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OUR MISSIONARY OPPORTUNITY IN
CHINA.

Foreign Secretary Smith read a paper
on the needs of the China mission. The
missionary force now at work in China,
he said, bears no comparison with the
needs of the field. Twenty years ago
there were IA ordained men under the
Board in China; ten years ago the num-
Der was IL; IN the same missions there
are today "a ordained men; gain of
five men for each decade. But the total
number of communicates in China in
the last ten years has increased from
l3, 500 to 81, 200; all the work has more
than doubled, and the opportunities are
immeasurably greater.
At such rate we shall never finish
our part of the work in this great EN-
pire. Matched with the rapidly opening
opening opportunities in these fields this
essentially stationary condition of the
force is humiliating fact to confess.
We seem but playing at the evangeliz =
tion of this people. The latest statistics
show total fOI eign force of 4S9 ordaiL-
led men and 22l single women engaged
in the work, supported by 149l native
helpers. Considered in themselves, this
seems like goodly array of missiona-
ries. But when we recall that 400 000
OOO souls receive all their Christian
teaching from this body, the situation
changes at once. We know nothing in
this country that begins to suggest the
facts, here you must go far to find a re-
gion where every family and almost
every soul does not have some tOlerable
knowledge of Christ and His salvation.
We are more than 60,0O0,000, with an
evangelical church for every 900 people
in the land. In China not one in 400
ever heard the name of Christ, or has as
yet had the opportunity of hearing that
name.
Under such comparisons, how the
number of Christian laborers in China
dwindlcs and comes to seem ns nothing
compared with the need! No one deems
the missionary force in Micronesia too
large, and yet IN total population OF
1000 seven men are at work, or one to
every $4,000 souls. In China the rate is
one to every $3.50 souls.
Let any one visit Constantinople, a city
of 5000 people, where Christians, real
and nominal, number several thousands,
and consider the standing and prospects
of the gospel there, If be can at all
realize the facts which surround him he
Will be sensible of an overpowering feel
ing OF hopelessness and dismay as to the
ultimate evangelization of that vast pop.
ulaIion. But what if he were the only
one IN all that countless multi ude who
knew the gospel or honored his Lord
And yet that is virtually the situation Of
each one of the Christian preachers now
in the Chinese Empire. Can it be that
this crying need and this sublime oppor-
tuDity are understood and appreciated
by the Christian churches today Ii
the remarkable conjunction of open
doors and accessible millions there, with
increasing wealth and unexampled mul.
titu les of highly educated Christian
youths here seen and its meaning under
stood ?-RepOrt to 4. NJ B. c. f. N.
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ALIrrLE PREYIous.

A couple from across the border came
to the city yesterday and stopped at one
of the best hotels. The young lady was
plainly but neatly dressed and was a
handsome brunette. The young man
stepped up TO the clerk after having es-
corted the lady to the parlor, and asked
where he could find a minister, as he
vented to get "spliced.' Upon being
informed the clerk handed him the pen
to register.
81 don't want to register now" said
the young man "wsit till after we get
married. then l can write it Mr.. and
Mrs. -"
That don't make any difference" )"
said the clerk, "as long as you are going
to get married" -.
The youthful swain stepped up to the
desk, took the pen, and looked over 1t
carefully, and then at the register. His
face grew red, and he hesitateingly in
scribed Joseph Link" upon one line;
and upon the next, MRS. Lottie Link,
all of Scranton" .... ...
Il wonder what she would say il she
knew IT," he said, in an awe struck
voice, and hurried out in search Of a
clergyman. The inscription was soon
legalized. .-Binghdmton Republican.
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TEMPERANCE ARKANSAS

There is popular notion that Arkan-
sas is "bowie-kuife' State, q lawless
and an ignorant State. | shared this be-
fore went there. | cannot disprove
the ignorance of the country districts.
AS | said, more money is needed to make
the public school system effective. Bui
in is general aspect the State ia as or
derly and moral as any. The laws
against carrying concealed weapons are
strict, and are enforced. Ii is a fairly
temperate State. Under the high license
and local option laws, prohibition pre-
walls in twO-thirds of the State, and The
popular vote is strictly enforced. In
4S of the IS counties no license is grant
ed, in other counties only a single town
votes license. and in many OF the re-
naming counties many towns refuse it,
In five counties only is liquor perfectly
free. A special law p 'ohibiis liquor
selling within five miles of a college
within three miles Of church or school
majority of the adult inhab tants car
prohibit It. With regard to liquor sell
ing, woman suffrage practically exists
The law says that on petition of a ma
jority of the adult population in any dis
trict the county judge must refus,
license. The women, therefore, without
going into politics, sign the petition,
and creste prohibiiion.-Chdrley Dldlei
Warner in Hdrper'S Magazine for Sep
tender.
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NUMBER 80.

lands almost worthless. / meant well
Charlie. Give me credit for that"
Weston had never doubted it. Now
he wrote, Draw on me, Will, for g.
saYed from my salary long since, and
profitabIy invested. Pay it in the fu-
ture If you wish, to some struggling
church in the West. For the present
accept it as a claim of friendship"
Slowly, but surely. Weston moved
on in his career to assistant cashier; then
cashier; and finally to president, where
he now stands, holding the public con-
hdence.
The sisters friend now presides over
his beautiful home. The mother and
sister are with him in the winter
months, and his brother stands high in
the profession OF the law. All know the
story OF his conflict and his victory;
love him" all the more for the dan
gers he passed, and never forgot the
sustaining words
"When thou passeth through the wa
ters l will be with thee. and through the
floods they shall not overflow thee
Esther Walden Barnes IN NetU York Ob-
seruer.
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KISSES.

A prominent physician calls The kiss
ian elegant disseminator of disease. D."
He says, fever is spread by it, so are
lung diseases" He maintains that ifthe
kissing custom were driven out of the
land ''it would save one-tenth of one
per cent of human lives" which are
now sacrificed. Out upon the gnarled
and saples5 vagabond Evidently kisses
are not for such as he and the old fox
says, the grapes are sour. Let him de-
vote himself 10 making our women
healthy and booming that kisses may
be kisses. This can surely be done by
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription which
is magical in its effect, upon all diseases
peculiar to females. After taking it
there will be no more irregularity, no
more backache, no more nervous pros
tration, no more general debility. All
druggists.
To regulate the Stomach, Liver and
Bowels, DIR. Pierce's Pellets excel. %
cents a vial one dose.
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SYMPATHETIC MRS HARRISON.
A Good Story About Her Told by Mu-
Iual ErIend.

Nuhl Erlon0s
When Mrs. Harrison was a gill she
was Miss Carrie Scott and was a student
in the Miami Seminary at Oxford, Ohio,
of which her father, DR.. John Scott was
president.
In her class was young girl who wss
painfully awkward, and whose parents
were very poor. Miss Scott on the con.
tary, was an unusually bright, pretty
girl, and a very great faVorite.
IL chanced that an entertainment was
TO be given, at which all Of the young
ladies we're especially desirous of max
ing good appearance. Miss Scott one
day found her unfortunate classmate in
tears, and in her sympathetic way in
quired the cause.
IL haven't any thing 10 wear at the
concert but my shabby old fisnDel
Dress" SObbed the girl; land all the rest
of you will look 20 nice; know am
foolish to care, but cannot help It."
"Of course you can't, Mary replied
her pretty comforter. 81 would feel
Just that way myself, but don't cry any
more, and I'll see il we can't manage
some way TO help you out.
But. Mary, il she was poor, was corre-
spondingly proud, and would not listen
to the proposition that she should wear
a dress belonging TO her generous friend.
Accordingly Miss Scott set her womAns
with at work to devise to devise some
plan whereby her friends feelings might
be saved, .y...
The class were planning, girl like,
what they should wear, and from their
clever Miss Scott got her
.-
She proposed that they should all dress
alike, and as it was winter, time when
white was never worn in those days, she
suggested blue calico with little white
sprlgs. The will of their presidents
daughter was law, and the girls eagerly
fell in with the plan, and Mary was able
after all to be as well dressed as the 9th
ers. The lady who told the story show
ed the reporter piece Of the identical
blue calico Of which these dresses were
made.
Mrs. Harrison has lost none of that
kindly feeling or ready sympathy that
made her 30 popular as girl. A few
years ago she gave up pleasure trip in
order that she might comfort and care
Tor an old servant, who was dying Of
and less than a month ago
she was seen to take baby from the
arms of tired mother al railroad sta
ion, and walk the floor until she hushed
he little one to sleep,-Net0 York Press,
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Oh, What A Cough.

Will you heed the warning, The sig
nal perhaps of the sure approach OF thai
more terrible disease, consumption. Ash
yourselves II you can afford for the sake
of saving so cents, to run the risk and
do nothing for it. We know from ex-
perience that Shiloh's Cure will Cure
your Cough. 1t never fails. This ex
plains why more than million bottles
were sold the past year. 1t relievei
Group and whooping cough at once
Mothers do not be without it, For lam,
back. side or chest, use Shiloh's Poroui
Plaster. Sold by J. T. Shurtleff, MAR
street, Bennington.
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Mr.. Choate was sitting in his office,
when young man-very well known in
society, who was always extremely well
dressed, took great pride in his family
connections, and had pretty high opin..
ion of himself generalIy-entered. and
introduced himself something as follows:
II am Reginald Adolphus Jones" "Ahv'
replied Mr.. Choate take a chair. !"
Yes continued the young man, bent
upon imp essing his Importance upon
the lawyer, Il am-er-the son-in-law.
you know, of General Smith" "IndeedV
replied Choate take two chairs"
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THE OLD sC1ssoRs' soLILoQUY.

1 Sm lying at rest In the sanctum tonight
The place is deserted and still
To my right the exchanges and manuscripts
white,
To my LEFT are the ink and the quill
Yes, the quill, for my masters old'fashloned and
quaint
And refuses to write with pen;
He insists that old Franklin, the editor saint,
Used quill, and he'll initiate Ben.
l loved the old fcllow-together for years
We have managed the Farmers Gazette,
And although I'm old I'm his faVorite shears
And can crowd the compositors yet
But my duties are rather too heavy, think,
And ofteutimes envy the quill
As 1t laIily leans with its nib in the ink
While I'm slashing away Sith will.
But when was new-I remember It WELL
Though a score Of long years has gone by
The heaviest share OF the editing fell
On the quill, and think with sigh
or the days when Ia scissor an extract or two
From neighboring editors leader,
Then laugh in my sleeves at the quill as 1t flew
In behalf of the general reader
l am being paid off for my merriment then,
For my master is wrinkled and gray,
And seldom lays hold on his primitive pen
Except when he wishes to say
I'VE are needing some money to run the machine,
And subscribers will please to remit"
Or, that last load OF wood that Jones brought us
was green,
And so knotty that it couldn't be split"
He is nervous and deaf and is getting quite blind
(Though he hatesto acknowledge the lAtter),
And I'm sorry to say it's puzzle to find
Head or tail to the most of his matter.
The compositors plague him whenever they see
The result of a luckless endeavor,
But the daring old rascal just lays it on me,
And make no remonstrance whatever.
Yes, shoulder the blade-very little care
For the jolly compositor's Jest,
For think of head with the silvery hair
That will soon, very soon, be at rest.
1e has labored full long for the true and the good
Mid the manifold troubles that irk US
dis only emolumcut raiment and food,
And pass now and then to the circus
deigho from the past comes a memory bright
OF lass with the freshness Of clover,
Who used me to clip from her tresses one night
memorial lock for her lover.
That dear little lock is still glossy and brown,
But the lass is much older and fatter,
And the youth-be's an editor here in the town
I'm employed on the staff OF the latter.
am lying at rest in the sanctum tonight
The place is deserted and still
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Warmers Log Cabin Rcmedies--old
fashioned, simple compounds, used in the
days of our hardy forefathers. are "old-
timers but "old reliable" They prom
ise "Sarsaparilla, Hops and Buchu
Remedy" Cough and Consumption
Remedy" Hair Tonic, EXTRACT" for
external and internal use, "Plasters, I"
Rose Cream" for Catarrh, and Liver
Pills" They are put up by H. II. War.
ner & Co., proprietors Of Warmers Safe
Remedies, and promise to equal the
standard value of those great prepara-
tions. All druggists keep them.
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1--WE Point With Prider

To the Good name at home," won by
Hoods Sarsaparilla. In Lowell, Mass,
where it is prepared, there is more OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla sold than of all
other medicines. and 1t has given the
best of satisfaction since its introduction
10 years ago. This could not be if the
medicine did not posses merit. It you
suffer from impure blood, try Hoods
Sarsaparilla and realize its peculiar Gu
rative power.
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IntRreeted paoule.

Advertising patent medicine in the
peculiar way in which tie proprietor of
Kemp's Balsam, for Coughs Lnd Colds,
does Il is indeed wonderful. he author
ICES all druggists to give those who call
for 1t sample bottle free, that they
may try It before purchasing. The large
bottles are SOC and $l.00. We certainly
would advise a trial. II may save you
from consumption. For sale by j. T.
.Shurueff, Bennington, Vt.
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That the bug-a-boo of Republic in
timidatlon Of workingmen is being trot-
ted out in New York and New Jersey
Indicates that the Democrats in both
those State are losing hope and are get
ting ready to explain defeat.
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Y ()lj

can be cured by purchasing a bottle OF ANTI
APOPLECTINE and taking 1t according to
directions. 1t is strongly endorsed by the leading
physicians OF Montreal, the only" ApOpleIy Pre-.
ventve, and is everywhere regarded as a sure cure
for Paralysis, Heart Disease, Rheumatism,
Angina Pectoris, Chronic Bronchitis,
Liver Complaint, Kidney and Bladder
Troubles, Sciatica, Dyspepsin, &C., &c.
For sale by all druggists. Price 81 90 bottle, SIX
bottles for $500. Send to DR.. T. s, HUTCHINSON
CO., Enosburgh Falls, VT, U. 8. A, for circulars
and testimonials. 100 Emergencles" price is cts.
Mailed free to readers OF this paper. Tells what to
do in case of accident and what may result from
belnK
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Gus TOM WORK A SPECIALITY,
AFSE:

Youa sufferer from any of this list of symptoms,
some Of which warn you that you are liable to an
attack of ApopleIy Dizziness or Pressure in the
Head, Spots Before Eyes, Pain Around or Palpita.
tion of Heart Pain in Region of Heart with Feeling
OF sufocaton, Ringing Sound in Ears, Numbness or
Prickly Sensation of Limbs, especially the Arm,
Pain between Shoulders and in Side Pain in Small
OF Back or Hip, Dry Cough, Flatuleuce, Sour
Stomach, General Debility, Loss Of Appetite, &C.,
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A. q. CUTLER. Dentist
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RENNINGTON co. SAVINGS BANK.
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Bennington County National bans, @ m o,cipcL ypcLI
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draws draws interest from the first day Of the next sue
creding month Interest computed "a JangapS sgSpSS
lst and July lst and Il not withdraw Will @ u sccyvs
o principal, and interest ther'"i'e' VIII ""'
uponlt. ,,. I r,doub,.,.
prsonal securities; ,~,,, ,...,l.,,
W FHAWKS, Vic, President
J.T. SHUR1 LEFT, Treasurer,
q, W. UARMAN, Secretary.
TRusrEEs-A y. Valentine" VIM T.; n"wk''
q W. Uarman. Oln Scott, J T. Shurl"f /. T.,
Gibson.
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National Republican., 1888-04-09
sad News FROM Mr.. Blaine.

We reproduce below q special dispatch
from Boston to the New York Herald of
yesterday giving an account Of the illness
Of Mr.. Blaine in such detail by physician
of standing as to leave no reasonable doubt
Of the truth Of the statement. This. will
explain to the many friends of Mr.. Blaine
throughout the country the cause of his
letter announcing that his name would not
he presented to the National Republican
Convention as candidate for the presi-
dcncy;
BosTuS Mass, Apr DIR. winthrop T..
Haywood, who has been three years in Vienna
studying medicine, returned to Boston last
saturday. Since completing his studies DR..
Haywood has been travelling ON the continent,
and passed tic larger portion Of the last win.
ter In Florence, where he frequently saw and
talked with Mr.. Blaine, who is now living
there,
How about Mr.. Baire." asked the ITernl |
representative of DR., Haywood to-day, 'iS he
rs III as reported, or is the story simply u
campaign lic:
"NIr. Blaine Is not sick IN the sense of re.
Quirng constant medical care" replied Dr..
Haywood, but he Is far from being well, and
believe he has progressive maady, which
will cause his death in short time unless he
gets relief, of which there Is little prospect"
what ailS him.
Though was not called to attend lin pro.
fcSsionally. from what he said to me and from
his general habits and appearance, | have no
hesitation in saying that he has diabetes,
which Will progress TO n fatal termination.
Why, he has lost twenty pounds of flesh inside
Of two months When he went across last
June he was II plump man, weighing nearly, IT
not quite, 200 POUNDS Now he is Il smivclcd,
handy legged old man, who will not tip the
scales at 100 pounds. His face is thin and
blue, his shoulders are STOPPING, those big, full
eyes are hollow and undcrscorcd with blue
bands. and that big under lip is as pale as II
piece Of Comuna marble. 40 one can form
any idea of how he has failed this winter"
rs he able TO be up and aboutE"
Yes, but he takes extra good care of him.
self aud cannot endure much exercise He
told me that about all he lived upon was the
blue't kind Of skim milk, which he took to
supply the loss Of cacsin and albumcnoids
He assured me that his reason for declining
the nomination was that he felt PRESENT.
ment that he was going to die, ana did not
wish 10 incur the arduous labors of cam.
raign, fearing he would not hold up under the
strain
DO you think there Is any probability of
his dying in a short tme$''
mo, not for six months or u year. though
think he cannot, with the best Of care, sur.
Nive over two years"
National Republican., 1888-04-09
THE SOCIAL WORLD.
Readings and Entertainments to Occur
at an Early Day.

Miss Mary Tucker Magill, who is niece
Of Hon. Randolph Tucker, will give q lit
erary entertainment on Friday evening at
1871 street. Her topics include those in
teresting queens of the French salon, Nine.
Recamier, the beauty, and Nine. de Stael,
the wit, about whom the world never
weaIies of hearing. Miss Magill bring with
her the highest concentrations from bril-
liant authorities.
Mr.. George Riddle, the well known c'Ocu-
ZIONIST, will read for company Of Mrs
Whitncy's invited guests at her house ON
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Allan MCLane will entertain party
OF friends this afternoon at musicale,
Mrs. Lathers, Of New York. Is In the city.
the guest Of Judge and Mrs. Macarthur
ScnatOrand Mrs. Stewart have announced
by card, the recent marriage of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Fox, and Senior Romero, of the
Spanish legation, who will take IIp their
residence al 1904 Massachusetts avenue. and
he at home to their friends ON TUESDAYS.
Miss GOldic, of Scotland, who is tho pucst
OF Hon. John W. Thompson, has been
Joined by her brother, and viii return home
early next month.
National Republican., 1888-04-09

eminent. That was the controlling idca
which made the representative district the
unit of power, not only in the national legis-
lGture, but in the Republican party council.
The law of the party in selecting dele
gates TO It's convention cannot he too widely
known, and we reprint It from the tenth
section Of the "Rulcs OF Order and Bust
ness" adopted by the last National Conven-
tion. After providing for the selection of
the National Committee. that section reads
rs follows:
Each congressional district In the United
states shall elect its delegates to the National
Convention in the same way rs the nomina.
ton OF delegates TO Congress Is made,
DccgateS.atlarge for each state and their al
ternates shall be elected by state conventions
In their respective states.