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TIE MOTIVE FORCE.

The strain at this moment is the ramorse-
less pressure Of a huge commerce in liquors.
There is money in it, and that is the motive
force. Money nerves every man; money
palliates every conscience. Say that the
commerce is wrong, prove that it is harmful,
yet you are at loss to put your finger on
the line that divides the guiltless from the
guilty man. Would you condemn the
peasant who tills the vines under the suns OF
Italy? Yet that is the starting point of
wine. Is the farmer blamable who raises
hops, or his peighbor who sowes barley?
Yet beer comes therefrom. Is the culture
Of corn culpable. Yet we remember the
humor of the canny Scot upon his native
heath who dryly remarked: 1--WE do not
raise corn in our country, but we destroy
mighty lot of it after it has been turned in
to whisky" Is the workman to be chided
who accepts employment in brewery when,
perchance, he can obtain it nowhere else:
The brewer king will avert manufacture
no one is obliged to drink, much less, if he
drink, obliged to undo himself by excess"
The retailer behind the bar will proclaim
his responsibility for any who patronize
him. Were we fighting the battle of tenn
perance with guns we would hardly know
where to shoot-at least where to shoot first.
1t teaches us to drop the thought of indi-
viduals. 1t permits us to dispense with per-
sonalites. do away with hates and maledic-
tions and all that opprobrious defamation
and these damnatory epithets, that go so far
to aggravate persons. to embitter discussion,
and to disgust well disposed classes who
really want to see temperance succeed. No,
we can array ourselves against the liquor
commerce. The term is sufficiently definite.
Those in it are fast organizing for their own
defence. 1t needs no prophet to say-''Thou
art the man." By their own association,
combination and concert Of action. they say
plainly enough-"We are the men," 1t Is
sufficient for US to keep steady aim at the
business, regardless of persons. Let them
identify themselves. Be sure their sin will
find them out.
The liquor manufacture and commerce IS
producing and offering commodity which
it wants to sell. 1t is greedy Of profits, and
profits require trade. Profits are larger, the
larger the sales. The business believes in
pushing things, believes in putting goods up
on the people. 1t searches for markets as
eagerly as the weaver and merchant of
cloths. 1t opens markets. 1t fosters de-
mand 1t is going to leave no stone un-
turned to stimulate trade, to increase con-
sumption. to multiply buyers, to swell the
volume of transactions, and 50 pile up
wealth. This is the Goliath that confronts
us to-day, and defies the armies of the living
Cod Against that giant lies the stress
of battle.-TsmperGnc Rerietc.
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IT was decide by the President at CabL
net meeting to coin the trade do liars into
standard silver dollars.
A BULLETIN issued from Washington by
the Census Office shows that the production
of limestone in the United States for the cen.
sus year 1889 had total value ofs19, 095, 179.
The expenditures for wages ETC., were SIS.
092, ia The capital invested in the industry
amounted to 81, ,022, 325.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER has apnointe
J. Toss Calhoun OF Philadelphia as Special
Census Agent. Mr.. Porter will detail an
extra .orce to close up the Philadelphia
work. There are 3SS manufacturing estab-
lishments yet to be scheduled, not including
q number of expert industries.
The State Department has received
despatch announcing the death Of Alexander
Clark, United States Minister to Liberia.
His remains will be brought to the United
States for interment.
THE plant Of the Washington Critic, ex-
cept the press, was sold at auction by the re-
eeiver, under direction of the District Of
Columbia Supreme Court. The property
was purchased by A. T. Hensey, proprietor
Of the Washington Sunday Herald, for S1O,-
loo.
COLONEL GEORGE THoA (-ctired). United
States Army, died at Garfield Hospital,
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GLADSTONE has suffered another relapse.
EDISON looks when at work like boy ap-
prentice.
SECRETARY PROCTOR is devetedly fond OF
whist and horses.
GENERAL ScHoF1ELD is thirtysix years
older than his bride.
TIE cost Of burying the late Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia was S2oO,OO0.
BILL ARP, the Georgia hutnorist, is sixty
wears old and the father Of nine children.
GENERAL DA FoSsEcA, President OF
Brazil, will shortly pay visit to Europe.
COUNT DABRAz, the French consul at
New York, has neat little salary OF 81, ,OO0
ayear.
SARDou, the great French playwright,
writes hand so fine that it almost requires
magnifying glass to read it.
Ex.EMpRess EUGENE left Paris few
days ago for England. after an affecting In
terview with ex-Queen Isabella. of Spain.
DONALD G.. MITCHELL, "Ik. Marvel" was
one of the class of 1871 at Yale, and takes
part in the. semi-centennial observance this
year.
JOHN D. RocKEFELLEE'S wealth IS estl-
mated at $780, 0L0, ,Gu0, OF which S6S, Ooo, ooJ IS
Standard Oil stock. His real estate is worth
$10,O0o,G0o.
A. J. DREXEL hea S the list of Philadel-
phia rich men with S2J, 000,0 900. The city has
16O millionaireS. whose total holuln9s tool
up over $400, C0C,DOO.
THE Duke OF Edinburgh is reported to be
the most niggardly man in Enslanl. de IS
forty-seven years old, confirmed mlser,
fine violinist and a good sailor.
GENERAL ARMSTRONG, founder Of the
Hampton (Va.l School for Indians, was born
on one Of the Sandwich Islands, and IS now
upon a visit to his early home.
The Prince of Wales was born November
9. 1s4l. visited the United States in 1850 and
married daughter of the King of Denmark,
March TO- 1868. He will be fifty years OF
age in November.
Z GENERAL Don CARLOS BUEL, who lives q
retired life on a farm in Kentucky, occa-
sionally shows himself in Louisville. His
form is erect and well preserved, and he IS
an entertaining talker on military and otE-
er TOPICS.
ONE of the Souths most successful evan
pelists is William Evan1er Penn, VINO has
lust finished great revival in Mississippi.
He is q man of sixty-three, and has been
csissSSsI,y preSching day and night for slx-
IL Young Queen Of Holland has per-
6rmed her first public function in laying
the cornerstone OF hospital. She made
the official speech, Il hope this institution
will be a blessing to Amsterdam" very neat
". She was dressed in light colors, with
black lace.
The Haytian President, General Hippo
lyte, is about sixty years of age and OF coa!-
black complexion. Heis the political idol of
the pure blacks, whose b.ood has not been
contaminated by intermarriage with the
creoles. He is the son OF college professor
of Port-au-P Prince and is man OF consldV
able learning end cultivation.
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Funeral BY the Electric Light.

The idea of imparting an element or
cheerfulness to a funeral is hardly in ac-
cordance with the orthodox practice OF!
to-day. There seems, however, no good
reason why the lugubricusness OF such
IN occasion should not, to certain ex-''
tent, be modified. Such a modification
has been made with satisfactory results
at a funeral in Iiddlesex, England!
The remains of member of a county
family were inferred in the family vault
in the quaint old church IN the grounds
Of Twyford Abbey, and the vault was
brilliantly lighted with incandescent
lamps. The effect is said to have been
striking in the extreme; every screwhead
and nail in the old oaken coffins (some
Of which are over 100 years old) could
be easily distinguished, and "the DEATH
chamber seemed to look quite cheerful. "
Not only was the whole vault flooded
with light, but the artistic effect of the
grouping of the various colored shades
gave new element of beauty to the
illumination. Commercial Adcertfser.
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South and West.

AT the Moqui Reservation in Arizona, the
Indian agent and another white were muir.
dered, and T50 bucks in war paint encamped
n Keam's canyon, armed with Winchesters
and ready to fight. Troops from Fort Win
gate went to disperse them.
STATE TREASURER WooDRUEE, of Kan.
sas, has been indicted for the embezzlement
If State funds
THE town of Moville, South Dakota, was
nearly wiped out by a food. The inhabi-
tants were compelled to camp out in a field.
THOMAS THURMAN, Joseph Zins, Miss
Edith Zins. Miss Catherine Case and Miss
Kate Riddle were drowned while boating on
the Ohio River, opposite Covington, KY.
The boat was run down by barge
STATE COMPTROLLER CoLGAN, of Califor.
MIA, has been advised by his attorney, j. A.
Barhan, not to pay the $500, 900 appropriated
by the Legislature for CALIFORNIA; exhibit
at the Worlds Fair on the ground that the
appropriation is unconstitutional.
THOMAS HARRIS, colored, was hanged at
Shreveport, La, Tor the murder Of Ella
Franklin. Two colored men living in Cass
County ten miles east of Danger6eld, Texas,
named Will Hartsfield and Nun Sheppard,
were taken out and shot to death by un-
known parties.
THOMAS w. BAcrD, Of Little Rock, the
largest wholesale and FETAL machinery
dealer in Arkansas has failed with liabili
ties Of 100000.
ALL but one of the fourteen flint and win.
dow glass factories of Findlay, Ohio, have
shut down until September and probably
longer, giving over 1000 employees a two
months vacation.
THE doors Of the Red Cloud (Neb.| Ma.
tional Bank were closed by order of Bank
Examiner Mcknight.
LEVY and Joseph Straus masters. have
made an assignment at Baltimore, Atl. Ii
abilities over $500, 600.
The wholesale and retail grocery estab-
lishment of David Nicholson, st. Louis, Mo-,
was completely destroyed by fire. Loss,
800, 600.
ARNOLD SIEGFRIED JAIN, son of Frederick
Ludwig Jahp, founder Of the German Turn
ers' Society, was buried at Graceland Gene
tery, Chicago, III. The body was followed
to the tomb by one thousand Turner's in uni
form.
SIX Chinese women persisted in lodging
house fire in Chinatown, San Francisco,
Cal
A FALLING wall killed Patrick Haggerty,
Richard #. Benniwitz and John Flaherty at
Janesville, Wis.
A DESTRUCTIVE hurricane swept over
large area i'll Kansas and Missouri.
VouDENoT CRUMpToN was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark, for a murder committed IN the
Indian Territory in 1889.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GEORGE A.
NORRIS, of the United States steamship
Omaha, died at San Francisco, CAL, OF pneu.
monla.
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DEADLY TORNADO.
Its Fatal Work Near Mount
Carmel, Penn.
A Coal Breaker Demolished and
Seven Men Killed.

The Patterson Coal Company's breaker,
one mile from Mount Carmel Penn, was
crushed to pieces by tornado soon after q
o'clock on recent afternoon. At the time
the wind struck the colliery it was in full
operation. Suddenly there was crash and
the huge structure swayed to and fro for .
moment and then fell to the ground,
q mass Of ruins When the crash
came many of the employees rushed from the
breaker panlc-stricken, while others who were
less fortunate were caught in the flying tim
bers and crushed to death. The killed are
]. n. Blossom, aged forty, OF Hawley, Penn;
B. Dodson, aged thirty-tve, OF Shlckshlnney,
Penn; Walter Robert, aged twenty seven.
Of Luzerne Borough, Penn, and William
Lodge, aged twenty-four, Of Luzerne
Borough; the bodies OF three Others, all
r Italians, whose names cannot be learned,
were removed from the ruins that evening.
Five persons were injured, two probably
d fatally.
, The breaker was situated on the summit
OF the mountain. 1t ran almost due east and
west and was about 800 feet long and the
highest point was 165 feet. Lodge. Roberts
and two Of the unknown men were
slaters and we're engaged in roofing the
breaker at the time Of the accident.
The other two killed were carpenters and
met their death while at work on the inside.
Soon after noon the sky in the north became
black and the darkness grew in intensity.
The men perched on their high tower
looked at the advancing storm, expecting
to descend in time to avoid the rain.
Suddenly there was flash Of lightning, q
thunder peal that shook all the neighborhood
followed, and the next minute the terrible
wind-gust gathered up the great structure
rs though it were feather, and whirling it
around, dashed it to ruin. The men were
mapgled almost beyond recognition.
After the accident occurred the widest ex-
citement followed, and the employees, as we'll
as the people living near by, hocked to the
scene of disaster and aided those who were
fortunate enough to escape in removing the
dead and injured from the wrecked breaker.
The storm was one Of the worst that has
ever visited the Mahanoy Valley. A passen-
ger on a Philadelphia and Reading express
train which passed through the storm, said:
ssWhen the train reached Locust Summit
on its way to Philadelphia I saw
the storm approaching from the south
west. We had not gone far when it struck
the train. A panic followed and it was
feared that the entire train would be
rooted on either side and the noise produced
by the rushing wind reminded me of the
roaring Of musIetry. The storm seemed to
increase in violence every moment until the
: train reached Gordon, some miles east, when
it abated. After the wind had subsided it
began to rain. The lightning was awful"
The damage wrought by the storm will
probably reach $4,000, including the
breaker, which was owned and operated by
Pitts 5urg, Philadelphia, and Wlkesbarre
people.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

AUSTRIA has women hodcarriers.
DETROIT (Mich.) newsboys have union.
RAILWAY telegraphers want federation.
GERMANY bricklayers average 5000 year.
F1REMEN's BROTHERHOOD has %, 900 men,
bers.
NEW YORK CITY has Hebrew tinsmiths'
union.
AUSTRALIAN Italians have National
Union.
New York colored walters have &. OF
L. Assembly.
FEDERATION sentiment is growing among
nnion railroaders.
CALIFORNIA fruit farmers will be asked to
discharge Chinese workers.
A NATIONAL Union Of Architectural
Iron Workers will be formed.
MANY of the hotels in Virginia are substi-
tuting white for colorei walters.
APRoposED law in Spain prohibits Sun
day work by persons under eighteen.
THE American and European harness
makers talk of an international union.
ILLINOIS has passed law prohibiting the
employment of children under thirteen.
INDIANS at the Carlisle penny Govern
ment School are making wagons and har-
ness.
AT Garnett, N. c., women wash for fif-
teen cents day. Farm hands get IS
month.
EVERY workman in Japan wears on his
cap and on his back an inscription giving his
business and his employers name.
The strike of horsecar men in Bordeaux,
France. has been settled, the company
agreeing to the demand for days work OF
twelve hours.
THE law passed in the British House OF
Commons prohibiting the employment OF OF
children under eleven years affects 2Oo,0oo
little workers.
In nearly all the large retail shops in Lon.
don, England, the saleswonen sleep and eat
as well as work in the building. Even the
black silk dresses they wear during their
working hours belong to their employers.
The Brussels (Belgiuml walters have
formed a syndicate to redress their grew
| anccs. A leading complaint is that they
have to pay fl ON twenty cents to Sl.2o 70
the proprietors for the privilege of serving.
THE labor organizations Of Denmark have
succeeded i'll causing the Government to
make June 25, the anniversary OF the adop.
| ton of the Constitution OF 1S49, lega
holiday, They will now agitate to MAKE
election day a legal holday.
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TEMPERANCE.

TURN IT DOWN, BoYsl
II urged to lift the glass that tempts, u
In city grand or humble town;
Be he that tempts the king or czar,
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
If those that ask you ve4 and tease,
Perhaps condemn you with frown, &.
Be firm. mind not the laugh and sneer!
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
If health you crave and strength of arm,
Would keep your hardy hue of brown,
Nor have the scarlet flush of sin,
Quick, turn your glass and set it down.
II in your trouble others say,
I'm sea Of drink your sorrow DROWN
Look out lest drowned the drinker Ge!
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
Cold water, boys, hurrah, hurrah,
Will help to health, wealth and renown:
If urged to give these treasures up,
Quick, turn your glass and set it down!
-Reu. Eduoard A. Rand, in Advocate.
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The Imperial Bank of Germany
(Reichsbank) has the right to issue
paper to the extent of S775, 200, 900, aud
as much more as it has gold and silver
on hand as security for, and practical
ly to any extent beyond this; but on
the excess they must pay per cent
interest per annum to the government.
The bank has not Of late availed ltseli
of this privilege, possibly because it
would not Fay, and has confined its is
sue of bank notes of the regular S75,
OOO, 1000 and the amount Of gold and
silver on hand, or say $22o,O0O,OoO IN
all.
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Washington, of exhaustion followin an at
tack of apoplexy. He was born In New
Hampshire. He was by brevet Brigadier-
General.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, made his first ap-
pearance as lecturer at the National Chau-
5auqua at Glen Echo, near Washington City,
few days ago. His subject was "The PROP
ems Of Our Second Century"
OLIVER 2. HALLAM. of Nashville. ILL.,. has
oeen appointed assistant chief CLERK of the
Pension Office, vice Green B. Raun, Jr., re-
signed.
The Weather Bureau was transferred
from the War Department to the Agri-
cultural Department.; Professor Mark W.
Harrington, Of Michigan, was appointed its
Chief.
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PROHIBITION IN MAINE.

Last winters temperance legislation in the
State of Maine is producing good results. At
least so we judge upon the authority Of
Zion's Advocate, published in Portland.
That paper says: 1T is evident that the
amendments to the prohibitory law enacted
last winter have reduced the sale of intoxi-
eating drinks in Maine to the minimum, and
this action of these fifty hotel keepers, whose
places have at last CEASED to be grog.shops,
is witness to the practical result Of these
amendments. In other words the prohibi-
tory law, instead of being failure as these
men claim, seems to be working fairly well.
and if business in Maine is suffering because
Of this fact we should like to see theevidence
OF it." That is very good news and We shall
gratefully chronicle more of the same sort
Observer.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
KILLED BY THOUSANDS.
Suppression of Africa's Slave Trade
Causes Horrible Butchery.

A letter just received from Sierra Leone,
Africa, says that the vigilant suppression of
the slave trade along the coast and conse-
qusnt inability of the warlike races to dis
pose OF their captives at profit, has caused
a revival in the most terrible form Of the
Genes OF slaughter aud bloolshed which
formerly made every Chief town of tho in
tcrior Golgotha.
Cuomassie, it is said, has again witnessed
the killing of as many as 200 victims in one
LAY, and the death drum is hoard In the
streets even more frequently than before the
british Asbante1 expe iition, when 1t was
hoped such scenes were put to an end forever.
The savage Wangarus recently made raid
into Dasomba completely devastating the
villages, and carrying off over two thousand
captsves. They were unable to get rid of
the prisoners as slaves and held a saerifcal
East. which lasted for three days, in which
very captive perished, not even children
oaing spared. .,
1t is universally admitted IN the settle.
rents tnut the approaching extinction OF
fine slave trade in Western Africa Is making
warfare more merciless thanit used to be.
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SAMOAN VICTIMS BURIED.
Nineteen of the Drowned Sailors In
tered on Mare Island, Cal,

Nineteen of the Drowned Sailors In
tered on Mare Island, Cal
The bodies of the nineteen sailors who
were drowned at Samoa in the great hurri-
cane of March, 1889, were inferred with i'm
posing ceremonies in the Naval Cemetery on
Mare Island, California, a few days ago.
The bodies were taken to the cemetery
seven IN one hearse and twelve on @ caisson
constructed of gun carriages, and were
escorted by a battalion from the
marine corps, a company Of sailors
from the Independence, members of Farragut
Post, G. A. R.; Commander Besson of the
French frigate Bubourdieu, Admiral Irwin
and staff, and Commander Wilson, survi
vor of the disaster. Commander Clark was
in charge Of the escort.
At the graves the religious services were
conducted by Chaplain J. K. Lewis, and at
their conclusion a parting salute was fired
and the Last call was sounded by the bugle.
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Foreign.

THE Congressional party Of Chilli accuse
the police under Balmaceda Of throwing i'm.
ltatfon bombs at the Ministers to afford
prete1t for the arrest Of the Congressional
oegotiators.
OUTRAaEs upon foreigners In China con-
Anue.
The famous Captain Eyre Massey Shaw
has resigned as Chief Of the London eng
land,, Metropolitan Fire Brigade. He reGires
after thirty years service. There Is some
mystery about his action.
OWING to a declaration by the Marquis di
Rudini In the Italian Chamber Of Deputies
at Rome that the Dreibund Alliance would
be maintained scene Of great disorder oc-
Cured and two members nearly came to
blows
The harvest prospects Of Russia have be-
come worse, and there are fears OF partial
famine. Because Of the bad condition OF
the crops ir is proposed to prohibit the ex.
portation Of corn.
The Sultan Of Turkey has ratified the
Brussels Anti-Slavery Convention act
THE Triple Alliance among Germany, Aus
tria and Italy has been renewed for six
years.
The Governor Of Newfoundland has been
directed by the Imperial Government to re-
woke his assent to the Order In COUNCIL
refusing bait to Canadian as well as French
fishermen.
ELECTION returns in New South Wales
give the Ministerials f1ity-one members,
the Opposition ffty-three, Labor Party
twenty-six, and independents three.
The widow of Sir John A. Macdonald,
late Premier Of Canada, has been raised to
the British peerage.
GREAT distress has been caused in Russia
by the drouth.
EMPEROR WILLIAM left the Island of
Heligoland on board the steamship Prince
Bismarck. The vessel was escorted by two
Emperor went to Wilhelmshaven, where he
launched the new ironclad Kurfuerst Fred
r.ch Wilhelm.
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NERVY CONFIDENCE MEN
They Chlorotorm and Rob Farmer
Trice Then Take Him Home.

Confidence men and their confederate
robbed Steven Trice wealthy farmer near
Lathrop, DO, on a recent afternoon, OF
$500 and fine team and buggy. They
purchased his farm and persuaded him to
draw $500 from the bank to buy some land
adjoining his. After drawing the money he
left town with them in a carriage, when they
met a confederate, who Joined them and
proposed game Of cards.
After all but Mr.. Trice had lost their
money they threw a cloth over his head,
chloro: ormed him and robbed him. The con-
feierates, four in number, left, but the two
men in the carriage, who gave their names
as Dr. Starks and Judge Hays, of ST. Louis,
coolly took their victim home, telling him
that if he left home or told any one before
Sunday he would be killed, and that the at
tack was in settlement Of an old war grudSe.
Mr.. Trice was so frightened that he men-
toned the affair to his wife only next even
ipO