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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
RELIeIous ANn EDUCATIONAL

1T Is estimated that there are six
thousand conversions to Christianity
per day now going on. And there is
plenty of material yet left to work
on.
Father 0'Conner, the converted
priest, is said to have led 800 Catholics
Into Professionalism in five years in this
city. Christian Intelligencer.
The Northern Presbyterian Church
reports 1853, 14s communicates, the
Southern 161, 742, and the Cumberland
100, 1856. The three churches have re-
spectively PAL, 6s and 119 presbyteries.
Missions in Siam are being placed up
on strong financial foundation. Gifts to
the amount of several hundred thousand
dollars have been recently made by the
King and others for schools and other
missionary work. Siam is called the
Garden of the East.
There are two thousand Icelanders
In the city of Winnipeg, and Presby-
terrain mission has been formed under
the care of a converted Icelander. An
lcelandic hymn-book has been printed,
and there are two Icelandic newspapers.
No church organization has yet been
formed, but it is probable that there
will soon be one.
The following additional statistics
show that the number Of students in the
theological seminaries this year will be
unusually large. The figures indicate
the number of new students entering
each institution: Newton (Baptist) III;
Yale Congregational 80: Hartford (Con-
gregational 81; Union presbyterian
So; New Brunswick (Reformed) IS; Lane
(Presbyterian) 10.
1t is reported from Japan that Wis
count Ennomoto, the new Minister Of
Education, is devoting special attention
to the introduction of technical educa-
ton into the primary schools of the EN-
pire, and that he has turned to Italy as
model His scheme is to include tech
nical education in the curriculum of the
preparatory schools, and to give chill
dren technical training from the outset.
Japan is not so ready to succumb to
Christianity as is commonly supposed.
New temples are being built with lavish
expenditure. The one at Kioto has been
eleven years in construction, and six
years more will elapse before compile
ton. It's total cost will exceed S1O,OOO,-
900. In connection with the great tenn
Piles of Kioto, and near the one describ-
ed, is a large and well-equipped Bud
dhist college, with fine curriculum and
a crowd of students.
Women are now enjoying advanced
instruction in moro than two hundred
colleges in tho United States, and the
attendance last year was nearly four
thousand. Among these institutions
are the following; Bryn Mawr College,
Harvard Annex, Evelyn College, Column
bia College, Oberlin College, University
of Wisconsin, Vassar College, Univer-
sity of Kansas, University
of California, Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology, University of Michigan
Northwestern University, Wesleyan
University, Syracuse University, Cornell
University, Sage University, Boston Uni
versity, Smith College and Wellesley
College.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
New spellinr hut an old wav.

1t is striking illustration of the fact
that new light is often found to be only
old darkness, that one can see in
the library of the British Museum, un.
der the date of 1885, more than three
hundred years ago, volume, the title
of which is:
''Hsopz FABLE, in tru ortography, with
grammar notz. Heruntoo ar also iooine6
the short sentencez ov the wy Cato
both ov which autorz are TRANSLATED out
ov Latin intoo English"
The author of this sentence spelled
button, butn. But this is not equal to
the direction of letter received lately
by gentleman who was addressed from
abroad, as in the "Youknightid Stats
of Aymerrika." The name Hudson, /"
which originally was Hodges son, is
found, in English publications, spelled
in twenty-five different waYs.-Detroit
Free Press
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

A WHEELING CIV. Va.) man caught O
mouse with four ears in trap in his
store tho other day.
A REMARKABLE sweet sugar pumpkin
was raised on farm in Stoneham, Mass.
1t was a "twin," two well-rounded,
large-sized pumpkins being joined by
skin and by stem, the weight being nine
teen pounds.
York COUNTY, Pa, has an interesting
freak of nature. 1t consists of six ears
of corn grown together, something after
the manner of the Siamese twins, from
one stem. For about two inches from
the stem the ears are all joined together
as one ear. Aboye that point they
branch out into FIVE distinct ears.
IN Dublin, a small town in Laurens
County, Ca, there lives blue man. He
is Caucasian, but instead of being
white is greenish blue, and is known
as "Blue Billy" His whole skin is blue,
his tongue and the roof of his mouth are
blue, and where his eyes should be
white is seen the same blue color.
FARMER living about three miles
southeast of Akron has hen which oc.
casionally lays an egg of solid shell
throughout, usually after none of any
kind have been laid for several days.
Six OF these curiosities have already
been secured. They are SO hard that
they can be thrown smartly against
wall without any visible effect
A MAN thirty years old, with no hair
on his head, no whiskers on his face and
no eyebrows, is under treatment in st.
Louis hospital. He comes from Texas
and claims to have been hairless from
his birth. He has been married once,
and another Lone Star belle has agreed
to become his bride If the defects in his
makeup can be remedied. That is why
he put himself in the DOCTORS hands. :
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
A weekly Magazine

is really what THE YoUTH's COMPANION is.
1t publishes each year as much matter as
the four dollar monthlies, and is illustrated
by the same artists. 1t is an educator in
every home, and always an entertaining
and wholesome companion. 1t has a unique
place in American family life. If you do
not know it, you will be surprised to see
of S1.75 a year. The price sent now will en-
title you TO the paper to January 1891. Ad-
dress, The YoUTH's COMPANION, Boston,
Mass.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
CATARRH.
Catarrhal Donfness-IIay Fever-A New
Home Treatment.

Catarrhal Dontness-Hay FeVer-A New
Home Treatment.
Sufferers are not generally aware that
these diseases are contagious, or that they
are due to the presence Of living parasites
in the lining membrane of the nose and
eustaGhiaq tuhes Microscopic research,
the result of this discovery is that simple
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness
are permanently cured in from one to three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not snuff or an
ointment; both have been discarded by
reputable physicians as injurious. A pamph-
let explaining this new treatment is sent on
receipt of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. H. Dixon Il Son, cor. of John
and King Street, Toronto, Canada.-Chris-
tan Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

To THE EDIToR:-Please inform your
the above named disease. BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. l shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and post-ofice
address Respectfully, I, A. SLooUM, NJ. c.,
ISL Pearl street, New York.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
GRANVILLE, IND, Feb. ID, 1887.

7 y
Rochester, Pa. Dear Str: Ihave
used your Antidote for Malaria for over a
quarter of century and have found it to be
in every respect all that you claim forit II
not only cures chills and fever of every
kind, but it is the best medicine ever
knew to build up the system when broken
down from any cause Respectfully yours,
f. NJ. Brown.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
Progress.

It is very important in this age Of vast
material progress that a remedy be pleas
taken, acceptable to the stomach and
healthy in its nature and effects. Possess
ing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one
perfect laxative and most gentle diuretic
I'm
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

ONE would think that jailer would be In
pain all the time with so many felons on his
hands.-Kearney Enterprise.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

MUST not be COMPOUNDED with common cath
artic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liv-
err Pills are entirely unlike them in every re-
spect One trial will prove their superiority.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

For BRoNcHIAn, Asthmatic and Pulmo-
nary Complaints, "Bropns Bronchial
Iroches" have remarkable curative proper
ties. Sold only in 5Ores.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

Yoy nay sing o. ne beauty OF sprlnatime
Yh8t CLOVIS on the cheek OF the YOUNG
But sing of beauty that's raref
Thin any OF which you have sung.
The beauty that's seen in the faces
OF women whose summer Is DER,
The autumn.like beauty that charms Us
Far more than the beauty OF yore.
But this beauty is seen too rarely. The
faces Of most women lose the beauty Of
youth too soon. Female disorders are like
frosts which come to nip the flowers which
betoken good health, without which there
can be no real beauty If our American
women would fortify themselves against
the approach of the terrible disorders Sc
prevalent among them, by using DR..
Pierce's Fayorite Prescription, their good
looks would be retained to "sweet old
age" This remedy is guaranteed cure for
al the distressing weaknesses and derange-
ments peculiar to women.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

WEEDS are not worn by grass-widows,
because grass-widows are not so for lawn
as they ought to BEN Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

IT takes US half our lives to learn that
mankind are fools; and the other half to be
convinced that we are one of them.--Puck
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

SOME Of the compound Kalamazoo Greek
names suggested for the killing Of murder
ers by electricity are more terrifying than
the thing itself. Hartford Courant
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

oregon, tho Paradise OF Farmers
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
In the world. Full information free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

THE Public Awards the Palm to Hale's
Honey Of Horehound and Tar for coughs
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
THE ONLY NIAGARA ROUTE.

SENATOR HoAR, Of Massachusetts,, is the
finest linguist in Congress.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

A 10c CIGAR in quality, but only Sc. CT
gar in price is ''Tansill's Punch.n
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

DoN'T heap Goals Of fro upon your en-
emy's head Remember that coal is six
dollars per ton Economy is weGlth.-Troy
Press.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

A SYNDICATE Of cattlemen has perfect
right to water Its stock.-Rochester Post
Express
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, one a dose. Cure
headache, constipation and indigestion.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

"A duel was fought in Paris the other
day in which those old-fashioned weap-
ons, the bow and arrow, were employed.
The principals were each given six
foot bow and culver full of steel
headed arrows. Then the seconds htd.
Shooting began at will. After several
shots had been exchanged one of tie
combatants started to run and the other
chased him, shooting as he ran. Tbs
first fighter climbed tree and the vic,
tor shot arrows among the branches un.
til his stock was exhausted, and Their
went quietly home to breakfast.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

A BUSINESS MISUNDERSTANDING the
matrimonial promise of an heiress.oMer-
chant Traveller,
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

THOSE who wish to practice economy
should buy Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Forty pills in a vial; only one pill a dose.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

dime museums it is easy to believe that this
Is freak country. Boston Courier.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

Miss MAxsE, q girl Of sixteen, the
daughter of Admiral Maxse Of the English
navy, was the first lady to ascend to the TOP
Of the Eiffel tower in Paris. :
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

"A servant girl at hotel in Tomales
CAL, saved the town from being burned
up one night recently, by selling the
dinner bell and running through the
streets barefoot and in her night dress
giving the alarm for fire in barn.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

WHEN train is telescoped the passengers
are apt TO see stars.-Baltimore american.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

Speak kindly to ther woman who is workin' for
yer praise,
Thor same way ez you used ter in those happy
courtin' days;
She likes appreciation jest the same ez me an
you,
An it's only right an proper tibet yer give her
what is due
Don't wait until her lamp o life is burnin' dim
an low,
Afore you tell her what you orter told her long
ago
Now's Their time ter cheer her up an put her
blues 10 rout-
You've lost ther chance to do it when the
Light
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

THE man who wears his heart on hii
sleeve does not do it in order to beat his way
in lhe.-Kearney Enterprise.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

Ste Louis to New York and Boston.
WABASH TRAIN NO. 42-VESTIBULED.
Leaves st. Louis. D. m.
arrives Niagara Falls. IA p. IN.
Arrives New York.............T:20 q. M
arrives Boston. ..............,9 $3.50 a. N,
Only through line from st. Louis
TO the Grand Central Station, New York
via Niagara Falls.
teaches the Grand Central Station
OVER TWO HOURS EARLIER than
any competitor.
Arrives Boston via Hoosac Tunnel
FIVE HOURS EARLIER than any
competitor.
Is the ONLY Through Sleeping Car Line
st. Louis to Boston, leaving st. Louis
at night.
Stops at Falls View Station Expressly
to give patrons the best possible view of
NIAGARA.
Has been for NINE YEARS the only line
TO New York and Boston running
DINING CARS.
For Tickets, Time Tables and full
information call upon the nearest
Ticket Agent
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy Tor Catarrh. By druggists. 25c.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25c
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

THE same obituaries seem to do for al
most every man who dies in these days.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

EsoP, Publius, Syrus, Terrence and
Epctetus--all distinguished men in ancient
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07
MAEN LIE LIeHT co.'s ouT.

Tho yer lamp o life is burnin' with clear an
steady light
An it never seems ter flicker, but it's alters
shinin' bright;
Tho it sheds its rays unbroken for thousan'
happy days
Father Time Is ever turnin' down her wick tibet
feeds her blaze.
So it clearly is yer duty of you've got thing
ter do,
Ter put yer shoulder to Their wheel an try to
push her through;
Ef yer upon hayward track yer better turn
about
You've lost ther chance ter do it when the
Light
Goes
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

Oyster suppers are appropriate only
for months which have an K in them,
and for pocket-books which have { Y II
them.-Lile.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

I'd rutber die with nothin' then ter hev Their
people say
Tibet he'd got my money in Robin graspin'
way;
No words above my restin' place from any
tongue or pen
Would hev u deeper meanin' then HE helped
his fellow-men."
So eff you hev a fortune an you want to help
the poor
more;
Ef yer upon miser's track you better turn
about
Yer record keeps on burnin' when the
Light
Goes
Out.
Henry s. Chester, in Inter- Ocean.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

Don't keep putin matters OF an settin' dates
ahead
To-morows sun II find q hundred thousand Of
us dead;
Don't think because yer feelin well you won't
be sick no more
Sometimes the reddest pippin hez a worm hole
to the core.
Don't let a KILN habit grow on you soft and
still
Because you think tibet you ken throw it from
you ct your will
Now's ther time ter quit when yer feelin' brave
an stout
Light
Goes
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

They were close to the foothills, and
the herd was bearing down on them
with roar that increased like the sud
der rising Of the wind. They spurred
their ponies vigorously, and were get
ting good rate of speed out of the
shortlegged little fellows, when out
from big ravine, not three hundred
yards ahead, there shot great, solid
tongue Of buifaloes, and over the hill to
the right swept dense, black mass, fill
ing in the gap between those behind and
these ahead. Jean and Louis were
trapped-hemmed in on all sides but
one, and on that side was the river.
Iustinctively both riders veered off
and made for the head of the stampede,
which was now rapidly rolling on in
frodt of them. The buifaloes had evil
deLtly received wild alarm from some
source in the rear, for tho huge, irregu-
Jar crescent, literally living, NOV ing
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-12-07

"A GENTS WANTED FAMOUS MISSOURI STEAM
- Washer on trial Worth & Co.. 81. Louis, Mo,
ssNAAK THIS PAPER svsfy mo yoa uris -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-23
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION.

The constitution makers in all four Of
the new states threaten to make the
mistake, so common with constitution
makers, of attempting to legislate too
much. They ought to remember that
constitution should be chart, and not
a CODE 1t is singular that. with such
model as the federal constitution before
them, so few of the states have fol-
lowed the example set by the trainers
OF that instrument in combining the
work of notwithstanding to the SIM
pie duty of creating and defining the
powers of the several departments of
the government. In most of the states
the state constitution is a mass of stat
utory provisions which in most in
stances would be out of place in the Or
binary statutes. From watching the
proceedings of the four constitutional
conventions now in session to the west
of us, we observe the same tendency to
indulge IN legislation. Everybody who
has hobby is bringing it up with the
hope of having it embodied in the state
constitution, and unless the conStitu-
tion-makers are careful, the people of
each of the four new states will have
saddled upon them an instrument that
is only a constitution In name, but
which in reality will be mass of incOn-
gruities of which they will grow very
tired.
The design Of constitution is simply
to create the framework of state gov
eminent. and to leave to the depart
ments that have been created, especially
to the legislative department, the work
of filling in. Beyond the enunciation
of few general principles there is no
necessity for anything of legislative
character in the provisions of consti-
tuition. If our conStitution-makerS
would keep in mind the fact that human
government cannot be reduced to geo.
metrical eXactness, but can only be
measured by approximations, there
would be fewer bungled constitutions.
Form and method will do only for things
of form and method. 1t is the silly at
tempt to reduce to formulation and codi-
ficatiOn things that do not admit of
either which makes so much of the leg
iSlation of these times ridiculous. AS
matter of fact, it is only in very small
and insignificant domain of human nat
ure that law can be applied. AS "a rule, the
fewer laws that a people have the better
they are governed, At, best law can do
little more than prescribe negative du-
ties, and it acts mainly by restriction
upon some Of the tendencies of man.
kind. A common mistake nowadays is
in supposing that all the evils of earth
can be remedied by legislation, when.
as matter of fact, the law can give no
suggestion of morality, justice or good
feeling, and can compel performance
but in very limited class of actions.
Like the good demon who attended
SOCRATES, it may prevent one going
wrong, but it cannot prompt one to do
rioht
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-23
STATE SENTIMENT.

A murderer was banged at Little
Falls the other day, and not only were
there several newspaper men present,
but an elaborate account OF the bee ap-
peared in nearly every newspaper in the
state. Now it would be refreshing to
know what the authorities propose to
do about it. There is fine opportunity
offered to get even with some of the
wicked editors now. and although the
authorities might have to take the
amount of the fines in subscriptions,
their revenge should be none the less
gratifying. To be plain. the John Day
Smith law is huge farce, and if the
legislature would have taken the trouble
to examine it carefully, it would have
no place in our statute book, unless in
in the humorous department.-Dulut
Tribune.
The regulation requiring that the
death penalty be executed before sun
rise is boon to the morning papers, as
it enables them to publish full report
of the final ceremonies in advance of
their afternoon rivals, an advantage
which they formerly did not possess:
There is room for grave suspicion that
with the morning newspaper men,
Wlnona Herald.
The Republican party politicians.
under the name of the American Pro-
tective Tariff League, are putting in
their work very industriously. They
are sending out editorials containing
about 500 words, to all the faithful Re-
publican organs in the country. We
notice that several of our exchanges
contain identically the same editorial"
entitled sounding the Free Trade
Slogan" and among them the Mime
apolis Tribune and the Window Report
er. Will somebody be kind enough Ito
tell us who furnishes the money to keep
this high tax party in the field grinding
editors?-Weseca Herald.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-23
NATIONAL APPoRTIoNMENT.

Notwithstanding the federal census
is not to be taken until next year, we
observe that the Eastern press are dis
cussing, and in an uneasy tone, too, the
probabilities of the next national ap-
portionment. 1t is conceded that, on
anything like a fair basis, the Eastern
states will lose in representation in con-
gress and in the electoral college, while
the West and the South will make ma
terial gains. The New York Herald
points out how, by curious freak of
mathematics. one basis of apportionment
will secure gains to a certain group of
states and work losses to another, while
different results may be reached by a
different basis. This was illustrated by
the various propositions submitted and
discussed before the enactment of the
existing apportionment. If the num-
Der proposed by Mr.. Cox, 3O7,
as the membership of the house,
had been adopted, the Republican
states would have gained three men,
beIs and the Democratic states eleven.
The counter proposition from the Re-
publican side, to fix the number at $40,
changed the ratio in favor of the Re
publican states. Finally the number
325 was adopted, viii h made the gains