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om neparimenes core Pen mer # Coe + t) WESTERN NEW YORK. Tonawandm ill Likely Spend $29,000 for Sewers. NIAGARA FALLS HMAS A BAD A- , HACK OLUCTHI PAVING FBEVER- i DARLING ATUEMIP TO ROB AN OLD LADY AT BATAVIA-CAP- - URI OF &A BAGLIH-SOHOL- |. ARS HAVE THEIR BRYES EXAM- J. INHD-«LA SALLIG MEN +0 SBBALING ' TFonnmwanda will hold m special clcc- tion ot Decembor 15. to determine upon constructing an additlonl sewer system at i cost of about $20,000. 'The sewer commisslonors havo declared thelr in- tention to build the sewors at' the ox- pongo of thoy {lage at large, 'The pro- posed extuslons will be added to the prosont system and will Include the ~ Gastown distrlet. - 'The plans for the sowors hava been approved by the com- misslonors and by the State Board of Hoalth and cron ow on lo with the vil- lige clork,. Two mon named Forbes and Smith, who have lived nround La Salle for sov- ornl yours, have bean noticed going off nights with it horse and democrat wag- aft, find as they were not doing much daytimos thoy wore watched mnd fol- lowed up on Tuesday night and caught stoallng hay from an Italian's hay mow, tthoy wore overhnuled nud arrested by , Constable L. J., Linclk and on the next day wore tnkon - boftore Justice J. J; Hopkins, who tried thom and sentenced them to puy t fino of $10 or serve 10 . days In the Lockport Jail, Forbes rais- ad the fine and Smith wont down the void. | 'the genetal opinion Is that they got off very light, & & aA cool pleco of villainy was perpetrat- od In Batavia IEriday evening. About 9 ; o'clock, at the home of Mrs. 0, A. Post, wlich Is n considerable distance out on Soutli Main Street Mus. Post, who is ait old Indy, and reputed to be wealthy, was tlarmed by the sound of some one attempting to gain entrance through athe klitchon window on the: east stde. Sho had, however, sullictent courage to gsocatve it revolvor iind go to the window i and demand what was wanted, The mith stitd that he proposed to have her money, find that [£ shed 1d not let him t11, Ito would kL hor Mrs, Post was too frightened to fire, but alarmed the molghbors by ringing a bellpand the mith run off, , A goldon cagle was brought into Eriday by Charles Baker & frrmioy living about one mile from - thero, To is a young bird of fine pro- portion, moenaguring seven feet two inchog from tip to tip, and weight 11 pounds. Heo was caught In a steel trap, and is now in the possession of Clement - Bros,, wlio will have him mounted and placed {n their home. 'the ofti¢tency of the Batavia fire de- partmont ig to bo Increased by the addi- tlon of itnother hose company, to be lo- eated in the Ist ward, which has for a long time been greatly in need of some . thing of the kind. The now organiza-} tion will be known as the Ellicott Square Hoso Company, The company , will bo glyon tho cart of the Alerts, who have a handsome now wagon, and it will be plited in first-clasg shape. There have been two very bad fires In the ist Ward of lat? and the recollection of theso helped Wong the project. 'The Niagara Falls Board of Public Works Friday night directed the City Tingincor to advortiso for bids for pay- Jug Third Street from Falls to Main Stroots with asphalt at an estlmated maximum: cost of $28,882, the same to bo oponad two woeks from that night, It is.probable that bids will be asked tor paving to the Power Station at the moxt mootin Tho pupla of the Homellsvillo High | School, undor tho direction of Superin- tondont W,. R, Prentice have had their eyes oxaimined and out of nearly 300 pupils: only 8G had defective visions. Bomo of these already wear glasses to romedy the defect but the other have boon adviged to consult an cculist. The So 's Water Powér Canal. - Ghldago, Nov. 28. -A spocial from Sault Sto Marle, Mich., says: It is now w sottled fact that work on the Soo's' big water power canal will be com- monéed within 80 days. L (fhe canal will be built to the width of about 400 fet, and not 250 feet as was at first Intended. An army of en- ginoors will be engaged to alter the pluns to sult the chiunged conditions. Not a Passing Shadow. Pine Bluff, Ark., Nov, 28.-The fight botweon \Shadow\ Mahor, of Austral- ia, ind \Billy\ Layton of Now York, for a purge 'of $250, resulted in a draw Inst night. 'The contest took place be- for the Pine Bluff Athletic Club, and wat witnessed by 800 persons. Mahor - 11m} the best of the fighting. Bar Football in Missouri. Kaunsgag Clty, Mo., Nov. 28. -A bill will be Introduced: in the Missouri Leg- islaturo this winter making it a misde- or a felony to play football in the State. A number of members, in- «cluding Col. John 'D. Orfsp, have meas- ures up placing football upon the sumo plane as prize fighting. ' Frank Johnson Hanged. Naslivili¢, Tenu., Nov. 28. -Frank Johnson, colored, was hanged at Colum- bis yoatorday. for the murder of Aus- tin Ryo, whom he killed last August and robbod of $5. Johnson confessed his guilt, Shot by His Son. Stratton, Neb., Nov. 28.-J. W. Bur- noy wis last night shot and killed by hls son, aged 21. Tho deed was pro- voked by the lodor Burnoy, who threat- onad the life of the youth and his moth- all Killed His Nephew, ' Burlington, In., Nov. 28.--George Wil- but, 58 yours of, ago, yesterday © shot and killed Emory Fleagley, his nephew, agod 17, and then committed sulelde., T1110. old man was temporarily derang- Kd. * » Wealthy Landowner Dead. Berlin, Nov, 28.-Prince Charles Egan of Furstonberg, the wealthiest landowner In South Gormany, died at Mizin this morning, He was 44 years Af ago. Fe RIDUE ROAD. Thore was a very large attendance at the funeral service, which consigned all that remained of Gledyel, the little nine months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Barnes to his final resting place. The funoral occurred at the residence on snturday afternoon, Nov. 21st, at 2 p. m. - 'The Rev. D). N. Morden of Lockport preached a very able and interesting sermon. 'The music for the occasion was beautifully rendered by the Misses Batemiu, - 'The floral decorations were bountiful | testimonials of the regard and affection which all who knew her, had for this bright and fascinating child. \He nded like a lovely flower, Tust opening to the morning sium, That droops and dies in one short hour Before the day lis searce begun, \(irieve for the parents, who have lost, A child that did their home adorn, But grieve not for the happy dead, | Who enters Heaven in life's bright morn. \IIIs loving heart shall never break Neath bittor sorrows heavy load, His wonry foot shall never press \the cruct thorns in life's-vough road. \A nmceek hauds folded on his breast. With perfect peace upon his brow, No trouble can disturb his rest, No harm can ever reach him now. \Moe thinks he still will linger near, And with a guardian angel's care, (Guide all those dear ones | thro' life's wily, And sive snnre.\ them from each hidden a SuuUTH ROYALTON. Mr. A. Stebbins of West Fall, Erie County, visited at the home of Mr. John Muck last week, Mrs. Mack being a sister to Mr. Stebbins. He purchased a fine horse of Mr. Mack while heve. 'The winter terim of the district school opened this week with Miss Alice Weaver of Pendleton as teacher. Mon- (lay and Puesday only were kept. It ts suid that the sound of wedding bells to be heard soon at Pendleton caused : Miss Wenrver to close her school and return home to attend the nuptials. I_ Mr. Neal an evangelist from Philadel- phia. who two years ago labored so suc- cessfully in revival meetings at the Baptist church of Dysinger, is there this ' week conducting a series of meetings. All who can should attend and receive benefit from his teaching, and hear his , impressive eloquence. Thanksgiving service was held at the clnhrch, an excellent sermon was deliv- ered. +- 'Dhe Town Association held its quar- terly convention at the Royalton M. E. Church on Tuesday afternoon and evening. It was one of the best, the splvit of the master being present throughout. An interesting feature of | the occasion was Rev. Mr. Moore of |P ' Middleport being present read the min- utes of the first Town Association organized in the town of Royalton 23 years ago in that same church, whose existance lasted only a few years. It is not often that the Sunday School workers are poeripitted,.to listen to a more able address, so fhelpful and if- spiring as that of Rev. Mr. Gatley, an episcopal brother from Middleport. On motion of Rev. McGuidwin, it was de- clded to have it published in part in our county papers. SOMERSET. Miss Ilda Higley of Washington, D. C., lso Mr. John Higley of Detroit, have been visiting friends in this village for the past week. ® Mr. Louis Thurber of Lockport, was calling on friends here one day last week, Mr, Lou Hill and family of Stevens Point, Wis., are visiting at his father's Mr, Jos, Hill of this place. 'The Temperance concert given Sun- day evening by the young people of the M. B. Church was well attended by an appreciated audience. Mr Frank Vickers of Wright's Com- ors, speut a few days last week with relatives in this village. Mr. Miles Wilkinson is settled in his new house lately purchased of Mrs. Alma Taylor, Charles Hotaling went to Southern Plue, N. O., last week for his health, ac- «companied by 'red Bennet. + 'The. monthly Temperance meeting under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. will be held next Sunday evening at the Presbyterian Church. |__Neal Van Wagner went to Niagara Falls Monday. Next Sunday is quarterly meeting at the M. L. Church and the Rev. Mr. Mllllspaugh Is expected to'preach. Mrs. Millvill a few days since by the death of her father. Mr. Henry Arnold is looking pleased over the arrivel of a new son. We are sorry tohear of the sickness , of Loule Golden. + |_ Mr, De Forest of Medina was here Monday. * i GASPORT. P. P. Hart, wife and son of Akron, Miss Goldfont-of Buffalo, Mr. Robert Cummings of Buffalo, M. J. Weld and wite of Meding, Wom. 'T. Filer ahd wife, | Spencerport, L. R. Watson and wife, 5 Jeddo, were in our village to-day in at- i tendance at the funcral of the late Lou- is Hart, Mrs. Garry Gifford of Orangeport was trken quite suddenly 111 yesterday. Re- port says she is improving. Win. H. Hart is loading a boat load | of barley this afternoon. Our town board meets at Justice Say- ' or's office Saturday, Nov, 28th at 2 p. m. ' 1 Our local sports are having a shoot: the Gasport Gun ; this afternoon on Club's range, but the turkey is safe. Wm. F, Richie is on the sick list. Married by the Rev. Mv. Ferris at the - home of the bride's parents, Mr. and ; Mrs. Theo. Stevens, Mr. M. A. Mesler to | Miss Minnic Stevens on Wednesday, i Nov. 25th, We wish them joy. Justice Sayers is holding court to-day. Persons vs Hartigan. (Heo, T, Thompson of Middleport is in attendance as counsel for Hartigan, B. A. Smith for Person. dleport Band at Middleport last even- Ing, They report a pleasant time. i Arrived. New, York, Nov. 28.-The steamer © Stuttgart, from Bremen, has arrived. Fred Mathews was called to; i tues. { not come. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 YOUNG MEN. Dr. Talmage Preaches an Eloquent Sermon to Them. With God's Help Fight the Battle of Life -The Mightiest Defense Against the Wickedness of the World is a Christian Home. The popular Washington divine addresses an eloquent sermon to the 'youth of the land from the text: 11. Kings 6: 17 \And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man.\ One morning, in Dothan, a young theological student was seared by find- ing himself and Elisha the prophet, upon whom he waited, surrounded by a whole army of enemies. «But vener- able Elisha was not scared at all, be- cause he saw the mountains full of de- fense for him, in chariots made of fire, drawn by horses of fire-a supernat- ural appearance that could not be seen with the natural eye. So the old min- ister prayed that the young minister / might see them also, and the prayer was answered, and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he also saw the fiery procession, looking somewhat, I suppose, like the Adiron- dacks or the Alleghenies in autumnal resplendence. Many young men, standing among the most tremendous realities, have ° their eyes half shut or entirely closed. ° May God grant that my sermon may . open wide your eyes to your safety, ; your opportunity, and your destiny! A mighty defense for a young man: is a good home. look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the Mills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it But all the fresco on princely walls never looked so enticing to you as those rough-hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted - on . fashionable country-seat so at- tractive as the plain brook that ran in front of the old farm house and sang under the weeping willows. No barred gateway, adorned with statue of bronze, and swung open by obsequi- ; ous porter in full dress, has half the ; glory of the old swing gate. Many of : gen have a second dwelling-place, our adopted home, that is always /| sacred forever. 'There you built the first family altar. There your children 'were born. All those trees you planted. [That room is solemn, because once in: it, over the hot pillow, flapped the nying of death. Under that roof you expect, when your work is done, to lie down and die. You try with many words to tell the excellency of the, plate, but you fail. There is only one word in the language that can describe your meaning. It is home. He is safe. ! Now, I declare it, that young man is comparatively safe who goes out into ithe world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solici- tude, watching, planning, and praying, will be to him & shield and a shelter. I never knew a man faithful both to . {his early and adopted home, who at 'the same time was given over to any gross form of dissipation or wickedness, 'He who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from outside associations rather than grom the more quiet and unpresuming pleasure of which I have spoken may 'be suspected to be on the broad road to Yuin. Absalom dispised his father's house, gud you know his history of sin and his death of shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated from your kin- dred and former associates, is there mot some room that you can call your own. Into it gather books and pictures and a harp. Have a portrait over the mantel Make ungodly mirth stand 'back from the threshold. _ Consecrate 'some spot with the knee\ of prayer. By the other days, a fa- ther's counsel, and a mother's love, 'and a sister's confidence, call it home. ' Another defense for a young man is | industrious habits. Munny young men, in starting upon life in this age, ex- | pect to make their way through the world by the use of their wits rather than the toil of their hands. A boy | mow goes to the city and fails twice before he is as old as his father was when he first saw the spires of the | great town. Sitting in some office, rented at $1,000 a year, he is waiting for the bank to declare its dividend, or goes into the market expecting before might to be made rich by the imp of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved on some other tack. Perhaps he borrowed from his em- ployer's money drawer, and forgets to 'put it back, or for merely the purpose lof improving his penmanship makes a copy plate of the merchant's signa- ture. Never mind; all is right in trade. In some dark night there may come in his dreams a vision of the peniten- gtiary; but it soon vanishes. In a short 'time he will be ready to retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and herds cultivate the domestic vir- Then those young men who onee were his schoolmates, and knew no better than to engage in honest work, will come with their ox teams to draw him logs, and with their hard . hands to help heave up his castle. P This is no fancy picture. Ib is every 'day life. I should not wonder if there ; were some rotten beams in that beau- - tiful palace. I should not wonder if dire sickness should smite through the young man, or if God should pour into his cup of life a draught that would thrill him with unbearable agony; if his children should become to him a living curse, making his home a pest and a disgrace. I should not wonder if he goos to a miserable grave, and be- youd it into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. My young friends, there is no way to genuine success except through toil, either of head or hand. At the battle of Crecy, in 1346, the Prince of Wales, ; finding himself heavily pressed by the | About 15 couples from this place and + vicinity attended the party of the Mid- © sent word to his father for The father, watching the battle | enemy, help. . from a windmill, and sceing his son was not wounded and could gain the day if he would, sent word, \No I will Let the boy win his spurs, for, if God will, I desire that this day be his with all its honors.\ Young i armor and the fortifications. Some of my hearers '> ' \Come my men, look these fellows in . assail you, but I do not know in what 'with a chilling despondency. Cheer '{That is not brave, that is not honor- , 'In God's name I tell you that. And the | (blessed ''hour, ' your thirsty lips. man, fight your own battie all through and you shall have the victory. You eannot know the changes to which you may be subject. but you may know what always will be right and always will be wrong. Let gen- tleness and charity and veracity and faith stand in the heart of the sketch. On some still brook's bank make a lamb and lion lie down together. Draw two or three of the trees of life, not frost-stricken, nor ice-glazed, nor wind-stripped, but with the thick ver- dure waving like the palms of Heaven. On the darkest cloud place the rainbow, that pillow of the dying storm. You need not print the title on the frame. The dullest will catch the design at a glance, and say, \'That is the road to Heaven.\ Ah me! On this sea of life what innumerable ships, heavily laden and well rigged, yet seem bound for no port! Swept every whither of wind and wave, they go up by the moun- tains, they go down by the valleys, and aré at their wits' end. They sail by no chart, they watch no star, they long for no harbor. 1 beg every young man to-day to draw out a sketch of what, by the grace of God, he means to be. Think no excellence so high that you cannot reach it. 'life with a high ideal of character, and faith in its attainment, will find him- self encased from a thousand tempta- tions. 'There are magnificent possibil- itieq before each of you young men of the stout heart, and the buoyant step, and the bounding spirit. I would mar- shal you for grand achievement God now provides for you the field and the Who is on the Lord's side? A captain in ancient times, to en- courage his men against the immense lodds on the side of their enemies, said: the face,. They are 6,000, you are 800. Surely the match is even.\ That speech gave them the vietory. Be not, my hearers, dismayed at any time by what seems an immense odds against you. Is fortune, is want of education, are men, are devils against you; though the multitudes of earth and hell con- front you, stand up to the charge. 'With a million against you the match is just even. Nay, you have a decided 'advantage. If God be for us, who can be against us? Thus protected, you 'need not spend much time in answer- \ing your assailants. You may now have enough strength 'of character to repel the: various 'temptations to gross wickedness which strait you may be thrust some future time. Nothing short of the grace of the cross may then be able to deliver you from the lions. You are not meek- ter than Moses nor holier than David, mor more patient than Job, and you ought not to consider yourself invul- nerable. You may have some weak point of character that you have never discovered, and in some hour when you 'are unsuspecting the Philistines will 'be upon thee, Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or your early train- ing, or your pride of character; noth- ing short of the arm of Almighty God will be sufficient to uphold you. You look forward to the world sometimes I will tell you how you may make a fortune. \Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you.\ Iknow you do not want to be megan in this matter. Give God the freshness of your life. You will not have the heart to drink down the brimming cup of life and then pour the dregs on God's altar.. To a Saviour so infinitely generous you 'have not the heart to act like that. 'up; able, that is not manly. Your greatest want in all the world is a new heart. spirit presses though the 'solemnities and privileges of this holy Put the cup of life eternal to Thrust it not back. Mercy offers it; bleeding mercy, long- suffering mercy. Reject all other friendships, be ungrateful for all other kindness, prove recreant to all other bargains, but to despise God's love for your immortal soul-do not-do that. I would like to see some of you this hour press out of the ranks of the world and lay your conquered spirit at the feet of Jesus, This hour is no wandering vagabond staggering over the earth, it is a winged messenger of the skies whispering merey to thy soul. Life is smooth now, but after awhile it may be rough, wild and pre- cipitate, There comes a crisis in the history of every man. We seldom un- derstand that turning point until it is far past. The road of life is forked, and I read on two sign boards: \This is the way to happiness.\ \This is the way to ruin.\ How apt we are to pass the fork of the road without thinking whether it comes out at the door of bliss or the gates of darkness. Do not get the fatal idea that you are a genius, and that, therefore, there is no need of close application. It is here where multitudes fail. 'The curse of this age is the geniuses, men' with enormous self-conceit and egotism, and nothing else I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain and plodding and useful, rather than high-flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Extraordinary ca- pacity without work is extraordinary ! failure. 'There is no hope for that per- | son who begins life resolved to live by ' his wits, for the probability is that he , has not any. It was notsafe for Adam, | even in his unfallen state, to have | nothing to do, and, therefore, God com- { manded him to be a farmer and horti- | culturist. He was to dress the garden ' and keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed the divine injunction and been : at work, they would not have been sauntering under the trees and hani : ering after that fruit which destroyed - tive for all ages to come that those ' who do not attend to their business | are sure to get into mischief, 'Do not demand that your toil always ibe elegant and cleanly, and refined. ''There is a certain amount of drudgery {through which we must all pass, what- 'ever be our occupation. You know how imen are sentenced a certain number of lyearg to prison, and after they have fle who starts out in $ i acted ; he was lost. = suffered and worked out the time, then they are allowed to go free. .So it is with all of us God passed on us the sentence: \By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.\ We must endure our time of drudgery and then, after 'a while, we will be allowed to go into comparative liberty. We must be will- ing to endure the sentence. We all know what drugdery is connected with the beginning of any trade or profes- sion}; but this does not continue all our lives, if it be the student's; or the mer- chant's, or the mechanic's life. Iknow you have at the beginning many a hard time, but after a while those things will become easy. You will be your own master. God's sentence will be satisfied. You will be discharged from prison. f Bless God that you have a brain to think and hands to work, and feet to walk with, for in your constant activ- ity, O0 young man, is one of your strongest defenses. Put your trust in God and do your best. it right when the horses ran away with the load of wood and he sat on.it. When asked if he was frightened, he said: \No I prayed to God and hung on like a beaver.\ Respect for the Sabbath will be to the young man another preservative against evil. God has thrust into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative day, when the soul is especially to be fed. Itis no néw-fangled notion of a wild-brained reformer, but an institu- tion established at the beginning. God has made natural and moral laws so harmonious that the body as wall as the soul demands this institution. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, that must be wound up as often as that, or they will run down. Failure must come Sooner or later to the man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has called it the Lord's day, and he who devotes it to the world is guilty of robbery.: God will not let the sin go unpunished eith- er in this world or the world to come. This is the statement of a man who has broken this divine enactment: \I was engaged in manufacturing on the Lehigh river. On the Sabbath I used to rest, but never regarded God in it. One beautiful Sabbath when the noise was hushed, and the day was all that loveliness could make it, I sat down on my piazza, and went to work inventing a new shuttle. I neither stopped to eat nor drink till the sun went down. By that time I had the invention com- pleted. The next morning I exhibited it, and boasted of my day's work, and was applauded. The shuttle was tried, and worked well, but that Sabbath day's work cost me $30,000. We branched out and enlarged, and the curse of Heaven was upon me from that day onward.\ , While the divine form must rest upon him who tramples upon this statute, God's special favor will rest upon that young man who serupulously observes it. This day, properly observed, will throw a hallowed influence over all the week. The song and sermon and sane- tuary will hold back from presump- tous sins That young man who be- gins the duties of life with eithir secret or .open disrespect to the holy day, I venture to prophesy, will meet with no permanent successes. God's eurse will fall upon his ship, his store, his office, his studio, his body, his soul. The way of the wicked he turneth up- side down.\ In one of the old' fables it is said,that a wonderful child was born in Bagdad, and a magician could hear his footsteps 6,000 miles away. But I can hear the footstep of that young man on his way to the house of wor- ship, to-day, the step not only of a lifetime of usefulness, but the oncom- ing step of eternal ages of happiness yet millions of years away. A noble ideal and confident expecta- tion of approximating to ib are an in- fallible defense: 'The artist completes in his mind the great thought he wishes to transfer to the canvas or the marblé before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out the entire structure before he orders' the workmen to begin, and though they may for a long time seem to be nothing but blundering and rudeness, he has in his mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine: capital. The poet arranges the entire plot before he begins to chime the first canto of tingling rhythms. And yet, strange to say, there' are men who attempt to build their char- acter without knowing in the end whether it shall be a_ rude Tartar's tent or a St. Mark's of Venice -men who begin to write the intricate poems of their lives without knowing\ whether it shall be a Homer's Odyssey or a rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of 1,000 are living without any great life plot. Booted and spurred and plumed, and urging their swift courser in the hot- test haste, L ask: \Hallo man, whith- er away?\ His response is: \Nowhere.\ Rush into the busy shop or store of many a one, and taking the plane out of the man's hand or laying down the yard stick, say: \What man, is all this about, so much stir and sweat?\ The reply will stumble and break down be- tween teeth and lips, Every day's duty ought only to be the filling up of the main plan of exist:nce. Many years ago I stood on the anni- versary-platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable state- ment: \Thirty years ago two young men started out in the evening to at- tend the Park theater; New York, where a play was to be in which the cause of re- ligion was to be placed in ridiculous and hypocritical light. They came to the steps (The consciences of both smote them. One started to go home, but returned again to the door, and yet had not the courage to enter, and final- ly departed. But the other young man entered the pit of the theater. It was the turning point in the history of these . them and their posterity-a proof posi i two young men. The man who entered was cauglt in the whirl of temptation. ; He sank deeper and deeper in infamy; That other young man was saved, and he now stands before you to bless God that for 20 years he hals’been permitted to preach the gos- cl.\ - \Rejoice 0 young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.\ That child had p h> i MOUSE IN HER SHOE. : How a New Orleans Girl Created a Scone In a Street Car. There is a certain young woman in ew Orleans, says an eastern exchange, who has but recently adopted thei- pointed toe shoe as an article of ap- arel, and she has done so to her sor- - Few. Now, while it is a rule, and notz he exception, to find small feet among“, the womer of the Crescent city, this; particular young woman possesses; uch exceedingly diminutive ones as to; ake them really exceptional. In view pf this and the fact that she bas an un- usually high instep, she finds it ex- reedingly difficult to get, in any of the | pghops, a shoe that exactly fits her foot. & few days ago she invested in a pair .Z od is- es, - A MOUSE IN HER SHOE. of sharp-toed beauties that she thought. would be a joy for a considerable time, jf not forever, though they were, as she expressed it, \miles too long.\ it Of course, she did not expect her feet to fill up the waste places in the points' of her shoes, and so when she put them; on and started down Canal street' shopping she was surprised to feel' gamethjng pressing against the toes in. er right shoe. Not knowing what; could be crowding her foot, but think- ng there was plenty of room inside for: oth, she hailed a car and kept on. She: ad scarcely got seated, however, be- ore she gave a scream that startled the' Women passengers half out of their wite. | \What is it, miss?\ inquired the con- fAuctor, coming to the rescue, for the Fir] was tugging away at her shoe aces for all she was worth. \Let me,\ said the gallant conductor, tneeling. down and taking her foot in' s hand. \Ob thank you, and do be quick!\ said the girl. The shoe was off in a jiffy, and out of It, in the midst of the excited passen- ers, sprang a mouse. There was a pandemonium in that ar for the space of a moment; but the oterman's heel soon squelched the of- ¥ending mouse; but every woman in the car who had on: pointed shoes Looked fit to faint, and the young wom- n declares she will never try a pair of 'them again. RAT KILLS RATTLER. Vicious Battle That Was Ended Only by | the Death of the Snake. : Col. L. J. Smith, ot. Dade county, Fla., is mourning the demise of a seven- koot: rattler, which he kept in a cage, Its death being due to a rat. \I caught the rat in a trap back in the barn,\ Ithe colonel said. \He was a very ay rat, and seemed old, too old to . ave been caught that way. I thought he might make pretty good eating for the snake, and I dumped him into the Tattler's cage. The old rat cowered in bne corner, and the snake coiled him- gelf like greased lightning. Raising his fiat head above his coil, he struck the bld gray rat. Of course the rat squealed, but he didn't leave his corner. He eyed the snake viciously. A second 'time the snake coiled and struck, and a gBecond time the rat squealed.. The rat did not seem much hurt, and the poi- Bon was certainly slow in getting down l he ~> RAT MADE A GOOD FIGHT. to work. The snake was mortified. He coiled again. There was wrath and dis-. appointment in his eyes. He was about to strike again, when that old gray rat- fan around the cage and leaped from behind upon the back of the rattler. He caught the serpent behind the head and buried his teeth time and again in 'the writhing, squirming snake. A ter- Tible battle was beingfought inside that : cage. The rat was gnawing through ' the neck of the snake. The struggle subsided when the snake had been be- eaded. That was a game old rat, and ve got him yet. He gets cheese three i imes a day.\ | U Tried to Save Her Puppies. ' When all. of a litter of St. Bernard * pups, except¢two, had died at Portland, Ore., the mother took the last pair, one f them being then very far gone, out to he yard and pawed a hole in the earth and laid the pups in it.' The feebler one Hied, but the other recovered, and spec- ulation was then indulged in as to the possible good it had derived from con- : tact with fresh earth. t Cash Register That Speaks. i i A Rutland {Vt.) man has invented an brticulating attachment for cash reg- Isters that will speak out the amount of the purchase, so that it will be distine y heard in every part of the store., It:; is said that a large amount has been 01-1 fered for the invention. fl
