CAPE MAY HERALD.

AM IHDEMBNOCMT WEEKLY.

PabtUned Ev*ry Saturday Morainj at 306 Waihlnrton Street. Capa May. N. J.

ancim. ■ fiUiht■< SUBSCRIPTION! Ona Dollar Par Yoar In Advance

Eatarad at tba post oE >». J., aa aeooaZ-claa*

Hit, 1901.

ofioa at Capa May,

Tat” is a new rexiis -rb thu i

ted by Texas -to the American rocab-

nlary. It Is a smooth term.

The difference between 'evidence and legal evidence U as great as that between what everybody and what

somebody can prove.

Paris, by Its new census, has a population of 2.714.068. This Is a gain of 177.234 In five years, but It (alls (ar - behind Greater New York with 3,437,202. Us position as the third city In the Srorld Is not likely to* be seriously disputed by either Berlin or Chicago (or many years to come.

An astronomer claims to have discovered snow on the moon. This woald Imply the existence ot an atmosphere and the possibility ot U(e something similar to that down here. It is still a little early, however, to try to float stock In the ■'Mars-Moou-Earth Interplanetary Communication

company.”

A French Inventor has devised a way of awakening sluggards. Means are provided by which the weight o( a person In^Jjed makes an ■wicctrlc rent. A bell and a clock are placed in the circuit, and when the proper lime has arrived the clock breaks the circuit and a bell rings nntll the sleeper is awakened and arises. The house In which Victor Hugo lived and wrote many of his books— No. 6 Place des Vosges—Is to be converted into a Hugo museum. It will contain things which the great French novelist owned and used, a collection of the first editions of his books, his sketches, pictures and portraits. It Is to be established by the municipal council of Paris and the gdnistry of fine arts, aided by thi executor of

Hugo’s will.

American locomotives continue to contest for primacy wherever railways are built the world over, nor Is their working value contingent upon prejudiced tests In a prejudiced and commercially hostile country. Since July 1 last 343 American locomotives have been sold and shipped for use In foreign countries—72 to Japan, wbero until three of four years past British. German or French engines

used almost exclusively.

TRIUMPH OFCHRISTIANITY Dr. Tahscts Says the Charcb of Christ Is ths Mast Eaisaria* lastitntlsa an Earth.

Wxmnxaros, D. C. — Although Dr. Tslmagc '»** hindered from attending tha great annual maetinc of the Christian Endeavor Society at Cincinnati, his sermon shows hisa to be in sympathy with the mat movement; text, Amos ix, 13. •‘Behold the day* come, sailh the Lord, that the plowman akail overtaka the reaper."

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tie* to accept the invitation to take part in ths great convention of Christian Endeavorcra at Cincinnati, I preach a sermon of congratulation for all the members of that magnificent association, whether now gathered In vast assemblage or busy in their places of usefulness, transatlantic and cisatlantic. And, as it is now harvest time in the fields and sickles are flashing in the gathering of a great crop, I find

mighty auggeativencss in my text. It is a picture of a tropical clime, with

a season so prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting time

swarthy husbandman, busy cut-

ting thJ grain, almost feels the breath'of the horses on his shoulders, the horses bitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the day* come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall orertake ths reaper.” When is that? That. U pow. That, is this day, when hardhr hare you done reaping one harvest of religious result than the plowman is getting ready

for another.

In phraseology charged with all venom and souse and caricature I know that infidels and agnostics have declared that the Bible

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f The need of employing on the trolley roads only men who have been trained to tbelr work and who are known to be careful and not liable lose their heads In an emergency has keen made apparent in 8U, Louis and Chicago by the publication of the'! lists of killed and injured on the Hi of those cities. In 8L Louis Judge Wood Instucted the grand Jury to investigate the matter of “the wholesale daughter of citizens.” In the six - months from November 22, 1900, to May 22, 1901, there were *37. persons killed by the trolley car*. In Cblpago there were 26 deaths from the same cause In the first four months of this year. A majority of the victims were struck by the cars, and it is alleged that the carelessness of employes was ✓the common cause. *•,

fidela and agnoatiea hare dedi Christianity Ea> eolUpted; that is an obsolete book; that the

church u on the retreat. I aid

that wholesale charge to-day.

Between 3,000,000 and 4,000.000 Endeavorere (worn before high heaven that they will do all they can to take America for God. Europe for God. Aaia and Africa for God—am not the signs most cheering? Or, to return to the agricultural figure of my text, mors than a million reapers are overtaken by mors than a million plowmen. Besides thj. there arc more people who believe in the Bible than at any time in

the world's existence.

But now let ns sec whether the book i» s last year’s almanac. Let us see whether tbs church of God is a Ball Ron retreat, ian Sharon Tuner, a man of vast Warning and great accuracy, not a clergyman, but u attorney aa well as s historian, eves this bverwhelming statistic in regard to Christianity and m regard to tbs number of -Christiana in the different centuries: In the first century 300.000 Christians, in 1 the second century 2.000,000 Christians, in tbs third century 5,000,000 Christians, fa the fourth century 10,000,000 Christiana, B the j —* ’ - fc tiana, fa the eighth century 30,000,000 Christians, in the ninth century 40.000,000 Christians, fa the tenth century 50,000.000 Christians, fa the eleventh century 70.000,000 Christians, in the twelfth century WJrOO.OOO Christians, in the thirteenth century 75,000,000 Christians, fa the fourteewth century 80.00u.u00 Christians, fa the fifteenth century 100,000,000 Christians, in the sixteenth century 125,000,000 Christiaan, fa the seventeenth century 155.000,000 Christians, in the eighteenth century MflOOJBOO Christisns --t decadence, as you observe, fa only one century and than made up in the following cent while it it the usual computation that there were at the close of the nineteenth lraj^sn£2 , 'ffl-2s£f's So* mHlecniian^wjn^havT started iu Poor Christianity! What a pity it has no friends! Bow lonesome it meat be! Who will take it out of the poorhouse? Poor Christianity! Four hundred min-

ions in one century.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century 150 missionaries; at the close of that century 841X10 missionaries and native helpers tad evangelists. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there ware oalr 50.000 converts; now there are over 1,000,

000 converts from beitheadom.

So Christianity is falling bade and the Bible, they aay, is becoming an obsolete book! I go into a court, and wherever I find a Judge’s bench or a clerk's desk I find s Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the solemnity of an oath? What took is apt to be pat in the trank of the young man as be leaves for city Hfe? TV Bible. Whet shall I find in nine out of every t, n homes in this city? The Bible. In tune out of every ten homes fa Christendom* The BibW. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bible fa the nineteenth century would become extinct. Ths century is gone, end I have to tell you that the room fa which Voltaire’ wrote that prophecy not long ago was crowded from floor to ceiling with Biblea

from Switzerland.

Suppose the Congress of the United States should peas alaw that there should be no more Bibles printed fa America and no Bibles read, if there are tOfiOOfiOO grown people fa the United States there would be 60,000,000 people in an army to put down each a law and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the Congress of the ' ‘ * ’*

The Australians are tired of pounds, shillings and pence, and have taken the preliminary and Investigatory steps toward Instituting a decimal coinage In their sew commonwealth. They,hare not yet decided whether they win adopt the franc system of continental Europe or the dollars and cents of America. Presumably dollars and cents will suit their convenience better, since the dollar Is the unit not only of the United States and Canada, but of a great pgrt of the Orient as well, with which the Australians have te trade relations. A British ,!» already coined for drcnlaOon Tn the iSr-t. English faerebaats are already pretty well used to reckoning In dollar*. It - would be decidedly interesting if the eventful adheelon of all the great iprltiab colonies to the dollar of the Americans should .force the English them staves to adoptdollars and cents In plaice of their present cuabrons and tlmt-wasting

system.

. only of tl

but of a well, wltl

Shakespeare’s tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's "History of England T’ You know that there are a thousand men who would, die fa defense of this book where there is not more than one man who would die fa the defense of any other book. You try go insult my common sense by telling mstebe Bible is fading out from the world, ft is the most lection ofhypocrites. and it is losing its power, and it is fading out from the world.” I* it? A bishop of the Methodist church told me that that denomination averages two new churches every day. In other words, they build 730 churches fa that denomination fa a year, and tnere are at least 1500 new Christian churches built fa America every year. a defunct institution? What stands nearcut to the hearts of the American people to-day! I do not care in what village or what city or what neighborhood rou go. What ia it! Is it the postoffiee? Is it the which stands nearest to the hearts .of the American p«opIa«ta the Christian church. You miy talk about the church being a collection of ■ hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children off. whom do you send for! The postmaster? The Attorney-General ? The hotel keeper! Alderman! No. You send for s minister of this Bible religion. And if there ' song to be sung at tbs obsequies, wha you want! What docs anybody want! The •'Marseillaise Hymn!" "God Save

the Qnevn!" Our own No. They, want the .

sang ths last Sabbath afternoon

out before she got that awful which broke your heart. I appeal to your rotnmon sense. You know the most endearing institetiao on earth to-day is the cboreh of the Lord Jesus Christ. A man

u k fool that doss nc*. rr-wnixe &

thefa^ttk girl

Tha infidels say: "There is great liberty

now for infidels—freedom of plstform. Infidelity shows its power from the fact fidelity is not half so blatsnl in our dsy as it waa fa tbs days of our fathers. Do authority, and tfc*y could get any political and what city wants him for mayor, what Buts wants him for Governor, what nation wanu him for President or for king! he cannot get a majority of votaa in any SfriMsi?" Srwss-Ss

ia mightier to-day than it ever waa. These opponents aay that science la

overcoming religion fa our dsy. They look through the spectacles of the infidel scientists and they aay: It is impossible that this book be true. People arc finding it out. The BibW haa got to go over- ' ird." Do- you believe that the BibW

' of the origin of life will be overby infidel scientists wbo have -Jerent theories about the origin of If they should all corns up in solid ix, all agreeing on one sentiment

board.’ accoun throws

and one theory, perhaps Christianity might be damaged, but there are not so many differences of opinion inside the

church as outside the church.

Oh, it makes me sick to see these literary fops going along with a cony of Daiwin under one arm and a case of transfixed greadwppers and butteiflies under the other arm, telling about the "surviral of the fittest" and Huxley's protoplasm and the nebular hypothesis. The fact is that some naturalists, fast as soon as they find out the difference between the feelers of s wasp and the horns of a beetle, begin to patronize the Almighty, whiU Agassiz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any pretension to being a Christian, put both fas feet on the doctrine of evolution and says: "1 see that many of the naturalists of our day are adopting facta which do not bear obaervation or have not passed under observation." These men aarring with each other—Darwin warring against Lamareh, Wallace warring against Cope, even Her' sc he! denouncing Ferguson. They do not

amee about anything.

Then you have noticed a more significant fact if you hare talked with people on the subject—that they are getting dissatisfied with worldly philosophy as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything when you hare s dead child fa the house. They tell you when they were sick and the door of the future seemed opening the only comfort they could find

some other religion, and the, Christianity, the only sypp .

cion that ever came into the world. You put take a scientific consolation into that room where a mother has loal her child. Try in that ease your splendid doctrine of the “survival of the fittest.” Tell her that child died because it was not worth asi much as the other children. Thai is vrvir “survival of the fittest." Just try

your science, on I — tell her it was a geological necessity that her companion should be taken away from her. fast aa fa the course of the world’s history the megatherium and the ichthyosaurus had to poos out of existence, and

sanras had to paas — then you go on fa your scientific eonsoUuntil you get to the sublime fact that 0.000 years from now we ourvelvre may be scientific specimens on the geologic shelf, petrified specimens of an extinct human rare, and alter you have cot all through with your consolation, if the poor afflicted sou] is not crazed by it, ws will send forth from any of our churches .i _i_: . — _ i —i

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.im where I

the plainest Christian we have, as one half hour of prayer and re* Scripture promises the tears will b away, and the bouse from floor will be flooded with the caimn

Indian summer sunset. There i_ see the triumph of Christianity. People are dissatisfied with everything else. They

want God: they want Jesus Christ.

The fact is that infidelity and sgnosticism are founded on ignorance geological, ignorance chemical, ignorance astronomical. ignorance geographical. We hare heard what the enesue* of Christianity have had to testify. Now I put before you the testimony of the church on e ’

and the church in bearea. Not fifty.

_*?***£ rarth

Not fifty, not _ thousand, not a million, but all of the church on earth and all of the redeemed

fa beat

Will you take the evidence of those wbo bare'witnessed as well 5* fait

fag that they have never witnessed or fait rated. How do I know it! You tell me

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THE SABBATH SCHOOL otcraiUofia! Lesson Comments For Jniy 14. (abject: BegUglas of Sis uad Brfawptiea, Oca. HL, HS-. OeUea Text, Ram. »„ 28Msmory Verses. 14-15-Con unitary m the Day's Leases.

rbe serpent.” That it was a real serpent is evident from the plain and artless style of ths history, and from the many aDuaions made to it in the New Testament. "More subtle." Serpents are proverbial for wisdom. Matt 10: 15. But three reptiles

to what they are fa their present state. "He said." There wee in the bosoms of tbs first pair no principle of evil to work upon, and this solicitation to sin came from without, aa in the analogous case of Jesus Christ (Matt. 4: 3.); and os the tempter could not aasumt the human form, there being only Adam and Eve fa the world, the agency of an inferior creature had to be employed. "Unto the woman." Though sinless and holy, she was a free agent liable to be tempted. "Hath God said." Is it trot that He hath restricted you in u»ing the fruits of this delightful place! This is not like One so good snd kind. Barely there is some mistake. He insinuated a doubt aa to her sense of the Divine wSL 2. "We rasy ext.” Eve resists the first assault by looking at tbs largeness of her privileges. God has given ns the fruit of the trees of the garden, there is a vast amount of pleasure for us. but Satan led her to look at the one forbidden th:n*T.' 3. "The tree." The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Gen. 2: 17.- It was placed in the garden as a moral test. The object was not to cause their downfall, but to test their integrity. Satan tempts; God tests. Tempting implies a desire that the tempted should yield and sin: testing implies the desire that the teeted should stand the test. "Shall not cst.” Eve shows that she is not in doubt regarding the restrictions placed upon them, or the penalty that would follow if the command were disobeyed. 4. "Shall not surely die." Satan now comes out fa his true character as “the father of lies." In this he tacitly appeals to the fact of bet own immortality, a fact which she may well be supposed to be aware of. But God referred to spiritual death, or separation from Himself—and tbs devil knew this. A "God doth know.” The tempter reflects upon God, as though He were unwilling to permit them to enjoy the best things. “Opened." And so they were to the tact that they had lost the purity of their moral character. Instead ot being open to new visions of happiness, wisdom, ■’Shall be as God’.’ (R. V.) The object of the tempter appears *

PRESENTIMENTS OF DEATH.

A Carious Moutul Condition no Tot Co.

osplnlood.

''Students of the occult have as yet been unable to explain that condition of the human mind which produces what are termed presentiments of death," said a specialist to a Washington Star reporter. "That certain persons have experienced this condition cannot now be denied. I know, however, of but two authentic cases which have come under my personal knowledge In a practice of medicine

of over 40 years.

“While In Cumberland, Md., a number of years ago, I new two men. both employes on ths railroad, one at Cumberland and the other at Piedmont Both were quiet steady-going men. They were brothers-in-law, each having married the stater of the other. —flam fh* rtnmharlanrl man w

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

When the sun Is pouring down it> rays upon the ocean at noon-day none of them penetrate to a depth of over 200 feet Could a diver descend to that depth be would find himself shrouded In darkness ss profound as though he were Immersed In a me of ink.

of the carbonroda. A substitute for them has lately been invented; which consists of two aluminum arms pointed with platinum. The arms are 1^ shaped, and are operated by a simple pendulum arrangement which, with the arms themselves. Is enclosed within a vacuum bulb. The lamp is to be used In a horizontal position an! casts ) shadow. It is claimed that there IU be no wear of the Incandescent

parts.

that his brother-in-law bad been k..«v . __ „ ... . . Id > rtilroDd ^cld.Dt. So TMd «, b " ' It. tout th»t t, —en dMcrlUd U. '* r ‘ lr m. It. wound, tod lt.lf I oration on --"wl^brad-Kortt" wUnt ™ It. bod,. H. raid thnt b. »u ot bl. ‘J '“■‘J “> »“• wn, to pl.d»obt to peraow!. bU " a “S' 1 -P brothra.ln.ln*. who wra . randootor. ^ ^

not to ft, tln-tralt ont thnidu,. rad Tb”

I ndvlmd bib. to follow bl. Imstra- tb. bottt .bor. ol UUra WctorU. It .ton. for. while not . Mil..., I» pr.- ! “ “ * -dlnObOl, »«,*■

monitions, lb, mra'n condition wra | Wrt -

such that I knew If be persuaded ills

“One dsy the Cumberland man, wbo ; ras my patient, came to me and stated ; that he had dreamed the night before . *

i killed I

brother-in-law from going out It would at least restore his normal condition. .’’He proceeded to Piedmont snd acquainted his brother-in-law with his dream. The latter laughed at his fears but finally consented to heed tb.e warning and my patient returned home believing that bis mission had been accomplished. It appeared that the train

dispatcher, learning

lention. sent for him and stated that

poircniu as uoa, fciiu ur ■ u.c w cjuai iurerrr, independently, of Him. 6. “Good tor food." Corespondfag to “the lust of the flesh." "A delight to the eyre" (R. V.) An appeal to tne higher sense of beantr, "tbs luzt of the eye." "Desired to mike one wise." "The pride of hfe." See 1 John 2: 16. She waaat last completely overthrown. The conJtacore of all these streams made such a current as swept tbs feeble will completely away; and blind, dazed, deafened by tbs rush of the stream, Eve was carried over the falls as a man might be over Niagara. "Unto her husband." Adam afansd with fas eyre open. Paul says he waa not do-

reived. T Tun. 2: 14. . 7. — - - -*

innocence is' a stranger to

of guilt and

aoE^TSS? turning to God for forgiveness they endeavored by their own efforts to cover

tbeir sin and ahamc.

8. "Heard the voiee.” The voice is properly need here, for as God is an infinite Spirit, and can not be confined to any form, ao He can have no personal appearance. They- beard the sound of the divine going, such ss, was usual when God appeared to them and conversed with them '•Cool of the dsy." The evening, the customary time of worship. "Hid them*»1*-** " Shame, remorse, fear—a sente of

to which they had hitherto

.. “Knew that they were naked. Provg that they were no longer innocent for noceucc is a stranger to shame. They were conscious of guilt and unsorthinraa in each other’s eyes, and fa the sight of ~ "Made themselves.” Instead of

had I

m , their minds, and led them to shun Him whose approach

they used to welcome.

9. “Where art thou?" This question proved two things. 1. That man was lost. 2. That God had come to seek. Thus wc sec man's sin, and God's amazing grace. 10. "I was afraid.” Sin makes cowards of men. "Because/’ etc. Adam’s reply

— » , . f ; is full of evasion. He confesses not hu Gtat bi^ inaugural address^ wo* delivered j md. fait only hia fair and shame at hu

not hear it. But you aay that there were had .

20.000 people wbo did see and hear him. Is not the testimony of the 20.000 who were present worth more than the testimony of one who was abocr.t! Now, there are some men who sav they have never seen Christ crowned in the heart, and they do not believe it is ever done. There is a croup of men who say they have never heard the voice of Christ, that Owy have never heard the voice of God. They do not believe that anything like it ever occurred. I point to twenty, a hundred thousand or a million people who say: "Christ was crowned in our heart's affections. We have seen Him and felt Him fa our soul, and we have beard His voice. We have heard it fa the storm and darkness. We here heard it again and again." You say morphia put* one to sleep. You sav fa time of sickness it ii very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep. It never alleviatus pain. You ask why I say that. I have never tried it. I never took it. I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or anv quiet in times of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anybody to sleep. But here are twenty person* who say they hare all felt the soothing effects of a phy-

sician's prescribing morphine.

Young man, do not be ashamed to be a ' ' • ! the Bible. Do not put your

friend ot

thumb fa your times do, and

vat, as young men shout, talking ot.

and ot there

d fa all the dark place, of the d you ever bear that the light of nature —i them comfort for their troubles!

to cut and juggernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, my friends, you had better stop roar skepticism. Suppose you are put fa a crisis like that' of Colonel Ethan Allen. I saw the account and at one tftne mentioned H in an address. A descendant of E\han Allen, who

• from a professor our college., wbo is also a doidant of Ethan Allen and is a ChrUkmS' te me that the incident is

accurate: was my statement was authentic and trot. The wife of Colonel Ethan

ia an infidel, said it after I received a k

after I receive

fa one of our serndant of tian. He u

itc: ti

fa her father, "Father, shall I take instruction, or shall I ‘ ’ '

struction! I am gum

man who*bad been loud In bis infidelity

Just'S tes

S.r'feLS: iTtiyr-Jiffij

"vra

9 I take your take mother's fafa -tlic now. I d added.” That

-Ut only his

bodily nakrdtica.. The queatiot

hod given him opportunity fa —- sin. “I bio myoelf. Adam’a apron could not ocreer. him from the eye of God, and he could not stand fa HU preeenoe naked; therefore be fled to bide fcimself. Thu u what conscience will always dr; it will

cause man fa hide himself from God.

11. "Who told thee !" In admitting that be waa afraid and naked be unconoamuiy

acknowledged hu sin.

12. The woman. Here we find him actually laying the blame of hu shameful tall on the circumstances fa which God hod placed him. and thua, indirectly, on God Himself. Thu U ever the way with fallen man; every one and every thing u

blamed but self.

13. "Beguiled." Deceived fat by flat faring lies- This eta committed by Adam and Eve was heinous and agpavafad. It waa not simply, eating an apple, but a love of self, duhonor to God, ingratitude to a benefactor, disobedience to the best ol Masters—a preference of the creature to "Thou art cureed." It As believed by many that before the fall tV serpent went upright, and had an entirely differ it form from that what be now has;

a badge of ahamc and repphe

” This enmity stiH exists:

and detests everything ol the serpent kind. ’Thy seed/ Evil spir 3l. u* ranTCaSTra^

from Christ; though ’ * * first under

^p^b^rJ'not at firat under stand the nature and extent of hit doom "Bruise his heel." The serpent'woundi the heel that reusha him. and so SaUz would be permitted to afflict the human ity of Chrut and bring suffering and per

eecutioo on Hu people.

For several year* on* of the attractions ot the lower Hudson, the famous Palisades, has been In danger ot utter demolition owing to the tact that the property owned by. Carpenter Brothers, who were blasting out the stone. To preserve this gem of nature the New York Palisade* Interstate Park Commission will purchase the quarry and a stop will be put to the blasting. The purchase Is made possible through J. Plerpont Morgan’s gift of 3125,000.

g of the conductor's

ition, sent for him and stated that is he took bis train out, the road

intent unlre)

being short-handed, be would be dis-

place, killed

In a mlll^l/n four miles ont of town. Singular, though true It is, the dead man’s wounds were Identical with those his brother-in-law bad seen on bis body In the dream. “The second case was that of a minr at Lonaconlng, a few miles from Cumberland. He, too, was a patient of mine. One evening, before going on his shift In the mine, he.tsikcd with

he had seen

her dli In the

mines. He talked

body, long legs, and a head surmounted by a little curled tnft and a scowling expression of the eyes." But Its most remarkable peculiarity Is its enormous bill, which is shaped like

the head of a whale.

An Interesting theory has been advanced to account for the phenomena of the Aurora Borealis, which takt* into account the most recent scientific contributions of our knowledge of the composition of matter. This theory atfHbutes the remarkable play of lights to be due to streams of Thompson’s recently-discovered corpuscle# which are supposed to be emitted from the sun. As these approach the

toward the poles, and when they finally reach a level of the air of the proper density they give rise to light phenomenon similar to those obtained

with cathode rays In vacuum tubes. In the Interstate park, near Tay-

lor’s Falls, Minnesota, has been dto-

a singular group of ’’gianls*

of nothing else, though it waa the first | ketUes," or pot-holes, covering an area

time be had ever broached the subject to me. as he was a hardy, fearless' miner. While 1 did not question hlq^ I was convinced that be had had a premonition ot death, hot felt it unmanly to speak to bis physician about it, probably believing that 1 would ridicule him. His mind was in such a condition, however, that It forced speech on the subject of death, and he undonbtedly took that means of re lieving it, hoping to quiet his appre-

The significance of it lay in the fact that that day was to be his last on a contract be had In the mine, and no doubt In his heart be felt that be onght not to go down the shaft. His manly courage prevented his giving way to his feelings. “He was killed. It seems that Just as he was ready to start up the shaft, having completed his work, he had gone Into an adjoining chamber for a shoveL As be stooped over, reaching for the shovel, a lot ot slate, which is bard and sharp, fell from the roof, striking him In the back and nearly cutting him In twain. He lived long enough to tell his comrades that but for going back for tkc shovel be wonld bare escaped with bis life. ’ "Speaking about accidents, reminds me of one of the many which I saw In the mines that Illustrate how bard It is to kill some mt-n. as It brings up the esse with which other men meet their death. A man will dislocate his neck or break bis back in a tall of three feet from a step ladder. Others have the nine lives of the proverbial cat. I knew of a miner who missed his footing on the narrow track Inside of a coal mine upon which the cars are run, and six of the loaded cars paased diagonally serose LI* body. The cars wp-e comparatively' small, weighing about two tons loaded. In order to extricate h|m, his fellow miners found It necessary to run one of the cars

back to work In the mints, and so far u I know, lived for many years. He was alive when I left the region. It was one of the most remarkable Instance® that ever came undtr my observation of the tenacity of life under conditions which ordinarily produce death."

rly ei meal. It can’t be for economy's sake, for she must be fairly well off. He—She has a large family of unmarried daughters, you know. She—Now, don't be nasty, and aay something about girls and tbelr brains; that's so old. He—Ob. no, 1 hadn’t the slightest intention of doing so. She—Well, can’t yon tell me! He—I don't know. I’m sure, unless It's because fish arc rich In phosphorus. She—! don't sae what that has to do with it He—Perhaps not, but (till it's good for making matches.—London King.

Ths BUI All Rich!. I “My. dear sir. it strikes me that this , Is a pretty round bill.” "Yes, I have sent It around often ; enough to make Is appear so. and now II hope to get It squared."—Baltimore ' Jewish Comment.

of two or three acres and ranging In diameter from less than a foot to 25 feet, and in depth from one foot to 84 feet. They have been bored In exceedingly bard rock, and in many casern they are like wells in shape, the ratio of width to depth varying from ofi^ to five up to one to seven. Mr. Warres Upham ascribes tbelr origin to torrents tailing through glacial "moullns" at the time when the northern territory JStha United stats* waa buried under Ice. potboles elsewhere, rounded boiRers art. occasionally found at the bottom of

the cavities.

The continued experiments of Prof. F. E. Nlpher, of St. Louis, 1 Itire photography." have produced very Ii * “ Stt/M

•posit

SL Louis, Mo., with photogn—-

y interesting results. He says

that the plate® may be separately wrapped in black paper at night, or In a dark room, and all the remaining work can be done In the light. A plate is taken from Its wrapper in the light and placed In the slide holder, and an exposure—a long one—is made. . After exposure the plate is taken out In the light again, and placed in the developing bath, and the picture is developed, and may be fixed In the tight. The result is a positive. Fine pictures are thus obtained. While It is desirable to shield the plate from the light as much as possible during the changes, yet. Prof. Nlpher says, all of the operations may be carried on without any dark-room conveniences that may not be secured even

in the open fields.^

Row to Aeqelro Rarcblc Fra re*. Mystics who acquire tremendous

psychic force do not eat meat at all. but live on fruits, vegetables, roots, cereals and one or two eggs a day. They bare perfect health and lire to be very old. many passing the century mark. Would you enjoy the Ideal breakfast? Asparagus, scrambled eggs, dry toast and a cup pf weak tea. The Ideal luncheon? A / cold tomato and three leaves of lettuce, with pepper and salt. The lde« dinner? Fresh peas, boiled onions, a half portion of fish, fried hominy anti water from the spring. Omit bread/ No good! Bread is the mother, father and remotest an-

ther.

cestor of dyspepria. J. Plerpont Mi gan is a man ot tremendous

fore

Morvital

iree and nearK a giant in staature at well as InteJIcct. At an official banquet given in AIs honor in London tha other night/all that he ate was a small plecvof fish and two sott-hoiled eggs, and Alt drink was a glass of water. He.'is hunting for psychic fore

—Hew York Frees.

M»d Raws os Doeklnc. Maud Howe, speaking of the injury done to horse® by the barbarous and foolish fashion of docking, says: ’This fact Is' so well recognized by ex that there Is not oi in the whole of Europe or America

not one cavalry regiment s of Europe or America In which the docking of the tail is

permitted, and In polo playing the long-tailed ponies are much the cleverturning and shifting their they have the tail* with whlcrf they were bom."

stocking f

He was afeej

et and weighs 42 pounds

ipted.