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Leads all Oher N0 Carolina a88 in Both News and Circulation

wind is maintaining a velocity of thirty
miles. Portions of the board walk have
been swept away, as well as cottage
porches and fences, and the damage is
estimated at thousands Of dollars.
From Millville comes the report that
the big tides in the Maurice river have
flooded the oyster houses and several
have been blown down. The Ocean City,
Sea Isle and Maurice River branches of
the West Jersey Railroad are submerg-
ed. Nearly mile Of the Reading tracks
have been washed away near Egg Har-
Dor City and the mail coach between
that place and Tuckerton was held up
today by flooded roads. Much damage
has been done in the vicinity of Lewes,
Del. The schooners Little Falkanburg,
Sarah /. Vaughn, II. w. Laws and An
ME l.. Conder went ashore on the beach
there last night The crews were safely
landed.
The schooner Emma l.. Cottingham,
from Fall River for Philadelphia, is
ashore near Delaware City. She lies on
stone pile well up the beach,
The schooner Elizabeth Lee, Philadel-
phia for Gloucester, Mass, broke from
the tugs which held her today and drift
ed on the point of Cape Henlohne. She
is in bad position and may go to pieces
at any moment because of her cargo OF
coal. The crew was taken aboard the
tugs. A number of dredges and barges
are also ashore.
At Bowers Beach, Del, William
Spencer and his wife are in the second
story of their cottage, which is sur
rounded by water, and help cannot reach
them. Many animals have been drown
ed there.
STORM OFF HATTERAS
Washington, D. c., Oct. 25.-The
storm on the Atlantic coast, according
to the weather bureau report tonight as
central near Norfolk this morning, has
apparently moved to the southeast and
is now central east of Hatteras, the
pressure having increased at the center
of disturbance.
Strong northeaesterly gales continue
on the middle Atlantic and southern
New England coast, but the conditions
are less threatening than they were at
the morning report.
AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Atlantic City, N. j., Oct. 25.-The
northeast storm still prevailing is prob
ably the most severe in many years. In
point of high tides, it has not been
equalled, it is stated, since 1914. The
damage done thus far does not equal
that OF the storm of 1850, but if it does
not abate soon, it promises to exceed it.
The principal damage accomplished has
been by the wind.
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APPOINTED SECRETARY GEN
ERAL.

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 25.-Dr lose
Congosta, the Spanish consul at this
port, today received word from Madrid
that he has been appointed secretary
general to Cuba, the third highest no.
sition on the island. DR.. Congosta viii,
sail for Havana next Saturday. He has
been cousul here for twelve years, and
prior to that was stationed In France.
Africa, and Portland, Me. He will be-
succeeded by Senor Joaquin Torreia.
now consul general in Jamaica.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-10-23

PHOSPHORUS and potash are some
times lacking in the soil, but large guam
titles of these minerals are usually pres.
emit, and only that is lacking which will
make them available; but nitrogen must
be got from without, and it is one of the
leading elements in the construction of
the plant; without it no plant growth is
possible.
Those who take pride in their fruit
orchards will make some money, while
others will quit the business in disgust
-Four out of five new orchards will be
neglected; there will be little protection
of the young trees from stock, little
pruning and little spraying when they
come into bearing. The average good
farmer is poor fruit grower. While
common fruit may overstock the mar.
ket. the demand for choice apples. pears,
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Queer Ways of Growing Manly.

In Guiana, il child is slow in lie
movements. the parents apply an ant to
the child instead of whip to make it
move faster. This little ant bites more
cruelty than mosquito, and its bite is
apt to be very troublesome afterwards.
AS you can imagine, this treatment does
not make the child very kind to others.
and the children in Guiana are said to
be particularly cruel to animals. The
little boys in Guiana do not reckon their
age by years, but by their ability to en-
dure pain. Until he gets to the point
where he can let the Hucu ant bite him
without winciDg, he is considered
merely baby. Like boys all over the
world he wants to be a man, as he un-
derstands it. So he buts,gashes in his
arms and breast and rubs into the
wounds the juice of plant which stings
and bites. but this juice is said to be an
antidote of snake poison.
Some little boys grow up with very
queer ideas Of what it means.to be a
man. l remember passing a group of
little boys. little bits of boys. in tene-
ment- house street once. Before | got
to them saw that they were greatly ex-
cited, that they were all talking at once
and talking very loudly. l walked
slowly to try to find out what was the
cause of the excitement. and l found
that'the boys we're telling each other what
they meant to be when they we're men.
One little fat. chubby boy put his
Lands in his knickerbocker pockets,
swelled out bis chest, and said, with an
air of pride and decision, II am going to
get junk (drunk) when / Diet to be
man like my papa" You see. he did not
have very clear ideas as to what it
meant to be man; but he showed one
thing. that he loved his father and that
his father was to him the best kind of
man.-United Presbyterian.
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A United States Officer.
Some Incidents of His Life and Hardsf1ips i'm the
Late War.
From the Gazette. Medway, Mass.

The thriving town of Midway, Mass.
has no more reputable citizen than Capt
John p. l.. Grant the carpenter and
builder. For months he was sufferer
from wrecked digestion, loss of memory
and the keenest of rheumatic pains aris-
ing from life of ambitious labor and
arduous exposure as an officer in the late
war, and later as U. S mail carrier.
A representative of this paper called on
Capt Grant for his story. He met the
newspaper man cheerily and in his own
honest, simple language, said:
II was born in South Berwick, Me- i,
Dec 30, 1884, and when two years old !,
moved with my parents to Old York, Me-
When 16 years old | was apprenticed to a
prominent builder, Samuel Colcord, of
Exeter, n. H., to learn the carpenters
trade with the added privilege of attend
ing Philips Academy, then as now ia
nous seat of learning. / graduated from
there and went to Portland, Me. where
served two years with Hon. VIM. G. Kim
ball. noted builder of the time.
81 worked in NewbuIyport two years
and then established myself in business
in West Amesbury. During this period
was married at ChaTlestown. In 1862 l
removed to York where | enlisted in the
u. S. service. l served nearly three
year, participated in forty-three battles,
some of them the hottest fights of the
war, was JWlCe WOuuuSu anu lOF q Illuo
disabled, and at last was discharged at
Augusta, Me-, in 1865.
Il secured and kept the contract for
carrying the mails between York and
Portsmouth, N. H., for twelve years. L
removed to Midway in March, 1887,
where have since resided, in business as
a carpenter and builder. Ihave raised
family of ten children, and have now a
family of six residing with me.
about three years ago | was suddenly
attacked with dizzy spells, protracted in
duration and more frequent as the weeks
went by. With these attacks came inces-
SAINT vomiting and spasms of coma so that
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language the first time he saw him, and
he advised him, therefore. to learn by
heart the proper replies to the usual
three questions OF his Majesty. The
soldier lost no time in learning them,
and on the first day that be made his
appearance in the ranks Frederick
approached to interrogate him. 1t 30
happened, however, that the King began
with the second question first. and asked
him.
How long have you been in my
service?"
"Twenty-one years." answered the
young man.
His youth sufficiently indicated that
he had not carried gun for any such
length OF time as that, and his Majesty,
greatly astonished. ssid,
"How old are your"
"One year, ant please your Majesty?'
The King, still further amazed, ex-
claimed:
you or l must certainly be bereft of
our sensesw
The soldier, of course taking this for
the third question, and glad that the
ordeal was over so easily. replied:
Both. ant please your Msjesty"
This is the first time | was ever
treated as a mailman at the head of an
army" replied Frederick, greatly
puzzled.
The Frenchman, whose stock of Ger
man was now used up, stood quiet.
Presently the King spoke to him again.
whereupon the soldier blurted out in
French that he did not understand q
single word Of German. The King, who
had been much annoyed, was now great.
ly amused. and after urging upon him
the necessity of doing his duty. left
him.
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postpaid
UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE.
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LITTLE PATTY.

Cross little Patty sat under a tree,
AS fretful as ever a child could be.
ssKeep stilll'' to singing bird. she said ;
seYou are out of tune and you hurt my
head.
Do stopr' she cried to dancing brook.
A lamb and pussy cat came to look
At cross little Patty beneath the tree,
AS fretful as ever child could be.
The pussy. cat wondered to see her pout,
And the frisly lambkin skipped about,
But the brook tripped on over stones and
moss,
And never found out that Patty was
cross.
The bird in the tree-top sang away,
And these were the words she meant 10
say
"You poor little girl! why, can't you see
That there's nothing at all the matter
with mel
Mend your manners. my dearie, soon,
Or you'll find the whole world out OF
tune"
Somehow, the wind in the leafy tree,
And the ripping water so wild and free,
The bird on the bough, and the snow
white lamb,
And the gentle pussy so mild and calm,
Made Patty ashamed of her naughty
mood;
She shook herself well, and said, "I'll be
good"
And, presto the Patty beneath the tree
Wac iuct 10 sweet as a child could be-
Young People.
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instantly ] would fall wherever l might
be and remain so for some time.
''Soon | was forced to keep in bed, my
digestion was wrecked, my business was
going to pieces and everything looked
very dark. OF course | tried all kinds of
remedies that were recommended but to
no avail, and | also went to a Medical In
stitute in Boston, but all my expenditure
was fruitless.
"Finally | ecured a box of Dr. Will
liams' Pink Pills for Pale Pale People,
and received so great relief from them
that my family and myself could see d.
rect benefits.
Il kept on with the use and steadily
grew better The dizzy attacks lessened
and at last left me, the vomiting has en-
tlrely ceased and my general health has
not yet stopped its improvement. My di-
geStion is now good and to no other agency
than DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People can my cure be ascribed.
Il had since the war, been troubled
greatly with chronic rheumatism but this
was relieved by taking these pills 1t is
one of the greatest remedies ever used by
anybody and every member of my family
has the me high opinion of it that | do
| have nothing but earnest. grateful praise
for what it has done for me"
(Signed) JOHN p. L. GRANT.
Capt. Grant will be glad to answer any
letters addressed him about his case His
address is p. o. box l42, Midway, Mass.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie are a specific for troubles peculiar to
females, such as impressions, irreg ular-
titles and all forms of weakness. They
build up the blood, and restore the glow
of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In
men they effect radical cure in all cases
arising from mental worry, OveTwork or
excuses of whatever nature. They are
manufactured by the DIR. Williams Medi-
cine Company, Schenectady, ~ Y, and
are sold by all druggists at 80 cents a box
or six boxes for 81. so.
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AT CROSS-PURPOSES.

Whenever new.soldier appeared in
the guards of Frederick the Great of
Prussia, it was The habit of the King to
ask him the three following questone
"How cd are you? How long have you
been in my service? Are you satisfied
with your pay and treatment" 1t once
happened that a young French soldier
who had served in his own country, ex-
pressed a wish to join the Prussian
army, and, because of his splendid phys
ical development, he was at ono g
accepted. He was unable to speak a
single word of the German languas Q,
but his Captain told him that the Kir g
was certain to ask him questions in thai
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ne crled, "and now we are losing 1t,
and the battle as WE'LL"
But there was not much profit in
winning battles from indomitable old
Admiral Coligny. He was away at
once, and rolled up new army "like
SNOWFALL" as people said. No one
was as delighted as he though, to
hear that young King Charles really
desired peace, and would grant fair
terms to the Huguenots. And being
long headed statesman as well as a
brave soldier, he succeeded in having
very favorable treaty signed. This
provoked one hot tempered Catholic
to complain, I'VE gained by arms but
they gained by those devils of docu-
ments."
To make the peace more lasting it
was proposed that the two Huguenot
princes, Navarro and Condo, should
marry two Catholic princesses. King
Charles offered to Henry of Navarro.
his sister Marguerite, a clever, snowy,
bold coquette of a girl, about his own
age. This was very brilliant match
but Queen Jeanne of Navarro hesitat-
ed a long time over it, lest it's worldly
advantages should cover some snare
for her sons religion. She was also
warned that if ever that wedding
took place it would be with crimson
favors." She did however come to
Paris and make all the necessary ar
rangeme nts. She wrote to Henry
about his bride: "She is beautiful
and discreet and of good demeanor,
but brought up in the most accursed
and most corrupt society that ever
was. | would not for anything in
the world have you here to remain.
That is why l desire to get you mar
ried, and you and your wife with
drawn from this corruption"
But in the midst of her hurry the
good queen suddenly died, to the
great sorrow of her son, and it was
whispered about that Catherine de
Medici had poisoned her in pair of
gloves. At last tie wedding day
came. Eight hundred gentlemen
came in Henry's suite to Paris. The
marriage took place in great pomp on
a platform outside of Notre Dame
Cathedral. Princess Marguerite was
resplendent in jewels and plumes
and long blue velvet train EN-.
broidered with the golden lilies Of
France. Nearly all the Huguenot
mobiles of France were gathered in
the capital to see their young leader
married.
And here his boyhood ends. He
was now nineteen; nolonger prince
but King of Navarro; no longer a
youth but married man. How after
all it was terrible marriage with
crimson favors;" how the streets OF
Paris were red with Huguenot blood;
how basely Coligny was slain; how
for four years Navarro and Condo
were held in captivity; how he es-
capped; how he CALAMITY led the HUI
guenots and fought and joked and
won all mems hearts; how at the
battle of Ivry he babe his soldiers
follow his white plume, you will
always find it on the road to victory
and honor" how he became King
Henry ". of France, the best be-
loved of all sovereigns-all this be-
longs to the history of his manhood.
Interior.
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1t is land of green
valleys, filled with chestnut and
olive-trees, leading up to steep, snow
capped mountains. Overlooking one
of these valleys is the picturesque
town of Pau, with its ancient castle
crownipg the cliff above it.
One December night, three hundred
and forty years ago, lights cleaned
from the castle windows long after
midnight; servants hustled about in
side; physicians and nurses sgave
orders with an important air from the
door of the Queen of Navarre's own
room, and sleepy pages waited in the
stone tagged hall to do their bidding.
Bye and bye the voice of woman
feebly singing an ..old French carol
floated out to the ears of these drowsy
ones, and they Strengthened up and
murmured to each other:
at must be Queen Jeanne, for
even SO she promised her royal father
she would sing. The valiant ladi !"
And then an elderly man brushed
past the m into the chamber beyond:
THE baby has come. A fine
healthy boy!" cried the nurse to him.
"Then this is for my daughter"
said he, giving her a golden casket.
'And this is for me" he added wrap
ping the newborn babe in fold of
his long dressing gown. HE must
grow up brave and hardy" muttered
the old man. He poured a drop of
wine into the little half-open mouth,
and rubbed it with Glove of garlic
The nurse looked on in dismay, but
the baby sucked its lips and nodded
its head, as if pleased. AHA! thou
art a true Gascon!" cried the de-
lighted grandfather, and nothing
would do but he must at once carry
it out and present it to his subjects
as their future king.
In huge tortoise shell the baby
was carried to church to be baptized
Henry. A few months later accord
ing to his sturdy old grandfather's
wish he was taken to mountain vii
lage and here he was brought up in
the simplest manner. AS soon as he
could walk little Henry of Navarro
ran barefoot and bareheaded in the
grass; he lived on porridge, like the
country lads; joined in all their
sports and grew up healthy, active
youngster. Long years afterwards it
was said of him that when he had
walked every one else to stand, be
would call for horses for hunt, and
when the horses could go no farther
he would run down the game on foot.
While his grandfather took cal of
his health, his mother, Queen Jeanne,
took care OF his mind. He was
bright child but not patient with his
books and never became a great
scholar. He learned the history of his
own and other countries. he spoke
Spanish and Italian; ne knew Latin
fairly we'll, AMI some tags of Greek.
These things he learned and more.
partly scrambling over his native
mountains with his tutor at his heels,
and partly when he visited the French
court in gay Paris.
Now the French court at that time
was the worst possible place for a
boy. There were three royal brothers,
Francis, Charles and Henry, the Val
OILS princes, HenrY's cousins, and of
about his own age, who one after an
other became kings of France, and
there was their mother, Queen Cathe-
rine de Medici, a sly, INSCRIPTIONS
Italian woman, who really managed
everything her own waV. She in
dulged her sons shamefully, so that
they would become too lazy to govern
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AGENTS WANTED.
LIFE OF
AlOnZO AmeS Miner, s. DIT, LID.
BY GEORGE H. EMERSON, D. D.
lust

Preface.
Introduction.
[. Ancestry
ii. The Miner Homestead.
III. The Parents.
". Boyhood and Youth.
v. Teacher and Preacher.
vi. Antecedents of Modern Univer.
salism.
VII. Essentials of Modern Universal
VIII The Methuen Passionate.
TX. Incidents of Call to Lowell.
x. The Lowell Ministry-Co Conquest
of Public Sentiment.
XII. The Lowell Ministry-Controver
sial Work.
XII. The Lowell Ministry Construc-
tive Work.
XIII. The Second Society of Universal
lists in Boston = Antecedents
and Early History.
XIV The Call to Boston-IncidentS of
Acceptance.
XIV The Ministry in Boston-Junior
Passionate in School Street.
XVI The Ministry in Boston-A Peri
cd of Prosperity Interrupted.
XVII. The Ministry in Boston-A Jun
Tor Pastor
XVIII. The Ministry in Roston-Radical
and Commercial Transforma-
tions.
XIX The Ministry in Boston-Adieu to
School Street.
Xxx. The Ministry in Boston--Colum-
bus Avenue.
XXI. The Ministry in Boston--Remote
Results
XXI. The Ministry in Boston-Special
Concentrations and Recep-
XIII The Old world-Travels and Let
tiers.
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OWN in the southwestern
corner of France, close
against the rocky range
of the Pyrenees, which
separates it from Spain,
nestles a tiny kingdom
formerly called Navarro.
t. 10 q land IF Oreen
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XIV. General Denomination Sale
vice.
XIV. Institutions of Learning undo
Universalist Patronage.
XVI. The Beginnings of Tufts
lege.
XVII. Service in the Establishme,. o
Tufts College
XVIII. Service in Development on
dowed Academies.
xxx. Services Outside of Denom.
tional Limits.
xxx. Evolution of the Temperan1
Reform.
XXI. Counsellor for Retention for
PIohibitory Legislation.
XXI. Resistance of Slavery Propa
gandism.
XXXIlI. The Papal Policy.
XXXlV. Preacher and Orator.
XXXV. Char acterisics.
XXXVI. The Last of Earth.
XXXVII. Tributes.
Appendix.
Index.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece.-
Benajah Ames Miner.
Amanda Carey Miner.
Miner Coat of Arms.
The Miner Homestead.
The Lake, Lempster.
Miner Burial Ground.
Universalist Church, East Lempstcr
Universalist Church, Methuen.
Second Universalist Church, Lowell
Old School Street Church.
A. A. Miner at thirty-fve.
Columbus Avenue Church
On Horseback.
Miner Hall.
Dr. Miner in tie CHAIR
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HENRY OF NAVARRO.

BY ISABEL M'DoUGALL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21
PIG-IRON PRODUCTION.
Increase Over the Last Six Months of
756,5S5 Tons.

PHILADELPHIA, July 20.-The Bulletin
of the American Iron and Steel Associa-
ton, in its issue of to-day says that the
total production of pig iron in the United
States in the first half of 1897 was 4.403. 476
gross tons. AS compared with the first half
of 1896 there was a decrease in the first
half of 1897 of 572,7 100 tons, but as compared
with the second half of 1896 there was an
increase of 756, S5S tons. The production of
Bessemer pig iron in the first half of 1897
was 2,495,97S gross tons. OF this total in
crease of 756, $50 tons of all kinds of pig iron
in the first half of 1897 over the last half of
1896, 1854, 6S5 tons, or almost CT, was of
Bessemer quality. The whole number of
furnaces in blast on June 30, 1884, was 146,
against 159 on Dec. 81, 1896. The number
out of blast on June 80, 1897, was 800. IN
sold stocks of pig iron on June 30, 1897 in
the hands of manufacturers or their agents,
and which were not intended for their own
consumption, amounted to 827, 1853 gross tons,
of lis, 514 tons. Included in the stocks of I'M
sold pig iron on hand on June 80 were IS 0S5
tons in the yards of the American Pig
iron Storage Warrant Company, which was
get under the control of the makers the
part in these yards not under their control
amounting to 5l5 tons, which, added to
the S27, 1853 tons above mentioned, makes a
total of 9736l8 gross tons of pig iron which
were on the market at that date against
similar total of 247,6S6 tons on Dec. 81 1896.
The total stocks in above named warrant
Yards on June 80, 1897, amounted to 221 800
tons, of which almost four-fifths were held
in the South.