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from whence it i, carried by stream Of
water into an arrangement Of sluices.
These have perforated iron bottoms, that
permit the sand and water to escape, re-
tanning only the amber aud larger peb-
bles, which are easily separated. Ill
Before minor is permitted to leave !,
the premises he is submitted to q rigor-F 7
Gus search. Experience has thoroughly
justified this regulation; otherwise, most
scrupulously honest men were known to
have had strangely perverted concep- !.
tions of right and wrong as regards am
Der. It seems to be considered as gifsl
of nature to which he who finds it ist
entitled.
At the beginning Of this century such
thefts were punishable by death,
and though, of course, the penalty for
the crimes has been much mitigated
since then, occasion still requires fre-
quent infiction of severe punishment.
A recita! Of the curious and ingenious
ways and means in which men have at
tempted to circumvent the vigilance Of
the examiners would add highly inter-.
esting chapter to the history of fraud.
The amber gathered in the mine aud
the smaller pieces collected from the
sluices are washed with sand in revolv-
ing drums. This process removes the
rough outer surface or rind from it and
thereby enhances its commercial value.
Next the pieces are sorted into nearly
hundred classes, each one representing
some particular adaptation Of the raw
material. ....
There are three main groups. Flat
pieces that are made into smokers uten-
sils, round pieces for beads aud jewelry
and small fragments out of which amber
varn1sh is made. -
The output Of last year was manufac-
tured into $400,0 900 worth of smokers
utensils, and the balance of some $780,
900 worth into jewelry and varnish.
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RELIGION AND BUSINESS ARE NOT DISTINCT
THINGS.
1t has been mighty mischief,t that religion
has so often been divorced from tIc other
ways and modes Of men. Men have looked
ing its own sphere and its own powers, and
not as the fountain and father of all good
ness and truth. The man Of God has been
separated from the man OF science, the man
of literature. the man Of politics. the man Of
business. The world has helped the separa-
ton, and so has the church. An ignorant
piety, strong and shrewd impiety, have
done the same work. The general exercises
of the intellect. the common charities
of the heart, the familiar proceedings of the
life, have been to frequently regarded as
provinces into which religion has no right to
penetrate, or should only come when invited,
and be thankful to be treated as guest, and
not expect to be honored as sovereign.
Hence literature. art, social life. worldly en-
gagem ents, have been treated as things apart
from godliness, and not as things which god
lnessis to possess. and through which IL Is
not to act and be seen. To borrow an express
i've illustration, the partnership has been dis,
solved between religion and other
business, and thus it has come
to disastrous bankruptcy. That 1t Is SO, is
apparent from the fact that therei gen.
eral disposition to regard immoralities con.
nected with money matters in a different
light from other immoralities. The same
standard is not applied, the same measure is
not meted out There is more gentle treat
ment of the pecuniary sinner than any other
sinner. at is only the way of business"
covers multitude Of sins. A man, in many
circles, had better defraud his creditors than
deny a single article Of the popular creed, or
Violate single conYentionalism of respect.
able society.-[A. J. Morris Religion and
Business.
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Boots look pretty much as they did
last season. Novelties are introduced
only in dress shoes and evening slippers.
The "Directoire" shoe, black suede
ornamented with cut silver or steel
buckle, is popular, but finds rival in
the washington" which appears in
white, black or tan suede leather and has
a toe striped with very narrow braid to
match. u.. .. c.,l.,
White satin shoes, embroidered in
gold and silver; black satin slippers, tied
in front with large bows, are we II liked.
The "Peruvienne" shoe with straps
across the instep, and the "Nsutchgirr'
with a tinsel ankle strap from which
bangles a number of Little bells arc
what extremists buy.
Conservative folk who do not allow
tricks OF fashion to run away with their
better judgment stand fast by the plain
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A word of kindness is q seed which, even
when dropped by chance, is sure to spring
I'D a ilOwe:.
WHISKY IN AFRICA.

In a recent address before the General
Conference Of the A. NJ. E. Church, Miss
Fleming, introduced by Bishop Turner as
having labored as a missionary for four
years in the Congo Valley, said:
The ship on which went out had it's cargo
of whisky. l looked down tho first and
second hole and the third hole Of the ship,
and all were crammed with gin, rum and
whisky and all manner OF bad drinks. White
men on the Congo got tho best, the meanes-
was for the black men on the Congo, whose
men who engage in the traffic, and 80 it was
my pleasure Tor sad pleasure, il such a thing
could be) to see these evils imposed upon my
people on the dark continent, this evil Of
drink. I felt badly when witnessed this
sight.
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is the thought ofthese transparent
golden tears surviving even the petrifed
trunks of the sturdy monarchs of the
forests that shed them.
Deep down in the "blue EARTH along
the shores of and beneath the treach-
erous breakers of the Baltic Sea, are
found in bits and fragments of fossilized
wood the traces of vast forests that in
ages long past had covered nearly the
entire coastline of what is now kno Wn as
East Prussia.
Large tracts Of land have sunk there
below sea level, and in time were Gov
cred with the rank submarine growths
of seaweed and aig@.
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~rnrIsn as she Is SPOKE"

In a Hartford clothing store win
dow i placard recently appeared read
ing: ANY pant in this window, s2. y
But a still more absurd use Of this
ignoble word is reported from Buffalo.
where a merchant announces: ANY
pantsing in this window S."
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The foot of horse is one of the most
ingenious and unexplained pieces of me-
chanism in the whole range of animal
structure. The outside hoof is made up
of series of thin, verticlc lamina of
horn, about 500 in number. Into this
is fitted about 500 more thin lamine,
which belong to the coftia bone, both
sets being elastic and adherent.
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In certain countries, Austria, Bulgaria
and Turkey, for example, the amber
jewelry is greatly coveted by women on
account of the superstition thatit inaurea
the wearer good luck and long enjoy
ment of the qualities that make her at
tractive.-New Orleans Picayune.
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Dainty Shoes For Women.

There never was more bewildering
assortment OF dainty shoes tor women to
make choice from than is shown in ths
shops this season.
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ALL ABOUT AMBER.
MODES OF MINING THE PRE-
CIOUS SUBSTANCE.
Dead Trees Yield Their Tears to Form
aNecklace For My Lady's Throat
-Superstitions Anent Am
ber Ornaments.

FEARS from dead
| trees" did once a
German savant call
the precious fossil
resin of which my
lady's necklace and
her liege lords pipe
tip is made.
Still more poetic
than this appalIation
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A FRIEND in need is friend who
generally strikes you for quarter.
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LABOR AND TRUST.

Men and movements that have no Christ
on board 20 to the potion. The rocks are
strewed with the wrecks Of human schemes
and ambitious ENTERPRISES; pulpit genius has
often ended in splendid failure. Every
man. every enterprise, every effort that
Jesus takes into his own hands is insured.
Do your best, brother, and trust! We min
listers and you Sunday-school teachers, and
other servants Of Christ. worry too much
over the coming or the Withholding OF re.
vival seasons. We can plow, and we can
SOW, but We cannot force single kernel Of
gospel seed to come up. Our only duty Is
to live right on, and toll right
on, and pray right on, and
leave the early and later rains to come when
God chooses to send them. / never worried
about "revivap yet, and thus fastened its
coming BY an hour But, often, when was
not even expecting it, the gracious shower
came. A true, earnest Christian life has its
disappointments and chastisments; but 1t
has its blessed surprises also. Heaven will
have some glorious surprises for thousands
of hard-working, ill-paid Christians who
never made any prominent figure in the
the Wesleys, the Spurgeons and the MoodyS.
-[Dr. T. c. Cuyler.
Bishop Wainwright relates touching Incl
dent beautifully illustrative of the religious
yearnings of the late Daniel Webster:-
"Soon after returned from Egypt anG
the Holy Land, he ring that Mr.. Webster
was in town, called upon him at the A<tor,
az l was always accustomed to do. His re-
ception of me was most cordial and affection
ate. He asked me many questions as to mS
Eastern travels, and as rose to go away he
took me by the hand and said, II want you
to do one thing for me. You have been over
Palestine. I wish 20 get the best map
I can command. and have you sit down with
me one hour-but one hour. I wish to
60 with you from place to place-Beth-
Iehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, the sea Of
Gallee, Jordan, Bethany, the Mount OF
Olives-and tell me. as point, how it looks;
the bills, the trees. the rocks, the land, the
water. can 'ver 90 there, but would
look as nearly as 1 can upon every spot
sanctiied by the presence of our blessed
Lord while he tabernac!ed in the flesh"
His eyes filed with tears, and he earnestly
pressed my hand. Multitudes of emotions
swelled my heart. returned the pressure,
and in silence departed"
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suede shoes that match their various
gowns. Patent feathers are universal and
cosmopolitan.-St. Louis Republic.
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Ncighbor-"Why, what are you cello
brating, Pettiugill? The fourth isn't .here
yet
Mr.. Pettiugill-"0ur cook has been
with us a year to-day, ind she doesn't
show any signs of leaving yesl"-Puck.
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Large quantities of condensed milk ara
being imported into Japan. The Ameri-;
can brands stand at the head of the List.
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old folks live their prayer is for their chill
dren and their children's children. Day in
and day out month in and month out year
in and year out, decade in and decade out
the sons and daughters Of that family are
remembered in earnest prayer, and they
know IL, ana tney 1eeI 1t, and they cannot
get away from it.
Two funerals after awhile-not more than
two years apart, for it is seldom that there
is more than that lapse Of time between
fathers going and mothers going-two
funerals put out Of sight the old FOLKS. But
where are the childrenf The daughters are
in homes where they are incarn ations of
good sense, industry and pisty. The sons,
perhaps one farmer, another q merchant
another a mechanic, another minister OF
the Gospel, useful, consistent admired,
honored. What q power for good those
seven sons and daughtersi Where did they
get the powerg From the schools, and the
seminaries, and the collegess Oh, no, though
these may have helped. From their superior
mental endowment No, do not think
cidental crcumstancess No, they had moth
ing of what is callei astounding good LUCK.
think we will take train and ride to the
depot nearest 70 the homestead from which
those men and women started. The train
halts. Let us stop few minutes at the vii
lage graveyard sndsse the tombstones of the
parents. Yes, the one was sevepty-four
years Of age and the other was seventy-two,
and the epitaph says that latter useful life
they died Christian DEATH" How appro-
priately the Scripture passage cut on the
mothers tombstone. "She hath done what
she could" And how beautiful the passage
cut on the fathers tombstone, "Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest
from their labors and their works do follow
them."
On over the country road we ride-the
road little rough, for the spring weather
is not quite settled, and once down in a rut
it is hard to get the wheels out again with
out breaking the shafts. But at last we
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the cause of this change? everybody asked,
and no one was capable OF giving An intelll-
gent answer.
In another part Of the church sat, Sabbath
by Sabbath, a beautiful and talented woman,
who was q great society leader. She went
thing to do, and in the neighborhood where
she lived it was hardly respectable not to go.
Worldly was she to the last degree and all
her family worldly. She had at her house
the finest germans that were ever danced,
and the costlest favors that were ever given,
and though she attended church she never
liked to hear any story OF pathos, and as TO
religious emotion OF any kind, she thought
it positively vulgar. Wines, cards theaters
rounds of costly gayety were to her the
highest satisfaction.
One day a neighbor sent in q visiting card,
and this lady came down the stairs in tears
and told the whole story Of how she had not
slept for several nights, and she feared she
was going to lose her soul, and she wondered
IL some one would not come around and pray
with her. From that time her entire de-
meanor was changed, and though sne was
not called upon to sacrifice any OF hsr amenl-
ties Of life. she consecrated her 5eauty, ner
social position, her family, her all to God and
the church and usefulness. Everybody said
in regard to her: "Have you noticed the
change, and what in the world caused it?'
and no one could make satisfactory explana-
tion.
In the course Of two years, though there
was no general awakening in that church,
many such isolated cases Of such unexpected
and unaccountable conversions took place.
The very people whom no one thought
would be affected by such considerations
were converted. The pastor and the officer
or the church were on the lookout for the
Nf II
"Where Is it." they said, ',and who is it and
what Is It'll" At last the discovery was made
and all was explained. A poor old Christian
woman standing in the vestibuls of the
church one Sunday morning, trying to get
her breath again before she went uD stairs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-09
Depew in New 70, k.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Oct. S.-Chauncey M.
Depew addressed about six thousand peo-
pie at a big Repu olican mass meeting at
greeted with tremendous applause when
he came on the stage. The apathy thus
far displayed in the campaign is due, he
said, TO the widespread belief among the
people that no matter who may be elected
the country will be safe and prosperous.
We now have been nineteen years without
business disasters and the prosperity of
the country is que TO the application con-
tinued for twenty five years of Republican
principles.
AS for that saying of the unthinking that
the country will prosper no matter who is
elected, he said if Cleveland is elected and
backed by Democratic Senate and House
and the tariff laws be moderated on the
Chicago platform basis. we will quickly be
overwhelmed by business disasters and
financial ruin.
Depew said he made study of the con-
trast of wages of working men in Great
Britain and this country and found that
English workingmeu received less than
half the wages of Americans in the same
industries The objection That the differ
ence IN wages was offset by the cost Of
living, he had particularly investigated,
and dehed contradiction when he asserted
that dollar on This side will go az far as
dollar on the other side. Here, working
men had on their table every day that
which English workingmen had only once
week. American workingmrn send their
children to schooi, not to the workshop. and
buys his home.
Depew went on to speak of the advant-
ages of the Republican policy of reci-
procitv, and closed with glowing tribute
to the standard of the Republican
party.
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PILLAGED.
The Cities of Caracas and La
guayra in the Hands of a Mob.
Residents Clubbei and Peaten for Daring
to Protect Their Properiy--Admiral
Walker Protects Them.

NEW YORK, Oct S.--The Heralds Caracas
cable says the advent of Crespo's troops
were very welcome to the people of Caracas
Between the time of the receipt of the
news of the defeat of the government
forces and the arrival of Crespists many
of Pulado's fugitive soldiers began riot
ng and pillaging. Scores of houses
were sacked. Those who had the
manhood to protest were menaced
with death. Many were cruelty dubbed
and beaten for daring to protect their prop
erty. The rioters were no respsctors of
persons, and when the Spanish minister
ventured to demonstrate he was grossly in
suited
During the hours that elapsed between
the ignomnious flight of the cabinet and
the advent of General Crespo's advance
guard, the hooters simply held possession
OF the town. There was nothing to re-
strain them, and they plundered right and
left, seizipg whatever portable property
they could lay their hands on. Crespo's
soldiers. as sooD as they reached the city,
at once devoted their attention to restor-
ing order and soon succeeded In depressing
all open demonstrations of violence.
The HerMd's Laguayra's cable says be-
fore Crespos detachment got there La
guayra was alive with rioters. The news
of the defeat of the government forces
created something of panic Then the
town began to ill up with refugees and
stragglers from the army of the puIado
government and pilage and plumber be-
came general Many houses were looted
and there was much wanton destruction of
property.
How far things might have gone, it is
impossible to say, if Admiral Walker, act
| ing with energy and decision, had not
landed force OF sailors and marines and
held the mob in check and preserved order
The sailors were welcomed warmly by all
who were not themselves seeking plumber
There 10 no doubt much property preserved
and perhaps many lives saved by landing
men from the Chicago and Kearsage
Fugitives from Caracas tell me the roads
between here and the capital are almost
impossible. They are filled with people
fleeing they hardly know where, and
many are seeking to take portable prop
erty with them.
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TEE IDAHO CAMPAIGN.
A Decided Change Has Taken Place the Last
FaE llavs

A Decided Change Has Taken Place the Last
Few Days.
BLAcKFooT, Ida, Oct. Especial tele-
gram 60 THE HEKALp. The campaign has
taken decided turn within the past few
days and The greatest CONSERVATION exists
among tie Republicans over the move made
by she Democrats in endorsing the Weaver
electors. Every Issue has been sidetraoked
and the cry Is, s'For Gods sake, don't
vote for Weaver" Al the great Repubh-
csE rally here last night Senator Dubois
devoted his time 20 pleading with the peo-
pie not to support the third party. TO say
that they are worried is putting it
mildly They are exasperated almost TO
desperation The attempt to charge the
young leaders, az they are termed, with
taking the MISTER into their own hands
and Withdrawing the straight Cleveland
electors anc endorsing the Third party
electors. won't go any longer. The fact is
that all the prominent Democrats IN the
state were consulted and III every case
the pian was approved. Ex-Gov-
Stevenson, Hon. r. Z. johnson, Hcn. ]. II.
wickersham, Hon. George Ainslie, etc..
all were interviewed in Boise Friday and
ali expressed their hesrtiest approval OF
the course being pursued. The fac, simply
is the Republicans see the vote of Idaho
slipping away from Harrison, hence all
this fuss, nothing more.
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PROMPT DISMISSAL
A Member Of the Board of PEN
sion Appeals in Washington.
INVITED TO STEP DOWN AND OUT
For Using Language Uncalled For ana Ex-
tremely Partisan in Character To-
wards Ex President Cleveland.

WASHINGTON. Oct. S.-Some weeks ago a
decision was rendered In pension case by
Assistant Secretary Bussey, relating TO
new disabilities and rules OF evidence
governing the same. Last evening there
was sent TO Secretary Noble printed copy
of the supplemental decision in the case.
This, which is unsigned, contained Ian
guage, particularly in the heading and brie
syllabus, which the secretary regarded en-
tirely uncalled for and extremely partisan
in character. The syllabus referred TO
reads as follows:
THE arbitrary rule of Clevelan DIS ad.
ministration in adiudicating the increase OF
claims based on alleged new disabilities is
oyerruled by the Harrison administration
in the interest of meritorious applications
The old doctrine OF estopel in pension
claims set aside by the present administra-
tionn
The secretary at once rewrote the de-
decision, eliminating therefrom the obiec-
tionaDle language. This morning the SEC
rotary made inquiry as to the author Of the
unsigned decision, which resulted in the
prompt dismissal of George Barber, mem
Der of the board of pension appeals in the
office OF Assistant Secretary Bussey.