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TIE WORLDS GOODS.

It seems to me there is a solemn irony III
that word goods What men call goods
they do not mean the truth, things spiritual
and things cternnl, but they mean boxes and
bales, and bundles of things kept in stores;
things that perish with their use. Those are
their goods.
Far be it from me to dsparage money or its
equivalent, to disparage wealth; it is not
thing 10 be despiscd; it is blessing for man
to have morey if there is right use Of it.
He can make the world brighter and better;
he can make homes happier and hearts
lighter; he can make the heart Of the widow
sing for joy and The orphan clap his hands
and bless his benefactor.
II is not sin for man to toll for it, to plan
for it: and yet, though it be blessing, how
easily God can put curse upon the bless
ing. Its possession ought, one would think,
to give man comfort and quiet and safety,
and an easy, luxurious sort of time. We
imagine what is the matter with many OF
us is we are so miserably poor, and we have
to deye and scrape and scrimp and save at
every turn, and do not have the means TO
enjoy ourselves. We have notion that
what we want Is money, like hundred men
we can think of. 1t ought to surround
one with every comfort, it ought to lift one
ont of the reach of carking care, IL ought to
take the ache out of the heart one would
think but it does not. How easily the Lord
can piant thcrns in the rich mans pathway!
How easily he can make him more uncom.
Portable when rich than when poor, so that
he shall look back regretfully to the time
when he worked for two dollars day.
IfIwcrc in country where insects abound
I would want to be just as small as possible.
The more surface man has the better it Is
for the venomous things to sting, and so
there is a sort of vuncrablity ami exposure
a rich man has; ne can get bit at so many
points; he can be hurt in so many different
directions; so many things have got to 20
lust right or there is all disqulet.-lP. ;.
Henson. ID. u.
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NATIONAL CROP REPORT.
Estimates of Corn and Wheat in
Farmers Hands.

Farmers Hands.
The statistical returns Of the Department
Of Agriculture for March are estimates OF
the corn and wheat in the hands Of farmers,
the proportion and present value of mer-
chantable corn, the weight of wheat per
measured bushel, and other points in the
commercial distribution Of grain.
The result Of the consolidation makes
the farmers reserve of corn 1914 per cent.
of the crop in comparison with 45.9
per cent. last year; in bushels, 542, ,000, 900,
against 9T0,0o0,00O last year. 1t is the
lowest recent reserve except that from the
smaller crop of 1887 and that from tae crop
OF 1888. The percentage retained in the
seven corn surplus States is less than in 9TH
ers The proportion estimated for consump-
tion where grown is relatively large, S7.4
per cent. instead of Sl.S last year. The
quantity shipped, or to be shipped, from the
farms is therefore only lSS, ,000, 900 bushels
or less than half the surplus of last year.
The proportion Of the crop merchantable is
79.5 per cent. against S5.7 per cent. last
year. 1t is therefore slightly under the aver
age in quality. The average price Of mer-
chantable corn is SIS cents per bushel; of
unmerchantable, 32.9 cents. The aggregat,
value Of the crop on this basis is s76l, 900 600.
yearly $1,000, 900 more than the December
valuation, an advance of about one per
cent, establishing the substantial accuracy
of the December estimate.
The proportion of wheat still in the hands
of farmers is lower than an average Of the
last ten years, the range being from twenty.
six to thirty-three per cent 1t is 2S2 per
cent, or 112, 900, ,0O9 bushels. 1t has been
lower only in two years of the last ten, after
the meagre crops Of 1881 and 1885, which
were smaller than the crop of 1890. Includ-
ing the visible stocks the supply is 135, 0O0,-
900 bushels. The consumption Of the last
twelve months is estimated at 299, 00O.000
bushels. seed used 53,000,0 600, and exports
have been about 9S 900, OOO from March l,
1890. The low percentages of the spring
wheat States are especially noticeable. Half
of the present stocks will be required for
spring seeding. The proportion of the crop
estimated for consumption within the coun-
try is 81 per cent, against 4S.1 last year.
The average weight per measured bushel
is 57.2 pounds. The average of 1899 was
SIT pounds, which was the precise average
Of seven crops from 1888. In bushels of
sixty poucds the aggregate total is 3sl, ,OO0.-
OOO, or 90, OOO, 900 less by weight than the pre-
ceding crop.
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LATER NEWS.

JAMES JOYCE aged fourteen years. com-
nitted suicide at Philadelphia, Penn, by
shooting himself. The deed was prompted
BY fear of punishm ,nt which his father had
threatened to inflict for an act Of remIss-
ness.
SENATOR BROWN presented in the State
Senate the resignation of Thomas Durfee,
Chief Justice of Rhode Island, to take effect
March IA, 1891.
JAMES A. SIMMONS was found guilty in
New York City Of aiding in embezzling sSs2,-
600, the funds of the Sixth National Bank.
THOMAS EcKERr and his three-y year-old
boy were burned to death in their house at
Ellsworth, Wis.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR, accom-.
panied by Attorney-General Miller, Quarter
master General Batchelder, Major Hill and
Lieutenant Woodberry, Of the War Depart
ment visited the Chickamauga battle field
in Tennessee.
T. A. GALE, prominent banker and poll
tician of Yankton, South Dakota, committed
Suicide by shooting in Sioux City, Iowa. He
left a letter saying that he had lost all his
money on the Chicago Board of Trade.
The celebrated United States Marine Band
is preparing to start on an extended musical
education tour of thirty-ive Of the principal
cities Of the country.
TIE War Department has completed It's
-sL.,,o Gov a,,1;ufinrr Io1ionc in, fhn anlS cO
as to make eight troops and nineteen COM
panies in as many different cavalry and in
fantry regiments.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
awarded contracts for furnishing the Sioux
Indians with beef and corn under the recent
act appropriating slOO,Oco for that purpose
AS result of the failure of Congress to
maka the necessary appropriations for
armory rents, General Ordway, the com.
mandng officer, has issued an order disband.
ing the Seventh and Eighth (colored) Battai-
ions Of the District National Guard.
DIR. Won GossLER Prussian Minister of
Public Worship, has resigned his office.
THE British ship Bay of Panama has been
wrecked off Falmouth, England and tue
Captain, his wife and twelve Of the crew
have been drowned.
A CONVENTION in Santiago, Chill, has
nominated Signor Vicuna for the Presidency.
A HURR1cANE has swept over the Balearic
Isles, and a number of shipwrecks occurred
~, ylo oooetc of tboca islandc
The Italian Government has declined to
grant the 100000 promised by Premier
Crispi, on its behalf, for carrying out the
preparations for celebrating the discovery oil
America by Columbus.
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HIGH TYPE AFRICANS.
Congo Natives With the Features OF
White Men.

The Congo State has founded station in
Africa upon the left bank of the Mobangi
River, the great northern tributary OF the
Congo, at Congo Rapids, 4OO miles from the
mouth of the river. The station is in charge OF
Lieut.. HanoIet, who writes some Interesting
details of the people there. He says that eT-
cant for their black color many of them al
most resemble Europeans. He is able to de-
tect little trace of African features. Some
of them. he says, bear an astonishing resam.
blance to Europeans of his acquaintance, and
many Of them are very light In color.
adjective that is not often applied to the ma
tiyes of equatorial Africa. The husbands,
he SAYS, are extremely jealous, and do not
hesitate to cut Off the heads and to eat the
bodies of their wives and daughters upon the
slightest infraction of the moral code.
Natives resembling these people OF zongo
have also been found in the basin of Sankuru
River, south of the Congo, whereMessrs, Kund
and Tappenbeck found people who, though
black, have nearly the same cast OF features
as Europeans, and arc physically among the
finest specimens Of Africans.
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BENT BY a LION.
A Tanner Killed In the Paris France
Hippodnome.

A terrible scene, by which well-known
lion tanner lost his life, was witnessed at the
Hippodroms in Paris, France on q recent
day. The spectacle Of Nero" is being pre-
pared at tho Hippodrome, and one Of the
features of the show, as proposed, Is an at
tack by number OF lions upon wooden fig
ures so arranged in the arena to represent
human beings.
Seets, the lion tanner. had just concluded
tho days drilling or training Of six lions for
this performance, and was driving them back
into their cages when one of them suddenly
refused to re-enter his cage. Seets managed
to cage the remaining five lions, and then
turned his attention to the rebellious animal,
which had angrily taken refuge in neigh
boring passage.
The man armed himself with lance and
tried to dislodge the refractory lion, but in so
doing he tripped and list hold Of his stance,
tho weapon rolling several yards away from
him. Before tho lion tanner could regain
possession of the lance, the angry lion sprang
upon the unfortunate man, hurled him to
the floor, bit and tore him in most horrible
manner. Seets's cries for help soon brought
another of the trainers to the scene. The
latter caught up the lance and gallantly at
tackled the lion.
Cowed by q wound inflicted, the lion re-
leased poor Seets and skunk into its cage.
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Foreign.

TIE Chilian Insurgents have been de-
feated at Ovale and have retreated on Lasa-
rena.
The suicide is reported from London, Eng.
land. of Robert L. Antrobus. member OF
the banking house of Coutts & Co.
TERRIBLE weather prevailed In the
North of England. The snow is from SIX 10
fifteen inches deep.
TIE house Of John Babcock at Bay Roo-
erts, New Foundland, was burned. MRS.
Babcock went through the flames SIX times
for her children, rescuing one each Time, anu
than She had to leave one to its fate and
iump. breaking one Of her legs She and
Several of the rescued children were seVerely
burned.
TIE French expedition had a severe battle
,v;tb the natives at Diena, on the Niger
River. in Senegal, Africa. The French
carried the native positions, eleven sharf-
shooters being killed and many WOUNDED.
Sir hundred natives were killed, among them
being the leader.
TERRIFIC blizzard prevailed throughout
the southwest part Of England. The storm
is the severest on record in that part OF the
country. Many small vessels have beer
wrecked off the coast. The loss OF live stock
is heavy. Hundreds of Sleeps and lamos
have perished in the storm.
LIONEL CHARLES DRUMMOND, Of the Lon
don (England) banking house Of the Messrs.
Drummond, committed suicide with a re-
volver. The cause was trouble arising out
of lawsuit with friend. A verdict was
rendered of temporary insanity.
The Grand Duke Sergius brother OF the
Russian Gear, has been appointed Governor
of Moscow.
By the ignition of fire damp in the Mon
opole pit at Camen, Westphalia, Germany,
six men were killed.
SEVEN persons were killed at Glasgow,
Scotland, by the explosion Of an ammonia
condenser in Dixon's iron works, and mum
Der were injured.
BRAZIL has accepted and promulgated the
new treaty of reciprocity with the United
States. >.
In a conflict in Cuba between the Civil
Guards and a number Of bandits two OF the
bandits were killed and several others were
captured.
THE Chilean rebels gained great, victory
over the Government troops, under com
mand Of Colonel Robles, near Pozo Almonte
An the province Of Tarapaca Is now under
the rule of the Opposition party.
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4 rREScHMAy's TWO sAvIoURs.

At one of Mr.. McAlrs meetings in Paris, a
rough looking workingman, wko had been
converted at the mission, and is now a de-
voted and active Christian, told most
pointed story of his own life. II have had
two saviours," he said. ''Thc first was after
the Commune. I was taken and accused as
a Communist, and, without any form of
trial, was marched to instant death. In my
own eyes 1 was dead man. Marching
across the Champ de Mars, we met an officer,
who touched me. and said to the soldiers,
'What are you doing with that man thereY
answer for him; he is an honest man; let
him 60. They let me go. This man was
in danger of another death, that my sin had
condemned me before God. Years after |
found 1t out, and was in despair. 1 could
see no way to be saved. Then Jesus Christ
passed by, and said, This mani answer
for him. And q second time was sayed.'
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RELIGIOUS READING.

HOW, WHEN, WHERE, WHY.
You ask me how gave my heart to Christi
| do not know.
There came yearning for him in my soul,
SO long ago.
I found eartll's flowers would fade and die,
wept for something that could satisfy;
And then-and then-somehow seemed to
dare
To lift my broken heart to him in prayer.
do not know
Lean not tell you how;
| only know
He is my Saviour now.
You ask me when gave my heart to Christi
can not tell.
The day, or just the hour, DO not now
Remember well.
1t must have been when l was all alone,
The light Of his forgiving spirit shone
Into my heart so cloudcd DER with sin;
think--I think-'twas then let him in.
do not know
! cannot tell you when.
only know
He is 50 dear since then.
You ask me where I gave my heart to
Christ?
can not say.
That sacred place has faded from my sight,
Perhaps He thought it better should not
Remember where. How should love that
spot!
think | could not tear myself away,
For should want forever there to stay.
do not know
| cannot tell you where;
l only know
He came and blessed me there.
You ask me why I gave my heart to Christ?
l can reply:
1t is awondrous story; listen while
tellyou why:
Ny heart was drawn, at length, to seek his
face:
was alone, had no resting place;
I heard of how he loved me, with love
Of depth so great-of height so far above
A human ken,
longed such love to share;
And sought it then,
Upon my knees in prayer.
You ask me why 1 thought this loving
Christ
Would heed my prayer?
l knew he died upon the cross for me,
nailed him there!
heard his dying cry, "Father forgive"
saw him drink deaths cup that might
My head was bowed upon my breast in
shame,
He called me-and in penitence came.
He heard my prayer
cannot tell you how,
Nor when nor where;
Why. have told you now.
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Tbwartcd Justice With q Scarf.

wealthiest farmers in the vicinity of Little
Falls. Mimi. seized his little stepdaughter
Minnie Triessel, child of eight years and,
carrying her half mile to pond. held her
head under water until she was drowned.
he was captured and placed in Jail, and his
trial set for next day. That night at six he
hanged himself to the door of his cell with
pnck scarf
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Death Was in the Coffee Pot.

William Ferguson, aged seventy eight, one
of the most respectable farmers in Mont
law, B. G. Watts died on recent morning
from poisoning, and Miss Grace Boyd, the
granddaughter of MIR. Ferguson,
Was at the point Of death
from the same cause. The physician
in attendance called in chemist. who found
arsenic in the coffee pot. 1t had evidently
been placed there during the night, as the
door Of the cook-house was unlocked.
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BUTCHERY IN MADAGASCAR

A Native Governor MasSacres 27S
Persons With Horrible Cruelty.
News of horrible massacre comes from
Madagascar. Ramiasatra, Governor of tho
Province of Belanona, resenting a petition
from the populace to the Government to de-
fend them from cruelties, massac-ed 275
persons including men. women and children
belonging to the leading families. The
slaughter continued for several days. The
agonies Of the victims were in many cases
protracted Sometimes their limbs were
gradually dismembered thar heads were
sawed Off and their bodies were thrown to
the dogs. The survivors were forced to erect
trophy composed Of the heads Of the vic
Tins.
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Official Reports Of Koch's Lymph
Rutfalo Bill Gets His Redskins.

Colonel William F. Cody has won another
battle, For a month or more he has bsen
Knocking at the doors Of the Interior Depart
ment in Washington, for permission to en-
gage 100 Indians from the Sioux
Reservation for his Wild West
Show. Commissioner Morgan has
stoutly opposed the applications, owing to
reports that the redskins whom Buffalo Bill
took abroad last year were badly treated.
Secretary Noble, after thorough in
vestigation, came to the conclusion that the
charges were unfounded, and granted TO the
Colonel the coveted privilege.
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Arrest of Thirty Moonshiners.

A raid on the moonshiners Of South Ala
bama and Northern Florida has just been
completed, and resulted in thirty arrests be;
ing made and thirty-nine stills captured and
destroyed. The nortorious Yon brothers,
who fought six deputies with rifles at Bonl-
fay, Fla, December 13, 1890, wounding two
of them, are among the captured.
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An Eastern phrenologist who made a
stndy OF noses offered to wager $100
that he could go-out On the street and
pull certain makes@f noses and not
even be blasted is return. The first
one he tried, however, brought blow
which laid hjm unconscious and lost
bin bin df; -four s26d teeth His diagnosis
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Killed 200 Nativ. Africans.

A dispatch from Zanzbsr, Africa, states
that Baron Won Wissmaun has punished the
Kibosh tribe, and that in so doing. he killed
200, wounded sixty, and captured fifty of the
tribesmen. The German loss was two men
killed and fifteen wounded. The Germans
captured 60, 600 head of cattle and quantity
of ammunition and ivory.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Latest Dispatches About For
eign and Domestic Affairs.
The Argentine Government Bor-
rows $20,000,000.

The Argentine Government issued decree
which suspended business on the Bourse, in
the Custom House and in the banks for two
DAYS. The decree was issued in view of the
disturbed state of trade, the financial anxiety
prevailing, and the general feeling of
panic which exists in all circles. The
decree announces that the days men
toned are to be observed as holidays, out
the real reason for the suspension OF busl-
ness is to try TO save the Provincial Bank,
about which so much has been said recently,
from financial disaster. There he's been
run on the b; for several days, and IL ls
believed that 1. did not dare to open It's
doors.
A syndicate composed of 120 merchants
has arranged plan by which 1t Will lend
the Argentine Government the sum OF W.
600, ,0O0. Consequently, the Government mas
decided that no fresh issue OF paper money
will be made, and that the tax OF TWO per
cent. recently levied on all deposits In pTl-
vate banks will be abolished.
Senior Lopez, the Minister Of Finance, has
resigned. He will probably be succeeded oy
Senior Wirburra.
Dispatches received at Paris France, from
Buenos Ayres, say that it is hoped that the
two holidays announced by the Government
will facilitate the settlement o. the e1lstlng
commercial and financial difficulties inc
reports also Guy that the general opinion
prevails that forced paper issue Is In
evitable.
Official Reports Of Koch's Lymph.
The official reports called for by DR.. von
Gossler, Minister of Education. from the
clinics of all Prussian Universities ano
Pathological Institutes on the efficiency OF
DR.. Koch's tubsrculne, up to the close OF
1890, have been published by Professor Gutt-
stadt.
Up to the time named about II, 500 injec-
tions were made on the persons OF 2l72 pa
tients, the greatest number received by any
one person being fifty-four, and the largest
number Of grammes administered being 3.5;
or 1910 patients suffering from Internal
tuberculosis thirteen were cursa "a sss con- not
improved, and forty.si1 died.
fifteen were cured: 14S considerably i'm
proved; 237 improved; 29S did not improve,
and nine died.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED,
Eastern and Middle States.

THE long strike OF tEe coal miners or the
Monongahela Valley Of Pennsylvania has
ended in complete victory for the men. The
strike was one Of the longest and most de-
termined ever known in that section. 1t
lasted ten weeks, and the 5000 miners lost IN
wages alone, over 81, OOO, 600.
AN epidemic Of measles has broken out at
Plymouth, Penn. Four died in one house.
An unknown man presented a check for
$500, which had been raised from S2o, at
the Duquesne Bank, Pittsburg, Penn, got
the money and disappeared before the fraud
was discovered.
CHAuNcEY NJ. DEpEw, President Clark
and Director Joseph Park, Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com.
pany, surrendered themselves in New York
City on warrants issued for their arrest by
Coroner Levy, charging them with homl.
eide in accordance with the verdict found
by the Coroner's jury in the tunnel accident
cases. Each gave S25, 900 bail.
A Fly wheel burst in the Weldy Powder
Mills, at Tamaqua, Penn, causing the COM
plete destruction OF the engine house. John
kepler and Jerre Long were struck by flying
pieces of the wheel and killed.
AT an auction sale of rare books and
manuscripts in New York, copy or the
Gutenberg Bible-the first book printed
rom movable type-broaght sl4,sOo.
John SELLERS, aged six, fell into the
schnvlkill Canal at Reading. Penn, and his
brother Samuel, aged eight jumped IN 10
save him. When they were pulled out oamuei
was dead and his younger brother was re-
yived with difficulty.
The clothing manufacturers OF Rochester,
n Y. notified the cutters and trlmmerS III
their factories that their services VIII pe ols-
continued, at least temporarily. inns tnro"s
over twenty thousand people out Oh "orH'
MRS. BRIDGET ARMSTRONG; OF Nyack,
N. Y, was shot and beaten, her daugnter
Eliza was shot and their house set on hre Dy
Tosenh Storrs, who had entered for the
purpose of robbery.
DAVID SEARBURY, Romano van w ormer
and Joseph Van Wormer, fishermen at Coey-
mans N. Y, were drowned IN the huoson on
. recent night. With John Mlltsie, tney
vent out in small boat to lift net ana
we're capsized. Wiltsie was rescued.
SURRoeA ATE RANSOM, Of New York City,
admitted the will Of Robert Ray Hamilton
TO probate, conclusive evidence being lalo
before him that the testator is dead.
BISHOP PADDOCK, Of Massachusetts,, died
Norwich. Conn, in February, 1928.
TIE contest over the will Of Millionaire
Fayerweather, of New York City, was With
drawn, the executors compromising with
the widow and two other heirs.
THE failure of Dudley, Hall G. Co., of Bos-
ton, Mass, the second largest tea firm in the
United States is announced. The firm did
business of 81, 000 000 year. The liabilities
will amount to upwards Of 100000.
TnE Republicans of Rhode Island met at
Providence and nominated State ticket,
with Ex-Governor Ladd at the head. The
Prohibition Convention nominated for Gov
arnor the Rev John II. Larry, Of Providence.
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lFDempsey's nose is really broken he

Dempsey's nose is really broken he
will never be handsome again. Surgl.
cal skill works wonders in many cases,
but when the bridge of mans nose is
broken the organ can never be restored
to its erstwhile symmetry. \ New,
Yorker spent over so, 900 trying to get
his nose back after break, but the
best the surgeons could do was te
leave sag in the middle.