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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-05-20
HAMPERS NEGOTIATIONS.
The Resumption of Hosti1ities Com
plicates the Situation.

The Resumption of Hostilities Com-
plicntes the Situation.
London, May 16. = The correspond
ent of the Times at Athens says: The
resumption of offensive operations in
Epirus greatly complexities the situa-
ton and tends to hamper the negotia-
tons for peace. The evident intention
of the Greek commanders is to capture
the Turkish positions there in oredr to
show that they have not been defeated.
In an interview M. Ralli, the premier,
repeated his statement that humani-
tartan motives are responsible for the
advance on Epirus, but he did not deny
the advantages which might be hoped
for from the capture of Prevesa and
the occupation of the adjoining Turk
ish territory. 1--WE are still at war;"
he said, land until an armistice is con-
cluded Greece retains her liberty of ac-
ton. We cannot allow our activity to
be confined to Thessaly where the
Turks are preponderant. The powers
have hindered us from acting in Crete;
but Greece cannot be barred every
where nor compelled to restrict her
operations to a limited area. We have
done our best to obtain an armistice.
and until it is accorded we must act
where and when we can. If we have
not already prosecuted the war at
various points and among the islands
Of the Aegean, it is only because we
have taken into consideration the suf-
ferings to which the Greek population
II light be subjected"
The government apparently thinks
that a renewal of the war will hasten
instead of retard the armistice. This
calculation may prove to be correct;
but it is more likely that Turkey will
seize upon it as an excuse for delaying
the armistice, and will deal crushing
blow in Thessaly.
The Monitor-register., 1897-07-16
NATURES CYCLE PATH.
The Sandy Shore of Lake Erie Is Admir-,
bly, Fitted For Wheeling.

The Sandy Shore of Lake Erie Is Admira-
bly, Fitted For Wheeling.
Most Of us at one time or another have
basked for awhile upon some sandy
beach of ocean or lake. We have bathed
i'll the surf, gathered shells upon the
shore, aid thus whiled away many idle
hours, but it was reserved for the BIZ
cycle to make us really acquainted with
those stretches Of beach and shore which
seem to have been purposely prepared
by kind Mother Nature as a glorious
cycle path. Whether or not she orig
inally intended it for wheels, she GER
tainly spends great deal of her time
in keeping the Path in repair, and those
active servants of hers, wind and wave,
rain and sun, are kept very busy at
work upon it all the time.
This long and varied path stretches
in its entirety hundreds of miles along
our ocean shores and around the borders
of our great lakes, but the particular
bit with which we became familiar dur
ing happy summer weeks, and to share
in whose delights l would tempt others,
is comparatively small portion on the
southern shore of Lake Erie. 1t begins
with the extreme end of Cedar point,
which with its long arm holds in a por-
tion of Sandusky bay, and extends east
ward l5 miles or more up the shore.
This sandy shore continues all the way
to Cleveland and beyond, but because
of some intervening piles of rock one
cannot ride the whole so or so miles.
The shorter distance is, however, enough
for summer days ride, especially if
one takes it comfortably and leisurely
and appropriates to himself the count
less joys spread before him. Grace
Wickham Curran i'll st. Nicholas
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GEMS.

Frugality makes an easy chair for cid
age.
1t is good to begin we'll, better to end
well. ..t
Better is small fish than an empty
dish.
Some very large tress bear very little
fruit.
Age without cheerfulness is Lapland
winter without sun.
lu this country Of general suffrage
dukes are really of less importance than
honest counts.
Most of us in our apprentice days feel
mighty enough to bear the burden of sue
cess, but how many have the strength to
fail?
Our sentiments, our thoughts, our
words lose rectitude on entering certain
minds. as sticks plunged into the water
look bent.
| dream away my life in other mems
minds. When | am not walking l am
reading; cannot sit and think. Books
think for me.
Our conscience is far harder than our
bitterest enemies, knows more, and
accounts with more nicety, and is harder
to be appeased.
A thoughtful observer remarks that
there are two classes of Ieople whom it
is hard to convince against their will
women and men.
False friends are like our shadows;
they keep close to us while we walk in
the sunshine, but leave us the instant we
walk into the shade.
Consciousness of error is to a certain
extent, a consciousness of understa nding;
and correction of error is the plainest
proof of energy and mastery.
Men of humor are, in some degree,
men of genius; wits are rarely SO, al
though men of genius may, amongst
other gifts, possess wit-as Shakespeare.
Set before you high models. Try to
live with the most generous and to
observe their deeds. Be contented, yet
aspire; that should be the faith of all; the
two are quite compatible.
Most natures are insolvent; cannot
satisfy their own wants, have au ambi-
ton out of all proportion to their
practical force. and so do lean and beg
day and night continually.
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Very Much Alive.

General Grant, speaking about the way
in which the reports of losses are some
times exaggerated in battle. told how at
Shiloh General Sherman had that fact
impressed on his mind. The story ia re-
ported by General Porter in the Century,:
"At the close If the first days fight
Sherman met colonel of one OF his
regiments with only about hundred of
his soldiers in ranks, and said to him,
why where are your menf'
The colonel cast his eyes sadly along
the line, wiped tear from his che Elk,
and replied in whimpering voice, we
went in eight hundred strong, and that's
all that is left of u.s.
"'You don't tell me!' exclaimed
Sherman, beginning to be deeply
affected at the fearful result of the
carnage.
Yes said the colonel, the rebs
appeared to have special spite against
u.s.
sherman passed along some hours
afterward, when the commissary was
issuing rations, and found that the colo
nePs men were returning on the run from
under the bank of the river, where they
had taken shelter from the firing; and in
few minutes nearly all of the lost seven
hundred had rejoined their regiment, and
were boiling coffee and eating hearty
meal with an appetite that showed they
we're still very much alive"
The Monitor-register., 1897-07-16
A Young African Hero.


Some of you have hard words to be ar
at times because you love the Lord
Jesus. But 10 some parts of the world
people who say they believe in Him are
beaten cruelty, and even put to de ith.
In Central Africa few years ago
seme boys were burned to death by
order of the king because they were
Christians. Yet in spite of this boy of
about sixteen was brave enough to wish
to become Christian He came to the
missionary, and said in his own Ian
guage:
"My friend, | wish to bs baptiz ID"
"D' yon know what you are asking ?"
said the missionary 10 surprise.
81 know, my friend :"
"But if yon say that soa are Chri, l.
tian they will kill you"
Il know, my friend"
"But if they ask you if you are a
Christian, will you tell lie aud say
no ?"
Bravely and firmly came the boys
answer, Il shall confess, my friend"
A little talk followed, in which he
showed clearly that he understood what
it was to be Christian, so the mission.
ary baptized him by the name of Sam,
we'll, which is the sams as our Samuel.
The king found him so useful that he
employed him to collect the taxes, which
are paid in cowries-little shells which
are used instead of money.
OGe day when he was away on his
business the king again got angry with
the Christians. and ordered that all the
leading ones should be killed Samwelps
name was found upon the list As he
came back he heard of the death that
was awaiting him. That night when it
was dalk the missionary was awakened
by low KNOCKING at his door. IL was
Samwell and his friends come to know
what he should do. Should he run
away, or should he go and hand over the
money he had collected
After silence the missionary said:
"rell me what you think"
Looking up. Samwell replied, my
friend | cannot leave the things of the
king"
b is friends earnestly begged him to fly,
but the missionary said, mo. he is
right. He has spoken we'll; he must de-
liver up the money!
my friend, will try to start early
and leave the cowries with the Chief"
said the lad, as he set eff; "but l fear
my carriers will not be ready till after
daylight, and il l am seen l shall be
caught. Good bye"
But God kept him. He went boldly to
the chiefs hut, put down the cowries,
and walked 'away. He went again
few nights after to tell the missionary,
who said, "You ran when you got out
side ?''
mo, my friend, for should have been
noticed at once. l walked quite slowly
until got out of sight, and then ran as
fast as l could, and so escaped ="
This is true story, taken from Mr..
Ashes book, "Two Kings tf Uganda"
1t shows that the love of Christ oan
make boy brave to do his duty even in
the face of danger and death - Onaoard
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tours via
Pemnsy Ivanla Railroad.

That the public have come to recognize
the fact that the best and most conveu-
lent method of pleasure travel is that
presented by the Pennsylvania Railroad
CompaDy's personally conducted tours,
is evidenced by the increasing popular
ity OF these tours. Under this system
the lowest rates are obtained, for both
transportation and hotel accommod alton.
An experienced tourist agent and
ohaperon accompany each tour to look
after the comfort of the passenger.
The following tours have been arranged
for the season of 1897
To the north (including Watkins Gler,
Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands,
Montreal, Quebec, Au Sable Chasm,
Lakes Champlain and George, Saratoga,
and a daylight ride down through the
Highlands of the Hudson), July 81 and
August II. Rate, 500 for the rouod
trip from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, and Washington, covering all
expenses of a two weeks trip.
To Yellowstone Park on special trail
of Pullman sleeping, compartment, and
observation cars and dining car, allowing
eight days in Wonderland" September
3. Rate, $235 from New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, and Washington; $3.50
from Pittsburg.
To Niagara Falls, excursion tickets
good to return within ten days will be
sold Oh July %. August and 10, Sep.
tember and 49, at rate of $40 from
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washing
ton. These tickets include transportation
only, and will permit of stop over within
limit at Buffalo. Rochester, and Watkins
on the return trip.
Two ten-day tours to Gettvsburg,
Luray Caverns. Natural Bridge. Virginia
Hot Springs. Richmond, and Washington.
September 28 and October 10 Rate, $65
from New York, $63 from Philadelphia.
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A Dogs Broken Heart.

, Mr.. w. L Muriee, brother of the
well-known novelist, Charles Egbert
Craddock, recently related remarkable
instance of dogs affection for his kind.
1t was during the war, when the
Murfee family lived near Murfreesboro,
Tenn. The children owned two dogs,
great ST. Bernard named Hugo, and
tiny white poodle, Fleece. The two
were inseparable companions, aud
wherever Hugo's dignified self ap-
peared there gamboled beside him the
abs urd bundle of curls and wool. 1t
was Landseer's picture of Dignity and
lmpudenoe in life. Hugo looked with
anxious solicitude after Fleece if the lit.
tie fellow run away, which he frequently
did, and never gave it up until he
brought Fleece home again in safe con-
duct.
Battles were raging all around them
and one night the firing was so near
and incessant that no one slept.
Tie next morning Hugo aud Fleece
were missing and while the children
searched for them Hugo walked
through the gate, carrying poor little
Fleece's dead body.
He walked up to his mistress and laid
his burden gently down at her feet, then
with look of unutterable grief laid Kim.
self down beside it. nor could they coax,
nor drive him away. Little Fleece's
white coat was blood stained. A stray
bullet had ended his happy little life, and
the children wept over the sorrows of
war, realizing as never before what it
meant.
They bad most elaborate funeral and
buried Fleece with military honors, With
bis body wrapped iu a fsg, and they
marched to the grave to the beat of toy
drum, with Hugo, who followed close,
as chief mourper. When the little
mound, flower covered and draped with
a flag, was finished, Hugo laid himself
down across the tiny grave and refused
to be comforted. He would neither eat
nor drink, and the next morning they
found the big fellow stiff and sold in
death, still faithfully guarding the
mound that covered his dear little friend
His great loving h4art was broken with
grief.
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ANGELS UNAWARES."
BY JULIA WARD HOWE

A figure by my bedside stayed,
Plain was her garb and yelled her face;
presence mystical she made.
Nor changed her attitude nor place.
Did neglect my household ways
For pleasure wrought of pen or book?
She sighed murmur of dispraise,
AT which, methought, the rafters shook.
My young Delight did often win
My patient limits to outgo;
Thereafter, When 1 ent cred in,
That shrouded guest did threatening show
The SHOWS of life to chill me fell
Where many a gracious mate lay dead,
And moved my heart to break the spell
By that ungracious phan tom laid.
Now who art thou that didst not smile
When my maddest jest devised?
Who art thou, stark and grim the while
That men my tune and measure priced?
Without her pilgrim staff she rose,
Her weeds of darkn ess cast aside;
More dazzling than Olympian SHOWS
The beauCy that those weeds did hide.
Most like solemn symphony
That lifts the heart from solemn things,
The voice with which she spoke to me
Did loose Contril1on at its springs.
o duty visitor divine
Take all the wealth my house affords.
But make thy holy methods mine;
speak TO me thy surprising words
Neglected once and undiscerned,
pour my homag at thy feet
Till thy sacred law have learned,
Nor joy nor lite can be complete.
The Independent.
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Arabian Nights Fancies and Latter
Day Facts.

Benjamin G. B. Tilghman, of Phila-
delphia, once went into the lighthouse at
Cape May, and, observing that the win
dow glass was translucent rather than
transparent, asked the keeper why he put
ground glass in the windows. "We do
not, !" said the keeper. ''We put in the
clear glass, and the wind blows the sand
against it and roughens the outer surface
like ground glass" The answer was to
him like the falling apple to Newton.
He put on his thinking cap and went out
1t was better than the cap Of Fortunatus
to him. He thought, if nature does this,
why cannot | make a fieroer blsst, let
sand trickle into it, and SO hurl million
little hammers at the glass and grind it
more swiftly than we do on stones with a
stream of wet sand added ?
He tried jets of steam and of air With
sand and found that he could roughen a
pane of glass almost instantly. By coat
applied with brush through stencil,
or covering it with paper cut into any
desired figures, he could engrave the
most delicate and intricate patterns as
readily as if plain. Glass is often m ade
all white, except very thin coating of
brilliant colored glass on one side. This
he could cut through, leaving letters of
brilliant color and the general surface
white, or vice versa.
Seal cutting is very delicate and diff
cult art, old as the Pharaohs. By pro-
tecting the surface that is to be cut, the
sand blast will cut out the required
design neatly and swiftly.
There is no known substance, not even
corundum, hard enough to resist the
swift impact of myriads of little stones.
1t will cut more granite into shape in
an hour than man can in day.
Surely no one will be sorry to learn
that he sold part of his patents, taken
out in October, 1870, for $400, 600. and
receives the untold beuefits of the rest to
this day. So much for thinking.
Nature gives thousands of hints. Some
| can take them. Some can only take the
other thing. The hints are greatly pre-
ferred by nature and man.-Bishop War.
| rem in Christian Ad00cate
l
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TRACKING A CHILD.
Showing That a Bloodhound Is Not AL
ways q Fierce Beast.


ways q Fierce Beast.
So many terrible stories of the feroc-
ity of bloodhounds have been told that
it is refreshing to read true story of
chase by a bloodhound in which the
hunter and the hunted were equally
satisfied. 1t is vouched for by writer
in Good Words, who had it from an
eyewitness.
The bloodhound was enjoying stroll
with his master on the sands of Weston
super Mare, quietly following the horse
his owner rode. Neither was thinking
of a chase. In fact nothing seemed fur
ther from the character of the dog than
desire to interfere with any human
being. The group of pleasure seekers
scattered over the sands saw nothing
unusual in him, nor did the poor dis
tracted woman who ran from one group
to another frantically asking for tidings
of lost child. Nobody knew anything
of the missing boy, and when i'll her
desperation she approached the gentle
man on the horse he also shook his head.
But though he knew nothing of her
OOy lO Wdo HOb bO buI6 budJ ne COulu
not help her find him. He alighted from
his horse, and thrusting his arm through
the bride bent over the hound, putting
both hands carelessly round his head.
Then he took from the woman some
thing that looked like childs hat aud
held it toward the dog, talking to him
the while. The hound shifted and hintd
mournfully, as if unwilling to leave his
master. Soon, however, he lifted his
head in the air, uttered short, sharp
bark or bay and began shifting about the
sands.
For minute or two he followed the
scent i'll a zigzag fashion, and then,
with long, loud bay, turned Off at an
amazing pace, ran in straight line
across the sands. crossed the parade,
and, baying as he went. turned down a
side street.
That was an exciting chase-the field
the streets of a populous watering place
and the game lost child The loud
voice of the dog could be heard in the
distance. guiding those who followed.
The mothers feet were swift, but she
could not keep up with the dog. On he
went till he had run his prey to ground
Then he stopped and fawned upon the,
little lad, who was overjoyed to find SO
friendly playmate. When the mother
came up, hunter and hunted were the
best Of friends, SO much so that neither
was willing to part with the other.
The gentleman had more than once to
summon his dog before he would con
sent to leave the child. As for the boy,
he could not be led away while the dog
remained, and after the hound had dis
appeared he was still heard to mul mur,
81 would like that dear doggie for my
own"
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TOO LATE
BY NORA PERRY.

What silences we keep year after year
With those who a,e most hear to us and
dearl
We live beside each other day by day,
And speak of myriad things, but seldom
say
The full, sweet word that lies just in our
reach,
Beneath the commonplace of speech.
Tten out of sight and out of reach they go
so;
And sitting in the shadow they have left,
Alone with loneliness, and sore bereft,
We think with vain regret of some fond
That once We might have said, and they
heard.
For weak and poor the love that We ex-
pressed
Now seems beside The vast sweet unex-
pressed,
And slight the deeds we did to those un-
done,
And small the service spent, to treasure
won,
And undeserved the praise for word and
deed
That should have ove1fowed the simple
need.
This is the cruel cross of life-to be
Full-visioned only when the ministry
OF death has been fulfilled and in the place
Of some dear presence is but empty space
What recollected services can then
Give consolation for the might have been -
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The old story of Prometheus is par
able. Prometheus was on the terms eff
intimacy with the gods. From them ha
stole fire, aud give 1t to men. For this
sin be was bound to the rocks of Mount
Caucasus, and vultures were set upon
him They only ate his liver. This
grew again as fast as it was pecked away.
Are his suffsrings to be imagined?
Take a modern Interpretation OF the
parable. There is no cooking without
fire. In cooking and eating the mischief
lies. The stomach is over tssked, the
bowels become clogged, they cannot dis
pose Of the food that is given them. The
Impurities back up on the liver. Then
come the vultures-the torments of
diseased liver. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is more than equal to
the vultures of dyspepsia and its kindred
diseases. There is no more need Of
suffering from dyspepsia than there il of
hanging ones self. Sold by all medicine
dealers the world over.
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SHERIFF'S SALE

r"""., asS S35ssi SSa%a,.'nnn,. s.s,,. g,s.,
John Cahill and Ellen Cahill,
Defendants.
Writ dated June 9, 1897. Returnable Octo-
Der term. 1897.
DY virtue of the above sta ted writ of FL.
ID Fa. to me directed and delivered, l
will sell at public vendue, on
SATURDAY, JULY IL, 1897,
In front of the Court House, in the city of
Salem, j.. between the hours of u and
in the afternoon of said day, to-wit, at 3
O'Clock, z. M.
All that certain house and lot of land and
premises situate in the borough of Woods
town, in the county of Salem, and State of
New Jersey and bounded as follows:
Beginning at Cahills corner in or near the
middle of the turnpike leading through
Eldridge's Hill, and runs by said land N
II degs. W 9 chs 9S lks. to corner of John
Holmes, now Edward Duffy's lot, thence by
said lot N. 80 degs. Il. 2 chs. 50 lks. to cor
ner in said line and corner of William
Cooper's land and runs along it S. Al dcgs.
+. chs 4 lks. to the middle of said turn
pike road; thence along said pike S. 7S19
degs. w chs. 50 lKs. to The beginning, con-
tanning one and four one -hundI dths of an
acre, more or less.
Conveyed to John and Ellen CahiIl by
Reuben Woolman ana Edward X. Bullock
and Samuel Borton, executors of James
Woolman, deceased, by deed dated March
20, 1880 recorded in Salem County Clerk g
office, in Book is of Deeds, page 400, etc.
BENZ. B. WESTCOTT, Sheriff.
K. S. FoGG, Solicitor.
Dated sheriff Office, Salem, N. j :, June II,
1897. 6-lS
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SATURDAY. JULY IT, 1897.

A GENTS WANTED for DR.. Talmage's
IN 1.-The Earth Girdled," or his famous
savage and barbarous lands Four million
Talmage books sold, and 1.-The Earth Cir
dled' is his latest and greatest. Demand
enormous; everybody wants this famous
book. OIly SS So Big book. big commits
sion, a gold mine for workers. Credit given,
Outfits free. Drop all trash and sell the
king of books and make $500 per month
Address for outtitand territory. PEOPLES
394l Market ST., Philadelphia, Pa. 6-lS
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The following figures show the an
nual cost for maintenance of some of
the principal foreign geological gar
dens: Berlin, $137, 500; Antwerp,
$13G, 500; Amsterdam. $IO5, 900; Lon
don, 500, Geo; Cologne, $75, 500; Rot
terdam, sos, 900; Hanover, $42, 900;
Paris, $4,000. Thus far the cost of
maintaining the geological parks in
Washington and Philadelphia has been
500, 900 each per wear.
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Notice of Assignment.

NOTICE is hereby given that Clark C.
Mannington, in the county of Salem. in the
State of New Jersey, hath this day made an
assignment to the subscriber OF his estate
for the equal benefit of his creditors. and
that the said creditors must exhibit their
respective claims, under oath or affirmation,
within the term of three months.
OLIVER IL. VIRGINS.
Dated Salem, N. j. June 3 1897.
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Administrators Notice.

H g. HILLMAN, Administrator of AL
u ward W. Hillman, deceased, by direc-
tiOn of the Surrogate OF the county of Salem,
hereby gives notice to the creditors of the
said Award w. Hillman, deceased. to bring
in their debts, demands and claims against
the estate of the said decedent under oath
or affirmation, within nine months from the
date hereof, o. they will be forever barred
of any action thereof against the said Ad-
minlstrator. U. 6. HlLLMAN,
Dated June TO- 1897. AminiS ratOr,