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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The man who is willing for the saloon to
stay, is in no hurry for the devil to 30.
You can tell by his track, which way the
man is going. II they point toward the saloon
his back is towards heaven.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union has
grown from few scattered members to l55
societies with 90, 900 members
Thirteen million children are being taught
scientific temperance instruction IN the schools
OF forty -four States of the Union at present.
The Yale faculty hereafter require the e1clu-
sion OF all restaurant, hotel and other adver
tisements which include the sale of intoIicat
ing beverages from the college publications.
German military papers publish alarmin 6
statistics as to tie spread Of drunkenness IN
the German army. Iu Sa1ony the consump'
ton of spirits has somewhat diminished, but
the diminution is more than made up by the
drinking Of beer
Mr.. Keenan,, president of the international
Press Club, Is strong advocate OF temper
ance, aud at the lunches and banquets given
while e,, route ana while on the California
coast during the recent excuroion. Kept MS
glass turned down.
The committee of the Band OF Hope Union
have, through their president, George WIZ.
liams, addressed letter to the school poaIo OF
London, calling attention to the Importance
OF giving to the children in elementary scnoolS
fuller and more specific teaching as TO tne ma
ture and physiological effects OF alconol tnan
has hitherto bcen provided.
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Women's Hats for Spring.

The girl with the Gainsborough hat
has passed on. The curves OF her bound
ing felt and her nodding plumes are out
of sight. The girl of the summer is to
be trim, taut and coquettish. Her bon
net is smaller than ever-a tiny saucer
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Theodore 4. Havemeycr, of New York
City, has presented the city of Spring
field, Mass, with beautiful four-acre
tract of land in the vicinity of Forest
Park, which will be added to that pleas
foreground.
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ANexpert electrician asserts that an
electric train making 125 miles an hour
would require 1000 feet in which to
come to a standstiu.
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OVER 100 Congressmen, embracing prac-
tically the entire delegations OF Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New
York, Pennsylvania, Onio and Wisconsin.
have petitioned the River and Harbor Com
mittee to recommend an initial appropria-
tion for the proposed twenty-one-roor chan
mel from the lakes to the Atlantic. -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

OVER 100 Congressman, embracing prac.
tically the entire delegations Of Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas. Michigan, Minnesota, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin.
have petitioned the River and Harbor Com
mittee to recommend an initial appropria-
ton for the proposed twenty-ons-foot chan
mel from the lakes to the Atlantic.
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and lose our equilibrium in the swift move
uent Of worldly events, especially when we
are assured that it is not yoke Of unbroken
yteers that are drawing Us on, but that Or
der and wise government a:e in the yoke!
In your occupation, your mission, your
yphere. do the best you can and then trust
TO God; and If all things ara all mixed and
disquieting, and your brain is hot and your
heart sick, get some one to 60 out with you
into the starlight and point out to you the
Pleiades, or, better than that get into some
observatory, and through the telescope see
further than Amos with the naked eye could
namely, Two nundreL stars IN Cue flelades,
and that in what is called the sword Of Orion
there is pebula computed to be two trillion,
two hundred thousand billions times larger
than the sun. Oh, beat peace with the God
wheel of the consultations turning in the
wheel OF galaxles for thousands Of years
without the breaking Of a cog or the slipping
Of band or the snap Of an axle. For your
placidity and comfort through the Lord
Jesus Christ charge you, seek Him that
naketh the Seven Stars and Orion"
Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the
God who made these two groups OF the text
Vas the God of light. Amos saw that God
was not satisfied with making one star or
three stars, but He makes seven; and having
nulSutu Iuot SiouY ~ Hoi-o' A>iASS ~"
group-group after group. To the Pleiades
He adds Orion. 1t seems that God likes light
so we'll that He keeps making it. Only one
being in the universe knows the statistics OF
solar. lunar. stellar. meteoric creations. and
that is the Creator Himself. And they have
all been lovingly christened, each one name
as distinct as the names Of your children.
s'He telleth the number Of the stars; He
calleth them all by their names" Inc
seven Pleiades had names given to them, and
they are AisEone, Merope. Cel@no, Electra,
Sterope Taygete and Maia.
But think of the billions and trillions OF
daughters of starry light that God calls by
name as they sweep by Him with besming
brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God Of
light-natural light, moral light, spiritual
light. Again and again Is light harnessed
for symbolzation /. Christ the bright
morning star; evangelization, the daysbreak;
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larger and grander ana more reSplendent.
Look there" says Job, "at Nazareth and
Arcturus and his sons !" Look there" says
st. John, "at the moon under Christ's feetr'
standing still above Gideon" "Look there, ="
ment~ "iook there" says Amos.
the herdsman. ''at the Seven Stars
and Orionw Don't let us be so sad
for csll to mind that it is not the inateFias
universe that is most valuable, but the spir-
itual, and that each OF Us has soul worth
more than all the wCclds which the inspired
herdsman saw from his booth on the bills
of Tekoa.
had studied it before, but the Cathedral
Of Cologne. Germany, never impressed me
as it did the last time saw it.. It is ad-
mitted the grandest gothic structure in the
world, its foundation laid in 124s. only Sigh.
hundred years in building. All Europe
taxed for Its construction. Its chapel Of the
Magi with precious stone. enough to pur-
chase kingdom. Its chapel OF st. Agnes
with masterpieces Of painting. Its spire
springing five hundred and eleven fest into
the heavens. Its stained glass the chorus Of
all rich colors Statues encircling the pillare
and encircling all. Statues above statues .ur
til sculpture can do no more, but falnts ana
Tails back against carved stalls ana oo"n Oh
pavements over which the kings and queens
OF the earth have walked to confession. Nave
and aisles and transept aud portals combin-
ing the splendors of sunrise. luterlaced,
interfoliated, intercolumned grandeur. As
I stood outside looking at the double range
of flying buttresses and the forest Of pima.
cles. higher and higher and higher, until I
almost reeled from dizziness I exclaimed:
'NGreat doxology in stone Frozen prayer OF
many nationsT
But while standing there saw poor man
enter and put down his pack and kneel be-
side his burden on the hard floor Of that
cathedral, And tears Of deep emotion came
into I1y eyes as said to myself: There is
soul worth more than all the material sur
roundings That man will live after the Last
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Officers of the Vermont LOYAL Legion,

The Vermont Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion held their annual
meeting at the Van Ness House in Burlington
on Tuesday, May 10. and elected the following
officers: Conn.,, Brighten. Stephen Thomas,
Montpelier; 8. v. c., Maj. Levi G. Kingsley,
Rutland; J. v. c., Capt. Urban W. Woodbury.,
Burlington; Recorder, First Lieut.. William l..
Greenleaf, Burlington; Registrar, Capt. George
E. Davis Burlington; Treas, Brevet-Maj. G. s.
Blodgett, Burlington; Chancellor, Brevet-C Capt.
Henry o. Wheeler, Burlington; Chap, Rev. John
Z. Goodrich. Burlington; Council, Lieut. Col.
George w. Hooker, Brattleboro; Capt. Pearl d.
Blodgett, st. Johnsbury; First Lieut. F. Stew
art Stranahan, st. Adams; Brevet-Maj. Alonzo
B. Valentine, Bennington; Lieut.. George G..
Benedict, Burlington.
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ARMY AND NAVY,

Lieut. Col E. C. Bainbridge, Sd q. s. Art.
who has been for some time commandment at
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Nd, has been trans
ferred to the Washington Barracks, relieving
Mai Ramsey Sd U. S. Art, who has been placed
in command at Fort McHenry. This transfer
is considered mild form of punishment for
Col. Bainbridge, with whom Gen. Howard is
much dissatisfied because of his refusal to an
swer certain communications sent from Gen.
Towards headquarters. Nearly year ago the
officers at Fort McHenry formed mess, to
which was added some of the features of club
life. Col. cambridge declined to join the mess,
as he preferred to get his meals elsewhere, but
he finally consented to become a member in
order to enjoy this club privileges, with the
understanding that he was TO pay his dues as
club member only. In the course of few
weeks he was presented with mess bill and
declined to pay it. The officers complained to
Gen. Howard, who referred the papers to Col.
cambridge. The Colonel ignored them. Gen.
Howard again communicated with him, but
still no reply from Col. cambridge. Gen.
Howard then wrote to Gen. Schoield, asking
that Col cambridge be disciplined by reliey-
ing him Of his command and giving him SUBJ
ordinate duty under Col. Livingston. This Is
the second time Col. cambridge has got into
trouble, 1t Is said, and for the same reason.
Away back in the seventies he failed to furnish
his superior officers with information which
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TO REMOVE DUTY ON ART,

4 delegation from the National Art Associa-
ton, which was in session in Washington last
week. appeared before the House COMMITTEES
on Ways and Means Wednesday, May 10,
and submitted arguments in favor of removing
the present duty on art. Miss Kate Field made
an argument, as did several other interested
persons. Miss Field said that "the United
States is the only country that levies tax on
works of art. We should get our raw material
free, as this makes quite an item in the long
run. American art will not live in this country
until this obstruction to its progress is removed.
No American will be forced to buy American
pictures by any tariff imposed on foreign works
of art. Make art free, and you have laid the
cornerstone Of new art prosperity"
Representative Turner asked the delegation
of artists if there was ever a time when art in
this country was moro prosperous than it was
now, and was answered by the reading of q
statement which showed the gradual reduction
of the income of American artists during
cent years. After tho hearing was concluded,
Hon Bourke Cochran, of New York. offered a
bill placing works Of art on the free list. The
bill provides that paintings and statuary, as
provided for in section 465 of the Mckinley
bill, shall hereafter be admitted free of duty.
The bill was referred to the Ways and Means
Committee.
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1880 tons. to have the highest practicable
speed for vessels Of its class. and to cost, excu-
sive of armament and of any premiums that
may be paid for increased speed. not exceeding
So, o00, 600; four light-draft gunboats of from
500 to 1900 tons displacement, with the high
est practicable speed for vessels of their class,
and to cost. exclusive of armament and of any
premiums that may be paid for increased speed.
not exceeding $45000O each, and six torpedo
boats, at q cost not exceeding $4,000 each.
##s
John M. Lackey, tho Private Secretary Of
Gen. w. S. Rosecrans Register of the Treasury,
shot himself through the heart on Wednesday
morning, May 1S, killing himself instantly.
Lackey was at the Department the day before
the suicide. and performed his duties with &C.
cnstomed regularity. He had been studying
law, in connection with his other duties, and
had graduated only few days ago, and his
rash act is attributed to a temporary alteration
of the mind due to overwork and study. Mr..
Lackey's home was in Iowa, and he was the
son of Presbyterian Minister. He leaves a
wife
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MR.. BLAINE EXPLAINS.

Having seen that he had been called upon
by resolution Of the House to explain his ac-
tion in nominating Mr.. Frederic A. Bancroft as
Consul to Brunswick, Germany, Secretary
Blaine wrote a letter to the President asking
that the nomination be withdrawn, in which
he gives his reasons. He says there is an
amiabe tradition in the Department of State
that no one is removed from its service with
out being appointed to another place if nothing
morally or personally offensive is attributed to
him. In accordance with this practice, and
after very careful consideration, / procured
the nomination of Mr.. Bancroft to the Consul
ship at Brunswick. His record as Librarian
would have been not removed but merely
transferred 10 the Consular service Mr..
Bancroft did not, however, desire this arrange
ment and appealed to the newspapers with no
little acrimony of statement and with con-
siderable discourtesy to myself ! assume that
the newspaper accounts were procured by him,
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Weather Forecasts.
Copyrighted 1892, by w. t. Foster. st. Joseph. Mo
Nv last bulletin gave forecasts Of the dan

Copyrighted 1892 by w. t. Foster st. Joseph Mol
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the dam
gerous storm wave TO cross the continent from
goth to oath, and the next, also a severe storm
wave, will reach the Pacific coast about the
25th cross the Western mountains by the
close of the 26th, the great central valleys from
9th to goth, and the Eastern States about the
30th.
This being the last storm wave of May, il
will be known when It has passed whether my
predictions of unusual weather events in May
were well-founded. Great extremes of weather,
great floods and drouths. were predicted to
occur following the 1st of March. On Janu-
airy 18th, / said: "In places the drouth will
run north of the 10th degree of north latitude.
but generally it will be confined TO south OF
that line" In February / said: CT have often
published and will repeat that very severe
storms will occur on this continent during the
six months from March to June, 1892"
On April Sth said: e Raj MALL will be irreg-
ular; too much in some places. not enough
in others. The 1892 drouth will begin to show
its favorite lurking places in April, and the
heavy rainfall districts will soon be known"
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LIEUT.. o, w. LoNGAN DEAD.

Oliver w. Longan, who has been one of the
most valuable clerks in the Adiutant- Generals
Office, War Department, for the past % years.
died at the Homeopathic Hospital in Washing
ton on Wednesday, May is, after brief illness.
For the past 10 years Comrade Longan has
been the Secretary to the Board of Managers of
the Soldiers Home in Washington, and was
personally known to all the inmates of that in
stitution. He discharged these duties in addi-
ton to those Of fourth-elass clerkship in the
Adiutant Generals Office and performed all
his labors with rare intelligence, and was a
busy man. He lost his wife some two months
ago, which so preyed upon his mind that he
could not do his work. and week ago he was
compelled to go to the hospital, where he failed
rapidly, entirely losing his faculties, dying
without pain. He was considered the hill
horse Of the Adjutant- Generals Office and was
always detailed on committees to devise plans
for facilitating the work of the Office. He en-
listed in the 18th Pa. Cav. in August, 1862, was
promoted Sergeant-Major in March, 1862 and
was discharged in March, 1854. to accept a
position in the Adjutant- Generals Office here
in Washington, where he has remained nearly
all the time since, the exception being his APP
pointment in 1867 to a Lieatenaucy in the 18th
q. S. Cav, which position he resigned in 1869,
and lie returned to his clerksbip in the Adju-
tant-Gcneral's Office. Comrade Longan was
Pennsylvania by birth, and his remains were
taken to his old home for interment.
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AROuT PEOPLE.

Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme
Court, and Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who
have been selected by the President as arbitra-
tors on the part of the United States in the
Bering Sea controversy, have each accepted the
appointment and agreed to serve. The Com
mission will not meet till Autumn.
Mr.. E. S. Lacey, Comptroller of the Currency,
has practically decided to accept the Presi-
dency of the Bankers National Bank of
Chicago one Of the several similar offers re-
Gently received by him. He will 60 to that
city Thursday or Friday next for the purpose
of comforting with the Directors of the bank
Oh the subject 1t is not likely, however, that
he will reinquish his present position before
the LIST of July, as there are several important
questions requiring his personal attention.
Baron Fava, the Italian Minister, called at
the State Department Monday, May 16, and in
the absence of Secretary Blaine had an inter
view with Assistant Secretary Adee. There
were no formalities whatever. Baron Fava
merely informed Mr.. Adee of his return to
Washington after a prolonged leave of absence
and of the resumption of his diplo matte func-
tions as though nothing had occurred to inter-
rupt them. Baron Fava also resumes his place
as Dean Of the Diplomatic Corps.
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PROBABLY THEIR LAST EFFORT.

What should be and probably is the last ef-
fort Of the ree-coinage-of-silver men was
made in the House Of Representatives on
Thursday, May 10, for free-coinage The
temper of the House was clearly shown on this
measure in most emphatic manner, and in
such way as will very likely keep the sub
ject quiet for the rest Of this session at least.
The chair decided against Mr.. BANDS coinage
amendment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill, and ruled against substitute which the
irrepressible Bland Immediately submitted.
Mr.. Bland at once appealed from the ruling of
the chair but the latter was sustained by
large majority, the silver men mastering but
rs votes. Representative Pierce, OF Tennessee,
made strong argument in favor Of free-coin-
age, and bitterly arraigned his Democratic col
leagues for the attitude they had assumed. In
the last Congress when similar proposition
was offered by Mr.. Bland an appeal was taken
from the decision Of the chair and 127 votes
were cast in favor of sustaining the appeal.
In this vote there were but nine Republicans,
and Mr. Pierce wanted to know what had
come over the spirit Of the dream Of the Demo
cratic party that il now dared not face the Is
sue The people. said Mr.. Pierce in conolu-
sion, would not be deceived by any such dema-
gogic proceeding as this.
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ton, N. c., Nov. 8, 1923. He was graduated from
the University of Alabama in 1914, and served as
a First Lieutenant in the 1st Ala. in the Mexican
war. He was admitted TO the bar in 1913, and
has since practiced law. He was member Of
the State House Of Representatives 1S5916O
He entered the rebel army in 1861 as Captain,
and was promoted through the grades to Brig
adler General, surrendering at Appomattox !;
was member of the State Senate OF Alabama
1866 and was elected to the 44th Congress,
and has been reelected continuously ever
since
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SHE SAW THE BURNING CAPITOL

Miss Margaret Smith, an inmate Of the Bap.
fist Home in Georgetown, died on wednesday,
May Is. at the ripe old age OF 92 years Miss
Smith was born in Washington in the year
1850. and was left an orphan when too young
to remember her parents. She was adopted by
family then living on Capitol Ill., which at
that time was the only part of Washington that
was settled. Since then all the members of her
adopted family have died. and for the second
time she was left completely alone in the
world, and she became an inmate OF the Bap-
list Home. Her memory Of early Washington
history was vivid, she remembering very dis
tinctly the trying times Of the gar Of 1912,
which she loved to relate TO interested listeners
She remembered distinctly the burning Of the
old Capitol building by the British, and the
appearance Of the old men and young lads
who joined the militia to oppose the advance
OF the English troops. She was in Washington
when the paBic-stricken militia fed from the
field of Bladensburg, and was surprised by
British soldier while trying 10 escape 10 the
woods with some Of the family silver. Perhaps
her most vivid remembrance was the explosion
at the Nayy-yard during the occupation Of the
city by the British. A quantity Of powder had
been cached in an old well by the retreating
Americans, and it was acciden tally fred by
piece of burning wad from a cannon that had
been turned against the guns of the battery to
disable them. OF the 800 British in the inclos-
ure $50 were killed.
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DIED OF APOPLEXY.

Andrew Patterson. who served during the
war in Co. Fl, 5ist N. Y, and who was well
known in Washington, was stricken with apo
plexy while eating dinner at a restaurant on
Seventh street ON Thursday afternoon, May
10, and was taken to the Emergency Hospital.
Upon arriving there, through some misunder-
standing, it was almost an hour before he was
admitted. The House surgeons worked dill
gently on the old veteran for some time, but
their efforts failed to rally him, and he died in
about an hour after being admitted to the hos
pital. Comrade Patterson had lived in Wash
ington for eight years. He was ~ years Of age,
and was prominent Grand Army man. being
a member of Kit Carson Post His family live
at Morrisania N
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they desired Of him. He was court-martialed
and sentenced to the loss Of SO month from
his pay until such a time as he choose 70 COM
ply with their request.
A complimentary dinner was given By ths
citizens Of Baltimore at the Imperial Hotel in
that city on Friday, May 20, to Secretary of the
Navy Tracy. and at the same time he was pre-
seDted with magnificent silver service given
ty BaltimOre'5 citizens through Gen. Felix
Angus Of the Baltimore Amcrican. for the
United States Cruiser Baltimore Capt. W. s.
Schiey, the first Commander OF the Cruiser
Baltimore; Paymastcr General Stewart, u. s.
Navy; Senators German and Gibson, OF Mary
land, and Hon. J. F. G. Talbot who had the
honor Of naming the Cruiser Baltimore, and
over 100 Of Baltimores most prominent citi-
zens attended the dinner, which was q very
elegant entertainment
Gen. Frank Wheaton, having been notified
OF his promotion % be Brigadier- General, IS
sued an order dated Camp Omaha. Neb.. April
p. relinquishing command of the 2d T. S Inf,
and taking leave. He says OF the enlisted men
Of the regiment that it is a matter Of no small
pride and satisfaction to him that he is able to
turn over to his successor body of men with
so creditable record for ZEAL discipline and
other sOldierly qualities. The friendly feeling
and affection on the part of the men for their
commander is heartily recipTocated by him.