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Carbon, prime white, $50 deg. test.... y
Carbon, headlight, 175 deg. test. 81
Carbon, water white, $50 deg. test. 49, e
Carbon, snow white, $50 deg. test. u
Carbon, Michigan legal test, P. w.. 81
Carbon, Michigan, w. W............- 81
Carbon, Wisconsin, w. W............ e
Carbon, Wisconsin legal test, P. w.. y
Carbon, Indiana test, ?. W........... Sc
Carbon, eocene, $50 deg. test.......... 9
Carbon, clean, $50 deg. test. ......... 81
Elaine, 100 deg. test..................l33
Linseed,
Llnseed, boiled.
Lard oil, No. 80
Neatsfoot, best .55
Spirits of turpentine. .35S
Gasoline, " deg. test. ................12
Gasoline Stove 8
DehAihe
Cooking Oil. 81
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orFIcrAL PUBLICATION.

Animal Ntatament of the ROCKFORD INSUs
nnnuol OIaIVMVhV RANCE COMPANY of Rock
ford in the State of Illinois on the 3lst dav OF
December, 1898: made to the Insurance Superin.
tendent Of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law;
Capital.
Amount of Capital Stock paid up in
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
THE GUIDE BOOK.
If Prayerfully Consulted 1t Will Point Out
the Right and Safe Course.

If Prayerfully Consulted 1t VIII Point Out
the Right and Safe Course.
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth,
and delivereth them out of all their troubles
PS. XXxiv, II.
The Bible makes it. as clear as any,
thing in language could, that God
wants His children to understand that
they can depend upon Him under all
circumstances. What wonder there
must be among the angels in Heaven if
they can look down upon us and see all
this. God promising to be all things to
us, and to do for us more than we will
ask or think, and yet we remain so full
of doubt and fear that we will not
trust. When dangers begin to threat
en- US, we lose our faith, and courage,
and peace, and instead of asking God to
lead and help, we disregard all of
His precious promises, and become
despOndent and unhappy because we
forget that we still have Friend who
is mighty to help. The safest thing to
to make the Bible our guide-book
through this life. If prayerfully con-
suited it will always point out to us
the course that is right and safe, and
that course will always have for its
starting point: ''Trust in God" Trust
in the Lord with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understand
ing" is the keynote of the whole book
Trust Him for counsel, help and
strength. Trust Him to lead, direct
and keep. Trust Him to sustain in
10 E.,
Him in the morning, at noon and at
night. Trust Him moment by moment,
day by day, and week by week. Make
trust in God the cornerstone of your
plan for life.-Ram's Horn.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,

-Tity-;ix Of the one hundred medi-
cal missionaries in China are women.
1t is stated that not one Ara wom-
an in all Algeria is able to read
In the Epworth league there are
nearly 12,000 chapters, and $50. 900 mem.
bers have been added in little more
than four and half years.
"A Korean has recently entered
Roanoke college. Virginia There is
only one other Korean student in
America, and he is at the University OF
Pennsylvania.
The Presbyterian board of home
mission reports that up to December l,
1898, the receipts were 1925 593 less thar
for the corresponding period of 1892.
But this is not all In order to protect
the missionaries, 1925, 900 has been cor
rowed and as yet no portion of it has
been paid.
1t is not true that the people of our
time are tired of hearing the GOSPEL
Much ado now and then is made abou'
the Indifference of the masses to re
ligion. and that they have no interesf
in Christianity, but the fact remains
that wherever there is faithful preach
ing OF the word there audiences gather.
1t always holds: The common people
hear Him gladly.-Lutheran World
AT the Parliament of Religions
Rev. Maulvi Maduddin, himself brought
up as disciple of Mohammed. stated
that as many as one hundred and sew
enteen mOslems of eminence in North
ern and Central India have become
Christians. Seventeen of these have
become Christian ministers Mr.. Eu-
gene Stock, the well-informed edito-
rial secretary of the Church Missionary
society, says that half of the native
preachers in all the Punjab were once
disciples Of the Ara bian prophet
"A monument in the shape of a Gel
tic cross ffty-seyen feet in height has
just been erected on an elevation Of
three hundred feet above the ocean at
San Francisco and is designed to COM
memorate the first preaching service
conducted in English on the Pacific
coast by Francis Fletcher, a presbyter
of the Church of England. The service
was held three hundred and fourteen
years ago. The entire expense of this
monument, overlooking the Golden
Gate and the city itself, has been met
by the late George W. Childs, of Phil
adelphia.
Nearly two-thirds of the population
Of the world are ruled by Christian
governments. Considerably more than
twO-thirds of the population of the
people Of the earth, also, are under the
rule of six governments. five of which
are Christian. The emperor of China
bears sway over 405, O0O, 600, the largest
number Of people under any one gov.
ernment in the world; but after this
comes in order the queen of England,
ruling $50, 600 600, the ear of Russia.
ruling 115, 900, 600, the French republic
with 70, 600 600, the United States oi
America with 50, 600 900, and the emDe-
ror of Germany with So, 000, 600; SO thai
the indirect influence of Christianity is
powerfully affecting the destinies OF
by far the largest proportion of the
people Of the world.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
SAGE SAYINGS.
Some Bright Bits of Truth Taken From the
Rants Horn.

| RAMS Horn.
The devil is always polite upon first
acquaintance.
keep God from having
There is no more dangerous decep-
tion than self-deception.
When we get in the wrong place our
right place is empty.
The devil has his hand over the eyes
of the man who does not give.
The golden calf men worship never
becomes a COW that gives milk.
If you get into the place God wants
you to have you will have a good one
The devil has to work hard to get a
finger on the man who loves his Bible.
No man who claims to be doing busi-
ness for God has any right to use
short yardstick.
A good man on his knees weighs more
than the biggest giant in the devils
army.
The devil is not so much concerned
about our profession as he is about our
practice.
A poor mans all weighs as much on
the scales they use IN Heaven as a rich
mans millions.
On the day when we have not done
little good we have done great deal
of mischief.
There are some preachers who ONLY
appear to work at their trade only one
day in the week.
There is a bad flaw in our religion il
we never praise the Lord except when
we feel like it.
There is not much Christ in the re.
ligion that does not make its possessor
more benevolent.
Church members who never smile will
some day find out that God has some.
what against them.
There are people who do not want to
call the devil by his right name, for
fear they will offend friend.
People who try to serve the Lord only
for gain would prefer to work for the
devil at tho same salary.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
TIE SAB BATH.

"In the Spirit on the Lords Day."
For the tired world what raptures blest
Thou glvest birth, sweet day of restl
BaptlZed with dewS of purer grace,
Earth wears with thee heavenlier face.
NO sounds so glad fall on my ear
AS when thy pleasant chimes so dear
Ring out the weekday toll and din
And ring the happy Sabbath in.
There seems a spirit in the air
Which loves Gods presence to declare,
And draws the heart with tender chords
To heed the Fathers loving words.
0 would that we had ears to hear,
To-day, that Voice rise sweet and clear;
That reasSured each soul might be,
Its spirit is, 0 God, with Thee.
With Thee in worship, here to find
The revelations of Thy mind;
For on this day, the rest above,
God sets His Signet-ring of love.
Woe to the sacrilegious hand
That would efface it from the land,
TO leave life one unbrOken chain
OF days of toll for Sordid gain.
Rowland Brown, in Christian Work.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
A JAPAN LEGEND.

Simple but Very Important Erath Illus
tratad by a Beautiful Story.
There is a beautiful legend that
comes to us from the somewhat un-
likely source, Japan, of the founder of
bells, who was ordered by the emperor
to cast a bell which should make the
most varied and ravishing music. and
should be heard at the distance of one
hundred miles. From the Golfers of
the emperor, gold and silver and brass
were supplied, in any quantity re-
quired, SO that all the metals, blended
together, might give all the notes that
bell could produce. But after sew
eral attempts to cast bell with many
metals, and repeated failure, the en-
perer lost patience with the founder,
and said that if he failed again he
should die. And then his daughter,
young and beautiful girl, thought
that she would go to the oracle and
learn how the casting might be made;
and the oracle replied that only the
blood Of a virgin could make the met
ais mingle and secure the casting of
the bell Her resolution was at once
formed, and going into her fathers
foundry when the metals were in the
chaldron, she put her cloak around
her head and plunged into the chal-
drOn; and when the bell was cast. the
music rang out, and could be heard,
varied and beautiful, at the distance of
one hundred miles, nay, as some find
tonight, at the distance of half the
globe. For the simple truth lay there
that the music Of the human soul is
never beaten out, and never sounds
clear and sweet, penetrating, and sat
isfying, until sacrifice has occurred
and self has perished in the making of
the music.-Boston Watchman.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19


whether the star be a monkey or a.
itician. .-GalvestorrN News. ss :"
-McFingle-All the worlds stage
you know. NcFangle-Yes, and with
the exception OF few stars we are all
supers. Boston Traveller.
-TOmmy-Paw, what is braggart?
Mr.. Figg-He is a man who is not
afraid to tell his real opinion of him
self lf-Indianapolis Journal
Give q loose rein to passion, and
there is more danger Of runa way and
a wreck than there is in riding behind
a wild horse.-Ram's Horn.
-Dozeleigh-Why do you insist upon
the new pastor being a fat man? Dea-
con Observation-Disclosures fat men are
generally short-winded.- w iliiamsport
Review.
There are people whose greatest
pleasure in experiencing religion, as it
is called, lies in the opportunity it
gives them of Dragging of their past
misdeeds. Boston Transcript
-Dinks-Heres an item which says
a corn can be got rid of by soaking.
Do you believe it? Hardup- Err
don't know That's the way my watch
disappeared. Buffalo Courier.
pson-Young Gotrox complains
that his wife has commenced to kick
over the traces already. Downes-
Humph! That's what comes of marry
ing skirt dancer buffalo Courier
SO he was killed stepping off the
car?" Yes. "And a total stranger?''
L i |. 4
he leaves wife?" mo trouble; he had
five unmailed letters in his pocket. .
Inter Ocean.
Outcome and Income.-''The out
come Of a mans courtship, nowadays,
is largely dependent upon his income,
remarked one club man to another.
''Or the young woman's," )" ventured the
other Inter Ocean.
Slight Misunderstanding - Teach
er-Nho was the first man? First Boy
George Washington. Teacher-Next
Second Boy-Adam. First Boy Gndig-
nantly)-I didn't know you meant for
eigners. Boston Globe.
Specified. .-He-Which did you like
best of my verses? She-Why, the one
on the first page? He-Let me see.
Which one was that? She-Don't you
remember? The one in quotation
marks. brooklyn Life.
-Editor-What can I do for you,
miss? 80, please may | examine your
waste-paper basket? / know a man
who sends you poems and whose feel
ings towards me l should like to ascer.
tain. n.''-Fliegende Batter
Heidi you visit the' Worlds fair?
She-No. He Indeed! You don't
know what you missed She-Proba'
bly, not yet but l think | shall by the
time a thousand or two more people
have told me what they didn't miss
Godey's Magazine.
Mr. Wickwire = Prize-fghting is
not half the brutal thing that people
think it is, if Corbett is right He says
the chief strain on the fighter is in
avoiding the blows of his antagonist.
Mrs. Wickwire-Is that SO? / supposed
that the hardest part of the work was
the preliminary talk.-iadianapolis
Journal
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

Organ grinding is ptiful business:
whether the star be a monkey ~
itcian- Galveston News. ~ can oo ie'' "o"~
National Baptist world., 1894-10-19
Annoying and PrOvidential.

Interruptions in our work are i'm
portant in their place, yet we are apt
to be impatient of them. When we are
absorbed in some occupation in the
line of duty or Of profitable pleasure, it
is annoying to be called away to attend
to some person in whom we have little
interest, but who seeks our sympathy
or help in his work or needs. Yet when
the interruption is not Of our choosing,
and one that can not properly be evaded
by us, it is clearly q providential order
ing, and we are to accept it as designed
for our good, and as being really better
for US than the privilege of uninter-
rupted effort. There may be opportu-
mites for interruption which we ought
not to accept; but if we are interrupted
in spite Of ourselves, we may under
stand that God knows what we need
better than we knows. S. Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live beto
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest.
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
In the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax.
alive; effectually cleansing the SYSTEM
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs
and being we'll informed, you will mob
accept any Substitute if offered.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04

With fairly good herd, carefully fed
and kept, milk can be produced for Csc.
per cwt. and fat for 16c. per ID. for cost
of food consumed, says the Cornell ex-
pertinent station. individuals of the
same breed vary more widely in milk
and butter production than do the
breeds themselves. Larger animals
consumed less pounds of dry matter
per 1000 lbs. live weight per day than
did the smaller animals. In general
the best yields of fat were obtained from
cows that gave at least fairly large
flow of milk, and cows consuming the
most food produced both milk and fat
at the lowest rate. For the production
of milk and fat there is no food so cheap
as good pasture grass. - Farm AMI
Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
A CHEAP CISTERN.
Built by an Eastern Farmer at a Cost of
Eight Dollars.


A Pennsylvania farmer tells the Ma
tional Stockman how he built cheap
cistern. He struck circle seven feet
in diameter and dug down three feet,
then another circle one foot less in
diameter and dug three feet farther
and broke down the sides to slope;
then with five-foot circle he went an
other three feet aud cut away again,
making the cistern in the form of a
jug. The sides and bottom We're plas-
tered with cement directly upon the
clay, and the top was arched over with
BRICK packed up with sand and &C.
ment, and tile was put in to serve as
an overflow pipe about eighteen inches
from the top AS the average diameter
would be little more than six feet,
it would require nearly seven barrels
of water for each foot in depth below
the overflow pipe, over fifty barrels
when the water was seven and one half
feet deep
His figures for the cost We're: Two
days labor, 81; one-half days of mason,
81; two barrels of cement, 81 so; 400
brick, So, 40; total, 81. 90. 1t has been
in use ten years and is as good as ever
excepting near the top, where he al
lowed it to freeze, and the cement
cracked and pulled off, which could
have been prevented by covering with
straw or other material.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04

Syrup

Ny niece, Eneline Hawley, wasN
taken with splitting blood, and She
became very much alarmed, fearing
that dreaded disease, Consumption.
She tried nearly all kinds of medi-
cine but nothing did her any good.
Finally she took German Syrup and
she told me it did her more good
than anything she ever tried. IL
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and good appetite. ]
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn.,
Honor to German Syrup. O
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
SOLID SALT ROAD.
Eight Miles of Difficult Engineering
Across Death Valley.

Eight Miles of Difficult Engineering
Across Death Valley.
The grading road of solid salt was
until recently an unexpected task in
engineering and is thus described by
one of its operators: In what is known
as Death valley we found stretch of
solid salt about eight miles across. In
a sense it was level. There were no
hills or valleys. In another sense there
was scarcely level square inch on the
whole beds, for the salt crust had,
probably through the influence of heat
from above and of the moisture from
below, been torn and twisted and
thrown up in the most jagged peaks,
pyramids and crisscrossed ridges i'm
aginable.
They were not high-none more than
four feet-but there was not level
space even for a mans foot between
them. Every step made was on rag
ged point or edge of same kind. The
nearest approach to anything like that
] have ever seen was on the ice of Lake
Erie, where two fields had been jam
med together by the wind and held SO
by the frost. The ragged ice masses
were somewhat like these salt masses
They were larger, but they were not
so sharp or in any way SO difficult to
cross
Judging that the crust would sustain
the weight of the wagons the work.
men swung the sledgehammers day
after day unit! they had beaten down
these pinnacles into a smooth way six
feet wide. 1t was perhaps the most
laborious engineering work ever done
in the country, for the climate and To-
cation, far from civilized habitations,
combined to retard the efforts of the
workmen. The roadway when COM
pleted led over what may be properly
called a naturally formed bridge OF
salt eight miles long-the only bridge
of the kind in the world.
As one enters the easterly end of this
road two unmarked graves are seen in
the salt crust near the track. They are
the graves of unknown men who died
there from the heat, and after the
fashion Of the country We're buried
where they fell. They were covered
with pieces of salt broken from the
pinnacies near by. The crust was too
hard to warrant digging into it. One
must travel a long time to find two
more graves like these, if indeed two
more can be found in the world. Age
of Steel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
Noses I'm Lieu of Scalps.

LES Mangeurs des Nez," is the name
of gang of rufians of Paris, which
has just fallen into the hands of the
police authorities there. Not content
with garroting and robbing all the I'M
fortunate people whom they could way
lay at night in deserted streets and
dark corners of the great French me-
tropolis, they also bit off the noses of
their victims, which they carried off
and attached to their caps in imitation
of the red Indian scalpers. Several
persons waylaid in the early hours of
the morning in the lonely suburbs are
now in the hospitals minus their noses
Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
WIRE SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

structure will prove more durable.
Rapidly-growing trees planted near the
posts may in a few years be used to re-
place them. Where the entertainments
are low raise the end timbers so that
the foot wires will be in no danger of
injury by fioodwood during freshets.
If short sections of two-inch gaspipe be
used for all the posts and for the end
crosspiece, and once in five years the
wires are painted where they are warped
around the end support, the bridge
will prove good and serviceable for
fifty years. Agriculturist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
OMENS OF MARRIED LIFE.
Signs That Are Believed to Predict Happi-
ness or Misery.

signs That Are Believed to Predict Happi-
ness or Misery.
On the day of the marriage so many
superstitions enter into every detail
that it is very wise bride indeed who
remem bers all those little acts that are
SO sentient with meaning in regard to
the future. If by chance she should
happen to put on her left shoe first her
married life will prove unhappy; there
fore it behooves her to look carefully to
this portion of her toilet and be certain
to select the right foot as the first to be
attended to.
No bridal guest should wear a cos
tune entirely black, as such a choice
will bring sorrow to the bride. If the
best man stumbles ON his way to the
proceeding, and at any rate is awkward
enough to merit rebuke.
The wedding ring should be circlet
of gold, unbro1en by any jewel, as the
significance of the ring demands that
its form shall be typical of the endless
love that prompts its bestowal. To try
on the ring before marriage is certain
there are who would regard taking it
off as an actual sin, holding fast to the
belief that it was placed on the finger
for all time and not merely as the sym
Dol of an evanescent affection.
When the bride leaves the assembled
company to change her gown she
throws her bouquet among the group,
and the fortunate one who catches it
is promised husband within a year,
provided always that he or she is lsn-
gle at the time. 1t is the du ty of sevey
bride who pretends at all to be- verad
in these superstitions to throw away
every pin that was used in her bridal
attire. The bridesmaids as rule are
willing to go down on their hands ami
knees on the carpet in order to secure
one of these lucky emblems, and each
one fortunate enough to possess her
self of even bent and decrepit speci-
men feels blest in the thought that
good fortune will attend her hence
forth. Press.