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The record-union., 1892-10-29
A FRENCH FISH STORY.
1t is a Literal Translation of a Thrill
ing Account.

The following is the French translation
Of an English story: A rich proprietor at
the interior had made to establish pond
artificial, where found themselves ag-
glomerated 5000 trout.
This proprietor is the father of a girling
of from five to six. She had taken the
habit to 60 each morning to give to eat tC
the trouts at the aid of crumbs OF bread.
The fishes We're become so netamed
that they skipped out Of the water for tC
attrap the crumbs which the infant held
in the crevice of her hand.
1t arrived one day that she lost hel
equilibrium, and she fell the head first in
the pond, of which the water was enough
profound.
At the cries emitted by the girling the
father was run himself EsaH
But what horrorl He saw his infant
extended without movement at the sur
face, where she floated as cork.
What was not the surprise Of the father
in seeing that she had been supported bv
a mass compact of troutsa
The fishes had arranged themselves un.
der her body as to sustain and to prevent
her from drowning.
If this history is truthful the fishes are
not so much deprived Of the intelligence
as one pleased himself to believe.
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every shrine, has offered every sacrifice
ana every prayer, has felt the consola-
tlon and the shuddering fear, has seen all
devils, has Knocked and worshiped all the
gods-enjoyed all heavens and felt the
pangs Of every hell.
He has lived all lives. and through his
blood and brain have crept the shadow
and the chill Of every death, and his
soul, Mazeppa-like, has been lashed
naked 70 the wild horse of every fear and
love and hate.
The Imagination hath a stage within
the brain, Whereon he sets ali scenes that
lie between the morn of laughter and the
night OF tears, and where his players
body forth the false and true, the joys
and griets, the careless shadows and the
tragic deeps of every life.
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THE IMAGINATION
An Apostrophe by Colonel Robert g.
1ngerSoll.

In the January number of the North
Aatencua ReeietC is published an apos-
trophe by Colonel Robert G. IngersolI
upon imagination, from which we extraet
the following:
The man OF imaginatiOn-that is to saw,
OF genluS-haYing seen Il leaf and a drop
OF water, can construct the forests the
rivers and the seas. In his presence ain
the cataracts fall and foam, the mists rise,
the clouds form and float
To really know one fact is to know its
kindred and its neighbors. Shakespeare
looking at coat Of mail, instantly
imagined the society, the conditions that
produced 1t, and what it produced. He
saw the castle, the moat, the draWbridpe.
the lady in the tower, and the knightIy
lover spurrlng over the plain. He saw
the bold baron and the rude retainer. the
trampled serf and all the glory and
the grief of feudal life.
The man OF imagination has lived the
lie OF all people, OF all races. He was q
citizen of Athens in the days of Pericles;
listened to the eager eloquene of the great
orator, and sat upon the cliff and with
the tragic poet heard "the multitudinous
laughter of the sea-" He saw Socrates
thrust the spear of question through the
shield and heart OF falsehOod; was present
when the great man drank hemlock and
met the night OF death tranquil as a star
meets morning. He has followed the
perlpatetic philosophers, and has been
puzzled by the sophists. He has watched
Phidias as he chseled shapeless stones to
forms of love and awe.
He has lived by the slow Nile amid the
vast and monstrous. He knows the very
thought that wrought the form and feat
ures OF the Sphinx. He has heard great
Memnon's morning song-has lain him
down with the embalmed and waiting
dead, and felt within their dust the ex7
pectation of another life mingled with
cold and suifocating doubts-the children
born of long delay.
He has walked the ways of mighty
Rome, has seen great Caesar with his le-
giOns in the field, has stood with vast and
motley throngs and watched the tri-
umphs given TO victorious men, followed
by uncrowned kings, the captured hosts,
and all the spolls Of ruthless war He
has heard the shout that shook the Colise-
um's roohess walls when from the reel
ing gladiator's hand the short sword fell,
| while from his bosom gushed the stream
of wasted life.
He has lived the life of savage men,
has trod the forests silent depths, and
in the desperate game of life or death has
matched his thought against the instinct
of the beast.
| He knows all crimes and all regrets, all
| virtues and their rich rewards. He has
/ DcSAi NlSIiIl anu faStOEi puTSueT ana pur-
sued, outcast and king-has heard the APP
plause and curses of the world, and on
his heart have fallen all the nights and
moons of failure and success.
1 lie Knows the unspoken thoughts, the
! dumb desires, the wants and WAYS OF
/ beasts. he has felt the crouehing tigers
thrill, the terror of ambushed prey. and
with the eagle he has shared the ecstasy
Of flight and poise and swoop, and he has
lain with sluggish serpents on the barren
rocks, uneoiling slowly in the heart oi
noon.
/ He has knelt with awe and dread al
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Legal Complications.

My neighbor tied knot in my horses
tail, and want ter hab de law on him, u
said 81 Jackson, a Texas coon, to Lawye
George.
Hand over S." said the lawyer.
81 did SO cheerfulIy.
davlng got the money, the lawyer said
calmly, putting it in his pocket:
My advice to you, my colored friend.
IS now go and unite that knot in your
horses tail. ."-Texas SifLings.
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EDGAR l. WAKEMAN.
From Humble Farm to Smiling
Fame.


GIimpses of the Career of One of the
Most Lovable Writers of Our Time
"A McHenry County 'sBrown-
Faced, Tunicl1ed Country Boy''
Whose Genius and Exalted Gun
rest" Have Brought Him to the
flights of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sur
roundinGs of His Boyhood Home
Soldier at Fourteen, and Poet and
Author at Eighteen-Subseque
Bitter Struggles and Trials-Finai
Traveller.
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In a Lunatic AsvIum.

Anything new this morning ?" asked
the Superintendent of his assistants,
No. 136 has begun to write campaign
poetry for the papers,"
Began to write poetry, has he? Put
him in the incurable ward. .H-Texas
Siftings.
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His Reason NYhv-

She-Why in the world does he call his
feet poetic2
He-Because they go to meet her, you
Knoxville.
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"AnGetilS DJDiHi HUntiUrit ITu3,ipr'
sweet were the echoes that fell on NV ear.
- hIffty DcHiNtt itHRHuyjt IEuriGe,'
worshIped betimes with my swarthv con-
collier.
Wakemau has written more ambitious
things, but mono which will be more
dearly priced by his fellow wanClerer. in
whose hearts the word "home" starts A
ieeIlng half OF pain and half Of pleasure
MS Angelus" IS 1t companion 10 Mil
let's masterpiece.
''fhe mantle OF Bayard Taylor has
fallen upon him." says the .T.g1.oo, ~
us work throughout is poetry in prose
tie Wanders about on loot and alone and
paints with so true a hand that to read
after hlm IS to travel beside him and see
ana feel the splendOr and sadness of old
world life IN marvellous comprehensiye-
ness" lie is the highest living authority
upon the gypsies. His studies of ana
companionshlp with the people of this
strange and mysterious race actually
cover period of over thirty years. His
WanderIngs and experiences among the
tawny tribes, not only in America but
IN many European countries, will soon
ne given to the world in book form.
They will not only comprise the first an
thentlc and comprehensive revelation
OF the true ways and traditions OF the
gypsies, but will also, in strange incl
dent, character study and description.
tascinate as deeply as the most advent
urous and romantic narratives of our
time and tongue"
The record-union., 1892-10-29
Ayers Pills

Are better known and more general
ly used than any other cathartic-
Sugar-coated, purely vegetable, and
free from mercury or any other inju-
rious drug, this is the ideal family
medicine. Though prompt and ener-
getic in their action, the use of these
pills is attended with only the best
results. Their effect is to strengthen
and regulate the organic functions,
being especially beneficial in the
various arrangements of the stom-
ach, liver, and bowels.
The record-union., 1892-10-29

INDIGESTION! Miserable! Take BEECH
ANS PILLS.
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PRECINCT MAP-ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 8, 1892

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HorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.
Beware of limitations.
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As If the tired world scorning;
Worn Labor signs and counts its ills
Increased, despite all hopes and wills
While Nights dread pail enfolds and chiIls;
But, all, beyond those dark'ning mills
Remember il is morning.
The land fades quickly out Of sight,
A thread of purple craven
Upon the bosom OF the night,
And boundless waters in their might
Oppose and mock our good ships hight;
But far, OH, far beyond our sight
There smiles a waiting heaven.
0 hearts hope on!--the sun may hide,
Lands fade but falter never.
The morning comes whate'er betide:
The haven waits though wild the tide;
Labor and Love at last shall glide
safe 10 their Soul's-rest there to bide
In sweet-won peace forever.
My land is lost behind the sea-
. aching heart and burning!
God knows my soul was wrapt in thee.
No more vert thou, i'll all, to me-
Than / would to thy future be-
Anu shall be IF the mighty sea
Give safe and sure returning.
At sea, January, 1856.
The following, from the editorial col
umns of the St. Joseph (Mo.) DAILY Her
GId, is but one in hundreds Of spontape-
Gus tributes to his worth and genius:
In the literary rush and turmoil of
Lnese laSt-uNlnB anu last writing later
days, when everybody seems to be hast
ening to the end of the century as a stone
approaching its final plunge to the bot
tom of the precipice, it is with infinite
| pleasure and sense OF rest that one turns
to writer like Edgar L. Wakeman. His
pen is like crystal brook flowing
through desert; his writings the shadow
of great rock in weary land. He is q
queer fellow: Bohemian of a new school.
| or of no school at all unless it he of +ba
! Wakeman school. There is nothing about
him of the Henri Murger type; Of that
! Bobemianism which flashed its iuster in
the underground wine-cellars of Paris.
and was SO poor that he who was discov,
cred with a gold piece in his possession
was forever afterward called 1.-The Rank
err; nothing of the semi-tramp and not
at-all-lovable Bohemian OF this side oi
! the Atlantic who has but recently disap-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-31
"LOOkI
How the Great Preacher Sturgeon was
Led to His Work.

How the Great Preacher Sturgeon was
Led to His Work.
Some fifty years ago, on a snowy De-
cember evening, a homely boy found
himself standing before chapel at Col
chester, England. Although he was
very young, there was a great burden
of distress upon his mind. He had
committed no crime; but he had been
searching for months, as he said, for
salvation"
lie was like Luther on his return
from Rome, anxiously crying out:
'What is righteousness? And how
shall obtain it?"
Tired with his search, the boy stepped
into the chapel and sat down in an OBJ
scure seat. In the pulpit preacher
confronted him, pale as death. He was
as thin as skeleton, and his deep-set
eyes seemed to fix themselves upon
the young stranger. He gave out his
tex: Look unto me, and be saved"
"Why, that's just what I'm after, g
thought the boy.
Then the preacher turned and gazed
upon him, and his piercing eyes seemed
to penetrate his heart.
Young man." he cried, in loud
voice, you are in troubler'
"Sure enough, l am. How does he
know it?' murmured the boy to him
self
"You will never get out of it unles:
You look to Christ, returned the preach
er. And then, lifting up his hands in a
most impressive way. he cried out, a:
only Primitive Methodist could do
Look, look, looh! 1t is only look"
This phrase, which might have meant
little or nothing to someone else, wa.
everything TO that troubled boy. Hi.
heart bounded. He had been waiting
for a difficult way OUT Of his spiritua
distress. The simplicity Of the direo
| ton took him of his feet
He had been ready 70 go sBywher'
oct of his way, or to do anything GU
of the common, or Ike Paul, 70 ses~is
ions and have strange experiences bu
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NOTES BY THE WAY.

CAROLINE KII.BY is the art decorator
of the largest carriage building estab-
lishment in New York, and has twenty
women under her supervision.
SIX successful hospitals have been
founded for women by women physi-
clans in Philadelphia, New York, Bos-
ton, Chicago, San Francisco and Mime
apolis.
MRS JOSEPHINE BAsTHEN, of Ashe-
vile, n. c., has travelled 10000 miles
and spoke 500 times in one year for tenn
perancc and Sunday-school interests.
She also wrote leaflets and contributed
thousands of them.
Mrs. T. b. TABER WILLETs, of Roslyn,
L. l., personally manages farm of six
hundred acres. Her Guernsey herd is
one of the finest in the country, and
their owner is said to know the pedigree
of every one of them.
AT meeting of the working women's
club of Syracuse, n. Y, some time ago,
one of the members gave history OF
the work of police matrons in the var
ious states, after which the mayor OF
the city presented gold badge to their
police matron, Mrs. Sarah j. Peck, in
behalf of her friends.
THE women of New York state will
furnish and decorate the library room
in the woman's building at the Worlds
fair Plans are perfected to make the
furnishings very elaborate and tasteful.
The room will contain as complete a
collection as is possible to gather o!
works written by women.
THE widow of the late Tewfik Pasha,
of Egypt, the beautiful and intelligen,
Emmeh, is said to be remarkably pro-
gressive and benefcent in her ideas
and the young Khedive consults her in
every matter of importance. Many OF
the reforms of civilized nations have al
ready been inaugurated, and others ar'
in contemplation
AN English association, THE society
for the employment of women" has
Just printed its SD annual report
which gives an interesting account o
the object and progress of the society
The special business of the society j.
to teach girls how to earn their living
by giving them a technical education
and when trained to help them to EN-
ployment The report recognizes th'
fact that girls like boys, have to learl
q trade b,tore they can make living
out of Il
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the single thought and the magic word
then took possession of him, and after
ward controlled his life. He had only
70 look to Christ? Was that all? Only
60 turn his head and see the way of life
and peace?
This was the way in which the great
preacher Sturgeon was led to hiswork.
He himself said that the word "Lookw
heard for the first time upon that stormy
evening, in that obscure chapel, was
the spring that moved the great sources
of his power.
Most of us are trying to find out the
meaning of II religious life 1t seems
as complex as problem in higher math-
ematics. But, indeed, it is not so, Look
at the example of the Master, and ac-
cept His teachings.
An earnest Christian woman lay up
| on her death-bed in Boston hospital.
She had devoted herself, body and soul.
to an unselfish life, and contracted the
disease that caused her death in spend
ing her life for others. The night she
died she said to her attendant
please raise the curtain"
There, on great church, opposite
the hospital, flooded by moonlight, stood
Thorwaldsen's statue of the Master
Long and silently she gazed upon it.
what do you see?' asked her friend,
gently.
Don't drop the curtain" she pleaded.
81 want to look at Christ"
perplexities are all curtains that fall
between us and the true meaning of
simple Christian life. Raise them-and
look at Him; the one teacher whose
wisdom none can question; the one
Saviour by whom Immortality is as
sured. Youths Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-31
FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
A WARMING.

Girls and boys. l wish to tell you
OF foe you entertain;
have seen him with you often,
And the fact has caused me pain;
For he only seeks the ruin
OF your lives so young and fair
He's foe, cool, sly and cunning,
And his name Isl II don't care"
Hsve you ever thought, dear children,
That II don't care" is thief,
Taking from you time and order,
Candor, friends and all save grief
Don't you notice the bold falsehoods
That he daily tells to you,
And that make you say: II don't care"
When at heart you really dor
He, at first, will only cause you
To forget yourself and dare
To answer parents friends and strangers.
With the rude words: II don't care"
But be wsrnedl He'll plant within you
The true spirit of his name;
Then he'll disappear like magic.
Leaving you to bear the shame
Break the habit, children, break 1t,
Do not use the common phrase;
Smaller things than this have started
Many life In reckless ways.
Guard your words, your thoughts, your actions
To yourself be true; and dare
Not let the good Of life slip by you
With reckless ~ don't care"
-Floy s. Armstrong, in Housekeeper.
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-
WISE SAYINGS.

If you can not come to Christ with
faith and repentance, come to Christ for
faith and repentance, for He can give
them to you.-Spurgeon.
The golden beams of truth and the
sillen cords of love, twisted together,
will draw men on with sweet violence
whether they will or not.
Spread the wings of your faith and
get high enough, and you will find out
that God never lost battle. Christ
came to seek and save the lost, and He
is going to do it.-Ram's Horn.
1T is great thing to love Christ 50
dearly as to be ready to be bound and
to die" for Him, but it is often thing
not less great to be ready to take up
our daily cross and to live for Him.
John Card.
"A man that puts himself on the
ground of moral principle, if the whole
world be against him, is mighticr than
all of them. A man ought not to fear
being in minorities so that minorities
are based upon principles. - Chicago
Standard.
AS one crooked furrow makes an
other and another, and sends its inf!u-
ence across the field, SO does one crooked
life mar the beauty of the one next to
it, and thus the evil spreads through a
whole congregation or community
United Presbyterian.
The prophetic Scriptures arc good
for me in sadness, for they are full OF
encouragement; in doubt, for they are
! full of promise; in carelessness, for they
are full of warning; in contrition, for
they are full of mercy; nay, they arc
good for me in every case, for they are
full of Jesus.-Caroline Fry.
God is just, and He loves righteous
ness. Therefore the causes of the poor
and the wronged are very dear To Him
In His severest arraignment of the sin.
ful nation He says: THE right of the
needy they do not judge. Shall not my
soul be avenged of such nation rs
thisy' They who wrong those who arc
weak and helpless may prosper. bur
God Is against them, and in the end
Judgment comes relentlessly. -ITnis>,l
: Presby terrain
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-31
ONE DAY IN SEVEN.
Our Christian Sunday Isl Great Blessing
to Us All.

Our Christian Sunday lss Great Blessing
to Us All.
What blessing is the Christian Sun
day now, as was the Jewish Sabbath in
ancient times? Happy is that land and
blessed is that family where the Sab
bath is kept holy and God is loved and
served, A week without Sunday is like
country without the smell OF flowers
or the song of birds. 1t is like year
without summer; nothing but bleak,
barren, frozen winter. tits like night
without a morning; nothing but sor-
row, darkness, death. Sunday is the
embanlIment which God has built,
against which the waves of care and
sorrow which for six long days have
been rolling over the heads and hearts
of anxious men and weary women,
may break and scatter themselves in
harmless spray and beautiful foam.
Sunday is Gods benediction on
troubled world. He stretches out
His mighty and loving hands over us,
and the gentle benediction falls. He
speaks the word of Peace" and the
spindle rests in the loom, the grinding
ceases in the mill, the store remains
| closed and Gods hush, making even
silence vocal. alone is heard; and every
heart is uplifted in holy song or bowed
in humble prayer. Such is Gods idea
! of Sunday, such should be ours.
A period of rest for man and beast is
an unavoidable necessity. Even if God
had made no positive law on this sub
| ject the necessities of the case would
compel the observance of periods of
rest. Extensively also, even among
many heather nations, the seventh day,
or the seventh part of the time,
was given to rest; it was at
times called "holy day" The
French nation during the revolution,
when they denied the existence of God
and despised the Bible, were still
obliged to observe period of rest.
They appointed the Decade" taking
for rest one day in ten. To the laboring
man Sunday is a boon and a benedic'
ton. Disraeli, in his "Tancred," well
says 1.-THE life and property of En-
gland are protected by the laws of Sinai.
The Woodworking people of England
are secured day Of rest in every week
by the laws Of Sinai" Humboldt, who
certainly was not prejudiced witness
and who saw the working Of the decim
! al system in France, says: ''The Sc
lection of one day in seven is the wises
that can be made. When, in the time
of the revolution, spent some time il
[ Paris, saw the institution of the Sab
bath, despite its Divine origin, sus
pended by the dry and decimal sys
TEN. But this was decidedly too long
| am convinced that six days is the
just measure. To lengthen the interva
is as inhuman as it is foolish" 1t ha'
been abundantly proved by many
, actual tests that man and beasts will
, accomplish more work in a year by
resting one day in seven than by work
! ing continuously The man who lift
his hand against the proper observance
e of Gods holy day is an enemy to the re
! public, an enemy to the race and al
enemy to God. This whole subject il
: eminently practical to-day. May Coz
! help us to stand by His word and b.
I His day; then shall we ride on the higl
places of the earth, for the mouth o
/ the Lord hath spoken it.-Robert A
- Macarthur, in Christian Inquirer.
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RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
NEED THY PRESENCE.

Tarry with me. Day flies apace;
need Thy presence and Thy grace
TO still the fears within my breast,
And hush each troubled thought TO rest.
larry with me. Through twilight dim
Help me to chant life's vesper hymn;
fain would hear Thy cheering voics
Bidding my fainting heart rejoice.
Tarrv with me. Life's troubled sea
Looks very dark and deep to me;
pray Thee, Lord, with me abide
While float down its ebbing tide.
Tarry with me. The shadows deep
Close round me while pray and weep;
scarce can see hopes polar star
To guide me DER the ocean bar.
larry with me. The night has come,
Lord, take the helm and guide me home,
Safely across this swelling sea,
To evermore abide with Thee.
Mrs. L. J. H. Frost, In Waterman.
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Interesting from the start.

81 don't like this as much as thought
I would" said Harry, looking up from
his algebra. Its stupid. There's too
many rules to learn
Things always seem SO until we get
through some of the drudgery," an
swered mamma, cncouragingly. Mann
mas are always ready to inculcate moral
lessons. 1T will be more interesting
after awhile. Everything is SO at first. y
Harry looked solemn.
Il know one thing that isn't stupid
from the beginning" said he; you
don't have to wait fer it to be interest
ing"
What is it,
Eating ice-crsam!"-Harpcr's Young
People.