, the boiler exploded, killing Z. u.
Faster and Wesley Henner
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

TnE Southern league has surplus of 81 ,0oC
in the league treasury.
New York has ma 10 tho fewest changes
in the team, and the least experiments OF any
league club.
New YORK leads the batting and the field.
ing Of tho league. Six of their hntsneu
ar1 anon; the first dozen in tho country.
THE salaries Of all tho league players will
be reduced twenty-five per cent. leXt season.
Quite number now get more than 5000.
SAMUEL WILSON, while umpiring game
of baseball at Danvillo, Ga, recently, wns
run into by player and probably fatally III
jurcd internally.
Two circuit suggested for the Eastern league
next year comprises Trenton, Newark, Patcr.
son, Jersey City. Bridgeport, Now Havon,
Meriden and Hartford.
FROM the facility with which minor league
clubs beat the big clubs of the Nation al
league and American associa'ionit it is evident
that all the best players have not yet been
gobbled up.
TIE New York club has Cbicagoed every
league team at least once. They have Chi.
GAGGED Buffalo and Providence three times
each, and Chicago and st. Louis twice each: !:
league clubs twelve times, viz, Philadelphia
four times. Providence three times, Detroit
and Buffalo twice each, and Boston once
THE remarkable games of fourteen innings
each were played recently in GAINESVILLE. Ohio,
between the home team and tho visiting
Henley club, of Richmond, Ind The Zanes-
vilrs won the first game by S to 7, tho score
standing tied from the seventh to the four
teenth inning. In the second gam. the Zancs
viles led OF in the first inning with four runs
and failed to score afterward. The Henleys
tied the score in the fourth inning and made
the winning run in the last half of the four
tcanth.
The championship records up to recent date
Ware rs follows:
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Temperance Notes.

There has been decrease Of 39G sa'
looms in Iowa since July 4, 1891.
In Great Britain there are 1900 tenn
pcrancc organizations: and it is est'-
mated that 100000 persons are total
ajStaincrs.
Antwerp is to have temperance con-
vention for the PRONUNCIATION Of "ad
vanccd temperance ideas"-total abstl-
ncncc and prohibition, surely-,in Bel
cium and throughout the continent.
The Groton Dakota) Ga-ettc is able to
prophcsy that in five years there will not
he saloon in South Dakota. There IS nc
doubt n strong Prohibition majority IN
that section. nW (Nthn.) Gfo".
Alcohol can in no definite sense DE
considered a good cre:turc OF COD,
for it is not constructed like food, be-
inc neither soll nor innocent, and
whether good for any proper end or not
it is al artificial product. DR.. +. H.
Lees, +. S. A.
How very seldom we meet with people
who take their glass of wine OCCASION
ally, say once week. They take 1t
either every day or not at all; showing
clearly that it. is the habitual use that
creates the want.-D". Il. E. Heath.
Without IN honest enforcement OF oul
prohibitory liquor laws, the people viii
bc educated in the wrong direction, as
believe we have been for the last decade:
educated to subordinate this great prln'
ciplc to partisan spite, spleen and pref
udice. Here all the trouble lies, and II
is the most important lesson to DC learned
in our temperance reform.-P0rtlano
Herald
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Christ in the Heart.

The veteran soldiers Of Napoleon
idolized him. In their estimation he
was the perfection of all military
genius and nobility. They would fight
for him, suffer for him, and die for
him. As emperor he was as much
their idol as he was on the tented field.
No language could exaggerate their
devotion to him. An old soldier, who
bore the scars Of many battles, was
brought under the surgeons knife in
a hospital A tumor was to bs re-
moved from the breast. As the knife
did its work, and came very near to
the heart, the hero exclaimed, doctor,
cut little deeper and you will find
the emperor" He carried tho en-
peror in his heart, so true was his
devotion.
The believer, in whose heart Christ
is formed the hope of glory, can say
the same about the Captain of his SAL
walton, "Go little deeper and you
will find the Master" TO him Christ
is "the chief among ten thousand and
the one altogether lovely" Christ
has no rival in that soul. Its conse-
Grafton is honest, and it sings,
az love to kiss the prints whore Thou
Hast set thine unseen feet;
Icannot fear thee, blessed Will,
Thine empire is so sweet.
"WEen obstacles and triuls seem
Like prison wills to be,
do tho littlo I can do
And leave the rest to thee"
american Messenger.
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NEWS sUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

A SHAMoKlS H'cnnl dispatch alleges that
"Molly Maguireism is again rampant III the
uppcr and lower Luzerne districts Nine
murders have recently occurred in the north
ern coal fields, md mines are frequently Tired.
Murderers and tirchuss 60 free aud the Coal
and Iron police seem powcrless 10 allord pro-
lection to life and property"
A COAL train ran into the handsome de-
not of the Pennsylvania railroad at Hunt
ngton Penn, completely dcmoiishlEg tho
western half of Tie structure and causing
O,O00 damages. The action was due to
train hands failure to open switch.
THREE young men--Charles Young, Il. ;.
Curtis and Arthur Whcclcr-wcrc sailing
on q POND at Rocliand, Mass, when their
boat unset and all were drowned.
LARGE numbers of women voters have been
registered in Boston.
Mrs. BARBARA RUETLINGER and an infant
son were instantly killed by falling down Il
light shaft during 4 fire III New ork tene-
ment house
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Grant national mon
ument fund are coming in slowly, late re-
port of tho committee at New York showing
q total OF So, ,G1l.G5.
AT an auction sale in New York twenty
seven head of registered Jersey cattle were
SOLD The highest prc, iS3,..5Oj was paid for
the famous COW Oxford Kate, with record
of thirty-nine pounds twelve ounces OF but
ter in seven days. A bull calf. son OF Black
Prince of Linden, brought $1,000.
THE Willow Da!c Co., of Boston, having its
manufactory at Meriden: Conn, has failed
for S4C0OUl Tho concern manufactured
blankets exclusively.
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Trottinp a Mile in Two Minutes.

Professor William H. Brewer, OF lalo
college. has made the evolution OF the
American trotting horse the subject of
much careful research and study. "Dur'
ING the past decade" be said to re-
norter, "thc records have steadily been
lowered, and Mr.. Bonner is authority tor
the statement that he expects Maud 5.
will surpass her time of day or two
aco before the summer closes. it is my
firm opinion, based on many years OF
deep study of the evolution of the trot-
ting horse, that before another genera
ton passes we shall hear of trottlng
horses that can make mile under two
minutes. Horses are bred nowadays for
the single purpose of bringing out their
trotting qualities, just as in England
they are bred solely with reference to
running. Now, if a lot OF thoroughbred
horses are bred within themselves, with
out admitting any mongrel blood, and
if they are trained solely for trotting,
there is no question that man can bring
the record down to two minutes and un-
der. Mr.. Robert Bonner, who owns
Maud S. ridicuIes such an idea, and he
NAV think this an impossible result l
am aware, as he says. that trotting is al
2couircd gait for horse, and that run
ming is his natural gait. But still my
theory holds, and if the thoroughbred
trotter is carried through one generation
after another, we shall one day see a
horse which can trot in two minutes. ~
Neu Haoen Neus.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS,

THE Tonquin war cost $241, 100000.
ARTIFICIAL human ears made of celluloid
are new.
CHINA has $500 miles of telegraph line,a and
only seven miles of railroad
BuFFALOES are now bred ut Goolnlght,
Kan, and buffalo calves sell at $50 head.
ELIZABETH HICKMAN. of Ncna, ILL.,, has
son scvcnty-four years old, who is great
grandfather
THREE OF AHTERs of tho imported" gin.
Ger alc used in this country is manufactured
in Rochester, n.
IT is estimated that Mt least l0,0JO victims
of gas generated by sewers alone arc Slain
every year in this country.
CENSUS returns from various parts OF
Massachusetts, show considerable reduc'
tion in population rs comparclwlth the ccll'
s,lS Of $50.
MINERS in Idaho are slaughtering fish by
the thousands through mere Tantonnesi,
using dynamite cartridges. There is TO fish
law IN the Territory.
Ir is said that there are 00,002:O :OO) OF acres
of land OH tho Pacific coast of tho United
States especially adapted to the culture OF
wheat, which is practically untouched.
A NUMBER of Russians arc to settle III q
valley north of Sitka, Alaska, nm agent OF
UI'lIS VIII 10 no" Joui III 'hs~ 'H' ~O-'
tincnt having recently selected the SITE
THE first Grant monument completed is on
tho State Fair grounds, Peabody, Kansas:
| 1t consists of Il shaft forty feet high, built of
cars of corn, wrought into elaborate mo-
saicS.
BIZ a singular error OF tho engravcr aud
oversight of the proof-reader, new ive-doilar
bills OF the Old Colony National bank, OF
Plymouth, Mass, have the word ''uf' twice
in the title
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer has in n
corner of his barn u load Of hay
which was placed there thirty toHr years ago.
The hay is yellow from age, but its quality
is said 10 be uumpaired.
sIxCl: last New Years Day 80 inventions
h1vc been flied in ;he patent Office relating
+, roller skates Hoxw lnd, Of which tho
wheels are generally lna.lc, has doubled !:
prize. Contracts for 10000 tons Of steel tor
tue skates have been given out.
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LATER NEWS.

A. L. DUNCAN, Of Pennsylvania, and r. A.
Van Cleave, Of Mississippi, have boon ap-
pointed special agents in the land Office.
GREAT excitement prevails i'll Kansas over
the decision of United States circuit court
Judge declaring 1900 acres of land hereto
fore held by the Southern Kansas Railroad
company q part of tho public domain. AS
soon as the decision was made known in
Southern Kansas men in wagons, ,buggics and
Oh horseback cano in great numbers to
Woodson and Greenwood counties, and be-
gan stalking Off claims, saying that Judge
Brewers decision declared all lands hereto
fore held by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway to he government land
The Prohibition party in Maryland have
held State convention in Baltimorc-thc
first in the party's history-and nominated a
complete ticket.
\ DESTRUCTIVE fire which broke out i'll tho
Southern Pump companys works, Nashville
Tcnn., burned over tuirc n acres of valuable
lumber and destroyed other properly,
causing tot1l estimated loss of Sl3o,Ooo.
Two young men-Charles Chaplain and
Frank Guccra-- were drowned III Lake VIII
nebago, Wisconsin, by the capszinS OF Their
yacht.
JoH% HAGERwoop, a farmer, and his son
james were killed III tho wools neor Nash
vile, Tenn. by falling tree.
Iy Wyoming tho Knights of Labor have
taken decided stand against the Chinese
and their ultimate expulsion from the Ierri
tory is regarded as probable.
THoNAS HYLAND,a 4 policeman OF Noftl
Columbus, Ohio shot AMI killed his wife ana
then innir ted fatal wound on himself.
PRESIDENTIAL postma,ters app'ln1El: Eo
aarl Ii. Thaycr, at Clinton OA'o; II @iry
Williams, at Ere lcri'.li, Ma; j. Henry
Bovo,rs. at Chic, Cal, Vice James II. orm'
tv, susp.nde bccaus, u deficiency ot s2'o|'
J in hi; accounts was discovered. The posSoi
flee inspectors collected the deficiency IRON
! Ormsbys bOndSmen.
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INJURIOUS TO FARMERS.
A Maryland Senator Makes Charges
Against the Patent Office.

A MARYLAND Senator Makes Charges
Against the Patent Office.
A Washi ngton dispatch states that "a
speech made by ex-senator Hamilton, OF
Maryland, at farmers exhibition at Shep'
herdstown, w. Va, has created something o,
q stir in tho patent office Senator Hamilton
charged that there were moro frauds com.
mtted against the farmers in the issuance Of
patents for agricultural machinery than
there were in any other department of the gov
ernment ltis understood that Senator Ham,
iton intended his remarks to relate to plows,
thrcshers, wire fences and driven wells 1t
has been contended for q long time that the
patent Office hos been too liberal in granting
patents for everything that the farmer must
use, and that there is n combination between
certain manufacturers of agricultural impe-
ments and employees of the patent office which
operates directly against the farmer. The
policy of the patent office has been in tho
past, it is claimed, to increase the re-
ceiptS OF tho office as much as pos
sible by issuing as many patents as they can,
regardless of the question as to whether they
ala of value or contain new ideas. This
policy has operated directly against the
farmer probably more than against any other
ca;s OF users Of patent machinery. Senator
Hamilton when in Congress was member Of
the committee on patents, and agtated un-
sue 'cssfuliy for several years reform of the
la:cnt . 1ico and its practices"
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SPAIN AND GERMANY.
The Form or Country uipho:ds her
Rights TO tho Caroline Islands.

The Form or Country uipho'ds her
Rights TO tho Caroline Islands.
DISPATCHES from Madrid state that
messenger was sent to Berlin requesting
Germany to disavow any intention of estab-
fishing a srzerainty in the Carolines, and
saying that Spain would refuse to apologize
for the recent insults to the German
embassy unless such declaration is
made The dispatch also says that
the Spanish note concludes with the
expression of hope that Germany will recog-
niZe the prior rights of Spain, even Ill the
islands which German cruisers have occupied.
A correspondent says: 81 hear upon hlgh
authority that Spain If Germany admits her
rights. will spontaneously insert III tho Cgt-
c,aL Gazrtte an apology III the name or the
king, government and country for the insults
to the German embassy"
A military rising in Madrid has occurred,
1t was limited to one Of the barracks, and
was caused by few drunken soldiers, who
seized their arms and shouted: "Death to our
chiefs!" The authorities, who had feared
that all outbreak would occur, were pre-
pared for tho rising. and vigorously sup
pressed it before it had time to assume for
mdablo proportions. =.
y dlSpatch from MadrlQ says tuab Iie
Spanish commander at Manila telcsraphs
that when it was found that the German flag
had been hoistei at zap tho governor OF the
Carolines, Scnor Babriles. visited the COM
mander of the German gunboat 1tlis and &C.
euseL him of piracy and breach OF
International law. Tho German COM
mander replied that he had
simply obeyed orders. A hot argument ell
sued ending in scuflle, whom the German
commander retired to his cabin. The gov
crnor then boarded the Spanish man.of-war
San Quentin and requested the captain to
fire on the Itlis. The captain refused,
the governor of the Philippines hav-
ing ordered him to avoid u conflict.
Babrilles ordered the crew to fire, whereupon
tho captain drew revolver md threatened
10 shoot the first man vino obeyed or repeated
the order. Babrl!cs again ordered the men
to fire, when the captain shot Babrilles i'll the
shoulder. Babrilles was afterward taken as
prisoner TO Manila.
a Berlin dispatch states that the crown
prince Frederick William has replied to the
note from King Alfonso. The crown prince
assures King Alfonso Of tho friendly desire
of Emperor William not to encroach upon
Spanish rights. A definite settlement of the
pending questions, ho says, can only be
reached by full agreement between the
great powers.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
RuEISsTEIN's new sacred OPERA "aloses,"
,o. aipht

RrEISsrElN's new. sacred opera, "Moses,"
has eight parts.
THE Vienna Grand Opera house will in
future he supplied with electric lights.
GAyARIE. the great Spanish tenor, will
sing i'll ''L'Africaine" ut tho Paris Grand
Opera.
\ VlENNEsE composer, Herr r. Hewberger,
has composed an opera, for which LAS You
Like it, furnishes the text.
FRAU MATERSA has returned to Vienna
from her successful American tour, and is
now engaged for the Vienna Court theatre.
THIS season is the worst for the circuscs
that they have known in ten years. 1t is said
that not one has cleared any money, and
manly have lost heavily.
LAwRERcE BARRETT produced his new
piece called "Nonder" in st. Paul. 1t is,
however, not n real now or original play, but
one that has been remodeled.
A CABLEGRAM from London states that
Miss Van Zandt has been engaged to appear
in opera at Moscow during the coming win
ter. She will receive El0O for each perform
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though the Puritan was at no time
in the rear. and soon after the start had an
advantage which made it evident that. bar
ring accident, the victory was hers be-
yond doubt The scenes at the point OF de-
parture were identical with those at Sandy
Hook on the mornings when the
race was first attempted, with
the exception that the attend
ant yachts and the excursion boats for sight
seers were not by any means as many as pre-
viously. Still there was sufficient number
of all kinds Of craft to make the scene bril-
liant one, and the more especially as the
stretch of water in the narrows confined them
to closer quarters, and presented more COM
pact view than at Sandy Hook.
Early in the morning the indications were
all favorable for fair wind and weather, ard
active preparations for the event began with
the break Of day. Soon after o'clock sails
were sent up on the two racing boats, and
they at once started for Bay Ridge, and got
Into position convenient to the starting point.
The Luckenbach, which again carried tho
Judges and other officials, steamed up about
10 o'clock. .Atth time stiff southwest
wind was blowing ut The rate of thirteen
miles an hour. and thu yachtmen took OH
board the racing boats, and the attending
feet were in high feather at what was now
almost certainty that the trial would be
brought to successful conclusion. The
Judges wasted no tim, but at once hoisted
the signal to tho captains of the Puritan
and Genesta to prepare for the start. Nine
minutes was consumed by the two boats in
getting into proper position, aud at thirty
four minutes past 10 the start was made, the
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Edible Earth.

MANY travellers have attested, and it
may be verified in many colonies, says
the Science Monthly, that certain clayey
carths have been long used as food:
Clay is composed 'af silica, alumina and
water, colored by metallic oxides. Some
samples of edible earth are composed, as
tripoli is, of innumerable microscopic
and fossilized shells of fresh water infu'
soria. How men came to have recourse
to such ailment may be without evil
dence; but similar circumstances have
led to like results in countries remote
from each other. The Otomacs, q peo'
ple of Southern America, take regularly
a pound or more per day of rich clay
which appeases hunger without injury.
Among the Indians on the borders OF
the Amazon clay forms part OF their
food, even when other ailments abound.
Edible earth is found in Bolivia, and
one kind, which has given an agreeable
odor, is much esteemed by the Peruvi.
ans. The negroes of Jamaica have re-
course to it when other food fails; on
the other hand, the negroes of Guinea,
transported to America. seek for an earth
like what they are accustomed to, and, in
its absence they consume the white pipe
clay, to the injury of their health. In
the kingdom of Siam the women and
children are earth-eaters; in Java (says
Labillardiere) they make sort OF cake
of ferruginous clay, which is eaten to
produce leanness. It is an object OF
commerce in Anam and Tonquin. The
usage is widespread, existing in Guiana,
New Caledonia. Siberia, Terra del Fuegc,
and among some descendants OF the old
nayigators in Portugal. The Indians OF
the Dutch colonies of Java and Sumatra
make peculiar preparation with edible
earth, reducing it to q paste with water,
spreading it into thin plates, morsels OF
which are grilled in a pan over char'
coal fire. These little slips, rolled up,
ore like dried bark, of warm gray, or
ruddv color. They also make roughly
modelled figures like our gingerbread
men and sweetmeats. NJ. Hekmeyer
showed at Amsterdam. in 1868, specimens
of edible earth in its natural state ana
prepared also few little hgures'
limitations of fruits and fancy objects.
The flavor of these delicacies is empyre'
umatic, and the mild. slightly aromatic
sensation which follows the first taste
arises from the earth itself, to which no
condiment is added. The earthly origin
of the custom of making various allmen'
tary substances into human shapes Is
obscure.
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ReliSion in Early Life.

No one at the close Of an advanced
life has ever regretted that his early
years were spent in the service of God,
but thousands have regretted, when
upon q dying bed, that the morning of
their days was spent in rebellion
against the King of kings.
"If," said John Angel James, "there
be true honor in the universe, it is to
be found in religion. Even the hea-
thens are sensible of this; hence the
Romans built the temples of Virtue
and Honor close together, to teach the
way to honor was by virtue. Religion
is the image Of God in the soul of man.
Can glory itself rise higher9 What a
distinction to have this lustre put
upon the character in youth! 1t was
mentioned by Paul rs singular
honor to the believing Jews, that they
first trusted in Christ; ard in referring
to Andronicus and Junia, he mentions
it to their praise, that they were in
Christ before him. To be child of
God, an heir of glory, a disciple OF
Christ, a warrior of the cross, a citizen
of the new Jerusalem, from our youth
up, adorns the brow with amaranthine
wreaths of fame. A person converted
in youth is like the sun rising on a
summers morning to shine through a
long bright day; but a person con-
verted late in life is like the evening
star, lovely object of Christian con-
temptation, but not appearing till the
day is closing, and then but for little
while"