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Hundreds of Thousands ofChildren In. God's Iloyal Family Slain Every Year.

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inquisitive to find out what is iu thebaskets. I look in and I find the rorv headsixt teventy slain IYiiices. As the basketsarrive at the gate of the palace, the heads arethrown into two heaps, one on either side thetut. In the morning the King comes out.Hud be looks upon the bleeding, ghastlyheads of the massacred Princes. Looking ontf.it.heP GijlAiriA frmtn riafriAB rtiift with'., rini.iag emphasis: "Who slew all these?"

Ta)J1.VA niv friAIlds llVArl rt u mrtrafearful massacre, r There is no use of mytaking your timq in trying to give you sta-tistics about the devastation and ruin anddeath which strong drink has wrought inthis country, Statistics do not seem to meananything. We are so hardened under thesestatistics that the fact that fifty thousandmax men are slain or fifty thousand lessmen are slain, seems to make no positive

the public mind. Suffice it tosay, that : intemperance has slain an

company of Princes the childrenof God's royal family; and at the gate ofevery neighborhood thou are two heaps ofthe slain; and at the door of the householdthere are two heaps of the slain; and at thedoor of the legislative hall there are twoheaps of the slain; and at the door of thouniversity thero are two heaps of the slain;and at the gate of this nation there are twoheaps of tho slain. When I look uponthe desolation I am almost fran-tic , with the ; scene, while Icry out: "Who slew all these?" I can answerthat question in half a minuto. The minis-ters of Christ who have given no warning,the courts of law that have offered the licen-sure, the women who give strong drink onHew Year's day, the fathers and motherswho have rum on the sideboard, the hundredsof thousands of Christian men and women inthe land who are stolid in their indifferenceen this subject they slew all these !

I propose in this discourse to tall you whatI think are the sorrows and tha doom r.t tlidrunkard, go that you to whom I speak maynot come to torment.

Some one says: "You had better let thosesubjects alone." Why, my brethren, wewould be glad to let them alone if they wouldlet us alone; but when I have in my pocketnow four requests saying: "Pray for my hus-band, pray for my son, pray for my brother,pray for my friend, who is the captive ofstrong drink, I reply, we are ready to letthat question alone when it is willing to let usalone; but when it stands blocking up theway to heaven, and keeping multitudes awayfrom Christ and heaven, I dare not be silent,lest the Lord require their blood at myhands. '

I think the subject has been kept bockvery much by the merriment people makeover those slain by strong drink. I used tobe very merry over these things, having akeen sense of the ludicrous. .There was some-thing very grotesque in the gait of a drunk-ard. It is not so now; for I saw in one of thestreets of Philadelphia a sight that changedthe whole subject to me. There was a youngman being led home. lie was vory much in-toxicatedhe was raving with intoxica-tion. Two young men were leadinghim along. The boys hooted in thestreet, men laughed,- - women sneered;but I happened to be very near the doorwhere ho went in it was the door of hismother's house. ' I saw him go up stairs. Iheard him shouting, hootine and blasnhom- -ing. lie had lost bis bat, and the merri-ment increased with the mob until he (tameto tho door, and as the door was opened hismother came out. When I heard her crythat took all the comedy out of the scene.Since that time when I see a man walkingthrough the street, reeling, the comedy is allgone, and it is a tragedy of tears and groansund heartbreaks. Never make any funaround me about the grotesqueness of adrunkard. ; Alas for his home !

The first suffering of the drunkard is inthe loss of his good name. God has so ar-ranged it that no man ever loses bis goodname exoept through his own act. All thehatred of men and all the assaults of devilscannot, destroy a man's good name if hereally maintains his integrity. If a man isindustrious and pure and Christian, Godlooks after him. Although he may bo bom-barded for twenty or thirty years, bis Integ-rity is never lost and hU good name is neversacrificed. No forco on earth or in hellcan capture such a Gibraltar. But when itis said of a man, ."He drinks," and it canbe proved, then what employer wantshim for workman? what store wants himfor a clerk? what church wants him for amember? who will trust him? what dyingman would appoint him bis executor? Homay have been forty years in building uphis reputation it goes down. Letters ofrecommendation, the backing up of businessfirms, a brilliant ancestry cannot save him.The world shies off. Why? It is whisperedall through the community, "He drinks; hedrinks." That blasts him. When a man loseshis reputation for sobriety he might as well beat tho bottom of the sea. There are menhere who have their good name as their onlycapital You are now achieving your ownlivelihood, under God, by your own rightarm. Now look out that there is no doubtof your sobriety. Do not create any sus--picion by going in and out of immoral places,or by any odor of your breath, or by anyglare of your eye, or by any unnatural flushof your cheek. You cannot afford to do it,for your good name is your only capital, andwhen that is blasted with the reputation oftaking strong drink, all is gone.

Another loss which the inebriate suffers isthat of self respect. Just as soon as a manwakes up and find that he is the captive ofstrong drink he fools demeaned. I do notcaro how reckless he acts. Ho may say, "Idon't care:" he does care. ITe cannot look ainiro man in tbeeyo, unless it is with positivelorco of resolution. Three-fourt- hs of his natureis destroyed; his self respect gone; ho saysthings he would not otherwise say; he doesthings he would not otherwise do. When aman is nine-tenth- s gone with strong urink,the first thing he wants to do is to persuade youthat he can stop any time he wants to. Hecannot. The Philistines have bound him bandand foot, and shorn his locks, and put out hiseyes, and are making him grind in the mill ofa great horror. He cannot stop. I will prove

. it. Ho knows that bis eourso Is bringing dis-grace and ruin upon himself. He loves him-self. If he could stop he would. Ho knowsbis course is bringing ruin upon his family.He loves them, lie would stop if be could,lie cannot. Perhaps he could three monthsor a year ago; not now. Just ask him toatop for a month. He cannot; he knows heennnot, so he does not try. I bad a friendwho for fifteen years was going down underthis evil habit. lie had large moans. He badgiven thousands of dollars to Bible societiesand reformatory institutions of all sorts.Ho was very genial and very s gener-ous and very lovable, and whenever he talkedabout this evil habit he would say; "I canstop any tlm." Bat he kept going on, goingon. down, down down. His family wouldeixy. "I wi8h you would stop." "Why," howould reply, "I can stop any time if i wantto." After a whila he bad delirium tremens;be bad it twice; and yet after that he said:"I could stop at any time if I wanted to."Ho is dead now. What killed Mm? Rum f

I'.mn I And yet among Ws last utterancesv as: "I can stop at any time." He did notstop it, because he could not stop it. Oh,there is a point iu inebriation beyond which,if a man goes, he cannot stop! ,

Ona of these victims Bald to a Christianr..n: "Sir, if I were told that X couldn'tFt a itriuk uiitU night nn-1- -s

I bn'l all "my flnuors cut off, I wouldfffi 'i.irln the Iiat'liot and out theui

- iw. I have a do.ir.f-ien- l in Pr.ihv- -

r. wh'',--e n'iji ew rai.--

habit, said: "Uncle, I can't give it up.If there stood a cannon, and it was loaded,and a glrss of vine sat on the mouth ofthat cannon, and I knew that you wouldfire It off i just as I cams i up and tookthe glass, I would ctart, for I must haveit," Oh, it is a sad thing for a man towake up in this life and feel that beis a captive. He says: "I oould have got ridof this once, but I cant now.. I might havelived an honorable life and died aChristian death; but there is no hope for menow; there is no escape forme. Dead, butnot burled. I am a walking corpse. laman apparation of what I once was. I am acaged immortal, beating against the wires ofmy cage in this direction and in that direc-tion; beating against the cage until there isblood on the wires and Mood upon my soul,

yet not able to get out Destroyed, withoutremedy f ..'..-- v ::

I go further and say that the inebriatesuffers from the loss of bis usefulness. Doyou not recognize the fact that many of thosewho are now captives of strong drink only alittle while ago ware foremost in tho churchesand in reformatory institutions? Do younot know that somotimes they knelt in thefamily c;rcle? Do you not know that theyprayed In public, and some of them carriedaround the holy wine on sacramental days?UU, yes, they stood In the very front rauk,but they gradually fell away. Andnow what do you suppose is the feelingof such a man as that whonbe thinks of his dishonored vows and thedishonored sacrament when he thinks ofwhat he might have been and of what he isnow?. Do such men laugh and seem verymerry? Ah, there is, down in the depths oftheir soul, a very heavy weight. Do notwonder that they sometimes see strangethings, and act very roughly in the house-hold. You would not blame them at all ifyou knew what they suffer. Do not tell suchas that there is no future punishment. Donot tell him there is no such place as hell.He knows there is. He is there uowt ..

I go on, and say that the inebriate suffersfrom the loss of physical health. The oldermen hi the congregation may remember thatsome years ago Dr. Sewell went through thiscountry and electrified the people by his lec-

tures, in which he showed the effects of alco-hol on the human stomach. He had sevenor eight diagrams by which he showed thedevastation of strong drink upon the physi-cal system. There were thousands of peoplethat turned back from that ulcerous sketchswearing eternal abstinence from everythingthat could intoxicate.

God only knows what the drunkard suf-fers. Pain files on every norve, and travelsevery muscle, and gnaws overy bone, andburns with every (lame, and stings withevery poison, ana pulls at him with everytorture. What reptiles crawl over his creep-ing limbs! What fiends stand by bis mid-night pillow I What groans (ear his earlWhat horrors shiver through bis soul! Talkof the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk ofthe funeral pyre, talk of the crushing Jug-gernaut he feels them all at onoe. Haveyou ever been in the ward of the hos-pital where those inebriates are dying,the stench of their wounds drivingback the attendants, their voices soundingthrough tho night? The keeper comes upand says: "Hush, now, be still. Stop mak-ing all this noise I" But it is effectual only fora moment, for as soon as the keeper is gone,they begin again: "Oh, God! oh, God I Help!help! Rum! Give me rum! Help! Takothem off me ! Take them off me ! Tako themoff me ! Oh, God P' and then they Bhriek, andthey rave, and they pluck out their hair byhandsfuL and bite their nails into the quick.and then they groan, and they shriek,and they blaspheme, and they ask the keepersto kill them. "Stab me. Smother me.Strangle me. Take the devils off me!" Oh,it is no fancy sketch. That thing is gojng onin hospitals, aye, it is going on in some of thefinest residences of every neighborhood onthis continent. It went on last nightwhileyouslept, and I tell you further that this is goingto be the death that some of you will die, Iknow it I see it coming.

Again: the inebriate suffers through theloss of his home. I do not care how much heloves his wife and children, if this passionfor strong drink has mastered him, he willdo the most outrageous things, and if becould not get drink in any other way; hewould sell his family into eternal bondage.How many homes have been broken up inthat way, no one but God knows.

Oh, is there anything that will so destroya man for this life and damn him for the lifethat is to come? I hate that strong drink.With all the concentrated energies of mysoul, I bate it. Do you tell me that a mancan be happy when he knows that he isbreaking his wife's heart and clothinghis children with rags? Why, thereare on the streets of our citiesto-da-y little children, barefooted, un-combed and unkempt; want on every patchof their faded dress and on every wrinkle oftheir prematurely old countenances, whowould have beon in churches to-da-y, and aswell clad as you are, but for the fact thatrum destroyed their parents and drove theminto the grave. Oh, rum! thou foe of God,thou destroyer . of homes, thou recruitingofficer of the pit, I abhor thee !

But my subject takes a deeper tone,and that is, that the inebriate suffersfrom the loss of the soul. The Biblointimates that in the future world, ifwe are unforgiveu here, our bad passionsand appetites, unrestrained, will go alongwith us and make our torment there. Sothat I suppose when an inebriate wakes upin this lost world he will feel an in-finite thirst clawing on bim. Now, downin the world, although he may have beenvory poor, he could beg or he could stealfive cents with which to get that whichwould slake his thirst for a little while; butin eternity, whore is the rum to come from?Dives could not get one drop of water. Fromwhat chalice of eternal fires will the hot lipjof the drunkard drain his draught? No one,to brew it. No one to mix it. No one to pourit. No one to fetch it. Millions of worldsthen for the dregs which the young manjust now slung on the saw-dust-

floor of the restaurant. Millionsof worlds now for the rindthrown out from the punch bowl ofan earthly banquet. Dives cried for water.The inebriate cries for rum. Ob, the deep,exhausting, exasperating, everlasting thirstof the drunkard in bell! Why, if a fiendcame up to earth for some infernal work in agrogshop, and should go back taking on itswing just ono drop of that for which theinebriate in the lost world longs, what ex-citement it would make there. Put that onedrop from off the fiend's wing on the tip oftho tongue of the destroyed inebriate; letthe liquid brightness just touch it,let the drop bo very small ifit only have in it the smack of alcoholicdrink, lot that drop just touch the lost mo-bria- te

in the lost world, and he would springto his feet and cry: "That is rum! aha! thatis rum !" and it would wake up the echoes ofthe damned:' "Give me rum! Give me rum!Give me rum!" In the future world, I donot believe that it will bo the absence of Godthat will make the drunkard's sorrow; I donot beliove that it will be the absence oflight; I do not believe that it will be the ab-sence of holiness; I think it will bo the ab-sence of strong drink. Oh! "look not uponthe wine when it is red, when it moveth it-self aright in the cup, for at the last, itbitethlike a serpent and It stingeth like an adder."

But I want in conclusion to say one thingpersonal, for I do not like a sermon that hasno personalities in it. Perhaps this has nothad that fault already. I want to say tothose who are the victims of strong drink,that while I declare that there was a pointbeyond which a man could not stop, I wantto tell you that whie a man cannot stop inhis own strength, the Lord God,by His grace, , can help him totop at any time. Years ago I was in

a room 'in Now York where there weremany men who had been reclaimed fromdrunkennofls. I beard their testimony, andfor tha first time in my life there flashed outa truth I never understood. Theysaid: "Wewere victims of strong drink. We tried togive it up, but always failed; but somehow,since we gave our hearts to Christ, He hastaken care of as." I believe that the timewill soon come when the grace of God willshow its power here not only to save man'sou!, but his and reconstruct, purify,

elevate and rqdoeni it. I verily b rieve that,'.Kj-t- Vfj,3 f.. grspx-iing- , at ; thi

roots of your tongues an almost omnipotentthirst, if you will this moment give yourheart to God He will help you, by His grace,to conquer. Try it. It is your last chance.I have looked off upon the desolation. - Bit-ti-

under my ministry there are people inawful peril from strong drink, and, judgingfrom ordinary circumstances, there is notone chance in five thousand that they willget clear of it. I seo men in this congre-gation of whom I must make the remark,that if they do not change their course,within ten years they will, as to their bodies,lie down in drunkards' graves; and as to theirsouls, lie down in a drunkard's perdition. Iknow that it is an awful thing to say, but Ican't help saying it. , Oh, beware! You havenot yet been captured. Beware I As yeopen the door of your wino closet to-da-y,

may that decanter; flash out upon ; you.Bower t and when you pour the beverageinto the glass, in the foam at the top, inwhite letters, let them be upelled out to yoursoul: "Beware!" When the books of judg-ment are open, and ton million drunkardscomo up to get their doom, I want you tobear witness that I, to-da-y, in the fear ofGod. and in tho love for your soul, told youwith all affection, and with all kindness, to.beware of that which has ah-ea- exerteditsinfluence upon your family, blowing outsome of its lights a premonition of. theblackness of darkness forever. Oh,if you could . only ': hear thismoment, , Intemperance, with drunk-ard's bones, "drumming on the head) of thewino cask the Dead March of immortal souls,roetbinks the very glance of a wane cupwould make you shudder, and the color ofthe liquor would make you think of theblood of the soul, and the foam on the top ofthe cup would remind you of the froth onthe maniac's Up, and you would go homefrom this service and kneol downand pray God that, rather thanyour children should become captivesof this evil habit, you would like to carrythem out some bright spring day to tbeeeme-tor- y

and put them away to tho last sleep,until at the call of the south wind the flowerswould come up all over the grave sweetprophecies of the resurrection. God has abalm for such a wound but what flower ofcomfort ever grew on the blasted heath of adrunkard's sopulcher?

DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

' Francis Lyshen, S9 years of age, was runover and killed by cars in the Stanton mine,at Wilkesbarre, Pa.

Mrs. Christina Warfel, of Jeffarsonvillo,Iud., was fatally burned by an explosion ofcoal oil with which she was starting a fire.

Olllo Martin and Maud Saylors, a betrothedcouple, of Brownsville, Imi., were drownedwhile trying to ford the Whitewater river,with a horse and buggy.

The Illinois State Boird of Health has as-

certained that 30 persons have died of fluxand dysentery at Warsiw, and that 223 caseshave been uudr treatmeut.

The Hathaway building, at Central Falls,R. I , was damaged by water to the extentof over $10,000, through the carelesmesi ofan employe who left water running.

Walter McKey, an employe of the Bureauof Etigraviog and Printing, fell from athird-stor- y window of his residence, atWashington, and was instantly killed.

Mrs. N. Preman and herdaughter were killed by lightning near Piper-City- ,

Illinois. A sevea-months-o- ld infant inthe woman's arms escaped uninjured.

The steamer Old Dominion, while going upthe river at Norfolk, Virginia, ran into andsunk the sloop Ella May. The captain of thesloop and two of ber crew were drowned.

A freight train on the Western New Yorkand Pennsylvania Railroad ran into a con-struction train at Eld red, Pa., and injuredthree Italian laborers, one fatally, besidescausing a bad wreck.

Two trains on the Richmond and AUeehe-n- y

Railroad collided near bcottsville, Vir-ginia. Both engines and about 15 emptycoal cars were smashed, and James D. Duval,a train man, was killed.

A freight wreck on the Philadelphia &Erie Kuiiroad, at Wbistletown, Elk county,Pennsylvania, resulted in the death of BertAnderson, a brakumau, of Bradfordj Twoengines and 115 cars were demolished.

II. Webb, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, 34 yearsold and Herman Newniayer, of tho sameplace, 45 years old, jumped from a LehighValley traia at Chain Dam. Webb waskilled and Newmayer was fatally hurt.

W illiam Hartley and a man named Mahlerwere sleeping in a barn at Sterling, Nebras-ka, when it was struck by lightning and seton fire. Hartley was burned to death andMahler only escaped alter , being terriblyburned.

J. H. Graham, the messenger in charge oftho Wells-Farg- o Express Company's car ontho Southern Pacific Railroad, was founddead in the car at Kosebury Junction, Texas.He was killed by the accidental discharge ofa revolver.

Benjamin Erb, a farmer, of Coitsville,Obio,was instantly kilted by the accidental dis-cbarge of a gun with which he was about togo squirrel shooting. The weapon was dis-charged by Erb'a ld son, who wasbidding his father good-b- y.

A freight train and two locomotives on theOmaha and Republican Valley branch of theUnion Pacific Railway, near Weston. Neb.,went through a bridge which bad beenweakened by the heavy rain. EngineerMitchell and Yard Master Conklin werefatally injured, and three other train menwere badly hurt.

A cart in which were Eddie Deplore, agednine years, and Willie Simmons, aged 12, wasbacked over u 25-fo- bank into Monongahelariver at Pittsourg, Pa., owing to a balkyhorse,and the boys we red owned. Hurry Sim-mou- s,

aged 25, the driver, was also drownedin the endeavor to save the boys. FrederickSucuman, who was also in the cart, had bisleg broken.

An explosion of naphtha occurred at EastBuffalo, N. Y. , on the steam yacht OdarRidge, which was about to start on a pleas-ure trip down the river. Edith and LarneyCrocker wern burned to death, HowardCrocker wan drowned, and John Rubeustein,u carpenter, was burned to death by his boathouse taking lire from the yacht. Threeother persons were injured.

Archie and Joseph Cockburn and Chris.Sylvester, all young men, were drowned onthe Pacflo coast, about ten miles south ofthe Golden Gate. Tbey were on a rock ashort distance from the shore, when an im-mense wave came in and washed them off.Toe father of the Cockburn boys, who wasaJsi on the rock, noticed the wave when itapproached and shouted to the boys to clingto the rock, but it was too late.

Two explosions occurred at KensingtonGardens, St. Louis, where tha "Siege of Se-vastopol" is being produced. While RichardLightner and John Smith were making rock-ets or "flower pots," to be used in the pyro-technic dirplay, a small explosion took place,and Lightuer was badly burned about theface, neck and bands. A moment later somechemicfOs nstd . in making the rockets ex.ploded, and one end of the little building, inwhich the men worked, was blown out, andJohn Smith was badly, perhaps fatally,burned. !

LIGHTNING'S AWFUL WORK.

Twenty Persons Killed in a TerribleStorm in Kansas.

The storm which passed over the MissouriValley was the most disastrous known to thissection this season. .

, Over --0 persons, It is siid, were killed bylightning, and tin damage in animals killed,ruined crops and washouts will run up overhalf a million dollars.

Among those killed were a son of n. H,Silver, at Cortlaud, Neb.; George Warnerand Georgo Richsnlwun, of Dawson, Neb. ;E. Winkler of Wwthrop, Mo.; H. Hunter,of Hamlin, Kan., anl Fred. Case, of Oilatbw,Kin. '

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An Increased Volume of Busi-

ness and Improved Crop ;

', Prospects. ;

Favorable lleporta from the CottonFields Money Easy on Call and

Finn on Time Large Increase"Iu I tail road learnings.

Special Telegram to Bradstreefs report asomewhat larger volume of trade at Phila-delphia, Pittsburg, Louisville, Cincinnati

(Kansas City, Chicago and Galveston, and atother points the lookout for the Autumntrade is bright. Anthracite coal and lumber at the East remain quiet, and raw wooihas oeen somewhat depressed by several fail-

ures among manufacturers. This has affect-ed general trad j in some degree at BostonKentucky's tobacco acreage is reported at7Ja75 pit cent. Prices areadvanoiog on pros-pective short crop and renewed purchases.Hog products are stronger, notably Westernsteam lard. At San Francisco 200,000 bush-els of wheat hare been chartered for Bras.'and 37,000 shipped to Australia.

Although narrow,' stock speculation Isstrong, and prices advance on the increasinggrain movement at the WeBt Interestseems to be growing, and unusual confidenceis expressed in the probability of more activemovement in speculation and investment.Bonds are strong-- , with increasing demand.Money at New York is easy on call and firmon time. Call loans, Sa4 par qent Timemoney is five par cent, Foreign exchange isdull, out firmer on the advance of rates atLondon. Gross earnings of 121 railroads foreight mouths of this year amount to $301,-478,26- 4,

against $188,331, 1U1 during the cor-responding period of 1888. The mileage uponwhich these Azures are based is 73,140,against 70,183 miles last year. In July, 188V,only twenty-on- e companiesshowed decreases,as compared with July, 1888, while in June,1880, returns from lorty-seve- n companieswere smaller than in June, 1888.

There is au increased activity in dry goodsjobbing lines at New York, but notably incotton and wool dress goods. Southern andSouthwestern Jobbers are the chief buyers.Commission men report trade moderate.Prices are as a whole steady, the only nota-ble exception being in print cloth futures,which are weaker. The export demands forcottons is less active. Woolen goods are Inmoderate sale at recent advances (SK?per cent). Raw wool is easier, but nocquotaably lower, on less active demand.Haw cotton is in fairly good demandat unchanged quotations. Near newcrop futures are uigber on less favorablecrop reporta

Prices of raw sugar are shaded, with oon-tine- d

restricted takings by refiners and onlya moderate decrease in arrivals, thus increas-ing stocks at four ports 10,345 tons. Theworld's visible supply of sugar is given at549,016 tons, rgainut 575,165, tons last weekand 816,433 tons a year ago. Refined sugarbaa been in moderate request, althoughmarked down Jc on Friday. Coffee hs beenvariable with the result on tho week of amoderate advance, 10 to 30 points. In dis-tributive lines the movement has been fairlyactive, Brazil growths proving the exception.Coffee prices for the Autumn appear to de-pend upon the Brazilian crop. Should thatcrop equal 6,000,000 bags, lower prices arelikely to rule, but if the total is only abont4,000,000 bags, higher prlce3 will lie in pros-pect

The week has brought a reaction In bread-stuff- s,

caused by improved homo andforeign crop reports, moderate export de-

mand and stronger ocean freight rates.Flour declined 5il5c on fren offerings of newproduct, wheat alo, Indian corn, on freofferings, o, and oats, with very favorablecrop reports, lc.

The business failures occurring throughoutthe country during the last seven days num-ber, for the United States, 161, a ad for Can-ada, 37, or a total of SOI failures, as compar-ed with a total of 210 last week, and 216 theweek previous to the last. For the corres-ponding week of last year the figures wero

representing 205 failures in tho UnitedStates and 28 in the Dominion of Canada.

ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Mr. Gladstone's speech on the royal grantswas taken by phonograph.

Russell Harrison's name now appears onjthe top of the Eiffel Tower.I Fannie Taylor Taylor, of "U. 8. America,"has been granted a patent in England for aletter-bo- x.

' Senator Quay receives more mail than anyother man in the United States except Presi-dent Harrison.

Owen K. Studebaker, the well-know- n

brewer of San Francisco, wants to be Gover-nor of California

Bjnator Ingalls is collecting a library.After he finishes the gathering he ought toread the books on good manners.

James Horner, the millionaire Pittsb'irarmanufacturer, has a remarkable collection ofcacti, one plant being valued at $500.

William Scott, the oldest employee of n'firm of London publishers, who died recent-ly, had been on the pay-rol- ls for 81 years.

The attempt to raise funds for a monumentto John Bright does not prosper. Only$40,000 was wanted, but only $15,000 has

'been secured. ;

Governor Beaver is a base ball era no, en-

thusiast He goes whenever he get the op-

portunity and enjoys the game, applaudingevery fine play made.

Sir Edward Watkins, who wants to cut atunnel under the British channel, has boughtthe top of Mount Snowden. What he willdo with it no one knows.

The biography of Father Damlen. the he-

roic leper priest of the Sand wish Island, inin preparation, and will give a full accountof his life and sufferings.

Smith, of Vermont, has ju'tcelebrated the 71st anniversary of bis birthand the 321 of bis management of the Cen-tral Vermont Railroad system.' Mrs. Harrison has offered a silver cup forthe newest seeding chrysanthemun of Arnari-ca- n

origin shown at the annual display bythe Society of Indiana Florists in November.

Anita McCormick, who is engaged to Em-mons Blaine, is one of the prettiest sir's inChicago. She is also one of the richest, asber share of ber father's estate will amountto $2,000,000. ',',Mr. Whitelaw Reld, American Mlnis'er toFrance, now speeks French fluently. Whe i

be went abroad he could read the languageand had sufficient knowledge of its structureto acquire it with marvelous rapidity.

Colonel Frederick Crocker, of San Fran-cisco, has agreed to defray the expens s ofthe Lick Observatory expedition to Cayenne,Guiana, to study the total solar eclipse onDecember 23.

' Editor Stead, of IiU MaU Gazette fame,will soon set sail for the United States, inorder to get a few ideas on the Americanstyle of journalism. On his return he is to!taks charge of a new Radical halfpennymorning pa per for London. This money tor,the enterprise was all raised last week.

The practice of (yvsmatiou is spreadingrapidly in Italy. In forty-tw- commti--,nities it has been Adopted to the exclu-sion of every otheil method of disposingof dead human ber ies. Iu f.ve.ntj onecommunities furn 'oa havo been in op-

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