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trophe fire followed the food, and scores
of people who had escaped the rushing
waters were burned to death. The burst
ed dam at Spartansburg converted Oil
Creek into a raging torrent, and when
an oil tank exploded the flames spread
rapidly to oil refinery works and other
establishments. The angry waters then
became sea of Kissing fame. People
were either drowned or burned to death
by the score, in some instances whole fam
lilies perishing. According to New York
World representative, who visited the
scene of the disaster, the great loss of
life and destruction of property in Titus
vile and Oil City resulted from dam
so badly, SO cheaply constructed that the
marvel is that it stood so long.
The reporter drove to Spartansburg,
eighteen miles distant, to Investigate the
cause Of the break in the dam that lies
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had been driven to the upper floor OF the
hoxe, which was sixty feet away, and,
the water was five feet deep. McLaugh-
lin waded out to the house. He climbed
up pile OF drittwood on to the shed.
He took the sister out of the gable win
dow and waded ashore with her.
He returned for the mother. She Is
large woman, weighing 200 pounds.
Jack himself weighs 24O pounds. The
driftwood broke away under the great
weight, and both were plunged into the
water. They houndered about, but Nc
Laughlin found his footing, and carried
the woman ashore. Then ho waded out
again to see if any one else wanted to be
taken ashore, but the people refused to
leave their houses.
Mclaughlin followed up this deed of
heroism by saving the lives of fifteen
women and children at imminent peril to
himself.
Abe Bartholomew is said to have
saved Lizzie Lewis, his sweetheart, but
he didn't. Lizzie saved herself by
swimming. All the Others in her family
were drowned.
A young man named Wetzel plunged
into the swift current near the Dunkirk
depot and saved woman.
The most active, earnest and success
full worker among the women was a
slender, black-eyed girl OF nineteen, who
for hour after hour rubbed stiff, chilled
limbs and quickened the chilled blood.
Men marveled at her endurance. The
servants in the house were useless, and
when the danger was over it was she
who prepared food for the patients and
comforted them. More than one might
have died had it not been for the true
hearted girl who worked steadily for
twenty hours without rest and who
passed forty-eight hours without sleep.
The fire and food of Oil Creek will
sound down the corridors of time linked
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RELIGIOUS READING,

WITHOUT HONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE.
Come to Jesus! Are you lonely?
Solace sweet He will afford,
Lean on Jesus-Jesus only!
Come, and find loving Lord!
Are your trials past the telling?
Are your sins as crimson dye?
Jesus sees your sad heart swelling
Meath accusing memory.
He is waiting; will you leave Him
Pleading at your heart in vainT
he is willing; oh, believe Him;
He may never call again.
He hath never yet forsaken
One who trusts alone in God;
He your long debt hath taken,
And hath paid it with His blood.
From your sins He waits to cleanse you
You-the slave by Satan bound!
Messages Of love He sends you:
Where can such Friend be found?
Are you sick? His Word can heal you.
Are you weary with the strife?
Are you hungry? He can fill you
With the heavenly Bread Of Life.
Now! it is the time to try it.:
Test Him by His Written Word.
Gomez for He will ne or deny it.;
Come to Christ, the risen Lord!
Do you fear His sharp reproving
That you did not go before?
That you left Him-so unloving-
Waiting long time ut your door;
He will only smile and greet you,
Chasing shadows from your brow;
He will surely run to meet you,
Saying Thou art welcome nowP
BY still waters He will lead you,
In green pastures you shall rest;
And the pierced hands that freed you
Bear you on his tender breast.
Come, oh, come this day and try it;
Jesus words are proved and true;
Take His gift; you cannot buy it
He hath waited long for you.
llama Shipton.
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FROM FATHER TO SON.

A few months ago was present in DR..
Carriers consulting room, watching the
prisoners from the depot filing past. We
we're informed that a child had been brought
by its parents to be examined. These
people were shown il; they belonged to the
respectable working class, and were quiet
and well hammered. The man was driver Of
a dray belonging to one Of the railway
stations, and had all the appearance of a
stalwart working man. The boy was
scarcely six years old, he had an intelligent,
rather pretty face, and was neatly dressed.
''See here" said the father, I'VE have
brought you our boy; he alarms us he is
no fool: he begins to mad they are satisfied
with him at bis school, but we cannot help
thinking he must be insane, for he wants to
murder his little brother, q child OF two
years old. The other day he nearly sue
ceeded in doing so. arrived Just in time to
snatch my razor from his hands"
The boy stood listening with Indifference
and without hanging his head. The doctor
drew the child kindly toward him and in
qureds
"Is It true that you wish to hurt your
little brother"
With perfect couposurs the little one re-
piled:
"1 will kill him; yes, yes will kill
him"
The doctor glanced at the father and
asked in low voice:
do you drink"
The wife exclaimed indignautly:.
HE. sir! Why, he never enters public
house and has never come home drunk"
They were quite sincere. Nevertheless
the doctor said.
Stretch out your arm"
The man obeyed; his hand trembled. Had
these people told lies, then, in stating that
the man had never come home the worse for
drin d? No; but all through the day, when
ever he had called to leave package, the
reople Of the house had given him some
thing to drink for his trouble. He had be.
come a drunkard without knowing it, and
the poison that had entered his blood was
at this moment filling the head OF his little
child with the dreams OF an assassin. n.-Sacred
Heart Review.
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Hon. Nelson Wilmarth Aldr1ch has bee6
reelected United States Senator BY tho
Rhode Island Legislature at Providence
The vote was Aldrich, siIty.four; David 3
Baker, Jr.. thirty-nine.
Mr.. Aldrich was bopn at Foster, R I, No
yember 8, 1871; was President of the Prov
idence, R. l., Common Council In 1S7l-7S:
was a member OF the Rhode Island General
Assembly in 1s7576, serving the latter year
as Speaker of the Lower House; was elected
to the House of Representatives Of the Forty
sixth Congress, and was reelected to the
Forty.seventh Congress; was elected to the
United States Senate as Republican, to
succeed General Ambrose E. Burnside, and
took his seat December 5, 1881; he was re-
elected in 1885, AMI now gets the seat Tor
another si1-vear term, which will expire
March 8. 1899.
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TEMPERANCE.

THE pRuNKARD.
On feeble and unsteady legs
He walks as if he trod on eggs.
Wiener he has to give or take
His hands, as with the palsy, shake.
To meet your gaze he vainly tries
With dull and bleared and bloodshot eyes.
Compelled to bear the sign, he shows
A swollen, coarse and crimson nose,
His pimpled, blue and bloated face
OF manliness has not trace.
ALI people near him shun like death
His permeating sickening breath.
With ruined health and shattered nerves
He suffers tortures he deserves
Sad children and heart broken wife
Through him endure wretched life.
Abhorred and Stunned by friends once
known
He wanders through the world alone.
Soon losing self respect he goes
In seedy. torn and dirty clothes.
With raging, hot, increasing thirst
Which can't be quenched he's ever cursed.
In vain he takes the pledge to stop;
With will power gone he has no prop.
Asylums, drugs, gold cures" he tries
Make him insane-unless he dies.
Down, down, he sinks until in time
ae in the gutter reeks with slime.
From borrowing he begs until
For drink he'll steal or even kill.
Delirium tremens' horrid sights
He Sees With imps and snakes he fights.
At last with tramps his doom is sealed,
And then he goes to Potters Field.
And after that? Alas. who knows -
Where any slave Of liquor goes?
They have their hell on earth. confessed
They can't have worse. SO let them rest.
H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Sun.
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Didn't Heed the PrOverb.

A farmer in Manchester, Me-, Is
rejecting sorrowfully upon the max
i'm that honesty is the best policy"
Several years ago, in order to avoid
paying some debts, he conveyed his
farm, worth 81, 900, to his wife. The
wife died recently, and according to
law the property goes to her children,
the widower's right Of dover excepted.
The children refuse to re-convey the
ssrm to their father.
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SOME Englishmen seem to tn

SOME Englishmen seem to think
that the passage of law by Con-
gress granting registers to foreign
built steamships, owned by American
citizens, will lead to complications
with Great Britain. If Great
Britain can stand the complications
the United States probably can.
England is a husky little country
with q powerful voice and a capa-
cious stomach, but it doesn't quite
own the whole ocean.
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w. G. T. U. AT THE WORLDS FAIR.

The building of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union at the Worlds Fair Is
superb edifice. thirteen stories high, and the
cost of the building alone is 1900, 900. Says
one writer: "Willard Hall, situated on the
main foor will seat upward of six hundred
people. Here the incense Of prayer will daily
ascend for the downfall Of intemperance
and every form Of vice, and for the estab-
lishment on earth Of tine kingdom Of righte-
ousness." Women are paying the bills by
will float the colossal scheme. As financiers
some have questioned their ability. So
grand an idea as the edifce suggests cannot
afford to be associated with mismanagement
of dollars.-Mail and Express.
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The nitrate combine in London has
ordered its managers in Chile to limit the
output to II, 900, 900 quintals owing to
the low price now prevailing in the
market.
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FLOOD AND FIRE.
INCIDENTS OF THE GREAT DIS
ASTER IN PENNSYLVANIA.
A Poorly Constructed Dam Causes the
Calamity-Heroic Work Of Jack"
Mclaughlin. Tony Daubs
and Others Mt Titusville.

sSUREDLY, in the
list of terrible calami.
ties which have visited
Pennsylvania the cit les
of Titusville and Oil
City now stand second
ITO Johnstown. As was
the case at Johnstown,
the disaster at Titus.
vile and Oil City was
caused primarily by a
broken dam; but in
the more recent cataS.
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TIE annual report Of the New York Cot
ton Exchange states the number Of bales Of
cotton sold on future" deals during the
year at 81. 4S7, 800, or over three times the
amount of the entire crop. Members of the
exchange now hold 3T5, 900 bales, or more
than half the entire stock in the ports of tie
United States.
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Several concessions for new railroads
in Mexico have been granted to American
capitalists.
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A FRIEND in need Is friend who
yenerallY strikes you for quarter.
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company little worse than ourselves, and
there be ten people in that company, ten
chances to one We will bs made worse than
we were before.
do not pretend to point out any ev.. in
6uencss, but are there no. sons surround
ing influences that are psrnicious to your
growth in grace? Stand back from that fur
mace in which so many young Christians
have bean destroyed. In this church there
Is a large company OF young men and youn!
women consecrated to Christ. I know Of
no better than they are.
Young convert, l invite you into their
friendship. Contact with them will elevate
YOU. All hail, young followers Of Jesus
Christ, my JOY and my pride. My heart
thrills at every step OF your advancement.
I talked with you in that hour when you
most tried 70 break from sin, and now l re-
ioice as see you putting on the armor o. a
conflict in which God will give you present
and everlasting victory. Stant or from all
evil associations A man is no better taan
the company he keeps. Go among those
who are better than you are and you will be
made better. Go among those who are worse
than you are and you will be made worse.
A.; NV next word OF counsel is that you be
actively employed. l see a great many
Christians with doubts and perplexities, and
they seem to be proud Of them. Their entire
Christian life is made up of gloom, and they
seem to cultivate that spiritual despoadency,
when I will undertake to say that in nine
cases out of ten spiritual dependency is
judgment of Goi upon idleness. Who are
the happy SRow ras bs man prossss
the religion Of Jesus Christ and is idle. and
I will show you an unhappy man. The very
frst prescription that I give to a man when
Ifind him full Of doubts and fears about his
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-14

The ronber crows made such terrible
depredations upon his corn fields that
Frederick Hormon, living near Tamaqua
was forced to take extreme measures. H.
fitted up a scarecrow with six shooter
self cooking revolver in each wooden hand.
In box in the chest of the man image be
placed a strong clock, to which he con.
nected the triggers Of the pistols. He ar
ranged the connecting strings so they
would be wound up in a certain number Of
hours, thus firing the revolvers.
As the crows are worst at daybreak. and
as they are fearful of the smell of burned
powder, Mr. Hormon arranged the pistols
20 be discharged nj ten minute intervals in
the morning. The experiment worked like
Il charm, for although none of the crows
was hit by the bullets fired from the
scarecrow, the shooting scared them 50
badly that they always, after two or three
mornings, flew around Mr. Hormons corn
field by circuitous route and bothered
him no more.-Philadelphia Record.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-14

Strange that our strong minded hus-
bands and brothers have worn studs so
long and found them so superior to but
tons, and we women have congratulated
ourselves upon having no longer the I'M
pleasant duty Of sewing theirs on, and yet,
have not generally learned TO use them
upon our own clothingl | have found the
small, mother of pearl, S6-inch size studs a
labor saving medium and very satisfac-
tory. The two buttonholes in each place
instead Of one being accomplished in the
new garment, and there is no more annoy
ance on the score of fastenings Corset
covers and night dresses need hardly be
looked at when they come in from the
wash; buttonholes do not show wear until
the garment is very old; but those dread
full little three cornered holes that the but
ton will make, under the influence of z
pound iron and a strong right arm, are
most depressing and hard to mend neatly
Get, then, the studs, and having a piece
Of narrow baby" ribbon or tape, sew the
studs down the side of it, allowing little
more distance between each on the ribbon
than there is between the holes in the gar
ment; put them in the clean garment from
the wrong side, and the ribbon does not
show. but is a sure guard against dropping
a single one, which, il we believe said
brothers and husbands, is sure to roll
under the bureau or to some unget-at-able
place, TO the utter subversion of morals
and good temper.-Good Housekeeping.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-14

The ancient annual ceremony Of ''Talab
baram," or weighing the maharajah Of
Travancore against an equivalent weight
If gold, has come around again.
IL appears to have been conducted this
year with great pomp and ceremony, foI
the present maharajah is Hindoo OF the
orthodox type, who aspires 10 keep up the
traditions OF his house. Some months lie
fore the ceremony the government pur
chased through its commercial agent at
Aneppey about 1900 pounds weight OF
pure gold, the greater part Of which was
converted into coins for this purpose. At
ter presenting an elephant and offerings TO
the shrine, the maharaiah entered the
building prepared for the occasion, and
having completed the preliminary cere.
monies mounted one of the scales.
The sword and shield were laid in his lap;
in the other side Of the scale gold coins,
struck for the occasion. were placed by the
first and second princes, till it touched the
ground and the maharajah rose in the air,
the priest meanwhile chanting Nedic
hymns Volieys were fired, the band played.
and the troops presented arms. The maha-
rajah worshiped at the shrine and then v ent
to the palace. Subsequently the dew an
and other officials distributed the coins
from the fort gates TO about 1900 Brah-
mins.-Cor. London News.
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Origin of a Catch Word.

"'The wind blew through his whiskers'
is an expression whose origin my town can
Justly claim" said Arson Talbot, Of st.
Joseph, Mo. 1T happened this way Ten
or twelve years ago maniac escaped from
the state lunatic asylum near St. Joseph
in the night, and the early risers the next
morning were startled by the presence Of a
man on the roof of the Tootle Opera house,
one Of the tallest buildings In the city.
Before the day was far spent he was iden-
titled as an inmate of the lunatic asylum,
and the officers Of that institution, to-
gether with a squad of police, soon set
about to induce the maniac TO come down
from the roof
Every harmless device known was ex-
erted TO get the man down, and finally the
officers realized that they would have to 20
up overpower him and bring him down.
There was only one opening to the roof
and the lunatic stationed himself there
and kept the officers back by peltng every
head with big club as it was poked
through the hole. At last three men
gained the roof, and after terrific strug-
gle that was witnessed by thousands OF
excited people who blocked the streets
the lunatic was bound hand and foot and
brought to the ground.
when he cooled off somewhat from the
tussle with his captors, the man gave as
his reason for going to the roof that his
whiskers being so thick he had gone up
there TO let the wind blow them aud cool
his face. The local papers wrote the az
fair up in elaborate style and accounts of
it were telegraphed all over the country.
The headlines made the most of the inci-
dent, and in the blacklist type announced
that The Wind Blew Through His
Whiskers' The expression was so catchy
that it few all over the country like wild
fire, and that is the way it originated. -
st. Louis Globe Democrat
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The Maple street cars are compelled 70
wait ten minutes on each trip at the water
shops end of the line and often the time
drags very heavily for the motorman and
conductor and the few passengers who
happen to get there early. But il was not
so on a trip day or two ago. When the
electric car stopped, an Italian armed with
barrel organ especially designed for play
ing Maggie Murphy's Home" "McGin-
ty" and other operatic airs, its interlock-
ing aud interchangeable addition being
capable of grinding out two yards and two
inches OF "Ta-ra-ra- boom-de-ra" in two
flats and two sharps, opened fusillade Of
very bad music, while his right bower, a
South American monkey, proceeded to
climb all over President olmstead's rolling
stock in search for pennies or other valua
BILE consideration
OF the former he collected four, and after
making n very pretty bow he put the pen
mics in his mouth and jumped onto the iron
guard gate. He was there only an instant
but long enough for some one TO connect
live wire with the iron gate and send a
thousand electric shocks minute into the
thoroughly mystified and screeching mon
key. With the first shock his monkevship
let 90 Of the gate with his paws. but chung
on with his tail, until finally he could not
clear himself. He dropped his pennies AMI
apparently took to swearing In his own
tongue. while his master. unable to pull
him loose, went through war dance in
very elegant manner. The electric current
was finally broken, and the reunited mas
ter and monk quickly made their disap-
pearance. -Springfeld (Mass.) Union.
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INC nabie. d meaI rimes.

Our babies had given MS great deal OF
trouble while we, their parents, were at
meals They were old enough TO come TO
the table, yet they must be disposed Of in
some way satisfactory TO themselves, or
the grown up members of The household
would surely have dyspepsia.
Our final disposition of the matter being
highly satisfactory to ourselves as well AS
the babies, venture TO report it in the
hope that Others in similar predicament
may find hint for their relief. A minia-
ture table and a set of dishes, both of a size
to be of practical usefulness, accomplished
The object.
The table we had made was p inches
high, Is inches wide and feet long, fin
ished natural in shellac. The little dishes
are of plain, heavy crockery that stands an
immense amount OF rough treatment.
Each of the two little ones has a silver set,
of knife, fork, mug, spoon and napkin
ring. One child is two years and eight
months old, the other one year and five
months They both sit at the table and
eat most food by themselves. If much
LIQUID food is served, of course the little
one gets herself pretty well incorporated
Herewith, but on the whole the plan has
worked admirably and recommend it
heartily.
| have decided objections to the use Of
high chair for children To judge from
the few broken spines or strained backs in
my own limited experience aud knowledge
which have resulted from such use, feel
justified in the condemnation. A well
meaning friend had given us one on the
advent Of the first baby. which had lain
in the attic all these months. We now
brought the chair down and sawed off the
legs TO bring it down to a proper height to
accommodate the small table. ! wish to
add the opinion that all high chairs in ex-
istence could be treated in the same way
to the eternal good Of babyhood.-Eleanora
ii. Wady in Babyhood.
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Few people know that there is a good
and bad way Of drinking milk. The BAD
way is that which they generally follow
viz, to swallow large quantity at once
When milk goes into the stomach II + ~
stantly ourdled, and If it is curdled into
one big mass. the juices OF the stomach
can work on only the outside OF II. ihls
is the reason that many people who hAs
milk, and to whom il should be OF the ~
most benefit, cannot drink it. They say y
gives them indigestion, and they are rigR'
Let them give it another chance
But this time they must sip II Slowly
not taking more than a good teaspoon y
at one sip, and taking at least four minutes
to finish the glassful Each little sipth
becomes curled mp by itself when passed
into the stomach and the digestive juice
percolate freely around it and il specify
becomes assimilated. One Of the best e
storatives known afts excessive fatigue
is a glass of hot milk. The heat seems 2
tighten it and to deprive it Of much Of w
sweetness which is so cloying TO soui'
tastes.-New York Commercial AaNef
tiser.