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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-05-18
GENERAL. CONVENTION,
Receipts for April. 1895.
GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS.


Before, 81, Oss74; Ohio Missionary Boxes s,s.-
"a. East Highgate, VT, s2.O5. Total. 81 .O94.os.
Special Contributions.
Before, $3.50; I'd Philadelphia, 81; Total.
ss9.1O.
Financial Secretary.
Before. 50. s731s; s94.9O; S1ss97; $342. 49, $3.50.
S. $2s9ss, Total, $s,469.72.
Sunday School Mission.
AS before. s2a.s5.
Special Agencies.
/. Before. 81, 1855; g.; $40; So; 81; sos
si.261.s5. No. 2. Before. $3.50 30; 50; 50; 81, So
=ss99.sO No. 4. Before. s52S 20; SIS; 81 so; 50;
s5-s551.7O. Total. s2.7i2s5.
Foreign Missions.
Before. s72495; LIST Chicago. SIS; j. A. Smith,
81; Mrs. Schoeff, 81; Barre, VT. So. Total.
S74395.
Ministerial Relief Fund.
AS before, s96.s2.
Returned Scholarship Loans.
Before. s1.75O; VT. 500; Mass, $40; Me-. S25;
Mass, $50; Minn.. $50; ILL.,, s25; Mass. s1O4;
Me-. $40; N. Y. So; Mass. $40; Mass, 80. Total
S2,14i.
Norfolk. Va, Church Building.
Before, $l51.5O; LIST Brooklyn, N. Y, $40; M.
w. Rodgers, S25. Total. Sls6 80.
Other Funds.
AS before, S3.721 "a.
Interest.
Before. S6.22ssi; 1885, S62 so; SPOTS; $50; S165.
s120; 500; s25; $685. $685. $3.50; sos; 800; sIls75;
SIS. Total. S7,s35.O9.
In all, seven months s22.l13 s5.
g. L. DEMAREsT, Secretary.
MANCHESTER. N. H,
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few leaves had gone. and they did not
come back to tell what they had seen.
While the leaves were talking, puff
of wind came along which caused them
to twirl and flutter, and think they were
going, surely. But no; the wind had
not called them yet.
"Oh!' said one little red leaf as soon
as 1t could get its breath, "Oh! thought
l was going sure that time; / could
scarcely hang on another minute"
just then a very strong gust Of wind
came by, and shook the tree so that ever
and ever so many leaves we're carried
away. Some were borne high up into
the air. seeing the most wonderful sights
Others danced and skipped over the
brown fields, chasing each other and
having a merry time. BY and by they
all settled quietly down, where they
were soon fast asleep, dreaming of the
long journey they had taken. After
while the snow came and laid soft
white cover over them, and there they
have been dreaming all through the long
winter omdn's Journal.
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work of life, it is absurd to say he must
stop at twenty minutes. Or If his theme
is one of general interest and he requires
more than twenty minutes to expound
and illustrate it, it is unreasonable to
say he must cut off al specified mo-
ment. No great preacher ever won his
influence by twenty minutes sermon
cites. II. r. Haweis says the late Can
on Liddou gave deadly blow to the
clamor for short sermons. His strong,
thoughtful sermons Of an hour never
seemed too long. The cry for very short
sermons is not from those who are most
deeply interested in religion. All the
same, many preachers spoil the effect Of
their sermons by preaching too long
Christian Guardian.
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ARMSTRONG q McxELvY
Pittsburgh
ANCHOR,
Cincinnati.
ATLANTIC.
New York.
EEYMER-BAUMAN,
Pittsburgh.
.2ADLEY,
New York.
8-ooKLYE.
New York.
St. Louis.
CORNELL,
DAVIS CHAMBERS,
Pittsburgh.
EcKsrEIN,
Cincinnati.
FAHNEsrocK,
xr.- Pittsburgh.
New York.
KENTUCKY,
Louisville.
JOIN T.LEwIs q BROS, 90
- Philadelphia.
Cleveland.
MISSOURI,
St. Louis.
RED SEAL,
ST. Louis.
SALEM,
Salem, Mass.
SEIPMAN.
Chicago.
SOUTHERN,
St. Louis and Chicago.
ULSTER,
New York.
UNION. /.
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DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
World Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-05-18
.EssoN SERIES FOR 1895.
SECOND QUARTER.
LESSONS FROM TIE LIFE OF OUR LORD.
MARK IS: 22-37.
INTRODUCTION.

The cross, now beautiful to behold
and worn as an ornament or ulet, was
in its original character horrible and re-
pulsive thing. AS an instrument of torture
and death it surpassed all the agents of
cruelty and revenge the savages had ever
invented.-The origin of the cross is
unknown. DIR. Kitto traces its use among
the early Egyptians, the Carthaginians, the
Persians md the primitive Greeks. 1t
was early adopted by pagan Rome. Cru
cifxion was by the Romans regarded as
peculiarly the slaves punishment. Free
born Roman citizens were exempted from
its shame. The jews however, as captives,
were subjects of the degrading punish
ment Some biblical students have held
the opinion that the Jews themselves at
one time in their early history adopted this
mode of death for certain criminals but
this is by no means certain. In Jesus day
surely the punishment was distinctvely
Roman; the power of inficting it was with
held from the Jews. - CrucifixiOn is
thus described by Farrar: at includes all
that pain and death can have of the horri-
DaCsduu SndSuy; uiLZlneSS, tramp, tnlISt,
starvation, sleeplessness, traumatic fever,
tetanus, publicity of shame, long continu-
ance of torment, horror of anticipation,
modification of unattended wounds, all
intensified just up to the point at which
they can be endured at all, but all stopping
short OF Che point which would give the
sufferer the relief of Inconsistencies.
The unnatural position makes every move
ment painful; the lacerated veins and
crushed tendons throb with incessant an
guish; the wounds, infamed by exposure,
gradually gangrene; the arteries, especially
of the head and stomach, become swollen
and oppressed with surcharged blood; and
while each variety of misery goes on grad
ually increasing, there is added to them
the intolerable pang of burning and rag
ing thirst; and all these physical compli-
cations cause an internal excitement and
anxiety which make the prospect of death
itself-of death, the awful unknown enemy,
at whose approach man usually shudders
most-bear the aspect of delicious and
exquisite release"
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A SWEET GIRL.

A common dog, with his rough coat
thick with ice, was ambling down Full
ton street one morning after a recent
storm. Right in the centre of Duffield
street, corner of Fulton, was a lot OF
broken glass. The dog stepped on one
of the broken bits. Up went the leg and
the dog pranced about on three feet, XII
wing piteously. The dogs yelps at
tracted the attention of number of
lads who were lettering near the corner.
Instantly mischief cleaned in every
youthful eye, and the boys reached out
instinctively for pieces of ice and snow.
Just as the first missile was about to
be hurled dainty clad young woman
stepped from crowd of shoppers.
The young girl wore the blue ribbon
of the Kings Daughters. Walking
briskly up to the dog she stopped over
and patted the animal upon the head.
The boys fell back, and their hands
gradually lost their grip on the pieces of
ice. One by one the missiles were
dropped, and the boys gathered about
the girl.
Leaning over, the young woman ex-
amined the dogs paw. In an instant
her gloves were off and dainty pearl
handled penknife was whisked from her
pocket. Then followed deft surgical
operation. In twinkling the glass was
extracted and the dog limped down the
street, after gratefully wagging his tail.
The young woman turned and smiled
on the boys, and went her way without
a word
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-05-18
| he Leading.

One of the leading and best known
painters in this country says, Il cannot afford
to use anything but Pure White Lead" (see
list of brands). Every practical painter
knows this. 1t is only those who haven't
any reputation to lose who don't know it, or
will use misleading brands of White Lead
or unknown worthless mixtures. Although
ow-priced, they are not cheap. Pure White
Lead is the cheapest because it is the best
coos required they easily by using National
Lead Co.'s Pure tng coIo Pamphlet and color card
NATIONAL LEAD CO..
Broadway, New York.
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RUPrURED PEOPLE should send their name
to Rev. j. Hayden. North Windham, Maine, who
book WIN be sent telling you how to cure ones
self Of rupture.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
GUTTED THE LODGE ROOMS.
Destructive Fire in Boston's Masonic
tEarpnnle.

BOSTON, Sept. I. 1S95.-Fire broke out
in the Masonic Temple here this morn
ing. The fire caught in an ante-room
connected with Paul Revere Lodge room
on the third floor of the building and
worked its way to the roof on the
Boyiston street side. When the flames
were discovered they had acquired great
headway and were shooting across Boyi-
ston street.
was on hand soon after the fire was
discovered and at great risk went to the
lodge room secured many of the val
liable books and records of the lodge.
District Chief Eagan and Laddennan
Hutchinson of Ladder had a narrow
escape They were standing on a stone
coping at the fremont street front Of
the roof when the flames suddenly
darted up around them. They at first
thought escape impossible, but finally
managed to crawl along the narrow gut
ter at the top of the building to an adj
Joining roof The success of their eff
forts was greeted with eheers from the
crowd, which had believed that the
men would fall to the ground or be
burned where they We're.
Lieutenant Madison, of Chemical 2 was
struck by a stream of water and knock
ed senseless. He-was taken to the hos
pital The fire was under control at
noon The third and fourth floors are
Quilted and the water damage to the low-
er floors will be heavy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07

some steam, others electric. But there
is no such a thing as an hydraulic ele-
vator operated by steam power as speci-
fed.
"In regard to the depth of the base
ment floor plan below the curb, / think
a serious mistake has been made: At all
found water standing in the boiler room
at about the floor level. The earth is sa-
turated with water which is not drawn
off This earth is levelled off about
two feet below the basement floor on
which the apartments OF the 1anltor are
located. No attempt has basn made of
any kind of damp prooiing. 70 say the ne
compel human beings to live in the
rooms under these conditions.
second quality of brick has been
common work, and should not have
been permitted in an important stroc~
ture.
ut was also specified that chimneys
and vent lues are to be topped out,
which means carried up above the roof.
and Immediately after this the srecii1-
open out between the third story ceiling
and the roof connected to the roof Tentll-
ator. The use of terra Gotta drain pipes
under buildings was abandoned many
wears ago in New York. Heavy cast IRON
pipes covered with lead, made perfectly
water and gas tight should have been
specified for all the underground drain
age system.
soThe steam heating specification, al
though very elaborate and proper ir de-
ill., omits some of the most essential
parts necessary to the economical ana
efficient operation of a modern steam
heating and power plant. Only one
pump has been specified, which is not
proper, as it is constantly in use for re-
turning the water of condensation to the
boilers, this pump is also to do duty
for feeding the boilers. In case, this
pump gets out of order, which all ma ma,
chimes are liable to, the entire plant VIII
have to come to a stand still because
the boiler cannot be supplied with water,
which may lead to fatal results.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
sIXqY-0NB MILES AN HOUR.
The Big Es. & O. Electric Motor
TEakcS Fast Time,

BALTIMORE. Sept. 7, 1S95.-The first
speed test of electric locomotive No. /,
which has been used to draw trains
through the belt line tunnel was made
yesterday. A speed of 81 miles an hour
was developed. This was made on the
heavy grade of the tunnel and the en-
gineers say it was equivalent to Is
miles an hour on level trek Represen-
tatives of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
and of the General Electric Company
were in the cab of the electric giant and
were well pleased with the result.
Since August 4 locomotive No. l has
been hauling the entire freight service
of the Baltimore and Ohio through the
tunnel. and it has been daily ready for
operation every hour Of the. twenty
four The average speed maintained in
hauling heavy freights has been fifteen
miles an hour. Two more of the loco
motives are now in progress of erection
at Schenectady, n. Y.,. and in a few
weeks both of these will be brought to
The original plans for the overhead
structure in the tunnel and for the loco
motives have been adhered to and en-
gineer Parker stated that no departure
from them is contemplated.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
aaIKE OR BICYCLE.

There is a good deal of opposition to
tbe word sbiken Sundry correspondents
Of the Sun have .entreated that jour
nal to frown upon it, The Sun does
not frown as yet, but the Tribune
does. going even so tar as to declare
that bike and electrocute are about the.
worst travesties on words that ever We're
s.JGlectrocIte'' is thoroughly bad word,
and the only reason. it existed at all is
that there is no single reputable word
which expresses the infiiction of capital
punishment by electricity Bike is a
piece of boisterous slang, but it may be
said for it that at least it is honest, and
makes no pretense to elegance whereas
wheel the other synonym for "bi-
cycle" does make a pretense to ele-
gance, or at least at respectability. 1t
IS better to say bike" and be aware
that you are using outcast language,
than to say .'wheel.' and suppose your
self to be speaking valid English. .-Har-
per's Weekly. -.=s =ss.--a~ S-.~--
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
A WOMAN BRIDGE JUMPER.

NEW YORK, Sept. Z, 1S95.-Mrs. Clark
Macarthur, the young woman who attempted
to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge ten days
ago but was prevented from doing so by the
police, dropped off quietly in the darkness at
alf-past three o'clock this morning, and she
is now lying at the Hudson Street Hospital
prisoner, under the formal charge of at
tempted suicide.
Although when she was picked up she was
unconscious, she had apparently recovered
from the effects of her daring feat by Z
o'clock, and will probably be able to be ar
raigned in court this afternoon.
The latest bridge bumper seems to have
been moved to the feat not so much by de-
sire for notoriety as by her wish to earn
living for her husband, who is a railroad
man out of work, and her ffve-year-old child,
by exhibiting herself in dime museum.
Mrs Macarthur was driven on to the
bridge in furniture van from the Brooklyn
end about $40 o'clock this morning. She
was dressed in mans clothing, consisting of g
pair of trousers, blue woollen sewater, cover
ed with common blue jumper, stockings
and heavy Shoes The stockings were much
too large for her, and were filled with sand
in order to give the necessary weights to her
feet and prevent her from turning over III
the air. Round her waist and outside the
jumper she wore an American flag bound
round her body, and attached to her waist,
held by short strings, were two ordinary
bladdeis, intended to serve the same purpose
as parachute.
On reaching the middle of the bridge the
woman slipped off the wagon, and climbing
the fence, dropped feet foremost through the
space between the girders of the railroad
track She was noticed only by bridge
policeman, VINO did not suspect to find a
bridge jumper at that hour, and the first in
telligence that woman had made the jump
came from the Old Slip Police Station, near
the Battery, in New York.
The woman was found about o'clock
floating near the New York side in an un-
conscious condition, and was brought on
shore and taken to the hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
TO INVESTIGATE CHINESE OUT
RACES,

WASHINGTON, Sept. z, 1095.-SheridaD
P. Read United States Consul at Tientsin
and Consul Francois Fl. Barber, naval at
tache at United States Legation at Toxic,
have been selected as members OF the lnde-
nendant commission which the United States
win send to investigate the attacks on mis-
sionaries at Chentu and vicinity in June
last. The missionary representatives have
not yet been selected.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
SEWING MACHINE BUSINESS BOOM

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Sept. z, 1886
For the first Saturday in two years the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Com
pany has its factories in operation to-
day. The company has been running
only five days per week, hut increasing
business of late has forced the concern
to employ full complement of hands in
be obliged to run six days week, and
the managers report large orders on
hand, so that the outlook for continued
prosperity Is very bright,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
MONETARY CONFERENCE DOOMED
.sp Gable to The Unfted Press.

LONDON. Sept. Z, 1s95.-Mr. "A. J. Bal.
four, First Lord of the Treasury, has writ
ten letter in which he gives his opinion
that there is little prospect of a monetary
confer ence succeeding unless the Govern
ments arrive at some kind of an entente ber
fore comforting. Unfortunately. he says, no
such entente exists.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
! NoRMANIA's ENGINE BROKE.

NEW YORK, Sept. Z. 1Ss5.-AI anxiety
regarding the overdue Hamburg -Ameri-
can line steamship Normania was set at
rest this morning the steamship being
sighted off Fire. Island at seven minutes
past five O'Clock and arriving at Quar-
antfne at haIf-past eight O'Clock
The Nornania sailed from Hamburg,
August 29, and Cherbourg, August 30.
She was due at this port yesterday morn
ing, but was delayed by an accident to
one of her engines.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
TERRIBLE STORM IN LONDON.
8u Cable to the United Pre-

JtDIE JTEtIcU
LONDON, Sept. Z, 1S95.-The most severe
thunder storm in years swept over London
this morning. The rainfall was so heavy
that the district railways were submerged
and traffic was temporarily suspended.
Many of the streets along the Thames were
inundated, making passage through them
impossible. As tar as is known there were
No fatal litioS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
CHINA IN DANGER
Rebels Defeat the Imperial
Army and Take
Eleven Cities.
TO ASK RUSSIAN AID
Monetary Conference Doomed
Spanish Deserter Shot.
Rn cable to ttc Untted press.

LONDON, Sept Z. 1s95.-A Shanghai de.
spatch says that rebellion has broken OUT
in the Province of Kansuh. The Imperial
army has been routed and eleven cities cap
tured by rebels. The Chinese officials at Pc
kin are considering the advisability of ask
ing Russia tosuppress the outbreak.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
Not Generallr KNOWN.

''And now. little girls. said the Sunday
school teacher, you may tell me abous
little girl raised her hand.
'sWell'' said the teacher.
''The Epistles.' said the little girl,
..the Epistles are the wives of the Apos~
I1do orc
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
WEATHER INDICATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. :, 1Se5.-For the
thirty-sx hours ending at eight P. M. Sum
dav. For New York city and vicinity
Cloudy with an occasional shower; light
fog: northeast winds.
Martneal,s thermometer Report.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
STRUCK JURY FOR KUsER.
Special to the jersey Citu Nslus.

Special to the jersey Citg Nstus.
TRENTON, Sept. Z, 1S95.-The Sheriff
today drew struck jury to try John L,
Kuser, who is under indictment for conspir5
acy to defraud the State in connection with
the German printing contracts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
SPANISH DBsERTER SHOT.
Rn cab1e to tle untted Press.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sept Z, 1886
Pedro Rovira Estevez, deserter from the
SPA nish army in Cuba, was captured and
shot here TODAY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07

Don't You know that Hoods sarsaparilla
will overcome that tired feeling and give
you renewed vigor and vitality2
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07

For Death Notices See Foarth Paga
Smyrna times., 1895-08-07
Fruit and Freight.

There is plethora of fruit this wear
to the extent of embarrassment. ApDles
have failed to pay for shipment, and
must largely rot in the orchard. Pears
and plums, that usually pay, do not
promise remunerative prices this year
Bartlett pears, some years ago, used Ia
pay from $500 to $500 per crate. A
shipment of these pears week or more
ago, by Cooper Bros, of Cheswold
only brought 90 cents per crate, for the
best. Reason. the market was stocked
with the Lacont pear from Georgia. 4
fine showing, but inferior fruit, that
was palmed off in many cases for the
Bartlett.
Georgia is likewise taking the prec-
edence over Delaware in peaches, and
if not out of the market by the time
our standard varieties are on, which
will be largely the case, cannot but
lower the price of the Delaware prod.
uct, Peninsula farmers cannot expect
high prices for their 100000 baskets
OF peaches since the culture of this
fruit has extended over such a wide
extent of country.
Another matter affecting the Della
ware farmer isthe freight. This ia thus
stated by the Peniasular News and Adj.
Uertiser, under the head of " Extortion.
ate Freight Rates."
Freight charges on fruit, from the
Delaware and Maryland Peninsula
were SO high twenty years ago as
to be considered almost prohibitive.
Yet at the present time rates are about
the same that they were then. while
Cne price OF the product carried has
diminished to about One-half, and the
prices OF almost everything else are
cor.respondingly low.
month ago the Interstate Commerce
commission, on the petition of the
Georgia fruit growers, heard their
grievances against the railroad compa-
MES, and ordered a reduction in
charges on carrying fruit to New York,
from 81 to So cents per huudred pounds.
This was a substantial cut of 20 per
cent.
But California shippers enjoy good
deal better prOportiOnate rates than
the Georgians, even after the reduc-
tions noted above have been made.
From Atlanta, Georgia, to New York,
the distance is $50 miles, and the freight
rate is now 65 cents per hundred
pounds for fruit by the carload. This
would be $l56 per carload of $4,000
pounds, for freight charges, or trile
over lS cents per mile, per carload.
But the distance from San Francisco to
New York is 1850 miles, aud the
freight rate $3.50 per hundred pounds.
or $500 per car. This is a little less
than II cents mile, per carload of
lrnlt, or a freight rate of only 81 per
cent OF that from Georgia, when length
OF paul is taken into account,
Delaware, however, is in a much
worse plight as regards freight rates
IMAM any other state in the Union
WIN freight line having monopoly.
the charge from Wyoming to New