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THE DYING POPE.

shakcspeaIe's prophetic line "ons touch of nature makes the whole world kim is strikingly exemplified in the world wide touch of sympathy for the dying Pope. So it was twenty-tMo years ago when for weeks Garfield Jay
 dying and so also when McKinley's life was ebbing away. How deep was the feeling of the American people as these leaders lay lowering between life and death and how fervent the hopes and prayers that they might recover. Garfield and Mckinley were yet in the prime of life and their days of usefulness were cut short when but for the assassins' deeds they might have long lived to do much for their country. The Pope has long passed the period of age limited by the Psalmist, st,-almost by a generation,-but So evenly balanced and well preserved has been his health of mind and body that he has been able to fill his great station with no measurable decline of efficiency or usefulness until prostrated by illness recently. With rare felicity and dignity. acumen and tact has he filled the sacred office of the Pontiff. winning the esteem and admiration of all the civilized and Christian world. Brilliant as a scholar, wise, discreet and able as an administrator of affairs he shines conspicuously among the more or less brilliant men who have occupied his place at the Vatican. But in the solemnity of his death bed. in the in- sidious but sure approach of Death. the great leveller, how deep is the feeling of sympathy for the illustrious sufferer, -the feeling of kinship that pertains to all mortals in the presence of a common sorrow The news from the bedside of the frail old man who is facing death day after day with serene courage and unfailing cheerfulness is lesson that appeals to all the race, a lesson sad but sublime. It is lesson that carries with it an inspiration and points anew to mankind the imneasurable import anee of what Christianity stands for.
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system must change" He admitted that nature is equal to making such. changes.
 He described the properties which make certain plants, seeds. and tubers such excellent food for man, but said that there is nothing in the economy of plant life which makes plants store up the sugars. stach, etc, the basis of their nutrient value. with any regard to the needs of man or beast.
 Tt is done entirely for the benefit of the plant or it's progeny" Dr. Rusby said. He went on to tell of plants pro- tecting such supplies by the addition of animal life. He noted the instances of certain bean. as rich in nutriment as any of the many used for food, but which is so protected He called at tention ta casaya, which also has a deadly poison in its composition, but which poison is extracted before the product is used for food Te potato contains traces of like poison, and un- der certain conditions the vegetable reverts to a poisonous condition. He said he believed that many of the
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4 VALUABLE LEADER.

In the death of P. M. Arthur, head for
 twenty-five years of the Brotherhood of
 Locomotive Engineers, there passed
 away model labor leader, one in strik-
 ing contrast to some of the leaders Of
 labor of to-day. He was man worthy
 of the respect and esteem in which he
 was held and of his national reputation
 as a sound, conservative and wise coun-
 sellor and captain of labor. This rare
 combination of qualities he possessed to
 remarkable degree. and his adminis-
 tration was marked by hardly flaw.
 He had no political axe to grind, he
 was clean handed, no taint of bribe talk ing or selfish counselling could ever at
 tach to him and he leaves record that
 rebounds to the honor of the large, in telligent and influential body of men whose chieftain he was. He was a
 Scotsman. shreWd. sound and keen in judgment and perception and ever rec o5ilaAcu %hhe niipoltdtlt lacL siirtI Sdpilda
 and labor should be friends, not antag- onists. He was considerate of the rights of employers as we'll as of the employees and he never moved to inaugurate a strike except when he had backing of right and justice behind his action. l How different was he from some of the
 leaders who SOW dissension and strife
 and bring on strike merely for their
 own aggrandizement and emolument; | who draw eat salaries for making dis
 content, and plunging bodies of men in- to senseless. unjust and disastrous favor: he had a very intelligent body
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UGLINEss AND GENIUS.
In Any Collection of Clever Men the
 Majority are Homely.

In Any Collection of Clever Men the
 Majority are Homely.
 MT. Henry Furniss says in the Wind Esor Magazine: Tt is a curious subject for reflection that in any collection of clever men the majority are ugly. Ire land has produced, for it's size, re markable number of great men-sol- diers, lawyers, scientists, clerics and orators--a number of handsome men and remarkable numberaof ugly ones.
 Baron Dowse was perhaps the ugli- est. The day his caricature by Pelle- grini appeared in Vanity Fair he ran out of the House of Commons and left London the same night-to remain away until 1t was forgotten. But it never can be forgotten, for 1t was true to the life.
 Another Irishman. Most Reverend Dr. William Connor Magee, bishop of Peterborough, afterwardsArchbishop of York, known as the Chrysostom of the House of Lords. was one of the most eloquent preachers of the Victorian era, d fine debater and one of the most eff fective platform speakers of his day. Like the majority of eloquent men he was ugly. His heavy eyebrows. small eyes, short nose, long upper lip, large mouth, massive jowl and shaggy side whiskers, when represented in repose, produced the urotrait of the gargoyish head.
 "We shall probably have as many anecdotes of Tyndall as we had of Jow- l Iett; but dare say the following is not generally known, and it shows the straining for the theatrical effect which was characteristic of the professor. He was experimenting at the Royal Insti- itution in preparation for coming lee Lure when a beautiful instrument he Twas using fell off the table. He vault 1 ed over the table and caught the iri- strument before it reached the ground land was so delighted with his agility l that he practiced that acrobatic feat Iall the afternoon, and Drought down | the house, with it in the evening, every body naturally enough thinking 1t was a pure accident,
 "Tyndall may well be included in this gallery to show that am right in say ling that ugly men are often the clever lest. Professors, being as rule clever linen, are naturally not handsome men
 Huxley, for instance, had the very op- posite kind of face to that of Tyndall
 and yet in his way could boast of beins Inearly as plain s
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arhe Unasen shore. D

At the funeral of Mrs. Esther Post Tucker, at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Burdett Loomis, July 4. says the Hartford Times. the Rev. Dr. George M. Stone, the officiating clergyman, read poem entitled 'The Unseen Shore" The author is not known. The poem was published in small book, "The Palace of the King and Other Re- ligious Poems" and Is here given: s The mists of death hang low upon llfe's
 The unseen shore Beyond the darkness rises silently
 Forevermores But mortal eye sees not the distant land. Unnumbered Drows are turned toward that
 far shore. s.,f
 But never yet Returning yoyager with struggling oar,
 Or canvas set, Hath brought us tidings from the land
 afar.
 But there are voices in that unseen land.
 Which we have heard. Of loved ones standing with us hand In
 hand @ With smile and word That kindled here our hearts with friend And breathed on us their music sweet and
 low.
 And there are footsteps on the golden
 That long ago Made sacred rhythm, gliding soft and
 " or sad and slow. Along the paths we trod by hearth and home But strangely ceased. and left us lone to
 roam And there are souls that thrill with love Who look on Him For whom the stars in endless luster burn;
 Where seraahim3 Delighted baSk around the throne Of light, In ceaseless wonder at the infinite. We knew them here. and with them wept
 and smiled. Our lifa was one: We met and parted, still of each beguiied;
 Their work Is done; And they are resting in the morning land, And we are toiling yet with heart and
 hand. We group them oft in visions of the soul.
 A Joyous band; As on the peaceful hills of light they stroll
 Tn that fair land; Or wander on the shore with loving gaze, To watch the corners from the dark sea haze. 7>,YsS ,...s.a Speed on, my bark, life's stormy sea across. The mists will rise: And every pain and tear and earthly loss Tn strangs surprise Shall vanish. when the unseen shore shall greet
 Thine eye, and thou shalt touch the golden street.
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HIGH DIVING.

Except for those who have an es- pecial aptitude for it-and they are few high diving is A dangerous pastime to indulge in.'' said diving expert to "a Public Ledger reporter the other day. "A good diver may occasionally lose his balance, but, being generally cool headed, he can regain it, or at any rate sufficiently so to prevent injury to him. self.
 Many of our young men and women who go to the seaside in the summer for the bathing to be had come away permanently injured for life by having recklessly indulged in high diving and few of them. as rule. are able to ex- plain how they received their injuries Tn the majority of cases deafness is the most frequent Injury inflicted by diving The cause of this is that few find il easy to drop the head sufficiently to get it well between the arms, The result is they receive some tremendous blows or the head, and if the water is struck a bit sideways the ear gets most of the concussion, and the result will frequent. ly be rupture of 5as membrane of ths tympanum. A good preventive for sucf an accident is to place in the ears g little wool or cotton dipped In oil. x
 Another injury to health caused ire, quentIy by diving from getting large quantities of water into the lungs. Int extent of the harm done in cases of this sort depends on the condition Of tht water as to it's cleanliness. T have often seen boys for instance, dive into the water at places where it was ab. solutely filthy from the evacuation oi drainage into it. The danger to health especially to those with not over strong constitutions can readily be seen.
 'The higher the dive the longer ot course, will be the duration under water. Now an inexperienced diver l! rarely able to hold his breath under water for more than second or two a a time, and if the dive is an unusually high one he will in nine cases in ten give up the struggle in trying to retain his breath, and invariably, too just be fore his head reaches the surface. Int
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Presidents cheese.s and the great Elder Leland. who in tte estimation of the people of cheshireswas second m lnpor- tance only to President Jefferson hiIn- self, was leading and directing the en- terprise. Most of those present were arrayed in their sunday best, though the women who s1Irerintended the mix ing of the curd were ophged 10 wear
 protecting aprons
 The hoop in whieh tne cheese was pressed was madeifor the occasion. 1t was four feet in diameter ana eighteen inches deep, and was secured Wlth strong bands of iron 10 ehaple IL to stand the pressure. when an oI the eurd had been mixed and salted 1t was
 placed in this hoop. follower, which had also been made especially for the purpose, was placed upon II, ana the
 ponderous wooden screws Of the old ci-
 der mill were turned down on the most
 precious body they had ever com
 pressed. After all was done. a hymn, lined off by Elder Leland, was sung py
 the assemblage, and the people separa- ted for their homes, highiy sallsned with and very proud or tnelf uay s work. Some days after it was made the cheese was taken to Captain Daniel
 Browns cheesehoHse to be cured. us weight one month from the time IL was pressed was 1,235 pounds The moving of the cheese fronl the cider press 10
 Captain Browns Yas made a great oc-
 casion. The people turned out agaln and the cheese was followed by a big
 procession. Moses Wolcott, who Kept
 the tavern" gaY feast to all pres-
 ent, and thereby linked his name to thls part of the town's history.
 The following December the great
 cheese was sent to Washington, in
 charge of Elder Leland and Darius
 Brown. There we're no railroads in
 those days, and it was drawn on a sled to Hurson, N. VI, and shipped from there by water. The presentation of the cheese to the president was an event of moment in Washington. The presentation waslmade at the White House, in the presence of the cabinet, foreign diplomatsl and other notables' ElderLeland serving as spokesman and assuring the president in suitable terms of the great esteem in which he was \ held by the people from whom the gift I had come. e.-Springfield Republican.
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of men under him who would heed wise counsel and temperate judgments. but even so he was master leader.
SOEHD.

Governor Durbin of Indiana has again hit the nail on the head and showed himself to be a governor. outspoken, sound. courageous. He denounced the Evansville employers who have dis charged militiamen for doing their duty in the recent riots. and declares that to deprive man of employment because he responded to the call of his State is ian act of treason" The governors words were: "I am sorry for those who are so foolish as to turn on their protec- tors. To discharge man from employ ment because he responded to the call of his State is an act of treason" Evi- dently the forces of law and order in Indiana will prevail. because the State has governor who is a man.
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NE EDED.

Reports of the havoc wrought by the
 use of the toy pistol on last July 4th
 continue to show that of all dangers
 associated with the use of explosives on
 that day, the toy pistol is the most
 deadly in it's work. The number of
 deaths from lockjaw caused by injuries
 received in the discharge of the toy pis- tol is appalling. and throughout the
 country there is a protest from the
 newspapers against their use being per-
 mitted. Scores of lives are lost every year from these Fourth of July toy pis-
 tol casualties, and the further use of
 these death dealing things should be
 prohibited by law. In one state-Penn-
 sylvania action to this end has already been taken by the State Board of
 Health. The board met day or two
 ago to consider the extraordinary prev alence of lockjaw consequent upon the indiscreet use of firearms on the Fourth and if possible devise some means to j 4
 prevent the use of the toy pistol by minors. Tn many cases death caused by tetanus followed when the injur- ies inflicted were trivial in character. Recent dispatches showed that no less than sixteen deaths occurred in one day | due to the toy pistol, and nine caused
 by blank cartridges. The New York State Board of Health just before the Fourth, issued bulletin advising that
 all wounds made by explosives should
 be freely opened and washed out thor
 ough1y with normal salt solution, and that an injection of anti-toxin should be
 given as further precaution. Of
 course, if information of this character ] could have been posted everywhere, in every hall and hovel, it might have done
 much good, but probably only a few of
 those who needed it, or could have ap- piled it, heard of it. The action of the
 Pennsylvania board is step in the right direction, and a law of this kind in force all over the union would save many lives every year.
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THE GREAT CHEESE OF cHEsH
 IRE.

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 The story of the great cheese made at
 Cheshire in 1901 and sent the following winter to President Jefferson as New
 Years president has been many times told in prose and verse, but is worthy
 of repetition as an interesting bit of lo- cal history, showing, as it does, the pa-
 triotic spirit by which the good people
 of Cheshire were moved and the novel manner they chose for it's expression.
 In those days Cheshire was famous
 for three things--its exceptionally fine
 dairying interests and products, the
 well-nigh univtrsal arhesion of the vot- ing population to the democratic party,
 and Elder John Leland, an able, eccen- tric and witty Baptist divine, whose fame is part of the history of Chesh- ire. Elder Leland and most of the oth-
 CT people of the town were ardent ad-
 mirers of Thomas Jefferson, and when
 he was elected president of the United States their joy was unbounded. It was finally decided that it would be proper to give to their esteem a tangi- bIe expression in the form of a mann moth cheese, which should show to the president the quality of their material resources and something of the extent of their admiration for him.
 The announcement of this plan was
 made by Elder Leland from his pulpit
 one Sunday morning, and was received with pleasure by the people. July 20, Inc ,5o+ FS1c a1rs,
 of the cheese, and the plan was to have all of the owners of cows in the town,
 with the exception of the few Federal ists there were, make their curd and carry it to central place for pressing. Of course, there was no cheese press large enough for the pressing of such a cheese as was proposed, and Elisha
 Browns cider press was consequently
 selected for the work. This was on the farm where William P. Bennett, now living at Cheshire, was born, Mir.
 Brown being MT. Bennett's grandfath- CT. .,.
 When the day came for making the cheese the people gathered from all parts of the town. Those who had curd 1 to contribute brought it with them, some in large quantities and some in
 small, but all extremely proud to con-
 tribute to the monster cheese that was to be sent to the president. Besides
 being busy day, it was also a gala day for the inhabitants of Cheshire. The farmers and their wives and fani- 1 lies turned out en inasse to witness the construction of whot proved to be the
 most famous cheese in all history, for
 though still larger cheese was made ! in the town at later date, this was the
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AN EXPERT ON vEGETARIANIsM

s o Professor Rusby Says That Hurnan-
 kind Is Not Ready to Quit the Meat
 Diet.
 Professor H. H. Rusby of the College of Pharmacy and member of the board of scientific directors of the New York Botanical Garden, lectured in the gar den recently on vegetable foods T am free to admit" he said. that the time may come. century or two hence, when the human race may not have to slaughter animals for food, and also that they may regard such food much as we regard the use of the human ani- nal for food, but that time has not yet come. At present the human system is 50 organized that man cannot sub sist entirely upon vegetable food. If the time ever comes when he can our
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each IT, serslon. Five Cents Word for full weeS
 Display advertisements. per inch, one ih- sertion, s1.2O; each subsequent insertion. ~ cents: one week. Ss.2O; one month, $io; one year. s40
 Obituary Notices, In prose or verse. ID cents per line. Notices of Births. Marri- ages, Deaths, and Funeral. 50 cents eacn- Local Notices. 15 ecErs per Ene-
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tneiE own immediate business fasi matter 10 pe unopjetcionahlej, and their contracts do not iucIade Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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.De times has changed nightly" said the old colored campaigner. .No matter what yo' capacity is. you can't vote mo dan once in desc new fangled elections. .''-Atlanta Constitution.
 So you bought your husband stop watch?" Yes answered young Mrs. Torkins. "How did it work?" "Per- fectly lovely" was the answer. Char lev took it to the race with him, and he says that every horse he was inter- crested in stopped before it got into the home stretch, ''- Washington Star.
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sIMREY.
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Belle-"How did Percy come to lose his money?' Helen-'oh, he simply had it."-Judge.
 MT. Reed-"Wflich do you prefer, Dickens or Thackeray?' Miss Green T really couldn't say: never met either O. the gentlemen. "P Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
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The great Western railway of Eng land is premature, it seems, in claim ing worlds record for it's flyer from London to Plymouth, a distance of 246 miles, run by the express in 233A min utes. The average speed of 63 1-3 miles an hour sustained over such streach is extremely. high, indeed, but by no means unequalled. The performance is overmatched, for instance, by the run on May 21 last of the Twentieth Century limited over the Lake Shore road from Cleveland to Elkhart, Ind. distance of 246.l2 miles made. in 221 minutes.
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In servia there is a soldier for every twenty-two inhabitants; in the United States ther is one soldier for every 1900 inhabitants.
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Next years's literary centennial in America will be that of Nathaniel flaw thorne, the greatest genius of all the old New England coterie.
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The Hon. Horace Plunkett is the an omalous member of the present gov ernment, says the London Chronicle. He has been without seat in parlia- ment since the, last general election, and yet he has remained in office as the political head of the new Irish Agi- cultural Department. Personally, MT Plunkett is one of the most amiable of Irishmen. Tn early life he went ranch ing in northwestern America and reg ularly every autumn he revisits that region to see how his interests are pro- gressing. -
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The Uganda Mission in Central Afri- ca, begun twenty years ago. has now 1,o7O church buildings, seating 126,S50 persons. erected chiefly at the cost of the people.
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By the introduction of the principle of sslf-declaration the annual taxable in come of the city of Gothenburg. Swe- den, is this year increased from e3,Os7,- 300 to a3,466,666.
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Says the London Chronicle: English novelists no less than English dukes cross the Atlantic for their wives, Stevenson and Kipling have set the ex- ample which MT. Anthony Hope has followed. AvoWedly the dreams of Mrs. R. T. Stevenson went to the writing of The Dynamiters;' and if America gov erns India through Lady Curzon we may well believe that it has an indi- rect hand in the works of authors who have welded it's daughters"
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For the defense of member of the Mafia, who is to be tried for murder in Florence. it is stated that a1,4OO has been contributed anonymously in Pa. lermo alone.
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J. W. s. Langerman. Morocco's conn- missioner to the St. Louis Worlds Fair, has just bought the Moorish Sultan a brace of mules, some fancy dogs and a pacer and span of fine carriage horses, all of Missouri breeding.
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useless and even poisonous plants could be converted into food sources by cul- tlvation and scientific research.-NeH York Times.
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King Charles I. of Roumania, who re- gently celebrated the thirty-seventh an niversary of his coronation. is describ- ed as lone of the wisest and most be- loved monarchs of the time.,' His wife, the queen. widely known by her pen name as Carmen sylva, is a charming woman of high character. The long reign of King Charles has been unusu- ally peaceful for such turbulent coun- try.