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Tho C ham eleon Spider. “It has alw a y s b e e n a h o b b y oi m in e , ” said T. L . G r im shaw , of R a le ig h , N . C ., “ to c o llec t stran g e b u g s and in s e c t s du r in g m y travels, an d I th in k I have su c c e e d e d in g e t t i n g to g e t h e r a p r e t t y ch o ice c o llec tio n . O f t h e w h o le a s s o r t m e n t ! th in k the chameleon spider, vrhich I got last su m m e r on th e coast o f A frica, is t h e most valuable. The capture of this in s e c t w a s h i g h ly in t e r e s t in g to m e. O n e aftern o o n , w h ile tram p ing alon g a d u s t y road, I n o t ic e d in the hushes ■which grew a lon g th e sid e w h a t aji- p e a r e d t o b e a sin g u la .--looking w h ite flower, with a blue centre. Stopping to exam in e i t I foun d , ‘■o m y astonish ment, that it was not a flower at all, bu t a sp id e r ’s \web and that the posed light blue heart of the flow er w as t h e sp id e r itself, ly in g in v.-ait for its prey. The mottled hrown legs of the sp ider w ere extend e d in su c h a way as to resem b le the d iv isio n s b e tw e en t h e p e t a ls of a flow er. “ T h e w eb itse lf, v e r y d e licately w oven in to a ro s e t te p a t t e r n , was w h ite, and t h e thread s th a t s u s p e n d e d it from the b u s h e s w e r e so lin e ns to be alm o st in v isib le. T h o w h o le th in g had t h e appearance o f b e in g su spend ed in th e air u p o n a stem concealed beneath. U p o n k n o c k in g t h e sp ider from h i s perch in t o th e w h it e gau z e n e t w h ich I carried, m 3 >^ su r p r ise was gr e a t ly in c r e a s e d b y seein g m y cap tiv e in s t a n t ly tu r n in color from blu e to w h it e . 1 s h o o k the net, and again sh brow n , lake t h e net just often as I w o ...„ ....—— j so o f ten w o u ld th e sp ider change color, and I k e p t i t up u n t il i t had sum e d ab o u t every h u e of th e rain b o w .”— S t. L o u is G lob e -D e m o c r a t. lli e P e lriiletl Forcstf? ot A r izou o . I n one o f t h ee m ee ee tintin gg ss o f t h e A m e r- m o f ican F o r e s t r y A ssociatio n h e ld in Doklyn la t e l y D r . H o r a c e 0 . H o v e y , N e w b u r y ijort, M a ss., sh o w e d b y lecimens nml by views the petrified Lovey, fo r e s ts o f A r izon a . T h is great o f a g a t ized w o o d , nt lea s t 2000 ex ten t , is near t b e statio n , o f O o r rizo and Adamannas on the Atlantic and inge t r u n k s t h r o w r larg e s t are t e u fee t iu d iam e ter, m a n y o f t h e m sev e r e d as e v e n ly as thou g h cut up b y a cros.s-eut saw, and t h e s e c t ion s vary from disks lik e cartw h e e ls t o lo g s th ir t y and m o r e fee t lon g . M a n y of the p e t r if ied lo g s have b e e n broken in to g litte r in g fragm e n ts b y a c tio n of the w e a ther and b y In d ia n s and tou r ists, and at ev e r y fo o t f a ll t h e traveler step s up o n a m o saic or carn e lian , agate, jasper, to p a z , o n y x and am e th y s t . A petrified tru n k 150 fee t lo n g sp a n s a canon, and i.s kn o w n as th e A g a te B r id g e . T b e nam e Chalcedony- P a r k has been g iv e n t o t h e tract. C u r i o s it y hu n ters, m a n u factu r e r s a n d s p e c ulators are rap id ly d e s t r o y in g its beauties, and receirtiy a com p a n j p r o ceeded to p u lv e r ize t h e ch ip s and lo g s , the pow d e r t o be u s e d in place o f em ery. Car load s of t h e p e t r if ied w o o d are b e in g sh ip p e d aw a y for th is use, and D r . H o v e y advoe ites tb e savin g and p r o t e c tio n o f th e s e dead fo r e s ts in a p u b lic reserv a t ion bj- th e G o v ern m e n t .— S c ien t if ic A m e rican. L i g h t n in g trav e ls iu a zig z a g course because it passes th r o u g h different strata o f t h e air, and b e in g resisted in its passage t u r n s from sid e to sid e to find t h e easiest path . A red sn n s e t fo r t e l ls d r y w e a ther because it in d icates th a t t h e air to ward t h e w e s t , from w h ich direction rains m a y g e n e r a lly bo ex p e c t e d , con tains lit t l e m o is t u r e . J . L . P o w e ll, o f G o sh e n , In d ., w h o has just died at the ago of ninety- three, has b e e n a Ju s t ic e o f t h e P e a c e continuously for the past fifty years. Dr. Kilmer’s S w a m p - H oot cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton, N. V. 8100 B e w a r d . SIOO. When Katiiro Keeds assistance it may ho best to render It promptly,hut one should remember to use even the most perfect remedies only -when needed. Ihe best and most simple and gentle remedy is the Syrup of Figs manufactured by tho Cali fornia Pig Syrup Co. Dr. H o x sic's Certain Croup Cure year. No nau-en. _________________ Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing SjTupfm- children D on ’ t Xeglect a Cough. Take some 1 great danger to health, in the varying tem perature, cold storms, malarial germs, and the prevalence of fevers and other serious diseases. All these m a y b e avoided if the Mood is kept pure, tho digestion good, and the bodily health vigorous, bytaking'idood’f H o o d ’s Sarsaparilla. “My lit- -f •«( ♦ e / a c seroCuIa buueh on hi.s neck. A frlen 1 of mine said Hood’s Sarsa parilla cured his litth' 1 o..-, so I procure I i bottle ot tho mediciuf, an I tl;o rc.sult ha? been that th i bunch has left his neck. Il near tho throat, th.at lie eoul I noi ood It mueh longer tvithout relief.* ^ ' a r s a ~ parillc S S f ' H o o , . mueh longer tvithout relief.* 324 Thorndike St,, LoweH. Ue sure to get only Hood's. •• D\ ■ D -t ea«l t'Ui.'l 11 WALTER IM E R & GO. T!>e L argest Mannfa. tt.r.TS of P U R E , HIG H GR A D E ^COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES t’ ‘nt.r.cat,haverccciyed SPECIAL AKD HIGHEST A W A R D S Ml (' i V \ on a ll their Goods a t tho M ern\ CALJFORHSA fcl 1 ; ,] A HIDWiSTER EXPOSITION. leu them oao cent c f QROCEnS EVERYWHERE. _WALTER BAKER& 00 . DORCHESTER, HASS^ ABENTSili E, Spencer, 7 9 a W . nimiisVn S t.\ Clijcaso REV. DR. TALMAGfE. T H E BK O O K D Y X D lV I X E ’S SU N D A Y SK K M O N. Subject: “Tlio QuiclcFcct.’» pleased Herod.\—JIatthow x lv., It is tho .annivorsarv o t Hero.-i's b irthday. Thopalaeels il.i-hted. Tho highwaj-3 lead- Inar thereto .are nil ablazo w ith tho pomp of invito i Ku-sts. Lords, eaptain.s, morobant prinecs, tho mighty men of tho land, aro eomina: to mim-Ie in tho festivities. Tho (ai)lp is spread with all tho luxuries that -nther. Tho Si. Somi-.. p-Tiumeil, oomo in and sit tho table. Slusio! Tho jests evoko tears of laughter. Biddies arepropoundorl. into uproar iiudldasphem}’. They aro not s.afisflel yet. Turn on mono llsht. Po-ar out more wine. Music. Pound all tho trumpets. Clear tho floor for a danoo! r.rinf- In Sal imo. tho beatuiful and aeeomplished prluees.s. Tho door opens, and in hounds the dancer. The lords are enehanted. iStnnti batik and mnko room for the brilh i;int fryration.s ! These men never saw such “ pootryof motion.’’ Their .soul whirls In the rool and lioumls with tho bounding feet. Herod forgets crown, and throne and every thing but the fascinations ot Salome. All tho magnifloeneo ot his realm is ns nothing now compared with tho splendor that whirls on tiptoo before lilm. His body sways from side to side, corresponding with the motions ot tho enchantress. His soul Is thritlod with the pulsations of tho feet and bewitched with the taking postures and attitudes more and more amazing. Af ter awhile he sits in enchanted silence look ing at tho flashing, leaping, bounding beau ty, and ns the dance closes and the tinkling cj-mbnls cease to dap and the thunders of applause that shook the palace begin to abate the enchanted monarch swears to the princely performer, “'Whatsoever th o u s h a k a s k o f m e ! will give it thee, to thehalfof my kingdom.” Now, there was m prison nt that fime a minister of tho gos pel of tho name ot .Tohn the B.aptist, and he had been making a great deni of trou’'le by preaching some very plain and honest ser mons. He h.nd denounced tha sins o t the ; and brought down upon him the wrath ne fomr-les of the royal i.ousohold. At Instigation Of her mother Salome takes tho Baptist on a dinner plate.\ ers are returning from tholr awful errand. Open the door! They enter, ami they pre sent tho platter to Salome. What is on this platter? A new glass of wine to continue tho aproarlous mi’rriment? No. Something redder and oo.^tller—the ghastly, bleeding head of John tho Baptist, the death glare Still Inthe eye, the looks dabbled with tho gore, the features still distressed with the This woman, who had-whirlod so grace fully In tho dance, bonds over the awful bun- den without a shudder. She gloats overtho blood, and with ns much indifference ns a waiting mni.l might take a tr.ay ot empty glassware out of the room after an enter tainment S.alomo carries the dissevered head of John the Baptist, while all the banqueters shout with laughter and think it agoo i joke that in so easy and quick a way they have got rid of a n earnest and outspoken minister You will ttli admit, whatever you think ot do not dance, either because they do not know how or bec.iuse they have not the health to endure it, or because through con scientious scruples they must decline tho ex ercise, very uncomfortable. You w ill also admit, all of j’ou, that it has passed in many cases from an amusement to a dissipation, and 3 'ou are easily able to understand tho bewilderment of the educated Chinaman, who, standing In the brilliant circle where the proprietor qf the houso ami said, “ Why donk y ou allow your servants to do this for you’?” You aro also willing to admit, whatoverbo your idea in regard to the amusement that I am speaking Of, and whatever bo your idea ot the old fasblonod squara dance, and of many o t the processional romps in which I can 800 no evil, tho rouud dauoo is adminis trative of e\dlnnd ought to bo driven out of all respectable eirclcs. I am by natural tem- peramont and religious theory opposad to young, and who think that all questions aro dissipations ofsooinl life—dissipations which have already despoiled thousands of young men -and young women of all that is noble in character and useful la life. ‘f r . r . r s r d ’ measure of musical Instrument or of the human voice. All nations have danced. The ancients thought that Castor and Pollux taught tho art to tho Laoedeemo- nlaus. But whoever started It all climes have adopted it. In ancient times thev had tno festal dance, the military dance, the mediatorial dance, the bac- rou,gh backwoodsman with this exercise fSA’? o? 5 R l v » S ; to evoko tho movement of tho hand and foot, whether cultured or un cultured. Passing down tho street wo with his foot beats time whilo his soul rises have their sealp dances, their green oorn dances, their war dances. In ancient times The o ld Christian fathers expressed them selves most vehemently against it. St. Chrj’sostnm s a y s : “The feet were n ot given for dancing, but to walk m odestly; not to leap Impudently, like camels.” One ottho dogma’s of tho ancient ehuroh reads: “A dance is the devil’s possession, and he that entereth Into a danoo entereth into his possession. As many p.aces ns a man makes m dancing, so many pases does he make to hell. Elsewhere tho old dogmas declare i this: “The woman that singoth in the dance is the princess of the devil, and those that answer are her clerks, an.i thi' beholders are his friends, and the music is his tiellows, and tho fiddlers are the inmisters of the devil. For. a.s wheu hogs are str.ayed. It the hogsherd call one, all assemble togetlier, so when tho devil ealleth one uom an toeing In tho linnee, or to play on some mn.sic*al in struments, presently all the dancers g.ithi'r together.” Tills indiscriminate and unlver- S!u aenunci.-iuon or the exeretso came from the fact that It was utterly and completely depraved. Social dissipation is tho abettor of pritle. soul. It Is tho avenue of lust, and it is the curse of every towu on lioth sides of the sea. Social dissipation 1 It may be hard to draw the Hue ami say that this is right on the one side and that is wrong on the other sld\. It is not niA’i ssary that wo do that, for Guil has put a tiirono iu evory mnn*s soul, and I ap- jieal to that throno to-day, Whon a man doos ff S ' S ] t ° doubt. IVhat may we expect ot people who work dll day ami dance all nlgliff Aft'-r awhile they will bo thrown on society n -r- voua, ex'rtauste.l imbeciles. Thej > people who indulge in the suppers and the midnight revels and then go liome in tbi' cold un wrapped o f limbs will after awbile bo found to have been written down lu Go I’.s eternal reeoriis ,as sui ’ides—as mui'h s’rieides as It thev Had taken their life with a pistol or q knife or strychnine. lifo dis.Ms-s an i lt*ft au 1 nnd chain. Th« br*-*atU of th«A floatsup through tho periume, and th > froth of Heath’s lips bat>bl”s upintU e e ’mmpagn'. I am told that in som\ o ftli > eiti .< t'cTO are parents who have aeln ;llv given ui> lion- >- keeping and gone t>> liorirding that tliey i-':ty give their ti;i;e illimit ibly to s ili—ipa- tions. I have known sneli en-es. I h iv' known fauiriy attor family Ma-r*'1 in way la on^ ‘ of th*> otinT wlT‘r>' I pr.'a'di.'d. Fiitht^r and mntUor tnmmjc htX'^k^ upon all .'ultur' nul all tiD' of lioiU'\ l''alin;:r forth _______ sorrow and suffering and agony when they h.avo for consideration tho more Important question about tha size o f a glove or the tie ot a eravate'? \Which ono of them ever bound up the wounds of the hospital? Which ouo of them ever went out to care for the poor’? Which of tBem do you find in the haunts of siu distributing tracts? Tnay live on themselves, and it is very poor pasture. Sybarls was a great city, and it once sent out 800 horsemeu In battle. They had a minstrel who had taught the horses ot the army a great trick, and when tho old min strel played a certain tune the horses would rear and with their Iront feet seemed to heat time to tho music. Well, the old minstrel was offended with his country, and he went ver to the enemy, and he s t la to tha enemy, their entire fa ndy iu t!i-’ wrong ilire »- tion. Annfltilate.i—w o rs' than annlhilatnl, fnrthere ore some thin rs wors • tl.-iti anni hilation. I give yo’i the Id-t'iry of more than one family w’l m I s iv they went on in the dissip;itions ot so dul life until tho father droppei into a lower -tyle of dissipation, and after awhile thi' son was tossc 1 out Into society a nonentlto und after awhile the dau;?hter eloped with a French dancinj? mas ter, and after awhilo tho mother, getting on further and further in years, tries to hide tho wrinkles, but falls in tha attempt, tryinj? all tho arts of the belle—an old flirt, a poor, m iserable b utterfly w ithout any winj?s. If there is anything on earth b eautiful to me, it Is an n^?ed wemnn, her white locks flowing back over the wrinkled brow—blocks ■ 4 M i® D®® Damaie Bj l;i her voice the tenderness ol gracious ii « , tne weat Storm. children pull nt her dress, and she almost foils in her weakness,, but she has nothing but candy or cake or a kind word for tho little darlings. When she gets out ot the 'a front ol the house, tho whole family rush out and cry, ’“ Grandma’s com e !” And when she goes away from us, never to return, thcr.a is a shadow on tho table, and a shadow on tho hearth, and a shadow on tho heart. There is no more touching scone on earth ffu'ss! in old ago. God says so. “ Tho hoary head itcst things, 1 know of are aged—old intains, old seas, old stars and old eterni- tj’. But if there is anything distressful it Is to see an old woman ashamed of tho fact that she is old. What with all tho artificial appliances she is too much for my gravity. I iaugn even in church when I see her com ing. The worst looking bird on earth is a pc.acock when it has lost its feathers. I would n ot give one lock of my old mother’s Let m etellyou th.at tho dlssip.-itions of social life are despoiling the usefulness ot a vast titude of people. What do those people ■ment, and he taught alll the other r.iinstrol8 a certain tune. Then when tha cavalry troop came up tho old minstrel and all the other minstrels played a certain tune, and nt tho most critical moment in tho battle, when tho horsemen wanted to rush to the conflict, the horses reared and bent time to ;tho music with their fore feet, and in dis grace and rout tha enemy fle.l. Ah, my friends, I have seen It again and again—tho minstrels of pleasure, tho minstrels of aissi- minstrels of pleasure, tho minstrels of alssi- p,atlon, the minstrels ct godless association linve defeated people in tho g t ° | 1 ^ for 10,000 s r s shriveling o£ m.an’s moral dignity until It Is when God ere: Ing uplifting 1 With many lito is a } at such entprtainn . _ Inmonts gentlem< adles put on the garb o t kings^and^queons “ tho disguise, so a ’groat raauy pxss 'hole lile in a mask, taking off tho : death. Wlillo tho masquerade ball _____ goes on they trip merrily over tho ■floor, gemmod hand Is stretched to the and rustic and laughter ot Immeasuraiilo merrymaking 1 •B a t after awhile the languor of death comes on tho limbs and blurs the eyesight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepulehr.a' echo. Music saddened into a wail. Lights lower. Now the maskers are only scon lu tlio dim. llcrht. Now the fra^^ranoe of th-j flowers is iiko the slcicenln^ o ior that comPi from garlamlB that have lain lorn; iu tho vaults of cemeteries. lower. Hlsts feather in th» room. G!asse,-i shako nsthou jh or beauty—a shroud ! Lights lower. Over the slippery boards iu dance of death glides jealousies, envies, revenges, lust, despair iimldt.atli. Stench tho lamp wicks almost oxtinguis’uc.J. Torn garm e n ts will n o t halt cover the ulcerate 1 feet, Oliokiug d-imps. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands closed. Voices hushed. Eyes shut. Lights out. Oh, how many ofyouh.avt' flo.atodf.ar.away from God through social dis3\p:itioas, and it is time you turned, for I remember that there wore two vessels on the soalu a storm. It was very, very dark, and the two vessels were going straight for each otlier, and the capt.'iius knew it not. But after awhile the and from the other yesscl tho cry v, you arc in thr> storm m, and you iiro driving <m and coming toward learml collisions uule.s you change your course. Har 1 .a-lareoar 1! i'urn turn ye, for “ why will yo die, 0 house WOEK AN i T w OEOES. W ork wns resumed at Troy, N. Y., In the Bessemer ytcel 3Yorks, a part ol tho Troy Steel and Iron Compawy’s plant, which went into receivership some time ago. Between £t0a and OUO men are given employment. Tun mills of the Columbian Manufacturing enough to glfiuco by and passed in s itety to their harbors. Some of you are ii ' ’ of temptatiol Company, at Greenville, N. H., will start 11 time this week. They furni IJindustry of the ti ig only lish the juinci- try of the town, and have been run. four days per weak for tho past teu I’uMie Printer Benedict has partly carried nt a plan for the rei .rgank-ation of erument Printing U!lb'“ by placing ;i time basi: out a plan for thi' n inb'atii. of th(» G ov j aid for by t i ebargi’S of ii typi'-aetting divisiim position has Lerotofore been piece and this has re-uite 1 in A ti-logram Irom Iliawatlui, Kas., says that the i>ropo-itiou of tho I'ullma Co-operative Club was aeeei.jited nt a mas- meeting there. “Local capitalists will take s7,\iiuii worth of stock aud the flu b will lake r Je.iioil. Tli.' Work will be begun at ouc\ and the workmen will If ave I'lilim a u aa as c*- Utrac‘ts aro signed.” A n “ Actors' I’rotcctivo Union” was or^ran, ked in ]!. .stoii aud will be alllliatod with the Ann*ri 'an I't-.li-ratiou of Labor. Tho cbji.-oL.-* ill view are; \Xu j roteet tho aeior from the blood money sj.-'.eiu which is lu operation at various employm-ut ageueiiM; to dri^e from th«' .‘'t.'i’jcf* {’ri-'cJfi.;Kt*‘r>,ir«.*;tlvs an*! iu\H- uU’l to oi**ViUo tU-J j'rofo.-’Hikiu AboiT' 8U0 employi-s of tlio Germania .'flu; Mills a t Holyo!. ‘, Ma--., straek. At a ii.eet- tiiey appointed u '■■'uuuiUee to .ittait \ oUleer- of the eoiiipanv a n d u-k lor a advariee in wages. T):e e.iuimittee w n t t tho m ill olfiee but couM find no ono axithor- i;;ej to negotmto with tlnan. The eoiniuitti e reported to tlio uperatucs and all left their Im ; celebration uf the eleventh anniver sary of the Hr'.therle . 1 ofllailr ad trammer, closed in I ’allimoro With a I'.irade in tie- morning and it bvisin. -< meeting In the after. l. Willie the slien'ners api'r.iVi'd of g.'Il eral .inlli.iti’Cl of the l-i i f - repr. -m ted th y Uere not lioiiejui of It e s’l-'i nniati n of the ■I'l, b.. Muse ot the C'lnill'-tiug interests of c diUi rent Orders. T H E CROP R E P O R T . The We.’tthPr B ireiu in ji-: b-; rt of Weather erej. condiii t . f. r tie- -.vee;. -ay. d,Tion the whole the'.\e. I; iin-, l oin \. rv favoralle. Aband.-int r.iiie l.ave riintvd drought e xiiditi'-'ii-ill a l l ' ■ -tien I e\e, j t in Nebraska iiii 1 j ortien- of Kan-;t-. Mini.. - i and the Ditki ta-. I'lill j be...I'l.-.m 1 .- ' .lii.t; h.ivo j r.igre—ed r.'ij i lly, niel inii.''i id tlii early .sewn -..I lf r v e it j- ] . n- ii. Cern euttln--I..I- I e,-., (,i.-ii..l vig.>r.\.-y. The ... .... . h a - I . .-I. i '.• ! u r,,;.i,.{,.r e..tt..n picking, wbicL Jiu,H li- ii pa ; . a iuplJly. R D I ffl F I O S M , THE OEAN&E CROP SUrasS House and Vessels Wrecked.-Near ly All t h e Windows In S t . Augus tine Blo-wn In and -the Houses F l o o d e d w i t h W a t e r . Communication with South Florida Is bo- iu relative to tin Indian cyclom Ing restored .md special disjutches nrepour- Ing iu relative to tho damage douo by tho West Indhm cyclone, ■which raged an tho dispatcl _ _ ___ of houses Wrecked and crops destroyed, but no lo.-s of life is refiorte.i. At Tampa several largo cigar faetorn-s were wrecked. Tho large tlireo-slory I rick factory of Seideuberg & Co., wa.s desUoyed. Tho factory of C. A. Joyce was dcmolisheJ, ns wore also the factories of Ybor & Mauur- TuoJoro, Peres & Co., and O'llallaran. ara, TuoJoro, Peres & Co., The First Presbyterian C bi 'ampaampa Bayay .1 small sir gant T B Hotel were badly damaged. Several small structures were also demol ished. Tho total lo.«3 on buildings at Tampa Is estimated at S.IO.I'IO q . Communieatioi s with Fernandina is also restored. A di&f a leh from that plaeo says that tho schooner Edwiud Stewart, which ■was loaUeil and lying at anchor, was blown across tho river,pulling her anchors with her and is now lying on A mud-llat. The small boats were blown away, and numbers aro now lying high and dry up In the.rpnrsli, to gether with tho floating dock, which wa.s at the foot ot Center street. During the storm nt Fernandina tho British ste.am-hips Boston City and Elcmvillo collided and were badly A dispatch from Palatka announces great dam age at th a t x*liiee to rivor craft. Tho steamer Trlueess wassuuk betweeii Talaika and Picolatn. The steam er Edith was Urivi-n ashore. The steamer Do Bury was driven against the drawbridge and wreeked. Tbe Steam yacht Maude was sunk near Crescent Times Union received advices from St. Augu-liuo. These advices wore brought by Mrs Anna M, Marcotte, tho Times Unii'ii’s St. Augustine rep.irter, who made the trip on a hand-car. Mrs. Marcotte gives a graphic aeeount of the couditiun of things at St, Augustine. No lives were lost, but several houses were wrecked, and tho lo; into tho thousanils. J. Ni'i all tho windows flooded with water. Hotel was damaged in this way. Tho b’ss on the hotel’s lurniture is hi'avy. At St. Aiigus- tino tho waves da-hed over tho sea walls and made rivers of tho streets. Jiany wharves wore blown away. Betv Spring anil Palatka. on thi wharves have coiui’letely di-ajijieari t^woeu .laolisouvllle and gt. Au.gustino not telegraph polo was lolt staudiug. Tho damage to the firange growers Is in calculable. Iu the large groves the ground Is comploly covered with grt—u or.inges. The loss will bo fully 20 per cent. It is safe to say that tUo storm has cost Florida more tliau a million dollars, but no live.s have been lest, unless nt Key M’e-t, Titusvillo, Jupiter, and other oast coast BEAZIL GIVES NOTICE. Tho Brazilian Government has given no lioe that tijo rceliir..city treaty between tho United States aud ijrazll will bo tibrogatod by Brazil on January 1 n e x t Slinister Men- donca, tho Bra, ilian Minister at Waslilugton, received cable direetii'iis to give the requisite notice, 'i’ho treaty is llio prlneipal one negotiated by Secretary lilnluo under the reciprocity provision of Scuor Meudouea said:- “Bra:'.U’s netieu is a iieee,—ary sequel to the eiiaetnieiit ot the new tariff law by tho United .States, aud there is no signilh-anco in the uctii.iu ot my country beyeud it.s doing its part toward termin.’Uing a tieaty which the f tha McKinley law. rigiual iff law itself abrogates. Bra.ii bas Uuwevi r, in strict eonfjrmity to tho origi agreement embodied in notes between Mr. Blaine and myr.elf, exelian^reLl when the treaty was .sigued. Thi’se g.avo cither com:- nary 1 ul any given year, by giving three mentlis iintiee. 'Ihe tarilT law served to abrogate the treaty without any UeV 'rnment saw 111 privilege ot denouncing the treaty notice to Brazil to give tho lull threa mouths’ notice. Amerii January cll'eet is to make tbe now tarlll rates c'xist against Brazilian imfiorts since August 28 while Itie low reciprocity rates ■riean goods will remain until in Brazil.” The Immo'liate effect of the nb.andonment of tlio treaties has been felt already in the United State-, wh'-*re all g.-e.l- eoming from Ihe ei'UUtrie.-iMievrued are now subject to full rates of duty lust as though no treaty existed. But, until the other g'lvernments act, either as did Br.ieli lu .serving formal three months'r.iitiee ol the torminalien, or i.ilIectors exports of gr.iin-! and farm pri'ilu -ts may still l-ienellt by the fav.Te j rati s of duty to Which th-‘Si> eom u iolilies were subject under the urraugemeuts. LI TO TAKE THE FIELD. Giira’s Viceroy Said lo Have Boon Granted t E quo.t for Fcrsor.al Command. It is reported that the Bnqierorhu-'. granted I.i Unrig Chang's reque-t to t o allowed te take the field In person, aiid that Li Hung Cluing will maki' liis b.'adqnarters nt Lu T.ii near Kal Bing, tho j'risi n t lieadquarter.s of the provmcnil commander-in-chief of It is also reported that the i Iiine-o troops have eva.'uati d Corea and are now inii--ed at t liiu Lien t hing, thirty m ilei we.-uwird ol the Yaloo iiiM T. It i.s stated there iutve be.-.i numerous desertions from the t hiin - > army of hite bei-au-e of tho fuidty e n liuou of the arms aud um m uuitiou -upjiln 1 ti.' the troiqis. Am tiler junk tliut was .-ailing tlirough the >i*.‘rtli cbiirin.-k in .rU e r to tv a 'b ' tin? guard boats struek a to r j e l i an 1 was blown to I'iccce. Several ui< u v. ■ re dtow u e -i BURIED IN A MIKE. r CarbonJale, Fcarlul Pcath of F u r Bl.n I'ennsylvanta. Two miners and two lalorer.t w r e kiUe l In the Nurtliwe-t C dllery of sniq - n A Wat- kin-, at Sinipsom, near Carl ondab’, 'I’heir mangled remains Ho beii'-itli a f.d! of rock wUi'’U Is 10 feet wide, (’. feet high and CM feet In tho gangway oil the third slope of thu Tug ^Yilts, a ilrlvei, was the only witness of the horror. lb- t\ai -ittirig ulongsidfl tlio track waiting for a ear to bo lo.ideil by tho ill-fate 1 ne-ii. wln u \iith 'Ut warning, thu roof of the gangway fell within three feet ol him. YVltliout 111 ,he .-lopo a a to tho head ol •ared tbe bo lii s i.d the entembed mes cannot bo reached for eeveral Java. THE POSTAL CONGRESS. ■What 'WBililiigton 'Will Entertain in Three Tho next Congress will be asked by Post m a ster General Blssell to appropriate nearly- half a million dollars to defray tho expenses of the m eeting In W ashington in 1897 of tho Onlversal Postal Congress. Tho convention, w in be tho greatest g a thering of p o stal offlo- lals over assembled iu this country, and will consist of delegates from every civilized na tion of tho globe, with tho possible exception of Capo Colony, South Africa, which did not have a roprosontativo In tho Congress at Vienna, Austria, in 1891. There will be about If aud tho majority of them court uniforms during the sessions. Tho con gress will last seven or eight weeks, and will bo under the nuspicea of tho Best OQloo De partment. The deliberations ot the body will bo in tho French lauguago. Captain N. I'L Brooks, .superiutenneut of tho foreign ni.'iil sorvico of the Boat Ofllco Department, who was tho delegate of this Government nt tho Vienna Congress, in speaking of tho eoming oouventiou, said: “YYo shall meet ior tho agreed upon, to govern tho exchange of mails between all tho countries of tho world. Tho treaty will not intorfero with tho domestio postal regulations of any country, but regu lates all mail matter passing Irom ono coun try to another. Of course, ono country cun make arrangements with another ior a more liberal postal treaty between themselves, but a Government cannot change its postal regu lations regarding all tho countries without violating the treaty. It may, however, agree on matters that are not provided for in tho existing treaty, wbieh remains in force until '•The most important proposition to come up during the convention, which has twice failed of agreement, is to arrange so that there may bo a universal postage stamp which could bo used in any country. Under tho present system, if a person is in somo country like Canada, and writes to somo ono in another country, ho cannot buy stamps in his own c ountry to send to that person to prepay postage on the nns’iyer to his letter, beeause the country ivhcre h^sends tho let ter would not transmit to him a letter bear ing any other than its own stamp. This nt times is a great drawback. Travelers who oltea pns.s Irom one country to another at short intervals, suller groat ineonvenieneo on that account. They cannot hey stamps to t!iko along with them for ii.se, but have to go to the post ofllees in the places whoro they stop and purchase stamps there iu order lo have that Government transmit their mail. We would he satisfied ii we could get a stamp that would ho good iu any country to prepay postage to another country. “Besides this question, there will be many moro of general interest, but it is not prob able that the congress will take anyaollon as lo lowering foreign postage rates, us they aro now nt a very low figure.” LIL WANTS DAMAGES. Tho Ex-aueen May Suo 'he United St lea For S200,001, It is .stated on what ap]>ears to be good au thority that the erraii 1 of U. A. Widemauu, of Honolulu, to thi.s eoiiutry, is lor the juir- pose of eiiinmi’iieing a Jauuige suit agaiu.«t tho United tUati's on behalf of the e.\-tjueen of Iliiw.-iii. Xlie amount of damage asked w C2i.ili,UflO and the friends of tho cx - ijui ' od de-lare that this liiivorLuicut has been iu- strui’iental in imileiiug her to fully that amount. Her claim is that tho provisional governinent could not have heeii established and herself deposed had it not been for tho action of a reengnized agent of tho United States, tho captain of the xvarship B-ston, ■which action wns sul sequeutly formally dis avowed lij- tho I’roslJi'Ut. Whatever Mr. Widemann’s mission, his do- parturo from Honolulu wns kept a profound secret until almost the moment ol sailing, when ho suddenly aiqieared on tho dock and Bceured passage. Within a few days he will go on to Washington, where, lie does not deny, ho has business o l Imiiortaueo to trans- Mr. YYldemnnn declined to bo interviewed concerning hl.s mission to Washington, and when asked whether he was going to insti tute a damago suit on behalf of tho ex-Queen his answer was that ho had been accused of that before. His fellow passengers from the Island dot elaro that Jlr. W idenuaim’s errand is ns stated, and that ho has iu.struotions to go about the matter quietly and gain as littlo nowspujier notoriety :is may bo. THE BATTLE-SHIP MAINE Successful Con’rectors' Tri 1 of the K Fighting Machine. Tho United States battle-.fliip Maine,which ha.s been in oourso oi oonstruotlon sines 1SH3, when her keel was laid, left tho Brook lyn navy-yard Tuesday, aud it tvas tho first time sho was over under way. Her initial trip wnt. tho oeension lor a con tractors’ trial to test tho horse-power ot engines and her .speed previous to an oflioial trial, whieli will lako place in a few days. C’apt. F. M. Bunco was in command of tha ve-sel. Lieut. W. Kellogg, of tho Now York, ni'ted as the oxeeutivo offli’er, and Lieut. A ■Ward, of tho San Franoisco, navigator. Tha crow of 120 bluejaeket.s tvas selected from tha cruisers Novr York and tiaii Franoi.sco. Tho Maine ran nearly forty miles to sen, when sho turned aud came back to tho navy- yurd ill tho faeo of a stiff bree.-’o from tho northwest. During jiart of tho time whilo under forced draught her mnehinery re corded 131 revolutions a minute, which is es timated to bo a sjiced oi 17>t|' knots an hour. Tho contractor.s fool conildent th a t tho hor-o-jiower will oxeoed t),(JCt), -ivhloh tho Bpceilleations call for. Tho Maine is 310 feet long, 57 feet beam, 21 loot d raught, and her dUplacemeiit in 7,235 tons. When finXlied her cost will bo .52,500,- Oini, o u t of -ivhicli -2735,000 ha.s been expended on her engiues, boilers and maeiiiuery. PIVE LABOEEES BUEIEE Working to Prevent Hie Very Acc’dont That Injured Thim. Five Inborors were buried under a mass ol earth almost us conq .e.’t as .‘-toni', wbilc at Worit Hulking an cxeavatii m for tbe fouuda- tli'u of a retaining wall, just bdow tbo Uer- Uiantowu-uvonuc er..'.-.-ing of the Itiebmoud braueh of tbo Beading railroad iu I'hil- adolplda. On.' m a n was f.atally injured and died a fi'W niiunte.s a:ti-r his I .idy w.as reCoviTed. Vi.'Ur o thers wore si rioiisly injured, aud ro- ci iv c l aUentii.m at the tierm aiitow h und tho tiam a ritan Hospital-. ’Ihee.i-ii.ilty bupi i Ui d in an unexpi-i’ted miUin'T. N. 'iie of the wi rkne-u tliought tiiey wer.-' iu daiig'T iit any time. For u month J a -t they have ■ b 'e il employi-1 a t tlletier- maut.-iwn-avi-nu.' bri‘l:re, building a heavy bti'iie wall to prevent just such an accident ns i'l.foll tin :u. The laberers h.ad nni-lii? 1 their noon lunch and were uguih at Work ulieu a heavy leo wugi.n was driven along the edge of tho ground in the si ad'iw oi which they .stood. Nothing unu-ual was iiotlci.d at the time, but it is suiqiosed that it was then that tho ground was cracked. A lew minutes later, at 1.25 o'i'l..ck, a nia-s oi several tons o l earth iell on thi' five men named as they were bending over their shovels. A reception wa.s tendered at Montreal ir the members of the American I’ld lic Hea'lh Awonlatloo. JACK THE RIPPER TRAGEDIES. Two Horrib’e Hur'ors Ccmm tted in an Au triar A forriblo double tritgedy of tho “Jack tho Eipper” class is reported from Amrns, nor far from Innspruck, capital of tho Austrian On F riday last a young a n d p retty waitress Of Amras went a'way from her employer’s residence in order to witness a religious pro cession near that place. On her return home tho girl was m urdered, a n d tho only clue found, up to tho present, oi her assassin is a razor-edged knife, which wns picked up near her body. Tho murder caused a great sensa tion in tho neighborhood. Close to tho spot where the waitress was killed tho body of another woman, naked and slashed with a knife in Ihoregulnr “Jack tho Kipper” fashion, was fotmd. la a d d ition, another woman belonging iu tho same neigh borhood is mis.siug. Naturally, the whole ot the i mras district, as well as all tho neigh boring towns, aro in a state of tho greatest excitement. A strong detachm ent of gendarmes and two comj antes of imperial riflemen aro scouring the country around Amras._^but a ll efforts to nrrost tho murderer lias proved unsuccess- SALT WATER GEYSER. A salt water geyser in Blcasant county, VV. Ya., Is doing great damago. Somotimo ago the Archer Fork Oil Company began to drill an oil well on tho stream of that name, and a few days ago ;they struck a great vein ol salt water, which gushed up in a tali column .over the top of the deriicks. Tho flow Is immense, and continuous, with tho exception oi brief lapses in the height of the column. The water is strongly impregnated with salt, and Archer’s Ford and French Creek heretofore noted for tho great number ol game fish found in their waters, aro now so thoroughly impregnated that tho fish have all been killed or driven olh Tho water is so salty that neither man or oattlo can drink i t Tho salty stream has spread over a great amount of cultivated territory, rendering il utterly useless. Springs, wells and streams aro tendered unfit for use, and tho farmers believe that the geyser will cause much damage. They threatened to bring suits for damages against tho oil company for not plugging the well and shutting the streams off. DEATH ON THE RAIL. Two Unfortunates Run Over end Eilled and Their Bcdics Terribly Mutilate'. Joseph H. Jones, a freight brakeman, of Slioplicrdstown, W. Ya., was run ever by a train aud instantly killed, on tho 'Wostorn Maryland llallroad, in tho yard nt Hagers town. The whools passed over his body, crushing both logs. JTho trunk was mutil ated in a most horribio manner. Henry Ott, of Shippensburg, Ba., while returning homo on a Cumberland Talley Railroad train from tho Carlisle a g ricultural fair, and while in a badly iatoxleated con dition, fell beneath tho wheels of tho train at Newvillo and was klliod. Both legs ww'» ground off. C h ief tViTnooi’s camp. atN auU lutt.Som li- wost Africa, has been stormed by the Ger- mans, who lost 9 killed and 11 wounded. V lilol Uilbooi has .sued for ucaeo. __________ THE MABKETS. L a t e 'W h o lesale P r i c e s o f C o u n try Produce Quoted in New York. Highest of all in Leavening Po’wer.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Heport A Liznra \With Three E y e s. “ S p e a k in g o f lizard s , th e q u e e r e s t one -we have seen for a long time reached u s th e other day from N e w Zealand,” says a scientist in Washing to n . “ I t is nam e d th e 'cyclop e a n lizard' because it has a third eye on the to p o f i t s head. H o w e v e r , i t i s n o t a true lizard, but a sort of connecting lin k b e t w e e n th e liza r d s and th e turtles. The species is limited to a sm a ll isla n d near N e w Zealand, an d i t has been rendered almost entirely ex tin c t b y h o g s w ith a t a s te f o r i t s flesh. It attains a length of three feet, but a ll o f t h e b i g o n e s w ere eaten up lo n g ago. The third eye is rudimentary, b u t a d issectio n of its s tru c ture p la in ly reveals the eye-socket, the legs and a stran d of nerves co n n e c tin g t h e v isu a l tract of the brain. “ T h is eye is in t e r e s t in g ch iefly b e cause it corresponds to the third eye, w ith w h ich every hum a n b e in g i s p r o vided. The SO called ‘pineal gland’ is actu a lly an ey e t h a t has becom e ru d i mentary. The gland is o f a b o u t the size and sh a p e of a pea, and i s situ a t e d in th e m idd le of t h e head. P lace t h e tip o f y o u r finger ju s t above t h e brid g e o f y o u r nose, on a le v e l w ith t h e e y e s , som e w h a t t h e stru c ture o f a n e y e . Tho a n c ien t s su p p o s e d it to b e th e c e n tre o f con s c io u s n e s s and t h e seat o f tho 1.”— S t Missouri has 528,295 families; 111 nois, 77 8 ,0 1 5 ; K a n sas, 2 9 7 ,3 5 8 ; low; 888 , 517 . TAKE STEPS in time, if you arc a suf ferer from that scorn of humanity known consumption, and you can be cured. There is the evidence of hundreds of liv ing witnesses to the fact that, in' a l l i t s e a r l y ! stages, consump tion is a curable d i s e a s e . N o t every case, but a la r g e p e r c e n ta g e o f cases, and we believe, fu lly Pi? p e r cent, are cured by Dr. Bierce’s _ Golden Medical Dis- ^ covery, even after the disease has pro c e s s e d so far as to induce repeated bleed ings from the lungs, severe lingering- cough with copious expectoration (including tu bercular matter), great loss of flesh and e x treme emaciation and weakness. Creamory—Bonn., extras...$ 241^®$ Western, extras..................... — ® S t t S B & a r j s a s B “ *‘1 State—F.xtra.............................. 22 @ . .................... 22 @ F irsts........................................ 19 @ zj. WretVruIm.’ ( ’roa\i^^^^^^^^^ ® 18 CnEKKE. State—Full eroam,whito,.f-)ne.y 10 (n> lO.t^ Full eream, good to prime. State Factory—Bart skims, choice....................................... 7f<(S) 8,V Part sldnw, com. lo primo, 4 (® 7 state & Penn—Fresh .............. 20 (J? 21 Jersey—Fancy........................... 21 (» 22 Western—Fresh, be.st ............... — (® 19) Buok egg.s—South & West .. — @ — Gooso e g g s ................................. EEANSEANS AND PEAS. '■'•'I, choice. E A Beans—Marrow, 1894, _ Mi'ilium, 1K94. ehoico .......... S?.t‘SUsr-v’-Sii:- IK S IS Greou poas.lmlp, V bush ......... — @ 11'^,^ ■i?T7T7T'ra A-VD berries —FRESM. s i s I5S Itate—1804, Choleo, t> 1h ........ 10 Btate-1804, 1 8 9 4 ^ m n.tV AXD STRAW. H.ny—Goo.Hocholijo'dlOO lb 70 & 73 r 1 1 1 I.IVE rOULTliY. 7 ® lh< \J I 4 Ducks, i' jiair ......................... 45 (f 80 Geese, V Jiair .............................1 00 (ii> 1 87 Pigeous, 'vipair ......................... 20 @ 2» DRESSED POULTRY. « g II M’e.slcrn, .................................. 10 Oi 1’2 Jersey, 'ri lb.................. — @ - - Fowls, . ........................................ 11 ® 12 Ducks, y lb ..................... — 16 tqmibk^U do-L 110 @ 2 73 VKtJETAItLa.S. IS iSISS Potaloi'.s, Jersey, ¥ bill .......... L’ouuty, V l*bl ........ Siiuash, marr-'tV*, ? bbi .... aws-TSSt-.™ V «loz. ruot'3................ Striiiji I hviu ^, V ................ jmuh , V hat? ............. (Trei'n .*oru, V lOi) ................... Xoiimto**s, iM»ox ..................... V l(n» ................... Lima V I'ap: ................. Caulifluw‘.T, V h U ................ “i i S s = B k r l e ^ ^ n g m d i ' a w ; ; ^ : : Lard—Oity s t e a m . . . . . ........... LIVE HTOCK. B«eves, citydrasse l ................ Miloh Cows, com. lo good .... Calves, city dressed ................ Country dre»i>el .................. H o p —U ve, y J.UU lbs ............ I'l S;S ■ f ‘ 1 00 («' 2 00 , --- 00 fiS j y . ri7Vj''ai 5s . 3 J ^1 30,1*' .' CO OS) 65 . 8 @ 8 '/ oil and its filthy “ e m u lsions” anc ires, had beeu tried iu nearly all the.si cases and had either u tterly failed to bene fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey, and various preparations of the hypo- phosphites had also been faithfully tried The photographs of a large number of those cured of consumption, br 9 nchitis, lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal catarrh and kindred maladies, have been skillfully reproduced in a book of i6o pages w hich w ill be m a iled to you, on receipt of address and _ six cents in stamps. You can then write to those who have been cured and profit by their ex perience. A ddress for Book, W o r l d ’ s D ispen s a r y M e d ica l A ssocia t ion , Buffalo, N. Y. WAY’S ” PILLS, Always Reliable, Parely Vegetable. i | S | s p E a | SICK HEADACHE, FEMALE COIVIPLAJNTS, B IL IO U S N E S S , INDIGESTION, D Y S P E P S IA , CONSTIPATION All Disorde Tve tho follow lers of the LIVER. A fewtlosesof H.ADWAY’.S PILLS wilt fro© the system of all the above named disorders. Price ^5c. a Box. Sold by Druggists, or T h e r e are s a id to b e o n l y four su r vivors o f N a p o leo n ’s G rand A rm y , t b e old e s t o f them b e in g Jean Sab a tier, w h o w as born A p r il 15, 1792. T b e oth e r s are also m o r e than 100 years hM liiirsenient of Scott’s Emulsion is contain ed in let- - ters from the medi cal profes sion speaking of its gratify ing results in their practice. Soott ’8 Imlim of cod-liver oil with Hypo- phosphites can be adminis tered when plain oil is out of the question. It is almost as'palatable as milk—easier to digest than milk. 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One of the most important things for everybody to learn is that constipation causes more than half the sick ness in the Avorld; and it can all be prevented. Go by the book. Write to B. F. Allen Compan}^ 365 Canal street. New York, for the little book on C o n s t i p a t i o n (its causes con sequences and correction); sent free. If 3’ou are not within reach of a druggist, the pills will be sent by mail, 25 cents. IJii SCO | s » . atalosui', siniWlag iminiTuus Rrailunt.’S in biislm>ss, jiil.lrrss O ____________ CI.I.M1..\T t'. liAIN'ES. Pranlilcnt, J.l Wushingtnn Street, P..11 ■.,': .'iiq.-, N.'w Y.irk; To Save Tifrse is to Lengthen Life.” Oo You Value Life? Then Use SAPOLIO