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su;cide Catcher OF Express Train.

IF has become a fad recently in Italy
among persons who desire to commit
suicide 10 jump in front of express
trains. Three weeks ago the engineer
and the passengers of the Gcnoa-Rome
oypress were really vexed because in
short run Of eight hours four persons
used the train in this way TO end their
lives. regardless of the delay which
they were causing by their seihsh
thoughleSsness.
Moral suasion appearing inadequate
% the task of turning these self-mur-
dercrs from the fatal error of their
Ways the railroad authorities have
adopted Il special suicide catcher. 1t
is placed in front of the locomotive
like the American cowcatcher, and it
scoops up the person who tries to Use
III, engine for his own unpleasant pur-
D0ses. Having sCooped him up. it de-
Dosits him OH little platform, where
he gets a free trip to the nearest STA
tor, while the engineer and the fire.
man enllven the journey by making
deeply felt remarks to him.-NeW IoIk
Press.
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THE BEST OF LIFE.

Not till life's heat is cooled
The headlong rush slowed to quiet pace,
And cry purblind passion that has
ruled
Our noiser years at last
Spurs us in vain. and. weary of the race.
We care no more who loses or who wins
Ah! not till all the best of life seems past
The best of life begins.
To toll for only fame.
HandclappingS and the tickle gusts of
For place or power or gold % gld a
Above the grave whereto
All paths will bring lis, were to lose Our
We. on whose ears youths passing bell has
tolled-
In blowing bubbles, even as children do,
Forgetting we grow old.
But the world widens when ~
Such hopes of trivial gain that ruled us
~ hes o.. -.
Broken among our ehiidhoods toys3 for
:SSsSSse then - "A ! = -, - -
We win to self-controli !-e-
AnG mail ourselves to manhood, and there
rise
Rpon lis from the vast and MINDLESS height
\ase clearer thoughts that are unto the
What stars are to the night
The Spectator.
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at won't be necessary" said Aunt
Frances, gravely, IF you take the tab
lets as prescribe. And, if were you.
] wouldn't tell anybody 1 was being
treated"
The next morning Molly started for
school with temper tablet neatly
wrapped in tin-foil in her small pocket.
That day passed peacefully. So did
se7sral others; and Molly had all but
Forgotten thar she was being treated,
when, suddenly. one Saturday after
noon, she felG quarrel coming on.
Mabel had made dress for her doll.
Molly didn't think it fitted very well,
and said so. Mabel answered tartly
that she guessed Molly couldn't do az
we'll; and Molly had just opened her
mouth to say something peppery when
she remembered the temper tablets.
Hastily laying her beloved Flori-
monda Isabelle face down on the floor,
she ran out Of the room. The temper
tablet was at the very bottom Of her
pocket; but she picked it out, un-
wrapped the tin-foil and popped it into
her mouth. The rosy bit of sweetness
tasted very nice, and she went back
to her doll feeling better already.
Thought you'd gone home mad" re-
marked Mabel, with her small nose in
the air.
Never a word from Molly.
81 didn't care if you had" added
Mabel. with sniff.
Molly rolled the temper tablet under
her tongue, but answered nothing at
all.
"Well, you needn't talk if you don't
want to-" snapped Mabel; and she gave
her entire attention to putting the new
dress upon its owner, Evelyn Kathryn
Olivia.
Little by little the temper tablet dis
solved in Molly's mouth; and, strange
to say, her anger melted with 1t. 1t
was worn to wafer thinness; and Molly
was wondering just what she should
say when the treatment" was over,
when she heard faint sound OF music
far down the street. =.
"Oh, Mabel!' she cried, excitedly,
there's a grind-organ; and maybe
there's a monkey! Let's go and see:'
"Oh, let's!" answered Mabel, jump
ing up eagerly; and a moment later
FIorimonda Isabelle and Evelyn, Kath-
ryn Olivia were left to be company for
each other, while their respective
mothers raced hand, in hand down the
street in search of the probable grind
organ" andthe possible monkey.
That night Molly told Aunt Frances
the whole story, and that young lady
listened with genuine professional
pleasure. Her first case was doing re-
markably we'll, she said and the pa
tient was advised to continue the use
of the invaluable temper tablets in all
similar emergencies. Molly followed
the prescription faithfully, and before
spring both she and Mabel were COM
pletely cured.
After a while Molly discovered the
reason why the temper tablets had
such a soothing effect in the first
stages Of a quarrel. I wonder, II you
have guessed it, too?-NeW YORK
Weekly. 49,.
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But One Emperor.

Apropos Of the paragraph 1 gave in
inst issue of the German ShoWmanS
experiences Cf the law of lese majeste.
[ remember hearing the following
story, for the truth of which. however.
I would not Ike to vouch. An ofhcer
in the German army, passing along Il
street in Berlin with friend, made Il
remark about 1.-The fool Of an emper-
Or" He was Immediately arrested by
a vigilant policeman. He attempted to
get out of the difficulty by explaining
that he referred to the Emperor OF
Russia. "That won't do" said the
policeman. II know very well you
meant the German Emperor; there is
no other emperor you possibly could
mean."-M. A. 2.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZEDl
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

J. p. Morgan & Co. paid the Govern.
ment S37G,300 for silver taken by Unit
ed States marines at Ticn Tsin, China
Orders were sent to Pekin detaching
General James Fl. Wilson from duty
as chief Of staff under General Chat
fee. and directing him to return to the
United States. ~
The Navy Department has ordered
an extension Of the usual gun practice
for the bldejackets.'
Any attempt of Germany to obtain 9
naval base in the Western Hemisphere
will be stopped by the United States
as a violation Of the Monroe doctrine.
w. H. stale, a photographer, Of
Washington, was accidentally suffo-
Gated by gas stove. =.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
held that the wife of q Chinese native
born citizen of the United States Is en-
titled to admission into the United
States :
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN,
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
. WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS,

An Unbeliever - Riches Worth Striving
For - Make Your Heart a Garden
When You Preach, Preach Boldly
Thinking TOO Much of the World.
They say the world is growing worse,
| don't believe it, though:
They say men worship but the purse,
| don't believe it, though :.t
They say that greatness is no more,
That all the wise have gone before,
And only trouble is in store
don't believe it, though.
They say there are no saints today,
don't believe it. though;
They say we tread downward way,
don't believe it, though: ::'-.>..
They say there's only gloom ahead,
They say that all the knights are dead,
They say, mems sweetest joys arc fled
I don's believe it, though. -.
Men had their troubles long ago,
And that's what believe;l
The Lord still loves us here below,
. And that's what believe;
Old Homer of the Sightless eyes,
But greater men than they will rise,
And that's what l believe.
The world grows fairer day by day,
And that's what I>believe;
The good have not all passed away,
. And that's what believe;
Though many a one we loved is gone,
Fond hearts and true are beating on!
The happiest days are still to dawn,
And that's. what I believe.
IS. Il. KiSer, in Chicago Times-Herald.
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Make Your Heart a Garden.

Many flowers cannot grow where are
the feet of the runner and the strife of
the cOn,batants. The first thing done to
make an arena for wrcstlers is to take
away the turf and the daisies, then to
beat the soil down hard, and fat. And
so our. lives get tiattened, stripped of
their beauty and their fragrance, because
they are not meant to be gardens. they
are meant to be. wrestling grounds
There comes to every life that is worth
living hours of sacrifice when duty can
only be done, at the cost''of q bleeding
heart. Every man that is not the devils
servant has to carry q cross, and to be
fastened to it, if he will do his Masters
work. Besides which cruciGxion in ser.
vice, there are all the other common sor.
rows storminy in ugon u.s. SO; that. some.
times it ms much as a man can do, not:
to be swept away bFsthe current, but to
keep his footing in mid -channel- Alley:
ander Maclaren, D. D. -. r..t. - =.
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Riches worth Striving For.

Spiritual riches are within the reach
of all. They may be inherited, and those
of ls who have been blessed with a
godly ancestry should thank God for the
measure Of spiritual capital with which
our earthly years. begin. But it is
equally true that earthly riches may be
wasted. An honorable family name, the
integrity that dwelt in ones father, the
faith that belonged TO ones mother, the
tendency toward religion which is the
best beduest which. any one can leave his
children-all these lmay be thrown to
the winds. as, spendthrifts in q month
run through their 'patrimony.H But let
us thank God that these riches depend
upon an inheritance Of piety, and no one
need despair because he has wasted his
spiritual substance, that any, one who
strives as the Bible directs to become
good and true and useful and Christlike
is certain. provided he relies on Gods,
help, to attain the end in view. These
spiritual riches are the reward Of him
who strives and sacrifices, but when
man once knows what it is to- be rich
toward God he holds material good ut
its proper worth and finds1his richest
and best life in the things OF the spirit
No turn in the stock nlarkes, no fire or
flood, no moth or dust can touch these
treasures of the soul. itHuIL I'D,
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FOREIGN.

The hunting season is now at Its
height in every part of the Dominion
of Canada. Moose may be killed FOR
the first time in four years. .
A meeting Of the diplomats was held
in Pekin to consider the form OF nego-
tiations for q settlement of the China
difficulty.
The Russia Plague Commission an
nounces' that Port Said, Bender Abbas
and Bushir are not infected with the
disease.
The Daily Telegraph. of London, an
nounces that Lord Salisbury will va
cate the office of Minister of Foreign
Affairs in favor of L~F6 Lansdowne,
retaining the post of Prsnier.,
Recently the Socialists II Germany
have scored a number Of successes, q
fact that is beginning to- cause the
Government great dismay.
Government inspectors report that
the steamer Bon Lomond. which ar
rived at London from the Philippines,
had q verified case Of plague on board.
The Sportsman, of London. an
nounces that the Prince Of Wales has
'concelcd his retainer of Tod Sloan, the
American jockey, for 1901.
James Eagnell, who was the oldest
Hudson Bay factor n>northern Brit
ish Columbia, was shot and killed by
an Indian.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies.
has passed law compelling manufac-
turers to insure workmen against acci-|
dent. but the Senate is expected to re-
ject the bill.
Emperor William has ordered Pro-
fessor Begas to make His Majesty's
own marble statue for the nov Fall Of
Glories in Barmen, where statues OF
the Emr ror 5 ancestors are already
placed.
Canned goods and sauSages may now
be imported into AlSace- Lorraine free
of dut; in small quantities.
A sensation was created in Berlin by
the allegation that the Secretary of
State for the Interior had been bribed.
1t is announced that the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand will shortly re-
nounce his succession to the imperial
throne in favor of his brother.
President Campos Sales, Of Brazil.
landed ut Buenos AyreS, Argentina,
and received a hearty welcome.
Twcnty-four lives were lost in q col
lisiOn between the French steamers
Faidherbc and Alitidja off the Spanish
coast
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DOMESTIC.

1t was announced that new effort
was to be made to obtain the liberia
tion of Oberlin M. Carter, late Of the
Engineer Corps, u S. A.
Leading Chicago physicians declare
drinking and cigarette smoking are
increasing among American women.
The United States transport Meade
arrived at San Francisco from Man.,
lila. The vessel had over 300 sick and
discharged soldiers. -
Hugh *. Norman, whose romantic
marriage and estrapgement from his
wife had awakened much interest,
died in Providence, RI.
VIM. S. Jewett, of Lawrence, Mass.
who is charged with misappropriating
funds Of the Lake National Bank, of
Wolfboro, N. H., was sentenced to-
seven years in jail.
Rosslyn Ferrell, the train roDeer
charged with the murder of an ex-
press messenger named Lane, was con-
victed of murder in the first degree, at
Nlarysyille, Ohio. The verdict carries
with it the death sentence.
!, w. N. ICowden, a. farmer at Quaker,
!. City, Ohio, filed;a petition In bankrupt
cy in tine Uuited States Court, alleging
that his liabilities are $3.50. .Oth and his /,
assets $1,000. sSyggf ), .l7s
Ina cable car smasil-upaat Chicago !,
tR. wv. Hill, William Metzger, Elmer
Moss and A. ". Wychoff wece fatally
injured, and five others were hurt. :
The gun from which the first shot In
the Spanish American war was fired
reached Nashville. Tenn, which Is to-
belts permanent home. 1t comes from!
tile gunboat Nashville. :
}The building used by the ballast
Morning News at Dallas, Texas for!
fifteen years rs publication Office
collapsed, and Is a complete wreck.
The loss Is estimated at $4,000; insur-
afce, $4,000. = ~,
t"Lucky" Baldwin, of San Francisco.
arrived at Seattle from Nome with
$4,000 In gold dust. :. ~
One Thousand deer have so far been
brought down from the Maine woods
by hunters, 251 less than Cor tie same
period of 1899, while fifty-six moose. !
Six less than last year, have fallen.s 3
Because Mrs. H. P. Colegrove wanted
to ride ride her entries at the Chicag0,
Horse Fair astride,- the entries were
barred. She is the originator ofs,the
divided skirt for equestriennas. .i.
1.-The funeral of John Sherman took
place with simple ceremonies at -hans-
field, Ohio. President Mckinley bong
one Of the mourners.
! Passengers from Alaska say that the
Dawson. telegraph line will not De
completed this winter. F. =
Professor Shepardson, of Chicago
University, declared present-day
lynching is a survival Of the mob Vio-
lence of the Boston tea party. l.
Leale wilhelm, woman, was found
dead, having been strangled ana
robbed on a street at Indianapolis,
ind. ..'. ... s.
The river steameH Josie Weaver was
burned at Brady's Landing, near
hIadisonville, st. Tammany Parish.
jLa. The fire was caused by an e3-
plosion, = . a. s%,,%&,fs
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Editors Less Ouarrelsome

Newspaperdom finds that there Is
less of the acrimonious spirit shown
between editors and newspapers than
formerly. Bitter invectives against
rivals are now seen in print only in
rare instances. The public cares moth
in. for newspaper family quarrels,
and the editors know it and conflne
their efforts to gathering and dissem-
mating news and good reading matter.
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LAND eoR LOUISIANA.
United States Transfers 1,094,0O0 Acres
Under the Act Of 1858.

The United States General Land Office
has transferred l.004000 acres OF swamps
and ovrhowed land to the State OF Louis.
lana unlcr the nrt Of 1879. This land is
scattered over the State, being in twenty
five parishes.
The lands are subject to homestead only
on outright purchases at from l2lh to 70
cents nrr acre from the Louisiana state
Land Ofre. The money derived from the
sale is SIT apart for the construction OF
'rvees and the protection Of this land from
,yersow.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Jose Guzman Benitez. Mayor of
Ponce, and Jose Gomez Briozo, q
physician, were appointed members OF
the Executive Council Of Porto Rico.
Hawaii has closed its last school for
teaching the native language. Here
after young Hawalians will be taught
to talk English. 20.
A heavy rainfall in the Hawaiian
Islands did much damage, and one ma
tive was drowned. ..
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ABANDONED TUNNEL FOUND.
Dug on Catalina Island by Miners Thir
/. ty-seven Years Ago.

An old tunnel has been found in the
mou ,tains on Catalina Island, on the Pa
rific coast. 1t is about 1000 feet in length
Its existence was known to one or two old
time miners. and not to the owners OF the
property. In the tunnel were found ledges
of copper, gold and zinc.
The tunnel was driven in 1865 by. min,
er, who were not aware that the island
was private property, and when theeN
found that out they abapdoned it., The
island was then owned by James Lick. 1t
does not appear that he ever know the
tunnel existed. >
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Gangs Rob Pedestrians and Laugh al
Police Force.

Organized bands of roughs. chiefly bows,
for some time have infested several dis
tricts in London. They fight pitched bat
ties, injure and rob unprotected persons:
and execute condign vengeance on any of
their members suspected of giving informa-
tion to the police.
Their favorte weapon is loaded belt,
but in many cases they use revolvers. In
some narts of the metropolis they have ap.
parently terrorized the, police. many of
whom have been MANNED for life.
A demand is now made to arm the po-
lice with revolvers as we'll as clubs in GER
tain prescribed areas.
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When You Preach, Preach Boldly.

There are men who claim to- be
preaching the word of God, when they
are only preaching their own uncertain
ties and doubts. No man can be true
and helpful preacher Of Gods word un.
less his own faith in t fnat WORD ostS De bd fa
full and unshakcn certainty that the
Holy Scriptures are in very truth the
word OF God, and therefore one great
claracteristic:o their preaching was its
boldness. They never shrank before at.
tack. They never put themselves on the
defensive. They never apologized for
the Gospel Church Standard. -, =.
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ToUcHs TERRoRIzE LONDON.

The germ of all trae greatness is h,
mility.
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Thinking Too Much of the World.

-, Thinking Too Much OF the World.
marks Of discomfort are plainly Wis.
ible in the countenances Of most men
The eager haste. Of the. busy throngs,
pushing their way through the crowded
streets of our great cities, clearly indis
Gates the Snawing hunger which ,preys
within. Did the Creator make man tc:
struggle and suffer, and remain forever:
unsatisiied? Men seek good; butt find II;
not. They knock at door; which never
open. They spend their. strength for;
naught and their labor for. that which
satisfeth not Christian Advocate IL
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f. We say that the sun sets, but it never
really does set. We speak Of 1T as set.
ting only because its evening condition
looks like going down. In reality, il
has only the seeming of setting. and
meets us as bright as ever next morning
Sleep looks like death, but it is not
death; it is only the shadow or ;the ap
pearance of death. Yea, though walk
through the valley of the shadow, o.
death, I will fear no evil.-Gerard B. f
Hal sck, D.: D. l... ..,,..'.'. ; :-=..
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Ihe little Snarp .FeNatl0nS y 49, .'.'
!; And the brialS that catch and fret.
Why not take, all to tho Helper
Who has never failed us yet? ...,
Tell him about the heartaclic.
And tell him the loncjngs, too; &C..
Tell him the batfled purpose
, When we scarce know what to do.
Then. leaving all our weakness
With the One divinely strong.
Forget that we bore the burden
And carry away the song.
Unless it is spiritualized. the nationa
life is doomed to destruction. We, car
only remain q sound nation if we are
sound at heart. But we can only be
sound at heart as nation if we are
spcn TO and affected by spiritual and re
li:ious infuences.-The London Specta
tor. ....
A church supplies to any civilized com
munity what every civilized community
requires to complete the moral and 50
cial harmony. Where there is no churcE
sGi."thing essential to full, free. hope
ful liz" is missing DR.. l. NJ. At
wood.
Thank God for the sense Of incom.
pletrnrSS; for ont of it have sprung as
piraticn, cnhcavor. growth. and all the
completeness possible to humanity.
The germ of all true greatness is hn
mility.
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minutes at the foot of Maiden lane for the
Brooklyn ferryboat, then got in and was
rowed across by two men with oars, the
tide so strong that it was an hour and
ten minutes before they landed? Where
are the veterans that fired the salute,
and the men of the Cincinnati Society who
that afternoon drank to the patriotic
toast, and the oarsmen that rowed the
boat, and the people who were trans'
ported! Gone! Oh, this is a feetlng
world. 1t is dying world. A man who
had worshiped it all his days in his dy-
ing moment described himself when he
said, "Fool, fool, fool"
L.. When your parents have breathed their
| last and the old, wrinkled and trembling
hands can no more be put upon your head
for blessing. God will be to you father
and mother both. giving you the defense
of the one and the comfort OF the other.
| For have we not Pauls blessed hope that
as Jesus died and rose again, Even 80
them also which sleep in Jesus shall Goa
bring with Him." And when your chill
ings, you will not kiss them and say good
by forever. He only wants to hold them
for you little while. He will give them
back to you again, and He will have them
| all waiting for you at the gates OF eternal
welcome. Oh, what God He is! He will
allow YOU to come so close that you can
put YOUR ms around His neck, while He
in response will put His arms arc dnd your
neck, and all the windows of heaven Will
be hoisted to let the redeemed look out
and see the spect 80 of a rejoicing Father
and q returned prodigal locked in that
glorious embrace. Quit worshiping the
Golden calf, and toT- this day before Him
in whose presence we must all appear
when the world has turned to ashes.
When shriveling like a parched, scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll,
When .ouder yet and yet more dread =,
Swells the high trump that wakes the
dead
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EXCITING RUNAWAY.

A pair OF black horses attached to q
milk pung. belonging TO O. l.. Libby OF
Plea san tdale, were the participants In IN
exciting runaway on Warren and Con-
gress streets yesterday morning. MIR.
Libby left them standing In front Of q
house on Warren street while he entered
the house to deliver can Of milk. Sud
lenly and without any apparent Gauss
the horses sprang into a gallcp and
dashed at full speed down Warren to Con-
gress, safely navigated the corner and
proceeded up Congress street at q rapid
gait. Almost opposite City hall thsy
threatened the lives of several small chill
dren then crossing the street. In the
nick Of time the driver Of a passing cart
jumped from his team and seized one oil
the pair by the bride. rs 10 passed. Hs
success dsd in swerving them to one Side
and checked their progress In q few yards
without injury to either children or anil
mails he then quickly resigned them tG
the charge Of q byit ,nder and drove down
Exchange street before his name could be
ascer tained. Mr.. Libby arrived few
m inutts later to find his team intact.