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This makes the duellist more wary,
for a foul by either neal the loss of
theyhonor of the conflict.
"'Ware!" cries one of the combat
ants, and a thrust is aimed at his OPP
p~onent's helmet with a force that
would seem sufficient to throw him
from the saddle. He s~ustains the
shock gallantly, and the snarks fly as
the foils beat upon cne another.
Neither cyclist has lost his equili-
brium for q moment. The bicycles
seem almost endowed with life.
The riders evidently have forgotten
that they are not on steeds of flesh
and blood.
Parry and thrust, clever defence,
blows that seem powerful enough to
cleaye the mask in twain-all these &C.
cur with lightning-like rapidity.
Then like a fash of light m cyclist
whirls and circles about the other,
and before the latter can fairly place
himself il a position of defence the
more active wheelmsn has touched his
antagonist over the heart with the but
ton that protects the point of his
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A Prayer for Preparation.

We present ourselves to thee today, our
Father. Prepare US for what thou seest to
be waiting for us In the valley OF the
day, now yelled in mist. Let not
sin have dominion over US. If tempta-
ton a~ssails, may it find no foothold in our
hearts, II we pass through scenes where the
infection of evil is strong, may we not be
susceptible to it; If we are strongly pro-
voked, may we not yield. II thou goest not
with US carry US not up hence. Apart from
thee we can do nothing. Be nearer to Us
than our dearest friend; be closer to US than
the most insidious craft Of the enemy. May
we put on the Lord Jesus, so that he shall
be the vesture Of our souls. Be with US
as our shepherd, keeping US; as our cap
tain, leading US; as our friend, warning and
helping us. Let the secret place OF the
Most High be our home and the shadow Of
the Almighty our abiding place. Do more
than 60 with US, dwell in US, walk In US.
possess US, use us. When we are most
absorbed in our necessary business, may thy
presence not withdraw itself, but be perma-
nent and abiding. Amen.
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MR.. voM scHE1Dr AND HIS FIVE BOYS ON A BICYCLE.

be an expert cyclist. Whoever at
tempts one of these combats on wheels
must be able to perfectly manage his
machine without the assistance of his
hands. One of the first principles of
exercise with the foils is to keep con-
slant watch on ones opponent. The
slightest negligence of this sort may
give a fencer tremendous advantage.
If his wheel abstracts his mind from
the object he is trying to attain he
gives his opponent just so much adj
vantage which he otherwise would not
have. So what it really amounts to
is that the man who wishes to fight his
duel on a bicycle must leave the man
agement of his wheel to his feet and
knees.
The combatants in a mock duel of
this nature are dressed in the ordinary
outing costume of the cyclist. Their
hands are clothed in gauntlets. The
stockings worn are usually faced with
very fine quality of chamois skins.
The shoes are of the regulation bicycle
ldSllOu, Will IuDUSl SOlSS.
On the inner side of the trousers,
just above the point where the leggings
and the bottoms of the trousers meet,
, is a round piece of rubber about an
' eighth of al inch thick and seven and
one-half inches in circumference. The
object of this rubber is to give the
rider a firm pressure upon the ma
chine, just as the rubber soles of his
shoes act as q safeguard against his
feet slipping on the pedals.
Each duelist wears a mask which
has over each eye a projection of wire,
similar in form to a small inverted
tea cup. This gives absolute freedom
of vision.
A short time ago I was fortunate
enough to witness a contest with foils
between two of the most expert riders
in the United Kingdom. Both were
mounted on American wheels, twenty
eight pounds each. The wheels were
of what is called the new folding pat
tern. That is, the frame is so CON
structed that it is possible to fold the
wheels so that they come side by side,
the centre of the frame working on a
hinge. It is claimed that a wheel of
this sort enables the rider to turn more
quickly, and thus forms the best pos
sible wheel for the mock duellist.
Each man took up a position about
fifteen feet from his antagonist. At a
given signal both mounted their
steeds of steel and slowly circled about
one another, just as We have seen men
fighting with knives seek an open
ing in which to make an attack.
The left hand rests lightly on the
handle bar. The right hand grasps
firmly the foil, held at an angle of forty
five degrees. Slowly the two circle
about, until suddenly one ridder
dashes forward as if from a catapult;
there is a clash, clash of steel, and
the first passes are over. The circling
movement is confined by both men,
who grow nor and more wary as the
circle narrows.
"Look outy' calls the director.
"Gentlemen, no foul, if you please"
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Birds as Seed Carriers.

Two centuries ago the Dutch de-
stroyed every nutmeg tree in the Mo-
luccas, in order to enjoy a monopoly
of the business, having planted the
trees in their own possessions. In spite
of their most earnest efforts, however,
the islands were constantly being re.
stocked. For a long time the thing
was a mystery, but at length it was
solved. The doves of that quarter Of
the world are of large size, end readily
swallow the seeds of the nutmeg.
They traverse wide stretches of sea
and land in a few hours, and deposit
the seeds not only uninjured, but bet
ter fitted for termination by the heat
and moisture of the birds system. By
a similar process thousands of acres of
land have been covered with trees of
different kinds, the birds acting as
natures agents in the dissemination
of plants. Darwin found in six grains
Of earth adhering to the feet of plover
three different kinds of seeds, and in
mud sticking to the feet of ducks and
geese shot in England he found the
leeds of plants peculiar to the Victoria
Eyanza, in Central Africa, thus proving
not only the extent of migration, but
llso the possibility of plants appear
Ing in strange localities through the
agency of these birds. In the mud
sticking to the feet of a Texas steer
the seeds of five different kinds of
weeds and grasses common in Texas
we're found by a microscopic after the
arrival of the animal in New York.
Colman's Rural World.
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LAUNDERING.
Mangle Consists of q Clumsy Log and
Rollers. Propelled by Frail Women.

Slavonia is in Austria, or rather in
the extreme south of Hungary, but its
people are nearly all Servian. Its
plains stretch for miles in an endless
expanse of perfectly fiat country. Its
mud is fathomless, its women's daily
task of securing and fighting against
the dirt that the ''men folks" bring in
from out of doors on their shoes is
never done. Between times there is
the mangle.
This is a stout plank about seven
feet long, raised to a height Of two
feet upon rough hewn logs. The mid
die of the plank is gripped by a frame
work rising from the floor to a height
of five feet, with three great beams
running across it, the whole fastened
together with pegs. Upon the plank
are laid two rollers, and on these rests
a half log of wood just fitting between
the sides of the frame. This weight is
smooth on it's under surface, rough
hewn above, and is provided at each
end with three pegs which serve as
handles.
The ironer, when ready to begin,
takes O sheet, for instance, winds it
tightly around one of the rollers and
puts an old ironing cloth around the
outside. Then, lifting one end of the
log and placing the roller under it,
she works the weight to and fro, until
the wrinkles are all presumably
smoothed away. Then the sheet is re-
moved. folded and put away, and the
next ''ironing'-perhaps another sheet
or three or four towels, OF half a dozen
Observation-Disclosures. The Sec
ond roller acts merely to balance the
log, although two ironers can work the
machine, one at each end.
The woman who irons is as pic
turesque as her tools, when she
wears the Slovenian peasant Co.'S
tune. Her shoes are fiat and heelless;
she has no stockings, but winds linen
about her lower limbs and binds it in
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weapon. The cyclist who is thus
touched is forced to dismount his
wheel, and his opponent has scored a
point. This is the method that is
generally followed, and, as may be
seen from the description given, is ex-
citing in the extreme.
One interesting result in France is
that it is likely to become something
more serious han mere pastime.
Duelling is the vogue there. At the
same time a duel about which there is
q novelty, is something to be Guilt
waited. Therefore, the mock duel on
wheels, which the fencing exercise is
called, has suggested to the volatile
Frenchman a chance to furnish wheel
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How a Fond Buffalo Father Takes His
Five Sons Wheeling.
Mr.. Vom Scheidt, of Buffalo, has
five boys and a bicycle. AS the bicycle
is an ordinary wheel intended for the
use of one person, and as the boys are
all of them too small to stride the
paternal machine, it is difficult at first
to imagine the connection between MIR.
Vom Scheidt's six possessions. A
glance at the illustration, which we
reproduce from the columns of the
Buffalo Express, will, however, show
that there is something in common to
all, and that there is something very
vital to the enjoyment of the Yom
Scheidt youngsters.
The spectacle of MI. Vom Scheidt
and his family enjoying spin upon his
bicycle must be edifying indeed, espec.
tally when the family tackle a sharp
hill on a warm day. At this distance
from Buffalo, says the New York Her.
aid, we can almost hear the paternal
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Sin and S~elhshness.

A brittle thing is our earthly happiness
brittle as some thin vase Of Venetian glass;
and neither anxiety, nor sorrow, nor the
dart Of death, which Is mightier than the
oak-cleavirg thunderbolt, can shatter a
thing even s, brittle as the earthly happi-
ness of our poor little homes, If we place
that happiness under the care OF God. But
though neither anguish nor death can break
1t with all their violence, sin can break it
at a touch; and selfshness can shatter 1t,
Just as there are acids which will shiver the
Venetian glass. Sin and selashness-God's
balm does not heal in this world the ravages
which they cause Canon Farrer.
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muscles groan and see great drops Of
perspiration rolling down the Vow
Scheidt brow.
The boy in front Of the family group
is twelve years old, and so is the boy
in the rear. No. 2 on the wheel is
the latest Vom Scheidt to enter this
world of sin and wheeling. He is
about six months old. The boy seated
just behind the baby is five years old
The next is seven.
MI. Vom Scheidt is as muscular as
he is kind hearted. He has wheeled
himself and his five sons hundreds of
miles. He has even taken them on
several occasions to Niagara Falls and
back. It can readily be believed that,
as a contemporary remarks, "This BIZ
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God O Best.

We may be led Of God all the time, and,
like Moses, we should be content with the
place where lie bids US dwell. I doubt not
that some of you may feel that you have
been, and even now are, kept back from the
greatest usefulness. . l would not
have you feel thus, but rather use very care
fully all that the Lord gives you. And don't
be afraid of the "back side Of the desert"
and never think you are forsaken Of Goo
because kept long there. He knows just
how much Of quiet, humble life we need to
serve Him in the best manner hereafter
Mary LyoI.
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OIdest Church in New England.

The history of the first parish of
Dorchester, now a part of Boston, is
the historyof one of the oldest churches
in New England. The parish was
organized June %, 1886, and the first
church was built in 1641. The second
church was built in 1916, and the third
in 1877. In 1743 they erected their
fourth church, and on May 16, 1916,
the cornerstone of the church burned
a wear ago was laid. Now a beautiful
reproduction of the old church is ready
for dedication.
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place with thongs, leaving a space of
two inches or so bare below the edge
of her killed skirt Of coarse, undyed
linen. Her yellow, sheepish jacket is
ornamented with patches of red and
purple leather, quilted on with bright
yarns, and her head is covered with a
gaudy kerchief. Almost as often, how
ever, she is stripped of her fnery, ex-
cept on Sundays, and wears at her
work bedraggled clothing of western
Europe's unattractive work-a-day pat
torn
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Trust God With Affairs.

A friend went one morning to Sir Robert
Peel's house and found him with q great
bundle Of letters lying before him, bowed
over 1t in prayer. The friend retired, and
came back in a short time and said. II beg
your pardon for intruding upon your pri-
yate devotions." Sir Robert said: mo;
those were nv public devotions. l was Just
giving the affairs Of state into the hands Of
God, for I could not manage them" Try
trusting the living God with your letter-bag
or your housekeeping.-H. ". Webb-Peploe.
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CANADIAN IMMIGRATION.
The Total Number of Newcomers for 1895
Was 25,47Ss

The annual report of the Department OF
the Interior of tha Dominion Of Canada
has been printed. It shows the total immI-
grant arrivals to have been 25,47s in 1885,
against rs, 1888 in 1895, a decrease OF SIC.
settlement for the year In the Northwest
Territories is represented by the number
of homestead entries, 1857, representing
$3.50 souls, compared with 1894, representing
1854 souls, in 1895, a falling of in entries
OF 537. and Of settlers OF 1893. The entries
of Canadians returned from the United
States number 4s, against lO5 in 1898.
There were 142 natives of the United States
who took up land during the year, against
459 In 1895. OF English there were 279,
Irish 80, Scotch 70, French 81, Belgians II,
Austro-Hungarians SO, Germans A, Ice
landers IA, Russians 50, and Poles II.
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WONDERS OF TIL WHEEL
FIGHTING MOCK DUELS ON BlCY.
Giles A NEW SPORT IN EUROPE.

1t Demands Expert Riding-Comtatants
Must Be Absolute Masters of the
wheel to Win Battles-A Father and
Five Sons Who Ride OF One wheel.
Wheelmen of England and France
now fight mock duels on bicycles. 1t
is not q mere imitation, but a genuine
contest with the foils, which calls for
as much skill as the combats which
took place on foot. The first qualif-
cation for a duellist of this sort is to
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Inscrutable Though Not UnintelligibIe.

Inscrutable Though Not Unintelligible.
1t is vital Christianity when the believer
can say, II live, yet not I, but Christ ltveth
in me-" This is not a shadow which we
pursue, nor a dream Of the night. The
union Of sunlight with flower, Of heat with
fire, of life with the body, is not more real.
There Is q life which is hid with Christ In
God for sinful, helpless men and women;
not a fancy Of the mystic In his solitude, not
a prize for him who has leisure and learn.
ing, but a reality for all believers amid their
temptations, troubles, duties, cares. Man
has body; he Is a spirit. Spiritually he
may be joined with Christ and become a son
OF God. But this union does not destroy
personality. It Is, however, vital-the life
Of Christ within the believer as distinguished
from external influence or assistance-so
that the apostle says, "He that hath the Son
hath life" It is inscrutable though not
unintelligible. We cannot fully comprehend
it. but may know it by experience. 1t is
increasingly revealed to every faithful dis
ciple. "Of His fullness have all we re-
ceived, and grace for graee."-Rev. Herbert
W. Lathe, in 'Chosen Of God"
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HoRSELESS CARRIAGES.
They May soon Be In Reach OF Everybody
Who Needs One,

Horseless carriages at 300 Is the hope
now held out to those who would ride. Elk.
periments have been in progress at the fac
tory OF the General Electric company, at;
Schenectady, N. Y, which have brought
forth the announcement that the market ID
soon to be flooded with horseless carriages
at q price that will bring them within the
reach Of everybody. Every. man who ID
now able to own q bicycle will soon be-
able to own a road cart or q landau, or q
victoria for the use Of himself and his fam
lily. He will need no stable In which to
keep horses, no hostler or footman, no hay
rack or hsrness-but merely a shed In
which to shelter from the weather his mo-
tor cycle or automobile, or autocycle, u
horseless carriage or whatever else he may
choose to call It.
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Lords Smile a Recompense.

If we truly feel that the Lord liveth before
Whom we stand we shall van nothing else
for our work but His smile; and we shall feel
the light of His face is all we need.
That thought should deaden our love for
outward things. How the things tina. We
fever our souls by pursuing and fret our
when we lose will cease to attract?
How small and vulgar the prizes of life. as
people call them. will appear.-A Maclaren
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Strike Cost q Million Dollars.

Four years ago 1900 Pittsburg members OF
the American Flint Glass Workers Union
struck, and they kept it up until May "a.
The strike cost the union nearly a million
dollars. It Is thought that the United
States Glass Company will reinstate most Of
The men, but some Of them are beyond re-
lnststement, nearly 400 Of the strikers hav-
tnG died in the four years.
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A Bic Deal In Oil Land Closed.

A deal has been closed by which the
South Pennsylvania Oil Company has taken
possession of the big Former well and leases
In Greene County. In the purchase are In
cluded leases Of about seventeen hundred
acres OF territory. and one producing we'll
making 300 barrels a day. The considera-
lion was 5000 900 in cash, which Is said to
be the largest price,ever realized for a sin
zle we'll,
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An Indian Chief Who Rides a Wheel.

This Indian chieftain is on his first
visit to San Francisco, and is the guest
of T. H. B. Varney. He is a graduate
of the Carson Indian School, being
now employed by the Government as
an interpreter and naval officer. He
was taught to ride last year by G. G.
Hopkins, and is an excellent bicyclist.
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Died In Church While at Prayer.

Mrs. Nancy Smith attended services az
the Free Methodist Church, Vincennes,
Ind, and while kneeling at the altar in
prayer was stricken with heart disease,
dying instantly. The. congregation was
thrown into q panic.
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INGENIOUS Convicts.

With 8 piece Of string and a little sand
and grease, some Hindoo convicts recently
sawed through an iron bar two inches In!
diameter In five hours and escaped from
jail, according to the Pioneer Mail,
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The inquiry into the fire at the Charity
Bazaar in Paris shows that the men showed
a great deal Of cowsrdice, striking women
and taking from. them their means OF pres
erYatlon s.-
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Money In Clothing.
EkK ramIno IN CuDI

Clothing to the amount Of 90, 205, 900 900
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All the human beings that ever lived
could find standing room in Pennsyi-
Vania.
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SIX ON ONE BICYCLE.

men with a method of his own for re-
senting insult.
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An egg famine has resulted In Cuba from
the waSy
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cycle load is the centre of observation
wherever it goes"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-03

VoU ARE HEREBY REQUIRED TO Ap.
4 pear IN an action brought against you
1y the a62ve,named pleintlf In the Distinct
Court OF the Ihird Judicial district OF tho state
of Utah and 10 answer the complaint fled
therein within ten days exclusive OF the day
OF servlco) after the service on you Of this
summons-R served within this county; or, II
served out OF this county, but in this district,
within twenty days; otherwise within forty
days-or Judgment by default Will he taken
against you, according to tho prayer OF said
compliant
The said action Is brought TO have an order
of this court appointing guardian adj lltem
for defendant Joseph Il. Flanagan. who 10
non compOs menus; to have tusgment.a against
the defendants, flanagan, for the sum OF SIS
principal and interest thereon at the rate Of
per cent per month from December !, 1906
Tor IS 81 taxes with interest at per cent per
sDnum from April 81 ley,; for slUv attorneys
foes and TOR costs OF suit legedto he due upon
n certain promitsorypote 70, O. tied by SAID DO.
PENDANTS, Flanagan, 10 one T.. b. schettler as
agent for the plaintiff at salt Lake CITY, Dec.
9TH. $780, for the sum OF s2Io, bearing interest
at per cent per month, same beng secured by
mortgage OF even date herewith or premises
herein attor described. executed by said defend
ants, flanagan. to plaintiff, who is now the
legal owner and holder of SAID note and mort.
gage; that no part Of said note has been pad,
except the sum Of .SS on the interest; thai on
April 81, 1881. plaintiff paid on said premises as
delinquent taxes The sum Of s.. ~, which has
not been paid by said defendants 10 have the
usual statutory decree OF this court Tor the
foreclosure OF SAID mortgage and the SAFE on
said premises; that proceeds Of said sale DO
applied In payments OF amounts due as above
Pnf that defendants and all persons claiming
under them he barred and foreclOsed OF all
claim of equity OF redemption therein, and for
other relief SAID premises beng described as
follows:
beginning 60 rods W. of tho N. e., Cor. Of
the :, W u OF Sec n. 4. ! S. OF Il. W. OF SAT-
Lake Mer thence w. 90 rods, thence +. 2ti
rods, thence h. 90 rods, thence n. 26S rods TO
place of beginning. containing 10 acres Of
land. being situalc In snlt Lake County. Utah
And you are hereby notified that n you fa'l
10 appear and answer the said complaint as
shove required. the said plaintlu VIII apply TO
the Court for the relief demanded therein
Witness, The Honorable Judges md the seal
OF the District Court of the Third
Judicial District, in and for the
lsEAL) state OF Utah. this 29tb day OF
April IN the wear of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety
seven.
by GEO. d. LOOMS. Deputy Clerk.