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Wars Growing Shorter,

With the exception of the Franco
Prussian war, the greatest war which
Europe has seen slice the days of Napo-
leon was the Crimean war, which took
place more than 40 years ago and lasted
about two years. The campaigns of Ma
poleon, of course, while they were con-
sidered short as compared with some
previous wars in Europe, were certainly
long as compared with the wars of the
past few decades. A distinct movement
in the direction of the shorter duration
of wars is to be noticed in the past few
centuries.
The campaign in the Spanish Neither
lands lasted AZ years. Then followed
the thirty years war in Europe, ending
in the peace of Westphalia. Civil war in
England lasted from 1912 to 1860, al
though hostilities were not in progress
all that time. The wars of the Spanish
succession, of the Austrian succession,
the Swedish-Russianw war and the Seven
Years war followed, averaging about
ten years apiece. The French and the
American revolutions averaged about
eSNSu YEARS dplSCS. Liz NdpOl6OQ1C
campaigns covered nearly 10 years. The
Crimean war lasted from 1854 to 1856.
In the war of the rebellion, in this coun-
try, the world saw the latest war which
extended over four years of time.
Since 1865, with the general intro
duction of the telegraph, the electric
cable and the modern system of rail-
ways, war has become a matter of a
few months at most. In 1866 Prussia
defeated Austria in seven weeks. Prus-
STA defeated France in about two
The war between Russia and
Turkey began in April, 1877, and was
practically finished by the close of that
year. The war between China and japan
began about midsummer, 1894, and
ended in March, 1896. The present war
between Turkey and Greece seems to be !
ended in about four weeks
from the outbreak of formal hostilities. |
1t seems to be shown by experience that
two important civilized nations in these
lays of telegraph and railway cannot
conduct wars for any length of time I'M
ess the contending countries are sepa-
'ated by the ocean or some other natural
Advertiser.
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flowers out OF another parterre and the
blue flowers out of another parterre and
the pink flowers out Of another parterre
and gracefully and skillfulIy work these
four or five crowns into one crown of
beauty. So all the splendors of earth
and heaven are to be enwreathed into
one coronal for our Lords forehead
one blazing glory, one dazzling bright
ness, one overpowering perfume, one
down flashing, up rolling, outspread-
ing magnificence, and so on his head
shall be many crowns.
The Greatest Crown.
The worlds best music will yet be
sounded in his praise, the worlds best
architecture built for his worship, the
word rs best paintings descriptive of his
triumphs, the word best sculpture per-
petuate the memory of his heroes and
heroines. Al~Sady the crown woven out
of many crowns is being put upon his
brow. His SCARED feet are already as
cending the throne. A careful statisti-
clan estimates that in 1850 there will
be 1900, 900 people in the United
States, and by the present ratio of unit
ing with the church 100, 100000 of
them will be church members. What
think ye of that, ye pessimists inspired
by the devil? The deadest failure in the
universe is the kingdom of satan. The
grandest throne of all time and all eter-
nifty is the one that Christ is now
mounting. The most of us will not see
the contamination in this world, but
we will gaze on it from the high heav-
ems. The morning of that consumma-
ton will arrive, and what a stir in the
holy city! All the towers of gold will
ring its arrival. All the chariots will
roll into line. The armies of heaven
which John saw seated on white horses
passing in infinite cavalcade. The in
habitants of Europe, Asia, Africa,
North and South America and of all is
lands of the sea, and perhaps of other
worlds, will join in a procession COM
pared with which that. of next Tuesday
will not make one battalion. The con-
queror ahead, having on his vesture
and on his thigh written king of
kings and Lord of lords" and when,he
passes through the chief of the 10 up
lifted gates, all nations following, may
you and be there to hear the combined
shout of church militant and church
triumphant. Until the choirs standing
on "the sea of glass mingled With fire.
shall sound the triumph in more jubi-
liant strains, accompanied by harpers
with their harps and trumpeters with
their trumpets, the hundred and forty
and fur thousand coming into the
chorus, think we will stick to Isaac
Watts old hymn, which the 5000 ma
tives of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa sang
when they gave up their idolatries for
and l would not be sur
prised to see some of you old heroes of
the cross, who for lifetime have been
toiling in the service, beating time with
your right hand little tremulous with
many years:
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honors to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud amen.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-06-25
Her Point of Xiew-

The children were having an oral
grammar lesson in the possessive plural
1.-THE three families have moved into
their houses" was the sentence the
teacher had given them. "What is it,
Lucy2" she asked a little colored girl
who had raised her hand. "That amt
right, said Lucy. at should be Three
families moved into their house. -"
but, Lucy" said the teacher, don't
you see that there would be three fami-
lies, and they would each move into a
house, and that would be three houses,
so the sentence would be right?" yes"
said Lucy, but there might be three
floors in one house, and the families
would all move into the same house"
And the teacher could not say that Lucy
was not right.-New York Times.
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Life ImprIsonment For Assault.

Boston, June 1S.-Frank Howard, who
on April 27, with David Cummings, muir
derously assaulted DR.. Patrick Nor
ris, the venerable Washington street
druggist, was yesterday sentenced to
state prison for life by Judge Fessenden.
Cummings was given not more than rs
and not less than Is years. The doctor,
who is IS years old. made a pitiable
appearance on the stand. II was diff
cult to understand what he said. so weak
was his voice. Howard went into his
drug store at noon, and under the plea
Of a wounded leg got DR.. Morris to stoop
over. Cummings came in and grasped
the doctor, the two men numerically
beat him and stole a gold watch and
S37 from the till The assault was seen
by many people. but the men got away in
the crowd. A description of them re-
suited in theft arrest. After trial the jury
almost Immediately found them guilty.
Howard expressed great sorrow for his
part of the transaction. and pleaded for
mercy on the ground of poor health.
Cummings had nothing to say. The
Judge then imposed the sentences They
are the most severe administered for an
assault case in Suffolk county in recent
years.
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as she can to throw off impurities, and to
force out poisonous refuse matter. When
there is an imped iment, Dr. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets set the wheels working again
without any trouble. They assist nature in
a gentle, healthful, efficient way There is
nothing violent about their action, and yet
it is just as certain as if it were twice as
violent. "You do not become a slave to
their USE" They are different and better
than any other pill for the cure of consti-
patton, her 1ache and kindred derange-
ments Almost all druggists understand
this, and are conscientious enough to tell
you so. The druggist who tries to sell you
substitute is not safe man from whom
~ huv medicine.
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OHIO REPUBLICANS.;d ~
Senator Hanna Routs the Opposition and
Secures Control.

Senator Hanna ROutS the Opposition and
Secures Control.
Toledo, June 23-The Ohio Republican
state convention assembled here yester-
day. There is no opposition to the
Endorsement of Senator M. A. Hanna
for both the long and the term as SEN
ator, and there is no opposition to the
denomination of Governor Bushnell and
other state officers who have only had
one term.
The contest has been on the state cam
paign committee craftsmanship. Sem
ator Hanna wanted Major Charles F.
w. Dick, secretary of the national COM
mittee, for the place. Governor Bush
nell and other state officers wanted
Chairman Charles F. Kurtz. who has
managed the past two campaigns, re-
tanned.
When Mr.. Hanna arrived he held
number of conferences with both fac
lions, but at none of them could the
contestants reach an amicable under
standing.
The contesting factions carried their
claims into the meetings of the delegates
by congressional districts and Mr.. Han
ma won more than two to one. He con-
trolled the district meetings and the con-
vention more firmly than the st. Louis
convention last year. Major Dick
claims the committeeman from Is Of
the Il congressional districts, with two
districts contested and four districts
conceded to Kurtz. The Kurtz men
concede their defeat.
Senator Hanna and Governor Bush
nell held a conference again last night.
While the governor regrets the defeat
of Chairman Kurtz, he will not d. cline
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-06-25
Calhoun Offered a Treasury Position.

Washington, June CIV. ]. Calhoun
of Danville. Ills. late the commissioner
to Cuba, has been offered the office Of
controller of the treasury, to succeed R
B. Bowler of Cincinnati He left last
night for his home in Illinois. He will
probably accept the appointment
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The big, h earty,
healthy man is a con-
tinual irritation to his
d yspeptic friend.
Constipation is the
root of nine tenths
of the sickness of
men, and of a large
proportion of the
sickness of women.
1t can be cured easily,
naturally and quick
ly. Nature is contin-
ually working as hard
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The Christian Queen.

believe that no throne since the
throne of David and the throne of Heze-
kiah and the throne of Esther has been
in such constant touch with the throne
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the proposition that it should be identical
with a mans is a mere assumption. Inc
contention that it should be different was
strong point with the opponent or the cam
bridge grace. The most authoritative state
ment on this side came from DR.. Westcott.
Bishop of Durham. in a letter to Bishop
SelWyn. He says that no one can De more
anxious than himself that the highest posi-
bic education should be placed within the
reach OF women, but that Such education
must be adapted, both from It's general
scope and in it's details, to the disciplining
ments.
"A perfect woman is distinct in type from
a perfect man. 1t will, / suppose, be ad-
mitted that women are consutuuonally
different from men, that they nave pecunar
gifts, and that the moral and intellectual
mon are for the most part combined in them
in different proportions and tend to form
different characters 1t will afSo be adj
mitted that education is designed to train
the whole person and not any one part, and
to give as natural and complete ana mar
sum of the students powers. IT, then, the
Cambridge honor course has been carefully
designed to meet the special powers and
needs of men it must so far fail to meet the
special powers and needs of women. II
woman is forced to submit TO conditions
out consideration of her requirements, but
in view CT other requirements, she must
suffer I gratefully recognize the intel
lectual gain which women have found IN the
Cambridge course; but believe that IT has
been secured at a high cost and not without
loss"
1t would probably. therefore, be a mis-
fortune if the education of women was fixed
for the future on the same lines as that OF
men.
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The WN1o H. BLOCK GO.

adds one gallon of cube potatoes and eight
cans of French mushrooms. Every sue
cesslVe minute the escaping steam becomes
more savory and when the cooking pro-
cess has continued long enough to render
the potatoes palatable, two gallons OF
dumplings, quart of minced green pep
pers and some cayenne are added. Fifteen
minutes thereafter the dove stew has
reached its apotheosis, and when the guests
are seated in the leafy grove and Uncle
Abe motions to his six assistants to lit
the lids from the bubbling cauldrons, the
scene is picturesque and Inspiring beyond
description. At this years outing there
We're twenty tables which were twice
filed. over four hundred partaking of the
dainty dish.
But dove stew alone was not all that the
club offered its guests The accompani-
ments of the feast We're on the same gen.
erous scale, everything being without
money and without price. There were for
ty-hye kegs of beer, $40 bottles of the Same
LIQUID, fifty cases of soft drinks, one thou
sand cigars, and. incidentally, an abundant
supply of whiskeys and mineral waters.
The affair cost the club 81 ,0O0 but that was
a matter of small consideration so long as
the event was success. and everybody
went away happy-some eXuberantly so.
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GREAT DOVE STEW.
California Club Feasts ON Two Thou
sand Birds.
San Francisco Chronicle.

sand Birds.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Think of two thousand doves in an i'm
The mere thought is enough to set ones
appetite on edge, and the reality discounts
the far-famed four and-twenty blackbirds
that nave passed into song and story as
ministering to the appetite of the king
Dove stew, in an epicurean degree, is only
possible in California, and nowhere in the
OF form and luscious in flavor as they are
in the vast wheat-growiDg section that has
Marysvile as its center. If the Suffer and
fuba Gun Club had done nothing else to
merit distinction it has made a name for it.
self by its happy conception of instituting
this Lucillian feast as the feature of its
miles southeast of the city.
The inspiration had its birth three years
ago. Az that tine only five hundred birds
were oHered In sacrifice to the occasion.
1t proved a revocation to those who were
just initiated into its marvellous and ire
sistible mysteries, and the succeeding year
1.OSO or the feathered songsters went into
the depths OF the pot to be converted into a
saVory compound for the gun club and its
guests Apparently the capacity of the APP
petite must have increased with the pas
sage of time. for this year Abe Lewis the
presiding genius of the caldron, called for
two thousand birds, and the club turned
over to him exactly 2.041. The birds were
procured by several attachments of the
club after two days of hunting and were
sent In rapid installments to headquarters.
where they were picked and placed on ice
twelve men assisting in the operation.
Uncle Abe Lewis, who learned the rudi-
ments OF the culinary art in the army. SUI
perintended the affair, which proved 10 be
a task or no small magnitude. Those who
have tasted of his fascinating connection
VOW that never was such dish prepared
before and this is the modus operandi: In
twenty-hv e-gallon kettle. half fun OF
water ne places three hundred doves. six
cans OF tomatoes and two gallons OF
chopped onions These boil for nearly three
hours, and into the steaming mixture he
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immortality in Money Matters.


At a moderate estimate it may be COM
puted that at least half of the humanity
manageable troubles in the world arise
from money matters. After a thorough
grounding in the principles of the Ten
commandments. the next most important
lesson 10 teach our youth is the care and
handling of money, yet this is usually done
in the most haphaZard way, If at ALL Law
tsh spending for others. often done through
sheer thoughtlessness or a love of display.
and at the risk Of ones own future or
that of ones family, is too often condoned.
both in life and literature. The sins of the
spendthrift provided ne does not squander
his substance in riotous living, and even
sometimes when he does. are held up as
being very excusable, il not praiseworthy.
instead of as a palpable breach OF moral
ity. Self-respect and the duty of self-sup-
port demand that adequate provision
should be made by every human being for
his future. when age or illness may inca
pacitate him for work A well-known
physician in New York once counseled at
a public meeting that the poor be encour-
aged to have as large families as posi-
BILE. adding, cheerfully. '"rhe State will
gladly look after such as the fathers can
not support"
A more pernicious doctrine could hardly
be advanced. The belief that II Is his
bounden duty to provide for his family Is
one which should be fostered strenuously
in every citizen. If every man felt 1t as
he ought. there would be almost no elee-
mnsynGTE EFFORT needed.
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one ounce of fat salt pork and then pound
it in a mortar till your stock OF patience
threatens to strike Then chop few trut-
fles to the size of peas and add them with
a little white pepper to the chopped meat;
Have four dozen. oysters wiped cry, anu anu
with a sharp knife make an opening in the
side of each one; fill the holes with the
mixture. Dip the oysters in crumbs, tnen
in egg again in the crumbs and Try
Now see to it that your guests don eA-
baust their pet adjectives on either or these
dishes. They will need at least gooo
round dozen of superlatives atter an eAps IL
ence with celery roast of oysters. Ana
this is the way the story goes: Have READY
some dainty slices of bread, toasted, with
the crusts removed Wipe dry ana proll
some of the smallest oysters you can get:
broil them till they begin to shrlyel all
around then put them on the toast Sprlnk-
them with some finely chopped celery. Salt
the celery q bit also. Have ready cream
heated, but not boiled, and then pour, it
over the whole. Serve 1T as not as posslple
and rejoice in the fact that you have
demonstrated how divine thing an oyster
may be made.
doesn't know how to make good puff paste
for without that knowledge II is Impossible
to make a good oyster pie; bat In case you
are an adept at pun paste making JUST Try
making one some fine day. Line pie dlSh
with the paste and fill 1t with uncooked
rice; butter the paste that covers the cage
of the dish and lay a cover Of puff paste
over the pie press the edges together
bit and trim them neatly. Meanwhile pre-
pare q quart or oysters Dy OrdlnlHS lucH
from their LIQUOR and chopping them fine
Mix teaspoonful of cornstarch in very
little cold milk and pour over slowly half
a pint of boiling milk or cream; when II IS
thick and smooth add to 1T an ounce OF
butter. Season the oysters with salt ana
pepper and stir them into the mixture; let
II simmer for five minutes. When the pie
crust is done remove it from the oven, take
off the top crust, turn out all the rice ana
I'll the dish with the oysters; put on the
cover again and set in the oven 10 get
thoroughly hot. ..u.o.
pie so made is one of the sweetest echoes
to start when memory plays a tune on the
heart even though one lives to be as OLD
as Methuselah.
And now let me tell you of a way to pre-
mare oysters so that they may come under
the head of stand-bys, so dear 10 eveTy
housekeeper. Take two quarts or oysters
and put them into a porcelain-lined SAUCE
nan with their own liquor strained halt a
grated nutmeg a teaspoonful of salt, lit
tie CAYENNE and two tablespoonfuis OF
strong vinegar Then into muslin bag put
half a teaspoonful of cloves, two blades OF
mace a teaspoonful OF alspice and two bay
leaves: put this In with the oysters. Let
them cook very slowly, stirring all the while
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Mail Orders Receive
Prompt Attention.

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two bargains
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gold traced, 25c quality, for.......... AOC
CUPS and SAUCERS, after-dinner sort.
German china, neatly decorated, 15c g.
CARVING SETS, Lamson & Good 90
Rows make, $3.50 quality, for. SOC
COCOANUT BONBONS, 1sc quality. .IOc
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TIRED OF MEXICAN MONEY.
Man from the Southern Country Tells
of the Silver Prices.
Louisville Courier-Journal.


II have just had practical as well as
a personal experience of what this free
silver game amounts to-" said bronzed
man yesterday. He had reached Louis
His voice was well modulated with that
softness found only among the Southern
born people,, but the fire in his eye told
that he meant exactly what he said.
why" he said, i've just got through
with Mexico, and. I hope. silver. I've lived
there twenty-seven months, and here
dence in Louisville. noticed that arti-
Gle from Paducah, an interview about the
railroad man who had just returned from
Mexico printed on the I'd, and that makes
I have seen from Mexico only one has come
back who favors free silver. I went to
Mexico as member of the surveyors corps
of the Mexican international Railroad. but
I soon accepted position in the auditors
office of the same road.
ITO show you how this. free-silver
method acts I will tell you that when
went to Mexico l received SIS month
Well my salary was increased TO $50
month, as silver decreased and the actual
value OF my wages-the United States value
was less at $50 month than it had been
when l was getting SO. All this was due
entirely to the depreciation of silver.
Look at these shoes / have on and
he exhibited a pair of CATERS which re-
tail for 50 even in Fourth-avenue stores
"Well paid IS for these in Mexico, and
d dina five-cent plug of a popular brand
this nickel plug costs 10 cents in Mexico
And talk about cheap living why. boarded
with Chinaman. paid them $50 month,
Mexican money, and paid $40 a month for a
room which had little else in 1t except
bed. | want to say right here that no Amer
lean can go to Mexico and work on Mexican
food
'.The ordinary wages for unskilled la
Dor in Mexico are % cents day; mean the
same sort of laborers we pay 30 cents. 20
cents and a 81 a day here. All this prosperity
you hear of there is entirely through the
gold dollar. It's all dream about the good
times there any way, for there are no good
times in Mexico. The greasers and working
people are very poor, and many of them are
i'm destitute circumstances. Everything
American in Mexico is very high.
Mexico would be all right, believe, II
II could produce what European countries
want with the wages paid in Mexican
money. but they haven't got the skilled labor,
and imported skilled labor wants American
prices. 1t is a productive country, but the
farming Is interfered with materially by
the lack OF water. They need rain very
badly down there now. i went to Mexico
believing that the gold standard was the
proper thing, and came back fully con-
WINGED that 1t is the salvation Of any coun-
try. I'll have no more Mexico in mine"
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with wooden spoon AS soon as they come
to a boil pour them into an earthenware jar.
When thoroughly colo they are ready to
serve; if they are we'll covered in cool
place they can easily be kept for a week or
even longer.
Really, l didn't mean to make this moth
ing but an oyster tale; / intended to tell
you something about the game that is SO
plentiful in market but oysters are so sea-
sonable and so wholesome just now that
they are quite deserving of a. chapter all to
themselves, and the game story can be told
at another time.