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rhc Cold Wnters Of Snnerlor.

How cold the dark water Of Lake
Superior i,t One evening when We
we're stcaming across that lake asked
the mate what was done when man fell
overheard IT, coolly replied, Moth.
in4.
why / asked, astonis he'd at his
hcarlc,sncss
"The water Of Lake Superior is 50
cold that a man cannot live is it during
the time it takes 10 stop a rapidly-mov
ing vessel and lower boat, lie re-
Piled Then he added II have sailed on
this lake for 20 years During that
time have known many men 70 iall
Off vessels. know Of one nan only
who escaped death. lie was saved 3y
scratch, The others were apparently
killed by the shock produced by falling
into such cold water" He picked ~
am empty can to which. a long string
was attached and cast it overheard.
The can skipped from the crest Of one
wave to that Of another for an instant,
then dipped and filled. The hoary
headed mate drew the full can up and
handed it to me, saying: Take I
drink Of that and then you say what
you think Of your chances Of winning
IN Lake Superior Tor 10 or Is minutes.'
drank deeply and it was as though
liquid ice flowed down my throat.
at is alleged, the mate said, sEj
this lake uc,sr gives up its dead, that
10 be drowned ia Lake Superior is 70 be
buried for I'd time. I DO not know
whether this is true or not bur dos
know that have never seen corpse
floating on the lake wonder Il thst
Is truet ] doubted it, but | could ilnd
no sailor who had ever seen a dead body
coating oa the hike. = New York Times.
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Remarkable Tree Culture.

Ex-Mayor Harrison writes to the
Chicago Mail from Japan, as follows:
The skill of these people in tree Gull
ture is even more surprising than that
shown in Horticulture. The latter is not
so novel to the average American. He
has seen mt home the little wild rose
worked up into the huge and perfect
iacqueminot. lie has enjoyed the de-
licious odor of the rose peony trans
formed from the rank-smelling, old
fashioned plant, and is ready to COM
prehend any monstrous metamorphosis
among flowers. But when he sees here
an old pine tree with gaarled and bent
branches, its whole appearance the
exact counterpart of the ancient
monarch of the mountain side when he
secs this old looking, perfectly healthy,
and thrifty fir, 100, 300, and even
300 and 400 years old, grow
ing in flower pot four feet
long, two feet wide, and
not two feet deep he hardly knows
whether he be most interested "a the
skill evinced or amused by the gro
tosqueness Of the idea which suggested
the thing. Such tree as this ! have
seen. Its whole height was not tive
feet, and its gnarled branches did not
cover an area of eight feet. asked
its age, and was answered $50 years.
Near by were dozens OF smaller ones IN
pottery vases, perfect in form-some
round and bright as the denizens of the
rich bottom land. Others, queer look
ing, odd old lilliputians that made one
think he was viewing an old ancestor OF
centuries ago hanging from a rocky
crag; that he was looking at it through
the reversed lenses of q powerful field
glass ask. GLOW old is that2"
cit was planted by my father fifty
two years ago"
''And that"
"My grandfather put it in the pot
seventy years back
And this other here that looks as if
it had been watered from the fresh
water tank in Noahs ark2'
"Ah, that is beauty is the
pride Of my garden. 1t was trans
planted when no taller than my little
finger by my great-great- great great
grandfather nearly 200 years ago lie
spat upo its roots He is a good god
now. and his soul sits among its green
branches every day and blessos his chill
drcn" And the good man folded his
hands and looked as if he felt that the
spirit Of his ancestor, now one Of his
household god, heard his pious words.
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Truth and Love.

There are but two things true, dear,
Since time began to run
His wondrous race right through, dear,
The world and round the sun;
And these two thingsso sweet, dear,
I'll sing while I'm above
The grass beneath my feet, dear:
Truth and Love.
There are but two things sweet, dear
Forever and a day
For man is incomplete, dear,
And ali things pass away;
But these two things sing, dear.
Are ever as our youth;
They to the old world cling, dear:
Love and Truth.
They flourish even now, dear,
In spite Of lies and death.
] see truth on your brow, dear,
And love is in my breath;
And love will be with truth, dear.
And truth will be with love,
Till we renew our youth, dear,
Up above
--[John Ernest Mccain.
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A Travelling Quack's Dcvice.

A short time ago quack experiment.
ed in Lambeth with considerable sue
cess upon the pockets of an awestricken
crowd. After a preliminary haranguo
and terse little lecture on the viscera,
which the charlatan sketched in with
colored crayons upon a blackboar on
which the human skeleton was outlined
IN white paint, the fellow came to bust
ness. Il am going to demonstrate to
you, said he, "by startling expert.
ment upon one of you by ISLANDERS that
my miraculous remedy can cure all
diseases of the lungs and chest. Now
whoever's got bad cough, or cold on
the chest, let him stand forward.
There was some little hesitation and
good deal of giggling. Don't be
afraid, my friends" said the quack
it's all free gratis, for nothing. Let
any afflicted person come forward and
I'll show him the nature Of his disorder,
and give him a packet of my lung
hcalors for nothing, At last a man
with violent cold and cough came for
ward. The quack doctor pretended to
sound his chest with stethoscope of
almost pantomimic proportions and in
formed the staring crowd that the pa
tient was in a galloping consumption
''My friend" said the quack to the
unfortunate victim, $50 terrible is this
disease that you can actually see it.
He handed glass tube to the patient
and then poured pint of clear water
into a large tumber just you blow
into that water, my friend he cried
The man obeyed, and the water grew
discolored, tItrpid, and at last as white
as if it had been mixed with milk. The
patient himself became as pale rs ashes.
This unhappy man, my friends said
the quack, rs he held the glass on high,
''if he hadn't had the good fortune to
come across me tonight wouldn't
have been long for this world.
| should have given him about
fortnight; that's all. Now
packet of my lung-healcrs will cure him.
What you see in the glass of water are
his vitiated humors the products of
corruption. My magic lung-healcrs
destroy these humors il the body or out
OF the body. Observe, my friends,
watch me carefully there is no dcccp-
ton here" The quack dropped pinch
from one of packet Of powders into
glass, and directed the patient to stir it
with the tube. The water became i'm
mediatcly clear Then he rcaped his
harvest. The water was lime water and
the carbonic acid in the mans breath
naturally threw down the carbonate of
lime at once, and rendered the water
turbd And the miraculous lung
healer was simply little citric acid and
sugar, which instantly dissolved it
London Saturday Review
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Hold Number Twelve
BY LUKE SHARP.

''oh, you heard about that, did you?
Who told your
Charley Branscome, the conductor.
He said he was running the ira in at the
time"
80 he was What did he say about
ito"
He said it was the most daring
thing he ever knew a fellow do You
see, we were all in his room talking
about railroad escapes and that sort of
thing, and then he told how you saved
the train"
Jess So" replied the telegraphor,
without seeming to be very well pleased
that his heroism had been the subject Of
conversation. Now, honor bright,
didn't he add anything by the way of
explanation to the story"
No. What explanation could there
be? You did save the train didn you?"
"Oh, | saved the train all right
enough. Charley is good sort on fell
low, | tell you. Yes he was conductor
on No. II at that time, still he might
have added something to the story of
heroism that would have been true
enough, yet 1t shows what a good
hearted fellow he is not to have cold it. "
why, were you to blame any about
the dispatch? understood him to say
that it was no fault on your part"
No, it was the train dispatcher's
fault. He should have let me know
sooner. | don't Drag much about that
episode, but I'll tell you the whole
story"
The operator paused a moment, and
seemed to look back on that most ex-
citing period Of his life The telegraph
machine chartered away on the table,
but the messages were for some other
place.
You see,' he began, No. II was
due here at 1:45 a. m. She stopped
here for water, and for orders. She
was the fastest train on the line at that
time, and Branscome did the ticket
scalpin9 on board. That night 1t was
raining cats and dogs, when Charley
came in with his lantern huag on his
arm, and stood at the desk till Pete
backed the engine from the water tank.
Then he said, nothing for me, chg and
said there was nothing, aud he saws.
well; so long, then, and out he went.
AT that moment there was a call for me
at the instrument, and ! answered it.
/ only waited to hear three words of
that message, but l tell you those three
words Just made my hair stand on end.
They were;
Hold No. u.
4 gave olc glance out the window
and saw the last Pullman sleeper slowly
passing. The remainder of that instant
was taken up in springlng clear over
that counter and boiling out on the
platform. luckily we had long plat
form at that station and / guess made
the quickest time up that set Of planks
that was ever made along that road.
You see on a day train it would not be
50 bad, for the conductor always swings
himself on the last coach, but on the
night trains, especially at that hour,
everybody IN the sleeper' are slecpers
themselves, ana so he gets on the last
regular car which Is about tho middle
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or some Tse. AnYmnr.

smith-Hcllo Jones. you don't look
very we'll this morning.
Jones-And don't feel as well as J
look Got up in the middle of the
night to take some pills, and swallowed
four collar buttons before ! found out
the mistake. - Judge
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lie had been ont very ate the night
before, and it wa, ten clock when Ia
came down 10 breakfast
Husband; What makes the coffee 50
weak
Vic. Because, it ha. been standing
% long lTcNa sitting.
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Some Democratic papers are very reck-
less in their statements regarding Harri-
son. One story, published by the Regis
Ter, OF this city, the New York World and
some other papers, is to the effect that
General Harrison resigned his command
during the war and returned to Indiana
to accept civil Office.
Every schoolboy, who has studied the
history Of tho Rebellion, knows that
General Harrison served with distinc-
ton to the last day OF the war, was at
Appomatox, participated at the head OF
his command in the grand review OF the
army in Washington in 1866, after the
final gun had been fred, and was one OF
the last men mustered out.
The New York World had the good
grace, q few days since, to apologize for
its misstatements; so have several other
Democratic paper-but the Register isn't
that sort OF journal. 1t is willing that
the lie shall go, with all the others it has
printed, and which have been corrected
by its Democratic cotemporaries. The
World says:
Upon the authority OF more than one
campaign biography tho World has been
led to make the statement that General
Benjamin Harrison left the army to nc
cept the position OF supreme court re-
porter in Indiana. As a matter OF fact it
seems that General Harrison entered the
army as Captain OF Company A Of the
18th Indiana Regiment in July, 1862,
and was mustered outwith his command
Mt the close OF the war. He was elected
to the civil office referred to in 1854, but
did not enter upon the discharge of his
duties until the close of the war. The
army record of General Harrison is first
class. The World aims to deal only with
facts. 1t is not always an easy matter to
obtain them when the demon OF politics
is abroad in the land.
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STEEL MAKING on THE SLOPE.
An English Master Purchases Site for n
Plant In tho Fur West.

An English Master Purchases n Site for n
Plant In tho Fur West.
army and Nary Journal.
1t has long been known to iron man
ufacturers that Peter Kirk, the manag-
ing owner OF the Moss Bay Hematite
Iron and Steel Company, of Working
ton, Cumberland, England, was in
Washington Territory investigating the
resources for such an establishment. He
has now purchased $500 acres Of land
on the eastern side OF Lake Washington,
for the establishment OF Bessemer
steel plant OF great proportions, in
Guiding rolling mills, etc, and the
work OF preparing this site has
already begun. The western shore Of
the lake forms the eastern boundary OF
the city OF Seattle, and the distance
from the city to the works across the lake
is about four miles. The site Of the
works has been named Kirkland. The
capital OF the New Moss Bay Company
is s., 100000, all OF which has been taken
in England. The new works are ex-
pected to employ to 1000 to 5000 men.
There arc limited quantities OF Bessemer
ore said to be equal in quality to the best
Lake Superior ores in the Snoqualime
Pass, near the summit OF the Cascade
range, and other needed articles are
within easy reach. This is the first at
tempt ut steel making from the raw ma
terials on the Pacific coast.
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CLOVER BORON, sullivan County, Tenn, June
Is, lSS7.-BlOOd BALM Co., Atlanta, Ca: Sir:-I
have been thinking OF writing TO you for some
time TO let you know OF the wonderful cure your
h. b. d. has affected on myself and daughter.
She, girl OF IL years, was taken with very
sore leg below the knee. called on the very
best doctors that the country could afford. and
they tended on her for four years TO no purpose.
Her leg got worse every year. ! used about 10
bottles Of other medicine to no purpose. The
doctors said the only remedy left was RmputA.
ton. That we all was opposed TO. was in
Knoxville tho Sth Of January, 1886, and while
buying n bill OF drugs called for II good blood
purifier, and MeSSrS. Sanford, Chamberlain &
Co. recommended the b. b. u. purchased one
half dozen bottles, and 10 my utter surprise
after using three or four bottles my girls leg was
entirely healed. also had very ugly running
sore on the calf Of my leg and one bottle cured
It, after having tried all other remedies. wish
you much success, and do hope that all suffer.
Ing humanity may hear and believe In the only
true blood purifier. have tried three or four
other purifiers, but the B, i, Il. Il the only one
that ever did me or mine any good. You can
use my name II you wish. / am well known In
this and Washington county, also all oyer Wiz
glnlA, 4, s, bison,
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HARRISOY'S CHINESE RECORD.

His Votes on tho Various BillE-He Report
cd Fnvornbly the Best Chinese Bill Ever
Drawn and Democratic Committee
Smothercdi It.
Congressman Morrow, OF San Francis
co, says that General Harrison's record
on the Chinese question is clear and
consistent. Hcsays the Page bill, against
which Senator Harrison voted, failed as
u law to keep out Chinese immigration,
and even rs amended in 1884 proved in
efGctual. Mr.. Morrow himself intro
duced billin the Forty-ninth Congress,
which was drawn up with particular care.
This bill was introduced in the Senate by
Senator Fair, and referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, Of which Mr..
Harrison was member, and passed the
committee unanimously. The bill was
conceded by Senator Mitchell, OF Ore
gon, to be great improvement upon
any anti Chinese bill that had been in
troduced ut any previous time in Con-
gress. 1t passed the Senate unanimous
", but was smothered in the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, OF which
Perry Belmont, Democrat, was Chair
man. Ofthe charge that Senator Harri-
son, in 1882, opposed legislation against
Chinese immigration, and voted
against Senator Farley's amend
ment TO q bill providing
against Chinese naturalization, Mr..
Morrow says that for four years before
it had been decided that native OF
China was not entitled to become n Citi-
zen OF the United States and that when
the Farley amendment was introduced
Senator Edmunds proposed an amend
ment in these words: Nothing in the
act shall be construed to change the ex-
listing naturalization laws so as to admit
Chinese persons to citizenship" Sena-
tor Harrison voted for this amendment
in preference to the one proposed
by Farley. Mr.. Morrow says that he
knows that Mr.. Harrison was in favor
OF a clear-cut proposition for abrogating
the existing treaty and excluding the
Chinese absolutely, which was pre-
cisely tho position taken by the con
gresham from the Pacific coast. He
says General Harrison's position was
justified by the fact that u new treaty
has been negotiated with the approval
OF both parties, under which Chinese
immigration will be stopped, and the
bill which is the foundation for this
new treaty just negotiated with China
is the one which Senator Harrison voted
for in committee
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his camp in order to find the missing
slave-with this indersement: II decline
to obey this order" Even in
a colonel OF volunteers, who had
the War Governor OF u great state
at his back, such action must have
required a deal OF nerve. The ByStdRder
appreciates it all the more because he
himself was one Of the last, il not the
very last, to be put uuder arrest for
like offense. He was only an insignifl.
cant subaltern, however, and nothing
but the Presidents proclamation and
the needless order Of superior assign
ing him to duty pending his arrest
saved him from dismissal. He had no
War Governor behind him, and II there
had been one he would never have
dared refuse to obey specific written
order-it was all he dared do to evade q
general one.
The incident has set him to wandering
whether this quiet man from Indiana to
whom fate has assigned the leadership
of the Republican army, may not after
all be the very one who shall reconquer
fol- the free man OF the South the right
which organized violence has taken from
himP
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TIE free whisky cry raised by some
Democratic newspapers, is the essence OF
dcmagogy. The Springfield Onion calls
attention to its absurdity when it says:
"Do the Democratic organs expect to
brighten anybody by talking about free
whisky in tho Republican platform?
Why not change the tune and boot at
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union which officially demands the re-
moval of the internal revenue tax on
whisky? The women want free wills
Ky too, don't they?"
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Mr.. Harrison and tho Strike of 1887.


The "copper-fastened" organ of the
free trade wing OF the Democratic party
in this State is still harping on the part
Gen. Harrison took in the strikes OF
1887, despite the fact that many OF the
most reputable Democratic newspapers
in the country have denounced the rep
RESERVATIONS us foolish campaign lies.
1t has been shown, upon the authori-
ty OF Democratic papers, that Gen. Har-
rison did no more than his duty as a
citizen, and that the words which have
been attributed to him, expressing hos
tility toward the laboring men, were
nevor uttered by him. A standing re-
ward Of one thousand dollars lies in an
indianapolis bank, to be paid to the
person or persons who can prove that
he ever made use OF the silly declara-
ton that "a dollar day is enough for
a workingman." The New York Times,
the Post, the World, Harpcr'S Weekly,
tho Cincinnati Enquirer and many other
Democratic papers, all supporters OF
Cleveland, have denounced these mis-
representations OF Harrison, and demon
strated their disbelief of them by pub
fishing the true history OF the events of
1887, and Gen. Harrison's connection
Herewith.
The part that General Harrison played
during the critical days OF 1877 was the
same us that played by hundreds OF lead
ing Democrats. Indianapolis was threat
ened with scene similar to the awful
one that occurred in Pittsburgh few
DAYS previous. The city was at the
mercy OF ten thousand maddened men.
MANY OF them counselled peace, but
their advice was not needed by the rad
ical element. The feeling was at fever
heat, and the city was threatened with
destruction. The great union depot was
surrounded by a mob numbering thou
sands, and tho building was packed with
innocent women and children, passen-
gers from trains that came in upon the
thirteen roads ccntering there, and de-
tained because engineers could not
be found to Ia = them to their
destinations. The inhabitants OF the.
city were terrified. Though many
OF them were in sympathy with the
strikers, believing that their cause was
Just, they knew that the mob was led
by hot heads who were melting the men
to deeds Of lawlcssness, and that the
conservative element who desired a
peaceful solution OF the pending diff
Guilty would be unable to restrain them.
1t was then that cool headed men came
forward and organized the peaceful cii-
zens into companies OF militia for the
protection Of the city and the valuable
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Tint Antl.Lnhor RECORD.

The Chicago Inter Ocean, in comment
ing on the Democratic talk about Harri-
sons "anti-labor record" calls attention
to n little incident which is not without
its point. Laboring men will remember
it longer than they will the ridiculous
charges his opponents arc making
against him as a man not in sympathy
with the workingmen.
A contractor who was building house
for Gen. Harrison deserted them with
out paying their wages. Harrison had
paid the contractor for building the
house, and had nothing whatever to do
with the workmen. AS soon as he heard
the contractor had disappeared, and that
he was indebted to them, General Har-
rison got tho payroll and paid them their
wages in full.
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uorrIson,s Individuality.

Speaking Of General Harrison's indi-
yiduality, the BysidndeT was much inn
pressed with little paragraph which he
found floating around in the newspapers
somewhere during the past week. It
stated that General Harrison, then Col
onel OF the Seventeen Indiana Volun-
teers, being on duty in Kentucky in the
fall OF 1862, returned an order for the
delivery OF slave-or more probably for
an order to permit the master to inspect
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Blood TaInt From Birth.


BooSvIIE, ISD., January 25, 1851.
shall ever praise the day that you gentlemen
were born, and shall bless the day that your
medicine was known 10 me. ! had blood poison
from birth, and 40 much 10 that all the doctors
Of my town said would be crippled for life.
They said would lose my lower limb. could
not stand In my class TO ieciie my lessons, and
eleven bottles Of your Botanic Blood Balm cured
me sound and we'll. You can use my name rs
you sec flt In my case, there were knots on my
as large as hens egg.
Yours, MIRTLR N. TANNER.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-10

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND declined the
invitation to attend the reunion at
Gettysburg, owing to combining duties
in Washington" He visited Baltimore,
however, on the same day he was in
vited to be present at Gettysburg.
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The National Encampment Of the
Sons Of Veterans, to he held here in
August, is going to be a great event in
the history OF Wheeling. Let oil her
citizens unite in extending the visitors
from other States hearty welcome.
Iii in the line OF booming the old
town.