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COMMUNION SUNDAY.

1t is not enough that we have great
Teacher to tell us how to walk; it is not
enough that we have O great Exemplar who
puts footprints in the sand and let US see
where our footsteps should go. We must
have Life-givor who will lay down His life
for US; and the love must be so great that
nothing is counted In the balance against it:
But 1t is the love that saves. And the blood
saves because 1t Is the life and the love poured
out into hearts that need it. Christ is the door
through which the divine life enters
into the world. Christ's cross Is witness OF
the divine lie that is saving the world.
Christ lays dc IN his life for US. We are to
lay down our lives for one another. This Is
the simple lesson OF communion Sunday
Life poured out from one full heart into an
other empty heart; from one joyous heart in
to an aching heart; from one pure heart into
a sinful and shameful heart.-Lyman Abb
bott D, D.
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HAppIEST LIFE.

Do you ask which Is the happiest llfe2 I
say, from my heart, q conseerated one; be it
.'in the world" $50 called or out Of it, In IN
consecrated to a service better, higher,
sweeter than that of self enjoyment or self.
success. We all want to be happy. We all
seek personal Joy US an instinct. Surely
God meant it to be thus when he made us.
Yet no less he has set the deepest sources
OF Joy outside OF self-indulgence-in love,
obedience, devotion, duty. 1t may seem a
hard word, the last; 1t has chilly sound.
Yet no less it claims and possesses US more
and more as our days 20 on. Impulse. de-
sire, idolatry. aggressive selfhood-one by
one we lay them down. We drop our weights
as we go upward. Lo! the cross that we
call duty changes to our crown.-Mary Clem-
mer AmeS.
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Demand tor Antique Coins.

jewelers. say that 0 curious demand
has sprung up for antique coins. No
one in whose breast this desire has
como is content with copies. The
thing is the real coin: This is set in
u hollow rim of gold or silver and
mounted az clasps, charms, pendants
,r sleeve buttons. The dealers in
those give lists of the coins. Some
are more valuable than others. The
most beautiful are the silver Greek
coins, coined 600 B. G. The drach-
mas ard didrachnas are used for scarf
pins and charms.-Chicago Times
Herald.
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THE LORDS SUPPER.

The character OF the Lords Supper must
be determined by the language Of Christ in
.instituting it and by the attendant circum'
stances. There are no other sources of evi.
dence in the case. AS to the language OIL
Christ, we are dependent upon accounts by
three Of the evangelists and by Paul.
Matthew was an eyewitness Of the institu'
ton of the supper. and Paul says that ht
had his account of it from Jesus himself
What, now, on this testimony is. the charac
ter and office of the Lords Supper? Simply
that of memorial. This do in remem
brance of me-" said Christ. These are the
supreme and decisive words in the case. 4
is memorial of Christ as the Bread OF Life
and the institutOr Of the new covenant in his
blood.
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CONSULTATIONS OF GOD.

care the consultations of God small with
thee2" was a question hard to bear when
1t was asked. Nevertheless, 1t Is searching
question for ns. wealth Of consolation
comes when a soul, under the pressure OF
great sorrow or bewildered under per-
plexities and trials can say /" know
that am having the very best that my
Heavenly Father has for me today.
We're there anything better he would have
given 1t to me-" There is an afiuence OF
divine revelations touching Gods pity. love
and tenderness that enables one to give free
ly When brought into the presence Of sorrow.
The serenity which comes from the firm
trust that God knows what is best brings
with it fine discernment OF the real sorrow
OF another, and the onse1uent expression
OF it becomes most grateful to the burdened
one. Tbs comforts that come from God him
self we can we'll pass on.
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coSsCIENTIoUSSEsS.

Conscientiousness may render itself in
tensely disagreeable and repellent. 1t may
80 manifest itself that, even If people con-
cede that it deserves certain respect, they
make the concession reluctantly and are not
drawn to initiate the virtue. Jesus always
made clear in his own conduct the distinc.
ton between the conscientiousness whic!I
is pure and unnixed and that which Is
blended with seihshness and the disposition
to domineer. Nobody ever suspected him
Of merely wanting to carry his point, to have
his own way. OF how many OF us is this
true? tactless, overbering conscientious.
ness may be genuine, but it sometimes does
more harm than good. Let us pray to
be kept humble and made wise as well as en-.
abled to be loyal to our sense Of duty.
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EUROPEAN WHEAT CROP.
In Some Countries 1t Will Be Poor; In
Others Good.

Reports to the Agricultural Department
from its European agents indicate that the
area of winter wheat in France Is consider
ably smaller than last year and sprng SOW
ings are curtaiIed. In Great Britain the
prospect for grazers is considered excellent,
while In Germany the agrarian interests are
supposed to be despondent. owing to the in
jury to rye and wheat caused by unfavora-
BILE weather. Resolving large acreage In
Belgium and Holland kept the farmers there
busy during March. Winter sowings have
suffered in most OF the continental countries
and considerable damage is admitted in
Spain and Hungary. Spring field work was
in arrears throughout Italy, but good crops
are expected. Excellent harvests are also
promised in Algeria and SMYRNA.
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The New American.

There is no question but the Ameri-
can people are becoming an outdoor
people. The introduction of the BIZ
cyle has had much to do with this, but
the numerous outdoor sports, like
baseball, boating. tennis, etc., have
also helped along the tendency. This
habit of life is already apparent in the
sturdier physique and more vigor Gus
health. The narrow-breasted, blood
less, debilitated type of American is
coming to be thing Of the past
Boston Globe.
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gnat derives ito sppellation from the
fact that it usually appears at the
time turkeys are setting. These gnats
range over the valley from Red River to
st. Louis, infesting the rivers, bsyous
and low lands. South Of Red River
they are comparatively scarce.
The first comers of the swarm are
active and bloodthirsty, but they soon
decrease in numbers. and gradually
peg out; then another swarm is apt to
put in an appearance. The duration
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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
FERTILIZER FOR CORN AND Potato

FERTM1zER FOR CORN AND POTATOES.
The Massachusetts Experiment Sta
tion recommends 500 pounds dissolved
bone black, 200 pounds nitrate of
soda and $50 pounds muriate of potash
per acre, for corn. For potatoes, 800
pounds dissolved bone black, 200
pounds nitrate of soda and $50 pounds
high grade sulphate of potash. The
standard brands of corn and potato
fertilizers complete manures) will
also furnish these elements in equally
as good or better forms. American
Agriculturist.
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Seized a Missing Mans Land.

Jonathan Kirkner, well-known citizen.
disappeared from DAYTON, Ky., twelve years
ago, leaving behind realty worth S20,0O0.
Not word has been heard from him since.
He had no known heirs, and, strangely
enough. no attempt has ever been made to
collect the taxes on it. Councilman Alfred
Clarke procured horse and plow, turned o
furrow on the land and squatted on 1t. A
neighbor came In and claimed half. The
courts will take up the case.
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HYPNOTISM IN A WILL CASE.
a Daughter Accuses Her Stepfather OF
Hypnotizing His Wife.

Hypnotizing his Wife.
The charge Of hypnotic influence is brought
into the courts Of Cook County, ILL.,, for the
first time in suit to break the will of Mrs
Mary Bennett, who died last December, leav-
ing an estate valued at $4,000 to her hus-
band, c. NJ. Bennett. Her daughter, by a
former husband, alleges that Bennett, who
was forty years younger than his wife, exert
ed his hypnotic power to induce her inflrm
and aged mother to marry him and four days
afterward to make her will in his favor. 1t
Is said the servant in the home OF the de-
ceased, who was Mrs. Murray before her
marriage to the alleged hypnotist, will swear
that she saw frequent instances OF Benefits 8
mesmeric control over her mistress during
bis visits to the house.
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A MILKpAm TROLLEY.

I have a wire stretched from my
stable to the dsiryhouse for carrying
milk. The wire is seventy.hve yards
long and of quarter-inch steel. A
trolley wheel was made from an old
Singer sewing machine. A pair of
small blocks hook on to the trolley,
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We have only to be patient, to pray and to
do his will. according to orr present light
and strength, and the growth Of the soul will
go on. The plant grows in the mist and un-
der clouds as truly as under sunshine. SO does
the heavenly principle within.-W. Il. Chan
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The Boston Society for the Proven
tipn OF Cruelty to Animals gives
weekly lectures to coachmen on the
proper wsJ to treat dumb spimala
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also hook underneath for the milk

also hook underneath for the milk
can. The wire is drawn taut to clear
the ground in the centre, where wire
naturally ssgs. A boy ten years old
can thus care for fifteen to twenty gal
Ions of milk with ease. My wire has
been in use four years, and has been
worn more by the children riding it
than dispatching milk.-Farm and
Home.
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Indians Dispossessed.

The Callspel Indians, Of Idaho, are de-
manding protection from white men, who
are taking their lands.
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immigration TO Canada Drops.

The total number Of immigrants arriving
in Canada last year was only q, oil. q decline
Of ftty-six per cent. from 1893. Only 20, ,0N
intended to settle In Canada.
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rocked and lullabled the family brood until
they took wing for other nests and never ap-
preciated what you had done and suffered
for them. Your hand was we'll favored
when you were young, and it was beauti-
full hand, so we'll rounded, so graceful that
many admired and eulogized it, but hard
work calloused it and twisted it, and self
sacrificing toll for others paled it, and many
household griefs thinned il, and the ring
which went on only with push at the mar
riage altar now is too large and falls of. and
again and again you have lost it. Poor hand!
Weary hand! Wornout hand! But God will
reconstruct it, reanimate it, readorn 1t, and
all heaven will know the story OF
that hand. What fallen ones it lifted up!
What tears 1t wiped away! What wounds 1t
bandaged! What lighthouses it kindled!
What storm tossed ships it brought into the
pearl beached harpor Oh, am 80 glad that
in the vision of my text EZskiel saw the
wing above the hand. Roll on that everlast-
ing rest for all the toiling and misunderstood
andsuffering and weary children OF God, and
know right we'll that to join your hand, at
last emancipated from the struggle, will be
the soft hand, the gentle hand, the trium-
phant hand. OF Him who wipeth away all
tears from all faces. That will be the palace
of the King Of which the poet sang in some
| what Scotch dialect:
| It's q bonnie, bonnie warl that we're liyin'
in the moo,
An sunny is the Ian we aften traivel thro',
But in vain we look or something to which
| oor hearts can cling.
For its beauty is as naething to the palace O
the King.
We see oor frien's await US over yondsr at
His gate.
Then let us a be ready, for, ye ken, it's get.
| tin late.
Let oor lamps be BRIGHTLY burnin; let's raise
| oor voice and sing.
Soon Well meet, to part nae mair, i the pal
ace Of the King.
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ton Of a young mans soul2 That is right,
but also extend the hand Of invitation to
come to religious meeting.
It always excites our sympathy to see q
man with his hand in sling. We ask him:
"What Is the matter? Hope it is not Il
felon;" or, "Have your fingers been
crushed?" But nine out Of ten of all Chris
hans are going their life long with their
hand in sling. They have been hurt by in
difference or wrong ideas of what Is best.
or it Is injured OF conventionalties. and they
never put forth that hand to lift or help or
rescue any one. They pray, and their prayer
has wings, but there is no hand under the
wings. From the very structure of the hand
we might make up our mind as to some of
The things it was made for-to hold fast. to
lift, to push, to pull, to help and to rescue.
And endowed with two hands, we might take
the broad hint that for others as we'll as for
ourselves We were to hold fast, to lift. to
push, to pull, to help, to rescue. Wondrous
hand! You know something Of the 'Bridge-
water Treatises." When Rev. Francis Henry
Bridgewater in his will left $4,000 for es-
bays on THE Power, Wisdom and Goodness
OF God, as Manifested in the Creation" and
Davis Gilbert, the President OF the Society.
chose eight persons to write eight books, Sir
Charles Bell, the scientist. chose as the sub
Iect of his great book, The Hand: Its Me-
chanism and Vital Endowments as EvincinS
Design" Oh, the hand! Its machinery be-
ginning at the shoulder, and working
through shafts OF bone. upper arm and fore
arm, down to the eight bones OF the wrist,
and the five bones Of the palm, and the four
teen bones of the fingers aud thumb, and
composed Of a labyrinth OF muscle and nerve
md artery and flesh, which no one but Al
mighty God could have planned or executed.
But how suggestive when it reached down to
us from under the wings Of the cherubim!
"Tne likeness OF the hands Of man was un-
derthe wings"
This idea is combined in Christ. When He
rose from Mount Olivet, He took wing. All
up and down His life you see the uplifting
divinity. It flashed In His eyes. Its cadences
were heard In his yoica But BE was also
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-02-22
THE CANAL WORRIES ENGLAND.
Wants a Hand in the Management of an
American Project.


London. Feb. IA. In the house of
commons this afternoon Sir Edward
Harland conservative, asked whether
the government was aware that Nor
gans Nicaraguan bill had passed the
United States senate. and was now be-
fore the house of representatives, and
whether in view of the Importance of
the canal to British ship-owners, the
government would make urgent repre-
sensations to the government of the
United States against the provision of
the bill detrimental to the interests of
British shipping. Sir Edward also ask
I'd whether the government would con-
slider the propriety of urging upon the
government of the United States the
Importance of the creation of British
and American commission to deal with
| the question of the construction of the
canal and it's status when built
Sir Erward Grey, parliamentary sec
| rotary for She foreign office, replied that
| ii was n5t Usual for the government to
make any representations against bills
before foreign legislatures The gov
| ernment he added considered that such
| a canal as Il was proposed to construct
| through Nicaragua should be under in.
| ternational control. and whatever steps
it may deem advisable would be taker
| by the government to advance thi.
| view He. however, saw no reason t
| suppose that the United States would
not maintain their treaty engagement
Sir George Baden-Powell, conserva
tive. questioned the government regard
ing the proposed Pacific cables. Sydne,
Buxton. of the parliamentary colonia
office, said negotiations relative to tn
construction of the cable were proceed
ing but 1t would not be to the publ
interest to enter into a detailed state
| ment of their status,
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VICTIMS OF A BIG FIRE
The Dead and Injured Number
Fifteen.
THE DISASTER AT LYNN, MASS
Three riremeu Are Known IN Hnva
Been Killed and Two Others
Are Missing.

Lynn, Mass, Feb 13.--A fire broke out
tonight in the basement of a wooden
building occupied by w. Henry Hutch
inson, hardware dealer, and spread to
the adjoining property, entailing loss
of $4,000 Three men were killed, 10 inl
jured and two missing, supposed to be
buried in the ruins.
The dead are:
Captain Charles Skinner. chemical
engine No l.
Thomas Murphy, hoseman
John Conlin, hoseman.
George Butler. fireman.
- kimble, clerk, supposed to have
been in the building when the fire broke
out.
The injured are: George Middleton,
George Hunt, William Minton, Charles
Carson, George Center, Nicholas Web
Der, Leo Miller, A. c. Moody, Lorenzo
Allen.
A spectator was injured by falling de-
)ris, but not seriously. When the fire
aad been burning half an hour, without
warming a terrific explosion occurred
| which seemed to split the building from
op to bottom. The upper stories sep
| rated, and long ladders on which the
| iremen stood slipped and fell into the
| ,avity and the men Were hurled to the
| pavement beneath. Then the building
| fell, a mass of ruins, and with fresh en-
| argy the flames began to spread. The
next building was occupied by Peter
| Connolly, shoe dealer. This was wholly
destroyed and the fury of the flames
were checked. Loss $4,000, insurance
| S52.5OO
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GLOVER, AS TRUSTEE, GETS $4,000
End of the Famous Mercantile Company
Insurance SuiI

Olympia, Feb 1.-THE supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the lower court in
the case of James n. Glover assignee of
the Spokane Mercantile Company vs. the
Rochester German Insurance Company.
The suit was one of 30 instituted by the
assignee to recover insurance on the stock
lost in a fire two years ago The com
panies refused to pay and demanded am
appraisement, which was granted The
appraisers awarded damages to the ex-
tent of $4,000
The mercantile company then contested
the award on the ground of fraud. Judge
Buck sustained the contention, and gave
judgment for $4,000, which judgment the
supreme court afirms. The insurance
companies will now be required to pay over
the money.
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HAVE SURRENDERED WEl.HAl.WEl,
Chinese Capitnlate TO Japan's Victorious
Naval Force.

Naval Force.
Yokohama, Feb. 13.-It is officially an
bounced that Captain Nitrous of the
Japanese squadron, operating at Wei
Hai-Wei, reports that on the 18th
Chinese gunboat approached the Jap
,nese fleet, flying white flag. She
brought message from Admiral Ting
,ffereing to surrender Wei-Hai-Wei
md the vessels, providing the lives of
he soldiers, crews and foreigners be
pared. Captain Nitrous reported that a
'anged.
DENIAL FROM TEN TSIN.
London, Feb. 13.-A dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai says 1t is reported
IN Tien Tsin that the Chinese warships
Chen Yuen, Chin Yuen and Kwang Ting
are still afioat at Wei-Hai-Wei Their
immunity from destruction is ascribed
70 having netting to protect them from
torpedoes and other quick-firing guns.
The same reports also say the forts on
| Lui Kung Taio island are still in pos
session of the Chinese.
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Yokohama, Feb 13.-The commander
| If the second Japanese army In his Off.
eial report of the operations before Wei
Hai-Wei says the losses from the 29tf
of January to the LIST of February were
SO killed. including five officers. and q!
| wounded, including General Otera ant
| three other officers. During the sam,
period 700 of the enemy were killed.
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MURDERED FOR LIFE INSURANCE
Twin Brothers Accused of . Terrible
Crime


Toronto. Feb. Hilary Place Hy-
ans and Dallas Theodore Hyams, twin
brothers, brokers, of this city, have
been arrested on "A charge of having
murdered William c. Wells January III.
1898. At that time young Wells was re-
ported to have been accidentally killed
in an elevator in the Hyams warehouse.
The only other person in the building a
the time was Harry p. Hyams, who had
placed heavy insurance on the life of
young Wells, to whose sister he was en-
gagged to be married. The insurance
was paid, and recently Harry and Miss
Wells were married. Ten days ago a
Toronto paper learned that an attempt
had been made to place 100000 insur-
ance on the life of the bride. Mrs. Hy-
ans became alarmed and hired a detec-
| tive to guard her. She refused to re-
| turn to Montreal with her husband, and
asked the company to cancel the poll
cies. The Hyams brothers were known
not to possess sufficient capital to war;
rant mourning liabilities of $4,000 a
year insurance premiums. Further ill.,
vestigation has resulted in the arrest OF
the two brothers for the murder of their
| brother-inelaw, Wells.
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LUCKY AT GAMBLING.
aarrr yward Bed Miss Cling. "ow
e,e- for Ills = akes,

Minneapolis, Feb. 13.-The state, in
winding up its murder case against
Harry Hayward today delivered blow
which staggered the defense. Peter Val
lalie, the hackman of whom Harry had
spoken to Adry as being willing to as
sist in the proposed crime, testified
that Harry Hayward approached him
with questions as 10 whether he had
ever done anything" and If so whether
his conscience bothered him. Hayward
later asked Vallalie whether he would
drive his hack into Lake Calhoun and
let the occupant drown for sum OF
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DEFENSE OF HAYw ARD.


Prove Andy 10 BE of Unsound Mi d.
Minneapolis, Feb. 14.--In the Hayward
trial today, Attorney Smith, addressing
the jury on behalf of the defense, called
attention to a number of things that
had not been proven. The sweat box
method of wringing confessions from
Blixt and Adry Hayward were denounc-
ed in strong terms. He said six mem
befs of the family had been in the asy-
ium for insanity. and that Harry is
much more sane than Adry, He claims
that a complete alibi will be established
for Harry at the time he was said to
have been at Kenwood boulevard. At
torney Smith said the defendant would
be put upon the witness stand in his
own behalf
John Walsh, keeper of the morgue,
was the first witness. Terrence Con-
nelly, an undertaken, was also called
| and produced the clothes worn by the
| victim, all of which were carefully ex-
amined by the attorneys and the jurors
! The afternoon was given to the exami
| nation of police officers, who examined
| the locality where the body was found
| Tomorrow evidence to impeach Blk
viii be presented.
| The prisoner entered the court room
this morning smiling, nodded to his lad,
| friends, said good morning. and kiss
ed his mother. Attorney Day claimed
that Hayward's insurance transaction
with Miss Cling were all usual in the or
| binary course of business. Smitl
claimed the defense would prove Blk
lied when he swore he shot Miss Gin
before striking her. He beat her hea'
almost to jelly, Smith said, before h
fired a shot. 1t would be shown tina
Adry Hayward was insane. Smith an
| nounced that the prisoner would TAX
the stand in his own behalf tomorrow