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card. The Presbyterian minister of the town wished to see me at once on g. very urgent matter I bid the walter show the reverend gentleman up. A man of about fifty, in the usual black ecclesi- Iastical coat and white crayat, and holi- ing soft felt hat, appeared in the door way, wearing a sad face. I recognized him as one of my audience that even- | ing
 Excuse my costume" began, "but you wished to speak to me on urgent business, and thought it best not to make you wait"
 "There ds nothing the matter with your dress" he broke in. This Is not an affair of the body, but of the soul. I have come to pray for you"
 was taken little by surprise and felt a tritle discountenanced. but I "Why, certainly" I said, with the greatest pleasure, If it can make you happy"
 He knet, put his elbows on the bed, buried his head in his hands and began: Lord, this man whom Thou seest near me is not sinful man; he is suffering from the evil of the century; he has not been touched by Thy grace, he is a stranger come from a country where religion is turned into ridicule, Grant that his travel through our godIy lands may bring him into the narrow way that leads to everlasting life"
 The prayer, most of which I spare you, lasted at least ten minutes. When he had finished my visitor rose and held out his hand. I shook it.
 And now" said I, "allow me to pray for you"
 He signified consent by the move ment of the hand. I did not go on my knees, but with all the fervor that is in me I cried: Lord, this man whom Thou seest beside me Is not sinful man. Have mercy upon him, for he is a Pharisee, whd doubts not for one mo- ment, and that without knowing me, that he is better than l. Thou who has sent in vain Thy Son on earth to cast out the Pharisee, let Thy grace de- scend upon this one; teach him that the foremost Christian virtue is charity, and that the greatest charity is that which teaches us that we are no better than our brethren. This man is blind ed by pride; convince him. open his eyes, pity him and forgive him, as [ forgive him. Amen"
 I looked at my good Presbyterian. He was rooted to the foor amazement written on his face. once more took his hand and shook it.
 And now" said I. ''we are quits. Good night" He went away somewhat abashed, pocketing the mild reproof,
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of the jugular was performed in India by an English surgeon, a pr. Smith, on an East Indian, who had such bad tumor on his neck that death was cer- tain. To cut down and take out piece of the famous old vein was simply a rash experiment in which Dr. Smith himself had very little confidence. As soon as the news of it's success was distributed through the medical world the vein immediately lost some of It's great prestige and a tumor of the neck much of it's horror. You may be sure that Dr. Smith did not tell the Indian what he was about to do, or the poor fellow would have probably died of fright on the spot, for the ignorant na- tives of India regard the jugular as the seat of all life. But the prestige of the Jugular has received even a greater blow. A few weeks ago in a case of inflammation of both sides of the neck and the resulting disease of the wall of both jugulars and the tissue around them, of patient in a British hospital, another rash experiment was attempt ed-the removal of both jugulars. It succeeded. The patient is upon his feet again as lively as he ever was, and to be slashed in jugular has now no terrors for him. In his instance 1t is shown,of course, that the smaller veins will so enlarge their capacity that they can do the work of both jugulars--some- thing that has ever made the wizards of surgery rub their eyes and wonder.
 In the days of bleeding 1t was the jugular which the physician usually bled, especially if the bleeding was to be profuse as a small puncture would bring great quantities of blood and the wound quickly healed, George Wash ington was bled from the jugular, and if he had not been modern physicians say he would have got we'll, and with his strong constitution, might have liv- ed twenty years longer.
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4 nINoINNArL EpIsopE.

l How easy it is to ascribe wrong mo-
 lives to people. There is woman in
 Cincinnati who recently deliberately ex-
 posed herself to smallpox and then went to call upon some women. Her action
 has attracted a great deal of attention,
 and it is explained in way mot at all
 creditable to her or her sex. They say
 that she had a social grievance and that she took that way of making some of her enemies understand that 1t wouldn't l do to fool with her. It is further said
 that nobody but woman would be ca pablo of concocting and carrying out such devilish plan, and that the whole performance is an awful illustration of the terrible and senseless quality of a woman's hate.
 The story has a good start, and it will be hard to catch it and overcome 1t with any explanation that will show that the woman's action was in full ac- cord with the kindliness and self-sacri- flee that are the chief glories of Wo- mans nature. But there is such an ex- p1anation. Certain diseases, especial ly when accompanied by high fever, have been found in many cases of men, tai disease to leave the patient with greatly improved mental powers. Dr. Wagner von Kauregg, professor of men tai diseases at the University of Vienna, has been experimenting in producing by the injection of pr. Koch's tubercu- line. He asserts that though the men, tai improvement that follows each in- ection rapidly declines, there is steady and lasting clearing of the patients mind A case is cited where a high fever following transfusion of blood re- suited in a complete cure of melan- ancholia. Doubtless the Cincinnati wo- man had these facts and theories in mind, and thought she could do peoples minds good by giving them smallpox. She was willing to make herself very uncomfortable in order to do others good. How much more consistent this explanation is than the one that has been so glibIy offered. And how much more creditable to human and woman nature.
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SHIPS.

A Lapsus Linguae Friend-Your own health is excellent, isn't it, doctori Doctor-Yes, indeed. can almost say that I don't know what sickness ts.- Harlem Life.
 A Convert. Visitor Gin Maine)-Its against the law to sell this stuff, is it? Drug Clerk-Yes. Visitor (who has just had some)--It ought to be.--Smith, Gray & Co.'S Monthly.
 "There is one satisfaction" said the fin-de-siecle girl, "in being the recipient of attentions from a titled foreigner" What is that?" "You know that when he proposes he means business. - | Washington Star.
 MT. Jones' -Brown--I understand that the late MT. Merchant-Prince bequeath- ed his entire collection of paintings and statuaries to the trustees of the art | museum. Mrs. Jones' -BroWn-Mercy Are they obliged to accept them?-Puck. Prof. Steeleye-By simply holding a bright object before persons eyes for five minutes I can hypnotize him and make him do anything I wish. Bout town-That's nothing, By holding q bright object before a restaurant walt CTS eyes for three quarters of sec ond I can make him my slave.-New York Weekly.
 You perhaps do not know it, my son." said MT. Jones, after he had chastised William, that it Is always more painful to the one that does the spanking than to the one who receives It." 'In that case, father" returned William, had we not better rearrange our system, so that hereafter that when I have given offense I shall spank you, instead of as we now do it?"-Harper's Bazaar.
 Paw, what does it mean when they say that money talks?" asked Johnny
 Tt means" said MT. Billus, after re- f1ecting a moment, that it sometimes helps a man that's got it to talk little louder than the other fellow"
 Does all money talk?" persisted Johnny.
 ''N-no. Not exactly
 "Then money that can't talk is hush money, ain't it?'
 "Er-ah-haven't you anything to do? Suppose you go out and bring In your kindling wood. "-Chicago Tribune, 
 There lives in town not far from here, in fact 1t is at Skaneatles, couple who think good deal of each other, and when one is i'll the other does everything in the world for her or his welfare. Not long ago the hus- band was taken i'll, and his wife rum maged around to find some medicine in the house. Finally she came across box of little black pills. There was no writing on the cover of the box to tell what they were, but as they resembled certain liver pill, the wife concluded that they must be the required thing. She gave them to her hubby regularly, and he seemed to improve. About week after, when he got down to the last pill, he chanced to turn the box over. He gave a yell and startled the whole neighbothood, His wife ran to him, thinking that he was dying. Look" he cried; read what 1t says on the bot tom" She did as he bade her. And this is what she read; "Prime Crown Morning Glory Seeds sp'-Syracuse Post. l
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building of new railroad by the San Francisco and San Joaquin company. This is undertaken not by the heavy landowners, but by the people, and it is believed that it will be able to make direct and successful connections with the great transcontinental lines. An- other gain has been the victory of the plain people at the ballot box. This means retrenchment in the expenses of the state government. Governor Budd has undertaken to reform the government and cut down needless expenses. An effort Is making to secure the control of the liquor interest. The age of consent has been raised from IA to IS, and an effort is being made to introduce the principles of the Aus tralian ballot. Many of these changes have been initiated within the last three months, and although the reform movement in California must be car ried out in nearly every township and county, the people are so thoroughly aroused that it seems possible, by their proper organization, to make the re- form movement successful.
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--------------------- ----------------- s------------i DISAPPOINTED.

They do say that the boss Democrats are much disappointed by the working of their fine laws. They once expected that the income tax would yield $SO,- 0OO,OOO or $4OOOO,0OO. They now expect that 1t will yield about $1O,OOO0OO if 1t is not declared unconstitutional by a majority of the Supreme court. They have also been much disappointed by the working of what they gaily called a tariff for revenue. Tariff for revenue Is good. For two-thirds of April there appears deficiency of receipts as com- pared with expenditures of over $1O,- 900, ,O0O It is expected that the last third of the month will show an improve ment, but at best the deficit for April can hardly be less than $s,OOO,Ooo. Sugar imports offer the greatest surprise. The receipts from this quarter increase very slowly and in the past month or two not at all. Where q revenue of $s, 900, GOO month or over was looked for, hardly $2,OOOOOO is being collected. The gains from the whisky taxes are also disappointing.
 It is entirely consistent that the boss Democrats should disappoint them selves. They have disappointed every body else. An Income tax that will not work and a Deficiency tariff are great achievements.
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TEXAS.

During the next boom time Texas is going to have a boom if nothing hap pens to prevent it. She has certainly good foundation for one as is clear ly shown by one of her citizens in the Chicago Record. The facts he presents are impressive.
 Texas is so big that 1t takes trav- eler some time to get accustomed to the magnificent distances It has an area of 274,S56 square miles, or 175, 5S7, $40 acres, of which more than one-half are prairie lands and one-fourth timber lands. The rest are either mineral lands or are covered with bays, rivers and other bodies of water. Texas is 825 miles broad, TAO miles long and is di- vided into 244 counties. It has nearly 34,0OO square miles of territory more than the Austrian empire, 6S ,OOO more than the German empire and 10000 more than the republic of France. All the New England States added to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virgin ia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware have less territory than Texas. The combined areas of Great Britain, Ire=
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l companying picture shows the cut at l the neck that is to be. It is displayed here on a white crepon dress with a l full skirt lined with white satin. Its l hem is embroidered with gold. The blouse bodice hooks invisibly in front and it's pointed cut-out appears in front only Over 1t there is fichu of white tulle edged with an embroidered tulle rutf1e, and the band around the neck, the sleeves and the belt are made of al
 mond green velvet.
 Fancy waists may be made of some
 of these brilliant colored lovely creped cotton goods, when a. collar of silk or
 satin to match is added. If wide sat-
 in ribbon hang loosely from collar to
 belt and handsome bows be set on the
 shoulders, the general effect will be of
 a rich silken garment, while the price
 will be very different. Smoky and
 cloud-like lawns are made up over gray
 silk the bodice to such a dress being of
 pale yellow with miles of frills of the smoky lawn. Very delicate nainsook comes gathered at intervals into series of tiny tucks, the spaces between set with little nainsook frills. A half yard of such goods will serve for front to @ bodice that at first look will seem to have been the result of patient hand la bor Little frills of closely gathered lace arc set along all edges, and the edges of the bands of ribbon that drape the fronts of bodices are very often thus finished, ELORETTB.
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 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, 1h cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cente each. Local notices, 1b cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be unobiec- tionable), and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-On two inches or more, one month and over, 10per cent; on four inches or more G..e llonth and over, 15 per cent.
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LOCAL PHYSICIANS PUZZLED.

SOUTH PETERSBURG, N. Y.-For two months Melvin Church of this town was confined to his bed, suffering with lumbago, rheumatism and kidney complaint. The regular treat ment was prescribed by his physicians with out benefit. Dr. DavId Kennedy's Favorite Remedy was then used with the most satis- factory results.
 In speaking about his case Mir. Church said: After taking about two-thirds of Q bottle began to get relief, and when l had taken three bottles was well and strong"
 Dr. David Kennedys Favorite Remedy will build up person suffering from debility quicker and better than any pr eparatton known. For dyspepsia, billousness, liver neuralgia and rheumatism, 1t has again and again succeeded where everything else has failed.
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land, Holland, Belgium, Denmark
 Switzerland, Portugal and Greece are ,O16 square miles, while Texas has
 274,3 square miles. Dallam county,
 in the northwest corner of Texas, is
 nearer to St. Paul. Minnesota, than it is to Brownville, Texas, at the mouth of
 the Rio Grande. Chicago and Cincin-
 natl are nearer to Texas than Dallam
 county is to Galveston. Texas would make five states as large as New York,
 and three-fourths of another nearly
 five States like Georgia and six. like Tennessee, more than thirty-five of the area of Massachusetts, and 211 Rhode Islands. From Texarkana on the east ern border to El Paso on the western across the State is about the same dis tance from New York to Chicago From Sabine Pass on the southeastern corner to Fort McHenry on the northwestern Is LOGO miles in a straight line. If bicycle rider should traverse the boundary lines of Texas he would pedal 4 4OOOmiles, which is about the distance from Chicago to London.
 There are now $500 miles of railroad in Texas. Texas has navigable rivers within her borders equal to any five other States. Her gulf coast line of 400 miles is indented with bays and har- bors that will become important sea- ports with little deep water dredging. Texas has the lowest taxation of any State in the union, has no mortgaged homesteads and has school fund of $100, 900, ,000. When one compares the area of Texas with the small portion under cultivation some idea of her prospective wealth may be had. AL though only five per cent, of her area Is cultivated Texas is already fourth in wealth, third in railroad mileage and seventh in population. Of the farmers, 2550OO cultivate their own land, 95,00O are tenants and 56,000 are day laborers. The area in cultivation in 1892 amounted to 9,149,067 acres, and the value of the crop was $S2S, ,4SO,OOO. The live stock owned in the State in 1892 was 20,20O,0O0 head, or sixty-nine head to the square mile, and their taxable value was $91,- 402,1S4. Last years cotton crop in Texas was nearly half as great as that of the rest of the world put together, and this with only one-flfth of her cotton lands in cultivation. Cotton, live stock, lum- Der, and wool are exported, the value of these exports in 1892 being 155,O0O, ,000. The tax valuations amount to $7S2,111,- SS3, which is an average value of $349S5 to each man, woman and child in the State Texas is so large that all the people of the United States could live there and the State would not then be as thickly populated as New Jersey is now. Within the limits of Texas may be found more timber than in Maine more granite than in New Hampshire, more marble than in Vermont, more iron than in Nova Scotia, more kaolin than in Cuba and more manganese than in Scotland The wheat and corn lands of the State are yet practically untitled, but there are enough of them to feed the armies of the world.
 No wonder the Texans are proud of their State and confident of it's future.
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sa-s-----=--=@--=-'-7 FASHION NOTES.
Dame Fashion 1nvites Pneumonl

Dame Fashion Invites Pneumonia.
 What are styled garden capes are al- ready offered and prove to be mere fluff and frenzy of delicate Dresdeni silk, cut into little pinked frills. These are to be worn over the low-necked gar den dresses that are promised. Good arguments for this style are wanting, but it is sure to come, according to prophets who should know. So women can only hope that if they catch cold, aa of course they will, they will take colds on their chests and not ugly ones that will make their noses red. The ac-
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TWo INTENTIONS IN ONE.
The Kinetograph the Latest Marvel Turned
 Out By Edison.

Out By Edison.
 ''We are progressing. progressing" '" said Thomas A. Edison to a Boston Sunday Herald representative, when in formed that his retreat had been invad- ed for the purpose of getting inf0rma- ton concerning the latest and greatest of his inventions, the one which is be- ing eagerly awaited and which very few have had a chance to see. That is the combination of the phonograph with the kinetoscope, the contrivance to which MT. Edison applied the term kin etograph on this occasion.
 '"The object of this machine" he said, Ifs to afford the spectator two inven- tions in one. That is two senses are simultaneously appealed to. Suppose, we will say, an opera is to be reproduc- ed. The phonograph already repeats the sound. The kinetoscope afterwards affords a view of the movements. Now, however, we wish to combine the two, and combine them far more effectively than ever their distinct elements have heretofore been rendered by separate instruments.
 Thus, if one wished to hear and see the concert or the opera, IL Woulu only be necessary to sit down at home, look upon screen and see the performance, reproduced exactly in every movement and at the same time, the voices of the players and the singers, the music of the orchestra, the various sounds that accompany al performance of this sort, will be reproduced exactly. The end attained is a perfect illusion. One real ly hears and sees the play, because the conditions necessary to the suitable im- pressions upon eye and ear are obtain ed"
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The statistician of the department of agriculture has discovered that during the ten years ending June 3O 1894, this country paid $13,155, 431 for 29,495, AT bushels of foreign potatoes. The great est crop of these tubers this country has ever raised was 2O2,365,OOO bushels, produced in 1888, yet that same year we imported S,225,O00 bushels. The countries from which we import this vegetable are Great Britain, British America, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands; the West Indies supply ing considerable quantity very early in the year. This country exports po- tatoes in considerable quantities, but the statistics show that the excess of imports over exports for ten years compelled the United States to pay a met balance of $9,296, 345 to foreign pro- ducers for vegetables that could have been raised at home.
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People in northern Michigan, Wiscon- sin and Minnesota are talking of a plan to unite the tops of the three States which come so compactly to- gether in the north, into single State terests, they say, are identical, and they complain of receiving scant con- sideration dn the legislatures of each of the three States. One of the northern Minnesota senators the other day, on the rejection of bill to give normal school to his section of the State. openly threatened that the northern counties would secede if they were not treated more considerably.
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The city of Philadelphia has estab- Iished a "commercial museum" which presents some such an exhibit of the products of the various nations as was to be seen in the agricultural building at the worlds fair. Its object is to further the interest of the American manufacturer and consumer and build up our foreign commerce. A special exhibit of foreign wools is now being made of particular interest to the woolen trade.
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Cholera has already appeared this year on the Red Sea. At Camaran, through which 11,0OO pilgrims for Mecca have passed so far, 2,OO0 pilgrims are quarantined in the lazaretto. and the cases amount to thirty a day, many of them resulting in death. As the bulk of the pilgrims will come during the next few weeks and those returning home are likely to spread the plague, the Sultan has been asked to stop the pilgrimage from the Indies, but he does not wish to interefere on religious grounds.
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The report comes from Indiana that the children of the public schools there do not know how to spell. They ought to have a chance to go to the New Haven public schools.
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MAX o,BE1L AND THE MINISTER

He Prayed for the Minister and the Min.
 ister Prayed for Him.
 Max O'Rell tells this story about him. self:
 I had just returned to the hotel after having given lecture on the Scotch at the town hall. I was half undressed when there came a knock at my bed room door. It was a waiter bearing a
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Speaking of the value of silver dollar, a silver dollar issued in 1894 is said to be worth $1, 900.
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Notice.

Wecannot accept anonymous or return res jected communications In all cases the name of the writer will be required. not for pubica- ton. but as a guarante good faith.
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The French expect to cover the entire cost of the Paris exposition of 1900 for about $2O.OOO.OOO and the architects are already at work upon the building plans.