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PRAYED FOR THE PASSENGERS.
An Incident of an Exoitin: Trip on a
Brooklyn Trolley Car. .
. The passengers on the trolley car of
the Third avenue line, which left
Bath Beach for Brooklyn at 6:30
o’clock on Thursday evening, had ex-
periences with thunder, lightning and
rain that they will remember as long
It is
probable that none of them ever be-
fore got so complete and satisfactory
a notion of how really devilish a rain
Storm,” with a thunder and lightning
accompaniment, can be.
The car was an open one, the only
protection for the passengers being
the heavy canvas side curtains, which
can never be fastened down when
they should be.
Of course, all the passengers were
thoroughly drenched before the cur-
tains were buttoned down. Then, by
way of diversion, there was more
thunder and lightning. The men
were busy keeping out of the wet, and
the women and chidren were becom-
ing frightened. There was a lull in
the storm for a moment. Then the
wind came crashing through the tree
branches like the rattling of light ar-
tillery. \Vomen screamed, men
shouted, and children shrieked in
fright. Suddenly there was a loud
report like the explosion of gunpow-
der, and the car was filled with
flame. Two men at the rear of the
car dropped as if they had been shot.
In a back corner of the car something
burned like a pitch pine firebrand, and
the woodwork caught fire. It was
quickly extinguished, and then it was
learned that one of the incandescent
lamps had burned out. The two men
who stood directly under it had re-
ceived shocks which overcame them.
Seated in one of the rear seats was
an old lady and her two little grand-
daughters. The younger child, a girl
of about eight years, was the most
thoroughly frightened person in the
car. Sitting next to her was a man
who wasn’t by any means the least
disturbed of the passengers. The
child sat with her face buried in her
hands, sobbing and shaking in every
limb. The man put 'on a brave front,
and said:
“Don’t be frightened. little girl.
Th-th-there is noth-nothing to hurt
you.” _
“Oh, I’m so afraid of lightning!
And so is my mamma, and she is all
alone at home. And my papa is on
the water down at Sandy Hook. Oh,
What will become of him?”
A flash of lightning illuminated the
car again, ' and all the women
screamed. The child seemed about to
go into hysterics.
“There, there,” said the male pas-
senger, his own teeth fairly chatter-
ing; be a brave little girl.”
The child by sheer will power
pulled herself together and said,,“I
will." Then jumping up, she cried:
“Oh, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
God will take care of us. I’ll ask
Him to.”
With that she knelt down beside
the seat, and raising her childish
voice until it could be heard all over
the car she recited the Lord’s Prayer.
When the reached the “Amen’” the
confusion among the passengers had
ceased, and not a sound was to be
heard save the roar of the storm.
Men, women and chidren had quieted
down at the sound of the child’s voice
and the words of her prayer seemed
to give them courage. Then, when
the prayer was finished, she contin-
ued:
“Oh, dear Lord! Let this storm pass
quickly over! Stop the thunder and
lightning, and save all the souls in
this car, and keep safely my mamma
and papa for Thine own sake.
Amen.”
Hardly was. the prayer finished
when the fury of the storm passed,
and the car, which had come to a sud-
den standstill, resumed its journey.—
New York Sun.
A Little Surprise At Home.
You Blumer—I had the most singu-
lar thing happen to me the other day.
Did you ever go into a man’s place to
pay a bill you owed him, and find
him out? '
Plankington—No, sir.
pen to you?
“It did. I had a notion, or rather
I nerved myself up to it, to settle up
some bills that I owed. So on my way
up from the office I dropped in to see
my fishmonger.”
“And he was out?”
“Correct. Then I tried my grocer.”
“He was out?” .
“Right. Plenty of shopmen, but no
proprietor. Of course, I left word
that I called in to settle up, but
wanted to see the proprietor first. Dis-
pute about bills. See?” _
“Oh, yes, that strengthens your
credit.”
“Exactly. Then I called to see my
butcher, and I’ll be hanged if he
wasn’t out also.”
-“By Jove! but you were in luck!”
“No, I wasn’t”
“Why not?”
Did that hap-
- .“When I got home I found them all
waiting for me.”—_Western Figaro.
He Was in‘ Boston.
“Turning from the sombre back-
ground of history,” said the orator,
“let us endeavor to take a view of the
future, lighted as it is by the lamp of
experience, only, Whose lurid glare”—
There was a decided sensation.
“And I wish to say emphatically,”
heproceeded, “that I use the word
lurid as meaning livid, ghastly, dis-
mal, and not as it is too often and
improperly used. to denote red and
fiery." ' ' '
A decorous murmur of applause ran
through the critical Boston audience,
and the speaker went on with his reé
marks. He had _. scored the oratorical
hit of the season—Chicago Tribune;
p” .u-u
ftoward the instrument, but did not
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REASON-DETHRONED BY JOY.
Little Melissa Hunt Wanted a Piano and
Her Brothers Prepared a. Surprise.
The strange case of Melissa Hunt,
the fifteen-year-old colored girl, at
Fishkill on the Hudson, who became
insane suddenly aroused widespread
interest in the vicinity.
Melissarwas quite bright and viva-
cious before her strange illness. The
girl had an aptitude for music, and
was gratified a few weeks ago, and
she took several lessons.
Melissa was such an apt pupil that
she accmplished as much in half a
dozen lessons as many girls in two or
three terms of instruction. She ex-
pressed a wish for a piano and seemed
very anxious to own one. Her broth-
ers discovered this idea and told her
that as they were poor folks she
would have to get along without one.
Melissa was very much disap-
pointed, but bore up quite bravely.
Her indulgent brothers decided then
that they would gratify her wish.
The jiano was brought to-the Hunt
residence from the music dealer’s
and set up in the parlor one afternoon
while Melissa was out calling on some
young friends. When the young girl
returned home there was a twinkle in
Mrs. Hunt’s eyes, and she sent Melis-
so in the parlor on the pretext of get-
ting a book for her. ‘
The effect of the surprise upon the
sensitive nerves of the girl was seri-
ous, however, far different from what
had been anticipated by the family.
As soon as Melissa caught sight of
the piano she shrieked, then tottered
reach it, as she shrieked again and
fell in a dead faint upon the parlor
floor. The girl’s joy had apparently
dethroned her reason.
The other members of the family,
who had followed Melissa in the ex-
pectation of enjoying her surprise.
were alarmed and ran to her assist-
ance. They picked her up and had
her upon a lounge. By this time the
girl was wildly hysterical. A physi-
cian was called, mut failed to give
the little suffer much relief. She was
then afflicted with acute hysterical
mania.
For more than a week she did not
utter a word and appeared to have
lost the power of speech.
Lincoln’s Self-Training.
The following account of Abraham
Lincoln’s early struggle for mastery
of thought, told in his own language,
may be of use to many young people.
It gives the secret of the power of his
simple style. In 1860 Mr. Lincoln de-
livered a campaign address in Nor-
wich, Conn. The Rev. John Guliver,
late of Andover Seminary, said that
he learned more of the art of public
speaking in listening to that Speech
than he could have learned from a
whole course of lectures on rhetoric.
He was _so much interested in the
masterly address that he asked Mr.
Lincoln where he was educated. We
give the reply in Mr. Lincoln’s own
words:
Well, as to education, the newspa-
pers are correct. I never went to
school more than six months in my
life. I can say this, that among my
earliest recollections I remember how,
when a mere child, I used to get ir-
ritated when anybody talked to me
in a. way I could not understand. I
do not think I ever got angry at any-
thing else in my life; but that always
disturbed my temper, and has ever
since. .
I can remember going to my little
bedroom after hearing the neigthrs
talk of an evening with my father,
and spending no small part of the
night walking up and down and try-
ing to make 'out the exact mean-
ing of their, to me, dark sayings.
I could not sleep, although I tried
to. when I got on a hunt for an idea,
until I had caught it; and when I
thought I had got it, I was not satis-
fied until I had repeated it over and
over; until I had put it in language
plain enough, as I thought, for any
boy I knew to comprehend. This was
a kind of passion for me, and it has
stuck by me; for I am never easy
now, when lam handling a thought,
till I have “bounded it north and
bounded it south, and bounded it east
and bounded it west.
Nothing in a Name.
There was a man whose name was
Fish, out Connecticut way, who had a
son whom he called Preserved. He
might have been somebody, for he
even became a Congressman, but
when his friends began to talk of him
for United States Senator the ridicu-
losity of the idea—as the late Senator
Summer would say—of preserved fish
holding so high a position was a lit-
tle too much. So he was dropped like
a dead herring. A man named Angell,
out in Ohio, had the'brains of a Mc-
Kinley, but his parents called him
Welcome Heavenly. ' \Vhen he be
came old enough to realize the wrong
that had. been perpetrated hetook to
drink. He is now a miserable fail-
ure—a mortal funk—in the hospital at
Cleveland, 0., says the World, of that
city. There may be nothing in a
name, but suppose Washington had
been a Snooks, and Washington City
had been a Snooksville, do you sup-
pose we could have roused American
patriotism as now?
Not as Advertised.
An oculist put out a sign that read,
“Poor people treated free.” But when
a healthy looking tramp dropped in
and said.he’d take whiskey straight
for his’n the oculist kicked him out
and pulled in the sign.—Dansville
Breeze. ‘
- The Joys of Crusoe.
What a good time Robinson.Crusoe
must have had eating pie with a knife
and nobody to call him down for it.—
Dansville Breeze.
.mile in 2:07.
Blanche LETTER
Roumania and Greece 'Have Joined
the Triple Alliance.
A‘SCHEME OF PRIME IMPORT
These-Countries “‘ill Prove Valuable AI.
lies In Case of the Partition of Tur-
key or should Serious Eastern .
('umplications Occur.
BERLIN, Oct. Ere—The sensational news
that Roumanla and Greece have joined
the dreibund and that the formal agree-
ments to this efiect were signed at Bucha-
rest during the presence there of Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria after the open-
ing of the canal through the iron gates of
the Danube is being discussed in political
circles here.
The statements made are believed to be
correct and are regarded as being of prime
importance. for the drtibund will thus
have valuable allies in these two coun-
tries ln the event of the disruption of
Turkey or any serious complications in
the East.
King Charles of Roumania has long
been anxious to join the dreibund, but it
was only lately that a binding bargain
acceptable to all parties was drawn up,
and it is expected th‘at Servia will also
adhere to the dreibund so soon as the in-
fluence of ex-Queen Natalie, who is a Rus-
sophlle, is overcome.
The general uprising of the Wahehes,
the powerful and warlike tribe of German
East Africa, is causing much uneasiness
in colonial circles here and elsewhere.
The Wahehes, who met with a crushing
defeat from German troops a couple of
years ago, have this time been incited by
Arab chiefs, and they have excellent
weapons and equipments.
The rebellion seems to be spreading
around the whole Tananyika region, and
the troops available are much too weak
to cope with it. In the meanwhile Gov-
ernor Wissmann is lingering here, un-
willing to return to his post in East Afri-
ca, owing to his shattered health, though
he is being urged to do so. Moreover, the
government is not inclined to ask the
reichstag for a large increase in the num-
ber of German East African troops, in
view of the big colonial budget, although
the present forces are quite inadequate.
\Villiam as a Hunter.
Emperor William enjoyed excellent sport
at Romlnten last week, killing a big stag
every day. On Tuesday he shot a 22 point
stag, the biggest killed‘ln Germany for
ten years past, and he royally rewarded
the gamekceper who enabled him to bring
it down. His majesty shook the man
warmly by the hand, sent him a bottle of
champagne to drink his health and also
presented the other for-esters with a copy
of his majesty’s latest allegorical picture,
"St. Michael Standing Guard Over the
Blessings of Peace.” Ten thousand of
these pictures have been reproduced in the
imperial printing office and have been
published.
His majesty has added another tothe
already large number of sensational par-
dons granted since his accession. This
time a sergeant and Officer of Police
Rheydt were sentenced respectively to
three and five months’ imprisonment for
brutally il'litreatlng prisoners. .They were
pardoned before serving a day in prison,
and oven the court costs were remitted.
Papers of every shade of opinion have
been discussing these pardons, and it is
certain that the prerogative of the crown
to this respect will be discussed both in
the diet and the reichstag shortly.
A sensational pamphlet has appeared
anonymously, purporting to be an open
letter to Emperor William, asking his
majesty to dismiss his unconstitutional
advisers in his civil and military cabinets
and instead listen to a select body of mem-
bers of the reichstag representing the va-
rious factions of that body. The pamphlet-
has been seized by the police in Berlin,
Schleswig, Leipsic and elsewhere, but
thousands of copies are still in circulation.
Obstinate Bismarck.
Prince Bismarck has been sued by' his
rural neighbors of the village of Wltzhove
because of 'his closing the right of way
through the Sachsenwald. The point- at-
issue betwaen them originally was the re-
building of the bridge over Bille creek,
Prince Bismarck offering to pay half of
the costs and the villagers holding that he
should pay the whole amount of the ex-
pendit-ure.
A convention of representatives of all
the Prussian cities of over 25, 000 inhab-
itants has been held in Berlin, and a per-
manent organization was effected. The
purpose of the assembly was to oppose the
growing tendency of the Prussian govern-
ment in favor of agrarian interests at the
expense of the interests of the cities and to
obtain the abolition of the privileges en-
joyed by government ofl‘icia s, clergyman
and teachers from municipal taxation.
The storms of the past two winters have
done an immense amount of damage to
the dunes and dykes of the coasts of Prus
sia, especially on the coasts of Helgoland
and Frisian island and east Prussia. The
government intends to ask the diet for a
lar 9 grant of money to be devoted to
bu lding new works and repairing the old
ones. Two million marks will be expend-
ed in this manner forthwith.
During the past fortnight a couple of
American swindlers, styling themselves
Captain George Hubbard of New Orleans
and Captain Fred Williams of San Fran-
cisco, showing papers which Were appar-
ently genuine, have been victimizlng
scores of youn ' .men in this city and vi-
cinity by enga ing them as reonults for
the United States army, insisting upon
the payment of alleged fees and promising
to meet them at the trains on the day of
their-departure. The police have been un-
able to locate these Swindlers, who are
continuing their operations in the suburbs.
Innocent Men Pardoned.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—The president
has granted a pardon to Patrick Cllfi'ord
and Barney Burns, sentenced in Missouri
to five years’ imprlsonment for breaking
into a postofl‘i‘ce, upon the statement of
the district attorney who prosecuted the
case and now expresses his confident be-
lief (in the innocence of the prisoners.
1.. ' The Creek Pacers.
READSVILLE, Mass.,.Oct. 5.—John R.
Gentry yesterday failed to break the
world’s record, but paced a mile in 2:03. ,
In a race at Brocktcn, this state, to
beat the world's mile record on a halt
mile track Joe Patches yesterday paced a
The Sociallst Convention. . -
BERLIN, Oct. 5.—The socialist conven-
tion just opened at Goths will probably
last a week. The delegates will discuss
'79 motions, the chief point of discussion
being female agitation.
A disinterested
and clear-headed
_ judge doesn’t al-
low himself to be
biased , by ‘preju-
dice. Superstition
doesn’t affect his
decisions. M e r e
tradition has no
place in his rea-
soning. Facts are
7 the onl things
which e constd-
ers. If the intelli-
gent'men and wo-
men who make up
this great country
of ours will simply
bring their reason
and common~sense
to bear on the
problem of curing
their sickness, we
. will soon be a na-
tion most remarkable for health and longev-
ity. The lain, undecorated facts about Dr.
Pierce’s olden Medical Discovery are all
that is necessary to convince fair~minded
people of its transcendent merit. They
are as follows: '
All diseases come from germs. The genus
t into the blood, propagate and increase
in the blood, which carries them all over the
body.“ When they find a weak spot, they
stick to the weak spot. It becomes a dis-
eased spot, and the disease 15 called by the
name corresponding to its location in the
body. The cause is the same for nearly all
diseases. All impurities are germs, or breed
erms. Impure blood means germ filled
lood. Kill the germs, eliminate the im-
purities, enrich the blood, and it Will force
,rtself into the diseased s at and strengthen
it, and give it power to t row off the gems
that exist there. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med-
ical Discovery is designed to do this—that
is the theory. The facts are these—tens of .
thousands of people have used the ”Dis.
cove ." It used to be sold with the under-
standing that if it didn’t cure it should be
returned, and the money refunded. No-
body ever asked for the money, and so that
clause was dropped. Thousands of people
have written voluntary letters of thanks to
its discoverer. A'few‘of these lefzcrs hay;
been included in Dr. Pierca’s great than-
sand page book, Common Sense Medical
Adviser. It will be sent absolutely free on
receipt of 2x one-cent stamps to pay for
mailing ‘only. Address, with stamps, orld’s
Dispensary Medical Association, No. 663
Mam Street, Bufi'alo. N. Y.
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