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Sorrows which Have Been Averted.

clips say God be pitlful,
Thatne 'er say God be praised"
sang Mrs. Browning, crystalllzing in acoup-
let truth which every days lack OF graft
tude to the generous Giver of all our good
bears sorrowful witness. Our impulse In
trial and pain Is to call for help; in extrem-
ity we clamor for relief; In peril and dark
ness we lift up our hands to the heavens.
Not always do. we render the tribute OF
thanks to Him who so bountifully spreads
our tables, 80 wonderfully guides our way,
and SO instantly aids US In our time OF need.
When have We ever gone to Him In pent-
shall we ever get to the end OF the mercieS
which make the outgoings Of the morning
and the evening TO rejoice? Yet In our
private devotions we sometimes forget to
acknowledge our obligations to God, and as
q people We have occasion to be reminded,
as we are by the feast the fathers SET that
our national life and institutions are tokens
n of His watchfuI care and ceaseless wisdom.
In considering Thanksgiving as q means OF
grace, ought we not to make special note
OF all from which we have been saved In the
things that have not hsppened2 How
safe have. been our journeys! How free
from accident the. tenor Of our lives! How
projected have been our homes! How long
an immunity have we had from sickness,
and how seldom has the angel Of death
spread his wing Of darkness over onr thresh-
old! Yes, thanks be unto God for the sor-
rows we have not had to bear, for the caiam.
tiles that have not fallen upon us and ours!
II they had cause for thankfulness ~ s.
Who crossed the bitter sea
To build within the wilderness
The altar Of the free. ~.
Who paused amid their bread OF tears
In exile and In pain,
To praise the God who hushed their fears
And gave them sun and rain,
And seed that pierced the rocky soil,
~ And harvest ere the snow -l'E
II they were glad, mid grief and toll, .
~. Our fathers, long ago, T. =
Oh, what rich chord Of nobler song =.
- Should we this hour uplift,
On whom so swift loves favors throng,
Who reap 80 large gift!
Father from ont Thine open hand
j.. Through all our borders wide, A&
. Drop bounties on our smiling land,
No prayer OF want denied.
Receive our thanks that seek Thee, Lord,
Our words are weak to say
Praise God from WI I'M all blessings dow,
y Our heartfelt psalm this day..
Margaret E. sangster In Congregational
- fat ~. rlt. ,r.f
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No Alcohol In This Hospital.

The Baltimore University School OF
Medicine has decided to conduct its hos@
pital without the use OF alcoholic liquors.
One. OF the physicians Of the faculty says
that there are many good substitutes for
alcoholic stimulants, and that they are beI
ing used in hospitals with good results.
They do not develop morphine or chloraa
or alcohol habits.
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People Who Cannot. Make Fire.

The Papuans of the Malay coast OF
New Guinea are still in the most primi-
tive state. They are wholly unac-
qu ainted with metals and make their
weapons of stone, bones and wood.
They do not know how to start fire,
though fire is used among them. When
a Russian asked them how they made
a fire, they regarded it as very anus
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there may be group of coques to right
and left of the parting. These coques
were originally called ''comb 'curls,
because they were not allowed to fall,
but were stiA1y arranged and held in
place by small combs or hairpins.
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Wedding Threads.

In certain parts of China the young
women wear their hair in long, single
plait, with which is intertwined ..
strand of bright scarlet thread, which
denotes them to be manageable.
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School Children's Eyesight.

Out of $4,000 school children ex-
amined in Minneapolis, 5000 had de-
fective eyesight. The highest per-
centage of detection was found in q
poorly lighted and unsanitary build
1up
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A law of the State of Massachusetts
prohibits towns from Offering more
than $500 as q reward for the arrest
and conviction of murderer.
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AKansas farmer, John Graham, of
Abilene, has grown a sweet potato
which he says is the largest in the
world. It is twenty-five inches in cir
cumference and nine inches in length.
It weighs nine and three-quarters
pounds.
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The Physician and Liquor Prsscriptionsit

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Started Sherltian's Ride.

Captain H. G. Bates, OF the Volunteers,
was buglar in tho army and blew the rally
and charge on Sheriden's famous twenty
nile ride.
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Temperance News and Notes.
Sobrlety Is security.
When men tippie their business soon tops
pies.
The germ OF the drink disease lies in the
arst glass.
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800 pounds being now levied" It
was again reshingled in 1921, eighty
four years later.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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seven children. The sisters are both
in full possession Of their faculties
and are as active as women OF sixty.
hva.
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Sarsaparilla
Hoods Pills s fafs. s aiysf to i opera is.y a5 C
Napoleon's New York Trees.

On West 159th street and St. Mich.
olas avenue, Washington Heights,
stand q number of remarkable tees.
They were formerly in the grounds
surrounding the old Jumel mansion,
which is now known as Earl Cliff. They
are Egyptian cypress, and have o his.
tory like everything pertaining to this
remarkable mansion and its grounds.
They were sent as a present to Ma
poleon Banaparte from the Sultan OF
Egypt, as a gift of honor, but arrived
at r0vre, France, after the Battle OF
Waterloo. Stephen Jumel, who was in
France at that time, and a personal
friend Of Napoleon, succeeded in gam.
ing an audience with the Emperor the
night before he was banished to the
Island of st. Helena. Napoleon pre-.
eented these trees to Junel, who
brought them to America on the clip
per ship Eliza, which he had chartered
with the hope of aiding Napoleon to
escape to this country. These trees,
when brought here. had their native
earth still clinging TO the roots. They
were planted as described above,
where they fourished and grew to n
large size, spreading out their peculiar
branches wide over their adopted soil,
a mute reminder OF tho decay OF EN-
pires, as well as people.-New York
Times.
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"Reylval meetings" are held by oneonto
IN. " unions.
New York longshoremen get from fifteen
10 forty cents an hour.
International Typographical Union has
$50, 900 in It's treasury.
Child labor in Michigan has been greatly
tessened by compulsory educational law.
The Granite Cutters Union has decided to
ins any member caught smoking non-union
cigars.
The Hebrew bakers in New York City are
about to issue O label OF their own, printed
In Hebrew letters.
The holiday season In Berlin, Germany,
Is said to have been the worst for workmen
known in many years.
An International congress Is to take place
at Brussels, Belgium, next summer for the
purpose of discussing the subject Of aeei-
dents to ~workingmen.
Recent testimony In the London Mayors
Court developed the fact that the head watt
err OF a city lunchroom paid the u~uderwait-
eis and made a weekly profit of s25 entirely
out OF tips.
During the twelve months ended Decem-
Der /, 1895, there were 2l0 accidents In the
mines OF the Seventh Mining District Of
~SehuyIkill. Penn, seyenty-one OF which re-
suited in loss OF life.
1t has been estimated that at least az per
cent. Of the entire population OF the United
States make their living out OF the electric
light and power industry, and the bran shas
Of trada directly dependent upon 1t.
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Cycling Notes.

Winter bicycle riders are comparatively
few.
Bicycle polo is a game much encouraged
by repairers.
Many riders are now figuring on the 1897
exchange value of 1896 mathematician
wheels.
or 49, 900 applications for patents in Eng
land during 1886 more than one-ihird were
for improvements in bicycles.
Philadelphia recently voted S1l0,o0 for
park improvements. and OF that amount
$40, 00J will be expended for cycle paths.
The statistical crank has turned his atten-
ton to the bicycle, and says there are Ia
000,0 wheels in actual use in the world.
The French Government purposes TO test
chainless bicycles in military service.
Certain Wisconsin counties are expert
menting with free mail delivery among the
farmers, with the postman mounted on a
bicycle.
II has been remarked that tire makers
nave succeeded in educating bicycle riders
up to the idea that road tires should differ
from track tires in size and weight.
1t is said that much quiet work has been
done by manufacturers in the attempt to
find out what the special requirements IN BIZ
cycles are in various parts of the country.
England gives employment TO SS. 900 per-
sons in her bicycle factories. Tho number
OF wheels made last year mounts to $50 900,
and the capital invested In this industry Is
es5, 900, 900.
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Mr.. Bryan reviewed the campaign from
the Chicago Convention until the close of
the polls. He declared that there had been
great gain made by the silver party since
1894, and said that he believed that with the
efforts to be made during the next four
years there could be no doubt OF victory In
1910. He spoke Of the Bimetafic League,
which is about to be organized in Me-
braska, and advised that all friends OF
silver, regardless of party affiliations,
should be enrolled under ono banner. He
suggested that the Legislature should still
further amend the election laws OF theS state
to the end that voters should be better pro-
tected from intimidation, and also thai cor
porations should not be permitted to con-
tribute funds for election purposes. The
contributions Of corporation funds was In
direct violation Of corporal charters.
His statement that. while the doctrine OF
bimetallism had been defeated at the polls,
1t had made Republicans hope that bimetal-
ism would be secured before the next Presi-
Dental election, was greeted with a great
outburst OF applause. /.
Both houses of the Legislature adjourned
during Mr.. Bryan's speech and many mem
bers heard 1t. In the afternoon Mr.. Bryan
left for Chicago to attend the banquet in
honor OF Jackson's birthday.
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Arkansas contains 62s6 school teaehers,
Harvard has more students this year than
ever before.
Chicago ia to have a hall that wilt ser
20,0t0 people.
onion furnished Christmas dinner to
10I, 595 paupers.
Fogs, which are becoming more frequent,
art rapidly adding a new complication &c
our climate.
A reunion OF participants In the first cam.
palgn of the Republican party is TO be held
at rirtsburS.
The question OF he excessive taxation oil
Ireland has aroused a good deal OF excite
ment in that country.
In Western New York apples and potatoesl
have hardly paid for barreline.
Thousands Of soldiers belonging to the
Turkish armies have struck Tor the payment
Of their overdue wages.
During the past eleven months Clinton
County. Michigan, has paid out $4l6.3l for
bounties for sparrows destroyed.
A new and apparently inexhaustible vein
OF fine blue granite has been recently dis
covered near fredericksburg, Va.
The total of c,earings for 1895 by the
banks in tho New York Clearing House Assoc
cation was S2s, $40, 775, 056, a decrease OF
1911 .02i ,S6s.
During the first fifty weeks OF 1896 the
number Of cases OF rabies in dogs reported
in England was A2s, more than g fourth OIL
them In London.
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FIJI a bottle or common water glass with
urine md let 1t stand twenty-four hours; a
sediment or settling indicates n diseased
condition OF the kidneys. When urine stains
linen 1t Is positive evidence OF kidney
trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate or
pain in the back, Is also convincing proof
thai the kidneys and bladder are out OF order.
WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort In the knowledge so often
expressed that DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney remedy, fulhlls every
Wish 10 relieving pain in the hack, kidneys,
liver, bladder, and every part of the
urinary passages. 1t cotrects inability to
hold urine and scalding pain in passing 1t,
or bad effects following use Of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that un-
pleasant necessity OF being compelled to
get up many times during the night to
urinate. Tho mild and the extraordinary
effect Of ~Swamp-Root is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful cures Of
the most distressing cases. Sold by drug
gists, price fity cents and one dollar. For a
sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent free
by mall, mention this paper and send your
full p~ostoflce address to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
~Binghamton, N. Y. The proprietors of this
paper guarantee the g~enulneness ofthis offer.
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The vicinity OF Iarlinton, W. Va, is said
to be infested with bears.
Halt the cattle inkhe African colonies are
already dead Of rInferpest.
The water supply OF Long Island, New
York, is said to be Ewing out.
DR.. Isaiah r. se$on, OF Sparta. Mich. is
one of the thirty-thtee survivors OF the War
OF 1912.
Gray wolves ARE becoming so plentiful anu
destructive ia Jasper County, MISSOURI, thai
parties are being organized to hunt them.
For n shlpm mt of seventeen barrles o.
apples which a Wnklo (Maine) farmer sent
to Boston he receiycd only ten cents a
barrel.
Hungary has given formal notice 70 Austris
Of its intention to terminate the customs and
commercial convention between tho two
countries.
The U~rnguayan Chamber OF Deputies has
voted restrictive measures against the press
OF the country, and a strong censorship Is to
be established.
To his cell bate. John Riley, recently
sentenced byM tice Bond, OF Leavenworth,
Kan. to Imprisonment, has con-
fessed that Il the last thirteen years he
has been in I'd Zone jaiis.
Thee band IL drove up to the grocery OF
Harry Cliff, "a ,aylor street, Ghicago, IN q
b~aroueA.a - III the store and deliberately
robbed tngl srletorkase 25, all the money
he had. Tnl en- ~ tered the barouch9
and dove On
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The extraordinarily heavy total OF bust
ness embarrassment in ths panic year 1898
was almost paralleled In 1896, Notwithstanding
1894; the S247, 001, 000 OF liabilities OF those
failing during the past twelve months is
challenged only by corresponding totals in
1894 and 10 1898 respectively-S24s, 900, 00)
and S402, 00J 900; the aggregate Of Sl48 ,000,-
900 of assets is an increase over the CORE
spending total one year ago OF fully 20 per
cent. is S14, 600, 900 larger than the like total
total assets OF failing traders in the panic
year 1898.
The annual report otthe number of in
~dividuals, firms and corporations In business
10 the United States shows a marked but not
unexpected increase in what may be called
the commercial death rate during the past
yanr.
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The foregoing furnishes some encourage
ment, in that the apparent increase in the
total number of firms. individuals and cor.
%porations having an established place in
business in the country increased, net, over
those retiring from and failing in business
In 1896 about &c, 900, compared with n cor
responding gain OF only 1000 in 1895. What
has been described as the commercial death
rate-that is, the ratio OF the number failing
In business to the approximate total number
of those established in commercial, indus
trial and financial occupations-has in
creased sharply during the past year,
amounting to LAD per cent, contrasted with
Las per cent. In 1895, 1.21 per cent. in 1894,
and with Id per cent. In the panic year 1898,
which is the highest commercial death rate
recorded. The significance OF this Ia plain
when 1t is pointed out that from 1888 to
1895, inclusive, emitting the panic years 1884
and 1893, the average annual commercial
death rate was only lis per cent. 1fthls be
regarded as the normal, then the increase
has been more than one-sixth.
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rorlrsrs lon 1881.

both'of the sun.
/. An annular eclipse OF the sun February
1, visible as a small partial eclipse in that
portion OF the United States lying south Of a
line drawn from Cape St. Lucas [old CALI
formal, through San Antonio, tTexas; Mem
phis, Tenn :, and Marietta. Ohio, to Province
town, near Cape Cod. in Massachusetts. The
path Of the annular eclipse lies chiefly in the
Pacific Ocean; 1t crosses the northern part Of
South America Colombia and Venezuela)
from Cabita Bay near Cape Corrientes on the
Pacific Coast to the Island OF Trinidad,
where it terminates at sunset at 8 b. 8 N.
D. M, New York mean time.
II. An annular eclipse OF the sun July 20,
visible in the United States, the southern half
OF the Dominion OF Canada, Mexico, Central
America, the West India Islands, n all that
portion of South America north Of a line
drawn from Poracas Peninsula (near town Of
Pisco), Peru, to Castillos Point, a little south
Of ST. Miguel, in Uruguay. The path OF the
annular eclipse passes through the town OF
Topic, Mexico, q little north Of Tampico,
Mexico, Havana and Carderas, Cuba, San
Juan, Porto Rica and Cape st. Rogue. Brazil.
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persisted AMID FLAMES
fires Claim Many Victims and Destroy
Valuable Property.
SEVEN NUNS DIE HEROlCALLY,

Convent and School at Roberval, Can
ada. Burned. With Tragicai Results
After Rescuing Their Pupils tho Sis
tiers Were Unable to Save Themselves
Fatal Fires Occur In wisconsin.
RoBERvAL, Quebec. Canada (special).-
Fire broke out Wednesday morning In the
chapel OF the convent of Our Lady OF St.
John caused by a lighted candle near the
cradle OF the Infant Jesus, setting fire to the
drnperles and floral o~rnamentations, and in
an instant the whole chapel was a mass Of
flames. The alarm was given BY a sacristy
nun, but the Ere spread with such rapidity
that nothing could be done to save the build
ing.
Seven nuns were smothered in the smoke.
Their names are; Mother st. Francois De
Paule elise Gosselin, Of St. Jean Chrysos-
tome); Sisters Providence Emma lie Tour
neau, OF Quebec; st. Ursule (Corlnthe Gar
neau, OF st. Foye); st. Anne QLauro Hudou,
OF Hebertyllle); st. Antoine De Padorio
Catherine Bouille, Of Deschambault); st.
Dominique marie Louise Girard, of Rober-
vaD, and St. Louis (Rose Gosselin, OF st.
Jean Chrysostome). Another nun was badly
burned In trying to extingulsh the fire.
The convent and school are a mass OF
ruins. The total loss is S75,000, with only
about $4,000 insurance. The school was
closed on account OF the holidays, and most
OF the pupils had gone home.
When the alarm was given the nuns
bravely undertook the task Of r~escuing those
in their charge, and in this heroic task
those who persisted gave up their lives.
From floor to floor of the doomed building
these devotees rushed through binding
smoke and fame, sounding the alarm, and
not until every one In their charge was
warned OF their danger and safely out Of
the building, did they turn to the saving OF
their own lives. 1t was then too late. and.
overcome by the heat and smoke, the seven
heroic Sisters gave up their lives. On every
floor their dead bodies were found, their
bodies still kneellng in the attitude OF
prayer.
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: "walter Baker & Co., of Dorchester, Mass,
U. s.. A., hRv given years of study 10 the skill;
Iui preparation OF cocoa and chocolate, and
have devised machinery and systems peculiar
to their methods of treatment, whereby. the
purity, p%nlatability and highest nutrient char.
ncteristics are retained. Their preparations
are known the world over, and have received
the highest Inducements from the medical
practitioner, tho nurse, and the intelligent
housekeeper and caterer. There is hardly any
food product which may be so extensively used
in The household in combination with other
foods as cocoa and chocolate; but here again
we urge the Importance of purity and nutrient
value, ind these important points. we feel
sure, may he relied upon in Bakers Cocoa and
Chocolate. "-Dietetic and HgOienie Gazette.
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PROLIFIC Al PIE TREES.

There has been great crop of ap-
pies throughout thEcountry this year.
and probably morE>trees bore crops
that will exhaust til en Tor at least a
year to come than kyer before. When
we visited apple tfchards in Lincoln
and Concord last September. we saw
trees loaded more heavily than ever
before. They werb moi the largest
trees We have grown apples on, but
some OF them undoB btedly bore ten,
twelve or more bar3 els of fruit. count-
ing defective and pbor with the good.
At o Low price peg barrel these trees
pay IN a single croH many times more
than the land theH occupy is worth.
We have known tbs often to be- done
with plums, peatrSs and the smaller
fruits. But whals Their farm crop can
dc thlsf Inc 7euers often do it,
Dut with the adTaHn OF much expense
for manure andt4r.-American Gull
tivator.
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DON'T wAs PLANT roop.


If you feed i'm Stable don't throw
manure out dailN Under the caves Of
the barn and the Mater from the roof.
Perhaps some OF iyou would hardly
believe it, but I have seen many barns
where this wasteful practice is fol-
lowed yet DON'T throw the horse
manure ont OF windows or doors into
B careless pile. This il an almost
universal customt The valuable
plant-food, half thb value or more.
Is washed out OF 1.-THE cattle manure
under the caves, and most of the nitro
gen goes into qhe air from the
loose, heating pile bf horse manure,
oftentlmes one 4ould make money
faster, than he did in summer. bv
simply getting wheelbarrow and
wheeling out the i~cattle manure, and
making n pile away from the barn and
surface wash. MIKE the pile broad
and fiat. and if Eou can wheel the
horse manure to kAie same place and
spread 1t IN MN Ayers on the same
pile, along with M othor manure. you
save 1t In the best manner. 1t can be
saved by ITSELF however, by sprinkling
and tramping. l Fsed to put rubbing
posts on our manure pile out in the
yard, SO the cat~tietwould go up on it
n tramp 1T for ME. And then I al
ways shovelledi 1t UP around the edges
before n RAIN to Prevent loss. TWEEN
ty-seven years ago}I bought a wheel
barrow, and began doing just what 1
have advised above. Had 7 waited
until we could build a large manur
shed and cement floors as we have
now. before tryingIto save the manure,
we probably neytr would have had
these improvemenSs-T 3. Terry in
Practical Farmer.