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Every Citizen Interested.

Every Citizen Interested.
Cleveland Leader.1
Fl. C. Frick OF any other man Is nothing,
comparatively speaking, but the privilege
OF enjoying the ordinary rights of an Ameri-
can citizen without being murdered is worth
much to every man and TO the country.
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No Difference in Views Possible.

New York Herald.]
Unqualified condemnation must and will
be the verdict of ali classes throughout the
country on the 1endish attempt to assassf-
nate Mr.. H. C. Frick in his ONCE at Pittsburg
yesterday. Naturally, the first impression
in many minds when the startling announce
ment is seen will be that the dastardly work
was a consequence of the conflict at Home.
stead. But this impression must vanish as
soon as the facts, are known. II any evil
dence were needed that Mr.. Frick is in no
sense the victim of labor animosity his own
experience would ahprd it. For years he
has been one OF the a|blest, most open aud
most uncompromisi4g fighters Of labor
organizations. He hat Fought hard and been
fought hard. Yes NO ftsempt has svsr been
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DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE,
Mrs. Mary G. Michel, Actress.

In the death of Mrs. Mary G.. Michel on
Friday last at the Edwin Forest Home for retired
actors, Philadelphia, there passed away a once
familiarly figure to playgoers of the olden time.
Mrs. Michel was an Englishwoman and, although
never particularly fortunate in her en-
gagenents, she nevertheless played with
a certain degree of deserved success. Before
her marriage to her husband, Ivan c. Michel, she
wasa Mrs. Thrill. Mrs Michel entered the For
rest Home five years ago, and at her death had
reached the venerable age of 80 years. She was in
such excellent health at the time of taking her
abode there that shortly after she played the role
was given at one of the Shakespeare BIRTH
day entertainments at the Home. Mrs.
who is still living playing Desdenona. For the
past two or three years Mrs. Michel has been con-
fined to her room by her physical infrmities, her
mental faculties remaining unaffected until very
recently. During her younger years Mrs. Michel
called forth a good deal of admiration from John
Howard Payne, who wrote verses and anonymous
letters to her embodying ardent affection which,
GUS.
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Obituary Notes.


MARTIN BRANDT, prominent citizen Of Indian
apolis ex-Auditor and ex-Treasurer of the county,
died at Huntington Saturday, aged "a.
MICHAEL HENNsEssY, commercial editor of the
New York Times. died at his Brooklyn home Satur-
day night. His death resulted from street car ac-
cident last Monday.
+ T. c. OREAR, the Oldest citizen of Lexington,
KY, died at his residence Saturday. He was the
first live stock aucioneer to do business in Lexng-
ton. He was 81 years old.
Ex-MAYoR D. A. CONY, of Augusta Me-. died
Saturday morning of heart dsease, aged IS years.
He was President Of the First National Bank aud
. prominent grain merchant. He was . son Of
Names war Governor.
ANNA E. GILL, the widow of Captain Gill, Com
mandant Of the Philadelphia Arsenal, and one of
the foremost Democrats of Union county, N. j.,
died Saturday ut the Morris Plains Lunatic Asy-
lun. where she was taken for treatment several
months ago.
JOHN P. BAYLEss, one OF the few survivors Of
the Black Hawk War. and one of the earliest set
tiers Of Litchheld Is. has just died there at the
age of 81 years and months. He came to this
county in 1854, and led active business life until
he reached the age Of 80 years.
SAMUEL SEIFERr, one Of Mech hanicsburg's oldest
and most respected citizens, died Friday evening.
aged 50 years. He was q lifelong Whig and Re.
publican, having voted and worked for General
William Henry Harrison in 1874 and for his grand
son. benjsmin Harrison, In 1ssS.
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Mrs. Margaret A. McMasters.

Mrs. Margaret A. McMasters, widow of
the late Captain Thomas McMasters. of Turtle
Creek and daughter of General C. P. Markle, de-
ceased, of Westmoreland county. died yesterday at
at the age of 81 years. She is survived by her only
daughter, Mrs. Mortimer z. Miller. The funeral
notice will be published hereafter.
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John Downes, SteubenviIle.

John Downes, one of Steubenville's fore
most citizens, died at s O'Clock yesterday after
noon, aged 73. He was born in England; was
silk weaver by trade and the first knitting
machine ever brought to Steubenvile. Of late
years he has been a salesman for woolen goods.
and has been o contributor to newspapers and
magazines for years as free thinker.
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Sympathy of the Whole Country.
A Public Calamity.

Cincinnati Enquirer.I
The attempted assassination Of Mr. Frick
happily unsuccessful, as our latest advices
run-ts an event which attains to the pro-
portions of a public calamity. It's effects
must inevitably be wide-reaching; and
there is demanded of the whole country the
coolest Judgment and the most careful dis
crimination, lest those effects shall tend to
irreparable mischief. Our laborers are not
Anarchists, and are not Nihillsts, and this
would-be assassin seems to have been both.
His individual passion had been aroused at
the quarrel, and he had acted for himself
These are events inexpressibly shocking,
but such as all lands have to meet 1t is
well to meet them ,coolly, intelligently, and
with the most careful consideration.
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Deys of Algiers, and Is now barracks
Or military headquarters. II II were
going to construct q city on one of your
steep sand hills on the model Of laby-
rinth think I should build something
analogous with ancient Algiers. It is q
town made up of narrow streets of un-
equal length, presenting in their wind
ings and twistings every imaginable turn
and curve, staight lines being seldom
noticeable.
Your Mussulman fatalist does not like
change of any sort, and looks with grief
on, the opening Of wider avenues, which
the local authorities are constructing, 80
as to bring light and air into dark and
unwholesome quarters. Moreover, Arab
architects seem to feel instructive re-
pulsion toward right angles. The houses
are without exterior windows, or with
loopholes ut most. The different stories
protrude, the upper still further than
the one below, and in such a way that
at the top buildings on opposite sides Of
the rarrow street often touch each other.
Sometimes the public way runs for a
considerable distance in q vaulted pas
sage, and everywhere the walls are Of
dazzling whiteness. It is the custom to
whitewash them twice in every year,
but now and then some cranky Arab lays
on a coat. of blue, and, the contrast is
very striking.-San Francisco Chron-
icle. -
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The Form OF o Rainbow.

The form of rainbow depends on
the relative position of the suu and the
observer. It is caused by the Light Of
the sun passing through the drops Of
rain, by which the light is refracted, as
by prism, when the rainbow colors are
perceived. Thus when the sun shines
through shower of rain, in parallel
direction, the rainbow is circular, but
when the rays of the sun strike the
shower at an angle, we see only part Of
circle, which is less as the angle Is
less. When the sun is high and shines
through a cloud, which consists Of minute
drops of water, at great height, we see
the circle aud call it halo. But 1t Is
actually q rainbow. The compound
rainbows, sometimes seen at q great
height in the sky, are caused by tho
light passing through ice crystals in the
clouds, when the refraction is more COM
plicated. The double rainbow Is due to
the action of the sunlight that is re-.
fected from both sides Of the raindrops,
as well as refracted by their passage
through the drops. These reflections pro-
duce faint colors which are seen within
and without the principal rainbow. The
phenomena of the rainbow have been
studied by philosophers since the Four.
teenth Century, but it was Newton who
discovered the most. interesting facts
concerning this curious appearance. The
so.cslled sun dogs which appear in hszy
weather are merely different exhibitions
of the same phenomena of the refraction
of light. York Times.
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high walls pierced at irregular distances
with small sized openings covered with
iron or wooden bars. There is: low,
thick door, in stone or marble frame,
which may be and, often is curiously
carved, and usually there are old-fash-
ioned locks and queer.shaped knockers.
This is the exterior appearance OF an
Arabs house; there is no more luxury,
no other ornamentation and no front
yard either.
But you should see the inside Of these
dwelling. places. Marble columns with
delicate futings, ogive arches of elegant
design, balistrades Of precious wood,
large doors with fine panels, ceilings with
arabesoues aud bright paintings, mosaic
floors and fountain playiug--these are
the sort of things you find inside Moor
ish home. The door which opens on the
street never lets you at once into the
apartments. You enter 6rst ball more
or less spacious, according to the impor-
tance of the mansion and the wealth OF
the owner, and on both sides of which,
under inches sustained by graceful
columns, aud marble seats extended for
visitors and customers.
Next is the courtyard, bordersd on its
four sides by galleries. and this court Is
the common promenade OF all the home
folks. It is also used for receptions and
marriage ceremonies, when the tiled or
mosaic pavement is covered with mat;
ting or carpets, and cloth is stretched
overhead to protect the guests against
sudden rain or overdose of daylight.
Around the galleries Of this ground floor
are the kitchen, storerooms, bathhouse'
cistern and chicken coop.
The pavement of the hall OF the
court-wheu it is not laid in tiles or
mosaics-the steps of the staircase, the
columns, the door posts, are all in stone
or marble. The walls are inlaid with
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A New Twine Fibre.

J. G. Best, who lives q few miles
south of Kansas City, Mo-, thinks he
has solved the binding twine problem
for the American farmers. Mr.. Best
proposes to use as q substitute for ma
nilla and slsal fibre in the manufacture
of twipe, the fibre Of the yucca plant or
"Spanish bayonet" as it Is called in
New Mexico. A Kansas name for it is
"tear grass" so called on account of
the great strength of its fibre. Mr.. Best
has been experimenting with the yucca
plant for several years, and he has pro-
gressed so far that he has invented
machine that will satisfactorily separate
the fibre. Driven by a horsepower en-
CINE and operated by two men, it will
separate 1000 pounds of clean fibre in
ten hours, which can be manufactured
into binding twine much more chesply
than manila and sisal fibre, while at the
same time making twine that is quite
as good. Mr. Best says the manufac-
ture of his twine will bring the trust
to more reasonable terms.-St. Louis
Republic.
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Cle1er HORSES and Cattle.

That horses and cattle can communi-5
cate intelligence to each other, and arc
endowed with certain amount Of rea.
soning faculty, the following facts arc.
pretty conclusive proof: I once pur-
chased station on which large num-.
Der of cattle and horses had gone Wild
To get cattle in, fenced the permanent
water "a distance Of twenty miles, leay-s.
ing traps at intervals. At first this an.
swered all right. but soon the cattle be-
came exceedingly cautious about enter.
ing the traps, waiting outside for two on
three nights before going in, and il thsyt
could smell a man or his tracks, not go-
ing in all. At last they adopted PLAN
which beat me. A mob would come 70
the trap. gate, and one would 20 in and
drink and. come out; and then another
would do the same, and SO on till all
had watered. They had evidently ar
rived at the conclusion that I would net
catch one and frighten all the others.
away. ~ -,... ..s ss.i 8
To get in wild horses, 600 of which
were running on large plain (about
10000 acres), I erected large stock
yard, with a gradually widening lane, in
a hollow where it could not easily be
seen, and by stationing horsemsn at in--
tervals on the plain, gallopod the wild
horses in. My first hunt (which lasted
some days. was successful. the wild
horses heading toward the mouth OF the
lane without much difficulty, but, Of.
course, some escaped by charging back;
at the stock-yard gate and In other
ways. My second hunt, about q month
later, was q failure; every mob Of horses
on the plain seemed to know where the
yard was and would not turn that way.
This seemed to show that the horses
that escaped from the first hunt told all
the others where the stockyard was.
London Englan6 Spectator.
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PUSH UPWARD.

What bugle-blast the heroic old Paul
sounded in the ears Of his younger brethern
at Colosse when he exclaimed, IF We then
be risen with Christ seek those things
which are aboYe!" In whatever way we
apply these words, whether as meaning
preparation for heaven, or coveting OF
heavenly treasures or an upward push III the
Christian life, they still breathe the same
aspiration. Jesus had delivered those Leath.
ern from the sepulchre Of sin. They had
risen with Christ. Now instead Of still lin.
aerine in the atmosphere of the charnel
house. the great apostle exhorts them to
cast away their grave clothes, and to live as
Christ's f-eemen and the heirs to magnifi-
cientinheritance. Look higher! Live higher
These were the inspiring oils Of the veteran
to his Younger fellow-soldiers in the warfare
for Christ. He exhorts them to ''set their
minds on the things that are above, and
also to ssseck" them.
There was to be an inward longing and an
outward living Christward. PauFS b1gle-
call is needed in our times to vast numbers
of Gods people, who, like Bunyan's man
with his muck-rake. are grubbing away
among the straws and rubbish. without even
lifting their eyes towards the crown above
their heads. Tens Of thousands, whose
names are on the rolls Of our churches are
barely alive. Instead of growing they are
only gasping. Their pulse is feeble. Ihelr
Joys are few; only an occasional sunbeam
In watery sky. Their assurance of hope Is
so scauty that they can barely say."well,
I hope that au Christian. 1 think that
was converted several years ago, and when
I die trust that shall be saved" There Is
no muscle In their faith. no power In their
prayers. no ring in their voices. no force In
their daily examples, no fruit of the Spirit.
in commercial phrase, their. Christian life
does not pay expenses; they are running De-
bind every year.
Now what shall these batting doubling,
crippled and aImust useless professors do?
Shall they lie still justwhere they are-with
the desperate hope that when death over
takes them they will somehow scramble into
heaven? This is too tremendous q risk to
run. And even II by Gods grace they are
saved from hell they will have wretchedly
poor and meager preparation for heaven.
No crowns awaiting them there No
sheaves; not more than spear or two OF
grain. All this style Of existence is better
than death but 1t is not genuine living.
Every one of these cumberers OF the soil
NAV Lecome fruit.bearer tomorrow II he
only will. Every back-s'ider may become
ioyous, useful servant Of Christ at once If he
will only heed Paurs bugle-call, and awake
to the glorious possibilities before him.
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that of a diet with two houses, one OF
which was to be composed Of delegates
duly elected, while in the other sat the
peers. Already the new constitution
has encountered breakers. In ordinary
parliamentary systems, when the deputies
and the Government do not agree, 1t is
the latter that goes under. In japan,
where everything is done differently, the
house of representatives has been dis
solved and new election has been or
dered to test public opinion.
The Viscount Tani is on the side OF
the Government, and claims that the min.
isters have made good showing. It is
charged that the popular party has re-
sisted all Government bills indiscrImln-
ately; among others, several for the re-
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somsthins :Uneomnen il Rags.

Twas calling on q friend at weiIl
known importing house this week, writes
q New York correspondent, and in tho
course of conversation he said: "Would
you like to see something uncommon In
rugs 2" of course said 'syes," where
upon be got bunch of keys from their
custodian and took me into special
room about the size of an ordinary draw
ing room, in which were several piles Of
rugs; while others we're displayed about
the walls. .sIt may interest you to
know" he said, 'sthat in this little room
is 800, 900 worth Of rugs, and yet the
real treasures are kept even more close
ly," He then went to substantial cup
board and unlocking it drew forth Q
folded silk rug, which he threw open
with flourish. 1t would need q Rus-
kin and Turner combined to do jus
tice to the sight which met the eye..
The rug was nearly square, being about
five by seven feet, and its richness was
dazzling. The price, I was informed
was $500. It contained 9,O00, 600
btltSACo ouO Woo oUOut coV yScoo SHSs
How it got to the New York market the
dealer was not all disposed to say, and
this leads me to remark that in these
choice Eastern rugs there Is often Q hid
den chapter of romance, which, If put to
literary uses, might furnish more than
one novel like Wilkie ColIns's 'sMoon-
stone' to the library Of 'sthrill." These
priceless rugs all have their history;
whether they carry with them into exile
something of that power to bless and
curse, which is supposed to go with soma
of these Oriental gems that have been
torn from their holy hooks in the East
to be made traffic OF by the inidels, ),
will not undertake to say. Possibly
this superb rug would be as uncomfort-
able possession as that complacenti
''fallen idol" which caused such distresI
in the wild narrative Of Anstey.
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LIGHT AROUND THE THRONE.

Iremember being In meeting after the
war of the great rebellion broke ont. The
war had been goir on for about six months.
The army of the North had been defeated at
Bull Run, in fact We had nothing but defeat,
and it looked as though the Republic was
going to pieces. SO we were much a,, cast I. down
speaker for awhile seemed as if he had hung
his harp upon the willow; and 1t was one OF
the gloomiest meetings I ever attended. FL
nnlly IN old man with beautiful white hair,
got up to speak and his face literally shown.
aYouny men," he said, "you do not talk
like sons of the King. Though 1t is dark just
here, remember that 1t is light somewh here
else.'' Then be went on to say that II it
were dark all over the world, 1t was nght
around the Throne.
He told us he had come from the east,
where friend had described to him how he
had been I'D mountain to spend the night
and see the sunrise. AS the party were
climbing up the mountain, and before they.
had reached the summit, storm came on.
This friend said to the guide, II will give
this up; take me back" The guide smiled,
and replied, think we shall get above the
storm soon" On they went; and 1t was not
long before they got up to where it was as
calm as any summer evening. Down in the
valley terrible storm ragged: they could hear
the thunder rolling, and see the lightnings
flash; but all was serene on the mountain
top "And 80 my young friends" continued
the old man, ''though all Is dark around you
come little higher and the darkness will
flee away" Often when I have been IN.
clined to get discouraged, I have thought OF
what he said. Now il you are down in the
valley amidst the thick fog and darkness,
get little higher; get nearer to Christ, anu
know more of Him.
You remember the Bible says, that hen
Christ expired on the cross, the light OF the
world was put out, God sent his Son to be
the light Of the world; but men did not love
the light because it reproved them of their
sins. When they were about to put out this
light, what did Christ say to his disciples!
I'VE shall be witnesses unto Me-" tActs
1:S). He has gone up yonder to intercede
for us; but He wants us to shine for HIM
down here. '.Ye are the light OF the
world" Matt. 5:l4l. So our work
is to shine; not to blow our own
trumpet so that people may look at us: Wha:
we want To do is to show forth Christ. II
we have any light Mt all it is borrowed light.
Someone said to young Christian: Con
yerled! 1t is all mooashine" Said ne Il
thank YOU for the illustration, the moon
borrows its light from the sun; and we Dor.
row ours from the Son of Righteousness. II
we are ChriSt's we are here to shine Tor
Him by and by He will call US home to our
reward .-1Mnn1v.
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lief OF the sufferers by the recent earth
ouskes. Two other accusations made
are that majority of the represen tati vea
insisted upon unwise reductions OF ma
tional expenditure, and rejected bills for
the national defense, for railway erten-
sion, and for Tightening local taxation.
Immediately after dissolving the house
the Government, on its own responsible
ity. took measures to relieve the earth
Quake sufferers.-Chicago Post.
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ONE VERSE READ At A CRITICAL MOMENT.

ONE VERSE READ At A CRITICAL MOMENT.
A missionary in Japan tells Of young
man living in Yokohama, who had beard
of Christianity but had never had given 1t
any special attention. Learning that his
father had been defeated In q lawsuit, and
believing that injustice had been done, he
became greatly enraged and determined to
take revenge by assasslnating the governor
whom he believed to be responsible for the
result. While arranging to 30 home that ne
might carry out his evil intention he called
to say goodbye to q Christian friend,
who not knowing the object Of his journey,
bade him God-speed and gave him Bible.
He started on the journey, reading the Bible
on the way. He happened to turn to the
6rst verse of the seventh chapter OF Matthew,
and when he read it his conscience. was so
troubled that be gave up his purpose and re:
turned to Yokohama. He continued to read
and became a true convert, aDd then, not
satisfied with mere profession, he gave
himself to the study Of Gods word and Is
now faithful worker for the Master in the
city of Toxic.