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A HrArHxN RxroRr.

A missionary in India writes as follows,
concerning the effect upon their work Of,
drinking by English and Americans, who
are all counted as Christians by the natives
Frequently converts who did not dare touch
liquor while belonging to their own caste,
on becoming Christians feel free to indulge
in the habit. They say: English Christians;
drink, Christians smoke, why should NOT
wey' and the missionaries mouths are
closed. The effect Of liquor upon these peo-S
pie and the increasing amount used by them
Is something fearful. Besides the drinking
there are several substances smoked by the.
natives which are as pernicious and farl
more rapid in results than alcoholics. A.
strong plea comes to US for one Of our best
women to 60 to linda and remain seyernti
years to train workers. Send good wo.
man who will devote all her time and ener-
gies to this work for few years. There are,
many here who could help but they cannot
lead.h Mrs. Leavitt makes plea IN thei
same line. Her plan is TO have the women
come here to be trained in our training
school that is to be-Union Signal. 4
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Bank Of England employs HOO.
THE Typographical Union is worth 5000.
THERE are $500 women printers in Eng
land.
LAST year was successful one among Inv
fruit growers Of Colorado.
ANDERSON, Ind, is to have an aluminium
factory, employing 1000 hands.
MASSACHUSETTS Knights Of Labor re'
Gently held State Convention.
The Journeymen Brewers National
Union has fifty unions and 400 members.
AN agency is to be established in st. Paul,
Mimi, to secure work for released convlcts.
THRrY-rwo THOUSAND people in Thur.
ingia, Saxony, are employed IN MAKING
toys.
The New York Typographical Union is to
establish school to teach type.settlnS py
machines.
The London (England) tailors have asked
the County Council to fix the same rate ror
women's work as for mems.
The coal industry Of the United States
furnishes employment to SOo,0 persons TO
whom s110,0O0,0oO is paid annually In
wages.
In Great Britain, the total sum paid In
wages for the year 1890 amounted to S2l5,-
GOO. 600. or an average Of S332.50 per capita
for the total number employed.
TIE miners Of the Clearfleld region OF
Pennsylvania have demanded an advance
in wages for mining slow coai." The opera
tors saw that they will refuse the advance
and close the mines.
The official organ of the mill owners in
Germany insists that the eight hour work
day is necessity for horses, as no horse can
work more than eight within twenty-four
hours without injury to its health.
THE Trades Council of Glasgow, Scotland,
has petitioned the Town Council OF that city
to establish municipal workshops for the
purpose Of making all clothing needed for
the inmates OF public institutions, ana unl-
forms for the police and other officials.
TIE average daily output Of glass bowls
amounts to about 46, 300 gross. Germany,
Belgium and Austria-Hungary turn out
about 81, 900 gross, or about four-htths OF
an output as 100 gross. Britain turns out
about 5000 gross daily. or the other pro-
ducinp countries Sweden makes the highest
with 1916 gross daily.
The brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi-
neers has now about 80, OO0 members and
4S5 lodges: the Firemen's Brotherhood has
IS, 900 members and 475 lodges; the Order OF
Railway Conductors counts 19, 400 members
in 800 divisions, and the Trainmen's Broth
erhood has q, 1000 members in 420 lodges.
Counting the switchmen, the carmen, the
telegraphers and track-foremen, the total
number Of organized railroad employees will
reach over 200, 00O.
ARTIFICIAL flower makers in Paris,
France, earn from fifty to seventy-ave cents
aday; Dut there is long slack season. Fan
makers, in some instances, in Paris, earn as
much as 81 per day; and good dressmaker,
working by the day in private houses, earns
about the same, ii she does not have meals.
But seanstresses hressmakers or white
workers. earn from forty cents down to
twenty-five cents day, and tIereis season
OF least two months III which there Is no
work aJ all
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CARDINAL MANELNGS estate SUMS up
$500.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the composer. is
martyr to the gout.
GEORGE HANLoN, q we'll known acrobat,
;as abandoned the stage for the pulpit.
THE Gear of Russia is very busy man,
frequently working till or o'clock In the
morning.
H.F.D DICKENS, son of Charles Dickens,
has been appointed Queens Counsel In
London, England.
MRS. hearst, the widow Of the late Sem
ator from California, Is said to carry LIE
insurance Of 100000.
GENERAL GEORGE W. JONES, Of Dubuque.
eighty years Of age, has just been admitted
to practice in Iowa courts.
THE Patriarch Of the Unite1 States Sem
ate, Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, is nearing the
end of his eighty. second year.
PRINCE V1cToR EMMANUEL, heir to the
italian Crown, is one Of the handsomest and
most accomplished men OF his station in Life.
ARABr PAcHA. the exiled Egyptian mis-
chief.maker. lives on the island OF Ceylon,
amid cocoanut groves, haunted by squirrels
and magpie robins
SR CHARLES RUSSELL, the famous Eng
lish advocate. always tries to dlssuade ms
clients from going to law II tnelr cases can
be arranged out Of court.
THE Marquis of Harrington, even while
the stormiest scenes are being enacted IN the
British House of Commons, peacefully sleeps
on his bench in sitting posture.
J. T. TIowBR1DaE, writer OF juvenile
literature, is again settled at Arlington,
Mass, after an absence OF thres years In
France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
GouNop, the French composer, is fine
looking old man, with white mar. ne Is au
erratic worker, and derives his best Insplra-
tion when he is in a church or cathedral.
CONGRESSMAN LANHAM, Of Texas repre-.
sents the largest district IN tne house or
Representatives. It embraces ninety .elght
counties, some of them large enough OF them
selves to make respectable state.
IT would be difficult indesd to name
moro versatile man or more prolific writer
than Edward Atkinson, Of Boston, Mass,
who. in spite of his large business affairs,
never tires Of instructing bis fellows
TIE narents of ex-senator ingalls,. of
kansas. are still living at Haverhill, Mass.
The father, now over eighty years OF age,
was the inventor OF several useful macnlnes
employed in manufacturing shoes.
SENATOR BR1cE, Of Ohio, wears his hair
IN almost the fac-simile of a curly auburn
wig while Senator John Sherman's wig Is
adjusted with the careless noncnalance sup
nosed to be characteristic OF people VINO
have so much hair they don't know what 70
do with it.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has donated In tne
State of Pennsylvania 81, O0o. 600 fer the
Pittsburg Library, $1,000, 600 for @ the e;p pltts
burg Art Gallery and Museum, SsoO, ,ooo OoO t tor
the Aegheny City .oFBaryS M BrsySdsep 900
for for the Johnstown Library. besides $3.50, 900
for for the Edinburgh (Scotlandl PUBLIC Library,
and more than that for libraries at Dun
fermline, his birthplace, Ayr and other
Scotch towns.
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In the House.

S4rH DAY.-The House passed the Military
Academy Appropriation bill, with amend
ments reducing the total amount recon-
mended by the Committee on Military
Affairs (S4S6. .835.16) to s417, ,505. 16-Mr
Whites constitutional amendment to abolish
the power Of national banks to issue cur
rency was reported adversely and tabled.
35TH DAY.-The Speaker announced the
following special committee to investigate
the Pension Bureau; Mr.. Wheeler, Of Michi'
gan; Little of New York; DUNCAN, Of Ohio;
sYlvania-The House Committee on In.
dian Affairs reported that s7,2s6, ,2S7 would
be sufficient for the needs Of the In.
dian service for the fiscal year Of 1863
Mr.. Stahlnecker introduced bill to levy an
internal revenue tax OF $40 per thousand on
all paper.wrapped cigarettes Otis in
troduced resolution prohibiting the sale Of
intoxicating liquors upon the grounds
Of the Columbian Exposition, and
providing that the Exposition
Shall be closed one day in seyen---
On motion bill was passed allowing the
Board of Managers Of the National Soldiers
Home to appoint as its officers soldiers with
outregard to rank-The bill to amend the
minimum punishment, was passed, and the
House adjourned.
BOTH DAY.-The House was called to ordz
by Clerk Kerr, who read communicate
from the Speaker designating Mr.. McMillin.
of Tennessee, as Speaker pro tenn. Spea.se.
Crisp's absence was In obedience to his ph!
sician's advice-An inquiry into the ell
feet OF the Mckinley Tariff act upon agri
culture was crdered-The minority re-
port on the Bland Free Coinage bill wa
presented-The Springer Free Wool BIZ
has been favorably reported by the whoI
Committee on Ways and Means. 1t also Re
ported a bill to place cotton bagging all
cotton ties on the free list, and machiner.
used In the manufacture Of cotton basginc
97TH Day,-Speaker Crisp was at his pos
evidently none the worst for his temporary
indisposition-The House passed Eesolu-
tion calling on the Secretary Of the Treasury
for statement showing collections and dis
bursements, on account Of the disbursements
regulating immigration at all points In the
United States from July, 1889, to December,
1s9l--Dockery (Mo.l,- Compton lMd.l,
Breckinridge (Ark.), Henderson towa),
signated as the special House Com
mittee for the Worlds Fair inquiry
Mr.. Wise called up the bill authorizing rail-
road companies to grant reduced rates to
commercial travellers. It went over
Mr.. Tucker reported joint resolution, pro-
posing Constitutional amendment for the
election of Senators by the people of the
several States. Referred to the calendar.
3STH DAY.-The Indian Appropriations
bill was considered-On motion Of Mr..
Enloe resolution was adopted calling on
the Postmaster General for information rel
ative to contracts made under the Mail Sub
sidy Act.
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Foreign.

TYpHUs fever is moving down the in
habitants Of the famine stricken district in
Russia. There are 200 dead around Penza
and Is, 600 people are being fed by charity.
SECRETARY BLAINE has requested Chile
to send home the remains OF Riggin, one OF
the seamen Of the United States steamship
Baltimore murdered in Valparaiso.
THE big strike of coal porters in London.
England, IS ended. The trouble was caused
by q dispute with one firm In regard to the
wages to be paid its employees; and 5000 por,,
all the terms offered by the strikers, who
have obtained a complete victory.
THE dreadful cattle affection. foot and
mouth disease, has been discovered in Sit
tingbourne, in Kent England.
PARNELLrrEs and McCarthyites engaged
in a furious riot at Limerick, Ireland, in
which many heads were broken and bodies
bruised, though only two people were seri-
ously injured.
ADMIRAL. SIR Provo WILLIS, <. C. B., the
Senior Admiral Of the British navy, who
fought on board n. NJ. 8. Shannon in her
historical battle of Boston Harbor on June
!, 1918, with the United States frigate Chesa-
peake, died a few days ago in England.
Admiral Wallis was born in April, 179l, and
was thus nearly 1O1 years old.
AFTER week OF secret daily sessions the
Canadian Reciprocity Commissioners ad-
journed their conference to return to Otta-
wa. They had no propositions to offer
which the United States could accept, and
besides they had no authority from the
home Government to even enter upon the
preliminary negotiations.
The telegraph lines in Sweden AMI Russia
were seriously affected by the aurora bore.
alis. Earth currents greatly interfered with
the working o. the lines.
MOUNT VEsUvIUs, in Italy, is again in
state Of eruption. A stream of lava issues
from the base of the great cone and flows
into the Atrio del cavallo.
THERE were heavy snowstorms throughout
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
in France: traffic was seriously impeded A
fishing boat foundered off Newcastle, County
Down, Ireland, and five of her crew were
drowned.
PLOTS 10 kill General Cante and President
Montt. Of Chile, have been discovered and
thwarted.
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Washington.

THE Canadian Reciprocity Commissioners
had another conference with Secretary
Blaine and General Foster at the State De-
partment. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British Minister; attended the conference.
SECRETARY FOSTER directed that no
change be furnished to banks by ub-Treas-
urls or the Treasury Department in New
York unless the banks deposited gold to the
amount of the exchange asked for.
The War, Navy and Treasury Depart
ments have got into controversy over their
respective wharfage privileges at the Bat
tery New York Harbor, and q commission
composed Of one representative OF each
Department will be SAINT to New York to in
vestigate the matter.
SECRETARY TRACY cabled Admiral Cher.
arSi at Monteyideo, instructing him to re-
turn with the Philadelphia and Concord to
the West Indies.
SPECIAL AGENT DE LAMBERT, Of the In
terror Department, spent four months IN
vestigating timber depredations along the
Manitoba border. He reports to Secretary
Noble that the stealing Of timber belonging
to the United States Government has grown
into system OF vast proportions.
CONTINUED heavy expenditures reduced
the United States Treasury cash balance to
S27,247,500 The amount on deposit In Ma
tional banks is $l2, 94S, 100.
THE President made the following nom-
inations: Robert E. Bovine, Of New York, to
be Assistant Appraiser Of Merchandise Of
the Port Of New York. Samuel 81. Byers,
Iowa, to be Consul General Of the United
States at st. Gall Harrie R. Newberry.
OF Michigan, to be Secretary Of the Legation
at Constantinople. Francis Macnutt, OF the
District of Columbia, to be Secretary Of the
Legation at Madrid.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Harrison enter
tanned the United States Supreme Court at
dinner in the White House.
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FLOODED AMBER MINES.
Six Miners Drowned by the Unusual
Tides in the Baltic.

A dispatch received from Konigsburg,
East Prussia, reports peculiar and fatal
accident near that place. The Government
of Konigsburg is bounded on the north by
the Baltic, and along the shores OF this sea is
obtained large proportion of the worlds
supply Of amber. This substance is there
partly cast up by the sea, partly obtained by
means of nets and partly dug out OF a bed
Of bituminous wood.
A few nights ago an exceedingly heavy
sea was running in the Baltic and the high
waves swept far inland past their usual
bounds Close to the shore near Palnnicken,
a small fishing town, is all amber mine
in which number Of men were work
ing. They OF course had no knowl-
edge OF the fact that the rising tide was
bringing the heavy seas in dangerous pro1im-
ity to the entrance of the mine. Suddenly
the water began to pour into the mine in
perfect torrent, filling the small WORKINGS.
The men made wild rush to escape. but SIX
of them found it impossible to breast tne
torrent and were drowned.
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A FAMILY WIPED OUT.
Scarlet Fever Takes Husband and
Five Children.

Six members of the family Of james
Broad, a slate manufacturer, who lives in
New Jersey, near the Pennsylvania line, died
within ten days of malignant scarlet fever.
The only member of the family left Is the
wife AMI mother.
Her boy Philip died first. he was seven
wears old. A little son three years old died
the next day. The elder son. James, Jr.:
aged thirteen. died the day following, and
the elder daughter, Anna, aged sixteen, died
next.
Then the husband and father, James
Broad. died. and next day the remaining
daughter, Ida, aged fourteen.
This series OF deaths under one roof created
intense excitement in the vicinity OF Belvi-
dere. n. J., and stringent measures were
adopted to prevent the spread OF the terrible
disease.
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THE United States man. .of.war Tallapoosa,
now at Monteviieo, Argentine Republic,
has been condemned as unfit for further
naval service, and wiz be sold at public auc.
tion to the highest bidder All her officers
ami crew have sailed for home. leaving the
vessel in charge of the otficsrs of the Yantic.
The Talapoosa is relic Of the var and has
had rather an eventful career. She was
last under Commander James NJ. Forsyth.
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FIGHT TO THE DEATH.

Four indians and One >quaw allied
Out of q Party of Seven.
A courier from White Oaks, New Ae6!co
says that the Mescallo Indians on tho re
,eryaton near there obtained quantity OF
whisky and INDUCED in it to such an extent
that they got to fighting among themse!ves. ss
Revolvers and knives we're nrousa' inSo
action, and the result OF the oate'e WAS %,1 Gae M
killing OF four men and one woman hte ,.ho Lu,
dians, the only participants LII tsd 1ne "uI snd
placed in the guard-house on the reserVa'
ton. .,, I,d;-
ans themselves and does not involve 1ne
white settlers.
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Wolf Drive in Kansas.

The wolf drive, after being in preparation
for two months took place near Girard,
Kan. At 9 o'clock in the morning about
AOO0 men surrounded section OF country
measuring ten miles square. With
a00C men on each side Of the
square there were 100 to the mile. or one
man to about every fifty feet. The firing of
. cannon was the signal for the final dosing
IN. The wolves we're not to be killed until
they were rounded up in the centre. The
chase began at o'clock, and as a result
twenty-five wolves were killed. At
o'clock the forces left the field feeling
iubilant ovAr their success.
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SUN SPOTS.
4 Big Spot Breaks Up Into Twenty
Small Spots.

a Big Spot Breaks Up into twenty
Small Spots.
Observations made at the Naval observa.
tory at Washington by Professor Edgar
Frisby showed that the large spot hitherto
observed on the sun, which covered space
.oual ia one-sixteenth Of the suns surface.
or an area Of 10000 miles long by 100, 00O
miles wide, has by some great cataclysnic
operation been broken into about twenty
small spots.
peared, which are situated a vast distance
from the original spot and are evidently
totally independent from it. This new de.
yelopement on the SUMS surface has attracted
the attention Of the astronomers at the OBJ
servatory and will be closely observed oy
them.
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THAT war cloud in Europe has be-
come 80 dense and threatening that
there is no telling what might hap
pen if an American rainmaker with
few bombs should go over there and
begin experimenting.
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FOUR MINERS KILLED.
Cru shed to Death by the Roof Tim
bers Giving Away.

Timbers in the roof Of the Arnold ore mine
at Feroua, N. Y, gave away a few morn
inrs ago while the full force OF men was at
work.
The following men were killed outright:
Conrad Dewey, single man; William Nolan.
nged forty-five, married aud father OF a
large family; Henry Patnow, agod forty
The following were severely wounLied:
Patrick Dowd, who subsequently, died of his
INJURIES. leaving a wife and family: Th omas
Russell, who was badly cut on the head;
AIexander Dupleas and Antonio Lauarke.
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sOUAW MEN ORGANIZE.

A Society by the Indians, for the In
dians, With the Indians.
The Indians at Pine Ridge Agency, in
South Dakota, have organized a society
called the progressive Ogallalas," to en-
tighten the members and teach them the
ways OF the whites. In nlians, half breeds and
suuaw men compose the organization. The
Indians have recently received their annual
supply of blankets and boots, and arc feeling
amniable. The ghost dance song is very pop
ular among them now, and they say they
can sing IL they cannot dance.
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THERE are said to be sixty-seven veterans
OF the war 1912 now alive in the United
States. One of the Oldest is Silas Ware,
of Waukesha, Wis, who was born at
Enosburg, VT, in 1898, and enlisted in the
company formed by Captain Erwin at
French's Mills, N. Y, where young Wares
father kept tavern.
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Horse Flesh in Demand in Paris.

The rise in the prics Of besf and =nutton,
caused by the new tariff, has led to an enor.
nous demand for horse flesh in Paris,
France. According to report OF the
Police Prefecture. the horses. asses and mules
now slaughtered represent over one-third
Of the whole quantity of meat consumed.
Fillet of horse or donkey is retailed at
twenty cents pound, steak at fourteen
cents q pound and inferior parts at four
cents pound. Worn-out animals are riS'
ing in value, and are being bought up eyary.
where within radius OF 800 miles Of Paris.
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,Eyn or pRrNK IN IorpoN.

Charles Booths fgureyabout the poverty
Of st. Georges in the East. and the figures.
lately published by the rector In his animal
report about the public houses In his parish
ought to be brought side BY side. The in;
the poorest in London. Indeed Charles
Booth reckons st. George'st to be the poorest
district In East London, containing 1873 per
cent. Of what he calls "tne poor, " compared
with 39.2 per cent. in Whitechapel and AT
per cent. In Bethnal Green. There are
nevertheless eighty45ne public houses to sup.
ply with drink the Il, 900 people who occupy
the rector's distict-one house, that Isl for
about every 135 persons. From figures It
the counter to keep up each Of the eighty y-one.
houses; s8l, 900 is thus spent every year by;
II 900 OF the poorest people tn London. -
Pail Mall Budget. ~ ~ 81 s.
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A GOSPEL rEMpEaAscE WAGON.

The Rev. g.. z. Flack, OF the HaIstsd
Street Mission, Chicdgo, has novel idea for
lessening the consumption Of beer among the
workmen in the lumber district BE has,
started what he call, a Gospel Wagon, with
cabinet organ in one end and q coffee tank
in the other. The wagon makes the rounds
Of the lumber yards at noon. When the men
gins and a placard is hung over the coffee
:ank, Coffee is better than beer, and You
can get it here for nothing The men are
taking kindly to the Gospel songs. IL the.
movement proves a. success other wagons
will circulate in the labo: districts
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TEMPERANCE.
YAsEWEIL no rHE BOWL.

gAsEwELL TO rHE BOWL.
Farewell gay companions past follies and
q, Farewell, gay euchanter. the bowl;
Farewell, ye deceitful and sinful decoyH,
The light has just dawned on my soul
Ye promised me pleasure, while laughter
went round,
Till ye led me to ruins dark brink,
believed, Ipartook, I enjoyed, andI found
The road to misfortune Is drink.
My strength had departed, the bloom ere .
thought E.5
Had fled unperceived from my faces
Ny substance was wasted, the pleasure !
sought u ~
Soon ended in sin and disgrace.
My friends do not know me, and seldom
they name, x 80 81
And If they oncs name, with a blush,
IT'S to speak OF my errorA to grieve for my
And to tell to what ruin rush. IS. SIS
But now I'm resolved, with the mccor Of
grace, .}.5 -
To arise, and do all I can Il;
My life to reform, my steps to retface
And become quite temperate man.
1 fear no relapse, though old habits arc
strong, ,.s sgs- * sJ =
II for help but fervently pray; (; e 4
believe in the maxim too old to be wrong.
That "Where there's will theresa way.N
And when I shall die, keep my memory
green, e
And my epitaph deeply engrave:
''Here lies true soldier whose motto had
been, r si s ~
Who conquers bad habits is brave.
Rev. j. Casey, in Sacred Heart Review.