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Electric Light Plant Damaged.

RIVERSIDE, Oct. 2S.-The electric
ight plant which has supplied this city
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DIR. .MORGAN,S C<asE.

1t is SAFE to say that no prominent
preacher in New York city will preach
tomorrow a sermon that is not his own
unless he carefully and explicitly SAYS
that he does so because he was too
tired to write one. The sad case of
DR.. D. Parker Morgan has made quite
stir this week, and the stir is not vet
over. Nobody defends DR.. Morgan for
using Dr.. Putnams sermon in the way
he did, and there is a good deal of
chuckling over the fact that good
Unitarian sermon was picked out FOR
preaching in the Church of the Heav-
emily Rest. OF course nobody thinks
DR.. Morgan can't preach good sermons
Of his own. 1t is well known that he
can. 1t is also in his favor that he
told the plain truth about the matter
when his Conveying was exposed.
Rev. T. ]. Lee of Newark, who did the
exposing, has not received unanimous
praise for his work. 1t is generally ad-
mitted that he is sharp, but some think
he hasn't been as kind as he might
have been. For instance, the Rev.
Charles II. Parkhurst, who says that
Rev. Mr. Lee was harsh and unfeeling,
as though he had said: "Here is job,
and / am going to do it. I am preach
ing here in Newark. I would like to.
preach in the metropolis, and am go
ing to show how the ministers in the
metropolis get their sermons" DR..
Parkhurst says: 'If the Lord were not
more merciful to US than we are to
others we would stand a poor show at
TIE last day He says further that he
has often been so worn out mentally
that he could not complete a sermon,
and he thinks DR.. Morgan hal reached
that point and was IN fact completely
exhausted
DR.. Parkhurst doesn't appear to be
much kinder to the Rev. Mr.. Lee than
the Rev. Mr.. Lee was to Dr. Morgan
DR.. Parkhurst's theory is all right. 1t
is that we are all poor critters" and
that we should be more considerable of
each other than we are. So we should.
Though the Rev. Mr.. Lee has gained
some fame by his prompt and merciless
exposure OF DR.. Morgan 1t isn't prob
able that he has done much good by the
operation.
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CONVERSATIONS.
Tracts and Tract writers.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
The Register in it's reference to the
report of the tract committee of the
Methodist Conference says in con-
temptuous way that "the writers of
tracts ought to know something. Pos
sibly it is not necessary that they
should know very much, but they
should at least know something. By
the way, who does write the tracts?
They are authors whose fame is not
generally widespread"
For the information of the Register
it may be said that Prof Henry Drum
mond of Edinburgh, the author of
Natural Law in the Spiritual World"
is writer of tracts. So is DR.. Lyman
Abbott of Brooklyn, and DIR. David
Burrell of New York, and DR. Theodore
Cuyler, the late DIR. A. ]. Gordon of
Boston, Francis E. Clark, president of
the Christian Endeavor society; DR..
George Pentecost, b. Fay Mills, Dwight
l.. Moody, H. L. Hastings, Charles
Spurgeon, the worlds greatest preach
er until his death; George Muller,
Adolph Monod, and scores of eminent
men on both sides of the Atlantic have
counted it a privilege to put their best
thoughts into leaflet form.
That these writer's know at least a
little something may be fairly conced-
ed, and if the Register had known a
little more. it would not have asked so
foolish a question.
However, we admit that the old fash
Toned tracts were usually solemn and
oftentimes stupid, and it is not strange
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STIEL OILED UPON.

The Register sincerely hopes that the
Journal and Courier viii not feel called
upon to "agitate the laying of dust" in
the streets of New Haven, its theory
apparently being that il we do 1t win
rain, or snow, or something. We sin
cerely hope that the Register win not
let this fantastic theory upset its men,
tai equilibrium and prevent it from
joining lis in agitating the laying of
dust. The Register will act wisely il
it abandons that theory, which has no
scientific basis. If 1t continues to hug
it it will by and by have to discover
that the Journal and Courier has been
in appealing only to the prop
er city authorities for the laying of the
dust. 1t will also have to discover that
in worshipping the Journal and Courie,
as the dispenser of weather it has been
heretical. OF course heresy will not
count against the Register any more
than it counts against preachers, but
the Register may as well be orthodox
and worship only the Green.
We shall continue to feel called upon
to agitate the laying of dust, and we
shall continue to call upon those whose
duty it is to lay it, 1t would please us
to hear the persuasive and the meIlif-
luous voice of the Register joining in
the call
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RITTER.


Bad Taste.-"This is positively the
last time" muttered the King of
Mbwpka, making a wry face, chat I
ever will be persuaded to tackle a stew
made from bitter partisan. INDIAN
apolis Journal
Irate Mother-Maud what's all this
tomfoolery between you and young Mr..
Sapley? Manufacturing. ma; he only
loves me. Mother-Oh, it's all right.
then. I thought you We're foolish
enough to think of marriage.-Ph ila-
delphia North American.
Privileged -"Old Skadds ought to
know better than to pronounce it kew
pom" Young man, when you are able
to clip as many of them as old skadds
does you will find you can call it
kenyon and move in the highest lit
erary circles - Chicago Tribune.
Sweet Girl-Mother, George told me
so solemnly that that pretty hair pin
holder he gave me cost five dollars;
yet to-day I saw exactly the same kind
on sale for ten cents. Mother You
know, my dear, George is very relig-
ious. Most likely he bought that at a
church fair--New York Weekly.
II hardly think" said the lawyer,
that you can get separation from
your wife on account of her making
practice of throwing things at the
dog but, Great Caesar, mistern'
said the man with the haggard look
and the black eye, nigh every time she
throws at the dog she hits me!"-Mil-
waukee Journal.
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files of the gray cloth.
Schemes for setting off the fronts of
women with an effect of almost awk-
ward looseness are at a premium. The
box finish is in especially high favor,
and an adjustable box front will soon
present itself for appreciation. This
will be a little affair that fastens to the
figure by means of the stock collar of
which it is part. The box will lie
along the shoulder seams and invlsibiy
attach itself to them, and will be cut
out to follow the upper portion Of the
curve of the armhole Then the box
will hang straight and fiat to just be-
low the waist. 1t will be as elaborate
as you like, only 1t must hang fiat.
You may make it a glitter of embroi-
derry, gold and spangles, or it may be
alternate frills of fine lace with ribbon.
Get ahead of the fashion, girls, and APP
pear at the next affair in a box front.
These box fronts are really the success
sors to the pouch or bag front that was
so generally worn few years ago and
are called into use because women find
the latter so hard to give up
Ribbons are to be conspicuous
item of summers adornments, and taft
feta ribbons will predominant. Genu-
inc taffetas will go into the wash tub
and come out almost as good as new
The design are blended brushes of
many colored flowers, the outlines and
the colors being all blurred into gene
raj design. Sometimes little raised
velvet leaf is scattered about the
blurred and softly colored surface.
Such a ribbon lends itself charmingly to
the requirements of a gown. A ribbon
that Is all a blur of yellow scarlet, soft
gray and soft blue and showing the UNI
certain outlines of blended roses is
over scattered with little five ornered
leaves of raised green velvet. This will,
you see, go with a green cloth dress to
perfection. FLORETTE.
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that a strong prejudice has grown up
against them, but it should be remem-
bered that the times have changed
and the tracts have changed with them,
and now the best thoughts of the
strongest writer's are put into cartridge
form, 1t is doubtful if the editor of the
Register has seen any tracts since he
was little boy, and hence his unkind
fling at this form of religious work. II
he had been an up-to-date man he
would have known better.
BY the way; would it not be we'll for
the Register to set few tracts of the
modern type and read them carefully?
1t would improve the spirit of the pa
per, and perhaps lead to some radical
changes, Men of as large cahbre as he,
and as smooth bore (though not quite
so constant, perhaps) have been con-
verted by reading tracts. The late DIR.
j, A. Chickering of Washington, d, c..
once wrote q leaflet which has reached
a circulation of over three millions. Be
fore he died, a few years ago, he had
the names of over seventeen hundred
persons who had either written him
or told him personally that they at
tributed their conversion to that leaf
let.
No, brothers, the tract business is not
going into decay, but a. new interest is
springing up, and more time, money
and brains are now being put into this
work than ever before, One firm
which publishes a certain line of tracts
is two weeks behind on it's orders, and
cannot begin to keep UP with the de-
mand. Yours very cordially,
NOT A METHODIST.
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BANK DIRECTORS RESPONSIBLE.

BANK DIRECTORS RESPONSIBLE.
The fact that the Meadowcroft broth
ers of Chicago are in prison for re-
ceiving deposits in their bank after
they knew it was insolvent is encour-
aging to depositors in Illinois banks.
A decision that has just been rem.
dered by the Supreme court of North
Carolina will encourage depositors in
banks in that State. 1t will also en-
courage people in other States who
believe that bank directors should
direct.
Suit was brought personally against
the directors of the wrecked Bank of
Hanover to recover deposits made at
the time the bank suspended payment.
The decision is against the directors,
and in it's opinion the court makes
some refreshing remarks concerning
the duties and responsibilities of bank
directors. 1t says: For false state
ments Of the condition of the bank
published by the authority of the di-
rectors, when they knew of their fall
sity, or by reasonable care might have
known it, the directors are personally
liable. Good faith alone will not ex-
cuse them when there is lack of proper
care, attention, and circumspection in
the affairs of the corporation, which is
exacted of them as trustees. The la
bility of the president and vice-presi~
dent to depositors and others creditors
for losses sustained by them in deal
ing with the corporation on the faith
of Misrepresentation by such officers
as to it's financial condition, or other
facts forming a material inducement
to the deposit or contract, is the same
as that of directors. In equity, upon
proper allegations, stakeholder as
well as a creditor may maintain the
action directly and in the first instance
against the directors. But both as to
third parties and stockholders alike, it
is a good cause of action against direc-
tors that they declare the dividend as
in this case, out of the capital stock
or deposits of the bank, and not out
of its earnings; and also that they
cause false reports to be published
by the directors of the condition of
the bank. 1t is not necessary that the
directors should know that such re-
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II make my purchases
at The George Fl. Ford
Company, because it is
Educating.
Think this is a funny
thing to say /? Perhaps it
II but it is true. | used
q 60 about shopping, but
do not indulge in it any
l1lore. 1t is too expens-
i've in the end. / may be
tempted to purchase
Something at a price, but
rot to my taste. There
Is SO much in the market
v cking in good taste that
;in ordinary article in an
ordinary place seems bet
{ er than it really is. Then
! see at The George Fl.
Ford Company articles
always in good taste, as is
everything else in the
store. Good taste seems
Voven into the very warp
and wool Of the estab-
llshment, SO don't think it
Sunny when | say it edu-
Gates my TASTE
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SATURDAY,

ports are false; 1t is their duty to know
that they are true
This Is good honest common sense,
and It ought to be law in every State
OF the Union.
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Ii Hung Chang will be accompanied
on his trip to this country by suite
of fifty persons. He will be an impress
i've sight, especially if he wears his
yellow jacket and peacock's feather.
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TIE Widow FlapiacS recently lost
her wedding ring. She was inconsol-
able for awhile, and went about wiring
ing her hands and saying: There,
now would not have lost that we'd
ding ring for anything. I'll have to
go And get married again, for I'm
bou,id to have a wedding ring, /
canT get along without it.'-Texas
Sif$;pgs.
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THE FLEETTNG SHOP.
Some of Its Facts and Fancies.

some OF 6LS EactS ana RANCHES.
written for the JOURNAL AND C URIERl
ARBOR DAY AND OUR ELMS.
There is an idea more or less prev
alent among those who flatter them
selves that they are practical men,"
says John Gilmer Speed, that the
preservation of forests, the planting Of
trees, and especially celebrations of
Arbor Day, are mere matters of senti-
ment-matters unworthy the consideia
ton of the practical men aforesaid. 1t
is undoubtedly true that forest preser-
walton and tree culture are worthy the
finest sentiment and that they have
provoked the commentator of the best
poets we have had; but it is also true
that there is a purely practical and
economic side to the question with
which the practical man of affairs has
more to do than the sentimental poet
who deals in figures of speech to i'm
press an aesthetic truth"
Mr.. Speed then proceeds to prove
what will be to many people a very as
tonishing statement, namely, that the
timber product of the United States is
really of more importance than that
of the precious metals. t'The product
of gold and silver in the United States
for the year 1894 was as follows:
Gold.... $39, 500, 900
Silver.... ...... ....... 800. 81, 422,000
Total. $40, 1929, 900
TN the same year the products of
the forests of the United States as
shown by the department of agricul-
ture, were estimated at 81, 05s, $50, S59 In
other words, the forests of the United
States are fifteen times more import
ant than the silver and gold mines
Even if to the value of the gold and
silver product be added the value of all
the other mineral products of the same
year, including iron, copper, lead, zinc,
coal, lime, natural gas, petroleum salt,
building stone, the total representing
the entire mineral output of the United
States will amount only to $3.50, 352, 1896,
or about one-half the value of the
forest products.
Now compare the value of our cereal
crops with that of the forest crop for
the same year for further proof of the
economic Importance of this matter.
The department of agriculture gives
the total value of cereals for 1884, as
Sl,043,001, 94S, which is less by over SIS
100000 than the value of the forest
products No sentiment here, but
hard facts and an-persuasive figures.
And there is another practical side
of the question. Not only the wealth,
but the fertility and healthfulness of
our country depend largely upon the
conservation of the forests and the
planting of trees. The leaf mold of
the forest is the natural storehouse
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The last nurse Of George Washington
has not been reported dead and per-
Iaps never will be, but there are last
things. Crawford Marley, who has
Just died in New-Zealand at the age
of eighty three, is believed to have
been the last survivor of those who
had a ride on Stephensons No. en-
CINE when the Stockton and Darling
ton Railway was first opened. He was
about thirteen years of age at the time,
and, with two other boys, he went to
see the iron horse" which was brought
from Newcastle on @ dray by eight
horses. When the locomotive had been
placed on the, line, George Stephen
sons brother, Joseph, who was in
charge of it, asked the lads to run to
a farmhouse for some buckets, and
the boiler was filled from spring near
at hand The fire having been lighted
and steam raised, the boys, in return
for their assistance, were invited to
have a ride 'That was" says The
New-Zealand Herald, NEARLY three
quarters of a century ago, and with Mr..
Marley the last survivor of the first
railway train has passed away
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An Armenian widow. writing to this
country, says: Congress should talk
less and do more" The Armenian
widow has fair perception of the stu
ation.
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According to Carroll D. Wrights cal
culation, wages in this country nave
shown progressive increase from an
average Of $247SS per annum for each
person in 1850 to $2SS. "a in 1860, to $S020S
in 1870, to S346. 81 in 1880 and to $444.SS in
1890. The full extent of the benefit OF
this increase in wages to the wage
Garner is not appreciated, however, I'M
til 1t is realized that a days work Will
now buy far more of the comforts OF
life than it would half century ago.
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A New Jersey preacher who has been
kissing pretty girls is thought to be
insane by some. What the girls think
is not told.
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G. H. Robb has brought an action at
Bellows Falls. Vermont, against Pat
rick, William, and Michael brisbane,
in behalf of the. wife and child of Her
bert J. Porter, one of three brothers
recently convicted of placing obstruc-
lions on the track of the Boston and
Maine Road near Brattleboro while in
toxicated. The suit comes under the
personal-liability .cluase of the Yer
mont prohibition law, whereby the Ii
quor-seller is liable to dependents, at
the rate of 50 a day, for the time lost
by the person upon whom they depend
for support. Porter has been in Jail
since last October, and has just begun
serving a three years sentence.
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Artesian wells are solving the arid
region problem in Arizona as well as
in some northwestern States. During
the past year or so a number of ex-
perimental wells have been sunk in
Cochise county which have turned out
successfully, and a system of reser-
yoirs has lust been constructed which
it is believed will be supplied from the
wells with a sufficient quantity of water
to insure excellent crops this summer
on all the settled land. The ranchers
in that region have been much handi-
capped by the deficiency of the water
supply, but from the results already
obtained it is believed artesian wells
will furnish all the water needed.
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1t is perhaps not surprising if the
Vatican regards the recent disaster to
the italian armies in Abyssinia as a
mark of divine displeasure at the depo-
sition of the Pope from the temporal
authority and as one of the natural re-
suits of papal accommodation. The
Catholic Times of London remarks.
Our Roman correspondents call atten-
ton to an extraordinary circumstance
in connection with the italian disaster
in Africa. 1t appears that the guns
with which the Shoans moved down
weapons that were taken from the Pa
pal troops in 1870. They were partly
sold to the Shoans and partly present
ed to them by the Italian government.
This certainly looks like the retribu-
ton of heaven. In the present materi-
alistic age such an idea will, no doubt
be laughed at as superstitious, but it
cannot be denied that though the Unit
ed Italy government was expected to
set the country on the summit of pros
perity, matters have gone from bad to
worse ever since it's rulers were excom-
municated by the Sovereign Pontiff
AS the Rev. Dr. Trigona remarked in
&. sermon at Liverpool, Napoleon the
Great also laughed at the notion of ex-
communication by Plus VII. docs he
think" said the imperious conqueror,
that the muskets will fall from the
hands of my soldiers?" 1t is well
known the day did come when the con-
ception which he thus refused to enter
tain even for a moment was realized to
the letter The arms dropped from the
benumbed and lifeless hands of his SOL
diers as they crept through the SHOWS
on their return from the ruinous expe-
dition to Moscow. 1t would seem as if
the working of the same Nemesis were
to be traced in the fate that has be-
fallen the Italians.
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FASHION NOTES.
A N6ye!ty Street Rig.

Those who strive to make their attire
distinctive and who yet do not care for
rigs that are highly elaborate will find
this pictured street dress interesting
1t is made of gray cloth with mode
rately wide godet skirt turned up into a.
hem at the foot. Its jacket bodice has
a loose REFER front and fitted backw with
a jaunty ripple basque having pockets
on each side. Edges of fronts and
basque are finished with wide hem
and the right side laps over, fastening
with two steel buttons, A narrow vest
shows at the top, which, together with
revers and round sailor collar. is of
white cloth. The novel sleeves are
gathered at armholes and wrists
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lime and some form of finely divided car.
bon. At very high temperature calcium
carbide Is formed. II is composed Of five
eishths calcium and tlree-eighths carbon.
Science News illustrates the lamp and
explains that when calcium carbide Is
thrown into water double decomposition
| results, tho calcium combining with the
oxygen Of the water and the carbon unit
Ing with the hydrogen and forming acety-
lene. which escapes from the water with
violent ebullition and may be collected In
any suitable receiver. The solid calcium
carbide, II kept dry, can be handled and
transported with perfect safety. The gas
Is manufactured by simply iinmersing the
carbide in water. The new lamp consists
of u vessel forming the standard, which Is
about two-thirds full OF water, and Of a
smaller glass recciver, having hole IL
the bottom, and furnished with fine glass
tube passing through the stopper. In this
receiver Is suspended basket Of iron wire
containing pieces Of calcium carbide.
When the receiver is immersed in the wa
ter, the latter rises through the hole in the
basket; acetylene forms Immediately, and
Is conducted upward to the burner The
fame is described as pure white, of great
brilliancy, and, when unshaded, almost
insupportable to the eye. Acetylene has
peculiar penetrating odor, SO that any
leakage of the gas would be immediately
detected.