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confusion, stlll things seemed TO 70 for
ward with the kind of energy which
marks the work OF well-disciplined
army. For me. l was as ignorant as n
freshman Is on entering college what |
was TO do. / knew that Gen. Butler and
MS stan were six or seven miles away. 1
knew that night was falling and / did
not know now L was 20 so 20 him. For
tunately Tor me, as | thought, there was
on the boat a member Of his STAFF with
whom ] had some acquaintance. and l
relied upon him to help me through
When We landed, however. ne was out
or the way. and l could not find him. I
suspected that he did not care to en-
barrass himself with civilian. and was
Intentionally keeping out of sight.
l. therefore. did what l always do I'm
life-struck as high as l could | said TO
the sen'inel mat l was a bearer OF de-
spatches, and asked him the way TO the
headquarters OF the commander of that
post. wish l remembered this gentle
mans name, 80 well did he illustrate
the courtesy and promptness of a man
In command. He said at once that his
own orderly should go with me to Gen
Butler; that he would lend me his own
horse. and would send my valise on the
ambulance the next morning So the
horse was saddled, and about the time
when II became quite dark the soldier
and started on our way. He knew no
more OF the way than l did, and a very
bad way 1t was. l made my first ac-
quaintance WIN the sacred soil of Vlr-
ginia then and there.
We lost ourselves sometimes. and then
we found ourselves. the greater part Of
the road being the worst possible coun-
try ROAD, an cut to pieces by the heavy
army work, through woods. not Of large
trees, but which were close enough on
both sides 10 darken the passage. II
was o'clock or later when we saw the
welcome sight of the HEADQUARTERS Camp
fires. We rode up. and / jumped from
my morse 10 shake hands with Gen.
Butler, Col. Shatfer, and the other gem
nemen. They asked instantly how we
had passed the batteries. told the
story. ana Gen. Butler said to me- 1--WE
are greatiy obliged 10 you. Mr.. Hale. |
have been very anxious for two or three
hours. i was afraid my dispatches were
cut on l had already handed TO him
the utterly unimrortant letter from the
war Department. which had been my
talisman thus far. Then and there |
mst heard sodiers talk OF what had been
zone ana what had not been done In that
oay: l knew beforehand that, In the
pusn towards Richmond. we had been
n PACK at Fort Darling. l did not
Hho" tiil 1 came there exactly how the
command was impressed by this DELAY.
but In the Headquarters circle l found
neehing but confidence, and very soon
IA" mat was to understand that we
shouio nave taken Richmond bur for the
neasy fog OF the day OF battle and some
saheT infslicities. think now that this
probably true. The fires were kepl
's' and we sat and chatted there
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29

stitch machines.
livery part is independent OF every other
part, ana can be replaced at trinin5
cost. Therefore. you can keep Stand
ard" practically new lifetime.
The STANDARD" Needle dips only once
when making stltch-oit style shuttle
needles dip twice-hence that much more
strain and wear. -.
when the machine Is In operation. oit
styie shutties start and stop twice 70
each stitch. just think OF the s1ua
strain and wear that this MAKES ~,
STANDARD" shuttle moves onwaFo GUT
tinuously without A Jar. a.
stand wheels and trendle run on 60
Unstable steel points. which ipsures "
chanics. and the wear is for lifetime
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29

A new harbor is under contemplation
at the town of Kiel. on account OF the
approaching completion of the North Sea-
Baltic canal. The town is desirlous Of
having free harbor. but this Is hardly
practicable. but more limited institu-
tion Of the same kind is hoped 10 be
possible. 1t is as yet undecided where
the new harbor shall be located. The
western coast OF the Kiel firth Is the
only locality which can be connected
with the town by rail, but the conditions
are In several respects unfavorable there.
more especially at Friedrichsort; IL Is.
however, argued that they are still great
or at the Wiker Bay. 10 the south OF the
mouth of the North Sea-Baltic canal.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29

The barking of dog reused the fami-
ly OF George Weber. of New Rochelle.
N. T.. on Monday in time TO save their
lives, as the house was burning rapidly.
They managed TO get out In their night
clothes with much difficulty.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29

The vertical system OF handwriting Ia
being advocated by educators for use
In public schools.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-29
Solid Facts and Solid SsDsa.

The Standard" has the biggest bobbin
Of any iock-stitch machine.
Holds 100 yards Of cotton.
The first stitch perfect without holding
ends Of thread.
The tension Is released when taking out
the goods.
The finest goods are not drawn or
puckered.
' Less noise than any other machine.
Runs 30 per cent lighter than old-style
machines.
The most expensive. beautiful. and prac-
heal set OF attachments.
Rent wood work of the finest finish ever
made. go.
Shortest needle used IN lock-stitch ma
chimes, therefore less liable to bend ana
bk1p stitches.
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INSURANCE. STATEMENTS
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LITERARY.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Is the English language destined
to become the universal language?
Three centuries ago it was employed
by less than 100000 of people;
to day it is spoken by over I15,ooo-
ooo peopl in al parts of the globe
and is constantly increasing, both as
to population and territory. AT
present it is distributed as follows:
United States, 65.ooo.ooo; British
Islands, $1,000, DOOR Canada, ex
elusive OF French Canadians, 1000
900; West Indies, British Guiana,
etc, 100000; Australasia, 1000.
South Africa, India, and other col
onies, $500, 900. This includes only
those whose mother tongue is Eng
lish, no account being taken OF the
vast number who speak English but
who have another tongue. The in.
crease of English speakers is calcu-
lated to be fully ?. 100000 annually.
No other language in modern times
has made such rapid progress.
Three hundred years ago the 5000,
600 people who spoke English re-
sided principally on the British
Isles. Now it is spoken more or
less in nearly every country On the
face of the earth.
The principal languages which
compete with English, not consider
ing such as Chinese and Hlndoo-
stan, are French, Spanish, Russian
and German. French is practically
stationary as regards the number
of its adherants: Spanish is largely
spoken in South America and the
southern part of North America, but
it owes its prominence to the coloniz
ing genius of its speakers; where
German is introduced it rapidly
gives way to the native tongue
generally English; Russian, like the
German has little influence upon
the Western civilization. 1t is a
remarkable fact that while the
English in their colonies and off
shoots have absorbed millions OF
aliens there is no record of any great
body of English speakers having
become absorbed by any other race.
In the United States there are mil
lions OF Germans and other foreig-
ners who have become merged with
the English speakers III single
generation they losing even theil
family names; and the children ir
many cases do not understand theil
! parents language, In canada, how
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ever, the French speaking popu,
lation is increasing faster than the
English speaking. This is not be-
cause the French element absorbs
the English but because it crowds it
out. While the French is seldom
absorbed by any other tongue, it is
most always absorbed by the
English.
The English has practically driven
the French out OF Egypt, and it is
rapidly driving the Dutch out Of
Africa. This has been accom-.
plished in Egypt within a dozen
years. The change in Africa is
being effected with even greater
rapldity. As the English speaking
settlers r.sh into the new country
the Dulch and other languages,
which are rarely to be met with.
drop into the backwoods and are
finally lost. Africa is witnessing a
repetition of the fight of the tongues
in America three centuries ago,
which resulted in victory for the
English. The history OF lingual
development in America alone is a
sufficient argument for the prediction
that no languages, excepting possibly
those of the Orient, will long remain
formidable competitors of the
English.
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lNEBRlETY AS A DISEASE AND A
VICE.

Only of recent years has science
recognized inebriety to be veritable
disease. If the former conviction that
inebriety was exclusively vice is an
error, equally erroneous is the belief of
extreme reaction that inebriety Is ex-
clusively a disease. The truth lies
between these extremes. Inebriety is
at once disease and vice, and ap-
pears as either, according as the one OF
the other characteristic may predomi-
nate. 1t may exist as disease with
the vicious element entirely wanting;
as in the case of an individual whose
inherited and physical tendencies to-
ward alcoholism are utterly out of pro.
portion TO his personal power Of resist
ance when such tendencies have been
allowed single opportunity to gain
ascendency.
In this phase inebriety is morbid
condision-dipsomania-and is char
acterized by the irresistible obsession
and impulse to drink, recurring at
periods during which the victim aban-~
dons himself absolutely to the thirst
for alcohol. Between attacks the un.
fortunate patient may be totally
abstinent; may appear perfectly
rational, and may be able to conduct
all the ordinary affairs of life without
evincing any unsoundness of mind.
He may even make most heroic but
Intellectual effort to resist the recurring
impulse to drink. Such a one is un.
doubtedly diseased rather than vicious.
The dipsomanaic invariably belongs
to the degenerate class which is ch -,
acterized by the sc-called psychopashN
constitution His physical makeup is
always imperfect and his mental and
moral balance is never stable. On the
other hand, inebriety may be essentially
a vice, at least in so far as it may have
been acquired and for some time con.
tnued as vice. Thus an individual
in whom hereditary tendencies are not
prorounced, or are entirely wanting,
may acquire the drink habit willfully.
Inebriety begun as the vice, if con-
tinued, invariably terminates as the
disease.
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Highest of all in Leavening Powe-Iate U. S Govt Report
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ABSOLUTELY PURE

kerry the bust back, else the colonel
would have mourned valuable orna-
ment, for he had not authorized its
removal.-PkiladeLbhia Times.
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MOST SACRED SPOT IN CHINA.

Mount Omei Is to a Chinese the
most sacred and exalted spot in the
Empire, the center around which
clusters his veneration and beliefs, the
Mecca of the pious Buddhist. The
roA1 to the summit is thronged with
altars and shrines, and the extreme top
of the peak possesses .he most remark.
able temples in China, and has been
for ages the goal of millions of pill
grlms, who, vending up those steep
mountain pathways, have sought
among the clouds nearer way to the
Nirvana or eternal calm.
Mount Omei is a center of natural
and artificial wonders, the like of
which may not be found elsewhere
upon the globe. The world is large,
and in regions like Switzerland anc
Alaska nature has been taxed to the
uttermost to produce a combination of
natural objects of surprising beauty
and grandeur. Here, however, near
the borders of Chinese civilization, we
find region of unequaled sublimity-
a combination OF lofty mountains, OF
swift rivers, of valleys OF wondrous fer
tllity. Then, also, the works of man
there are many-such as thousands OF
brine wells, a great silk culture (of
which 1t is the centeD, white wax
industry, mountains chiseled into the
forms of idols, colossal bronze statues,
pagodas, and one temple wholly of
rich bronze. Great Omei Mountain is
hundreds OF Ii IN circumference, rising
II,Ioo, its highest point enveloped in
the everlasting clouds. A mile or two
below, upon the opposite bank, abrupt
red sandstone bluffs were in full view
from our boat. White pagodas and
6ue temples grace the tops, which are
wreathed with beautiful evergreens.
Upon the face of the highest cliff,
which descends straight to the water is
the famous carved Mileh. Buddha, in a
sitting posture, and over three hun
dred feet in height. Small trees grow
from the head of the colossus.
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brought up in suttocatlng atmoS-
phere where nc sun could tan and
no fresh air could blow the roses
into her cheeks or invigorating life
into her lungs. She was supposed to
live on candy and novels, and too
often to sink into 4 nervous invalid
before she vas thirty. When con-
trasted with the English girl, whose
out door life made her the picture
OF abounding health and rosy cheek
ed energy, she suffered in the COM
parlson. However exaggerated this
popular opinion may have been-as
popular opinions usually are-it
undoubtedly had foundation in fact.
Our mothers certainly had no such
ideas of outdoor life and sport as we
have to day The American girls
OF former generation were not SO
addicted to the free open air life oil
the English girl, and the result was
naturally less robust physique and
the preponderance OF nervous over
muscular force. Not that American
women were not strong with the
power to endure and the grit to 60
through anything; in this they were
not surpassed by any, but in so far
as their strength was not muscular.
but nervous. the wear and tear was
greater.
A generation has suficed to effect
complete change, and our English
cousins no longer hold monopoly
of outdoor sports. Where thirty
years ago the girl who went boating
and fishing climbing trees and jump
ing fences with her brothers was
looked upon as tomboy and re-
garded with severe disapproval, the
reverse is now the case. Outdoor
life delight, in action, the spirit of
sport, have taken hold OF American
womanhood. Girls of strong, active
physique, erect carriage and ener
getic spirit delighting in tennis, rid
ing boating, walking are now the
rule ; the feeble, indoor do nothing is
the exception and the result is tall
vigorous race with free step and
cheeks aglow with the ruddy color
OF physical health and energy. Walk
along the avenues OF New York.
Boston. Chicago or any large city at
the fashionable hours, and the pro-
cession OF bright, animated girlhood
which passes before ones eyes gives
ample proof of summer activity in
the country and city work in
gymnasium and riding schoo!. All
over the country where they are men
and money to start club and create
a sporting interest, the women also
have their fair advantages, and in
not few cases their fair share also
of work in setting the organization
on foot. There are few country
clubs. hunt clubs, tennis clubs
or other sporting clubs, througout
the Union which have not a lady
membership, and which do not re,
cognize the claims of women in sport
in a perfectly matter of course way;
there are hardly any which have not
at least lady's department., with its
dining rooms, reading rooms. and
sitting rooms, where the wives and
daughters of the members enjoy the
social advantages of club life, besides
the privileges accorded to them in
the matter of sport; and in very
many, especially of the smaller clubs
the ladies have been among the most
interested and indefatigable pro.
moters, sharing equally with the men
in the government and other con-
Germs OF the club.
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for infants and Children.

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, II. D.,
iii So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY.
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HOW TO SECURE A CHILD'S
OBEDIENCE,

between this and a former generation
be emphasized than by the changed
position OF children in family. In
our country, at least, strict, repres-
sive hidebound parental discipline
has given way to a sympathetic,
careful development OF all that by
nature is good in a child. And we
no longer give much thought to the
doctrines OF total deprsvity and
original sin in our infants. We
rather regard them as dear guests
whose welfare and happiness it is
our great desire to secure. Childrens
motives should always be under
stood.
VIII, said Wilps grandfather,
sternly, did you pull up one OF my
little pear trees by the roots.
Yes, sir, said the boy, with any
thing but culprit's face.
Well, What did you do it tor3
pursued the grandfather.
Why, grandpa, do you want the
COW to eat green apples off your
trees and get sick and poison the
milk?
No, certainly not.
Wei, pulled up the pear tree
becaus it was just the right size for
a COW whip, and drove off your COW
from your apple trees with ii, said
viii with offended dignity.
The child's motive was praise
worthy, and he was simply shown
how a whip for the COW might
another time be obtained without
injnrv tothe young orchard.
One great secret OF good discipline
is not to require too much. Govern
by principles, not laws. Where
possible, keep your hands off. Better
too great freedom than too little.
Give a little loop hole for disobedi.
ence. When the daughter goes to
spend the afternoon with a friend,
don't mention the precise minute for
her 10 return. The constant fear
lest she may be five minutes late will
mar the visit Say, rather, Be at
home III time to meet papa wit h
hands and face washed and hair
brushed. Or, Remember your
music lesson at five. Then, should
the little girl be few minutes late
it is not disobedience, and punish
ment need not darken a sunny after
noon. Better not" will secure
obedience without punishment, when
must not, and "shall not" attached
10 threat, will often tail. Unless
self government is taught, parental
discipline is imperfect.
One thing more. Let them feel that
they are necessary to mamma and
papa as helpers, companions and
conhdants. See how qnickly the
little one will fly to help if only the
mamma needs that help. The
greatest inducement to be orderly
and put things in their places is that
it saves mammals steps. II the
mothers head aches, let her rest
against her little girls shoulder, and
see how quickly responsive is the
love and sympathy OF that wee heart.
How after that, she will tip toe
around and whisper in her play, lest
she should make the pain worse If
you have growing boy, take his
arm when you walk with him, and
make much Of his strength. Unset
fish love cannot be widely served
from obedience. Aud finally, you
must be interested in all that interests
your cbil1rea. Never be too busy
to listen to long tales Of happenings
at school. Try to be radiant over
the good times coming. Halt OF
child's happiness consists in anticipa
tor. A promised treat next week
will keep up a pleasurable excite
ment, will color with rosy hues the
ordinary humdrum lite of every
day.
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SURPRISING WEIGHT OF TREA-
SURY NOTES.,

How many crisp new treasury notes
will take to weigh as much as that2
asked Cashier c. X. Stout, of the sub.
treasury, balancing $40 gold piece on
the tip of his finger. I'll bet you
can't guess within twenty of the right
number. About a hundred, replied
the person addressed. You are away
off. 1t takes twenty three, was the
statistical reply.
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THE AMERICAN GIRL-PAST AND
PRESENT.

The name OF American girl was
once popular synonym for NERVES
i'll health, and all the ailments en-
gendered by want Of exercise,
foolish diet and irregular habits of
life. The American woman was
believed to be pallid hothouse flower
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WOMAN'S INTEREST.
THE NEW DAWN,

An hour ago we said goodhy,
Ny dream and 1.
The golden voice that promised me,
Love. light, lruition, ecstasy,
Is silenced quite.
And it is night.
Night while the rent clouds fret the moon
And waters Groom
Beneath the s;teiuI, running breeze
That wakes a message in the trees,
"Fatence-and pray
Till comes the day
The day Is here, the azure day,
A day in may!
How can grieve while Nature sings:
The robins cal! prophetic rings
The one refrain.
you'll dream again.
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Temperance, only, enjoys.

cHfPSrarICe, oTfJj ef1oJ''
An ungodly rogue stands no
chance against godly one.
The timid and weak are the most
mpla cably revengeful.
When the sense OF shame is lost
advancement ceases.
Who steals goods is called a thiet
who steals dominions a ruler.
Sit in quiet and consider your own
faults !; do not spend your time in
discussing those of others.
Evening journal., 1894-05-15
Three Miners IkiIIed.

ASHLAND, Pa, May 15.-At East Beai
Ridge colliery exploding gas killed John
Hartenstein of this city and severely in.
jured Michael Ryan of Colorado, Robert
Dalton, Mahoney Plane and William Min.
ing of Ashland. Ryan and Dalton are so
badly hurt that their recovery is doubtful.
Hartenstein's head was blown from his
shoulders and his body otherwise horribly
mangled. At the Locust Gap mine a
charge of dynamite exploded, killing John
Franks, aged 40, and Jehn Paul, aged 3D.
Henry Ernal, a laborer, was seriously in.
iured.