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Evening sentinel, Monday, November 16, 1896 · page 2

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Handsome onys top tables, .
Solid oak blocking cases .

Ladies’ writing desks, full size, fancy oak, place finish,

Large size Smyrna rugs, . v .
Extra heavy cocoa door mats, .
Handsome hail lamps. complete
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Our lamp stock is the admiration of all who see it. Largest assortment,
richest selection, lowest prices to be found. Our toy department is the
pride “of our stores and the joy of the children, who are now being
taught that this will soon be the home of “Santa Claus."

 

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Factory and Repository,

FREE DELIVERY.

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ugh, 'Wagons,cBiycle and Herse Gods
" ‘ ’ PVFVFRY DISGRIP'IION

Willi be sold for the

Next
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Days
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Gun:
Pfice.

The cause of it, “Hard Times."
Cure for them, “Gold Cdre" cost.
Come and see at.

LUTHER M. WRIGHT’S

South llorwslk.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

, Dresacoodn,
Trimming Silks,
Outings,
Ginghama.
Orepona‘,
Silk-lune.

 

 

 

m‘RedTicket andRemnant Sale i

" To clean up our stock for Christmas trade we have picked out Short Lengths and Odd Piecees in various
“ stocks and marked them at LOW PRICES.

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN

lngrain Carpets,
Tapestry Carpets,
lngrain Mata,

Smyrna Mats and Rugs,
Remnants of Oil Cloth,
Remnants of Linoleum.

 

 
 

South llorwalk, Connecticut.

chad other‘items of equal interest to customers. Sale to begin Monday, November 16th.

~A. Dickerman 8: Son,
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llillDl'. Tonnage,

sermon today, draws muscle

and when h. life

With the opal-nat-

l'alidihs test ‘ dramatic
“Alli-whit! lis‘ saw that hr prevailed not
a instbinshetonehed thshollowof his

brother. That night Jacob halts by the
brook Jabber. But there is no rest for
the weary man, no shining ladder to lot
the angels down into his dream, but a se-
vere struggle that lasts until morning
with an unknown visitor. They each try
to throw the other. The unknown visitor,
to reveal his superior [low-r, by a touch
wrencheaJacob’s thigh bone from its sock-
et, perhaps claiming him for life. As on
the morning sky the clusters of purple
cloud begin to ripen, Jacob sees it is an
angel with whom he has been contending
and not oneof his brother's mediators.
“Let me go," cries the angel, lifting him-
self up into increasing lght; “the day

hrsaketh. " , , ,
You we, in the first place, that God al-

lows good psoriasometimesto got into a

terrible atrugg Jacob was a man,

but here he is left alone in the m dnlght to

wnastls with a tremendous influence by ,

“to find cheerful folk, go among those who

'nadrd him.

 

the brook Jabbok. For Joseph, a pit; for 3

Daniel, awild boost den: for David, de-

thronement and exile; for John the Bap- g
tlat, a wilderness diet and the rxccnsloner'e 3

cat: for Peter, a prison: for Paul, ship-

wreck; for John. desolate Patrons; for i they prayed for meat, and tho sky dark-
Ohrist, theoross. For whom the racks. 'ouod with a great flock of quails, and
the glbbets, the prisons, the thumbscnews.’ , those quails fell in great multitudes all
For the sons and daughters of the Lord i about them. and the lsrnclltes etc and ate
Almighty. Some one mam achristian land stuffed themselves until they died.
reformer, “The world is against you." .Oh, my frhvnds, it is not hardship ortrial
"Then," he replied, “I .m against the for starvation that injures the soul, but

world "
The ensure.

I will go further and any that every
Christian has his With finanv
ciel misfortune some of you’bavs had the
midnight wrestle. Redhot disasters have
dropped into your store from loft to cellar.
What you bought you could not cell.

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Ifyou are a Ohslstian man, 1
white latch in your history and lied that
the grandest things that have ever hair
pound to you have been your trials Noth-
ing short of scourging, imprisonment and
shipwreck could have made Paul what he
was. When David was fleeing through the
wilderness, pursued by his own son, he
was being prepared to become the sweet
singer of Israel. The pit and the dungeon
were the best schools at which Joseph ever
marinated. The hurricane that upset the
tent and killed Job’s children prepared
the man of 1': to be the subject of the
magnificent poem that has astounded the
one. There is no way to get the wheat
out of the straw but to thrash it. There
is no way to purify the gold but toburn it.
Look at the people who have always had
it their own way. They are proud, isoon~

tented, useless and unhappy. If you wont

have been purified by the fire. After Ros-
sini had rendered “William Tell" the five
hundredth time a company of musioluns
name under his window in Paris and sore
They put upon his brow n
golden crown of luurcl loaves. But amid
all the applause and enthusiasm Rossini
turned to u friend and sold, “I would give
all this brilliant scene for n few days of
youth and love. ” Contrast the melancholy
feeling of Rossini, who find everything
that. this world could give him, with the
joyful experience of lease Witttc, whose
sorrows were great, when he says:
The bill of Zion yields
A thousand uttered sweets
Bofurc we reach the heavenly fluids
Or walls the golden streets.

Then let our songs abound
And every teur be dry.

We're marching through lmmanuel‘s ground
To fairer worlds on high.

Trouble and Prosperity.
it is prosperity that kills and trouble
that sown. While the lsruelitcs were 011'
the march amid great privationsund hurd-
shipa they behaved well. After awhile

abundant supply. It is not the vulture of

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7a. prcnoh‘ , gospel. I
been no grudge against this world. The
only fault listen to find with this world
is that it totals me too Well. ‘llut when
the time comes to go i trust to be ready,
my worldly ufl‘airs all settled. if I have
wronged others, I want then to be sure of
their forgiveness. in that last wrestling,
my arm cnfeehicd with sickness and my
head faint, 1 want Jesus beside me. if
there be hands on this side of the flood
stretched out to hold me back, 1 want the
heavenly hands stretched out to drew me
forward. Then, 0 Jefla, help me on and
help me up! L'ufenriug, undoubting, may
I stop right out into the light nod be able
to look hook to my kindred and friends,
who would detain me here, oscialmlng:
"Ibiot, me go! Let me go! The day break-
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The Raising of Vanilla Ileana.

"The greatest industry in our neigh-
borhood," acid Muncos' Qucdclia of For
pantie, Mexico, "is the cultivutlon of the
vanilla beam.

“The cultivation of this plant differs
from the generul idea of ugrlculturnl care,
for it consists entirely in cutting away for.
cats to give it room to grow. The vines
are culturally grown from cuttings. just
us the grupcviuea, but they can also be
grown from seeds, in which case it is much
longer before they begin to beer. The vino

 

is very hardy in its native element, and.

sometimes takes root, oven if thrown carc-
lesaly on the ground, providing only‘thnt
it has shcdo nnd moisture. It grows best
in virgin soil where streams abound and
where the soil has a slight infermixture of
sand.

“After setting out the plants, if they
thrive, they will begin to bear fruit in
three or four years The yield of beans
increases each year after that until about
the fifth, when it begins to dwindle. In
ubout the tenth your there is little or no
yield and the plant is out down. The vines
yield, when they are in their greatest de-
velopment, from 85 to 200 bonus. The

beans are not ripe until they become yel-

low, which occurs in January or February,
but they are cut prematurely on account
of the deprcdations of thieves and on ac
count of the great demand.

“Taking the average for the last ten
years the number of bonus gathered in
each year's crop has been above 15,000,000.

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Whom you trusted fled. The help you ex- i

posted would not come. Some giant panic,

,: upon us. Jacob prevailed, but the angel

with long arms and grip like death, took ,

hold of you in an awful wrestle, from
which you have not yet escaped, and it is
uncertain whether it will throw you or
you will throw it. Here is another soul
in struggle with some bad appetite. lie
knew not how stealthily it was growing

upon him. One hour he woke up. lio‘

sold, “For the sake of my soul. of my fam-
ily, of my children and of my God I must
stop this!"

3 your household? Ah, it is because the angel
‘ of trouble hath touched you that you go

And behold be found himself

nlonc by the brook of Jabbok, and it wus ?

midnight That evil appetite seized upon

, through the fire do not feel as guy as once

him, and he sciséd upon it, and, oh, the ‘1

horror of the conflict! When once u had

hith th roused itself to dest a1
h“ 0 up my ‘ and yet their gait shall tell you that they

man, and the man has sworn that by the
help of the eternal God he will destroy it.
all heaven druwa itself out. in long line of
light to look front ,,nimvo, nnd nil boil
stretches itself in n’tyrmldons of spite to
look up from beneath. l have seen men
rnliy themselves for a struggle. and they

f those who come not out of their dospond-

r u nd an :badthoirl
have ntten their p, u L “ ‘swnllow down what we loved best? Wasi

fist, and cried with n blood rod earnestness
nnd nrniu of scalding tours, "God help
me!"

From a wrestle with habit I have seen
men fall back (infected. Calling for no
help, but relying on their own resolu-
tions, they have come into the struggle,

. through this world the mark of the com.
“ but.

' trouble that cuts up the Christian's life.
i It is the quails. It is the qunlls. You will
1 yot find out that your midnight wrestle by
; the brook Jabbok is with an angel of God
come down to bless and to cave
lasmwagalrthat, while our wrestling
with trouble might be triumphant, we
must expect that it will leave its mark

touched him. and his thigh bone sprang
from its moltet, and the good man went
limping on his way. We must carry

What plowed these premature wrin-
kles in your fnce? ant whitened your
hair before it was time for frost.“ What
siloncod forever so much of the hilarity of

limping on your way. You need notbo
surprised that those who have passed
they did. Do not be out of patience with
enoy. They may triumph over their loss,

have boon trouble touched. Are we Stolen

 

tlmt we can unmuvod one our crmllo rifled
of tho bright. eyes niul the sweat lips? Cnn ‘
wu stand unmoved and see our gardens of i
earthly tic-light uprooted? Will Josue. \vbo ;
wcpt himself, be angry with us if we pour i
our tours into the graves that open to

annls more dear to him than our be— i
loved dead to us? No. We have a right. to !
weep. Our tours must come You shall E

2 not drive them back to scald the heart. :

2 They fall into God's bottle.

Afflicted once I

5 have died immune they could not weep.

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nod for a time it seemed as if they ware ;
getting theuppcrhand of their habit. But 1

that habit rnlilod again its infernal power
uud lifted the soul from its crowding, and
with p force borrowed from the pit hurled
it into darkness.

But, thank God, I have often seen a bet-
ter termination than this. I have econ
men prepare themselves for such is wres-
tling. 'l‘hcy laid hold of God‘s help us
they went into combat. The giant habit,
regnlcd by the cup of many dissiputlons,
come out strong and defiant. They
clinched. There were the writhings and
distortions of a fearful struggle. But the

‘ forth their bloom.

Thank God for the sweet, tho mysterious
relief that comes to us in tears. linderl
this gentle rain the flowers of bopc put’
God pity that dry, ’
withered, psrohod, all consuming grief,

; that wriugs its hands, and grinds its teeth,
, and bites its nulls into the quick, but cun- 5

. not wecp.

We mny hnvo found the com-

, fort of the cross, and yet over after show

old giant began to waver, and at last, in ;

the midnight alone, with none but (ind to

witness, by the brook Jabbok, tho giant,

fell, and the triumphant wrestlor broke
the darkness with the cry, "Thanks be our

. night of strugglo.

to God, who giveth us the victory, through '

our Lord Jesus Christ."
Humble Heroes.

There is a widow’s heart thot first was
desolatod by bereavement and since by the
anxieties and trials that came in the sup-
port of a family. It is u sad thing to can
amun contouding for a livelihood under
disadvantages, but to see a delicate wom-
an, with helpless little ones at her back,
fighting the giants of poverty and sorrow
is more affording. It was a buuiblc homo,
and passcraby knew not that within those
four walls were disploys of courage muro
admirable than that of Hannibal crossing
the Alps, or in the pass of Thorniopylre, or
at Balaklot'n. when “into the jaws of
death rodethe six hundred." These he-
roes had the whole world tochcor thorn
on. but there was no one to applaud the
struggle in that humble home. tiho
fought for bread, for clothing, for fire, for
shelter. with aching head and weak sldo
and exhnusted strongth, through the long
night by the brook Jsbhok. Could it be
that none would give her help? Had God
forgotten to ho gradient No, contending
soul. The midnight ulr Iafull of wings
coining to the rescue. libs hears it now,
in the cough of the night wind, in tho rip~
ple of the brook Jabbok, the promise made
so long ago, nging down the sky, “Thy
fathorloss c ildren. I will preserve thorn
allvo, antllet thy widows trust in mi"
Some one said to a very poor woman,
“How is it that in such distress you keep
cheerful?" Elbe said: “I do it by whatl
cell cross prayers. When I' had my rent
a» pay and nothing bl pay it with and
bread to buy and nothing to buy it with,
I used to sit down and cry. lint now 1 do
not get discouraged If i go along the
street, when I come to a corner of the
street, 1 any ‘Tha Lord help mei' l thou
go on until 1 cents to another cloning of
tho street, and again I say, ‘The Lord help
mel' And so I utter a prayer at every
crossing, and since l have got into the
habit of shying those cross prayers l have
been able to keep up my courage. "

Douro again from this subject that pace
pic sometimes are surprised to find out
that what they have been similar with

 

tlmt in tho dark night und by the brook |
Jubbok we were trouble touched.
Tho Day Down.

Again, we may take tho idea of the text
and announce tho upprtmch of tho duy
down. No one won over uiorc gluil to son
the morning than was Jacob uftor thut
it is npprnprluto for
philanthropists und Christians to cry out;
with his nngol of tho text, “The tiny
lireukoth.” The world's prtmpocta uro
brightening. finporstltiun hue bud its
strongest props knocked out. The tyrants
of earth urn falling flat in the dust. The
church of Christ is rising up in its
strength to go forth "fuir as the morn, i
clear as the sun und terrible as an army 1
with honours.” Ulnp, your hands. all ye ;
people, “the tiny bronkcth. "

As I look around about mo 1 sec runny .
who have puss-rd through waves of trouble
that come up higher than their girdle. In I
God’s name I proclaim coasutlcuof hostiliv i

ties. You shall not always go smidoucd
and heartbroken. God will lift your bur-
den. God will bring your dead to life.

 

God will atnuch the hcart's bio-ruling. I
know he will. Like us a father pitinth his
children, sotho Lord pitlce you. The pains
of earth will end. The dull will rim. 'l‘hc .y
morning star trcniblee on a brightening
sky. The gates of the east begin to'swing
open. "The day brsnkoth.”

Luther and Molnuchthon were talking
together gloomiiy ubout the prospects of ,
the church. They could soc no hope of do- .
livorauoc. After nwhilo Luther got up and
said toMclnnchthon. “Conic, Philip, let us
sing the Fortyrixth Psalm, ‘God is our
refuge and strength in every time of trmr i
bk» ' H

The Daybreak.

Death to many~nny, to nil-min a strug- .
ale and a wrestle. Wo have many friends
whom it would be hard to leave. I care
not how bright our future hope is, it is is
bitter thing to look upon this fair world
and know that we shall never again see
its blossoming spring, its autumnal
fruits, its sparkling streams and to say
farewell to those with whom we pluycd iu ‘
childhood or counseled in manhood. lu ;
that night, like .lnmb, we muy have to
wrestle, but God will not lonvo us unbless»
ed. it shall not he told in heaven that a
dying soul cried unto God for help, but
was not delivered. The lattice may be
turned to keep out the sun, or A book not
to dim the light of the midnight taper. or
the room may be filled with the cries of
orphanage or widowbood, or the church of
Christ mnymourn over our going; but, if
Jesus calls, all is well. The strong wrcs.
tlimr by the brook will ocean The hours of

. squarely in the center.

"Assrule the planters do not know
how to cure the bonus. This is a matter
which requires much experience, and per-
sons making a profession of it buy the
beans from the plantar and cure them
themselves. Vanilla beans are also grown
In subtropical climates, but they are much
inferior to the Mexican product. ”—Wuah-
ington Times. -

An English Story of Ives.

Frank Ives, the well known champion
billiard player of Amer-ion, hue made one
of the strongest wills on record. has can
strike it billiard ball with u ruehurder
than any man in the world. Corbett,
Fitzsimmons, Suudow and other athletes
uud strong men huve competed with him,
but liebusnut been boutcn yct. One quick,
allurp bluvv with his one and the bail flies
round the tabla, striking llcushloun Fitz-
simtuons, who strikes u blow that has boon
compel-ml to-n horse's kick, (um bureiy
touch 0 cushions, whilc Corbett, whose
blowsuro equally unpleasant, cannot strike
mom than 8.

There is no trick in Ivce' method of
hitting the bull; he merely strikes it
Men who urn in
every way superior to him in strength, if

shown exactly where to hit the bull, and if ‘

they utrikv it with all tho force they pos-
sess, cannot come within a dozen feet of his
record. lie has consulted eminent. phyn
sicluue on the subject, but they gave him
iittlo satisfaction, except to any thut his
profession bud led to the development of
umscles which prizefighters und strong
men do not use.

As Ives cannot settle the question to his
own sntisfuotiun, he has taken steps to en-
lighten others after his death. In his will,
utter disposing of his primary—£00,000—
he orders that his right arm be covered
from his body and sent to his physician
for dis-suction. The real secret, he thinks,
will then be dismvcrod. The rest of his
body he desires to be cremated—Pearson's
Weekly.

Decimal Clocks.

“The intent" in clocks and watches is
distinctly origluul. it comes from France.
The suggestion is thut the decimal system
should be adopted for clocks und wutchen.
bidding gmdby to our old friends 11 and
l2 o‘clock entirely, untl to divido the lure
of the clock into if) inatoud of 13 sections.

.. This systom is now used by the geograph—

icul bureau of the French army, uud it in

. urged that it diminishes the labor of cal-

culation by two-thirds and lessons the
chuncosof mathematical error from four
to one. The following is an outline of the
rules of the decimal system as applied to
tilucpieccs:

“'l‘hcdny, from midnight to the mid-
night following, is to be divided into 100
oquul parts, known as ‘coe.’

“'l‘ho subdivisions ‘accordlug to the
decimal pins are ‘dcclcca’ or tenths, ‘cen-
tices,’ or hundredths, 'lliiliicOI,' or thou—
sundtbs.

“Ono of the main divisions, the 'coa,’ is
equal to is minutes and iii seconds, or al-
most u quot-tor of an hour."

This, my the scientists, in the easiest
possible system, but the poor hey mind, we
aroafrnid, will not quite agree with such
a conclusion, and 6 it. ill. sounds as yet for
more acocptnblo than 26 one, its decimal
equivslont.-Wostmiustor Gazette.

Forrest as a Cavalry under.

Who can doubt, thou, that if Loo had
been provided with a reserve of 20,000
fresh ouvulry under such a leader as For-
rest at (iuiucs Mill, or the second Manus-
sns, or Uhuuccliorsville, the Army of the
Potomac would not burn survived to fight
unothor battle? For, unless Sheridan be
excepted, there was no oevnlry general on
either side in the wor who could equal
Forrest in the pursuit of n defeated nrmy.
bard Wolscluy bus said in his sketch of
Forrest that. " For-rcrt‘n 00 mile pursuit of
Sturgls after their battle was is most re.
murknhio achievement and well worth at-
tention by military studcnts."-Duncau
[lose in (bottom

A Sentimental Mood.

“ When 1 nwoleo tho otltor morning with-
out u «rent in my pocket," said Mr. (ll;
cite. "the duys of my youth come back to
me. i one reminded of some of tho prov»
orbs that. wrro instillod into me during my
curly mitwutlou."

“You don't my on!” exclaimed the llllln
who won (imply interosuid.

“l do. 'l‘huro mm mm in particular that
touchod mo. "

“Willi-ll wuu flint?”

“A full uuti his "many are soon ported."
-l)otroit Free Press

Nowadays we hear a deal shunt spews
, go esnbamesnicnt. Hardly a ward,
ghowaver, is whispered of her domestic in-
ifeiiclty. Yetof the two the latter is the
greater. Cuba and the Philippines have
harassed Spain much, but Don Carlos has
irked her far more.

This man is the most potent factor in
flicpresmt and future of Spain. Bela
the bane of Premier canons? life and the
shadow that darkens the political path of
the infant king, Alfonso XIII. , For more
than 00 years he and his ancestors have
been the trouble makers of Spanish poli-
tics, and today his ambition, his determi-
nation, his resources and his opportunity
make him such it menace to the crown as
he never has been before.

The pretender is the third in line, but

his claim has lost none of its stmgth
since his grandfather, Don Carlos, count
of Molina, started the five years' civilwar
in 1888 in his endeavors to make good his
pretensions to the throne made vacant by
the death of his brother, Ferdinand VII.
Nor was that claim without good founda-
tion, for Don Carlos, an heir apparent, was
displaced by the infant Isabella, whose
mother, the widowed Queen Christina,
had successfully plotted scvoral years pre-
viously for the annulment of the binllc law
which formed a barrier to female succes-
slou.
- Ever since Don Carlos has never let slip
an opportunity to agitate his cause. His
efforts have been aimed not only at the
reigning family, but also at the falling
fortunes of the republic which for a short
time deaecrnted that title in Spain. Fall-
on attended his efforts against the lntter
in 1874 only because the most influential
men in the realm rallied every neutral elc'
ment in the nation to the assistance of the
restored monarchy, which even then was
unable to down the Cariista until 1876.

Although an exile for more than 20
years, Don Carlos has over personally di—
rected the movements of his partisans at
home. His followers have frequently made
themselves felt as obstructionlsts, and
their part in the Cuban war has been
more important than generally imagined.
For it long time tbcy obstructed all move-
ments of the government towurd securing
funds with which to carry on the war
against the insurgents, but finally acced-
ed to the commands of Don Curios, who
bade them, in the name of patriotism, to
cause their obstructive tactics. It is by
this and similar acts that he caught the
popular ear and captivated the populur
heart.

As asbrewd politician he has no muster.
First he established a reputation for pc-
triotlo sacrifice and than cunningly foe»
tcrod popular disgust and discontent ut
the expensive failures of the ministry.
When the resentment of the masses was in
its ‘zcnlth, the Carlint representatives with-
drew from the cotton on Sept. 4 and by
this notion won the sympathy and indorse-
ment of many a hitherto loyal Spaniard.
u'luce then mystery has somewhat on-
shrouded the movements of the party, but
it is known that Curlist tongues have
spread discontent broadcast over the land,
prutctl incessantly about the straits of the
government and inflamed the poneuntry
with nu ardent spirit of rebellion. With
able and unscrupulous lieutenants, with is
host of supporters awaiting only his com-
mand, and with abundant wealth, acquired
by is recent. murrlago, Dcu Carlos is today
pluying u sburp game that will either sent
him on the Spanish throne or bury him
politically beyond hope.

Only a few days ago he betrayed his ac
tivity by securing the negative friendship
of u prominent Liberal journal of Madrid,
, uuti through the medium of its columns
bitterly denounced the ministry for its
, Cuban our policy and its lilfiékDESR to
1 Ward the United States, which be branded
us a nation of bluster and arrogance. This
fan luovc which will win him countless
new recruits at this time and enhance his
chances of success.

No one can deny that the administration
of the Cuuuvus ministry has puuperized
the nation, demornllzed the people and
nearly bankrupted Spain, and the friends
of Don Carlos are taking good care that
the people of all Spain know these fonts by
rote. The strain is t and growing
greater evory dny. T e republicans are
divided und weak and daily growing
weaker, while the Qurlista are united and
,stroug and gaining strength day by day
E through the advocacy of monarchy. If

the Comoros government continues much
longcr in its present path, it will lend the
, pmplo to revolt, und thou llun Curios will
stop forth on their champion, rally them
around his stuudurd by rosy promises and
make u desperate effort to force his way to
the throne—Albany Times-Union.

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A Plighting Stone.

The nrchmologicul collection at the Cu-
nudiun instituto has been enriched by the
addition of a valuable and historical curio
from Scotland, known aa“tho plightlng
storm 0’ Dairy." Where it originally
count from is not known, but as far book
on Scottish tradition goes it has existed in
Suthoriandnbire, in the north of Scotland.
It is believed to belong to the Druldical
pcrlod. The stone in disk shaped, being
worn out in the center, and through the
hold, probably Cflllfltili by the action of wa-
ter, [sarcoma wishing to makenn agreement,
clthcr relating to business or love, shook
huude, solomuly promising to carry out
the contract. This plodge has in all known
cuscs bccn kept religiously. Marriages
are celebrated in this way when witnesses
uro present. The stone was built intone
small vvnll extending from the church nt
Lnlrg, but some seven or eight years ago
the buildyga were torn down to make
room for a more imalorn edifice, and since
thou it has boon in privatc hands. Ir.-
llugh Nichol of Strutford was in Scotland
nahort time ago and managed to secure
it. Mr. David Boyle, the curator of the
institute, says that it is about the only one
proourablc, and for this reason the mu-
seum in contraction: with Oxford univer-
sity was very anxious to get it.

Costly Feathers.

While there are probably hundreds of
men who make a business of killing birds
for their feathers, the host kbowu of the
feather hunters in the west is Hamlin
Smith, the white chief of the Cocopnh ln‘
discs. 'l’bclr reservation includes most
of the land on Madeline bay. In the
marshes of this broad sheet of watcruro
found the algrot, boron and crane in lurgo
numbers. Smith reached i-ian Francisco
a week or so ago with several bugs of
feathers. oliiefi nlgrot. The loud weighed
less than four pounds, but it slotted Mr.
Smith 01,576. Even the Moon's feathers
conic high. ’l'hey fetch at wholesale from
08 to iv an ouncu. (inc boron, Mr. Smith
says, will yield oftou feathers worth lino.
If barons are more plentiful than claret,
they ore mom prufituhlu hunting, bocuuao
thorn in only it antnll tuft of covcriuguu
tho nlgrot that is mnrkotublo.-~—Portinnd
Orononluu.

 

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