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~r — THE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -AT- ' J ,FHANKXIN COJJNTY, N. Y. trEEMS--$l,00 FEB YfiAB, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. *\0 toilers and communications dretted to thould bt ad. lOWELLft ALDRietEdttorsand Publishers, St. Begim FatTs, N. Y. •JP v t 6 H-.i _l.U_r: PUSH AHEAD. Up and on and do not wait If you've anything to do; (Never be a moment late; | Drive ahead and puah it through jPaiward proas without complaint; \i Never murmur, fret or acold; -' lingering never made a taint; » | Vacant hearts no virtue hold. Every moment koep in play | Nerve and faculty and grit; Providence will haate the day ' When wlt^honor you will sit 1 —Religious Herhld. A (TROUBLESOME LANE. That lino hail always boon a bo 10 ol Contention between Uncle Joo Allci ana hii neighbor on tho west. Whcti the country was now Unclo Joe and Saknson Freeholder had bought adjacent firms. In fomo way or another they hacf not agreed about tho matter of building the line fence. Ono wanted tho privilcgo of building it in his own way, the Other would not adopt that mothod; and s o it came about that they decided to bKiid a lane two rods wide, one-half lying One •ide the lino and one-half on .the other tide. Each man put u p a fence the whole length of tho Jiqe, leaving that long stria of land that neither could use. With a considerable decree of propriety tho lane camo to bo known as \tho Devil's Lane.\ Similar Iuncs may be found in certain parts of this country at the present time/although they. aro fast disappearing. : So the matter stood. Tho two!men let each other sovcrely alone after the 'fence was built. Each kept up the fence on his .sido of the Devil's Lane, hover venturing to do anything toward making the land of valuo to himself or his neigh- bor. , Time brought gray hairs to those good farmers, and at length Sampson Free- holder was gathered to his fathers. Then the farm was sold to Dick Lam son, a wide-awake thorough-going young fellow who was bound to suAced in, life. Everybody said so, and what all in Spring- field agreed upon, who cduld question? Unclo Joe was not blind to the young man'g sterling qualities, and s o it hap- S med that when, in the course of time, ick came to court his handsome daugh- ter Bess, ho was very much inclinjecf to favor his suit. It was not long, before it came to be well understobd that t)ick was \going with Bess,\ and that they were going to \get married\ in a few months. Matters were in this condition wb.cn <race upon a time Dick happened t) get to thinking about that Devil's :^ane. Then it 6trctchcd the whole width <ff his farm, separating hhn from his prospective father-in-law. I At that timo the lane was wcUcaicula- ted to be an eyesore to any energetics far- mer. It had been allowed to nm to waste for many years. No one hod set foot on i t since tho fences had been built •are notr-end then a venturesome boy hunting rabbits, for which it furnished an, excellent retreat. \ For it had grown up so thickly with shrubs, briars and weeds that it was the next thing to impossible for any one to force his way through it. In such a condition it was of uo use t o the men who owned the land. It looked to Dick like a sheer waste of property. There was a strip of land 100 rods long and a rod wide that belonged to him,and apiece of tho same sizo'which Unclo Joe \^ht to have under culti square kinjl of a fellow,\ but if lhat was the way ho was going to act, h< want anything more to do with hi as for pess, she needn't think sho would 1 ^OND A 3Devoted to Loc&l News Ar :l andi Home Interests. W* solicit tat petrosals of saerlTUia THE gidtrimdacfc U*m* * ALLKIXD6 0F =P=? JOB PRINTING • SUCH AS Car<la> Letter-HeaAs, Note-bead; Bill-Heads, Statements, Envelopes, . Handbills, Posters, St\, ' NEATLY AND PROMfTLY EXICUTBD AT THE LtfWEgT LIVI5G PEICBS FOR CASH. tba public ant strive te •AIM. didn't m; and, agnt 10 nave under cultivation I Was it not poor policy to allow 1 that id to run wild in that way? So i t smed to him. Ho knew nothing about 10 circumstances under which thd lane been built and possibly thought it wiui only by chance. / ., \I'll speak to Unclo Joe about'it tho next time I'm over that way,\ was Dick's resolution; and it was not long before he had a chanco to carry it into effect., The old gentleman seemed to bo in very good Jiumor tho day Dick called on him, and the two men sat on, the fence half an hour chatting about the crops and matters' in general. Finally the young man said: \By the way, Uncle Joe, what do you •ay to clearing up that land between *you and me and putting a good fence on the line? That's where it belongs. The use of that lahd is worth something to us Uncle Joe's lips closed for a moment Very tightly. Then he replied: r \It's gbod enough for rac as i t is!\; \* Now, t<iat meant a great deal frdm Uncle Joo. It meant that he had not for- gotten the strife of almost half a century •go with hcighbor Freeholder, and that he had no inclination now to depart from the decisi m he had then formed never to help buik a fence on the line. Dick wis not slow to see that there was some! hing back of the farmer's ro- mark, anc ho wisely said no iuore about the lane. But asate would have it, the Legisla- ture of the Stato about that time hap- pened to recognize tho fact that there wero a number of devil's lanes insido its boundaries; and appreciating tho fact that they were but standing monuments of man's \ perversity, some ono introduced a bill to do away with them for ever. In case the parties in interest could not or would not agree to build a joint fence, the trustees of the township were author- ized to h*5ate the line, build a fence upon it and chirge the expense to the general tax. This Dick knew, but his steady-going neighbor did not. 8o that when some one happened to remark to Dick that it Was about time the lane was closed up, it •et the ykmng man to thinking very •arncstly. Why should Uncle Joe persist so fool- ishly in maintaining that crop of bushes and briavs. His farm was everywhere else a model of thrift. After a while ho ^ventured to approach Unclo Joe agaiition the subjc( t and told him, as the law then was, he didn't see but the. lane would have to be done away with. *But the old man was ^immovable.. It passes all com- prehension what aji amount of litigation ftnd neighborhood difficulty liavc grown out of s o simple a matter as the construc- tion of a line fence. Men sensible in most matters have- been made enemies for life by just such a thing as tfiat. It is my duty 1 o chronicle the fart that, the moro Did: thought about it, the more it aroused Mm. It was downright mean- ness on tie old man's part to stand out in that wiy, according to Dick's opinion. Of course, he was ai\ old man now and full of whims but he ought to listen to com- mon sens<. He finilly talked it over with Bets, and, like the sensibjo girl sho was, sJh,e sought to act as a mediator be- 'tyeen the two men. It was not the first time a woman's heart had been crushed by the obi tinancy of two men, like wheat by millstones. IJiu-Ie .toe finally told Beat never to mention the thing to him again. The fence was ail right as it was and should not be disturbed. He fead thought Dick Lamtoo \a Brettv ever get his consent to marry such an out-and-oujt scoundrel as h o was 1 Of i course that put the climak on tho tronbfe. Bess, with her lovely <jyos full of tciars,, told her lover the old man's decision, and pick's teeth camo together hard as he listened. ^o tit was war, was it? Well, if that was so, ho would seo what tho law could do. , \n about ton cjays after that the trustees woht out to the farms and very gravely struggled tlirough tho tangled ', ano ana staked Out the line. Then they ncrvod a icpion the two men that-tiny, must build a good legal fence tliero within thirty days., Unclo Joo looted on) and remarked that ho Jfcuow whot'tholawwos and he'd try to lfvo up t o it. ! 'Dick went td work and cut I ails and drew them to the lano for tha. purpose of buildjng his part of tho fence; oi;t Unclo Jocyfnado no move in that direction, lie spent much of his time in tho n jifrhbor- hopd of tho lane. He carried his gun most of tho time. Now and hen he brought home a rabbit for dinr cr. Ho hod been, so le was fond of saying, something of a I.untcr in his time, and even now was c o intcd a good si o t for a man of his age. After Dick hac finished splitting rails for the fence, he lad sharpened his axe, and, taking a g< ott scythe, we it down to cloar the ground of brusies and briars. I He know this would bo no urn ill task, but his .armH wero strong and' lus w511 good. Haqdly au hour had he wOfftcll when a rifle shotirang out on the air and his strong right firm dropped to his sido painfully wounde!il. So sovero was his injury thatihs could do nothing towar 1 discovering |who*f}rcd\ the murderous sljot, and he wis alone. After ho had made his way to tho tyousc, the alarm was given and a crowci of men and boys turned out and hunted the lane from end to,end, but i n vain; no ono could bo found hiding there, and tho deed remained a mystery. ' In this way things stood for some time. Dick's arm healed slowly someho ^. The bono had been injured a little, th3 doctor said. Dick saw Qcss now and tr en. He could not help noticing that tic poor girl's checks were growiug paler day by day, and she seemed ready to brenk down whenever he came to see her. II ?r father was homo but little now. Night! and day he stood guard tit the lane, a sturdy vet- eran on some self-imposed jpost of duty He had even slept out in the bus] ica sev- eral times all night, coining to his meals in the morning stiff and sore from the damp, but with a determined lock on his face*. He was a iiun who nevei yielded what he thought [was right. Tho thirty days given by lajw had passed, and the Township Trustees \allowed\ io build tho fence in a few . days. T icy had watched thing* from a distance and knew how desperate tho old man was. About this tioie Dick and B >ss hap- pened to be sitting on the porch in the narvest moonlight, Uncle Joo was out on the fence probably. Neithci of the young people referred to him. As they saJLtlps Dick turned his eyes toward the DcTilfs Lane. ;, What was it h< saw? He sprang to 1 is feet. Away dowi t at tho farther end of the lane a douc of smoke curled lazily up. As ho watchedJ the breeze freshened a little, and a lurid glare leaned angrily ( kyward, sweeping the tiro direel ly down ho lane. • '• j • ... Some one had Jflrcd tho undc rgrowth .whfchlcrowdcd the lane. K It was a timo of the year when every- thing'was as drv. as tinder. Tliero had been no rain for weeks, and tiro like that was a thing to bio dreaded. Where is your father, Bess?\ * The girl now rose quickly, and with startled gaze looked toward tho liuic. ~ \He must bo down yonder. Lick, I'm afraid-ryou donit suppose—\ \The busfi is o n fire. If your father is there he is in •danger. I will go and sec if Ilcun find him.\ Before the words were fairly spoken Dick had clearc4 the fence surrounding the farm house, and was running swiftly toward the fire, Bess following as fast as' she coifld. . How tho flames did sweep thro lgh that thicket 1 It seemed to lick the crackling bushes up like leaves. If her father was there—no; she couldn't bear to think what might be his fate. Tho old man was,Urea wtth'h^ watdhing. II J might have fallen asleep down there as he had so often before. { y ' Dick soon readied the lane and plunged into the bushes as near the fire as lie dared. If Uncla Joe was beh nd him then nothing short of a mime c could save him. if in front, then he possibly might be rescued from death in tho flames. i ' J 'Don't come In here, Bess,\ shouted Dick as he saw tho girl about to cap into the thick growth of brushes n«ar him. \Uo farther down and look a ong tho fbnee.\ ; Poor Bess obeyed silently. How like a very giant ho seemed to h( r as ho tramped through, tho briars, mud and bushes, tearing, nit face and liar ds terri- bly, hunting for the wilful old n tan who had wronged him so! Now then; was his right arm powerless! Did Bets know who had fired the shot that had made it € o? If she did, shb dutifully kept the sc- rot. . r On and 1 on swept the flames, chasing Dick like mad demonl The lower end of the lano was in sihbt. That would end tho search. jWhcrolwas the old man? Had he missed him? Could it be he had indeed perished? Dick's heart lad soft- ened toward the old man. It was a use- less quarrel. Ho w*t*'a*htimcd o ' his part in it. If he had know how Uncle Joe felt about it, ho never would ha ,p e said a word about tho miserable lane.' Suddenly a low cry fell on Disk's ears. ft came from tha, rear, where the tire was raging fiercely. Dick knew Uncle Joe had been found. ' Could lfc reach liim before it pould too lato?< God help him, he , w( uld tr Nerving himself for the ordeal, le ruslved back through the smoke toward the whence the cry proceeded. \Agaii/the call came, this time full of horror. Plunging on, hi* feet hot, his >breath choked, and his clothing oi /fire in, C laces, the young man herdicuHv madtt* is way. , \ Whtn almost ready to droj/ho found Uncle Joe staggering blindly U ward the place. He was fearfully burned and al- most exhausted. / , Seizing him with his l/ft aim, Dick bore him out into tho/ meadow, and placing him oir tho ground, re lied him* over and over u\\ the flames which- were eating into his flesh tyere put out. Then he fell to the earth IninsHf un< nnscious. llv this time lk-ss had readied them an garments, deadening the fire, a saved! Two months after that Dick and Unclo Joe, scarred and still weak, stag- gered toward each other and clasped hands. I *1 M \I've been a fool, Or cirazy, Dicl said Undo Joe 1 in a choked voice. \Pm asliamcd of myself. Can't you forgive me?\ v \Don't take all thb blame, Uncle Joj,\ was tho young man's reply. \I've done wrong myself. I'm sorry, let's forget it, and build a fence worthy tho name.;' ! That was all that was said about tho Devil's Lane. The ioint fence Was built, and Uncle Joe kept his part up faithfully as long as he lived. After that tho two farms wero thrown into one, and Dick and Bess are the happy man and wife who live on the allien homestead. DIPLOMATS. FOUR FOREIGN TIVES AT WAS! L :PRESENTA» INGTON. interesting Pen Pictures ami Por trait* of the Ministers From England, Germany, Ja- ' pan and France, The Mohammedan's Hpnrs of Prayer. Tho Koran has fixed the hours that must bo consecrated to prayers. Thtac prayers, namax, aro five in number. The most solemn is the morning prayer. It is tho sabah namazi. It i s uttered after the dawn, just before tho rising of tho sun. Tho second is tho midday pro yer, euiU namazi. The third, ftindynamati, must be offered just before the setting of the sun. Tho evening prayer, aachaw namazi, is uttered just before the shadows concj sal tho horizon. Finally, tho last and filth prayer, yatcy namazi, is uttered n the in- terval after sundown and jist before dawn. .. • The hour of prayer is rejgu! arly pro- claimed to Uie faithful by tl e imam*, called muezzins, who walk around the bal- cony of the minarets, singing, in a melan- choly voice, this unvarying htan j: \Gdd the most high 1 I here proclaim t hat there is no God but God. I proclaim that Mo- hammed is tho prophet of Goc. Cojne tp the temple of salvation, Gr< at Gcjd 1 God the most high 1 There i i no God but God 1\ Blind men are usual ly select- ed for muezzins, or at least imams ib&t suffer from confirmed myopia, so that they cannot throw inquisitive gl inccs to- ward tho women that may be promenad- ing on the terraces of the houses I Christians surround their observance of prayer with a kind of mystery or of reserve that the Mussulmans kn< w abso- lutely nothing of. In whatever placfc a devout Osmanli may find himself, wheth- er in his house, in his shop,' in the 1 ^ j With a light-brown, English, full beard, towards the sides slight)y tinged with gray, a / bj*avy mustache concealing his mouth, shapely, white, nribtocratic hands, and always dressed with tho most perfect, quiet taste, the Brit^ ] Minister looks public square, uo i ng busir streets, in a ness, or o n a Visit, as soon as thd hour of the namaz is announced, ho makes his religious preparations, places uader his knees ajsmall rug, or in default < t which handkerchief, turns his face toward Mecca, places his arms in tho shf >o of a cross upon his breast, or putting them to his forehead, prostrates himsc f, then rises—all this slowly and with s! rict ob- servance of rules.' If he i s i n a i rcct, he docs not permit himself to bo d i itracted and disconcerted by anything, i >t) even by ^he'indiscreet curiosity of tie Euro- pean, who looks at him astoni a led by this novel sight, but Who gene i ally has no desire to ridicule it; for this worship under the open sky, disregards 5 social conventionalities, indifferent to vhatover may be said, has somcting gram i and sa- cred about it that banishes all raillery and inspires respect.— Cosmopolum. Sham Hysteria. \One physician who is c nsidercd authority on nervous diseases, doubts very much the ability of any VDman to deliberately deceive even an aibulance surgeon by feigning hysteria. : [e knew of no such cases'in medical literature. 1 'It is extremely difficult,\ *aic another physician, \to tell sometimes where hysteria is simulated and where ,; is not. There is always more or less simulation,\ Flint says that there is a tendency to exaggerate symptoms of disease. I .It pro- ceeds sometimes from an cxaggcra cd senso of existing symptoms and sometimes from a morbid desire to excite interest or sympathy. It is an important pa rt of tho knowledge and tact of tho practt ioner to make due allowance for this iondency. In some cases a morbid pervcrsk n of the mind Wds patients to undertake to practio .ygross frauds as rcgafis their aiime^as., They | pretend to hnvo cx- trac^fnary disorders, and jvsort to injJnious efforts at deception. H rsterical malingering is not unfrcqucntly mixed with hysterical self-deception. | There havo been several well-p uthcnjti- cated cases in which it war founl that the patients could, at thc?r will, thrl wthem-> selves into fits of hysteria. Tliis couloV bo done in different ways. One gilfi would always go into hysteria When she thought of a certain subject, a$DthcrA>y eating certain food, another ekemedto have tho ability to mesmerize rorsclT, to throw herself into a trance, ili(ykccp herself in it. Not long ago a woman in hysterics was brought into a Brooklyn hospit tl. She was laid on a cot, aud sho inyn cdiatcly ^flopped out on to tho floor. The doctors set her u p in a chair, and she tun bled out again and again, bumping Her ] icad and whacking her arms on the rLoor iu if noth- ing could hurt her. One/of thi 1 doctors stepped up to her and bcifun slapping her face on either side with ms hanc 3 as hard as*hceould. After two/or three daps tho girl jumped up and threatened o report the doctor for nis cruelty, pick< 1 up her hat, and walked yout with 110 more hyst cria t han there LJ i n a clam. 1 lysteria is often a striko foV sympathy. This girl got the reverse. To some extent sho must novo been simulating, yet it whs i genuine case of hystojria/— New York Sui i*. s. BACKVTI.LB! W1?ST. • . * and bears himself as the type of an Eng- lish gentleman. His whole life has been devoted to tho diplomatic service of his country. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plen- ipotentiary of nis Majesty the Emperor of Germany, Baron von Alvcnsleben, although one of the most courteous of g entlemen, is also sa very retired and ignjfled nian, especially iu everything referring to himself and his diplomatic Long the Anciei K professor has succeeded in Jrsnii n. KUKT. lection/as Japanese Commissioner to the great^rench Exposition at* Paris was a direct proof how well he had made use of his /opportunities and the confidence his country placed in him. Theodore Justin Dominique Hous- ton is,a true example of the French cav- ^i\ier and diplomat. His Excellency is.a middle-sized, well-built and well-pre- served man, with bronzed face, an intel- lectual forehead, dark,curly hair, show- ing scarcely a silver thread amongst its dark masses, a somewhat prominent, straight nose and vivacious brown eyes. Born in 1883, ho looks at least ten years younger than his age. He commenced his diplomatic career in 1850, and, pass- ing through the usual routine, held and occupied many high positions. The ser- vices he did for France in settling affairs with Tunis during his Consulship are a matter of record. In 1881 M. Itoustan was sent to the United States, where he has since held with honor to his countn besys Quickly she -wrapped Dick in Beer A Gcrma tracing the/origin of beer to thd land of the pyramids. An ancient pai yrushas rcvealed/hc Wrath of an Egyptiin father who had convicted his son of th 3 deplor- able habit of lounging about the Nile tavern^ and guzzling beer. Fro 11 Egypt the aft of manufacturing \liqui< bread,\ as tlie professor affectionately describes his/favorite*licerage, waa introd iced into niopia and, the heart of Afri< a, where rpctuul summer <made it seasonable all year round. The Roman Empire de- clined becauso amoug other things, it despised beer and was beguiled by stronger but less wholesome flujds. Tho Northern races overran Italy, aceordin to the same authority, because they ha< learned to live on bread and beer. En- thusiasm certainly carried tho learned professor a long way; and perhaps ho has not reached the end erf his archaic re- searches. Is he certain that tho Israelites did not have beer with their manna; or th«t there' wts not a fresh brew served betimes in Eden?— New York Tribune. the her own v To Tell Good Butter * Any person can prove the h inesty of his grocer by melting his butter. Pure butter melted produces a purei ljimpid, golden oil, and it retains the butter flavor. Melt oleomargarine and the d\\ smells like tallow, and a acum rises to the sur- face. -Our Country Home. H. v . ALVENSLKBEN. 1 career. • When in 1884 he was' sint to Washington to take charge of thfs im- portant legation he was no stranger to this city \and country, having held al- ready, in the year 1869, the position hi first attache to the 2?erma,n Legation suc- cessively under Barons von Gorold and von Shlozzer. * * , In 1872, at the eariy age of twenty, his Excellency Jushi? R. Kuki* was sent by his Government to Europe, to study and investigate political, educational and in- dustrial conditions, to fit him more thor- oughly for his chosen career, and his se- 1 1 r TIT. >T. D. norSTAK. and himself his present position. Tic is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and has been honored with many other high orders and decorations.— Cincinnati Com- nureial. \Ah There!\ Wilmington, Vt., is nearly in the cen- ter »»f tin* largest maple sugar making section in the world. Hie largest maker there ships IJHHIO gallons of simp year, y, and the buhiuebs is growiug fast. The' Facial Angle. That the downward length of the nose shows the development of the intellect is easily proved by a simple and yet ex-. tremcly interesting fact. Let three heads be drawn as i n this engraving.. A line drawn from the opening o( the car to tho upper end of the nose and another to its lower end will include an angle of 80 degrees. In thi Sage the intellectual lobe of the brain extends far forward. But the upright length of the nose, at 8, just Alls up the angle.. Farther back the nose of the hind, at 2,1 also fills the angle, but also shows a very Vouch shorter intel- lectual lobe. That of the dog is shorter still. The nose of the hind and the dog { >rOject forward, but have less . upright cugth.— American Traveler. TEMPERANCE/ Truthful Jingles. As ond and one make always two, . So those who drinjc are sure to rue. As two and two make'al ways fbur, So surely one glass ieada to more: As three and tnree are always six, As surely, drink is-gpoiled by \BUcks.\ As sure ai four and four make eight, Will rum bring trouble soon or late. J 1, As Ave and fiyejare always teoS t Ko surely drtmcmalQBs drunken men. - —Edward Carswell. in frssweraace Banner. The Seed Wonld Not Sprout Some, time ngo Sunset Cox forwarded Through the entire length, which, is fitted up with all the appliances of an ordinary saloon. I Twenty or thirty clerks sind waiters are in attendance. to Senator Brown from Egypt a package •of cotton wed that had been found en- tombed with a mummy. The mummy belonged f> the rat* of the Pharaohs, and had been pronounced dead 4,000 years before Mr. Cox, discovered the remains. Three of the seed were sent by Senator Brown to Dr. Cbnnnlly, of this ci£jj, and were duly submitted to the test )f sun and soil. They were planted it tubs i tilled with highly feitili/.cd dirt, ana win; carefully watched and watered for a period of lliirtydays. In spite of this the seed failed to sprout, and they were finally dug up and examined. They weiic tilled with dust, and i t ts supposed thai the germ of life that once had ex- isted in tlicir frail shells had passed away utterly. ^Alliudu Constitution, , A Trifle Monotonous. \ This is the portrait of a man who read . in the daily paper that war was inevitable in Europe. He can't stop yawning.— Sifting*. A Cent of 1787. Mr. William Dunlop has in his possession what he believes to be the oldest coin in the United States. It is a penny of the issue of 1787, and the smoothness of its surface shows that it has gone through about as many ups and downs as a coin may be mipposad to experience in a century. It was presented to Mr. Dunlop yesterdai' by Mr. W. S. Wctzell, who brought it from Great. Falls, M. T. f where he found' it under very peculiar circum- stances. While working*in a snwpit several weeks ago Mr. Wetzel 1 saw the coin lying in Ihe sawdust.which covered tlie ground. The mark of a saw tooth led him to the conclusion that it had just been disinterred from tftc heart of a log. This Jed to further speculation, and for wo*iit of a better explanation he attributed itajriiscovcry 2,000 miles from the colonial stipre to the tra|>pcrs or Indians. How it got in the Inrc though he did not attempt to explain. The coin is of ] copper and about the size of u twenty- flve cent piece, On its face is a sun shining on a dial, and under the latter j the*k i nd ly ml v ice, the observation of which is said to make men Vanderbilts, \Mind J you own business.\ On one sido is tho date \1787\ and on the other the word \Fugio.\ Around the edge of the 1 reverse sifle are. thirteen rings linked, , emblematic of the union of the colonies, > and in the. center the words \United 1 States.\ Mr. Dunlop yesterday made a search of works on old coins, but could j find nothing but a mere reference to tho ; coin, There is said to be one other; penny of that date in New York.— Kansat ; City Times. ,. Mormon Bcf r in the National SoldieM' Home. A member of the Woman's ^Christian Tempcranco Union, who has visited the National Soldier*'Home, at Dayton, Ohio, writes: * . t I \You ask mo if there is Snw truthln the statement mode in the slip you sent me iiK regard to the beer saloon in the Home! . Yes, it i s all true; but the half has not been told. The saloon was first opened on. the 12th day o f last July, and has been running successfully ever since. It is opened every day, except Sunday, from eight o'clock in the morning until five in the evcaiug. It is in a large building, fully 150 icet long by thirty feet wide; it has a counter running A board par- tition runs along tflie entire length of the room, and behind this partition the beer- lmrrels arc arranged at every , few feet with faucets lending from them into the room. ; This place is crowded from the time it opens until it closes. The clerks arc all kept busy as they can possibly be drawing and handing out the beer. There is a steady stream of the old vets going and coming, alf day. From twenty to thirty barrels (not kegs, but larjge barrels) of beer arc sold every day. The thirst of the old hefocs is wonderful; they drink and drink, and still call for more. It i s sold to them, at five cents a glass; the glasses are very larire—real Ischooners. The beer is much stronger, or in some way different from any beer WJJ get at any other place. A brejwery at Cincinnati has the contract for furnishinr it, and i t ner is said to bo made especially for the Home, *\\ and is different from other beer. The old vets get howlingudrunk on it. , U i s a disgrace to the State s*nd thje nation.\ An Appeal to litquor Sellers. | An address has been- sent 1 to brew- ers, distillers, rectifiers, wholesale deal- ers and saloon-keepers by 1 he officers of; this National W. C. T. U. It i s most Jcindly throughout, and appeals to them as brothers to give up their nefarious business. It says:] \We be lieve * inflect! that ! your own mental vision is dimmed; and the voice, of conscience in your breasts.is dcadene/d by alcoholic poison. . Lifted 6ut oi the smoke ai d fumes of your present environ- ment we believe your perception erf the relation which your business h^lds. to the interests of the homes and the citizenship of the Bt public would so appal you that all of you, j 1 vho are not hopelessly dwarfed by greet of gain, would flee tie traffic in alcoholic poisons as you would the pesti- lence. iVhatever you fajvor wp must con- demn, and steadfastly antagonize your principle 1 of license—wherever wo en- counter tr-by the principle of prohibi- tion. 1 Ijrothas, the end is,near; the doom of tho liquor traffic is sealed; the clock of God has struck the hour of the people's deliverance. Will you not come with us n the great fight for a clear brain a proteci ed home? Will you not, 0 free choice, c o that which must eve long be done un< ler compulsion of the vox populi, which echoes the vox Dei? For this wo earnestly ask, .this we will. fervently pray.\ I I Railroads as Temperance AJAies.. The m inagers of railways arc becom- ing, front economic considerations chief;, ly, impoi tant allies of the tcmnscan.ee re- form. Commenting thcreon^The Ameri- can, ot ^his city, says: \The railway manager \ of the country are proving to be most jfflcicnt, because the m< st prac- tical, of temperance reformers. Many of them ha 1 *e prohibited the employment of men for rain service or i n other responsi- ble positions who use liquor in any form. Now they are beginning to prohibit the sale of liquor on grounds owned by their railroads. President Jtobert Harris, of the Nortticrn Pacific, has lately issued an order p ohibiting the sale of liquor on any prop erty controlled by that compa- ny.\ B;r and by these railway managers, many of whom, presumably, are not now to'tal aba tainers, it may bo hoped will see it their c uty to become such, and to help more thin hitherto to promote the needed total-abstinence propagandism and the crusade against alcoholic drinking and the drin c traffic. Railway investments will imp rove in value as the drink peril is banisl ed from the community at large. — Naiim al Temperance Advocate. 1- bove is.a good picture of the Mormon Church at Salt Lake City. The structure is large, took a long time to build, and cost a great deal of money. ,' A man purchased two old pictures *from a second hand furniture dealer in; Nashville, Tenn., recently for $1 each. After cleaning them up he discovered they were famous pictures by Carle Ver* net' He sold them for $14,000 to a cob lector, who has dent them to Paris. Indian* in \Montana are snfferln frolic lack of food. The greatly are suffering and are said to be Mihsisting on hrfrsc flesh. PERILS OF THE SEA. The Tragic Story of a Shipwi ecked Schooner. While the bark Scot's Way, from Lbbon 4Jx>und tor New York, was off Hatta raa in a «£avy storm recently Second Hate 10'Brien dimly saw in the gray dawn, from his, perch on the foretopsail yard, a long, dirk ob- ject, nearly six miles dead to leeward, plunging and rolling in the big, wind-swept seas. He reported his discovery to Captain Steele, and the Scot's Bay squared away and bore down on the object. It was the wreck of a schooner, and as the bark got closer and the daylight brighter, Captain Steele made out two men sitting on the after house feebly waving their arms. 'The bark passed close under the stern of, the wreck and hove to. Notwithstanding the turbulent waves, a boat was safely launched in charge of Mate Peterson and^oor, volunteers, aadaa attempt made to rescue the two men on the wreck. Mate Peterson noted that the mainmast of the schooner was broken close to the deck and about half of the mizzen and foremasts were standing. The deck waa flush with the seas, which swept her at intervala from stem to stern. The two men were lashed to the after house. Their clothing was torn to shreds and their bodies Were filled with cuts and bruises. They laughed and cried deliriously when they saw the boat and its plucky occupants rowing to- ward them. Mate Peterson made several in- effectual attempts to board the wreck, but the heavv swells proved to be too much .for the little boat. The two shipwrecked men feebly begged the boatmen not to leave them. Mate Peterson shouted encouraging words to the unfortunates. After much manoeuvring; the rescuers got close enough to get hold of the broken rigging dangling over the port side. The mate got aboard and lifted the two un- fortunates in the boat and rowed them to the bark. They, were hoisted aboard by ropea and carried by willing hands into the cabin. All the brandy the Captain had and lots of steaming coffee were poured down their throats. Thpn they ate a nourishing meal and r* »sre put to bed. , -~ When they awoke the next day they told the story of their adventure. They were Capt Williams and Second Mate Dickson of the Marcus A. Davis, which sailed from Fernandina, Fla., for Philadelphia on March 7, heavily laden with lumber. Her crew consisted of Captain Williams, Mate Bonner, Second Mate Dickson. Bprague, the white steward, and two colorea seamen—six in all. From March 12 to March 21 the schooner was the plaything of the elements, which tossed her about as no craft the Captain had ever commanded ever was tossed. The men were kept at the pumps continually, for she leaked badly. The northwesterly galea bad driven her far out of her course, and the Captain, not having any instruments, was unable to tell where she was, when, on Tues-. day, March 22, he hove to in a howling hur-j ricane. He supposed that he was off ChincoH teague, Va»4(ut he was really 850 miles eastj of Norfolk. A lull in the awful blast was1 suddenly followed by a squall that sent the schooner on her beam ends. The Captain or- dered the men to cut away the fore and main- masts, and seized an ax himself to help them. The mainmast was cut close to the deck and crashed over the port side, carrying half of the fore and mizzen masts with 'it. Mate Ben- was struck down by a falling spar, and limped below with a broken leg, As the schooner righted shb got broadside of the sea, and tons of foam- tipped water arose in mountainous masses and toppled on the decks, driving captain and crew below. The thunderous nammering of the seas smashed in the cabin and forecastle, washing away or destroying all the food, and soon fluod every] nook and corner of the ves- sel with water.* The men were forced on deck again, and, on :the advice of Captain Williams, lashed themselves to the after house. All through the night the waves dashed over the wreck, tearing the clothing of the men like the hands of invisible furies. The motion of the wreck mado the* lashings cat into their flesh, and the salt water made the wounds smart like burns. Mate Benner died in the night and his body was unlashed. A wave washed it away. Just before dawn the two negro seamen, who had been wildly praying and weeping, went mad and unlashed themselves. The cap- tain tried to persuade them to return to the house, but they seemed to be oblivious of his existence, and recklessly ran about the deck alternately ' shouting for help and praying. They saw imaginary ships sailing to rescue them, and they laughed in wild delight. Then the ships seemed to pass without heed- ing them, and their cries were more terrible than the creaking of the wreck and the moan- ing of the wind. One of the storm-crazed sailors leaped from the weather rail into the surging sea, and the other dived headforemost into the wateD-Oled companion way and per- ished. Steward Bprague already had been torn from his lashings, and carried away on a giant wave. When morning came tho sea/had gone down somewhat and the wind blew with lees fierceness. The Captain tied his fcattered shirt to a pole and fastened tho pole to the foremast. Several vessels passed far to the westward, andithe weary, hungry, And disheartened sailers shouted them- selves hoarse in their frantic efforts to at- tract attention. All day long and all the following night they lay awake on the house looking at the stars and praying for' succor. They saw the rescuing bark long before Lookout O'Brien spied the wreck, and they added to their exhaustion bv wild yelling for help. They embraced each other and cried for joy when they saw the bark square away and come suddenly down toward them. They liad been forty-eight hours without food or water when they were rescued. SPRING ELECTIONS. The Labor Candidates Poll a Large Vote In Cincinnati. .y —^_— A Heavy Prohibition Vote Polled in Michigan, The spring elections this year were unusual- ly interesting because in some of the cities I^aoor tickets were in the field,while in Mick, igau a Constitutional amendment forbidding t the liquor traffic was to be voted upon. A Detroit dispatch on,tlie day after the election gaye'these particular*: Michigan electors to-day cast their ballots on two Justices of the State Supreme Const, two Regents of tlie State University, and two amenduiouts to the Constitution, besides county officers. The amendments were for tlie increase of the aaiariea of the State officer* and the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Both the liquor and the anti-. liquor men have worked hard, a lively cam- paign being the result. An important facCorin tlie fight has been the temjjerance element that doubted the efTectLvonet* of prohibi- tory legislation. Owing to the energetic working for and against the prohibition amendment a very full vote was polled, this being particularly true iu tho southern part of the State, •. j In the Uiroer Peninsula snow fell to the \ depth of from two to four feet, and very j materially interfered with the vote. Gener- < ally the day was quiet, although in a few I places trouble between Prohibitionists and > anti-Prohibitionists was reported. Women have been present at the polls all day work ing for the amendment. So far as reported at 10 o'clock theProhiW tion amendment i« strongly opposed in tboi cities, but the country vote seems likely to. overcome this. * } Enough has been learned fajy 1-A. M. to ahowj that the Republicans have elected their Statsi ticket by a safe plurality. The IWmn* claims a plurality of not less than 10,000. A» to the amendments later returns seem to make the adoption of both assured. The vote on? the Prohibition ameniment has been vary heavy, and the anti-liquor element has ap- parently gained the victory by from 5,000 10,(>U0 maJprfty. 4^ 1 The Cincinnati Election. I The triangular fight for control of the city government was a peculiar one, from the fact that the partisans of Uie three tickets were confident of success for their respective leaders aud because of the uncertainty of the strength of the labor element, which was well organized and hope- ful. The result, as announced by the £lec> tion Board at 114S0 p. u. on the night of elec- tion dav was: Stevenson (Labor). 17,4U; Smith (Rep.), 17.404: Matson (Dem.) ll,6Ub. The Democrats were completely routed, several of their strongest wards falling into the hands of the United Labor forces. The heavy Republican wards, notably the German one*.~l>arely escaped the same fate. At 1 A. v., however, it was claimed aa error had been found in the coon ting by which Smith (Rep.} was elected by about 5W votes. The rest of ike Republican municipal ticket was elected without doubt. Elections Elsewhere. The election in Cleveland for municipal of- ficers was a surprise to the Republicans. The entire Democratic ticket, headed by B. D. Bsbcock, the candidate for Mayor, waa elect- ed by about 3,000 majority. The Bosvrdof Aldermen is probably Democratic also. Mr. Babcock is a prominent business man. Two years ago tlie Republicans elected George W. tjhaixjner Mayor by upward of o.OOO. The Hartford (Conn.) city election took place Monday, half the Board ol Aiderrarn and all the Common Council being chosen. Tlie result was <> Republican Aldermen an4 i Democrats, aud 10 Republican Councibiien and lo Democrats. Counting those Alder- men who hold over, the city Government will, on joint ballot, have a Republican majority of YZ. In the election at Toledo, Ohio, the chief issue was whether the saloons should be closed on Sunday. The Republicans nominated a member of the Law and Order League, whue the Democrats nominated a liberal German The fight resulted in a victory for 'the Republicans, by a majority of from 501) to 800. [ At the Bridgeport (Conn.) municipal aW- tkm the Republicans re-elected their Mayor by :ViO majority. The City Council is Repub- lican. * j * L Colonel William H. Martin, the Democratic nominee, has l>een elected to Congress tjonx Texas, to fill tlie unexpired term of John H. Reagan. ' THE NEW SEORETABY, A Breeder of Disease and Crime. In tho recent number of Brain, Dr. Clarke has published some statistics showing that alcoholism of parents is a predisp<singj cause of crime and epilepsy in their children. Forty-four per cent, of the cpil< ptic criminals, were the children of drunl en parents. The proportion of cpilcctk and insane relatives is found to be very much greater with criminals than wilh ordinary epileptics. The convic- tions for bastardy are three times as nu- merous among epileptics as among son- epileptics. The statistics are that the amount of crime, as indicated by the number of convictions, is greater among epi)eptics than among ordinary crimi- MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO, HEWIIY IRVTKG'S income is estimated at $3,600 a week. EDWIN BOOTH will be $100,000 richer when the prssont season closes. THE Indians at Vancouver, British Colum- bia, have a band of seventeen pieces, EDWIN BOOTH has had one of the; greatest successes in the history of the legitimate drama in Sau Francisco.' THE Abbe Lisst wrote 1.122 compositiops, of which 442 are transcriptions of toe works of other composers. PAULINK HALL, Marie Jansen, and Isabel Urquhart, new comic opera stars, were sing- ing in the cUflrus five years ago. JOHN T. RAYMOND will soon appear in a new play, \A Gold Mine,\ written by George H. Jessop and Brander Matthews. THE circus, with its drawing power' of 7,000 or 8,000 daily or 45,000 a week, has hurt the business of all the theatres in New York. ARTHUR WALLACK will probably take the management-of Wallack's in New York when his father retires. It is not unlikely that event will occur next season. CHRISTINE NILSSON said she would leave the stage for good after her latest matrimcA nial venture, out she has concluded to make just one more farewell tour through Amer- ica. Miss MARY WICK HAM. a talented young American violinist, a pupil of Joachim, has had the gold medal for art and science con- ferred upon her by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. ^ r MARY VAN ZANDT, the well-known singer, has no far recovered from her stroke of paralysis as to be able to walk about with the use of a cane. Her complete restoration is looked for soon. \NELLIE BLY,\ a well-known newspaper correspondent, is the latest offering to the stage. Her real name is Miss Pink E. Coch- rane, and she has long had an ardent desire to become an actress. VERDI is going to finish a comic opera that he began fiity years ago. While at work on it his furniture was seized fdr rent and he lost his wife and children—circumstances that put him into anything but a humor for comic opera. THE recent appearance of Mrs. James Brown Potter, prominent in New York so- ciety, as a professional actress upon the stage of the Haymarket Theetre, London, may be said to be the dramatic event of the day. The ambitious Wiy did not score a definite success. . ' Mr. Fairchild Formally Appointed •to Succeed Mr. Manuing. 1 The appointment of Assistant Secretary Fairchild as Secretary of the Treasury, has been formally announced. j Charles Stebbins Fairchild was born at Casenovia, N. Y., April 30, 1842. His father was for many years the attorney for the New York Central Railroad, and is one of tfie emi- nent mea of Central New York. Che Secretary of the Treasury received his early education at the Methodist Seminary at Cazenovia and entered Harvard College in 1&5U. being graduatedYrom that institution with the class of 1863. He then attended the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 186.V He joined the firm of Hand, Hale, Swart* & Fairchild, one of the most successful law firms in the Stato. In 1874 he was ap- pointed Deputy At&oraey-GeneraL. by At- torney-General Pratt In the ensuing year he was nominated by the Democratic Conven- tion for the Attorney-Generalship and essctsd. He served in this capacity for two yeaijs. In 1878 he visited Europe. Upon bis return in 1880 he engaged in the practice of law ia New York City and continued there till caftod ts the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury in 1885. T Judge Maynard,the Second Comptroller,has been appointedTto fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Fairchild s promotion, v THE Queen of England has twenty-twe messengers constantly traveling back and forth with precious documents and her royal behestrthat cannot be eqtrustod to the tele graph. While she wax on the continent tw<. of these messengers Were continually skip ping Imck and forth, one being always ou tbt road. A TRIPLE EXECUTION. Three Murderers Shot to Death in Cuba—Their Crime. Three murderers—two mulaUoea ^nd an Indian—were shot rnvntly on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba, at a place toads famous by the shooting of the crew of the Virginius. Two years ago they conspired to capture a tram of. -pack mules laden with cocoa on a road Jteer the city. They surprised the driver and hi* as- sistant, a mere lad, cut them down wlith ma- chetes, tied them to trees, and ptacticed shocking and revolting cruelties dn their victims until they were dead. Later they sold the focoa to a Spaniard from Cat- alonia for \$68 and divided the [money between them. The mhfcs they [ turned loose. \The three men and the . Spaniard were arrested and brought U> trisf The/ wealthy Spaniard got off with ten rears in the chain gang, bat the murderers wfre con- demned to death by shooting. A paHloo was asked for and refuyed by fee Qfeen of Spain. A A$. A SHOT AT THE CZ Fired Upon Bv an Officer While Walking in the Park. Advices received from St. Petersburg fully confirm the report that another attempt has been made upon the life of the Csar of Russia. It is learned that while the Csar waa ex- ercising s* the park connected writ* the Gstscbina Palace, he was fired upon by an off! er of the army, the baK passing elose to his person. The officer was immediately s?ire1 and iTjprison^d. 800RW01C8 have janpsared in swaress in Durango, Mexico. The municipality offer to pay a reward of one dollar for every 1«0 dead ones produced. As a consequent**, in two months thev had to pay the pre reward on 39,2u0 of the reptiles. OVKR f2.400.OQO.000 is the estimated valu« of the horses, mule*, epw*. oxen aswt «*h«*r oattk-. sheep and swim- in Uiis<-»>a«U.> art the J.st (1/ January, ]8b\«
