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fess 1 examined the book with deep emo
ton. Here was a man, by the unanimous
suffrage of the competent, one of the few
entirely great ones of the world. Wise,
strong, self-poised, self-reliant, able, as his
whole life proved for any emergency-the
very last persons you would ever associate
weak dependence or sentimentalism with,
acknowledging his dependence upon God,
and imploring the divine guidance and
strength.
Washington, the father of his country
Lincoln, it's savior, both were praying men.
Humble and trustful, each laid his life prob
lens before the throne of the Infinite, and
found from that source the strength and the
wisdom that sustained him through all. And
with these earlier patriots stand others of
to-day, who might be named-men high in
office in command, in the ranks-men who
have recently offered and some laid down
for their country life itself.
No, prayer is not the refuge of the weak
alone. 1t is the refuge of the weak, thank
heaven. But it is the secret as well of the
firm willed, the noble, the strong.
One other thought about beautiful office
of prayer one that humanizes while 1T up
lifts 1t is said that John Morley, when the
guest of Lord Aberdeen, always attends
family prayers. Why does he do this? Be
cause he believes as his hest does? No; for
Mr. Morley is a free-thinker. He himself
has explained his action: Il should attend
the prayers" he says, IF only to renew my
own sense of littleness amid the mysteries
of life. ard to begin the day with a feeling
of fellowship in service with the humblest
member of the household referring to the
presence of the hired help.
Here is a great tribute to prayer. 1t in
forces the thought of our common human
ity. AS we reverently bow in the presence
of the Everlasting, we can scarce be forget
full of the overshadowing fact that in His
eyes we are human beings, no more no
less: human beings brethren of each other,
members of the great family of the world
And thus thinking, human sympathy not
less than divine love comes into our lives
as we take upon our lips that perfect pray
err. ''Our Father, who art in heaven
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means to make money, just as any other
vocation Is, only this offers larger rewards
T4F1 CHOPS VVOOn

means to make money, just as any other
vocation is. only this offers larger rewards"
HE CHOPS WOOD.
/ asked Mccoy if he had any special
method of training. and found that one Of
his favorite exercises was chopping wood.
This Is one of the uses to which part of
the morning is devoted. He tackles the
woodpile for half an hour or so. after which
he swings big seven-pound sledgehammer.
The training quarters are in big barn
on the grounds near the hotel. Here there
Is a punching bag, which was presented TO
the young pugilist in South Africa by Pau
Kruger. And there are various other up-tc-
date appliances and weighing machines that
are used in a pugilists training.
Training with Mccoy is not such serious
matter, however, as he manages to get con-
siderable sport out Of 1t. He rises about s
o'clock and plunges into the lake, after
which he is rubbed down, and then is ready
for breakfast, which is usually enjoyed on
tie piazza overlooking the lake. Eggs,
chops, coffee and rolls constitute the menu.
After this he takes gallop over the
pleasant road leading toward Saratoga and
by "Crum's' famous eating house on the
hill, where all the most noted politicians,
statesmen and sports that have visited Sara
foga during its palmiest days until the
present have gone to taste the Indian cook S
delicious bluefish, chicken and green corn
Or else, a. little shooting or fishing is in
dulged in, after which there is a sparring
hour with the trainers and perhaps run
or brisk walk upon the road.
In spite OF the distance from Saratoga Nc
Coy has many visitors, some of last weeks
being Senator Foley, Phil Dwyer, Commits
'sloner Straus, John +. Carroll and Richard
Croker. They are all interested in Mccoy.
whom they regard as an ideal pugilist.
Mccoy Is the only pugilist that 1 have
ever heard of who receives mash notes.
Each mornings mail brings him lot of
tinted missives from the susceptible Sara
toga girls, and also from New York and
from Buffalo-where he is best known.
Doc" Payne, his trainer, showed me some
OF these letters, and they were of the usual
variety, asking for photographs and auto
graphs or requesting interview. Some of
them were begging letters demanding every
thing from a five-dollar loan to a college
education.
Mccoy turns them all over to Payne, who
has made collection of them, dated, and
Endorsed, in some cases. with descriptions
OF the writers; for Payne has in several
cases acted as an understudy for Mccoy and
has carried on several violent fiirtations
with young women who imagined they were
meeting, or writing to, the only kid Nc
Coy
He certainly is the most interesting of all
the pugilists at present before the public.
There are others who have accomplished
more and who rank higher in their peculiar
calling But there is none so picturesque as
Norman Mccoy, the young man who is
training to knock out Corbett in order that
he may have money enough to study to be
doctor. KATE MASTERSON.
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IS. w. Gillian.

I had dream of trees;
The morning breeze
Sang to the mighty forests and the sun;
Creation onward flowed,
The wide earth glowed.
For it was good and evil yet undone.
I was an oak tree tall.
The lord of all
The trees yet had nothing but the same
Still Force that filled the rest
The Ever Blest
The self-subsstng. without face name.
I, as oak tree stood
Guarding the wood;
Waving my leaves in wind and sun and rain;
Life for life's own dear sake
Nothing to make,
Nothing to mar, but only to grow amain.
I was an oak tree when
Unhappy men
Titled the stern soil outside of Eden's gate.
I saw their genius Fear
Forever near,
And love unconscious turned to conscious hate
This sight of life oppressed
Me with unrest:
The drank up my strength like morning dew
The hot noon with it's glare
Was everywhere
AS everywhere were ills and nothing true.
III.
I had dream of trees;
The quiet seas
Reflected evening sky and purple hill;
Above the lonely shore
Forever more.
I, in the forest, was oak tree still.
At night the world-thought sleeps:
Then. through the deeps
OF soft-enfolding darkness reaches low
The Spirit, urgent free
And l. tree
Felt its faint tremor through the silence go.
Madison, Ind. Olive Sanxay.
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Happiness.

When all the world was young to me, and lifes
sweet skies were clear.
made Happiness my goddess, and sought her
far and
In stately cleaning halls where wild dance
music throbs and thrills,
In bosky des all vibrant with the robins liquid
trills,
Afloat upon the stored Rhine. and in fair Italy,
Full madly 1 pursued her, but she still eluded
me;
And if an instant on my path her graceful shad-
lay,
Ere could speak, heard her hooking laugh
ring far away.
At last, world-weary, hopeless, resigned my
futile quest.
The signs and sobs around told Of other
hearts unrest;
In sorrow-born compassion resolved my life
I'd give
To helping troube-laden ones. who find it hard
to live.
And thus. the suffering called me friend, and
children learned to cling
Fondly about my neck, and then-oh, strange
sweet wondrous thingl-
Unsought. came Happiness who gazed with
smile divine me.
Murmuring in tones neffable. Il will abide with
thee
Marion, Ind. Ethel Bowman.
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cameron Pianos are llne a wulschner's.
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THE JOURNALS POETS.
In the Same Neighborhood.

don't like to change about
From this nelghborhood to that,
JUS so kin stay one place.
don't care much where it's at
Want to know the folks I meet
On the road and on the street:
Want to have the folks know me
AS am, not ort to be.
Where I'm livin' now guess
They hain't many dono,
Fewer yit at dono
They'd be skeered eff I want slow;
Skeered worse eff my clo'es 'ud fit
Or my shoes want scuffed a bit;
Skeered to death to see me be
Anything but only me.
Then when 1 start out to work
In the mornin', kin tell
Where I'll meet this man an that,
Who I'll ketch up to. as well.
An who all II ketch up to me
An the very spot I'll be
At when Johnson's milkin' cart
Rings its gong an makes start
When go a-stringin' long
With my head down, thinkin' some,
Big black dog comes trottin by.
Then 1 know Kielhorns IL come
Drivin to tn milner store;
An the hat I've arays wore
Tips up as they trun1 by
Though 1 skasely raise my eye.
Then you know who all is kin
An you never make no breaks
THROWN out them mean remarks
Like such feers as me makes.
CFi just had dollar bill
FIR each SIGH break I've made, will,
You d not see me writn these
Little spurts of Hooserese)
When some folks acts funny like
An don't treat you hardly right
You kin tell just how it comes,
Known which wasn't bright
In his ancestry, an then,
Kind thoughts come where harsh had ben.
CTain't no sanity life / live
1 need evidence to forgive.)
Then you know whose brother drinks
An whose sister went astray-
All such things, an you amt
Hurtin' people ev'ry day;
Know which way each Teller votes
With the sheep or with tn goats.
An your chances amt slim
For a-makin' friends of him.
But the dearest reason yit
Is the one haven't give
Why I like one neighborhood
FIR my folks an me to live.
All the sorrows that has fell
On the homes l know so we'll
Brushed their wings ag'i in my door
Made us love each other more.
Sides, I never joke a man
Or go runnin' on with chaf
When his hearts a-feelin' sore
An he doesn't want to laff,
Cause / helped him tother day
Put his little away
Not a great while earlier he
Done the very for me.
Just like playin' old-time airs
On an instrument you've had
Years an years. an every string
Has it's good pints an its bad
Makes sweet music, or as much
Jangles at the ign rant touch.
That there's why I think it's good
Livin' in neighborhood.
Richmond, Ind. IS. w. Gillian.
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Fog-nothing but fog-cold, dismal and gray,
Clothing the vessel in funeral shroud:
vainy the eye seeks to clear 1t away.
Silence unmarried by foghorn loud
And hoarse as the bark of a grinding keel
On unseen rocks. Thickly the gloom
Gathers and muffles the at the wheel;
Wraps with the nnists of the cold dismal tomb
The rigging and masts, and surrounds the ship
With phantom walls Slowly she goes as one
Who fears the treacherous dark. the fateful slip.
On her right the muffied boom of gun,
And out of the fog looms giant ghost
That in an instant appears. Then a shock
And the grinding of massive hulls-a host
OF wild shrieking creatures the cold waves
mock
Albert Charlton Andrews.
Connersville. Ind
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Where Is Cape Francis?-Bradford.
We find no Cape Francs' in the gazet-
teer, or in any geography, but we find two
capes named Francois, the French for
Francis. One of these is in Kergulen's land
IN the Southern ocean, about half way be-
tween the Cape of Good Hope and Aus
tralia; the other is another name for Cape
Haitien, in Haiti.
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MARRIED WOMEN IN SOCIETY.
An EngIishwOmanC Considers Them at
a Disadvantage.

Maryland in National Review. London
1t has long been the fashion to regard the
position of all women in America as inn
measurably superior to that of women in
any other quarter of the globe. From a
legal point of view this is perhaps true,
and even in social matters ii might well be
admitted with regard TO the unmarried girl;
hut on behalf of married women / venture
10 make an Englishwomans emphatic pro-
test 10 the contrary. This is probably pro-
ceeding OF extreme audacity. and. in order
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THE VOICE OF THE PULPIT
A CONSIDERATION OF THE QUESTION,
is PRAYER REASONABLEs
BY the Rev. Charles z. Perkins, ID. D.,
Pastor of the First Unitarian
Church, Iowa City, Ia.

What profit should we have If we pray
unto Him?-Job xxi, 15
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-25

When was the last leap year, and when
will the next be?-B. A.
The last leap year was in 1896; the next
leap year will be in 1904.
Which weighs the more. pound of gold
or a pound of feathers?-O. NJ.
A pound of feathers; it is weighed by
avoirdupois weight, which has 1000 grains
to a pound, while pound of gold is
weighed by Troy weight, which has only
6,760 grains to a pound.
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Washington Post.
What can be expected OF q nation that
humiliates its Cerveras,, its Montojos. its
Torals and lauds its Weylers and its
BlancosS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29
Te1egraphic Brevities.

Many discharged soldiers have been
employed in New York shoyeling snow.
The estate of Leland Stanford Of San
Francisco has paid nearly $1,000, 900 in
debts and legacies.
The next national encampment of the
G.. A. r. will be held at Philadelphia
Sept. to 8 next.
Kate Holden, colored, who was said to
be III years old, died in the almshouse
at Hartford, Conn.
John Wallace after a years imprison-
ment at Sing Sing, N. Y, under ten
years. sentence on a charge of robbery,
of which he was innocent, has been re-
leased.
It is reported from Chicago that Joseph
Letter is at the bottom of a movement for
the organization of milk trust, which is
"to regulate the price of milk on the price
Of butter"
During the first nine months of 1898
there were 1920 miles of new railroads
constructed in the United States This
exceeds the total mileage of any entire
year since 1898.
A. III. Long, a tenant on the Adam
Decker farm, near Nittany, Pa, this year
raised 1.228 bushels Of corn On scant eight
acres Of ground. This would be 1884
huShela - 49,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29
History of the Influenza,

Influenza, or grip, made it's first appear
ance in New York City in December,
1889. 1t had been prevalent for some
time in Europe, which it had invaded
from the direction of Russia. In Russia
it was said to have come from the east,
and it has been stated that it is epidemic
in China, along the banks Of the Yellow
river, where there are frequent inunda-
tons, and where it is looked upon as
"marsh fever"
The first onset in New York was ex-
tremely severe, the number of deaths
from all causes rising abruptly from 1852
for the week ending Dec. %, 1889, to
1902 during the succeeding week and
1924 for the week ending Jan. II, 1890.
From this point the epidemic gradually
declined, until in the week ending Feb. 8
the mortality was again normal, only 765
deaths having been reported. The entire
epidemic thus lasted about six weeks.
The second onset began in the latter
part of March, 1891, the number Of deaths
from all causes reported during the week
ending March % being 800, for the next
week 1,216, for the third week 1,347, and
for the fourth 1908. This epidemic last
ed about eight weeks.
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EPIDEMIC OF GRIP.
DREADED INFLUENZA is AGAIN
PREVALENT.
People SUFFERING from WIDESPREAD At.
tack of the Disease-Its Presence in
New York and Chicago Causes Alarm
Macy Cities Visited.

Grip is epidemic in Chicago. Cold
weather, followed by q rise in tempera-
ture and warm rain, brought about
siege OF influenza, severe colds and sore
throat and lungs that has not been equal
ed since the epidemic of 1891. The public
is warned against the disease and the
health authorities state that with the peo-
pie alone rests the question of it's serious
ness this year. In consequence of the
caution necessary on the part of the pub
lie to prevent a spread Of the disease,
warning bulletin was issued by the health
department. The last epidemic Of this
disease in Chicago, together with the i'm
pure water diseases, increased the total
deaths from 81 1863 in 1890 to q, 754 in
the epidemic year, 1891-an increase of
more than One-ffth-and numbers of the
survivors have never since regained their
former condition of mental and physical
health
In New York the epidemic Of grip has
assumed great proportions. Deaths from
grip, pneumonia and bronchitis show a
tremendous increase. 1t is believed that
125, 900 persons are afflicted. The fire de-
partment is in danger Of being crippled
by heavy increase of the sick list due
to grip. The police department. is also
affected. Business firms and manufac.
tories employing large forces are suffer
ing. In one large office building where
300 people work 300 were sick. The dis
ease is also prevalent in Brooklyn and
Long Island towns, and in several Of the
cities Of New Jersey, such as Newark,
Elizabeth and Hackensack.
There are at least 10000 cases Of grip
in Baltimore. The drug stores have been
more crowded than the Christmas goods
establishments. In some Of the public
schools the attendance has fallen off one
half. Work in factories and business in
the large stores is impeded by the sick
ness of operatives and employees. The
disease is generally in a mild form, al
though there has been some fatal cases.
At Annapolis and other towns through
out the State the disease is epidemic.
The disease has also invaded the ma
tional capital and many Government en-
ployes are sick. Something Of an idea of
the extent Of the epidemic may be gained
from the following list Of cities which
have made reports:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-29

On account of the constantly increasing
traffic of the Chicago Great Western, that
company has placed a rush order within
the last few days with the Baldwin Loco
motive Works for ten large 10-wheel en-
gines. Of these one-half are cylinder COM
pound and the other half simple engines.
The engines are Of 165, 900 pounds weight
and will be capable of hauling almost any
load which can be put behind them. They
are for delivery early in February, and
the order will probably be followed by
another one for five or ten more engines
Of the same large capacity. The Great
: Western will also let contracts next week
for 700 new box cars.
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BIG FIRE AT TERRE HAUTE
Loss of Property by conAagration Es.
timated at 100000.

Loss Of Property by conAagration Ess
timated at 100000.
The worst fire in the history of the city
Of Terre Haute, Ind, occurred Monday
night. The blaze started in the big show
windows of the Havens & Geddes Com
pany, wholesale and retail dealers in dry
goods and notions. 1t is supposed that a
live electric wire set fire to the cotton
with which the window was decorated,
and before the blaze could be extinguish-
ed the fire spread to the decorations Of
evergreens in the store and the building
was wrapped in flames in an incredibly
short space of time. A conservative esti-
mate Of the damage is 81 ,000, 900, and the
Following firms are the losers!
Ravens & Geddes company ...... 100000
BBre1nas q Muller, furniture. ........ 2aQW
Tarrss s,, to CO. -. o,..;: ttggX Xxx
Albrecht 6 Co., retail dry goods. -. 100000
united States Paking Company. $4,000
Thornnan & Schloss, clothiers. 800. $4,000
There were number Of small concerns
which were utterly annihilated in the fall
Of the rear wall Of the Hayens & Geddes
wholesale house, and the loss in their case
will more than bring the total losses up to
the 100000 mark.
The fire started at $50 o'clock, when
half the employees of the establishment
were at their homes for supper. There is
q force Of 300 or more in the retail de-
partment Of the establishment and had
the entire force been present the loss of
life would have been frightful. AS 1t is,
Kate Maloney, clerk in the notion de-
partment, sprang from a window in the
second story and sustained injuries from
which she will probably die. Miss Lucille
Ferguson, a clerk in the same department,
jumped just before Miss Maloney, but
vas caught by some men who were watch
Ing for her. She is internally injured,
bt WIN Escover.
LOUIS Kramer, the trimmer, who was
In the show window when the blaze start
ed, is frightfully burned about the head
and arms. When rescued from the burp-
ing building he was insane from the pain
and begged to be killed. Firemen Austen
loo, Walsh and Shay were badly injured
in the falling Of floor in the Albrecht
building and are now in the city hospital.
The fire department worked admirably
and there were many narrow escapes
among the men,
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The Home of Mrs Lizzie M. Brewer Westerly, R. l.

In my faith rs to its results. | have never
known 1t to fail to quickly and permanently
remove that demoraliZed state of the Hama1
system which follows la grippe
I'm all cases of extreme weakness u1G
Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence OF q good
result. In cases of weakness peculiar 70
my sex, l am sure that no other remedy can
approach in good results the action ex
Pe-ru-na. 1t meets all the bad symptoms 70
which females arc subject. The irregHiaFs-
ties and nervousness, the debility AID mis-
cries which af1lict more or less the women
from girlhood to change of life, are ore aa@
all met and overcome by this excellent rem
edy. / wish every young lady in oxs city
could read your book, Health and BeaatyS~
Mrs. Lizzie II. Brewer
Ask any druggist for a free Pe-rUsEA
Almanac for the year 1899.
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scendant of Col. Ethan Allen of Ticon.
deroga fame.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born in Mo.
bile, Ala, September, 1885. In 1860, at
the urgent request of relatives engaged in
business in China, he left for that coun-
try. Mr.. Hitchcock remained in China
twelve years. He returned through India
and remained two years on the continent,
q considerable portion of the time being
spent at St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Returning to St. Louis in 1874, Mr..
Hitchcock engaged actively in business
until accepting the post in Russia.
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Woman.

"Wait a minute" said Mrs. jones' to
Mrs. Smith, who was making a neigh
borly call. II want to show YOU INV
winter bonnet
81 think saw it," replied Mrs. Smith.
Eou had it ON at church last Sunday.
didn't you?''
ASYes; how did yeu like itY'
AOh, it was just lovely. I'm sure
dear, it looks equally as well as it did
last gear
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KISSER HOBSON BUSY.
Merrimac Hero INDUCES In Whole.
aa1e OAcu1aforY ExerciaA.

Merrimac Hero INDUCES In Whole.
sale Oscu1atory Exercise.
Hobson, the hero OF the Merrimac cpd
sode, who is now becoming better known
as kisser than he is as an officer Of the
United States navy, kissed At maids
and matrons at Kansas City, before jour-
neying west for new fields to conquer.
The kissing bee took place at public re-
ception.
In Chicago, Lieut.. Hobson was kissed
by 1853 Chicago girls at the Auditorium.
incidentally he lectured about the war
and and the sinking of the Merrimac. The
osculatory ordeal followed the lecture,
when the announcement was made that
any one who wished to greet the lieuten-
ant could come up on the stage.
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In letter to DR.. Hartman, concerning
the merits Of Pe-ru-na, Mrs. Brewer writes,
among other things:
WESTERLY, r. I.
"Dear DR.. Hartmann find Pe-ru-na
sure cure for all catarrhal affections SO
common in this part of the country. 1t
cures cold at once. There Is no cough
medicine that can at all equal Peru ma. AS
for la grippe, there is no other remedy that
can at all compare with Pe-runa.
Il notice in medical journals, and from
the testimony of my neighbors, that the
doctors seem quite unsuccessful in treating
la grippe. especially in removing the after
effects of la grippe From personal obser-
Walton in many cases / know that Pe-ru-na
is a sure specific for these cases.
81 am among the sick a great deal In our
city and have supplied many invalids with
Pe-ru-na simply because am enthusiastic