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OF A RELIGIOUS NATURE.

Like the ten days preceding Thanks
giving Day, the present period In the
church world Is being almost wholly
devoted to rehearsing church and Sun
day school music or in preparation for
the variously planned Christmas tree
or other church functions for Christmas
eve or Christmas night. This condi-
ton necessarily overshadows all other
usual church doings, and church people
who are not working for Christmas in
the church itself are devoting their
time to the house, store or Office In con-
nection with the pleasure or profit that
this season brings. All this pOrtends
that whatever may be the absence Of
the usual weekday trimmings Of
church life. the famine will be more
than bountifully balanced by the good
cheer and good things that the holidays
always bring.
Jim" Burwick's Work.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3.45 o'clock in
the railroad branch of the Young Mems
Christian association will be held the
last Of the meetings which nightly for
two weeks have been addressed by
Jim" Burwick, the freight conductor
preacher Of the Evansville and Terre
Haute railroad. Burwick. without any
attempt at advertising or assumed &C.
centricity, which might have been ex-
pected in his peculiar combination Of
neutrality-suspicious.. has attracted large
crowds. and. what is better. has brought
about an unusually large number Of
conversions. What he says IL ex-
pressed in the vernacular peculiar to
the railrOader. and this style is more in
telligible to his hearers than Greek or
fountain talk. His knowledge Of the
Bible and fund Of practical argument
have done much in contributing toward
his success.
Religious Notes.
Professor James Hughes will preach
tomorrow at the Dickson City Presby.
tortos .. otRssrc6 s.4 ats
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Toledo Grain Market.

Toledo, O., Dec. 20-Close. Wheat-Re-
ceipts. $500 bushels; shipments. $500 BUSH
els: dull. lower: No. 2 red cash. ssc. /; May.
63kc. Corn-Receipts. l5,l07 bushels; ship
ments. 37.400; easy; No. mixed cash,
26,xc.; No. 3 do. 25lhc. No. 8 yellow, &c;
No. Z white. 25,hc. Oats-Receipts. 5000
bushdo; shipments. 1000 bushels; nothing
doing. Clovsfseed-Rsceipts. SO bags;
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very dull; roughs. $3a315; stays. $2.75a3:
good Workers., $3.75ika36O: light lots. $3.Ta
$40; pigs. $2.70a2.75; Workers sold late at
Sass. Sheep and lambs-Receipts, 5.4OO
head: on sale. 5000 head; market dull for
all kinds of sheep and slow for lambs;
prime lambs, "a. 35aA. so; good to choice. $ia
AS; light to fair, g. SASS; culls and CON-
mon. $2.75a3.25; seven loads Canada lambs
sold ranging A.40a4.60. with most sales
A.45a4.55; good sheep. $2a2.25; choice. R.S5a
2.40; cuils to fair lots. $l.l5a1. .S5; yearlings.
good to extra, $2.7Oa35O.
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IN CASE OF A WAR.
That
Tor Service.
OUR rORCEs ON LAND AND SEA

OUR FORCES ON LAND AND SEA.
At the present time the entire standing
army of the United States. including cav
airy. artillery and infantry, reaches
total Of 25,S7l, enlisted men and officers.
The distribution by geographical depart
ments is as follows:
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Buffalo Live stock.

Buffalo. N. r.. Dec. 20.-Cattle-Receipts
2a2 head: on sale. 6 head; market. very
duh and 25 cents lower. Hogs-Receipts.
16, 100 head; on eale, 1A,0o0 head; mafket
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-21

professional AdvOntoeo. -
Don't you want to hire my psrr' $40
q little colored urchin.
"What for?'
Ter put up de stovepipe."
'Does he put up stovepipes wellf'
Deed he do. An de bes' OBJ II am dae
he's deaf an dumb my par is, 10 De wos
men folks doan' hab tel leave d houso
while he's wuhkin." in."--Washington star
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THE BRITISH CONTINGENT.

England's regular army, excluding the
militia and volunteer corps, Is, approx
imately, as follows:
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s4.17,k: January. A22h; February. AS
March, $3.50.
Oil Market.

Oil City. Dec. 2O.-Oil opened. $l.ss; high.
est. $l.Ss; lowest. $l.3O; closed. $3.50 bid.
Pittsburg. Dec. a-Oil opened, N.@;
highest. N.3s; lowest, $l.29; closed. N.s9
bid. Standards price, $1.l3 A
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philadelphia TolJow Marke
A profe..iovai Advou.sse,

Philadelphia. Dec. 2O-City tallow, Il
hogsheads. sAc.; country. do. s,taSxc., al
to quality. and cakes, 4Ac.
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Religious Notes.

Professor James Hughes will preach
tomorrow at the Dickson City Presby-
terian church.
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Enlisted

In addition to this available force the
National Guard could be called upon i'm
mediately. The latest census of the Guard
shows that the total force Is ia, $50 men
and officers. This Is divided as follows
Infantry (men and oflicers). ......... 1Oi.5ol
Artillery (men and officers).. 5,l51
Cavalry (men and offlcers). ........... 5,249
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Argument He Did Make.

Mr.. Jones said that what he did say
was that It had been proved that Mer-
ola lived two years In Old Forge and he
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-21

Total (all descriptions). s)....................G
There are In course of construction at
the present time ten armored and nine un-
armored vessels and seven torpedo boats.
The naval force Is divided as follows:
Navy, officers and men Qncluding
marines) ........................ .13, AGO
Marines stationed at navy yards. ..... LOO
Naval militia (reserved). ................ 1855
Total Ii, 2255
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-28
His Marrow Escape.

eyes, was run out of town once, "
said the man with the SLOUGH hat. Gin
the summer of 1887 I was a book
agent
THAT was justification enough" OBJ
served the man who had his feet on the
table. 'tYou deserved it. Why pursue
the narrowing confession any fur
Il happened to find myself in Cairo"
resumed the other, paying no attention
to him, "and''-
EGYPT or IlIinois?' asked the man
who was smoking the cheap cigar.
''And I was selling a finely bound
edition off,
Haven't got a copy of it with you,
have you?' demanded the man with the
wart on his nose.
emo"
''Then go ahead. I was afraid you
were going to spring it on us.
ST was selling several finely bound
editions of the best works of fiction, and
one unlucky day was found with
copy of Martin Chuzzlewit' il my pos
session. A mob gathered at once. They
gave me half an hour to get out Of
town, and I got In less than
"What direction did you take?'' in
CURED the man with the gray spot in his
mustache.
Straight west. -
GLOW did You cross the Mississippi
river?"
ttOn the ice. -
There was pause of a few moments
Then some one renarked-
''He said this took place in the sum-
mer of 1887, didn't he?''
Gentlemen, exclaimed the man
with the SLOUGH hat. II had this story
all right when I began. With your IN
timely and uncalled for Interruptions
you have got it gled up, and it
doesn't seem to jibe. Tou can straighten
it out to suit yourselves and be darned to
! you.'
He turned up his coat collar, walked
out of the room, and the audience grad
ually dispersed without making any
further noise.-Chicago Tribune.
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BETRAYED BY HIS PAL.
Or. Rose, Intent on Murder, Meets
Death at a sheriT's Hands.

Or. Rose, Intent on Murder. Meets
Death at sherir's Hands.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 25.--L. u. OrIne,
sheriff of this county, yesterday MORN
ing shot DR.. Rose at Mesa, sixteen
miles east of Phoenix, with shotgun,
killing him instantly. Rose, with two
confederates, had attempted to MUIR
der the Williams family, consisting of
the doctor, his young wife and
daughter. The latter was formerly
the wife of DIR. Rose in Kansas.
The confederates, Burt and Cooley,
were captured and placed in Jail.
Burt previously gave the plot away to
the sheriff, but was afraid to refuse to
help execute the plans of the murder
for fear Rose would kill him. Sheriff
Orme was in DR.. Williams bedroom
awaiting the assassins, while United
States Deputy Marshal Standard re-
manned outside to watch. At $3.50 Burt
came and cut the screen and unlocked
the door. At Ii o'clock he returned
with Rose and entered the house. Rose
had a blacksmith's hammer in his right
hand, a wagon spoke in the other and a
pistol in his pocket. Two dummies
had been placed in DIR. Williams bed.
Rose struck one with the hammer.
Sheriff Orme said: Hold up your
HdHdS, an SHSItl III tHlo COdheJ anu
have you covered with adouble-bar-
relied shotgun" After waiting a few
seconds he again said: Il will surely
shoot you if you don't throw up your
hands, Rose failed to do SO and the
sheriff fired both barrels, killing him.
Rose was wanted by the govern
ment for holding up mails, and also
in Kansas for bank robbery. He was
here six months ago, when he tried to
kill his wife, but was arrested and
agreed to leave the country. He had
$500 and seven doses of arsenic sewed
in the waist band of his trousers.
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SHOT AS THEY RAN.
Another Terrible Massacre of
Armenians is Reported.
MusSulmans Burn Villages and
Shoot the Inhabitants.
SOME BURNED ALIVE.
Armenian Women Were Out
ragged and Brutally Mutilated.
One Hundred and Fifty Armen-
ians in All Killed.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct. 28-Another
terrible massacre of Armenians. accom-
panied by the outraging of women is re-
ported to have occurred quite recently in
the Baiburt district between Eezeroum
and Trebizond According to the news re-
ceived here a mob of about 500 Mussul-
mans and Mazees, the great majority of
whom were armed with Martini Henry
rifles, made an attack upon the Armeni-
ans inhabiting several villages of that
vicinity and set fire to their houses ard
schools.
AS the Armenians fed in terror from
their dwellings they were shot down as
they ran,and mum Der of men and women
who were captured by the rioters it is
added, were fastened to stakes and
burned alive. The Armenian women
who fell into the hands of the mob. it is
also asserted, were also outraged and
brutally mutilated.
II is also stated that the churches were
deserted and the villages pillaged, the
cattle and all the portable prop
erty of any value belonging
to the Armenians being carried
off by the marauders. During the dis
turbance $50 Armenians are reported to
have been killed The surviving mem
bers applied to the governor for protec-
ton, who, after hearing their complaint.
sent three policemen to the scene of the
massacre after the slaughter was ended.
The Turkish of6ca s, it is claimed,
know the ring leaders of the outbreak,
but apparently no steps have been taken
to arrest them
The number of Armenians massacred
at Erzingjan is now said to be several
hundred.
The Turks, it is stated, have also at
tackled the Armenians in the district of
Gumushdagh. near Trebizond, and have
slaug htered many of them.
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For those who refuse to give up the
pretty parting of the hair, the Napoleon
cue will be permitted. The parted hair
is pulled fully over the ears and SO
drawn loosely to the back, where it is
braided The braid is allowed to hang
we'll on the nape of the neck, is then
turned under and a large ''cue" bow
is placed just where it will hold the
hair firmly into the curve Of the head.
This same bow is often made SO wide
that it shows coquettishly from the
front at either side, as did the bows
worn n little while ago on collars. For
added dressiness a high comb is set
at the top of the head from the front,
giving the effect of hight and the jaunty
touch that has SO often been confusing
with the occurrences of the recent
pretty side curls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-28
Free Thinkers Congress.

New YORK, Get. 2s.-The national
congress of Free Thinkers, which
began on Friday, was concluded last
evening L, K Wasburn, whose sub
ject was Liberty and Education the
Basis of the Republic, denounced
Cardinal Gibbons and the advocacy of
parochia1 schools lie said many
things were now taught in the schools
of this country which were Dictated
from the court of Rome. Resolutions
We're then adopted advocating the tax
alton OF church property, the absolute
separation of church and state and
against arrest and imprisonment for
using the ma1Is for sending alleged
improper communications. The case
of j. b. Wise of Camden, who IS now
awaiting trial for sending a verse OF
scripture to clergyman on a postal
card, was cited.
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Imped into the car and sat down beside
Cinderella. Presently she leaned toward
Cinderella and looked beseeching.
''What can do for your" asked Gin.
dcrella.
"Return my boomers. -
Cinderella knew then to whom she
was talking and burst into tears. The
great amateur OWNED the situation in
stantly. Unstrapping his satchel, he
yelled:
eve got 'eml''
The other passengers thought so, too,
but Cinderella brushed the tears from
her eyes, and the fairy smiled.
The great amateur did not go west.
Cinderella has the finest bicycle in
America. The fairy is frequent visitor
at their fat and is always warmly well
coined whether she appears as beggar
or a b1oomerite. As for the two sisters.
they have lived unhappily ever since.
New York Sun.
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GLADSTONE ANDTHE TURK
The Eminent Eng1ishman Scores the Sui
tan and His Race in a Letter.

tan and lis Race IN a Letter.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.-A local paper
says Madame Novlof recently re
ceived the following letter from Mr..
Gladstone anent the Sultan and the
Armenians:
DEAR MADAME NovKoFF:-I shall
carefully and for many reasons keep
myself TO myself L see in mind that
vretchee Sultan whom God has given
as curse to mankind waving his
flag in triumph, and the adversaries
at his feet are Russia, France and
England.
LAS to the division of shame among
them, l care little enough, but hope
that my own country will, for its own
good, be made conscious and exhibited
10 the world for its own full share,
whatever that may be.
May God, in his mercy. send a
speedy end to the governing Turk and
all his doings. So I said wnen 1 could
say, and so I say in my political de-
crepitude or death Always sincerely
yours, w. &. GLADSTONE.
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Hard of Hearing.

There's q young man who goes into
society-really good society-here, who
is quite decidedly hard of hearing. He
won't admit it, though, and never asks
to have anything said to him repeated.
This is the latest story they tell On him.
He went to call on Miss B. one evening
last winter.
SIS Miss B. at homer he asked Of
the maid who answered the bell
eyes, SIR she replied rather softly.
s'Oh. I'm SO sorry" he said, and Civ
iEg her his card he walked away
Washington Post.
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LOVING TOO LATE.
4 Common Enough Story Portray =
Pathetic Moral.

u common enough story ROrtraYg ,
Pathetic Moral.
Not long ago I met young lady in
poverty whom l had previously known
in wealth, and this was, in substance,
the story she told ne: Father died
suddenly in Washington, and the pro-
fessional skill through which he had
coined money for us died with him. I
am not weeping because we are poor.
I am broken-hearted because none of
US saw that he was dying. Was it not
pitiful that he should think it best rot
to tell any Of US that he was sick? Ind
l. his petted daughter, though I knew
he was taking opium to soothe his great
pain, was SO absorbed by my lovers,
my games and my dresses, that 1 just
hoped it would all come right. Il
could only remember that even once
had pitied his suffering or felt anxious
about his life, might bear his loss
hefterl"
The story is common enough. Many
q father, year after year, goes in and
out of his home carrying the burden
and doing the labor of life, while those
whom he tenderly loves hold with but
careless hands all of honor and gold
he wins by toll and pain. Then some
day his head and hands can work no
merei And the hearts that have not
learned the great lesson of unselfish
love while love was their teacher must
now begin their sad duty when love
has left them alone forever.
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A MYSTERIOUS POWDER.
1t Causes Rev. c. w. Hoerer to Create
a Scene in His Pulpit.

q Scene In HIS Pulpit.
GREENvILLE, Ohio, Oct. 2s-The
Rev. c. w. Hoeffer, the Republican
candidate for the legislature, charged
with offering the Democratic executive
committee to vote for Democrat for
senator if they would give him 81, 500
for election expenses, appeared in the
pulpit to preach yesterday. The
church was crowded. Stenographers
were there to take down the
reverend gentleman's words. He
was late coming, but was cool.
He gave out the hymn and,
after it had been sung, arose. trem BIZ
ing all over. He said that last night
boy walked me up at midnight at
my house and brought me a powder,
which [ took. I thought it was from
Dr. kernin, my family physician, at
that time, but now l am morally GER
tain it was not. 1 hoped it would give
me strength, but it had the opposite
effect. 1t will be impossible for me to
say anything This powder has de-
ranged nv mind"
With that he fell into a chair, his
head leaning over the back, his arms
hanging limp. Women screamed and
excitement and confusion followed.
Some shouted to bring him water.
BY some means he was partially re-
vived. He said he did not know the
boy that brought the medicine To
all crosse questions he answered: my
lips are glued" He repeated this an
swer to all questions. Finally dea-
con prayed that God would show the
church what to do. Then the preacher
was carried home, where admission is
denied all callers, though it is reported
Rev. HOo1fer is IecOVerjnp
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DENVER, Colo, Oct. 2s.-Rev. Myron
". Reed created a sensation by an ad-
dress at Populist campaign meeting,
by advising heroic methods for
handling election frauds In an inn
FASHIONED speech he urged that 200
men be armed on election day to watch
the polls and whenever any one was
detected fraudulently voting that he
be shot down on the spot. He scored
the people of to-day as lacking the
spirit which the carly settlers dis
played in dealing with Offenders of
the law. After detailing his plan the
reverend gentleman closed with the
remark: ''That's the kind of saint l
am"
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WORKS WHILE HE SLEEPS.
Singular Faculty of Kentucky Man of
an Industrious Turn.

GhCuALy OF a AA0HEuCAy MAI %
an Industrious Turn.
Archibald Clark, farmer living
few miles from Greenup, is without
doubt the most remarkable somnam-
bulist in the state. During the past
summer he has been accusing his
nelghbors of slipping into his truck
patches at night and cultivating them.
Of course he did not object to this but
thought it most extraordinary. It was
also strange fact that they always did
at night what he had intended to do
the following day Becoming anxious
to know which of his neighbors he was
indebted to for the kindness, he spent
many wakeful nights watching his
truck patches, but without success. No
one ever came into them when he was
on the watch, but when he would miss
watching for a night there was invari-
ably some work done A short time
ago he drove his wagon into his potato
patch late one evening, so that he could
load it early in the morning. He was
very anxious to get we'll on his way to
market before sun-up. However, he
oversight himself and got up in ter
rible stew; but great was his surprise
when he went into the potato patch to
find the wagon already loaded and
horses hitched to it, ready to start, thus
saving him couple of hours time and
hard work. One night his wife saw him
stealing out of the house in his night
clothes, and, following him to the barn,
saw him take a mattock and go out
and begin digging up grubs in an old
fence row. She then understood who
had been doing her husbands work.
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EEKHART. Ind, Oct 2s.-Miss Ella
Miller, young society lady of this
city, awoke this morning to find that
during her sleep her hair had been
severed from her head and was lying
on the floor. Her grown brother, who
is sleep walker, is supposed to have
performed the act during one of his
somnam bulistic spells.
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NEWS NOTES.

+ Bank robbers all but secured $50, 900
from j. NJ Morley's bank at Sever
ance, Kan, when they were fright
ened off.
-Four men were killed and one seri-
ously injured by boiler explosion on
a tugboat in Chicago.
A s Wightman, a San Antonio.
Texas, bookkeeper, is $4,000 short in
his accounts.
Bamberger, Bloom & Co., Louisville's
largest dry goods firm, has assigned.
Liabilities, 81, zoo, 900; assets about
same.
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The Population Of Japan.

WASHINGTON. Oct. es.-The popula-
ton of Japan, according to an esti-
mate by Consul General McIver, is
Is 600, 900, allowing 1900, 900 for the
newly acquired territory of Formosa.
Japan has records of her population
going back to the year $40, when the
number was 4,99s. SAP. In point of
area Japan, since the Formosa acqui-
sition, takes rank next below Spain,
and stands about even with Sweden
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Sues Her Husband.s SLAYER.

CovINGroS, Ky, Oct. 2s.-Mrs. Kate
M. Sanford fled suit in the Circuit
Court yesterday against Senator Will
lam Goebei for 100000 damages for
the killing of her husband, the late
John NJ. Sanford. The homicide was
committed on the steps of the First
National bank on April II last. The
tragedy grew out of an attack pub
lished in a weekly paper.
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MADRID, Oct a2o.-A dispatch to the
Impartial from Havana contains an
interview with General Campos in
which he opines that the United States
will recognize the insurgents as bel
ligerents when it suits her interna-
tional policy The prospect has not
alarmed him, he says, for Spain would
then know exactly how matters stood.
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Jumped to His Death

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Oct. Is
Patrick King Callahan, 90 years old,
who lived n New York. jumped from
the top of the Poughl1eepsie bridge
into the river to-day. The distance is
212 foot. At least thirty people saw
Galatians exhibition of nerve The
bridge jumper was paid fer the dare
devil experiment with his life.
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GRACE WITTICH COMING.

a Kansas City Singer Will Temporarily
Fiji Mrs. Niusin's Place ON the Pro-
gramme.
Miss Grace Witch, soprano, of Kan
sas City, will sing at the Musin concert
in Topeka tonight. The father of Annie
Louisa Tanner, hrs. Musin. died sud
denly and Mrs. Musin was called east
Miss Witch was chosen to fill her place
on the concert programme until her re-
turn. DIVIDE Nusin is the noted Belgian
violinist The company appeared at
Lawrence last night and Miss Witch
sang there
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Her Husiness Method.

tThere's no use in trying to get away
from the solemn fact, " said the dreamy
eyed young man. 1.-THE new woman is a
most practical and unsoulful creature -
"What makes you think so?''
81 told Miss Bogleigh that she had
inspired some Of my best poems
"What did she say to that?''
Nothing. She wrote to my publish
ers for percentage Of the royalties. -
Washington Star.