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Cleveland 30 Ot1 a.Dn1 90 "a 9
New York q O 600 10 10 % -
ColoneI. Beaten by One Run.

BROOKLYN. n. Y. May 2s.-The Brook
lyns won an interesting game from the
Louisvilles this afternoon. The Colonies Gre
ated a good impression by their lively play
ing. They were in the game from start to
finish and would not acknowledge defeat
until the last man was put out. Several sem
sational catches in the outfield marked the
game Attendance, 2OOo. Score:
r. H E.
Brooklyn .....0 3 o OIL o 0 - 8 2
Louisville .....1 o 0 0 O-3 o
Batteries = Kennedy and Burrell; McDer-
mott and Miller. Earned runs-Brooklyn, 4;
Louisville, /. First base on errors-Loulsville,
1. Left on bases-Brooklyn, .; louisville. z.
BY Kennedy, 2: by McDermott, ]. Two-base
7it--Burrell.. Sacrifice hits-McCarthy; Ken
ne6y Cassidy. Stolen bases-Dexter. Clarke,
McCreary. Hit by pitcher-Cassidy. Wild
pitch = McDermott. Time-1:30. Uumpire -
Weidman.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LOUISVILLE, Ind, May 26.-Zionsville de
feated the Clippers, Of Indianapolis, to-day
10 to 10.
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Columbus .1 3 2 O o 1 o o OF IL
Kansas City..0 0 0 o 2 Is IL
Batteries-Boswell and Wilson; Bevis
Daniels and Lake.
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BROOKLYN 100 o OIL 90 a.
Louisville 81 o 0 o 0 0-3 9


PHILADELPHIA, May 2s.-The Philade,-
phias defeated the Colts to-day In conse-
quence of Friends liberality with bases on
balls in the earlier innings. Both teams
played the fastest kind Of ball In the field.
Attendance, 1850. Score:
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CHARACTER.

Character. like scholarship, is Of slow
growth. By painful effort, by laborious
climbing, by frequent falls. we must slowly
and gradually toll onward and upward
And here the great question Is not, What
have you done? but What are you trying
to do? Three men are on the mountain
side; one near the base, having taken only
few steps the second is halfway up; the
third is within few rods of the topmost
peak. Which of these three men Is nearest
the summit? "The third man, of course"
every superficial onlooker replies. So it
appears upon the surface. Let US look
deeper into the minds and hearts OF these
three Observation-Disclosures. The first mans
face is set reselutely towards the summit,
and he is determined to neither pause nor
rest until the summit shall be reached. His
will Is on the heights already, and soon or
late we know his resolute determination
will bring his body there. The second man
Is "resting upon his Path content" enjoy
Ing the prospect he has already gained, un-
decided whether to 60 upor down. His will
Is alternating between the summit and the
base, and we cannot say in which direction
he will finally proceed This second man is
farther from the summit than the first. And
the third man-his feet are indeed near the
summit, but they are directed downward.
He has seen enough already; perhaps he Is
looking with critical contempt at the poor
struggling climber away down there at the
base. This man will never reach the sum-
nit. He is farthest from it of them all. And
30 the last is first. and the first last.-William
De Witt Hyde, D. D.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
WITH JESUS.

To live with Socrates-with unveiled taco
must have made one wise with Aristides,
lust. Francis Of Assist must have made one
gentle Savonarola, strong. But to nave
lived with Christi To have lived with Christ
must have made one like Christ; that is to
soy, Christian. AS matter OF fact, to
live with Christ did produce this effect. 1t
produced it in the case Of Paul. And dur
Ing Christ's lifetime the experiment was
tried in an even more startling form. few
raw. unspirited, uninspiring men were
admitted to the inner circle OF His
friendship. The change began at once.
Day by day we can almost see the first pr1n-
ciples grow. First there steals over them
the faintest possible admiration OF His char
acter, and occasionally, very occasionally,
they do thing or say thing that they could
not have done or said had they not been liv-
ing there. Slowly the spell of His life
deepens. Reach after reach of their nature
Is overtaken, thawed. subjugated, sane
titled. Their manners soften, their
words become more gentle, their con-
duct more unselfsh. AS swallows who have
found summer. as frozen buds the spring,
their starved humanity bursts into fuller
life. They do not know how it Is, but they
are different men. One day,they find them
selves, like their Master, going about and
doing good. To themselves 1t is unaccount-
able, but they cannot do otherwise. They
we're not told to do it, it came to them to
do it. But the people who watch them
know well how to account for it-'They
have been," they whisper, "with Jesus"
Already, even, the mark and seal Of His
character is upon them-"They have been
with Jesus. PROF. Drummond.
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DIVINE CONTROL.

The thought that God controls the great
universe in which We live. is at once sublime
and overpowerng. We move as insects in
the atmosphere Of His providence. He
speaks, and We come into existence; He
breathes upon us, and we vanish as the
vapor in the sunlight. We appear to have
little authority, but it is limited and short
lived we are in His hands who worketh
all good things after the good pleas
urs OF His will. We may choose, but
our choice cannot be worked out independ-
ent of Him. Daniel Webster once wrote to
a friend ~ hope you have been able to
bear prosperity with meekness and adversely
with patience. These things are all ordered
for us better than We could order them for
ourselves. We may pray for our daily bread;
We may pray for the forgiveness Of our sins /:
We may pray to be kept from temptation,
and that the kingdom Of God may come
in US and IN all men, and that
His will may be everywhere. done,
Beyond this we hardly know what good to
supplicate Divine mercy. Our Heavenly
Father knows what we have need OF better
than we know ourselves, and we are sure
that His eye and His loving-kindness are
upon us and around US every moment" The
great master at the bar certainly knew well
how to make pious and devoat exhorta-
ton.
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Country Wit.

Anyone who has ever been rash
enough to attempt to make sport of
the street gamin OF large city knows
only TOO well what a fatal mistake it
is, but one is not so we'll prepared to
be made the victim of his own joke by
an apparently unsophisticated country
boy.
A lad of fifteen was driving along a
country road, taking load OF calves
to market, when he chancel to meet q
company OF young folks who were evil
dent!y out for q pleasure excursion.
The young men Of the party. thinking
to amuse themselves and their COM
panions at the boys expense. began to
initiate the bleating of the calves.
But their merriment was Of short
duration, for without moments hesi-
tation he called out to his would-be
tormentors, as the vehicles were pass
ing, ooh, I knew what you were be.
fore !''.-Atlanta Constitution.
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The Smallest Flower.

The smallest Towering plant is Wolf.
fla microscopic, native of India. 1t
belongs to the duckweed family. It is
almost microscopic in size, destitute
of proper stem, leaves and roots, but
having these organs merged in one,
forming frond. There is a prolon.
CATION of the lower surface, the pur-
pose of which seems to be to enable
the plant to float upright in the water.
The tronds multiply by sending out
other fronds from a slit or concavity,
and with such rspidity does this take
place that few days often suffice to
produce from few individuals enough
similar ones to cover many square
rods of pond surface with the minute
green granules. Small as these plants
are, they bear flowers. Two are pro-
duced on a plant, each OF them very
simple, one of single stamen and tho
other of single plstil, both of which
, burst through the upper surface of
the frond.
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When Cod Become Blind.

Several large cod are kept in one of
the tanks of the Amsterdam aquarium,
necessarily near the surface, and
therefore exposed to q strong light
from above. Now, the cod, though
not "deep sea" fish, is not surface
swimmer and lives at depths where the
sunlight must be very much modified
by passage through the water. 1t lives
in what to us would be semi-darkness.
Every one of these cod exposed to the
strong light is suffering from an ex-
traordinary hypertrophy of the eye.
The whole organ has become over
grown, as if in the effort to adjust it
self to the use Of more light rays 1T
had become over-equipped and then
useless. The cod, in fact, are blind.
The most interesting feature in this
change is the extraordinary rapidity
with which increased supply OF light
rays has over-deveIoped the organ for
its use. 1t has taken place, not by
slow degrees from individual to in
dividual, bat in course of time to be
measured by months and in every in
dividual In the tank. If this example
is measure of the rapidity with which
such changes take place among fish,
the adaptation of those creatures
which have migrated from the shallow
waters of the deep seas, shown by the
total loss of enormous development of
their eyes and the growth Of illuminat-
ing organs to light the abyss, may
have been as rapid as it ls marvellous.
London Spectator.
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will honor me With your presence on the
short cruise, my officers and self Will en-
deavor at least in part, to show our ap-
nrecIation Of the kindness We have re-
ceived at your hands and the hands OF your
friends, since coming into the beautilnl
bay. and meeting these u.o't hospita ole
people Hoping for favorable reply at
the hands OF Mr.. Frenauld, Celieve me with
much esteem. very sincerely.
Your humble. oted:ent servant,
WILLIAM Fox.
Commanding q. NJ S. Cruiser Wapderer
To Captain Ralph Denham. b. NJ. I. Pro-
vincial Cruiser Sea Hawk
What do you think OF that, Mr.. Day
ton?" asked the Captain, when he had
finished reading the letter aloud.
Il must say think it very handsome,
Captain. OF course you will not say
mo- to such an offer? 1t is most for
tunate think to have ship like the
Wanderer to bear one to New York, in
stead OF going through the woods and
over the sands on horseback" )" replied
Lieutenant Dayton.
Even If the offer were not tempting,
should feel inclined to accept. to show
my appreciation Of Fox's kindness.
Then you will go on the "anderer'
Captain?"
Yes; and I shall at once write Fox
to that effect; Frenauld Is waiting foS
my answer.
CAPTAIN Denham sat down to desk,
and ouickine penning his reply, sent 1t
up by Lieutenant Dayton:
AND thus it came about that Captain
Denbam sailed away in the Wanderer.
Had the powers Of darkness deliber-
ately planned to aid Captain Fox and
Colonel Graham in their dark schemes,
/ matters could not have worked better
into their hands.
Colonel Graham was not a demonstrs-
tive man; on the contrary, he was cool,
self-possessed, suspicious and cynical.
But when Fox read him Ralph Denham's
letter accepting the offer, Graham
sprang from his chair, and in his mo-
mentary exultation, seized his COM
panion's hand, and cried with an oath:
Now, we have him, sir! we have
him!"
1t was reported that Col. Graham
would return to New York on the Wan
derer, but the people expressed no SUI
prise when the vessel sailed away with
out him.
The night before the morning when
the ship sailed away, oil. Graham, who
still made his headquarters at the inn,
was taken alarmingly i'll, and DR..
He iges, who was called in to attend to
! the case, bled him freely.
The illness was trick to give an eX-
cuse for remaining behind. but there
was no trick about the doctors lancet.
Bleeding was then thought to be apana-
cea for every i'll, from a toothache to
Asiatic cholera, and the doctor left his
patient so weak that he could not move
if he would. -.
1t was decidedly dangerous to fool"
with doctors in those days, when bleed.
ing and blistering killed the weak, and
tested the powers of the strongest.
Squire Condit was the only person OF
note in the town that did not visit the
sick man, but the people all thought the
Squire eccentric.
A few days after the Wanderer sailed
away. Dinah, the old black woman, lit
orally forced her way into Col. Gra-
hams room.
The rather startling disclosures that
the old woman made, and the remarka-
BILE conduct of the invalid must form
the subject Of the next chapter.
ITO BE coNTISUEnl
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TEMPERANCE
SUPPOSE.

"cold water. cold water" the brides call
From their hammocks up IN the tree tops
tall.
"Co!d water for all Of US insects, too
Said they, slipping up the cool morning
dew.
"suppose We birds should 20 off on spree,
And come home as tipsy as we could per
"Suppose we insects should forget to hum
And flll ourselves up on cider and rumI"
Suppose we brides sheuld forget our song,
And lie around stupidly all day long2
I wonder what folks would think Of US al,
II, like drunken men, we'd stagger and falI?"
"And," said the flowers, "what would the
world think
II we should refuse sweet raindrops to
drink;
Would refuse dripping water. cool and clear,
And cry out for cider and wine and beerT'
"And yet," said bird, from top Of tree,
.Men profess to be much wiser than we."
"And yet," said an insect, from leafy seat. =.
"He spurns and brushes US meath his feet" "
"No wonder" cried all, ''there's So much sin
When, instead of cold water, men drink 80
much gin.
II they'd stick to cold water everv day.
'Twould be better for them in every way"
Mrs. A. E. C. Maskell, in Temperance Ban
per,
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THE WELL IN THEE.

Has the water that Christ has given thee
become, 0 Christian. a well in thee? Hast
thou within thyself we'll Of perennial
purity and bliss, of beautiful thoughts. de-
light in God, willingness to do his will,
peace, strength to resist temptation,
love to your fellowmen, anticipation
of glory? If there be in thee
this inexhaustible we'll of all that
is desirable then hast thou enough not only
for thyself but for thy neighbors, for all
mankind in fact. Yes, If thou alone Of oil
the family of man were in possession of
such we'll. from thee there might 60 forth
streams to make glad the entire face Of the
earth. to satisfy the entire wants Of men.
For this well in thee is Christ in thee
George Bowen.
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TO CLEAN WHITE eoArsKN BUGS.

There are two methods of cleansing
white goatskln rugs. If not very much
soiled, wet soft cloth with naphtha
and rub the hair vigorously, doing q
small portion at time; ther lang the
rug upon the line in the open air, that
the odor may disappear. Do this work
in the daylight and have no fire in the
room while using the naphtha.' If it is
necessary to wash the rug choose q
cool, windy day for the purpose.
Throw half pint of household am.
monia into tub containing about
four gallons of water. Place the rug
in 1.-The tub AMI allow it to remain
there about thirty minutes; shake
thoroughly in the water, rinse care
fully in lukewarm water, and hang 1t
in the shade in the open air. When.
, dry It will be found very stiff, but
may be softened by hard rubbing and
combing with the fingers.
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A PRAYER.

o God of love, We know thou lowest US
and thy love has chosen our path. We would
have it 40. May We trust thy choice Of rough
and smooth. Of time and tide, OF wind and
shower. Give us all that We need to enable
US TO fight the good fight and to finish our
course with Joy. Thy loving kindness is in
the heavens enable us to detect its presence
in every incident of this day. Thy faith.
fulpess reache1h into the skies-help US
to reckon upon it in every step OF this
days pilgrimage. Thy righteousness is like
the great mountains-may we keep tin view
always. Thy judgments are great deep
may the thought OF them give greatness and
meaning to the commonest duties. May all
our life be great. because thou art great, and
because thy spirit is with US. Enable US to
realize more constantly thine all sufficiency.
We ask it In the name Of Jesus Christ, thy
Son, our Lord. Amen.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Some men pay more for liquor than they
do for clothes and then wonder that they
are 40. considered resi- t"table.
Civilization has entered up Judgment OF
condemnation against the bar rooms.
4 prominent English judge once saids
"Therr is scarcely crime that comes before
ire that is not. directly or indirectly, caused
by .trorg drink"
The statement was recently made in the
German Reichstag that there are eleven thou
sand persons in hospitals in Germany who
are suffering with de!irium tremens.
The National Temperance Advocate de-
clares that the liquor traffic is to-day tho
heaviest clog upon the progress and the
deepest disgrace Of the nineteenth century.
Referring to the mater Of taking the
pledge. John b. Cough once SAID: "lf the
pledge had been offered me when l was Il
boy in Sunday-school / should have been
spared those seven dreadful year:.
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One who is doing his best is pretty sure to
have this recognized; and one who is not
doing his best may be equally sure that it
will be known. A keen observer said,in pass
ing building that was in process CT con-
struction. Il can always tell whether those
fellows are doing 'time-work or piece
work In one case the blows Of their ham
lrers drag along slowly. and seem to say,
by the day. by The day; in the other case
the hammers strike briskly. and say. BY the
lob, by the job Consciously or uncon-
sciously. our actions show to those around
us the spirit that is prompting them. 1t is
the work into which has gone the best life
and energy Of the worker that finally counts,
in the sight of both God and men.-s. 3.
Times.
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NO SUCH RIGHTS EXIST.

The drunkard insists on destroying him
self. his family, his property, and breaking
down all law and order, and Is a literal
anarchist. Society endures this, and the
nlea of personal liberty is raised when his
conduct Is questioned.
Science indicates that such conduct Is In
sane, that the drunkard has no right to any
liberty that brings peril to himself and
others. He has no right to be source OF
suffering and loss to any community. That
he has no right to marry and entail on the
next generation weakened vitality, diseased
tendencies and incapacitles to live normal
lives.
No man has right to destroy his reason
by drink, to become diseased by drink, to
destroy his moral sense and conception OF
right or wrong.
The higher laws OF duty demand that such
conduct be repressed by depriving the
victim Of liberty which he Is so obviously
unfit to enjoy.
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CoIonizIug Japs IN Mexico.

the Government and representatives Of the
Japanese Colonization Association have been
concluded for concession OF $4,000 acres
OF land in Chiapas. Advices have been re-
ceived at San Diego to the effect that the
Japanese will proceed ut once to place the
Japanese families and coolies on the land
for growing coffee, tobacco and cotton. The
land is given 10 the japanese contingent
upon making complete surveys and the SET
tinc Of given number Of families within
ten years. each family TO receive Il small
tract OF land.
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DANCER OF RlNDERPEsT IN AMERICA
May Be introduced by Means of Imported
Hides.

There is considerable alarm felt In Canada
over the much d, eadel rinderpest, which it
is thought may be introduced iuto that coun-
try through the medium OF hides imported
from South Africa. Protests have been made
by the leading experts in Canada, but their
warning has had no effect on the authorities
rs yet. OF course. similar danger exists OF
the plague being brought into tho United
States. Pleuro.pneumonia among Canadian
cattle has been traced to Injected hides i'm
ported from England. The danger from
this disease is, OF course, us nothing COM
pared with the ravages wrought by the rlu
derpest, which is at present !cclmntinS so
many of the herds in South Africa When
the disease last visited England over 1870
head OF cattle were attacked by it and II $50
dieu.
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rnr7U RByTEn.cALLY EXPRESSED.

We would like to shake hands with the
man who wrote the following: "Drink, and
the gang drinks with you; swear off and you
20 it alone; for the bar-room bum who drinks
your rum has quenchless thirst OF his own;
feast and your friends are many; fast, and
they cut you dead: they'll not get mad II you
treat them bad, so long as their stomachs are
fed. Steal If you get q million, for then you
can furnish bail: it's the great big thief that
gets ou. on leave. while the little one goes TO
iail,"
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DEATH AMONG AERONAUTS.
fourteen of Them Have Met With Fearful
Accidents This Year.

fourteen Of Them Have Met With Fearful
Accidents This Year.
Since balloon ascensions began there hnve
never been so many neronauts injured as
during the year 1896. Fourteen OF them
have been either killed or badly injured by
accidents.
Two OF these unfortunaies were women,
and both we're killed. Professional balloon
men ascribe the accidents to ignorance and
carelessness. Only three Of the foarleen
aeronauts referred to were OF long expert
ence.
1t has happened thai this season there has
been great demand for neronauts from CIR
cnses and fnir associations. The result hL5
been that many ambitious students have sud-
denly blossomed out into professionals, and,
from the carelessness OF ignorance, hnve
either been killed or MANNED for life.
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A DELCSIoN.

II is a delnsion that is gradually being
shattered that mat LIQUORS, taker moderate
~. arp not injurious TO physical health. MIR;
SHEPPARD Homans. 80 we'll known as one OF
the highest authorities in life insurance sta,
tistics. says: 1T is my observation that matt
ljcsor, ta,en habituailv by the moderate
Grinkcr. tends TO increase mortallty, ior II IS
- fac. that tho rate OF mortality is greater
among the Germans than among our native
American people
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NIGHT KIND OF INFLUENCE.

We are told that certain saloon keeper
on the line Of the Chesapeake Il Ohio Rail
road complains that his receipts have been
reduced from $4,000 month to less than
800 for the same time. he attributes this
loss to the active exertions OF the Young
Mems Christian Association. which has Tor
some time been using its influence, on tne
side OF sobriety and virtue among the ralI-
road men. Other instances OF the same sort
are reported on the same railroad. we say:
SUCCESS to all such efforts.
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LIGHT BREAD.

In baking bread it is wrong to put
it into very hot oven. for the great
heat kills the yeast plant before it has
had time to grow, and makes the.
bread heavy. The oven for bread
should only be slightly heated, and
gradually allowed to get hotter. Bread
baked in this way IS sure to be very
light, and rises to an astonishing De.
gree. =" -s..,Es