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GREAT NAVAL DRILL.
The North Atlantic Squadron Will
Maneuver for the Winter.

ManeuVcf IOr Ino "luIoE.
The United States flagship New Yorh
slipped away from the Brooklyn Navy Yard
and steamed down the river on her way to
ths naval rendezvous a: Hampton Roads.
Captain Evans. "Flghting Bob" Is in com.
mand.
THE New York is to be the leader in the
maneuvers that the Navy Department has or.
dered the North Atlantic SquadroR to 60
through In It's winter West Indian cruise. 1t
has been many years sinca any regular Meet
drill was held In the United States Navy, and
"a the proeramme laid down for them ia the
signal book was arranged In the days OF sail-
ing ships the drill of the North Atlantic
SQUADRON will be new In nearly every detail.
Rear Admiral Meade Is the officer In COM
mand OF the fleet. The Navy Department
has given him permission to introduces any
feature into the maneuyers. that he thinks
will be beneficial to the service.
"The maneuvers this feet will 60
through" said the Admiral, "will be the
most extensive ever held in the American
Navy. We will go through all of the old
drills and lots OF new ones. We will moi
copy the drills OF England. for there Is
nothing Of the anglonaniac in the Ameri'
can Navy"
The drill will consist principally OF land
ing boats, torpedo drill, armins and away.
abandoning ship and feet drill under steam:
The latter drill will require great deal OF
time, for there Is where most practice is
needed. The crew will like this. because
while feet drill is going on they have prae.
ticalIy nothing to dc. but the officers will
have to work like beaveu,. 1t embraces
turning In short angles, steaming close
around buoys, wheeling into line, forming
fleet in line OF battle and, in fact, everything
that goes to make navy perfect.
Thare will be target practice with great
and small guns and great gun practice while
under way. Each vessel In the squadron
will have to show what speed she can make.
When they return three months hence they
will know just what es,ch ship can do, as we'll
as what each ship cannot do.
What Is right and what Is wrong will GER
tainly be shown up In the cruise The ships
in tho North Atlantic Squadron are the New
York. Columbia, Atlanta, Marblehead, Gin
cinnati and Raleigh. The will rendezvous
at Hampton Roads and then proceed to the
West Indies.
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FRIENDSHIP OF CHRIST.

. Any man. any soul. may have the friend
ship of Christ, or his words are without mean
ing. His heart aches with pity for our loneli-
ness and for the poverty that we misname
riches. He will listen to what we have to
tell him he will take what we have to offer
him. however simple the story, however
humble the fare. And ne will give to US the
heavenly food wherewith his earthly lie was
sustained-the meat men know not Of While
we talk with him and he with US he will un-
fold to us the secret of his earthly career
the blessed open secret that he would have us
share with the whole world-"not to be min
istered unto, but to minister" Filled Wild
his Spirit, we shall not desire to claim him
for ourselves alone. Our hearts will unfold
with his open heartedness, and lonely souls
will seek shelter with US, attracted oy the
light and warmth Of his presence. They VINO
have set wide the door Of their being to him
have caught from the presence OF this divine
Guest their first hint Of the possible rapture ie
of living, they have had In the face Of Christ
their arst true glimpse Of God.-Lucy Lar
com.
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CEREAL ESTIMATES.
Corn Crop Of 1894 One Of the Smallest
Yields on Record.

Corn Crop Of 1894 One Of the Smallest
Yields on Record.
The estimates OF the area product and
value BY States and Territories OF the cereal
crops have been completed by the Asricul-
tural Department
. The corn crop Of 1894 in rate OF yield is
one OF tho lowest on record. In the past
thirteen yenrs the yield per acre OF but one
wear, namely. 1881, was lower. Severe
drought and dry winds In few OF the prn-
cipal corn producing States reduced the area
harvested for rs grain value to 62.5o2O0o
from the 76, 900 ,0e0 acres planted. The pro-
duct garnpred is 1872; 600 bushels. hay
ing an estimated farm value OF $554.7l9,oOo.
TIE wheat crop is above an average one
IN WELD per acre The entire product Is
4s0. .2s7. .416 bushels. The farm value OF the
CROP Is 1926, ,9l2,02 The area. according to
revised estimates. Is 81, 1892, 1876 acres. The
rnte OF WELD Is 1872 bushels per acre. The
average value per bushel is 49.1 cents.
The estimates for oats are: Area, 29,
5Bs acres product, 662,0s6, 92S bushels :;
value, s214,S16, 800; yield per acre.
24.5 bushels. Rye-Area. 1,9A.7sO acres
nroduct. 26,727.615 bushels; value, sl3,-
5N. AIS. Barey-srea. 9,170,602 acres ;
;nroduot. 81. 400. 1866 bushels; value, S27.-
'f34 127 BucEwheat - 1892 acres ;
product, 70, ,66s, 200 bushels value. $7,O40,-
5s8. Potafoes-Area, 2,737.973 acres; pro
duct ITO, 1877, 1888 bushels value. $9l .526, Io1.
Hay-Area, 4S.321, ,272 acres produce, 3D.
s7I. .4Ostons value, S46S, ,57S, 321. Tohlceo.
Area, 523, ,1O3 acres; product, 406,67o,2so
pounds value, e27, ,76O, ,7ss.
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THE LABOR WORLD,

The Pullman Company, according to their
annual report, lost 81, 700, 900 the past year.
TIE Carnegie Steel Company has broken
the strike at the Edgar Thomas Works at
Braddock, Penn.
(Ohio) Rolling Mill, idle since June, 1898,
has resumed operations.
HUNaARrANs employed at steel mills at
Braddock and Homestead, Penn, threaten
violence because wages were not raised.
MANY OF the cork cutters in New York City
are Spaniards, and they have fine faculty
for getting all out OF piece OF cork that 1t
contains.
TIE Brooklyn Central Labor Union ap-
pointed committee to submit plan to fnd
means and ways for erecting labor temple
in Brooklyn.
The price Of iron ore was 80 low during 1894
that profits were very small indeed, and min
ers were obliged to work at low prices, say
from 81 to $1.25 a day.
DEBs's friends are asking for money for
the expense of his appeal, and say that the
life Of organized labor depends on the ae-
quittal Of the President Of the A. R. U.
TIE striking abilities of the MasslIIon,
(Ohio) miners have not been exhausted. The
day laborers refuse to accept SLIGO, and are
holding out for $1.75. Their action effect
ually ties up the district.
MODS OF unemployed marched to the Gov
ernment house in St. Johns, Newfoundland.
and demanded bread or work, but, not being
satisfied with the assurances OF the Cover
nor, looted many stores.
A SERIOUS crisis Is imminent in the silk in
dustry at Lyons. France. The weavers COM
plain that an honorable understanding with
regard to an advance OF wages has NOT been
carried out by the employers.
ARBITRATION as means of settling strikes
has been on trial In France. During 1898
there were 6S4 strikes In that country, and
arbitration WAS initiated in 10S. In thirty In
were obtained
MISSISSIPPI planters have agreed upon a
wage schedule which fixes the pay OF the
the best female labor at forty cents per day.
No more than 81 a month with rations will
be paid the best laborers. and crops are 10
ba laid by with maximum expenditure OF
$3.50 per acre.
The letter carriers helped the labor Or
ganizations to get through an elght-hour law
In the expectation Of doing extra work for
extra pay. They have run up an account Of
$4,000, 900 for extra pay, but now that pri-
yilege Is abolished. Hereafter substitutes
will be employed, and the carriers will be
limited to S75 per month.
TIE managers of some cotton mills at
Saco, Me-, insist that their women employees
shall wear their hair in close coil about the
head, and have also prohibited the big
sleeve from being IN evidence among the
operatives during working hours. This sort
Of dress reform WIS adopted after several Sc
rious accidents through the hair or dress Of
employees being caught in the machinery.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE NATIONAL CONSCIENCE.

We are 80 much accustomed to think of
ourselves as a peculiarly conscientious peo-
pie that 1t givesus shock of surprise to hear
that one of the highest living authorities on
jurisprudence has given as his opinion that
the national conscience Of America is upon a
lower plane than that Of any other civilized
country OF the present day. Yet when we ask
on what ground he bases this strange opin-
Ion our conviction must perforce agree with
bis. reluctant as we may be to own It. "There
Is no surer mark or proof Of low state Of
nationa! conscience, he says, ethan q cheap
value OF human life" And when we recall
to mind the number OF lynchings that have
recently taken place, and the readiness of
our citizens, especially in the West and South,
to resort to violence in settling personal
quarrels, 1t is impossible to say that, as peo-
pie, we do not hold human life cheap.
Hardly week passes by-perhaps 1t would
be more nearly correct to say hardly day
that the columns OF the newspapers do not
contain the account Of some crime of violence
In some part OF the country. The violence is
most brutal and horrible in the case Of flynch-
Ing. Many such cases have occurred within
the past year, accompanied with acts OF such
barbarity as would seem impossible among
civilized people were not the contrary proved
to be true. Crime OF all kinds is rapidly on
the increase among us, but no crime, how
ever outrageous argues such decentralization
as does its punishment at the hands Of the
mob. In the first case it shows that one
man has lost his manhood in the other it
shows that whole community has sunk be-
low the level Of humanity.
Two things are shown by every act Of law
less avenging of crime; one Is that those
committing it have lost their respect for law,
the other that they have lost their reverence
for human life. But these two respect for
law and reverence for human life. are at the
very foundation Of republican institutions.
Where these are wanting in large portion
OF republic that country Is doomed. Where
these are wanting 1t Is because the souls Of
men are not in O right attitune towards God.
He 1s the very source and embodiment OF
law; to fail Of respect for law is to think
lightly of the fact that every principle on
which law Is founded has its sanction In the
character of God. And when we reflect that
man was created in the image Of God,
that the life OF man was the di-
rect gift of God, we see the reason why in all
cases human life should be held inreyerence
why wantonly to destroy 1t is Of all crimes
the most dreadful. 1t may inded be at times
the case that for the welfare Of the cammu.
nifty life must be taken, but it should be
done as solemn and awful legal act, in hui
initiation and reverence, not with barbarous
exultation and fiendish cruelty.
1t ali comes back-as all the problems
back-to the need of deeper apprehension
Of men to him. More religion, a more real
raiigio.N, is the one need OF this country. Fol
that let all true patriots pray and work.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Aluminium paper is announced.
Atlanta (Ga.) trolleys will have air
brakes. ..
Zurich has 1000 horse power cleo
trio locomotive. \,
Oatmeal is zone of the healthiest
articles one can eat"
Cyclones in miniature have been
produced by passing electric discharges
through gases.
Sweetbreads and tripe when properly
cooked, are the most easily digested
OF all animal food. ~.
The average weight of an American
man is 1415 pounds; of an American
woman, 124t pounds.
Acute madness and suicide most fre-
quently follow in cases where people
are deprived of all fluid.
Local scientists of Findlay, Ohio,
have project to produce natural gas
by pumping air into the earth.
A stone weighing 746 grains was re-
moved from the right kidney of Fred
Fett, of Chicago, through an opening
made in the liver.
An alloy of aluminium with copper,
having rich yellow hue, and said to
be proof against acids, is being used
for tableware under the name of ''gold
aluminium.
The magnetograph at Paris is re-
ported to have recorded the recent
earthquake at Constantinople twelve
minutes sfter the shock, the distance
! covered being 5000 kilometers, or
about 1900 miles. The oscillation
must therefore have traversed Europe
from East to West at the rate of $50
miles per minute.
Referring to the deceased mortality
among children in some countries, it
is interesting to know that the sani-
tary condition of region may in a
measure be gagged by the infant NOR
tality that is, the death rate of chill
dren in a district is Sol t of hygienic
barometer of the surrounding physical
and moral atmosphere.
Asbestos has been recently discov-
cred to be magnetic. Pieces of asbes-
tos millboard were attracted to a
strong electro-magnet, and, moreover,
proved to be capable of being permsn.
emily magnetized. This property of
asbestos is attributed to the oxide of
iron it contains, although the proper
ton of this substance is exceedingly
small.
In 9 paper read before the meeting
of the American Street Railway Asso-
citation at Atlanta, E. G. Foster, re-
ferring to the electric heating of cars
on trolley lines, stated that his expert
ence showed that to raise the tempera-
ture of such cars forty degrees Fahren-
heit above the outside air as much en-
ergy was required as to propel the car,
and hence is not economical.
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THE losses OF Florida from the late bliz-
card are now figured at not less than $10,-
600, 900. Fruit growers OF Florida are loud
IN their complaint of the negligence of the
Weather Bureau In not giving them timely
warning of the freeze which was 80 disas-
trous to tho orange and fruit growing In
dustry In that State. They estimate that
they could havo saved half million dollars
had the waning been given.
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Actors Want to Vote.

The Actors Protective Union, of Boston,
at late meeting considered plan of secur-
ing for the SC. 900 actors in the country an
amendment to the National election laws
whereby they will be allowed to vote in the
place where their profession may call them
on election day. At present they are unable
TO vote except at their homes,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-30
MINERS PERISH.
Drowned in Suddenly Flooded Eng
lish Colliery Workings.

lish Colliery Workings.
An accident occurred at the Biglake c.
liery at Audley, North staffordshire, Eng
lard, by which, 1t was thought, at least
twenty persons lost their lives. Two
hundred and thirty men and boys
were Mt work In the coliery. when there was
O sudden inrush of water from the old work.
ings. About seventy men reached the shaft
and were speedily hoisted out OF danger.
Tne pumps were promptly put to work, and
rescuing parties descended into the miLe.
By o'clock $50 OF the men and boys had
been rescued. OF the eighty who were then
below it was thought that twenty were In
the lower workings when the mine was
flooded, and that they had been drowned.
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The public accounts or Canada for the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1894, have been
printed. The gross debt OF the Dominion,
has been increased by 90, 900, and the
net debt BY $4, 500, 900. The amount OF the
gross debt at the close OF the fiscal year was
SS0S, 348, ,O23, and the amount OF the net debsl
S246, ,18S,029.
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Died at 1O4: Her Father Died at 1O2.
The funeral OF Miss Rose Mcdonald, who
died at Eockport, near Chicago, aged 104,
has just been held. Her father, who brought
his family to Lockport In 184S, lived to be
102, and his three sons were over ninety when
they died.
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1t is easy to make assaults on the BIbfe. 1t
requires no study of the Book. Read one or
of the Bible are discussed. and you are
equipped for making your assaults.
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A Girl Cashier an EmbeZzler.

Mabel Dodge, cashier for C. S. Buffers, OF
SomerviIle, Mass, has disappeared from her
home, and her employer alleges that her ac-
counts are nearly $4,000 short. The parents
of the girl declare that the amount will not
aggregate more than $1,000. They do not
know where their daughter is.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-30

He who declares prayer in the day of pros
perity. will not find it easy in the day OF ad-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-30

But passing up and down the streets OF
Ceylon you find all styles of people within
five mirutes-Afghans, Kaff1rs. Portuguese,
Moormen, Dutch, English, Scotch. Irish,
American-all classes, all dialects, all man
ners and customs: all STYLES of sartam. The
most Interesting thing on earth Is the hu.
man race, and specimens Of all branches Of
Il confront you In Ceylon. The island OF the
present is a quiet and inconspicuous affair
compared with what It once was. The dead
cities OF Ceylon were larger and more I'm.
posing than are the living cities. On this
island are dead New Yorks and dead Pek-
ings and dead Edinburghs and dead Lon
dons. Ever and anon at the stroke OF the
arch@oglIsts hammer the tomb OF some
great municipality files open, and there aro
other buried cities that will yet respond to
the explorers pickax.
The Pompeii and Herculaneum under
meath Italy are small compared with the
Pompsiis and Herculaneums underneath
Ceylon. Yonder is an exhumed city which
was founded 500 years before Christ. stand
ing in pomp and splendor for 1900 years.
Stairwsys up which fifty men might pass
side BY side. Carved pillars, some OF them
fallen, some OF them aslant, some OF them
erect. Phidases and Christopher Wrens
never heard OF here, performed the marvels
Of sculpture and architecture. Aisles
through which royal professions marched.
Arches under which kings were carried. City
with reservoir twenty miles in circumfer-
ence. Extemporized lakes that did their
cooling and refreshing for twelve centuries;
Ruins more suggestive than Melrose and
Kenilworth. Ceylonian Karnaks and Luxors.
Ruins retaining much OF grandeur, though
wars bombarded them, and time put his
ch1sel on every block, and, more tnan all;
vegetation put its anchors and prizes ana
wrenches IN all the crsvlces. Dagobas, or
places where relics Of saints OF dtettes are
kept-dasobas 400 feet high and their fallen
material burying precious things, for the
sight Of which modern curiosity has dlggeo
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-02-20
The Carbon in MnIne.

About the slopes OF Mount Katah-
din and ranging the Dogs and wood
lands of the country at its foot, great
herds of caribou pasture in the foil
upon twigs, bark and the marsh grass
and NOSE, from which they have to
scrape the snow with their forefeet, as
their kindred, the Laplnud and Siber-
lau reindeer, do. They are migratory
animals, covering wide regions in their
travels, and appearing Unexpectedly
in localities which, after period,
they are apt to leave with equal sud-
denness. A single herd recently seen
near Mount Kathadin was estimated
TO number 200 caribou. In size the
caribou stands between the deer and
the moose, and his appearance and
habits are essentially those of the
Arctic reindeer. The well-known
Maine scientist, "Bill" Moriarty,
who is a great hunter and woodsman,
says that caribou is "the hand
soonest, most forlorn looking critter
that travels on hoofs. Lewiston
(Me.l Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-02-20
JUDGING BuTrFR

1t seems to me that one method OF
Judging butter would be improved if
we would follow the examples of
judges of live stock to q certain ex-
tent, says Professor H. G. Wallace.
When judge is asked to pass upon
ring of twenty-five or thirty horses,
he first goes over them carefully and
selects dozen OF the best ones, send
ing the rest to the stable. Then he
goes over these critically and weeds
out the poorer half, continually mar
rowing the competition down until
he has but two or three to decide be-
tween. If, instead of doing this, he
started in with a handful of score
cards and attempted to select the
winner in that manner, he would very
soon regret the day he consented to
act in the capacity of a Judge. And
yet he would have very easy task
compared to that of man who at-
tempts intelligently to score thirty
tubs of butter in succession. If our
butter judges would go over the ex-
hiblt in this manner, they would have
little difficulty in selecting the best
half dozen or dozen tubs. Farm and
Dairy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-02-20
A TEMPERANCE ARnrmrNr.

"With our days energies and opportuul-
ties we may buy the lowest or the highest
things. In one sense 1t Is not true that we
carry nothing out OF the world. We carry
out OF the world all we ever had In A.,
transmitted into nobility or degradation OF
the spirit. The supreme test TO be applied
TO any habit or course OF conduct is IFS rela-
tlon 10 our power OF turning the things OF
the earth into the true riches
ut is by this test that the indulgence in
strong drink Is deeisiyely condemned Tho
best medical authorities, and those not COM
mitted to any total abstinence theories, unite
IN saying that one OF the principal psycho-
logical effects OF alcohol is 10 loosen the dell
icate and firm grasp OF the will upon the pas.
slons. II gives a slack rein 10 the lower ma
lure. II is only through holding the forces
OF the lower nature in absolute subordinR-
ilon TO reason aud conscience that 1t is pos
siole TO turn life into truth into pure aifec-
tion for the excellent, into tho service Of
man and the worship OF Col.
I'm most Of us the control OF the lower ma
ture by spiritual forces Is too fltful and un-
steady We do not sit on the throne OF our
own souls, masters Of ourselves, and any in
Gulgence OF any kind that gives the forces Of
the lower life freer rein Gssails the mastery
through which alone there is the possibility
OF transmitting earthly hls into tho values OF
eternity. Sacred Heart Review.
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FINE LAUNDRY WORK. q

The exquisitely fine silkwvoupht
table-linen of the present day de-
mands something more in the cleans
ing process than the ordinary laun-
dress is likely to give it. The wash
board and boiling suds are scarcely
the thing for this modern luxury, aud
ms the housewife is frequently lacking
i'll the knowledge requisite for doing
such work to the best advantage, 1t
will soon be in order to have specially
detailed servants Tor this purpose.
1t has been suggested that there
are, in almost every well-to-do COM
munity, women, young and old, who
want something to do. While they
would not, perhaps, take up ordinary
washing as business, there would be
no objection to arranging for the re.
newing of the beauties of such elegant
articles. It takes experience, iudg-
ment and some knowledge of chemi-
calls to do such work to the best ad-
vantage.
One lady, whose household looks to
her hands for. all of its provisions, has
for some time been doing up table.
linen for her acquaintances and for
few of the wealthy families who APP
preciate such an undertaking. She
found it impossible to cleanse these
articles without fading on account of
the acids and alkalies in the soap she
was able to purchase, SO she went to
work and made her own soap, and
with the happiest results. Instead Of
an occasional piece she now has all
she can do with the help of a skilled
assistant. The finest colored en-
broideries, the most elegant laces and
fringes, are made to look like new by
her careful fingers and goodly in
come is the result of her painstaking
and industry. New York Ledger.