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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-28
MarrteO.

In indianapolis, August II, 1897, by Rev
l. B. Grandy, Newton Hood and Miss
Clara D. Helm, all of Indianapolis.
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CONTENTS.

I.-BEAUTIEs OF LEBANON.
H.-DANGERs THREATENED.
III.-NEw AoQUAINTANoEs.
IVA PIECE OF HISTORY.
V.-FLIGHT.
VIA SINGULAR AND SAD REVEAL
TIoN.
VII.-THE BURIAL.
VIII.-RIGHT THE SANE IN ALL.
IX.-THE CAPTAINS STORY.
X.-THE WANDERERS.
XI. -AooUAINTANCEs MEET
XII.-NEw DANGERS.
XIII.-TRoUBLEs STILL CONTINUE.
V.-WANDERING IN NEW DIRECTION.
..XV.-EN NUssARA
XVI.-CoMFoRT IN SORROW.
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"A Peculiar People. "

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1t Is well printed volume 452 handsomely
The plates and copyright gift Univer-
sast Womans Association of Illinois,
The Western Branch the readers
of THE UNIvERSALTST.
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for which they are now receiving highly

for which they are now receiving highly
remunerative prices. The greater part
of last years corn crop is still in the
state and they feel sure of an average
crop this year at good prices. Disasters
of few years ago are entirely forgot
ten. Nebraska farmers will be heavy
purchasers this year of general supplies
and west-bound shipments will be very
heavy.
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NBRAsKA farmers are iubilant. They
have reaped the largest wheat crop in
the history Of the state and have had an
abundant harvest Of all small grains,
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PREFACE.


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principles following pages
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the victory.
Whatever
Gospel darkness by
8 world a men
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XVII.-A PLEASANT EXCURSION
XVII.-AN INTERESTING CONFERENCE.
XIX.-DIsCUssIoN AND PROJECT
XX.-NEw CITIZENSHIP.
XXI.-NEw RESOLUTIONS
XXII.-A CONVERSATION ON PRINCIPLES.
XXIII.-NEw LESSONS AND INV Pro.
JEOTs.
XXIV.-A VAIN SEARCH
XXV.-WANDERING, THEY LEARN, BU
DO NOT FIND.
XXVI.-RETRosPEoTIo
XXVII.-A REVELATION.
XXVIu.-FEAR TURNED TO JOY.
XXIX.-NEw PROJECTS.
XXX.-CHANGE AND CoNsUMMATIoN.
XXXl.-PREPARATIoN AND DEPARTURE.
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PECULIAR PEOPLE
REALITY IN ROMANCE"
THE LATE VIM. S. BALCH, ID.

The Western Branch the Publishing recently come into
the Rev
Balch's of the Orient, entitled
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THE Mark Lane Express, london in
its weekly review of the grain situation
says: 1.-THE wheat harvest is about half
over and the reports continue to be fair
ly favorable, in spite ofinterruptions of
many showers and the general delay in
carr wing the wheat already cut. The
foreign harvests are unfavorably re.
ported. The latest advices from France,
Austria Hungary, Russia and Roumania
are all more or less unfavorable."
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DELEGATIONS:


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WONDERFUL o MARvE F POETRY
RESPECTFULLY
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CANTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
CANTON, n. Y.
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Ii is stated and with considerable detail
that Minister Woodford's instructions
are to intimate to Spain that the United
States will intervene unless the situa-
ton in Cuba speedily improves. These,
in effect, were the instructions given to
Mr.. Gushing by Mr. Fish, and it is I'M
derstood that the attitude of the United
States is almost identical with the posi-
ton taken during General Grants ad-
ministration. Then, as now, the good
offices of the United States had been
rendered to Spain to bring about set
Element of the war, but" said Secre-
tary Fish, 1.-The well-intended protfers
of the United States were unwisely re-
jected by Spain" The Secretary re-
viewed the situation, which presents
many similar phases to that which ex-
lists now. President Grant. said the
Secretary, regarded independence as
the only certain and necessary solution
of the Cuban question. The attitude OF
the present administration is under
stood to be on the same lines.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-28

The National Executive Board of the
United Mine Workers recently in session
at Columbus, o., have issued a call for
conference of organized labor to be held
in St. Louis on August 3Oth. The
Board rejected the proposition OF the
Pittsburg operators for conference to
arbitrate the wage dispute in that dis.
trict. alleging that such action would be
prejudicial to the interests of the miners
at large. The Board is ready to consider
overtures for the arbitration of the
issues of the great strike only when the
overtures come from all the operators in
the competitive districts, which include
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania.
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A DISPATCH from Madrid to Berlin
paper says that Italy, Austria, Russia
and Germany have accepted the propo-
sal of the Spanish government to adopt
international measures against anarchy,
the chief of which will be the establish
ment of penal colony for the life deten-
ton of dangerous Anarchists. France
has not replied to the Spanish note. 1t
is expected. says the dispatch, that the
United States, Great Britain and Swift
zerland will refuse to cooperate.
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The Queen Regent of Spain confirmed
General Marcelo de Azcarraga in the ap-
pointment as President of the Council
and successor to Premier Canovas.
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In connection with the meeting of the
British Association in Toronto the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
on Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, Sir John
Evans and the Governor-G General.
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MICHELE ANGIoLILLo. the assassin of
Senior Canovas del Castillo, was put to
death by the garrote at Vergara, Spain.
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PIRATES boarded an Italian bark off
the coast of Morocco. looted the vessel
and carried off the captain and two sail
ors.
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THE Duke of York and Lord Roberts
of Oandahar were installed as knights
of st. Patrick in Dublin.
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PECULIAR PEOPLE" is religious romance, mainly
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GENERAL BLOOD, the British COM
mander in India, reports that stories of
native uprisings have been exaggerated;
circulation of Turkish newspapers has
been prohibited in India.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-28

ANOTHER bomb explosion occurred in
suburb of Constantinople. and more
Armenians have been arrested for COM
plicity in the outrages.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
Use for Old Gold.

One of the most sensible "fads''
among the girls just now is to ave up
all their old jewelry, old gold thimbles
which have the tops worn off, gold fob
chains, gold bracelets, and pins, and
even necklaces, and take them to some
reliable jeweler, who will either melt
them down and make what she wants
out of them, or else will exchange
them, allowing her for the weight of
the gold. One girl made a collection
for several years of boken bits of jew
elry and, with some of her grandmoth-
er's added to them, sold them to her
own jeweler and now is the happy
possessor of a beautiful pearl necklace
which she got in exchange.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio South West
err Railway has been experimenting
with electric motors on turntables.
Turning locomotives at divisional
points and terminals is a service of
much annoyance and no little expense
to railroad companies. 1t generally
takes four men to turn a locomotive,
and while they are doing so their reg
ular work is abandoned.
Experiments were made with an
electric motor on the 60-foot turn
table at Chillicothe with such success
that the Park Street turn-table in
Cincinnati was similarly equipped. The
result has been rather astonishing in
the matter of expense. The current
was purchased from the power plant,
and it cost on an average of less than
one-half a cent for each time the table
was turned. When this same table was
operated by hand it cost II cents for
each engine. The yearly saving is
about $709.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
Tho birds, balance Of Power.

In a recent lecture Prof. Wilmer
Stone of Philadelphia cited many facts
to show that birds are natures great
check on the excess of insects, and
that they keep the balance between
plants and insect life. Ten thousand
caterpillars, it has been estimated,
could destroy every blade Of grass on
an acre of cultivated ground. In thir-
ty days from the time it is Matched an
ordinary caterpillar increases 10000
times in bulk, and the food it lives and
grows on is vegetable. The insect
population of a single cherry tree in
tested with aphides was calculated by
a prominent entomologist at no less
than IL, ZOO, 900! The bird population
of cultivated districts has been esti-
mated at from 700 to 1000 per square
mile. This is small compared with
the number of insects, yet as each bird
consumes hundreds of insects every
day the latter are prevented from be-
coming the scourge they would be but
for their feathered enemies.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
LENGTH OF A THOUGHT.
surcris!ng Rcsuits Of Experiments Made
by n Noted British Scientist.

How long does it take a man to
think? Professor Richet, at the recent
meeting OF the British association,
gave the results OF his Investigations
into this subject. He found that by
mentally running up the notes of the
musical scale for one or more octayes
and then dividing the total time by
the number Of notes thought of, the
time taken for each note was one
eleventh Of a second. There are va
rious ways of arriving at conclusions
as to the amount of time necessary for
realizing any physical sensation or
mental impression. If the skin be
touched repeatedly with light blows
from a small hammer a person may,
according to Professor Richet, distin-
guish the fact that the blows are sep
arate and not continuous pressure
when they follow one another as fire.
quently as 1000 a second. The small
est intervals of sound can be much
better distinguished with one ear than
with both. Thus the separateness of
the clicks of a revolving toothed wheel
was noted by one observer when they
did not exceed sixty to the second, but
using both ears he could not distin-
guish them when they occurred often
er than fifteen times a second.
The sharp sound of the electric
spark of an induction coil was distin-
guished with one ear when the rate
was as high as 500 to the second. Sight
is much less keen than hearing in dis
tinguishing differences. If a disc half
white and half black be revolved, it
will appear gray when it's revolutions
exceed twenty-four per second. 1t has
been found that we can hear far more
rapidly than we can count, so that if
a clock-clicking movement runs faster
than ten to the second we can coun:
four clicks, while with twenty to the
second we can only count two of them,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

A parcel containing flowers, with
out sufficient postage attached, was
deposited in the Battle Creek, Mich,
postoffice the other day. Law and GUS
tom demanded that it be sent to the
d~ead-letter office, but the clerks sur
missed that the flowers were intended
for a funeral and took up a collection
among themselves so that the parcel
was sent on it's way without delay.
There was no clew as to the identy
of the person who mailed it, and it
was a clear case of casting their bread
upon the waters by the postal clerks,
even if it did cost them but a few
cents at the most.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
THINGS TO KNOW.

The relative size of the earth as
compared with the sun is, approx
mately, that of a grain of sand to an
orange.
The psaltery of Spain is supposed to
have been introduced into that coun-
try Ey the Moors. 1t is still in COM
mon use among the peasants.
The eye of the vulture is so con-
structed that it is a high power tele-
scope, enabling the bird to see objects
at an almost incredible distance.
The Eastern hemisphere, on which
dwell nlnety-two per cent of the pop
ulation CT the world, has ITO, 1872 miles
of railway, Or forty-six per cent of all
the railways.
A snake does not climb a tree or
brush by coiling around 1t, but by
holding On with the points of it's
scales. A snake on a pane of glass is
almost helpless.
The cid log cabin in Front Royal,
Va, in which George Washington liv-
ed while surveying between 174S and
1852, is still standing in fair condition
and is used as a spring house.
Il is said that the patterns on the
finger-tips are not only Interchangeable
through life, but the chance of Che
finger prints of two persons being
alike is less than one chance in 64,-
OGO. 0G9, zoo.
In China government appointments
sse determined by the literary attain
ment of the applicants, and numerous
instances are known of men spending
many Years in preparing for the gov
ernIlent examination.
The number of miners employed in
gold r-ining in New South Wales dur
ins 1896 was 1909 in reefing, 9,4S2
Europeans and 10 Chinese in ~alluvial
working, making q total of 22,207 men,
ar increase of 773 on the number 80
employed during 1895.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

NJ. Mounet-Sully, the famous TRACE
dian of Paris, is having built for him
self a splendid house near Bergero.
The construction is to be of commin-
gled Roman and Byzantine character
architecturally, and is described as a
veritable palace. The country around
is smiling and reposeful. The actor in
tends to dwell in the palace perma-
nently when he retires from the Stage.
He is a native of the Perigord district,
and wants to end his days near the
spot where he was born, and far from
the tumulr of Paris.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

Cheap. Quick, Comfortable.

Leave Omaha 4:35 p. m, Lincoln 6:10 p. III
and Hastings $50 p. m. every Thursday in
clean, modern. not crowded tourist sleepers
No transfers.; cars run right through to San
Francisco and Los Angeles over the Scenic
Route-through Denver and Salt Lake City
Cars are carpeted; upholstered in rattan
have spring seats and backs and are pro-
vided with curtains, bedding. towels. soap
etc. Uniformed porters and experienced ex-
cursion conductors accompany each excur-
sion. relieving passengers of all bother about
baggage, pointing out objects of interest and
in many other ways helping to make the
overland trip a delightful experience. Second
class tickets are honored. Berths s..
For folder giving full information, call al
nearest Burlington Route ticket office, Oh
write to J. Francis, General Passenger Agent
Omaha, Neb.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

DR.. Edward Bedloe, of Philadelphia.
who has been appointed United States
consul at Canton. China, lis today"
says tES Philadelphia Press, IAN hon
ored guest at the famous %banquets of
the east, and is m of the founders Of
Philadelphia's famous Glover club. He
has served in various responsible dip
lomatic positions in Italy, China and
Egypt, under the administrations Of
Presidents Hayes and Harrison.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

Speaking of the last achievement in
India of the gallant Gordons," Black
and White says: Not the least of
the splendid anecdotes with which the
Gordons have enriched military his
tory m to their fellow countrymen
this morning, and the name of the
piper who, shot through both feet, sat
and played his friends on to victory,
will long be a cherished memory. Let
your boys hear that story; they will
be the better for it."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
Savs the Portland lMal Exnress.

Says the Portland (Me.) Express:
THE sight of a young man going to
school these mornings with his books
under n arm and a big bull dog pipe
projecting from his mouth is one of
e~nd-of-the century incidents that teach
people that the youth of today is
somewhat different from the n of
we olden times One would think
so; but it is unfair to the youth of to-
day to take the urchin mentioned as
a sample. There were boys who were
no honor to their friends even in the
good old times"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

An English paper tells a story Of the
Rev. Mr.. Watkinson, a Wesleyan
preacher. Some time ago he was stay
ing with a good woman who was
yearning for the good old times and
mourning the ~degeneracy of modern
days and customs. The Wesleyan
ministers of TIE early part of this
century. she said. rose early, and dear
Mr.. Wesley was in his study at 4
o'clock in the morning. 1T is not
sons dry reply; were Mrs. Watkin-
sons dry reply; were Mr.. Watkin-
son anything like Mrs. Wesley [
shuoid be up at 2 O'clock"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

A curious indication OF an anoma-
lous state Of affairs In athletics at the
university OF Illinois is seen In the
fact that, while President Draper has
put himself on record as emphatically
In favor of collegiate and i%ntercolle-
glate athletics, and while the univer-
sity advertises officially that much
attention is paid to athletics" there,
the young men recently debated In
oneoftheir debating societies the ques-
ton: Resolved, That foot ball should
be prohibited at the university of Iii
nois." The question, after a thorough
alive.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
HOw's This!

we offer One hundred Dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY d CO, Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known +.
]. Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West & Truax. Wholesale Druggists.
Toledo, o.; Walding. Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o..
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimo-
malls sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

While England is fighting on the
Afghan frontier, Russia is building
military roads in the Pamir region
close TO the boundary of India. One
has just been completed over the AK
Baital pass, at a height Of over 1900
feet. 1t can be used by carts and was
begun in July. Another has been
made ear the Karne Tata boundary,
and it was intended to complete an
other before the cold weather set in
at the Bardoba boundary in the Allah
valley.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

OF the candidates for the British
army who fail to pass the tests four
out of five are rejected because of de-
fective vision. The 'eyesight" test
consists of being able to count cor
rectly with both eyes, as well as each
eye separately, a number of small
black dots exhibited on a card ten
feet from the candidate.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
SIOO To Any Man.
WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
OF in Men They Treat and
Fail to Cure.

An Omaha Company places for the first
time before the public a MAGICAL TREAT
MENT for the cure of Lost Vitality Nervous
and Sexual Weakness, and Restoration of
Life Force in old and young men. No
rn-o French remedy; contains no
Phosphorus or other harmful drugs. 1t is
a WONDERFUL TREATMENT-magical in its
efects-positive in its cure. All readers,
who are suffering from a weakness that
blights their life, causing that mental and
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man.
hood should write to the STATE MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Neb., and they will
send you absolutely FREE, a valuable
paper on these diseases. and positive proofs
of their truly MAGICAL TREATMENT. Thous-
ands of men, who have lost all hope Of a
cure, are being restored by them to a per-
feet condition.
This MAGICAL TREATMENT may be taken
at home under their directions, or they will
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to all who
prefer to go to there for treatment, if they
fail to cure. They are perfectly reliable;
have nc Free Prescriptions, Free Cure,
Free Sample, or c. o. d. fake. They nave
e250,000 capital, and guarantee to cure
every case they treat or refund every dol
lar; or their charges may be deposited in
o bank to be paid to them when a cure is
effected. Write them today.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

Paris has, apart from two places
where paupers can spend the night,
fourteen asylumns for the homeless,
which last year lodged IA, 037 persons,
of whom 1857 were women and 2,065
children. Among the dodgers were 246
professors and teachers, IS students, 5
authors, 5 journalists, 120 actors and
singers, 80 musicians and 16 music
teachers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

J. e. Galbraith, who has been as-
pointed traffic manager Of the Cleve-
land Terminal and Valley Railroad
Company, with headquarters at Cleve-
land, will also be the general agent
OF the B. and o. at that point. These
two positions were formerly held by L..
Rush Brockenbrough, who is now gen.
eral freight agent of the B. and o. lines
west of the Ohio river, with headquar-
tiers at PittSburg.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
Holiday Excursions.

On December and 81 the Big Four Route
and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. will sell ex-
cursion tickets from points northwest, both
one way and round trip, at greatly reduced
rates to points in Virginia, North and South
Carolina and other southern states. Round
trip tickets will be good twenty-one days
returning. Write for particulars and
pamphlet descriptive of climate and Vir-
ginia farm lands. U. l.. Trutt, North
western Passenger Agent, 234 Clark st
Chicago.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
A Big ReguIur ARMY,

The nightlest host OF this sort is the army
~ invalids whose bowels, livers and stom-
achs have been regulated by IIostcttcr's
Stomach Bitters. A regular habit of body Is
brought about Though using the Bitters, not
by violent agitation and gripping tle inteS-
tines, but by reinforcing their energy and
causing a flow of the bile into its properchan-
mel. Malaria, la grippe, dyspepsia, and ten
dency to inactivity of the Kidneys. are con-
quered by the Bitters.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26
There Is a Class of People

WHO r injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives it with
out distress, and but few can tell it
from coffee. 1t does not cost over Il
rs much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. Is cents and 25 cents
per package. Try it. Ask for
GRAIN-O.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-11-26

Prof. Mahatfy was once travelling in
England, and in the same compart-
ment with him was a melancholy gen.
tleman dressed in black, who inquired
OF DR.. Mahaffy, was he saved? YES"
was the reply, but it was a very mar
row squeak, and 1 don't like talking
much about it." 81