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I M U T ILA T E D I JiefbaniMlr^tafka PefCtifu. VOL. XIII, NO. 27. MECHANICVILLE, SARATOGA COUNTY, N- Y., SATURDAY MORNING, NOYEMBER 10, 1894. WHOLE NO. 652 » * 1 ^ • ‘ I I is located on t h e up p e r H u d s o n a t th e m o u th of T e n e n d a h o C reek, th e o u tlet ol i »I C C f l c i r i l v V l l l C B a l l s t o i Lake and Bound Lake. It is midway between Albany and Saratoga, the political and social capitals of tbe Empire Stat''. It is twelve miles from tide water navigation at Troy and eighteen miles from Schenectady. I t is on the line of the Champlain Canal and has railroads diverging in sev e n lUFrEEENT niKECTioNS. A street railroad extends through the main business portion of the village and reaches Stillwater, three miles up tbe Hudson. Mccbanioville has facilities for passenger and freight transportation that are surpassed by only a few cities. The United States census of 1880 gave Mechanicville a population of 1 .Cfi.T. It now has a population of fully 5,000. Its growth has been rapid and substantial. The Saturday Mercury is Printed ^ A L L A T H O M E .^ Advertisers Appreciate a,Home Newspaper. Tile Same Publisher has Issued this Paper Nearly Thirteen Y ears..,^^ T h is can n o t be sa id b y A n y O th e r N e w s p a p e r in Saratoga'C o , M P r l l f l f l i r v U l A powers on tbe Hudson Riyer and has one of the 1 » V l i l C largest pulp and paper mills in the world. Its other manufacturing enterprises include Fitchburg Railroad car shop, Delaware & Hudson car chops, three large knitting mills, three sash, blind and door factories, two shirt factories, two brick yards, a factory for elec trical supplies, iron and brass foundries, lime kilns and fertilizer works. Mechanicville has six churches, a new $40,000 academy and public school building, a fine new opera house, a bank, two telegraph offices and a driving park., The T. M. C. A. maintain a public library, reading rooms, gymnasium and bath rooms. The village is lighted by electricity and has unequalled water works, supplying the public with pure Spring water by the gravity system. Electric street cars will soon be in use. J G R A N D o p e n i n g ; IJ. P. McGirr & Co’s New Store J PAEK-AVE-, MECHANICVILLE, Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 o’clock, a- m In order to m a k e t h is m e m o r a b le to ou r custom e r s and th e public. n rinounee Grand Opening Sale AT TRICES UNHEARD OF IN TH E HISTORY OP THE DRY' GOODS TRADE. WE DEFY Troy and Albany Coiupelition, E ither in Prices, Quantity, Quality or Variety. Everybody is Invited to Visit This Store,- One of tbe Handsomest this side of New York City, J. P . M c G I R R & CO. .C H U R C H P I R U C T O R Y Wfuley \\ Olid, buperinteiideut. uny pervices at 10.S0 a . ji . fcunOay aehoolati2M. lb O. Raiiey, Supermtendeut M. C. A.'*-Park-aye. Orrutt iiiuidinjf. ^uu X serrxce at S.UO i» m . K“adiiig room. Bciiool at 3 o’clock every ouaday altermum. Win. C. Allen, ouj. enateudeut. C. W. KEEFER. M. D., J P h y s i c i a i x & S i A v g - e o n Office, for. Main and Wil(iam-‘ts., AlcchamcTille, F. A. PALMER, M. D., J P l i y i s i c i a L i i & S v L i r ^ G o n , Office, Tlazcl at. Near Broadway, ilechanicYille. New York. WM. VAN DOREN. M. D„ I P h y s i c i a n S t i i f g e o n Office, I 0 Hazel Street. Office Hours, 8 to 0 a . s t , 1 u> - v. m . and 6 Ui 7 p M. MechanieTille, N. V. GEO. P. H. TAYLOR, M. D.. T. G. TIFFANY, B- D* S -, J U E N X I S X . Artificial Teeth. Crown and B iii I rc \ ork. Siiecial Attention Given the Care of Natural Teeth. Prices as low as citn-istint with fir-t-class wink. Office in Mercury buildiuK, Cor. So. Mam-«t. ami OR. E f-TlLUNGTONr B E N X I S X . No. 18 Paru-Bve., Where di ntislry in alt its brauche* will be carefully executed. 8ati>-l.ictton in price and workiuansbip guaranteed, Oflio over coal office of R. Moore ft i^un. OSCAR WARNER, Attoey&CoiseloratLaw M e rcury E u l dlnsr, cor. Miiln-6t. •nd PBrk-BTO.. Mecliaiileyltle, N. Y. G e o . B . L a w r e n c e , Law General Fire and written in the best coi lenled havinfc bnilneii will receive i.mmpt and careful sttent! inipanies. The S a turday flercury. FARRINGTON L. MEAD E pitor Axn P url ism-It. A V 1 7 7 'A '/L I r J I O R M N G S .MKRtUHY b u i l d i n g , CorntT of Aiuiii .-'t. »n l Park-ave., Me- chauifvillf, h-ratoffa Co , jJJ. Y. OUBSf.-RIPTION—The MRcciiar will be mailed OlO subsenhers, iiostaRc jiu-natd at the fulloivin/j One Year, in A d vance, ............................. nO One Year, in Arrears, ............................. 1 4 OVEKTISlNG—A limited iimount of adv xXtisiiiK space is ottered to ilie public at ra which will be made known on application at t siiuarc^ notices on local p >KCS, S cents a line for first inscr tion. and 4 cents a hue for each subaciuent inser tion. Adrertisem nts for which time is not spcci- fted will be published imtil oriicrcd out and ciiarcred for accordin^rly. V i l l a s e G o v e r n m e n t - .JOHN H. MASSE!, I>rcsid,-nt. T rustees . Vm-TWAUn. SECOND WAl-.I). ALBERT S. BAKEit, FU4NK A. PALMER, WILLIE B-NElLsON, F. S. DAVENPORT. Tiiinn WAUD. ALBERT P.VTRXCK, AMOS BRYAN. KICHAiiD II. TA.MFI3LD, Clerk. WM. H. DAVIS. (Va,-ct„r. NEWloN T. BUY vN, Treasurer. MACHINE SHOP. General machius work done. AI) kinds ol aKii cultural imp'.euieiits rtpain d. Steam littitir and nipiiift. Guns, l..,-ks, sewiiiK' macliiius, bii jclcs Ac , &(_. Mill work a speciallv. J S S M I T H Mill Strc\t Me, l.aii.,-vi.ic. N. Y. ----- N. CL-UT^.— Practical Horse Shoeing liOug Experience. .ShtiHraetiou GuKi-Mutecil. Park-Hve. n e a r Maee’a Store. lUeeliauieville The political revolation of 1892 which swept over the entire north and carried the democrats into powe-, had almost an exact counterpart, Tuesday, when a great political tidal waye swept the country and restored power into republican hands. The next house of representatives will have a republican majority of more than one hundred, where the present house has a democratic majority of one hun- died and fifty. The democrats are left without a single northern leader in the next hou.se. Wilson, Holman, Bynum, Bland and Springer are all defeated Tlios. B. Rued will doubtless be speaker of the next house. Neither democrats nor republicans can organize the next senate' without the aid of the populist.“, who will hold the bal ance of power. The republicans gain senators in New Jersey, West Virginia .and Iliinoi-, and perhaps in North Caro lina, but wiil not secure a majority of the senate. States have been carried as follows by republican mojorities: Colorado, 15,000; Connecticut, 18,000; Idaho, 2,000; Indi ana, 20,000; Kansas, 32,000; Massachu setts, 67,000; Michigan, 80,000; New Jer sey, 40,000; Penn.sylvania, 240 000. Cal ifornia and Nebra-ka have elected demo cratic goyernors, and a republican gov ernor may possibly be elected in Tenne.s- New York elects Levi P. Morton as governor by a plurality of 155,000, and has chosen 105 republican assemblymi-n out o f 128. All the constitutional amend ments are believed to have been adopted, but the < fllcial count will be required be- fote the result can be given in detail. The new apportionment will probably give the republicans control o f the legislature for the next ten years, and the re vised constitution, among other reforms, is expected to abolish gambling a t horse races, prohibit railroads from granting free pa.sses to public officials and prevent appropriations of public money to sectar ian schools. The republican ticket in Saratoga coun ty is elected as U“ual, Business Pointers When a meichant stops advertising people get the idea into their heads that his business in “going down.”— Fruiters’ Bulletins, civeuiavs, handbills, cards and all other devices have their day and place.®, but they cannot compare with the liberal, .free band advertising which is done by the newspaper.—Press and Prin- If good goods advertise themselves, it is strange that the names of the non ad vertised brands of soap, baking powder, proprietary medicine, etc., are not more familiar to us.— Printers’ Ini-. Country people are not re.acheii hy the papers o f large c itie s . e v e n in th e s e days of rapid travel. The drculalion of ciu papers in country towns is comparatively small, and the local paper is the one in which they are naturally interested; con- .seriuently, tbe local town or country pa per is ihe very best for all adverti.xing «vhich is of a general nature— Press and Printer. Good i>ewB). No other medicine in the world was •-ver given such a test of Its curative qualities, as Otto’s Cure. Thonsamis of bottles of this great German rerpeily are being distributed free o f charge, by drug gists iu thi.s couD trj'. to those slllicted • d with consumption, asthma, croup, s>- vere cough®, pneumonia and all throat and lung disease®, giving the people proof that Otto'.s Cure wPl cure them and that it is the grande.st triumph of medical science. For sale oniy hy G. H. Whltnev. Samples free. Large bottles 50e and 2.7e. Bicycles Kcpsilreit. Now is the time to have your bicycles repaired and enameled for the season tif 94. at Smith’s machine shop on Mill-st. Sipperly, TeLe, Leading' Photographer All woik made bv the in^tantunecim piooes.s THE AKT AMATEUR. The Be^^t anil Largest IVa* ticai Art Muff.iziue. (The Only Art IVnodicsU iiwardcil ;v '^cGidut the Woil.rs Fair.) Tnva’uable t*\* all artUt**, art •‘tU'lents -an'l others who wish to luiik*' ihi ir home fiunoiUDhiigs h* au- A sjuaimen o»pv, with super!* enli»r plat* (suit* able h»r fnumu>; or copyu uuG R' ppleiuui tn of fu 1 size worbiuff ilesi^ris .sfut on noTiiionm^^ this paper ami inclosing: p» rents, (re^rular pnee $4.U*t a t ( ir.! For 2.V arni instructive man* uipHny rtpn - eapital. All j nai, “PauitinL' f'*r Ih*):mT»erse» sent in atldifnm to 7 I'.’t t of ul /'iVhiriv tile abJV-N M a k K.S, 23rnk.n S ' S k . Tli'ise win I have iindenvear to purchase fv>r winter .should examine tlie immense stock on Fdckei’.s .shelves. The price® •ire way down and everyone can alTord a Tbe tu St Noith Dakota flour, best mid- dl'tigs and bran, best corn and oats, be.st hay aiMi grain, hard and soft wood, ai Rice & Il-iwland’s, Front-st.. Mechanie- viile, N. Y Oil cloths, carpets, rug.«, hassocks and window .sbade.H may he found at the new department at Fackei's cash store. The low prices will .surprise y-.u. Rice & Howland have just received live car loads of No. 2 yellow corn. It is .something extra nice. They also have on hand at all times choice clover and tim othy seed. The assortment of fine dress patterns at raeker’.s is complc-t**. No patterns duplicated and ladies can secure t xelu- stve costumes. The be.st Is the best. Best market price paid for rye, at Rice 4 Howland's. X.OCAI. BIKES. Our harp is on the willows. Merchants a Santa Claus. 5 begining to prepare for Farmers are now engaged in delivering potatoes for shipment. The Hudson river, tributary stream®, ponds and wells are again tilled with Republicans who wish to wa’k the tow- path next season at S35 a month should now put in their bids. More advirtisers now regularly use the columns of the Mercury than at any previous time in the history of this new— Adv®rtisers use the columns of local newspapers more and more every year, while handbills and dodgers are largely going out o f date. Advertising on tree.®, fences and bi 1 hoards is going into disuse. People don’t like to be called “ h.aysccd.s” when gaping a t a hill board. L. E. Schreiber is enlarging his marble and granite works on Front st. His tr.sde IS Steadily extending. Mr. Schreiber is sn excellent workman. The fences have been removed at thr entrance to the driving park, and some grading has already been done on the ex tension of Park-ave. westward. Charles Lee has a special sale of lamb in progress at his m aiket on Park-ave. See the low prices offered in his adyer- r.isement. Everybody can eat lamb at such prices. Tbe bank was closed Tuesday and the oost office was not open between 10 a M, and 5 r. m . Most of the mills and factories were in operation. The day was a legal holiday. The double dwelling in course of con struction by Reuben H. Rogers on Broad way is nearing completion, and present.® a very attractive appearance. The out side is veneered with brick. Amos L. Bolster authorizes us to con tradict the report that he engaged in in troducing County Treasurer Medbery U voters a t any time d n n n g the campaign. No one doubts Mr. Bolster’s democracy. Many friends of ’IVIH N. Cary, the In ventor and builder, nominate him foi superintendent of this section of the Champlain canal. He is a building ex pert and would made a capital superin tendent. If “ Zsck” Ferry will only keep quiet and not b other us about the late election, we will back him next spring for captain of the state boat, and no questions asked. “ Z ck\ is the only republican we are rea'- Iv afraid of on thi« sorrowful occasion. Alien & Shefler exhibit a great yariett of the famous Andes stoves and range® at their store on No, M iin-st. Inspect them. It hardly pays to worry along with an old worn out stove when a neu one can be obtained at the low prices of fered. Read the new advertisement of Alien & Sheffer. I t is said that Frank SiddaH, the great «oap manufacturer of Phlladrlphi'’, never used fence painting or circulars for ad. vertising, hut stuck to the newspaper; vet he became a millionaire. How Strange!—Progress. There is nothing s'range about this when you remembe,- that Mr. Slddall was the gen'leinan who said that “ People who neyer read new.®- papers don’t use soap.” The Mercury olllce was overrun with ■•epnblicans the day after the election. They came to congratulate the editor on the political defeat of his party. Such kindness will not be forgotton. As a prophet o f democratic victories we were not an amazing success this fall. We car. .stand politieal disappointment much better than those who are candidates for office, however. New’spaper men whost business is largely politieal are a haril- -ned lot in respect to politieal disappoint ments. The Ballston Spa trustees and the Mil ton highway commis.sioners have n-ji-cted the application of Stephen C. Medbery and Herbert C. W estcot for a highway fianohise to construct and maintain at electric street surface railway from B>;1>®- t >n Spa to Hock City Falls and granted a like application from Frederick R Barnes of Boston, coudiiioned on his ex ecuting acceptable bunds to construct the same before August 1, is','.'). Twif, ■efore a like franchise ha® been grantut to non-re.sident applicants ami it wa- forfeited by non-construction in each lii- stsDCO,— Pnn. In tins connec tion it may be stated that Mr. Birnes vo'- ntanlv off-red to give bonds t>! g u aran tee the construction of the proposed elei‘- trio road within a speclfled time, while Mr. Medberv aud his backers liecllHed t- give any guarantees whatever. This mat ter has a local interest, inasmuch as fran chises have been sought from the tru®- tee.s of this Village for the eonstruetioii o f an e lectric road th r o u g h o u r s tr e e ts. Village trustees are being imporuned everywhere to grant electric street cai franchises, and in very m m y case.s then is doubtless no intention to construct the railroads proposed. Speculators .seek these franchises for the purpose of sell iiig them. Village trustees should be on their guard against speculators of tin® Look at Dickinson’s new stock of gloves for all kinds of wear. VICTORY OYER PAIN. REV. DR. TALMAGE WRITES OF TH€ HEAVENLY CITY. A Vivid Word Picture of the Joy» of Im m o rtality-C o n solation For the YVeary and Sorrowful—Tlio I’aiiis of Eivini' and Joya o f Heaven. who is now ne.aring tlie clo.se of his globe an d -m-iil sliortly reach ject of to ho ooniforted, but anyhow and anyway you make it, it is awful. On steninbont wharf and at rail car window we may smile -when we say fare well, hut thcBO goodbys. at the doathhed, they just take hold of the he.art with iron I pinchers and tear i t out by the roots u n til ' all the fibers quiver and curl In the tortun and drop thick blood. These separationi BROOKLTX, N ov . 4.— Itor. D r. T alim ng tlie clo.se of his glo circling to u r a n d -vviU sh o r tly rcacli A.in* icaii shores, has selected iis tho subjec tod.ay’s sermon through tho press “ Y'ic- lory Over Pain,” the text chosen being Revelation xxl, 4, “ Neither shall there bo any more pain.” The first que.stions that you ask when about to change your residence to any city Is; “ W hat is the health of the placet Is it shaken of terrible disorders;-' W hat aro the bills of mortality? What is tho death rate? How high rises the thermometer?” And am I not reasonable in asking, W hat aro the sanitfiry conditions of tho heavenly city into which we all hope to move? My text answers It hy saying, “ Neither shall there bo any more p a in.” First, 1 rentitrk, there will be no pain of disappointment In heaven. If 1 could p ut the p ictu r e of w h a t you an ticip a ted of life when you began It besido the picture of what you have roallr.ccl, t would find a great difference. You have stumbled upon great disappointments. Perhaps you ex pected riches, and you have worked hard enough to gain them, i'ou have planned and worried and persisted until your bands were worn and your brain was racked and your heart fainted, and at tho end of this long strife with mlsfortuno you find that If you have not been positively defeated It has been a drawn battle. It Is still tug and tussle, this year losing w hat you gained last, linancial uncertaintites pulling down faster than you build. For perhaps 20 or 30 years you have boon run ning your craft straight into tho teeth of the wind. Perhaps you have had domestic disap pointment. Your children, upon whoso education you lavished your hard earned dollars, have not turned out as expected. Notwithstanding all your counsels and prayers and painstaking they will not do right. Many n good father has had a bad boy. Absalom trod on David’s heart. That mother never imagined all this as 20 or 80 years ago she sat by that child’s era- No M ore Klasted. Mopes Your life has been a chapter of disap pointmonts, but come w ith me, and I will show you a different scene. By God’s grace, entering tho other city you will never again have a blasted hope. The nost jubilant of expectations will not :each tho realization. Coming to the top joy, there will bo other ipon the vision. This song of one hill heights risicing upon the vision. This; t will but lift you tohighci clioral but; lendou better than you had anticipated—tho robe richer, the crown lirigliter, the temple grander, the throng mightcr. Furtltor, I remark, there will be no pain of weariness. It may be many hours since you quit work, but many of you are un- rosted, some from overwork, and some from dullne.ss of trade, the latter more ex hausting than tho former. Y'our ankles aehe; your spirits flag; you want rest. Are these wlieels always to turn, these shut tles to fly, these axe.s to hew, those shovels to delve, these pens to fly, these books to be posted, these goods to be sold? Ah, the great holiday uppronchos! No more curse of taskmasters; no more stoop ing until the back aches; no more calcula tion until tho brain Is bewildered; no more pain; no more carpentrj-, for tho mansions ore all built; no more masonry, for the walls are all reared; no more diamond cut ting, for the gems are all set; no more gold beating, for the crowns are all com pleted; no m o re agriculture, f o r tho h ar vests are spontaneous. Further, there will bo no more pain or poverty. It Is a hard thing to be really poor, to have your coat wear out and no money to get another, to hnvo your flour barrel empty and nothing to buy bread w ith for your children, to live lu an un healthy row and no means to change your habitation, to have your ciiild sick with lorae mytscrlous disease and not be able to secure eminent medical ability, to have son or dtiughter begin tho world and you not have anything to help them in start ing, with a mind capable of research and high contemplation to be perpetually fixed on questions of mere livelihood. Poets try to tlirow a romance about tho poor m an’s cot, but there is no romance about it. Poverty is hard, cruel, unrelent ing. But Lazarus waked up without his rags and his diseases, and so all of Christ’s poor wako up a t last without any of their disadvantages—no almshouses, for they are all princes; no rents to pay, for the residence is gratuitous; no garinontH to buy, for tho robes .arc divinely fashioned; no seats in cliurch for poor folks, but equality among temple worshipers; no hovels; no hard crusts; no insuflicent ap parel. “ They.sliall hunger no more, nei ther thirst any more, neither shall the sun them nor any lieat.” No more a prelude all things Xo I'are-wellB. Furtlicr, there will be no pain of part ing. All tlicse asioeiations m ust some time break up. Wo clasp hands and walk together and talk and laugh and weep to gether, h u t we must after awhile separate. Your grave will be In one jilace, mine in another. We look each other full In the face for the last time. We will bo sitting together .some evenlngorwalking together some day, and nothing will be unusual in our appearance or our eonversatlon, but God knows that It is the last time, and messenger.® from e’eruity on their errand to take VIS nvvay know it is the last time, and In lieaM ii, where they make ready for our departing spirits, they know it is the last time. Oh, the lotig agony of earthly separa tlon! It i® awful to stnml in .vruir nursery fighting di-ath Lmek from tho couch of your child and try to bold fast thelittleono and 8ce a ll the tbm‘ that he is getting weaker and the br, atli i® shorter, aud make outcry to God to lit ip us aiul to tho doctors to save lilni and see it i® of no avail, and then to know tliat h is Sfiirit Is gone, and th a t you have nothing left hut tlie casket tliat held the jew t 1, a n d tlint in tw o or three days jon mti®r even put that away and walk arouiul aluiut the house and find it desolate, .®nnit lriiies fisding rebidliuus, and then t o n solve to feel differently, and to resolve on m H i-untrol, and just as you have come to what you think is perfect self control to suddenly come upon some little coat or picture oi shoe half worn cut, and how all the floods of the soul b u rst in one wild wail of agonyl Oh, my Ged, how hard it is to part, to close the eyes that never can look merry a t our coming, to kiss the hand that will never again do us a kindness I I know rcligloir gives great consolation in such an hour, and we ought ft know that Solomon ever heard on a hot day tb e Icc c lick in an ice p itcher, b u t ho wrote as It ho did when ho said, “ As cold waters to a tlilrsty soul, so is good nows from a fiir country.” Clatnhcriug among the Green moun- and drop thick blood. These separations tains I was tired and hot and thirsty, and aro wine presses into which our hearts, I shall not forget how refreshing it was like rod clusters, are thrown, and then when after awhile I heard the m ountain trouble turns the windlass round and brook tumbling over tlie rocks. I had no round until wo aro utterly crushed and cup, no chalice., so I got down on my have no more capacity to suffer, and we knees and laco to drink. Oh, ye climbers stop crying because wo liave wept all our on the journey, with cut feet and parched tears. tongues nnd fevered temples, listen to tho 1 every street, at every doorstep, by rumbling of sapphire brooks, amid flow- r couch, there have been partings. But ered banks, over golden shelvingsl Listen! past the heavenly portals, and you “ Tho lamb which is in the m idst of tho that laml there aro many hand claspings i tains of water.” I do i and embracings, but only in recognition, in a chalice. To take this you m u st bend. That great homo circle never breaks. Get down on your knees aud on your face Onco find your comntclc.s tliere, and you ami drink out of this great fountain of have them forever. 3Jo crape floats from , God’s consolation. “ And, lo, I hoard a tho door of tliat blissful rcsidenca No ' voice from Iicaven, as tho voice of many ito living foun- I do not offer i t to you take this you m u st bend. Ider's sting and crocodile’s tooth and irse’s lioof and wheel’s revolution. We itlier up the infirmities of our parents parents children tlie inherit- 'u sicknt disorders, deft hillside where tlie dead sleep. All iwnke, wide awake, and forever. Nopush- ■ sn shore. iry. Hand to hand, heart to heart, joy to joy. No creep ing up tho limbs of tlie death chill, tho feet cold until hot fianncls cannot warm them. No rattle of sepulchral gates. No parting, no pain. T h e re Is Ko T a in I n Heaven. Further, the heavenly city will have no pain of body. Tho race is pierced with sharp distresses. The surgeon’s knife m u st out. The dentist’s pinchers must pull. Pain is fought with pain. Tho world is a hospital. Scores of diseases, like vultures contending for e. carcass, struggle as to which shall have it. Our natures are in finitely susceptible to suffering. The eye, tho foot, tho liand, with immense capacity of anguish. Tho little child meets a t the entrance of life manifold diseases. You hear tho shrill cry of infancy ns tho lancet - strikes into the swollen gum. F'cix see its head toss in consuming fevers that take more than half of them into tho dust. Old age passes, dizzy and weak and short breathed and dim sighted. On every nortlioast wind come down pleurisies and pneumonias. War lifts its sword nnd hacks away the life of wltolc generations. The hospitals of the earth groan into tho ear of God their complaint. Asiatic choleras and ship fe vers and typlioids and London plagues make tho world's knees knock together. Pain has gone through every street aud up every ladder and down every shaft. It is on the wave, on tho mast, on the beach. Wounds from clip of elephant’s busk and adder's sting and crocodile’s t( \ horse’s lioof and wheel’. and transm it to our ance augmented by and they add to I hem their own disordi to pass the Inheritance to other gent tion.s. In A. I). 262 tho plague in Romo smote into the dust 5,000 citizens daily. In 544, in Constantinople, 1,000 grave diggers wore not enouglr to bury the dead. In 1813 opluhalmla seized the whole P rus sian army. At times tho earth has swel tered witli .suffering. Count up tho pains OOO fell; of Font 1; of Chalons, wl __ wins’ flght. In -svhich 290,000 fell; of the tragedy at Herat, where Genghis Khan massacred l,60ii,000 men, aud of Nishar, where ho slew 1,747,000 itoople; of tho 18,- 000,000 this monster sacrificed in 14 years, as ho went forth to do, as ho declared, to exterminate the entire Chinese nation and make tho eniiiiro a pnsturo for cattle. Think of tho death throes of the 5,000,000 men sacrificed In one campaign of Xerxes. Think of the 120,000 that perished in the siege of Ostend, of 300,000 dead at Acre, of 1,100,000 dead in the siege of Jerusa lem, of 1,816,0(10 of the dead a t Troy, and then complete the review by considering nund Burke en 35 tim e s ition of the Tale of the Battlefield. Go tlirnugh and e.vamine tho lacerations, insliot fractures, tlie saber wounds, dies of tho battleax, tlio slain of loU a n d exploded m ine a n d f a ll in g wall, and thoso destroyed under tho gun carriage and the lioof of the cavalry horse, the burning tliirst®, the camp fevers, the frosts that shivered, the tropical suns that smote. Add it up, gatlicr it into one line, compress it Into one word, spell it in one syllable, clank it in one chain, pour i t out in one gnmn, distill it into one tear. Aye, tho world has writhed in 6,000 years of suffering. Why doulit the possi- bilty of a future world of suffering when wo see tlietorture.s that have been inflicted In this? A deserter from .Sevastopol com ing over to tlie army of tlie allies pointed back to tlio fortres.s and said, “ T h at place is a perfect liell.” Our lexicographer.®, aware of tho im mense neer.s.sity of having plenty of words to expre.ss tlie different sliades of trouble, have strewn over their iiagcs suchwordsas “ annovance,” “ di.stre.ss,\ \grief ncs.®,” “ heartache,” \m isery,” “ twinge,” “pang,” \torture ' ....................... g u isli,” \trib u latio n , “ W(.ie.” But I have a j hospital, for every sickroom, for every lifelong invalid, f<jr every broken heart. “ There sliall lie no more pain.” Thank God! Thank God! No malarias float in the air. No bruised foot treads that street. No weary arm. No painful respiration. No hectic flusli. No one can drink of that healtlty fountain aitd keep faint hearted or faint liemicd. He wlio.®e foot touclies that pavenuMit lii-eometh an atliletc. Tho first kiss of tlmt summer a ir will take tho wrinkles from tlio old m a n ’s cheek. Amid tho multitude of s*<ng®ters not one diseased thro.-d. The flr®t flash of tbe tlirono will scatti-r the darkness of those who were born blitxl. s^ee, the lame man leaps as a hart and tlie dumb sing. From th a t bath of infliilte d.-liglit we shall step forth, our weariness forgotten. Wlio are those radi ant one.®? Wliy. tliat one had h'.s jaw shot off at F'rederiekstnirg; that ono lost hi.s eyes iu a \iowder lila®t; tiiat one had his back broken by a fall from the ship’s hal yards; tliat one died of gangrene in the ho.spltal. No more iiain. Bure enough, here is Robert Hall, who never before saw a well day, and Edward Payson, ivlioso tiody -w.-is e v e r to r n of d is tress, and riiebanl Baxter, wlio passed througI> u n told i>liysieal to r tu r e . A ll well. No more imiii. Here, too, nro tlie Thel)an legion, a great h o s t of 6,060 p u t to the sw o rd lo r I 'l i r i ' t ’s sake. No di.stortlon on their counteiiaiieei. No fires to them, or ll<K>d® To drow n them , to tear tliem. All well. Here ycotcli (’ovon.'intc-r now. The dark cii Lord Clavc-rbuiise \’id llie pre.seneo of him who the .stupendous o.stli —th a t the loss hy v the entire then present popul the gunsli the gaslit service, and ilie pre helped Ilugli Latimei well. No more pain. e nnd imprecations of xclianged for temple Tho Plaint of the Korean. “ W h at is tho use of working and mak ing money,” said onco a Korean to me, “ if, when the work is done and tho money made, this is taken away from you by the officials, nnd you are worn out for having done the work and as poor as before, if, fortunate enough not jvlnco by t! nind you, yoi to be exiled to a distant province by the angry magistrate who has enriched him self at your expense? Now,” added the Korean, looking earnestly into my face, “ would you work under those circum stances?” “ I am hanged if I would,” were the words wiiich, to tho best of my ability, I struggled hard to translate into the Ko rean language to show my approval of his philosophic way of thinking. There is no doubt that what the Korean said to me was perfectly true, and that the system of “ squeezing” is carried on on a very large scalecale byy tho magistrates, just naturallyaturally has s b tl the same as in China, and it n I a very depressing effect on the people “ squeezed ” squeezed. ’ It is really painful, when you first land in Korea, to notice the careworn, sad ex pression on everybody’s face. There they lie about Idle and pensive, doubtful as to w h at will happen to them tomorrow, all anxious for generations that a reform m ight take place in the mode of govern ment, yet all for centuries too lazy to at tem p t to better their position. Such is h u man naturol It is h ard Indeed to Buffer, but it is notliing as compared w ith the trouble and worry of Improving one’s own better than tho Ko- H. Savage Lander years m arks the val between the present time and the re puted discovery of iron ore in North Amer ica, tlie first recorded shipment of which was in 1608, but the earliest attempted known use of the mineral locally was in 1622. However, successful practical iron mnniifacturo in the United States has a history of less than 2j^ centuries, and as European methods were introduced and European specialists employed American iron manufacture did not pass through the primitive methods of open heaps and low m ud furnaces, some of which antedate the Cliristlan era. It Is probable that all of the iron produced in Am tallied either from blast furni fled Cati : from blast furnaces or mod I forge fires, and that thei ■jy blast supplied by I set open the <docjrof blows on you thii heav(cu u ntil there ; breeze. Tlie be possible to find in the world all nietliods of iron production, from the open heap to the modem blast furnace, blown by all types of pneumatic apparatus, ranging from the skins of ani mals sewed into bags and trodden by the workers’ feet, or the tubes of bamboo, whoso pistons aro alternately actuated by the arms or legs of attendants, to a mass ive blowing engine driven by steam, In the area covered by tlio United States no appliances aro known to have been used cruder tlian are represented by the forge or blast furnace to which a ir was supplied by wooden or leather bellows, actuated by a water wheel, or tbe tronipe, into the tube of which a column of falling water drew air and forced it under pressure from a windhox.—John Birklnbine in Cassier’s Magazine. Cowboy nnd Artist* Frederic Remington was born in Can ton, a small village in St. Lawrence conn- taste for dabbling in art was too strong. In 1879 he joined the Yale A rt school and found out a little about a r t and a great deal about football. Academic routine was not to his taste, however, and for awhile he tried life as the confide«tinl clerk of Governor Cornell at Albany. Still restless, he throw that up for tho inoTO congenial occupation of, as he expresses it, “ punching cows” in Montana. In other words, ho became a genuine cowboy, and to his four years in tho sad dle ho owc.s the accurate, minute knowl edge of plain life and horses that marks his work ns tlmt of an expert. For four rid started a mule ranch, ley, with which he wan- acting in turn as ranchman, ud, in fact, anything that His .saving.s gone, his thoughts reverted to art. As lie says: “ Now that I was poor, there seemed to be no rca.son why I ghotild not g ratify my inclination for an artist's career. In art, to bo conventional, one must be penni less.”—Book Bu.ver. What Became of Aunty. A I k lilted loiiri.st wn.s obliged to ask for a bed at a farmhouse, liavlng wandered far from bis hotel. O n r isin g in th e m o r n in g ho fou n d h ini- self without tooth powder. Looking ab.out him, he espied on the mantelpiece a .®mall box containing pow der, which ho used. W hen he i to the fariiK tooth jMwder. “ Tooth powder?” site queried. “ We have none.” “ Yes, m y good w o m a n . I t w a s In a Einall roiiml box on the mantelpiece.’’ ‘‘That,” sho screamed, \that was not tooth powder! That was aunty!\ A u n ty liad Iieon crem a ted .—E x change. A Newsboy’s Bicycle. q’wo ragged newsboys, ono white, m aking i dored sot scout, g offered. >ys, ono white t an Olive street c( ncr ns an athletic young man flashed by on a handsoii.e safety bicycle. \ I wish I liad lot® o’ money, ” said the little coon, i I could buy mo one o’ dem wheels,” “ lih, d a f s easy, coonyl” respt other. “ No trouble ’tall. 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